1 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: There is a pretty big football game on Sunday night. 2 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: If this is the first you're hearing about it, all 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: your dogs sat on the remote and this is not 4 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Chip and Joanna, It's actually Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: and our Brian Baldinger will be here to break down 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: this battle in Buffalo. The season ended with a thud 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, But was that also the end of the 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: Sam Darnold era. Hear what vikings Brass is saying now 9 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: about another QB conundrum coming in the offseason. It was 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: the Lions who started the Viking slide with that blowout 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: win back in Week eighteen, and Detroit hasn't played since. 12 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: Are they ready to roll in the Motor City? You 13 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: know that guy, Brian Branch sure will be. But first 14 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: Branch will be here to speak with us. You know 15 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: why because we also have Grint welcome inside the Insiders 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: alongside in Rapaport, Judy Batista and Mike Garafalo. I am 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: Tom Pellisero. You like that one. That's always the adjective 18 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: people used to describe this show. It's a gritty, gritty show, 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: especially when we are two days out from divisional playoff 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: week in the NFL. Kobe Durant from the Rams also 21 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: going to be with us on the show tonight. Tons 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: of Action four games ahead. Let's start out in Baltimore 23 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: with the guy who quite possibly is not going to 24 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: be ready for this weekend Wide receivers, A Flowers of 25 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: the Ravens not practicing again today because of a knee injury. 26 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: Ian told you yesterday it is a long shot for 27 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: Flowers to go. We still got about seventy two hours here, 28 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: but certainly seems like once again others are going to 29 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: have to step up for the Ravens. Meanwhile, in Washington, 30 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, the multi time All Pro linebacker off the 31 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: injury report, didn't practice a couple of days this week 32 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: because of an ankle injury. He's officially though off the 33 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: injury report, good to go Saturday night against Detroit. The Eagles, meanwhile, 34 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: have a game ahead of them, but first they've also 35 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: got an interview for their offensive coordinator. The Dallas Cowboys, 36 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: who of course had Kellen Moore on staff for a 37 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: number of years as their OC have put in a 38 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: request to interview him for the head coaching job. Here's 39 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: what Kellen had to say when I asked about that 40 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: possibility today. 41 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,839 Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I've spent a lot of time there, 42 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: eight years there, and so obviously have playing relationships about 43 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 2: that place, and so yeah, I love it here. I've 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: had so much fun here. It's been a really fun process. 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 2: And we're in a really special situation right now getting 46 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: a chance to play this Sunday, have a chance to 47 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: make a run with this thing. And that's really all 48 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: you worry about. Everything else is what it is, and 49 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: we'll see where it takes you. 50 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: So you go back a couple of years Ian and 51 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: of course Kellen Moore ends up leaving the Cowboys, going 52 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: to the La Chargers, and then one year later that 53 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: staff gets fired, ends up in Philadelphia and really has 54 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: done an excellent job. Where in the past he's been 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: the passing game guy, how suddenly he's got the NFL's 56 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: top rushing offense. Here. The idea though, of Jerry Jones 57 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: bringing somebody back who's from the family, It makes some 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: sense if in fact that's the direction the Cowboys decided 59 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: to go. 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 3: What do we know, Well, first of all, we spent 61 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: a lot of time on this show, and there's been 62 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 3: a couple other shows that have mentioned this the Dione Sanders, 63 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: proponent of the Cowboys coaching shirts, and that has obviously 64 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 3: generated a lot of the headlines and a lot. 65 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 4: Of the focus. 66 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: Kellen Moore's should be at least in that conversation, probably more. 67 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 3: I mean, this is someone who is considered to be 68 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: a top candidate for the Dallas Cobbs. Not saying the 69 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 3: top candidate, just certainly someone to watch and discuss and 70 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 3: consider moving forward. It's not just that they know him 71 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 3: as Okay, well, he's been an assistant there. 72 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 4: He grew up in the franchise. 73 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: He was a backup quarterback to Tony Romo and then 74 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 3: got injured and then somebody named. 75 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 4: What's his name, Oh, Dak Prescott. 76 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: Yes, Dak Prescott took over and the rest is history. 77 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: Dak knows him well. They have a great relationship. So yes, 78 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 3: they are going to interview him. That is going to 79 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 3: be I believe actually within the next forty eight hours. 80 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 3: But it's not like they really need to interview them. 81 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 3: They've seen him up close, they know how he works, 82 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: they know what kind of coordinator. 83 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: He would be. 84 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: They believe they know what kind of head coach he 85 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 3: is going to be if he gets the opportunity. This 86 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: certainly is one to keep an eye and it makes 87 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 3: a lot of sense for all parties on this one. 88 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 5: And I believe that the stops that Kellen Moore has 89 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 5: made the last two years have helped make him a 90 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 5: more complete coach, a more complete coordinator. Heading to the 91 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 5: Chargers and then coming to Philadelphia, what they did in Philly, Tom, 92 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 5: you talked about Kellen Moore being the past guy. Now 93 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 5: he's like the run guy. They merged a lot of things, actually, 94 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 5: but they merged what they had done previously with Jalen Hurts, 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 5: what he was comfortable with with some of the concepts 96 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 5: that Kellen Moore has, as well as really tailoring their 97 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 5: offense to one running back, where as they had had 98 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 5: sort of a committee previously, but when they spent the 99 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 5: money on Saquon Barkley, it was clear what they wanted 100 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 5: to do. So Kellen Moore helped bring all this together 101 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 5: in conjunction with Nick Sirianni as well as Kevin Patulo, 102 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 5: the offensive assistant, who has helped married all these things. 103 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 5: So Kellen Moore, to me is much more qualified and 104 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 5: much more prepared to be a head coach and begin 105 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 5: head coach buzz for years, but he's much more prepared 106 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 5: to be a head coach, having made two previous stops 107 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 5: and not just staying in Dallas the whole time. I 108 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 5: think that's really helped him. And when you talk to 109 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 5: people about how much progress he's made. I had criticisms 110 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 5: of more when he's with the Chargers late in game 111 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 5: in the game, I felt like the offense really folded 112 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 5: at some crucial times. You're seeing the opposite now with 113 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 5: the Eagles. He's doing a terrific job down there, and 114 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 5: they know that they've got a great coach on their hands. 115 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 6: For how long we'll see, Well, there was criticism of 116 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 6: him when he was in Dallas, right by the Cowboys themselves, 117 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 6: but things change when people go away and become fuller coaches. 118 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 6: Just something to keep an eye on. With the timing. 119 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 6: The Cowboys are also expected to interview Robert Sala and 120 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 6: Leslie Fraser, our former colleague and the former head coach 121 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 6: of the Minnesota Vikings who is now in Seattle as 122 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 6: an assistant head coach. This is something that's important because 123 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 6: if they interview those two in person, that would fulfill 124 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 6: the Rooney rule requirement, which would mean that after those 125 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 6: interviews are completed, and it sounds like they might be 126 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 6: done as early as early next week. That would free 127 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 6: the Dallas Cowboys to hire their next head coach whenever 128 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 6: they want to after that, So things could speed up 129 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 6: very quickly here for the Cowboys. If they settle, they 130 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 6: Jerry settles on a candidate that he likes, and they 131 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 6: get the Sala and Fraser interviews done. 132 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: The other factor here in terms of timing, the way 133 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: the rules are set up, and I know the fans 134 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: always look at this, go why are these guys interviewing? 135 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: You got a big game coming up this week. Well, 136 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: if you don't talk to Kellen Moore now and then 137 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: the Eagles win, let's say they go to the Super Bowl, 138 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: you can't talk to them at all. You can't do 139 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: in person interviews down the line. That's one of the 140 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a corp, but it's 141 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: one of the functions of the rule. You have to 142 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: do the initial interview over zoom to be eligible to 143 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: interview him again later if the team ends up staying 144 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: alive here. All right, let's get back to some other 145 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: coaching Canada season, some other people interviewing around the league, 146 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: including that guy. Arthur Smith, who has completed an interview 147 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: with the New York Jets earlier today, is also interviewed 148 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears, potentially in play in multiple places 149 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: for the former Falcons head coach Ravens Offensive coordinator Todd 150 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: Munkin also knocking out a couple of interviews. Interviewed with 151 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: the Jaguars today. He's got the Bears on Friday. Has 152 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: done a phenomenal job helping take Lamar Jackson to the 153 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: next level. Way they have meshed up the run and 154 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: the pass in Baltimore here and intriguing Canada guy with 155 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: head coaching experience and one two watch as we move forward. Meanwhile, 156 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings also have Brian Flores on the interview circuit, 157 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: and I've got some decisions to make once again involving 158 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: this guy. Sam Darnold, who is on a one year 159 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: tracked in Minnesota, certainly played well above the value of 160 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,119 Speaker 1: that contract for the bulk of the season prior to 161 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: perhaps his two roughest games in a Vikings uniform. General 162 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: manager Quasia Dofo Mensa was asked earlier today, but what 163 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: the future could hold for Donald in that QB position. 164 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 7: You know, you're talking about the most important position and 165 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 7: in our sport, and I don't think it's a bad 166 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 7: thing to assemble a lot of talented players in that 167 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 7: room who fit your vision, fit how you want to 168 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 7: play football, fit from a personal standpoint, what you want 169 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 7: to do. And so I think that was the mindset 170 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 7: we came in with and we got to see Sam 171 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 7: play some incredible football for us. We're going to approach 172 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 7: this offseason and I don't want to give you the 173 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 7: stock answer, but it really is. Everything we do is about, Okay, well, 174 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 7: what's the team around them going to look like? What 175 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 7: does this piece fit into our whole championship equation? And 176 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 7: we'll do those exercises like we did last offseason and 177 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 7: came up with the plan that we came up with. 178 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 7: We'll have those conversations with Kevin, my staff, everybody in 179 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 7: this building to come along board, because at the end 180 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 7: of the day, you know you're making decisions under uncertainty. 181 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 7: But what happens is once you find a course of action, 182 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 7: it's about how you implement your plan, how you show 183 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 7: up every day and get the best version of whoever 184 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 7: you decide to go with. 185 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 8: The quarterback. 186 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: When Cracy talks about a championship equation. This actually is 187 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: a math problem, Judy, because much like with Kirk Cousins 188 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 1: a year ago, it's not just who do you want 189 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 1: to be the quarterback, it's how do you have the 190 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: resources left to put the team around them. In Sam 191 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: Darnold's case, he might be more expensive than the Vikings 192 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: were anticipating when they got into this, going back to 193 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: last offseason initially signing it, which is a good problem 194 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: to have when a guy's played at a high level. 195 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: How do you envision this whole thing shaken up? 196 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 6: Well, I thought they were appropriately noncommittal today. First of all, 197 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 6: it's pretty clear I thought listening to them that their 198 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 6: feelings are still fairly raw after the playoff loss, and 199 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 6: you certainly don't want to make any declarative statements about 200 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 6: your future when your feelings are still raw. So I 201 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 6: think there sounds like they're going to take a little 202 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 6: time and look at the situation. 203 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 9: And you're right. 204 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 6: The price tag for Sam Donald inevitably went up because 205 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 6: of the whole body of his work this past season, 206 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 6: but it may have come down a little bit off 207 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 6: what it might have been after the last two weeks 208 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 6: which of course were not what they were hoping for 209 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 6: from Sam Donalds. The other thing to factor into this 210 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 6: is they know better than anybody else now what they 211 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 6: think Sam Donalds can do in the future. Do they 212 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 6: think he still has more room to grow, could he 213 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 6: produce even more if he stayed there, or do they 214 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 6: think he has reached his ceiling? And also they know 215 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 6: what's the situation with JJ McCarthy. Now we've been told 216 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 6: that he is on schedule, he's on time, but what 217 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 6: does that mean in terms of what the Vikings expect 218 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 6: him to be able to do at the start of 219 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 6: the season. Do they expect do they want him on 220 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 6: the field at the start of the season. Do they 221 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 6: need a bridge quarterback? Could that be Daniel Jones. There's 222 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 6: all of these pieces that have to fit together. They've 223 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 6: got a long way to go before they have to 224 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 6: make these decisions. It's a good problem to have when 225 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 6: you have quarterbacks that you really like and you've just 226 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 6: got to figure out where all the moving pieces have 227 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 6: to spit. 228 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 5: Judy, I think Sam Darnold's going to have a good 229 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 5: problem as well. I mean, this is gonna be a 230 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 5: two way street here. He may have to make a 231 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 5: decision to maybe take a more lucrative offer, maybe even 232 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 5: a longer offer, more guaranteed money, whatever. I mean, We're 233 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 5: we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves because these 234 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 5: offers can't be made for another two months. But what 235 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 5: if he's got the chance to go somewhere where he 236 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 5: doesn't have these guys on the other end of his 237 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 5: passes and he doesn't have Kevin O'Connell and Josh mccawmie. 238 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 5: We'll see what happens with with the coaching staff, but 239 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 5: a really good coaching staff around him, a really good 240 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 5: system to play in. Would he rather go back to 241 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 5: the Vikings and potentially compete and say, I've seen JJ, 242 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 5: I could beat that guy out, I can get that 243 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 5: JE and I could do even better next year, and 244 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 5: then set myself up and maybe force them, Hey, they 245 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 5: got to get trade JJ McCarthy because I'm the guy 246 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 5: right like, he's going to have to make the decision 247 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 5: to what he wants and what might be the better 248 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 5: option for him, because I go back. Nick Foles wins 249 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 5: the Super Bowl with the Eagles, Carson Wentz comes back, 250 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 5: Foles goes to Jacksonville. It just never was right down 251 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 5: there and everything kind of tailed off after that. Sam 252 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 5: Donald might foresee some kind of situation like that and say, no, 253 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 5: I want to take the chance to be more competitive 254 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 5: and win this job and keep this job. 255 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 4: We'll see. 256 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 3: The first checkpoint here is do the Minnesota Vikings franchise 257 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 3: tag Sam Donald. If they don't, then he's going to 258 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 3: be a free agent. Then he's going to talk to 259 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 3: other teams, and obviously that would increase the likelihood that 260 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 3: potentially he would leave. But that really is the first 261 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 3: checkpoint that is in either in late February, early March. 262 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 3: I'm out there at a my NFL calendar, but eventually 263 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 3: I will be. If the Vikings do tag him, obviously 264 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 3: he is going to be around. It'll be another year 265 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 3: for JJ McCarthy. If they don't, then it opens up 266 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 3: the door. And one thing we've learned guys from the 267 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 3: Vikings last year, they are not afraid. They are not 268 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 3: going to be a team that's going to say, oh 269 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 3: what if we don't have when we just have to 270 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 3: hold on to what we know, they watch her cousins 271 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 3: walk out the door. Ended up being an incredibly smart decision, 272 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 3: brought in Donold a smaller price. He obviously played great 273 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 3: draft to JJ McCarthy, who really really really impressed in 274 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 3: the preseason, and we didn't get to see a lot 275 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 3: of them because of the injury. But they are not afraid. 276 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 3: What we don't know is what they think internally of 277 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy. If we assume rehab wise, he's gonna be okay, 278 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 3: we're gonna learn everything we need to know about their 279 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 3: young quarterback based on the financial decisions they make on 280 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 3: Sam Donald. 281 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 4: And if they say after the last couple. 282 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 3: Of weeks, you know what, we're good, we're moving on, 283 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 3: then you know that Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings app 284 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 3: think unbelievably highly of JJ McCarthy. 285 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: And realistically they need a veteran of some kind on 286 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: this team because JJ McCarthy's missed an entire year of 287 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: reps by missing his rookie season following that surgery on 288 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: his meniscus. Here the franchise tag deadline, by the way, 289 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: he and update your calendar March fourth, that's when they 290 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: would have. 291 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 4: To make this decision. 292 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: If just remember this, if they can't get a deal 293 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: done with Sam Donald prior to that, which I would 294 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: tell here is a conversation that's going to take life 295 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: at some point might think that unzip your unzip that 296 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: thing on your shoulder. Right, there's a free agency, right Okay? 297 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, the team that sent the 298 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: Vikings home, the Rams their quarter. Kobe Durant still living 299 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: in Sam Donald's nightmare after plays like that? 300 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 4: What do you know? 301 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: He's joining us on the Insiders. How do they take 302 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: down the Eagles? We will ask Kobe about that. Brian 303 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: Branch also is going to join us. How does Dan 304 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: Campbell approach a playoff week? Is it possible we even 305 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: get a next level of Dan Campbell. Brian Branch's answer 306 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: might surprise you. 307 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 9: Stick around. 308 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: It's next on the Insiders. No need to speak about it. 309 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 4: They know the choice. 310 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 5: Back at it three one three minus anyone in the 311 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 5: way of that. 312 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 4: Someone of mathematics. This second time. 313 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 10: Around, we gonna need a little more pride. 314 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: He can't out from the NFC's nor sign. 315 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 10: That's the choice, Tom's, Jamy and Kim's coming out of 316 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 10: the huddle. 317 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: You probably get rugged with. 318 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 11: The same hot centers the city. 319 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 4: Like, it's gotta be hustle. If it's on one, Damn 320 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 4: Mike camp If you know. 321 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 11: Some people moving with MoMA City wa seedless our. 322 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 9: Respent game, no need for it. 323 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 5: He changed. 324 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 11: I'm gonna round, plodding cha deep thread the chair COF. 325 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 11: We trust and we got every weason had a super 326 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 11: Bowl to the choice that set a season. 327 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: Oh yes, the Lions are back from the buy and 328 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: looker's back here on the insiders, Brian Branch, one of 329 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,359 Speaker 1: these stars of that Detroit defense with me, Tom Pelicero 330 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: and Judy Matista. Brian, you had at least a little 331 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: bit of time there to kind of step back, get 332 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: the body right, get the brain right, hustle vibes around 333 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: that place going into divisional playoff week. 334 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 4: Shoot, the bibles are immaculate. I feel like we are. 335 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 11: Everybody's on the same page here, and you know, we 336 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 11: were hungry more than ever. 337 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 4: We didn't been in this moment before, and you know 338 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 4: this time we're trying to finish it. 339 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 6: You all have been Super Bowl favorites, considered leading Super 340 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 6: Bowl contenders, really all season. I wonder on the outside, 341 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 6: you think, boy, that's an awful lot of pressure that 342 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 6: the Lions are under. But how are you guys handling 343 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 6: the level of expectations and the level of excitement that 344 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 6: must be building in Detroit right now. 345 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 11: We know it's it's all rat poison. We don't really 346 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 11: pay attention to, like the outside noise. You know, we knew, 347 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 11: we know what we're capable of doing, and you know, 348 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 11: we just want tom prove it to ourselves that you 349 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 11: know who we are, that's that's who we are. 350 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 4: And I feel like we don't. 351 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 11: We don't pay attention to the outside noise at all. 352 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: Brian, there were a bunch of games last weekend. Obviously 353 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: there was one road team that got to win. That 354 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: was the one that's coming into Detroit this week. The Commanders. 355 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: They've got Jaden Daniels, They got a lot of that 356 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: kind of hey, we didn't expect to be here, so 357 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: we're just playing with house money types of vibes around him. 358 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: When you watch them on tape, how do you stop Jayden? 359 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: How do you stop that Commander's offense? 360 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 11: You got to shrink the pocket. You know, Jaydon Dames 361 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 11: I played in the college. She's a you know, exceptional quarterback. 362 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 11: You know, he kind of reminds me of Lamar, just 363 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 11: how he moves and stuff. 364 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 4: But that's that's to me. 365 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 11: That's really the game plan is just you know, shrinking 366 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 11: the pocket on him and you know, make it, make 367 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 11: him make those throws. 368 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 4: All right. 369 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 6: Obviously we know about all of the injuries that the 370 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 6: Lions have had, so many of them on the defense. 371 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 6: I think it really took people by surprise how you 372 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 6: were able to bottle up the vikings considering how much 373 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 6: mixing and matching has been going on on the defense. 374 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 6: Where do you think the defense is right now? Not 375 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 6: so much in terms of health, but in terms of 376 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 6: your confidence level. 377 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 11: I'd feel like our confidence level is at an all 378 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 11: time high right now. You know, we've played a very 379 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 11: great offense two weeks ago. You know, they had very 380 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 11: good receivers. I feel like, you know, as DB's are 381 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 11: a secondary, we feel we go into this game with 382 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 11: you know, extreme confidence, and I feel like that's that's 383 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 11: what we need going into the playoffs. 384 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 4: And I feel like that's gonna be on our side. 385 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 4: That's gonna help us out. 386 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: Moving on, speaking of injuries, You're running back David Montgomery 387 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: suffered an injury several weeks ago that, by all accounts, 388 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 1: were supposed to be season ending. He tears his MCL. 389 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: Doctors are telling him, you gotta get surgery. You're done 390 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: find enough doctors and alsco you know what, you might 391 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: be able to reaut and get back. How in the 392 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: world you know him? Well, how in the world is 393 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: that guy playing this weekend? How does he look out 394 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: there in practice? 395 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 11: That's a dog right there. The fact that he came back. 396 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 11: I feel like a lot of people will, you know, 397 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 11: kind of hold off. But you know that's he got 398 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 11: great and that's what we're all about. And shoot, he 399 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 11: looks amazing. He looks like Demo how Demo looked in 400 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 11: the beginning of the season. So there's no step off. Shoot, 401 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 11: that's a dog right there. 402 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 6: Take us behind the curtain a little bit. What has 403 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 6: Dan Campbell been like this week around you guys? What's 404 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 6: been his message? What's been his attitude? 405 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 12: Uh? 406 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 11: You know his attitude is a little saying, but more 407 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 11: more pumped up. He just feels like, you know, everybody 408 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 11: needs to do the job. That's been the message. Always 409 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 11: everybody do the job. You know, we got a whole 410 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 11: bunch of playmakers on the scene. Uh that when the 411 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 11: opportunity presents itself, you got to make the plays. 412 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 4: And you know you got to do our job to 413 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 4: be honest. 414 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: Hang on, Brian, you're saying there's a more pumped up 415 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: version of Dan Campbell. What in the world can that 416 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: possibly consist of? 417 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 2: Uh? 418 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 4: Just him at practice? 419 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 11: Uh, you know he's he'd be involved in practice, but 420 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 11: like overally involved, you know, just just trying to hype 421 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 11: everybody up, you know, pre pre practice wise, shaking everybody, 422 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 11: joke on everybody. 423 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 4: Uh. Just that's that's that's what it looked like. 424 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: All right, best luck, man. I know that joints could 425 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: be Oh, go ahead, go ahead, j D please. 426 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 6: I was just going to ask you about Aaron Glenn. 427 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 6: Make the pitch for Aaron Glenn to be a head 428 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 6: coach somewhere next year. 429 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 11: I don't want to. I don't want to see him going, 430 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 11: but he's one hell of a you know, I don't 431 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 11: think like there's no me coming into the league. You know, 432 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 11: I was lucky enough to have a coach like that. 433 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 11: You know, he didn't played in the league before, so 434 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 11: he he already knows like his his football i Q 435 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 11: is is through the roof. And I feel like he's 436 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 11: not just a defensive mindset coach. Uh, He's an overall 437 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 11: coach and a leader. And that's as a head coach. 438 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 11: You know, that's what you want. It's not just a coach, 439 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 11: but a leader. And he's he's one, He's one or not. 440 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: So Saturday night is gonna be a ton of fun 441 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: commanders and lines. And might I just make one quick 442 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: suggestion to you, Brian, this might be a game where 443 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,399 Speaker 1: you put the mouthguard in, just saying if there were 444 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: ever a time where maybe you might need it, this 445 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: could be the week man. Thanks a lot for being here, buddy. 446 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 4: He said, thank you all. 447 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 13: Van. 448 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 11: Yeah, let's make history Kansas City. 449 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 8: You ready, Cleve try is the elite. They got Lombardi 450 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 8: on the leash, looked the week by weekend at the 451 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 8: perfect time. They kias the chiefs kingdom. 452 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 11: They looked at the thrown into the sea, and they 453 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 11: gonna be flaf and Noma's kings. 454 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 8: If they three p it's back to back to back. 455 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 8: You don't want to Kelsey show you. 456 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 11: Betterfied Travis Setton cold is tighted in the league, no opinion, 457 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 11: that's a fact. 458 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 8: Trying to slow the. 459 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 11: Passing sack, trying to tell Patrick. 460 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 4: Da, you know Mahomes went. 461 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 9: He in the playoffs, so he ain't gonna fall that. 462 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 10: I sit his face, old FROs Mine on the fourth 463 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 10: Green bringing. 464 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 8: That MVP behead you when you went the top you 465 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 8: on AFC the hey S. She's Dealinggit Chris Jonas running show. 466 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 4: It's possible for a few. 467 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 11: W s if you know, you know, you ain't seen 468 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 11: the playoffs till you've seen the Chiefs. 469 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 14: We got one. 470 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 8: Gold who works three p. 471 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 5: Not one reference to Taylor Swift in there, very very 472 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 5: nicely done, terrific restraint. Hi, Sarah Walsh, Hi, Brian vaaldingerro 473 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 5: Let's talk about this game between the Texans and the Chiefs. 474 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 5: Sarah Walsh, you are going to be on the scene 475 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 5: there covering this game. This Chiefs defense, we always think 476 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 5: of the offense. I don't know how much I mean, 477 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 5: Chris Jones was in there, but it's a top ten 478 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 5: scoring defense all but one year the Seve Spagnola has 479 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 5: been there. How good can this Chiefs defense be versus C. J. 480 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 5: Stroud and this Texans offense? 481 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 14: Well, Mike, they're getting even better at the right time, 482 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 14: because if you throw out Week eighteen, that's when a 483 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 14: bunch of starters were not playing. From weeks fifteen to seventeen, 484 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 14: no team in the league had more quarterback hits, more sacks, 485 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 14: more takeaways than this Chiefs defense. Over that three game span, 486 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 14: they had ten takeaways. And of course now there's the 487 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 14: news that Texans running back Joe Mixon is questionable for Saturday. 488 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 14: He showed up on the injury report on Wednesday being 489 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 14: limited with an ankle, and then didn't practice today. Chris Jones, 490 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 14: who you just mentioned there, said Mixon has been running 491 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 14: crazy this year, so obviously they would love to have 492 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 14: him out there. I spoke to Mixon earlier this week 493 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 14: and he told me this is about the will and 494 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 14: the want to when you are going into Arrowhead, and 495 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 14: if advancing the playoffs doesn't motivate you, he said, I 496 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 14: don't know what will, so it's hard to imagine he 497 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 14: wouldn't be out there. And then he spoke to me 498 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 14: specifically about Jones, and Jones is coming back from injury. 499 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 14: He missed the last two games of the season with 500 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 14: the cap injury, and then of course they didn't have 501 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 14: to play last week, so he's been off for three 502 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 14: weeks and he said he feels really, really good right now. 503 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 14: Mixon says that this is a team that has to 504 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 14: find a way to neutralize him and to contain him, 505 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 14: because you can only limit him for a matter of time, 506 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,719 Speaker 14: so you have to limit what those matter of times 507 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 14: are going to be. And then there's some other good news. 508 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 14: And when it comes to this Chief's defense, Jalen Watson, 509 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 14: who broke his ankle in Week seven, had surgery to 510 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 14: repair that. 511 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 9: There's a really good chance he could be back on 512 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 9: the field. 513 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 14: Andy Reid talked today about how tremendously hard he has 514 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 14: worked to return, So there is a good chance of 515 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 14: Baldi that we're going to see him on Saturday as well. 516 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 12: And Sarah, this is a rematch from Week sixteen, so 517 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 12: both teams are very familiar with one another. The Chiefs 518 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 12: won that game in Kansas City twenty seven to nineteen, 519 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 12: and it was pretty close throughout. And the guy that 520 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 12: gave the Chiefs defense the most problem was Tank Dell, 521 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 12: who got hurt in that game on that thirty yard 522 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 12: touchdown catch. But really Tank Dell was a difference maker 523 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 12: and he's not there anymore. But I think we saw 524 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 12: a lot from the Chiefs defense that day. We saw 525 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 12: Trent mcduffey line up on Nico Collins and travel with 526 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 12: them some. We saw bracket coverage on Nico Collins. We 527 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 12: saw corner Cat blitz is at the end of the 528 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 12: game they got home to CJ. 529 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 4: Stroud talking about the quarterback. 530 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 12: Hitch you just mentioned. In that contest, we saw blitz 531 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,439 Speaker 12: zero's inside the red zone. I mean, Spag's really emptied 532 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 12: the bucket like he often does to really keep that 533 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 12: score down. And so I'm sure the Texas have gone 534 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 12: back and looked at all of it and maybe some 535 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 12: of the things that they gave away some protection issues 536 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 12: right there as you see, you know, Johnson coming free 537 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 12: right there. But I mean, I think that's what's going 538 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 12: to come down to his Spags calling his game and 539 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 12: his matchups because Chris Jones and you're seeing Charles Emna 540 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 12: who right there, Mike Dana Carloftis. It's a good front 541 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 12: four that you got to continue with even when Spags 542 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 12: isn't dialing up any blitzes. 543 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 5: Sarah, we're talking about that game. The last time these 544 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 5: two teams played. We saw Tank Dell go down in 545 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 5: that game, a huge loss for the Houston Texans, compounded 546 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 5: by the earlier injury to Stefan Diggs. It's pretty much 547 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 5: all on Nico Collins, especially because Deyontae Johnson, whom they 548 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 5: had picked up and hoped would contribute. He's out of 549 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 5: there now, so it's gonna have to be a lot 550 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 5: of Nico Collins in this game for Houston. 551 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 14: Right, Yeah, And going back to you guys talking about 552 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 14: Tank Dell, there is an emotional component because CJ. Stroud 553 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 14: specifically talked about walking back into the stadium where that happened, 554 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 14: and if you watched the Texans last week, the guy 555 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 14: should have Dell was there on the sidelines on crutches 556 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 14: and the guys were wearing Tank Dell T shirts and 557 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 14: so Stroud was talking about the fact that they can't 558 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 14: let their. 559 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 9: Emotions get to them when they think about. 560 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 14: That, but that they will be inspired by it and 561 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 14: that they do have to go out and do this 562 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 14: for DL. 563 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 9: So obviously that really stuck. 564 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,239 Speaker 14: With him, losing that guy in that game and what 565 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 14: he clearly meant to this team. Now, as for Nico Collins, 566 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 14: everyone knows c J. Stroud is going to want to 567 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 14: go to him. Last week, he set a postseason franchise 568 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 14: record with one hundred and twenty two yards, besting the 569 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 14: record that was previously held by now chief DeAndre Hopkins. 570 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 14: Steve Spagnolo talked about Collins this week he called him 571 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 14: a game wrecker. He said, all eleven sets of eyes 572 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 14: on that defense have to know where he's at at 573 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 14: all times. 574 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 9: And then Trent McDuffie talked. 575 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 14: About the fact that he's going to get to go 576 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 14: against a guy that's a complete receiver, and he said, 577 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 14: I love that he's big, he's physical. 578 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 9: He's fast. 579 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 14: He makes a huge difference, especially to his quarterback because 580 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 14: a week ago, when c Dre Stroud was targeting Collins, 581 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 14: he had a perfect passer rating. When he was looking 582 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 14: for anyone else pass the rating drop to just sixty two. 583 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 14: No other receiver, by the way, had more than thirty 584 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 14: five yards in that game. Colline had one hundred and 585 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 14: twenty two. And they're going to need all of him 586 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,239 Speaker 14: on Saturday to pull off what would be a very 587 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 14: big upset at Arrowhead. 588 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe some Dalton Shultz as well. I'm gonna stall 589 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 5: a little bit here because I want to see if 590 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 5: I can hang on long enough to hear that beep 591 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 5: on the smokearcory is that you know. 592 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: What that is? 593 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 9: It's a smoke protector. No, it's my, it's mine. 594 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 14: By the way, for the record, this is the first 595 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 14: time in a long time I get the kids out 596 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 14: of the house, they're not here. So I'm like, oh 597 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 14: my gosh, I can I can be on live TV 598 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 14: and it can be peaceful and no one's going to 599 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 14: mess anything up. And two minutes before I go on, 600 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 14: the smoke detectors go out, so and I'm thinking, like, 601 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 14: there's no way they hear this. I got up and 602 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 14: I shut the door. There's no way they can hear it. 603 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 14: You know, no great areas got you. 604 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 4: You got it. 605 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 5: But I would say, have Matt fix it. But the 606 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 5: last time you asked them to do something around the 607 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 5: house split as far ahead. It was on your social media, 608 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 5: So why don't you either hire some you can do 609 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 5: it yourself, Sarah, I believe in you. 610 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 10: How about the deep enough tidle playoff record. 611 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 4: On the touch. 612 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 5: He won't tell you what. 613 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 10: There's so many guys that we could recognize, but I 614 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 10: think this truly epitomizes a team win. You talk about 615 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 10: a connected group, you talk about a team that said, 616 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 10: oh we. 617 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 8: Go for this. 618 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: That's exactly what you guys came out and did. 619 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 10: Man, unbelievable and all you guys did, you represented exactly 620 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 10: what we wanted to be about. Man a city that 621 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 10: going through a lot of different stuff that can look 622 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 10: to you guys and say I'm proud of that group 623 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 10: just being your guys self right there, Man, give it 624 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 10: up for yourself. 625 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 3: That was a meaningful moment from Seawan nick Vay considering 626 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: how much the Rams have been there. We'll get to 627 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 3: all of that, but look at this defense. Nine sacks 628 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 3: by the Rams, completely overwhelming the Minnesota Vikings and one 629 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 3: of the big reasons for that. And actually someone who 630 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 3: had a sack himself, Rams cornerback Kobe Durant, very pleased 631 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 3: to be hanging with you on the Insiders. Thank you 632 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: very much for joining us. There's a lot to get to, 633 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 3: a lot to get to. I want to get to 634 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,479 Speaker 3: the sacks first, as I mentioned, you had one. You 635 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 3: watched your defense really like really overwhelm this Vikings team. 636 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,719 Speaker 3: What was that like to be part of that dominating performance? 637 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 8: It was electric. N from the junt. 638 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 13: We approached all week, outside of the fires and stuff 639 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 13: that's going on in La Man, we just approached each 640 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 13: and a practice just like you know, it was a 641 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 13: game day and whenever we knew I know it was 642 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 13: called it was time to least coming from the second day. 643 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 13: You know, we just got to take advantage of the opportunities. 644 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 3: I imagine you guys feed off this, right, So like you 645 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 3: see early on you're having success. You're obviously watching Sam 646 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 3: continue to be uncomfortable in the pocket. Could you guys 647 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 3: feel early on like all right, like bikers could have 648 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 3: a tough time against us? 649 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 8: Uh? 650 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 13: It was just I feel like we was all connitted 651 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 13: and we was all on one accord and just you. 652 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 8: Know, playing within the scheme. 653 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 13: And I think it was to give him stuff that 654 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 13: add and see that Sam D and C pre snap, So. 655 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 8: Just making him uncomfortable back there, man, and we got 656 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 8: a job doing so. 657 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 3: There was obviously an emotional scene in the locker room. 658 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: You heard Sean mcvay's comments. Obviously obviously you were there 659 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 3: for that. How did you guys get through that week? 660 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 3: I mean, I want to ask a personal question of 661 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 3: you in a second, but just you have the the 662 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 3: tragedies going on, you have the fires, you have everything. 663 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 4: How did you get through that? 664 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 3: We can focus on football. 665 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 13: Just everybody staying connected, knowing what was going on the 666 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 13: whole time, we're thinking we was going to play in 667 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 13: so far, you know, a home game and then at 668 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 13: the last minute, we come in the next day and 669 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 13: call a team meeting and Sean is like, hey, we. 670 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 8: Got to go to Arizona. So it was the last 671 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 8: minute thing. 672 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 13: But I want to thank Arizona for a lot of 673 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 13: us to come in and making it feel like home 674 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 13: overd in Arizona and just you know, our LA fans 675 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 13: traveling over to Arizona making it feel like home as well. 676 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 13: So it's a blessing at the same time, you know, 677 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 13: just being able to make it feel like home and 678 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 13: you know, coming out with a wing. 679 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 3: So for you personally, was how much were you affected 680 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:57,959 Speaker 3: by everything? 681 00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: Was? 682 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I'm sure you've friendship, teammates, families effect 683 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 3: to kind of take me to the personal side of it. 684 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 13: Personally, my I'm okay, just a few of my friends 685 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 13: did lose their homes and now it's a tragic moment 686 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 13: in their life, and you know, I just check on 687 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,479 Speaker 13: them when I can, But you know, it's it's kind 688 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 13: of like out of our control, and it's just you know, 689 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 13: you don't really know when things can happen, and we 690 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 13: never really prepared, especially like traveling and things like that. 691 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 8: So with us traveling in the Araszona. 692 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 13: I'm constantly watching, uh you know, cameras and you know, 693 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 13: take some people to check on the house and stuff. 694 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 13: So just is it's a hurtful moment, but you know 695 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 13: at the same time, man, it's really out of our control. 696 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's amazing and I can't even imagine how 697 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 3: you guys possibly got through all that, the emotions to 698 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 3: put them to put the performance you do on the field. Honestly, 699 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 3: just truly incredible. I want to talk about the next 700 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 3: one now. Uh, you got the Philadelphia Egles coming up 701 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 3: three pm on Sunday. You have played them before, Uh 702 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 3: didn't go great. 703 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 4: And I would tell our. 704 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 3: Producers, please don't show all the Saquon Barkley highlights that 705 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 3: you have saved. 706 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 9: Don't do that to this man. 707 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 3: Tell me the challenge you have faced. Okay, fine, you 708 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 3: can show them, but tell me the challenge you have 709 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 3: facing Saquon and this Eagles offense this week. 710 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 13: All that it's a high power offense from the offensive line, 711 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 13: quarterbacks running bad received. We just all got to play 712 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 13: a living is learn and you know everybody be on 713 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 13: one the court. 714 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 8: Was the highlights it is? 715 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 3: Yeah? We Yeah, I'm sorry, I asked them not to 716 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 3: do it, but then they just like does that help 717 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 3: the I mean I'm not that like you need motivation, 718 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 3: but does that help this week watching or you like, 719 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 3: we don't want that to happen again, you know what 720 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 3: I mean? 721 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 12: Uh, you know, I'm. 722 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 13: Eventually I'm gonna end up watching it again. Uh, just 723 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 13: by you know, going back and watching film. But uh, 724 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 13: you know, it's just add few to the fire. I mean, 725 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 13: it's football. 726 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 3: I want to go back a little bit. You guys 727 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,320 Speaker 3: started off, you had so many injuries. Probably seems like 728 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 3: a hundred years ago to you, but so many injuries. 729 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 4: You know, right off the jump. 730 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 3: I think it was like week two or three, guys 731 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 3: got crushed offensive line. It was like Puka was out. 732 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 3: I mean it was everybody was out. And you guys 733 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 3: start and it's really rough. Did you ever think that 734 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 3: you would be where you guys are now, which is 735 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 3: still playing in the middle of January, considering how you started? 736 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 8: I had no doubt. 737 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 13: I know I know that we was, we was ended 738 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 13: a lot, it had had a lot of things going on, man, 739 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 13: But I knew we was gonna peak at the right moment, 740 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 13: and and that's what we're doing right now just you know, 741 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 13: everybody you know, dialing in, everybody staying locked in and 742 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 13: just you know, taking on the challenge. We've been through 743 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 13: it before, so it's nothing really that could really affect this. 744 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 13: Just you know, everybody, like I said, just everybody staying 745 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 13: on one accord and taking up on taking. 746 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 8: Up the challenge. 747 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 748 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 3: I was gonna ask about that because you know, the 749 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 3: we talk about adversity, right, Like I guess theoretically the 750 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 3: start you had with adversity and then you had real 751 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 3: adversity in life, which is what you faced last week. 752 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 4: Now you're going out there. 753 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 3: You got nothing to lose, right, I mean, I don't 754 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 3: know how many people expect you guys to win this game. 755 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 3: You've been through so much and you're still here and standing. 756 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 3: What's kind of the mentality of you guys this week? 757 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 8: Just going out there, putting that game that we just 758 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 8: went behind us and moving on. 759 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 13: Uh, we got feeling this week and it's just you know, 760 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 13: we got to attack the practices like this game day man. 761 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 13: And you know our scouts team will do both on 762 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 13: both sides of the ball, offense and defensive. Scouts team 763 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,720 Speaker 13: do a great job preparing us, getting us ready for pheling. 764 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 13: We just got to go into the game man, just 765 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 13: play fans, play physical, and just you know, go out 766 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 13: there and cut it loose. 767 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,359 Speaker 3: Kobe Man, thank you so much for joining us. I'm 768 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 3: again congratulations on what you guys have accomplished, what you've 769 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 3: been through. I don't know how you've done it. Major 770 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 3: credit to you guys, and good luck this week against 771 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 3: the Eagles. 772 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 8: Appreciate you, Thank you, And Lamar Jackson does it again. 773 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: It's unfair. 774 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 5: These are the best athletes in the world that he 775 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 5: makes them look like they should not be out there 776 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 5: with them. 777 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 4: When you think about the MV feed, that's alone, des 778 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 4: Can you say mvy B. 779 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 1: Josh Allen, are you kidding me? Look at the speed 780 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,400 Speaker 1: Lamar chuckson, who's gone muscles. 781 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 8: His way into the episode. 782 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 9: That's more like it. 783 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 6: We are going to hear about the MVP a lot 784 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,719 Speaker 6: on Sunday Night because these two face off. Look at 785 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 6: these numbers, look at the seasons these two have had 786 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 6: just crazy, crazy performances. Total tds, both of them over forty, 787 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 6: fewer than ten turnovers, the passer ratings off the charts. 788 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,640 Speaker 6: Just amazing performances by Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen and 789 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 6: Laura talked yesterday about his counterpart in Buffalo. 790 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,920 Speaker 7: Do you think though, that because you guys were from 791 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 7: the sting Pfast that you'll kind of always be linked together. 792 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 8: Yah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. 793 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,239 Speaker 7: When we older, we'll probably laugh about it. 794 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,320 Speaker 1: But right now it's serious. 795 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 7: I ain't laughing with you. 796 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 2: Right it's been probably two months, I think, since you've 797 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:44,920 Speaker 2: thrown an interception. 798 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,919 Speaker 4: This is a team Nate's. 799 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 6: Welcome back, Brian Baldinger. Let's talk about this matchup because, 800 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 6: as we mentioned, both of these two have just had 801 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 6: amazing seasons, each of them. I think it's the first 802 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 6: time in history that we're going to have a playoff 803 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,279 Speaker 6: matchup between two quarterbacks who have each had seasons with 804 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,399 Speaker 6: more than forty touchdown passes and fewer than ten turnovers. 805 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 6: Incredible performers. How do the defenses stop these two from 806 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 6: having MVP like performances on Sunday nights? 807 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 12: Judy, this is this is the fan and the analyst 808 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 12: dream to have this level of quarterback play on the field. Honestly, 809 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 12: just go out of the way. Let these two just 810 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 12: go make play after play after play them You watched 811 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,080 Speaker 12: Lamar has been unbelieve I said this earlier in the season, 812 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 12: probably on this program, Judy, that Lamar Jackson might miss 813 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 12: a throw, but he doesn't miss a read like his 814 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,719 Speaker 12: eyes are in the right place. However he does it. 815 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 12: He's got fast eyes. He sees things so quickly, and 816 00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 12: it's a skill that not everybody has, but he has it. 817 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 12: Locate Mark Andrews right there. He can scramble up the 818 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 12: middle and locate his receivers and then throw the ball 819 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,799 Speaker 12: with such a depth skill like he does right here too, 820 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 12: Justice Hill for that touchdown. 821 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 4: You just think about it. 822 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,040 Speaker 12: Last week against Pittsburgh, they the Steelers had played him 823 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 12: three times in eight weeks. They had no answer for 824 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 12: Lamar Jackson. They might tackle Derrick Henry. They didn't know 825 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,320 Speaker 12: what to do with Lamar Jackson. And so the combination 826 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,839 Speaker 12: of him with the King himself, Derrick Henry, it's made 827 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,799 Speaker 12: him even more just more difficult to defend. And if 828 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 12: we go to the other side and Josh Allen, there 829 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 12: was that two week stretch against Detroit and against the 830 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,480 Speaker 12: Rams where they put up ninety points and he accounted 831 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 12: for ten touchdowns, He ran for five, he threw for 832 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 12: five in those two games, and at that point we 833 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 12: thought the MVP race was over, but we got to 834 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 12: play it all the way out to the end. But 835 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,680 Speaker 12: here they are. You look at last week's game against Denver. 836 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,799 Speaker 12: The biggest play game is right here, right now. That's 837 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 12: a fourth and two play Judy That throw by Josh 838 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,800 Speaker 12: Allen scrambling locating Ty Johnson in the back of the 839 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 12: end zone. There's no margin for error none, but he 840 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 12: makes to throw. It's a touchdown on fourth and two. 841 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 12: The game could turn a little bit if they don't 842 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 12: convert that. He also on the opening drive converted the 843 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 12: fourth and one. The ball is going to be in 844 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 12: his hands when they've got to convert a short yardage, 845 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,080 Speaker 12: a goal line situation, a key fourth down, like it's 846 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,959 Speaker 12: going to be in his hands to make that play. 847 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,080 Speaker 12: And I feel like the Ravens haven't had to do 848 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,520 Speaker 12: that as much this year, but if need to, because 849 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 12: this is the ultimate agony in the ecstasy. The winner 850 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 12: moves on and they go to the championship round, and 851 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 12: the loser has to have that on the resume for 852 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:48,400 Speaker 12: another year, that whether. 853 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 4: They get the MVP or not, that they lose in. 854 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,320 Speaker 12: A championship divisional round playoff game, and nobody wants to 855 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,720 Speaker 12: lose this game, so you're gonna see the very best 856 00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 12: of both of these. 857 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,359 Speaker 6: I cannot wait to cover this game on Sunday night. 858 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,040 Speaker 6: Brian Baldinger, thank you so much for joining us. And 859 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,359 Speaker 6: when we return on The Insiders, we're going to talk 860 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,359 Speaker 6: about another Ravens quarterback. Hey, that's Joe Flacco in a Raven's. 861 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 9: Uniform and his lenk to Lamar Jackson. 862 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: When we return, Happy fortieth birthday Joe Flacco, who no 863 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 1: doubt is having an old fashioned and watching us somewhere 864 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: across the country. Some wild numbers in Raven's history. Here 865 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 1: turns out that about every twelve years they win a 866 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,800 Speaker 1: Super Bowl with a twenty eight year old quarterback Guilfer Flacco. 867 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,640 Speaker 1: And what do you know, Mike, Lamar Jackson is twenty 868 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:49,319 Speaker 1: eight years old. 869 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 4: What do you think. 870 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 5: You're asking me? Yeah, I think it's listen, it's incredible 871 00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 5: that they took a shot on a guy that nobody 872 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 5: else was willing to And you set yourself. 873 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:02,279 Speaker 9: We got twenty seconds left. 874 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:03,680 Speaker 5: Great job, as you knew. 875 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 1: Some gotta go, gotta go buy everybody, that's it. 876 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 3: I have more of a fun than Tom derisively mentioned fashion. 877 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: Every show Tomorrow taking something, the show tomorrow show you