Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: You know you don't do the Bowl championships. That should
Speaker 2: always be the expectation. All right, man, you go ahead.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. An incredible week,
Speaker 2: some upsets, a team taking their first loss to the season. Mitchell,
Speaker 2: Your Detroit Lions found a way though, in a big way.
Speaker 1: They did, Richard, And I was rocking that han no
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Speaker 1: out in the NFC West, the Sherman moule two points
Speaker 1: whatever it has been several times now in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Seattle goes on the road and gets what is by
Speaker 1: Vegas standards and up set big win in the division.
Speaker 1: They climb back. What are your thoughts because this game
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of people thought this was going
Speaker 1: this way. San Francisco is finally healthy ish and they lose.
Speaker 2: Richard. Your thoughts on this game, Well, it was a
Speaker 2: chaotic week in Seattle. You know their center Connor Williams
Speaker 2: retiring in the middle of the bye week. You know
Speaker 2: they cut their leading tackler, so you know it seemed chaotic,
Speaker 2: but they this defense responded in a big way, holding
Speaker 2: San Francisco forty nine ers to twenty points in the game,
Speaker 2: really keeping Christian McCaffrey in check for a majority of
Speaker 2: this game. Nineteen carries seventy nine yards, four catch for
Speaker 2: twenty seven. I mean, felt felt like a solid game
Speaker 2: from him. You know, still almost one hundred yards total offense,
Speaker 2: but just could not get in the end zone again,
Speaker 2: just the way their season is gone. When they need
Speaker 2: a touchdown, they get field goals. And that's the frustrating
Speaker 2: part for this offense, because they got a turnover, they
Speaker 2: got a sut and change opportunity where it looked like, hey,
Speaker 2: the momentum is going in San Francisco forty nine ers favor,
Speaker 2: looks like they were going to be able to make
Speaker 2: a big play, score touchdown, kind of start to pull
Speaker 2: away in that moment, and the Seattle Seahawks got the stop,
Speaker 2: held him to a field goal. Then you look up,
Speaker 2: Nicholas john Bosa gets hurt and the Seattle Seahawks take
Speaker 2: full advantage of it, go down the field, score touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Both both touchdowns were scored after nick Bosa was down
Speaker 2: with an injury, Jackson Smith and Jigba ten catches for
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten yards. He continues his excellent play
Speaker 2: throughout this these last few weeks he's been on. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's been playing really impressive football. Geno Smith twenty five
Speaker 2: of thirty two for two hundred and twenty one yards,
Speaker 2: had the interception, but really really played well when they
Speaker 2: needed it, used his legs when he had to have it,
Speaker 2: especially on the game winning touchdown. And everybody, you know,
Speaker 2: even folks in Seattle, you know, haven't been as high
Speaker 2: on Gino this year, even though I think he's still
Speaker 2: playing really good football. He's just been beating up you know,
Speaker 2: he got sacked four times in this game. And with
Speaker 2: all that said, they're five and five, win off the
Speaker 2: bye week against a very tough opponent, got another divisional
Speaker 2: opponent coming up next week, and you kind of control
Speaker 2: your own destiny from this point. You know. With this
Speaker 2: win against the San Francisco forty nine ers, they have
Speaker 2: the tiebreakers against a lot of these teams. The Seattle
Speaker 2: Seahawks do, and the San Francisco forty nine ers are
Speaker 2: one and three within a division. So it's just a
Speaker 2: really rough season, you know, because if you're looking at
Speaker 2: tie breakers and how tight this race is, when you
Speaker 2: get to one and three in the division, you're not
Speaker 2: going to have the tiebreaker over a lot of these teams.
Speaker 2: So hopefully you get the tie with the Rams, and
Speaker 2: you get the tie with the Arizona Cardinals, but you
Speaker 2: just you know, you're putting yourself in a tough position.
Speaker 1: They're going to have an opportunity to separate themselves from
Speaker 1: the pack next week against Arizona Cardinals. Richard, But this
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers team is clinging on for
Speaker 1: dear life. And while they're finally healthy, it's not the
Speaker 1: playmakers that you would expect. It's Juwan Jennings that they're
Speaker 1: leaning on for ten catches, ninety one yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Like what's going on with this offense because while they
Speaker 1: seem to be getting healthy, they're not leaning on Deebo.
Speaker 1: They're not leaning on CMC. I know he's roughly back
Speaker 1: now and they're gonna lean on a more down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But the time is now for the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine ers team. They've got to start winning now, and
Speaker 1: they're going to go on the road against the Packers
Speaker 1: who've been playing impressive ball all season. I mean, once
Speaker 1: is it going to start. The pressure is building up
Speaker 1: on this team. They've got to win now, Richard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got to figure it out and they got
Speaker 2: to start executing. You know, one hundred and fifty nine yards,
Speaker 2: one touchdown and one interception from Brock party one twenty eight.
Speaker 2: It's just not good enough in a game like this
Speaker 2: where you had to have more. Juwan Jennings played another
Speaker 2: excellent game. He was a standout in this game. Made
Speaker 2: a ton of big plays, huge third down conversions every
Speaker 2: single time they needed at third and eleven where it
Speaker 2: looked like he dragged half of the DB's in Seattle
Speaker 2: to the first down marker, and you need more of that.
Speaker 2: Got a touchdown on that drive, and you just need
Speaker 2: more consistent play. And it just doesn't seem like the
Speaker 2: plays are there as they have been in the past.
Speaker 2: In the red zone execution, I mean it's been a
Speaker 2: storyline the entire season. They were the number one red
Speaker 2: zone offense last year. They cannot find a way their
Speaker 2: bottom of the pack this year in terms of getting
Speaker 2: the ball in the end zone, not just driving down
Speaker 2: into the red zone and kicking field goals there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess they're best in the league at that right now.
Speaker 2: But you can't have that if you want to be
Speaker 2: a championship football team, and that's the team that everybody expects.
Speaker 2: That the faithful expected from them. I expected it from them,
Speaker 2: the amount of talent this team had. You expected them
Speaker 2: to go out and play better football and execute at
Speaker 2: a higher level than they have been and that you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Kyle is gonna change something up, something up,
Speaker 2: and switch something up to spice it up, because right
Speaker 2: now it's just looks stagnant offensively and that the holes
Speaker 2: aren't there in the run game. You're not seeing the
Speaker 2: big yack in the past game. You're not seeing a
Speaker 2: big time explosive plays that they're known for and they've
Speaker 2: been known for throughout Kyle's tenure in San Francisco. But
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks did a really good job in this
Speaker 2: game of just sticking around, hanging around, making plays when
Speaker 2: they were there. Devin Witherspoon tips the ball up to
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hankins for his first career interception. Huge playing the
Speaker 2: ball game while the San Francisco forty nine ers were
Speaker 2: in their own territory steal and that ended up contributing
Speaker 2: to points for the Seattle Seahawks. And that's those are
Speaker 2: the things, tight window throws that brock Perty's trying to
Speaker 2: make and trying to force in there that led help
Speaker 2: lead to this defeat at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 2: But this is a really really positive game. Derek Hall
Speaker 2: and Draymond Jones continued their strong seasons, sack eats, DK
Speaker 2: metcalf mates and big plays when they had to have him.
Speaker 2: Had seven catches for seventy yards. Your boy, your boy
Speaker 2: K nine, had fourteen carries fifty four yards, got an
Speaker 2: end zone. And you just look at this team and
Speaker 2: you're doing what you need to do to win. And
Speaker 2: that's really all you need to do in this league.
Speaker 2: You know, you win ugly, you win pretty. But this
Speaker 2: is a good confidence booster. I thought their defense, the
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks defense played really really well on this game.
Speaker 2: They got the stops, They had tight coverage. Tarik Wooland
Speaker 2: was tighten coverage. Witherspoon was tightan coverage all day, disruptive
Speaker 2: from from the d line, disruption Byron Murphy. Ernest Jones
Speaker 2: looked really good still kind of trying to find his
Speaker 2: way within this defense. But the young guy Knight. They
Speaker 2: looked good in their first game since all the change.
Speaker 2: You know, you expected them to come out and execute
Speaker 2: at a high level off the bye week, fresh legs,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. I to see what they do
Speaker 2: next week against the Arizona Cardinals, who have been red hot,
Speaker 2: playing really good football. Kyler Murray, that defense, Buddha Baker
Speaker 2: and those boys have been playing really good. So I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing if the Seattle Seahawks can can
Speaker 2: really come back into Loomenfield and protect home field and
Speaker 2: come out with another win. Because if they can, then
Speaker 2: it really starts to heat up the playoff conversation. It's
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Speaker 1: Another team that's been red hot at Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They go on the road against the Buffalo Bills. This
Speaker 1: was much while for football in Buffalo, and it was
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills controlled this game early and often, and
Speaker 1: you got to look at it from Josh Allen's standpoint,
Speaker 1: this is a team that could never get over that hump,
Speaker 1: and that was the Kansas City Chiefs, and they controlled
Speaker 1: this game. I don't want to say that they dominated
Speaker 1: it because they didn't, but they will always seem to
Speaker 1: be in control. Richard, what were your thoughts on this game,
Speaker 1: because to me, it looked like Buffalo was the batter
Speaker 1: team early often and throughout.
Speaker 2: Well it's just like Josh Allen said earlier in the week,
Speaker 2: he said, I mean, they've been able to beat the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs in the regular season, they just cannot
Speaker 2: beat him in the playoffs. So this isn't as surprising,
Speaker 2: you know, of a win as anybody is going to say.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the Kansas City Chiefs have been playing
Speaker 2: on borrowed time for a number of weeks. You know,
Speaker 2: could have lost last week, could have lost the week
Speaker 2: before that, and this week it looked like again, if
Speaker 2: they get a stop somewhere, then you get Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: the ball back. But instead Josh Allen breaks a twenty
Speaker 2: six yard touchdown run late in that game to put
Speaker 2: the dagger to close this game up, to kill the
Speaker 2: hope of the Kansas City Chiefs, because even then, if
Speaker 2: they kick a field goal, and at the end of
Speaker 2: that game and Patch Mahoons gets the ball back, I
Speaker 2: think everybody in the stands, everybody watching that game thinks
Speaker 2: he's gonna win that game again. So this didn't feel
Speaker 2: like a dominant win, but the Buffalo Bills did look
Speaker 2: like the better team in this game. Patch mahomes through
Speaker 2: an early interception and just never looked right throughout this game.
Speaker 2: He completed passes to eleven different receivers. Again, sometimes you're
Speaker 2: trying to figure out which guys are working for you,
Speaker 2: who's going to be your go to guy. He ended
Speaker 2: up getting four catches for sixty one yards and a
Speaker 2: big time touchdown from Xavier Worthy. Kareem Hump continues to
Speaker 2: carry the load in the running game, but they've looked
Speaker 2: like this the entire season. The difference is the thirty
Speaker 2: points that Buffalo was able to put up on this
Speaker 2: Kansas City defense. Because this Kansas City defense has been elite,
Speaker 2: one of the best defenses in football throughout this season
Speaker 2: and previous seasons. SPACs has been calling an incredible game.
Speaker 2: They've been covering well, they've been rushing a passer well.
Speaker 2: But Josh Allen had his way twenty seven of forty
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty two yards one touchdown in the interception.
Speaker 2: He rushed the ball twelve times for fifty five yards
Speaker 2: in that huge touchdown that put the d nail in
Speaker 2: the coffin at the end of the game. I'm sure
Speaker 2: this is good for this young team's confidence because a
Speaker 2: lot of these young players weren't in the same roles
Speaker 2: that they are in now. Curtis Samuel hasn't been a
Speaker 2: part of this rivalry. Taylor Rapp had a huge interception
Speaker 2: in this game, and I don't think he was as
Speaker 2: huge of a part of this rivalry as he was
Speaker 2: in this game. And obviously Khalil Shakur Kir was a
Speaker 2: part of it, but he wasn't the go to guy
Speaker 2: that he is now. So I'm interested to see what
Speaker 2: this does for them going into the playoffs if they
Speaker 2: have to face the Kansas City Chiefs again, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Does this give them confidence going into that week. I
Speaker 2: know they're feeling really, really good going into this bye week.
Speaker 2: The Kansasity Chiefs probably feel slightly disappointed. I'm sure Andy
Speaker 2: Reid feels good, because again, you don't want to have
Speaker 2: an undefeated season. You want to have coachable moments. You
Speaker 2: want to be able to tell your team, hey, we
Speaker 2: got to do better than this, we got to play
Speaker 2: better than this, we got to correct the things, and
Speaker 2: that this gives him opportunity to do that, to coach
Speaker 2: his team, to tell that defense, hey, you're you're not
Speaker 2: world beaters yet. You know, we've won two back to
Speaker 2: back in I mean, we've won back to back Super
Speaker 2: Bowls and we've played started off nine to zero. But
Speaker 2: you see this team hit us in the mouth. So
Speaker 2: we do have things that we can correct. Things we
Speaker 2: can't fix, things we can get better at. And I'm
Speaker 2: I'm I get to go watch this team in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks when they played the Raiders in Kansas
Speaker 2: City on Black Friday. So I'm excited to go out
Speaker 2: there and see what they do against the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 2: and what they do against the Raiders when we come
Speaker 2: to town.
Speaker 1: But the Kansas City Chiefs the last several games, they
Speaker 1: haven't looked all that impressive. You know. They beat the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders by seven points, they win against the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers in overtime, you know, and then they go and
Speaker 1: squeak one off with the block field goal. Against the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos and then you see them go on the
Speaker 1: road and lose. Uh, let's my two scores against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. I mean they've been skating by all season
Speaker 1: and finally they get caught. I mean, are the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs that good as their nine to one record reflects?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Menchell, I mean they're back to back Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 2: So you can say what you want about them skating
Speaker 2: by games. They skated through most of the last season,
Speaker 2: and then when it came to the playoffs, they dominated, dominated, dominated,
Speaker 2: and you could say they snuck by those games. They
Speaker 2: didn't blow the Baltimore Ravens out in AFC Championship game.
Speaker 2: They didn't blow the San Francisco for nine Ers get out.
Speaker 2: In the Super Bowl. They won an ot walk off touchdown,
Speaker 2: but they won and they got to hold the trophy
Speaker 2: at the end. So are they the team? Are they
Speaker 2: are as good as their record says because they are
Speaker 2: back to back Super Bowl champions Because when you aren't,
Speaker 2: when you don't have the championship pedigrade, people can say, oh,
Speaker 2: we wonder how they're going to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: We know how this team is going to be in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. There are a lot of guys still on
Speaker 2: this team, still on this roster with two Super Bowl
Speaker 2: rings on in very prominent position, and so this team
Speaker 2: will be fine, especially with the best quarterback in football.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can count this team out or
Speaker 2: say they're not as good as their record, especially with
Speaker 2: the way their defense. Chris Jones is still going. Nick
Speaker 2: Bolton is playing really good football justin Reid, you know,
Speaker 2: friend of the program. We got so many people that
Speaker 2: are playing really good football as a part of that
Speaker 2: team that I'm not really ready to say they're not
Speaker 2: who we thought they were. That would be that'd be
Speaker 2: silly to say, you know, this is a loss that
Speaker 2: they probably needed. I'm sure their coaching staff is thankful.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody wants an undefeated season going into
Speaker 2: playoffs because you just feel like your first loss is
Speaker 2: going to be at the worst possible time.
Speaker 1: I don't want to play spoiler, he Richard, I don't.
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Speaker 1: But let's take it to the number one team in
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman's Power Ranks, Lions. The heinlo Lulu Blue. I'm
Speaker 1: playing some forecasting here, Richard then future number one team
Speaker 1: of Richard Sheran Power Ranks. The Detroit Lions took on
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars fifty two to six, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that was after the third quarter. They're laying the
Speaker 1: stone cold SmackDown on the Jacksonville Jaguars. What didn't the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions show you today that? I mean, this could
Speaker 1: this win could not be more impressive. Jacksonville scored first,
Speaker 1: mind you, they got out three to nothing, and the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions just said, ah, that's good enough. We'll take
Speaker 1: it from here. Your thoughts on my hometown Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear it.
Speaker 2: Well, their defense looked really good, you know, obviously Mac
Speaker 2: Jones and this Jacksonville Jaguars offense haven't shown much all season.
Speaker 2: They didn't show much when they had the other quarterback
Speaker 2: at the helm. They didn't show much with Mack Jones.
Speaker 2: But still this defense, you know, beating bad teams is
Speaker 2: still an art. Like there are teams that played to
Speaker 2: the level of their opponent. That's not what the Detroit
Speaker 2: Lions are. They showed them, Hey, there's a huge gap
Speaker 2: between what y'all are and what we are. And they
Speaker 2: showed it over and over and over, executing every single
Speaker 2: drive their first sevens drives down the field, they scored
Speaker 2: touchdowns and again, back to the conversation with San Francisco
Speaker 2: forty nine, that's the difference between elite contenders is that
Speaker 2: they score when they get into the red zone. When
Speaker 2: they get into the red zone, you know, it's pretty
Speaker 2: much a done deal your faatest they're scoring. And the
Speaker 2: Lions coming off that very as Jamiir Gibbs said, weird
Speaker 2: game where they had all the interceptions and everything working
Speaker 2: against them, Murphy's law, everything that could go wrong went
Speaker 2: wrong and they were still able to win that game.
Speaker 2: I think it gives the team a bit of a shield,
Speaker 2: you know, a bit of an invincibility complex because you say, hey,
Speaker 2: even on our worst day, we can still win. So
Speaker 2: they're not having their worst day in this game. Jared
Speaker 2: Golf twenty four to twenty nine, four hundred and twelve yards,
Speaker 2: passing four touchdowns in a perfect passer rating would almost
Speaker 2: get him back into that MVP conversation if he didn't
Speaker 2: throw five picks the last time Mitchell, so he's nowhere
Speaker 2: near the conversation at this point. But great game from
Speaker 2: aman Ras Saint Brown. A huge game from Jamison Williams,
Speaker 2: probably his best game as a pro. Four catches, one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four yards and a touchdown. Cool to
Speaker 2: see him get back involved that. That incredible safety duo
Speaker 2: played their butt off. Brian Branch had a really really
Speaker 2: crucial hit in the game, Kirby Joseph had the interception.
Speaker 2: So you just saw really good performances from all over
Speaker 2: the place. Jamier Gibbs and David Montgomery both got a
Speaker 2: touchdown in the first quarter. One got one yard touchdown
Speaker 2: than Jamier Gibbs. That I'm faster than everybody and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get a touchdown too, and so that was really cool.
Speaker 2: He also had the reception Jamiir Gibbs had the reception
Speaker 2: for fifty four yards where he just looked so fast
Speaker 2: and I thought he was scoring a touchdown on that one.
Speaker 2: But they look great. They look like a really good team.
Speaker 2: And this is what they've looked like. They look like
Speaker 2: the team that are supposed to look like when you
Speaker 2: talk about a contender, and they're the best team in
Speaker 2: the NFC right down. And I think that's clear. With
Speaker 2: Tony Gonzalez on on the broadcast was saying that it
Speaker 2: may be somebody else as the best team in NFC,
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles, and I said, not so fast. My
Speaker 2: friendly courso works both ways, and he said, not so
Speaker 2: fast when you're talking about the other teams as well,
Speaker 2: because they are not as complete as the Detroit Lions
Speaker 2: are right now. And getting Zadarius Smith is only going
Speaker 2: to help him. He kind of got banged up a
Speaker 2: little bit in this game. I'm pretty sure he's all right,
Speaker 2: but as he continues to get out there and get rolling,
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be really impactful.
Speaker 1: Well, you gotta love it, Richard. We've seen it. I
Speaker 1: mean you saw it, guys. If you have not tuned
Speaker 1: into the Jumior Gibbs episode with Richard earlier this week.
Speaker 1: This podcast is turned into a Detroit Lions fan base podcast.
Speaker 1: I love to see the Hano Lulu Blue tuning in
Speaker 1: every week. Let's take it to arguably the game of
Speaker 1: the day, the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: turns out a huge win divisional foe the Vegas had.
Speaker 1: This game is a three point game in Baltimore's favor.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying, hey, Baltimore's got this,
Speaker 1: no question about it. But Richard, you pointed, week after
Speaker 1: week after week, the division rivalry's saying, these division games
Speaker 1: are different. Baltimore is showing us something here. I mean,
Speaker 1: this team, they're eight and two, when they're looking like it,
Speaker 1: they win against the Baltimore Ravens Pittsburgh. Are they the
Speaker 1: team right now in the AFC North because they certainly.
Speaker 2: Look like it. Well, I mean, they definitely do. And
Speaker 2: obviously you got to give them credit because they just
Speaker 2: beat the team that was challenging them for that supremacy
Speaker 2: and the team that won the AFC North last year
Speaker 2: and the Baltimore Ravens. But the Baltimore Ravens are owing
Speaker 2: to four in the last four matchups against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: And that's with whoever it is at quarterback. And it's
Speaker 2: just like Lamar Jackson's struggles against Tomlin coach teams. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if Kenny Pickett's at quarterback, if Mitchell Trabitsky's
Speaker 2: a quarterback, They're finding a way to beat the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: And this is with the super tandem of Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: and Derrick Henry. But again, Todd Monkin is falling victim
Speaker 2: to the thing that Baltimore Ravens coordinators do every single
Speaker 2: time things get tight in a ball game, and a
Speaker 2: big time ball game, they stop running the football. And
Speaker 2: everybody knows the statistics of their wins versus their losses.
Speaker 2: Every time they lose, it's because Derek Henry has fifteen
Speaker 2: carries or less. It's I think he averaged averages fourteen
Speaker 2: carries in their losses and like twenty carries in their wins.
Speaker 2: So it keep feeding the ball. But whenever they get
Speaker 2: down in these games and it wasn't a huge lead,
Speaker 2: they missed multiple field goals uncharacteristically. You know, Justin Tucker,
Speaker 2: the All Pro Future Hall of Famer just could not
Speaker 2: get the ball through the uprights early in this game.
Speaker 2: If he makes those field goals, they likely win this game.
Speaker 2: But he didn't, and the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin knows
Speaker 2: how to win in an ugly ball game. He knows
Speaker 2: when things aren't going great, Hey, that defense is gonna
Speaker 2: step up. And the Pittsburgh Steelers defense stepped up in
Speaker 2: a big way. You just saw all their big time
Speaker 2: guys stepping up. TJ. Watt had a sack. Peyton Wilson
Speaker 2: had a really incredible one hand like diving, ripping away
Speaker 2: interception late in the ball game that really turned the
Speaker 2: tide to the Pittsburgh Steelers and really kind of closed
Speaker 2: out this game. Cam Hayward had a huge deflection in
Speaker 2: this game late in the game that they had to have.
Speaker 2: Naji Harris eighteen carres for sixty three yards. Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: didn't have the biggest game, you know, he struggled early on.
Speaker 2: I think he had eighty eight yards, you know, somewhere
Speaker 2: middle of the third quarter. But he turned it on
Speaker 2: late twenty three to thirty six, two hundred and five yards.
Speaker 2: Very costly interception in the end zone late in the game,
Speaker 2: but played well enough, maybe big enough plays converted third
Speaker 2: downs to help them win this game, to help them
Speaker 2: run that clock, control the ball game, and that's what
Speaker 2: they needed. That's what Tom the need to protect the ball,
Speaker 2: run the clock. And I think his tight end probably
Speaker 2: could have done helped him out a little bit. And
Speaker 2: bad at that pass down the end zone. Didn't really
Speaker 2: seem like he gave a lot of effort. But George
Speaker 2: Pickens with another good game. I think he's really happy
Speaker 2: to have Russell Wilson in the fold. Eight catches for
Speaker 2: eighty nine yards. But it's concerned and it has to
Speaker 2: be scary for Baltimore Ravens fans because it just seems
Speaker 2: like another more of the same, Like, Okay, we have
Speaker 2: an MVP candidate likely to win MVP. I mean touchdown
Speaker 2: interception mister, But I don't think he had the same
Speaker 2: regression that Jared Golf said. I don't know if one
Speaker 2: touchdown one interception is five interceptions in a game. Those
Speaker 2: aren't created equal, but it's definitely not the huge four
Speaker 2: or five touchdown games he had been having. Derrick Henry
Speaker 2: also got a touchdown fumbled for the first time in
Speaker 2: five hundred and thirty eight touches. Not the kind of
Speaker 2: game he's used to having. Obviously, you can't go away
Speaker 2: from Derrick Henry just because he fumbles the football. But
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do. This has to be
Speaker 2: a lesson, and you would have thought they learned this
Speaker 2: lesson after losing the playoffs the same way every year,
Speaker 2: and everybody's saying the same thing, including their own staff, saying, Hey,
Speaker 2: we went away from running the football. We'll never do that,
Speaker 2: We'll never make that a mistake again. I don't know
Speaker 2: why we did that. We went away from running the football.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we did that. We went away
Speaker 2: from winning the football. I don't know why we did that.
Speaker 2: Stop doing it. Run the football. Run it run it,
Speaker 2: run it run the football, Chris Brown. When you see
Speaker 2: it running running, yeah, running like run the football. And
Speaker 2: do I need to put the hat on because run them.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to. Because when they run the football,
Speaker 2: they win football games. When they don't run a football game,
Speaker 2: when they don't run the football, they lose. And it's
Speaker 2: been true in the playoffs, it's been true all of
Speaker 2: this year. When they lost to the Raiders, they didn't
Speaker 2: run the football well. The Loft to Cleveland they didn't
Speaker 2: run the football well. Kansas City they didn't run the
Speaker 2: football well. The Pittsburgh they didn't run the football well.
Speaker 2: It's a common theme. It's not hard to see. You
Speaker 2: don't need analytics or research to really dive deep and
Speaker 2: see it. You got one of the best running backs
Speaker 2: in National Football League. Turn around and hand them the
Speaker 2: ball sometimes at least twenty times a game. And sure
Speaker 2: you can have Lamar throw at thirty if that's what
Speaker 2: you want to do, but do not go away from
Speaker 2: the run game. And that's what they did. Give the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers a lot of credit there. They're looking like
Speaker 2: a top AFC contender. And if the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 2: slip up again, you might look at him as a
Speaker 2: one seed going into these playoffs. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if Kansas City really wants to go down that road,
Speaker 2: because they'd be seeing the Buffalo Bills a lot earlier
Speaker 2: than they want to.
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. This Steelers defense is nasty.
Speaker 1: I mean this offense. I mean this is the second
Speaker 1: time this season they've not scored a touchdown and won
Speaker 1: a game. I mean, the rest of the NFL is
Speaker 1: two to eighteen without scoring a touchdown in a game,
Speaker 1: and the Pittsburgh Steelers have managed to win two games
Speaker 1: without scoring touchdowns. Kudos to the Steelers, Yeah, I mean kudos.
Speaker 1: That's huge. And Richard, you know all too well that
Speaker 1: carries a team and Russell I don't want to speak
Speaker 1: poorly about him by any meets because he seemed to
Speaker 1: turn this offense around in Pittsburgh, but he's the beneficiary
Speaker 1: of another great defense here. Let's see how far he
Speaker 1: can take this Steelers team, because it seems to me
Speaker 1: like he's got the weapons. He's got n Agie Harris,
Speaker 1: I mean George Pickens. There is probably no bigger fan.
Speaker 1: I mean, George Pickens is proving himself to be one
Speaker 1: of the top receivers in this league ever since Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's taken over those reigns. So let's see what happens
Speaker 1: here in Pittsburgh. They've got an opportunity. You're going to
Speaker 1: see him first hand on Thursday Night Football, brought to
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Speaker 1: walk away either impressed or in questions because this balt
Speaker 1: This Pittsburgh Steelers team is eight and two. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how you debate it. They are eight and two
Speaker 1: and they proved it at home against one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league in the Baltimore Ravens. Let's
Speaker 1: see where they go from here. In terms of the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, it's a hardball ball on Monday night football.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take on the La Charters next. We'll see
Speaker 1: how they recover from this loss.
Speaker 2: Because again, these division games are weird. So even when
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's eight and two, when you feel really good about
Speaker 2: this huge win against Baltimore, sometimes they're that's setting you
Speaker 2: up for a letdown in another very tough division game
Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Browns. And Jamis just threw for almost
Speaker 2: four hundred yards against the Saints. Like, it's not that
Speaker 2: they can't do it. It's not that they can't push
Speaker 2: the ball down the field and they can't execute. So
Speaker 2: I hope we don't they don't have a case of
Speaker 2: overlooking the Cleveland Browns. And that's what I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: on air Thursday night is just you know, this is
Speaker 2: a really talented defense, a really good football team. But
Speaker 2: if their offense struggles like they did because Cleveland's defense
Speaker 2: is very capable. Miles Garrett is just as capable of
Speaker 2: wrecking a game as anybody in this football league. And
Speaker 2: so if you if they get out there and start
Speaker 2: lollygagging and you let Jamis get hot, this can this
Speaker 2: can get scary for Pittsburgh and Cleveland. So I I
Speaker 2: know they deserve to feel good about this game and
Speaker 2: feel good about their season eight and two. I'm sure
Speaker 2: their fans could not have predicted them going eight and
Speaker 2: two this season after seasons that they've had. But they
Speaker 2: look like a really complete team and I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see what they looked like Thursday, short week.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears in desperate need of a win, going
Speaker 1: under the five hundred mark. Last week, they're hosting the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers at home. They make it super competitive
Speaker 1: and lose by a blocked field goal. At the buzzer,
Speaker 1: we saw what appeared to be a lot better game
Speaker 1: from Caleb Williams. He looked a lot more comfortable in
Speaker 1: the pocket. When the bocket broke down, he was scrambling,
Speaker 1: he was picking up yards. He looked more like a
Speaker 1: veteran out there than it did a rookie. And I
Speaker 1: think Chicago needed to see that, but nonetheless they come
Speaker 1: away with the loss. Richard, how does this happen for Chicago?
Speaker 1: How do they turn the tides here? Because they had
Speaker 1: this game and they lost it.
Speaker 2: They just don't know how to finish. And you do
Speaker 2: have to give kat Williams a lot of credit. He
Speaker 2: looked really good. The offensive line looked better. At the
Speaker 2: entire offense looked better. DeAndre Swift had a really cool
Speaker 2: touchdown run where he made a corner miss in the
Speaker 2: open field, got loose, got busy. Caleb Williams was making
Speaker 2: plays with his legs, but he wasn't depending on it,
Speaker 2: and you saw him rush the ball. You saw him
Speaker 2: go out there and use his legs to really put
Speaker 2: the defense in jeopardy and put the defense on its
Speaker 2: heels and really make them adjust, make them have to
Speaker 2: account for his legs in a way that he hadn't
Speaker 2: really been doing throughout the season as much as he could.
Speaker 2: And I think that opened up some plays for him.
Speaker 2: He was getting the ball out quick on time, even
Speaker 2: when he's looking left. Sometimes he glanced back right and
Speaker 2: hit the check down for a lot of yards because
Speaker 2: the defense is moving with him. And I thought I
Speaker 2: thought he looked really solid, coming off a really tough game,
Speaker 2: some tough conversations in that locker room. Teammates really frustrated
Speaker 2: with his perform Larrence is in the past games. So
Speaker 2: I thought this was really a step forward for this team.
Speaker 2: It just sucks that they weren't able to finish because
Speaker 2: in a game like that, that's how you take the
Speaker 2: next step. You kick that field goal that you win it.
Speaker 2: And you're talking about a team that may sneak into
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the team that's feeling confident that they can
Speaker 2: beat anyone, and that defense is playing like a defense
Speaker 2: that can play with anyone. But they didn't. The phield
Speaker 2: goal got blocked. Carl Brooks blocked the game winning phild
Speaker 2: Gold got his fingertip on it, and that's all you
Speaker 2: need at that distance to be able to get it.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love though, he's a risk taker, and he's a
Speaker 2: guy that's reckless with the football, and he's thrown interception
Speaker 2: in eight straight games, eleven on the season and eleven
Speaker 2: and I don't even thinks he hasn't played every game.
Speaker 2: He's missed two games in this season. So that's something
Speaker 2: that I'm concerned about. The Green Bay Packers. This is
Speaker 2: a good win for them. They are seven and three,
Speaker 2: keeping up with your Detroit Lions in the division race.
Speaker 2: Minnesota Vikings are also up there at I think they're
Speaker 2: eight and two now. So this NFC North is really
Speaker 2: starting to heat up, and look at it look like
Speaker 2: one of the best division divisions, if not the best
Speaker 2: division in football. But if you're a Green Bay Packers fan,
Speaker 2: you have to be concerned about these interceptions because that
Speaker 2: is what ended your season last year at the hands
Speaker 2: of the San Francisco forty nine ers. Two Jordan Love
Speaker 2: interceptions and in the clutch is what ended your season.
Speaker 2: So he has as many interceptions now as he did
Speaker 2: through the entire season last year, and he has to
Speaker 2: get that fixed. These aren't just like tipped interceptions at
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, or are lucky plays by guys
Speaker 2: or hey, it bounced off the receiver's hands and got
Speaker 2: an interception. These are these are balls he's thrown to
Speaker 2: defenders and he has to get that fixed. I like
Speaker 2: how they leaned on Josh Jacobs throughout the game eighteen
Speaker 2: carries for seventy six yards, even got involved in the
Speaker 2: past game four carries took some short passes and made
Speaker 2: them big gains. I think that's gonna be positive for him.
Speaker 2: Christian Watson had his best game four catches for one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards. Rashawn Gary made some plays on defense.
Speaker 2: Our guy Xavier mckinne did not was not able to
Speaker 2: get Caleb Williams this time, even though he's gotten just
Speaker 2: about everybody else. But I thought this is what was
Speaker 2: a rare kind of win win for both teams. It's
Speaker 2: good for I'm sure Chicago feels a lot better about
Speaker 2: theirselves and about their team than they did coming into
Speaker 2: this game. And I'm sure Green Bay is thankful to
Speaker 2: be able to get out of this game where they
Speaker 2: didn't play as well as they possibly can. With the win,
Speaker 2: Green Bay has a tough game against San Francisco forty
Speaker 2: nine ers, who are reeling right now after that lost
Speaker 2: to Seattle. In Green Bay. The Bears have a tough
Speaker 2: game against the Minnesota Vikings who are rolling eight and two,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna put a lot of pressure on Caleb Williams,
Speaker 2: so better keep getting up all that fast.
Speaker 1: They finally scored a touchdown, I mean, then went twenty
Speaker 1: six strives With that one, Richard, and they're on a
Speaker 1: four game losing streak. I know, you could say you
Speaker 1: can take away, you know, some feel goods after losing
Speaker 1: this game close, but it's a four game losing streak.
Speaker 1: And it all started with that Hail Mary against the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders when Tyreek Stevenson was celebrating over there doing
Speaker 1: whatever he was doing with the crowd. I mean, how
Speaker 1: long does a loss like that carry over? Because this
Speaker 1: Bears team was four and two and now they're four
Speaker 1: and six and we're talking about feel good losses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but they weren't expected to be anything
Speaker 2: like that, Mitchell. This year. They weren't. You're not drafting
Speaker 2: the quarterback that high and you know, I mean their
Speaker 2: draft pick was what nine or ten, But you're not
Speaker 2: drafting top ten and making the playoffs. Many times, there
Speaker 2: are teams that have done it. But they had a
Speaker 2: really good defense, and they have a really good defense.
Speaker 2: But there's still ways to go offensively, especially offensive line
Speaker 2: and the quarterback. And you've got a young quarterback that
Speaker 2: has to develop. I think they're starting to figure out
Speaker 2: the rhythm that he needs to be in where they
Speaker 2: have to run the ball with DeAndre swift. They have
Speaker 2: to lean on a run game and then then let
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams go. You can't just sit there and drop
Speaker 2: back with Caleb Williams and have the run game as
Speaker 2: a second as an afterthought. That can't be the way
Speaker 2: you approach games. And I think at least they're figuring
Speaker 2: that rhythm out. I think they're showing signs of life.
Speaker 2: Maybe they can get hot and win some games that
Speaker 2: they won't be favored in down the stretch and sneak
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. But they really needed this one for
Speaker 2: their confidence going forward. But yeah, I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: it does linger, you know. I mean, there's nothing else
Speaker 2: to say about that. They're own four since that game,
Speaker 2: so clearly it's having some carryover effects.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a disaster season, let's go
Speaker 1: to the New York Jets. Hey Aaron Rodgers and this
Speaker 1: whole feel good story about him coming back from the
Speaker 1: Achilles injury. I don't know where this season is going
Speaker 1: to land for them, but it's not looking good. You
Speaker 1: already lose a coach and Robert Slok. They've made so
Speaker 1: many different moves and nothing seemed to work, and it
Speaker 1: all culminates with another loss against the low lean in
Speaker 1: app Colts, who just brought back Anthony richardson where do
Speaker 1: we go from here? I mean, who do you cast
Speaker 1: the blame on other than Woody Johnson in New York
Speaker 1: New York Jets territory.
Speaker 2: Richard, Yeah, I mean you got to put a lot
Speaker 2: of the blame on Whatdy Johnson, because you've made an
Speaker 2: unnecessary decision in the middle of the season. And there
Speaker 2: it's been shown statistically, no matter what team you're looking at,
Speaker 2: if you take if you fire the head coach min season,
Speaker 2: the rest of that season is pretty much wrap. You're
Speaker 2: you're not going to the playoffs, you're not having success,
Speaker 2: You're not you're not doing anything worthy of mention in
Speaker 2: that season. And I know he tried to cut the
Speaker 2: front off his loose to to make all these moves
Speaker 2: to make him look better and say, oh, get get
Speaker 2: Redick in here, get get get Davonte, do all this
Speaker 2: so that it doesn't look bad, so you guys can
Speaker 2: win and it can look like I fired Robert Salay
Speaker 2: and he was the problem, and I was the answer. Clearly,
Speaker 2: Robert Salad wasn't the problem. Aaron isn't playing as well
Speaker 2: as he has in the past. It's probably his worst
Speaker 2: season of his football career, probably since the first season
Speaker 2: he started. They're not playing well on defense. Ever since
Speaker 2: Brick became the head coach, they've been one of the
Speaker 2: worst defense. I think they've given up the second most
Speaker 2: points since he's become the head coach. And that's just
Speaker 2: you know, that's just one of the side effects of
Speaker 2: moving your defensive coordinator to head coach and throwing all
Speaker 2: this responsibility on his back, all these extra things to
Speaker 2: think about during the game, during the week, all these
Speaker 2: extra meetings that he has to be and you're changing
Speaker 2: the whole dynamic of the staff five games into the season,
Speaker 2: and that's a shock that they just haven't recovered from.
Speaker 2: The players are kind of frustrated. You saw the comments
Speaker 2: saw had about you know, bricks tackling presentation, and then
Speaker 2: they went out and they missed a lot of tackles
Speaker 2: in this game. So it's just a lot of things compiling,
Speaker 2: a lot of frustration, I'm sure mounting in that locker room,
Speaker 2: mounting with that coaching staff, and disappointment because you know,
Speaker 2: they were they're really talented team and they've had a
Speaker 2: talented defense for the entire time this staff has been
Speaker 2: employed and they just haven't had the offense. And everybody
Speaker 2: thought when Aaron came in he would he would fix
Speaker 2: a lot of the problems, and Davante would help fix Aaron,
Speaker 2: and he would help fix Garrett Wilson, and just hasn't
Speaker 2: culminated the way they would have wanted it to. When
Speaker 2: it's disappointing the.
Speaker 1: Other side of the football, Anthony Richardson comes back from
Speaker 1: his break. I mean, obviously they sidelined him and showed
Speaker 1: him what Joe FLACKU could do for the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and he comes back and he looks like a lot
Speaker 1: more competent quarterback out there, throwing for two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two yards a touchdown, getting done on the ground too,
Speaker 1: with two rushing touchdowns. How much do you think that
Speaker 1: time off, that time to just examine and look and
Speaker 1: study benefited Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: I think it benefited that a tremendous amount. Just being
Speaker 2: able to sit there and listen and watch and get
Speaker 2: hungry and get frustrated and work your craft and be
Speaker 2: able to push the reset button on everything and go
Speaker 2: out there and just play free. You know, what's the
Speaker 2: worst that can happen. They already said he's going to
Speaker 2: be named the starter for the the rest of the season,
Speaker 2: So now just go out there, let the ball fly,
Speaker 2: be confident, trust your reads. And it looks like he's
Speaker 2: a whole different quarterback. I mean, his completions, he's not
Speaker 2: overthrown as much as he was at the beginning. He
Speaker 2: was completing a lot more passes. Uh, He's not putting
Speaker 2: his body in danger as much. Obviously he took a
Speaker 2: hit when he ran that first touchdown in but he
Speaker 2: looks a lot more in command, a lot more accurate.
Speaker 2: His feet are under him. I think it benefited it.
Speaker 1: You talked about it so much paralysis by over analysis.
Speaker 1: I mean, these these younger quarterbacks, and you can speak
Speaker 1: to this way better than I can, but it seems
Speaker 1: like the more you think about a play, the less
Speaker 1: you are instinctive. And to me, it looked like he
Speaker 1: was just playing naturally, letting the letting the play come
Speaker 1: to him, as opposed to trying to force something. And
Speaker 1: if you see this down the stretch, I mean, this
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts team is still in the thick of things
Speaker 1: when it comes to the playoff race. If they can
Speaker 1: get hot.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean they play my Detroit Lions next week. I
Speaker 1: welcome Anthony Richardson, but we'll see. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. I know they played the Tennessee Titans today,
Speaker 1: but this team is now eight and two and Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold gets back on track a bit, throwing for two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six yards two touchdowns. Richard, I know
Speaker 1: we talked about the Minnesota Vikings and they're fall off
Speaker 1: of the last couple of weeks. Like, how much do
Speaker 1: you believe in this team? Because this NFC North Division,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're dominating the league right now. The Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings are eight and two, the Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 1: seven and three, the Detroit Lions are nine to one.
Speaker 1: We're potentially seeing three teams to the North going into
Speaker 1: this playoffs. How much do you believe in the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: albeit against the Tennessee Titans today.
Speaker 2: I mean defense translates. And Andrew van de Ginko have
Speaker 2: two sacks in the game, He's got eight on the season.
Speaker 2: They're putting a lot of pressure on quarterbacks, They're getting
Speaker 2: a lot of turnovers. I think that translates, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna make it tough Offensively, they got a very competent
Speaker 2: coordinator and Kevin O'Connell well head coach coordinator. He calls
Speaker 2: a really great game and every time you talk to
Speaker 2: a defender who's gone against him, they talk about his creativity,
Speaker 2: the acumen. He has, the creativity within the game, you know,
Speaker 2: making plays look like other plays, but then having pretty
Speaker 2: much counters off of it. And so if they can
Speaker 2: get to the playoffs and they get the right matchup,
Speaker 2: I think they can do damage. And I think every
Speaker 2: team in the NFC North has that story if they
Speaker 2: can play well enough. This defense has a lot of
Speaker 2: unknown guys making huge plays and just fitting in this
Speaker 2: system like hand and glove. So yeah, I think this
Speaker 2: is gonna be a dangerous team down the stretch. I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing what they can do during the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You witness the Eagles, I mean and the Commanders go
Speaker 1: at it, and it looked at the Commanders had control
Speaker 1: this game. They were playing the game the way they
Speaker 1: wanted to, slowing it down, letting the defense control the game,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden we saw Saquon takeover.
Speaker 1: Late in that game. Philadelphia looks like the real deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they can if they can put a
Speaker 1: full sixty minutes together weaken and week out, they look
Speaker 1: like a top contender in the NFC. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts after being in Philly and witnessing their dominance late
Speaker 1: in that game against the Commanders.
Speaker 2: Well, I just don't, you know, it just don'sn't like
Speaker 2: the Commanders are quite there yet with the weapons offensively
Speaker 2: and defensively, just don't have the firepower they need to
Speaker 2: stop that offense. But I wasn't I didn't walk away
Speaker 2: really impressed with the Philadelphia Eagles offense. I walked away
Speaker 2: impressed with Takuon Barkley. But at times it just looked discombobulated, disconnected,
Speaker 2: and you look at it through through the first half
Speaker 2: and you're like, they have too many superstars, too much
Speaker 2: firepower to only have six points in the game. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how this defense is getting stops. They don't
Speaker 2: have a ton of great corners. You know, Marshawn Lattimore
Speaker 2: wasn't playing in this game, and so you wonder why
Speaker 2: AJ Brown wasn't dominating. Devontae Smith wasn't really dominating in
Speaker 2: this game. And so that's the stuff that concerns me
Speaker 2: because if you run against a team with some real
Speaker 2: dogs in the secondary, some dogs on defense, and some
Speaker 2: some offensive firepower, I think they, you know, people pull
Speaker 2: away from them in a game like that. So I'm
Speaker 2: not quite ready to put them up there with the
Speaker 2: with the contenders. I'm not willing to put them up
Speaker 2: there with your Detroit Lions or or even the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think the Benefit Soda Vikings are
Speaker 2: more complete team than a Philadelphia Eagles, so I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure where they fall in the hierarchy yet,
Speaker 2: but I need to see them play somebody like that
Speaker 2: and not start the way they did in this game.
Speaker 1: Well, Richard, this concludes our week eleven recap of the games. Guys,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate you tuning in weekend week out. I mean,
Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. We see your comments. Will
Speaker 1: we welcome all feedback, Richard, please sign us off, my friend.
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