WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 147: Post Blizzard 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.400 This week on a Happy half Hour. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.440 The one thing I can tell you for sure about 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.960 Dan Morgan, if he tells you he's gonna draft the 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.399 best player available. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.400 Regardless of position, believe him. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.200 Dan is one of those guys who is going to 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.880 trust that board. He's going to see what it's telling 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.040 him and he's just gonna follow it. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.880 What's up, Cow, It's. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.000 Time for the Happy Half Hour, presented by Southern Star, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.360 an official bourbon of the Carolina Panthers. Here are your hosts, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.920 Darren Gant and Cassidy Hill. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.680 Hello friends, and welcome to a post blizzard edition the 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.720 Happy Half Hour. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.120 Have we all survived or we're all here? 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.280 There was a little bit of ice in the grass 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:56.080 outside of my porch. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.840 D L's in the room podcast, Matt is safely behind 0:00:58.840 --> 0:00:59.560 the monitors. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.560 You're here, I'm here. We seem to have made it. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:03.520 We survived. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.160 My parents in Mobile, Alabama got seven inches. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:14.560 See, I think to my thing on this is, if 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.720 it's this cold for this long you only get a 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.840 half inch of snow, That's that's mean. That's spiteful on 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.080 somebody's part. So good for your parents for being able 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.640 to enjoy it in Mobile in suburban mobile Alabama. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.240 That's my thought process. When it's like starting to thunder 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.720 and it gets humid, just rain, Like, don't be obnoxious 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:37.679 about it. Just rain. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.080 Yeah, you're new here in the Carolinas, aren't you. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.039 I was gonna say, you come from Alabama where they 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.000 actually got snow. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.960 Previously, you lived in Green Bay. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.240 Where there is right now where it snows like starting 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.520 in September and ending in May or something. You know, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.520 so you've got to be treating this whole thing your 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.280 first good Charlotte blizzard as. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:01:59.920 Come on that. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.040 I was running around yesterday running some errands and there 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.160 was no one on the road, not a thing, like 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.760 maybe two other people on the interstate when I went 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.760 to my hair appointment. And I get to the hair 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.840 appointment and the lady's like, yeah, a lot of people 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.000 didn't come in today. And I was like, you know 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.200 what's so funny is I have a car that I 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.239 bought when I lived in Wisconsin because I didn't know 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.880 how to drive in the snow when I first got there. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.120 And I just pushed a little button that says winter weather, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.760 and the car goes and does what it needs to 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.480 do to drive in winter weather and I didn't even 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.840 have to push that button yesterday. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.080 Wow, I just drove. Yeah, I stayed at home. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.040 I was out in it a little bit Tuesday night 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.480 when it started covering the roads and I had to 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.480 drive a grand total of about five blocks back to 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.680 my house. And at one point I was the only 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.480 car on a particular street, and just because I'm a jerk, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.720 I jammed on the brakes just to see what would happen, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:51.760 and I slid a little bit. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:52.639 It wasn't dramatic. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.959 Everyone is safe, but at that point I was just like, Yeah, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.840 there's nothing for me out here in this world. I'm 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.600 just gonna park, going to house, have a glass a 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.919 eggnog or something, and call it a night. Speaking of which, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.160 we were neglectful coming out of the top of the podcast. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.639 We got distracted quick, my bad. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.960 This is the Happy Half Hour Prevented, presented by our 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.720 friends at Southern Star, an official bourbon partner of the 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.440 Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolinas, which Matt 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.480 might have to take that out and put it back at. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:24.560 The top at some point. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.440 But a blizzard edition of The Happy Half Hour presented 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.520 by our friends at Southern Star, an official bourbon partner 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.360 at the Carolina Panthers celebrate the spirit of the Carolina. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.760 Does reading it twice make up for not reading it 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:37.200 at the top? 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.320 Yeah, maybe it does. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.280 Matt's gonna work his podcast magic on this when it 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.560 make us sound professional. But yeah, as Matt, yeah, there 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.680 you go, there you go. So you're probably pro blizzard, right. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.880 I love a good snow day. I if I have 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.040 an excuse to not have to leave the house and 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.200 don't have to tell me twice, I'll light a candle. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.680 I like to have the house clean for this, So 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.640 if I know a snow day is coming, I'll clean 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.200 the night before so that I can just sit and enjoy. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.440 I'll light a candle, I'll make some soup, and then 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.159 I usually will turn on like one of about five 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.400 different entertainment things. I'll either turn on Lord of the 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.719 Rings Two Towers. Sometimes you're Turn of the King, depends 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.719 on what mood I'm in, or an episode of the 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.919 BBC series Classic Sherlock with Bennerdict Cumberbats, or any of 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.800 the Harry Potters, Okay, preferably the first one if it's 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:40.279 a snow day, or like Pride and Prejudice, The Kiera 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.839 Knightly Version or football. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:45.360 There you go. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.120 I you know I tend to my main thing on 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.279 snow days is I like to prepare in advance, right, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.960 Thank the boy Scouts for that. When I grew up 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.320 in it, I lived it. Yes, I was an Eagle 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.280 Scout the whole nine yards. So be prepared has kind 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.520 of been instilled in me from an early age, and. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.120 I take it to ridiculous extreme. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.200 So in advance of Charlotte blizzards, I'm that guy who 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.200 goes to Harris Teeter. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.440 Now, I don't go crazy with the bread and milk. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.880 That's a cliche and I avoid cliches as often as possible. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.839 So instead you get just at whatever. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:21.440 I feel like cooking. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:26.440 And it may be you know, it's oftentimes suit, but 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.840 a lot of times it's just whatever wife and I 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.560 feel like cooking. Whatever we feel like eating, will buy 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.159 a bunch of that, and I just cook for days 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.040 and days and days. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.279 So when we get a blizzard to like this week's blizzard. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.039 That's gone by the middle of the next afternoon, No, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:42.520 it's a Charlotte blizzard. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.159 I mean, we hadn't had snow here. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.200 Get humor us, Okay, we hadn't had snow in over 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.480 three years in any measurable amount. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.400 So I did get one blizzard when I lived in 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.760 Green Bay or what classified as a blizzard. Do you 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:56.400 know how much? 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.720 What's a Green Bay blizzard? 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.039 I went out and measured it and at one point 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.640 we were up to eighteen inches. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.480 Holy cat, foot and a half. A foot and a 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:06.440 half's a lot of snow. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.000 That was a lot of snow. That was pretty much overnight. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.520 Yeah, I still remember. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.480 Somebody went to work the next day. It was crazy. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:14.520 What do you people do with? 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.600 This is how you can tell I'm an old because 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.040 I start these stories with. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.840 I remember back in the winter of ninety three, we had. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.520 A blizzard in Alabama in ninety three, the Great Blizzard. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.160 The Great Blizzard, I mean, listen, the Great Blizzard of 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.280 ninety three hit during my spring break of my second 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.280 senior year in college. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:32.880 Was in March. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.080 It was March, so spring break I had come off 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.840 the mountain and spring break got extended two weeks. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.000 That year the mountain. John couldn't get back up the mountain. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.680 I mean it was there was over a foot of 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.520 snow in suburban Hickory, which is only an hour away 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.159 from Boone and you couldn't get back to Boone proper. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.760 So everybody got a nice two week spring break that year. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.200 But I still the elders speak of the blizzard. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.960 In the Blizzard of ninety three is actually one of 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.480 my first, like real core memories as a child, like 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.640 I was. I was three years old, and it's not 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.600 like I can remember a lot of it, but the 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.160 one thing I remember about it. So we lived in 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.920 Birmingham and we got a good bit of snow. Obviously, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.760 my cousin Daniel was born during the Blizzard of ninety three. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.440 That's a good story. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.160 Yeah, But we were at my Aunt Dot's house, my 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.800 gret my great aunt's house in Bessemer home with Jameis 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.800 Winston and my Aunt Dot, and we knew snow was coming, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.520 but nobody knew it was going to be that bad. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.760 This part my parents had filled in over the years. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.600 So we got stuck at my Aunt Dot's house for 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.440 three days. And when we went back home, my parents 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.800 had put our dog in the house because they just 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.560 knew it was going to be cold. But we were 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.000 thinking we'd be back home that night. Well we would 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 get home three days later. Oh God, and this is 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.400 what I remember. My dad opens the door and that dog, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.920 her name was Lady. She was a black German shepherd. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.560 She runs out, she just does her business for like 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.360 twenty minutes straight. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:09.240 That's amazing. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.679 If my dad goes into checks. She never once messed 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.680 in the house the whole three days she had held it, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.280 held it for three days. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:18.800 See, that's a good dog. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.440 Right, that's a very good dog. She was a good dog. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.400 And I just remember standing there on the front porch 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.880 and watching her go get in that snow for twenty minutes. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.840 That also means that Lady didn't eat for three days. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:31.040 I know. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:32.120 It was awful. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.480 We felt so bad, but we had no idea we 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:35.320 were gonna get stuck. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.120 See. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.640 I had my favorite dog ever. I had an old 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.280 beagle named mister Bean. And I could leave mister Bean 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.440 at home alone for like four hours and he would 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.679 get into something. Yeah, I mean he was a beagle. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.200 He sniffed thing. So if there was ever loose food 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.920 in one of my you know, in my work bag, 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.920 if there was ever a granola bar or something in 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.920 side pocket, he ate zippers out of my work bags 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.800 to get to food that was inside the back. When 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.880 I had like gone to the grocery store. So I 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.200 could only imagine leaving him home alone for three days. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.240 He would have eaten. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.520 He would have been fine. He would have found food. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:11.760 You know, I wonder if. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.000 Lady found food. And I just obviously was not old 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.000 enough to remember that part of it. I should ask 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:16.439 my parents. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.120 Mister Bean was bad about like if I ever had 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.520 a bag of potatoes sitting on the floor of the 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.320 pantry or something, he would eat a raw potato. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:26.000 Yeah. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.680 So, at any rate, So now we've covered blizzards and 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.600 and dog stories. Dogs and blizzard stories. Good dogs, They're all. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.080 They're all good dogs. But at some point we got 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.679 to talk about football. It's in our contract. You you 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.080 mentioned watching football. I've got a weird thing and and 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.640 I have done this for a long time. I love 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.200 the game of football. Let me just say this right 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:51.640 out at the top. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.680 An interesting wild card weekend. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:59.079 I work very hard to avoid football, and I only 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.400 and I only watch football if I think it's going 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.439 to be good, because wild card weekend is usually bad 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.800 football fun. So so last weekend was the weekend where 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.040 I re engage with the football industrial complex. Because after 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.440 an eighteen game regular season or an eighteen week regular season. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.320 Darren needs a break, all right, Darren needs to turn 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.640 off for a minute and not football for a second. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.840 But I usually tune back in this weekend because Divisional 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.160 round is when it gets good. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:29.679 That's the good stuff. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.960 So I was like, everybody else in America is like, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.080 take this Baltimore Buffalo game and shoot it straight into 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:35.680 my vans. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:36.880 I need more of that. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:42.000 In my life, and you wat, I saw parts of that. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.760 When things that happened late at night are often lost 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.200 on me, but I did see the end of that one. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.240 Hats off to our old friend Jeremy Chen. Yeah, he's 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.800 definitely a friend of the program. We're very happy for 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.360 Jeremy and Frankie Luvu that they're enjoying success in Washington both. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.400 Yep, no doubt. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.480 And I just think though that that I thought that 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.160 Buffalo Baltimore game. I don't know about you, but I 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.960 kind of approach that as well, there's your super Bowl, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.440 the rest you'll just figure it out. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.400 I approached it the same way, and I was slightly 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.520 disappointed that I felt like it wasn't as good of 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.040 a game as we were should have gotten, and it 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.200 was purely because of Baltimore mistakes. Granted, it was still 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.360 a close game up until the very very end, because 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.520 you know Baltimore is good enough to overcome some of 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.760 those mistakes. It almost makes you wonder, well, of course, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.080 it makes you wonder, like without those three mistakes, does 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.440 Baltimore win that game? They probably do, But you know it, 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.240 being in Buffalo was always going to be hard to overcome. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.520 Especially you have to wonder too if some of those 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.439 drops were because of how cold it was. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.440 It didn't help. Yeah, and that's Mark Andrew's heart. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.600 By the way, I know such a good player and 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.560 I hate that this is what's gonna get remembered. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.959 Well, the good news about it is it happened in Buffalo, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.320 and the Buffalo fans, who you know, I tease the 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.360 Buffalo fans, most of whom live in Charlotte now, And 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.880 they came and never went back. Nobody ever, other than 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.000 Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott, no one has ever moved 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.880 from Charlotte to Buffalo. They're the only ones. They blazed 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.160 that trail and took some of their old friends with them. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.920 But the Buffalo fans respond to stuff like this. They've 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.280 been making donations to Mark Andrew's foundation. They did a 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.800 similar They did a similar thing when the Bengals, quarterbacked 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.920 by our friend Andy Dalton, beat somebody to get Buffalo 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.199 into the playoffs for the first time in a long time. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:43.040 They flooded Andy's foundation with donations. So I love the 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.480 fact that they're responding in the right way. And it's 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.240 just it's a shame to see because Mark Andrews has 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.120 been so good of a player for such a long 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.200 time for that to be the kind of thing that's defining. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.360 I love that their pettiness is still kind. Yeah, so 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.240 Buffalo of. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.720 Them, Yeah, it's nice. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.880 I mean it's almost a menace, o'de a nice kind 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.640 of thing, But yeah, I do like that about them. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.440 Yeah yeah, fun fan base. And I will say this, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.760 Baltimore I thought was one of the best teams in 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.400 the NFL this year. That was kind of who I 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.160 wanted to see make it to the super Bowl, just 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.280 to kind of put a cap on all they've done 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.880 this year. But Buffalo's fan base has waited a long 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.640 long time to be in this place again, and they 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.120 had what four super Bowl appearances in a row in 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.880 the night race with no when So you've got to 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.880 feel for that fan base who has been so dedicated 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.480 even in the dark years, and so it'll be cool 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.760 to see that fan base on a national stage if 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.800 that's where they if they make it through this weekend again, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.160 of course, they've got their big bad wolf that they've 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.400 got to get through. First. They've lost to Kansas City 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:48.800 in this round how many times? 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.319 Now, all of the times, all of the time, all 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.840 of the times, every time, I mean at three of 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.200 the last four years. I think it was because I 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.040 remember looking that up when they traded in the draft 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.640 and Buffalo traded the pick that turned into Xavier Worthy, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.360 you know, to the Chiefs, and I was like, why 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.559 would you give a speed receiver to the team that 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.280 knocked you out of the playoffs three of the last 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.320 four years, So that part of it baffled me. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.240 And the Chiefs are doing their Chiefs things. They're getting 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:16.360 super strong. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.120 And they've now reached that point that the Patriots used 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.960 to occupy. In my head, I was the idiot who 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.760 for a while said, this is the year the Patriots 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:27.920 finally fall off the cliff. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.480 They can't keep doing this forever. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.960 And then they kept doing it, and they kept doing it, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.440 They kept winning and they've just kind of reached that point. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.600 I almost assume Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes are going 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.920 to win until they don't, and even then, even when 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.120 they don't, I'm gonna assume they're going to come back 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.280 and win the next year too. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.720 I mean, they've just kind of reached that point. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.560 I agree that Buffalo is probably the better team over 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.760 the course of this season. You know, we had a 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.440 good up close look at the Chiefs and it reminds 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.160 me a little bit of what happened he in twenty fifteen. Uh, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.160 it's the worst nine and oh team I've ever seen. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.200 This is the worst ten and oh team I've ever seen. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.440 This is the worst fifteen to one team I've ever seen. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:14.200 They weren't very good. Yeah, offensively this year. They aren't 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.560 that same product that we're used to seeing Patrick Mahomes, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.760 but dang, they keep not losing. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.640 Right. They find their ways, and I'm sure people would 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.360 say part of that is because of help, and we 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:31.280 can talk about that later, but they find ways. When 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.400 you're a defense and you're letting Travis Kelcey get between 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.640 you and just sit in a soft part of the zone, 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.800 he's gonna beat you. Every time he's somebody said the 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.040 other day and they're so true. He has reached that 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.960 point of his career where he now just outslows everyone 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.920 else around it. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.800 That's my goal. I want to outslow somebody, and. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.280 That's where he's at and he's doing it well. And 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.200 you can't let Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes figure out 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.320 that they're really really good together. And that's exactly what 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.920 happened the other day against the Texans. That being said, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.040 I do want to ask you a question about this. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.960 Yeh Do you think let me provese it by saying this, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.200 I can't really blame Patrick Mahomes for using the rules 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.240 to his advantage when they can do so. He's just 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.960 playing the game the way it was set up to 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:19.480 be played. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:20.040 Yep. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.560 Do you foresee a world where some of these rules 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.640 are changed in response to how he is playing the game. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.640 As far as the sliding, the fake sliding, the flopping out. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.760 Of bounds, well, I mean flopping ad bounds fake slide. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.720 I mean you can penalize somebody for a fake slide 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.320 I mean, or just the thing that I think is 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.840 never gonna happen, is the league's gonna make it easier 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.560 to hit quarterbacks. That's not a thing Big Shield's ever 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:49.080 gonna do. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.560 So I don't foresee roughing the passer ever going. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.440 Back, right, I mean, it's not ever going to go 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.160 back to the old days where Dan Fouts was being 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.600 carried off on a stretcher after no. I mean, I'm 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.280 just saying people of his era had to take shots 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.600 that guys these days never have to experience. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.680 But I don't fault him for it. I mean he's 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:10.520 found the edge. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.119 Yeah, that's and that's the name of the game, especially 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:14.840 when you get to this point in the playoffs when 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.600 there's four teams left, find that small edge, and that's 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.600 how they maintain that level. It's how the Patriots maintained 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.280 that level for a long time. You know, Tom Brady 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.399 was Tom Brady, but Bill Belichick was good at finding 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.840 that little thing that he knew and you didn't, right, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.720 And you know that's what great ones do. So I 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.680 don't hold it against Patrick Mahomes. I also don't think 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.720 anything's ever going to change in terms of protecting quarterbacks. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.639 And I don't think it should because you know, I 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.320 want to see you know, I wouldn't have wanted to 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:51.720 see whoever Baltimore's backup quarterback versus whoever Buffalo's backup quarterback 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.919 happened to have been. I don't even I want to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.040 see Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson in January. I want 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.320 to see Josh Allen versus Patrick mahoonme. So these guys 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.679 have to be protected, you know the other side of 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.919 that bracket. The Philadelphia Eagles just annoy me, and not 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.280 for the reason they probably annoy other people. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.880 They don't run enough. Yeah, a pass is a wasted play. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:17.399 And listen. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.080 Aj Brown is a brilliant player, and he's leading book clubs, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.920 and I support literacy, so I'm pro aj Brown here. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.800 If there's ever been a team that should run more, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.680 it's that one. And you've over complicated it, Sirianni. You've 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.840 you've made this harder than it needed to be. You've 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.879 got that offensive line, and you've got Saquon friggin Barker. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.080 Turn around and hand it to that man, even when 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.560 Hurtz was dinged up and wasn't as mobile as he 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.760 usually is. Just turn around and hand it to big Boy, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.159 over and over and over until it doesn't work. For 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.600 about ten plays in a row, And here's the thing too. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.600 I have said this ahead of the Eagles last like 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.800 three games, and this is not in any way to 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.160