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Speaker 1: Time for an instant reaction on a Sunday night, Let's
Speaker 1: start with Dallas and San Francisco. Could I make the
Speaker 1: argument I think I can that the four best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: all won their playoff games this weekend. Mahomes over Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: although Trevor's really sounded, Jalen Hurts over the completely limited
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Joe Burrow has elevated above Josh Allen. We
Speaker 1: talked about that on Fox last couple of months. And
Speaker 1: brought Purdy absolutely outplayed Dak Prescott. People just kind of
Speaker 1: freak out because he's a rookie and because he got drafted.
Speaker 1: Is the last player in the seventh round. But this
Speaker 1: league has got a lot of really great players, Hall
Speaker 1: of famers who are undrafted. I thought brought Purdy. I
Speaker 1: think he's twitchier, I think he's quicker. I think he's
Speaker 1: got as good an arm, great self awareness. You know,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott almost threw a pick six late in the
Speaker 1: game after two earlier picks. You know, I've said this
Speaker 1: for years about Dak Prescott. He is Kirk Cousins with
Speaker 1: a better brand. He needs everything to be in place,
Speaker 1: He needs the breaks to go his way. He can't
Speaker 1: miss a Tony Pollard due to an injury and beat
Speaker 1: this team on the road. He can't have his field
Speaker 1: goal kicker in his head. I thought, Mike McCarthy late
Speaker 1: in the game deciding to punt on a fourth and ten.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the coaching staff. That's very Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: That's the coaching staff telling you they have real doubts
Speaker 1: about Dak's ability to pick up first downs and key spots.
Speaker 1: So you know, for years and years I was a
Speaker 1: doubter early. I do think he has intangibles. But the
Speaker 1: pushback on Dak Prescott at this point, folks, He's now
Speaker 1: gone from a player who didn't have a ton of
Speaker 1: turnovers early in his career behind a great old line,
Speaker 1: but they didn't ask him to do much. Well. Now
Speaker 1: the Cowboys old lined been in a little bit of
Speaker 1: a rebuild, so it doesn't quite have the time to throw.
Speaker 1: Now they ask him to throw more often in games
Speaker 1: in which they don't have a great consistent run game,
Speaker 1: and this is what you get. Kind of a B
Speaker 1: B minus quarterback. That's what that gives, which is why
Speaker 1: when he signed that contract and everybody screamed he deserved it,
Speaker 1: I said, you start paying people based on deserve instead
Speaker 1: of earn, you're going to be in trouble. So listen.
Speaker 1: I felt San Francisco would win. The game looked mostly
Speaker 1: like I thought. I thought there was two excellent defenses
Speaker 1: I don't always love. I think Mike McCarthy has real
Speaker 1: reservations about completely turning Dak Prescott loose. It's why they
Speaker 1: don't go for it as much as I like. But
Speaker 1: the game kind of looked like I think what most
Speaker 1: people thought it would look like, which is San Francisco's
Speaker 1: the better team. Once Tony Pollard was out at halftime,
Speaker 1: you know that you're taking another weapon away from Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott against the best de fence in the NFL. That's
Speaker 1: an uphill battle Going forward, San Francisco at Philadelphia, it's
Speaker 1: gonna look a lot like what we just watched. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be lower scoring, very competitive. Keep
Speaker 1: our eye on Jalen Hurt's health, but Philadelphia is well armed.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the two most talented rosters in
Speaker 1: the NFC going toe to toe. You know, what do
Speaker 1: we say about Dallas going forward. Mike McCarthy's went back
Speaker 1: to back twelve win seasons. They've got a lot of
Speaker 1: talented players, but no great units. The Niners have great units,
Speaker 1: a really great defensive line, excellent linebacker corps. I think
Speaker 1: they're secondaries underrated, tremendous run game, excellent wide receiver and
Speaker 1: tight end group. You know, the Niners have great units.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys just have some great individual players. So they
Speaker 1: have to hit it with another draft. They have to
Speaker 1: find another elite corner. They are kind of a football
Speaker 1: team with one corner. I think they have to go
Speaker 1: to the offensive line again. I'd go draft another running
Speaker 1: back to go alongside Tony Pollard. At some point Zeke
Speaker 1: isn't worth the money. They have to get another wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And I do think you get to a point now
Speaker 1: where Dallas, with those third, fourth, fifth round picks, you
Speaker 1: may want draft quarterback. I mean Tom Brady. Every other
Speaker 1: year Belichick drafted a quarterback. If I was Minnesota, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: If I was Dallas with Dak, you get to about
Speaker 1: the third fourth round, I'd roll the dice on quarterbacks
Speaker 1: if for no other reason you'd have a young, cheap,
Speaker 1: very capable backup. But I think Dallas is eventually what
Speaker 1: we thought they are. They're a good football team, not
Speaker 1: good enough to go on the road and beat Brock Purdy,
Speaker 1: who just doesn't make mistakes, and I just almost did,
Speaker 1: came close to doing it. But he made a half
Speaker 1: a dozen big, big time throws. One to George Kittle,
Speaker 1: one to Brandon Auk, one to Christian McCaffrey. I think,
Speaker 1: one to Deebo Samuel over the middle, pass rush in
Speaker 1: his face, fourth quarter teeth of that defense. Brook pretty's
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's not great. It's not Burrow, not Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Nobody says that he's not going to have the career
Speaker 1: I imagine of Trevor Lawrence. But when you watch him
Speaker 1: on the field with Dak Prescott, did you feel there
Speaker 1: was a big gap and talent. I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe there is maybe over the course of time you'd
Speaker 1: see it. But he moves well, he's accurate, he put
Speaker 1: velocity on the ball, his decision making. His cognitive cognitive
Speaker 1: discipline was excellent. His self awareness is strong for a rookie. Now,
Speaker 1: Dak was very good as a rookie thirteen and three.
Speaker 1: And I said this about I think Dak at the time,
Speaker 1: this was years and years ago, that you got to
Speaker 1: look at his ceiling, like Mac Jones very quickly because
Speaker 1: of the maturity of a Mac Jones or Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: you get to his ceiling very quickly. That could be
Speaker 1: the case with Brock Purty. What you're seeing is what
Speaker 1: you're going to get. This is it, but this is it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good, especially with this roster on this head coach.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Bengals Bills. That was an embarrassing performance by Buffalo.
Speaker 1: So I've been on this now for two years and
Speaker 1: I know, ad nauseum, it's getting tedious to some of
Speaker 1: you who watched me. I think you have to hire
Speaker 1: offensive coaches. I mean, Tom Brady, you know, makes jokes
Speaker 1: about Belichick the best football coach in the history of
Speaker 1: the game, about his lack of offensive understanding, multiple stories
Speaker 1: about that. But the fact that Cincinnati came in with
Speaker 1: an absolute identity and a game plan with three backup
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, short, crisp passing game, pick up first downs,
Speaker 1: protect a banged up offensive line, eat the club, get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball quickly. Of course, that's burrows specialty
Speaker 1: three four steps, bang, bang, accurate deliver, distributor of the football.
Speaker 1: But there was a real identity. The CounterPunch was the
Speaker 1: run game, often going outside. You could sense it from
Speaker 1: the first series on. They weren't just calling plays. Zach
Speaker 1: Taylor crafted a game plan knowing with backup offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He leaned into burrows precision and accuracy, and they did
Speaker 1: it for three and a half hours. The Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: called the place for three and a half hours. Their
Speaker 1: first drive three and out, all week three and out.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with Stefon Diggs and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, but he was throwing too often to Gabriel Davis,
Speaker 1: who's not close to the same level of player. By
Speaker 1: the way they ate the Buffalo defense alive, I did
Speaker 1: not see any adjustment in pressure. I didn't see any
Speaker 1: adjustments offensively. Sean McDermott of the last eight coaches, one
Speaker 1: was a defensive coach. That performance was completely embarrassing. They
Speaker 1: didn't make adjustments. They didn't really have a game plan.
Speaker 1: They just called plays. I've said this multiple times. They're
Speaker 1: the Chargers also have a defensive coach. They're just calling plays.
Speaker 1: What are they? And like the Chargers, Justin Herbert regressed
Speaker 1: a little this year. Josh Allen regressed a little this year,
Speaker 1: especially post Thanksgiving. The further away, the longer he was
Speaker 1: away from Brian Daybole more interceptions, a little less accurate.
Speaker 1: Here's an example. You could say, well, Colin, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? They didn't have an identity. So Greg Kosell
Speaker 1: talks about this all the time, how the Niners offense
Speaker 1: meshes Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Kansas City. Either offense with an offensive
Speaker 1: coach meshes with the run game, pass game. So in
Speaker 1: the first half, Buffalo didn't run Josh Allen. When you
Speaker 1: take Josh Allen's rush yards out of Buffalo's attack their
Speaker 1: thirtieth in the league in rushing, I didn't use them
Speaker 1: all the first half. I mean, you start falling behind
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. It's one of the most lethal weapons Buffalo
Speaker 1: has offensively. Go to it now. They went to it
Speaker 1: in the first offensive series of the second half and
Speaker 1: used it effectively, but it took so long for Buffalo
Speaker 1: to kind of come to terms with, wow, we need
Speaker 1: to make a big in game adjustment from our game plan.
Speaker 1: Defensive coaches are always slow to do this. For the record,
Speaker 1: love Mike Tomlin can't get his offensive line right in
Speaker 1: five years. Sean McDermott can't get his offensive line right
Speaker 1: in five years. Andy Reid did it in an off season,
Speaker 1: So you know, I know everybody loves Sean McDermott. But
Speaker 1: that was such an absolute coaching mismatch for almost four hours.
Speaker 1: The game plan, the adjustments by Cincinnati. It was jaw
Speaker 1: dropping to me. And I can like a guy, I
Speaker 1: can like a coach. But every year, due to safety concerns,
Speaker 1: the league continues to push for more safety measures, less
Speaker 1: extreme hitting, more things to give the quarterback the on
Speaker 1: line advantages. It feels like it's getting the gaps getting
Speaker 1: bigger every year between offensive coaches and defensive coaches. Sean McDermott,
Speaker 1: that was a complete swing and a miss. For the record,
Speaker 1: they haven't developed a dependable run game in five years.
Speaker 1: The weakest unit on the field is their offensive line.
Speaker 1: They haven't developed a consistent number two receiver. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: is regressing. They don't really have an identity. They just
Speaker 1: sort of call plays. Those all fall on the head coach.
Speaker 1: Those all fall on the head coach. Even if you're
Speaker 1: a defensive coach, you gotta hire the right people. Belichick
Speaker 1: for years, Josh McDaniels, Dante Scarnekia, he knew what he
Speaker 1: didn't know. So there's some soul searching going on. I'll
Speaker 1: say this about Joe Burrow. The perfect comp is Brady.
Speaker 1: We never thought Brady in his entire career. He wasn't
Speaker 1: the biggest, he wasn't the most mobile, he wasn't the strongest,
Speaker 1: he didn't have the best arm, but he made it
Speaker 1: look so easy. Accuracy late in games, laid in downs
Speaker 1: late in a series, right before half, just this effortless
Speaker 1: accuracy in crucial situations. Burrows the comp He's got, Tony
Speaker 1: Romo's athletic ability, Tom Brady's self awareness and precision, little
Speaker 1: Joe montana persion as well. But Kansas City's gonna have
Speaker 1: their hands full. I've been saying this all year. The
Speaker 1: Bengals are the one team that match up really well
Speaker 1: with Kansas City. My gut feeling, without researching either, I'd
Speaker 1: probably take Philadelphia at home close I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think i'd probably take Cincinnati close, but those are tough.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take up too much time. Eagles
Speaker 1: Giants was a shocking mismatch. I felt like the Giant
Speaker 1: players almost quit defensively. But there's real limitations here. We've
Speaker 1: just got to be honest about Daniel Jones. There's just
Speaker 1: not much there. Jason McIntire and I on like Friday.
Speaker 1: I think we listed Thursday or Friday, we listed one
Speaker 1: to eight the quarterback rankings, and I think we had
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones eighth. I think Brock Purdy is more accurate.
Speaker 1: I think he's twitchier. I think Daniel's bigger in price,
Speaker 1: straight line, faster, but I I don't see a lot
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones. He wasn't that accurate in college Duke.
Speaker 1: He's gotten better, but I don't trust them in big
Speaker 1: spots to be accurate delivering the football. He's not twitchy,
Speaker 1: and I think Philadelphia played him like they didn't respect
Speaker 1: him and forced him to make big, tough throws. Yes,
Speaker 1: he could use another tight end. Yes, the O line
Speaker 1: for the Giants isn't great outside of left tackle, but
Speaker 1: remember Justin Herbert walked into this league with a bad
Speaker 1: head coach and an atrocious offensive line, and through thirty
Speaker 1: one touchdowns and ten picks as a rookie, Burrow got
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl with an atrocious offensive line Josh
Speaker 1: Allen forty one wins last three years, bad offensive line.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is simply not productive enough. He's just not
Speaker 1: productive enough. He got to be able to overcome stuff.
Speaker 1: Go back to Herbert's rookie year, Burrow's second year. Even
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray in his first couple of years, he had
Speaker 1: a terrible old line in Arizona. You gotta be able
Speaker 1: to overcome. Philadelphia really put the hammer on him. I
Speaker 1: didn't quite know what we'd get with Philadelphia. You know,
Speaker 1: last year, the two teams that got to buy both lost.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was not one hundred percent. Lane Johnson actually
Speaker 1: you saw him early in the game kind of limping.
Speaker 1: He's not one hundred percent. But I gotta tell you something,
Speaker 1: last twenty years, is there a coach that has been
Speaker 1: more shockingly effective than Nick Sirianni. I mean, he didn't
Speaker 1: have that much responsibility with the Colts, like it was
Speaker 1: kind of a late hire. He ate butchered the opening
Speaker 1: press conference. I mean, I remember reading four or five
Speaker 1: different articles in Philadelphia in Indianapolis, big concerns. If he
Speaker 1: was ready, I'll tell you he coaches with confidence. That
Speaker 1: was amiss by me. His first press conference was as
Speaker 1: bad as anything I've ever seen. He just stammered. Apparently
Speaker 1: he jokes about it. But that team, he's got kind
Speaker 1: of a physical presence, kind of a bigger guy. That
Speaker 1: team plays hard, they play downhill, and what he's done
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts is nothing shy of remarkable. Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: San Francisco is going to have their hands full because
Speaker 1: that's the only team in the NFC to me that
Speaker 1: lines up body for body upfront. That's it. Eagles Niners
Speaker 1: is exactly what we all deserve in the NFC. And
Speaker 1: Bengals Chiefs likewise, two best teams, two best quarterbacks on
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