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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Good Wind, Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Jansas. I come to you from

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Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with sub heroes. Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal,

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Speaker 1: What is up boy? Hey? Now, Christmas it's over. The

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Speaker 1: Week's Healthy, the Week sixteen flagship show. But the real headline,

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Speaker 1: Christmas it's over. Well, we were just talking. We all

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Speaker 1: had our nice Christmas is um, you know, the pandemic

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Speaker 1: can't take away, as he said, Dan, the joy of

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Speaker 1: a child on Christmas morning. So it's nice to have

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Speaker 1: that moment this year, at least in a year that

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Speaker 1: has been trying for the whole world and this country

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Speaker 1: and this podcast with what West has been going through. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's good to appreciate the good things and the fact

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Speaker 1: that we all have healthy child drin and we get

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Speaker 1: to celebrate the most special of all days, Christmas with them.

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Speaker 1: So that was great. But you know, then it was

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Speaker 1: time to get back to ball. Sessler and uh that

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Speaker 1: was That was today Sunday, and there was a Jets

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Speaker 1: Browns game that I don't think really somehow ended up

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Speaker 1: making either of us happy. But I'm sure you much

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Speaker 1: more unhappy than I. There are also some clinch games

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Speaker 1: divisions were decided, and other other divisions and other playoff

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Speaker 1: spots are wide open and up for grabs as a

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Speaker 1: result of the action today. So what we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: is spend through fifteen games and we you know, boys,

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Speaker 1: sometimes we we we could be a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: elaborate in our descriptions of things and games and intros

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Speaker 1: a show. Even Uh, we're gonna have to really be economical,

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Speaker 1: can we do it? Mark? Yeah? I mean I could

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Speaker 1: also just I could sit here and say nothing the

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Speaker 1: entire show, which would remove probably forty minute some content.

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Speaker 1: So you know, that's a team effort. But it's gonna

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Speaker 1: take all three of us and more potentially to us

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Speaker 1: as long as you can listen, tell me why Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubb didn't run the ball thirty times today? That's all

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Speaker 1: I know. We'll get into a very popular narrative popping up.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure everyone has more of a clue than

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Speaker 1: the Browns coaching staff at this point. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get into it. It's that type of day. Uh. Let's

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Speaker 1: start though with a big game between the Colts and

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Speaker 1: The thirty nine of the Colts. He wants to throw

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Speaker 1: Deante Johnson diving through the end zone and he caught

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Speaker 1: there was the turning point. Bill Hilgrove nails at w

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Speaker 1: to Deante Johnson, a touchdown pass that seemed to rouse

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Speaker 1: the stealer Steelers from a week's long slumber. Roelinisberger through

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Speaker 1: three second half touchdowns and the Steelers rallied past a

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Speaker 1: and that was a turnaround that was hard to see

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Speaker 1: for coming. I was stunned. I'm sure the Colts were

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Speaker 1: I wrote down on my you know, my little notebook

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Speaker 1: mean I was all in on Ben Roethlisberger this year

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Speaker 1: The Steelers. They are the division champions. Now let's check

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Speaker 1: Ross with a shotgun snap. Looks he's got it down Hawks,

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Speaker 1: Really I don't. I can't. I can't blame Gruden for that. Well, no,

429
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Speaker 1: but I would say for what Pittsburgh's gone through up

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Speaker 1: until today, and you know, turning that city almost evil

431
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Speaker 1: against the team with what what the Raiders swoon and

432
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 1: it was a couple weeks ago there. They couldn't possibly

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Speaker 1: duplicate what happened a year ago. They just couldn't. It's

434
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Speaker 1: it's a different team. We trust them, and they did

435
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Speaker 1: duplicated and their defense fell off a cliff to such

436
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Speaker 1: a degree. And I know that there's some injuries and

437
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 1: stuff there, but they go into the off season with

438
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: all the same questions they had last off season. I

439
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,479
Speaker 1: think Gooden is just quickly. I went and looked from

440
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Speaker 1: week thirteen onward, this is a weird staff. But from

441
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Speaker 1: week thirteen onward, in Gruden's last six seasons, his teams

442
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: are eight and twenty four. Because I remember his Bucks

443
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: teams always collapsed at the end too. That's how he

444
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 1: got fired three two of the his last three years,

445
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: they collapsed at the end. And now he's doing it

446
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: in Vegas too. I don't know, there's something about John Gordon.

447
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: He just collapses at the end. I mean he's gonna

448
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Speaker 1: he's gonna pay for that in the sense that that's

449
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Speaker 1: going to be the narrative around him and the Raiders

450
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Speaker 1: in this offseason. But when you signed a ten year contract.

451
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Speaker 1: That's as far as it goes. You just have to

452
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Speaker 1: deal with headlines that are annoying. But Dophins team. I

453
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Speaker 1: love this team. This is my favorite funds. I was

454
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Speaker 1: happy for Henry Hodgson and that those type of wins.

455
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Speaker 1: I don't care who you root for, they don't come

456
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Speaker 1: around very often. Um So I hope Dolbin's fanned enjoyed it,

457
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: and I think they did. And if you're if you've

458
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Speaker 1: been following this podcast, one of our favorite UH things

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Speaker 1: on Sunday was the listen to Brent Musburger make UH

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Speaker 1: his play by play calls for the Raiders. And we

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Speaker 1: haven't heard much of Brent obviously is Vegas has gone

462
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Speaker 1: into a total swoon. But I did ask Ricky to

463
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: to pull up a sound of Brent calling the Ryan

464
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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick face mask completion, and it did not disappoint. Here

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00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: we go. A win is a win, is a win.

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Speaker 1: We'll take it. That's right. You never give one back

467
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Speaker 1: in the bags. The penalty flags come flying. That was

468
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Speaker 1: completed across midfield to the and he got a face.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, how does someone get I don't believe this.

470
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Speaker 1: They got ahold of the face mask and Fitzpatrick somehow

471
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: got the ball off. He somehow launched the ball wide

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Speaker 1: open at the only one yard line of the Raiders defense.

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00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: This fifteen yard penalty will be added to the end

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Speaker 1: of the play first down. I've never seen anything like

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Speaker 1: this in my life. Like he's been doing this sixth years,

476
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Speaker 1: he's never seen anything like it in his life. Welcome

477
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Speaker 1: to Raiders Football, Brent Musburger. All right, let's move on

478
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Speaker 1: to more wild events unfolding on Christmas. Uh In a

479
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: game between the Vikings and Saints, handoff goes to Camara

480
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Speaker 1: looking for space on the right side towards the goal line. Touchdown.

481
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Speaker 1: Alpa Chimara, Mama, they're going at man again and you

482
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Speaker 1: see the snow. Snow everybody so. Alvin Kamara, with his

483
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Speaker 1: sixth rushing touchdown of the game, ties the most ever

484
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Speaker 1: in an NFL football game. Ernie Never's back in nineteen nine,

485
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Speaker 1: boy Zach Streep induced McAlister with the called w w L.

486
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Speaker 1: Did you start Alvin Camaro in your fantasy championship? Alvin

487
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: kamaras had a ninety one year old NFL record with

488
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Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns a fifty two to thirty three Saints

489
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Speaker 1: went over the Vikings that clinches New Orleans his fourth

490
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Speaker 1: consecutive NFC South titled Kamarrow also set a career high

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Speaker 1: with a hundred fifty five rushing yards, scoring on runs

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Speaker 1: of forty one, five, six, seven and three yards. Greg,

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Speaker 1: That's quite a performance by your boy, oh man. Hit.

494
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Speaker 1: It was awesome to watch because I think it showed

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Speaker 1: off what what doesn't get enough attention from Camara is

496
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Speaker 1: that he is so strong. Like Hit, it's one of

497
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: this load of the ground things, but his core and

498
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: whatever it is, like his let when he gets in

499
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 1: his mind that he's not going to be tackled, he

500
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Speaker 1: his balance and his strength is just incredible. And you

501
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: just saw Vikings to tens of players get some good

502
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: players like Harrison Smith sometimes just like bouncing off of him.

503
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Speaker 1: And it's that strength, along with everything else that he

504
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: does that makes you know, for me, he's the one.

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Speaker 1: He if you need one running back, that's the guy

506
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Speaker 1: for me. I mean from a fantasy angle, you have

507
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: made your point. Um. I am one of the ultra

508
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: losers that in one of these stupid consolation games that

509
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: couldn't be more meaningless and Fantasy went against Henry Hodgson,

510
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Speaker 1: who you mentioned you had Alvin Kamara, and I just said,

511
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Speaker 1: I I'm not checking the score again again because there's

512
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Speaker 1: no reason to you. This thing is a wash and

513
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Speaker 1: it's over. I mean, you knew right away that he

514
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Speaker 1: was lightning strong and ready to go when he had

515
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Speaker 1: that forty yard touchdown blast. And it's kind of cool

516
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Speaker 1: to watch a game like that. That's super historical. How

517
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,719
Speaker 1: many young people would have maybe watch one of their

518
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Speaker 1: first football games on Christmas night and say this is

519
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Speaker 1: what a star player does. I mean, you'll wait another

520
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: seventy years for that to happen. But and um Saints

521
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: in Almos six hundred yards offense. It kind of makes

522
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: you think, I'm not sure there's a dominant team here.

523
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Speaker 1: But if every team is on in, they're oute their best.

524
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: The Saints are pretty spicy. Yeah, And I think it

525
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: showed you that the Saints don't need vintage Drew Brees

526
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Speaker 1: to operate with great efficiency on offense because Kamara is

527
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Speaker 1: the engine of that offense and you just need Breeze

528
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Speaker 1: to be, you know, a decent facts simile of himself.

529
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Speaker 1: Now that's up to debate if you can even be

530
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: that at this point but when you have Camaro, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's twenty one touchdowns this season, I think

532
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Speaker 1: he has around seventeen hundred total yards UH through this

533
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: same And this tells you this is why fantasy football

534
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: is maddening, why you can never predict anything in sports. Uh.

535
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: Albercamara had two touchdowns through the same stretch of games

536
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: fifteen games last season. He had to all of last

537
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: season h entering week sixteen. UH. This year he has

538
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: twenty one. But I just thought, you know, on a

539
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: day where Drew Brees through two interceptions didn't have a

540
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: touchdown that they score still put up a fifty burger

541
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Speaker 1: that would have been unfathomable five years ago because Drew

542
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: Brees was the offense back then and then on the

543
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, Like, you know, not much

544
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 1: needs to be said about the Vikings other than uh,

545
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: the fifty two points were the most allowed by the

546
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Speaker 1: team since nineteen sixty three, and the five eighty three

547
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: total yards by the sentence represented the most yielded to

548
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Speaker 1: any opponent in the history of the franchise. Mike Zimmer

549
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: not mincing words after the game. Yeah, this is a

550
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 1: bad defense, worst one I've ever had. By the way

551
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer has been coaching for twenty seven years at

552
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 1: the pro level, He's he's had not a lot. I mean,

553
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: there have been some shaky defenses that he's been a

554
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: part of, and I think he meant it. And I

555
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: know they came into this year with no Danelle Hunter

556
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: and they traded away Yannick and they haven't really had

557
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: a pass rush. It's not been perfect. But he was

558
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: legit fiery after that, and um, I think it's this

559
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: is as frustrated a team as there is in the NFC, right,

560
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think that's an emotional thing to say.

561
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, because it's ultimately kind of like

562
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: a hey, it's not my fault move. Um you know,

563
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I've been coaching all this long and

564
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: they've never been this bad. I think they'll he'll be

565
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: around another year. But it really was such an encouraging

566
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: day for the Saints, who are still gonna be playing

567
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: for home field in week seventeen. So that's it's tricky,

568
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: you know that they're gonna be playing, but I think

569
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: to to go. I know Breeze got intercepted. One was

570
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: on a tip pass, but he did throw it twenty

571
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: six times for three D and eleven yards, which is

572
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: incredible efficiency. Uh that you know, the arm doesn't look great,

573
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: but just the fact that they were able to generate

574
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Speaker 1: any that that sort of efficiency without their top you know,

575
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Speaker 1: two of their top three receivers, their stars, Cam Jordan

576
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: and Marshawn Lattimore, I thought, played like stars on defense.

577
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: So it's a good feeling win for them to kind

578
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: of head into the playoffs. And I did really appreciate

579
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Speaker 1: Troy Aikman like quietly apologizing for giving Tastom Hill too

580
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: much love a few years ago in the playoff when

581
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: the Saints had and in sort of taking responsibility for

582
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: some of the hype that Tastom got after that. It

583
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Speaker 1: was just another moment and what I think has been

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Speaker 1: an m v P season, not a Troy Aikman. I

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Speaker 1: love having Troy troyce a week. I think it's been

586
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Speaker 1: a different Troy. I don't know if it's because he

587
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: felt the heat from Roma, but I'm shocked to say

588
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Speaker 1: I think he's the He's the analyst m VP of

589
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Speaker 1: the year. Are you that's that's that's a big take?

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Speaker 1: Are you referencing the Taysom Hill was the best player

591
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: on the field game he played. Yeah, that was the game.

592
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: That was the game because it was against the Vikings

593
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: and he played seven or eight. It's also I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're Troy Aikman, you're saying I have so much influence.

595
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: And I love Troy Aikman as much as anyone growing

596
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: up watching football, but I have so much influence over

597
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: the football world. That was huh. You know, he doesn't

598
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: listen to this show, that is confirmed, so he won't

599
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: hear what I have to say. Well, he watches every

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Speaker 1: single minute of Good Morning Football. I mean, if he

601
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: could just give us that he check in on our

602
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: flagship show, even like for twenty minutes, just while you're

603
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: going out on your job, maybe you'll like it, Troy,

604
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: and start giving us giving us a shout out on

605
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Speaker 1: Thursday nights next week. I don't know next year. Alright,

606
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Speaker 1: let's move on another blowout. Brady play actually fake dropic

607
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Speaker 1: of the look Staffield. Those are deep ball right sideline

608
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: called Paul Gronkowski touch staff Champa Bay holy rock a moley.

609
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Speaker 1: What a ronominal pitch by the big former debate of

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Speaker 1: Tom bradyho New England. Oh a modelie I love Jane

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Speaker 1: Decker half w f U s The Fox are getting

612
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: hot again, Tom Brady through four touchdowns and one half

613
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: of play, including another hook up with Gronk as the

614
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: Bucks took a thirty four zip lead into halftime, Enter

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Speaker 1: Blade Gabbert Cruse to forty seven seven win over the

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Speaker 1: corpse like Detroit Lions in Ford Field, I mean, what

617
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: is the state of the Lions bandwagon now? Mark? I mean,

618
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: is it just like is it like one of those

619
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: um coal minor things, the seesaw thing that just like

620
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: wandering along on a track through the through the dusk gip,

621
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: very dusty, very you know, probably just alone, no one

622
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: chasing it. Um, some decrepit characters still hanging around on

623
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Speaker 1: some skeleton's. It's a mess. Mark. The Bucks continue to

624
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: look like an X factor in the NFC playoffs here, Well,

625
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: I think we've sort of been feeling like with the

626
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: Bucks that there there are two Bucks teams and when

627
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: you get this one, um again, it's it's not onlike

628
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: the Saints where you just think like, I'm not sure, um,

629
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: where to say this or that is is impossible because

630
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady um to Greg's point about Robert Guerrero. Is

631
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: that his name, like trainer guy, Like he's turning back

632
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: time to some Alex Guerrero probably has a brother named Robert.

633
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be I know it's not Pedro. I am

634
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: aware of Pedro Guerrero's career, but I just you know, like,

635
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: how how many times in a season, no matter the circumstance,

636
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: do you see a quarterback taken out at halftime because

637
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: you just know there is no way the other team

638
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: is going to creep back? And I mean, look at

639
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: to be fair, they would have crushed die right Anyways,

640
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: Detroit looks completely asleep at the wheel to me. But

641
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: you're coaching staff wasn't there. You're coaching staff has been

642
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: wiped out from Corona. I mean, I just think that

643
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: some of this stuff, because we'd have no idea what

644
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: a coaching staff needs to do over the course of

645
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: like forty eight hours, um, to prepare or make these changes,

646
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: some of the stuff just slightly insurmountable. And you're a

647
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: bad team. Matthew stafford Um, you know, minutes into the

648
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: game is hobbling around on one foot. I mean that

649
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: this thing was cooked, was up. The last time you

650
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: see Matthew Stafford in the lines uniform. The guy's got

651
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: all sorts of injuries now an ankle. It doesn't make

652
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: any sense to play him in week seventeen and his

653
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: status is up in the airs. That lines, you know,

654
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: have to weigh how they want to handle this, and

655
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: it would not be as surprised if it's a complete rebuild.

656
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: The Bucks clinched the playoff birth with the wind, so

657
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,239
Speaker 1: you brought Tom Brady into your building to class up

658
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: the joint, to make it professional again, to get the

659
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: offense reaching the heights that you thought it could with

660
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: the playmakers. And now you have a double digit win

661
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: sees and you're not gonna win your division. You're not

662
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna be talked up as a favorite in the super Bowl.

663
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 1: But I kind of like where the Bucks are. If

664
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: I'm a Bucks fan, I like where they are right now.

665
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: They're playing with confidence, and they have Brady in January.

666
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: You know a lot of things can happen. Well, I

667
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: like where they are because where they are is the

668
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: five seed, and so they they have to win next

669
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: week to make sure they keep it. But that means

670
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: they play the NFC East winner, and so that's a

671
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: nice that's a nice first round matchup. Whoever the NFC

672
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: East winner is, I'm gonna pick the Bucks to beat them. Um,

673
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: you know we we say, okay, it's the Lions, you know.

674
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Brady had six hundred and sixty eight

675
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: yards in six touchdowns in a four quarter stretch in

676
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: sixty five points those against NFL teams. And it's not

677
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: like it's just like these wide open guys, you know,

678
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: trapes in through broken coverage. He's throwing dimes like the

679
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 1: throw of Gronkowski was insane. The touchdown to Brown was insane. God,

680
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: when I thought at his best game of the year,

681
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: like these were, he throws like if you protect him,

682
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna be as easy in January. But

683
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: when he's protected, no one goes through his reads and

684
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: and slings it as as well as he does. Like

685
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: some of these were third reads. It was awesome. Counterpoint.

686
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: How many yards need throw it for in the second half? None?

687
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: Very streaky. These Bucks. Don't trust them, you know, it's

688
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: good to have both sides of the coin. And this

689
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: is the same Bucks team, by the way, that was

690
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: shut out last week in the first half against Tins.

691
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: Then they dropped thirty four this week. But the Tampa

692
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: base four and ten yards of total offense in the

693
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: first half was the most by any team in any

694
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,479
Speaker 1: half since two thousand and ten. Uh, can you guess

695
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: which team it was that was? There was a special

696
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: team in that year. Well, I people forget the two

697
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,919
Speaker 1: thousand ten Patriots was the second best Patriots offensive all times.

698
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: So I'm sure it was the Patriots. You're incorrect. It

699
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: was the Eagles confidence remember that before when the the

700
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: VIC Eagles peaked obviously before the end of the season,

701
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: but when they were on they were outrageous. It was

702
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: a Week ten game against Washington where they went off

703
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: for four d twenty five yards. Um. All right, there

704
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: you go. So the Bucks cruising the Lions. They got

705
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. Let's continue to power

706
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: through the Saturday sleeps. Here's Murray get a lot one

707
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: for the end zone. Natersupted by a Kellow weatherspoon. He

708
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: undered through a Christian Kirk and a Kello makes up

709
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: for the fourth down and inches run play by jumping

710
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: in here. Look at Robert Sala hopping on the forty

711
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 1: Niners sideline. A huge takeaway by a Killow Weatherspoon Greg

712
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: Pop with a call k n b R. Now, do

713
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: not take this as me being negative or critical of

714
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: Robert Salo, But do you think that guy likes the camera?

715
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: You think he's playing to the camera a little bit.

716
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: He was on camera for about of that telecast. I

717
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: would like to see the numbers because I'm not even

718
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: being I'm not exaggerating that guy. There's a love affair

719
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: between the camera and Robert Sala And it was his

720
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: show on Saturday in Arizona. The d C was all

721
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: over your screen of San Francisco. Was defense made life

722
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: miserable for Kyler Murray in a twenty to twelve win

723
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals. Greg, the Cardinals reverted to this enigma

724
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: status uh in this game, well, San Francisco authored another

725
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: reminder that they lurk as a monster. With some better

726
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: luck it is, it could be a devastating, you know,

727
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: season ending type of loss for Arizona, except now because

728
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: of the Rams lost. Um, you know, Arizona has a

729
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: winning in scenario. So they got they got helped out

730
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: on Sunday by the results. But I wasn't shocked just

731
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: because I've seen this out of their offense before. They're there.

732
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: Um I call them narcaleptic. It's like they just go

733
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: to sleep out of nowhere. You never know when it's

734
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: gonna be, but they can just go to sleep for

735
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: halves at a time. This was the moment of the

736
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: Christmas weekend where I was like, what are you doing

737
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 1: to me? NFL here. It's like my son Walker didn't

738
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 1: even want to go out, you know, during the buck

739
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: Lions game, we ended up going out. I was like,

740
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna game pass that one later because he just

741
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: wanted to watch football game. And then we're back here watching.

742
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta get it on Prime. That's fine too,

743
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: but like they're they're not doing anything the whole game.

744
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: It's like, let us have a family, Like, let us

745
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: have a little family time. But at least, you know,

746
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: at least the forty Niners showed up. But I do

747
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: have a theory that Greg actually plays nothing in his

748
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: house and never has played anything else in his house

749
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: other than Pro football, so that Walker probably would be

750
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: very interested in other programming but has no idea that

751
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: other programming exists for human beings that he does not

752
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: have a choice. It's kind of like, remember what was

753
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: it Tom Maronovitch. Sure was that his father who just

754
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: hammered him to be he's got the bug. You had

755
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: it to Sessler when you were a young boy. He's

756
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: got the bug. He's just you know, he's addicted. You

757
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: got to get him out of that. I can appreciate that.

758
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he he must have enjoyed um. You know

759
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: the Kyle Shanahan's Solid version of this. I would say this, Dan,

760
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: I think Solid is that way all of time. And

761
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: so when the producers get um a little bug up

762
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: their butt to like focus on him in a game

763
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: like that where his defense was rising up, you just

764
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: get I don't think he suddenly becomes like animated Sala

765
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: because he senses that a camera like from the meszzanine

766
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: section is like folk. I think that's just who he is.

767
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: But he also knows now because it happens. Remember his

768
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: big breakout was when we were in London last year

769
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: and he was all over the TV and everybody's talking

770
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: about it. Now he knows that cameras are there. So

771
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit performative. But you know what, Listen,

772
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: this guy is trying to get a head coaching job

773
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: and he's telegenic, he's a good looking guy, he's jacked,

774
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: His defense is playing well. You could argue, even though

775
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: last year's Niners uh nearly won the Super Bowl, that

776
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 1: this version of the team is making him look even better.

777
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: With all the injuries and COVID madness and everything this season.

778
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: When you combine all those factors and the fact that

779
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: he's a television darling, there's gonna be an owner for

780
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: one of these teams that is absolutely gonna get sucked

781
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: in uh and might it might payoff handsomely for that

782
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: team and higher Roberts. I don't think there's any way

783
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: we come out of this cycle without Solid being the

784
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: head coach of someone. And part of the reason is

785
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: the games like these, these showcase games where the defense

786
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,439
Speaker 1: is playing great and he's all over the camera for

787
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: the audience. I think it's like what he turns Kwan

788
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: Williams into it, like everyone that plays for him plays

789
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: so hard. And I mean, I do like a team

790
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: like the Niners, and we know how I feel about

791
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanaham, but in general, you know they've been through

792
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: a lot, and they have they played as tough, and

793
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: they played with total might yesterday and it's a divisional game,

794
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: and if you're the Cardinals, you're probably thinking, I don't

795
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: want to deal with the Niners in Week sixteen because

796
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: of what they can do to anyone inside their own division.

797
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: And I'm just like Jeff Wilson blowing up for a

798
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three yards. You kind of knew by

799
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: halftime this is the Niners team. This is what they

800
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 1: can be no matter who's on the field. Sometimes um,

801
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: but they seem to me as someone you have to

802
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: look at with extreme caution and danger heading into next

803
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: year if they were ever to stay healthy. This team

804
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: is pretty freaking badass. I kind of enjoy watching them.

805
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: And back to the Cardinals, shame on them. A game

806
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: you need your opponent's planning for nothing more than pride.

807
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: They have a third string quarter quarterback C. J. Bethard,

808
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: who lights up Arizona's defense for three touchdowns. You mentioned

809
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: Wilson goes for a d and eighty three on the ground.

810
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean you gott. I mean that's a bad reflection

811
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: on the team and the coaching staff performance in that spot.

812
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: Ugly stuff, bad job out of Kyler Murray. It was

813
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: a tough game for him. I think that's just who

814
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: they are. I think they've been an eight and eight

815
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: type of team all year, and if they lose that,

816
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: I mean obviously not. I locked up the Cardinals because

817
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: I thought they were coming out of that funk last

818
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: two weeks and it seemed like they had they had

819
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: been in their valley and they were coming out and

820
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: the Niners were going the other direction. But that's you know,

821
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: you can't. That's why, like when anybody wants to get

822
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: on people, oh you're locked. It doesn't have enough enough

823
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,959
Speaker 1: Onions's this with this league of hours week to week.

824
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Shook. Here he comes, Nick Shook, you

825
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: are a special man. How you doing today? I don't know.

826
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: I think the only person who's really looking at especially

827
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: special today is Gregg and his glasses. I know he's

828
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: all business, sharp, smart. If going on, then he would

829
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: be even sharper, I would imagine, yeah, ute, right, So

830
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: Shook actually brought you in a little bit early. But

831
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: that's fine. You're already here, so let's get into it.

832
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: Moving on to the NFC East and a big showdown

833
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: between the Eagles and Cowboys, Big third and three. They

834
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: really need this at their own forty eight Dalton back

835
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: frowze it down the right side, over the top from

836
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: Lamb at the thirty hard the run of that zone.

837
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: How about Andy Dalton and Ceedee Lamb and fifty two

838
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: yards and the Cowboys have back to back touchdowns all

839
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: right back to Sunday action. Bring the bomb goes in

840
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Brad Sham the sham god k r l D with

841
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: the call, Andy Dalton had his way with the eagles

842
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 1: woeful secondary, throwing for three seventy one yards and three scores,

843
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: two of them to Michael gall and that pitch and

844
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: catch strike with Ceedee Lamb thirty seven seventeen Cowboys over

845
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: the Eagles, who are now eliminated for playoff contention with

846
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: that loss. Meanwhile, the Cowboys playing for chance of the

847
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: NFC at East title on Sunday, shook. That is insanity

848
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: when you remember where this team was. It's recently it's Thanksgiving. Yeah,

849
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: I feel like we're in different years with this team. Uh.

850
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: In this last month, especially for them, in the last

851
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: three weeks, three straight wins, Uh, they look like a

852
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: completely different football team. And I'm sure Andy Dalton has

853
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: a bit of influence on that, considering that he hasn't

854
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: either been knocked out with a concussion or left because

855
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 1: of COVID. He's been there. He's been able to establish

856
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: a bit of a rhythm. But really it's their entire

857
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: offense has really come into form. He's relied on his

858
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: receivers a lot. Especially today. He hit long strikes on

859
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper. Michael Gallup had a day. He hits Hede

860
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: Lamb on that play that we just played there. Uh,

861
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: two of those three guys absolutely dusted Eagles defenders in

862
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: one on one situations at the line, which kind of

863
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: put them in a good position to make those plays.

864
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: But Dalton looked composed. He took the check down when

865
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: he wanted to. There was one drive just before the

866
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: half where I thought he was gonna check down his

867
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: way all the way down to a touchdown. He ended

868
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: up hitting Gallop on the long strike down the sideline

869
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: to kind of break that trend. But they just looked

870
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: like a much better off It's even Ezekiel Elliott broke

871
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: a hundred yards that was kind of um uh buoyed by,

872
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: you know, a long run in the fourth quarter kind

873
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: of ice things. But the thing is with this team,

874
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: and I think it's because they played against an NFC

875
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: opponent or an NFC East opponent, excuse me, um and

876
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: the Figle Eagles specifically, who couldn't get out of their

877
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: own way, committed twelve penalties even when they won, when

878
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: they were up by twenty, this game was still a

879
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: comedy of errors. I mean, in the fourth quarter of

880
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: the Eagles had multiple opportunities to come back to get

881
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: at least within a touchdown. They were granted I mean

882
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: gifts in terms of field position and did absolutely nothing

883
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: with it and then would give the ball back to

884
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,479
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. There was one instance in the fourth quarter

885
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 1: where Jalen Hurts throws an interception in the end zone.

886
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: The Cowboys go three and out and gained zero yards

887
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: before putting the ball right back to Eagles, who find

888
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: themselves in a similar scenario. Jalen hurts fumbles review was

889
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, you could you could argue

890
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: one way or the other. I think he was down,

891
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: but that didn't really matter because the Eagles still can't

892
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: get out of their own way. But when you're right,

893
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Cowboys, you know, I don't

894
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna find their way to the playoffs.

895
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: I know we laughed about this a couple of weeks

896
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: ago when we talked about this, that's not gonna happen,

897
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: Pitch Posh. Well, the Washington just left the door open

898
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: for them, and if they get in. I know this

899
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: division has been bad, but they could actually give a

900
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: playoff team a little bit of a run as long

901
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: as they can defend. We have a knack for laughing

902
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: at things that come true in hideous fashion weeks later,

903
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't put it past us. Well, they also

904
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: are now big Eagles fans because you know, they are eliminated.

905
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: Both the Giants in and um the Cowboys are eliminated.

906
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: If Washington finds a way to beat the Eagles, uh

907
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: next week. The Eagles are so banged up shook after

908
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 1: watching it Hurts today, Like what, what do you think

909
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: the chances are Eagles can go out and get it

910
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: get a win next week, you know, like because otherwise

911
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: otherwise Washington is gonna get into the playoffs. I think

912
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: it's the chances aren't great. Jalen Hurts had a nice

913
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: little run in the second quarter today where you know

914
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: he was he was completing passes and look comfortable and

915
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch him he kind of ran

916
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: into some struggles in the second half with defensive adjustments,

917
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: which talking about the Cowboys, that's kind of funny because

918
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense making adjustments with that um and I think

919
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: that obviously Washington has a better defense. I really think

920
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: that game comes down to the availability at quarterback. Can

921
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: Alex Smith play in that game, because Taylor Heineke did

922
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: a little bit for them this week when he came

923
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: in in the second half, and he was when Dwayne

924
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: Haskins was benched, But if they're forced to go with

925
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: either of them, I don't have a lot of confidence

926
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: in that team. I mean, Haskins was horrible before he

927
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: was benched. Their offense had no life and they had

928
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: to rely on their defense. They put their defense in

929
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: a hole. They turned the ball over three times, a

930
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: muff punt returned for a touchdown and then uh an

931
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: interception on the part of Haskins and a fumble. It

932
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: was just it was like I know and and it was,

933
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: but it was ugly. So I don't think that the

934
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: Eagles have a great chance it's in that game. So

935
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: I don't think the chances are great for the Cowboys,

936
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: but there is still a chance Eagle score touchdowns on

937
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: the first two drives, including you know, the eighty yard

938
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: strike eighty one yards to g Jacks three points after that,

939
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: and then on the other side, you know, the Fletcher

940
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: Cox injury was big, it seems for Philadelphia on defense

941
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: because when he goes out with the stinger, that's when

942
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton started feasting, feasting. Uh. No one better to

943
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: find toast more than poor Michael Jacquette, the Eagles cornerback

944
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: who was targeted nine times. He was covering Michael Gallup

945
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: mostly but a Marii Cooper to uh nine targets, seven catches,

946
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty two yards eventually got benched. That's

947
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: the second most yard is given up by any cornerback

948
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL UH this season, according to Next Gen Stats.

949
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: So the Eagles aren't you know, maybe who knows what

950
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: the NFC s. It's such a ridiculous division that to

951
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: write off any team, Well, the Eagles you can because

952
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 1: there eliminates but uh, I'm off. Yeah, so I will

953
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: write them off. Actually, but I'll say this, they if

954
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: they can fix their secondary, they seem to have something

955
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 1: with this young quarterback. You know, maybe they can get

956
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: back into it next year, but it just was never

957
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: happening this year. They had too many issues. Yeah, and

958
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: I feel like we do that as much as you

959
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: do that with the Cowboys to do that with the

960
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: Eagles too. I mean, they're gonna have to prove it

961
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: to me before I'm all of a sudden, No watch

962
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: out for the Eagles next year. But that next year

963
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: is what they have to look forward to. Now. I

964
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: will not be watching any of them deeply for the

965
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: next leg six months. Get let's get through this playoff part. Well,

966
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: you might get like Tom Brady versus the Cowboys or

967
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: something in the playoffs. So you're gonna that's spicy? Why not? Now?

968
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: Indian made himself some money if nothing else today. Now

969
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: onto the Washington football team. Teddies in the shotgun. Ready,

970
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: Davis too is right now. Davis switches to his left

971
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: hip as Bridgewater has the snatch that's pumps throws into

972
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: the flat complete Anderson. Anderson left pile on scores a touchdown.

973
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: Mick mixing with the called w b TA Teddy Bridgewater

974
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 1: connected on a fourteen yards scored to Robby Anderson and

975
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: the PAFs defense at a field day against an overmatched

976
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins in the thirteen win over the Washington Football team. Yes,

977
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: that loss, combined with the Cowboys went over the Eagles,

978
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: means the NFC e s Yes, comes down to a

979
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: bunch of bad teams playing for a division title. In

980
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, uh, Dwayne Haskins Shook had a pretty miserable

981
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: week all told, the well earned embarrassment of the Strip

982
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: Club visit and signed and uh fine, and then being

983
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: stripped of his captaincy and then being so bad and

984
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: the three turnover game that that there's a man named

985
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: Heineke coming in for you late in the game. Yikes. Yeah,

986
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, for that whole thing. This week was interesting

987
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: because it was like, all the shame on Dwayne Haskins,

988
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: how could you do this to your team? And then

989
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: he was he basically turned it around and was you know,

990
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 1: uh demanded to speak to reporters. And also it became

991
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: a what a what a stand up guy owning his

992
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,479
Speaker 1: mistake and he's going to go out there and lead

993
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: them to victory. And then he and I mean he

994
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: just he looked bad. He looked worse than he did

995
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: earlier this season. You can see why Ron Rivera benched

996
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: him for Kyle Allen when he did, Um, he's slow

997
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: in the pocket. His best two plays of most of

998
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: the game were improvisational plays where he just kind of

999
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: built out of the pocket and made something happen. The

1000
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: second time, it was because the receiver his defender got

1001
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: picked off in traffic. For the longest completion the day,

1002
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: he was fifty yards. It just wasn't good their offense

1003
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: and have really had any life and and um, and

1004
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: they put their defense in a bad spot and made

1005
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: it a very difficult game and made the Panthers look better.

1006
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: M hmm, what a what a crazy way because the

1007
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,479
Speaker 1: announcers in the game said, you know, we probably won't

1008
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: see Haskins play for them again. Ian Rappaport said as

1009
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: much in a in a report before the game, which

1010
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: is a weird thing. So this was such a unique

1011
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: circumstance that Haskins was going into this game maybe even

1012
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: knowing like this is his last chance, but he could

1013
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: win the division. It would have been a really interesting

1014
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: story if he had. But he didn't. He flamed out

1015
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: and now it'll probably be his last bom and with

1016
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: the team. Because even if Alex Smith isn't ready for

1017
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: next week. The way Heineke looked, you probably figure they're

1018
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: gonna start him. What a what a weird season on

1019
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: a day where it's like it was Ron Rivera's big return,

1020
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, the you know, playing the Panthers, and they

1021
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: brought they made a big show up, bringing out the

1022
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: Rivera strong shirts, i think for the first time today

1023
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: and then and he put up this stink bomb. But

1024
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: the that's how this is how the NFC East deserves

1025
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: to go down, you know, in kind of uh down

1026
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: to the week's seventeen game that no one wants to watch.

1027
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: It looked like they were turning the corner as a

1028
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: Division two. You know, a couple of weeks ago there

1029
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: was some u the giants in Washington were really started

1030
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: to establish themselves. But now everyone's you know, gone on

1031
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: the tank because the Cowboys have risen, and it's like

1032
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: we know the it is gonna be uh, this will

1033
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: be a season to remember or perhaps to forget. And

1034
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, we don't need to pile on Dwayne Haskins

1035
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 1: at this point and and you know, be his daddy,

1036
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,760
Speaker 1: but it's like, you know, he's not too far away

1037
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: from Josh Rosen now, so you gotta be careful because

1038
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: as if Washington doesn't tend uh, you know, to dump you,

1039
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 1: you might be a guy floating around on practice squads

1040
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: at five years old if you don't find a way

1041
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: to change things. Because obviously whatever has been happening so

1042
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: far in his career not working. Yeah, he's he's one

1043
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: hurried up trip out of town. Uh and then uh

1044
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: two more practice squads away from being him. So he's

1045
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: on his way. Yeah, it's just it's not a good

1046
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: situation for him. And you know, we get sucked in.

1047
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: You talk about this whole division looked like they were

1048
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: turning a corner. We as as people who watch all

1049
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: these games, we get sucked in a little bit when

1050
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: you see an encouraging performance like this and um like

1051
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: from the Giants for example, it's just, um, I don't know.

1052
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: Week by week football is not as consistent, I think,

1053
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: as we all know. But Dwayne Haskins, when you roll

1054
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: him out there, you don't have a great chance. Speaking

1055
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: of the Giants, let's just get through. Let's get through this.

1056
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: NFC East, My goodness, people fast forwarding Jackson dropped the

1057
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: throw fire to the end zone touchdown. It is tes

1058
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: Bryant too weeks in a row flash the X again

1059
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: and the former Cowboy has found a home. Not only

1060
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: were the Ravens, but in the Ravens ends all too

1061
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: easy Jerry Sandusky with the called w B A L Yeah,

1062
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson four scoring drives in the first half, one

1063
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: of those possessions ending with that strike to Dez Bryant,

1064
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: and the scorching hot Ravens beat the Giants to thirteen

1065
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: for their fourth consecutive win. Uh Paired with the Steelers

1066
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: win over the Colts and the Jets upset of Cleveland,

1067
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens that control their own destiny, needing only a

1068
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,720
Speaker 1: win over the Banks, we get back to the playoffs, Greg,

1069
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: here we are. This is the proverbial team nobody wants

1070
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: to play. They are And and it came into the

1071
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: day thinking weirdly like, wow, the Ravens really might not

1072
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: make it. After the Dolphins game happened on Saturday night,

1073
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: thought wow, they really might not make it. And then

1074
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: the Colts and Browns, you know, slip up and now

1075
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 1: they're in the sixth seed, and you watch this game

1076
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: and you think, like, this is it. In the first

1077
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes of this game. They had the ball

1078
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: for twenty two of those twenty five minutes. They were

1079
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: leading two seventeen to thirty one yards. Uh. Lamar was

1080
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 1: you know, on the first drive, was four for four

1081
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: making throws from the pocket. Did hit a couple of

1082
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: throws outside the numbers. They just need that like a

1083
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: little bit because now you're getting the Lamar that's running

1084
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: for eight yards and you're getting Gus Edwards and JK.

1085
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 1: Dobbins running combined twenty one six two, And I think

1086
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: more than anything, I think that's what's changed over the

1087
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: Ravens the last month is that the other running backs

1088
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: other than Lamar are getting it done. The rest of

1089
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: the running game was not great this year for for

1090
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: Baltimore outside of Lamar, and now they're getting it going

1091
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: and Dobbins has been great and they kind of cruised

1092
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,720
Speaker 1: after that. It was just it was one of those

1093
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: games just out often where they strangled m early and

1094
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: then it was really over at halftime. It's like, we

1095
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: know what they are, and they know that we know

1096
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: that what they are, and and they're gonna try to

1097
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: do it anyways. And when they're this good, it doesn't

1098
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: really matter. And you know, I know it was the

1099
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: Jaguars a week ago, but they're They're halftime yardage compiled

1100
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: compilations were like jaw dropping, and they did it again today.

1101
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: And you know, Mark Ingram, who was a huge part

1102
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: of that offense, is an inactive, healthy scratch week after week.

1103
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: Now they found other guys and I think that the

1104
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: um better play and the and the way that they

1105
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 1: plugged in Mark Andrews has been big for them over

1106
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Andrews really just uh was

1107
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: not the guy he was last year. And I think

1108
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: their whole tight end group lacks some of the depth

1109
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: that they had a year ago. UM, but when you

1110
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: get a daylight today and the running game is working,

1111
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: I this is a team that could beat anyone anywhere.

1112
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: And Andrews as a beast, he is kind of taking

1113
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: over as their true number one receiver. The closest thing

1114
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: to happened. It is wild that that Dez Bryant is

1115
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns in a playoff run. Like Andrews also acknowledged,

1116
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 1: like they're like, are you scoreboard watching? Everyone has this

1117
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: like sort of holier than now, like no, of course

1118
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at the scoreboard. He was like, hell, yes,

1119
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: I was watching that the entire your time, so thank

1120
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: you for a human answer to that question. I'd be

1121
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 1: watching it. And then on the Giant side of things,

1122
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: you know, they were ready to be eliminated. They just

1123
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: needed either Washington or Philadelphia uh to win in the

1124
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: late window. Uh, and neither of those things happened. So insanely,

1125
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: the Giants could win the NFC East next week if

1126
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: some things go their way. But this is also now

1127
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: Giants team that's lost ten plus game in four straight seasons,

1128
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: six out of the last seven. And they're also oh,

1129
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 1: by the way, they are oh in three uh since

1130
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: week fourteen. Uh. They entered that week in first place.

1131
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,359
Speaker 1: So you know, if you want to kind of point

1132
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: to the Daniel Jones ankle injury, is the turning pointed season?

1133
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: Or perhaps it was just as a team that was

1134
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: playing over its head and then got exposed down the stretch.

1135
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: I tend to think it. It's probably a little bit

1136
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: of both, but more the ladder either way. The Giants,

1137
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: you know, they seem cooked. But again, the NFC East,

1138
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: you have no idea how this is gonna It's pretty simple.

1139
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: I mean, they did the winner of Cowboys Giants wins

1140
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,240
Speaker 1: the division if Washington loses. So if Washington loses, that

1141
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: that Giants Cowboys game is to win the division. So

1142
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: it's not like they need a ton of things to happen.

1143
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: That's they're also eight points seven points per game. Actually

1144
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: drama necessarily, but now it's not high drama. Danta Jones

1145
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: actually thought, I thought he played fairly well today, but

1146
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: the offensive line and everything else about the team, the

1147
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: defense has kind of collapsed. We gave him a lot

1148
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: of atta boys all year. In the last three games

1149
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: they've collapsed, especially with today. Speaking of collapse, alright, buckle up,

1150
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,919
Speaker 1: we got the Cleveland boys here, shook and cessler. Let's

1151
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: head to the metal. Ends Jets get to stop the

1152
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: games over fourth down and a half yard mayfield under center,

1153
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: counterback steeg the pile ts it off. Let's see if

1154
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: the art official well the sea from the nearer side

1155
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: really on the field during the fourth down play, Remember

1156
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: the offense other than the fumble and recovered the ball.

1157
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: The ball will be returned the spot of the fumble,

1158
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: resulting into change. Because first und the Jets at the football,

1159
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 1: they will say, mayfield the ball up. Bob was shoots

1160
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: him with the call for w E P N Yes.

1161
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield bubbled on each of the Brown's last two possessions,

1162
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: last on a QB keeper deep an opponent territory. They

1163
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: were misused that allowed the Jets to escape with the

1164
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: sten win at the Meadow Ends. That's two straight wins

1165
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: with the Jets after thirteen losses to begin the season,

1166
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: while the Browns now fighting for their playoff lives during

1167
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, Mark, how much of this loss do you

1168
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: put on the COVID nineteen protocols that wiped away Glebland

1169
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I don't put all of it on that,

1170
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: but I think that it's um a bit um acid

1171
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: on some of the takes that I've seen out there,

1172
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: and and and even to some degree um Trent Green

1173
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: sort of dismissing um the concept that Baker Mayfield had

1174
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 1: no starting wide receivers when this passing attack has thrown

1175
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: for an average of three d and thirty yards a

1176
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: game over the last three weeks. Uh, they were compromised.

1177
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: I think equally compromising was not having the identity of

1178
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: this team as their offensive line. No. Jed Wills, um

1179
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: know why a teller and you saw Baker Mayfield under pressure.

1180
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: And you saw Baker Mayfield at times some of the

1181
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: some of the times, and I thought he encountered pressure

1182
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: where there were a couple moments where some of these

1183
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: fill in the blank practice squad wideouts were running the

1184
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: wrong route and so you know, Baker, uh, you know,

1185
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: you can't turn the ball over, and Kevin Stefanski said

1186
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: as much, and I thought that they I think the

1187
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,919
Speaker 1: relationship is strong enough where Baker gets what he's saying.

1188
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 1: Baker blamed himself for the game entirely. This has been

1189
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: an environment offense for me where Baker Mayfield sort of

1190
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: mistake free um play over the past month, which is, uh,

1191
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: you know, is that who he is? I think part

1192
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: of it is the offense he's in and that environment

1193
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: was completely taken away today. And I know it was like,

1194
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: why didn't they run the ball a bunch and only

1195
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: do that out of the gate, But the Jets are

1196
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: stopping the run, and I think that the Browns were

1197
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:01,000
Speaker 1: trying to create balance and I think they maybe forced

1198
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: that a little bit um or a lot. It didn't

1199
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: go their way. The game got a little out of

1200
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: hand early, and I give credit to the Jets. Um,

1201
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: they made a couple. They went for Jamison Crowder through

1202
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: a perfect pass on a trick option play that put

1203
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: the Browns in a hole. Sam Donald, I thought he

1204
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: set the tone for the Jets on offense to some degree,

1205
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: went on on a scrambled truck to Brown's defender Malcolm

1206
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: Smith to the ground. I mean, the Jets wanted this game.

1207
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: They're not total dogs. I think they looked better than

1208
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: the Giants over the past two weeks and Cleveland, I

1209
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: don't know, Nick, the worst possible time for this to happen.

1210
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a hard This is like, you

1211
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: have your Sunday's right, we all do. And if you're

1212
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, you've been through helen back this year.

1213
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: But I couldn't believe what I was watching, and I

1214
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe what I started to watch on Twitter

1215
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: yesterday on Saturday when you started to see what was

1216
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: happening to this team, and in the most critical game

1217
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: they've had in a decade. So, um, you know, a

1218
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: really rough watch and they're in hot hot water right now. Yeah.

1219
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: I think that the marks right and that it had

1220
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: a lot to do with it, But it wasn't entirely

1221
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: on the COVID thing. And and the thing is too

1222
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: is the Browns follow protocol. Don't get in a hot

1223
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: tub with guys. I mean, how it's not that difficult.

1224
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: There's a reason the league makes these rules. And then

1225
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: you're not in this situation. I know you can be

1226
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: frustrated if you're one of those players, but follow protocol

1227
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be in this situation. UM. I

1228
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 1: do think that the Brown's offense became very predictable, um,

1229
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: and especially when they were trying to come back in

1230
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: the second half, because basically Baker Mayfield for an entire

1231
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: half didn't look at any of those receivers. He probably

1232
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: didn't know their names. He definitely didn't know what routes

1233
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: they were running on certain occasions. He was primarily looking

1234
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: at his tight ends or his running backs out of

1235
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: the backfield. And when it came down to them trying

1236
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: to mount a comeback, I basically would look at the

1237
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: down distant situation and say, oh, they're probably gonna try

1238
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: and run a screen or dump it off the Kareem

1239
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: Hunter Nick Chubb. Here, I saw Nick Chubb catch more

1240
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: passes out of the backfield today. I think I've ever

1241
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: seen in one game in his career. This is something

1242
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: that he's worked on. He worked, He spent a lot

1243
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen summer working on that, and he's

1244
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: gotten better at it. But that's not enough. So I

1245
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: do think that it had a lot to do with it.

1246
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: Then again, don't dig yourself a twenty to three whole.

1247
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: I know your offense isn't helping you out, but you

1248
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: gotta play better defense. You can't get caught with your

1249
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,000
Speaker 1: pants down on that trick. Play uh and allow them

1250
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: to score like that and and take momentum. I know

1251
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: there's no fans in the stand, but you know they

1252
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: still had some momentum going there. And I think the

1253
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: moment was too big for them. I don't think it

1254
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: was too big for necessarily for Baker Mayfield, even though

1255
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: we fumbled on fourth and one. But I think they

1256
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: realized as the game went on, oh my god, we're

1257
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: the victim. We've lost our starting receiving corps. Now we're

1258
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: losing to the Jets. This is a disaster. Woe is me.

1259
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: Baker helped kind of lift them out of it, but

1260
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: couldn't bring it home. And uh, and that's not what

1261
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: you want on your football team. That's also how they

1262
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: acted when they played Baltimore in Pittsburgh this season. The

1263
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: first time they played Baltimore and when they played Pittsburgh

1264
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: they got blown out. Both times. They weren't prepared. They

1265
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: weren't there and ready for the game, uh mentally, and

1266
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: I think that that's really what got them in this instance.

1267
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: Uh this week, m hm, you must have felt we

1268
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: were dan watching this one. I didn't watch it. I

1269
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: was focusing on the Jaguars. I did turn it on

1270
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: at the end. Um. I kind of was coming up

1271
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: from the angle of once I saw the Jaguars laying

1272
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: down like dogs and you know, good luck there, Trevor. Um.

1273
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: I saw that the die had been cast and it

1274
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: just wasn't gonna be meant to be. So it was.

1275
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't like last week where I was, you know,

1276
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: super torn about it and not even torn. I I

1277
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: didn't want the just to win last week, uh that much.

1278
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: I was very torn, But this one was like, Okay,

1279
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: there's some there's some hard here on display, and they

1280
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: do if nothing else, they play hard for gaze and

1281
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: you can't take that away. Uh. It shouldn't be any

1282
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: excuse to keep out of gaze around and that's not

1283
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Every everything you hear is that gaze is

1284
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 1: done as soon as next week's game is over. So

1285
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: now I think the decision with the Jets, with Trevor

1286
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: Lawrence out of the picture, is do you use this

1287
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: this war chest that you have and all these draft picks,

1288
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,440
Speaker 1: uh to build around quarterback? Uh? Not necessarily with Donald

1289
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: as you were, guy, but with the understanding that, um,

1290
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 1: if you prove everything around him, including the head coach,

1291
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: that the team will get better quicker, or do you

1292
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: just restart everywhere? And there's a case to make on

1293
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: both sides. Uh. And that's going to be the narrative

1294
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: around the Jets this offseason. I Mean, here's the thing

1295
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: that the Browns like, this was a disastrous Sunday, um

1296
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: watching them, and it was a disastrous luck you know

1297
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: coming into it. But the Colts lost. You know, the

1298
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: Steelers really helped them out there. Um, that was a

1299
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: massive result for Cleveland. That all they gotta do is

1300
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: winning in against the Steelers who have nothing to play

1301
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: for and very likely I I believe will be will

1302
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: not play their starters throughout that game. We probably won't

1303
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 1: know until the game actually happens, but they've been you know,

1304
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: I just think it could have gone worse. I guess

1305
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: is how I would say, just because of the results

1306
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 1: their tenants five the Jets would have. You know, if

1307
01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: it wasn't for that the zero blitz thing, the Jets

1308
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: of one would have won three out of four. Again,

1309
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams had everyone available last week and

1310
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: they lost to the Jets. You know, the Raiders, we're

1311
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: hoping to make the playoffs. They lost to the Jets.

1312
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: So it's I guess that the way it's going right now,

1313
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: it's not totally shocking without all these players that the

1314
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: Browns didn't find a way to win. You know, if

1315
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: they had won that game, Adam Gays will be putting

1316
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: together a run reminiscent of one former Jets and former

1317
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: Brown's head coach one Eric Mangini, who saved his job

1318
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: with four straight wins to end of season. That would

1319
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 1: be the disaster scenario for dance Jets. Yes, I don't

1320
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: see it happening, but you know, never rule anything out.

1321
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: As a Jets Van Nick Shook, you're a total pro.

1322
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: You are. You're the pipe man. That's what I call

1323
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: you six Man of the Year. Thank you as always,

1324
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: and enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Yeah, no problem,

1325
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: thanks guys. All right, let's move on and check in

1326
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,000
Speaker 1: with the number one seed in the a f C.

1327
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: Thirty nine yard field goal here attempt by Coup. He's

1328
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: only missed one all year, thirty five out of thirty six.

1329
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:58,000
Speaker 1: He's the NFC pro goal kicker. Wisps down, cus kick

1330
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: is up and the kick is bet. It is no good,

1331
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: no good tools all invest one all year? Remember what

1332
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers. He struggled early in his career and thought

1333
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: he would never kick in the NFL again. Young mrs

1334
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: only his second field goal attempt at the season. Mitch

1335
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 1: Holt is w d a f How cool you see

1336
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: what he did there? Not bad? Not bad? Young Waiku

1337
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: had been brilliant this year, but he pushed the thirty

1338
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: nine yarder in the final seconds on Sunday, allowing the

1339
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs to escape with a seventeen fourteen win over the Falcons.

1340
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes salvaged a frustrating afternoon with the go ahead

1341
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 1: touchdown past the Mcole Hardman in the final minutes, but

1342
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: then even then, the case Casey defense was unable to

1343
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: close out the Falcons on offense, uh in the final drive,

1344
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: but then Coup bailed them out. So you know, one

1345
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: of those things, guys, where sometimes it's to be both

1346
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: lucky and good. It seems unfair to the rest of

1347
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have been lucky. A J. Terrell had

1348
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: an interception of the homes you know, which would have

1349
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: been you know, the second one right in the red

1350
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 1: zone in with two minutes left that would have ended

1351
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: the game. He just survived the contact with the ground

1352
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: like that that moment. Again, not saying that everything is

1353
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: about the Browns here, but it is interesting to think

1354
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: about how Week seventeen would be different if if the

1355
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: Falcons win this game, the Steelers would have had a

1356
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 1: chance to play for home field advantage. Now the Chiefs

1357
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: have it. The Chiefs will have the decision whether they

1358
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: want to rest for a couple of weeks or not.

1359
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: But uh, this team is confusing to me because you know,

1360
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: they feel dominant, but they haven't. Um. You know, we

1361
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 1: talked about the desert and uh, I don't know. It's

1362
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: weird because on game debut, like we can just say

1363
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: the point spread, so why can't we hear maybe we

1364
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: can I think probably find there. The Chiefs have not

1365
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: done their job. Put it this way in terms of

1366
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: the desert since they play the Jets in Week eight.

1367
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,520
Speaker 1: That's amazing. So they are the worst team in the

1368
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: NFL against the against the spread right now, depending on

1369
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: where you're going right um, which is which is wild.

1370
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: But it's just a reflection of people expect them to

1371
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: win by two scores and they never do. And the

1372
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: Falcons are always close. Falcons have a game that matters

1373
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 1: next week too against the Bucks, so that's something to watch.

1374
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: But it's weird. It's a weird team. When I have

1375
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: a feeling they'll be able to flip the switch in

1376
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but they never really totally flipped it in

1377
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: the regular season. They do at least overcome mistakes. I mean,

1378
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,960
Speaker 1: this could have gone either way. But and then one

1379
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: or two other games from Mahomes has been gotten to

1380
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: and created some errors. Like they they're powerful enough to

1381
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 1: get through that, so I can consider them incredibly resilient.

1382
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe maybe it's a little bit

1383
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 1: um it just became a little too easy, uh, collectively,

1384
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 1: just to assume the Kansas City would wipe people out

1385
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: and to assume that they had been wiping people out

1386
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: when they actually had not. Um. I probably fell into

1387
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,759
Speaker 1: that trap a little bit of even like if Mahomes

1388
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: throws two bad passes in a row, I'm relatively stunned

1389
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 1: by it because you're just expecting perfection at this point,

1390
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have a couple of games like this

1391
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: and it's still a matter of who do you trust

1392
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 1: the most to go on a three game run. Um,

1393
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: I'd put Baltimore there right now, and I'd put Kansas City.

1394
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,600
Speaker 1: The rest of the teams have issues. Yeah, I'm with you.

1395
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 1: I mean as much as they could be frustrating because

1396
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: from our perspective, especially you after watching them win the

1397
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year and how incredible that run was,

1398
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: with all those comebacks and the point explosions, you expect

1399
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: them to just dominate the opposition. Uh. And then so

1400
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 1: you get on them for these close games and it's

1401
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: seeming like they're getting lucky. But then you look at

1402
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: their fourteen and one that is the most wins in

1403
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: the single season a Chiefs history. Uh, they may not

1404
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: be dominating the way we want them to. And I'm

1405
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 1: sure if you're a Chiefs fan you're you don't like

1406
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: that you're sweating out a game against the Falcons in

1407
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: week sixteen, but you know at the end of the day,

1408
01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: you're getting it done. And if you the only the

1409
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: only way this is an shoe is if you actually

1410
01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: do believe that the way these Chiefs have been playing

1411
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: this last month or so, where it just they seem

1412
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: to turn it on and off and go into little funks,

1413
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: if that's something that is going to follow them into

1414
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: January football, and I just don't see it. And I

1415
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: think a lot of people expect them to essentially flip

1416
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:20,080
Speaker 1: a switch that stays on this time around. But even

1417
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: I say that, but even their playoff run last year,

1418
01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: they went through the funks. So they went down double jig.

1419
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: It's ten ten points, fourteen points, I think, twenty points

1420
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: against Houston something like crazy like that, and it didn't matter.

1421
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: So just enjoy the roller coaster that is the Kansas

1422
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,120
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. I would be worried as a Chiefs fel

1423
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: I don't like the whole rest theme for two weeks,

1424
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 1: which is basically what happened last year too. And you're right,

1425
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 1: they dig dug it. I think it was twenty four

1426
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 1: nothing hole against Houston. UM, I don't like that feeling.

1427
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: Go out and just lace of wood on the Chargers

1428
01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: next week and feel good about it. They're not gonna

1429
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: do it, so you want them to. They're not. That

1430
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: just makes sense, But it probably will come down to

1431
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: they have not in a play for and and part

1432
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: of it is because of Andy Reid's track record. He

1433
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: this happened to him in Philadelphia. Sometimes it's happened in

1434
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: Kansas City that he rests the starters. At this point,

1435
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: most of the NFL rest starters. He was kind of

1436
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 1: ahead of his time. This is the one year where

1437
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 1: if you wanted to make um probably a failed but

1438
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: out there pitch to not get the bye is that

1439
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: the bye week opens up all these avenues for one

1440
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:25,680
Speaker 1: um flunkey to go catch Corona and have half like

1441
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: your team wiped out. It's like I kind of like

1442
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: keeping these teams on a very systematic, robotic schedule. UM,

1443
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 1: and you know, I trust the Chiefs to keep a

1444
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: lin on it, but you never know. Alright, good take Mark.

1445
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:39,680
Speaker 1: That was a little bit of a p s A

1446
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,200
Speaker 1: for I like it made. I think it made a

1447
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: lot of teams think when they hear it all right,

1448
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: we just talked about the best team in the a

1449
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: f C. Now the worst. Wiskey back out of shutter,

1450
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,680
Speaker 1: back on back snap Tramiskey, play fake, gonna roll to

1451
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 1: the near side, Gonna keep it at the five? Why

1452
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: open to the end zone? Touchdown Metro Trabisky touchdown Bears

1453
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: Jeff John They a w BBM Mitch Drabinsky ran for

1454
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 1: a touchdown through for two more bolta veteran Jimmy Graham.

1455
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham and the Bears whipped up on the Jaguars

1456
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:13,879
Speaker 1: to set up a winning in scenario next week against

1457
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:19,519
Speaker 1: the Packers. Uh, you know, I don't know. It's a

1458
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: good job by Chicago. Let me say that first. What

1459
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: they've been able to do the last three weeks, especially

1460
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 1: on offense. Uh, Travisky has gone from laughing stock to

1461
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: a legitimate, you know, solution and a quarterback during this

1462
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 1: stretch of games. And a guy that moves the offense

1463
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: with efficiency, makes plays with his arms and legs. I

1464
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:39,759
Speaker 1: mean he They would have scored maybe a fifty burger

1465
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: in this game if he doesn't exit the game early

1466
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter because it turned into such a

1467
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: grizzly blowout. And it turned into a grizzly blowout because

1468
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: the Jaguars tried to lose this game. Let's not. Let's

1469
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: not you know, even hint that they were trying to

1470
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: win this game. You know, when you start Mike Glennon,

1471
01:12:56,800 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: uh and cite a quarterback competition this week. Doug Marone

1472
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: being a good soldier there. Who knows if they you know,

1473
01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: he's trying to kiss up to the cons to keep

1474
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 1: his job. Who knows. But Glennon was terrible and uh

1475
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: and the Bears, even if Glennon was out and Minshew

1476
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 1: was in, the Bears are going to score a lot

1477
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: of points in this game. So Jacksonville gets what they

1478
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: really wanted in this game. The number one overall pick

1479
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: is now clinched. They should have Trevor Lawrence under center

1480
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 1: next September, barring some type of manning scenario. Oh and

1481
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 1: I would love that. I will love it. You're yeah,

1482
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: you're a little You're a little salty about it. I'm

1483
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: a little salty. I just didn't like the way they

1484
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: went about it. It didn't it didn't. It didn't sit

1485
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: with me the right way the players were trying. I mean,

1486
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,839
Speaker 1: this thing was like ten ten midway through the second

1487
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: and then they know the next time I checked the score,

1488
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 1: it's like thirty four to ten, like five minutes late. Um,

1489
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,600
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. I get, you know, they've had a

1490
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:56,599
Speaker 1: pretty rough ten you know, run here the last fifteen

1491
01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 1: years of Jaguars. Now they get rewarded with trevor Or Lawrence.

1492
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 1: I mean the Bears are I guess, a good you

1493
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: know example of how you can't always count on, you know,

1494
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: a high quarterback to to solve everything. But they do

1495
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 1: have Mitch who just this morning, before before the game started,

1496
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 1: I saw one of my favorite headlines of the year

1497
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter, and it was NFL executives colon like, Bears,

1498
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, should resign Mitchell Robinsky, Like because he's playing

1499
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: so well. Yeah, it's like, maybe don't listen to those

1500
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:31,799
Speaker 1: you know, anonymous NFL executives telling you to sign Mitchell Drabinsky,

1501
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: Like how transparent is this? Like, hey, by the way,

1502
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,960
Speaker 1: your competition really thinks you need to stein mit Mitchell Robinsky.

1503
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 1: Now that's room that threw me too. And uh, I mean,

1504
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,600
Speaker 1: if anything, it's good for Mitch Drabinsky and and you know,

1505
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: for I've critiqued the Bears because I am not into Um,

1506
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: I like good defense, but I'm not in a team

1507
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: that like they're trying to you know, win games. You know,

1508
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:58,160
Speaker 1: with the offense consistently scoring seventeen points. This is the

1509
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: first Bears team to score thirty LUs in four straight

1510
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: games since the sixties. Um, So what's what's not to

1511
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 1: like right now? If you want to talk about who's

1512
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: going to get in? This team is as exciting to

1513
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: me as the Arizona Cardinals on some level. So it's

1514
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: like my critique of the Bears was more like, Bears fans,

1515
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: don't you want an offense that's productive? And I I

1516
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: would just, um completely ignore questions about what to do

1517
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,639
Speaker 1: with the quarterback and the coaches and all that business

1518
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,400
Speaker 1: for another day. If I'm the Bears, I wouldn't let

1519
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 1: the Bears general manager make these decisions to start with.

1520
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: I would like, I would like to see how the

1521
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: Bears do when they're actually playing a half decent team.

1522
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 1: Their three wins, which by the way, followed a six

1523
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: game losing streak or against the dead ass Texans, the

1524
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: dead ass Vikings, the dead ass Jaguars, and the Packers,

1525
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: I believe will have something to play for next week, right, Greg,

1526
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see um, but that is that's

1527
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,639
Speaker 1: a pretty cushy schedule to get yourself back on track

1528
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: in eight and seven. Not taking anything away from them,

1529
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: but it should be stated that they have not been

1530
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:08,720
Speaker 1: beating up on elite defenses. Yeah, I'm happy that the

1531
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna have home field advantage to play for

1532
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 1: UM in in week seventeen because I really don't like

1533
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: it when playoff spots and we've seen it plenty of

1534
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: times get decided UH on teams resting their starters. So

1535
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 1: the Packers will have plenty to play for and and

1536
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,519
Speaker 1: that's good because the Bears will have to earn their

1537
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: way in now. They could potentially lose that game the Bears,

1538
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 1: that is, and if the Rams take care of business

1539
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, the Bears still get in, so they

1540
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: have some they have some wiggle room, and UH, Bears

1541
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: Saints is about as likely as a playoff matchup we

1542
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: can There's almost like no likely playoff matchups. Everything is

1543
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: so up in the air, But Bears or Cardinals at

1544
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: Saints sounds like a very possible wild card to seven matchup.

1545
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: I just want to see Mitch throw for three yards

1546
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns and run for another next week, and

1547
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: then play great in in a heartbreaking playoff loss that's

1548
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 1: not his fault, and then just be like, hey, Bears,

1549
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: figure it out now, Yeah, it's in play potentially here.

1550
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:11,720
Speaker 1: This is another thing that we joked about two months ago,

1551
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:15,640
Speaker 1: and now it is a very strict in real possibility.

1552
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 1: So knowing their ownership, I think Naggie saved his job

1553
01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: no matter what happens. Strabiski, I don't know what's going

1554
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 1: to happen, but I would be surprised if Naggy losing.

1555
01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 1: Naggi saved his job by giving away the thing that

1556
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: he claimed to be his special trait, which is play calling.

1557
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: So that should give you pause. But I think you're

1558
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: right that if they make the playoffs, I don't think

1559
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,680
Speaker 1: there'd be much debate there. Hey, Ricky, set the clock on.

1560
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: These last two games were in the corn fields now

1561
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: with Denver and the Los Angeles Chargers locked the pass,

1562
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,760
Speaker 1: they rushed three Setsuski climbs the pocket now and he

1563
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: left this fly. It's gonna be short of the end zone.

1564
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: It looks like spotted Mike Williams with the interception. There

1565
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 1: you go, big Mike, get yourself one more reception in

1566
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: the game. The game is over the charge or win.

1567
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: Heck of a reception by Mike Pick Williams from Drew

1568
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: Lock to end it. Matt money Smith, Boy, I'm a

1569
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: call k Y s R. And am happy Matt money

1570
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 1: Smith because he got to call a nice, clean play

1571
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:20,360
Speaker 1: to end the game. No questions, no reviews, no drama.

1572
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,760
Speaker 1: It's just over Drew Locks. Hail Mary head went unanswered,

1573
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert broke Baker Mayfield's rookie touchdown record and

1574
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: the Chargers nineteen sixteen win over the Broncos. That's three

1575
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: straight wins for Los Angeles. Mark Uh, you know, good

1576
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,760
Speaker 1: for them, Yeah, good, good for them. And you know,

1577
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:41,879
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert also crossed four thousand yards, so an awesome

1578
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: year for him. I will say this game got um

1579
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:48,480
Speaker 1: like all the others, quite chargery because it was sixteen

1580
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:52,640
Speaker 1: to three Los Angeles seconds into the fourth quarter, and

1581
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: during all this they allowed the Broncos to score on

1582
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:56,960
Speaker 1: four straight drives. This was a Broncos team that had

1583
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards passing at the half um and it

1584
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: created this final drama. But the lock um drive at

1585
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 1: the end there, which which ended in the Mike Williams

1586
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:10,760
Speaker 1: interception in the end zone. It started with him um

1587
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 1: missing with Jerry Judy on a on a big pass

1588
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,640
Speaker 1: down field, and then in the one driving narrative of

1589
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: this game, beyond two teams that are essentially staring at

1590
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:22,320
Speaker 1: the offseason, you want seventeen regular season games, you want

1591
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:24,839
Speaker 1: more of this, go get it for yourselves next season, NFL.

1592
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: But Jerry Judy fifteen targets, and I really liked him

1593
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: this year at times six catches for sixty one yards

1594
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: and five drops. I mean, I think that honestly was

1595
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: the difference in this game. He had a couple of

1596
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 1: big opportunities and they just lot. You know, you get

1597
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback that comes in there, and I point to

1598
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert where everyone around him becomes better and these

1599
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,080
Speaker 1: guys that have been not been making plays start making plays.

1600
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 1: Um today, he did that with a couple of people,

1601
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: even without Keenan Allen in the lineup, and Drew Lock

1602
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: just does not seem to be that guy. And so they,

1603
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, they spent the whole second half of this

1604
01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 1: asking the same questions we do about Locked. The gonna

1605
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 1: be you know asking for months into the off season.

1606
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 1: And that's all I gotta say about this game. If

1607
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: you want to say something for three seconds, say it. Wow.

1608
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: Marks setting the table. He took the whole two minutes.

1609
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I wasn't attempting to do that.

1610
01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: He set the table. He ate, He cleared the table.

1611
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: Let's move on, Sam hut right into the hands of Marcus.

1612
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: That's an interception for the Bengals. As Hubbard got to

1613
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: the right side of Watson poked the ball out of

1614
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: his arm. Watson is hurt and the ball fluttered right

1615
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: to Margus Hunt for the pick. All right, let's try

1616
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: this again, dan Ford w c k Y with a call.

1617
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: Tell me if you heard this one before. The Texans

1618
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: were driving for the go ed score in the final

1619
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 1: minutes when insert tragedy here, this time Shaun Watson sacked

1620
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:51,559
Speaker 1: by Sam Hubbard, forced to fumble Margaret's Hunt. The greatest

1621
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,280
Speaker 1: Stodian recovered. The Bengals added a field go after that

1622
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 1: thirty one they win. They beat the Texans that since

1623
01:20:58,080 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 1: his first road win a two year Sessler. Yeah, um,

1624
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: quick nugget on this one. Watson seems to be okay.

1625
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: According to James Palmer, um that he's you know that

1626
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 1: the injury at the end, he looked like he was

1627
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:11,679
Speaker 1: in pain, should be okay, this is a Texans team.

1628
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Bears going up against him. Brandon Allen

1629
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 1: through for three hundred and seventy one yards and was

1630
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: not stacked, So that kind of should tell you all

1631
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: you need to do. I came out thinking like, yeah,

1632
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:23,519
Speaker 1: for the Bengals, Zach Taylor, I thought, put together a

1633
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: really good game plan, but you are playing the um

1634
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: one of the worst past defenses I've ever seen in

1635
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,839
Speaker 1: my life. They the Bengals had five and forty yards.

1636
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 1: I thought Brandon Allen actually played well against the Cowboys,

1637
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: which is a crazy thought, but they kept turning it over.

1638
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: That wasn't related to Brandon Allen. I don't think he's

1639
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: the worst backup in the league anyways. I do think

1640
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: these games I always find them interesting, how they change

1641
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 1: what's like huge decisions even though they're meaningless. If you know,

1642
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 1: we know Zach Taylor is not getting fired there if

1643
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: there was any chance of that, the last couple of

1644
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:57,959
Speaker 1: weeks got rid of that. UM we found out Fangio

1645
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 1: is not getting fired today. Um our Network and ESPN

1646
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: reported that, which which is interesting. Um, and uh, you

1647
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: think about who who did who did fand you and

1648
01:22:08,400 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: I think Anthony Lynne Anthony Lynn. I know we're not

1649
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: on that game, but like I think he may avoid

1650
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: getting fired because of these because what does it mean

1651
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: for Tom Talasco, who's already fired a couple of coaches.

1652
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,600
Speaker 1: Does he go with them? The Chargers just might be

1653
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: like too lazy to do it? And uh, these games

1654
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 1: that really don't mean anything. A lot of times like

1655
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,560
Speaker 1: changed the next couple of years. Well, I've watched the

1656
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:29,759
Speaker 1: Chargers this year. All I could think of is bring

1657
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 1: back Anthony. Isn't Yeah, it isn't that terrible that like

1658
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:35,679
Speaker 1: we're making it happens so often, but it's the most

1659
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: perilous way to make a huge decision. Well, it's also

1660
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: it's also about different organizations, you know, like the Chargers.

1661
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't want to spend the money

1662
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: or started it all over, you know. And a shout

1663
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: out to David Johnson season high and rushing yards, scrimmage yards,

1664
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: touchdowns and it's his first one yard games since week

1665
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: A lot in two. Thousen that trade was worth it

1666
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: to Sunday Night for Ball Sunday Night play Action Rogers

1667
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 1: looking for his fourth touch that flash of the night

1668
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 1: ditch its welcome back Al Michael's at the call for NBC,

1669
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers locked up the two thousand twenty m v

1670
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: P Award with another big showing four touchdowns, three to

1671
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. Unbelievable the year those two have had. Uh

1672
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 1: what a fearsome pair of pairing at fourteen win for

1673
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 1: the Packers over the Titans, a blowout for Green Bay

1674
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: winch one step closer to the number one seed in

1675
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:45,920
Speaker 1: the NFC. Mark Sessler, the Titans, you know, their defense

1676
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: has been their achilles heel all season. They just weren't

1677
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:51,720
Speaker 1: up to the task at snowy lambeau Field. Yeah. I

1678
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting to hear Chris Collinsworth note that

1679
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: Matt lafleur Um, who you know, I think we like

1680
01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 1: on the show. But we've taken we take a little

1681
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: throw a few little arrows at him with his boy

1682
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: with a beard scenario. He's not a boy anymore. But

1683
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 1: he talked about the fact that he Um felt like

1684
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: they could open up the playbook, can use plays that

1685
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:14,040
Speaker 1: they wouldn't use in other situations against other teams, UM,

1686
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 1: basically because of Tennessee's pass rush. And this was just

1687
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 1: the kind of game where I thought, Um, the Titans

1688
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: are not totally built to win this kind of um

1689
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: situation in the snow. I know everyone thinks it's just

1690
01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, but so much of their offense because they

1691
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 1: are more balanced than I think that the perception is

1692
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: around them. Um that the play action passed, the boot pass,

1693
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff got removed early. And then

1694
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 1: you have, um, the Packers running uh you know, rough

1695
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 1: shot over over the Titans defense. And I just think

1696
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: that when they can run the ball this way, it

1697
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 1: sets up Aaron Rodgers for glory and they looked unstoppable tonight.

1698
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: You have. It builds my belief and who they can be. H.

1699
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of ways that Titans can win.

1700
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: But if Tannehill throws two in or exceptions, uh and

1701
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: goes eleven for twenty one yard, it's not gonna happen.

1702
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 1: Like if this is all the Packers need, but you know,

1703
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: to get that sort of defensive performance. But they could

1704
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:11,599
Speaker 1: have played this game all night and the Titans would

1705
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: have gotten anywhere near Aaron Rodgers. I mean, almost anyone

1706
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 1: could play quarterback. Rogers was good. But the amazing thing

1707
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: is so many of great Rogers is greatest games this year.

1708
01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:23,559
Speaker 1: He hasn't had to make like Wold plays. There weren't

1709
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: a ton of wild plays tonight. Like they didn't need to.

1710
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: They just moved the ball up and down the field.

1711
01:25:27,240 --> 01:25:31,600
Speaker 1: Guys were wide open. It's just such a professional offense,

1712
01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: the way they go about their business. Yeah, thirty seven

1713
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: carries two and thirty four yards, two touchdowns. A J. A. J.

1714
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:41,360
Speaker 1: Dillon went off for one, Aaron Jones went off for

1715
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 1: ninety four UM and it really should have been about

1716
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: sixty four, but Mike Brabel did not toss his red

1717
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: flag on that run. That's set up a Packers. I

1718
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:53,680
Speaker 1: mean that just that was really the Titans night in

1719
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: a nutshell. They were just a step slow and just

1720
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: not all the way there. Chris Collins was said something

1721
01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: a little bit unfair. I thought, at the end of

1722
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 1: the know that the Titans are type of team here

1723
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: that weren't ready for playing in these type of conditions.

1724
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 1: I don't think the Titans should be labeled that way.

1725
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:11,599
Speaker 1: I think they showed that they were a tough team

1726
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:16,000
Speaker 1: last January. But on the flip side of that, this

1727
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: defense is going to get them beat at some point

1728
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: in January. I just don't. I think that's just one

1729
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: of those things where I look at all these teams, Well,

1730
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: if they even get there, I shouldn't. I shouldn't assume

1731
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:28,080
Speaker 1: they beat the Texans next week to make the playoffs.

1732
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: Anything can happen. But this defense week after week and

1733
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 1: these big matchups against contenders. Remember we saw it with

1734
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 1: the Browns a couple of weeks ago, even a total

1735
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:41,720
Speaker 1: destruction of their day. So when Ryan Tannehill doesn't have it,

1736
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,639
Speaker 1: and there's been a few weeks where he hasn't this year,

1737
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 1: he's had a really nice year, Uh, there's no coming back.

1738
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: This happens. Well, it's like and and honestly, I look

1739
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,960
Speaker 1: at the Houston game in Week seventeen, and Houston's offense

1740
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 1: when they want to be it can be super frisky.

1741
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: And I don't love that for Tennessee. I mean, if

1742
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: you you know you do that, and this is a

1743
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,679
Speaker 1: smart thing to do. Greg does the worst position group

1744
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:06,879
Speaker 1: or best position group in a game. And the Titans

1745
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,280
Speaker 1: defense just has not impacted quarterbacks all year long. So

1746
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: I think you know, you look, you could go chart

1747
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 1: a couple of Titans games were certain offenses that need

1748
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:18,839
Speaker 1: to get off the humper, like quarterbacks that needed to shine,

1749
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 1: had some of their best games against Tennessee. Because they're unaffected,

1750
01:27:22,800 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: they're not badgered in those games. That would concern me. Right,

1751
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 1: So then you then I not even play. I mean,

1752
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:32,639
Speaker 1: if the Texans beat them, everyone go home. The Texans

1753
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: can't beat the Bengals. The Texans, you know, they've been

1754
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: somewhat competitive, but not overly lately that it's just we

1755
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: don't even know if Watson's gonna play. But yeah, you're right,

1756
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 1: they do win the division the Titans if they win

1757
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: this game. I do push back a little and like

1758
01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: Collins or, I think he holds a lot of sway

1759
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:52,640
Speaker 1: because a lot of AP voters are just kind of

1760
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: like tuning in right now. It's like he said, the

1761
01:27:55,320 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: m v P race is over. Don't tell me it's over.

1762
01:27:57,400 --> 01:27:59,439
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, there's a big week left

1763
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:03,560
Speaker 1: for this Packers team, Like that's a significant part of

1764
01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:05,640
Speaker 1: the sample. And and I don't think it's like some

1765
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 1: huge difference between Mahomes and Rogers. I think Mahomes will

1766
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: even if the season ended today, would get some votes.

1767
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: And they're both gonna play next week. If if Rogers

1768
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: like had a stink bomb, you know that that that's

1769
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: part of it. Um. I don't think it's over. And

1770
01:28:19,320 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 1: when I remember this season, it's crazy. I think I'll

1771
01:28:21,479 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: remember Davante Adams just as much because we have We've

1772
01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 1: always talked about like, oh, Adams is one of the best,

1773
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: the very best receivers in league. But this is the

1774
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,439
Speaker 1: year to me where he is the the the guy.

1775
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 1: And because he missed a couple of games, the numbers

1776
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,720
Speaker 1: aren't quite as crazy. He's still won ten for over

1777
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 1: right now. But man, he has just been dominant and

1778
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:43,559
Speaker 1: tonight was another dominant night. And on the flip side,

1779
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:45,880
Speaker 1: like you like it, it feels like game after game

1780
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:48,639
Speaker 1: you're watching a J. Brown limp off the field. He's

1781
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: been dealing with a lot healthwise. Corey Davis didn't show

1782
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 1: up tonight. This just was not Tennessee's evening. It doesn't

1783
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: really lower my opinion of what they can do if

1784
01:28:57,280 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 1: they're on, but they're just a insided team to me.

1785
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: And but there's the a f C has a lot

1786
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:06,200
Speaker 1: of this going on. So I don't know what will

1787
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:08,840
Speaker 1: happen obviously, that's why they keep doing this. Otherwise, I

1788
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: tell you right now what will happen. There you go,

1789
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: and then personal milestone watch. Derrick Henry finished just under

1790
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:18,599
Speaker 1: a hundred yards in this game. He needed to get

1791
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:20,559
Speaker 1: about a hundred and fifty to stay on pace for

1792
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:22,920
Speaker 1: two thousands. So now he would need an absolute monster

1793
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 1: game against Houston next week to do it. But you

1794
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: know what, don't put it past Derrick Henry, especially against

1795
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: the Texans defense. Uh, and Greg you are You're good

1796
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:34,839
Speaker 1: with this stuff, so I'll see it up. The Packers

1797
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,479
Speaker 1: have the number one seed locked up. If they win

1798
01:29:39,080 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: next week, they are the number one seed in the NFC,

1799
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:43,720
Speaker 1: they get the bye and the NFC playoffs go through

1800
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. But two other teams can get that by

1801
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: as well. How does it happen? Well, yeah, original Steve Correy,

1802
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:58,040
Speaker 1: Cornaki Karnaki, baby, yeah you could be Corneck. Well, if

1803
01:29:58,080 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: it's a three way tie, the Saints can get in,

1804
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 1: which so the Saints are not out of it yet.

1805
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:09,120
Speaker 1: They have that um that game next week because shoot, now,

1806
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: I forget who did the Saints play off the top

1807
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 1: of my head. Bad job the Panthers. The Panthers uh,

1808
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 1: and then uh the Seahawks Uh still haven't out have

1809
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 1: a chance to because they would win the tiebreak over

1810
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:25,280
Speaker 1: the Packers. If the Packers lost the Seahawks one and

1811
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:28,519
Speaker 1: the Saints lost, then the Seahawks still have a chance

1812
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:30,760
Speaker 1: at field advantage. So it's nice that, like all these

1813
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: teams have something to play for. And I think people

1814
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 1: are gonna be frustrated. I don't know if you're gonna

1815
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 1: get to this about the Sunday night game. I know

1816
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: Mark's not happy about this. Feels corporate, like very corporate.

1817
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 1: What do they what was the announcement? So it's the

1818
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:49,679
Speaker 1: Washington football team versus the Eagles and get out of here. So,

1819
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:52,320
Speaker 1: you know, the more I thought about it, because I

1820
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 1: always try to guess these things, and I had a

1821
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: flaw in my guests, which was was Rams Cardinals. They're

1822
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 1: in a tough spot. They can't pick a game that

1823
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 1: has a potential to be dead. And they also can't

1824
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:07,880
Speaker 1: or at least shouldn't, and I think they don't pick

1825
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:11,480
Speaker 1: game that could change competitive that could be a competitive

1826
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 1: disadvantage of a team making the playoffs. And I'm pretty

1827
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:18,639
Speaker 1: sure that eliminated every single game except for Washington Eagles.

1828
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:21,120
Speaker 1: If you pick any other game possibly on the slate,

1829
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:24,639
Speaker 1: it either could not matter at all um for both teams,

1830
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: or it could not matter for one of the two teams,

1831
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 1: and they would have rested all their starters. Like let's

1832
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: say the Packers or the Rams if they knew they

1833
01:31:30,280 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 1: were in before they got to Sunday football, then they

1834
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:35,519
Speaker 1: rest their starters and suddenly the Cardinals, for instance, make

1835
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs just because they got to play on Sunday night.

1836
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:41,479
Speaker 1: But it sucks. It's about a third rule. You have

1837
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:44,599
Speaker 1: to eliminate the game that could feature Tyler Heineke started.

1838
01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: That's very fair. I would rather roll the dice with

1839
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:53,800
Speaker 1: a game that could be great or have compelling storylines

1840
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 1: and good quarterbacks involved, than lock yourself into, you know,

1841
01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:00,839
Speaker 1: the worst division in the history of the fessional football

1842
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 1: limping to the finish. I don't know. I understand both

1843
01:32:04,240 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: sides of it. I know what you're saying. I do

1844
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:10,679
Speaker 1: think they did not want the chance of putting um

1845
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph and Myles Garrett back in prime time. Well right,

1846
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: or well, it's not so much that is just they

1847
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to deliver a team. They don't

1848
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:22,200
Speaker 1: want to deliver a team to the playoffs. For instance,

1849
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 1: let's say they put the Bears Packers in there, and

1850
01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:26,960
Speaker 1: the Bears knew they didn't have to to play, then

1851
01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 1: you know it's a dead game. Or you know they

1852
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 1: could have had the Rams sitting everyone, and suddenly the

1853
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 1: Cardinals make the playoffs because of that. It's a tough

1854
01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 1: spot and the same thing could have happened with almost

1855
01:32:37,040 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 1: every a f C team, So I know a lot

1856
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:41,720
Speaker 1: of options. I will say for us, it's bad luck

1857
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: for us if the Dallas Cowboys make the playoffs and

1858
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns do not. I my personal UM rule

1859
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,599
Speaker 1: to myself is that I will follow no human rules

1860
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:55,720
Speaker 1: through the entire off season, UM, be them personal or societal.

1861
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 1: I do not follow any rules at that point that

1862
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 1: to me tells me everything is broke and down to

1863
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: such a degree that, UM, I'm not interested in what

1864
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:08,400
Speaker 1: else thinks or does total spiral scenario on deck for Cessler.

1865
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:10,960
Speaker 1: Let's hope it doesn't play out that way. I have

1866
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:15,200
Speaker 1: to say that, UM, I don't know Mike Tomlin, but

1867
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 1: I followed his coaching career and I know what the

1868
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: Steelers what they just came out of that horrid funk?

1869
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 1: Am I certain that Mike Tomlin was not gonna say, no,

1870
01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:27,360
Speaker 1: we gotta keep grinding, we want to go into playoff

1871
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,360
Speaker 1: sealing strong? Does he really want to bench his entire

1872
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 1: offense when they just came to life after they went

1873
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: into that deep slump. I want to I want to

1874
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,040
Speaker 1: bank on the Steelers rest in people. I don't. The

1875
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: only thing is they had no boy and that was

1876
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 1: such a sticking point with the roster. As I mean,

1877
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:44,559
Speaker 1: I understand a sound of gray, wonder if it's press

1878
01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 1: certain people but not others. But that's the one team

1879
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:49,840
Speaker 1: that I thought how to legit beef with how they

1880
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: were moved around left and right and lost the week

1881
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 1: off which every other team has. So do you use

1882
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,240
Speaker 1: it for that reason? But do your point Dan, like

1883
01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: I mean, have they earned a week off to go

1884
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 1: sit in street close watching backups toil? No, they might

1885
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: want to stick it to the Browns to you know,

1886
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 1: his division ride might one who I'm sure they I'm

1887
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: sure they would love to, you know, open up with

1888
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: that little beautiful nightcap. Two things, Jared Goff, there are

1889
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 1: reports out there that that thumb injury that he suffered

1890
01:34:16,439 --> 01:34:19,759
Speaker 1: in the second half of today's loss is a broken thumb,

1891
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 1: which puts his status for Week seventeen very much in doubt.

1892
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:27,439
Speaker 1: With the Rams potentially needing a win to get to

1893
01:34:27,479 --> 01:34:30,759
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the backup quarterback of the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Rams is John Wolford. People about that never taking a

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Speaker 1: snap in the NFL. Now you know he's He's had

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Speaker 1: some fun ones. In the preseason. Ian Rapport did the

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Speaker 1: weird thing where he said teammates are made, some fun made,

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Speaker 1: some fun place where I was like, Wow, John Wolford,

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised, um and uh Ian Rappaport. Ian Rappaport said,

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Speaker 1: like his teammates have been really like excited, you know,

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Speaker 1: about what he's doing in practice. It's just almost like

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Speaker 1: you don't even pass that along. That's the first agent

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Speaker 1: asking for a favorite. What's happening here? No, I mean

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Speaker 1: I was more getting wondering, like, is this the first

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Speaker 1: little bread comes of Wolford comes in here, has a

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Speaker 1: decent game, gets them to the playoffs, and we've got

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Speaker 1: the golf golf controversy all offseason. I tried to call

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Speaker 1: it the golf troversy. Right off the bat, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I like it. I like I like that to hold

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Speaker 1: my breath on that one. Um And finally we talked

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Speaker 1: about Christmas at the top of the show. And I

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Speaker 1: want to say a big shout out to Stephen over

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Speaker 1: at Stew's Wood. You know, some people think that Stew's

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Speaker 1: Wood the wood craftsman who does incredible work and has

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Speaker 1: done stuff for the show, including crafting um our Lock

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Speaker 1: of the Week title one year, and I know he's

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Speaker 1: done projects for Chris Westling. Uh it's Stew's Wood is

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Speaker 1: the company, but his name is Stephen and uh. I

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Speaker 1: reached out to Steven and asked him to put together

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Speaker 1: charcooterie board is what they call it for My wife

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Speaker 1: was asking for that, and you know, he did great work.

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Speaker 1: As you look at the craftsmanship there, it's nice. Do

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Speaker 1: you put on that just like cheese and crackers and

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Speaker 1: stuff just things that you don't like cheese, crackers, things

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Speaker 1: like that. But I'm just asking that's the main purpose

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Speaker 1: of it. So shout out to Stephen over at Stew's

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Speaker 1: Wood and Stewswood dot com. Check out his website. Also

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Speaker 1: on the Graham and Twitter. So thanks to anybody else

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Speaker 1: have anything that I would request that Steven build me

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Speaker 1: a second house in l A out of wood. Can

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Speaker 1: he does he have time for that? A tinder box?

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Speaker 1: All right, Steven, reach out to Mark and maybe you

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Speaker 1: can make that happen for him. All right? The week

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Speaker 1: ahead Tuesday Show, Get excited. No Thursday Night football, that's over.

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Speaker 1: In fact, next Sunday's show. Every team plays on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: so a monster Sunday show. And that will also of

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Speaker 1: course decide the playoffs. So yes, we are here now

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Speaker 1: that we're heading towards the season finale, the regular season finale.

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Speaker 1: I look at it like a television show. So's you

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Speaker 1: can't miss this week on the Around the NFL podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody, uh for listening. And until then,

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Speaker 1: this is Dan Hansons signing off for a quiet storm

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Speaker 1: the Old Boss, Ricky Hollywood and Nick Shook the pipe

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Speaker 1: Man until Tuesday m