WEBVTT - Divisional Round Recap + CFP National Championship Preview 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:06.240 And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.719 What's up, everybody? Welcome to move the sticks, DJ, Bucky 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.160 Rhett with you guys. I got to say it was 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.160 fun yesterday. Not only a great games, incredible games, which 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:16.880 we're going to get into on today's episode, but it 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.119 was fun to actually be together read I don't know 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:20.919 the last time we were all together sitting there watching 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:22.040 a football game. That was fun. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.800 Yeah, it's kind of been been some pieces of us here, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.360 you know, throughout Thursdays and Sundays, and Bucky and I 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.200 have been on the desk for NFL Game Day highlights 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.360 throughout the playoffs on Sundays, which has been fun to 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.159 you know, kind of take one of the games and 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:35.840 then push it forward into what we're going to see 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.239 in the next one. And I think the one thing 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.280 that we all kind of you know, witnessed in that 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.360 Eagles Rams game was something that kind of was the 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.199 theme for the day, which were our turnovers really hindering 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:47.840 the losing team in this one. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.400 And we'll get into that throughout. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.080 But it was a good weekend of football, some good 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.720 hard football really all around. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 You know, it's funny to playoffs change, but the way 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.440 that you win doesn't. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.120 And the guys that don't make a lot of mistakes, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.320 the teams that don't beat themselves are the ones that 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.720 continue to advance. And we saw a time and time 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.640 again we talked about turnovers being the number one deciding 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.319 factor and who wins and loses games. It's that is 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.319 blowing assignments, is silly penalties, things that you would tell 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.399 a little league team if you want to be really good, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.760 if you just do these things, you have a chance. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.959 And it's not so much teams winning games, is teams 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.000 losing games, and if you can avoid the implosion, you 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.959 have a chance to advance. And that's what we really 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.679 saw this weekend with all the teams that were able 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.200 to advance. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.880 Buck, you'll appreciate this because you know that I like 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.480 baseball and I always bring stuff back to baseball. Red 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.560 hates baseball, so he's not going to participate in this 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.959 particular analogy. But I was watching those games, Yeah, I 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.440 was watching those games just thinking of the Yankees in 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.400 the World Series. Like you think about all the effort 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.040 it takes to get to this point, and then like 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.440 the simple things two hands on the ball, in the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.800 pocket right when you've got a crowd around, you keep 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.440 your left hand on the football. When you catch the 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.320 ball in the middle of the field, you've got to 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.080 cover up because you don't know where defenders are coming from. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.520 Like that's like Aaron Judge dropping a fly ball. That's 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.120 like them. Not that's not like Garrett Cole not covering 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.400 first base. Like these are things that you learn in 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.800 the earliest part of your football career and it's amazing, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.120 and the biggest moments on the biggest stage buck that 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.040 some of that stuff is what caused you to lose. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.240 I'm so glad that you brought us back to baseball 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.239 because one of my favorite quotes comes from Joe Madden, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.360 who won the World Series with the Chicago Cubs, and 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.359 their theme that year they won it was do simple 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.800 better and literally in the postseason is if you just 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.080 do the simple things better than your opponent, you're going 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.120 to win. And you just talk about avoiding the unforced 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.080 eras the things that you really can control, because you 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.360 can control all those things. When it comes to ball security, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.799 you understand winning the crowd, cover up to put two 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.000 hands on it, make sure you don't line up all 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.800 size all those other things, and it's just amazing, you know. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.200 And it'll take us to the kanc Chiefs. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.640 When we eventually get there, people get mad at the Chiefs, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.360 but to me, the chief said, done what the Patriots 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.760 did when they had their run. They've learned how to 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.480 do those little things better than their opponent, and whatever 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.320 they need to do on a given day, they do. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.520 And that's why they've been very, very hard to beat. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.600 And that's why they also excelled in those one score games. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.040 They don't give games away. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.200 Yeah, you know, RTT. I want to get to you, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.840 and we'll start here with the last game we saw, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.360 which was Baltimore Buffalo, and we can jump into that. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.400 But you kind of connected the two games with the turnovers. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.040 So there's five turnovers combined for the teams that lost 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.480 and a clean sheet for the two teams that won 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.080 on Sunday. I'm talking about the Sunday games. So you 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.920 also had in that game, I believe, let's see Josh 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.240 Allen in terms of passing yard one hundred and twenty seven. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.720 Jalen hurts one hundred and twenty eight. Like they are 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.960 not going to light up the stat sheet, but they 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.240 protected the football and that was enough. Their defense is 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.960 played great. But just starting with that one, Baltimore Buffalo, 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.760 let's start first of all on the Baltimore side of things. Look, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.960 Mark Andrews, I don't know how we got to start there, right, Yeah, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.200 I mean that's where you got to start. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.280 Man, tough. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.680 I feel for Mark Andrews, right, this is what a 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.480 roller coaster of a season. I remember it started out 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.840 he was, you know, kind of an afterthought, you know, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.000 early in the year, and Isaya likely was catching and 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.080 then he caught fire and was a big reason eleven touchdowns. Yeah, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.840 on the stretch and then just to see it, you know, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.960 kind of come to an end right there on a 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.440 play like that that you know, I think you know 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.480 talking about on the broadcast he makes nine hundred and 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.159 ninety nine times out of one thousand. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.240 You know. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.200 But look, it was a hard play. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.960 It was not an easy catch, right, I'll say that 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.440 when you're off balance a little bit right and kind 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.680 of falling backwards. But that's a play Mark Andrews makes. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.360 When you're an All Pro and Pro bowlder, that's the 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.960 kind of play your team, you know, needs you to make. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.400 But again, you come back to it also like he's 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.040 also a reason why they're in that position. He also 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.960 had a fumble earlier in the game that was tough. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.400 And resulted in three points going the other way. Those 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.760 five points on two plays is really. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.560 Yeah, it's it's hard. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.120 It's hard to boil it down like that because obviously 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.320 you need to look at it in totality, but it's 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.000 hard to separate that from the fact that those two 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:09.800 plays were massive. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.000 Yeah, you know the thing about it, the two point play, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.360 And I wonder when you look at Lamar Jackson and 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.080 the wind up, it almost reminded me of. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.880 Another baseball reference, a change up, you know what I'm saying. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.960 So like you're sitting here waiting for you're you're ready 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:27.440 for the. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.680 Fastball, and you get the change up or the knuckleball, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.160 and it's a minor thing, but it's made you when 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.919 you're falling back and you anticipate maybe a little more velocity. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.120 But I understand why Lamar Jackson did it, because he 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.359 didn't want to pull the stream. He didn't want to 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.360 blow the layup, and so in maybe trying to help 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:51.000 Mark Andrews, maybe Jackson hurt him by taking a little 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:51.680 off the ball. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:52.680 Which is hard to say. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.080 We're gonna blame the quarterback for a drop pass. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.800 Yeah, I wanted to go back. I haven't had a 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.320 chance to go back and see it yet, but you 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.280 guys remember their loss against the Steelers. They ran their 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.799 two point play with Lamar going left and then they couldn't. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.720 They he couldn't. I don't think somebody could get out. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:12.920 I think the tight end was trying to getut into 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.880 the flat. They couldn't. They blew it up and they 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.240 tackled Lamar getting out. I meant Herbig might be the 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.520 one who kind of blew it up, but then they 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:21.840 it was just kind of they got him on the move. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.440 They got him on the move left and it got 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.080 blown up and it almost looked like it was going 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.000 to be a quarterback sweep, almost a tight play. But 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.600 I go back and look at that play. But in 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.800 this one, obviously they're going to the right, and I 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.280 almost felt like all eyes were on Lamar and they 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:35.840 kind of sold out as if Lamar was going to 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.560 run the ball. So you get him wide open, and 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.720 I've been and I've been in that situation, Buck exactly 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.640 what you're talking about, and it's like he's so open. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.040 I don't want anything too firm, so it just it 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:47.880 just kind of pulls. It just kind of just kind 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.080 of pull it off a little bit. But he he's 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.120 got to catch the ball, man, he's got to catch 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.360 the ball. And it was a heck of a drive 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.800 by Lamar and getting them right down the field. We 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.440 were watching at the time. Buck, I don't know where 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.920 you thought about it, but I there was some There 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.200 was some conversation in the room when they had the 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.120 fourth down. Rosenthal, I see, if Rosenthal confesses this, you 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.920 tweet it. Rosental said he, oh, did he tweet it? 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.000 He said, oh, they should go they should go for it. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 And I said no, no, no, no, no. If you go for it, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.160 there's one drive you lose. You kick the field goal. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.920 You have three opportunities left to win the game. You 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.440 hold them without a touchdown, you win the game. You 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.560 give them a touchdown, but you stop the two point conversion, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.760 You win the game. You give up the touchdown, the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.880 two point conversion, you still go to overtime with a 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.120 chance to win the game. Like that gives you three 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.160 opportunities to win the football game. You have to kick 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:37.760 that field goal. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.960 It is mitigating risks right in those moments is mitigating risks? Okay, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.320 So even at their worst, as you laid out your 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.960 three scenarios, we still go to overtime. I understood it 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.880 because I sat there and I had to tweet compose. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.840 I couldn't get it out because I couldn't get my 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.400 thoughts together. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.920 But I was like, okay, a lot of questions on 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.280 third down before to get the third down, I was saying, okay, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.040 are you approaching this with two plays to school because 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:05.960 the ball was at the two. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.880 They got to the one yard line too, Yeah, yeah, they. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:10.840 Got to the one yard line. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.160 Then I was like, okay, man, Josh Allen is unstoppable 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.720 on quarterback. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.280 Power or whatever you go. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.000 But they lost yardage and at that point I was like, man, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.520 you gotta kick it right. You got to you got 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.120 to take the eight point advantage, and you got to 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.280 say a defense go Now. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.280 I didn't know that Lamar Jess was. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:31.520 Right down. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.280 That the other thing, you know, like there would have 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.920 been about a minute and thirty o'clock left for Josh Allen. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.040 By the way, after the point version. This was not 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.120 a foregone conclusion. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.200 You might have had four opportunities to win that game. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.760 Then if that's the case, because you could have won 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.280 it in regulation and overtime or stop a touchdown or 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.800 stop the two point. That was the right decision by McDermott. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.160 And he said it after the game. He's like, look, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.280 if we were right on the doorstep, I probably go, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.840 but not when we're you know, two and a half 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.199 to three yards, Like that's that's too much. So I 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.959 thought that was smart on their end. Man, Derrick Henry, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.040 they you know, he had a couple runs in the 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.560 third quarter, but Buffalo, I thought, you know, that's what 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.240 they had to do. They had to sell out to 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.439 try and take him away. And if you hold him 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.000 under eighty five yards, which they did sixteen for eighty four. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.960 And I was kind of, you know, one of those 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.840 people I picked Buffalo to win, but I did think 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.240 Derrick Henry had a chance to dominate that game because 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.000 Buffalo is not real big. But man, they played big. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.760 They penetrated, and as we've said Buck, we've said this, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.920 we're talking about Dereck Henry for years, like it's a 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.800 very simple formula. It's not easy to execute, but it's simple, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.680 and that you must take that runway and you must 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.760 shrink that runway down because if he gets a runway, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.440 you got no shot. And the only way you shorten 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.600 a runway is with penetration. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.320 Yeah, and I would give Buffalo a lot of credit 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.760 because they played on the move their frontline. There's I mean, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.600 it almost reminded me of watching like a college game. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.240 You remember when TCU played Michigan and there was a 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.960 lot of conversation about Missigan was going to blow TCU 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.520 over because they're playing like, oh, a forty five or 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.680 three to three five defense. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:01.640 There's no way they can stop. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.280 And all the movement and the speed and the explosiveness 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:12.360 upfront created problems at times. However, the Baltimore Ravens had 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:17.280 it rolling and the fumble Andrews gave up that led 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.280 to three points that drive. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.160 I mean, they had him moving, they had. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.520 Run the football, they were throwing it, they had balanced 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.240 in those things, and the Buffalo Bills made key plays 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.200 and key moments to halted drives. And that's ultimately the difference. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.440 The three turnover margin is why the Buffalo Bills go 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.160 on and the Baltimore Ravens are packing it up. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:42.880 Yeah. Mantt. By the way, uh, Jay Flowers not being 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.600 in that ball game. I think that's a big deal. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.200 I had some people get upset with me because I 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.360 said it on TV that like, gosh, they really missed him, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.280 and I got the everybody has injuries comment, and I'm like, look, 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.600 we talked about it. Yeah, we said that Detroit missed Hutchinson, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.320 like we've talked about people. I'm not saying that's the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.280 sole reason they didn't win the game, but yeah, would 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:02.800 have been nice for him to have him out there. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.520 But I thought that was that was legitimate. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.000 Yeah, I mean, like this was when you take the 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.400 turnovers out of it, this was a hard fought game 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.760 on both sides. Like it was not just like a 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.320 and this was not the Ravens team that that forgot 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:15.160 about the run game. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.240 You know, in the postseason, they still ran the ball. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.400 Justice Hill ran the they like. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.400 You know what's interesting is it was really feast or 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.200 fan for the Ravens on offense. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.360 If it wasn't a chunk. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.920 Play, it wouldn't happen both in the past game and 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:28.520 the run game. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.800 Like all. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.960 I mean because Anders had two, Derrick Henry had two. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.840 It's just a lot of self inflicted wounds man. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really was. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.280 And but the defense played phenomenal, like they keep the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.439 Bills under three hundred total yards. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.720 I don't think you could ask for much more than that. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.920 No, Y, go ahead, Buck. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.240 I would say this because there's always gonna be a 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.560 conversation about Lamar Jackson. I think we have touch on it, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.880 like the narrative that goes on about Lamar Jackson in 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:07.320 the postseason. Now, I think from a personal standpoint, Lamar 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.080 Jackson will walk away from this game with confidence knowing 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.320 that he can play well in those big moments. He 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.640 hadn't played well in one of these divisional round AFC 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.120 championship games. I feel like after those early turnovers, he 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.520 played pretty well. Capped off at that final drive, I 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.440 think he has to figure out a way how to 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.480 calm himself down, because once he calmed down in the 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.080 floor of the game, he was able to play really well. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.480 To me, is his emotional control at the outset that 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.440 they have to work on to allow him to get 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:36.880 past these moments. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.080 Yeah, And I would just still last thing I would 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.640 say on this game, Like, to me, a lot of 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.120 the way this game ended up being played out was 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.480 what happened at the border line of the first and 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.400 second quarter. You know the interception. Yeah, it didn't end 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.440 up hurting them because Buffalo punted away after the pick, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.240 but obviously it ruined an opportunity for you to go 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.120 down there and score. But then you know, they go 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.080 down and then on the next they fumble, right, you 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.880 get the fumble, Buffalo recover, scores a touchdown. Then on 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.720 the Ravens next drive they get all the way down 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.080 to the Buffalo eight and have to kick a field goal, 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.120 and then Buffalo comes back and scores a touchdown, and 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.920 you're sitting there in his twenty one points. And that 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.720 second quarter, that first is second quarter really kind of 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.079 determined to me the way that the rest of the 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:21.120 game ended up being played. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.120 Yeah, that was crucial. Let's let's get to the other 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.080 game that we saw yesterday, which was another great game. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.080 Came down to the very end with the Rams ball 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.800 in their hands, chance to go down there win. Let 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.679 me just ratt I'll tee you up on this one first. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.480 But if I told you before the game, Matthew Stafford's 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.880 going to throw for three twenty four to two touchdowns, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.480 no picks. Jalen Hurts is only going to throw for 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.880 a buck twenty eight with no touchdowns. Kyra Williams is 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.720 going to have one hundred and six yards on the ground. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:53.440 Your defense is going to compile seven sacks. You sit there, think, gosh, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.079 we got a pretty good shot at going on there 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.640 and beating the Philadelphia Eagles in this one. But the 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.400 problem being Saquon Barkley, major problem. Putting the ball on 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.560 the ground twice, major major problem, Yeah. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.400 Stafford once and then the Kyra Williams one is really tough 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.160 because you just got the safety right. You just sacked 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.440 Jalen Hurts, who looks like, you know, a wounded animal 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.000 back there. He can't move around with the knee or 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.400 whatever it was that ended up bothering him, and they 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.480 sack him down there. You get the ball back, you're 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.000 within a point, and now you turn it right back 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.240 over to them. They return it all the way deep, 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.840 you know, into your own territory, and the air just 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.440 goes out of the balloon for a minute. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.200 Now it came back. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.520 It came back late, late, late, like a little bit 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.680 too late, you know, as you go under four minutes, 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.320 they made a heck of a push and really had 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.600 an opportunity there if not for Jalen Carr, who was 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.640 an absolute beast as he's been just dominating inside, sacking 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.920 Stafford on the third and two, turning it into a 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.680 fourth and eleven and then causing pressure again to force 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.480 a quick throw from Stafford that. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.960 Ends up ending the game and ending the season. And 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.480 that's what it came down to me, like thinking about that. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.440 Game for me, and obviously with the turnovers and that's 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.280 a turnover run downs there, but the car crash at 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.600 the ending, like it's fourth and eleven, you think you're 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.000 going to have a shot to go in here and 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.480 win this game and then pay him. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:11.440 That's it. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.240 Play football is hard. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.840 Yeah, No, I mean it is hard, and it's the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.920 emotional swings that you must handle, like being able to 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.400 deal with the ups and downs and those things. And 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.920 if you're the la Rams, you certainly feel like you 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.000 let one slip out of your hands. You had it 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.040 the game under control, and it look you have the safety. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.240 And after the safety, I was like, oh man, this 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.200 is all bad for the Philadelphia Eagles. You're now giving 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.560 Matthew Stafford the ball back. He has an opportunity to 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.240 go down the feeling the pressure that they would have 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.120 had Jalen Hurst being down at home, all that aks 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.720 and anxiety, But the fumble, you scoop it up and 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.120 push you in a position. But I'm would say this, man, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.240 the Eagles have to learn how to cash in these 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.080 chances in the red zone. Like this was a game 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.680 where they had a chance to go in and just 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.720 punch in penalty, packed them up and just the field 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:03.520 goal fest. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:04.160 And at some. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.000 Point you can't keep trading threes for sevens. You're gonna 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.680 end up on the store end of the stick. And 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.520 they were able to get away with it, but they're 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.080 not gonna be able to win in the championship game 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.720 if they don't cash in on those type ridson opportunities. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.480 You know what's interesting though about the Eagles, man, is 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.000 I feel like every week and it's not just you 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.040 know what our conversation is here, it's everywhere. I just 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.040 hear people, man, They just everybody hates the way the 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:33.400 Philadelphi Eagles win football games. And I'm sitting here going, well, okay, well, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.160 if we throw out, if we throw out. Jalen Hurts 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.360 getting knocked out in the first quarter against Washington, right 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.320 and By the way, if if DeVante Smith catches the ball, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.000 they still win that game. That the last time they 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.320 lost a football game was in September. So this this 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.240 team is not even clicking. They're not even clicking, so 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.200 they lose football games. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.160 So what you're saying, are they the NFC version of 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:02.280 the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:03.760 That's what I'm hearing. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.440 Yeah, yeah, they were clean. They were cleaning this game. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.480 They haven't always been clean, no, no, but in terms 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.840 of and things like that, but they don't. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.600 They know how to win games. They know how to 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.920 win games. If you leave it hanging in the balance, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.719 they'll find a way to do it. And we can 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.360 talk about the dysfunction in the locker room and are 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.880 they all on the same page, But you're right, at 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.720 the end of the weekend, they always put a dub 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:25.959 in the win column. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:26.679