WEBVTT - The King of NFL Sportswriters with Peter King 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.480 From the King of sports books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:18.880 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:30.960 Ferrara and Olivia Arlan Decker. The stage is set. Time 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.959 to look ahead to the wild card rounds. Anything's possible 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.760 any given Sunday, that's the phrase, right, Well it's also 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.640 Saturday or Monday whenever. All these games are a huge 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.120 weekend of football ahead of us, and we're so glad 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.600 you're joining us to look at the action. Jerry Ferrara, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.440 Welcome back and happy New Year. What was your New 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:54.080 Year's resolution? My New Year's resolution was to watch more 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.160 sports that if you could believe it. Okay, maybe not. Yeah, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.720 I need I miss hockey and to get back into UFC. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.440 But either way, the stage is set for football and 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.840 my bye week is over. I am ready to go. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.840 The NFL season might have been one week too long 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.479 because I this week was a little bit painful watching 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.920 some of these games, but you said it perfectly. Let's 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.800 go real quick. Do you have a hockey team? I do. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 I'm a die hard Ranger fan, loved hockey, but they 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.360 did hurt my feelings in when they had had the 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.560 player lockout. It was the year after the Rangers won 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.280 the Cup for the first time in fifty years, and 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.680 they had an older team, so thirteen year old me 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.240 didn't understand why they locked the players out. Let's go 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.440 love hockey. Yeah, tough to explain that one to a 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.360 thirteen year old, you know, Jerry, I'm hurting. I am 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.080 really hurting because I'm oh for three on college football 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.039 playoff games. Betting wise, I had Michigan covering they obviously 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.600 lost a TCU Georgia covering against Ohio State. They only 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.440 won by one on New Year's Eve. I think that 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 was a two and a half point spread, and I 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.920 had TCU covering in the National Championship thirteen and a 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.520 half is what I got it at. You were crush 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.200 them sixty five to seven. So I don't know if 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.920 it's a resolution, But like any degenerate gambler, I can't 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.800 decide if I keep trying to come back or if 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.200 I cut my losses. And maybe I don't know. I'm 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.000 telling you this, I'm not gambling on the wild card 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.440 round because the weirdest things happen I come back at all, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.480 it's gonna be like I'm taking really safe bets. I'm 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.760 doing teasers like you, I don't know what what do 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.440 you think I should do? Should I wait till like 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.680 the divisional round? Okay, it sounds like first of all 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.640 to you. We definitely need to talk to Peter Andrew 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.239 on the show later because he knows what it's like 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.639 to kind of be on a little bit of a 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.799 down streak. But he brought it back. He's really recovered. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.600 Can I just add to that Peter andrews to blame. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.639 We did this together as a team, you know. He 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.680 he wasn't on the last couple episodes because we did 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.320 our New Year's show and college football last week. But 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.640 him and I have been texting and doing this on 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.079 our own, and in fact, he came to London with 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.440 his wife. He came to London for New Year's Eve. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.480 So we spent Years Eve with bet MGM Betty Expert, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.160 Peter Andrew and we had a ten offense. So we'll 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.120 talk with Pete at the end of the show. You know, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.400 I did something for the first time ever. I'm gonna 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.440 implore you to maybe not skip the wild card round 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.160 only because there is, in my opinion, there's some opportunity 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.200 like this might be your last chance to bet against. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.840 Skyler Thompson is us name whoever the Dolphins are trying 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.120 out there. This might be your last chance to bet 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.519 against Tom Brady in the Bucks, although I don't know 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.600 if you'd want to do that. So I already I 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.640 did something for the first time ever. I have never 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.200 placed playoff bet as early as I have. I saw 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.520 the lines. What was it was? Taking this on the Tuesday? 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.280 I saw them, I want to say, yesterday morning, and 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.360 the teaser, the three team ten point teaser was screaming 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.440 at me. I think it was Niners. So you get 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.960 them down to like, uh, I think minus one and 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.240 a half Giants, I think you kind of pushed them 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.120 upward to like fourteen and a half, and um, I'm 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.720 forgetting the third team, which was another there's the Bills knocking. Basically, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.000 it's like Bills to win, Niners to win, Giants to 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.440 cover a fourteen and a half. And I did it 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.400 on a Monday. Yeah, the spread too for Bills in Miami. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.760 That's gonna be torture. I mean already, the Dolphins cannot 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.960 play up there, they can't play where it's cold. And then, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.160 like he said, Skyler Thompson rolling out at quarterback and 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.279 even the to a conversation I think is a good 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.240 one to have, and maybe we wait till next week. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.760 But if you're the Dolphins franchise, what do you do 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.120 with two? I'm moving forward because of course he wanted 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.440 some big games, he got the ball rolling everything. But 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.320 I wouldn't say he's like a lock for a big 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.360 extension or anything. No way. Well, first and foremost, you know, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.560 who knows always three concussions to three and two and 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.320 a half months, Like there's just such a big health 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.640 concern and in college, big injuries in college. I mean, yeah, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.560 Like I'm not going to say I know anything about concussions, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.440 and I know I'm sure like whoever's handling him is no, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.680 you know, they'll give the right information, but like I don't. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.800 Is it out of the question that he even plays again? Much? 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.440 I his career is over because he can't play. But 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.880 that's a lot of concussions in a short amount of 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.840 time bills right now or minus ten and a half. Oh, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.360 that's bigger than I thought. So that's what I met 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.719 with the ten point tees or so. But you could 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.599 lock them. It's kind of probably it's gonna be a bigger, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.680 so you I locked them in with my ten point 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.960 teas are basically to win. Yeah, it's basically builds to 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.039 win because the point five doesn't matter because there's no ties. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.400 So but I think that might go as high as 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.200 I don't know, how does it get to thirteen? It 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.280 might get the thirteen. You know what I might do. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.680 I might wait till we get to Phoenix for the 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.200 Super Bowl and we're gonna be in the bed MGM 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.279 like sports book, which is, oh my gosh, the pictures 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.720 of this place. It looks immaculate. It's mountains in the background, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.800 the stadium right in the background. So you and I 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.000 have a really fun super Bowl trip just in a 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.640 couple of weeks. I can't wait. So I might wait 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.599 till we're actually there in the sports book and maybe 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.880 just do a ton of super Bowl props. Okay, outlook, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.600 I'm with you. I might bring up I might bring 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.760 a sleeping bag and camp out on the bet MGM 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.240 set like sports But I just might camp out there. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:04.920 I think That's what I'm gonna do. Plus, it's gonna 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.120 be nice weather, so aren't you looking forward to that? 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.040 That's gonna be a lot of fun. Well, Coming up 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.440 in this show, we have a great guest joining us. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.839 It's the man behind one of the most popular NFL columns, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.640 Football Morning in America f M I A an outstanding 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.720 writer and NFL insider, Peter King will be joining us. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.920 He's he's like gold standard in sports journalism. He's at 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.719 NBC now, but you might have first read Peter during 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.720 his twenty nine years at Sports Illustrated, writing the internet's 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.039 most popular NFL column, Monday Morning Quarterback. Also the author 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.520 of five books in his spare time. So he's been 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.480 at Sports Illustrated as long as I've been alive. So 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.840 that makes me feel very weird about his make you 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.200 feel young. He's been there a long time. He's the best. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.520 So yeah, we have tons to talk with Peter about 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.280 about Week eighteen and looking ahead to wild Card round 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.200 and just overall big stories. He's a big story kind 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.920 of guy with incredible context in this league. I want 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.680 to pick his brain to about if we have time, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.720 I hope we do just about the quarterback situation. I 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.480 think this is setting up to be the closest thing 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.600 to the NFL has had to like an NBA off 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.440 season in the sense of what veteran quarterbacks are going 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.360 to be bounced around. We know the draft and what 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.240 can't wait to talk about the Texans situation. And but 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.320 we know the draft, but there's gonna be at least 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.760 three quarterbacks that probably go rather early. So I just 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.320 think it's gonna be a crazy year for quarterbacks. You know, 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.360 cars out there floating around. Garoppolo may come back, that 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.360 just might be moving. What are the Jets gonna do? 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.560 Goff sitting there in Detroit? So I really want to 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.960 talk to Peter about quarterbacks going forward. Yeah, you're right. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.360 Just there's like big names and new names that all 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.800 can be shuffled around. It's really exciting, especially I don't 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.320 want to look too far ahead to the draft, but 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.440 I mean week eighteen, it's hard not to talk about 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.600 draft capital. So you're right in this season really did 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.600 come down to the final game. So before we talk 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.000 about playoffs, Jerry, are there any bets that you want 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.119 to brag about or admit that you had really wrong? 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.559 I went first when I haven't talked to you about 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.440 two weeks, so I'm curious if there's anything I've missed, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.120 you know, as far as like really wrong, I've been 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.720 pretty solid. Like I said, the teasers have held up 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.080 my parlays. I'm like the king of three out of 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.640 four or four out of five. I really should just 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.160 be betting these games straight up and not parlaying them 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.040 because I keep winning three out of four, four out 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.680 of five. So I could have been making money this 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.960 whole time, but I just wanted But you know, my 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.560 parlays are more long shoddy. What I did, really I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.000 enjoyed this week was I really bet the scenarios and 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.960 it ended up being okay. But I bet like the 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.959 Pittsburgh making the playoffs scenario, meaning I bet the Steelers. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.640 I had to sprinkle a little on the Jets, but 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.280 I also bet the bill, so I did okay with that, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.840 and I did bet. I just had a feeling the 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.199 Rams were gonna beat the Seahawks. I really did, and 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.319 man did they scare the heck out of a lot 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.199 of people. And I'm not gonna lie, and this is 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.640 probably painful for you all over the lot, I was all, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.120 I've rode the Lions wind streak this entire time, and 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.640 I'm proud to say it. Yeah. Sorry, we'll get to 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.840 that one. That was brutal. And again I always talked 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.360 about this because we're in London. When that game got 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.679 slated to the Sunday night game I can't watch, and 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.840 and the Georgia National Championship game, my alma mater, I 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.600 have to wake up to that news. So I got 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.840 to see how horribly I missed on my bet, but 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.400 then also that I missed this complete butchering job by 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.520 my Georgia Bulldogs, which would have been really fun to 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 watch in person, and all the theatrics of that's in 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.600 Bennett's last game and all this. But that's the one 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.080 thing I hate about living overseas is I missed these 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.240 night games and then it's horrible when you have lost 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.240 money on them. But as we do, look now at 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.040 the playoffs, so Chiefs are the number one seed in 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.280 the a f C Eagles number one seed in the NFC. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.400 Do either one of those surprise you, No, not at all. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.440 Obviously the Eagles scared everyone for a minute, but that 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.800 just you know, you see, really, it's how the value 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.319 j with the with the value Jalen her attack Gardener 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.400 Minshew is like a trendy name. We all love them. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.880 Great couple, right, but you know, day and day I 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.240 think now that even though the and the Giants did 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.240 test them, even with all their backups. You know, the 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.360 Giants played them to the to the final whistle. But 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.360 I think they're going to be back on track. Their 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.679 biggest issue is getting healthy and whatever rust Hurts has 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.800 and the Chiefs. Not that the Chiefs don't surprise me 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.760 at all. I really do think when they lose, they 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.040 fall asleep at the wheel. That's how good they are. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.760 They're board with being great. Yeah, they know though it 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.200 might be a crazy tough road for them. You know, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.280 they might have to go through the Bengals and the 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.199 Bills and the Bills. Yeah, no, it's gonna be good. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.439 AFC is gonna be really good. But they get a 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.920 rest up obviously, and then for the Eagles to rest up. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.440 That's huge with Jalen Hurts injury. But I'm excited to 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.960 see if Kansas City can work up some more crazy 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.800 trick plays that look straight out of Ted Lasso or something. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.959 I mean, that was pretty fun to watch. That's when 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.120 you know they're so much better than everyone else because 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.920 they actually had the balls to do that play. Of 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.120 course it was out of hand, but did you see 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.400 Patrick Mahomes after the game was like we were just 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.120 messing around and Coach Read said, like it, let's do it. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.560 It's pretty insane that we're watching. You know. The only 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.760 real equivalent to me is like how a player or 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.800 a team has changed the game is like sort of 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.040 what like Steph Curry and the Warriors they with basketball 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.040 of how they were the first team to really win 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.559 by shooting with that much volume. Uh, you know, it 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.800 used to be a shooting team can't win. You have 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:19.760 to be able to go in the paint, you have 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.920 to have a low post presence. They change that. Mahomes 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.560 and the Chiefs have just changed everything offensively, and it 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.920 covers up a lot. You know, their biggest risk is 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.160 going to be can their defense hold up and they're 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.800 gonna there's two good quarterbacks who are waiting for them. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.560 But hey, he covers up, and that offense covers up 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.640 so much right. Well, just by the way, as I 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.840 was looking back at last year seating, both conferences top 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.520 seeds were upset in the divisional rounds and both four 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.440 seats made it all the way to the Super Bowl. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.800 Rams and Bengals. So the Ram season is obviously done, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.280 like you mentioned, but their final game against Seattle proved 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.120 to be one of the best of Week eighteen. Seattle 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.520 takes them to overtime. With a little help from their 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.920 friends in Detroit, they make the playoffs. Do you know 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.960 Smith got a million dollar bonus? He had a great season? 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.920 What do you say mid season? He's like, they wrote 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.720 me off. I didn't. Right back, everyone was kind of 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.520 cheering for Gino. Great season. Let's and look, I think 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.080 we could say, I wonder what MGM want to Let's 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.480 see we could find the odds of what the two 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.240 four seeds would be this year. To Matt, I don't 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.000 think we're gonna get a Bucks Jags super Bowl, Florida 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.280 would go insane. I don't think we're gonna get that. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.920 But yeah, for Gino, it's it's an incredible story. And 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.920 it hasn't been a roller coaster because that was his 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.760 high moment of the year and he was almost out 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.120 of the league almost. I mean, we didn't know if 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.280 we'd really ever see him as a starter again, and 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.240 then he definitely hit a low point. This year. It 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.720 got a little rough for the Seahawks. The defense got exposed, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.280 the injury started hitting, and then they pulled it together. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.000 That win against Detroit now is a defining win of 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.240 his career in a way, because that win against Detroit's 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.480 what basically locked up the playoffs for them, having the 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.880 tie break over them. Okay, you mentioned the Steelers, and 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.080 I want to talk about the Steelers and the Lions, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.040 two teams that missed the playoffs but really hit a 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.840 stride at the end of the season. Looking at the Steelers, 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.800 they started three and seven, finished six and one. You 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.920 mentioned your kind of cheering form you can never count 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.520 out Mike Tomlin. And then the Lions. Oh, the Lions. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.400 They started one in six, they finished eight and two, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.040 and Dan Campbell at halftime being very honest, very transparent. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.520 I love it. I love the passion saying we went 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.520 the Packers to miss the playoffs. It was awesome. I 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.200 don't know if I ever like I'm sorry the Seattle 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.400 in Miami, I feel like the rightful heirs of the 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.560 seventh seed more and the past, I'm sorry Packri. I 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.600 feel like it's the Lions and it's the Steelers. I 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.120 think the playoffs would be significantly better. And maybe this 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.920 will hold up to be incorrect, you know, maybe they'll 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.160 be a big upset. Maybe Miami will show up. Maybe 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.560 Seattle will show up. I don't see it. I just 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.920 would have loved to watch Lions Niners. I think that 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.800 game would have been awesome. Obviously San Francisco would have prevailed, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.280 but I think it would have been a much better game. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.480 And yeah, I would have definitely love to see Steelers Bills, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.000 but it shook out how it shook out. They both 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.319 teams came on too late. But I want to talk 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:07.640 to Peter King specifically about Goff and that situation in Detroit, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.960 because I think that when I was talking about quarterbacks 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.640 earlier and how it's going to be an interesting offseason, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.000 I think Golf is on a big part of the 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.640 interest and what they do with him and how they 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.480 worked out out, I think he's earned himself that job. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.640 I don't think they should draft a quarterback, right. We've 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.560 talked about it on the show, and I'm with you. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.120 I think, especially watching how we finished with fifteen touchdowns 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.200 and zero interceptions, I think Lions have to excentiment I 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.120 like it. You gotta stop getting in Twitter wars over this, though, Jerry. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.160 You gotta know your audience. I don't know, Yes, I do, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.840 I know my audience. I told you. I don't really 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.480 participate in Twitter that much. But and maybe I'm part 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.120 of the problem because I'm sure there's someone is saying 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.240 that about me, like this Ferrari guy. I won't get 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.280 off this point, but just acknowledge when what you're saying, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.280 you know, when the narrative change. Stop trying to fit 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.800 all the things into your narrative that's now changing, you know, like, yeah, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.560 the strategy of a rookie quarterback contract. It's a great 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.720 way to build a team. Of course, duh when you 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.840 hit on the homes or Joshua Allen or Jalen Hurts. Sure, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.840 but we've seen the opposite of that when it's no 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.080 offense Zach Wilson or you know, josh Rosen and you 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.000 wasted the high first round draft picks. So I think 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.360 the lines are close. I think they're close, and that 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.440 division is shaking up. Good for them. And that's why 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.320 we love the NFL, right like in the NBA. I 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.000 don't think you'd ever see that this. You know, we 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.200 got nothing to play for, but we have a ton 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.240 of pride. We want to finish with a winning record, 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.240 which is very important. God, that's why you gotta love 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.080 the final day of the NFL season. It was it 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.480 was fantastic, but another season ender and Lambeau. This is 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.720 three straight seasons now that Aaron Rodgers has lost the 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.560 final season, the final game of the season in Lambeau, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.920 which is just unacceptable. And you know, after the game, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.400 Aaron Rodgers didn't want to do a jersey swap, that 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.840 whole thing. He walked off with his arm around Randall 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.360 Cobb as old, buddy, you know what when talking about 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.680 the Packers, and I mentioned, like, I bet the path 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.680 for that game to matter. I had the Lions getting 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.720 the points. I did initially earlier that they think, you know, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.360 all right, Lions getting the points. I just liked that bet. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.160 But then once the Seahawks one, to me, that did 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.280 make the I'm not saying I was that smart. I 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.000 know people have had this take. It did make the 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.640 Lions to me, much more of a threat to actually win. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.880 I didn't think they would ever pack it in, for 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.280 lack of a better word, and say, yeah, let's roll over. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.680 So that's when I took some Lions money line. Actually, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.680 he didn't want to do a jersey swap. And they certainly, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:34.440 let me say, they certainly filmed and shot that like 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.480 it was we were watching the end of a career. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.720 I'm sorry, I they just shot it that way. Maybe 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.960 I don't know if Aaron Rodgers tipped his hand at all. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.520 It's certainly they shot it in a way like you 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.400 as an audience sort saying, this is this guy's last game. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.840 The jersey swap thing, I didn't not reading too much 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.440 into that, like just maybe he wants to keep his jersey. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.960 I don't know, Like the first person who runs up 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.320 to you, you you have to be like, oh, okay, you 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.000 asked first. It's you know, it's an Aaron Rodgers jersey. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.080 He could be his last game in Green Bay. But 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.399 it sounded dramatic the way he did it, and Aaron 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.720 doesn't say anything without thought, and the way that he 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.879 said no, I'm going to keep this one. That seemed tactical. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.639 Everything about him seems tactical. Look, is there were a 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.920 world though, where I don't know. I think there's a 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.120 world where maybe the Packers say, yeah, let's let's make 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.400 something happen and let's move on from this. I don't 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.760 think it's all just his decision. I think the Packers 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.840 are finally at the place too, where they have to 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.200 think about their options going forward and how they can 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.080 make this team better. And he makes a giant sum 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.960 of money, which is good. He deserves it so but yeah, 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.520 that does kind of lead us, right and that we 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.120 would doing Audible of the Week. He walked off with 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.080 his arm around his good buddy Randall Cob. Who knows 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.800 maybe his Randall Cobb's last game and that's why he 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.080 was walking out like that. But this is what he 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.760 said after the game, and are Audible of the Week 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.840 going through your mind? Is you and Randall walk with 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.320 your arms around each other off the field. I just 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.600 love the man. I uh I always had a tight 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:11.200 friendship with him and just a lot of gratitude h 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:17.520 in the midst of disappointment. The best part about this 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.160 game is the relationships to come out of it, because 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.520 those lasted longer than the career, and I'm thankful for Randal. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.080 Where do you stand on what you want to do 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.840 next year? I mean it's a little raw right now, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:34.480 you know, it's just a little bit after the game. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.480 So ah, I want to take the emotion out of 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:44.080 it and have the conversations and see where the organization's 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.159 at and see how I feel after some time has passed. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:49.960 Is there any sort of time table. Is that there 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.160 like a date where you want to make your decision 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.640 by yeah, I mean, I'm not going to hold them hostage. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.520 You know, I understand. You know, we're still in January 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.919 here marches for agency. So, UM, I just need some 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.159 time to, like I said, get the emotion out of 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.840 it and then figure out what's best. You know, you 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.240 want to go out winning super Bowl, but it's very 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.320 rare that that actually gets to happen. Um, I don't 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.800 want to, you know, lose your last game, uh and 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:30.399