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Speaker 2: Let's work in reverse. The Kansas City Chiefs are going
Speaker 2: to New Orleans as they try to repeat as they
Speaker 2: hold off the bills thirty two, twenty nine. It wasn't
Speaker 2: an incredible game by Patrick Mahomes. It was just one
Speaker 2: of those games that you better be just a little
Speaker 2: bit better than him, and Josh Allen was not. I
Speaker 2: thought they did a good job of staying in the game,
Speaker 2: stopping them. They had an opportunity to win this game.
Speaker 2: I thought Josh Allen looked nervous. I thought he acted nervous.
Speaker 2: I thought he was playing differently than he had all
Speaker 2: season long. They abandoned the run at some point and
Speaker 2: Kansas City does just enough to advance. By the way,
Speaker 2: they're listed as a one and a half point favorite
Speaker 2: over the Eagles. The Eagles rolled the Commanders. This was
Speaker 2: one of those games. The Eagles did to the Commanders
Speaker 2: what the Commanders did to the Detroit Lions, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, those turnovers start and then you start
Speaker 2: to play a little more desperate, and you got a
Speaker 2: lot of Saquon Barkley. Jalen Hurts was wonderful, And yes,
Speaker 2: I have to acknowledge this because people were pointing this out.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Jalen Hurts today? I said,
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this. He's been inconsistent.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I thought he was banged up, had three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He looked great. I mean that was an impressive performance
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. But the Commanders, I know
Speaker 2: it sounds strange to say this, but they did have chances.
Speaker 2: They were close until all of a sudden they had turnovers,
Speaker 2: missed opportunities, and then it becomes fifty five to twenty three.
Speaker 2: Saquon was wonderful, but I still don't understand this. That's
Speaker 2: the one guy I have to stop. I just have
Speaker 2: to stop, and I'm sure they were trying to stop him,
Speaker 2: but I wanted Jalen Hurts to pass the ball. But
Speaker 2: all of a sudden they changed the play and Saquon
Speaker 2: goes for sixty. So Jalen Hurts saw something, Nick Sirian,
Speaker 2: somebody saw something, and all of a sudden they changed it.
Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of lost in this. So
Speaker 2: if you watch that play, Hurts see something changes. The
Speaker 2: play changes where Saquan is lined up, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden he goes left and then he goes
Speaker 2: back right, and then you go, oh, my goodness, he's
Speaker 2: done it again. And I was curious though, when you
Speaker 2: start to look at running backs like that, this doesn't
Speaker 2: happen in the postseason. So Saquon Barkley when you're running
Speaker 2: over sixty yards. He is the first player in NFL
Speaker 2: history three rushing touchdowns of sixty yards or more in
Speaker 2: his playoff career. All three have happened this season.
Speaker 6: Woo Cow stand of a day, Stan a day stand
Speaker 6: OUTA day, stand outa day. This is the stule of
Speaker 6: the day.
Speaker 2: And City Chiefs fan Melissa Entthred's there with stat of
Speaker 2: the day. Here's Nick Sirianni, the Eagles head coach, on Saquon.
Speaker 7: They don't give me a vote for MVP, but I
Speaker 7: know who my vote was. It is probably why they
Speaker 7: don't give me a vote because I would vote for Saquon.
Speaker 7: But special performance, special player, special job by the entire
Speaker 7: group to make that play go to start things off.
Speaker 7: And that was a good tone setter.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's a home run. That's a
Speaker 2: Ricky Henderson leading off a game home run type of feel.
Speaker 2: But you know, the Commanders, you had a great year,
Speaker 2: you had a bad day, you had a great year,
Speaker 2: and you got a great future there. And I loved
Speaker 2: everything about their whole ride that they had. You know,
Speaker 2: Dan Quinn happy for him, Jaden Daniels was wonderful. I
Speaker 2: think you got to be introduced to some of their
Speaker 2: players yesterday. Maybe you weren't familiar with them. We're familiar
Speaker 2: with Jaden Daniels for a reason. But they got a
Speaker 2: bright future there and I thought it was wonderful. But
Speaker 2: the Eagles, the Eagles are now and you talk about
Speaker 2: a team that was built like moves that they make,
Speaker 2: and you go, I don't know about that draft pick,
Speaker 2: or they're bringing in Saquon Barkley. And remember go back
Speaker 2: to the offseason where you had analysts, you certainly had
Speaker 2: Philadelphia fans are like, why are we bringing him in?
Speaker 2: Our offensive line can make any running back good. True,
Speaker 2: your offensive line can make any running back good. Your
Speaker 2: offensive line can't make somebody rush for two thousand yards.
Speaker 2: And that's the difference with Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry. He's
Speaker 2: just different. And then I love the return of the
Speaker 2: running back, love it, love it. And you got to
Speaker 2: see Saquon and he's a home run hitter. And that
Speaker 2: team is so balanced. And I know Howie Roseman, like,
Speaker 2: if there's somebody who is the Steve Spagnolo, like, Howie
Speaker 2: Roseman built this team. Hey, Spags is going to dial
Speaker 2: up something for the Chiefs. It would be the equivalent
Speaker 2: of that that you have a GM who gets men
Speaker 2: as much as a coordinator or coach does. But he
Speaker 2: did a wonderful job, did a wonderful joke. Remember I,
Speaker 2: you know, I was thinking about this with Saquon when
Speaker 2: he had that first touchdown run. I thought back to
Speaker 2: earlier in the regular season. Remember when he had the
Speaker 2: drop and all of a sudden, you know he was
Speaker 2: going to be with us that next day, and you know,
Speaker 2: he had people death threats. I mean it was in
Speaker 2: his home, you know, in Philadelphia, and that I go, God,
Speaker 2: that's so long ago, but it's not. And then here
Speaker 2: he is, you know, doing what he does better than anybody,
Speaker 2: and that's being a home run hitter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Pauline, there'd be a day a decade from now
Speaker 4: you'll say Saquon Barkley used to be a New York
Speaker 4: Giant because he's going to do so much good work
Speaker 4: with the Eagles. Was that Marshall Fauch Colts rams you
Speaker 4: remember the Colts career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a great point. But you're watching and
Speaker 2: I thought Buffalo got away from the run. I don't
Speaker 2: know if James Cook was banged up but it reminded
Speaker 2: me of that third quarter when the Ravens were, you know,
Speaker 2: going with Derrick Henry and they just go down the
Speaker 2: field and they score a touchdown, and I kept thinking, Buffalo,
Speaker 2: don't get away from it, stay with it, and it
Speaker 2: just felt like they got towards other things, passing plays,
Speaker 2: trying to feature Josh Allen maybe a little bit too much.
Speaker 2: And yes, there are a couple of calls. The fourth
Speaker 2: down call, I thought that it was a bad spot.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a first down. And once again,
Speaker 2: I'm not rooting for anybody or rooting against anybody. I
Speaker 2: actually was rooting for no bad controversial calls. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you have too many people who watch a
Speaker 2: game going, hey, who you rooting for the referees so
Speaker 2: they don't screw this up so it doesn't become the conversation.
Speaker 2: But you know what's going to happen. They're eventually going
Speaker 2: to put a chip in the football and this probably
Speaker 2: is going to happen real quick in the offseason. Just so,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's archaic to have a chain gang, and
Speaker 2: it's random where you have an official spot the ball,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to go conspiracy theory. It just
Speaker 2: bothers me that when you watch a spot and then
Speaker 2: you go, how did they come up with that? And
Speaker 2: that was the feeling I had. I thought, Josh Allen
Speaker 2: got the first down, you know, the zabe you're worthy
Speaker 2: play fifty to fifty ball or it certainly felt like
Speaker 2: Buffalo had it Worthy didn't, but then they gave him
Speaker 2: the ball. It's not the end of the world, but
Speaker 2: it's those calls that all of a sudden, if you're
Speaker 2: the opposition, it just has this defeatist type feel like
Speaker 2: you're just going come on, and even if you're watching,
Speaker 2: you're going come on. You know, they do get the calls.
Speaker 2: At least that's the feeling. But yesterday with Josh Allen
Speaker 2: with the fourth down and uh, didn't get it. Here's
Speaker 2: Josh Allen after the game.
Speaker 3: You take your through those fourth out play there of
Speaker 3: the pressure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they gave a good look. Didn't see anything
Speaker 2: in my first cadence thanksliding left corner came. They hid
Speaker 2: that extremely well and uh, I think that was their
Speaker 2: only blitch of the day.
Speaker 3: They blitched once.
Speaker 2: Spags dialing up a bit there.
Speaker 5: We were all texting each other bags Bags.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid Camps City Chiefs on possibly three peeting.
Speaker 8: I think motivation is the wrong the wrong word, or
Speaker 8: I'm gonna just change that for you. So I would
Speaker 8: tell you we're motivated like crazy to win the game.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's what you're motivated to do. You get
Speaker 8: caught up in that other stuff, all the hype that
Speaker 8: goes with it, and then you forget about third and
Speaker 8: one in detailing that you know either side of the ball.
Speaker 8: So you've got to keep everything in perspective and really,
Speaker 8: when it comes down to it, all the coffetti, all
Speaker 8: that's great, I mean, is great. Nothing like doing it
Speaker 8: with your home fans. But it's going to come down
Speaker 8: to a football game.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can't lose sight of that. You got to
Speaker 2: win one for you to win three in a row.
Speaker 2: Win this one. Don't get caught up in history and
Speaker 2: mahomes nothing special this year. But I think we've come
Speaker 2: to accept that somehow, some way, he's going to make place.
Speaker 2: But you gave Buffalo chance. You got three and a
Speaker 2: half minutes, three timeouts, you got the two minute you
Speaker 2: know timeout, plenty of time, plenty of time, no need
Speaker 2: to rush but knock down a like they just made
Speaker 2: little plays. And if you go down the roster with
Speaker 2: the Chiefs and look, I've warmed up to them the
Speaker 2: last couple of years just because I see something that
Speaker 2: is really unique in this sport where they want parody
Speaker 2: and their ability to plug and play. It was unbelieva.
Speaker 2: I mean, Kareem Hunt. Anybody could have had him. I
Speaker 2: mean Xavier Worthy, Buffalo allowed Kansas City to go up
Speaker 2: and get him. Juju Smith, Schuster could have had him.
Speaker 2: I mean, Kelsey didn't do anything. Chris Jones wonderful, but
Speaker 2: the other defensive players, it just little things. Little things
Speaker 2: lead to big things, and that's where you know, they
Speaker 2: took the blueprint of what the Patriots did, have consistency
Speaker 2: with the coach and the quarterback, and then build from there.
Speaker 9: Yes, Marvin, at the beginning of the game, I forgot
Speaker 9: that Hollywood Brown and DeAndre Hopkins were on the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown first two catchers, and I go, yeah, I
Speaker 2: didn't even know he was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: PAULI Romo had something before the game. When he's previewing
Speaker 4: the game, he said, there's not a player on their
Speaker 4: team to focus on. It would have been Kelsey two
Speaker 4: years ago, but even him, he's more like a B
Speaker 4: level player. Now there's not a go to guy on
Speaker 4: a third down, so it makes it more confusing for
Speaker 4: the defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he used to be with Tyreek Hill, you
Speaker 2: know you had to worry about home run threat or
Speaker 2: you know Kelsey underneath. You know, Mahomes has got confidence
Speaker 2: in these guys. And I thought Romo had a really
Speaker 2: good day yesterday, even when he said, hey, kan City
Speaker 2: knows that Josh Allen likes to go left on that
Speaker 2: quarterback sneak that they were talking about that prior to
Speaker 2: the game. They have a production meeting where everybody gets
Speaker 2: together start talking about things to look for. You talk
Speaker 2: to your producer director and he said, they know that
Speaker 2: Josh likes to go left on that. Just little things
Speaker 2: and which was fun. It's fun to be able to
Speaker 2: watch that and hear what they have to say in
Speaker 2: real time. All Right, we'll get phone calls coming up.
Speaker 2: Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that
Speaker 2: you liked, you didn't like? And by the way, Ohio
Speaker 2: State has a parade that's on Sunday. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: yesterday down No I missed it. I wasn't sure if
Speaker 2: you were there or not. No, No, I didn't. I
Speaker 2: was busy watching football. So the Buckeyes had a parade. Well,
Speaker 2: they lost their defensive coordinator. He went to Penn State?
Speaker 2: Was he in the Preyede yesterday? And then like you
Speaker 2: go to the Prey and then you go to Penn State?
Speaker 5: Like your float just takes the Austre. He's taking a
Speaker 5: happy Valley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how far to Happy Valley?
Speaker 5: Streamers going down the highway.
Speaker 2: All right, let me take a break Ross Tucker. He
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Speaker 2: Early odds from DraftKings chiefs one and a half point favorites,
Speaker 2: the over under forty nine and a half. How about
Speaker 2: the odds to win the Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: at plus one ten. Then it's Saquon Barkley, then it's
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, and really it's a three player race after that,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey, Xavier Worthy very very distant third and fourth.
Speaker 3: We'll come up with the.
Speaker 2: Pole question today. Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One, NFL
Speaker 2: college football analysts, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
Speaker 2: He was on the sidelines yesterday sideline reporter for Westwood One,
Speaker 2: and he had the duties there with the NFC title
Speaker 2: game between the Commanders and the Eagles. When did the
Speaker 2: game change for you yesterday?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I trying to remember the exact situation. I think
Speaker 3: probably the fourth and five throw from Jalen Hurts to
Speaker 3: AJ Brown down the sideline. I think it was fourteen twelve.
Speaker 3: I might be wrong. I think it was fourteen twelve,
Speaker 3: fourth and five. I gotta be hones with you, Dan,
Speaker 3: I thought they were just hard counting him. I didn't
Speaker 3: they were gonna go for it. I mean, because he
Speaker 3: tried to hard count him twice. The Commanders, to their credit,
Speaker 3: didn't jump. So he throws a deep fade down the sideline.
Speaker 3: That's not necessarily a high percentage throw. But Hurtz, who
Speaker 3: by the way, had his best game in a couple months,
Speaker 3: dropped it right in the bucket perfect to AJ Brown.
Speaker 3: So they go and they score touchdown after that, then
Speaker 3: they kick off will Shipley Rocks McNichols fumble another touchdown.
Speaker 3: Game was kind of over in those last two minutes.
Speaker 3: It was that the throw to Brown, the ensuing fumble
Speaker 3: another touchdown. Those two touchdowns the last two minutes kind
Speaker 3: of ended the game.
Speaker 2: Is there a defense to stop Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3: Such a good question, because they actually stop him a lot.
Speaker 3: When you watch until he goes seventy, it's like one
Speaker 3: of the craziest things. I honestly, Dan, I don't remember
Speaker 3: seeing this before. You know, there's some crazy stats out there.
Speaker 3: I think he has seven touchdown runs over sixty yards
Speaker 3: this year. The whole rest of the NFL maybe has
Speaker 3: ten or seven. I mean, I just I can't remember
Speaker 3: seeing a guy breaking this many long touchdown runs in general,
Speaker 3: and then in particular in big games. In big Spot,
Speaker 3: it was the first play of the game. You know,
Speaker 3: the commanders are all geared up to stop him. And
Speaker 3: the reason why it happens is because when you load
Speaker 3: the box you only have that one deep safety. You're
Speaker 3: actually putting that guy in a bad spot. That's why
Speaker 3: so often it's like a two yard gain or a
Speaker 3: three yard game. They actually stuff him a lot because
Speaker 3: they got a lot of guys up there. But if
Speaker 3: he gets past the second level and all you have
Speaker 3: is that one safety middle of the field, good luck
Speaker 3: to that guy, because that is a very tall task
Speaker 3: taking down Saquan Bark. It's amazing. You can almost feel
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen almost every game.
Speaker 2: I think the comp I would use, even though he
Speaker 2: didn't play in many big games, is Barry Sanders, because
Speaker 2: Barry would be two yards minus one, three yards, five
Speaker 2: sixty six. You know that sort of you know you're
Speaker 2: playing bingo with Barry. You know it'd be like eleven
Speaker 2: nineteen two, one sixty six touchdown.
Speaker 3: You know what, Dan, It's such a good point. Now,
Speaker 3: they obviously have different styles as runners, but you're a
Speaker 3: thousand percent correct. Barry Sanders was not like a sustaining
Speaker 3: running back. I remember the criticism of Barry Sanders at
Speaker 3: times was you know, it's also second and twelve a lot,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I mean he would like
Speaker 3: lose two yards. I have that sometimes with Saquon. They're
Speaker 3: different style runners, but at times I wonder about his vision.
Speaker 3: He does have some lost yardage or some runs where
Speaker 3: he doesn't have his many five to ten yard runs.
Speaker 3: I feel like, as you would think, but maybe that's
Speaker 3: just that is a great comp and they both have
Speaker 3: maybe the two biggest pair of thighs we've ever seen,
Speaker 3: so evidently that's what you want. You want gigantic thighs,
Speaker 3: and then you want to be able to take it
Speaker 3: sixty yards seemingly once or twice a game.
Speaker 2: The thighs go together. Just let you know, it's rare
Speaker 2: if you have one big thigh and then one small
Speaker 2: five it's a pair of big thighs. Pauly check that
Speaker 2: if you can, please, okay, thank you. As far as this,
Speaker 2: you know what sometimes gets lost when you have a
Speaker 2: story like this, the Commander's great year, bad day. But
Speaker 2: looking at building for the future, what do you see
Speaker 2: with the commanders before we say goodbye to them?
Speaker 11: Oh man, I would be very very excited, very excited
Speaker 11: because Number one, a lot of the guys they brought
Speaker 11: in this year with the new GM Adam Peters, they
Speaker 11: panned out. I mean, you think about out Frankie Louvu
Speaker 11: awesome bringing in guys like Bobby Wagner, Jeremy Chin did
Speaker 11: a lot of good things. The draft picks, I mean
Speaker 11: Jayden and Daniels obviously a home run. But how about
Speaker 11: Saint Rastill in the second round? And they traded down
Speaker 11: in the second round to get Saint Rastill.
Speaker 3: So if you're a Commander's fan right now, you know
Speaker 3: that the future is bright and you know you were
Speaker 3: just out gunned yesterday. I mean I talked to prepping
Speaker 3: for the game Dan, I talked to I don't know,
Speaker 3: three or four personnel executives, depending on who I spoke to.
Speaker 3: They said between three to five commanders would start for
Speaker 3: the Eagles. Oh, we think about that. Jonathan Allen would
Speaker 3: start next to Jaalen, Carter Louvu would start next to
Speaker 3: Zach Bond. Obviously Jayden Daniels would start. Although Hurt's played
Speaker 3: very well, but the fact remains, it's hard to win
Speaker 3: a game if you only have three to five guys
Speaker 3: that would even start for the other team. The Eagles
Speaker 3: are just that loaded, and then you have the fumbles
Speaker 3: and Hurts plays the best he has a go I
Speaker 3: mean good luck. I mean that's how you lose by
Speaker 3: thirty points.
Speaker 2: And I loved on ESPN dot com yesterday a long
Speaker 2: article about Daniel Snyder and how he's miserable. Imagine you
Speaker 2: get six billion dollars and you on your yacht somewhere
Speaker 2: in the south of France and you're watching this, and
Speaker 2: he's miserable because they they succeeded once they got rid
Speaker 2: of you. I love God. Wouldn't you love to have
Speaker 2: a camera on him as he's watching the Commanders on
Speaker 2: his yacht.
Speaker 3: I said this before the game. Actually, I would have
Speaker 3: paid money for a Dan Snyder castor or or have
Speaker 3: him come to the game and give him a box,
Speaker 3: give him a box for free, and give him the
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift treatment, you know, like every time the Chiefs score,
Speaker 3: something happens, they showed Taylor Swift in the suite. Every
Speaker 3: time the Commanders do something well, or Daydan Daniels runs
Speaker 3: for a touchdown, show Dan Snyder just like throwing his
Speaker 3: pen and being all upset. I mean, the timing of this,
Speaker 3: It's just incredible, it really is. I'm so excited. You know,
Speaker 3: I played there twice. You can see Dan the two
Speaker 3: helmets behind me. Yeah. I started my career there and
Speaker 3: finished it there. So I'm just so happy for those
Speaker 3: people down there. I mean when I was there and
Speaker 3: you know this, but when I was there, they had
Speaker 3: like a big season ticket waiting list. It was cool
Speaker 3: to play for the Redskins, right. I went to a
Speaker 3: game a couple of years ago. The stadium was half
Speaker 3: full and out of the half people that are there,
Speaker 3: half of them were for the other team. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've never seen in pro sports that erosion of a
Speaker 3: fan base. They have single handily brought it back now
Speaker 3: with Jayden Dan, I'm thrilled for those people down there.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Ross Tucker. He was there for Westwood one.
Speaker 2: He was the sideline reporter for the Commanders and the Eagles.
Speaker 2: For the AFC. Mahomes was good, but it feels like
Speaker 2: the role players were wonderful. Like they don't have go
Speaker 2: to guys like Kareem Hunt. Anybody could have had him.
Speaker 2: Kelsey wasn't the go to guy yesterday. I didn't know
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown was on the Chiefs. It was like one
Speaker 2: of those I went, oh, that's right. I mean, it's remarkable.
Speaker 2: And it's not just Chris Jones on defense. They are
Speaker 2: they have the Patriot way, the old Patriot way. We're
Speaker 2: plug and play, and they just seemed to figure it
Speaker 2: out and they all picked their moments, what stood out
Speaker 2: for you with Kansas City's win.
Speaker 3: Well, and also they're just extremely well coached, right, I
Speaker 3: mean you think about just think about the last two minutes. Okay,
Speaker 3: the fourth and five for Josh Allen, they bring that
Speaker 3: corner blitz. Now, I don't know why the Bills didn't
Speaker 3: have a better answer for the corner blitz there. You know,
Speaker 3: Spagnola likes to do it, but the guy came Scott
Speaker 3: free and Josh Allen heaved it. Now, kin kid probably
Speaker 3: still should have caught it, but there and then and
Speaker 3: think about those two third down conversions where both times
Speaker 3: Mahomes has Pacheco and p Ryan wide open in the flat.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Andy Reid and spags are really
Speaker 3: really good. He everything that jumped out to me. You know,
Speaker 3: you gotta make the critical plays against the Chiefs. I
Speaker 3: know a lot of Bills fans, and I love those people.
Speaker 3: That was my favorite team I played for. That's that
Speaker 3: helmet right there, and I love those people. And there's
Speaker 3: a lot of talk about the spot on the quarterback sneak,
Speaker 3: and I get it. What I would say is, if
Speaker 3: you're the Bills, I'm a big believer in personal accountability, right, Like,
Speaker 3: don't let Mahomes go up and down the field and
Speaker 3: score thirty points for the first time all season, right,
Speaker 3: Or how about if you're Cole Bishop, don't let Xavier
Speaker 3: Worthy rip the ball away from you. If your kincaid
Speaker 3: catch the ball. If you're Josh Allen and Curtis Samuel
Speaker 3: Curtis Amos on the crossing route, there's nobody within ten
Speaker 3: yards of them, that's probably a forty yard play. Put
Speaker 3: the ball on them and let them don't get stuffed
Speaker 3: three times on quarterback sneak. The Bills had plenty of
Speaker 3: chances to win that game, and for whatever reason, teams
Speaker 3: do not make the critical plays to win the game
Speaker 3: against the Chiefs. They just it's like a voodoo doll
Speaker 3: or something. They don't do it and the Chiefs do.
Speaker 3: So the Chiefs deserve to win.
Speaker 2: You got three and a half minutes, you got three timeouts,
Speaker 2: you got the two minute warning. The Bills had a
Speaker 2: chance there. That's what you want. That's what MVPs want,
Speaker 2: the ball in their hands, and you know they couldn't
Speaker 2: come up with the big plays. You're right the spot
Speaker 2: on the you know, the push push with Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: Are we going to get to the point where we
Speaker 2: put a chip in the football? I've been saying this
Speaker 2: for years. I don't understand. We have all this modern
Speaker 2: technology and it just seems like, hey, let's bring out
Speaker 2: the chain gang or it's a random spot. And I
Speaker 2: know I'm using this as a you know, launching pad
Speaker 2: for this, but this is what happens. You have a
Speaker 2: big moment where we question this spot and you know
Speaker 2: it leads to something. Is it going to lead to
Speaker 2: a chip in the football?
Speaker 3: So a couple things, Dan, this is a really important
Speaker 3: point for football moving forward. Okay, being on the sideline yesterday,
Speaker 3: I say, almost half the time, Dan, I'm right behind
Speaker 3: the side judge or the field judge. It's almost impossible.
Speaker 3: You know, the football field is fifty three and a
Speaker 3: third yards wide, so these guys are like twenty eight
Speaker 3: yards away from these quarterback sneaks and there's fifteen guys,
Speaker 3: gigantic human beings in there. To be able to see
Speaker 3: where the ball is when the guy's shin or knee
Speaker 3: or elbow or forearm is down, it's almost impossible. You
Speaker 3: go back and watch the Josh Allen one the side
Speaker 3: judge comes in on this side of the forty, the
Speaker 3: field judge comes in on the other side of the forty,
Speaker 3: and then as they come in they usually look at
Speaker 3: each other and they try to even it out. The
Speaker 3: thing is two thoughts on this that are super important.
Speaker 3: Number One, if you run a quarterback sneak, you really
Speaker 3: are at the mercy of the side judge and field there.
Speaker 3: You run a quarterback power or a quarterback sweep like
Speaker 3: they did, and you have Josh Allen, just get outside
Speaker 3: or power through and clearly get over it. When you
Speaker 3: do the sneak, you're putting it in the hands of
Speaker 3: the officials a little bit. As far as the technology,
Speaker 3: so this is something that a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 3: And I saw Sam Schwarztein from Amazon posting there's been
Speaker 3: a chip in the ball for four years, which is
Speaker 3: why they know a lot of the things they know
Speaker 3: about tracking and all that stuff. It's very complicated. It's
Speaker 3: not tennis, okay, where it's a circular ball and you
Speaker 3: know you have that hawkeye vision you can see where
Speaker 3: the ball goes. Right. It's more complicated than that because
Speaker 3: even if you have the chip and the ball, it's
Speaker 3: not a sphere it's an oblong ball, but you still
Speaker 3: need to know when the body part touches the ground right,
Speaker 3: Like the technology doesn't know if it's the shin or
Speaker 3: the knee or the forearm. That it's a much more
Speaker 3: complicated solution that I think most people they've been working on.
Speaker 3: Trust me, they are working on it, but it's a
Speaker 3: lot easier said than done.
Speaker 2: That's great. Didn't even think of that. Those are all
Speaker 2: great points. I know that you delivered a pie to
Speaker 2: the face of a Notre Dame fan who thought Notre
Speaker 2: Dame would win a national title? How did that come about?
Speaker 3: So? I live in Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Hersheira. I got
Speaker 3: a random email to Ross Tucker dot com. Will you
Speaker 3: uh push a smash a pie in my face? I'm
Speaker 3: doing it for the Dan Patrick Shaws Like I don't
Speaker 3: know who this guy is. I'm like, uh, yeah, probably not.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Emails me again, what do you think, Mike? Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess he wants to be on the look in,
Speaker 3: you know, and he lives in the area. So my
Speaker 3: daughter had to go to a birthday party at get
Speaker 3: Air on Saturday. I said, Hey, the birthday party starts
Speaker 3: at three thirty. I'll meet you because I'm know who
Speaker 3: this guy is. I'll meet you outside get Air at
Speaker 3: three thirty. He's there with his wife. My daughter videoed it.
Speaker 3: She got to put the whip cream in. I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you, that's one of the most satisfying thing I've
Speaker 3: ever done in my life. That is a great feeling.
Speaker 3: I want to like make a list now of like
Speaker 3: your people. I want to smash in the face with
Speaker 3: a pie, like anybody that the older guys that picked
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Speaker 2: You were a little rough on him though, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: it was it too hard? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did I go too hard? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Okay, he
Speaker 3: said let me have it. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know the proper like, yeah, the centrifugal
Speaker 2: force I think knocked him back. I say this from experience.
Speaker 2: Michael Irvin hit me with a pie and it drew blood. Uh,
Speaker 2: Like he had no idea. He was like giving me
Speaker 2: the heisman there. So just the next time, if it
Speaker 2: comes up, just be a little more cognizant. Of you're
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than whoever you're gonna hit.
Speaker 3: I was very concerned about getting it on my sweatshirt,
Speaker 3: so I was trying to like I was trying to
Speaker 3: hit him and bounce bast Yeah, as fast as I could.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Ross.
Speaker 3: Sounds great. I can't wait to see you guys in person.
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Speaker 5: So the first bolst question is who's in more offseason pain, Bills,
Speaker 5: Lions or other?
Speaker 2: Hmm. I put the Cowboys in there. They're always in there.
Speaker 2: That was one of those where I go, Okay, they
Speaker 2: made it official. They made it official on Friday night.
Speaker 2: It was just odd we called a news dump anything
Speaker 2: after five o'clock on Friday. You're like, man, we're so
Speaker 2: excited to tell you about this that you'll read about
Speaker 2: it on Saturday if you want to hide a story.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys did a wonderful job as far as pain
Speaker 2: in the off season. So you said Lions, Bills or other. Boy,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the Lions because I think we thought
Speaker 2: going to the title game last year, had a big lead. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're going to come back. Granted they had all those injuries.
Speaker 2: Now you've lost your coordinators and other coaches, but then
Speaker 2: you have Buffalo. Like at what point, Like, can Buffalo
Speaker 2: get over this hump? You can win in the regular
Speaker 2: season against Kansas City, but it's all about the postseason.
Speaker 2: Regular season doesn't matter. It's postseason. I'm gonna say the
Speaker 2: Lions because I thought the Lions would be in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl and win the Super Bowl. I didn't think
Speaker 2: Buffalo would be here. But that's a credit to them.
Speaker 2: They played great football, but when they needed to play
Speaker 2: great football, they didn't. Yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, poelm I would have said the Lions a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago. But the Lions feel like they can
Speaker 4: get to the Super Bowl in the NFC. Being a
Speaker 4: Bills fan right now must be like what a Cleveland
Speaker 4: Cavaliers fan in the mid nineties or a Knicks fan
Speaker 4: in the mid nineties, where Michael Jordan's in the league.
Speaker 5: I don't know how we're getting there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Mahome's nickname should be the Hump the Bills. He's twenty
Speaker 4: nine years old. If I'm a Bills fan, I'm thinking
Speaker 4: again the Bills past six years, they're one of the
Speaker 4: better teams in the history of of football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's the eraser. Yeah, Mahomes is the eraser.
Speaker 2: He just whatever it is. He erases any doubts, he
Speaker 2: erases your chances, he erases a league, a lead, the
Speaker 2: great eraser, Gyues Todd.
Speaker 3: I know it keeps.
Speaker 12: Happening, but there's no shame in losing to Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 12: and the Chiefs. Nothing against the Commanders, but the Lions
Speaker 12: their home against a rookie quarterback. Even if you win
Speaker 12: by one point or our last second field goal, you've
Speaker 12: got to get past the Commanders and get into that
Speaker 12: NFC title.
Speaker 2: But Todd, I don't think it's shame. It's pain, Like
Speaker 2: there is no shame losing to Patrick Mahomes. But it's
Speaker 2: the feel that you have that you still lost no
Speaker 2: matter what. Hey, we had a great season, like Commanders
Speaker 2: had a great season. There's no shame in losing yesterday.
Speaker 2: There's still pain. And I think with the Bills, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just that's just pain that is in the fabric,
Speaker 2: in the d of that city. It's just there. You
Speaker 2: know it's happening, You know it. You don't know where
Speaker 2: or how or how much it's going to hurt or
Speaker 2: who's gonna inflict it, but it's coming. Yeah, Marvin, and.
Speaker 9: I just feel bad for Josh Allen. In about ten
Speaker 9: or fifteen years, he's going to get a call to
Speaker 9: be a part of the Chief's Last Dance documentary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 4: If I'm a Bills fan, yesterday, with three and a
Speaker 4: half to go, we stopped Mahomes, We held him to
Speaker 4: a field goal. Felt like a complete win and you
Speaker 4: get the ball with three and a half and three timeouts,
Speaker 4: you could roll down the field with James Cook and
Speaker 4: keep Mahomes from ever touching the ball.
Speaker 2: If you would have said that was the scenario that
Speaker 2: you got three and a half minutes, three timeouts, two
Speaker 2: minute warning and you're down three and you got Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: I'd say I'll sign up for that, And Buffalo would
Speaker 2: have signed up for that, but couldn't produce the points.
Speaker 2: Some of the coaching hires the Saints haven't hired somebody,
Speaker 2: which leads you to believe is somebody still in the postseason,
Speaker 2: or is Cliff Kingsbury going to get an opportunity here?
Speaker 2: Is Mike McCarthy going to get an opportunity there? But
Speaker 2: what Dallas did, as I've said before, when you're hiring
Speaker 2: somebody and nobody else is interviewing the person that you're hiring,
Speaker 2: that's a big deal. That's one of those This is
Speaker 2: for Jerry. This allows Jerry to be able to be
Speaker 2: the same owner, GM and coach that he's been for
Speaker 2: the last thirty plus years. It's status quo, and I
Speaker 2: is it fair to be knocking Brian Schottenheimer, who's been
Speaker 2: around the league for a long time, and his father,
Speaker 2: of course, a great coach. It's not about him. It
Speaker 2: just felt like it wasn't a true search. Doesn't feel
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you said they were gonna end up with Brian Schottenheimer,
Speaker 2: I would have said, let's go all in on Deon Sanders,
Speaker 2: or let's go all in on Mike Vrabel, Like, let's
Speaker 2: let's get something. What's the downside. You're all for thirty
Speaker 2: over thirty? Yeah, okay, maybe Dion's not ready for it,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna bring in people. Boy, he's gonna get
Speaker 2: he's gonna spark up the locker room. And I mean
Speaker 2: there's stuff going on here. I mean, Brian Schottenheimer. You
Speaker 2: probably had to google. You shouldn't have to google your
Speaker 2: head coach, right.
Speaker 9: Yes, Unfortunately you're thinking, oh, man, he's the coach the
Speaker 9: Chiefs and the Chargers. No, no, no, no, that's Marty Schotenheimer.
Speaker 5: What if he wasn't related to Marty Schottenheimer.
Speaker 4: Just a coincidence, like, oh, we got a guy with
Speaker 4: a great lineage in the NFL, a very good coach.
Speaker 5: Oh no, oh, just random.
Speaker 2: It's just uninspiring, that's all. And that's that's a franchise
Speaker 2: that has been un inspiring when it comes to their
Speaker 2: head coaches. But you know there's a common denominator here.
Speaker 2: It's Jerry. This is who Jerry wants. Jerry wants to
Speaker 2: get all that damn credit. If I bring in someone
Speaker 2: like Dion, you know he's gonna get all the credit.
Speaker 2: He'll be a media darling. Even Vrabel if he wins,
Speaker 2: he'll get all the credit. I'm not bringing in Belichick,
Speaker 2: He'll get all the credit. I want all the credit.
Speaker 9: Yes, Mark and Commanders Spans are looking like. See what
Speaker 9: happens when you lose your owner.
Speaker 2: You can't come really good. You need to have Jerry
Speaker 2: join Dan Snyder in the south of France on their yachts.
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