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Speaker 1: and Olivia Harlan Decker. Wow, I am exasperated after this
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Speaker 1: excited to pick your brain on the Heralded Kickers, the
Speaker 1: position group you hate the most, and they saved the day.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's kicker, Heaven McPherson, has become one of the coolest
Speaker 1: guys in the state of Ohio. Now, I'm not teeing
Speaker 1: you up for a joke. There there are some cool
Speaker 1: guys in the state of Ohio. When he called a
Speaker 1: shot and got his team to the a f C Championship,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about those two endings last Saturday? Well,
Speaker 1: whatever's left of my brain, you can pick it, because
Speaker 1: my mind is blown. You are correct, o h D.
Speaker 1: What a night and day of football. I'm in l
Speaker 1: A right now, so I'm watching it at a different time.
Speaker 1: It was a wild night. Weird. Yeah, the kickers are cool.
Speaker 1: Who knew? Who knew that chicks dig the long ball
Speaker 1: and they really are the rock stars of their teams.
Speaker 1: And my mind is just blown that Kansas City Chief game.
Speaker 1: You know, I was looking for you out there on
Speaker 1: the field, so I didn't pay attention to the first
Speaker 1: half because I was like, where's oh D? Where's oh D?
Speaker 1: I couldn't see you. I was trying to find the
Speaker 1: blonde hair. And um, second half, I started paying attention
Speaker 1: to the game because I was like, I can't find
Speaker 1: her because you can't see radio. You just can't see radio.
Speaker 1: They've got to change that. Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable. And you know,
Speaker 1: just I can't believe that Aaron Rodgers is not still playing.
Speaker 1: I mean special teams. They did have their helmets on
Speaker 1: because they did look like special teams and they do
Speaker 1: require they may need to put helmets on. Those helmets
Speaker 1: come odd. Oh yeah, Also, what the heck did you
Speaker 1: get into last night? Your voice sounds a little horse,
Speaker 1: my friend, how's l a treating you. I'm at my
Speaker 1: friend Whitney Cummings this house. We broke up a dog
Speaker 1: that is the most humbl Are you serious? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: could have just said her first name, but I was like, man,
Speaker 1: why don't I just go Whitney Cummings because such a fan.
Speaker 1: I've seen her live. Yeah, she's great. She's great, and
Speaker 1: she's got a lot of animals here. And last night
Speaker 1: two of her dogs got into a little bit of
Speaker 1: a tiff, a little bit of a little bit of
Speaker 1: they went at each other, so we had to break
Speaker 1: them up. It was it was pretty It was a
Speaker 1: pretty wild night. It was a wild night in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: So that's why you lost your voice. Okay, I thought
Speaker 1: maybe you were yelling for the bills or something, But
Speaker 1: do you hate the bills as a Giants fan? Is
Speaker 1: that how that works? No? No, I was. I was
Speaker 1: just rooting for the bills because I know Buffalo. Buffalo
Speaker 1: needs it more than Kansas City. Kansas City has you.
Speaker 1: They have the Queen walking around Kansas City. You know,
Speaker 1: they got Jackson Mahones doing TikTok's on the streets. You
Speaker 1: and Jackson Homes have put Kansas City on the map.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is just folded tables, ladders and back injuries and
Speaker 1: lots and lots of liver damage from drink. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they needed this. They're in the cold up there. They're
Speaker 1: forgotten city. I was rooting for him. I was rooting
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. And that's why you'll see my unleashed
Speaker 1: that I'm about to unleash on O h D. I've
Speaker 1: had enough of these overtime rules. I really have. Dude
Speaker 1: me too. I I was sick that Josh Allen didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance. And I in college, you know that
Speaker 1: you do. Every team can get the ball. But it's
Speaker 1: if I that one kind of made me sick to watch,
Speaker 1: because it sucks when the greatest game of the weekend
Speaker 1: divisional round and it comes down to a coin toss,
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing? Okay, well, let's break it down.
Speaker 1: If you didn't watch or need a refresher, let's start
Speaker 1: with the first game. Saturday, the Bengals went into Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Joe Cool Joe Burrow, despite getting sacked nine times,
Speaker 1: he led the Bengals to their first ever road playoff win.
Speaker 1: First ever, Like, can we wrap our brains around that?
Speaker 1: That's wild? They took down the top seed Titans Burrows,
Speaker 1: only the second quarterback ever to be sacked nine times
Speaker 1: and win a playoff game. By the way, nine times,
Speaker 1: that's I mean incredibly. He spent most of the game
Speaker 1: on his back. He said, they're here to make some noise.
Speaker 1: So listen up, people, the Bengals are here. Okay. Then
Speaker 1: that night and this one, I just I have like
Speaker 1: PTSD talking about this one. I'm a Packer fan. The
Speaker 1: Packer season ended by Jimmy g and the forty Niners
Speaker 1: in a terrible, embarrassing game at Lambeau at blocked field goal,
Speaker 1: blocked punt and what could be Aaron Rodgers final game
Speaker 1: in a Packers uniform. That's what I'm gonna on leashan Jana,
Speaker 1: So just hold up, just give me a second, let me.
Speaker 1: I'm just getting warmed up here. And by the way,
Speaker 1: those two teams who just lost, Titans and Packers, they're
Speaker 1: the two teams that had wild card buys, So I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to look into that or not.
Speaker 1: And the Packers rested their starters the week before in
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, so maybe there's something too about playing that
Speaker 1: wild card weekend. Then we get to Sunday afternoon. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady almost leads the Bucks to an improbable come back
Speaker 1: until Matthew Stafford marched the Rams on a game winning drive.
Speaker 1: I mean that was incredible. They gave themselves the best
Speaker 1: opportunity to cam akers fumbles. I mean, it lined up
Speaker 1: pretty good for one of the best comebacks in a playoff.
Speaker 1: So that was incredible. I was watching that on the
Speaker 1: JumboTron at Arrowhead because our game started right after that
Speaker 1: one ended, and the whole crowd was just booing Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I he's not a well liked man in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: I guess. And then the nightcap maybe the best game
Speaker 1: of the whole season, an instant classic. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was incredible. We found out just how much time is
Speaker 1: too much time left on the clock for Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: and that's thirteen seconds. That's less time than a Jackson
Speaker 1: Mahomes TikTok video. This broke NFL history for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. The Bills receiver Gabriel Davis. He set a
Speaker 1: new playoff record with four touchdown receptions. That's insane. He
Speaker 1: just and he gave him such a chance on the
Speaker 1: last couple of drives. The Chiefs win makes them the
Speaker 1: host of the a f C Championship for the fourth
Speaker 1: straight year. Jannice, that's never been done, never been done
Speaker 1: hosting four straight. And I kept asking myself, surely it
Speaker 1: has and thinking back of great teams, great dynasties, and
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, the Bills when they went to
Speaker 1: all those Super Bowls, they didn't host the NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: Over and over, they didn't. They didn't. They had to
Speaker 1: win on the road. So I mean, it's incredible. It
Speaker 1: was an honor to be working that game on the
Speaker 1: sideline and watch these two amazing quarterbacks battle it out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it should have been the a f C Championship game.
Speaker 1: This game should have been next week. Neither team should
Speaker 1: be out of the playoffs at this point. But here
Speaker 1: we are. We got one of the best games of
Speaker 1: the week. Just to make a note, that last drive
Speaker 1: by Patrick Mahomes, what was it was it thirteen seconds
Speaker 1: on the clock to get into field goal range. Just
Speaker 1: to make a note, I think Dak Prescott's very smart
Speaker 1: run at the end of the game I think was
Speaker 1: like four seconds, so they got so Patrick Maho Holmes
Speaker 1: got the ball down into field goal range in the
Speaker 1: same amount of time it took Dak Prescott to run
Speaker 1: on one place. So, yeah, Dallas, you're no longer America's team.
Speaker 1: I'm just piggybacking off last week. I think the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna go with the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: are America's new team because they were a little smarter. Well,
Speaker 1: and think about this now, it's kind of this rise
Speaker 1: of the young quarterback. Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes now is
Speaker 1: in his fourth year as a starter, but Josh Allen incredible.
Speaker 1: Where we're thinking was that Tom Brady's last game, was
Speaker 1: that Aaron rodgers last game as a Packer? Like, we're
Speaker 1: seeing the old guard change, and it's pretty exciting. This
Speaker 1: young class of quarterbacks is very exciting. And there are
Speaker 1: some that are not in the playoff, like Justin Herbert. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many guys who are young, up
Speaker 1: and coming quarterbacks that we're just gonna have the most
Speaker 1: fun covering for years and years to come. For like
Speaker 1: the next twenty years, we can be saying these names
Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool. Well, you know, it's tough for
Speaker 1: us to say anything bad about Aaron Rodgers because he
Speaker 1: doesn't follow many people on Instagram, but he follows me
Speaker 1: in Olivia, and that may be part of the problem.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should spend less time looking at my crazy
Speaker 1: videos and a little bit more time on figuring out
Speaker 1: how you're gonna find where your balls are for the
Speaker 1: second half. What a shitty second half, Aaron Rodgers. I
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't listen to the podcast. I hope it
Speaker 1: stops with just following us on Instagram. Yeah, he followed
Speaker 1: you this week, so that's what he was doing instead
Speaker 1: of prepping for this game. He's following you on his papas.
Speaker 1: That had too much time on his hands. He had
Speaker 1: too much time on his hands. That bye week is
Speaker 1: concerning because teams do look, you just lose momentum. It
Speaker 1: happens in basketball too, you know, you just you can't
Speaker 1: take that week off when you're in stride. It's just
Speaker 1: bad beat of the week. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: bad beat to choose from this weekend, but our winner
Speaker 1: goes to Datamus Man. What a name, he says. McKinnon
Speaker 1: had twenty seven yards before taking a three yard loss
Speaker 1: on a botched pitch back. Turned out to be the
Speaker 1: last time they ran the ball with him, didn't getting
Speaker 1: a rushing try. She called it, she called that's what's
Speaker 1: called it. I didn't even need to see, I didn't
Speaker 1: need to watch it. And I call it because the
Speaker 1: loyal the chiefs. We're loyal to the chief. Yeah. She
Speaker 1: wants to know when they canna change in man because
Speaker 1: it's offensive. What are we to start paying the cheerleaders, yes,
Speaker 1: and the cheerleaders, the Kansas City winners, the Kansas City hyenas,
Speaker 1: the hyenas and city hyenas, and the cheerleaders should be
Speaker 1: men and the football players should be women. Down with
Speaker 1: the patriarchy? Can you stop the sound issue? Yes, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I want to break your studio. Yes, we just we're
Speaker 1: here to break up dog fights. I still don't know
Speaker 1: why these are We can we can show up. And
Speaker 1: this is usually what football players. This is what the
Speaker 1: trainer's room. Lot trainer's room looks like. They just say, oh,
Speaker 1: your ankles are Antonio Brown, take all of this right now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I got like one minute. We're done for
Speaker 1: like okay, oh, we have be honest for fifteen more minutes.
Speaker 1: Whitney coming. I still can't believe you're at her house.
Speaker 1: You're holding her dog? Is that a little pitfull? What's
Speaker 1: going on? No? Yeah, no, Whitney's you know, he's what
Speaker 1: you call it, just a normal person. M M. I
Speaker 1: don't know. She's pretty spectacular. Oh that was so cool.
Speaker 1: That has to be our social media clip. Oh that
Speaker 1: was too good. Guys. So the Honest is winning and
Speaker 1: Anonymous man was our loser for bad Beat of the Week,
Speaker 1: and god that was that was very cool? Okay, guys. Also,
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Speaker 1: to go off on one topic we feel passionately about
Speaker 1: this week. Honest, let's unleaked it. I love Harry, still
Speaker 1: do that every week, jannest I gotta do it. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine Unleash you known anything else this week except
Speaker 1: my Green Bay Packers. This was supposed to be the
Speaker 1: year they brought a title back to Title Town. We
Speaker 1: all know this window is closing on Aaron Rodgers, on
Speaker 1: some players up for free agency this summer, on all
Speaker 1: the amazing free agent pickups we got off the street
Speaker 1: this year. Our defense was finally good man, This had
Speaker 1: to be it. This was supposed to be the last
Speaker 1: dance for Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams. Maybe I don't
Speaker 1: know that they wanted all then we think they're back.
Speaker 1: They had the top seed. They had the first week
Speaker 1: by the road at the Super Bowl went through lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: The tundra was frozen, it was snowing, and the seventh
Speaker 1: seed forty Niners marched in there completely shut that place up.
Speaker 1: You know. Losing A J. Dillon was huge, and we
Speaker 1: clearly couldn't afford that. He scored the only offensive touchdown
Speaker 1: of the freaking game. A J. Dillon has been a
Speaker 1: monster this year. They call him Quadzilla because he's got
Speaker 1: these big ham Hawks for quads. The defense was great,
Speaker 1: they got guys back and they were healthy. He's a
Speaker 1: Darius Smith. On San Francisco's first drive, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to rub this one in Pete's face the army crawl
Speaker 1: after he sacks Jimmy g I mean, we were rolling
Speaker 1: Devonte with a couple of memorable catches. I mean, just incredible.
Speaker 1: He's the best receiver in the league if you ask me.
Speaker 1: He was the only Packer receiver targeted for three quarters
Speaker 1: three quarters. He's the only one. Aaron was thrown too.
Speaker 1: And then running back Aaron Jones, he had an incredible
Speaker 1: downfield catch and that drive ended with the blocked field goal.
Speaker 1: That was mind boggling. That was a head scratcher because
Speaker 1: it looked like a touchdown. It looked like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of open field. Watching that play back, I still
Speaker 1: feel like he could have cut differently and maybe maybe
Speaker 1: hit his second gear. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we didn't score on that one where we had
Speaker 1: to settle for a field goal and they blocked it.
Speaker 1: And then just fifty yards of offense in the second half.
Speaker 1: That all falls on the shoulders of Aaron Rodgers. And
Speaker 1: you know what pisses me off. He's looking around that
Speaker 1: whole game his face like he's cold. And I know
Speaker 1: that sounds obvious, but like you're the Packers starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: and everyone else there is kind of excuse my language,
Speaker 1: nutt it up, and Aaron just looks soft and he
Speaker 1: looks like he doesn't want to be there, and that
Speaker 1: just that that made me so bad. Just all this this,
Speaker 1: this is his legacy we're talking about. And he does
Speaker 1: this at home in the playoffs. He's five and four
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field in the playoffs, lights it up in
Speaker 1: the regular season favorite for m v P. Kind of
Speaker 1: makes a big deal of himself on podcasts and whatnot
Speaker 1: all season, and then he lays an egg when it matters,
Speaker 1: and that pisses me off. We know he was busy
Speaker 1: following you on Instagram this week, not preparing for the
Speaker 1: forty niners and playoff that now would not feature Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: This could have been his show, This could have been
Speaker 1: his moment, and I'm pissed. I'm pissed. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta say I agree with you. He looked like he
Speaker 1: was waiting for the bus in freezing cold weather. That
Speaker 1: was his third demeanor the whole game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say anything bad about adaon Rodgers
Speaker 1: because now he's following me on the Graham, So I
Speaker 1: mean whatever, you know, so you win some and you
Speaker 1: lose something, that's all gonna say. You know, I think
Speaker 1: maybe we can blame Alex Rodriguez. You know, as a
Speaker 1: Yankee fan, I could say he did win US a
Speaker 1: World Series, but you know, with a Rod comes drama okay,
Speaker 1: and the Packers were winning. Then they showed a Rod
Speaker 1: on TV with the Packers Beanie on and the forty
Speaker 1: Niners went and scored ten unanswered. So again, just like
Speaker 1: j Lo, the Packers fans can blame it on a Rod.
Speaker 1: He definitely cheated on her. That's what I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: time for my unleased First, I think I need to
Speaker 1: apologize to the Kickers. As we mentioned in the opening.
Speaker 1: You know, I still don't love Kickers, okay, but you
Speaker 1: guys hit all the game winners this weekend, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: you won me a lot of money, okay, and I
Speaker 1: beat Olivia, so that's what that's what matters. Spoiler alert. Yes,
Speaker 1: I won the punishment pick because I picked all of
Speaker 1: those road dogs to win, because I picked with my
Speaker 1: heart and I picked with who the underdog is because
Speaker 1: it's just always more exciting. I'm not a cold hearted
Speaker 1: numbers runner like oh h D. I also don't know
Speaker 1: if we can make him Executive of the Year, but
Speaker 1: he may get Down of the year. Who are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Yes, we gotta give it up to Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Senior for helping his son get out of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: The man is a gene is oh b J is
Speaker 1: back making plays. He's having fun. He's one game away
Speaker 1: from being on the biggest stage, the super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 1: he's getting paid in bitcoin, and I think bitcoin is
Speaker 1: down right now, so his contract, I think, if you
Speaker 1: run the math, is only worth thirty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: at this moment. But the kids playninged like he is
Speaker 1: in college again. He's having fun. But we need to
Speaker 1: talk about how much bullshit NFL over times are. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's really what I want to on leash on. It's
Speaker 1: Twitter's ablaze with it. Everyone's passed. Former players are tweeting
Speaker 1: about it. Say Kwan Barkley was like, I guess whoever
Speaker 1: wins the toin cost wins the game. They really need
Speaker 1: to change that. It's you can't just have a sudden
Speaker 1: death rule and leave it to luck. You can't just
Speaker 1: leave it in God's hands. You gotta let Josh Allen
Speaker 1: get a chance to get back out there and tie
Speaker 1: that game. It's the playoffs, man. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see a game end like that. And they just need
Speaker 1: to change that. Them and the college football comedies need
Speaker 1: to get together and we need to go to referendum
Speaker 1: and let the people decide this. The people have spoken.
Speaker 1: Football needs to change. Baby, Let democracy rang, don't let
Speaker 1: the CCP win. I love it. I love it. That
Speaker 1: was like two unleashed in one. That was really good.
Speaker 1: I was all over the place like I usually am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was right on brand for you. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: bring in someone who knows what the hell they're talking about.
Speaker 1: It's Tori Smith. He's a winner of two Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in court. Throughout his eight year NFL career,
Speaker 1: whenever he stepped on the field, he was a deep
Speaker 1: ball threat that made plenty of big plays and helped
Speaker 1: win two Super Bowl titles, one with the Ravens one
Speaker 1: with the Eagles. Tor Smith is here. Tori, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. Thank you appreciate still having me. This is
Speaker 1: really exciting as we are gearing up and we are
Speaker 1: all in super Bowl mode. To have someone who's been
Speaker 1: there and done it, not once, but twice is pretty special. Now.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people may have thought you
Speaker 1: played in the greatest Divisional round playoff game of all
Speaker 1: time Ravens and Broncos double overtime classic. What do you
Speaker 1: think now after what we saw this weekend? Is it
Speaker 1: still the greatest of all time? Listen? Uh, I actually
Speaker 1: said it myself and admitted to it. The My High
Speaker 1: a miracle was amazing, Actually had an amazing game. Myself
Speaker 1: scored a couple of touchdowns against one of my atoms
Speaker 1: coming up, Champ Bailey, which is something I'll always remember. However,
Speaker 1: that's a personal story, personal situation. Great win for the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. As a fan, this was better than that
Speaker 1: game because there were touchdowns swinging back and forth. I mean,
Speaker 1: the first half of that game was electrifying because a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't remember. You know, I scored a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the My High Miracle. They scored
Speaker 1: on a special teams. They ran to kick off back,
Speaker 1: they were in a punt back. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of crazy things that happened. But to catch at
Speaker 1: the end kind of overshadows everything in this game. The
Speaker 1: last two minutes were ridiculous. So that's, to me alone,
Speaker 1: is what gets it done, because the back half of
Speaker 1: the game is really where all the marvels count and
Speaker 1: the big time players came up and it was a
Speaker 1: great time. I've got to ask just so people know
Speaker 1: you're talking about Bills at Chiefs, Gabriel Davis setting a
Speaker 1: new NFL playoff record with four touchdowns, and then Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill doing his thing in peak Tyreek Hill fashion as
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. What did you see from those two talents? Man,
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable to be able to watch both of
Speaker 1: them perform. You know, Tyreek Hill actually worked out with
Speaker 1: him a couple of times in the off season, and
Speaker 1: I'm a fast guy. Take a lot of pride in
Speaker 1: that being able to run by any cornerback on the field. However,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is the fastest and most explosive athlete that
Speaker 1: I've seen period um. He gets up to his full
Speaker 1: speed and like three steps, which is why you saw
Speaker 1: him take off at the show across and run by everyone.
Speaker 1: I was watching the game for my wife and my boys.
Speaker 1: I let them stay up for that one. They were
Speaker 1: by me and I told my wife as soon as
Speaker 1: he caught it and I saw that he had that
Speaker 1: much space, I was like, he's gone, He's gone. And it
Speaker 1: it was just sitting there yelling, going crazy. And then
Speaker 1: for what they were able to do on the bill side,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was unbelievable. Four touchdowns is something that
Speaker 1: you know he'll always remember. I know I'll remember it
Speaker 1: as a fan because you knew going into that game,
Speaker 1: you have Stefon Diggs, who is my fellow, my little brother,
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in the league. You knew
Speaker 1: that they have Emmanuel Sanders out there, Emmanuel Sanders, and
Speaker 1: you know he was going to have to play a
Speaker 1: big role as well. But also with Cole Beasley, right,
Speaker 1: one of the best side receivers in league, who's going
Speaker 1: to be the guy to step up? And not only
Speaker 1: did he deliver, he stepped up and then something I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone would have predicted a four touchdown performers,
Speaker 1: but it was something that we'll all remember for a
Speaker 1: long time. Tory, we were just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the bye week. Is it an advantage a disadvantage? What's
Speaker 1: your view on the bye week and how it affects teams.
Speaker 1: I think it's an advantage. However, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: the numbers truly show that because the number one team
Speaker 1: doesn't always go and to me, the reason why, I
Speaker 1: will say it's always an advantage. I don't care what
Speaker 1: the results show. It's one, you have one extra week
Speaker 1: to heal. These guys are beat up and you have
Speaker 1: an extra game. Two. You had the opportunity to only
Speaker 1: win two games and get to the super Bowl too.
Speaker 1: It's easier than three. So that's why I can be alone.
Speaker 1: If you can get the bye week, you have it.
Speaker 1: It's hard to win in the NFL, and in the
Speaker 1: playoffs it gets even harder. The stakes are higher. I
Speaker 1: just call it the Patriots playing. You know, they go,
Speaker 1: they win their division, and often times they were one
Speaker 1: of those top two seeds. Now it's only one by
Speaker 1: so it's only one team that's affected by it. But
Speaker 1: to me, if you can get to buy, you take it.
Speaker 1: I don't care what people say about losing rhythm and
Speaker 1: taking time off. I was in Philadelphia. We wanted we
Speaker 1: had to buy a week. We were the top seed.
Speaker 1: We knew we only need to win two games, and
Speaker 1: it was easier. I was also in Baltimore. We're played
Speaker 1: in the division around and then we went on the
Speaker 1: road to Denver and then on the road to New England.
Speaker 1: It was harder to do it that way, but we
Speaker 1: got it done. So either way, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you don't come up, come to play. Doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you get start play week one or you get that
Speaker 1: by week So what is the biggest difference between a
Speaker 1: regular season game and a playoff game? As a player,
Speaker 1: as you go throughout the week, as you go through
Speaker 1: your media responsibilities, your practices, what's different in the building?
Speaker 1: You just know that it's a win or go home.
Speaker 1: You know it's something that you live and you dream about.
Speaker 1: You know, I know watching that game. I tell people
Speaker 1: I've been retired for a couple of seasons now and
Speaker 1: I never missed playing football until the playoffs because there's
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing like it. The pressure of knowing that you
Speaker 1: worked hard just to get your ticket to the party, right,
Speaker 1: and that's the playoffs. It doesn't matter where you see,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're one, doesn't matter if your last.
Speaker 1: You have a chance. And so when you have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out there and to compete. There is
Speaker 1: nothing like that rush and the media. Yes there's more media,
Speaker 1: but you can hide in the locker room. You don't
Speaker 1: have to necessarily be I knew it if if that's
Speaker 1: not a thing, you don't necessarily have to be out there.
Speaker 1: But the reality of it is an interviews, an interview
Speaker 1: that's a part of your job. The most important thing
Speaker 1: is how do you practice, how do you prepare? And
Speaker 1: so to me to say that the media is a
Speaker 1: distraction for something that you did with each and every week,
Speaker 1: it's not like the super Bowl where you have to
Speaker 1: go to full out media events. They're just they're the
Speaker 1: same time the media gets to step for it's probably
Speaker 1: like twenty more cameras, right, that's really the biggest difference.
Speaker 1: But to me, the stakes are hired. You know, it's
Speaker 1: winner go home, and it's ultimately what you worked hard
Speaker 1: for the entire year just to simply get in that position.
Speaker 1: When you're playing in cold like that Packers game, what's
Speaker 1: the difference. What does it feel like as a player
Speaker 1: adapting to that cold? What do those hits feel like
Speaker 1: when it's zero degrees out? Man? Full transparency, I hate
Speaker 1: cold weather, right, I'm the guy. Every time I go
Speaker 1: to my car in the morning, I'm yelling out because
Speaker 1: it doesn't have auto start. I'm like springting to it.
Speaker 1: I'm yelling mad the entire time. So I hate cold weather. However,
Speaker 1: as a player, I never wore sleeves. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: allow the cold weather to get to me. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna drop a ball because I have long sleeves. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna drop it because I dropped it. I don't want
Speaker 1: any excuses, so I just tucked it out with that. However,
Speaker 1: that football is like catching a brick. The coldest game
Speaker 1: that I've ever played in was at my high miracle
Speaker 1: game that we spoke to earlier, when the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: He went up to Denver and it was freezing, which
Speaker 1: is why we knew that Peyton Manning himself was struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit when the elements changed. He had played
Speaker 1: in a dome his entire career, and for us coming
Speaker 1: off and knowing that he was having some challenges there,
Speaker 1: we were like, we wanted to be as cold as
Speaker 1: it can be, and what we got what we asked
Speaker 1: for because it was freezing out there. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: looking at like Marshall Yonder's beard, future Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: guard for the Ravens. His beard was frozen. He would
Speaker 1: drink water, do a little squirt on his face and
Speaker 1: like it was like freeze over. Like it was unbelievable
Speaker 1: how cold it was. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you're right, the ball, it's hard to catch the ball.
Speaker 1: The hits hurt more, and you have to make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't don't get in your own head about
Speaker 1: the weather. What do you think about the overtime rules
Speaker 1: that played a huge part in this past weekend's divisional round?
Speaker 1: So you tweeted it and I don't think you're a fan,
Speaker 1: but what do you think it should be? Then? I
Speaker 1: hate the overtime rules with the passion like it really
Speaker 1: bothers me. And the people that defended they bothered me too.
Speaker 1: Because the game of football, all three phases are played
Speaker 1: throughout the entire four quarters. Offense, defense, special teams. They're
Speaker 1: all important. However, when you get to overtime, there's a
Speaker 1: clear advantage. But the team that's on offense and people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, they had their defense on the field that, uh, well,
Speaker 1: guess what if your offense scores do lose the game.
Speaker 1: If the defense forces that turnover, they're offense still has
Speaker 1: to score. That's not equal. I don't care what you
Speaker 1: say about the defense being great and having the ability. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's important, Yes they should stop them. However, both teams
Speaker 1: should have the opportunity to answer the calls on the
Speaker 1: other side. Why am I saying that it's like that
Speaker 1: in baseball and people like, oh, that's a different sport. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: imagine you go is and all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: top of the ending, you go first, your team hits
Speaker 1: a home run and the game is over and the
Speaker 1: other team doesn't get a chance to that back. That
Speaker 1: makes no sense. On the flip side, it's the only
Speaker 1: major sport with that type of overtime platform where it
Speaker 1: could be sudden death and you have to rely on
Speaker 1: one side of the field. And even beyond that, where
Speaker 1: we are right now, we were all robbed of seeing
Speaker 1: we watched one of the best quarterback games in the
Speaker 1: history of football, and we will never know if Josh
Speaker 1: Allen was gonna be able to answer the call to
Speaker 1: bring his team back, and not to me, we were
Speaker 1: robbed of that experience. The emotional highs that I had
Speaker 1: watching that game. I felt like I was playing. My
Speaker 1: heart was pounding, like my chest was tight, And I
Speaker 1: don't care who I didn't get who the winner was, right,
Speaker 1: I have friends on both sides of the field. But
Speaker 1: the reality of it is in a sport, in a
Speaker 1: game really that over the years has been cared towards
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks to not allow both of them, because again
Speaker 1: we're it's it's a myth. Winning is a team stat. However,
Speaker 1: who gets all the credit the quarterbacks? And we don't
Speaker 1: get the quarterback on the opposite team a chance to
Speaker 1: put his team into position. That's not right and to me,
Speaker 1: there should be a change on that. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if Dak Prescott would have had the opportunity,
Speaker 1: he might have ran the ball with thirteen fourteen seconds
Speaker 1: on the clock. What do you think happened there? Just
Speaker 1: I don't want to go back too far, but like
Speaker 1: as a former football player, someone who knows the game
Speaker 1: so well, what happened? What was going through Dak's mind
Speaker 1: or McCarthy's mind. Why would you why would you do
Speaker 1: that play? Why would you run? Well? You you run
Speaker 1: that play because on the outside of the field. They're
Speaker 1: guarding the sideline to make sure that you don't catch
Speaker 1: out and get out of bound. So it actually was
Speaker 1: a great call. You run, you pick up the yards,
Speaker 1: but the execution was terrible. Okay, you can't go that
Speaker 1: committed rule number one. Everyone wants to blame the fans,
Speaker 1: and I know all the little Cowboys fans. They love
Speaker 1: to cry and complain all the time. Anyways, they weren't
Speaker 1: blame the referee. The number one thing that you're taught
Speaker 1: as a person that handles the ball, is that a
Speaker 1: two minute drill situation. You hand the ball to the
Speaker 1: referee period. You never tossed it to him. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't do it. Why they aren't the most athletic
Speaker 1: people on the field. So imagine they would have lost
Speaker 1: because that tossing the ball in the referee dropped it.
Speaker 1: We would have been talking about the rest were cheating.
Speaker 1: You're taught to hand in the ball because they have
Speaker 1: to set the ball. Who cares if you have an
Speaker 1: accurate spot. The ref has a job to do and
Speaker 1: you're taught that. You drill that. So we should really
Speaker 1: be mad at the operations of the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 1: what they did because they had enough time to get
Speaker 1: it down because they still almost spiked it. With enough time,
Speaker 1: they would have spiked the ball with two seconds left
Speaker 1: and they would have had another shot. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we're complaining about it, like it was a touchdown that
Speaker 1: was taking off the table. They still had to try
Speaker 1: to get some kind of crazy play down the field.
Speaker 1: But that was their fault. That was poor execution by them.
Speaker 1: And that's again, that's the number one car So if
Speaker 1: you're coaching the team, I don't care if it's Pop
Speaker 1: Warner or high school or college, you know, to hand
Speaker 1: the ball to the referees. Don't do what Dallas did,
Speaker 1: not for their mistakes sticking in the NFC over their
Speaker 1: Rams the last two weeks with their huge win over
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. You couldn't even believe those teams were meeting
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And then to go on the road
Speaker 1: to the defending champs and send Tom Brady back home
Speaker 1: to his Tampa Bay mansion is just cruel. And how
Speaker 1: did you see them do it? I just I can't
Speaker 1: believe what team I'm watching, especially as they tried to
Speaker 1: give the game away. Listen, I predicted that the Rams
Speaker 1: would win that game. It had less to do with
Speaker 1: what I believe in the Rams. I do believe that
Speaker 1: if the Rams not really the Rams, and Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: who I know who he is as an elite type
Speaker 1: of quarterback. When he protects the ball and he plays well,
Speaker 1: that's a team that can win it all. On the
Speaker 1: flip side of that, Tampa Babe hadn't been They weren't hot.
Speaker 1: To me, I didn't believe in their offense they are
Speaker 1: really missing Antonio Brown and Chris Godwin. Like those guys
Speaker 1: being out was a big deal and you were able
Speaker 1: to see that yesterday. Yes, it got hot at the
Speaker 1: end of the the back half, which we we all
Speaker 1: called in my house. I was like when they turned
Speaker 1: the ball over at the one yard line at halftime,
Speaker 1: which really would have been a dagger if camp Makers
Speaker 1: would have scored instead of fumbling. I told my wife,
Speaker 1: I said, Tom Brady's gonna figure out a way to
Speaker 1: get back in this. They just gave them a ball
Speaker 1: and what happened. They made it interesting. But to me,
Speaker 1: I just felt like the Rams were the better team overall,
Speaker 1: and I didn't feel like they had enough on offense
Speaker 1: on Tampa to really push on through. But I could
Speaker 1: have very easily have been wrong because the Rams did
Speaker 1: everything that I said they needed to do, and then
Speaker 1: they about blew it in the second half because they
Speaker 1: didn't take care of the ball. The number one metric
Speaker 1: when you watch any game and determining who won and
Speaker 1: loss is turnovers. And as much of it is as
Speaker 1: it is turnovers, it's about when and where you do it.
Speaker 1: And so they about shot themselves in the foot simply
Speaker 1: by not protecting the ball. But that's a team that
Speaker 1: next week have an opportunity to play at home. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be really fun to watch them compete against the
Speaker 1: point Nines. And I'm glad that they were able to
Speaker 1: earn it. And I'm glad that Tom Brady also too,
Speaker 1: was able to get to them a scare because everyone
Speaker 1: knows he's not gonna admit it. He was a little
Speaker 1: shorthanded with what he had to work with, and he
Speaker 1: went out there game a great chance. Mike Evans was
Speaker 1: who he was, and they fought to the end, but
Speaker 1: they just came up short. That's just football. If Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown was playing, is that different? Do they win that game? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: If Antonio Brown was playing, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would
Speaker 1: have won that game. Not to get too off topic,
Speaker 1: how well do you know a B and what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that whole situation. Yeah, I've known a
Speaker 1: B since I was a junior in college and I
Speaker 1: was at the University of Maryland. One of my best friends,
Speaker 1: Bruce Campbell, was training for the combine and there was
Speaker 1: a guy down there who was from Central Michigan and
Speaker 1: he was working his tail off. I was watching and workout.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, this dude is He's a beast and
Speaker 1: his mentality was his mentality about working out was just
Speaker 1: completely different. And that that guy was Antonio Brown, you know.
Speaker 1: And from then working out the same place that Ba
Speaker 1: Morito's in Aventury in South Florida, I was able to
Speaker 1: watch compete with him in workouts and his he was
Speaker 1: just a completely different animal. You know, No one outworks
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. So we can get caught up in all
Speaker 1: the lunatic things that he does off of the field,
Speaker 1: but the reality of it is on the field and
Speaker 1: when it comes to working and being the best of
Speaker 1: his craft, he puts in all the work and to me,
Speaker 1: in my experiences with him, he's always been amazing to me.
Speaker 1: He's always been amazing to my family. But he's been
Speaker 1: a guy that definitely sets the tone as a receiver
Speaker 1: that you want to work and compete with. But it's
Speaker 1: been it's unfortunate that his career has really been like
Speaker 1: this the past few years. You know, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: there's been some challenges and some things that he hasn't
Speaker 1: talked about publicly. You know, mental health is a real thing,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not saying he's crazy for doing
Speaker 1: some of the things he's done, even though that's the
Speaker 1: easy thing to say, but the reality of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, dealing with some of those things off the field,
Speaker 1: and um, the pressure that he puts on himself for
Speaker 1: being great and sometimes you know, even your own persona
Speaker 1: and your ego sometimes getting away of things. So I
Speaker 1: think he probably was more of a victim of that
Speaker 1: than anything else. But he's a guy. I'm definitely cheering
Speaker 1: for him. I hope the best forman eventually they'll have
Speaker 1: a gold jacket after they hold him hostage for a
Speaker 1: few years. That's really well said, that's good perspective. Let's
Speaker 1: take it back a little bit to your Super Bowl wins,
Speaker 1: which one was sweeter, who's got the better fans? Which
Speaker 1: celebration did you enjoy more? No, the tough questions and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you an answer. And everyone always like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's cliche both of them, right, But the answer truly
Speaker 1: is both for me, and I'm gonna give you the
Speaker 1: real reason why. Because my second year, first of all,
Speaker 1: my rookie year, we went to the an f C
Speaker 1: Championship game and we lost to the Patriots on him
Speaker 1: last second play that wasn't made a great play by
Speaker 1: Sterling More to punch it out of Lee Evans arm
Speaker 1: didn't make the catch, and then Billy kund Of missed
Speaker 1: the kick to send it into overtime, and that's how
Speaker 1: we lost with the last thirty seconds at the game.
Speaker 1: So I didn't watch that Super Bowl because I was
Speaker 1: so petty. I was hurt. I couldn't watch it. I
Speaker 1: felt like we should have been there. And then the
Speaker 1: following year we go when we have a crazy year
Speaker 1: and we're playing well, and my my brother actually passed
Speaker 1: away during that season, So you know, I had a
Speaker 1: heavy heart that entire year. My family was definitely more
Speaker 1: involved in present than ever for that year for me
Speaker 1: and so to go and to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: My family. We had never been on a vacation anywhere,
Speaker 1: so I went to the Super Bowls. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll ever get here, so I flew all of
Speaker 1: my siblings down, my family down. They stay there and
Speaker 1: we got to celebrate. We ended up winning Super Bowls
Speaker 1: on the field with my family at the end of
Speaker 1: the year like that. You know, it was a truly
Speaker 1: a special year. But on the flip side of that,
Speaker 1: that was for me personally. On the flip side of that,
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, now I'm celebrating and we had another tough
Speaker 1: year and doing it being the first one to do
Speaker 1: it for the city of Philadelphia, who has the craziest
Speaker 1: fan base in the world. It was a completely different animal,
Speaker 1: you know, at that point where I was in my life.
Speaker 1: I've been in San Francisco for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Didn't go well. I wasn't involved in the offense like
Speaker 1: I thought I would be, And you know, it's honestly stressful.
Speaker 1: I love the four nine is, I love the organization,
Speaker 1: but it was a hard time for me, like knowing
Speaker 1: that I wasn't, you know, being who I know I am,
Speaker 1: and it was. It was tough. It was very tough.
Speaker 1: And to be able to go to a place like Philidelpia,
Speaker 1: my wife's from outside of Philadelphia and Kyle talking, she
Speaker 1: was able to be around her family and we made
Speaker 1: it through a Philadelphia be the first ones to do
Speaker 1: it there. And on top of that, I'm celebrating in
Speaker 1: the difference then, is that my wife's coming to me,
Speaker 1: who was my fiance the first Super Bowl. Now my
Speaker 1: wife's coming to me, and she's passing me my two
Speaker 1: sons to celebrate with. So it was just two completely
Speaker 1: different experiences, you know, seeing my boys like you know,
Speaker 1: it was definitely an emotional moment for me and I
Speaker 1: loved it and they both are definitely equal in weight
Speaker 1: to me. Speaking of an emotional moment, you mentioned when
Speaker 1: your brother passed one year with the Ravens and that
Speaker 1: night you had a game. You told John Harbaugh that
Speaker 1: you could play in that game against the Patriots and
Speaker 1: he said it was your call. In that game, you
Speaker 1: had a hundred twenty seven yards and two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: an epic one point win over the Patriots. How do
Speaker 1: you describe how important that was to you that night?
Speaker 1: In this ace of tragedy. What do you remember from
Speaker 1: hardball and your teammates during that time. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was huge. You know, I'm not an overly emotional guy.
Speaker 1: You know, my mom always told me I was a
Speaker 1: little cold hearted little kid. But that was right, you
Speaker 1: know for me, that was tough. You know, that was
Speaker 1: extremely tough. You no, I up to that point, I
Speaker 1: never really dealt with death with anyone like close to
Speaker 1: me and my family, and so that that was hard
Speaker 1: for me watching that and I went home. That's one
Speaker 1: of the luxuries of living close to where you play.
Speaker 1: I'm from Virginia and I was in Baltimore, so I
Speaker 1: was able to lead a hotel and the Baltimore Rains.
Speaker 1: I was going to lead a hotel and drive home
Speaker 1: when I found out at about you know, ten eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock at night or whatever it was, and they ended
Speaker 1: up having one of their security guys driving me down
Speaker 1: to Virginia. My fiance and my brother who was who
Speaker 1: was up there lived with me at the time, and
Speaker 1: we went home. And so I was home in Virginia.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really thinking about the game, you know. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see my mom. I wanted to see my siblings.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that everything was okay, you know,
Speaker 1: not that I could change anything or do anything, but
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to to to be there,
Speaker 1: you know, around my family. And so the next day,
Speaker 1: you know, if we had a day game, I probably
Speaker 1: would have never played, but it was it was a
Speaker 1: primetime night game. Because the reason why I'm saying that
Speaker 1: is I only slept like an hour, an hour or
Speaker 1: two make Max and I ended up saying, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna watch and see what happened. And I
Speaker 1: talked to our ball and he was like, hey, what
Speaker 1: are you playing on doing? And my mom was like, well,
Speaker 1: I think you should play. You know, we want you
Speaker 1: to play. And I'm like, well, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hurt my team because I'm tired. You know, I'm one
Speaker 1: of those people that you know, when you're tired day,
Speaker 1: they're delusional. So you know, I didn't really want to
Speaker 1: put that on my team, but my family wanted me
Speaker 1: to do it, and I had a different kind of
Speaker 1: energy about it. You know, I'll never forget walking into
Speaker 1: the stadium and the Ravens fans and embracing me. You know,
Speaker 1: when I got dropped off you know, it's definitely set
Speaker 1: some tears, you know, in that moment, because at that
Speaker 1: point the news had already broke. You know, I was
Speaker 1: home watching ESPN and playing mad and with my siblings.
Speaker 1: My brother is like I normally do. And then you know,
Speaker 1: you're watching ESPN and they talk about me and my
Speaker 1: brother passing away, you know, and that and that I'm
Speaker 1: not there, you know, which is a very weird experience,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's just the reality of it. But
Speaker 1: I ended up, you know, coming back, and you know,
Speaker 1: my family ended up watching the game, and everyone was
Speaker 1: initially supposed to go but just stay home in Virginia
Speaker 1: after that. But it was it was a big moment
Speaker 1: for my family to be able to score, to have
Speaker 1: the touchdown balls. You know, actually they're in his casket
Speaker 1: with him, um, so I don't have them, you know.
Speaker 1: After we after we scored, we had the touchdown balls,
Speaker 1: I just left him in his caskul m and just
Speaker 1: dealt through life. And because of the Ravens, like I'll
Speaker 1: never be able to thank them enough for their support
Speaker 1: through that process, the fans from all over really and
Speaker 1: their support is definitely something that you know helped my
Speaker 1: family used to pay. That's beautiful, man, very beautiful. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Ravens, do you have any Ray Lewis stories?
Speaker 1: What was it like playing with such a talent and
Speaker 1: a beast like ray Lewis? Man, Ray is of one
Speaker 1: of one. You know, there's only one ray Lewis walking
Speaker 1: his plan and that's for sure. But his energy, you know,
Speaker 1: his passion, its commitment. You know, I was able to
Speaker 1: play with him on the back end of his career.
Speaker 1: But to see the way he worked in his work ethic,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like it. You know, I talked about Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: What I've learned is the guys that are truly great,
Speaker 1: there's a different little edge to him. And to be
Speaker 1: able to see that out of Ray even something is little.
Speaker 1: Like I shared, I coached my little seven or seven
Speaker 1: organization now and I'm talking to the kids about their
Speaker 1: effort and how do you learn it? When I was
Speaker 1: taught that way by my high school coach, who I
Speaker 1: thought he was a drill sergeant, and also when I
Speaker 1: went to the University of Maryland and coach Fregan and
Speaker 1: James Franklin head coach at Penn State was our O C.
Speaker 1: And Lee Hall, my receiver's coach. They taught us to
Speaker 1: practice like pro and so when I went to the league,
Speaker 1: I was already prepared in that way. I knew what
Speaker 1: it was like to finish, keep running past the last defender.
Speaker 1: I knew those things. But to watch, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the greatest players that ever played this game do
Speaker 1: it on the back end of his career, chasing me
Speaker 1: down the sideline. You know, if I got the ball,
Speaker 1: whether he made the tackle or not, like, it just
Speaker 1: changed the way I viewed like work, you know, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. So it's like, if that guy's doing it,
Speaker 1: he set the standard for everything. And I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a huge lesson in that for young
Speaker 1: players to think, oh, it's just practice. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just practice when ray Lewis was on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't just practice when Ed Reid was
Speaker 1: on the field. It wasn't just practiced when Terrel Subs
Speaker 1: was on the field. Helodianda Marshall Yonder, Right, there's a
Speaker 1: reason why all those guys are gonna be Hall of Famers,
Speaker 1: and two of Marty are And so to me, my
Speaker 1: ray Lewis is being a kid. You know, it's weird
Speaker 1: because I played with ray Lewis's brother college, and I
Speaker 1: would watch ray Lewis when he comes, you know, like
Speaker 1: a little creeper, like like you know, that's ray Little
Speaker 1: standing over there, you know. I mean I still remember
Speaker 1: shaking his hand and inducing myself. And then you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years later, you know, I'm walking in
Speaker 1: the locker room and he's coming up to me, you know,
Speaker 1: welcome me to the team, you know, and that's the
Speaker 1: guy that you know everyone. For me, I looked at
Speaker 1: the ray Lewis coming up, so to be able to
Speaker 1: play with them was truly a special experience. But to me,
Speaker 1: just his work ethic, his commitment, his passion, his love
Speaker 1: for what he does and love for his team. You know,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like watching it. And also I can't forget
Speaker 1: about the pregame hype. Everyone knows the chance, you know,
Speaker 1: I was always there in front and center, like I
Speaker 1: really was, like I can't believe I'm here, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you're watching it and getting energized. But his speeches, man,
Speaker 1: he should be a pastor somewhere right now. Like what
Speaker 1: stands out there? Anything he said pregame that you'll just
Speaker 1: never forget I mean it's his messages to individuals, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, Ray Lewis comes around and like ReBs just
Speaker 1: like oil on every player's forehead before the game, like literally, yeah,
Speaker 1: literally every single player and they're like, what, probably coaches too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's like praying over everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: but he's really starving his faith. But to me, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll never My first start was against the St. Louis
Speaker 1: Rams and ray comes over to me and he just
Speaker 1: grabbed and I'm sitting there and I just feel like
Speaker 1: this big I'm like, who's grabbing me? He was like
Speaker 1: I feel it. He's like I feel it. He's like,
Speaker 1: you're so ready to feel like that. I feel it.
Speaker 1: You canna have a big day. You can be the
Speaker 1: reason why we win this game. You canna have a
Speaker 1: big day. You know. I'm just like, man, this dude
Speaker 1: just pumping me up, you know, trying to make sure.
Speaker 1: But he came out of nowhere. I was just walking
Speaker 1: through the tunnel, you know. But he knew that I
Speaker 1: needed to play a big role in order for us
Speaker 1: to be successful. And he came over there and my
Speaker 1: first start. They set it all up. They were baby
Speaker 1: in this rookie now at a rough camp. They were
Speaker 1: a baby to be trying to make sure that, you know,
Speaker 1: I got easy into the game because we had traded
Speaker 1: for Lee Evans to be the starter. Because I wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: I was a lockout kid. I didn't learn the offense
Speaker 1: until camp and my head was spending. So I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna lie to you. I didn't really. I wasn't
Speaker 1: comfortable with my assignments until about the third or fourth
Speaker 1: preseason game. Because that lockout year, we didn't have an
Speaker 1: off season workout, you know, And I I don't feel
Speaker 1: bad for the kids last year who didn't have off
Speaker 1: season workouts because of COVID, but at least at a
Speaker 1: Zoom meeting, we didn't have the plays, so, you know,
Speaker 1: And and I stuggled with that and so for Ray
Speaker 1: to to come over and do that, and the team
Speaker 1: eased me in. They were like, hey, to first play
Speaker 1: the game, we're throwing it to you. We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: you a hitch and if you run a hitch, and
Speaker 1: they pressed it turned into a go route. Well, I
Speaker 1: lined up to run my hitch and I see the
Speaker 1: DV come on up to press. I'm like, oh, here,
Speaker 1: we go when the first play of the game touchdown
Speaker 1: a bomb, and then we come back again the next
Speaker 1: drive and I catch another touchdown for a big post,
Speaker 1: you know, and in the second quarter, come back down
Speaker 1: and to catch another touchdown. So I ended up scoring
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the first quarter. Excuse me, My first
Speaker 1: three catches were touchdowns, and I thought the first quarter
Speaker 1: was the first half. But I know, my first three
Speaker 1: catches were touchdowns. And my confidence from being overs through
Speaker 1: the group. And he was one of the first people
Speaker 1: to greet me, you know, on that sideline, you know,
Speaker 1: telling me, hey, I told you, you know, And that
Speaker 1: was he was from my confidence for our shows purposes,
Speaker 1: we'll say the first quarter revisionist history. It was it.
Speaker 1: But the first three catches were Yeah, you won two
Speaker 1: super Bowls with one backup quarterback and Joe Flacco. Which
Speaker 1: one are you more surprised by? And is it really
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks league? I mean your two super Bowl teams,
Speaker 1: the defense was strong, the wide receivers played a role.
Speaker 1: What was that like winning super Bowls with a backup quarterback?
Speaker 1: How did the team stay together? And did you guys
Speaker 1: believe you were gonna win with Nick Foles? Yeah? I'll
Speaker 1: start with the Joe Flack on the first one. First,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco had a lemon touchdowns and zero interceptions, so
Speaker 1: absolutely he carried the team. We can talk about all
Speaker 1: we want, all the defense you guys had. Our defense
Speaker 1: wasn't lights out when we were in Denver. If that
Speaker 1: wasn't anyone go watch that game. Between special teams and
Speaker 1: things like that. We had to score points on offense.
Speaker 1: But to be fair, Corey Graham also scored a touchdown,
Speaker 1: so our defense made some cornerback scored a touchdown on
Speaker 1: the pick six, So you know, players were to be made.
Speaker 1: But we don't win that Super Bowl without Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: throwing the ball giving us chances and guys making plays.
Speaker 1: And in Philadelphia, you know, when Nick Foles came in,
Speaker 1: like I don't even know if I should be saying this,
Speaker 1: but it's all his arm was like kind of messed
Speaker 1: up the entire season and so you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have the reps that we needed, and so it
Speaker 1: was a little rocky at first. And part of it.
Speaker 1: I'll always tell people, you know, you got stunped going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. I'm always fully transparent. We had that
Speaker 1: by week. So we had our first sea we had
Speaker 1: locked up. We went out of their offense for one
Speaker 1: series and I'm not gonna lie I dropped the ball
Speaker 1: that had I would have called it, I probably would
Speaker 1: have ran four yards for a touchdown. But who took
Speaker 1: the heat? Nick Foles. Oh, the offense stunk it up
Speaker 1: that So I always apologize when that comes up because
Speaker 1: if I would have scored that touchdown, no one would have.
Speaker 1: If I'd have caught the ball, no one said anything,
Speaker 1: but it got up on me. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: It was quick. But but for Folds, we didn't have
Speaker 1: that same kind of chemistry. We felt like we were
Speaker 1: gonna win it with Carson, for sure. The difference was
Speaker 1: when we got into that practice because we had that
Speaker 1: by week, it was a completely different offense. It felt
Speaker 1: completely different. Nick was comfortable They're putting in things that
Speaker 1: he liked, and Folds was dealing um. He was like.
Speaker 1: The one thing I love about Nick Foles is his confidence,
Speaker 1: his confidence in himself, his confidence in you. And I've
Speaker 1: told you all about ray Lewis and his speeches and
Speaker 1: being a pastor. Nick Foles will be a little road
Speaker 1: pastor with the way he delivers and literally studying in
Speaker 1: seminary school, so he's gonna be a real one, and
Speaker 1: complication skills are unbelievable, you know, his confidence, and I
Speaker 1: think that was really what the difference was. You know,
Speaker 1: Nick Folks started just giving guy's chances to make plays.
Speaker 1: And if you watch the Super Bowl, you saw that
Speaker 1: over and over. It wasn't hey, we're gonna scheme you up,
Speaker 1: We're gonna run all these trick plays. Yes, Philly Special
Speaker 1: was one, but guys were scheming up. Guys are making plays,
Speaker 1: and he was giving guy's chances to do it. And
Speaker 1: we felt that, you know, because people we played the Falcons,
Speaker 1: you know, and in our first one and that one
Speaker 1: was a little little iffy. They're right, you know. We
Speaker 1: didn't play the best on offense. We didn't make all
Speaker 1: the plays that we need to make. We had a
Speaker 1: little luck. I remember catching a lucky ball in the
Speaker 1: second quarter and bounced off the defenders knee and right
Speaker 1: into my arms. One of the luckiest plays in NFL history,
Speaker 1: I swear. And for that to happen, and Folks comes back,
Speaker 1: makes an amazing throw the outshine and now we get
Speaker 1: a field go before half. Why is that important. We
Speaker 1: go into the end of the game, the Falcons had
Speaker 1: to score a touchdown to win the game because we
Speaker 1: were able to steal over three points. If not, they
Speaker 1: would have kicked the field goal. And that's the difference
Speaker 1: between winning and losing, and Folds made some big time plays.
Speaker 1: It goes from at least from my point of view,
Speaker 1: people are like, well, how are you ready for it? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out how I was going through.
Speaker 1: In my eyes, it looked like an easy interception. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's three on one. How do I keep this from
Speaker 1: being a pick six? Like That's how That's what went
Speaker 1: through my mind, and it bounced up cast of all
Speaker 1: running around, Folds gets going and it's a completely different
Speaker 1: ball game. And I think plays like that. At moments
Speaker 1: like that, Folds was the same regardless, and that's what
Speaker 1: to me makes him the most special. His demeanor. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously he's a playmaker, but his trust and his demeanor
Speaker 1: is second and none. That's really cool to hear because
Speaker 1: you just don't think about all the journey, everything it
Speaker 1: took to get there. So that's really cool to hear
Speaker 1: all that Behind the scenes. Tori, before we let you go.
Speaker 1: I want to do a preview of this week ends games.
Speaker 1: The conference championships we've previewed teased a little bit. Let's
Speaker 1: start in the NFC. Rams are three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite at home. You mentioned they get to stay
Speaker 1: at home and if they go to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: that's at home. That's pretty special. And they're playing the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. Forty Niners beat them twice in the regular season.
Speaker 1: Can they beat them three times? Beating a scene three times,
Speaker 1: It's hard to do, but I think the forty Niners
Speaker 1: King I was on social media earlier talking about how
Speaker 1: this feels like one of those weird years where things
Speaker 1: are going right for the forty Niners and people didn't
Speaker 1: think they were supposed to be there where it kind
Speaker 1: of feels like it's your year and they've been coming
Speaker 1: out on top of these games. But I think they
Speaker 1: stand a chance and to me, if both teams play
Speaker 1: their best, the Rams will win the game. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for the forty Niners because, you know, have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play there and laying a bunch of teammates and
Speaker 1: guys that gave me an opportunity, I definitely want it
Speaker 1: for them, But I think the Rams this time around,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a lot more prepared. You know, the
Speaker 1: key to that game, it's going to be Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: And I know everyone's riding Jimmy G. And I'm probably
Speaker 1: worse than everyone else. I was definitely calling for trade Lands.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those guys wagon, but I'm being
Speaker 1: completely honest about it because I felt like at one
Speaker 1: point in the season, they weren't winning because of him,
Speaker 1: they were winning with him, and there's a difference. So
Speaker 1: to me, it's like, well, if you're just winning because
Speaker 1: the guy, and he's not making these big time plays anyway,
Speaker 1: why why not make a switch? That was my thought process.
Speaker 1: But that's why Kyle Shannon hands the coach and I'm
Speaker 1: over here talking about it because he's stuck with his
Speaker 1: decision and he knows if his rookie is ready or not.
Speaker 1: And they go out there and they were able to
Speaker 1: turn it around. And so Jimmy G when he protects
Speaker 1: the ball, the forts are and the way they run
Speaker 1: the ball in their scheme, they can do some special things.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna need Jimmy G to make a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays and that's going to be the difference.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: a few years back when the Party Niners were there.
Speaker 1: If he hits Emmanuel Sanders on that post route when
Speaker 1: he's running wide open in the fourth quarter to win
Speaker 1: the game, the narrative about him is completely different right now.
Speaker 1: You know, but he didn't. But I think plays like
Speaker 1: that are going to present themselves. And if he protects
Speaker 1: the ball and hits those plays when they're they're not
Speaker 1: force it just take the place when they're there, the
Speaker 1: fort Nights can come out on top. Okay, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good advice. What about in the a f C
Speaker 1: because I'm hearing a lot of people say that whoever
Speaker 1: won Chief's Bills would be pretty exhausted going into the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship because that was kind of the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship that was the tougher game. Now
Speaker 1: it is Chiefs. They are at home for the fourth
Speaker 1: straight year in the a f C Championship, and they've
Speaker 1: got the Bengals, who are maybe the swaggiest, coolest team
Speaker 1: to watch right now. What do you think Chiefs our
Speaker 1: seven point favorite? First of all, I wish the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I wish we could cancel everyone else out and watch
Speaker 1: the Bills and Chiefs playing the Super Bowl, because but
Speaker 1: we can't do that, and everyone fights for their opportunity.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Kent City Chiefs, and I've been
Speaker 1: telling people this for the last two years. I'm not
Speaker 1: betting against them until that roster is entirely separated because
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the game, and
Speaker 1: when he's playing like he is right now, they're tough
Speaker 1: to stop. Earlier in the year they were they were
Speaker 1: very questionable, but right now, the way they're playing, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can stop them, and on the
Speaker 1: flip side of that, defense can get it together, get
Speaker 1: some pressure. They're going against the right opponent for that.
Speaker 1: The Bengals have been struggling to protect Joe Burrow, so
Speaker 1: I think that's really the biggest match up there. But
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is going to do his thing for Carless.
Speaker 1: You make it sacked a lot, but he's gonna make
Speaker 1: his plays. I love the confidence that he's brought to
Speaker 1: this organization, to the team. I don't care if they
Speaker 1: win or lose next week. This is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest and best turnarounds in NFL history. They were just
Speaker 1: drafting first overall. Just a couple of years ago. Crazy
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow tears his knee. This last season, Joe Borrow
Speaker 1: tears his knee, and now he's back and we don't
Speaker 1: even remember he tore his knee. Great, they add a
Speaker 1: couple of tools to the tool box and now they're
Speaker 1: here in the a f C Championship Game with one
Speaker 1: of the more entertaining offensive groups in the league. And
Speaker 1: that's all because of Joe Burrow, all because of the
Speaker 1: confidence that he brings. And Coach Taylor deserves some respect
Speaker 1: for what he's been able to do, and the g
Speaker 1: M as well for piecing it all together. But the
Speaker 1: reality of it is this ship goes as Joe Burrow goes,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have their hands full over there at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium. But the reality of it is they have
Speaker 1: a different confidence that we failed to talk about. They
Speaker 1: beat them just a few weeks ago. So when you
Speaker 1: have the confidence knowing that you can beat you know, Goliath,
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different attitude walking into and
Speaker 1: now it's just that you have to do it in
Speaker 1: their house. And one thing about them playing at home.
Speaker 1: It was rocking in Cincinnati that day. It was, but
Speaker 1: they haven't seen that crowd, noise, that arrowhead, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have the challenge of trying to keep that quiet.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun to watch. But if any
Speaker 1: team can do it, this young team that is the
Speaker 1: underdog that people don't feel like they belong there, they're
Speaker 1: in proposition to be able to pull off an upset.
Speaker 1: I love it. Well, those are the pics right there
Speaker 1: that you haven't who's winning the Super Bowls? Let fishes
Speaker 1: before you get to it. I know I said the
Speaker 1: Bankers they can't. Yes, however, I'm not betting against the
Speaker 1: Chiefs in any situation. Amb Tori, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for your time. You gave us tons of good stories
Speaker 1: from the past, inside into your family and your personal
Speaker 1: journey in the NFL. I mean that was that was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite interviews. I really appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate jading. That was awesome. Don't forget to
Speaker 1: follow Tory Smith on Twitter at Tory Smith Wide Receiver.
Speaker 1: That's w R Tori. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Time to get to this weekend's action. Two big games
Speaker 1: to decide who advances to Super Bowl. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: bet MGM betting expert. It's Peter Andrew. So there he is,
Speaker 1: the great Peter Andrew, gloating in the glory of the
Speaker 1: victory of his team. You can't see him. He's got
Speaker 1: a cigar, he's got a full forty Niners uniform on,
Speaker 1: but most of all, he's wearing a smile and a
Speaker 1: glow in his eyes like he's high on fetnel. I
Speaker 1: just gotta ask, are you wearing football pants as well
Speaker 1: or their cleats? What else are you wearing that we
Speaker 1: can't see? Yeah, I left the shoulder pads downstairs? Are
Speaker 1: getting nostrils that have those on? Two? Yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: great to be an IMS fan this week commanding victory
Speaker 1: not really but no, offensively, just about nothing, but special
Speaker 1: teams did just about everything, so it was it was
Speaker 1: a good one for one of us here. I hear you,
Speaker 1: I hear you. You've earned this one. I would be
Speaker 1: doing it if it was my team, forty Niners and Packers.
Speaker 1: Man that I don't want to face you all in
Speaker 1: the postseason, even when I thought you guys stunk on
Speaker 1: Sunday on sorry, on Saturday which you did. We stunk
Speaker 1: more so it was that that was really hard to
Speaker 1: watch that. I woke up Sunday morning like I was
Speaker 1: hungover and I'm pregnant and not drink until I'm not.
Speaker 1: But I felt sick to my stomach. And I'm texting
Speaker 1: with my poor grandmother, my grandmother in Green Bay, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: who loves the Packers so much, she doesn't watch the
Speaker 1: game till the next morning, and she's texting me the
Speaker 1: next morning. I just saw what happened in my cop
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm driving a cheese game, like
Speaker 1: a tear running down my face. Congratulate as thank you.
Speaker 1: If there's any reason I feel bad, it's for gllten
Speaker 1: in front of Grandma Decker or Grandma Harland. I mean,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean honestly, you know, jokes aside. After
Speaker 1: that first drive, I was nervous because you guys just
Speaker 1: up the field. I felt like thirty seconds. But I
Speaker 1: think this is where Shanni and screws good Is. I
Speaker 1: think they make changes in real time. The House of
Speaker 1: got to Rogers a bit offense. I have no excuse.
Speaker 1: Four They're gonna have to score more than thirteen points
Speaker 1: on Sunday if they're gonna win against the Rams. But
Speaker 1: see what happens. So let's start there with a little
Speaker 1: preview punishment picks. Be honest, you make your pick first
Speaker 1: for this one NFU championship in l A. If the
Speaker 1: Rams win, they stay in l A. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. That could be back to back home
Speaker 1: super Bowl champs, which had never happened before last year.
Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible. We're at this point again. But the
Speaker 1: Rams have turned on the Jets these last two weeks.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty impressive what they did against Arizona and
Speaker 1: then last week just enough to beat the Buccaneers surge.
Speaker 1: So do they do it again? Do they hold on
Speaker 1: and beat the forty niners? I don't know, guys, easily.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be big too. It's not gonna be even
Speaker 1: an interesting game. The Rams are juggernaut right now. San Francisco,
Speaker 1: you know, Peter is our friend. I want to say congratulations,
Speaker 1: but they didn't really win that game. The Packers really
Speaker 1: lost that game. San Francisco doesn't look great. Jimmy g
Speaker 1: doesn't look great. He doesn't make those big claps. Well,
Speaker 1: he does look great, but he's looking great. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll never play as great as he looks. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Rams big. I mean, their wide receivers are
Speaker 1: just gonna be running all over the place a lot
Speaker 1: of yards after catches. It's gonna be showtime baby in
Speaker 1: l A. It's almost like Magic Johnson's out there with them.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a romping. The forty Niners are overachieving,
Speaker 1: just like Peter Andrew with his cigar are it's probably
Speaker 1: that's probably no Cuban, that's probably a Philly blunt. You're right,
Speaker 1: it isn't a Cuban. It's a knockoff and even says
Speaker 1: counterfeit on it. Yeah, pretty sure. It's not like a
Speaker 1: toy prop from the like Party City or something nice.
Speaker 1: I'm also taking the Rams, and three and a half
Speaker 1: is not a big number. I think they're gonna win
Speaker 1: much bigger than that. Okay, we're in agreement on the
Speaker 1: first game. It's so weird. We only have one other game,
Speaker 1: so let's get to that one. Peter t s up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the lines have moved a half point in both
Speaker 1: of these games. They started at three for the Rams
Speaker 1: over the Niners. It started at seven for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: of the Bengals. That's now up to seven and a half.
Speaker 1: That's the big number there for an an f C
Speaker 1: championship game. What do you think they're be honest? Uh,
Speaker 1: I went with the no brainer on the first one.
Speaker 1: So you know what, unlike Olivia, who has apparently still
Speaker 1: a team left in this, I don't know, she's got
Speaker 1: two teams. She breaks the rules. She's a Packers fan,
Speaker 1: she's a Chiefs fan. You know, she's just fair weather.
Speaker 1: I mean, who had a backup favorite team and look
Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, it's not fair. It's not fair. You
Speaker 1: gotta pick one team. You can't have two teams. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like she still has a team in this. Who
Speaker 1: does that? The cold hearted? Oh h d. It's like
Speaker 1: favorite comedians just doesn't there's rules to this, Peter. In sports,
Speaker 1: you have to pick a team, and you either ride
Speaker 1: the joy of their victory or you'd ride the misery
Speaker 1: of their defeat like a true loyal fan. Oh h d.
Speaker 1: You can't have two teams. Pick one. Okay, it's like
Speaker 1: trying to have two quarterbacks. It doesn't work. And that's
Speaker 1: why San Francisco is gonna get ropped because they still
Speaker 1: are not sold on Jimmy G good transition. Yeah I am.
Speaker 1: I am going with why not, let's go with just
Speaker 1: let's let's go with let's go with magic. Let's go
Speaker 1: with the Bengals. Baby, it's gonna be magical. They're going
Speaker 1: all the way the Super Bowl. Joe Burrow is riding
Speaker 1: his Swag, his horse named Swag, all the way to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And again we're talking money line here.
Speaker 1: I want to make that very clear. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: Chiefs money line. To actually play this, I would take
Speaker 1: the Bengals with the spread. Do you like that, Peter? Uh?
Speaker 1: You I do. I think it is going to be
Speaker 1: a close game. I think it's a field goal game.
Speaker 1: I think both of them are, to be honest, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go back real quick. You said there's
Speaker 1: back to back home games potentially for the Rams here
Speaker 1: with NFC championship in the Super Bowl week A team.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me just let me just say
Speaker 1: I will be at the game this week in l A.
Speaker 1: Of course I will be rolling deep. But we k
Speaker 1: a teen if you recall, I think it was Ers
Speaker 1: fans at Sophie Stadium, so we might have back to
Speaker 1: back home games we're facing in the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: just be careful. And they've Ticketmaster lifted the ban of
Speaker 1: only selling to people in the l A area, so
Speaker 1: now it's back open everyone, So see your red coming.
Speaker 1: Despite Kelly Stafford's please, she said, Rams fans, don't sell
Speaker 1: your tickets, you away fans, And you know what, good
Speaker 1: for her? That's ah. I would do that too if
Speaker 1: i'm if I'm QB one's wife and you've got to
Speaker 1: pull your weight right she has a huge following. I
Speaker 1: do that too. Joe Joe Staley came out and said
Speaker 1: the opposite. He said, l A fans selling to me,
Speaker 1: I'll give you cash. So you got a little bit
Speaker 1: of a war here. But it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be you know, I know they're
Speaker 1: I think Owen six the Rams against Shanahan with me
Speaker 1: with McVeigh, it's gonna be a close game. I could
Speaker 1: see it coming down to the water like we K
Speaker 1: team did. But they're gonna be two exciting games for sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got one more question that the people really want
Speaker 1: to know. A K. My sister and I when we
Speaker 1: are watching the forty nine is Packers game. Who is
Speaker 1: Jimmy G dating? Because I think there's a rumor it's
Speaker 1: a porn star, a former porn star, and we try
Speaker 1: to do our best on Google. But I figured you
Speaker 1: would know this. It definitely was who he was dating
Speaker 1: was a porn star. I forget her name, but it's
Speaker 1: probably a good thing. I don't remember her name. Let
Speaker 1: me just check my Internet hold on you know her
Speaker 1: stag name. But if you're a good looking at Jimmy G,
Speaker 1: I imagine you have multiple girls and girlfriends, So I
Speaker 1: think he's a right Okay, thanks for settling that. Just
Speaker 1: like O HD's got multiple teams. Yeah, he's got multiple girls.
Speaker 1: Al Right, guys, that's fine. It's gonna be a crazy
Speaker 1: weekend of conference championship games. I cannot wait. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us feed. Thanks guys. Alright, guys, don't forget to
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl week, we will be doing a live
Speaker 1: show at Tom's Watch Bar on Tuesday, March eight. Next
Speaker 1: week we will announce our special guests and if you
Speaker 1: can't make it, it will be streamed on the MGM
Speaker 1: social media channels at that m g AM. So, now, Olivia,
Speaker 1: why don't you take us out? Loser? Okay? Here it
Speaker 1: is lost again. Here's the outro Jannas wrote for me.
Speaker 1: I haven't laid eyes on it, but again, Mom, if
Speaker 1: you're listening, to switch it off. Thanks for listening. Guys.
Speaker 1: As per usual, it's me O h D. The sports
Speaker 1: journalist Georgia Peach and part time R and B singer
Speaker 1: with my extensive football and sports pedigree. Here I am
Speaker 1: again losing to a comedian who just wings it. What
Speaker 1: has losing this season to Yanni meant so much? What?
Speaker 1: What has losing this season to Yanni so much taught me? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Except life isn't fair. Also when it comes to betting
Speaker 1: its sports, listen to your heart and not the experts. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: I gotta wrap this up and prepare to root for
Speaker 1: my other team, the Chiefs. That's right, I have two teams.
Speaker 1: I root four the Packers in the Chiefs. It always
Speaker 1: helps to have two favorite teams just in case one
Speaker 1: doesn't make it. Life isn't fair, so it's always good
Speaker 1: to have a backup team. So HD in amount to
Speaker 1: root for my team that is still in it, because
Speaker 1: when you are a privileged woman from a famous family
Speaker 1: like me, we never lose. Good luck out there, losers.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, everybody. I am so pumped for this.
Speaker 1: I gotta say that was one of the cleaner ones here. Britt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was clean one. I didn't have a lot of talk,
Speaker 1: all right, everyone, thanks for listening. We'll see you next week.