WEBVTT - NFL Weekly Game Previews: Conference Championships 0:00:04.299 --> 0:00:06.659 NFL Game Debut is a production of the NFL in 0:00:06.739 --> 0:00:10.899 partnership with I Heart Radio. This is NFL Game Previews. 0:00:11.259 --> 0:00:14.739 No analysts here, just game preview guy taking you through 0:00:14.819 --> 0:00:18.899 both conference championship games with a recap of howard ten 0:00:18.979 --> 0:00:22.379 person panel voted on each one. Let's start with the 0:00:22.419 --> 0:00:34.099 rematch on the a f C side. Back to arrowhead, 0:00:34.139 --> 0:00:37.579 they go, take your refunds with you. The Cincinnati Bengals 0:00:37.619 --> 0:00:39.579 back in the a f C Championship Game for a 0:00:39.659 --> 0:00:43.339 second year in a row. The Ultimate Playoff Road Warrior Tour, 0:00:43.779 --> 0:00:49.379 plowing through the Bills and Mother Nature. I can't tread. 0:00:50.219 --> 0:00:57.459 That is officially Compadel Snow a jolt in the end zone. 0:00:57.859 --> 0:01:01.899 The Bengals are heading to Kansas City awaiting the Bengals 0:01:01.939 --> 0:01:04.459 a dude who's thrown a few strikes in these games. 0:01:04.579 --> 0:01:07.539 Theosmeo man, I see you rolled your way into the semis. 0:01:07.779 --> 0:01:10.459 Travis and me. We're gonna fight for your right to 0:01:10.539 --> 0:01:13.259 party chiefs fighting for the a f C title for 0:01:13.339 --> 0:01:16.459 a fifth straight time. They'll roll that way, they find 0:01:17.179 --> 0:01:22.939 the five and lunch into touch that chance. Winter is 0:01:23.019 --> 0:01:26.019 coming and you know what comes with it, cold temperatures 0:01:26.059 --> 0:01:28.899 and more of those are expected for this game. It's 0:01:28.899 --> 0:01:31.979 a ways out, but snow is in the Arrowhead forecast 0:01:32.099 --> 0:01:35.179 over the next week. What an advantage that could give 0:01:35.219 --> 0:01:38.739 the Bengals, being they played in a heavy snowfall last week. 0:01:39.019 --> 0:01:42.139 Burrow running his record in games under forty degrees to 0:01:42.219 --> 0:01:45.859 eight no in his career that it's Chase, but he's 0:01:45.899 --> 0:01:50.779 put the fenders. There's also the Burrow Zach Taylor three 0:01:50.859 --> 0:01:55.339 or no record versus Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid win 0:01:55.499 --> 0:01:59.179 over them in Cincinnati this year, four in the conference 0:01:59.219 --> 0:02:02.019 championship game last year. Throws it into the end zone 0:02:02.019 --> 0:02:09.619 for Chase Hey leaps in touchdown. Therefore, Arrowheads volume Mahomes 0:02:09.699 --> 0:02:13.339 aura officially not keeping Burrow or anyone in orange and 0:02:13.419 --> 0:02:16.419 black stripes up. At night, Borrow grab gets away from 0:02:16.419 --> 0:02:19.459 a sax scramp like left he Chase gets away again 0:02:19.779 --> 0:02:22.419 and gets the first out. I apologize ahead of time 0:02:22.499 --> 0:02:24.939 for the seven hundred and seventy seven ads headed our 0:02:25.019 --> 0:02:27.539 way and for the seven hundred and seventy seven takes 0:02:27.539 --> 0:02:31.059 you're going to hear about mahomes ankle this week. YEP, Realistically, 0:02:31.099 --> 0:02:34.059 he's limited to some degree. High ankle sprains are a 0:02:34.099 --> 0:02:37.779 month of rest typically Chief's Kingdom, just hoping Mahomes took 0:02:37.779 --> 0:02:43.299 plenty of jazz bats this week. You've got every single light. 0:02:44.259 --> 0:02:47.419 Mahomes comes in off one of those games. The Jack 0:02:47.499 --> 0:02:51.539 young Blood, Emmett Smith, Daniel LaRusso Kind, Mahomes crane kicked 0:02:51.539 --> 0:02:54.139 his way to victory, went twenty two of thirty hundred 0:02:54.219 --> 0:02:57.099 ninety five yards, two touchdown, so a one twelve point 0:02:57.219 --> 0:03:00.659 five rating versus Jacksonville. Homes now steps up in the pocket, 0:03:00.699 --> 0:03:02.819 throws winding right on the back of the end zone, 0:03:03.099 --> 0:03:08.099 touched down US City And are they helping Mahomes up here? 0:03:08.099 --> 0:03:12.219 He is lipping off the field. His play plus stats 0:03:12.379 --> 0:03:15.939 equals first team All Pro at qbast We got another. 0:03:15.979 --> 0:03:17.939 Let's go get another. Let's go get an not enough yet, 0:03:18.739 --> 0:03:21.459 not enough. Burrow comes in off one of those games too, 0:03:21.659 --> 0:03:25.499 the Liam Needsome, Gray, cool Runnings, Kind Burrow and heavy 0:03:25.539 --> 0:03:29.059 snowfall on the road versus the Bills. Two hundred forty 0:03:29.099 --> 0:03:31.939 five yards are rating over a hundred to t d 0:03:32.099 --> 0:03:38.379 S no picks. That's as shysty as it gets. Case 0:03:38.699 --> 0:03:41.299 is up against it in every way. Bengals on a 0:03:41.339 --> 0:03:44.019 ten game win streak and getting great play on both 0:03:44.059 --> 0:03:46.739 sides of the ball twenty eight point three points per 0:03:46.739 --> 0:03:50.219 game on offense during the streak, eighteen point five points 0:03:50.259 --> 0:03:55.179 per game allowed on defense. Cat's hit flutters out since 0:03:56.179 --> 0:04:00.139 up incomplete pass not a fuffles. Bengals d with the 0:04:00.219 --> 0:04:03.339 Chiefs OH with a less than hundred percent Mahomes. First thing, 0:04:03.339 --> 0:04:06.379 we have to look at Bengals pass rush versus Casey's 0:04:06.459 --> 0:04:10.019 OH line on the chief side, even hurt, Mahomes wasn't 0:04:10.019 --> 0:04:13.899 sacked once last week. Casey's O line only two teams 0:04:13.939 --> 0:04:21.419 allowed fewer sacks all year. Mahomes faced pressure percent of 0:04:21.459 --> 0:04:24.059 the time in the regular season. Hurt last week, he 0:04:24.139 --> 0:04:27.299 felt heat on thirty three point three percent of his dropbacks. 0:04:27.499 --> 0:04:30.619 Wasn't enough to beat him, though, right the instinct blitz 0:04:30.699 --> 0:04:33.379 him more, But Mahomes was one of the best against 0:04:33.379 --> 0:04:35.779 the house in two and he was one of the 0:04:35.859 --> 0:04:39.579 least blitzed because of it. To throw forth under pressure 0:04:39.659 --> 0:04:44.019 throws Travis Kelsey first out and the Jaguars tried it. 0:04:44.179 --> 0:04:47.619 Regular season, he saw five plus pass rushers twenty three 0:04:47.619 --> 0:04:50.339 percent of the time. The Jags blitzed him thirty three 0:04:50.379 --> 0:04:53.059 percent of the time. He went seven for ten against 0:04:53.059 --> 0:04:56.019 it last week. A touchdown so much for the ankle 0:04:57.059 --> 0:05:04.859 second Jaguars pressure to stay in a crossman for the 0:05:04.899 --> 0:05:09.099 first half right away. Last year's conference championship game comes 0:05:09.099 --> 0:05:12.139 to mind. Then, the Bengals only blitzed him nine percent 0:05:12.179 --> 0:05:15.339 of past plays. That's super low, and they still sacked 0:05:15.419 --> 0:05:18.979 him four times Shotgun staff a hand off to mcnellah 0:05:19.019 --> 0:05:22.659 fake now scrambling forward tackled half the nine yard line. 0:05:22.979 --> 0:05:25.859 And Cincinnati's win over Kansas City this year, they only 0:05:25.899 --> 0:05:28.619 blitzed him twenty percent of the time. That's still lowish. 0:05:28.979 --> 0:05:32.979 Two sacks, eight QB hits. Their pass rush sands too 0:05:33.059 --> 0:05:36.059 much extra help has played a big role in beating 0:05:36.139 --> 0:05:39.259 Kansas City. Those last two times one second and seventies 0:05:39.259 --> 0:05:42.939 in trouble and he's brought down at the twenty three 0:05:43.019 --> 0:05:46.099 yards line by Hubbert. Sam Abbert, the two guys that 0:05:46.219 --> 0:05:49.179 Kansas City has struggled the most with Sam Hubbard and 0:05:49.219 --> 0:05:53.739 Trey Hendrickson modest two sack totals, but Hendrickson hit him 0:05:53.779 --> 0:05:56.419 three times. In this year's game. He talied a sack 0:05:56.459 --> 0:05:58.579 and a half on their way to the dance. Last year, 0:05:59.019 --> 0:06:01.419 Hubbard got a hold of the homes in both now 0:06:01.459 --> 0:06:03.739 Here comes the rush Mahomes way back at the twenty 0:06:03.779 --> 0:06:06.619 time lose all at all, the Chiefs fall on it 0:06:06.739 --> 0:06:10.939 at six. Sam Hubbard knocked the ball out. Hendrickson will 0:06:11.019 --> 0:06:15.299 take on left tackle Orlando Brown, seventeen best tackle out 0:06:15.299 --> 0:06:18.459 of seventy two this year according to PFF. He gave 0:06:18.539 --> 0:06:20.859 up four sacks. That's not a lot, but it's not 0:06:20.899 --> 0:06:24.539 an elite total either. Hubbard will go against Andrew Wiley, 0:06:24.619 --> 0:06:27.339 and like the Coyote, he had some issues too. Gave 0:06:27.419 --> 0:06:30.819 up sacks nine times. His mom would get a call 0:06:30.899 --> 0:06:32.979 from Ed for that as well. See the protection turn 0:06:33.019 --> 0:06:34.579 away from you. You know, if you've got one on 0:06:34.579 --> 0:06:37.459 one against Andrew Wiley, you're going I'll take that. If 0:06:37.459 --> 0:06:39.739 he has time, though, then you might see him take 0:06:39.779 --> 0:06:41.739 the kind of shots that allowed him to finish with 0:06:41.779 --> 0:06:44.139 a fat eight point one yards per attempt and a 0:06:44.219 --> 0:06:48.579 cartman like plus twelve yards per completion in either scenario. 0:06:48.899 --> 0:06:52.179 The next topic Travis Kelsey, the most dominant tight end 0:06:52.219 --> 0:06:58.699 in the game versus Cincinnati's linebackers and safeties. Kelsey comes 0:06:58.699 --> 0:07:04.179 in off a near record performance fourteen catches scored twice. 0:07:04.299 --> 0:07:10.259 He's got to stand Dansas City spreading inside the pilot 0:07:10.619 --> 0:07:14.339 Bengals fans. Jacksonville's defense one of the worst against tight 0:07:14.419 --> 0:07:19.659 ends all year. Safety's Jesse Bates, von Bell, linebackers Logan Wilson, 0:07:19.739 --> 0:07:22.779 Jermaine Pratt helping hold tight ends to a sub eight 0:07:23.019 --> 0:07:25.739 rating in Cincinnati three to five T to I in 0:07:25.819 --> 0:07:28.699 t ratio. When they beat Kansas City in Week thirteen, 0:07:28.739 --> 0:07:31.779 they held Kelsey to four catches fifty six yards. It's 0:07:31.819 --> 0:07:33.899 Kelsey Prats trying to hold on to it. Eats a 0:07:33.939 --> 0:07:37.259 health ball came out, ball came out and Pratt has it. 0:07:37.499 --> 0:07:41.099 Another possible scenario. They don't pass as often. It's an 0:07:41.139 --> 0:07:45.699 Isaiah Pacheco game. Jankel Pounty to the outside, check to 0:07:45.819 --> 0:07:49.419 the sideline, but check out about the Checko is a 0:07:49.499 --> 0:07:52.419 nice four point nine yard per carry guy this season 0:07:52.699 --> 0:07:56.059 enters this contest off a ninety five yard performance back 0:07:56.099 --> 0:07:59.019 to back weeks seven point nine yards per run or 0:07:59.099 --> 0:08:01.939 better off chack all right, but check out close twenty 0:08:02.139 --> 0:08:05.179 on the angle fifteen the right line shop out of 0:08:05.219 --> 0:08:09.179 bounds outside the Cincinnati they held back to three point 0:08:09.259 --> 0:08:12.419 nine yards per run this season. Called both Buffalo backs 0:08:12.419 --> 0:08:16.979 in check with ease last week. The goal quickly on Singletary, 0:08:17.219 --> 0:08:19.779 who fights just to get back to the line of scrimmage. 0:08:19.899 --> 0:08:23.939 Defensive tackles d J. Hill, DJ Reader, Wilson and Pratt 0:08:24.059 --> 0:08:26.739 a tough group to run at. Wilson and Pratt also 0:08:26.859 --> 0:08:29.939 pretty tough on running backs his past catchers. That duo 0:08:30.139 --> 0:08:33.979 kind of underrated, it seems. Bengals pass defense versus running 0:08:33.979 --> 0:08:40.099 backs fifth lowest rating aloud. Oh, that's not the right tract. 0:08:40.499 --> 0:08:42.979 They take on Jerick McKinnon this week. He didn't do 0:08:43.019 --> 0:08:46.059 anything as a receiver last week. Prior to that game, 0:08:46.179 --> 0:08:49.219 six games in a row with the receiving touchdown eight 0:08:49.259 --> 0:08:52.699 total in that span. If Mahomes is limited or hurried, 0:08:53.019 --> 0:08:55.939 he could get turned too often, scrambles out of there 0:08:55.979 --> 0:09:02.059 and shovels it forward to McKinnon. That's his ninth receiving touchdown. 0:09:02.539 --> 0:09:08.739 Casey white Outcore, Juju Smith Schuster, MBS, Justin Watson, Darius Tony. 0:09:08.859 --> 0:09:11.379 They're the slaters. They might be in the backseat, but 0:09:11.419 --> 0:09:14.739 they fill in the gaps. They're cool man Patrick Mahomes 0:09:15.019 --> 0:09:19.659 crossed the middle, able to complete Juju Smitz Schuster. Cincinnati's 0:09:19.659 --> 0:09:22.739 play against Whiteouts held them to a sub ninety rating. 0:09:22.899 --> 0:09:25.899 Not many week spots with this defense. Last week versus 0:09:25.939 --> 0:09:29.299 Stefawn Diggs ten targets, only allowed him to catch four 0:09:29.339 --> 0:09:35.259 balls for thirty five yards and it's it completes Eli 0:09:35.379 --> 0:09:38.819 Apple excited thinking about all the catchup mustard and mayo. 0:09:38.979 --> 0:09:42.299 He was gonna slather on his celebration sandwich after the game. 0:09:42.739 --> 0:09:45.459 He likes his condiments hard to use the excuse. The 0:09:45.459 --> 0:09:48.819 Bengal secondary was aided by the snow. First, they held 0:09:48.899 --> 0:09:52.099 quarterbacks to the lowest rating in the NFL this year. 0:09:52.339 --> 0:09:56.099 Yeah number one. Second, Burrow and his receivers didn't have 0:09:56.219 --> 0:09:58.979 any issues with the white stuff. Burrow back to pass 0:09:59.299 --> 0:10:05.779 throws toward the near sideballt wow if he pulls. Kansas 0:10:05.819 --> 0:10:08.339 City has to defend all three types of pass catcher 0:10:08.419 --> 0:10:11.299 as well. Borrow bounces into this game off a classic 0:10:11.379 --> 0:10:15.099 spread the love type, showing used his standard whiteout trio, 0:10:15.339 --> 0:10:17.459 his running backs, a little more of his tight end 0:10:17.499 --> 0:10:22.899 than usual, and first lakes for the first down. What 0:10:23.099 --> 0:10:26.659 a play. Chiefs pass defense wasn't a strong point for them. 0:10:26.659 --> 0:10:30.659 In two, it was versus Jacksonville held Trevor Lawrence to 0:10:30.699 --> 0:10:33.819 two d seventeen yards of seventy four point four rating, 0:10:33.899 --> 0:10:36.859 picked him off, only allowed one touchdown and best of 0:10:36.899 --> 0:10:44.459 all just five point six yards per attempt laws they 0:10:44.539 --> 0:10:48.459 dealt with Christian kirk, z A Jones, Marvin Jones not bad, 0:10:48.499 --> 0:10:51.259 but not on the same level as Jamaar, Chase, Te Higgins, 0:10:51.259 --> 0:10:54.619 and Tyler Boyd. All three have given Kansas City secondary 0:10:54.659 --> 0:10:57.459 trouble in their last two games. A f C Conference 0:10:57.539 --> 0:11:02.579 championship game, Chase scored Higgins over a hundred yards. Regular 0:11:02.619 --> 0:11:06.699 season game this year again scored. Boyd had sixty yards, 0:11:06.899 --> 0:11:10.539 Jamaar ninety seven yards to Chase. How about that pass 0:11:11.539 --> 0:11:15.379 that look so Race is back on the case. Cincinnati 0:11:15.459 --> 0:11:18.259 tight end Hayden Purst can't sleep on him. He has 0:11:18.299 --> 0:11:20.859 games where you can and then bam, you're in the 0:11:20.859 --> 0:11:23.619 middle of a snowstorm with no chains and he wanders 0:11:23.619 --> 0:11:26.539 out of the Buffalo forest for five catches fifty nine 0:11:26.619 --> 0:11:30.739 yards in the score. So oh Plinn what open first 0:11:30.819 --> 0:11:35.059 halls it in for another Cincinnati touchdown. That was against 0:11:35.099 --> 0:11:39.339 the best tight end defense in the NFL to Kansas City. 0:11:39.379 --> 0:11:41.579 They allowed a one oh one point nine right to 0:11:41.659 --> 0:11:44.379 the position this season, so they'd like a showing war 0:11:44.459 --> 0:11:47.259 in line with how they played Evan Ingram last week, 0:11:47.499 --> 0:11:50.379 held him to five catches thirty one yards. Second of 0:11:50.459 --> 0:11:54.099 eight bodies. Chris Crossing comes back to Ingram. We couldn't 0:11:54.099 --> 0:11:57.339 make the play the Frank Clark day, real defensive pressure 0:11:57.459 --> 0:12:00.259 lands on Casey's front. They have to get to Burrow 0:12:00.299 --> 0:12:03.499 without any help. Good news for Kansas City. They were 0:12:03.539 --> 0:12:08.539 second in sacks without blitzing a ton this season. Lawrence's 0:12:08.619 --> 0:12:12.579 do They're a team that has first team All Pro 0:12:12.819 --> 0:12:15.819 Chris Jones, a fifteen and a half sack monster in 0:12:15.859 --> 0:12:19.539 the middle facing an old line rolling with three backups. 0:12:19.859 --> 0:12:23.539 He's gotta be Chris Jones. Now he gets rid of 0:12:23.539 --> 0:12:26.699 the ball. And Chris Jones just took the game, and 0:12:26.779 --> 0:12:30.539 it's all days, two days sitting there going first. Chandler 0:12:30.619 --> 0:12:33.099 Jones has as many career playoff sacks as you do. 0:12:33.259 --> 0:12:38.979 Game preview guy, Sorry, Chris Jones, Nick Bosa, Joey Tomatoes, Tomatoes. Second, 0:12:39.299 --> 0:12:42.739 that Hodgepodge line of ours only allowed one sack for 0:12:42.859 --> 0:12:45.779 two yards last week only allowed Burrow to get hit 0:12:45.819 --> 0:12:49.339 three times, and that was on thirty seven dropbacks. First, 0:12:49.379 --> 0:12:52.859 Cat's head, there's Burrow, he said, hey, games, nobody near 0:12:52.939 --> 0:12:55.379 him and he knows where to go to get the 0:12:55.379 --> 0:12:57.659 first out of They have another one and not only that. 0:12:57.779 --> 0:13:00.579 Look what the Duck tape line did for their run game. 0:13:00.699 --> 0:13:03.379 Joe mix in a three point nine yard per carry. 0:13:03.459 --> 0:13:06.339 Guy comes in off a twenty carry hundred and five 0:13:06.459 --> 0:13:10.019 yard five point three per run game plus a touchdown 0:13:10.659 --> 0:13:13.179 at six all the big el pointing for picks up 0:13:13.299 --> 0:13:16.659 lad he gets all away to the Kansas City run defense. 0:13:16.699 --> 0:13:19.499 They weren't great or terrible on the year versus running 0:13:19.499 --> 0:13:22.299 backs four point three a run allowed. Don't come in 0:13:22.339 --> 0:13:25.699 off a great performance, though, struggled versus Travis eat N 0:13:26.019 --> 0:13:29.219 six point two yards per carry on ten tries. As 0:13:29.299 --> 0:13:33.979 Mallory would say, you want ants, that's how you get ants. 0:13:34.739 --> 0:13:38.419 Me outside cuts it up for the touchdown. Watch out 0:13:38.459 --> 0:13:42.419 for the kickoff game again, warrant everyone. Jacksonville's Jamal Agnew 0:13:42.539 --> 0:13:44.739 might be a problem for a Kansas City club that 0:13:44.779 --> 0:13:48.859 hasn't played kickoffs well. Chiefs let Agnew average forty three 0:13:48.859 --> 0:13:52.299 point seven yards per return on three attempts. It felt 0:13:52.299 --> 0:13:54.419 like he was about to break one every time he 0:13:54.499 --> 0:13:57.219 started up the fields up with momentum and look at 0:13:57.259 --> 0:14:02.179 him get through pass. Everybody got ative. Bengals Trayvon Williams 0:14:02.259 --> 0:14:05.259 could be a problem too, then average over twenty yards 0:14:05.299 --> 0:14:08.739 per kickoff return in his last five games. Returnable for 0:14:09.019 --> 0:14:14.339 Williams works the sideline and shoved out as he crossed 0:14:14.339 --> 0:14:17.499 the thirty five yard line. As for field goals, Kansas 0:14:17.499 --> 0:14:20.419 Cities Harrison Butker two for two on his attempts last 0:14:20.419 --> 0:14:23.659 week a fifty yard or three for three on extra points. 0:14:23.899 --> 0:14:27.339 Cincinnati's Evan McPherson two for two on his field l tries, 0:14:27.499 --> 0:14:30.099 made all three of his extra points in the snow 0:14:30.259 --> 0:14:33.939 so cooler Terrison's Jack. If Mahomes had to come out 0:14:33.939 --> 0:14:37.139 of the game, don't count Kansas City out. Chad Henny 0:14:37.219 --> 0:14:41.379 off the bench, eight yard drive in a touchdown Onions 0:14:42.779 --> 0:14:46.899 Caius Tony first down around the thirty one yard Andy 0:14:46.939 --> 0:14:50.939 Reid Conference championship record. He was one in four with Philadelphia. 0:14:51.019 --> 0:14:53.619 He's two and two with Kansas City. Like we said, though, 0:14:53.659 --> 0:14:56.419 he hasn't beaten the Cincinnati kid in three tries, and 0:14:56.459 --> 0:15:00.739 Taylor has won three straight road playoff games. That's ridiculous. 0:15:01.139 --> 0:15:05.459 Nine votes went towards Cincinnati side, only one vote to 0:15:05.539 --> 0:15:08.699 Kansas City. NFL dot Com writer or Grant Gordon, the 0:15:08.819 --> 0:15:14.379 lone believer in Patrick Mahomes anchor when the motivations for 0:15:14.419 --> 0:15:16.219 each other. It doesn't matter where you play, right, it's 0:15:16.299 --> 0:15:18.619 it's about not wanting to let your teammates down. And 0:15:18.739 --> 0:15:20.939 we got a pretty good team. Um, we've got very 0:15:20.939 --> 0:15:23.979 talented team. Also a team that plays well together. Coaches, 0:15:24.019 --> 0:15:27.459 players players, coaches, players players, coaches, coaches get to go 0:15:27.979 --> 0:15:33.299 and play to go to the super Bowl next week. 0:15:34.739 --> 0:15:36.379 We looked at the beginning of here, you thought Philly 0:15:36.379 --> 0:15:38.099 would be the last team right here. And that's the 0:15:38.099 --> 0:15:41.419 way it's ended up. First game of conference Championships Sundays 0:15:41.419 --> 0:15:44.059 gonna be cold and violent, and it's gonna be a blast. 0:15:44.099 --> 0:15:46.819 Is San Francisco train chugs East on the twelve game 0:15:46.859 --> 0:15:52.779 winning streak. No team in the NFL hotter. That's pretty 0:15:52.779 --> 0:15:54.739 cool to you know, see the clock at zero and 0:15:54.739 --> 0:15:57.139 then you see like the Niners over the Cowboys last. 0:15:57.139 --> 0:16:00.379 Pretty sweet. Forty Niners in Philadelphia going to get a 0:16:00.419 --> 0:16:03.459 good team in a telf environment. And sometimes it's fun 0:16:03.459 --> 0:16:08.059 to go on the road. Right fly Eagles fly flying 0:16:08.139 --> 0:16:11.059 in very high embarrassed their arch enemy in front of 0:16:11.099 --> 0:16:14.259 their adoring fans. Guys balled out. We played, We played 0:16:14.299 --> 0:16:18.059 really good, settled their nerves to what shoulder injury he 0:16:18.299 --> 0:16:23.699 was out, He was at full strength. It is healthy 0:16:23.979 --> 0:16:27.019 Eagles and their eight NFC Conference championship game in the 0:16:27.019 --> 0:16:30.299 Super Bowl era. The forty Niners their eighteen trip to 0:16:30.339 --> 0:16:33.499 the Semis. Been here before, and it's very hard to 0:16:33.499 --> 0:16:36.579 get here. Their number one rated defense now testing itself 0:16:36.699 --> 0:16:42.139 versus the most diverse offense in the game, an offense 0:16:42.459 --> 0:16:45.699 fueled by its run game, which sets up a serious 0:16:45.739 --> 0:16:48.099 heavyweight bout. We got one of the best defenses, if 0:16:48.099 --> 0:16:50.979 not the best defense in the league, San Francisco, number 0:16:51.019 --> 0:16:55.299 one against the run. In two thanks you get this far, 0:16:55.419 --> 0:17:01.299 everything just cranks up a nut. Are they ready for this? Jelly? Though? 0:17:01.379 --> 0:17:04.499 The forty Niners saw along with everyone else, they're taking 0:17:04.499 --> 0:17:07.299 on the Jalen Hurts that had everyone chanting those three 0:17:07.379 --> 0:17:09.779 letters at him by mid season. I truly never put 0:17:09.779 --> 0:17:11.619 a limit on myself and no, never put a limit 0:17:11.659 --> 0:17:13.539 on what this team can do. So there's always more 0:17:13.539 --> 0:17:15.379 out there for us to get. He's like Iver was, 0:17:15.419 --> 0:17:18.619 Iver was in the shooting guard or point who was shooting? 0:17:18.659 --> 0:17:21.259 Who's our best point guard? Ever? Who was like Mo 0:17:21.379 --> 0:17:24.499 Cheeks out there? Hurts dual threat abilities on full display 0:17:24.579 --> 0:17:26.899 last week. Jalen always gonna help the running game, big 0:17:26.899 --> 0:17:29.099 time because of what he can do in the threat 0:17:29.179 --> 0:17:31.979 that he posted thirty four rushing yards tripped to bob 0:17:32.059 --> 0:17:35.019 ross Town, hurts back, He's gonna go at the draw, 0:17:35.379 --> 0:17:40.619 He's gonna run, He's gonna score hurts, healthy rush yards, 0:17:40.779 --> 0:17:42.859 limiting those at the top of the to do list 0:17:42.939 --> 0:17:45.659 for the forty Niners defense. It's where it all starts 0:17:45.659 --> 0:17:49.139 with Philadelphia's offense. Running the ball in the playoffs is 0:17:50.579 --> 0:17:53.699 a huge thing. We'll keep reminding everyone of the three 0:17:53.779 --> 0:17:59.059 twenty three split. The Eagles rolled in and pass attempts 0:17:59.379 --> 0:18:03.219 third in Russia attempts. Last week's dominating when driven by 0:18:03.379 --> 0:18:06.299 forty four and offfs two hundred and sixty eight rush 0:18:06.379 --> 0:18:09.619 yards six point one yards per carry, three trips to 0:18:09.659 --> 0:18:12.899 the paint. Some of us look, let's pay a close game, 0:18:13.219 --> 0:18:17.619 but so far it has to domination. San Francisco's defense 0:18:17.659 --> 0:18:21.099 won't get any breathers along the ground. It's a relentless attack. 0:18:21.219 --> 0:18:24.059 There's hurts to contend with. We all gotta eat. May 0:18:24.099 --> 0:18:26.099 maybe you know a sa time we all make it 0:18:26.179 --> 0:18:29.019 some happen. Kenneth Gainwell was the big guy last week, 0:18:29.059 --> 0:18:31.979 a hundred and twelve yards nine point three yards per run, 0:18:32.339 --> 0:18:35.499 t d It's across the pull fock tape ten fuck 0:18:39.139 --> 0:18:43.019 Miles Sanders normally the big man on campus and the 0:18:43.179 --> 0:18:47.579 great up up club versus the gm N ninety yards 0:18:47.579 --> 0:18:49.979 five point three a carry, get it off again, the 0:18:50.059 --> 0:18:53.899 Sanders sweet as another first down at a sun down 0:18:53.939 --> 0:18:56.939 a del and the ring go of the bunch Boston 0:18:57.019 --> 0:18:59.939 Scott thirty two yards five point three a run in 0:19:00.019 --> 0:19:04.339 a touchdown power He's look to the ground and he 0:19:04.539 --> 0:19:07.659 had the moves to get the ball into the ends 0:19:07.699 --> 0:19:10.779 of being ringo far from a bad thing, trust me 0:19:10.939 --> 0:19:13.819 brings us to the first of many big time matchups. 0:19:13.859 --> 0:19:17.419 The forty Niners. No one yard games allowed to anywhere. 0:19:18.899 --> 0:19:22.139 Lowest yards per carry allowed to the running back position 0:19:23.579 --> 0:19:26.139 al Zeke at three point eight yard per carry dude 0:19:26.299 --> 0:19:29.699 to two point six last week Tony Pollard a five 0:19:29.739 --> 0:19:36.739 point two guy to three point seven. Hello absolutely nowhere, Nikkosa. 0:19:37.139 --> 0:19:39.619 Now the forty Niners have only faced two teams with 0:19:39.699 --> 0:19:43.099 a similar style to Philadelphias, and I say that loosely. 0:19:43.299 --> 0:19:45.499 We played good football. We really have. We played good 0:19:45.499 --> 0:19:48.619 football to this to this day, um, but we we 0:19:48.699 --> 0:19:50.899 know that we can keep getting better. The Bears in 0:19:50.939 --> 0:19:53.219 Week one in a mud pit so whatever and the 0:19:53.219 --> 0:19:56.499 Atlanta Falcons on the back of two different running backs 0:19:56.539 --> 0:20:00.139 having good days and a dual threat QB getting them 0:20:00.139 --> 0:20:03.139 on the ground as well, which set up Marcus Mariota 0:20:03.219 --> 0:20:06.939 for a one forty four plus rating passing day against 0:20:06.939 --> 0:20:11.499 San Francisco, two touchdowns, no picks. He's got the corner 0:20:11.939 --> 0:20:15.419 texta you know who didn't play in that loss for 0:20:15.419 --> 0:20:19.259 San Francisco, Joey Bosa or Nick Bosa. I played my 0:20:19.379 --> 0:20:23.899 heart out tonight and h and I think I did 0:20:23.979 --> 0:20:27.059 a good How does he come into play against Hurts? 0:20:27.219 --> 0:20:29.299 We know who we are, we know who we are, 0:20:29.339 --> 0:20:32.739 and um, who's gonna go out there and play our 0:20:32.779 --> 0:20:35.099 best ball? Well, we at least can say they played 0:20:35.139 --> 0:20:38.379 each other last year San Francisco one seventeen to eleven, 0:20:38.659 --> 0:20:42.739 Bosa tract Hurts down twice, Nick Bosa with a strip sack. 0:20:42.979 --> 0:20:45.699 Bosa can attack either side, but you'd expect him to 0:20:45.699 --> 0:20:48.939 go after left tackle more often. In this game. Right 0:20:49.019 --> 0:20:52.979 tackle Lane Johnson didn't allow a sack in two. That's 0:20:53.019 --> 0:20:56.259 a very low total. Jordan my Latta gave up six. 0:20:56.579 --> 0:20:59.099 He's not a bad left tackle by any means, but 0:20:59.219 --> 0:21:01.619 six is more than zero. Hey, it's gonna start to 0:21:01.739 --> 0:21:04.419 look he bubbles the football clup. The aables were cover 0:21:05.339 --> 0:21:09.299 get it get this time and calling Wolf a Philly 0:21:09.379 --> 0:21:12.059 girl and second and correct picks on our panel. Just 0:21:12.179 --> 0:21:15.859 texted me that San Francisco Philadelphia game you just mentioned 0:21:16.139 --> 0:21:19.379 was played in Who Gives a Ship's Creak? Is a 0:21:19.419 --> 0:21:22.739 funny show? True? That game in the arc of Hurt's 0:21:22.779 --> 0:21:25.779 short career almost feels like it took place in college. 0:21:26.059 --> 0:21:28.819 Hurt's latest playoff outing very much in line with how 0:21:28.819 --> 0:21:31.299 he looked all this season. To climb their mountain, it 0:21:31.379 --> 0:21:33.819 gets harder, it gets more treacherous as as he gets 0:21:33.819 --> 0:21:35.739 at the top. Didn't have a ton of yards, doesn't 0:21:35.739 --> 0:21:38.859 always need him two touchdowns, no picks, a rating over 0:21:38.939 --> 0:21:43.139 one ten were he was going deep? Look at Hi 0:21:43.219 --> 0:21:46.739 Smith all the white guy up a party partyard line 0:21:47.619 --> 0:21:50.379 tight end Dallas Goddard caught all five of his targets 0:21:50.499 --> 0:21:52.379 versus New York. Is a big man. I wouldn't want 0:21:52.379 --> 0:21:54.739 to tackle him. Fifty eight yards a TV. He had 0:21:54.779 --> 0:22:03.259 a great year to throw. He's got in touchdown Philadelphia. 0:22:03.699 --> 0:22:07.259 What a savante? Smith six catches sixty one yards in 0:22:07.299 --> 0:22:13.099 a score. Also a great season. Smith, want to throw 0:22:16.299 --> 0:22:19.379 a j Brown comes in quiet just three catches twenty 0:22:19.419 --> 0:22:23.179 two yards. In the Divisional Round History book says he 0:22:23.219 --> 0:22:25.979 puts up sixty plus this week. The two times he 0:22:26.019 --> 0:22:28.859 had dud games this season, he followed them with at 0:22:28.979 --> 0:22:32.939 least that you get it had a w R one 0:22:33.059 --> 0:22:35.739 year because he's a w R one cat. He has 0:22:35.779 --> 0:22:44.739 floated a Jake Brown. Forty Niners don't come off a 0:22:44.779 --> 0:22:48.659 game handling the opponent's w R one well, ceedee. Lamb 0:22:48.699 --> 0:22:51.379 pretty much kept the Cowboys in that game last week. 0:22:51.459 --> 0:22:55.379 Ten catches a hundred and seventeen yards. Scott loading it 0:22:55.459 --> 0:22:59.699 up has a man It's lab has got it. What 0:22:59.859 --> 0:23:02.739 a catch. The other side of the Lamb coin, one 0:23:02.739 --> 0:23:06.179 of San Francisco's two I tease versus Dak Prescott was 0:23:06.299 --> 0:23:08.659 on a throw to Lamb. They held him to a 0:23:08.699 --> 0:23:11.779 seventy one point six rating on his thirteen targets, held 0:23:11.859 --> 0:23:15.979 Prescott to two six yards five point six yards per attempt, 0:23:16.139 --> 0:23:21.499 a rating under sixty five picked up by Fred Water 0:23:22.179 --> 0:23:24.979 Waters got it. Lamb chases him down to the second 0:23:24.979 --> 0:23:28.819 interception today for the forty niners. Nothing odd about that 0:23:28.899 --> 0:23:31.619 showing by the forty nine ers secondary this week we 0:23:31.659 --> 0:23:35.499 get Davonte and aj versus San Francisco cornerbacks to Various 0:23:35.539 --> 0:23:39.299 Ward and Diamador Lenore. Lenore comes in hot back to 0:23:39.339 --> 0:23:41.779 back I n T games in the postseason and throw 0:23:42.099 --> 0:23:49.139 Ladd Dad, just throw the ball. Ward was their best 0:23:49.179 --> 0:23:52.619 cornerback in two took on plenty of elite white outs, 0:23:52.819 --> 0:23:55.579 finished with a sub eight rating, so he can make 0:23:55.659 --> 0:23:58.859 things tough on the Eagle Stars. Throwock Left and the 0:23:58.939 --> 0:24:02.339 Star Various Ward all over t K Metcamp. Great coverage 0:24:02.379 --> 0:24:05.939 there As for god Heard, he faced a team that 0:24:06.019 --> 0:24:09.179 ranked low versus tight ends and rating aloud last week, 0:24:09.259 --> 0:24:12.179