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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up?

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Speaker 1: Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: January seventeeth. Hope everybody had a great holiday weekend. Happy

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Speaker 1: MLK Day to everyone, and that does include Dallas Cowboys fans.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk to you all about today. Um,

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Speaker 1: I gotta say Super wild Card weekend. I know a

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Speaker 1: don't need a seven team in the playoffs. Shut up, people,

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Speaker 1: be quiet. Come on, you loved football, Walter wall I

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Speaker 1: was watching it all even though it was my wife's

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday. Aim I was, you know, giving her birthday

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Speaker 1: shout outs all weekend while watching the football games. She

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Speaker 1: knows the deal at this point, like, Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're deep in America. We've got two kids. You know,

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Speaker 1: January is tough my birthday, her birthday, coming off the

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Speaker 1: holiday's NFL playoffs basketball season, Like, Babe, I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: my best. But NFL playoffs were you know? Is that

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Speaker 1: you have the good life? Me watching every single NFL snap,

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Speaker 1: not missing one. Okay, didn't miss a snap all week

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Speaker 1: even some of the garbage snaps in Buffalo, New England, um,

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Speaker 1: which will probably not even touch on. That game was

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Speaker 1: garbage Saturday night. That being said, I gotta start with

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I was gonna start with all the

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Speaker 1: money I made you guys over the weekend. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: something the Cowboys did not deliver, but holy hell, the

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Speaker 1: picks were pretty on point. Eagles moneyline did not happen. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: she's first half. Never in doubt. The Dallas Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: the ones that let us down. Now listen, I know

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Speaker 1: season and he he ended up tied. It's spilled over

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Speaker 1: into the first beginning of the playoffs. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: game was Cowboys four Niners, and we're just trading text

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Speaker 1: What is McCarthy doing and Dak Prescott sucks and what

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Speaker 1: happened to this great offensive line And why is Ezekiel

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Speaker 1: into the line of scrimmage. That that game on so

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Speaker 1: many fronts was frustrating. If you're a Cowboys fan, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna be officiating guy. I'm gonna sum this up.

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Speaker 1: We and Rob, I know, we touched on this a

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Speaker 1: stop whining. They're complaining about the officials and the flags.

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Speaker 1: They did it again in the Vegas game, and it

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Speaker 1: was atrocious. The officiating was bad. I get it. Then

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Speaker 1: after Super wild Card weekend. Always lose that home ass favorites.

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Speaker 1: The officiating is the big story, and I understand you're frustrated.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen penalties eighty nine yards, the bullshit referee snap situation,

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Speaker 1: which will get to all these people attacking me on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: You guys are it's early, It's Monday. I'm not trying

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Speaker 1: to get too fired up. Dallas is an undisciplined mess.

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Speaker 1: I need to start with how you practice. And I

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Speaker 1: lose fifty pounds. That's again Preston shout out. He did

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Speaker 1: to losing weight. The Dallas Cowboys all season have been undisciplined.

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Speaker 1: They did not develop good practice habits where they don't

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Speaker 1: have idiotic, asinine penalties all the time throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: When you are a great defensive coordinator like Dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: the bottom line, everybody out there yelling Mike McCarthy needs

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Speaker 1: to be fired. I need to ask you this US

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Speaker 1: who called that asinine Dak Prescott quarterback sneak with like

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Speaker 1: offensive coordin, who calls the place? Or did Mike McCarthy say, Ah,

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Speaker 1: too serious of a moment. I've got to make the call.

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Speaker 1: quarterback draw? Because I see all these Yahoo's out there

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Speaker 1: and they're out here trying to get all the retweets

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Speaker 1: and favorites just because they're saying, fire Mike McCarthy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's easy. Anybody can say fire this guy. Fire them.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, fire McCarthy. What's your game plan? You're gonna elevate?

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Speaker 1: Kelly Moore. Kelly Moore dropped a big deuce at this

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Speaker 1: This offensive performance was pathetic. And I know Dak was

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb? Who you go out and draft in the

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Speaker 1: I'm yelling. It's early. Ceedee Lamb had one catch for

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Speaker 1: torched him with Brandon Cooks. Who you who you think

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Speaker 1: is better player? Brandon Cooks or Ceedee Lamb. Ceedee Lambs

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Speaker 1: Quinn bounces, we got to find a new defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: And if we don't promote Kelly Moore. Maybe some dumbass

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Speaker 1: phenomenal kicking the ass of the NFC. Least, he crushed them,

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Speaker 1: where Jimmy Garoppolo was made a couple of nice throws

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo did everything he could to keep you in

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Speaker 1: the game in the second half and you could not deliver.

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Speaker 1: So I can't kill Mike McCarthy. Was he good? No?

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Speaker 1: But was Kelly Moore good no? Was the offensive line

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Speaker 1: not making all of the money this year, it goes

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Speaker 1: Dak probably carries it around at his love box. So

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Speaker 1: of the offensive lie. I can't wait to see the

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus grades whenever they come out this week,

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Speaker 1: because nobody was good. They got absolutely destroyed. Eric Armstead

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Like, like overall, I thought this was an

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Speaker 1: awful performance when you come out at home and you

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Speaker 1: are gutless offensively and the defense just can't stop a nosebleed. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're too hard of me at all.

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Speaker 1: one of the people who put out of tweet sinking

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Speaker 1: personal million. I called it a tarmac game for Mike McCarthy. Now, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Mike Silver, who I believe is now with Bally Sports,

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Speaker 1: let's talk this through. So, um, you're in a two

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Speaker 1: we're grown up and clock it. Yes, McCarthy, the head

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Speaker 1: and it's over Justin Jefferson, Cooper cup whoever. The Raiders

424
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Speaker 1: have Darren Waller who's missed about half the season and

425
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: he was limited in the playoff game if you watched

426
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 1: it closely. And Hunter Renfro and Hunter Renfro was cool

427
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 1: as a slot receiver, but he's, you know, at best,

428
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 1: he's at best a third. He's a third receiver on

429
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 1: a on a good team, you know. And so eight

430
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: for fifty eight, Yeah, because he's not gonna be he's

431
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: not going to bet. He's not gonna beat you deep

432
00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: he's great and short distances. He's kind of like a

433
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 1: Westwalker Julian Edelman type, Like do they there's a reason

434
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: why for all of his Super Bowl you know, theatrics

435
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 1: that when he came down to fantasy football, nobody was

436
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 1: ever drafting Julian Edelman in fantasy because you knew he'd

437
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: get you like seven catches for forty yards and you're like, okay, cool,

438
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: that doesn't help me for anything, Like, he's not that

439
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 1: kind of guy. And in the red zone. So I

440
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: was glad that they put up a fight the way

441
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: they did. And um, I will say Matt Cincinnati is

442
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for a long time there. Their skill

443
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 1: position players are fantastic. That coach though, bro I mean,

444
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: she's he. He really took the air out of the

445
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: ball there in the in the fourth quarter, like was afraid.

446
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: He played scared and coached scared. He's lucky. Burrows is

447
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 1: dealing and Jamaar Chase is pretty filthy. Um big is.

448
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll We'll get into Bengals. By

449
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: the way, Bengals opened up at two and a half

450
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. Instantly all the all the money came in

451
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: on the on the Titans. I gotta see Bengals injuries

452
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: before I can bet that one. Um. The Saturday night

453
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Speaker 1: game sucked. Buffalo steam rolls New England gave it out

454
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Speaker 1: on this podcast. Loved the Bills. I felt like a

455
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: layup all week. Um rookie quarterback playoffs, you gotta fade them,

456
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: and Buffalo rolled. Josh Allen looked incredible. I actually think

457
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: Rob because Buffalo looks so good. People are gonna back

458
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: them heavily against the Chiefs. And I don't know if

459
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: you saw this Sunday night, the line came out Kansas

460
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: City at home in a revenge spot against the Bills,

461
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 1: who they lost to pretty convincingly a couple of months back.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City favored by two. I made my biggest bet

463
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Speaker 1: in a few months on Kansas City at two under

464
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: a field goal Casey at home. I'm sorry, I have

465
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 1: to be that's an auto bet for me. And by

466
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Speaker 1: the way, Casey did not look good Sunday night, Rob,

467
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, it's zero zero after the first

468
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: quarter against Big Ben, and then t J. Watt of

469
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: course gets a scoop and score and it's like, oh

470
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: my gosh, what's going on here? And then of course

471
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Speaker 1: Kansas City woke up and scored like seven touchdowns in

472
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Speaker 1: a row or whatever. I don't know, Rob. Early thoughts

473
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Speaker 1: on Casey and um Buffalo, which is going to be

474
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Speaker 1: phenomenal the Sunday night game. You know what, I'm kind

475
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Speaker 1: of surprised that you pounded Kansas City that early on,

476
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Speaker 1: considering that I believe Josh Allen had like the second

477
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Speaker 1: greatest playoff performance according to All Day nath Metrics than

478
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Speaker 1: in NFL history. I think the best one was a

479
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: Mahomes game. It might have been two years ago or

480
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: something like that, but um, that's funny. Wait, well, I

481
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Speaker 1: have this in my notes because I'm an idiot who

482
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: takes notes during the day. Somebody had texted me a buddy,

483
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills had a perfect game Saturday night. I'm like,

484
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: what do you mean perfect? Hey, they were great. No,

485
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: they did not punt, they did not turn the ball over,

486
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Speaker 1: and they scored a touchdown run every single drive. I

487
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: was like, I mean except for the Neil downs at

488
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Now, um, here's a crazy

489
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 1: stat that I tweeted out on Saturday night. In the

490
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Speaker 1: last two games against Bill Belichick, Josh Allen's Bills did

491
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: not punk the ball once. Okay, guys, we can admit

492
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,880
Speaker 1: it's okay to say it. Now. The Patriots a little

493
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: food ghazi, Okay. They that team was a little fraudulent.

494
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Speaker 1: They got really fat and happy beating up on my

495
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Speaker 1: guy Zach. Um play Mormon Mahomes. They beat up a

496
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: lot of crappy quarterbacks this year. Go look at it.

497
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: Bad teams, and then they had the wind aided game

498
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Speaker 1: over Buffalo and I fell for it. I felt for

499
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: a hook line and sicker. I think I came on

500
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,479
Speaker 1: Tuesday and I was like, I don't know, Patriots are

501
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: for real of the home field, you know, I fell

502
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: for it, and then look at reality set in, like okay,

503
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: they have to play okay quarterbacks, and then they could

504
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: not stop Josh Allen and Carson Wentz was terrible and

505
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: still beat them by like ten and You're like, huh,

506
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Speaker 1: And I just knew that this Patriots team, like there's

507
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: Mac Jones very limited, that that was a beat down.

508
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Speaker 1: Um So, so you like you're looking toward Buffalo. Huh, Well,

509
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Speaker 1: my I haven't made a decision yet. Either way, let

510
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: me just say really quickly, one underreported portion of that game,

511
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: because everyone's talking about Josh Allen and the Bills rightfully.

512
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: So they were fantastic. You know that, um Bill Belichick

513
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: had another Malcolm Butler situation where he basically benched his

514
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: best defender, Matt Judean for seventy of the game, and

515
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about it because you know what was the

516
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: When they're talking about it, they give a fifty points

517
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. I don't know, but apparently that

518
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: there has been some internal strife with them for weeks now,

519
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: and it played out in the playoff game where he

520
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: only played of the snaps without an injury designation or whatever.

521
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Speaker 1: So we'll file that away for people are our listeners

522
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: in Boston. Maybe somebody will DM us and tweet us

523
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: or whatever and let us know exactly what's going on

524
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Speaker 1: between Judeon and Belichick. But No, to go back to

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Speaker 1: your point, I don't know if I'm ready to make

526
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: a decision that early, because, like Josh Allen looked incredible

527
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. I know the Patriots you are kind

528
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: of food guys, like you mentioned, but to put up

529
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Speaker 1: that kind of point and how that kind of performance

530
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Speaker 1: against anybody is impressive. I mean, Patrick Mahomes score had

531
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: like six touchdowns or forty some points in ten minutes

532
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: of game time. Like when when guys do things like that,

533
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to just jump down, like, hey,

534
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: I'm definitely taking this come because both of them, I

535
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: think are capable of just lighting up the scoreboard. I

536
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: leaned Kansas City right now, but I don't know if

537
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: I'm as confident as you and saying, oh, I gotta

538
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: pound the k C minus two. I think it's just

539
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: an overreaction to facing a rookie quarterback right in the playoffs. Um,

540
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: you you face a rookie quarterback, you bludgeon them to death.

541
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Speaker 1: And now you're like, oh, let's face Patrick Mahomes and

542
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: the Bills. The one thing Rob is their secondary they have.

543
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: They lost Tradavious White, the cornerback. Remember, they have not

544
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: faced a quarterback who could take advantage with the receiver

545
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: who could take advantage. Tyreek Kill and Nicole Hardman are

546
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna take advantage. That's I'm very excited for that one. Um,

547
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: let's get to what was it. Let's see, I'm trying

548
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: to what game do we miss? Oh, the Tampa Bay box.

549
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: So Rob has an extremely lukewarm, extremely No. I mean listen,

550
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: you said it, and I was kind of impressed. So

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00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: I'll give you the Florida say you're Tampa Bay Bucks. Yeah.

552
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: We were talking before we started recording, and I said,

553
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a hot take, but

554
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: of the teams that want, the one I was least

555
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: impressed with was Tampa Bay. And I think people might

556
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: have raised the eyebrows a little bit because Tampa Bay

557
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: raced out like a thirty one nothing lead when and

558
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: it was kind of embarrassing. You know, the Eagles look

559
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: like they did not belong in the postseason, even worse

560
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: than the Steelers did. And we all knew how bad

561
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: the Steelers looked on Sunday night. But my reasoning was this,

562
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Speaker 1: I believe, and I'll check this again right now, but

563
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Speaker 1: I believe that Philadelphia did not beat a team with

564
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Speaker 1: the winning record on their way to the postseason or

565
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: something like that maybe to be one true story like

566
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: they were not. They were They were really bad. And

567
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: I was texting with a friend of the pod, Chris

568
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: Russar during this game, because he's a big Brady guy,

569
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Speaker 1: and he's like, man, Brady's looking surgical out there. You

570
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: see what he's doing. I'm like, man, Derek Carr, Derek

571
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: cart looks surgical against Philly, And I sent him a

572
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: screenshot and he's We're going back and forth, and then

573
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: I looked it up. There was a stretch where the

574
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Speaker 1: Eagles played six games and five of the six quarterbacks

575
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: completed at least eight of their passes. Like their secondary

576
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: and the way that they play is you think the

577
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: Raiders are vanilla like they are whatever the lighter version

578
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: of it, I don't know what that would be, you know,

579
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: non flavored, non dairy vanilla. And so you know, Tom

580
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: Brady did his thing. They put up a lot of

581
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: points in that kudos to them, But he wasn't putting

582
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: the ball deep at all, which I don't think you're

583
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: gonna have to do. Was you get deeper into these rounds,

584
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: everything was under ten yards from the line of scrimmage.

585
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: Think he completed eight passes behind the line of scrimmage

586
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: or add a byline scrimmage. So they wanted they didn't

587
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: care business. That's that's a good thing. But everything that

588
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: we're looking at in this playoff round is projecting how

589
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna match up moving forward. And I don't think

590
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to beat San Francisco or the

591
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 1: Rams or the Packers dinking and dunging like that. You're

592
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: gonna need to put some pressure on the defense. And

593
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: so that's why it to me, of the winning teams,

594
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: they were the least impressive. I don't like to have

595
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: to defend Tom Brady, Um and Bruce Arians, who by

596
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: the way, did you see him hit one of his

597
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: players did very bizarre like I guess the guy was

598
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: mouthing off in Arians was afraid he was going to

599
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: get a penalty, so Arians like hit him. I was like, jeez,

600
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: Arian's old crotchety dude. So yes, Um, Tampa Bay's offense was,

601
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: you know, no big plays. They had, I believe two

602
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: passes over twenty yards, zero runs over twenty yards. It

603
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: was very limited offense. That being said, first impressions are everything,

604
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: rob right, Um, I still remember, and I you know,

605
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: tell my wife, I still remember the first time I

606
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: met her. I remember like a first star, our first date.

607
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: Like first impressions really last a long time. Your first

608
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: impression from Tampa Bay Philadelphia was very easy. Touchdown three

609
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: and out, touchdown, stop field goal. I mean, it's just

610
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: it was they steamrolled him. And at that point, I'm

611
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people were like, you know what,

612
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch three games today. I've got a pace

613
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: to myself. I don't need to see every play of

614
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: this beat down. And I think Tampa was up seventeen

615
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: nothing at the half. Jalen hurts through a couple of

616
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: bad interceptions. It's like people just saw that, and they're like, oh,

617
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,719
Speaker 1: the Bucks are normal, but you are to an extent, right.

618
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Tampa Bay rolled them, and Tom Brady gave

619
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Speaker 1: Philly what they were giving them. They were like, Phillies like,

620
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: we're not giving up the big play, nothing down the field,

621
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: nothing deep. Tom's like, Okay, I'll take six and seven

622
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: yard passes. I'll take these and we'll go down the

623
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Speaker 1: field and we'll score. Not overly impressive for sure. And

624
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,479
Speaker 1: then you look at their yards per play four point eight.

625
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: That's not great. That's actually low. Um, I know of it.

626
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: Off He had a lot of garbage time stuff, so

627
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna really get that deep. And they had

628
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: three turnovers. But the only reason I don't think it

629
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: matters that Mutrop is their next opponent will be Arizona

630
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: or the Rams. And I mean, I don't want to

631
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: say you could go out and pencil them in to

632
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: the NFC championship, but Arizona's gonna I'm just right now

633
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls against Kyler Murray and the offense. I think

634
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Speaker 1: Tampa's defense, which looked Timpasdee, looked good, didn't it not.

635
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: Their defense has been rounding into form of the season

636
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: has gone on for sure. Yeah, and they were facing

637
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: a quarterback whose second year quarterback, first playoff game, Hurts

638
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: looked overwhelmed. I'm surprised we did not see Gardner Minshew,

639
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Speaker 1: which kind of speaks volumes about Sirianni, either his faith

640
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: in Hurts or lack of faith in Minshew. I'm stunned.

641
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: I thought you would open the second half with Minshew

642
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: a better passer um, but he did not, And and

643
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: that's an help. But um, I guess my final thought

644
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: is I guess Tampa's gonna be probably the side against

645
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Speaker 1: the Rams. Um they lost to him earlier they year.

646
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Speaker 1: But Tom Brady and Matt Stafford, where are you putting

647
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: your money? Rub Well break down like that. I'm taking

648
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. But let me just say, if the Rams win,

649
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Rams. If the Rams beat Arizona tonight,

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00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: they will be We'll get to that later, but they will. UM.

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00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: And then it's like, well, Green Bay and San fran

652
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: is a game that we're gonna spend a lot of

653
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Speaker 1: time on this week. I don't know if you saw um,

654
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: but San Francisco lost a couple of huge and I'm

655
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: talking significant players in that defense, Bosa being one of them,

656
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: uh in the second half, and I don't know, man,

657
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be without their top linebacker. Um look

658
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: like he heard his knee. He was like on the

659
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: ground riding Bossa. And now you're going into Green Bay.

660
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: I know that offense can deal and Shanahan can hang around,

661
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: but this opened at five and a half. It looks

662
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: like uh, some places I saw four and a half.

663
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of respect for the Niners. I

664
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Speaker 1: don't know, man, I gotta wait to see. I can't

665
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: fire on that the way I fired on the Chiefs.

666
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Something has me worried about. Um.

667
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: This forty Niners defense against Aaron Rodgers. And remember the

668
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: injuries UM to the Bengals defense we've talked about, and

669
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: the injuries to the Niners defense they now face the

670
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: team's coming off a bye, who are going to be

671
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: super healthy. That just sucks, doesn't it? Yeah, it sucks

672
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Speaker 1: even more. I believe who was the team that that

673
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Speaker 1: played on Sunday that has to play again on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: UM schedules that San Francisco was playing on Saturday night. Yes,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco Saturday. That's even worse man Like, come on, like,

676
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: that's you lose. These guys are in a tough game,

677
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: and then you gotta turn days. I mean, there's really

678
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: no way around that short of taking your best game,

679
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: casey Buffalo and putting it on Saturday. And then you

680
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: know you're doing the same thing to uh Kansas City.

681
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: What somebody's gonna get shafted either way. Um, you knew

682
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: the Bengals were getting the opening game. Um, and then

683
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: and it's a tough break for the Niners. I haven't

684
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: looked at the weather report yet. It's a little too

685
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: early to see what's gonna be the weather like in

686
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: Green Bay, but probably cold. Um um. So let's wrap up, Robert,

687
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: unless you want to dive into the NBA. It's all

688
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: your NBA tweets over the weekend. Uh, you're reading between

689
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: the lines on Lebronze uh messages to the cryptic tweets.

690
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: You know, the the moratorium on the trades has been lifted.

691
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: Th HT is officially trade eligible. We'll get into it later.

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00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: I don't this is the NFL pod, but let's let's

693
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Speaker 1: just say help is on the way in Los Angeles. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Um okay, I like the like the optimism for Laker. Hey, Lakers,

695
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: save the chaos for until the NFL playoffs start winnowing down.

696
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: When there's four teams left, then you can fire. Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't do anything crazy this week because it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap up with Rams and uh Cardinals

705
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: tonight at so far, I will not be in attendance.

706
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: I do believe that the Rams are the side here now.

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00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: Favorites did kind of dominate the wild card game so

708
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: far four and one against the spread. The four Niners

709
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: were the only upset, and you know, three of those

710
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: games were kind of beat downs. But when I when

711
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: we talked Friday guys, I said, the Rams at four,

712
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: it's down to three and a half, and I just

713
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 1: don't know what people are seeing Rob in Arizona here.

714
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: Um Again, the surface level stuff is who's the quarterback

715
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: you trust? More? Well, I trust Matt Stafford. He's been

716
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: to the playoffs before. Kyler Murray has not. Its Kyla

717
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: Murray the better quarterback. Some people might argue that, but

718
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: he's never had a playoff game. Guys, Cliff Kingsbury or

719
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, that's easy. Rams are at home. Rams have

720
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Speaker 1: the better defensive players. I cannot find one edge for

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00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: Arizona except that maybe maybe they are looking at all

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Speaker 1: the tape from that earlier meeting when they crushed the Rams.

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Speaker 1: Who the Rams, by the way, had been coming off

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00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: the win over Tampa, which was like a super Bowl

725
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: win earlier in the season. They caught him Nappick and oh,

726
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: by the way, they had DeAndre Hopkins. I J J.

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00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: Watt's coming back great. I don't think I made some

728
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Speaker 1: massive difference, um, I just I'm struggling to find an

729
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: edge for Arizona in this game. Roub, I don't know you.

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00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: You've watched a lot of Cardinals this year. Where what

731
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: am I missing? You're not missing the whole heck of

732
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: a lot. Let me tell you. I mean it's one thing,

733
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Speaker 1: like you said, if it's just those specific matchups, the quarterbacks,

734
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: the coaches, you know you can part that how however

735
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: you want. The fact remains that even with that loss

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Speaker 1: on Week eighteen to San Francisco, the Rams are just

737
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: playing better football right now then Arizona. Arizona has lost

738
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Speaker 1: four or five, and I believe it's five of eight,

739
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: and in a lot of those games they have looked

740
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: just absolutely listless. Like ever since DeAndre Hopkins went down,

741
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: their offense has kind of fallen apart um Kyler Murray.

742
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why. I don't know if it's

743
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: by design. I don't know if he's hurt, but I

744
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: don't feel like he's running as much as he had

745
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: been early on in his career. And so it could be,

746
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: like I said, could be by design. It could be

747
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: that Cliff Kingsbury has doing his usual second half of

748
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Speaker 1: the season meltdown that he's had ever since going back

749
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Speaker 1: to Texas Tech. Let me ask this because this come

750
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: up on on the Gambling Show. We talked about is

751
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: Kyler perhaps perhaps not running as much because he knows

752
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: I gotta win from the pocket. Look at Lamar Jackson

753
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: struggling to get his money. I'm a few years in.

754
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: Do I need to win from the pocket to prove

755
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: to these guys that I need to get paid because

756
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes won from the pocket. Josh Allen was okay,

757
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: and then he won from the pocket and then he

758
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: got paid. And I know that that that's not gonna

759
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: oversee the game plan and become the overriding sentiment for

760
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. But in the back of his head, I

761
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: wonder if he's trying to make place from the pocket

762
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: before tucking and running. And yes, we saw Jalen Hurts

763
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday chuck and run all the time far too often,

764
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: like try to win from the pocket. But I'm with you.

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00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: I think Kyler is way more dangerous, way more when

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Speaker 1: he's running. And if anybody who played fantasy football and

767
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: had Kyler Murray this year earlier in the season running

768
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: a lot, he's awesome. I love you Kyler. And then

769
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Speaker 1: he stops running and like, what are you doing now?

770
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: Was he hurt? Maybe he was hurt the prop prior year.

771
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: But he's just not scrambling a lot. He's just flying out,

772
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: not as dangerous rob So yeah, you're right if he's

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Speaker 1: not running. And again, the Rams play a lot of man.

774
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: They have their back after the snap to Kyler Murray.

775
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: There's gonna be opportunities. But do you want Kyler Murray

776
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: in the first quarter running because you know he takes

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00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: one hit it. He's a small guy, right exactly. And

778
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Speaker 1: then you know the big thing that I mentioned is

779
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins being out. What normally would happen, you have

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey not fully shadow him, but shadow him a

781
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: lot in these In these kind of games, you know

782
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Speaker 1: their best on best and see what happens there with

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Speaker 1: with Hopkins. I don't even know if he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing too. I don't know if he's actually back. I

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00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: think he's hurt still, I think he's no. Hopkins is out. Yeah,

786
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Speaker 1: So what that does is that allows Ramsey to kind

787
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: of move around much more than even normally does and

788
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: just erase portions of the field, not just a guy,

789
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: because if you keep them away from the field, that

790
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: you can use Hopkins as a decoy and we'll teck

791
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: everybody else. Well, Now, what Jalen Ramsey does, you don't

792
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: have to have him on just one portion or one person.

793
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 1: He can erase this part of the field for a quarter,

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00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: He can erase this half of the field for the

795
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: next three plays. Whatever it is, and you can use

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Speaker 1: them in ways that I don't think Arizona's offense can counter.

797
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: So I I got the Rams bigly in this one. Yeah,

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00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: I do too. I guess it's the one potential. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people listening are like, well, Jay, what about

800
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: the RAM secondary and having to sign Eric Weddle? And

801
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: that's the one. I mean, I can't imagine that the

802
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: two starting safeties being out for the Rams is worth

803
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: half a point. Um. I went to Pro Football Focus

804
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: just now, Rob and I looked up the RAMS starters

805
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: for tonight are Eric Weddle, who hasn't played in the

806
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: NFL in two years, and another guy by the name

807
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: of Nick Scott, a seventh round pick from state. Pro

808
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,359
Speaker 1: Football Focus grades has graded ninety four safeties Mr Scott ranks.

809
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: So you've got a guy who hasn't played professional football

810
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: in two years, literally off the street two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what this guy was. He was not

812
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: preparing for the NFL two weeks ago. Maybe he's working out,

813
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, staying shape. But those are your secondary guys

814
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Speaker 1: starting at safety. Now. Luckily you got, like you said,

815
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey and the rest of their defense has a

816
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: lot of talented players, but over the top of the susceptible.

817
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: Can Christian Kirk get him deep? Possibly? But this is

818
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: the game where if new Co Hopkins was there, Oh

819
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: my gosh, Now this could mean this is a huge

820
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: game for zach Ertz the tight end eats. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got a couple of safeties who don't know you

822
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: haven't played together ever. They would practice together for five days. Yeah,

823
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: there's some potential catastrophes back there. Um, I would look

824
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: at the over, but I'm on the Rams of four.

825
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: If if it hits three somehow, I'll unload a lot

826
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: of the winnings from the from the Chiefs. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like the Rams tonight, rob and um, honestly, Rams

828
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: Rams uh Bucks would be much better matchup, I think.

829
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Speaker 1: And I'm a Kyler Murray fan, you know that. Um

830
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: any early lean on Tennessee and Cincinnati, right, I just

831
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: have to ask, I'm leaning Bengals interesting even with the injuries.

832
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: I what if you hear Derrick Henry is gonna play,

833
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: That's fine because I don't know how effective he's gonna be.

834
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: Like that's one of Josh Jacobs was running. Why Yeah,

835
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: But that's his injuries one of those ones where you know,

836
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: just like, hey, let me tape it up and and

837
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: and I'll be able to go. And it's like, no,

838
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: that that's the one that should have ended your season.

839
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: And the fact that he's even back playing is is

840
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: a big deal. So I like the like the Bengals

841
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: offense to win. I think they'll be able to put

842
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: up points against the Tennessee defense. It's early, um, I

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Speaker 1: might like Tennessee. That defensive front could give Borrow a

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Speaker 1: lot of problems. But I'll close out Rob with it

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Speaker 1: with an amazing stat um. So Sunday night, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: had a running back catch a touchdown pass, a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver catch a touchdown pass, a tight end catch a

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Speaker 1: touchdown pass, an offensive lineman catch a touchdown pass, and

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Speaker 1: a tight end throw a touchdown pass Travis Kelsey throwing one.

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Speaker 1: No other team in NFL history has done all those

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Speaker 1: things in the same season, let alone in one game. Rob.

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Speaker 1: If you are the Buffalo Bills and you just watched

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Speaker 1: that unfold, you're like, what, Andy Reid has some ship

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Speaker 1: up his sleeve, dude. I'm just telling you that is

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Speaker 1: a hell of a game plan. They had they were

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Speaker 1: throwing a lot of random stuff, and I know people

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Speaker 1: could be like, why are they using this place? You

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Speaker 1: are now giving Buffalo a lot more to think about.

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Speaker 1: I love the Chiefs. I love the Chiefs. Secondly, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: this is a long Monday Pod. Hope the holiday is

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Speaker 1: a good one to you, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow