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Speaker 1: That's time and welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joined

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Speaker 1: in a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,

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Speaker 1: and Greg wild Card. Weekend is in the books, and

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Speaker 1: as often the case, when we assume we something something

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Speaker 1: the same and me there it is because a lot

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Speaker 1: of unexpected things happen, uh today and wild Card or

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Speaker 1: this weekend, wild Card Sunday is Saturday and Sunday games.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to all of them. Um. In terms

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Speaker 1: of like a big picture takeaway, Mark Sessler, Hey you

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Speaker 1: doing by buddy dog. Mark would see no team had

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Speaker 1: more than twenty four points on wild Card weekend, So

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Speaker 1: there was no in the year of offense, there was

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Speaker 1: not a single team that said, I'm gonna heat things up.

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Speaker 1: We what about it? In a year of offense, defense

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Speaker 1: everything we said. And it's funny you say that, West,

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Speaker 1: because but the best defense has all got knocked out

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, the Ravens and Bears, that best defenses in

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Speaker 1: the NFL wiped away in eight hours. So football dot

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Speaker 1: dot dot, it's unpredictable. I blame the weather, the elements.

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Speaker 1: Elements sometimes can be rough, colder weather. Also also this

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Speaker 1: weekend for the hero it was windy, rainy, a lock apocalypse,

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Speaker 1: which we're gonna get into and not for everybody, though,

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Speaker 1: try it West, try it lock o lips almost lolockalypse.

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Speaker 1: But what's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through

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Speaker 1: the games and we're gonna go and reverse connor Rod

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Speaker 1: chronological over um. So let's get it going, starting with

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Speaker 1: what happened at Soldier Field. This is the season. This

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Speaker 1: is it right here. It's sack placed kick and it

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Speaker 1: is so fun no good, it has no card of

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. The Eagles were heading New Orleans and who

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Speaker 1: knows where Cody parks oh oh, Narril reaves with the

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Speaker 1: Cody Parky's forty three yard field goal, and they didn't

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Speaker 1: to the audience. Struck the left upright, then clanged against

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Speaker 1: missed by party that allowed the Eagles to escape Soldier

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Speaker 1: Field with a sixteen fifteen win. This was the best

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Speaker 1: game of wild Card Weekend. The six seed Eagles will

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Speaker 1: week's divisional round. Chris Westling the Eagles. They're the defending

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Speaker 1: chair for a reason. They got talent, resiliency, and yes,

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Speaker 1: create legacies that the way we view Mitch Drabinsky is

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Speaker 1: But you're right, they are the Super Bowl champions. You

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Speaker 1: Bryan belonging something. Greg hates icing but if you asked me,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was not great Nick Foles game until

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Speaker 1: the end, and he delivered as he has every time.

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Speaker 1: I think similar to the games he's put together other

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Speaker 1: He also missed the third and nine that that killed

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Speaker 1: I was surprised how often we saw Darren Sprowle's touch

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Speaker 1: But this game to me was so similar from Rabisky,

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Speaker 1: whereas ultimately if they kicked that ball, you're right West,

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Speaker 1: This is kind of the typical Mitchell Drabinsky game. He'll

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Speaker 1: So some of that came before what was a beautiful

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Speaker 1: Robinsky he's treated with kid gloves, where it's like we

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Speaker 1: this was a roller coaster ride. He's not a quarterback

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Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Does that justify sticking

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Speaker 1: with him. I don't think. I don't think so. I

431
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Speaker 1: think I think that was lipstick on a pig, greg

432
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: just because you could say, uh, now, the fact that

433
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Speaker 1: they had the ball with seconds, with a chance to

434
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: score at the end of the game, with no time outs,

435
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: I don't think that was some great opportunity for the team.

436
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: I thought, if they got I thought you should keep

437
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Speaker 1: him in obviously through the first half, and then give

438
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: him a look in the as the second. As the

439
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: second half begins. After that first or second possession, I

440
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 1: had to make a move if I'm the head coach.

441
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: I thought John Harball blew this. And I know a

442
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: lot of people who think they know so much about

443
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: football will say, oh, well, Joe Flacco stinks. There's nothing

444
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: he could have done. Well, everybody thinks they know so

445
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 1: much on their keyboards. But it's like, how about you

446
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: give him a shot, because crazy stuff happens in the playoffs.

447
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,159
Speaker 1: Flacco could have gotten hot. It could have been Johnny

448
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: United's going in for Earl Morrow and Super Bowl three

449
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: and get a team back in the game. Will never

450
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Speaker 1: know because at the end of the day, Harbor obviously

451
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: turned the page on this Ravens franchise and said Joe

452
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: Flacco and he said as much after the game. I

453
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 1: wish him, well, he's a great guy. We're just going

454
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: to have a market said this is over and said

455
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: that is how he played this game, that Joe Flacco

456
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: was already essentially off the team. I didn't like how

457
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: he played this. Didn't it make you think if the

458
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: Ravens don't release that statement a week ago saying that

459
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Speaker 1: John Harball's back for two thousand nineteen, Harball might play

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00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,240
Speaker 1: this thing differently. It certainly seemed like he was looking

461
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Speaker 1: forward to next year when he stayed with Lament Jacks. Well,

462
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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting too because they asked him about whether

463
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Speaker 1: he thought there was any chance, uh that he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be back, and he he had an interesting non answer

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Speaker 1: to that. And I don't know if that he's just like, ang, yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: of course, of course he's gonna say that he wants

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Speaker 1: to be back. But his quote quote of the Bible,

468
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Speaker 1: I believe his quote was there's a Bible verse that

469
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Speaker 1: says make no oath, no one can say what tomorrow

470
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Speaker 1: is going to bring other than God willing, We'll see

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Speaker 1: what God has in store. I have every expectation, every

472
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Speaker 1: plan to be here. I think this might be just,

473
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, maneuvering to get a contract extension. Pro Football

474
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: Tech has report it very strongly that the Broncos and

475
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: Dolphins are both interested in Harboston. That's a whole other story.

476
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he would have changed his decision

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Speaker 1: based on that. I was just saying, I guess, when

478
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: what have you? Made the change at halftime? I guess

479
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: would have been the time to do it, because he

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00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: did get to fourth quarter types probably one point, Yeah,

481
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Speaker 1: I got. I got just saying I would say, after

482
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Speaker 1: the first fruitless possession, or even tell you in the

483
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Speaker 1: third quarter, get him in there, because at a certain point,

484
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: what what is the point? And he did make it

485
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: a close, he made it interesting, but by that point

486
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: it was just desperate straits. Can I just count you

487
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: real quick? I was not in favor of making the switch,

488
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: just because I think the allure to Lamar Jackson is

489
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: you're going to get the mistakes, You're not gonna be

490
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: able to count on necessarily steady passing effort, but he's

491
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: going to bring explosiveness and it much more so than

492
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. And the one thing that was happening was

493
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: l A was getting heat on Lamar Jackson. They were

494
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Speaker 1: getting heat on the backfield, and that is not something

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Speaker 1: that I would have trusted Joe Flacco. But Alter, just

496
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Speaker 1: just to counterpoint, go on, allow me to counterpoint that

497
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: we heard that exact same. I would say, guesswork about

498
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor and Baker and Mayfield in the game against

499
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Speaker 1: the Jets. Oh no, you can't put Baker Mayfield in

500
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: because Tyrod's under pressure the whole game. As soon as

501
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: you put the other quarterback into different he gets rid

502
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: of the ball faster. They start lining up on defense differently.

503
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: The pass rush isn't there. I don't think you can

504
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: say that's possible, But I just don't really see Joe

505
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: Flacco that way, and everything's different. I agree West, it

506
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: could have given them a different look. But I think

507
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: ultimately to Mark's point, the Chargers defensive line was winning

508
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: the battle consistently, whether it was in the running game

509
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: or the passing game. Well, then it also stack a

510
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: lot more people in the defensive line when you don't

511
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: have to worry about the throw and beyond. And when

512
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: if if Gus Edwards and Kenneth Dixon are are running

513
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: fourteen for thirty six, it's like, I don't think they're

514
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Speaker 1: gonna win this game. In less, Philip Rivers has a meltdown.

515
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Speaker 1: And it's not like the Chargers offense played well. I

516
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: mean the Ravens defense didn't. We were frustrating. I also

517
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Speaker 1: have one more aside related to the Flacco situation. At

518
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Speaker 1: one point, Tracy Wilson of CBS reported that Jimmy Smith

519
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: chastise some Ravens fans behind the bench for channing for Flacco,

520
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: and he told them not to be fair weather fans.

521
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: And I that is another thing I was seen popping

522
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: up on Twitter. It's like calling a fan fair weather

523
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: because they think they need to make a switch a

524
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: quarterback in a one and done elimination. It doesn't make

525
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: you a bad fan. If you leave the stadium at halftime,

526
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: you're a fair weather fan. So that got on my

527
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: radar to this idea that you have to protect Lamar

528
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Speaker 1: Jackson's dignity or or you know, get Joe Flacco out

529
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: of the mix. Totally. I just had an issue with

530
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Speaker 1: how the whole thing. I do agree with West though,

531
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: that the that the whole element of Hardball's contract and

532
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,959
Speaker 1: the fact that you're dealing with a rookie quarterback who

533
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: has had a great story up till now, and the

534
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: minute he gets troubled Waters the only thing is you

535
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: have to deal with whatever happens now, the same way

536
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: with the Patriots last year in the Super Bowl. You

537
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: have to deal with this storyline for the rest of

538
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: the off season, and you have to wonder if that

539
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: factored in. I I just Emma, it is fun to

540
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: know that the Chargers team is moving on. Chargers Chargers

541
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: aren't going to You were a huge Ravens fan about

542
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: nine hours ago, but outside of that, I was rooting

543
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: on the Chargers the time. Are you kidding me? You

544
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: were watching both both. I enjoy like watching teams. We

545
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: don't need to like not not, but I love this

546
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: Chargers team. The fact that Ingram's the heartbeat of this team.

547
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: He had a monster game. Antonio Gates made a huge

548
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: play in this game, which I think Chargers fans had

549
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: to just like that. Was delightful to have him and

550
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: make one of the key plays of the game, and

551
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: how about the Chargers special teams ends up being maybe

552
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: the key of the game. You know, they had a

553
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: pun block in a kickblock, but Desmond King and then

554
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: the in the field goal kicker nothing. I'm not gonna

555
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: call him Penn Badgley. I was about to call him

556
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: Penn and I was like, he doesn't gradually he is

557
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: the money badger and he set a franchise record with

558
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: five field goals scores fifteen points in this game. And yeah,

559
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: because Charges fans are gonna get mad at us for

560
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: focusing on the Ravens. The Ravens, it's a on soap

561
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: opera angle to it. But the Chargers. And I'll say

562
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: this Greg because you, as you may know, I do

563
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: not like the Patriots after back to back years where

564
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: they just got tomato cans when they beat up the Titans,

565
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: the Tytoons in the Texan thirty the last two years

566
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: in the Division round. This is a battle tested, gritty,

567
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: tough Philip Rivers led Chargers team going up to Foxborough

568
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see the stat over and over again

569
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: that they have not lost a game this year. When

570
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: they got on a plane that includes a trip to London,

571
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: there nine and oh, I believe in games only road

572
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: game they losses against the radio, I'll see them. So

573
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: this is including four playoff teams Seattle, Kansas City, Pittsburgh

574
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: and then today with a competent Creaker so totally new

575
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: DNA totally and the and the Patriots. They're undefeated at home.

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00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: So this is a great division round game. You want

577
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: to get to the FC title game this year, Greg,

578
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: you gotta have to earn it. Bro here's another STA

579
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: can lose at both my teams one of This would

580
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: be the oldest combined matchup for quarterbacks in a playoff game.

581
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,959
Speaker 1: How about that for old dudes out there. We got

582
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: bang on this one. I did, m hmm here you

583
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: gonna here, you gonna let's move on um certain long

584
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: Prescott runching up the middle fifteen ten time all they

585
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: spotted him short, they spotted in a four. Well, they've

586
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: moved in to the one. It is a first and goal.

587
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: Watching that, Judge steinlines the sham god k r l

588
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: D with the call. Dak Prescott shot through an opening

589
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: a third and long. I took it to the goal line.

590
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: It was a game changing play for the Cowboys and

591
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: over the Seahawks. At Jarro World. The fourth seed Cowboys

592
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: move on to face the Rams the number two seed

593
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: Rams here in l A next weekend. Greg the Seahawks

594
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: had a game plan that worked all year well until

595
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: they got to Dallas. Right, everyone is killing Brian Shot

596
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: and Timer for this game plan, and they should and

597
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: we'll get well, I'm sure to talk about that, but

598
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: that it's been. It's been basically the same game plan

599
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: all year. This isn't a new thing, and so I

600
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: think the Seahawks fans that are upset about that have

601
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: to recognize that they lost to a team that very

602
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: much one in the similar way that the Seahawks have

603
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: won a lot of playoff games under Pete Carroll. They

604
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: had the superior defense, They had the superior defensive playmakers

605
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: in Jalen Smith and Layton Vanderish and DeMarcus Lawrence stopping

606
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: the run, and they were the team that even though

607
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: they were they were a little too conservative on offense,

608
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: their quarterback is the one that was rushing for key

609
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: first downs, just like Russell Wilson did that didn't need

610
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: to do a heck of a lot except hit like

611
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: one red zone throw, which he did to Michael Gallup.

612
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: And they watched their running game pop off a few

613
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: big ones to close it out in a game that

614
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: the opponent eventually think, gosh, we should have won that.

615
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: It's like, that's how the Seahawks have won a lot

616
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: of games this century. And all credit to the to

617
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: the Cowboys who had the best group in this game,

618
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: and that was the Cowboys defense. I thought Wes diagnosed

619
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: this many many days ahead, not just on our Thursday show,

620
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: that the strength of the Cowboys would be their linebacking corps,

621
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: and it would be the fact that their defense is

622
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: very well coached. And when you if you want to

623
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: blame Brian Schottenheimer for the fact that Seattle had six

624
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: three and ounce, there's a huge reason that that happened.

625
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: It's the opponent they were playing. Now, you can look

626
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: at Schottenheimer's decision to do things like throw a little

627
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: rinky dink screen on third and long in a massive

628
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: situation and say, come on, we've seen that from you before,

629
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: and we thought you had broken out of that cycle.

630
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: But this had all to do with Dallas dominating on

631
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: defense in a way that gives them a chance to

632
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: play with anyone next week. Some of that's in Brian

633
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer recovery still from his years. It gets I could

634
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: tell you what was getting on my radar and brought

635
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: back a lot of memories of the Rex Ryan years.

636
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: Was running on first down, yes, over and over and

637
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: over again. It wasn't working. It was not working on

638
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: Saturday night, and he never deviated out of that. It

639
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: seemed so every time you got the second and third down,

640
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: its third and seven, and it was just like, sometimes,

641
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 1: I know what the game plan has worked all year.

642
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: They led the world and rushing and all that, but

643
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: it wasn't working, and Shandon Haier showed no flexibility. I

644
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: don't think any Seahawks fans will fault the game plan.

645
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: It's like, you don't follow enough plan that you created

646
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: during the week in the script that you wrote. Okay,

647
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: I get it, you're obviously gonna run. The fault is

648
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: why did you not switch away from that at any

649
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: point in the game. Yeah, in the second half to

650
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: your point, then they had six runs in one pass

651
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: on first down, and that's after it wasn't working until

652
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: that last drive. Wilson at twenty seven throws for eight

653
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: point three yards per tend and and they're running their

654
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: runs average two point eight yards per tempt. So it's

655
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: just like it's it's kind of simple math. And they

656
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: had a bunch of plus twenty players. In the passing game,

657
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: you Lockett made a couple of big catches, Baldwin made

658
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: one great catch, and you're thinking, like, hey, is this

659
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna ring any alarm bells that when you allow these

660
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: great players Wilson lock it in Baldwin to try for

661
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: something that you can you can make some plays. They

662
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 1: had the same number of first downs as the Ravens did.

663
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: The Cowboys had twice as many first downs as the Seahawks.

664
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: They just didn't move the ball. It's very typical of that.

665
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: This was a typical Cowboys game for this season where

666
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: it felt like they should have been leading by more

667
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: and they really were. I mean, I heard a lot

668
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: of people saying like, we really need one good game

669
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: this week, and it's been a dude, and it's been

670
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: a snoozer. I thought this was a really good game.

671
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: Four lead changes, and and and it was totally up

672
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: in the air until the third and four. It wasn't

673
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: a classic Dana, but it was third and fourteen when

674
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott in the red zone picked up that first down.

675
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: At that point, you were looking at Russell Wilson in

676
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: a game that had four lead changes, getting the ball

677
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: to go, try to win the games like it didn't

678
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: have like a stint coming from it. Yeah, and also

679
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: you know this thing when these things happen to some

680
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: type of colors. I locked up the Seahawks, but I

681
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: got something looking more from the factor that you know,

682
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: I thought this game was gonna come down to the

683
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: last minute. It said it was. It was a close game.

684
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys, to their credit, there's nothing kind of

685
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: sexy about this Cowboys team. But unless you love linebacker play. Okay,

686
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: if you if you're a type of fan that loves

687
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: linebacker play, and that's good. Uh, this is a there's

688
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: millions of you watch. I'm just saying like, if that,

689
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: if you're seeing the field like that, it's an erotic team.

690
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like from a standpoint of what

691
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: most fans are right when you go when you go

692
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: home West on Sunday nights, I know you like the

693
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: fire up game, pass you locked that door when you

694
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,720
Speaker 1: watch the Cowboys linebacker I've already watched, I've already rewatched

695
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: this game and I did not lock the door. Were

696
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: you wearing pants? Yes, wasn't like the first place, the

697
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: first third time, the first third down of the game,

698
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: to your point shorts watching job at best, I mean

699
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: you should you could have lit a candle before that

700
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: first third down of the game. They take Layton Vaderesh

701
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 1: off the field, it's just Jalen Smith at middle linebacker,

702
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: and there's Russell Wilson kind of run into the edge

703
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: like looking for someone open, and Jalen Smith is just

704
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: running and mirroring him. And I don't know if any

705
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: other linebacker in the league will be would have been

706
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: able to do that as well as he didn't just

707
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: swat down Russell Wilson's past like like he was like

708
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: a point guard shooting the ball. It's kind of amazing.

709
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: And they made plays like that the whole night the

710
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: one and I often will not sit like I'll just

711
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: watch the game and not try to predict what's gonna happen.

712
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: But in my mind, I I vow to you that

713
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 1: when Sebastian Janikowski was lining up for that fifty two

714
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: yard field goal before they're asking that all I saw

715
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: because because for weeks I've been telling you I feel

716
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: like Sea Bass is ready to say I'm out and like,

717
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: but he goes attempts that kick and it's just like

718
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: any totally out of shape dad trying to do something

719
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: they probably should not have attempted the last fifteen years, right,

720
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: and he was just wincing in pain. That was a

721
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: factory They did not have that. Yeah, when they lost

722
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: the kicker and it things the way it worked out,

723
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: they ended up getting to two point conversions and so

724
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't look that bad, and they didn't have any

725
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: like obvious field goal situations. They might have. They might

726
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 1: have gotten an extra touchdown out of it because playing

727
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: four down Terra, you could spin it that way. And

728
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: it's true it worked out ending up like helping them

729
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: on a weird way, but in reality it was a

730
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: crushing situation. And I will say at the onside kick,

731
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: which maybe is a rule they have to revisit because

732
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: they change the rule and there's no drama on side

733
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: kicks anymore. Nobody recovers them. But then they have the

734
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: drop kicking punter. Everybody loves Michael Dixon kept down the

735
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: game like Wayne Tollison bat into fourteen for the Yankees,

736
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: like just pop up the short he was trying to

737
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: hit like a soft pitching wedge, and he hit like

738
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: a five iron like and that was what he was

739
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: going for, like a flop wedge, and it just didn't

740
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: work to kind of a game. Experiences watching this from home.

741
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: Um one, I apologize to Seahawks fans because I tweeted

742
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: like forty minutes before Janikowski blew his hamstring Sea best

743
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: ruling field goals in two thousand nineteen. Go figure, and

744
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: then he blews hamstring, So I take accountability. The other

745
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: thing is I was I had to do some grilling outside, uh,

746
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: some chicken and some steak. Got to do some work

747
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: helping out the wife prepare some meals. So I paused

748
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: the game, which I'll do occasionally, like on Thursday nights

749
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't like to do it for playoff

750
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: games typically, but I did it in this case and

751
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: just doing some husband work. And it's a good story.

752
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: So what happens. What happens. I get a text, all right,

753
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: I get a text from my father in law, Oh

754
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: that was ugly. And then I get a text from

755
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: my dad and it's like, oh that was an ugly injury.

756
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: It was a legitimately bizarre, unsettling feeling. Then to then

757
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: hit play and just wonder who just got injured? How

758
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: bad was the injury? What happened? Uh So when we

759
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: see Alan Hearns's leg flopping the wrong direction, uh it

760
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: was not a great feeling, and Alan Hearn's probably a

761
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: much worse feeling. I had my children in the room

762
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: for that, and they and they've never seen an injury

763
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: like that on television or in real life. It was

764
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: not easy to explain off. But at that point that

765
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: was I thought it was concise. Didn't want to take

766
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: up too much of anyone's time with that. Didn't delve

767
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: into what I cooker rate for dinner at that point.

768
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: But Cold Beasley was also banged up. They overcame that

769
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: did well. You can get through this whole recap without

770
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: mentioning the best player on the fields. Not over j right,

771
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, oh z. He gives Zeke some love West

772
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: team every week, and he carried the team in this game.

773
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: And Chris Carson probably has some numbers that make people

774
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: argue sometimes he's just as good as Zekiel. No no no, no, no,

775
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: no no no no. They're in totally different classes that

776
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: the forty four yard run in that drive in general

777
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, that Elliott basically

778
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: set up Dack to throw it to Gallop. That to

779
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: me was the key sequence of the game, and it

780
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: was pretty talent like immediately after both Seahawks touchdowns, the

781
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys responded with the touchdown, which I think is telling

782
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: like and and even though Zeke wasn't piling up huge

783
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: yards the whole game, this the Seahawks kept having these

784
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: negative a ton of negative runs that would give them

785
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: six second and thirteen second and fourteen that the Cowboys

786
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: were the better offensive line, the better running game. Alright,

787
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: and yeah Cowboys sexy maybe in some sectors, but you

788
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: want to kind of write them off and say they

789
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: can't beat the Rams next week. But no one's gonna

790
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: make it ugly it up, ugly it up in l

791
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: A and Web have a have a game, and gonna

792
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: be a lot of Cowboys fans in that stadium. By

793
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: the way, no doubt, listen, Rams fans, this is your stadium,

794
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: this is your city, protected so many of your tickets.

795
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: Cowboys play with a different energy level in their own

796
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: building like most teams. But I think when you're a

797
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: defense team. That really meant my daughter and wife are

798
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: had down the old seam. Your daughter has become quite

799
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: the football fans. What was what was the voice inflection

800
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: you did there during Colisseum You just sort of it's

801
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: like you were grunting air. That was that was family

802
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: story as well. Thank you. I'm just saying that his

803
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: film set the Cowboys maybe to bring the noise. All right,

804
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: there you go. That takes us through three of the

805
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: four games, and you'll notice we are over three on

806
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: locks over four now actually so we none of us lock.

807
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: We all got banged except for one person, Ricky Hollywood

808
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: the Eagles. So you and Shookar now leading the competition. Yeah, yeah,

809
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: is going to kill you. You know, well this is joking.

810
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: I don't mean this. I know this got a lot

811
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: of serious responses on Twitter. Not to mention Mark. It's like, no,

812
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm just joking. People are tired of um by Erica.

813
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: You said you're two and oh right, yeah, well if

814
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: you count my pick for Mark's um Miami the Dolphins

815
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: that time, if you count that he took that. Though

816
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: you can't both have it, you could share it. Well, yeah,

817
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: we saw him one and a half. I guess for

818
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00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,960
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Speaker 1: Luck led the Indianapolis Cults on three first half scoring drives,

854
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 1: all the offense they would need, and seven win over

855
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans at un RG Stadium. The sixth seed

856
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: Cults advanced to the division playoffs. They will meet the

857
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: top seeded Chiefs at Arrowhead giddy up, as Cosmo Cramer

858
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: would say, West nineties. Luck is the big story around

859
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: the Surgeon Colts this season, but Indie's defense deserves a

860
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: huge nod for what they're able to do to Deshaun

861
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: Watson and company shut them down and this defense, Um,

862
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: Greg and I were talking about this earlier today. They

863
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: haven't really played anyone this year. They don't play top

864
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: ten offenses because they haven't been on the schedule. But

865
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: statistically over the past ten to eleven weeks, they are

866
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: the lowest uh they allow the fewest points. So their

867
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: defense is for real. I don't know that they're dominant,

868
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: but they're moving on. And I thought one of the

869
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: big factors in this game, maybe the biggest factor, was

870
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 1: that Marx who do you trust to pick? Frank Reich

871
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: put on a play calling clinic in the first half,

872
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: Like I just thought everyone was wide open all the time.

873
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: He was feeling it. That's the thing I hear a

874
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: lot of, like, you know, Andrew Luck's throwing to nobody's

875
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: and that's true, but he's throwing a wide open nobody's

876
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: you know are guys you don't know, And that's partly

877
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: right to to go from the first drive, where I

878
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: thought the key play of the game was maybe the

879
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: first third and twelve where they protect they get absolutely

880
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: no pressure on on Andrew Luck and he connects to

881
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton and they move on and they end

882
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: up extending the drive off of J. J. Watt penalty,

883
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: which was another big one. To go from that drive,

884
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: which was all throws, and then run it six or

885
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: seven straight times on the second drive in a ton

886
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: of different creative runs. It's like the Texans had no

887
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: idea what was coming next. This was one of those

888
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 1: playoff games. You know, if you go through the Bears

889
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: Eagles experience, win or lose. It was a playoff experience

890
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: and it drained everything from you. And there's a lot

891
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: to remember. This is one of those games where if

892
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: you're a Texans fan, you've you had this nice winning

893
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: streak during the year, you've got a franchise quarterback, finally

894
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: you believe in Bill O'Brien, and then bang, you've been

895
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: hitting the side ahead and your season's over. It was

896
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: over by halftime. I hated this game. I kind of

897
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: loved it. Well, no, I loved it. I hated the

898
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: game that Houston played what I'm saying they were. They

899
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: opened up with a punt, an interception, a punt, downs, punt, hunt, punt,

900
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: they call like a third and twenty run on the

901
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: first or second series. And I'm thinking this guy's coaching,

902
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: Like Marvin Lewis, I think they were uninspired on defense. Uh,

903
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: they were not unable to ever have any um make

904
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: any noise on defense with all those talented players. Thought

905
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: Honey Badger looked bad in multiple spots in this game.

906
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: We didn't hear what made some impact plays, but Watton

907
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: Clowney weren't able to take the game over. And then

908
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: on offense, Deshaun Watson was the only guy could run

909
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: the ball in this game and that was that was

910
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: laid bear seventy and Deshaun Watson missed so many throws, uh,

911
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: including a shot to the tight end in the first

912
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: half that could I think Ryan Griffin was had had

913
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: a shot to get him back in the game. He

914
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: was a liability at times in this game. They just

915
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: didn't show up. It was very much we talked about

916
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: text of this, how they've essentially say that the Bengals

917
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: and this was such a Cincinnati asked a Saturday playoff performance.

918
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: It was it felt like that kind of like like

919
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: I thought, this was gonna be a great game. It's

920
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: these two young quarterbacks, and it felt like it felt

921
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,320
Speaker 1: closer to Brian Hoyer versus you know, a thirty to

922
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: nothing lost against the Chiefs than than it should have.

923
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: That's not supposed to happen anyhow, big game from Pierre

924
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: to Seer, who's a free agent coming up, probably made

925
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: a lot of money shutting down DeAndre Hopkins, who um

926
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: played injured for much much of the game, but the

927
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: year shut him down early even before he was injured.

928
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: And I thought, t Y Hilton, he's having his like

929
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald playoff run over the past two months, playing

930
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: through an ankle injury and averaging about a hundred and

931
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: twenty I believe yards per week. And he had a

932
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 1: badass opening drive. He was incredible. He even set the

933
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 1: pick on the Brons TD he It felt like every

934
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: one of his catches was a key third down conversion,

935
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: like a third like it's because it almost was. I

936
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: mean four of his five catches were third and long,

937
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: just like great catches to keep a drive going. Marlon

938
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: mack Quentin and Elsie. These are all Chris ballor draft picks.

939
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: The one thing about t Y Hilton, I know that

940
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton made the opening comment about the Texans

941
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: stadium as his home stadium. And then in reverse though

942
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: the Texans, who are a few years removed from rolling

943
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: into was it Foxboro wearing their letterman jackets like, guys

944
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: like why you then set up this whole infamous like

945
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: back and forth where you called t Y Hilton the

946
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: clown and here comes t Y Hilton has owned your

947
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: team statistically the last couple of times he's played you

948
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: and his clown clown mass You knew right then that

949
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: there was something the Texans to that got on my radarchus.

950
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: The Texans just needed to not create dramas that we're

951
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: going to motivate the team well. And it was Graeme

952
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: Jackson who had an awful game trying to cover t

953
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. And this is the game because he's had

954
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 1: a great he's had a great year, but he's a

955
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: free agent and this game is gonna cause some tough

956
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: questions by the Texans because you're right, Watson played his

957
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: worst game in a long time. But what group on

958
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: the Texans after this game is gonna look back and say, well,

959
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: we did our job. I don't think there was one

960
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: single group. And the offensive line actually tected Watson fairly well,

961
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: that wasn't the problem for once inexperience at wide receiver.

962
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: Show like they have a lot of issues for a

963
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: team that won a lot of games, that their secondary

964
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: needs to be totally rebuilt. Jackson and an Honey Badger,

965
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: who are the best two guys in the secondary, are

966
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: free agents. The offensive line needs to be rebuilt, and

967
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: they're so thin at receiver, and they don't really have

968
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: a running back that they trust, which which was obvious

969
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: when they only ran about what seven eight times in

970
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: this game. I think that Frank Reich that his beard

971
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 1: there are magical powers attached to it. I'm not kidding

972
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: about that. And it helps when DeAndre Hopkins is playing

973
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: through a shoulder injury too. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Uh. Angel

974
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: Luck is a badass. Yes, I mean the same thing

975
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: we're talking about on the NFC side of the NFC side.

976
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are probably gonna be the favorite.

977
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: They will be the favorite, uh next week. But Luck

978
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: is a guy who is playing with such confidence, and

979
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: he inspired such confidence in his teammates, and they're a

980
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: well coached team. They will not be an easy out

981
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: next week. This team is flying West wheel are in. Okay,

982
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: you're locking them up, aren't you? Next week against the

983
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: Chiefs in arrow the Chiefs in Arrowhead, that is that

984
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: is a tough, tough as shootout there. That is a

985
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: great home field venue. But the Chiefs have a weakness.

986
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: Their secondary has been deplorable. Oh year, what's the Colt's weakness?

987
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: Right now? They've won ten of eleven. But I don't

988
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: think they have I think a pass rush. If I

989
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: don't think they have a great natural pass rush, Okay,

990
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: that's fair. They don't have an edge rusher, but like

991
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: they find guys who make plays. I mean Kenny Moore

992
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: Blitz seeing Marcus Hunt had a great takedown of Watson

993
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: on on one scramble. Like they play such great team

994
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: defense that you know, Mark's team had to go talk

995
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: to Matt eber Flus on Sunday and say, what's going on, Fluce,

996
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: would you like to maybe coach exactly? Uh So, there

997
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: you go. That is the recap of wild Card weekend.

998
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: We will be back on Tuesday with our Twitter show

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00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: at one thirty Pacific four thirty Eastern, a different time

1000
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: elsewhere in the world. That's up to you to figure

1001
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: out based on the context clues. And we will have

1002
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Speaker 1: our next podcast on Wednesday, and then another one on Thursday,

1003
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: which will act as our divisional playoff show, and then

1004
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: of course we meet back here one week from today

1005
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: to recap all the action. That's what we do. That's

1006
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: the circle of life here at the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Anything else, Greg, Now, I mean, I'm excited. It's a big,

1008
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: big time year. It's shirt is s Stan has the

1009
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Speaker 1: signing off four Quiet Storm, that mail Man, the Old Boston,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood behind the Glass, Locking it Up Bill Tuesday,