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Speaker 1: It's Gill Alexander. What a weekend. What a weekend, the
Speaker 1: first ever Super wild Card weekend. We will discuss all
Speaker 1: I will try to remember every single detail. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I will. I will forget one or two here there,
Speaker 1: but I think we're gonna be pretty thorough about all
Speaker 1: of this. And uh, we'll do it in listen. We'll
Speaker 1: do it in guessing lines format fashion, not that we're
Speaker 1: guessing lines. We will guest lines, but I doubt there
Speaker 1: will be that much of a discrepancy. But it's really
Speaker 1: our excuse to go back and look at all the
Speaker 1: games yesterday, look forward to next weekend's divisional round. Uh.
Speaker 1: And of course Bill Connolly will be here as well
Speaker 1: to discuss the National championship tonight. Bill Connolly, who writes
Speaker 1: for ESPN, the creator of sp plus the advanced staff
Speaker 1: for college football. Bill will give us his advanced dad
Speaker 1: analysis on tonight's game with Alabama favorite over Ohio State.
Speaker 1: But let's bring him in. He's the star of the
Speaker 1: show every Monday morning for guessing lines. Um, Jason, what
Speaker 1: are you telling him? Because I can't hear you. What
Speaker 1: do you think? We've got the animation ready to rap o.
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Speaker 1: Here it is for guessing lines. Everybody, Yeah, non sectioned
Speaker 1: electric guitar, non sectioned by Chrisma. Yeah, Chris Andrews, everybody
Speaker 1: who runs the South Point Hotel Casino sports book. Good
Speaker 1: morning to you, Chrissie. How are you? Oh good? But
Speaker 1: I wish you had played that music a little longer.
Speaker 1: It sounded like Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton. That was terrific.
Speaker 1: Wait do you like it? Did you warm to it?
Speaker 1: Since I'm gonna say not really yes, Jimmy Page from
Speaker 1: Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, it was not. Um, it really
Speaker 1: should get sell with us on the music Listen did
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh outcome? Let's start here because I'm my big
Speaker 1: headline before we get into all this is, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the staples of this show, not just guessing lines,
Speaker 1: but just a numbers game, and we do it network wide.
Speaker 1: But certainly I'm I'm I don't know the words guilty
Speaker 1: of it or not, but certainly one of the staples
Speaker 1: is is that we go back and we lament I'll
Speaker 1: be kind coaching decisions coaching malpractice on any given Sunday, Right,
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn comes to mind as a big as someone
Speaker 1: who's big culprit of that week after week. I don't
Speaker 1: ever remember a playoff weekend. And I get that there
Speaker 1: were six games and not four, but I don't ever
Speaker 1: remember a playoff weekend where four out of the six losers.
Speaker 1: I'll leave Matt Naggy out of it because I think
Speaker 1: his team just stinks, but four out of the six
Speaker 1: teams that lost it was severe coaching malpractice sequences that
Speaker 1: boggle the mind. And I just questioned, like, what are
Speaker 1: we betting on? What is this? So we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into all of that. I don't remember this bad ever
Speaker 1: in one given moment. I'm not sure if you do either.
Speaker 1: We'll get your response to that. And then was the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game Estuary that just make it you guys make
Speaker 1: out with that outcome yesterday. Uh, it was kind of
Speaker 1: like the least of the evils. You know, we had
Speaker 1: a lot of you know it works out this way
Speaker 1: in in you know, in bookmaking, and it really just
Speaker 1: kind of like the way we do the accounting, you
Speaker 1: always have everything funneled into that last game. Uh So,
Speaker 1: once you know what we did, like the what ifs,
Speaker 1: you know, we looked like we were we were in
Speaker 1: big trouble, certainly if the Steelers went out right. Uh
Speaker 1: And I had a big money line on Cleveland all week,
Speaker 1: just because I knew that was going to be the situation.
Speaker 1: They were just a real popular teaser team and we
Speaker 1: couldn't knock out anything uh significant going into that, you know,
Speaker 1: teaser wise, you know, so we were I knew we
Speaker 1: were honorable. Uh So I even juiced up the money
Speaker 1: line a little bit more and probably took back more
Speaker 1: than I should have on on Cleveland on the money line.
Speaker 1: But all in all, it was it was still like
Speaker 1: a good day. We had a good result with with
Speaker 1: everything combined when especially when you kind of looked at it.
Speaker 1: We lost the first two games, you know, and managed
Speaker 1: to win the last one, although we probably should have
Speaker 1: want a little more than we did. But all in all,
Speaker 1: was a pretty good day. Pretty good day. Do you
Speaker 1: agree with me that we've never seen as rampant coaching
Speaker 1: failures as as we did in this moment. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm being a prisoner of the moment saying this.
Speaker 1: In fact, I would like for listeners to the show
Speaker 1: today if when you tweet in a Beating the book,
Speaker 1: you can tweet in about whatever you want to tweet about.
Speaker 1: But if you'd like to rank these four guys Frank Raich,
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel, Mike Tomlin, Pete Carroll, just which of the
Speaker 1: coaching blunders this weekend was the worst? Rank UM one
Speaker 1: through four. It's just I can't believe what I was
Speaker 1: watching this weekend. This is horrific. Well, you know, on
Speaker 1: my from my standpoint, I know I'm probably I know
Speaker 1: I'm in the minority. They're just interrupted one second, just
Speaker 1: to give station idea. It's Gill Alexander, Chris Andrews. This
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Speaker 1: go ahead. Well, you know I always just look at
Speaker 1: team kind of you know, some of all their parts,
Speaker 1: you know, and some of the you know, I I
Speaker 1: like let's let's take the Steelers. You know, we kind
Speaker 1: of know what Mike tomline and he's not like a
Speaker 1: big analytical guy. You know, that's just you know, until
Speaker 1: he hires somebody to do that. You know, again, that's
Speaker 1: just going to be part of what their team is.
Speaker 1: Same with every coach you just mentioned. You know, Mike Rabel, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he figured out some things last year where
Speaker 1: he kind of had Bill Belichick by the shorthairs, you know,
Speaker 1: because some of the things that he had kind of
Speaker 1: figured out that he learned from Belichick, but he was
Speaker 1: using them against them. But these are all just, like
Speaker 1: I said, some of the parts, you know, that creates
Speaker 1: the whole. And uh, you know, some guys are, you know,
Speaker 1: real good at that sort of stuff, and a lot
Speaker 1: of guys are, and you gotta remember the world that
Speaker 1: they came from. You're talking about Pete Carroll, what's he
Speaker 1: like seventy something like that. I think he's sixty eight something. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's been in football his whole life, you know, he Uh,
Speaker 1: this is just kind of what he is. You know.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure these guys are gonna change. But
Speaker 1: I look at that and I realized that's what it is,
Speaker 1: but not to say that they didn't make big mistakes.
Speaker 1: They did, you know, but that that really isn't always
Speaker 1: my concern because to me going forward, I look at
Speaker 1: that as that's kind of what the team is like
Speaker 1: when I'm making a number of booking of games doing
Speaker 1: whatever like that. Well, that makes sense. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you from a betting standpoint, there is some much
Speaker 1: there is some that these coaches do what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. But I guess that's uh, that's a naive
Speaker 1: of me and this age, by the way, Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: sixty nine years of age. Let's let's do this in
Speaker 1: the format that we normally do it again. We call
Speaker 1: it guessing lines. We'll guess the lines here. I know
Speaker 1: that I'm only you know because I know what they
Speaker 1: are now, But I will tell you that I guessed
Speaker 1: them and I was not far off on any of
Speaker 1: them this time. But well, we'll go through and give
Speaker 1: us excuse to go through everything yesterday. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the first of the divisional round games on Saturday. Well,
Speaker 1: the Packers are a pretty solid seven and the only
Speaker 1: differences I ever saw, I think there was a there
Speaker 1: was a couple of six and a half's when I
Speaker 1: first opened up with juice on the favorite, and then
Speaker 1: even some seven and a halfs with pretty heavy juice
Speaker 1: on the dog. I still see some of that, but
Speaker 1: the six and a halfs are virtually gone, or at
Speaker 1: least on my stream. I opened at seven. I kind
Speaker 1: of like the higher number. Um if it if it
Speaker 1: were to goo to seven and a half, I could
Speaker 1: see going there myself. And uh, and again I think
Speaker 1: people are a little bit prisoners of the moment in
Speaker 1: all of these games. The other Rams one, Uh, their
Speaker 1: defense looked fantastic, and I think that's what guys are
Speaker 1: gonna keep in mind in this game. But I thought
Speaker 1: seven was a good opening number. I guess seven and
Speaker 1: a half here and I'll tell you why I was dreaming,
Speaker 1: like as the Rams were winning this game against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And we'll get into this here in a second. But
Speaker 1: the Jared golf possibilities at a cold lambeau Field were
Speaker 1: at least worth. It took above the seven for me,
Speaker 1: because we've seen him in cold weather again. There was
Speaker 1: that there was just used one example, the Monday night
Speaker 1: game in Chicago where it was only thirty two degrees
Speaker 1: fahrenheit and the California kid acted like it was thirty
Speaker 1: two below, like he was just in over his head.
Speaker 1: So the Rams get here to play the number one
Speaker 1: Steed Packers obviously by beating the Seahawks. Uh, they do
Speaker 1: it thirty to twenty acres had a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: one yards for the Rams. Darius Williams the big play
Speaker 1: when he returned Russell Wilson's pick forty two yards for
Speaker 1: a score Rams one at thirty to twenty. Uh. Even
Speaker 1: while a sing Aaron Donald They're all Pro tackle for
Speaker 1: much of the second half. He left with a rib injury.
Speaker 1: And they did it without a healthy quarterback for you know,
Speaker 1: more than three quarters. John Wolford started for the second
Speaker 1: straight week, but he injured his neck when he dived
Speaker 1: head first in the first quarter. Was hitting the helmet
Speaker 1: by Jamal Adam's shoulder. By the way they picked up
Speaker 1: the flag, my immediate comment was, oh, I bet they
Speaker 1: picked that up if that's Tom Brady, Like, there's just
Speaker 1: no chance they pick up that flag. It's John Wolford,
Speaker 1: And so they pick it up. Oh yeah, it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like it was that bad of a hit. Actually,
Speaker 1: it wasn't targeting. Golf took over less than two weeks
Speaker 1: after undergoing surgery. Took over rather less than two weeks
Speaker 1: after undergoing surgery on his right thumb. He ends up
Speaker 1: Golf does nine of nineteen for one fifty five, one touchdown,
Speaker 1: no picks, sack twice. Wolford three of six for twenty
Speaker 1: nine when he was in there, no touchdowns, doe picks.
Speaker 1: He was sacked once. Acres, as I mentioned, twenty eight
Speaker 1: carries for one thirty one in a touchdown. The Rams
Speaker 1: finished with a hundred sixty four yards rushing in this
Speaker 1: game against Seattle. They they were three of fifteen on
Speaker 1: third down, but they held Seattle to two of fourteen
Speaker 1: on or down. They also held Seattle to eleven total
Speaker 1: first downs in the football game. Wilson and what a
Speaker 1: shell of himself he's become like in the course of
Speaker 1: one year. Russell Wilson went to front runner for m
Speaker 1: v P. It's his to lose to a guy who
Speaker 1: completed the eleven passes versus the Rams and the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He connected with dk metcalf on a pair of touchdowns
Speaker 1: fifty one yards in the first half of a broken
Speaker 1: play than a twelve yard or with left really to
Speaker 1: make the score more respectable than you know, than it
Speaker 1: could have been. Seattle never played with the lead. They
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, two or fourtune on thirds. Their ten
Speaker 1: game home playoff win streak is snapped. Of course, you know,
Speaker 1: different crowd issue there. Jamal Adams said he played with
Speaker 1: a torn laborim in his left shoulder. Afterwards, he thought
Speaker 1: he'd throw that in. In addition to Donald's injury, Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup limped off grabbing at his right knee in the
Speaker 1: closing minutes of that game. But can I get to
Speaker 1: the peak. Let's just sort of do the post mortem
Speaker 1: on the Seahawks if we could Chrissie, Uh, in a
Speaker 1: five minute before you go yeah, no, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to go ahead. I don't want to interrupt you.
Speaker 1: No go ahead? Okay, So in a five minute span
Speaker 1: in this game and we're talking in the second quarter, uh,
Speaker 1: he kicks a fifty yard field goal, fourth in one
Speaker 1: to tie the score up at three and three. Okay,
Speaker 1: fourth and one fifty yard field goal? Agreed, disagree, that's
Speaker 1: what he did. Fourth and one fifty yard Okay, goes
Speaker 1: in bails a mountain then dk Metcalf is screaming on
Speaker 1: the sidelines because things aren't going well for him or
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. They're down in this game at this point,
Speaker 1: and so they forced feed to pass the dk Metcalf
Speaker 1: in a playoff game pick six. That's the pick six
Speaker 1: up talking about Darius Williams makes it thirteen to three.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you forced feed the ball to
Speaker 1: a winding wide receiver to fifty five left in the
Speaker 1: second quarter. It's third and nine. Golf goes to acres
Speaker 1: for forty four yards and Pete Carroll with again it
Speaker 1: was stupid challenge weekend. That was another theme of the weekend.
Speaker 1: He challenges that golf was over the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: which was just a yachting because it was clearly not
Speaker 1: over the line of scrimmage. So they lose the time
Speaker 1: out in the process, and then on on a late
Speaker 1: second half drive just north of two minutes to oh
Speaker 1: one left, he doesn't you know, the team's not disciplined enough.
Speaker 1: They jump off sides first and goal at the ten
Speaker 1: makes it first to goal at the five. The Rams
Speaker 1: end up taking a twenty to ten lead into the
Speaker 1: half because they cash in on that. So it's just
Speaker 1: one that those are five different gaffs in a five
Speaker 1: minutes span that are either directly on Carroll's shoulder or indirectly,
Speaker 1: like you don't have your team prepared in any way.
Speaker 1: And at the end he was just like he couldn't
Speaker 1: believe his team had lost. McVeigh by the way goes
Speaker 1: to thirty seven and oh now when leading at halftime
Speaker 1: the Sea half, the Seahawks had been nineteen and six
Speaker 1: straight up since the start of last year in one
Speaker 1: score games. This one doesn't even end up in one
Speaker 1: score games, So throw off. That's that, but five minute
Speaker 1: period where it's just five different gaffs that I just
Speaker 1: rattled off the top of my head. So Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: for those on on Twitter at Beating the Book who
Speaker 1: wanted to do your rankings, there's the Pete Carroll candidacy
Speaker 1: for the worst code job of the weekend. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was awful. Chris, Yeah, but once again, you
Speaker 1: know who are these guys. You're gonna look at the
Speaker 1: care Okay, sixty nine years old? How did he get
Speaker 1: to where he is? Where? Where was he like before yesterday? Well,
Speaker 1: it was, you know, pretty successful with USC He won
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with uh, with Seattle. You know, so
Speaker 1: this this is just who he is now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. I know, you know, myself and my friends,
Speaker 1: we've talked about this if they need somebody on, you know,
Speaker 1: up in the booth or whatever to tell them the
Speaker 1: metrics as the game is going on. But if you're
Speaker 1: a guy like Pe Carroll, I can just say what
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen to some pencil neck little geek
Speaker 1: that never played football his entire life. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to take advice from. You know. And we see
Speaker 1: this all the time. And you know we're talking football force,
Speaker 1: but we see it all the time. You know, in
Speaker 1: all walks of life, guys who buy football teams. Let's
Speaker 1: say the Washington football team. You've got a guy like
Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder, who was I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: a billionaire at thirty five, but he was, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty darn close actually a genius and everything that they
Speaker 1: ever did. Now, all of a sudden, he owns a
Speaker 1: football team and he thinks, okay, look how he's been
Speaker 1: Uh you know, fe smart I am. I'm smart enough
Speaker 1: to buy this football team at thirty five years old.
Speaker 1: Of course, I know exactly what I'm doing, and of
Speaker 1: course you know he didn't. But you know, this is
Speaker 1: just you know, this is how the egos work on people,
Speaker 1: not just the you know, people in authoritative positions. And
Speaker 1: some guys can adapt, and other guys are just trapped
Speaker 1: within their own ego and the owned and the things
Speaker 1: that they've done their whole life, do what's right, and
Speaker 1: and won't be able to adapt. I think Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: and probably all these coaches that you're talking about fall
Speaker 1: into that category. But you know, right now we're talking
Speaker 1: about Pete and I think he definitely falls into that category. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean all of that may be true, some of that,
Speaker 1: some of this stuff that we're gonna go through today
Speaker 1: is just so simple that that I find it to
Speaker 1: believe that you can't adapt to certain things. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: you're right. I will tell you this. I was looking
Speaker 1: forward to this golf at at Lambeau matchup. I love
Speaker 1: that it's you said it was seven or six and
Speaker 1: a half in the end. No, no, no, it's seven.
Speaker 1: But that's what I didn't want to say, is you
Speaker 1: know the red when I kind of said out like
Speaker 1: a higher and I still I still kind of like
Speaker 1: it higher, but part of it was Aaron Donald being
Speaker 1: hurt and Cooper Cup being hurt that they're best offensive player,
Speaker 1: they're best defensive player. But as of this morning, but
Speaker 1: they is saying that they should be fined by Sunday again,
Speaker 1: coaches lie and they don't have to say who's participating
Speaker 1: in practice and all that yet, you know, but they
Speaker 1: will buy later in the week. But I would keep
Speaker 1: an eye on those two injuries because if those guys
Speaker 1: you know, are out or hampered, uh, seven is probably
Speaker 1: a pretty cheap number. Yeah, I think it's cheap. I
Speaker 1: really like the Packers and that's what I may like
Speaker 1: that game more than any of the four this coming weekend.
Speaker 1: How did how did this and and just say it
Speaker 1: one more time, how did this Rams team lose to
Speaker 1: the Jets and kill some of us in Survivor? Because
Speaker 1: not only did Golf you know, we we we uh
Speaker 1: we harp on Jared Golf in that game and the
Speaker 1: golf face. But you know what, Aaron Donald didn't do
Speaker 1: anything in that game either, like it was an all
Speaker 1: out failed. They just simply did not show up for
Speaker 1: that game, didn't care. And again just you know, from
Speaker 1: a betting perspective. Always keep in mind these pitfalls exist. Sadly,
Speaker 1: those of us who had the Rams that week fell
Speaker 1: into that little pitfall and that was the end of that,
Speaker 1: all right, number two. We'll start on number two here
Speaker 1: on game two on Saturday, Ravens at the Bills. Um, well,
Speaker 1: this number open between two and happens three. I guess
Speaker 1: that's kind of like take your choice. Three was my three?
Speaker 1: I really I've been a Bills guy, you know, certainly
Speaker 1: for the last two months. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: like the Bills an awful lot in this game. I
Speaker 1: still kind of like them. But you know, we played
Speaker 1: that little two and have three games at self point, Well,
Speaker 1: the customers played on, so try to hold the whole
Speaker 1: number if and when I can. So I opened three,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm looking at my screen right now.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of money plus three. And as
Speaker 1: I look at it, I think I think the public
Speaker 1: will be on the Ravens. The Bills won. They didn't
Speaker 1: look that great, and everybody really has, you know, recency
Speaker 1: so much in mind and some of that, you know,
Speaker 1: I know we kind of knocked that as being not
Speaker 1: very smart, but a lot of times it is. Sometimes
Speaker 1: teams are just peaking right now. I think this Ravens
Speaker 1: team is really playing well. But I still like the Bills.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this game. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know their defense. I think it hasn't been all that
Speaker 1: good for the last couple of months, but but I
Speaker 1: think it's doing I'm looking right now, that's not well,
Speaker 1: it's not the high there's a couple of high scoring
Speaker 1: games that we've got total wise, but I think I
Speaker 1: think it would be a real good game. I thought
Speaker 1: three was a good number. I could definitely see two
Speaker 1: and AVO it's gonna be right in that range. But
Speaker 1: I think the public is gonna be on the Ravens
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, I guess three. It was the
Speaker 1: only thing I thought to make it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that just seems like an obvious three. But I think
Speaker 1: you're right. I think Baltimore money will come in on
Speaker 1: this just because of recency. Here. Baltimore gets there by
Speaker 1: virtue of their win over the Titans. They rally from
Speaker 1: ten points down um in the first of the Sunday
Speaker 1: Wild Card games. Lamar Jackson finally with his first postseason victory.
Speaker 1: They snapped a string of twenty one straight games the
Speaker 1: Ravens did lost by the franchise in either the regular
Speaker 1: season or playoffs when trailing by ten or more. How
Speaker 1: about that Jackson ended up seventeen twenty four for one
Speaker 1: seventy nine, no touchdowns, one pick. He was sacked five times,
Speaker 1: but six team carries for one hundred thirty six yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Uh six one yard rushing game. It
Speaker 1: is rather the six one yard rushing game by a quarterback.
Speaker 1: In the postseason. Lamar and Colin Kaepernick each with two
Speaker 1: Marquise Hollywood Brown seven catches for one oh nine four
Speaker 1: one total yards for the Ravens, and in in victory they
Speaker 1: also shut down. And this is the most important thing.
Speaker 1: Two thousand yard rusher Derrick Henry holding Tennessee to its
Speaker 1: fewest points all season. Henry ends up. Derrick Henry ends
Speaker 1: up with eighteen carries for forty yards forty yards. He
Speaker 1: ran all over the Ravens with three hundred twenty eight
Speaker 1: yards combined in the past two meetings this year, or
Speaker 1: the past two meetings period. Rather, both Calais Campbell and
Speaker 1: Brandon Williams were back on the Baltimore defensive line, though
Speaker 1: Henry with his worst performance of the year again, eighteen
Speaker 1: for forty. Ravens held the Titans the twelve first downs.
Speaker 1: Baltimore smothered that Tennessee offense that had tied for fourth
Speaker 1: in the league this year, averaging thirty points seven points
Speaker 1: a game. They had more offensive yard per game during
Speaker 1: the season than any team but Kansas City, and the
Speaker 1: Ravens out gained in four oh one to two oh nine.
Speaker 1: In the end, too oh nine was just fifty one
Speaker 1: total rushing yards. Titans did have the ball at a
Speaker 1: chance to win, but Marcus Peters intercepted Tannehill's pass intended
Speaker 1: for calif Raymond with one fifty left, and that was that.
Speaker 1: Titans lost the first home playoff game in twelve years.
Speaker 1: The key moment in that game, though, Titans to me,
Speaker 1: when they were up ten to nothing, they had outgained
Speaker 1: They had gained the Ravens one six to thirty six
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, and the Ravens held Tennessee then
Speaker 1: to minus seven yards in the second quarter. It was
Speaker 1: the third fewest at any quarter of a playoff games
Speaker 1: since two thousands since the two thousand season, But that
Speaker 1: was the moment. It was third down for Baltimore third
Speaker 1: and seven at their own twenty eight down ten to nothing. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson made an unbelievable play, was flushed out,
Speaker 1: remain patient hit Andrews for seventeen yards. That drive resulted
Speaker 1: in a field goal, and the next Baltimore drive down
Speaker 1: into three, third and nine at their own or actually
Speaker 1: me at the Tennessee thirty two left in the second
Speaker 1: quarter a forty eight yard touchdown run to tie it
Speaker 1: up ten to ten. Those two plays, if they don't
Speaker 1: convert that first, that a third down down ten to
Speaker 1: nothing deep in their own territory. There's no way I
Speaker 1: can prove this, But if they don't convert that, that
Speaker 1: could be a Tennessee runout, just like it was last year.
Speaker 1: But instead Lamar makes the play. This year he makes
Speaker 1: the play last year he does not. And Uh. The
Speaker 1: rest is history. Will come back. WILL do more on
Speaker 1: this game, because there's so much I want to say
Speaker 1: about the losing coaches in both coming back numbers game
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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon and after they and said, look, Fellows, we
Speaker 1: can't guarantee we're gonna play this game with all our
Speaker 1: guys where we've got a lot of injuries, we want
Speaker 1: to play Nate Suttfeld. We're not going into this game
Speaker 1: with the intent to win the game. So if you
Speaker 1: put us on national TV, it may give you a
Speaker 1: black eye. If they would have done that, or if
Speaker 1: they would have just said Nate sutt Fell as the starter,
Speaker 1: all bets are off. But the fact that they dangled
Speaker 1: the carrot in front of the Giants and that clearly
Speaker 1: the Washington football team wasn't equipped to win the game
Speaker 1: with the quarterback who couldn't move, and then to pull
Speaker 1: it back, that's where the conflict was. So you're asking
Speaker 1: about tanking and I'm talking about integrity and honesty. I
Speaker 1: think those are two different issues, and I think that's
Speaker 1: where the conflict comes in. Fair enough, I like the
Speaker 1: answer and and Doug Peterson's famous comment after the game, Michael,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure you loved quote, Yes, I was coaching
Speaker 1: to win. Yes, that was my decision solely. Nate meeting
Speaker 1: Studfeld has been here for four years, and I felt
Speaker 1: he deserved an opportunity to get some snacks. And yes,
Speaker 1: Lee Harvey Oswald was on the sixth floor, and yes
Speaker 1: he he shot. Yes, all those things are okay. So
Speaker 1: we're still okay with each other. We got through that.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good with it. I look, I understand. Now,
Speaker 1: just add one little flavor into this. The Eagles cap.
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna have to they'll lose two players
Speaker 1: to fit that six pick in over the night. Do
Speaker 1: you think they'll pick a quarterback if they have a shot,
Speaker 1: you do, okay, I think the top ten will be all.
Speaker 1: I think this will be a quarterback filtered draft because
Speaker 1: there's so many teams in the top ten that need them,
Speaker 1: and there's so many teams in the teams that need them,
Speaker 1: starting with the Patriots, starting with the Colts, and some
Speaker 1: of those teams Washington football team, you know. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of action in that top ten.
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Speaker 1: one five to two hundred skill Alexander and Chris Andrews.
Speaker 1: Uh guessing lines, not really guessing lines, but uh, letting
Speaker 1: you know what the guesses were. Wild Card Weekend Look Back,
Speaker 1: Divisional Weekend to look Ahead. Christy, you agree with me,
Speaker 1: There's no way I can prove it. But that third
Speaker 1: down early and I know we're like, oh, we're all
Speaker 1: about the Ravens. But if that play doesn't happen, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe the Titans roll them again. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: with you because I know exactly the player you're talking about.
Speaker 1: When we needed we needed the Titans pretty good in
Speaker 1: that game. And uh, when it was ten nothing. I
Speaker 1: really thought that the Titans were gonna just blow them away.
Speaker 1: It was just totally dominate the game. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we've kind of seen that in the past, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was just gonna happen again. And that was
Speaker 1: just a huge play that kind of sparked that team.
Speaker 1: And you know, these things happened during the course of
Speaker 1: the game. You know, one thing I say to a
Speaker 1: lot of people I have probably mentioned on this show,
Speaker 1: games could take on a life of their own. Uh,
Speaker 1: and this is one of those situations where the life
Speaker 1: of that game, the flow of that game, the outcome
Speaker 1: of that game changed dramatically on that one play. I
Speaker 1: really do believe that. So I'm with you all the way.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're talking about. We've seen that happen,
Speaker 1: you know occasionally sometimes sometimes that you know, you can
Speaker 1: overdramatize what happens. Early in the game, the team scored
Speaker 1: touched own that they didn't. But I think this really
Speaker 1: was key because I think this is a team that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe could easily have lost confidence in themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, had they lost again to a team that's
Speaker 1: kind of dominated the uh, to a quarterback that maybe
Speaker 1: has not had great success in the playoffs, but they
Speaker 1: converted that they were back in the game, and really, um,
Speaker 1: I mean it was made the dominated from there on
Speaker 1: and became a whole different game. And the key sequence,
Speaker 1: you know again, ten fourteen left in the game. Ten
Speaker 1: fourteen left in the fourth quarter. Second and two at
Speaker 1: the Baltimore forty down seventeen to thirteen, Titans ball Tannehill incomplete.
Speaker 1: They got Derrick Henry, and I know he's not having
Speaker 1: a good game, but they got Derrick Henry. Tannehill incomplete,
Speaker 1: intended for Brown. Third and two at the Baltimore forty
Speaker 1: ten ten left down seventeen to thirteen. Tannehill. Fourth and
Speaker 1: two at the Baltimore forty down seventeen thirteen, with ten
Speaker 1: oh six left, incomplete, intended for John Hus Brett Kern
Speaker 1: punts next drive after a Tucker Field goal, then the
Speaker 1: Tannehill pick that's sealed the deal. Fourth and two at
Speaker 1: the Baltimore forty down seventeen thirteen, with ten o six left,
Speaker 1: They punt Jason, can you give can you give us
Speaker 1: perspective on that? Can you throw up that tweet about
Speaker 1: this if you think we're making a big deal over
Speaker 1: this decision. Well, this has historical this actually is historically
Speaker 1: an anomaly. Uh. It simply doesn't happen fourth and two
Speaker 1: at the Baltimore forty down seventeen to thirteen. This is
Speaker 1: the Mike Frabel and by the way, of all the
Speaker 1: four coaches, I'm singling out Carol, Tomlin, Reich and and
Speaker 1: uh Vrabel, Frabel is the one at least expected this
Speaker 1: from um and UH And here it is, this is
Speaker 1: we have to actually this is the Pro Football BOT
Speaker 1: fourth down decision BOT UH recommendation, very strong go for
Speaker 1: it plus seven point nine win probability if you go
Speaker 1: for it. Uh. And then here's the perspective from I
Speaker 1: believe it's pro football perspective. Is it let me get
Speaker 1: this right, pro football perspective. They put it in historical terms,
Speaker 1: and they say, and it goes a little something like this,
Speaker 1: where is it, guys? Okay, But basically what they're saying
Speaker 1: is it just doesn't happen. It's the first time in
Speaker 1: their entire database, first time in their entire database, that
Speaker 1: this has ever happened in this situation. I'll give you
Speaker 1: the exact comment. It's the first time all the way
Speaker 1: back to that a team in the playoffs punted on
Speaker 1: fourth and two from this field position down by one
Speaker 1: score in the fourth quarter, and he does it. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at it. By the way, that's hard to believe
Speaker 1: that it's the first time, because you know, I can
Speaker 1: see some conservative coaches doing that, and it's hard to
Speaker 1: believe that's the first and only time in their database.
Speaker 1: You're actually right, that is a little hard to believe
Speaker 1: that it's the first time. But that's what it says
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Reference. Uh, not a shock that
Speaker 1: Tony Dungee and Chris Sims had no issue with the point,
Speaker 1: of course, right exactly, That's what I'm saying. It's a
Speaker 1: shock that that's the only one. Right. We'll get to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo side of this momentarily. In the indie side
Speaker 1: of that, Uh so much. So many things to discuss,
Speaker 1: but the line finally intend seconds. Christie, what was it
Speaker 1: that you put up three or two and a half? Here? Oh?
Speaker 1: I opened three and a two and a half. Now
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think if you missed the three,
Speaker 1: I think you ain't let me get it. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's going to be around anymore. We'll do the
Speaker 1: Buffalo side of this next coming back right here on
Speaker 1: guessing lines. You want to make every game interesting, skill Alexander,
Speaker 1: Chris Andrews here as well. Um, people are like, wait,
Speaker 1: this isn't your normal guessing lines for or Matt Well.
Speaker 1: You were just going through these in chronological order, this next,
Speaker 1: this upcoming weekend and marketing back to what we saw
Speaker 1: this past weekend. So I never really got a chance
Speaker 1: Chris talk about the bill side of this, because we've
Speaker 1: already we've already submitted Pete Carroll and uh and Mike
Speaker 1: Vrabels Gaffs on the wrong end of the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Buffalo there a f c's champs for the
Speaker 1: first time, hosting their first playoff games. His n Josh
Speaker 1: Allen two touchdown passes another on the ground seven to
Speaker 1: twenty four win over the Colts, their first playoff win
Speaker 1: since December of nine. Five. They nearly squandered to to
Speaker 1: ten fourth quarter lead. Philip rivers fourth and eleven from
Speaker 1: Buffalo's forty seven. At the end, he heaved a deep
Speaker 1: pass for t Y Hilton, surrounded by defenders uh Micah
Speaker 1: Hyde broke through, knocked it down that sealed the deal.
Speaker 1: Buffalo has won seven straight now since the Arizona Hail
Speaker 1: Mary for its longest winnings Greek since hundred fans in attendance.
Speaker 1: There alan twenty of thirty five for three twenty four
Speaker 1: for those two touchdowns Doe picks sack twice eleven and
Speaker 1: fifty four in the ground with the touchdown dig six
Speaker 1: or a touchdown. They were only two of nine on
Speaker 1: third down. They allowed four hundred seventy two total yards
Speaker 1: by Indianapolis. Indy was nine of seventeen on third There
Speaker 1: were two of four on fourth seventy six total plays.
Speaker 1: Let me just start in the first half. For those
Speaker 1: people who had Indie plus three and a half in
Speaker 1: the first half, you had about a ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: cover probability in that up ten to seven third and
Speaker 1: goal at the Buffalo one with two minutes left and
Speaker 1: the half. Couldn't do it. I couldn't do it for
Speaker 1: the Colts all all season long. Are those short yardage situations?
Speaker 1: Why not kick up field goal? What? What's people? These
Speaker 1: teams are allergic to field goals. Chris fourth and it
Speaker 1: was fourth and four and fourth and goal at the
Speaker 1: four after three yard loss, they go for it. And
Speaker 1: of course in Philip Rivers fashion. It's like off the fingertips.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand, well, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I think there is like a misunderstanding of a lot
Speaker 1: of the metrics that are out there. Is uh that
Speaker 1: that you know, kind of it is to the field
Speaker 1: goal in certain situations, but that's not you know, fourth
Speaker 1: and one and fourth and four are you know, two
Speaker 1: vastly different things. And I think that sometimes guys, um,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, go get the three, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: they gotta do things like that. But there's there was
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna talk about Buffalo for just a second.
Speaker 1: You know, we needed Buffalo pretty good in that game, too.
Speaker 1: Uh so you know, we're you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: look back and I'm not sure how we want all
Speaker 1: this money for this weekend because we didn't win up
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of games, but that was one of them.
Speaker 1: We need a Buffalo pretty good. But you know, the
Speaker 1: whole time, like I don't, I looked at it like
Speaker 1: Buffalo didn't stopped Indianapolis as much as Indianapolis stopped themselves,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's a concern for this Bill's defense,
Speaker 1: I think. But don't you know, and and again I
Speaker 1: don't want recency two to influence be too much. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one game. They are on a hell of the streak.
Speaker 1: The only game they've lost, like a couple of months
Speaker 1: was that Hail Murray passed to Arizona, which was an
Speaker 1: absolute miracle. So I don't want to knock them too
Speaker 1: much after one game. But that really was the truth
Speaker 1: of it, that their defense didn't stop them as much
Speaker 1: as Indianapolis stopped themselves. I want to, yeah, I want to,
Speaker 1: and I want to get to the closing sequence of
Speaker 1: this game, because yeah, I mean, this could have gone
Speaker 1: terribly wrong for Buffalo in the end. You're right, Indie
Speaker 1: kind of stopping themselves. Frank Reig also, by the way
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, of course, and the Bills once they failed
Speaker 1: to convert on fourth and goal at the end of
Speaker 1: the second quarter, matriculate the ball all the way down
Speaker 1: the field, they get in the end zone and down
Speaker 1: goes in these plus three and a half, So the
Speaker 1: first half that was unbelievable. But Frank roy also said
Speaker 1: he re at it. He said he regretted that. He
Speaker 1: said he regretted rushing to challenge a play where he
Speaker 1: thought Bills running back Zack Moss fumbled early in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. The decision left the Colts with only one
Speaker 1: time out the rest of the game. Reich had time
Speaker 1: before challenging the play because the cart was brought on
Speaker 1: the field to take the injured Moss off the field,
Speaker 1: and he still challenged it, and it was just it
Speaker 1: was against stupid challenge weekend. The Colts ended their season
Speaker 1: in which they won eleven games the first time since
Speaker 1: reached the playoffs for the second time in three years
Speaker 1: under Reich. Um Rivers ended up with three D nine yards, passing.
Speaker 1: His career playoff record drops to five and seven in
Speaker 1: completing his first and potentially last season with the Colts,
Speaker 1: pondering retirement. Only one a f C Championship Game appearance
Speaker 1: in his career, but that the last sequence from from
Speaker 1: Reich's gaffs to Sean McDermott almost saving the day twice
Speaker 1: in that last sequence for his team, first the time
Speaker 1: out to get them to review the pitman fumble in
Speaker 1: the closing seconds of the game because they weren't all
Speaker 1: gonna look at it, even though the ref said after
Speaker 1: the fact that the replay booth you know did did
Speaker 1: initiate it, so Buffalo got their time out back, even
Speaker 1: though it apparently wasn't a fumble. You can follow all that,
Speaker 1: but he he was the one that had to initiate
Speaker 1: that review, and then somehow it didn't go the Bill's way.
Speaker 1: They said that it stands not a fumble, and so
Speaker 1: then it was this weird thing where the clock it
Speaker 1: was bizarre two seconds seconds, They like stole three seconds
Speaker 1: from the Colts, and then the clock wines and the
Speaker 1: Colts have no urgency to run the play, and Sean
Speaker 1: McDermott ends up using that time out that they gave
Speaker 1: back to him in a sort of NBA or college
Speaker 1: basketball foul to give kind of way. He lets it
Speaker 1: go to five or right before they're about to snap,
Speaker 1: he calls the time out, so he effectively they effectively
Speaker 1: lost eight seconds. It was the weirdest thing, and McDermott
Speaker 1: basically saved his tried to save his team the first time,
Speaker 1: saved his seat the second time. The difference between nineteen
Speaker 1: seconds and fourteen seconds in that situation is massive, massive,
Speaker 1: and the Colts become the first BEEN Playoff history to
Speaker 1: lose a game while gaining at least four hundred fifty
Speaker 1: yards with no turnovers according to Alias prior to Saturday.
Speaker 1: Prior to Saturday, such teams were eleven and oh so
Speaker 1: many weird things. And the announcers also, like Charles Davis,
Speaker 1: there was a when, you know, when they were going
Speaker 1: for it from trying to make it at a six
Speaker 1: point deficit as opposed to an eight point deficit. They
Speaker 1: got the penalty and so it was a one yard
Speaker 1: two point. They correctly went for it, and I thought
Speaker 1: the Colts didn't. Charles Davis was like, no, this is stupid.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't like. I was like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what I'm watching. Sometimes with the announcers, either a Buffalo
Speaker 1: minus three and you said that's where it started, announce
Speaker 1: two and a half, and yeah, I think you're right,
Speaker 1: Baltimore money is gonna come. I think it's bolling more money.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's the winner of the games. That
Speaker 1: fact kind of like the Bills still, you know, but
Speaker 1: I do think, um, uh, if your Bills, if you're
Speaker 1: looking to play the Bills, my my hunts would be
Speaker 1: a weight. I think the money is gonna show on
Speaker 1: the dog Man. Okay, well those are Saturday games, so
Speaker 1: we got we got of Saturday games finally, but again
Speaker 1: between we we just went through Carol and Vrabel and
Speaker 1: Rich Like, I don't remember a weekend like this. We're
Speaker 1: the losing coaches were this bad? Just again, I get
Speaker 1: the set. You think I'm exaggerating it, but I just
Speaker 1: we got one more to come. Still, we're not done
Speaker 1: with Mike Tomlin still to come, but we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the two games on Sunday. Cleveland, Kansas City and of
Speaker 1: course Tampa Bay, New Orleans will look back to the
Speaker 1: last this past weekend as well. Much to be discussed
Speaker 1: coming back right here on a numbers game at Visa
Speaker 1: the sports betting that worried. All right, Christie, we're off
Speaker 1: to Sunday. Finally, what do you got still? The Cleveland
Speaker 1: at Kansas City? I guess ten? Was I correct? I
Speaker 1: believe I was. Yeah, it's pretty solid. Ten. That's that's
Speaker 1: what we open. And it seemed like just a solid
Speaker 1: number to me. They had to be about a ten
Speaker 1: point dasit. Uh So that's that's where we opened. That's
Speaker 1: where we are. I'm looking right now. Um, you know
Speaker 1: a little bit of action on the game, not much,
Speaker 1: but a little bit behind the Chiefs, but not all
Speaker 1: that greatly surprised if uh Cleveland gets a good yeah
Speaker 1: in public cold the share money on in this coming week.
Speaker 1: No practicing, no head coach on the sideline. Forty eight
Speaker 1: to thirty seven win, their first postseason win for the
Speaker 1: Browns and more than a quarter century. Uh. No Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski specifically, no Pro Bowl guard Joel Bitonio. We talked
Speaker 1: about that with Jeff Schwartz last week. Denzel Award back
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. All tested positive for COVID. They'll all be
Speaker 1: back next week. But I mean, there's nothing else to
Speaker 1: say about this than the beginning of this game. The
Speaker 1: first snap of the game, market Marky's pouncing snaps it
Speaker 1: over Big Ben's head, touchdown. Brown's Karl Joseph recovers on
Speaker 1: a play where James Conner and and Ben had a
Speaker 1: shot at at first and and Connors would have slid
Speaker 1: by it, and Ben had the urgency to pick that
Speaker 1: up like Cam Newton did in the Super Bowl, like
Speaker 1: none whatsoever. He's like, look at that, look at that ball.
Speaker 1: Oh you you recovered it. So that's the first play.
Speaker 1: Second drive. M J. Stewart picks off Big Ben three
Speaker 1: plays later, Mayfield to Landry forty yards on a forty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass on third and four, fourteen and nothing.
Speaker 1: Third Pittsburgh drive. They punch when they couldn't convert a
Speaker 1: third and one, three and out, six plade drive later,
Speaker 1: Hunt a Levin yard touchdown on the sixth plade twenty
Speaker 1: one and nothing. Fourth Steeler drive, Sheldrick RedWine picks off
Speaker 1: big Ben returns at thirty yards three plays later, Hunt
Speaker 1: eight yards twenty eight to nothing. Christie, the only thing
Speaker 1: I thought about was Doug Williams and the Washington football
Speaker 1: team in Super Bowl twenty two and the second quarter
Speaker 1: of that Super Bowl. For those of a certain age,
Speaker 1: Washington scored thirty five unanswered points in the second quarter
Speaker 1: of that Super Bowl, and I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: This was about as close to that as I think
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. Well. So that was a great series
Speaker 1: on for me. I love that. I didn't love yesterday
Speaker 1: so much. Now I was on Washington that day. I
Speaker 1: went home. It was you know, so I talked about
Speaker 1: games taking on a life of their own. After that
Speaker 1: second Brown's touchdown, that game took on the lights of
Speaker 1: the town. The first one you could overcome, second one
Speaker 1: a little a little tougher than the third one. And
Speaker 1: I didn't even see the fourth touches and I left.
Speaker 1: I was coming home, but I had my daughter texting.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to listen to the play by play.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do I'm I was zoning out
Speaker 1: the music. What the Steelers are doing? And uh I
Speaker 1: walked into doors. Nothing um so, but it did take
Speaker 1: on the lights of the town. But you know, we
Speaker 1: wound up. It was one of those games we needed
Speaker 1: either the Browns to win out right or the Steelers
Speaker 1: to cover, and of course need Steelers. That was opening
Speaker 1: Steelers to cover was gonna be the outcome. But that
Speaker 1: was you know at that point that it's virtually impossible.
Speaker 1: That's just not gonna happen. Um you know, but listen,
Speaker 1: kudos to the problem. But how do I can't say
Speaker 1: one thing? How come Kevin Stefanski couldn't be on the telephone? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have the answer. I don't Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Competitive reasons issues, Okay, there you go. Okay, did we
Speaker 1: not have some extenuating circumstances this year? You know, games
Speaker 1: being played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and all that other
Speaker 1: stuff that they could have said. Oh yeah, he could
Speaker 1: be on the telephone talking on his team. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's crazy. You know. Listen, I think Stefancy for
Speaker 1: one of the guys up for Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1: I think he's done a hell of a job with
Speaker 1: this team. How can he not be allowed to talk
Speaker 1: to them on the telephone and text or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just it's insanity to me. I don't Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it didn't endim ma nering yesterday, but well, you know
Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. First of all, let me
Speaker 1: just get the details. Cleveland first playoff games since two
Speaker 1: thousand two, the first postseason win of any kind since
Speaker 1: beating New England uh New Year's Day ninety five, first
Speaker 1: playoff road wins in sixty nine. Again, just doing it
Speaker 1: despite practicing just over the once over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: having lost seventeen straight at hines Field, scored as many
Speaker 1: points in the first quarters they had in the previous
Speaker 1: twelve first quarters. In Pittsburgh, Steelers led the NFL and sacks,
Speaker 1: but failed to get to Mayfield even once. Cleveland's forty
Speaker 1: eight points, the most Pittsburgh has ever given up in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Mayfield thirty four for two sixty three, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: note picks. He was never sacked. Browns gave up five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three total yards five hundred and one passing.
Speaker 1: Big Ben's final stats forty seven for sixty eight for
Speaker 1: five oh one, four touchdowns, four picks, was not sacked.
Speaker 1: UM plus five in turnovers is all you need to know.
Speaker 1: Plus five in turnovers. But here's the sequence, though, So
Speaker 1: it would be one thing if Pittsburgh just went away
Speaker 1: after the twenty to nothing deficit, right, but down thirty
Speaker 1: five to sixteen just over halfway through the third quarter,
Speaker 1: they score a touchdown and make it thirty five to sixty,
Speaker 1: and then for a moment you're like, oh my, could
Speaker 1: we be talking about Buffalo Houston oilers come back? Like
Speaker 1: what is that? Was the other sort of NFL historical reference.
Speaker 1: It was the Doug Williams Super Bowl and then the
Speaker 1: big Frank right come back and you're just like, it
Speaker 1: is that what we're watching? So they're down nineteen, and
Speaker 1: correctly they go for two, they don't convert. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: next drive they score again to make it thirty five
Speaker 1: to two, twenty two and here because they went for
Speaker 1: two the previous time. You're like, oh, well, they clearly
Speaker 1: get it. They should go for two again to cut
Speaker 1: it to eleven. Nope, they kick an extra point to
Speaker 1: make it thirty five to twenty three. What are we watching?
Speaker 1: Chris Like, I'm just like, I cannot believe this is happening.
Speaker 1: Math is hard, I get it. Yeah, come on that
Speaker 1: That twelve point deficit is just you know, And I
Speaker 1: remember I was going back to college and I want
Speaker 1: to say, like three or four years ago when Tennessee
Speaker 1: was playing Kentucky, I want to say, and he was
Speaker 1: Florida came and they went up by twelve in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and they kicked to go up by thirteen. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the thirteen doesn't know it's no different than
Speaker 1: twelve at that point that they have to score two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and you know, you know, in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: like of course in the first quarter, death thirt teams
Speaker 1: are nice beleeve. Uh. Yeah, I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was thinking on that. I don't know. You have to
Speaker 1: try to cut that to eleven, you know, you have
Speaker 1: to try and do that. And now I don't know.
Speaker 1: Al Michaels goes into the break and says, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: by the book, that's what you gotta do. Kick the
Speaker 1: extra point there. I'm like what. And they come back
Speaker 1: from the breaking out Michael's because out of my goes,
Speaker 1: rarely makes that mistake. He's like, yeah, on review, he
Speaker 1: corrected himself. He's like, I don't know what book that is,
Speaker 1: but he probably should have gone for two. And then
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth says, not have gone for one. I'm like, what, Okay, then,
Speaker 1: of course I haven't even gotten to it yet. That's
Speaker 1: bad enough. Fourth and one at the forty six to
Speaker 1: start the fourth quarter, it's thirty five to twenty three.
Speaker 1: They try to draw Cleveland off sides or whatever the
Speaker 1: hell they were doing, sending forty five players in motion,
Speaker 1: and it didn't fool anybody, and they punt, and then
Speaker 1: of course Cleveland scores a touchdown on the ensuing drive.
Speaker 1: Mayfield calmly takes them eighty yards in six place, forty
Speaker 1: two to twenty three. Katie bar the door. Here's the
Speaker 1: quote from Tomlin after the game quote, I wanted to
Speaker 1: pin them down and maybe provide a short field for
Speaker 1: their offense. I just wanted to keep the momentum going.
Speaker 1: In terms of field positioning unquote. See, we just spent
Speaker 1: an hour, haven't stopped them all day? You know, why,
Speaker 1: why did you think this time you were going to
Speaker 1: pin them in their own territory. I'm not if I were,
Speaker 1: if I was an owner, if I was an NFL
Speaker 1: owner and I was a little more volatile than I
Speaker 1: probably ought to be, I might have fired Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: after that game, Like I really, I just I can't.
Speaker 1: We just spent an hour going through four losing coaches
Speaker 1: in Tomlin and Vrabel and Reich and Carol, And I
Speaker 1: don't know which was worse of the bunch, which was
Speaker 1: the worst of the bunch. But I just know I
Speaker 1: don't remember one weekend, let alone a playoff weekend where
Speaker 1: you had that many. Maybe in a regular season weekend
Speaker 1: there have been, and I just you know, we just
Speaker 1: get tired of naming them all. But in a playoff weekend,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I don't include RIVERA was fine
Speaker 1: and defeat Naggie. I just think his team is so
Speaker 1: bad that I can't really blame him. But those other
Speaker 1: four guys, I mean, some of this fall squarely on them.
Speaker 1: So in the end, when we go to these three
Speaker 1: games and we still have to get to uh. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we still have to get the Tampa Bay New Orleans
Speaker 1: here after the break. But Casey minus ten uh Buffalo,
Speaker 1: he said, minus two and a half right now for
Speaker 1: Baltimore Green base seven against the Rams. I like the
Speaker 1: I like the Packers straight up. And I think a
Speaker 1: Green Bay Baltimore teaser feels awfully good to me right
Speaker 1: now for a grip. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go look and see what we did on teasers
Speaker 1: for the week. I know we've actually had a really
Speaker 1: good year like booking teasers, believe it or not. Interesting.
Speaker 1: And that was another one I looked through and I
Speaker 1: had Michael in my office, you know, you know, on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I was showing them because you know, Michael's always
Speaker 1: we couldn't beat the teasers. We couldn't be well, we
Speaker 1: beat them more than you think, you know, and some guys,
Speaker 1: I know, you've done really well with teasers this year,
Speaker 1: but overall the public has note but that sounds like
Speaker 1: a pretty good teaser. The one you just said, it
Speaker 1: really does sound pretty good. Sounds good until, as you say, Christie,
Speaker 1: the games take a take on a life of their
Speaker 1: own and yes they do. You're like, yes they do.
Speaker 1: You're like, I guess this Pittsburgh teaser like I have
Speaker 1: is not gonna hit. We'll come back. We'll do the
Speaker 1: last of the four divisional games, coming back right here
Speaker 1: on the numbers game it Vista these sports betting netwhere
Speaker 1: Tampa bad in New Orleans is the final game. I
Speaker 1: ended up with New Orleans minus three and a half?
Speaker 1: What did you come up with? I like three? Better? Um,
Speaker 1: And this game actually opened three and a half almost everywhere,
Speaker 1: but I can see, and so I went to three.
Speaker 1: And I was the first one to go to three.
Speaker 1: And then naturally, you know, the guys poured in and
Speaker 1: laid the three. But I told him just hold the number,
Speaker 1: hold the number. I think this is going to settle
Speaker 1: in it three and I don't want to play, you know,
Speaker 1: listen to you know, I got of dodges three almost
Speaker 1: every single week. But now when I got a dog
Speaker 1: and went a big playoff game could be pretty consequential.
Speaker 1: I think this is a great matchup. And we talked
Speaker 1: like games taken on a life of their own, you know.
Speaker 1: I look back that the New Orleans Buccaneers game early
Speaker 1: in the year for New Orleans just absolutely obliterated them.
Speaker 1: That was a game that I did not think cocon's
Speaker 1: life with its own, you know, New Orleans was just
Speaker 1: really you know, trampled them. But I do think Camp
Speaker 1: is a different team right now. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: three was a real good number here. Yeah. The reason
Speaker 1: I said three and a half is I figured two,
Speaker 1: you know, double digit stompings deserved the hook. Uh. And
Speaker 1: to your point is those final scores were thirty four
Speaker 1: to twenty three and thirty eight to three. Let's not
Speaker 1: forget that one. That was was a very peculiar game
Speaker 1: that death took on the life of its own. By
Speaker 1: the way, Felika chiming in on what you were saying, well,
Speaker 1: you stop making sense, he says. He's is like the
Speaker 1: like the College Football Committee actually thought about that. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, well let's start with this with Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: at New Orleans. Tampa Bay beats Washington. They beat the
Speaker 1: Washington football team thirty one to twenty three on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: first playoff win for the franchise. The Bucks franchise is
Speaker 1: two thousand two, their Super Bowl year, by the way,
Speaker 1: when they won it all with coach John Gruden, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady against Washington forty three one, two touchdowns, note picks.
Speaker 1: He was sacked three times his forty second postseason start.
Speaker 1: At his nuts forty second postseason start, Mike Evans caught
Speaker 1: six passes for one nineteen yards five hundred and seven
Speaker 1: total yards of offense for Tampa Bay. But they beat
Speaker 1: a Washington team, which was really the one team that
Speaker 1: lost this weekend where you almost want to stand up
Speaker 1: an applaud for them. Taylor, Hicky, Taylor, Heinecky, everybody, Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe Washington's quarterback of the future. I mean, it's unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just just bear with me for a second because I
Speaker 1: have to get my fields on this. Don't let me
Speaker 1: have my moment here. Twenty of forty four for three
Speaker 1: oh six, forty four for three oh six off the street,
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one pick. He was sacked twice. Six carries
Speaker 1: for forty six yards and a touchdown. I knew when
Speaker 1: he scored that touchdown when he dove at the pylon,
Speaker 1: I knew he heard himself. They were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out afterwards. I was like, it was on the touchdown.
Speaker 1: They thought it was like a subsequent hit. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: when he landed on his chest, but it was his
Speaker 1: second pro start, his first ever in the playoffs. He
Speaker 1: had only appeared in eight games lifetime. He was signed
Speaker 1: December eight by Washington to the practice squad. He was
Speaker 1: taking online math classes at his alma mater, Old Dominion
Speaker 1: ODU when Washington called him to be its quarantine quarterback.
Speaker 1: Remember the Denver New Orleans game was such a horrific
Speaker 1: event for the A Broncos, the Kendall Hinton game that
Speaker 1: Washington was like, well, we gotta get ourselves a quarantine
Speaker 1: quarterback in case that happens to us. Hey, let's get
Speaker 1: this kid from ODOU. Taylor Heneke used to you know,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera had him over in Carolina. So that scramble
Speaker 1: for an eight yard touchdown, by the way, by diving
Speaker 1: at the pylon in the corner of the end zone,
Speaker 1: banged up his left shoulder. He didn't look the same
Speaker 1: on the next drive. Cam Sims was his big target
Speaker 1: seven for one oh four. But Washington, I just want
Speaker 1: to say one last thing about Washington. They had Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: Poor Alex Smith, after the seventeen surgeries, comeback player of
Speaker 1: the Year. There's nothing you can say bad about Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: Clearly the calf just couldn't hold up. Here, Dwayne Haskins,
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, who was the other guy that Rivera brought
Speaker 1: over for Carolina. This kid comes off the street and
Speaker 1: is by far the best quarterback of the season by far,
Speaker 1: and so like all year, I'm like, they don't have
Speaker 1: the quarterback of their future is not on their roster. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a shot at it, shouldn't he? Oh
Speaker 1: he'll get shot. Yeah. Absolutely, they deserved a shot and
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Um obviously not that talented or
Speaker 1: wind take on a math course of months ago, you know,
Speaker 1: but kudos to him were really just an admirable performance.
Speaker 1: I'm looking up this qb are real quick here at
Speaker 1: sixty three point two is qb R. I mean it's
Speaker 1: really good. Um, so he he played terrific. I mean
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a folk hero I think in Washington
Speaker 1: for years to come. I think, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: well deserved. I mean he really yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we almost pulled off this game, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: they he gave it a shot. They had to run
Speaker 1: at it, you know, why not. The amazing thing about
Speaker 1: that game the Tampa Bay Washington game. And this shows
Speaker 1: how none of us know a damn thing in the end,
Speaker 1: like even those of us who thought Washington could keep
Speaker 1: it close and maybe even cover our our game script
Speaker 1: to do that, our path of doing that was, oh
Speaker 1: Young Payne, Alan Sweat, they're gonna mess with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: He's a statue. Uh, that's how they're going to keep
Speaker 1: it close. Instead, those guys it virtually nothing like Chase
Speaker 1: Young couldn't get to Brady, wouldn't even close to Brady
Speaker 1: all game. And instead it's this kid again off the
Speaker 1: street who was taking math classes. He was the one
Speaker 1: who kept him in the game. I just did nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing about this game. No one had this game, pegged nobody. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so Tampa Bay gets to play New Orleans for
Speaker 1: a third time, and I guess, well, you know, Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: They you look, they left a lot of points on
Speaker 1: the on the board to right, they left a lot
Speaker 1: on the table. They're going in to play New Orleans,
Speaker 1: the forty three year old against the forty one year old,
Speaker 1: and it's uh, New Orleans who gets by Chicago. They
Speaker 1: do so twenty one to nine. In the end, a
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham touchdown catch and a great catch. It was
Speaker 1: at the buzzer wins Bears teaser legs. But if you
Speaker 1: got the worst number, if you got the worst number,
Speaker 1: it does not get you the plus eleven and a half.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, it does not get you the then the
Speaker 1: minus eleven and a half. I should say, we're saved
Speaker 1: by that, or excuse me. The plus eleven and a
Speaker 1: half's were not saved by that, right, Those who had
Speaker 1: the Bears were like, oh, no extra point? What's the rule? Well,
Speaker 1: the rule is the Minneapolis Miracle decided there's no extra
Speaker 1: point in that one second. I had one second on
Speaker 1: the clock. They would have had to have kicked the
Speaker 1: extra point. But we talked about that on the megapod.
Speaker 1: We did, Yeah, a couple few weeks back, we were
Speaker 1: talking about the Minneapolis Miracle creating that rule change. Um.
Speaker 1: By the way, how much did Jim Nance want that
Speaker 1: last Drew Brees touchdown to count the one where he
Speaker 1: waved it over? And Nance is like, no, but it's
Speaker 1: a touchdown Tony, And Tony's on delay and his COVID protocol.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I don't think so, Jim. And finally
Speaker 1: it wasn't anyway that was such a weird game because
Speaker 1: it looked like at one point it looked like it
Speaker 1: like the Bears waved the white flag right fourth and
Speaker 1: nine at their own twenties six, with seven forty five
Speaker 1: left there, down twenty one to three, they punt, like
Speaker 1: who cares if you lose by eighteen, you might as
Speaker 1: well lose by a hundred, So they punt there. And
Speaker 1: then subsequent to that, they have this amazing goal line
Speaker 1: stand against the Saints, the one where Bruce touch Breeze
Speaker 1: a parent touchdown did not count, and then they matriculate
Speaker 1: the ball nine nine yards for the Graham touchdowns, like
Speaker 1: the weirdest, Like what what's happening? Um? But I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, in the same way that we talked about
Speaker 1: Vrabel and Reich and Tomlin and Carol, I don't hold
Speaker 1: this over Naggie because I just don't think his team's
Speaker 1: that good. The Bears were held to eleven first downs,
Speaker 1: They were one of ten on third downs. They only
Speaker 1: had two thirty nine total yards, only forty eight rushing.
Speaker 1: They only had the ball twenty one minutes in two seconds.
Speaker 1: You know, Saints had never previously allowed fewer than fourteen
Speaker 1: points in a playoff game, they allow three plus that
Speaker 1: last touchdown, so I guess nine here, and um, you
Speaker 1: know what, Breeze thirty nine for two sixty five, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks. He wasn't sack Kimara ninety nine on the
Speaker 1: ground a touchdown. Dante Harris kept the Saints really ahead
Speaker 1: in the first half by himself. It seemed like seven
Speaker 1: catches for eighty three yards. So, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know New Orleans is about. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: feel about this game, Chris, because New Orleans is about
Speaker 1: what I think they are, which is to say something
Speaker 1: about them worries me, and oh yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna chime in there. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've never been the biggest Saints guy. I think that
Speaker 1: they're good. They're real good. You know, you've got Peyton
Speaker 1: and Breese, you know, a very good combination coaching quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I look back, even the year they won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I'm I had Indianapolis in that game. Obviously
Speaker 1: I was wrong, but I look back, I'm just not
Speaker 1: crazy about this team, you know, and every year they're
Speaker 1: highly competitive. You know, they're right in the playoff Nix
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl mix, and I don't know. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to pinpoint exactly what it is
Speaker 1: with this game. You talked about games taken on a
Speaker 1: life of his own. What I and I get the
Speaker 1: guy's name that the Bears, guy that dropped that sound passed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that could everything? God could that have changed the game
Speaker 1: like they get mighta um, you know, easier to say now,
Speaker 1: of course, But I don't know. And that's why I say,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know they've beaten Tampa twice. The
Speaker 1: one that they won by eleven was a three three whatever.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, So I mean that was that wasn't okay
Speaker 1: for that? That wasn't terrible. The other game, I mean,
Speaker 1: they totally smashed Tampa Bay. I mean, you know that
Speaker 1: was you know, they crushed them from the beginning. But
Speaker 1: those two games mean something, Yes, they do mean something
Speaker 1: for sure. But I just think right now Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is playing its best ball of the year. I always
Speaker 1: think there's just a little something missing out of this
Speaker 1: New Orleans team. It's hard for me to put my
Speaker 1: finger on because their defense is very good, you know. Breeze,
Speaker 1: I mean he is a Hall of Famer, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Peyton is a great coach, But I kind of like
Speaker 1: Tampa in this game, you know, even plus the three.
Speaker 1: You know there was three and a half earlier. You
Speaker 1: might see that again. I'm not sure, but I like Tampa.
Speaker 1: I think Tampa is gonna win this game. This is
Speaker 1: you know how on the megapot, I asked the question,
Speaker 1: which is the game I want no part of? Like
Speaker 1: if you live in a bizarro world, you had to
Speaker 1: bet a side, and we do it during the regular season,
Speaker 1: but we also do it for the playoffs. If I
Speaker 1: had to bet three here on the side and take
Speaker 1: one pass, this is probably the past for me, Like
Speaker 1: I have. There's so many different outcomes on this one
Speaker 1: for me, you know, because I could just as your
Speaker 1: scenario is exactly right, I could see Tampa Bay rolling.
Speaker 1: I could see New Orleans roll. I just don't have
Speaker 1: a good field for Normans. But here's my favorite tweet
Speaker 1: of the weekend. You show this one, Jason. This this
Speaker 1: is one because all year I've been saying, how yeah, great,
Speaker 1: Sean Payne is a great coach. But I just don't
Speaker 1: buy into the Taysom Hill thing, right, like everybody anointed
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. Oh you just he's just a Swiss army
Speaker 1: knife if you do everything with them. And I'm always
Speaker 1: annoyed by it because because the line for me is
Speaker 1: always he does everything worse than the player he's replacing.
Speaker 1: He's not as good quarterback as Breeze, He's not a
Speaker 1: good running back as Camary, is not as good a
Speaker 1: receiver as Thomas, and Tommy smokes. I don't know if
Speaker 1: if his son has been listening to the show, but
Speaker 1: he says, I'm watching the game on Nickelodeon with my
Speaker 1: three year old son and he just asked, quote, Daddy,
Speaker 1: why did the States insist on forcing the football to
Speaker 1: tastom Hill when he doesn't do anything that well and
Speaker 1: they have two better quarterbacks and four to five better
Speaker 1: playmakers on the roster. I'm so proud. It's just exactly
Speaker 1: I feel. I don't know, Tommy's very funny. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's his son actually said that, or that's
Speaker 1: Tommy channeling through his child. Um, but yeah, kid me
Speaker 1: three years all to come up with that. Sign him
Speaker 1: up for me. Did you catch any of the Nickelodeon broadcast?
Speaker 1: Probably not, huh No, I did not. Jason, do we
Speaker 1: have do we have the real quick the Nickelodeon tweets.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that was cool is that
Speaker 1: they had uh, Young Sheldon explaining, so here's a touchdown
Speaker 1: where everybody gets slimed. That's an Adam Schefter tweet. And
Speaker 1: then they do explain like Young Sheldon explained all the calls,
Speaker 1: which I thought was interesting. And then there was a
Speaker 1: third one where to kick a field goal and it's
Speaker 1: like SpongeBob SquarePants big face, which got me to giggle
Speaker 1: as well. But if I was a child and they
Speaker 1: had Nickelodeon, I wouldn't have watched the game on Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: because I was like so serious about football from age six.
Speaker 1: I would have been like, turned this girl, this crap off.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea. They had to figure out a
Speaker 1: different environment to to play around with. That was definitely
Speaker 1: the game to do it on, though, because boy was
Speaker 1: it otherwise. If you didn't have a bet on that
Speaker 1: Chicago New Orleans game yesterday, it was unwatchable. This betting
Speaker 1: things gonna catch on. Yeah, yeah, obviously we had action
Speaker 1: every game, but yeah, you're right, that was pretty unwashable.
Speaker 1: Yeah alright, So in the end, then as we look
Speaker 1: back at these four games in our final two minutes.
Speaker 1: I think I like straight up by like Green Bay
Speaker 1: the best giving seven, and then the tease I like
Speaker 1: the best is Green Bay Baltimore. Basically, what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is I love Saturday much more than I like Sunday.
Speaker 1: How about you? Well, I like the Packers. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to open this game seven and
Speaker 1: a half, but I didn't want to mess with it
Speaker 1: just yet. I like the Bills. I think the Bills
Speaker 1: are going to beat them. I think they'll beat the Ravens,
Speaker 1: although I think the public will come in strong on
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I like I like Gampa Bay h plus
Speaker 1: the three, but you know, again, you're kind of pretty close.
Speaker 1: I think they win the game. The game I would
Speaker 1: stay away from is Cleveland Kansas City. That's the game,
Speaker 1: you know, ten point favorite, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: numbers dead on. You know, I've seen teams lose by
Speaker 1: less than ten with never having a chance to win
Speaker 1: the football game, and I think that could easily happen here.
Speaker 1: Or Kansas City could just blow them out. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much. How about that five plus yards of
Speaker 1: the Browns gave up? Do you chalk up to the
Speaker 1: nature of a good question for you. How much of
Speaker 1: how the game was where Pittsburgh just needed to sling
Speaker 1: an all game, or how much of that is the
Speaker 1: Browns just can't stop anybody, period. I think that's part
Speaker 1: of it. You know. When the Steelers cut into twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought, I thought, man, are they gonna
Speaker 1: pull this game out? Because I mean they were, they
Speaker 1: were rolling at the time, and I thought there was
Speaker 1: a legitimate chance that they could do it. And part
Speaker 1: of it was the fact that haven trouble stopping teams,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, And I'm not sure they're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to stop Kansas City. But does that mean Kansas
Speaker 1: City wins you know, six or twenty seven something like that.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I certainly can see the game.
Speaker 1: I would stay away from the uh you know where
Speaker 1: I on the megapot have to stay away from one
Speaker 1: game that would be it that happening very easily. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think a lot of people will agree
Speaker 1: with you on that, And I the more you say it,
Speaker 1: the more you might be right on that. Christie, I
Speaker 1: thank you as always, um again in the name of
Speaker 1: the book. Then one day Chris Andrews, everybody, my mission book,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Oh my pleasure, my pleasure, my favorite
Speaker 1: good talking to you to? My favorite UH way to
Speaker 1: start Mondays during football season. Happy to do it through
Speaker 1: the playoffs as well, coming back my favorite talking good
Speaker 1: talking to you to, My favorite way to start Mondays
Speaker 1: during football season.