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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Greg secretly wants to deep

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Speaker 1: six the money Chacks. Hey you, Greg, Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition with you Around the NFL Podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansen, coming deep from a room filled heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Froze the Ball, and the great Patrick Flavon. What's up? Gang?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that couldn't be more wrong. I have said

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Speaker 1: multiple times on this podcast, and I know how the

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Speaker 1: interaction always goes that the money tags is my favorite

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Speaker 1: part of the show, and then you sour on it,

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Speaker 1: and Dan says like, oh why why you you know,

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the show, and then I say, no,

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Speaker 1: it's just like it's a fun little surprise. It's a

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Speaker 1: great entry into the show. Circa two thousand fifteen. This

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Speaker 1: was a convo. I love it. I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: kill it, alright, Well, I wouldn't mind just isolating the

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Speaker 1: end of that particular money tack where it's f you Greg,

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Speaker 1: that has legs very vu in fact Erica during the show,

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Speaker 1: can you work on that and then um float it

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Speaker 1: back up at the appropriate time. I think so. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's funny too, because I asked, like I send

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Speaker 1: money the list of stuff to record, and that little

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Speaker 1: was just money recording it like that, And I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is so talented radio man, like he can you know,

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Speaker 1: he can fly into worlds of new creativity. There. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Thursday Show. We've had a action packed

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Speaker 1: week here. You know, everything has been action packed in

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Speaker 1: our country, not all of it good, a lot of

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Speaker 1: it very bad. But we are talking about the action

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Speaker 1: in the football world, which is coming fast and hard

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Speaker 1: this weekend because it's Super wild Card weekend. Uh for

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Speaker 1: the first time ever, for the first time ever, six

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Speaker 1: games played in the first weekend of the playoffs, and um,

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Speaker 1: I for one, very excited about it. I'm not when

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Speaker 1: I studying the games, Mark, I'm not a hot on

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Speaker 1: the NFC slate. I'm really looking. I'm spinning forward in

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Speaker 1: my mind already, uh my mind to the divisional playoffs

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Speaker 1: on that end of things. But which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he is gonna of course then mean the best games

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of zoned in on the a f C,

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Speaker 1: you as well, Yeah, I think that that's fair when

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Speaker 1: I think that can you'd like to think that would

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Speaker 1: get to that next week. How about we deal with

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Speaker 1: what is on on tap for this week right now? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Clayband, how you doing, buddy? Uh, great to have

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Speaker 1: you back. We haven't had you on the show since

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Speaker 1: the Christmas special and it's always a nice time when

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Speaker 1: Clay is in the house. Yeah, it's Um, we got

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start. We're gonna dig in now to super

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Speaker 1: Sue Sue Suo suo Super wild Card Weekend. And again

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Speaker 1: no one approached us. We're creative entities. We've built this

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Speaker 1: a TV show that has now not been on the

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Speaker 1: weapon is DK Metcalf and Jalen Ramsey. We all get it.

427
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna erase his production to some degree. Metcalf last

428
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: four games against the Seahawks fifty nine yards, twenty eight yards,

429
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards, forty four and when he's against Ramsey.

430
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 1: He's had one catch for eleven yards on four targets

431
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: on his past fifty three routes against Ramsey. So that

432
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 1: is a problem for the Rams to for the Seattle

433
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: to figure out. And I think Brandon Staley is you know,

434
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: he's getting head coaching interviews because they're finding out that

435
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: this is one of the more innovative um defensive coordinators

436
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,639
Speaker 1: in the league. And I just trust the Rams, you know,

437
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 1: whether it's golf or magical John Wolford to to take

438
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 1: care of business here in fact, just what I'm gonna do.

439
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the Rams for the first time

440
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: probably four years. Look at you, Sessler even you said

441
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,360
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do, and we all knew

442
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 1: we were going and then you could I could see it.

443
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 1: It was the gears are turned. Am I really going

444
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 1: to do this? Am I really gonna do this? And

445
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 1: then he said I'm gonna do it? Well, why am

446
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: I doing this? I don't know, quarterback that's starting a

447
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,439
Speaker 1: second game potentially, I'm going to think about this. That

448
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:17,719
Speaker 1: is a soft lock and I, oh no, here's the problem.

449
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to lock up the Bills, but totally forgot,

450
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 1: am I not allowed to lock up the Bills, not

451
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 1: in good conscience? All right, Now it's the playoffs. You

452
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: can lock any team. I don't buy that we've done

453
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 1: We've done that forever, We've done it. Forever, you lock

454
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: whoever you want. How about this, I will lock one

455
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: of these two teams, but I have currently it's currently

456
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: the Rams that might become the Seahawks. So all right,

457
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 1: So if it's Wolford, Um, that's very interesting because he

458
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: did play pretty well in that game. After watching it. Um,

459
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 1: the Seattle offense, like you said, I just don't know

460
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 1: forever going to see it be exciting again this season,

461
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: and maybe they flipped a switch. I think that's the

462
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: only way the Seahawks are a Super Bowl condender is

463
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: if they go back to the way they were as

464
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 1: an offense earlier in the season. But maybe that's just

465
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: not possible for whatever reason. Um. And that's why I

466
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: think picking the Rams as tough as it is when

467
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation is so unsettled. I think both these

468
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: teams are entering the postseason and on shaky ground, and

469
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: I think either team, um, it would make sense to

470
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 1: me if they ended up losing you know, to nine

471
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh, I can't believe this happened.

472
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,959
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is a big piece of it too. Um,

473
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: the strong safety said Wednesday that he is playing quote

474
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: no question in my mind, but this is a shoulder injury.

475
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: This is a guy that makes his game on living

476
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,359
Speaker 1: near the line of scrimmage, hitting people. Will he be

477
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: the same guy? Will he make it through the game.

478
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: That's a major subplot because he's that important to their defense. Yeah,

479
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 1: he is, and they he he's good at rushing the

480
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 1: pastor and and run support and and the Rams need

481
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: to run the like they That's where they've lost these

482
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: last two games is with you know, they could have

483
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: lost against Arizona because they couldn't. They got three points

484
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: out of two first and goals from the two and

485
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: the same thing happen against the Seahawks where they couldn't

486
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: run it in Um. But I think to get back

487
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: to golf, Like I think people are out on him,

488
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: probably because mcveigh's out on him. He's coaching around him

489
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: a little like like I really believe at halftime and

490
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: this is where the halftime reporters, I think it was

491
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews can really give you some information sometimes. McVeigh

492
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: told Andrews coming out a halftime rams Seahawks the first

493
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: time that Goff needs to see the field better. That

494
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: was what was in his mind running off the field

495
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: after watching that first half. The first half were actually

496
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: they moved the ball pretty well, but there were guys

497
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 1: open and you know Walford was thrown it into those

498
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: type when and he was saying, Goff needs to see

499
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: the field. It's not about his arm, even in that

500
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: even in at his worst golf, like through some beauty

501
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: in that game, like he always has a couple, but man,

502
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: he's like he's not processing, he's not thinking, he's not knowing,

503
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: and he's not doing anything outside the pockets. Like the

504
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: Seahawks were like begging him to just hey here, just

505
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: go run over there please, and he would take it.

506
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: And it's frustrating. It's two quarterbacks that are a little scrambled.

507
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy that Russell. I mean, I wouldn't put

508
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in that category because he still can pull

509
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: off the comeback, but they're both a little scrambled right now.

510
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: It's it's funny going into the this offseason where you

511
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: have these teams that were good, they were legitimately good

512
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: football teams. And because they're playing this division game against

513
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: the team that knows them uh and plays him a

514
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: billion times, there's gonna be this story going into the

515
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: off season where there's like gonna be real problems on

516
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: whatever offense doesn't doesn't win this game, when that might

517
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 1: not be true. But it's just just for Los Angeles though.

518
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean like that they're not that far off from

519
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: the from the scenario the Eagles find themselves in. If

520
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is out on Jared Golf, you know, that's

521
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: for another day, but that's not the way you want

522
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: to hit the off season. And Jalen Ramsey is special.

523
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: He's on that short list of the true great shutdown corners.

524
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: I really do think because dk metcalf is brilliant as

525
00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: he's been UM this season quieted down some and against Ramsey.

526
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: I think Jalen had a success against him the first

527
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: time around UM in the season in the first two games,

528
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking that that will be a situation you

529
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: can trust Ramsey, Tyler Lockett, he's a big figure in

530
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: this game as well. Let's pick it. Yeah, I'm taking

531
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Rams. Seahawk fans are gonna hate us.

532
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: We get it, you know, Jaren Reid and Jordan Brooks

533
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: and some of you you know DJ Read like like

534
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: they there. You know their defense is better. You have

535
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: a defense too, but doesn't matter. You're gonna lose. Yeah,

536
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: I've got some concern about reads availability for the game. No,

537
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: he was on the report earlier this week. But um,

538
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not taking um, you know again nine fingered

539
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: Jared Golf or John Wolford over a Russell Wilson is

540
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: going to all of fame. Uh yeah, so Hawks, I'm

541
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: taking the Hawks as well. You wonder, and it's not.

542
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be tested this week, but if they

543
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: did advance, it will be if this defensive rise. When

544
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: you look at some of the quarterbacks they faced in

545
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: the last seven or eight weeks, Um, what would happen

546
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: if this defense got tested against the truly, um true

547
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: elite offense. But that's not a problem here because obviously

548
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: the issues that they have with Golf and the injuries

549
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: and all that. So I like the Seahawks in a

550
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: low scoring game, and I like the opponent of whoever

551
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,199
Speaker 1: wins this game. Next week. Alright, alright, in one in

552
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: one quick thing, I am going to do a total

553
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: about face here and lock up Seattle. Um, here is

554
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: what I see happening. All right. The Rams are gonna

555
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: be up by like ten to fourteen points in the

556
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: third quarter, and then you're gonna get what every seat.

557
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: And it's what happened last week against the Niners. They looked,

558
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: they looked horrible, and then they scored on three straight drives.

559
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna pull this thing out like they

560
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: always do in the final minutes. No way am I

561
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: picking the Rams and losing that lock Um? It never

562
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: made sense. Get behind that. I don't know what I

563
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: was doing. I mean, looking, it doesn't really make that

564
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 1: much sense either considered, doesn't Marcus? Why we love you?

565
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the final game of Saturday,

566
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: the number five seed Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the number

567
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: four seed Washington Football Team, eight fifteen pm NBC. All Right,

568
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: by the way, fill me in. It's Al Chris and

569
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: Michelle late Sunday for Brown Steelers? Is it also Al

570
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: Chris and Michelle? Here? Is this a Tariko right in?

571
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: Dungee Tariko and Donna. I don't think they would fly

572
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: them to to two locations that would be that makes sense,

573
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: all right, So let's dig into this game. Um, the

574
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: Bucks have at a topsy turvy season, up and down,

575
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: up and down, but they were up, up, up as

576
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: the season came to a close and enter at a

577
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: very uh place of high confidence, you would think. And

578
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: they now get Washington. Of course this is gonna be

579
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: in Landover because despite Tampa Bay being eleven win team,

580
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: Washington won their division at seven and nine, so they

581
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: get the home team. Maybe that's something to litigate down

582
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: the road, but in the here and now, that's the

583
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: way it's set up, Claivan, this is this is almost

584
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: now a basic tape uh m as we head to

585
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: the actual game. But I really do see this as

586
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: a trouble spot for Tampa and the matchup not being

587
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: great and the fact that I've seen it this year already,

588
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: Patrick that the Bucks can go from highs up here too.

589
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: Oh there's there's They're like a Ferrari their offense. When

590
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: things are going well, it's wonderful and that thing is

591
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: zooming at ninety nine and it's making sharp turns. But

592
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: then if you put some unleaded fuel in it, where

593
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: there's something going on in the carburetor. I don't know.

594
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: I work with cars a lot. That's what's what I chose.

595
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, things breakdown very quickly, and I

596
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: could see this Front seven with sweat and Young doing

597
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: that type of damage. You're going back to that Bears game, right, uh, Dan,

598
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: where Khalil Mack successfully made Tom Brady the maddest person

599
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: on Earth, and it had it seemed to have an

600
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: effect like Tom wasn't playing well, not because he was rattled. Legitimately,

601
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: he was so angry he couldn't gonna kill somebody. He

602
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about football anymore. He's thinking of murder. Um.

603
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: The the the the problem is, um, you know, it's as

604
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: as much as we can melan Nick Foles. Um, he

605
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: takes shots. Uh, Nick Foles can can make plays that

606
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: at this point and injured And what a great story

607
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is. But if you are Todd Bowles and

608
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: you have this blitz heavy defense that can do a lot, um,

609
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: how much are you really gonna invest in sending guys

610
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: at this Washington offense? Uh? This this just kind of

611
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: seems like, all right, well, We'll give you guys these

612
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: three yards and uh see if Ron wants to make

613
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: a decision on fourth and one, uh and get Tom

614
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: and them to run out there and score twenty four points.

615
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: It's maybe like a boring super Chalky view of the game.

616
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: But I don't see any other thing happening. I mean,

617
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: we we are are doing this on Thursday, which is

618
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: the last full practice, you know, for Washington and Taylor.

619
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: Heineke was taking most of the first team reps. Now

620
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: that you know Smith is quite stenable. He took a

621
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: lot of reps too. It's a little unclear they might

622
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: go back and forth. I think it's an open question

623
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: which would be a better option because of what Claibron said.

624
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: We don't know much about Heineck. It's not made a

625
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: couple of throws when he came in the game. Here

626
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: here's what Heinek did, and granted they were down by

627
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, but he ripped it. And you know, he

628
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: went for those deep shots that that he had a

629
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: chance to take against Caroline, and I think you hit

630
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: it on the head, Claybon. You have to do that

631
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: against Tampa. That is their big weakness right now, and

632
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: they don't have Devin White for this game the Bucks

633
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: because of COVID and and he's one of their best

634
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: defensive players. I know it's not like a pass coverage thing, um,

635
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: but their big weakness I think is gonna come against

636
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: you know, big time passing attacks. So what a perfect matchup.

637
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: You're playing the worst, like literally the worst offense in

638
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: the league according to d v o A. And people say, well,

639
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: that includes doing Haskins stuff. It was actually worse with

640
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: Alex Smith by the numbers, um than at any point

641
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: in the season slightly. Basically there was all the same.

642
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: So it's a defensive team and maybe they can keep

643
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: it close. But man, if I'm a Bucks fan, I

644
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: love this matchup and I love the fact that it

645
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: might be hind Niki er Smith And that's why I'm

646
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: locking up the old Bucks. Okay, wait, this is lockable

647
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: or yeah, I've got a mirror over there's no mirror.

648
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: These two guys on our sky Sports thing what's called

649
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Challenge, they both they both picked watching

650
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: then win the game. They both picked him to win,

651
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: which I was not totally crazy. I know you can

652
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: lock that if you want. I mean, I think I

653
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: think Um, two things are gonna happen in this game.

654
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas is going to do something that becomes like

655
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: one of the biggest players of the entire weekend. I

656
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: think that they have been. Logan Thomas is one of

657
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: the more interesting players around in my book. And I

658
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: think the second thing, and it sticks in my head

659
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: what Chris Weslan said about Chase Young about a month ago,

660
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: calling him, uh, Lawrence Taylor esque, because I think he is,

661
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: and one of my favorite subplots um is him basically

662
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: not doing one of this. I don't want to put

663
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: anything on a bulletin board. No, won't even uses bulletin

664
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: boards at this point anymore. Please, he basically said, I

665
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: want Tom Brady. I'm gonna go after this guy. Tom

666
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: Brady has been an eight teen playoff games and never

667
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: sunk so low as to be in a wild card game. Please,

668
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: Chase Young is going to score a touchdown in this scheme.

669
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: I don't think any of that is gonna be enough,

670
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: because this is one of the worst offenses that have

671
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: been in the playoffs um since we've been doing this podcast.

672
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: But I think this is gonna be close at halftime.

673
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: I really do. I don't think it's gonna be a

674
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: stinker that some are suggesting. I think Chase Young has

675
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: one of the has the traits where like you have

676
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: to keep your eyes on him the whole game, and

677
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna just cause disruption, but it won't be enough.

678
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: M What do you think, Patrick Um? I I like

679
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: Chase Young, I like Josh Schlitt. I I do think

680
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: that they provide some sort of issue Tom Brady, excuse me,

681
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: but they're going up against a great offensive line. I mean,

682
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: the Bucks offensive line is awesome. They are Um. There's

683
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,479
Speaker 1: just the circumstance that the offense is gonna put them

684
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: in this game. Him, I don't. I don't think it

685
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: bodes well for the defense in terms of looking at

686
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: the the end, the end result, the box score, at

687
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: the end of the game, it's gonna be like, Wow,

688
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: the the football team defense didn't show up like it

689
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: did all year. Well, they were just putting a horrible situation.

690
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: I feel like from their offense. If you if you're

691
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: a Washington fan, you should look at the history of

692
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera beating Bruce Arians teams and feel good and

693
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 1: it it sort of makes sense because if Ron Rivera's

694
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: defense do one thing, well, it's takeaway deep passes, and

695
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: they've done that this year. So the last four weeks

696
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: we've seen Brady and this happened so many times. Have

697
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 1: multiple guys wide open on a given play like that's

698
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: it's just not like multiple guys deep short wherever he

699
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: wants to throw it, you can. It's not gonna happen

700
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: against Washington. They'll make them earn it a little bit.

701
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: That that's the argument for them. So did they say

702
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: that Alex Smith suffered a setback in week seventeen? Now don't? Okay?

703
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: So why why should I think that he's now not

704
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: gonna play? I just thought he was not healthy. He

705
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: was so he hangs up and ineffective because he's banged

706
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: up in in Heineke in theory, maybe gives him a

707
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: better chance. Would think I'm going I think I'm going

708
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: crazy with everybody like getting behind these backups with no

709
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: experience or like it bona fides like we're now going

710
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: to say that Tyler Heineke is gonna win Aula. No

711
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm locking up the bucks. No, okay, but

712
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like the the idea that, oh maybe they

713
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: should play Tyler Heineke because Alex Smith isn't quite right now.

714
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: I think this has been building to something with the

715
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: with Washington and Alex Smith. I would love this is

716
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: more you know, storybook, um driven, But I would love

717
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: to see Alex Smith now in a playoff game. He's

718
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: gonna stay on the field, and I understand where they're

719
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 1: managing him because one false step with that calf and

720
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: practice and he's done. Um. I think he's playing and

721
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: what he's shown he's never gonna pilot an explosive offense.

722
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: He really never has, even at his peak. Um, but

723
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: what he has been able to do this year is

724
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: surprised you. Every once in a while, you know, they're

725
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: very quiet, and then they put together a couple of

726
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: scoring drives and Liz Mark said, maybe Chase Young does

727
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: something very special to shorten the field. Um or Montez

728
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: like gets his hands up and too exa pass and

729
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: cause the interception, and all of a sudden you're like,

730
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 1: wait a second, the Bucks are a better team here,

731
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: but it's a seventeen fourteen in the fourth quarter. I

732
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: think that happens, and I picked I'm picking Washington. I'm

733
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: staying with that pick because A, it's fun. There's always one,

734
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: there's always one upset. In wild Card weekend last year,

735
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: it was Minnesota going to the superdomea beating the Saints,

736
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: who on this very show a year ago I said

737
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: was the greatest three seed in NFL history. Apparently not

738
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: at thirteen and three. I think this is the pick. Greg.

739
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: I have no problem with your lock. It's a it's

740
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: a solid lock. You're probably gonna be right. But don't

741
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: be surprised if this is a field goal game. It

742
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: does make me, for whatever reason, more nervous than like,

743
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: let's let's say Bill's cults or whatever. But it felt it.

744
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: I do believe in this box team. Ultimately, I do

745
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: think they're one of the seven teams or so that

746
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: can win the Super Bowl. I I really. I know

747
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: it was against some bad opponents, but they are a

748
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: relatively new team. I think Antonio Brown stepping up in

749
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: the last few weeks um is not to be underestimated.

750
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: They're an offensive point team. I'm all about offenses, and

751
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: to me, their offense can can roll with anyone. Antonio

752
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: Brown feels ready to explode at some point. Mike Evans, Yeah,

753
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: I hope it's just on the field. Mike Evans with

754
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: that knee injury, he's up in the air, and if

755
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: he's out there, who knows if he's going to be

756
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: more decoy than anything else. But Antonio Brown looked like

757
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen Antonio Brown in week seventeen, like the

758
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: way he was moving, and he now could feel if

759
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: Evans can't be Evans, you trust Brown and Brady in

760
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: terms of the deep threat that he could bring to them.

761
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: But he was running routes all over the field. That

762
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: was scary to see him look that way. Um, all right,

763
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 1: good stuff. Before we get to the Sunday slate, Let's

764
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: let's take a this is halftime, let's check in on

765
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: go get my lunch. The regular season? How about that?

766
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: As we back in August, we said, uh, let's keep

767
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: everything to the regular season. Let's not have it drawn out.

768
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: Uh So let's go through this. Uh, Chris Westling, the

769
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: Great Chris Westling right now stands seven and nine. Terry

770
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: McLaurin or DJ Shark will finish top five, and wide

771
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: receiver Fantasy points did not happen. Um, And if you're curious,

772
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: If you're curious, the top five receivers were Davante Adams,

773
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Stefon Diggs, Calvin Ridley, dk metcalf Okay was

774
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: on the wrong team, McLaren yep and all of us,

775
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: Dan Greg and Mark All took up sandwiches there, uh

776
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: next near. Neither Drew Brees nor Tom Brady finished the

777
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: season as the starter. Dan Greg and Mark all made

778
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: sandwiches there. Drew Brees got injured, but he got back

779
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: and played the final three games the regular season. Tom

780
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: Brady through forty touch forty three years old through forty touchdowns,

781
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,479
Speaker 1: gotta get it up. Josh Allen finishes higher than Cam

782
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: Newton and Tom Brady in the final m v P

783
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: index Bingo. Technically, you know, he did make sure that

784
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: I was gonna have to write that, which I've been

785
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: doing the last years it's been sponsored. I don't think

786
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: we got that sponsorship this year, so I never wrote it.

787
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: But hypothetically, hypothetically he would have been in my top

788
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: five for sure, and so he wins that one. Well,

789
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: this well, we won't. We won't get West on the technicality.

790
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: And guess what good job by West who saw something

791
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: none of us did. Because Dan Greg and Mark All

792
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: took him on that. That just shows you how much

793
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: change with Josh Allen. Well, they're hold on, hold on,

794
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on. I mean we're also like if

795
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: if you don't take everyone up on every sandwich, you're

796
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: you're like, you know that was more active, Brady would

797
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: be better than all. And if you took that night

798
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: you thought you thought Brady would be better than all.

799
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: And if I wasn't in Gregg's camp of like Josh

800
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: Allen is like, shouldn't even be in north But you

801
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: got to take the L because we went the other way.

802
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: I'll take it, but I don't. There's degrees of L.

803
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: But I was, I was horribly wrong. That's why I

804
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: made I lost sandwiches. I dismissing Josh Allen. There's a

805
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: at a spoil. All right, let's move to Mark Sessler

806
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: also seven and nine right now? Please, what will this be?

807
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is not on the lines week one roster?

808
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: What was I think? Oh? When was this done? Like

809
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: I was, I it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Dan,

810
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: greg and Westall made sandwiches. Um so no games will

811
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: be canceled, Slash postponed due to COVID and this was.

812
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: This was a touchy one because we were all dealing

813
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: with the throes of a global pandemic. None of us

814
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: felt comfortable with it, so we all just said no

815
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: on general principle, we're out. West did take you up

816
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: on it, so you lost, but just one sandwich. Yeah,

817
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: we didn't want to root for COVID. You put us

818
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: in a bad spot. Well, now that was I remember

819
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: that exact moment, and there was a lot of you know,

820
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: mount pious activity going on, and so it's like when

821
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: you pick guys to get hurt and we're supposed to

822
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: like then it was you. I simply won't be involved

823
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: in a in a wager about COVID. I can't handle that.

824
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: That is a man of ethics, you understand, right. Well,

825
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: the atmosphere at the time there was this line weird

826
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: takesman thing where it's like, if you showed any sort

827
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: of concern about the virus, people will be like, oh,

828
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: you're rooting for the virus, and it's like, oh, God,

829
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: go away, getting a whole al right. Up next, Bill

830
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: Belichick will be asked about interactions with UFOs or life

831
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: beyond Earth. Uh, take the listener behind your thought logic.

832
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: There Mark, Dan Gregg and Westall made sanguages well, well

833
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: that thought was through the Super Bowl. Um, although he

834
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: doesn't that probably is over because he's not doing a

835
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: lot of done with him, he's done with the media. Sure,

836
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: Um well no, I mean, if you if you track

837
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: um actual news about UFOs, there's been a ton of

838
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: activity and rep from reputable news sources saying it's it

839
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: feels like the government is creeping towards trying to tell

840
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: us something they have been for years. And there's been

841
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: a hike and uptick in that over the last three

842
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: or four months. So that's sort of where I was

843
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: coming from. But um, I was, you know, told very sternly,

844
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: and I would have followed this rule not to suggest

845
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: to like Mike gr or someone else that they asked

846
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: the question as a plant and no one on their

847
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: own volition decided to go there. And Belichick, I was

848
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: gonna say, reporters are afraid to ask Bill Belichick of

849
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: cam Newton's starting week seventeen. Like the idea that someone

850
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: would have the nards to do that, I mean, I

851
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: would have respected it, but it never felt it's somehow

852
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: not even the dumbest um wager that I came up

853
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: with now Stafford thing please, well, you've got another one

854
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: coming that you're gonna lose. Three. Daniel Jeremiah becomes an

855
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: NFL general manager prior to Super Bowl fifty five and

856
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: quote largely ghosts the A T N podcast crew. That

857
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,280
Speaker 1: one's still up in the air. But there are seven.

858
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: There are seven, almost the quarter of the league looking

859
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: for gms. But there are no indications that DJ is

860
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: in the mix on that. So that looks like you're

861
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: gonna fall to seven and twelve. I could get the

862
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: ghosting us part of it, right though. All right, well

863
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: you need to hit on both right, right, Well, that

864
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: would be nice. Greg. Eight and eate the Rams and

865
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: Chargers make the play offs? Got you those three missing

866
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: wins in the mix in the Los Angeles every year?

867
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: Uh cost you? They're three sandwiches. Uh. The forty Niners

868
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. You nailed that one, but Mark Mark,

869
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: good for you. You You didn't take them up on it.

870
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: You believed as well that they weren't making the players.

871
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 1: Dan and West both took took the hook on that one.

872
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: You were very down in the Niners. But you know,

873
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: in retrospect, Greg, the only reason they didn't make the playoffs.

874
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: Was all felt like all these the avalanche of injuries

875
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: that happened after your prediction, you were picking for different

876
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: reasons pretty much, although the injuries kind of started even

877
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: by the time I made it, um so that that

878
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 1: played into it. But you're right, Uh, the injuries pretty

879
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: much did it for me. Otherwise they would have made

880
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: it all right. And this one you got popped on

881
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater has more yards and challenge just doubling down

882
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: on the Allen eight. Alan, I looked us up, finished

883
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: with forty hundred yards four thousand five Teddy, who was

884
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: not very good this year, three thousand, seven hundred and

885
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: thirty three yards. Yeah, that's not a bad. If you

886
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: had told me Teddy was going to get thirty seven hundred.

887
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: I think he missed the game and a half too.

888
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I think you have my top, Alan,

889
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: not so much. A Yeah, Teddy wasn't so bad. He

890
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: had fifteen touchdowns. He was about what you would expect

891
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: for for where he's been in his salary. He was

892
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: like Bettler here him reigning this back, moving the goalpost.

893
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: You you were ready, I mean, if you want to.

894
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: He played very well. The first half of the season.

895
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: So if you want to judge us on our salaries,

896
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing weight. I'm I'm being far too productive. I

897
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: should be doing you know, much less. All right, here's

898
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: the old juicer right now, ten and seven looking good.

899
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: Gronk plays in three sandwiches there, Levian and this one.

900
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: I might have an issue with that. Yeah, an off

901
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: season one. Yeah, levy on Bell isn't on the Jets.

902
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: In when ended, Levian Bell not on the Jets. How

903
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: come it's in red? According to Go Get My Lunch,

904
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: Nick fourth tier. I think it was a week because

905
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: he was on the Jets. Yeah, it was. At the time,

906
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: it was he was he wasn't ever gonna make it

907
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: to the Jets. Greg and Greg and Mark made sandwiches.

908
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: That one's disputed, but i'll let it go. Jets enter

909
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: week seventeen with a mathematical path to the playoffs. Okay,

910
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: three sangwiches. They're obviously terrible. The Jets are oh and

911
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: thirteen at one point. But I must say I was

912
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: very upfront that I was only picking something I wanted

913
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: to happen. I never believed in my Jets this year,

914
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: but I'll take the loss there Aaron Aaron Rodgers earns

915
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: All Pro honors in Not only is he gonna get

916
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: All Pro honors, Uh, he's gonna get the m v P.

917
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: And I got sandwiches off all you guys nobody. Yeah.

918
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: I probably will never have a better one than that. Uh.

919
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: This one was one of my favorite wagers ever. It

920
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: didn't work out, but almost did. Clay Bonne, it was

921
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: almost set up to work. Kai four Bath hits a

922
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: game winning field goal within the final minute of regulation

923
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: or overtime. He wasn't on a team at a time,

924
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: but I figured he'd get in on a kicker carousel

925
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: on a team, and then I just needed a little luck.

926
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: He ends up signing with the Rams midway through the season,

927
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: doesn't perform too well in the first couple of games,

928
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 1: and then suffers an injury to I R. So it

929
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: was there, and then it was kind of pulled away

930
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: from me. Yeah. But the thing about picking a kicker

931
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: to have a kick in that circumstances when whenever, like

932
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: they signed somebody off the street, invariably that person will

933
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: always end up in a game winning kick situation always,

934
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: And he just didn't happen with guy. And finally for me,

935
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is one and done in Dallas. Damn. That

936
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: was tracking pretty the only one that took you up

937
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: on that. Like West and Mark were like, now he's

938
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,399
Speaker 1: probably gonna be what the one and done? Well? I knew, yes,

939
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: I Mark has never been a fan of McCarthy or

940
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: that higher, so that makes sense. West. That surprises me

941
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, But that was tracking pretty decent entering December.

942
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: But McCarthy appears to be safe. Okay. Finally, Ricky Hollywood.

943
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: Good for Ricky. The producer historically has been terrible at

944
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: this game, like insanely bad. But Ricky went with Adrian

945
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: Peterson have over five hundred rushing yards, Dan, Greg, Mark

946
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: and West All took her up on brang it and

947
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: I believe he had about six hundred. It slowed down

948
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: by the end of the season, but he was not

949
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: not the bell cow guys six o four. He finished

950
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: with a three point yards per tote and sevent t

951
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: d s Uh. You had some injury helped there, DeAndre Swift,

952
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: But credit to you, Ricky, and you know what, it

953
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: wasn't just a shot in the dark because all day

954
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: Purple Jesus always seems to find some type of role

955
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 1: in any offenses in and you were right to follow

956
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: that path. Thanks. Yeah, I'll take a postmate, skift card

957
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 1: or whatever you guys want to do your breath. I'm good.

958
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. And by the way, he

959
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 1: won m v P. Of course, Adrian Peterson in two

960
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: thousand twelve when he ran for two thousand yards. Is

961
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry you're gonna get an m v P boom in. No.

962
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: I don't think he won't because of the way this

963
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: whole thing is set up, but he should. I would

964
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: like them to change the voting thing. Ricky also had

965
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: a Julian Edelman will catch eight touchdowns which which did

966
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: not come through for her. How many did he get? No?

967
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: Was that this year? I don't think that was this year? No,

968
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: I one year said that when he tore his a

969
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: c L that he was this that was this year.

970
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 1: Cam Newton only threw eight touchdowns the whole season, so

971
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 1: that was not gonna happen for you. Alright, But Ricky,

972
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: you know what it stands. Good job by you. You're hey,

973
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: you Greg the unedited version. I love it all right,

974
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: back to the playoffs. Okay, that was nice. That was nice.

975
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: I gotta get Claybon involved in the same way next year.

976
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: Let's get the next time we do wages we do

977
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl. Patrick, please join us um and have

978
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: a prop ready to go. I'll have several. All right,

979
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go. Moving on Sunday, the

980
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: number five seed. This is it. This is my favorite

981
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: wild card game in year's number five seed Baltimore Ravens

982
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: at the number four seed Tennessee Titans one pm on

983
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: a s ABC slash e ESPN. Who Doggie Patrick, Lamar

984
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: Jackson obviously five straight wins. They go from out of

985
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: the playoff picture to the number five seed. Uh. And

986
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: now they get a Titans team that, yes, Derrick Henry

987
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: two thousand yard rusher, Ryan Tannehill forty touchdowns this year,

988
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: Corey Davis uh and A. J. Brown, both of them

989
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 1: either at or right at one thousand yards receiving an

990
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: awesome offense. Uh. But do you think the defense is

991
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: gonna get enough stops on Lamar Jackson to go to

992
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: the next round? I don't. I mean, I'm obviously a

993
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: Lamar stand and a Ravens fan. At this point. I

994
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: think anybody that that you know it's heard me talk

995
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: about anything and knows that. But going back to the

996
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: game last year, which obviously has no bearing on anything,

997
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: there were two fourth downs where the Titans defense got

998
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 1: a stop and then followed up by two huge bombs

999
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: from Ryan Tannehill. Um. Just the way that this Titans team,

1000
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: in this defense is played down the stretch. Do we

1001
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: see them making that type of defensive stand at any point.

1002
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: It's tough to It's tough to imagine them doing that.

1003
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Lamar coming back, so you know he

1004
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: asked covid he comes back. They scored thirty four, thirty

1005
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: eight points. Uh, consecutively. The twenty seven point game was

1006
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: against the Giants where they kind of shut it down. Uh,

1007
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 1: could have could have scored more, Uh if they needed to. Um,

1008
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: it's they were a great offense last year. They're doing

1009
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: it differently this time around. They had to make some adjustments. Uh.

1010
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: Not as much straight up power. Uh they're getting They're

1011
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: getting Orlando Brown on the move running just QB counters

1012
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: and Hollywood. As much as I've been frustrated with Hollywood,

1013
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: he started to make some plays as he received that

1014
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: now or is he yeah? He Well, there wasn't There

1015
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: was a part where like he was Cerritos Brown, but

1016
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: he has moved his way, you know, closer to the

1017
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: West Side at this point. Now, yeah, he might be

1018
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: where I live, and you know, he kind of fits

1019
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: down here. But it's, um, there's I don't believe it's

1020
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: just blind hope for me. The way I feel about

1021
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: this game, I do uh see the Ravens getting some

1022
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: stops where it's not just you know, late in the

1023
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: game like it was last time or in the overtime

1024
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: lost to the Titans, where it's just, um, they go

1025
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: man up and Derrick Henry beats you uh, and they

1026
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: there's no Roger Staffold and it's you know, as much

1027
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: as I love Henry, I I just I don't see

1028
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: them running all over this defense. Again, Like I get that,

1029
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: and I picked the Ravens to win. This is what

1030
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: I call a thread the needle game because they're like

1031
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: I think they're three and a half point favorites and

1032
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: I have them only winning by two. So it's like

1033
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: somewhere in between, Ravens win. But you know, maybe not

1034
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: as much as you think. But the worst, the worst

1035
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: take I keep seeing all week is like, oh, this

1036
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: is a great matchup for the Ravens. It's like, what,

1037
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: this is the worst matchup for the Ravens, Like, we

1038
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: we have proof that they do not match up well

1039
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: with the Titans for very specific reasons that do carry

1040
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: over from the last two times they played. Number One,

1041
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: Tannehill can handle a Blitz. He threw an interception against

1042
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: him last in Week eleven against the Blitz. But man,

1043
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: if there's a guy who's not that worried about you

1044
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: about to crush him as he goes one on one

1045
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: deep down the field against your your great cornerbacks, but

1046
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna take a shot like that's Ryan Tannehill. Uh.

1047
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: Number two, they're the reason they're so bad is because

1048
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: they're the worst, one of the worst pass rushes and

1049
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: past defenses in the league and the way Lamar is playing.

1050
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: I think they can take advantage of that. But the

1051
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: Ravens are not a passing team. They're they're thirty second

1052
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 1: in the league and yards because they're a run first team,

1053
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: and so do the Do the Ravens take full advantage

1054
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 1: of what should knock the Titans out of the playoffs

1055
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: with their passing tam I ultimately think they can and

1056
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: they will, but it's not like the Ravens are like

1057
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: this past first team. The Titans are literally the only

1058
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: team to come back from double digits down against the

1059
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: Ravens in the last two years. So in terms of

1060
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: like matchups, it gets me a little worried when I

1061
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: see the graphic that that that the NFL networks sending

1062
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: out and every single person except for Colleen Wolfe is

1063
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 1: picking the Ravens. It's like we've dismissed this Titans team

1064
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: quite a bit. They are a top three or four

1065
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: often you're one of them. I don't, but it's partly

1066
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: because that's what I want to see happen. Much like

1067
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: in something close to a coin flip game, I'm taking

1068
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: the team I want to see when, and that's the Ravens.

1069
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: But this game worries me very much. I think it's

1070
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's gonna be close, and um,

1071
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: for me, I would think differently about um Tennessee's ceiling

1072
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: in this game if it weren't this version of the

1073
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: Ravens and I and I get that, you know, this

1074
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: isn't the past first Baltimore team, but um, they remind

1075
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: me of like a dude walking down like you know,

1076
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: it's some sort of part of town with like a

1077
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: sock filled with pennies, just knocking people out left and

1078
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: right there tough. I mean, um, this is not the

1079
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: same you know. Have you ever dealt that? Have you

1080
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: ever dealt with that? Like I had when I was

1081
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: in a room where I didn't get pelted with it,

1082
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: but there was this rather drunken fellow swinging a sock

1083
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: fold with like pennies and dimes, and you don't want

1084
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: to be on the other end of that. And the Ravens.

1085
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: We No, I was not, thankfully, although I'm sure some

1086
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: of that activity like nor it was not a family

1087
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: member either, Um, thankfully. But I think they've been destroying

1088
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: people in the first half of games week after weeks,

1089
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is not like a team that scared

1090
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: you through the air. But you're gonna have to slow

1091
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: their run offense, which has been you know, their first

1092
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: drive last week they gave the ball to four different guys.

1093
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there, it's not it's so opposite of Tennessee

1094
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: because it's not the one. It's not that it's Derrick

1095
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: Henry or or Bust on the ground. It's all these

1096
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 1: different characters and I think that they're just um supermotivated

1097
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson pointed to that Titans game. He's pointed to

1098
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: it over and over. I think this matters to him

1099
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: about his legacy to win this thing. I think you're

1100
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 1: gonna get a supermotivated Ravens team. I mean to think

1101
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: about what would happen if if Jackson played poorly in

1102
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: this game. I mean, it would just be three years

1103
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: in a row they were one and done, and it

1104
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: would just it would be something that he would continue

1105
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: to carry. But I also think it's the type of

1106
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: thing that just wanting it more isn't probably going to

1107
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: make him play well either. It's just it's gonna happen.

1108
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: Everything's gonna sync up, and he's gonna have to play

1109
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: free and easy like he did down the stretch when

1110
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: he just looked excellent, basically looked like the m v

1111
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: P of last year. And I love the Titans, I

1112
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: mean I love it's that in terms of like where

1113
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: we've come with this organization on this podcast, even during

1114
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: the Mariota years where they're very difficult to watch the

1115
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: acquisition of Ryan Tannehill and the rise of Derrick Henry

1116
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: to one of the great running back of his generation.

1117
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: Um has made them an exciting watch, but also if

1118
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: you watched every game, it's like, how do you trust

1119
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: the defense to get you out of the out of

1120
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: this game? I just don't. I mean, I don't want

1121
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: to be labor the point, but you look at it.

1122
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: Half their games this season they gave up thirty points

1123
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: half eight out of the sixteen and then he said, Okay,

1124
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: maybe they're starting to maybe they'll figure it out down

1125
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: the stretch. Heading to the playoffs, Week six team their

1126
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: last big spotlight game, they lost forty to fourteen in

1127
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Even last week against Houston, which we knew

1128
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: was gonna be trouble because Shaun Watson was gonna ball out.

1129
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: You knew he would, and he did thirty eight. They

1130
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,359
Speaker 1: could not get a stop down the stretch. I just

1131
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: see more of the same. And I think it's not

1132
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: a game that I would think about locking up because

1133
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: it could go either way, and I think it's a

1134
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: field goal or a touchdown game. I think this has

1135
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: got forty thirty seven overtime classic written all over it,

1136
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: and I'm sort of offended that they that that it is.

1137
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: It's not in prime time, and I whether that would

1138
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: have been replacing Pittsburgh Cleveland. But what Washington UM Tampa Bay.

1139
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: This isn't This isn't the matchup that everyone's waited to

1140
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: see all year. I don't know what it's doing in

1141
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: the in the early morning spot if you listen live

1142
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you're still getting a couple of coffee

1143
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: during there. To do a huge rating, it will be,

1144
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: it will be massive. But you're right, one o'clock Eastern

1145
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: is pretty early to this. How about that justin Tucker

1146
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: versus Gustkowski matchup like that? Honestly, that was I I

1147
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: struggled to pick this game. And the Ravens have one

1148
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: of the best special teams in the league. I think

1149
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: their second or third you know that includes coverage according

1150
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: to a football said Titans are and their kicker stinks,

1151
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: Like I'm not sure the Ravens defense is good. That's

1152
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: sort of the X factor. Like we we think they're

1153
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: good because they're wearing the Ravens uniform. But the the

1154
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: only like sentient team they've played over the last five

1155
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: weeks is the Browns on offense, and who put up

1156
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: forty five against them, and they're pretty banged up, Like

1157
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: they they're not the same Ravens defense that worries me

1158
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: in future rounds, But I think they'll have enough here.

1159
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: It's brown tea with ub they can run the ball,

1160
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: and Henry obviously they can run the ball. I do

1161
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: think if the Ravens are able to successfully kind of

1162
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: get that image of you know, Derrick Henry running into

1163
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: the end zone by himself and overtime or turning um,

1164
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, Earl Thomas around, like if if they can

1165
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: get past that, uh and and just kind of move

1166
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: away from this Titans team like watch out, um, you

1167
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: know Scott's limit. Um. Greg, We didn't touch on it,

1168
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: but I feel like it would be a mistake not

1169
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: to at least mentioned that both you and I are

1170
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: very worried about in terms of special teams, Johnny Hecker

1171
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: being a liability in a playoff game, potential ability potentially

1172
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: it's I don't like that this is the world we're

1173
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: living now, but there's something going out Johnny Hecker up

1174
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: there in l A. Well, it's weird. You just he's

1175
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: the you know. West West has long said Hecker is

1176
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: the greatest punter he's ever seen, maybe the greatest in

1177
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: NFL history. Bill Belichick has said the same and he's

1178
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: only thirty, but he's not Hecker right now. He's struggling.

1179
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: It's very weird because I guess he just sort of

1180
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: like got fensive lineman. You like think left tackles don't struggle. Well,

1181
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: they're human too, they can struggle, and he is. He

1182
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: is slumping hard. Johnny Hecker, I mean, at the pivot

1183
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: point of the rams is is their punter they've got,

1184
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna have some issues to begin with. It's weird.

1185
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: It's like, what can we have believen if Johnny Hecker

1186
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: is not booming? I mean we kind of see it

1187
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: like if if you are a finally tuned billion dollar

1188
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: air superiority fighter and something's going wrong just a little bit.

1189
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't take it doesn't take much. Uh didn't take

1190
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: much to mess you up, which makes you respect Justin

1191
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: Tecker Tucker all the more. He is the exception, just

1192
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: a machine, all right, middle game? All right? Well, I

1193
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: mean real quick, I got so I got the Ravens

1194
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: and a nail biter to anybody got the Titans here.

1195
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: I really want to switch my lock to Baltimore. I

1196
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 1: hate that it's it's all on the Ravens because if

1197
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: if they lose, I'm not gonna want to watch football

1198
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. And I didn't realize

1199
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: that you were surprises me. Yeah, alright, good, I'm a

1200
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: very into that, by the way. So okay, here we

1201
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: go middle game and it is could be the clunker,

1202
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: but again you never know. Number seven seed Bears go

1203
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: to the super Dome and face the number two Seeds

1204
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: Saints for for d p M. Eastern CBS also a

1205
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: nickelodeon about that. I think Nate Burlson is going to

1206
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,080
Speaker 1: be involved with that telecast. Uh. There'll be green slime,

1207
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: virtual green slime in the m zone for touchdowns. Okay,

1208
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: you gotta get the kids locked in. Um Clay Bent

1209
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: will start here the Bears. Nobody given the Bears a

1210
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: chance and and that's that's fair because the Bears fattened

1211
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: up on some really bad defenses to get back into

1212
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: the playoff picture and then went back to sleep when

1213
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: they faced the Packers team. Uh in week seventeen, why

1214
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: should we think that this is gonna be anything other

1215
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: than uh, well, I guess we'll go with the theme

1216
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: right that we've done this a few times today on

1217
01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: the way. Hypothetically, it could go wrong for the tea.

1218
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: We think it's gonna win. It's it's kind of like

1219
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: like I saw a headline today about uh potential discussion

1220
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: in league circles that Deshaun Watson could maybe ask for

1221
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: a trade hypothetically. Like so I'm just gonna hedge like

1222
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: that because that's you know, that's that's the way things

1223
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: are done. Now. Um, we saw how Jalen Hurts beat

1224
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: the Saints. Um, maybe we get new Mitchell gets out

1225
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: there and runs a little bit and uh put some

1226
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: stress on the defense and and um, you know the

1227
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: Saints kind of bogged down on offense. I don't necessarily

1228
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. Michael Thomas is back with Breeze

1229
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,439
Speaker 1: for the first time, which feels like all season where

1230
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: it's been Michael Thomas and Brees hopefully Alvin. Uh did

1231
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: they play one game together yet? I think mere quarters

1232
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: Like it's a week one and then maybe some in December,

1233
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: maybe a game, I don't know, Yeah, but it's it's

1234
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: been very small and so um, you know, hopefully uh

1235
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: Camara was know asymptomatic and comes back healthy. But but

1236
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: if not, um, the you know, and the swing passes

1237
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: aren't there and new Mitchell has the game of his life. Uh, khalil,

1238
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: that causes some problems. Maybe they squeak by with a

1239
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: overtime when on a fumble recovery touchdown like that. Other

1240
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: than that, this is this is my I'm less concerned

1241
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: about the outcome being weird in this one than than

1242
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: Washington and Tampa Bay like honestly. Adam Schefter reported today

1243
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:37,479
Speaker 1: that Alcamara is participating in live practices remotely. Uh. This week.

1244
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: The source said that Kamara has a live video dacoder

1245
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: at his home to watch practice and can hear coach

1246
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, who has a microphone to guide Kamara through plays. Uh.

1247
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: This is allowing him to watch the Saints as they

1248
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: implement the game plan for Sunday's game against the Bears

1249
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: and mentally go through the assignments. Oh my god, so

1250
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: their video is encrypted as top secret? How did we

1251
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: get here? How do we get home? Go ahead, guys? Alright,

1252
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: Saints by forty now that I heard that news. The style,

1253
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: the style, the Saint style. The style they play sometimes

1254
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: invites close games because they're kind of a slow moving

1255
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: offense with not a ton of possessions. You know they

1256
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: did go to overtime against the same Bears team um

1257
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: in Week eight. I believe a game that the Saints

1258
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: were missing most of their receivers. I know of it.

1259
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: The one I think reason to be concerned if you

1260
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: were Saints and I'm not. This week, I think their

1261
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: offensive line will dominate. I think Mitchell Drabinsky has not

1262
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: been good. I don't think people are watching these games

1263
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: that are saying he's good. He's twenty seven out of

1264
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: twenty eight since returning. It's just people are dropping interceptions.

1265
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,920
Speaker 1: I swear like people are watching. People are just watching

1266
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: him on the red zone and like, yeah, they've been

1267
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: scoring touch on and they have called plays well with

1268
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: your boy Bill Laser and so that that's great and

1269
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: they and they have some good players around him now,

1270
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: like Robinson commits playing a little better, Darnell Mooney is

1271
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: banged up. The only thing that could ever go wrong,

1272
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: I feel like is the Bears play a solid defensive game.

1273
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 1: Breeze throws an early pass that gets picked off and

1274
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: he gets a little tight because I'm telling you, Breezes,

1275
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: I don't think Breeze is playing that well. I thought

1276
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: last week the Panthers had a number of chances and

1277
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: it didn't look great. It was against it was some

1278
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: with some backup receivers, but I don't know. You know,

1279
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: Breeze hasn't played well in the playoffs lately, and they

1280
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: know this could be it for this entire run. And

1281
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: it's like, what if you get an unlucky break or

1282
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: two early and you fall down. How is Drew Brees

1283
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 1: gonna play against like a competent defense? How is he

1284
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: going to My one note, my biggest concern for the Saints,

1285
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: and it's sort of ethereal, but it agree. I agree

1286
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,479
Speaker 1: with you Greg that them coming out and playing tight

1287
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: um because they've been really like resilient um coming off

1288
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: of terrible playoff losses three years in a row. But

1289
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot on the there's just a lot happening here.

1290
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: With Drew Brees likely in his last year. I'd I'd

1291
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,919
Speaker 1: be shocked if became back at this point and you're

1292
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: you're heading into cap hell. A lot of their key

1293
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: players are becoming free agents. I mean, this team is

1294
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: on the cusp of looking very different, and how do

1295
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: you deal with that? Mentally? I mean, do they get tight?

1296
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: I trust that they trust they'll be fine, because I

1297
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: think Sean Payton, he can you know, this is not

1298
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 1: the DNA of that type of a team. That's like

1299
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 1: your disaster scenario. But the Bears thing, look at I

1300
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: think they've been a much better overall offense, but you

1301
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: look at what happened. They lost to the Lions. They

1302
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: beat in the Texans, the Vikings and the Jaguars, I

1303
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: mean dead defenses, and they played really well and their

1304
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: offensive line has been better. But that's all sandwich between

1305
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: two losses to Green Bay where they gave up seventy

1306
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: six points. I just I think this is what it is.

1307
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: They're an eight and eight team. Credit for them, Credit

1308
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: to them for you know, getting through some of their

1309
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,479
Speaker 1: own issues to have a much more exciting offense. But

1310
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: but Greg, I'm with you that it's not that Mitch

1311
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: Drabinsky is suddenly this guy that you think about in

1312
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: future terms. They've gotten here, you know, and I give

1313
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: them credit, but they are what they are. It would

1314
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: be it would be very disappointing for the Saints. That's

1315
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: the stumble here. It would be shocking. Oh, it would

1316
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: be more disappointed, more than disappointed, be absolutely crushing. And

1317
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: they've had their fare of postseason struggles in recent years,

1318
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: and a lot of that has been misfortune. That of

1319
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: course is the Minneapolis miracle with Stefon Diggs, and then

1320
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: everyone knows what happened um with the p I call

1321
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: or the non call that got the Rams of the

1322
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl against the Patriots. Even last year against the Vikings,

1323
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: I believe there was a non call that that had

1324
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: New Orleans fans up in arms. So you know, I

1325
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: see those as less of collapses and and more just

1326
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 1: like man, they're due for to get on a nice

1327
01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: run here in the playoffs and have some things to

1328
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 1: go their favor. I can't lock the game up in

1329
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: good conscious because the desert has it double digits. But

1330
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm not There's no team I'm more confident in than

1331
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 1: the Saints to moving into this round. I I would

1332
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 1: have locked it too, but I knew you guys would

1333
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: would push back for for everything I just said about Breeze.

1334
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: I do not think that's a factor this week with

1335
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: Sean Payton calling plays and our guy Baldi has been

1336
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: talking up to Ron Armstead, their left tackle, as the

1337
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman in football right now. And who am

1338
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: I to argue with Baldi? So that he's going to

1339
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: be shutting down potentially Cleo Mack their best player, or

1340
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, you know when they flip sides. But Ram

1341
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: checks great on the other side. I mean, it's a

1342
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: great line, It's a great defensive, light team, the great

1343
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: the team is one in the trenches. It's so weird

1344
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: to me that Breeze is one of the biggest concerns

1345
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 1: of this team. But not playing the Bears, I mean,

1346
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: this is a great team, like a full team. They

1347
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: should blow him out. Alright. We all have the Saints obviously,

1348
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: which takes us to the final game of wild Card Weekend,

1349
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: and one Mark Sessler has literally been waiting two decades

1350
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns getting the shot to knock off

1351
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: the hated Pittsburgh Steelers. This game will be played in

1352
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: Hines Field. These teams just saw each other in Week seventeen,

1353
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: but of course, Mark, it was not uh the same

1354
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: game because Ben Ralph's Burger and several their key Steelers

1355
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: were not playing. The Browns got the w to get

1356
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: in just barely. And then of course the developments of

1357
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: this week around Cleveland not great. Josh McDaniels um will

1358
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 1: not be on the side excuse me not Josh McDaniels. Um,

1359
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski will not be on the sideline COVID. Joel Bottonio,

1360
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 1: the standout guard, he will not be playing covid. UM.

1361
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:27,839
Speaker 1: Mike Preefer pre for the special Teams coach of ill Renown.

1362
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,280
Speaker 1: He will be the acting head coach in this game. Mark,

1363
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: it's it's us against the world. Feeling for the Browns

1364
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: right now, and as a fan because I've seen been

1365
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: tracking your Twitter and it seems like you're drawing some

1366
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: power from all this doubt around your favorite team. Well,

1367
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of the opposite of a week ago

1368
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,879
Speaker 1: when I think Cleveland was in a you know, sort

1369
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: of a no win situation because if you beat the

1370
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 1: Steelers as you beat the Steelers B team, um, and

1371
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:56,960
Speaker 1: if they lost, it's an utter embarrassing way to to

1372
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,560
Speaker 1: finish the year losing to the Jets and Steelers. So

1373
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: they had to just take care of business. Um. You

1374
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 1: never would have expected. I mean, I guess this year

1375
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:06,679
Speaker 1: you could expect something like this, but you don't think

1376
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 1: that if you wait eighteen years for the Browns to

1377
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs that one of the reasons they've

1378
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: gotten this far. Is Kevin Stefanski that he's going to

1379
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: be home and you know by n IF a lot

1380
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 1: of people are asking can he be involved UM during

1381
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: the game at all. No, we cannot, Like the minute

1382
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: they leave the locker room. You know, he has zero

1383
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:27,440
Speaker 1: ability to interact with the team and NFL given the circumstances.

1384
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:29,559
Speaker 1: I don't know I get that, but but I think

1385
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: the NFL has sort of said, UM, flexibility is not

1386
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: on those fronts. It's not We're not It's not a

1387
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 1: competitive issue. That why he's not in there. So I

1388
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: don't know that is what it is. I think losing

1389
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: Batonio UM, especially when you look at Batonio, is importance

1390
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 1: on perimeter runs for that team. UM, that's huge. This

1391
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: is an offensive line that's played obviously really really well,

1392
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: but not against Pittsburgh and they've been all right, but

1393
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: they gave up four sacks the first time, and they

1394
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,880
Speaker 1: gave up four sacks last week with Pittsburgh's you know,

1395
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: T J. Watton, Cam Heyward not in the game and

1396
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: and some of those are on Baker Mayfield. I think

1397
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,840
Speaker 1: this game boils down to Baker Mayfield and we've seen

1398
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: it UM in the first half against Tennessee. We saw

1399
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 1: it in the first half against Baltimore, playing a perfect

1400
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: version of his game. Uh, that's a lot to ask,

1401
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: and I think that you know, you guys can win.

1402
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm concerned on the flip side that you don't have

1403
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: Olivier vernon the Browns just that get to a point

1404
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: where if you take away enough, I'm not sure how

1405
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: you hang with the team that I think will be

1406
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: ultra focused. Um, this Steelers team has been through a lot.

1407
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: Their offense looked fine to me last week and Cleveland's

1408
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: defense is a mess. Then the awards a big factor

1409
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: that that to me would be a killer because I

1410
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: think the mismatches in terms of the receivers against Cleveland

1411
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: secondary's pretty significant. I mean I watched that game and

1412
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised. No one, no one was,

1413
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, told me like, hey, Mason Rudolph kind of

1414
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: balled out. Like Mason Rudolph looked pretty good. Like Robert

1415
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: Jackson did not ball out. Know, Like, we never want

1416
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: to admit when bad players have good games, but it

1417
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: happens like their professionals. Maybe he got better, I don't know.

1418
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: He he made a number of throws where I was like,

1419
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: would better made that throw? I don't. I don't know.

1420
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so as much hot as much as

1421
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: going against Cleveland. You know, ultimately it's Batonio and Vernon.

1422
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: That's like those are big losses, but you're still kind

1423
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: of best on best here. The Browns have four of

1424
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 1: their offensive linemen that have been awesome, Like when they

1425
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: run behind Conklin and Teller, they dominate. Those guys are there,

1426
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's against this Steelers defense. As as the

1427
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: week has gone on, I've kind of come around to

1428
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: like thinking that the Browns will keep this game close,

1429
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: versus like that it's such a big deal that that

1430
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: Steelers rested four guys last week. The Steelers haven't shown

1431
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 1: enough to believe that they're gonna run away and hide

1432
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: against um a good offense, and that's what the Browns are. Like,

1433
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 1: I totally expect this to come come down to the end.

1434
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:57,599
Speaker 1: I just want to see, you know, Austin Hooper make

1435
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: a play. Austin Hooper, make a play David, and like,

1436
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:03,640
Speaker 1: let's get these tight ends against these Steelers linebackers and

1437
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: make up play Austin Hooper. I'm sick of it, and

1438
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: I think any anything that we're concerned about going on

1439
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: Baker's shoulders is really just gonna end up being put

1440
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,760
Speaker 1: on chub shoulders. Uh. He gets he gets another look

1441
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: at the same front that really hasn't been the same

1442
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: since Bud Dupree has has been out. And so they

1443
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: can I think they can shorten this game. Not not

1444
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 1: that we are super concerned with been and the Steelers

1445
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: running off and scoring thirty uh, the way that they've

1446
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 1: looked down the stretch, but I think there's a realistic

1447
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: hope that the Browns could feel a competent offense even

1448
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 1: without Patonio and with Kevin Stefanski stuck like all of

1449
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 1: us kind of helplessly watching every game. They really do

1450
01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: and it helps out their defense. They are the team

1451
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: that shortened games more more than anyone with these long dives.

1452
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: And when with you that the the Chub is the

1453
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: heart of this the engine of that offense. But there's

1454
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: a game script concerned that if the defense of Cleveland

1455
01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: struggles are leon Pittsburgh gets out to a quick lead,

1456
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 1: that you can start to mess with that, and then

1457
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: you do put it on Baker and it becomes a

1458
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: big test for Baker Mayfield. I think that's one of

1459
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 1: the things as a fan, Um, that I'm looking forward

1460
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 1: to see Baker in a big spot, especially if things

1461
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: go sideways. The last time that was the case, it

1462
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: was a great Baker performance. And Monday night when they

1463
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 1: nearly beat Baltimore and they fell behind multiple scores and

1464
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:25,599
Speaker 1: you could have just ground it out with Nick Chobb

1465
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: and you needed Baker to make a bunch of big throws.

1466
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 1: He did, so that there's a lot of hope there

1467
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: for me. Um. I I like the Steelers here. I'm

1468
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: gonna lock them up. Mark. It has nothing to do

1469
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,760
Speaker 1: with our relationship. In fact, if I lose the lock,

1470
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: I win because Mark's happy. Um. But I just what

1471
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: I saw from the Steelers the last two weeks, not

1472
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,799
Speaker 1: just uh the Mason Rudolph game, but the Week sixteen

1473
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: game in the second half was them finally say all right,

1474
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: we need to open this offense up. The deep throws

1475
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:57,040
Speaker 1: both by Ben against the Titans and then throughout the

1476
01:13:57,040 --> 01:14:01,799
Speaker 1: game UH against the the Browns in Week seventeen tells

1477
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: me that they now understand that they have to spread

1478
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: this out. And if they could do that, then the

1479
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: big bread, big Ben bread and butter underneath throws will

1480
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:11,799
Speaker 1: work as well. And I just don't trust the Cleveland

1481
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: defense with No Vernon and Myles Garrett being up and

1482
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,640
Speaker 1: down in the second half of the season, and the

1483
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:19,880
Speaker 1: secondary the way that it is, I just feel like

1484
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: they're going to move the ball through the air on

1485
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: the Browns and put up points. Uh So, I think

1486
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: this is a you know, thirty to thirty four type

1487
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:32,639
Speaker 1: stealers win. Whenever they've beaten Big Ben and the Steelers,

1488
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: and it's it's happened UM very few times. When I

1489
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 1: look back at those games. There's been a couple of them,

1490
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 1: and it's not this year's team, but they have made

1491
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: life very difficult on Big Ben and it's usually come

1492
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: with one or two plays where a not great Browns

1493
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: defense UM generated points. And there have been a couple

1494
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: of games this year where a not great Browns defense

1495
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:55,520
Speaker 1: had to generate points UM to win. And so they

1496
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 1: have that in their DNA to some degree. But I'm

1497
01:14:57,920 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: with you, UM, if Denzel Award was unable to be

1498
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: in this in this performance, UM, I put Cleveland's win

1499
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: percentage down in the twenties. I really would, because part

1500
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:09,679
Speaker 1: of what happened last week was Robert Jackson, who's never

1501
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: played in an NFL game, is getting torched by Chase

1502
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: Claypool and he's gonna be back in there again. And

1503
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: what will change over six days? The Stefanski thing, we

1504
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: have no idea how big a deal it is because

1505
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: this is kind of like unprecedented territory. But I mean,

1506
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: he is the head coach of the football team, and

1507
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: it's a special teams coach that is gonna be on

1508
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: the sideline as the leader of the men, and it's

1509
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: just like, oh man, what does that mean. I I

1510
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: really do feel for you market all, honestly, like, this

1511
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 1: is not how you want to go into your first

1512
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:40,799
Speaker 1: playoff game. It just feels like the deck is stacked

1513
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: against them. I do say, and you're you did a

1514
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 1: great work mark on the Power Ranking Show this week.

1515
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming up. Great work. But no, but

1516
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 1: you were great. We talked about this. The one thing

1517
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: I'll say, and this is why the lock you know,

1518
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: doesn't sit too well with me. In terms of confidences.

1519
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 1: I could see Baker feeding off all this and getting

1520
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,559
Speaker 1: hot and confident and getting that swagger going. That's how

1521
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: the Browns win. I think the whole team, the whole

1522
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: team and I think, like Alex Van Pelt calling plays, um,

1523
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: he's worked with Stefanski in games all year long to

1524
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 1: decide how drives and stuff would go. I think Stefanski

1525
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:15,640
Speaker 1: is a really good play caller, So I don't I

1526
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: think there's a drop off there. But that factor concerns

1527
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 1: me a little bit less than the player is not available. Yeah,

1528
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: I would agree, especially because Stefanski is coaching the team remotely.

1529
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: They said, he's basically you know, everything's remote anyways this

1530
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 1: week for them, the fact they haven't practiced, like that's

1531
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: an next factor. But but we know, yeah, we know,

1532
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 1: like coaches always say, play calling is a little overrated.

1533
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: We know that his first twenty players are going to

1534
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: be the Stefanski plays. After that, it's on Van Pelt

1535
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:48,960
Speaker 1: to adjust that. That is the great unknown. But like

1536
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 1: they need, they need Garrett like and you know, it

1537
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: did worry me last week that you know, he was

1538
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 1: really not looking himself. He did have a pretty good

1539
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: Week sixteen game, but that those his matchups on the

1540
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 1: defensive line are basically the same this week as they

1541
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 1: were a week ago, except you're without Vernon and the

1542
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 1: only pressure they got was really from Sheldon Richardson against

1543
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers backup center. For the most part, the Steelers

1544
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:15,520
Speaker 1: quietly have a rookie right tackle I think Dots and, uh,

1545
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,720
Speaker 1: who's been awesome, Like that's why the Steelers are the Steelers. Man,

1546
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 1: they draft Chase Claypool and some rookie right tackle you

1547
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,920
Speaker 1: never heard of that's been awesome all year Dots and

1548
01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: and Alex Highsmith, who got a sack on Baker. I

1549
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: think those sacks were more on Baker last week, Like

1550
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 1: who's playing Well, it's like they just a year after

1551
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: year they they Kevin Colbert gets it done and and

1552
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're a little deeper. I hope not.

1553
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: I hope this is wrong. We need to get the

1554
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 1: Browns over the hump because if they don't win, it

1555
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:40,840
Speaker 1: kind of won't feel like they got totally over the

1556
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:44,719
Speaker 1: hump unfortunately. Yeah, and you mentioned Myles Garrett and which

1557
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:47,600
Speaker 1: is just the really unfortunate kind of pandemic part that

1558
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 1: brings it all in, right, is just the variance of

1559
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: the ways that people react to the virus. And Miles

1560
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 1: has you know, been honest like this, he's struggling with

1561
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 1: this and so if he can, uh, maybe he turns

1562
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,679
Speaker 1: a corner. Uh, and he can make some plays. Uh.

1563
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: As you know, Dan mentioned that that's the secondary. Um.

1564
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: Granted it was Mason Rudolph and so some of those

1565
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: were like lollipop balls, but like they were in position

1566
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: to make a play. You just get most and so

1567
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: like you turn that around. Uh, you know, the stranger

1568
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: things have happened. This feels like a big Chase Claypool

1569
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: game too. I could picture Chris Collins where it's singing

1570
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: Osanna's about Chase Claypool after another, you know, volume down.

1571
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 1: This is the game the public is on. You know,

1572
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:33,559
Speaker 1: I attracked these things, and this is the game the

1573
01:18:33,600 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: public is on most unanimously all for the Steelers. Everyone

1574
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: going to all Steelers, wait more than the Saints over

1575
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: the Bears. Well in terms of like you know, the

1576
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: thing that Trent these things, in terms of things moving

1577
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: where it's just like everyone thinks the Bears the Steelers

1578
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: are gonna romp. So to me, that's a good full musburger.

1579
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:57,640
Speaker 1: It's a good sign for the Browns. I feel like

1580
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: that's a good sign alright, like think, please there you go.

1581
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: How about that the Browns in the playoffs. We're gonna

1582
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: watch that. No bummer. It's on Sunday night. It's in

1583
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: the middle of our podcast. We're gonna work it out.

1584
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:10,599
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it work. Mark, Well, it's not the

1585
01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:12,680
Speaker 1: middle of our podcast. We're gonna do it after What

1586
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: do you mean it's the middle of our podcast. We're

1587
01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,040
Speaker 1: gonna start at eight. You got, and we're gonna do

1588
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it. You're gonna get my my

1589
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: true emotional response to the game, like minutes after it ends.

1590
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:29,680
Speaker 1: That's can you give the people what they want? Cause

1591
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:31,320
Speaker 1: I know the way it is because it happens with

1592
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,719
Speaker 1: the Jets too, But people are gonna want your reaction

1593
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 1: throughout the game. Can you just give the people the cam?

1594
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 1: The webcam just four hours that a webcaming. People love you, Mark,

1595
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: they want they want to live, they want to live

1596
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: vicariously through you on Sunday Night. Give the people what

1597
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: they want. I get tweets like when they're losing, Like

1598
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry they're losing, but I can't wait to

1599
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 1: see how you feel about this on the show. It's like, Okay,

1600
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 1: we're not um, that's not helping our somebody to check

1601
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:05,679
Speaker 1: on ader Mark Sessler, all right, Patrick, thank you said

1602
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:10,800
Speaker 1: it all you did it again. Thank you guys, thrilling.

1603
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 1: Clayburn has been incredible all season, helping to fill in

1604
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: on the West chair, and we thank Patrick for that.

1605
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 1: Thank all of you listeners for following us all season long.

1606
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: As we now dive into the postseason, we'll be back

1607
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 1: Sunday night recapping all six of these games and of

1608
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: course any other developments in the NFL um as we

1609
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 1: get further away from New Horizons Monday. Oh yes, it

1610
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: never stops. Mark, here we go. Dan Answ signing off

1611
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: for Patrick Claybourne, the old Boss with Quiet Storm and

1612
01:20:43,600 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood behind the glass virtually until Sunday Night. SA