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Here 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: we are the day after the AFC and NFC Championship games. 17 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: And yes, the more time goes on, the more i 18 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: started assessing over the fact that Sam Darnold's in the 19 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: Super Bowl and it's not another New England Super Bowl. 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm really I'm struggling, Mike, like I'm I'm struggling with 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: this like villain. This is like a villain origin vexed 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: and and all of a sudden, you're flipping a coin 23 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: and you're you're painted half in in Seahawks colors and 24 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: half in Patriots colors, and you're looking for Batman. We're 25 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: gonna go back and show you how Jason went from 26 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: Anakin to Oh he was such a cute one. He 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: ended up in that temple and all sorts of bad 28 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: things happened. Then he was so positive, he was on 29 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: the light side and everything else and immaculately conceived or 30 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: whatever it was, and now here now would now he's 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,759 Speaker 1: just he's just he's just killing younglings. Yeah, and then 32 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: in that Obi Wan Kenobi series, one of them tries 33 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: to get back. I mean, like like chaos comes out 34 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: of this. I mean, come on, as tough as it 35 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: is for me, because it is tough for me. It's 36 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: I'm psychologically no no. As those games went final yesterday, 37 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: there was the now I had to hear from all 38 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: my friends that are Patriot fans like their long nightmare 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 1: was over, to which I responded, tomorrow is forty years 40 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: since the Super Bowl we won. Now, obviously, Prince down 41 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: in Miami Purple Rain, losing to Peyton Manning, Lovey Smith 42 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: against Tony Dungee, all of that stuff. Rex Grossman, that 43 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: was great. Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff, and that 44 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: was it. That was the end of my highlights. Yeah 45 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: for the night, but we at least got there for you. 46 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: Miserable but like I'm sitting there, wah, I'm sorry you 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: suffered so long, Like get the dude. If I had 48 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: a friends who were Patriots, I wouldn't have friends who 49 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: are patriots. Fans could be impossible, but I would have 50 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: been like, like, if they start hitting my phone, I 51 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: would have been like, I want to spoiler, because it's 52 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: just like a character in the Rip who knows they're 53 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: going to die and just throws their phone in the 54 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: water so the bad guys can't get it. I would 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 1: just say, I can't even have that. That was really 56 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: good that I gotta go back in. There's a lot 57 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: of unsaid, like one of the yeah, like there's a 58 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: few scenes where you like you really have to pay attention. 59 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 3: Oh. 60 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: The thing is, normally there's a bunch of dialogue that 61 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: covers up that. Here there's just a lot of the 62 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: look and stare and whatever like, so really, lock in, folks. 63 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: The Rip is one of those movies where I watched 64 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: the first hour and ten minutes and I said, oh, 65 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: this is pretty fun. But I'm like, boy, there seems 66 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: to be some inconsistencies. And I'm like yeah, and I 67 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: told you, I got about forty five minutes left. I said, 68 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: but so far, it's fun, right, I mean, everybody and 69 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: it's fun. And I'm like, okay, so far. And then 70 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 1: like as soon as we picked it up to watch 71 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: the rest of it, a big scene happens and I go, oh, wow, 72 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: that's awesome. And the next thing we did we finished, 73 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: we went back and watched it again up until that 74 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: point like Okay, now I gotta go back and see 75 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: all of this. It was right, and now I get it. Yeah, 76 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: there's a reason it's getting the repeat viewing and doing 77 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: the numbers that it did for that first week. 78 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 79 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: So good for that. Two more Patriots fans, yeah blank them. 80 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: Uh so. 81 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: But but the movie was good. The movie was see 82 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: how it all ties together but looks as bad as 83 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: it was for me. There is someone who is going 84 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: to have worse memories of Championship Sunday than me, which 85 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: super going they're going to think about it every day 86 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. Like how Seahawks fans 87 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: wake up every well maybe not now, but Seahawks fans 88 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 1: wake up every day going, we should have another Super Bowl. No, no, 89 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: they still do. We should have. We should have, we 90 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: would have and if they win in two weeks, it's 91 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: gonna be we should have three. We have two now 92 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: we should have three because we should have run the football. 93 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: But for a lot of those guys, I mean, that's 94 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame defining stuff. I mean, yeah, you know, 95 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: and and people laugh at men like go do the 96 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: math on what on what that does for career post 97 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: career earnings. When you're able to add those little know, 98 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: you know, insignias and inscriptions to things that you're signing 99 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: h and that you're part of. In terms of the 100 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: merchandising in the NFL, it is a much different level. 101 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: You can say, all right, Jason, I understand you're gonna 102 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: have a tough time thinking with the Sunday the AA 103 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: and already you can see that it's out there because 104 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: he's talked about it. But Sean Payton is going to 105 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: think about the fourth down call every day for the 106 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: rest of his life. He's gonna wake up in the 107 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: morning and the first thought is going to be, why 108 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: didn't I kick the field goal? Why didn't I kick 109 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: the field goal? Why did I go for it on 110 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: fourth down? Why did I open the door to let 111 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: the Patriots back into the game. Why did I do that? 112 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Secondly is going to be Jared Siddam, why did you 113 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: try to throw the football? Hold on it wouldn't take 114 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: a sack. But first is going to be because that's 115 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: the play that opened the door, because you're looking at 116 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: what's going to be a ten to nothing lead, because 117 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: you're still kicking a field goal at that point. The 118 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: weather's fine, everything's okay, it's not so everything is good. 119 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: You're you're up ten to nothing. But he doesn't kick it, 120 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: and he's going to think about it, and you know 121 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: what he should because of two reasons. Number one was 122 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: it probably heat check Sean Payton, because I think for 123 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: some kind of coaches, I can do whatever I want, 124 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: regardless of the situation, regardless of my quarterback situation. We 125 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 1: like to go for it. We can do we can do. 126 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: It's heat check, and it was a bad play that 127 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: was doomed from the beginning, and you're Tony Romo talk 128 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: about how Jared Sidham needed to recognize this a little 129 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: bit sooner, and look what happened. The play was a disaster. 130 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: They don't get the field goal. Of course we know 131 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: after that pages go down, they get the touchdown, after 132 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: the turnover, they kick the field goal, they win the 133 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: game ten seven. But that play did it. And this 134 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: is why that was the wrong decision because and we 135 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: said this with the Lions two years ago in the 136 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: NFC Championship game against the forty nine ers, when they 137 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: kept going for it on fourth down. And I told 138 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: you there's a difference between going for it on fourth 139 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: down because you like to do it and it's part 140 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: of your identity. There's a difference in doing it week 141 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: ten in Vegas and doing it at home in the 142 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, and especially when you figure you want 143 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: to do it this time with a backup quarterback. There's 144 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: lots of things that can happen, lots of things, and 145 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: it's not like Jared's Didham had been having a great 146 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: game so far. He hit on one pass, right on 147 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: one pass. That's great, so understand, yes it's fourth and one, 148 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: but this is why all the metrics that say go 149 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: for it on fourth all this all that you throw 150 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: it out the window because we always seem to talk about, 151 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: hey this wasn't this didn't go go your way? So 152 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: how does the math work out? Oh, it alwaysays to 153 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: go for it. You don't play these games and absolutes 154 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: on pen and paper and using erasers when something doesn't 155 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: go your way, right, we don't play these games. Here. 156 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: There's all sorts of real life decisions that go into it, 157 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: which is, how is your quarterback playing? You have a 158 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: backup quarterback? What would be the mental fallout of not 159 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: getting this first down? Right? Would what's going to happen? 160 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: And all of a sudden New England had life breathe 161 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: back in because they had done nothing offensively the entire game. 162 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: Why would you do that? But especially when you think 163 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: about you have to do this with a backup quarterback 164 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: right now? You and I differed when we talked about 165 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: Dan Campbell going for it on fourth down the NFCY 166 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: title game a couple of years ago, when you said, hey, 167 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: Josh Reynold should catch that pass, right, the one pass 168 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: of Josh Reynolds dropped on fourth down, and I said, 169 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: I'm with you, but you can't throw to your fourth 170 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: receiver in the a NFC title game in the middle 171 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: of third quarter, early fourth quarter and not expect jittery hands. 172 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: I might drop this pass right now. Yeah, I get it, 173 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: he should catch that pass. But this is the NFC 174 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: Championship game, it's on the road, and things are really dicey. 175 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: You need to be cool under pressure and throwing to 176 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: your fourth receiver. Yeah, I'm not surprised he dropped it. 177 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: Here's the same situation. Wait, you're gonna trust your backup 178 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: quarterback to do this, who's not been having a great game. 179 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: You want confidence? How about kicking a field that Hey 180 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: we got down there, we got the touchdown. If through 181 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: a touchdown pass you got a field goal, you're up 182 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: ten nothing right, You're up ten to nothing, right. And 183 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: that's why when this happened, I said, this is the 184 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: fall of This is gonna be absolutely epic, and the 185 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: fallout when then bled over the rest of the game. 186 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: So this is why all of the metrics of you 187 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: should go for it on fourth down here on fourth 188 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: and one or fourth and two, No, all that stuff 189 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: goes out the window. This is the AFC championship game 190 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: and you're looking to win. And the thing that got 191 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: me the most about it was hearing Sean Payton talk 192 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: after the game, and look, I'm glad he's given he's 193 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: taking responsibility for it, and he's owned it. But when 194 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: he said he gave the wrong reason for why you 195 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: would go for it on fourth down, he said, Man, 196 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: I was just thinking, we get this, we get the 197 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: ball in the end zone. It's fourteen to nothing with 198 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: the way our defense is playing. Whoa good luck coming back, 199 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: which in theory yes, right, but you also have to 200 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: get the first down and then keep going and getting 201 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: the end zone. But that's the bigger point. But the 202 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: other thing is that if your defense is playing well, 203 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: that's when you take the points. If your defense isn't 204 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: playing well, I can see thinking, well, field goals aren't 205 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: gonna win this game, right, it's seventeen fourteen, we gotta 206 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: go for it. Yes, But when it's seven to nothing 207 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: and your defense is playing lights out, you always take 208 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: the points. Like his logic as an NFL coach that's 209 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl was so incredibly flawed, Like, how 210 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: do you say, coach, are they're not doing anything? Why 211 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 1: are we gonna let him back in the game, kick 212 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: the field goal to two score game. What are we doing? 213 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: What are we doing? But so even I thought his 214 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: reasoning was awful for it because it was opposite what 215 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: logic said it would be. Well, but that's the thing. 216 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: It's the smartest guy in the room theory and certainly 217 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: down distance and game situations. Some of the most accomplished coaches, 218 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: including the two we're talking about here, Sean Payton in 219 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: this instance and Sean McVeigh go back. Mike McCarthy's got 220 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: a new job. Plenty of late game management issues. We 221 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: could do this all day with guys who won Super 222 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: Bowls or been to Super Bowls. Of Wow, that's kind 223 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: of an interesting strategy. Let's see how it works out 224 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: for him in this particular case. Your point is the 225 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: latter point was the one that really stuck out to me. 226 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 1: It's fourth and one from the fourteen, and you call 227 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: a play. That is, unless some miracle happens, he's not 228 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: breaking the fourteen yards of the touchdown, which means you're 229 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: setting up for another first and ten from wherever the 230 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: thirteen to twelve ten. Say he gets four or five yards, 231 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: you still gotta go do that again and against that defense, 232 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: which has been a slog to that point in the 233 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: game except for the one big hit, right, So you're 234 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: probably getting that point. So A, why aren't you running 235 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: the football on fourth than one? Or B take your 236 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: points and move on again. Your defense is playing very well. 237 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: Backup quarterback, You and I and all the free world 238 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: was watching the weather channel on a secondary device. I 239 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: have no doubt, so I can't believe that suddenly you're isolated. Nope, 240 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: you get no weather reports. You're flying blind as to 241 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: what's about to happen here in Denver. Right, so they 242 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: knew the weather was going to change. Yeah, right, you 243 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: knew the storm, you know, you didn't know how it 244 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: would manifest. But also you're still realizing the opportunity when 245 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: the wind does start swirling. And we watched it there. 246 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 1: It's the best in times as the worst of times 247 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: as a kicker in Denver, and we've seen that where 248 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: suddenly it's like you're kicking into a wall and the 249 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: ball starts flying back at you at a rapid speed, 250 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: you know, like you're in a sci fi movie. Sure, 251 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: or you know, wizards, but in this case, it's the 252 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: take you three points and say, okay, Drake May, who's 253 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: been pretty generous with the football all postseason. It's been 254 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: well chronicled. Yes, you have the potential explosives out of 255 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: the run game with Henderson or whatever, but they're using 256 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: him as an extra and the running backs had to 257 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: be used as extra blockers because Campbell had been so 258 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: compromised the last couple of games. So there's this big 259 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: chess match and you had what at the time was 260 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: about as sure a field goal attempt as you can 261 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: get well, and you know, and you think about this 262 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: to look forward, right, we talked more about the metrics 263 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: with the field goal. Is that okay, well here Jared 264 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: Sidham failed on fourth down. Okay, failed on fourth down, 265 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: got rushed, didn't recognize it, didn't make the play, made 266 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: a bad throw incomplete right? What metrics also won't tell 267 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: you how much do you think was in his head 268 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: when they got the ball back and it's like, you 269 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: know what, I have to Uh, I got to make 270 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: something happen here. I can't get sacked on here. I 271 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: got to throw the ball away. And he turns the 272 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: ball over and New England has the walk in touchdown 273 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: and suddenly the game is tied. You don't know how 274 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 1: much that's a mental effect on your quarterback when he's 275 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: coming off the field going then I've hit one pass 276 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: and you know, now we've just lost it on fourth down. 277 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: I got to make something happen. So making something happen 278 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: sometimes it's forcing a ball where it shouldn't be. Sometimes 279 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: it's trying to, you know, a heat check throw deeper 280 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: over the middle. And sometimes it's well, I'm being rushed. 281 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw the ball away so I can 282 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: avoid this twelve yard sack. And what happened him throwing 283 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: the ball away gave the game to New England because 284 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: they're able to walk in from a short yard out 285 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: and tie the game at seven in the game that 286 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: they were absolutely dominating. So there's all sorts of different 287 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: variables that come into that decision that are that are 288 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: not broken down. Now, as you laid that out, and 289 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: I've watched it a number of times, I keep wondering, 290 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: shouldn't that have been an incomplete pass? So while he 291 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: didn't have a normal throwing motion, wasn't that the same 292 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: as a push forward? So why is that a fumble? 293 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: There was a tool play that was just like that 294 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: that was Oh no, he's throwing the ball forward. Oh okay, 295 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: that's what I mean. Like, no, didn't he throw that 296 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: forward and it's not clean and he obviously his hand 297 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: gets hit and never get two hands on it. Well yeah, 298 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: but either way. I mean, we've seen push passes all 299 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: the time. I exhibit A. You've got fifteen Patrick Mahomes 300 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: or Josh Allen's in the last three years. He's walking 301 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: on the field going, hey, Mahomes would get that call. 302 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: Why did not get it? 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I didn't 336 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: think we'd get coming off the AFC Championship game, but 337 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: I do want to say this, what both games yesterday 338 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: my wife and I are watching the games, and we 339 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: both came up with great drinking games for both games. Okay, 340 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: is it related to the announcers or yeah? Yeah, okay, 341 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's every time said Jim, no, no, no, 342 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: we're close, close, it's still trunk. For the Fox game, 343 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: was every time Tom Brady called someone twitchy, because boy 344 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: did he He called Davante Adams twitchy like four times, 345 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: and my wife is going, is he gonna say that again? 346 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: I go, yeah, well, Den Adams is twitchy, and he says, 347 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: what does it mean by twitchy? So I explained to 348 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: her what twitchy means, you know, fast twitch, muscles, everything else. 349 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: He's also twitchy because he's now zero and five and yeah, 350 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: Conference championship games. And then I said, but he's he's 351 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: calling DeVante Adams twitchy, so that's the one. And then 352 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: like two minutes later he calls another player you know 353 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: he's twitchy. On that plan going, oh my Brady, stop 354 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: with the twitchy man to twitchy with twitchy, but the 355 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: big one in in in CBS, like, I wouldn't have 356 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,239 Speaker 1: made it to the end of the fourth quarter, right, 357 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: you're drinking in theory, I would not have, man. And 358 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: this is not to try this. This is just an 359 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: observation for the number of times after halftime, either Jim 360 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: Nance or Tony Romo said these conditions, Yeah, like that. 361 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: I mean, in these conditions, Tony, what do you think 362 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: in these conditions, Jim, in these conditions, you can't kick 363 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: a field goal. In these conditions, you get trying to 364 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: throw the football downfield and these conditions is very difficult. Tony, 365 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: in these conditions, what are you thinking? It's a quarterback. 366 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: I'm going I couldn't keep up, man. I'd be like, 367 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: I'd be like that one scene in White PD Blue 368 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: where sip Wi's lined up like eight shots of something 369 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: in a row. He just starts downing them and going, 370 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: this is insane. Well, I got these conditions, these conditions, 371 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: these conditions. They must have each said. They must have 372 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: said that a total of fifteen times in the second half. 373 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: It was also a game as that that war on. 374 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: I was kind of curious to see the social media 375 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: response of folks who always talk about it's too bad 376 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: we're losing the tradition of these outdoor games, Like how 377 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: you liking this one? Yeah? How you liking this? Well, 378 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: that's the whole thing, is that. That's the controversy that 379 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: I can't believe is going today. That's getting so much 380 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: run is that? Uh, there's now talk and we see 381 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: some some some sources saying, hey, there's going to be 382 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: a debate, there will be some sort of decision on 383 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: is this still good? Is this good for the company? 384 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: Is this still good for the NFL when conference championship 385 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: games are affected by snow like this, because obviously the 386 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: snow had a big outcome in the AFC title game 387 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: a day ago. You had both sides miss field goals, 388 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: You had tough time moving the football, don't have the 389 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: last one block? 390 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 2: Right? 391 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean you would have made it. But again, 392 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,719 Speaker 1: you know, the Bronco said, hey, we might have been 393 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: a yard short on the spot because we couldn't see 394 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: the field, and if it's a yard deeper, maybe it 395 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,239 Speaker 1: doesn't get blocked. I mean this, and I understand in 396 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: theory that hey, let's just look for something to complain about, 397 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: and this tells you that people are upset that the 398 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: Patriots are in the Super Bowl. I can't snow. Hey, 399 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: me and Kad we went out our burner accounts are awesome. Man. 400 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: We just keep going. We just keep rolling. Something with 401 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: that was being reported with him and Anthony Edwards. 402 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 4: I didn't make that. 403 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: Was that true? We get something to trend all the 404 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: time and go, Katie, I need you on this because 405 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: you know, all these games in the snow and I 406 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: really I am. I am stunned to see the the 407 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: the the the push that people have for Hey, yeah, 408 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,880 Speaker 1: maybe we should take weather out of the conference championship situation. 409 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: It's unfair for a team to play a team that 410 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: doesn't play or to play the game in the snow. 411 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: And I know that was something that was brought up 412 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: not too long ago, a few years ago, but it 413 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: was more for or Hey, couldn't you make more money 414 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: if you had the AFC and NFC title games at 415 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: a location. So it's just like the Super Bowl where 416 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: you could have, like, you know, Vegas has the AFC 417 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: championship game this week and it's the Broncos and you 418 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: have something like that going on. And that was a 419 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 1: big push for a way to make more money, and 420 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: you know, I maybe you know seeing that with the 421 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: college bowl system. Now today we're having these bowl games 422 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: post these games where you know, tickets for the Rose 423 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 1: Bowl normally wouldn't be that much, but if it's a 424 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: semi final game and it's Indiana and Oregon, well, suddenly, 425 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: guess what, you could charge a lot more money for that. 426 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: So I see the monetary angle of it, because it 427 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: is that big a deal you have. I mean, it's 428 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: the outside of the Super Bowl. It's the most watched 429 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: NFL weekend, So I see that. But at the same time, 430 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: I'm like, are we just looking to make stuff up? 431 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: Like if you play sports like you take away everything 432 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: from the regular season and what it means to win games. 433 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: If you're not guaranteed home field advantage, as long as 434 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: you went all the way through, what the hell you're 435 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: playing for? Right, you get to a point during the 436 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: season where it's like, yeah, we're gonna make in the playoffs, 437 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: so yeah, what are you playing for? You're just gonna 438 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 1: we'll have a couple of home games and then if 439 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: we make it to the NFC, NFC Title Game or 440 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: the NFC Title Game, we're just gonna play in Vegas, 441 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: or it's just gonna be in Miami, it's just gonna 442 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: be in Dallas, whatever, And like you take away like 443 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: that's a big part of the game, to play for 444 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: home field advantage. It's why you play. The scoreboard is 445 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: up there for a reason, right, And I thought if 446 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: you could, if you couldn't affect the scoreboard, I'd get it. 447 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: But the scoreboard is there because this is why teams 448 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: like Denver want the AFC title game at their field, 449 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 1: because they want other teams coming in have to play 450 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: in the snow. Now, obviously it affected them as versely 451 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: as well. But look at a team like the Rams 452 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: the last two years. You're playing these games on the 453 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: road where whether it was a factor a year ago, 454 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: whether not so much a factor this time, but it's 455 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: a big deal if you're taking these games away, like 456 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: you're taking games away, like you're not saying, well, if 457 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: snow is in the forecast, we're gonna move this game 458 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: to a different location. You are saying, we are moving 459 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: the AFC and NFC title games no matter what. So 460 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: now suddenly Philadelphia last year, this year, Seattle, they don't 461 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: get a home game, but they don't get a home game. 462 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: They don't they win the NFC, they don't get a 463 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: home game in the biggest game, Like that's kind of 464 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: what you play for. So I see this and I go, 465 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: is this just fake outragesesthing? Like are you that upset 466 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: seeing a game in the snow? You're that upset seeing 467 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 1: a ten to seven game? Did not have enough drama? 468 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: Pretty sure, not enough drama. Pretty sure was entertaining to watch. 469 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: Pretty sure that it was. It still was a great 470 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: outcome for people who watch the games. It was exciting 471 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: and gave you people talking about no one's tuning away, 472 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: going I can't watch this. The snow is too bad. 473 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: I mean, no one's doing that. Yeah, I mean you 474 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: were trying to figure out down distance because they struggled. 475 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: The booth struggled, whoever was in there. You fire all 476 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 1: the auxiliary Chim Jim chip, where's the chip? Jim, Jim Jim, 477 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: where's the but but they kept shutting down distance yard 478 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: where they were on the field wrong. It's like, come on, guys, 479 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: this is pretty elementary stuff for your booth to come 480 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: up with here, But when you get down to it, 481 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: to your point, is your because there's only one team 482 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: at the end of it, right, you are you only 483 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: get one by and you're playing to preserve home field advantage. Otherwise, 484 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: now we're gonna have three neutral site games, so the 485 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: sanctity of the regular season, and this goes on because, right, 486 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: we'll eventually get that extra game on the schedule. If 487 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: you're a playoff team and you're well entrenched, how much 488 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: do you care at that point? Right in terms of 489 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: securing that number one seed. It's like, hey, we got 490 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: a guy that four or five guys that are kind 491 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: of banged up. Do we need to play them in 492 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: Week eighteen? All of a sudden you get an opt out. 493 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 1: It's not the Queen's wave that you had from Peyton 494 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: Manning and those guys back in Indianapolis. And I bet 495 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: you in it with the truth Sierra moment, all of 496 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: those guys wish they'd actually played through the end of 497 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: those games and into the playoffs because all those early exits. 498 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: But in this case, you take away the home environments, 499 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: you take away the storylines that roll through it, and 500 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: we would start the complaining about how much it costs 501 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: to go to a game two weeks sooner, because that's 502 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 1: the other part that the super Bowl always brings. It's 503 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: the most laughable story each and every every time that 504 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: we get into it. Look how much it costs to 505 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: go to these games? Oh no, but if you go, 506 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: you're this route. As you laid out, Now you got 507 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: two more of those that people have to decide. And 508 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: it's not for your season ticket holders and the fan 509 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: bases that you've cultivated. It's now you're going to go 510 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: to the college game of Hey, good luck, pick which 511 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: game you actually want to go to the road towards 512 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I mean, look, I'm not one of 513 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: those always in the fabric of the game guy, because 514 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: I understand that as times as times go, stuff evolved, right, absolutely, 515 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: Just because something's been done for a long time doesn't 516 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: mean it's always a good idea. Sometimes it's time to 517 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: adjust and evolve and move and I get that. But 518 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: this really is a fabric of the game where it's like, Okay, 519 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: you're playing for people, talk to start talking about home field. 520 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: Middle of the season, homefield. We want to be able 521 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: to play at home. Playing at home is a big deal. 522 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 1: You're playing you're taking away something everybody's gonna play for. 523 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: Because again, understand it's not gonna be well, hey, there's 524 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: a bad snow forecast. So guess what. Last second, everybody, 525 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game is not gonna be in Denver. 526 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna have it in Vegas, or we're gonna have 527 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: it in La. It's gonna be at the Rose Ball. 528 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: It's gonna be. No, you're moving the games regardless. You're 529 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: moving them regardless of where it is. So those teams 530 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: that get to the top don't get the advantage they 531 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: should by winning their conference like that, that is fabric 532 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: of the game stuff. Every sport, home field, home court, 533 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: home ice. This is what you play for. This is 534 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: what the best teams play for. And you're gonna take 535 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: that away just because we had a sloppy game in 536 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: the snow. I mean, really, this still had you in 537 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: the final seconds. And it's not like and it's not 538 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: like one team really suffered. Right if this was if 539 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: this was a case where the Dolphins had to come 540 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: in and all of a sudden and to I can't 541 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: throw the football, So it would be like regular season, 542 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: we all of a sudden two I can't throw the football. 543 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: They can't run, they look like they're completely out of 544 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: their element and the Broncos win thirty one to three. Okay, 545 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: I understand part of that because like, well it's a 546 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: real bit is it too much of an advantage? But 547 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: this is a Patriots team that's played in the snow. 548 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 1: They play in the stow. You would have been playing 549 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 1: in an unbelievable snow in Gillette if if the Bills 550 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: had won last week and you saw they showed that 551 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: shot of Gillette what it was like. There's fifty inches 552 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: of snow on the ground there. So it's not like 553 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: a team came in that didn't know what it's like 554 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: to play in the snow and had to play in 555 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: the snow. Like I feel like, is this just made up? 556 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: I mean it really I can't stand ten seven games, 557 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: Like I don't get the genesis behind that. Well, you 558 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: hit the under pretty early, uh, and you catch that 559 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: ticket no matter how much downward pressure is on the number. 560 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 1: I think it's an extension of the hand ringing we 561 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: have every year when you have a couple of wild 562 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: card teams that are you know, double digit win see 563 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: teams like you know this year coming out of the 564 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: NFC West, the well, why did the Pans get to 565 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 1: have a home game and why does it, you know, 566 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 1: work this way. It's like, well, as long as the 567 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: divisions are there, the division still has to mean something 568 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: and you still have to roll through. I'm sorry, this 569 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: is just the way it worked this year or the 570 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: year next, whatever the case is. Win more games, win 571 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: your division like that. That's how we lay it out. 572 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: Six games are on the schedule for that. In this case, 573 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: I don't give a damn if you're from Arizona, Dome Stadium, Miami, 574 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: whatever else, like, go win more games and put yourself 575 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: in the position to where people have to come and 576 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: sweat next to you. I don't feel bad for your 577 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: professional getting paid. Go figure it out. I mean that 578 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: that's how you go. If it snows, it snos, If 579 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: it rains, it rains, if it does I mean, isn't 580 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 1: that the whole point of football? They play outdoors. It's 581 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: not like, oh, we have to worry about the rain. 582 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: You have to work with the weather. I mean that 583 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: would be such a turnoff for most football fans. I don't. 584 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: I don't. Again, I feel like people I want to 585 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: make something up that I'm upset about. I said that 586 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: the game was in the snow. Life isn't fair, make 587 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: your own breaks, i e. Become the number one seed 588 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: and then you don't have to complain. What is Dennis 589 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: Leary's big line from his comedy is life sucks. Get 590 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: a helmet right, Like, that's not good advice. It's good advice. 591 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: Not as good as Jimmy Dugan's, but it's good advice. 592 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: Exit out about a fresca, exit swollen dome, facing a 593 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: peak season, looking for a new team member. Workforce solutions 594 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 1: from Express Employment Professionals make hiring easier. Visit expresspros dot 595 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: com to find an office and see how Express can 596 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: help you hire smarter and faster. That's expresspros dot Com. 597 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: Tiy not to find out what's trending in the wide 598 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: world of sports. But guy who spent all last week 599 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: shoveling his mom's walk, it's deep to say. 600 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 4: That only reminds me of what Arnie Spaniards says every 601 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 4: winter on our airwaves. He never shovels his walk, only 602 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 4: his wife. 603 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: Did he finally get her that superpowered snowblower he'd been promising? 604 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 4: No, he's been promising. You know, if the Bills ever 605 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 4: make the Super Bowl, we'll buy tickets. Okay, Standing by 606 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 4: the last thirty years. 607 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: How whatever happened to teenagers shoveling snow red five, standing 608 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: by blue leader, standing by simply red, standing. 609 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 4: By simply red. I believe that was a different song 610 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 4: all together. 611 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: Arnies. 612 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 4: Arizona Wildcats, by the way, have just nearly blown a 613 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 4: nineteen point lead, but escaped with a victory at number 614 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 4: thirteen by U eighty six eighty three. Arizona today in 615 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 4: the new polls still a unanimous number one now twenty one, 616 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 4: and oh fourth ranked Duke beat up Louisville eighty three 617 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 4: fifty two. By the way, Nebraska is twenty and zero, 618 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 4: up to number five in the country, and Nebraska plays 619 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 4: at number three ranked Michigan on Tuesday. In women's basketball, 620 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 4: Tennessee at Ole, Miss was postponed by bad weather, and 621 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 4: the Tennessee men's game at Georgia was pushed back from 622 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 4: Tuesday to Wednesday. NHL the LA at Columbus game was 623 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 4: postponed by severe weather. It'll be played in March instead. 624 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 4: Edmonton a seven to four winner over Anaheim Rangers in overtime, 625 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 4: beat Boston for three victories for Tampa Bay and the 626 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 4: New York Islanders had a couple of games today. Start 627 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 4: times were moved up due to weather. Home wins for 628 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 4: Atlanta and Charlotte, and today the Lakers. Luka Doncic was 629 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 4: named Player of the Week in the Western Conference and 630 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 4: the East. Toronto's Emmanuel quickly won it and then tonight's 631 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 4: the Lakers. Dancic had forty six points and eleven assists 632 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 4: in a win at Chicago one twenty nine, one eighteen 633 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 4: for Luca is eighth forty point game this season. Cleveland 634 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 4: got forty five points from Donovan Mitchell and defeated Orlando 635 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 4: one fourteen ninety eight wins for Boston and shuston one 636 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 4: o eight ninety nine rockets over Memphis thirty three points 637 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 4: each for Kevin Durant at Alpera and Shngoon, who was 638 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 4: fifteen of seventeen from the floor. The late game at 639 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 4: Minnesota has the Timberwolves. They have Golden State ninety four 640 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 4: to sixty six with about six minutes to go. Steph 641 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 4: Curry of the Warriors out with a sore knee. He 642 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 4: played in Sunday's win at Minnesota. Draymond Green out with 643 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 4: a sore back, Jonathan Kaming of Golden State out with 644 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 4: a bone bruise, in his knee and Missington for Minnesota 645 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards due to his foot. The players for next 646 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 4: month's Rising Stars Game were announced, including Cooper Flag. They'll 647 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 4: be drafted onto teams on Tuesday. Mac McClung will not 648 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 4: be a next month Slam Dunk contest. According to his family, 649 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 4: McClung has won it the last three years. Quarterbacks Shoodoor 650 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 4: Sanders will be in next week's Pro Bowl Flag football Game, 651 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 4: replacing Drake May, and QB Jared Goff will replace Sam Darnold. 652 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 4: The San Francisco Giants gave centerfielder Harrison Bader a two 653 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 4: year deal worth about twenty million dollars. Third baseman Nolan 654 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 4: Aronato will play for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball 655 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 4: Classic in March. He was recently traded to the Diamondbacks. 656 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 4: At the Australian Open, Number three Coco Golf plays your 657 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 4: quarter final late tonight. Number one Arena Sabolenka has advanced. 658 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 4: US women's soccer has an exhibition in Southern California Tuesday 659 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 4: against Chile, and we'll use a new lineup after winning 660 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 4: over the weekend six nothing against Paraguay. 661 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith 662 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the 663 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. Hey, if you miss any tonight's show, 664 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: don't forget catch the podcast. Just search Jason Smith and 665 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts. Right after the show, 666 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: today's podcast gets posted. Be sure to follow the podcast 667 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: rated five stars. You can even provide a review. Again. 668 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get 669 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: your podcasts. You'll find today's full show and a best 670 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: of version posted right after we get off the air. 671 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: Well coming up next. Everybody is really mad about one 672 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: big play in the NFL the last couple of years, 673 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: and I think after what we saw yesterday, there is 674 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind. At the end of this 675 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: year the tush push is gonna get banned. Why tom 676 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: push not the butt fumble? Why will it get banned? 677 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox. Well, Sanchez 678 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: technically did run into his diush okay push, okay, true okay. 679 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 680 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 681 00:32:58,400 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 682 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best 683 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Here's why Brady's the greatest of all time. 684 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: But the iHeartRadio app, you can stream us wherever you 685 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: happen to be. Catch us in all of our Fox 686 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven in the 687 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: new and improved iHeart Radio app. Just search Fox Sports 688 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: Radio in the app. Stream us live all day, every day, 689 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 1: and be sure to select Fox Sports Radio is one 690 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: of your presets in the iHeart app, so it'll always 691 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: pop up the top of your screen so you can 692 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: lock it in. Hair rip the knob off, Jason, Yeah, 693 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: what do you go from? You just wait till you're 694 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: recording that for Sam Donald. Yes, effort two weeks. We'll 695 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: get into Sam Dal. We got more in Sam Donald. 696 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: Come out. You can apologize to back into it. Will 697 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: Will Will, We'll we'll be interested, yes or no, we'll 698 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: cover Sam Donald. But I have a question for you. Yeah, 699 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: buy some Sam Donald. I'd want to buy anything Sam Donald. 700 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: I want to buy nothing, Sam Darnald. I was gonna 701 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: get you one of those all over shirts made with 702 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: just pictures of his head. I don't way, Jason, you 703 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: have wanted the question. It's what we're gonna talk about 704 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,959 Speaker 1: Sam Donald. That's not the question. No, we're gonna Are 705 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: you gonna apologize? That's the answer. So you get because 706 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: all day you sent me Sam Donald gifts of him 707 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: like does the Marlborough Man. Sam Donald is a ghostbuster 708 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: ghost busting the jets out of out of him and everything. No, 709 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: that's the answer you deserve, Frostburg Bust. You are not 710 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 1: going to apologize. I gotta say I did love the 711 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: Marlborough Redpack Sam Donald, Sam Donald, he wait till he 712 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: blows it in your face. So and mark the tape 713 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: on that Sesson. So if you hate the tush push, right, 714 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: we've told you all season long, the way you're gonna 715 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: get it banned is to stick with the strategy and 716 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: the argument of it's too hard to play to officiate. Right, 717 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 1: that's what's going to finally get it. Not oh physically 718 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 1: it's this or we can come back this way, or 719 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: we can't combat we can't combat it. It's unfair. If 720 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: you go down the strategy and the and the and 721 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,879 Speaker 1: the angle of it's too hard to play to officiate, 722 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: that's what's gonna get it done. And really the nail 723 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: in the tush push coffin. Happened yesterday in the AFC 724 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: Championship game, right the Drake May fourth down tush push 725 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: that they got a first down on that didn't look 726 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: like he crossed the line, And when you look at 727 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: it from the overhead, it clearly didn't look like he 728 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 1: crossed the line. But with so many bodies going on, 729 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 1: you couldn't tell. Did he really get over a little 730 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,879 Speaker 1: bit lower before you off the ground. Now the view 731 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 1: from the side made it look like he maybe did, 732 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: but it did really, it didn't look like that's a 733 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: big play in the game, and you're talking about fourth down, 734 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 1: you're giving the ball back to the Broncos. But seeing it, 735 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: it's too hard to tell because there's too many bodies 736 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: flying all over one another. Now, not being able to 737 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: officiate it because of a false start because of an 738 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: off sides is one thing, But not being able to 739 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: officiate it in the AFC Championship game because you can't 740 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: tell where the football is. That's what's gonna stop the 741 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 1: tush push. That's what's gonna get a toush push band. 742 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: Because all you do is show about play and go 743 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: how fair was that? And oh, by the way, wasn't 744 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,839 Speaker 1: the the chip in the football supposed to fix that 745 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: last year, all right, wasn't the chip in the football? 746 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,399 Speaker 1: But now the chip doesn't interface with with with the technology, 747 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 1: which I'm like, isn't that the whole reason why the 748 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: chip was in the football. So you can go by 749 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: the first down like what an epic bleep and fail 750 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 1: by the NFL knowing you had that controversy last year 751 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: with Josh Allen and now this year, oh, looked like 752 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: it was a first I don't know, can't, can't really 753 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: tell you, but it's a fledgling business. How do you 754 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: explained such it was a year? Quickly, you had a year, 755 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 1: You had a year with a chip and the startup 756 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 1: business what with so many considerations that are just unknown. 757 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: It's their first time entering this unless it's not. But 758 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: but but this is this is where you understand that. Okay, 759 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: now you potentially flipped a title game because you can't 760 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: officiate the toush push. Okay, if you can't, if you 761 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,959 Speaker 1: can't fititiate it, you can't have anymore. But as we've 762 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: we've talked about and this this opens up to a 763 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: much larger question and consideration is I think the whole 764 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: of officiating, at least in the NFL. College is a 765 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,720 Speaker 1: whole other things. You start going conference to conference whatever. 766 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: But the NFL has just been such a mess because 767 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: even go back to that Cooper Cup. Did he get 768 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: the first down line the game? Or did he go 769 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: down and hit before he extended the ball? I don't know. 770 00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 1: They told Sean mcvayh, you can't challenge you already, you 771 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: know all of these things like so you've got day 772 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,319 Speaker 1: for officiating. Yes, but that's the thing. We've had so 773 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: many of those, in these high pressure, high octane, most 774 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,840 Speaker 1: visible and consequential moments where it fails. This isn't you know, 775 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 1: week two of insertain bottom feeding teams here, you know, 776 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: Jets Miami for instance, that we don't we don't get it, 777 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: then okay, fine, it shouldn't happen then, but it's yours hell. 778 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: Shouldn't be happening on a championship weekend. I don't care 779 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 1: if the weather is. You know, we're looking at the 780 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz coming in with all the tornadoes and 781 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 1: everything else. It's it's just absolutely absurd that we're watching 782 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: these circumstances. And look, the chain game was always a joke, 783 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,799 Speaker 1: but there at least you just said, all right, there's 784 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: gonna be some human error in it. Now you're telling 785 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 1: me you have the technology, you're implementing it kind of 786 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,879 Speaker 1: and it doesn't work. And then you got a bunch 787 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: of guys in the booth as rules analysts that tell 788 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 1: you one thing and then it comes back like, ah, no, 789 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 1: they got it right, Like wait, you said it was no, 790 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 1: it's like stop stop, you know, changing your mind to 791 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: agree with what happens on the field. You can call 792 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 1: them out for a bad decision, but the tush push. Yeah, 793 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,560 Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about it all season long that 794 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: that was gonna be the thing to break it. It's 795 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 1: not a matter of a The Eagles just do it 796 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: better than everybody. You needed a preponderance of evidence in 797 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: other instances to say, okay, we're having trouble actually seeing 798 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 1: and spotting the football, and we've I think, over the 799 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: course of the season had plenty of that. Yeah, and 800 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 1: look it's and again it's one thing to say, well, 801 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: we couldn't tell on this one. We couldn't tell because 802 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,399 Speaker 1: you can forget about those. You can forget about those, 803 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: well it's week seven, this is week nine. It's affected 804 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: a game in week eleven and week but the AFC 805 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 1: Championship game, which is fifty million people everybody watching going, yeah, 806 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,040 Speaker 1: we can't tell if you got the first down. Well, 807 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,480 Speaker 1: if you can't tell what the results of a play is, 808 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,640 Speaker 1: then why are we allowing to run that? Well, but 809 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: that the other consequence that goes through. And we've got 810 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,280 Speaker 1: our partners here on the network, as do others, and 811 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: and we've watched the explosion of the gambling markets and 812 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 1: picks markets and everything else, Like there's a lot of 813 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 1: money even on a week two game, and I know 814 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,040 Speaker 1: it ramps up when we get the playoff time. No, no, no, 815 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: but but it's all about making sure that the product 816 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,640 Speaker 1: gets to the reasonable end game and isn't a eh, 817 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,560 Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Yeah, but you need that 818 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: what's gonna push it over the top. This is the 819 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,480 Speaker 1: play that pushes it over the top. Right, you can 820 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: have all that other evidence, but hey, what's going to 821 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,359 Speaker 1: be the one thing that finally gets the bowlder rolling 822 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: down the hill? And that was that play yesterday in 823 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 1: a big spot exactly you potentially flipped who makes the 824 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: Super Bowl? So I don't think there's anything more than that. Again, 825 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,600 Speaker 1: you go with that, it'll get banned this off. Yeah, 826 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 1: but at the weather Oh no exit albouta Fresca exit, 827 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,239 Speaker 1: swelling dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harman live from the Fox 828 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,640 Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next. Why for me, this 829 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,440 Speaker 1: is the worst Super Bowl you could possibly have? Wait 830 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 1: what Sam? 831 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:34,439 Speaker 4: Sam? 832 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:34,600 Speaker 2: Sam? 833 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:35,799 Speaker 3: Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam