WEBVTT - NFL Divisional Playoff Showdowns Unveiled - Game Picks & Score Predictions 0:00:04.299 --> 0:00:06.699 NFL Game Deview is a production of the NFL in 0:00:06.739 --> 0:00:08.179 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.019 --> 0:00:15.739 Everybody Welcome to game debut, delivered by Little Caesars, the 0:00:15.779 --> 0:00:18.259 official pizza up Super Bowl fifty eight. Patrick claiboun here 0:00:18.259 --> 0:00:21.379 with Greg Rose, Withal and Cynthia Freeland. As we wrapped 0:00:21.459 --> 0:00:24.099 up the regular season picks and Greg won the contest. 0:00:24.139 --> 0:00:27.859 But it's a whole new season, okay, so nets look 0:00:27.899 --> 0:00:30.219 at the standings, disregard the lesson. 0:00:30.299 --> 0:00:31.739 Okay, I like because we. 0:00:31.739 --> 0:00:35.099 Got dual crowns Cynthia and Greg bothfore and Tula. 0:00:35.219 --> 0:00:37.899 We're actually missing the real winner. Who is your son? 0:00:38.139 --> 0:00:40.139 That's Walker went one to Oh. 0:00:41.139 --> 0:00:43.059 Jess, Walker is one and O I would not have 0:00:43.099 --> 0:00:45.219 picked the Texans with Adhams. Here is the reason. 0:00:45.219 --> 0:00:49.939 I'm up winner and happy belated again Walker. 0:00:50.099 --> 0:00:51.099 Yeah, Walker made it. 0:00:51.139 --> 0:00:55.299 Congratulations because you're Houston Texans and the Ravens kick off 0:00:55.339 --> 0:00:57.659 the divisional round. These teams have met way back in 0:00:57.739 --> 0:01:00.619 week won the first ever game for the number two 0:01:00.659 --> 0:01:03.659 overall pick. This is his first career pass. He took 0:01:03.659 --> 0:01:06.379 it to him. Well, if you don't support yourself, who will? 0:01:06.619 --> 0:01:08.739 And this is the game I watched in the very 0:01:08.779 --> 0:01:11.219 first window, my number one draft pick of games and 0:01:11.219 --> 0:01:13.019 now here it is the divisional round right there. 0:01:12.939 --> 0:01:14.899 You go, there it is, and you'll always remember CJ. 0:01:14.979 --> 0:01:18.499 Shroud's first completion. Also playing in his first game was 0:01:18.579 --> 0:01:21.819 Zay Flowers, the twenty second overall pickout of where. 0:01:21.659 --> 0:01:23.619 Cynthia Boston College. 0:01:23.699 --> 0:01:25.819 Yeah, he got twenty one yards there. 0:01:26.139 --> 0:01:29.099 He's also first game for Todd Munkin, who saved me 0:01:30.059 --> 0:01:32.979 because you know, I like to change at that point. 0:01:33.259 --> 0:01:36.819 JK. Dobbins fourth year out of Ohio State. So glad 0:01:36.859 --> 0:01:38.139 to have JK. Dobbins back. 0:01:38.179 --> 0:01:41.219 It did not last long because on this catch in 0:01:41.259 --> 0:01:44.299 the red zone he tore his achilles was out. For 0:01:44.379 --> 0:01:46.979 the remainder of the season. It would be Justice Hill 0:01:47.299 --> 0:01:49.579 and Gus Edwards. For the rest of the year. It 0:01:49.699 --> 0:01:52.179 was Justice Hill on the very next play got a 0:01:52.179 --> 0:01:55.299 two yard touchdown. The Ravens led fifteen to six after 0:01:55.299 --> 0:01:58.579 getting a two point attempt fourth quarter, Now Texans trailing 0:01:58.579 --> 0:01:59.499 twenty two to nine. 0:02:00.539 --> 0:02:00.859 CJ. 0:02:01.059 --> 0:02:07.139 Stroud looking for a promising first game comeback win. It 0:02:07.179 --> 0:02:09.459 did not work because David Ojabo we didn't see a 0:02:09.499 --> 0:02:11.179 lot of the rest of the season, strip sacked him. 0:02:11.539 --> 0:02:15.179 Michael Pierce recovered it a Jabo. 0:02:15.019 --> 0:02:17.099 Coming off that Achilles tear CJ. 0:02:17.179 --> 0:02:19.739 Strout finished with twenty three of thirty eight passing two 0:02:19.819 --> 0:02:20.539 hundred and nine. 0:02:20.419 --> 0:02:21.779 Yards had some times though. 0:02:21.859 --> 0:02:24.739 Yeah, the rest of US rookie season was underwhelming. Just kidding. 0:02:24.779 --> 0:02:27.059 It was one of the best that we've ever seen. 0:02:27.099 --> 0:02:29.819 The Texans in Ravens square off Saturday afternoon in Baltimore. 0:02:29.939 --> 0:02:32.179 Raven's looking to get back to the AFC Championship for 0:02:32.179 --> 0:02:34.259 the first time since twenty twelve. 0:02:34.819 --> 0:02:35.619 Do they do it? Grick? 0:02:36.059 --> 0:02:38.379 I think they do. I'm not going with the Texans again, 0:02:38.419 --> 0:02:39.939 even though they did me well. I don't even have 0:02:40.059 --> 0:02:41.619 them staying within nine and a half. I have the 0:02:41.739 --> 0:02:44.299 Ravens winning twenty eight to seventeen. I think the mismatch 0:02:44.339 --> 0:02:48.339 is when Lamar Jackson and this Ravens offense has the ball. 0:02:48.419 --> 0:02:50.539 I think you need to be a special defense right 0:02:50.579 --> 0:02:53.219 now to stop them. I don't think the Texans are there, 0:02:53.379 --> 0:02:55.619 and it's because of the way Lamar finished the season. 0:02:55.659 --> 0:02:58.419 All these highlights were seeing weeks fifteen to seventeen. It's 0:02:58.419 --> 0:03:00.699 when the offense fully came together. If you take away 0:03:00.699 --> 0:03:03.259 the short pass, he'll go along. You take away the 0:03:03.299 --> 0:03:05.779 deep stuff, he can go over the middle now more 0:03:05.779 --> 0:03:09.139 than he did in the past. Even and you've got likely, 0:03:09.419 --> 0:03:11.939 You've got Justice Hill. I know Mark Andrews isn't there. 0:03:12.099 --> 0:03:14.779 You have Odell Beckham in the red zone, especially when 0:03:14.859 --> 0:03:17.259 you get near the goal line. They have so many 0:03:17.299 --> 0:03:20.539 different answers. They're still one of the most effective running 0:03:20.539 --> 0:03:22.979 teams in the league. I haven't even gotten to Lamar 0:03:23.059 --> 0:03:25.859 Jackson running the ball himself. So whether it's in structure 0:03:26.179 --> 0:03:28.979 or out of rhythm, they always find answers. And I 0:03:28.979 --> 0:03:31.699 think the Texans defense is very good. I don't think 0:03:31.699 --> 0:03:34.299 they can mix it up enough for four quarters to 0:03:34.379 --> 0:03:35.899 keep this Ravens offense down. 0:03:36.339 --> 0:03:39.979 Well, I'm going to thread the news. Oh go for it, 0:03:40.139 --> 0:03:42.779 a nice little here we go. Twenty six to nineteen. 0:03:43.019 --> 0:03:46.739 Is my score? Just a one touchdown win for the Ravens. 0:03:46.899 --> 0:03:48.619 I want to point out something I saw in this 0:03:48.739 --> 0:03:52.459 last week's matchup for CJ. Stroud, because we remember the Browns defense, 0:03:52.539 --> 0:03:55.939 especially their passing defense, in many metrics, were the very 0:03:56.099 --> 0:03:58.739 very best in football. And I was watching and you 0:03:58.739 --> 0:04:01.139 know how much separation all of the receivers had lots 0:04:01.299 --> 0:04:03.859 a lot, like a whole bunch. If you're gonna man 0:04:03.899 --> 0:04:06.739 me up I'm just gonna have Nico Collins run across 0:04:06.779 --> 0:04:08.819 the back of the formation and you know, tip it 0:04:08.859 --> 0:04:11.059 off to my quarterback, who, by the way, we know 0:04:11.099 --> 0:04:13.219 he's accurate. We've been talking about that since Ohio State, 0:04:13.299 --> 0:04:16.539 ladies and gentlemen. So if you're talking about an opportunity 0:04:16.579 --> 0:04:19.179 here to take advantage of the fact that Marlon Humphrey 0:04:19.179 --> 0:04:21.979 isn't playing, there are down some pieces, you know, in 0:04:21.979 --> 0:04:24.779 that secondary. I think this is where you'll see the 0:04:24.819 --> 0:04:27.339 Texans keep it close. CJ. Stroud, He's gonna be your 0:04:27.339 --> 0:04:30.059 O Roy and then of course Lamari you'r MVP. So 0:04:30.819 --> 0:04:33.059 I think a nice seven point win seems about right. 0:04:33.939 --> 0:04:37.619 Nine points feels overly optimistic to me. Surprise, surprise, I'm 0:04:37.619 --> 0:04:39.179 taking the Baltimore Ravens. Yeah. 0:04:39.299 --> 0:04:42.299 No, I think the defense makes place, especially justin Mattabek 0:04:42.979 --> 0:04:45.259 coming through making plays in the game. But again, as 0:04:45.339 --> 0:04:49.659 Greg mentioned, the Houston Texans run defense is not what 0:04:49.699 --> 0:04:51.659 the Texans would have liked to have had, and I 0:04:51.659 --> 0:04:53.699 think that stresses things. So the point that the Ravens 0:04:53.779 --> 0:04:56.419 receivers will make plays, and it's something that's been building 0:04:56.499 --> 0:04:59.459 up for years where they've needed more out of this 0:04:59.539 --> 0:05:02.059 group and they get Zay Flowers in the draft, Odell 0:05:02.099 --> 0:05:04.259 Beckham Junior comes through Nelson haigilar I. 0:05:04.299 --> 0:05:05.099 Can make plays as well. 0:05:05.099 --> 0:05:06.739 The Texans are going to have to devote so much 0:05:06.779 --> 0:05:09.059 attention to Lamar and the run game. 0:05:09.179 --> 0:05:11.739 Isaiah likely. I think that there will be space. 0:05:12.059 --> 0:05:14.379 We saw, especially in those Browns highlights all the free 0:05:14.379 --> 0:05:18.259 releases for the Houston Texans receivers. I think Baltimore's receivers 0:05:18.299 --> 0:05:21.019 have a lot of opportunity and this group can take 0:05:21.259 --> 0:05:23.779 advantage of that. So we're all on the Baltimore Ravens 0:05:23.859 --> 0:05:26.979 meme away. But let's play this guy or that guy 0:05:27.579 --> 0:05:28.419 in this round here. 0:05:28.499 --> 0:05:29.019 Greg c J. 0:05:29.099 --> 0:05:32.059 Strout tossed three touchdowns last week. Lamar threw five the 0:05:32.139 --> 0:05:35.339 last time we saw him. Which quarterback is more likely 0:05:35.419 --> 0:05:38.859 to throw multiple passing touchdowns, Lamar or c J. 0:05:38.939 --> 0:05:41.019 Stree? Well, you know, I gotta go with Lamar Jackson, 0:05:41.019 --> 0:05:43.939 the MVP of the league the season. We've waited forever 0:05:44.339 --> 0:05:47.179 from him, because it doesn't have to just be about 0:05:47.219 --> 0:05:49.659 their running game. It's all those weapons that I talked about, 0:05:49.739 --> 0:05:52.659 and I think the Texans run defense, which has been 0:05:52.699 --> 0:05:55.819 really good in parts of this season, is going to 0:05:55.819 --> 0:05:58.099 be so focused on stopping him, that there will be 0:05:58.339 --> 0:06:02.339 available receivers. Rashad Bateman quietly had his best game of 0:06:02.339 --> 0:06:05.699 the season in Week seventeen before they started resting guys, 0:06:05.739 --> 0:06:09.019 and again, it's more options, they're gonna score more points. 0:06:09.219 --> 0:06:12.739 You think about this team as a defensive team, but 0:06:12.859 --> 0:06:14.419 one of the best offense in the league, one of 0:06:14.419 --> 0:06:16.899 the best red zone teams in the league, despite having 0:06:17.099 --> 0:06:19.339 sixty eight trips to the red zone. They're there all 0:06:19.379 --> 0:06:21.019 the time and they capitalize, all. 0:06:20.939 --> 0:06:23.619 Right, Sothia, Nico Collins and Zay Flowers both lead their 0:06:23.659 --> 0:06:26.499 teams and receiving. Who's more likely to have over five 0:06:26.579 --> 0:06:27.939 catches on Saturday? 0:06:27.979 --> 0:06:30.779 To me, this is Nico Collins. Not because I'm not 0:06:30.859 --> 0:06:33.579 liking Zay Flowers or something crazy like that, but there's 0:06:33.579 --> 0:06:35.939 just too many options there. Isaiah likely there, Odell Beckham 0:06:35.979 --> 0:06:38.459 Junior is there. There's just different ways that they can 0:06:38.539 --> 0:06:41.819 be while Nico Collins seems to be the primary focus 0:06:42.059 --> 0:06:44.819 for CJ. Stroud in this offense. So I like the 0:06:44.899 --> 0:06:47.739 opportunity here for both of them to have five, but 0:06:47.819 --> 0:06:50.179 I think the more likely one to have over five 0:06:50.619 --> 0:06:52.059 is going to be Nico Collins. 0:06:52.259 --> 0:06:53.339 All right, I'll take the last one. 0:06:53.379 --> 0:06:55.739 Who's more likely to have over thirty five receiving yards, 0:06:55.819 --> 0:06:59.299 Dalton Schultz or Odell Beckham Junior. I will take Odell 0:06:59.379 --> 0:07:02.299 here because I think they're both getting thirty five yards, 0:07:02.339 --> 0:07:04.099 especially with the attention that's going to go to Ni 0:07:04.459 --> 0:07:07.499 Collins for Houston. But I think the attention to the 0:07:07.539 --> 0:07:10.099 Ravens run game leaves Houston vulnerable. 0:07:10.139 --> 0:07:12.819 In the run pass option game. We see Odell. 0:07:13.219 --> 0:07:15.619 I think he gets you sixty yards, so thirty five 0:07:16.019 --> 0:07:17.299 should not be a problem. 0:07:17.379 --> 0:07:20.899 From OBJ coming up. Beating the Cowboys. 0:07:20.379 --> 0:07:24.299 In Dallas has Jordan Love firmly in Aaron Rodgers footprints. 0:07:24.539 --> 0:07:28.019 But can he do something twelve never could keep the 0:07:28.059 --> 0:07:29.459 forty nine Ers in the playoffs. 0:07:29.459 --> 0:07:31.779 Our picks for that game in the NFC coming up 0:07:31.779 --> 0:07:32.219 next week. 0:07:32.299 --> 0:07:34.539 I'm watching and he's getting annoyed at this compared. 0:07:34.579 --> 0:07:46.739 He's like, I'm gonna say something crazy. 0:07:47.459 --> 0:07:48.379 It's time for pizza. 0:07:48.419 --> 0:07:52.019 Pizza pregame predictions delivered by Little Caesars, the Official Pizza 0:07:52.059 --> 0:07:54.499 Super Bowl. Fifty eight Packers and forty nine Ers meeting 0:07:54.539 --> 0:07:57.259 for the tenth time in the playoffs. San Francisco has 0:07:57.299 --> 0:07:59.139 won four in a row, but Jordan Love and the 0:07:59.179 --> 0:08:00.699 Packers are on a roll. 0:08:00.779 --> 0:08:02.339 What happens this week. 0:08:02.819 --> 0:08:05.299 I think the role continues for the offense, but the 0:08:05.339 --> 0:08:07.859 defense turns back into the Joe Berry defense and the 0:08:07.899 --> 0:08:10.139 forty nine ers score enough to win thirty three to 0:08:10.139 --> 0:08:13.459 twenty nine. So I'm threading that needl way under nine points. 0:08:13.459 --> 0:08:15.179 But the reason the offense can get it done for 0:08:15.219 --> 0:08:18.219 San Francisco not just CMC, but also the passing game 0:08:18.259 --> 0:08:21.979 with Brandon Ayuk. No matter how good you think Brandon 0:08:22.059 --> 0:08:27.339 Ayuk is, he's better. He is just a ridiculous receiver, 0:08:27.459 --> 0:08:30.499 maybe the most efficient receiver in the league. Second in 0:08:30.579 --> 0:08:34.779 the league in completions over ten yards, in terms of yardage, 0:08:34.779 --> 0:08:38.539 in terms of efficiency. Basically, he's the second best deep 0:08:38.539 --> 0:08:41.139 receiver in the league to Tyreek Hill. Like this combination 0:08:41.219 --> 0:08:45.339 between him and Purty are excellent. The last three years, 0:08:45.379 --> 0:08:49.179 he's eighth in the league in yards over expected after 0:08:49.219 --> 0:08:51.099 the catch. So he can do it at the catch point, 0:08:51.139 --> 0:08:53.179 you can do it after the catch. He can get open. 0:08:53.339 --> 0:08:55.339 He doesn't need to get one hundred and seventy yards 0:08:55.339 --> 0:08:57.739 every week because he's got Debo, he's got Kittle. But 0:08:57.859 --> 0:09:00.219 he is that good. He is as good as valuable 0:09:00.259 --> 0:09:02.259 as those two guys and I have a feeling this 0:09:02.339 --> 0:09:05.659 week against a thin Packers secondary, he gets it done. 0:09:06.299 --> 0:09:06.819 I love that. 0:09:07.099 --> 0:09:08.819 I actually think brand Yok's really good. So I'm just 0:09:08.819 --> 0:09:10.459 trying to decide how good I think he is now. 0:09:10.499 --> 0:09:14.059 But whatever better better than even better than that? Okay, Well, 0:09:14.099 --> 0:09:16.859 I have twenty seven to twenty one in this matchup 0:09:16.939 --> 0:09:20.539 for San Francisco, so I too am threading the needle here. 0:09:20.819 --> 0:09:22.939 But I want to talk about how Jordan Love has 0:09:22.979 --> 0:09:26.419 accomplished what he's done. He's been well protected. You look 0:09:26.459 --> 0:09:29.339 against what happened when teams have flitzed him, which obviously 0:09:29.339 --> 0:09:31.059 the Niners they rush for a lot. They don't blitz 0:09:31.059 --> 0:09:33.419 a ton, however, But when he has face the blitz, 0:09:33.499 --> 0:09:35.299 what's he done? Since Week nine? Oh, just had the 0:09:35.299 --> 0:09:38.339 most passing yards in the league and forty two if 0:09:38.339 --> 0:09:40.339 you're keeping track at home. That does include last week 0:09:40.339 --> 0:09:42.619 as well. But I think that all of the different 0:09:42.659 --> 0:09:45.219 ways that San Francisco can try to pressure you, I 0:09:45.339 --> 0:09:49.579 do know that coach Lafleur has an answer for many 0:09:49.579 --> 0:09:51.539 of them. That will he be able to keep that 0:09:51.619 --> 0:09:53.819 going for the entire game? I don't think so. I 0:09:53.899 --> 0:09:56.419 kind of agree with you. I think it's actually the Packers' 0:09:56.459 --> 0:09:58.179 defense that lets them down. But I want to give 0:09:58.179 --> 0:10:00.939 some love to Jordan Love because that was really incredible. 0:10:00.979 --> 0:10:03.699 And also the coach working with the O line, working 0:10:03.699 --> 0:10:05.939 with the run game, where all these things working together 0:10:06.099 --> 0:10:08.459 is really amazing. And the fact that they had three 0:10:08.539 --> 0:10:10.299 quarterbacks in a row that now, look, this guy just 0:10:10.339 --> 0:10:12.579 seems like it's a cheat code. Are you cheating? What's 0:10:12.619 --> 0:10:13.019 going on? 0:10:14.339 --> 0:10:17.299 I also have d forty nine Ers winning twenty four 0:10:17.339 --> 0:10:17.979 to nineteen, but. 0:10:17.899 --> 0:10:19.699 I want to distribute some love as well, and not 0:10:19.859 --> 0:10:21.099 just to the quarterback. 0:10:21.099 --> 0:10:23.299 But I think the reason that they've been on this run, 0:10:23.699 --> 0:10:24.819 it's Aaron Jones. 0:10:24.899 --> 0:10:26.219 Aaron Jones since. 0:10:26.019 --> 0:10:29.699 Week sixteen has had five hundred and thirty seven rushing 0:10:29.779 --> 0:10:32.219 yards for his career. He's over one hundred and twenty 0:10:32.219 --> 0:10:35.739 five yards from scrimmage against the forty nine ers. And 0:10:35.779 --> 0:10:39.619 this comes on the heels of two years of people saying, hey, well, 0:10:39.779 --> 0:10:41.819 you know it's time to get rid of Aaron Jones. 0:10:42.779 --> 0:10:46.179 We can't invest in the running back position. He's one 0:10:46.219 --> 0:10:48.859 of the best players on the team. We saw him 0:10:48.859 --> 0:10:52.099 make an incredible blitz pick up against Micah Parsons for 0:10:52.139 --> 0:10:54.899 a touchdown. What more do you want from Aaron Jones, 0:10:55.099 --> 0:10:56.499 maybe he could play some defense. 0:10:58.419 --> 0:10:59.619 Meme away meame away. 0:10:59.899 --> 0:11:02.499 We are all on the San Francisco forty nine Ers, 0:11:02.539 --> 0:11:06.819 but again both and I chose Packers players to highlight. 0:11:06.899 --> 0:11:08.019 We think the Packers are. 0:11:07.939 --> 0:11:10.179 Good, we just don't think they're better than the Niners 0:11:10.219 --> 0:11:11.939 in Santa Clara. So not only do we all like 0:11:11.979 --> 0:11:14.579 the Niners this week, but Cyndia's model has them as 0:11:14.859 --> 0:11:18.259 big time favorite. Rude almost fifty percent to win the 0:11:18.379 --> 0:11:19.579 NFC Cynthia. 0:11:19.259 --> 0:11:23.739 Forty nine Ers forty nine percent. Oh, conspiracy theorists, you 0:11:23.739 --> 0:11:27.499 can better gather around. This discrepancy between number one and 0:11:27.579 --> 0:11:30.379 number two is the largest that I've done since I've 0:11:30.379 --> 0:11:32.779 been coding in this way, which is like ten seasons now. 0:11:32.859 --> 0:11:36.619 So you're welcome the Cowboys fans. I'm sorry you gave 0:11:36.659 --> 0:11:38.259 all your love to the Niners. 0:11:38.659 --> 0:11:40.539 It all works out in the end. Somebody's going to 0:11:40.579 --> 0:11:41.419 be one hundred percent eventually. 0:11:41.459 --> 0:11:44.259 Let's talk more or less exactly player props for the 0:11:44.339 --> 0:11:47.139 Packers and forty nine Ers. Jordan Love had three passing 0:11:47.179 --> 0:11:48.979 touchdowns against the Cowboys last week. 0:11:49.179 --> 0:11:51.139 We'll we have more or less than one and a 0:11:51.179 --> 0:11:52.059 half this week. 0:11:52.379 --> 0:11:56.539 More uh sneaky fact about this forty nine Ers defense. 0:11:56.539 --> 0:11:59.339 It's not as good as you remember. It's still very good, 0:11:59.339 --> 0:12:01.699 but they can get got sometimes. And one of the 0:12:01.739 --> 0:12:04.739 things I like about this match of four, Jordan Love 0:12:04.819 --> 0:12:08.499 is tar various words, very often takes away the opposing 0:12:08.499 --> 0:12:11.419 team's best receiver. But there's so many best receivers on 0:12:11.499 --> 0:12:14.259 the Packers that there's room for all the secondary guys 0:12:14.299 --> 0:12:16.179 to step up. And Jordan Love is playing like a 0:12:16.219 --> 0:12:19.859 top five quarterback right now. I'd take them over just 0:12:19.939 --> 0:12:22.339 about anyone in terms of the level he's at, including 0:12:22.779 --> 0:12:28.179 the opposition. Brock Purty, come at me, brock Purty supporters, 0:12:28.179 --> 0:12:29.139 I think he's busy. 0:12:29.339 --> 0:12:31.139 Frock's a little busy today, all right, He'll be busy 0:12:31.139 --> 0:12:33.259 handing the ball off to Christian McCaffrey. Will see himc 0:12:33.419 --> 0:12:35.779 have one hundred and twenty six yards from scrimmage. 0:12:35.819 --> 0:12:40.339 The pillow says more, and so does the math. Why 0:12:40.419 --> 0:12:42.739 because if you look at the most vulnerable part of 0:12:42.779 --> 0:12:46.459 this Packers defense since week thirteen, they've allowed nine point 0:12:46.499 --> 0:12:48.619 three percent of passes to the middle third of the 0:12:48.619 --> 0:12:51.579 field to be completed over expected. That's the largest in 0:12:51.619 --> 0:12:55.059 the NFL over that time span. That is where Christian 0:12:55.099 --> 0:12:57.739 McCaffrey catches those passes and also where he likes to 0:12:57.819 --> 0:13:00.659 run the football, So it just doesn't bode well for 0:13:01.059 --> 0:13:02.259 that area of the defense. 0:13:02.299 --> 0:13:06.059 I feel like rest was in important for this team, especially, 0:13:06.179 --> 0:13:08.899 but more than anyone. Christian McCaffrey was a little banged up, 0:13:08.939 --> 0:13:10.059 and I just if he. 0:13:10.139 --> 0:13:12.219 Was liked percent of snaps right. 0:13:12.059 --> 0:13:14.939 If he was this good, you know, week after week 0:13:14.939 --> 0:13:16.779 after week with two weeks of rest, he might go 0:13:16.859 --> 0:13:18.539 two hundred and twenty six yards. 0:13:18.859 --> 0:13:20.859 One thing that Cynthia loves to say is sometimes Kyle 0:13:20.939 --> 0:13:25.059 Shanahan will say some necessarily remember before the season, it 0:13:25.099 --> 0:13:27.219 was like, hey, you know, forty nine ers may not 0:13:27.259 --> 0:13:30.619 give the ball. He led the league carries and rushing. 0:13:30.939 --> 0:13:32.899 Did seem see I'll take Deebo Samuel. Will he have 0:13:32.899 --> 0:13:35.379 more or less than fifty eight receiving yards against the Packers. 0:13:35.419 --> 0:13:38.339 I'm gonna say Deebo has mode more despite the fact 0:13:38.739 --> 0:13:40.099 that he's played the. 0:13:40.059 --> 0:13:42.299 Packers in January twice in his career. 0:13:42.059 --> 0:13:44.659 He's never had more than fifty eight receiving yards, but 0:13:44.699 --> 0:13:47.099 he also ran for forty yards a game in those 0:13:47.139 --> 0:13:50.139 two wins. This time, he has a better quarterback and 0:13:50.179 --> 0:13:52.419 again the best running back in the NFL now, I 0:13:52.459 --> 0:13:55.419 think Christian McCaffrey gets some of those carries, more opportunity 0:13:55.459 --> 0:13:58.939 for Debo in the passing game, and more on brock Perty's. 0:13:58.619 --> 0:14:00.939 Passing totals coming up later on in the show. 0:14:00.979 --> 0:14:03.819 Coming up, the Lions haven't made the NFC Championship. 0:14:04.899 --> 0:14:05.779 It's always thirty year. 0:14:05.859 --> 0:14:08.019 Now it's a new new stat that they haven't done. 0:14:08.059 --> 0:14:09.019 And I guess that's what happened. 0:14:09.019 --> 0:14:10.779 Well, Jared Goff have Cynthia in Detroit. 0:14:10.819 --> 0:14:15.499 Fans popping bottles on Sunday are picks for Bucks Lions right. 0:14:15.339 --> 0:14:18.299 After this break. 0:14:27.019 --> 0:14:30.339 Back on game deview before this playoff matchup in Week six, 0:14:31.539 --> 0:14:34.779 Let's go back Jared Goff against Baker Mayfield. The Bucks 0:14:34.779 --> 0:14:36.819 were coming off there by. They were leading the NFC 0:14:36.939 --> 0:14:39.499 South in the first quarter, first and ten at their 0:14:39.539 --> 0:14:43.019 own eight and Mayfield's passes tipped by Isaiah bugs Will 0:14:43.059 --> 0:14:45.099 Harris picks it off. They party in the end zone. 0:14:45.379 --> 0:14:47.139 They kick a field goal. After that they lead three 0:14:47.179 --> 0:14:51.579 to nothing. Second quarter, game tied at three. Jared Goff 0:14:51.819 --> 0:14:54.139 looking to David Montgomery on a screen pass. 0:14:54.539 --> 0:14:55.899 He gets nineteen yards. 0:14:55.979 --> 0:14:59.379 Problem is Shack Barrett lands directly on top of him. 0:14:59.859 --> 0:15:02.499 He would stay down after the play. There was no Jamier. 0:15:02.179 --> 0:15:04.019 Gibbs, he was out that day. He was looking on. 0:15:04.579 --> 0:15:06.859 So it would have to be Craig Reynolds for the 0:15:06.899 --> 0:15:10.059 remainder because Montgomery would not return with a rib injury. 0:15:10.179 --> 0:15:14.499 Seven plays later, Jared Goff hits Aman Ross, Saint Brown 0:15:14.939 --> 0:15:18.339 evades tacklers, and we mentioned Craig Reynolds. He blocks like 0:15:18.419 --> 0:15:21.979 three people there and Saint Brown gets in the end zone. 0:15:22.019 --> 0:15:24.139 He finished that play with a touchdown, finished the game 0:15:24.179 --> 0:15:26.979 with twelve catches, a career high for him. Another look 0:15:26.979 --> 0:15:29.659 at Craig Reynolds taking out the entire Bucks team. 0:15:30.379 --> 0:15:32.579 The Lions led ten to three after that third quarter, 0:15:32.659 --> 0:15:36.419 now lines up ten to six. Third and ten, Todd Bowles. 0:15:36.139 --> 0:15:39.499 Blitzes Jared Goff's Like I Got You hits Jamison Williams for. 0:15:39.459 --> 0:15:41.059 The forty five yard touchdown. 0:15:41.179 --> 0:15:44.259 After Jamo finally finds the ball, He's like, where is it? 0:15:44.379 --> 0:15:45.659 What it is? 0:15:45.779 --> 0:15:47.019 His mouthguard isn't it either? 0:15:48.099 --> 0:15:50.459 The whole idea of like you Gotta Blitz Jared Goff 0:15:50.499 --> 0:15:53.099 make him feel uncomfortable. His numbers against the Blitz this 0:15:53.139 --> 0:15:56.339 season are fantastic. Blitz at your own peril. He got 0:15:56.379 --> 0:15:56.899 God Bowls. 0:15:56.979 --> 0:16:00.339 He has three fifty three and two touchdowns, leading us 0:16:00.379 --> 0:16:03.699 to winning moves presented by Into It Turbo Attacks. The 0:16:03.699 --> 0:16:05.899 Bucks in the Lines meet again Sunday with a trip 0:16:05.939 --> 0:16:09.899 to the NFC Championship On the line, Deep Breath Cynthia 0:16:10.379 --> 0:16:13.939 Baker Mayfield against Golf, a battle of former number one 0:16:14.059 --> 0:16:15.139 overall picks. 0:16:15.179 --> 0:16:16.659 Does your team come out. 0:16:16.499 --> 0:16:21.659 On top by four points twenty six twenty two? That's 0:16:21.699 --> 0:16:26.459 what the math says. I'm very scared. Why because when 0:16:26.459 --> 0:16:28.979 I went back and watched the Bucks game from last week, 0:16:29.139 --> 0:16:31.659 I saw Yack, I saw lots of Yak. I saw 0:16:31.699 --> 0:16:33.819 Mike Evans with Yak. I saw Kate aught and with you. 0:16:34.219 --> 0:16:36.819 I saw a lot of yards after the catch, which 0:16:36.819 --> 0:16:40.099 is an area that the Lions need to shore up. 0:16:40.379 --> 0:16:45.139 Dj CJ please come to my rescue. I'm very worried 0:16:45.179 --> 0:16:47.499 about some of these one on one matchups. And by 0:16:47.579 --> 0:16:49.499 the way that you went to we're going back to 0:16:49.539 --> 0:16:52.539 conspiracy theories. The tight end coach from the Bucks is 0:16:52.579 --> 0:16:55.259 from Okamus, Michigan. It scares me very. 0:16:55.179 --> 0:16:56.179 Much, ridiculous. 0:16:56.179 --> 0:16:59.419 I'm telling you none of that stuff matters, but the math. Listen, 0:16:59.459 --> 0:17:02.019 I'll go with the math on here. Four points. I'm 0:17:02.059 --> 0:17:02.659 gonna be there. 0:17:03.139 --> 0:17:07.179 I'm very Kada and highlights. This is the first Divisional 0:17:07.299 --> 0:17:09.299 round game in thirty years. You're gonna be there and 0:17:09.299 --> 0:17:12.699 we're watching Kada and highlights during the Lions win prediction. 0:17:12.859 --> 0:17:16.939 Come on, yes, this is ridiculous. If you're not gonna 0:17:16.939 --> 0:17:19.299 talk about the Lions, I'm gonna talk about Lions, and 0:17:19.339 --> 0:17:21.779 I'm gonna have them win by more than four and 0:17:21.779 --> 0:17:23.539 a half points. There were six and a half points, 0:17:23.579 --> 0:17:26.979 ten mint. I blew it and you should be crowing. 0:17:27.259 --> 0:17:30.699 You had prime number named Dan and now you. 0:17:30.619 --> 0:17:31.739 Gotta get a dog named Dan. 0:17:31.819 --> 0:17:33.819 Yeah, you promised you would name your second dog Dan. 0:17:33.939 --> 0:17:35.339 I know Hel's on board too. 0:17:35.899 --> 0:17:37.779 I have more faith in them now though, because this 0:17:37.819 --> 0:17:39.619 is the matchup you want. I think points are going 0:17:39.659 --> 0:17:41.579 to be a plenty, and I think the Lions defense 0:17:41.779 --> 0:17:44.619 will be sneaky good, good enough in this matchup. So 0:17:44.739 --> 0:17:46.899 Ali McNeil returned from injury a couple of weeks ago. 0:17:47.019 --> 0:17:50.019 He's made a difference. Garter Johnson you mentioned, is out there. 0:17:50.179 --> 0:17:53.579 He's made a difference. They actually activated James Houston for 0:17:53.739 --> 0:17:57.259 this matchup. And you have a really good defensive coordinator 0:17:57.259 --> 0:17:59.259 in Aaron Glenn who I think get even better in 0:17:59.299 --> 0:18:01.819 the playoffs. They threw some things at the Rams that yes, 0:18:02.739 --> 0:18:04.619 they ended up moving the ball well, but they could 0:18:04.659 --> 0:18:06.699 not get it done in the red zone. And Baker Mayfield, 0:18:06.739 --> 0:18:08.899 we're seeing some of his struggles from Week six. He's 0:18:08.899 --> 0:18:10.859 had about five or six games this year where he's 0:18:10.899 --> 0:18:13.899 been fantastic. He's also had five or six games this 0:18:13.979 --> 0:18:16.459