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Speaker 3: It's the Vikings and the Rams. It's one of those
Speaker 3: weird games.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I know they've relocated this game to Arizona because of
Speaker 3: the fires in Los Angeles. The Vikings are favored by
Speaker 3: two and a half, it just doesn't feel like they're
Speaker 3: really favored by two and a half. Feels like no
Speaker 3: one's going to be surprised if the Rams win this game.
Speaker 3: The Vikings are a really good team, and I think
Speaker 3: this almost feels like the line is was predicated on
Speaker 3: how the Vikings played against the Lions, where they got
Speaker 3: roughed up, and then people go, Okay, that's the Sam
Speaker 3: Darnold we thought was going to emerge.
Speaker 2: What's one game?
Speaker 3: And I think that's surprising that it is two and
Speaker 3: a half Now it's on a neutral site in Arizona.
Speaker 3: But we'll talk about that with Ross Tucker and Tony
Speaker 3: Dungee coming up. Still have some openings, the Bears, the Jags,
Speaker 3: the Jets, the Raiders, the Saints, the Patriots. In one
Speaker 3: of the worst kept secrets, hired Mike Rabel. Did they
Speaker 3: do everything they were supposed to do according to the
Speaker 3: letter of the NFL law. We'll talk to Tony Dungee
Speaker 3: about that, and that'll be coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 3: On the Bills roughed up the Broncos. It's one of
Speaker 3: those the Broncos scored and I go, all right, maybe
Speaker 3: we'll have no, we're not going to Then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, it was all Bills all the time.
Speaker 2: The Eagles. I thought the Eagles were like.
Speaker 3: A three touchdown like at least three touchdowns better than
Speaker 3: the Packers the way they played it, just they couldn't
Speaker 3: put them away. And the Commanders last night with Jaden Daniels,
Speaker 3: I can't call him a rookie anymore. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I could call him a rookie the way he
Speaker 3: played this year. He's the first rookie since at least
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty to lead his team in both passing yards
Speaker 3: and rushing yards in a playoff win. Like he's starting
Speaker 3: to create a category onto himself. Also, five go ahead
Speaker 3: touchdown passes in the fourth quarter overtime this season. The
Speaker 3: last time you had a quarterback who put up those
Speaker 3: kind of numbers Russell Wilson Junior the third in twenty twelve.
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Speaker 3: and worst of the weekend. Operator Tyler is sitting by.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there was a surprise this weekend.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe how badly the Bills roughed up the Broncos
Speaker 3: in the second half. The Commanders we talked about that
Speaker 3: we weren't going to be surprised if they won. I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to be surprised if the Packers beat the Eagles.
Speaker 3: The Texans over the Chargers. Chargers didn't score touchdowns, couple
Speaker 3: of field goals, and I kept thinking, when you're on
Speaker 3: the road, you can't kick field goals and win. You
Speaker 3: gotta score touchdown. You really have to make that team
Speaker 3: start to rethink what their approach is going to be.
Speaker 3: And they weren't able to do that with the Texans
Speaker 3: as they rough up the Chargers and Justin Herbert deservedly
Speaker 3: so deserves a lot of blame.
Speaker 2: That was a mess.
Speaker 3: And the Ravens handled the Steelers twenty eight to fourteen.
Speaker 3: They never really put them away, but it did feel
Speaker 3: like the Ravens were a better team. I'm just not
Speaker 3: sure if there was a huge surprise where you go, wow,
Speaker 3: I didn't expect that. Now maybe the Commanders. And this
Speaker 3: is how the game ended with the Commanders last night
Speaker 3: from thirty.
Speaker 1: Seven to send Washington to.
Speaker 2: The final eight, Welsington.
Speaker 6: Around.
Speaker 3: Believe them, Mike Jerico with the call, they dink their
Speaker 3: way to the next round. You know, even going back,
Speaker 3: it was such a long You had the Texas Ohio
Speaker 3: State game on Friday night that was a lot closer
Speaker 3: than the scorer would indicate the final score because they're
Speaker 3: going in to tie that game. Jack Sawyer makes an
Speaker 3: unbelievable play on his former roommate Quinn Hewers, and Ohio
Speaker 3: State moves on.
Speaker 2: In Ohio State.
Speaker 3: I think the first line I saw was they were
Speaker 3: favored by nine and a half against Notre Dame. Some
Speaker 3: of the other point spreads for the divisional rounds, you
Speaker 3: got the Texans getting eight and a half against the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: Commanders getting eight and a half against the Lions, and
Speaker 3: the Ravens are getting one and a half against the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. Un thank you, Polly, thank you, Pony. All Right,
Speaker 3: we'll get to poll questions coming up. Our one poll question, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7: I gotta tell you, I was pretty surprised that the
Speaker 7: Chargers no showed after the first quarter. When that first
Speaker 7: quarter was over, I was like, the Chargers are going
Speaker 7: to steal this one. They're rolling, They're not great, but
Speaker 7: field goals and the Texans I think had four punts
Speaker 7: in a turnover. I if you stopped that game at
Speaker 7: the end of the first quarter, I would have put
Speaker 7: money on the Chargers.
Speaker 2: That's the surprise thing.
Speaker 3: I thought they had a game plan, but they didn't
Speaker 3: score touchdowns, and I thought maybe the Texans got a
Speaker 3: good defense.
Speaker 2: So I thought if CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud and Joe Mixon was wonderful, that if they got
Speaker 3: a couple of touchdowns. Now I put the pressure on
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert, and you saw exactly what
Speaker 3: happened when pressure was applied. That that was like a tourniquet.
Speaker 3: That was bad and Justin Herbert's got to wear this.
Speaker 3: You know, we had the collapse against Jacksonville a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, but they were up twenty seven and
Speaker 3: then this one as well.
Speaker 2: Look there quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it metastasizes when it comes to the postseason, we've
Speaker 3: seen quarterbacks. It just certainly in the Super Bowl, somebody
Speaker 3: will have a bad game and then it becomes a
Speaker 3: terrible game, or somebody's having a good game, it becomes
Speaker 3: a great game. These bigger games, sometimes that happens. It's
Speaker 3: just justin Herbert couldn't get out of his own way.
Speaker 3: There was one interception that wasn't his fault. It was
Speaker 3: his tight end's fault there. But still we put pressure
Speaker 3: on these quarterbacks. We give them too much credit, too
Speaker 3: much blame. And now you have the MVP Bowl coming
Speaker 3: up here. You got Josh Allen and you got Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: I was told Sours said Lamar Jackson's winning the MVP.
Speaker 3: And I said, why do you say that? And he said, well,
Speaker 3: I always look at the all Pro votes, not Pro Bowl,
Speaker 3: but all Pro votes, and Lamar Jackson there was quite
Speaker 3: a bit of separation between him and Josh Allen, but
Speaker 3: they both played great. Lamar is wonderful, But you start
Speaker 3: to look at these running backs. Saquon Barkley, he was great,
Speaker 3: although I think their betters might not be too pleased
Speaker 3: with Saquon Barkley could have scored the touchdown and then
Speaker 3: he slides because I think they were going for that
Speaker 3: was a anytime touch He was the most bet anytime
Speaker 3: touchdown guy this weekend, so.
Speaker 2: You're going he's going to score.
Speaker 3: And then he slid because if they got a first down,
Speaker 3: then the game was over. He said, no game was over.
Speaker 3: I just I slid. All these betters are going, I'm
Speaker 3: going to cap, I'm going to cash in on this
Speaker 3: not the case, but lamar Derrick Henry and we could
Speaker 3: argue what was a bigger offseason move getting Derrick Henry
Speaker 3: or getting Saquon Barkley, and it might be a push.
Speaker 3: I just want to see what happens in the postseason
Speaker 3: because regular season unbelievable numbers. It's when you must get
Speaker 3: those yards? Can you get those yards? And those two
Speaker 3: guys are going to be just as instrumental as their quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: if not more so. And I think that's something that
Speaker 3: you know, we haven't really been factoring it in. Also
Speaker 3: defensive minded coaches, because we get caught up in O'Connell,
Speaker 3: Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan offensive minded coaches. If you look
Speaker 3: at what defensive coaches have done, you know, d you
Speaker 3: started with Dan Campbell, you got Demiko Ryans, you got
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn, you got Sean McDermott. These are defensive minded coaches,
Speaker 3: and I think you got to remember that with the postseason,
Speaker 3: they're running the football and defense is stressed in a
Speaker 3: different way than it has been before. Now you still
Speaker 3: want to play great defense, the question is can you?
Speaker 3: And we've seen that so far. All right, seton setan pole.
Speaker 2: Question today?
Speaker 8: Which quarterback had the worst weekend? Justin Herbert, Jordan Love,
Speaker 8: Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3: Okay, Baker Mayfield had a big fumble with eleven minutes
Speaker 3: to go. He only threw eighteen times. I think it
Speaker 3: was fifteen of eighteen, but that was a huge, huge play.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love three interceptions. But I think that those two
Speaker 3: teams still had chances to win. Justin Herbert Chargers didn't
Speaker 3: have a chance. And this is another thing to factor in.
Speaker 3: And we said this at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3: Gone are the days where Justin Herbert's going to throw
Speaker 3: for five thousand yards and thirty nine touchdowns. That's not
Speaker 3: Jim Harball's game plan. Harball wants to have a big
Speaker 3: offensive line, run the football, play good defense. Just like
Speaker 3: that happened at Michigan Justin Herbert, and we said this
Speaker 3: will statistically be one of his worst seasons because of that,
Speaker 3: they're not going to be leading with the pass. He
Speaker 3: had four interceptions, three interceptions the entire year regular season
Speaker 3: and then four yesterday. So he did have an incredible
Speaker 3: season taking care of the football, and this was a
Speaker 3: big reason why the Chargers are in the postseason. They
Speaker 3: did not have turnovers, they played great defense, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudd uddon Justin Herbert with four interceptions.
Speaker 3: So I would say that he had by far and
Speaker 3: away the worst game perception wise. I don't think people
Speaker 3: are going to look at Jordan Love and go look
Speaker 3: at what he did against Dallas last year, and I
Speaker 3: think he can still live off that. I think Baker
Speaker 3: had a really really good season. That's back to back
Speaker 3: really good seasons going to the playoffs. And you know,
Speaker 3: Mike Evans had a wonderful season. They were a good team.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't have been surprised if they won, but we
Speaker 3: weren't going to be surprised if the Commanders won.
Speaker 2: But I would say it's.
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, then Jordan Love, and then Baker Mayfield Mayfield
Speaker 3: had the fumble, but they could have won that game.
Speaker 3: Any other pole questions that you're thinking about, Seaton for
Speaker 3: the first hour.
Speaker 8: You want to preview of our two's pole question, I
Speaker 8: can give you that.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 8: Okay, losing NFL team from this weekend, that should feel
Speaker 8: the goodest about their future.
Speaker 3: But you should still feel good the goodest. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: I think that's grammatically correct. Is that right, Ton?
Speaker 2: The goodest?
Speaker 9: It would be goodest? That is exactly right.
Speaker 2: Okay, got any Bronco gear on today?
Speaker 9: I do not.
Speaker 4: I'm wearing somber gray black t they lost.
Speaker 9: Still waiting to get a possession. Maybe we can get
Speaker 9: a chance to.
Speaker 2: Have the ball.
Speaker 3: I you know what, when they scored the touchdown to start,
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, that little guy is sitting there
Speaker 3: with all his Bronco gears, got his bobbleheads and the
Speaker 3: penants and hats and everything. Your your Bronco color Adidas.
Speaker 1: I was remarkably.
Speaker 9: Reserved, knowing that they were trying to pull me in.
Speaker 4: They're gonna trick where they're gonna come out and some
Speaker 4: BIG's gonna happen here.
Speaker 9: But I didn't buy into it. I didn't. I was
Speaker 9: excited to see that, but I didn't buy it.
Speaker 3: Isn't the weird Do you think the Broncos uniform had anything.
Speaker 2: To do with their subpar play? Yes, without questions, Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 7: Marvin looks so good against the Chiefs on the looks
Speaker 7: wise and on the field.
Speaker 3: Well, when Seton set out a text, a group text,
Speaker 3: and he goes, the Broncos uniforms are but.
Speaker 2: Butt Yeah it was but ugly. Yeah.
Speaker 8: No one has ever won anything major wearing orange pants.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Tennessee fans are like, yeah, well you should see what
Speaker 8: it's ugly.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Sean's right though. The buttet's ears when they won, their
Speaker 7: pants were pewter. They were not orange.
Speaker 2: They were not orange.
Speaker 8: No one has ever won anything great in orange pewter.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well you had a good season, Todd.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 4: I was hoping it would be a little more competitive
Speaker 4: in the second half. Once that field goal point that
Speaker 4: would have tied to ten, I started feeling a little
Speaker 4: bit of that momentum.
Speaker 9: That they could have had that they lost.
Speaker 2: Going into the book, I agree. When that happened, I
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 7: Oh uh oh, yeah, isn't the weirdest thing this year?
Speaker 7: That the Buffalo Bills have become a run first team.
Speaker 7: Forty four carries two hundred and ten yards, and two
Speaker 7: years ago that was the story. Oh they got a
Speaker 7: bunch of decent running backs, they can never establish the run.
Speaker 7: They leave Josh Allen hung out to dry. It's very
Speaker 7: weird how much that's changed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're seeing teams run the football now. It's
Speaker 3: just that's part of the game plan. Where it used
Speaker 3: to be can you run the football? It's you, we
Speaker 3: will run the football. And you saw that yet you
Speaker 3: saw that all weekend long.
Speaker 2: But you're right.
Speaker 3: I think they look at Josh Allen is just he's
Speaker 3: another running back there playing quarterback and that ability to
Speaker 3: control the line of scrimmage. Cook is when was Cook drafted?
Speaker 3: Like was he a third or fourth round draft pick?
Speaker 3: But you know they got a couple of running backs
Speaker 3: they run hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Pauling he was the final pick of the second
Speaker 7: round in twenty twenty two. He makes one point two
Speaker 7: million dollars a season. Yeah, we've talked about this before.
Speaker 7: You wanted to do an MVP based off salary, he
Speaker 7: would be in there this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that should factor in.
Speaker 3: I've said this before when a Rod won MVP in
Speaker 3: baseball and Big Poppy I thought was more of an
Speaker 3: MVP if I factored in he made five million and
Speaker 3: a Rod made I think twenty five million. I got
Speaker 3: to factor that into value. But they don't. All right,
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Speaker 3: do every Monday, Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: What you saw that you liked you didn't like.
Speaker 3: He's Ross Tucker, CBS Sports Westwood One, NFL college football
Speaker 3: analyst and hope to the Ross Tunker Football podcast Busy Man.
Speaker 3: He was on the call last night with the Packers
Speaker 3: and the Eagles. Also on the sidelines for the Steelers
Speaker 3: and the Ravens, and he'll be in the booth with
Speaker 3: Kevin Harland for the Texans Chiefs on Saturday in the
Speaker 3: divisional playoff. And get ready to hear this voice very
Speaker 3: often over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Ross Dallas Goddard is a beast.
Speaker 5: The Philadelphia Eagles cannot be stopped.
Speaker 9: Look at what he did to Valentine. That's an embarrassment.
Speaker 9: Ross Tucker.
Speaker 1: Hi, Ron, Hey, Dan, you know what I want.
Speaker 6: I think you at some point this week, maybe Friday,
Speaker 6: you could do a play by play, like do a
Speaker 6: couple plays with Fritzy doing his Kevin Harlan and Paulie
Speaker 6: doing his terrible impression of me. However, Pauly, that like
Speaker 6: that would be I guarantee I will cut the clip I'll.
Speaker 1: Put on social media.
Speaker 6: If you guys do a couple play, do a series
Speaker 6: of it seeing Paulie as Kevin Harlan and me, that'd
Speaker 6: be amazing.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, Fritzy, why don't you give us a
Speaker 3: little bit of the Chiefs against the Texans and then
Speaker 3: Paulie will jump in and be the analyst on the call.
Speaker 5: Patrick mahomes back to passing avoids the ruts. He's going
Speaker 5: down the sideline and that's another twelve yards for Patrick
Speaker 5: and another first down for Kansas City.
Speaker 7: I love behoves, behooves can get the ball in the
Speaker 7: pocket like anybody at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: The other thing about Kansas City sauce on ribs. Look
Speaker 1: it up, Google it, legit.
Speaker 2: There you go, Ross, you asked for it, you got
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Where do you want to start here? Do you want
Speaker 3: to start with the Eagles against the Packers or you
Speaker 3: want to go back to the Steelers' loss?
Speaker 1: I actually want to talk about the Steelers.
Speaker 6: I want to start there because you know, Dan, I
Speaker 6: live in central Pennsylvania, right, so where I live now,
Speaker 6: it's like fifty to fifty Eagles fans Steelers. I grew
Speaker 6: up closer to Philly and grew up as an Eagles fan.
Speaker 6: I can't remember watching a Pittsburgh Steelers team get beat
Speaker 6: up physically that badly. You know, everybody focuses, I feel
Speaker 6: like on the quarterback situation, and in fairness, they're in
Speaker 6: a tough spot there, like what's your solution or anybody's
Speaker 6: solution for the Steelers to get a quarterback that can
Speaker 6: compete with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, like,
Speaker 6: it's hard that they're in a tough spot there, but
Speaker 6: that's that's a separate issue their defense.
Speaker 1: Dan, this is the Pittsburgh Steelers. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: Cam Hayward, TJ.
Speaker 6: Watt, You're paying Patrick Queen, you're paying Mink and Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: They have a lot Alex Heismith getting paid.
Speaker 6: They have a lot of resources invested.
Speaker 1: In that unit.
Speaker 6: And for the Ravens to have two hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: yards rushing with six minutes left in the third quarter.
Speaker 6: And by the way, the Ravens have had one Pro
Speaker 6: Bowl receiver in franchise history. He's eight Flowers.
Speaker 1: He was out for the game.
Speaker 6: He was not playing in the game. So they don't
Speaker 6: have by far their best receiver. And you allow the
Speaker 6: Ravens to run you over like that. It had to
Speaker 6: be embarrassing for a Steelers fan to watch. I thought
Speaker 6: that was one of the most notable. Like, if you
Speaker 6: told me best and worst of the weekend, I would
Speaker 6: say worst of the weekend was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 6: get run over, around and through by Derrick Henry and
Speaker 6: the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Well, let's look at what happens in the offseason with
Speaker 3: the Steelers, you have Russell Wilson. I don't think Mike
Speaker 3: Tomlin's going anywhere, So what changes do you see with them?
Speaker 1: I agree about Tomlin.
Speaker 6: He's a good coach, I will say, and we probably
Speaker 6: talked about this last week. There's a gigantic disconnect between
Speaker 6: how people feel about him nationally and how the locals
Speaker 6: feel about him because he hasn't won a playoff game
Speaker 6: in fever. But I would also submit to you and
Speaker 6: how many of those playoff games did he have the
Speaker 6: better quarterback?
Speaker 1: How many of those playoff games? The problem is, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody wants them to get somebody better.
Speaker 6: How are you going to do that? You know, we
Speaker 6: have to live in the real world. They're not going
Speaker 6: to draft somebody. They're not gonna draft high enough. So
Speaker 6: who could the Steelers get that's better. Do they take
Speaker 6: a swing in Aaron Rodgers? Do they go way out
Speaker 6: of character and try to pay a lot of money
Speaker 6: for Sam Darnold? I mean, these other guys, they're just
Speaker 6: not available. To get a top ten guy, it just
Speaker 6: doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: I actually thought.
Speaker 6: Russell Wilson Junior the third played pre darn Well in
Speaker 6: the second half of that game and gave them a
Speaker 6: chance to win. If I'm the Steelers, maybe I have
Speaker 6: somebody else can be with him, but he's probably your
Speaker 6: best option to win a bunch of games next year
Speaker 6: and have a chance to win a playoff game.
Speaker 3: But we make it seem like Mike Tomlin's not involved
Speaker 3: in decisions to get these quarterbacks. Is it just, Hey,
Speaker 3: the front office takes care of this, and we're going
Speaker 3: to get you a quarterback and you'll just make him better.
Speaker 3: I imagine he's involved, given his tenure with his Steelers. He's
Speaker 3: involved in who they're bringing in. So there is culpability
Speaker 3: throughout the Steelers, including Mike Tomlin with them.
Speaker 6: No question, he's definitely involved because I know he's a
Speaker 6: big Russell Wilson fan. I actually thought bringing in both
Speaker 6: Justin Fields and Russell Wilson this offseason was really smart
Speaker 6: to kind of give you two bites at the Apple.
Speaker 6: They exceeded expectations. I think their season win total was
Speaker 6: eight and a half, so they exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1: Obviously they faltered down the stretch.
Speaker 6: There's no question Dan that he's part of taking the quarterback,
Speaker 6: no doubt about it. But how nobody everybody complained about
Speaker 6: the Steelers quarterback situation doesn't have a solution. So you
Speaker 6: want them to try to lose every game for next
Speaker 6: year and then have the number one pick and take
Speaker 6: the quarterback next year. Like they can't trade for somebody
Speaker 6: that's better than what they have. Those guys aren't getting traded.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe they'll be Derek Carr, you know, maybe it's Aaron
Speaker 6: rd I don't know what.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get a top ten guy.
Speaker 6: They're gonna have to do whatever they can to get
Speaker 6: the best guy available.
Speaker 3: You've got the addition of Derrick Henry with Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: and I always felt like it seemed like the Ravens
Speaker 3: got one dimensional in the playoffs, maybe you start to
Speaker 3: panic a little bit. They don't have to be one dimensional.
Speaker 3: They can be two dimensional running and then add another
Speaker 3: dimension with the passing of Lamar Jackson and hopefully you
Speaker 3: get Zay Flowers back. But what makes this raven team different?
Speaker 6: I love that point, Dan Love love love that point
Speaker 6: because it's funny. I did the Ravens Browns game earlier
Speaker 6: in the year and we were talking with Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 6: or Jim Harbo, John Harbaugh about Derrick Henry, and he
Speaker 6: has a nice way of just kind of telling you
Speaker 6: like it is. He said, you know what we were
Speaker 6: talking about, and I said, we're a running team. What
Speaker 6: it would be like if we had a really good runner,
Speaker 6: you know, because the Ravens have been a running team
Speaker 6: of Lamar Jackson, but they've never really had like.
Speaker 1: A really good running back.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 1: JK.
Speaker 6: Dobbins was pretty good, but he kept getting hurt. And
Speaker 6: they've had like Gus Eard, They've had guys and they've
Speaker 6: had a lot of success running it because of the
Speaker 6: scheme and because of Lamar. But this is like the
Speaker 6: grand experiment that's working fabulously is to actually have a really,
Speaker 6: really good running back like Derrick Henry, which makes them
Speaker 6: so difficult to defend the And by the way, I
Speaker 6: don't think it's a great matchup for the Bills. I mean,
Speaker 6: I love the Bills. That was my favorite team I
Speaker 6: played for out of the five. And it's good that
Speaker 6: they have a home game. But that is going to
Speaker 6: be tough because as much as you want to stop
Speaker 6: the run, there's a lot of times because of Lamar
Speaker 6: that you don't really have a very good solution, and
Speaker 6: your solution to put everybody in there, Well, then you're
Speaker 6: manning up the tight ends and they run play action
Speaker 6: pass and both likely and Mark Andrews, you're putting your
Speaker 6: linebackers or safety is in a tough spot. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's a reason why Lamar had the ridiculous stats he
Speaker 6: had is because there really aren't that many good answers
Speaker 6: for a defense with having Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry
Speaker 6: in the same backfield.
Speaker 3: And the Ravens are favored by one and a half
Speaker 3: against the Bills. We're talking Ross Tucker, CBA Sports, Westwood
Speaker 3: One and host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
Speaker 2: How should we look at Justin Hurt.
Speaker 6: I think the same way we always have. I think
Speaker 6: he's a very good quarterback. And I said this, you know,
Speaker 6: I did that Patriots Chargers game for NFL Network.
Speaker 1: He's a very good quarterback.
Speaker 6: A lot of teams would love to have him, but
Speaker 6: we're not gonna consider him an elite quarterback until we
Speaker 6: feel like he elevates the guys around him to the
Speaker 6: point where he's winning some playoff games, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: and that's that's just the reality of the situation. Look
Speaker 6: a lot of people aren't gonna put Josh Allen and
Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson in certain categories until they get to a
Speaker 6: super Bowl and win it. We're not gonna put Herbert
Speaker 6: even in their category until he finds a way to
Speaker 6: be able to take this team to the next level.
Speaker 6: In fairness to him, their old line got wrecked and
Speaker 6: they have a bottom five receiving corps in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So they exceeded expectations.
Speaker 6: They did not have the same personnel as the Texans
Speaker 6: or even most these teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They knew it, you know. Talking with the Chargers coaches,
Speaker 1: I think they kind of knew it.
Speaker 6: That they were a year away from being a legitimate contender.
Speaker 6: They're gonna get better on the interior zero line, They're
Speaker 6: gonna get better at receiver, and Herbert's gonna have a
Speaker 6: much better opportunity to actually win a couple of playoff
Speaker 6: games next year and try to get He's like the
Speaker 6: in the friend zone. He's in the good quarterback zone
Speaker 6: right now. He needs to win some playoff games to
Speaker 6: get into that next category.
Speaker 2: Did the Eagles look good or great?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they did not look great because they did not
Speaker 6: look very good on offense, their defense was awesome, you know,
Speaker 6: the force four turnovers. They've had the best defense in
Speaker 6: the NFL since the bye week. They were fantastic for
Speaker 6: the most part in that game. But offensively that was rough.
Speaker 6: I mean that Jalen Hurts clearly was rusty. He did
Speaker 6: not play well. I thought the Packers, that decordinator Jeff Hathley,
Speaker 6: had a good plan between you know, forcing Hurts to
Speaker 6: stay in the pocket and make throws from the pocket,
Speaker 6: but then also bringing blitzes at times. I mean, the
Speaker 6: reality is is for the Eagles to go to the
Speaker 6: super Bowl, Hurt's gonna have to play better than that.
Speaker 6: I mean, if he played like that in Detroit, they
Speaker 6: wouldn't win. I don't even know if they would win
Speaker 6: next week against the Rams with the Vikings. If he
Speaker 6: plays like that, he's gonna have to play better than
Speaker 6: he did. I think he will. I mean, he had
Speaker 6: missed almost three full games. That was kind of his
Speaker 6: first game back. I would expect him to have a
Speaker 6: much better performance next week against the winner of tonight's game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just look at Jalen Hurts and I probably
Speaker 3: in the minority. I think he's just a good quarterback
Speaker 3: on a really good team. And look, he had an
Speaker 3: unbelievable super Bowl, could have been the MVP even in
Speaker 3: a losing effort there.
Speaker 2: But I just I'm waiting to see more from him.
Speaker 3: And maybe that's not fair, you know, that's maybe who
Speaker 3: he is for that team, but that's just the indication.
Speaker 2: I always get with him well.
Speaker 6: And Dan, there's no question, I mean, he has not
Speaker 6: been a top ten quarterback in the NFL. This year,
Speaker 6: He's got the best situation a quarterback maybe he has
Speaker 6: ever had. I mean, they have the best offensive line
Speaker 6: in the league. Okay, he is the best running back
Speaker 6: in the league. The tight end Dallas Goddard is a beast.
Speaker 6: He's a top five tight end. The receiver duo is
Speaker 6: at least the top five duo. I mean, we're talking
Speaker 6: about like Troy Atman with the Cowboys, and like, how
Speaker 6: often are you in a situation where every guy around
Speaker 6: you is top five in their spot.
Speaker 1: They should be able to put up a bunch of points.
Speaker 6: He should be able to play better than he did yesterday,
Speaker 6: and they're gonna need him to for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's look at the losing teams.
Speaker 3: We talked about the Steelers let's look ahead to who
Speaker 3: you like better with the Broncos, Packers, and Buccaneers. Who's
Speaker 3: set up for success better?
Speaker 1: I think it's the Packers. Yeah, I think it's the Packers.
Speaker 6: I mean they had this year the second youngest team
Speaker 6: ever in the playoffs. The youngest team ever in the
Speaker 6: playoffs was the Packers last year. I mean, they're all
Speaker 6: home grown. They got really beat up in that game.
Speaker 6: You know, to have no Christian Watson, then you lose
Speaker 6: both Dobbs and Read during the game. They lose their
Speaker 6: best offensive lineman, Elton Jenkins. They lose the turnover battle
Speaker 6: for nothing, and they still were right there. I mean,
Speaker 6: if the turnover battles three to one, do the Packers.
Speaker 1: Win the game?
Speaker 6: If they don't, if they only lose one receiver and
Speaker 6: not three receivers, do they win the game. I think
Speaker 6: the Packers are positioned to have success next year.
Speaker 1: They just they kind of took a step back at
Speaker 1: the end of the season.
Speaker 6: They got to figure out why that was the case
Speaker 6: these last three games and being banged up as part
Speaker 6: of it. But I would still be buying stock in
Speaker 6: the Green Bay Packers. And I didn't think Jordan Love's
Speaker 6: performance was anywhere near what Herbert was thought. I thought
Speaker 6: Jordan Love played pretty well. I mean that the one
Speaker 6: interception of Bond was bad, but the first one.
Speaker 1: Was a great play by Slay.
Speaker 6: The last one he just had to try to make
Speaker 6: a play and they probably should have called interference on Bond.
Speaker 6: I really thought Jordan Love only had one bad interception.
Speaker 6: He had some nice throws. Maybe could have made those
Speaker 6: other touchdown throws down near the goal line in the
Speaker 6: third quarter when they were still right in it. But
Speaker 6: I still I would be bullish on Jordan Love and
Speaker 6: the Packers moving forward.
Speaker 3: I have an assignment for you in this game coming up.
Speaker 3: You have the Texans and the Chiefs. If this happens,
Speaker 3: a receiver caused interception. So let's say go off the
Speaker 3: hands like it did the tight end with the Chargers.
Speaker 3: It's a receiver caused interception an RCI, and then you
Speaker 3: could throw that in and Kevin Harlan would probably then
Speaker 3: acknowledge that. How would Kevin Harlan acknowledge that, You've.
Speaker 5: Got to be kidding me. That is not acceptable. That
Speaker 5: was pretty short. Yeah, So here's the deal.
Speaker 6: Now, everybody has to listen to my broadcast on Saturday.
Speaker 6: If that happens, I'm getting RCI in the broadcast. I
Speaker 6: am getting RCI in the broadcast. Here's the question. Do
Speaker 6: I have to credit you Dan personally? Do you have
Speaker 6: to credit the Dan Patrick Show? Or do I just
Speaker 6: have to get RCI in the game.
Speaker 3: No, don't need to credit me at all. I want
Speaker 3: this to be about you. I want you to hopefully
Speaker 3: get credit for it. Where somebody goes, yeah he went
Speaker 3: to Princeton. Yeah, that's why he came up with RCI.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what's fun about that? Dan, You're gonna
Speaker 1: love this.
Speaker 6: Saturday night during the game, I'm on the sideline and
Speaker 6: I called George Pickens mercurial because George Pickens is mercurial
Speaker 6: and you can't say pain in me whatever on the.
Speaker 1: Radio, right, So he's mercurial.
Speaker 6: And the play by play guy Ryan Rakey and Mike Golick,
Speaker 6: the color analysts, they're making fun of me, and they're
Speaker 6: saying I'm using big words, and they're saying, you know,
Speaker 6: Princeton guy or whatever, which I didn't only look at
Speaker 6: mercurial as being like a fancy word. Sunday mornings, I
Speaker 6: drive back from Baltimore here to Pennsylvania, and I talked
Speaker 6: to my daughters. I asked them first if they've ever
Speaker 6: heard of mercurial. They have no idea what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Then I asked my wife and she didn't know, so
Speaker 6: that that's a fail. That's a fail as a radio
Speaker 6: guy if you use a word. My wife's very smart.
Speaker 6: She went to buck now Together NBA from Kellogg. If
Speaker 6: she doesn't know what mercurial means, I should not be
Speaker 6: saying that on the radio.
Speaker 1: That's a bad job by me.
Speaker 2: I think you just called your family dumb, is what
Speaker 2: you said.
Speaker 6: Well, and fairness, my daughters are eleven and twelve, and
Speaker 6: hopefully I'm now praying my wife does not see this clip.
Speaker 6: It's a good thing there aren't five hundred stations around
Speaker 6: the country listening right now.
Speaker 3: And of course everybody knows Mercurial Morris who ran for
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: That was his real name. Mer Curial.
Speaker 9: What Todd the definitions of or having to do with mercury? No,
Speaker 9: it's not, I'm joking.
Speaker 2: I don't that's what a lot of victories.
Speaker 4: We'll take the word and use that as the explanation
Speaker 4: to the meaning or having to do with Mercury.
Speaker 3: Thank you to Ross's great to talk to you. Save travels.
Speaker 3: Remember rc I RCI.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it. Hopefully it happens.
Speaker 3: All right, Ross Tucker, CBS Sports, Westwood One, and the
Speaker 3: Ross Tucker Football Podcast. He'll be on the call with
Speaker 3: Kevin hart Land Texans Chiefs. That'll be Saturday, four thirty Eastern. Well,
Speaker 3: come back, we got our play of the day. We'll
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Speaker 3: game talking about his rookie quarterback Jade and Daniels.
Speaker 12: Jaden certainly is a big factor in that. I think
Speaker 12: if he had his heart rate monitor on in mind,
Speaker 12: they would not be the same in the game. And
Speaker 12: his days pretty consistently good. Sometimes I'm like the duck
Speaker 12: if you just saw the feet going under the water,
Speaker 12: it's good. But he really is into that space exceptional.
Speaker 2: Yep, he is.
Speaker 3: And if you look at where this franchise was two
Speaker 3: years ago, you know, finally getting rid of the stench
Speaker 3: of Dan Snyder bringing new ownership. You bring in Dan
Speaker 3: Quinn and then all of a sudden you get your quarterback.
Speaker 3: And when you were talking about, hey, which quarterback do
Speaker 3: you take? All they're going to have to settle for
Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels. There were people in the organization that were
Speaker 3: they were getting that they were going to get Jade Daniels.
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams bears you can have him, like we like
Speaker 3: the consolation prize because We don't think it's a consolation prize.
Speaker 3: It just it gave them hope. When you find your quarterback,
Speaker 3: you have hope. When you don't have that quarterback, you
Speaker 3: don't have hope. All right, eight seven seven three DP
Speaker 3: show and we'll get to your phone calls coming up,
Speaker 3: Gus in La Gus. I've been thinking about you and
Speaker 3: glad to hear from you.
Speaker 13: Good morning, mister Patrick. You know, hope you and the
Speaker 13: boys are doing well. Great to talk to you, guys.
Speaker 13: You really hasn't been you know, I like, I mean
Speaker 13: down on it intended, you know, whatever you want to
Speaker 13: think it. But it's in a week from hell the
Speaker 13: as An. You know, I lived four months from there.
Speaker 13: You guys know where I live. But you know, those
Speaker 13: the greatest week of uncertainday. It really hasn't And I
Speaker 13: mean I'm not trying to be a downer, but you know,
Speaker 13: it's like everything took it back to the sports and everything.
Speaker 13: I mean, I was watching an ash snow on my
Speaker 13: place on Saturday. Couldn't even enjoy the Steeler game. You know,
Speaker 13: it's been it's been a rough week, you know. I mean,
Speaker 13: I look forward to being able to call you guys
Speaker 13: today to get back to a little bit of normalcy.
Speaker 13: But apparently tomorrow they're bracing us again. Tomorrow is supposed
Speaker 13: to be like a repeat win wise as far as
Speaker 13: winds go. So everybody's here a little still on the edge,
Speaker 13: but you know, we're trying to get back to reality
Speaker 13: at some point. The young lady that you guys met
Speaker 13: a few years ago, her place in the Palatinade, her
Speaker 13: for her former place in the palatade that went up
Speaker 13: in flames and everything, and so did a lot of
Speaker 13: other people that I know of and everything, And you know,
Speaker 13: it's been a rough week, but we're trying to get
Speaker 13: back to it, and we're trying to get back to
Speaker 13: reality one day at a time. And you know, the
Speaker 13: best of the weekend for me at least, the brave
Speaker 13: men and women of every fire department that came from
Speaker 13: every corner, the LAPD, the National Guard. You know, it's
Speaker 13: been rough, stresful on many levels. By at the end
Speaker 13: of the day we kind of were like, hey, they
Speaker 13: have our back. Everybody doing their own part here and
Speaker 13: you know, life goes on a bit.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be thinking of you, and thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you having the opportunity and maybe some normalcy
Speaker 3: there in your life. That's goes to l A. Yeah,
Speaker 3: once again, the firefighters, the first responders, I mean all
Speaker 3: of those people.
Speaker 2: They they put their.
Speaker 3: Heart and soul, they put their lives on the line,
Speaker 3: and you know, all these disasters. It's not just Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: it's when there's tornadoes. They they run when you're running
Speaker 3: in and everybody's running out. I mean that we use
Speaker 3: the word hero, but we use it too often and
Speaker 3: probably not for the right people. Uh, Buddha in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: Hi Buddha, good to have you back.
Speaker 14: What a f DP Happy Monday boys. Shout out to
Speaker 14: my man Gus in La. Stay strong, brother, I.
Speaker 1: Feel you, man.
Speaker 14: This weekend was pretty predictable, Dan, I mean as far
Speaker 14: as the games went. I mean, even with the Patriots
Speaker 14: hiring Mike Rabel, which was predictable. I mean, but real quick, sat,
Speaker 14: Dan Vrabel had ten catches in his Patriots' career, not eleven, Fritzy,
Speaker 14: what I did there? All ten were touchdowns. Let's go, Fritsy.
Speaker 14: Worst of the weekend, Dan, I mean the Chargers. They
Speaker 14: do this to us every year, Dam, I mean, Dan,
Speaker 14: you've even fallen to it right. I mean, it's a
Speaker 14: tradition unlike any other in sports. It's like they have
Speaker 14: some chargery style upon them that I just find a
Speaker 14: way to let fans and gamblers down.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so disappointing.
Speaker 14: And best of the weekend, Oh Man, salute the Commanders,
Speaker 14: Man Jade and Daniel, the scary Terry balling out winning
Speaker 14: and what was only like the really great game of
Speaker 14: the day, I mean, thank god, because most of them
Speaker 14: were kind of boring in.
Speaker 1: Terms of competitiveness.
Speaker 14: Competitiveness, and I just I hope Washington Dan can like
Speaker 14: take this momentum somehow and just change the franchise name
Speaker 14: back to the Redskins, because the Commanders it's just not good.
Speaker 3: Good Yeah, moving back into downtown and maybe maybe they
Speaker 3: try to bring back the old nickname.
Speaker 2: There's certainly been talk about that. Anybody going to complain.
Speaker 3: About the quality of games in the NFL and the
Speaker 3: postseason the way everybody complained about the quality of college
Speaker 3: bowl games. Probably not. Tony Dungee will join us coming up.
Speaker 3: We'll give you our bet and worst to the weekend
Speaker 3: and we will play Phil in the blank. All of
Speaker 3: that coming up