WEBVTT - Reaction to Eagles making Super Bowl vs Chiefs & Bronny-Lakers drama 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.600 Welcome in What's Driving Thick Right episode to ninety seven. 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:08.600 We will today, in very short order, get to the 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.040 NFC Championship Game, which somehow we had our maybe our 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.360 longest pot of all time and never got to. I 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.720 blame demons. He wouldn't shut up on Tuesday. I mean, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.200 my god head to all these chiefs take so many 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.759 things to say, and because of it, we couldn't get 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.520 to Jalen Hurts and the Eagles and Jayden Daniels and 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.519 all of that. We also, I did not anticipate sometimes 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.920 I see stories coming down the pike. I did not 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:42.280 anticipate the latest as the world turns in relation to 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:46.040 Bronni James. So we'll get to that as well, and 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.640 a little kind of playoff picks recap all that coming 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:55.200 up shortly. Also a true media tour for me this 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:01.680 week the Collins Podcast, Levotard Show, and Patrick's show, Just 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.520 Did Pardon My Take? Invited myself onto Adam Shin's show, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.360 went on Damon Mindo Lara's show. I'm leaving some stuff out. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:16.720 There is something incredibly cool happening. I don't think I've 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.000 even told Demonse, and I can't Demonse call me after 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.440 the show to remind there's something really cool happening next 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.640 week around the time I get to New Orleans. I 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.199 don't want to it's not my news, so to speak, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.520 to share it right now, and so I don't want 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.480 to share it on the air. But a lot of 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.840 stuff's a little oversaturation, I suppose by me, but I I, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.440 you know, I'm too excited to talk about the Super 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.800 Bowl and these games and the reps and the lunatics 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.040 and all of it. Also, please like, rate, subscribe, review. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.480 Our goal was two hundred thousand by the Super Bowl 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.840 on YouTube. We're at one seventy one. So we're not 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.880 gonna get twenty nine thousand between now and the Super Bowl. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.360 Maybe we get to one seventy five by our post 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.880 super Bowl show, so we can do that, but also 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.680 subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, all that stuff. Okay, here's what 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.079 missed the cut. It's all Pro Bowl related, and demon's 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.160 I can just fix the Pro Bowl situation, okay, because 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.440 it's it's not actually a problem that Drake May and 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.320 Russell Wilson are gonna participate in the Pro Bowl games. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.840 The problem is that they will now be called Pro 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.600 Bowlers for the twenty twenty four season. The problem is 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.919 that on football Pro Football Reference and you're gonna look 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.320 at the twenty twenty four season and it's gonna say 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.919 Drake may was a Pro Bowler and Patrick Mahomes wasn't, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.399 and that's gonna be like, that's weird. So I actually 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:54.440 think this is a bookkeeping solution. The solution is bookkeeping. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:00.200 I think the official NFL record books should go go 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:05.320 back retroactively and moving forward and have the rule be 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.040 very simple. In order to be called a Pro Bowler, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.840 you have to make the original roster. Those are your 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.639 However many it is one hundred and six Pro bowlers 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.679 a year are the guys on the original roster. If 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.960 you were an injury replacement or a guy who opted 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.400 out replacement, then you do not get on Pro Football 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.160 Reference or in the NFL record books a Pro Bowl 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.520 designation next to your name. That way, we don't have 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.600 this weird stuff where it's like, wait, Tyler Huntley the 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.240 year Lamar got hurt and he started four games, was 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.480 a Pro Bowler. That is, that's on his record. So 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.840 it's a book keeping solution more than anything. You can't 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.080 ask Josh Allen to go play in this game. He's devastated. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.440 The artist hand Lamar and Derrick Henry are devastated. So 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.160 it's just that's the way you do it. The other 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.720 thing that Greg Jennings brought up, which is a good point, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.160 is the Pro Bowl used to be in Hawaii and 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.920 it was a vacation for your family and it was cool. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.960 Now it's in Orlando, and nothing against Orlando. People are 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.120 less likely to be like, Okay, I want to spend 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.880 time there as supposed to go into Hawaii. So there's 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.680 the solutions. Demons. You had an interesting idea that I 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.560 think is worth throwing out into the audience before we 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.120 get the NFC championship game. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.560 Yeah, I'm mad that I didn't think of what you said, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.919 because that makes a lot of sense. But I just 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.440 said that they should make the Pro Bowl to where 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.960 up and coming stars in the college and the college 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.200 team should be able to play. So it makes it 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.640 more embarrassing for the NFL players that didn't make it, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.119 incentivizes them to make it, and gives the college players 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.039 a little bit of a taste. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.960 Well yeah, and so it maybe gives more pressure for 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.320 the NFL guys to actually to make the list to 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.960 make the list, but guys who made the list to participate, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.320 it's like, listen, you opt out, it's fine, but Shador 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.080 Sanders taking your spot. Whatever it is, I think it's 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.960 kind of it's kind of senior bullish, but would be 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 pretty cool. All right, Right, let's get to the NFC 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:14.800 Championship game. Go ahead, demons. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.760 So Philly obviously watched the Commanders in the NFC Championship Game. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.040 Do you think they might have done that just to 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.400 come up short next Sunday? 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:30.400 Well, I obviously think the Chiefs are the better team, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.839 and I obviously think the Chiefs are gonna win the 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.520 Super Bowl. But I also would like to give the 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:43.760 Eagles credit because that was a tour de force rushing performance. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:49.600 And sometimes someone else has a take that I hear 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.400 and I'm like, god, dog it, that's the right take here, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.840 and Wild's had it on this football game, which was 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.400 I watched Commander's Eagles, and I was like, man, Jaden 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.960 really got let down by his role players. When McNichols, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:14.680 Diami Brown and Austin Eckler are fumbling the ball like that, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.680 you want if you're gonna have a bunch of mistakes 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.479 as bad as painful as it is. You want it 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.000 to be like it was with the Chargers or the Lions, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.719 your star quarterback kills you, because at least then it 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.599 feels fair. I know that sounds silly, but you just 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.200 don't want guys who are not main characters of the 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.400 story deciding your season. It's one of the reasons I 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.240 get so nervous with the Chiefs kick returner Nico Romihio, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.960 who's an electric player, but he's not one of the 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.520 main characters here, and just the chance of him fumbling 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.880 the ball or something bad happening there. Uh So, I 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:00.880 I was making it about those Washington mistakes, and Wild's 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.080 on the show said, man, that game was over on 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.400 the very first play of that Philly had the ball. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.640 He's like, when Sakuon Barkley in the regular season destroys you, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.120 goes for two hundred yards, and then Sakuon Barkley in 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.800 the second game in the regular season goes for one 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.680 hundred yards in the first quarter, and then Saquon Barkley 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.560 on the first play of your playoff game goes for 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.200 a sixty yard touchdown. You're not beating that team. And 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.920 I'm like, Okay, that's actually correct. Actually You're like, even 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.000 if Washington hadn't turned the ball over, they had no 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.560 chance all year longest stopping Saquon. And that is also 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.480 what I think is so interesting about this upcoming Super Bowl, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:52.280 because Saquon is great, and I've taken my beating on 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.920 being dead wrong about him. Like there was no preseason 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.160 take I had more wrong than the Eagles missing the 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:05.280 playoffs and Saquon not being a difference maker. I was 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.440 just as wrong as someone can be about a sports 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.880 take about that exact thing. The Eagles not only didn't 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.920 miss the playoffs, they won the division, they got the 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.080 two seed during the Super Bowl, and Saquon, as opposed 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.360 to not being a difference maker, had arguably the single 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.080 greatest season in the history of the running back position. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.840 Dead wrong across the board on it. With all that set, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.280 I don't think Saquon's going to annihilate the Chiefs. I'm 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.480 sure he'll be good. The Chiefs are too good at tackling, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.800 too buttoned up, too well coached to let the other 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.920 team's best player ruin the game. So it's going to 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.000 have to be more on Jalen Hurts. And we'll get 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.400 to Jalen shortly and more on the other guys. Saquan 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.880 will be good. I don't think he's going to be 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.880 dominant the way he has been up to this point. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.199 The other piece of this game that I really do 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.959 want to give Philly credit for is it was early 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.400 and it was still close, and they went for a 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.840 fourth and five. I think the score was thirteen to 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.920 twelve when they did it and not and Jalen hurts 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.240 through as good of a pass as you can throw 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.600 down the sideline to AJ Brown and they kept control 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.319 of the game and they went on to score. That 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:38.160 was a That was the single highest leverage, non turnover 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.160 play of that football game. And it wasn't Saquan, and 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.240 it wasn't something that was schemed wide open a crossing 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.720 route with a guy running naked over the middle. It 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.920 was a difficult throw, it was a high leverage throw. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.600 Jalen made the throw and AJ Brown made the catch. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.120 So credit to them because that was enough. That was 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.599 the first the moment of the game where it's like, oh, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.600 could Washington kind of take control here? And Philly didn't 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.800 give him the opportunity. So that I think that has 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.360 to be said because I've been not so much of 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.200 a jail and hurts critic as much as a bit 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.679 of a jail and hurts skeptic. And again we'll get 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.000 to hurts in a second, but before we do that, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:21.880 let's talk toush pushes tomorrow. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.880 Yeah, you've been saying that they should Jesus, you've been 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.000 saying that they should ban the toush push for years. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.880 Now you say it's bad for television. Do you think 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.600 with all of those offsides or the encroachment penalties from Washington, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.520 that we've gotten closer to that getting banned? 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.960 All right? So that was a wild sequence. And also, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:47.679 I know I'm gonna sound annoying here probably I was 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:53.640 shocked how few people knew the referees could award a touchdown. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.360 So many media members were like, I've never heard and 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.480 again this is my own nerd nerd, I guess. But 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.320 the palpably, I even knew the language of it. It's like, yeah, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:09.400 palpably unfair act it is. It is in place for 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:16.559 really two scenarios. One is this a guy is break 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:22.120 so Saquon esque super long run, has nothing but daylight 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.640 in front of him, and a player from the bench 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.480 runs on the field and tackles that they had to 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.920 have a rule in place for if someone a coach 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.840 or a player from the sideline stops an obvious touchdown, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.079 that is more punitive than we'll give you the ball 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.760 the one and that just intellectually makes perfect sense that 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.280 if that rule was not actually written as such, then 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.080 if in overtime of a game a guy is running free, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.640 you would do that like that It would actually be 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.480 the smart thing to do to run on the field 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.960 and stop them. The other reason, yeah, and so it 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.120 was people. When I say that, think of Mike Tomlin 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.240 and Jacoby Jones. But Tomlin, like the referees could have 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.440 in that situation theoretically if they thought Tomlin did that 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.960 on purpose, or if he did actually trip Jacoby Jones, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.560 awarded them a touchdown. The other scenario it's in place 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:30.160 for is the one the referees were discussing here but 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:37.600 not reeally, which is if a team just commits a 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:43.520 pre snap penalty again and again and again, the game 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:48.800 can never move forward. So I'll give you a four instance. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:56.320 Let's say, and this is not a likely scenario, but 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.840 it's likely enough that the would have to be in place. Okay, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:08.560 So to Monsey, let's say In this game, Jaden Daniels 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:13.480 has the ball throws an interception. It's the exact golf 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.560 thing where golf throws a pick and then gets annihilated 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.679 trying to make the tackle, except instead of the guys scoring, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:27.960 the guy is stopped at the one, and the the 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:32.440 team doctor says, oh, we have to check you for 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.400 a head injury, and in fact, we have to take 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.520 you to the locker room, and golf is gonna be 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.120 you know, even if he's ruled eligible to play, he's 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.319 not gonna be in for you know, ten to fifteen minutes, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:51.720 however long that takes. Without this rule in place, the 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:57.120 smart thing, and it's you know, Philly ball on the one, 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.520 the smart thing for the defense to do would to 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:06.000 be just encroach for twenty minutes and let him move 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.400 the ball an inch, a quarter of an a half inch, 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.360 quarter whatever until they get the signal, Oh, the check's 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.120 done on golf, you know what I mean? Now go 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:20.320 ahead and play defense. You're giving up literal you know, millimeters, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.160 and what you're gaining is time. The other thing you 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.040 could do is be like, screw you, we hate you. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.480 We're not letting this game end. We're just gonna clock stopped, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.480 and so that those rules, that's why that rule is there. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.160 It actually makes perfect sense that the referees have to 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.960 have an ability to be like, no, screw you, it's 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:43.360 a touchdown. I did not think it was used properly, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:49.000 even threatened to use properly in this specific situation, because 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.200 those guys were not trying to waste time and Jalen 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.120 was doing a hard count. Jalen was trying to drop him. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:03.160 And I also thought the herd count was bad strategy 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.600 by Philly because you want to do a hard count 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.160 when you're on your own goal line, where a false 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.880 start doesn't hurt you at all, and an offside really 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.160 hurts the defense. Doing a hard count at the half 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.680 yard line, you're gaining almost nothing and you're really putting 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.520 a lot of pressure on your lineman not to make 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.640 a mistake. Okay, so there's the palpably unfair act, super 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:34.200 nerdy eight minutes. Now, as far as the tush push, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:39.200 that sequence was what I was talking about when I 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.240 said last year they're gonna get rid of it. They're 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.160 gonna say it's for player safety. And you could even 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.520 argue that there because Luo hit Jalen in the head 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.160 on one of those dives. But it's just because it's 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:58.920 terrible television. It's an entertainment sport, and that was awful 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:05.400 TV for a long time. Okay, And I also said 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.880 last year, and I will say again, the only reason 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.760 it has not been banned yet, Demons is because the 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:20.800 Eagles aren't quite good enough at it. And by that 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:27.120 I mean this it is a basically guaranteed one to 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:33.480 two yards. If it ever became a guaranteed three to 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.320 four yards and they could do that on first and 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.160 ten and then second and six and then third and two, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.200 it would be banned immediately because the sport would be art. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.280 They'll never do that. I mean, I'm assuming, yeah, yeah, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.400 they're never gonna do that. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.960 Right, But so, but I think everyone this is where 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.440 anyone that's like, oh, it would be so unfair to 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.480 ban it, what if the Eagles got that good at it, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.879 then you would definitely it would not be more or 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.800 less unfair, but it'd be like, okay, now we're if 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.159 you think it's unfair to ban it now, then you 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.240 would have to think it's unfair to ban it just 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.760 because they got better at it. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.240 But we would all be like, uh no, it's getting banned, 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.200 like they you can't have that be the whole offense. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:30.240 Here's why I actually think Sunday as a whole made 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.080 it more likely the tush push is here to stay 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:41.080 because other teams can't do it. The Bills kept trying 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:46.040 and kept failing. If the whole league, you know, could 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.719 do it consistently, it's just like, Okay, well this sucks 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.760 like it's not good TV. Everyone does it. There's no creativity. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.800 I think they'd get rid of it. But when Josh 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.080 Allen is flailing about can't get it, doesn't get the 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.119 two point conversion, fumbles, the ball doesn't get pardon me, 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.080 doesn't get the fourth and one, I feel like the league, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.280 the league looks at it and says, all right, like 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.359 it's a Philly thing. They're the only ones who have 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.840 figured it out. They clearly it's not even just personnel 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.600 because Jason Kelsey retired. They had two different centers in 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.919 this game, and they figured that they did it no 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.080 matter what. So I actually think it's probably here to 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.280 stay for at least another year. All right, let's talk 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:32.080 Jalen Hurts. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.960 Hurts came out and said they let me out of 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.919 my straight jacket a little bit, SERRANI said it was nothing. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.840 H do you think that this is something with Hurts. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.960 I think everybody's reading too deep into it. That's my 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:46.239 opinion of it. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.560 Okay, So why do you think he said it? 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.760 I mean because he threw the ball more. I think 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.240 they were less reliant. I can't say they were less 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.879 reliant on Saquan, but those probably you just threw the 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.680 ball more. He was letting it rip, and I don't 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.960 know if that was necessarily the style that they've been 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.080 playing with all your I know aj Brown was complaining 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:08.560 about not getting the ball thrown to him. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.480 So yeah, So here's so, I don't think demon's a 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.280 It's like a five alarm a five alarm fire, part 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:22.720 five alarm fire. Here's what I do think. I think 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:29.800 Jalen Hurts feels like I'm a better player. Then you're 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.639 allowing me to show. And I'm a great leader and 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.679 I care about winning first and foremost. So I'm not 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:42.560 going to make a big problem of this. But when 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:48.399 given the opportunity, I will remind America I can do 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.000 this whenever I am given the chance. My numbers are depressed, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.240 not because of my own talent, but because it's what 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.480 my coach stylistic he wants us to be. Now, I 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:07.200 disagree with Jalen Hurts. I don't think Jalen Hurts can 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.199 consistently drop back and pass the ball and that's a 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.439 winning formula, but he thinks he can. And so the 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.280 reason I think it's something is it is just it 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.439 is similar to after the AJ Brown comments when Jalen 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.040 had a big game and he said down, he was like, 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.440 so is that what y'all wanted to see? He has 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.399 I think a bit of frustration that they have an 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.800 offense that it's not that it's run focused on Saquon, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.520 it's that it's also run focused on Jaalen. So many 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.720 designed quarterback runs, the quarterback power stuff, and I think 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.560 he feels like he is in a you know, in 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.320 a straight jacket, a bit that he is prevented from 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.600 showing the world how excellent he can be. Which gets 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.560 me to the Super Bowl because obviously in last the 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.200 last Super Bowl, it was a drop back passing game 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.560 and he was awesome. I think he's gonna have to 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.280 do that again for Philly to win this game. I 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:18.520 do not think that the recipe of amazing defense, amazing 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:26.360 Saquon Barkley, and that that would be enough to beat 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:30.200 the Chiefs. I think he's going to have to somewhat 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.600 go toe to toe with Mahomes, not exactly, but at 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:39.879 least some ten to nine rounds, and we'll see if 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.400 he can do it. He clearly thinks he can. And 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:49.199 I again, I think Jalen Hurts deserves massive credit for 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.399 his leadership, his toughness, what a great teammate he is, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.159 his ability to protect the football. I think he deserves 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.080 credit for all of those things. I also don't think 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.199 we need to or I'm not going to pretend that 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.760 I think he is a great drop back passer just 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.320 because the Eagles keep winning, because I don't, and so 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:22.399 I I the I think that is a real point 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.440 of contention within the Eagles go ahead to mons E. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:30.320 So Neil says or asks, isn't it entirely possible that 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.960 both the straight jacket comment and this is what you 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.000 wanted to see is just the teen trolling the media 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.520 who wants there to be more drama than there really is. 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:47.000 It's it's possible. I don't think it's likely. I don't 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:53.440 think that they are intentionally creating this kind of narrative 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:56.919 around them just and then like privately behind closed doors, 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:57.840 laughing about it. 0:22:57.880 --> 0:22:58.840 We got them. 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:01.000 Yeah, I don't. I think that's what it is. I 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:05.400 do think there is a real tension there. I don't 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.199 think it's debilitating. I don't think it's gonna have an 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.560 impact on the Super Bowl. But I don't think it 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:18.280 is that they just they win these games all year. Yes, right, 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:22.280 And I think part of it really is I don't 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:26.640 know that Sirianni and Jalen Hurts on the exact same 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.560 page all the time. It just doesn't feel that way 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:32.360 to me. Again, I'm not there, But I don't think 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.280 it's trolling the media. All right, let's talk about the 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:37.160 other side of that game. 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.160 Jayden Daniels, Shade and Daniels had a rookie season. Quite 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.000 the rookie season can really cause the rookie season exceeded 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:49.400 any expectations. We've obviously seen sophomore slumps, but this guy 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.040 seems pretty promising. Do you think that the Commanders are 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:55.399 gonna be contenders moving forward? Is this going to continue? 0:23:56.359 --> 0:24:06.960 Well? I think that contenders is to me a touch strong. 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:12.400 They clearly have their guy at quarterback, and I think 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:19.320 that he is going to inter next year as a 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:26.960 consensus top ten guy consensus, and I think that some 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:31.160 people will have him inter next year at number five Demonse. 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:36.480 I think next year the one through four is gonna 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:45.359 be pretty lockdown. One Patrick, two, Josh three, Lamar, four Borrow. 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:48.760 Maybe some people have Burrow ahead of Lamar. I won't 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:52.040 because as much as the concerns about Lamar and the 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:55.280 playoffs are real, the concerns about Burrow's team making the 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.359 playoffs are real, So you've got to give Lamar the 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:01.600 nod there. I think some people will then say number 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:05.120 five is Jayden Daniels. Now, if Jalen Hurts wins this game, 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:07.480 then I guess number five is probably gonna be Jalen Hurts. 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:12.880 But I think that he is going to be consensus 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:17.000 top ten in borderline top five. I do think that 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:21.080 if I'm the Commanders, I am having someone on my 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:27.200 team do a real deep dive into the off seasons 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:32.280 of this past offseason of the Texans and the Packers 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:37.639 and figure out why those two teams didn't take a 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:42.560 step forward the way people thought they would after their quarterbacks. 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:45.359 I know Jordan Love wasn't a rookie. CJ was, But 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:48.200 Jordan Love's first year starting had this type of year 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.440 not quite as good as Jayden this type of year. 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:54.840 Say it again, injuries, I feel like was the common 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.919 denominator for I mean, Jordan Love got injured directly. CJ. 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.920 Strouds receivers went down one by one. Nicole Collins came 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:04.240 back after like three games. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:08.040 So listen, If it is as simple as that, then 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:13.080 it's a you know, a pretty quick autopsy. I felt 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:15.479 like it was a little more than that because you know, 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:19.679 the Texans fired their offensive coordinator. They didn't you know, 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:24.040 they they clearly felt they didn't move forward offensively the 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:29.440 way they should have. So I I look at There's 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:31.960