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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is about to blow your mind.

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by

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

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Speaker 1: Patra and Greg Rosatal. What's up, boys? Hey? Dan? Oh Greg?

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Speaker 1: Here we are. Why do I have to be the focus? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Why do you have to be the focus? Because we

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Speaker 1: are all living on your throne of ease right now

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Speaker 1: as the Cherubs circle. You never has has the nectar?

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Speaker 1: Mark tasted this sweet after maybe the definitive Patriots victory

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Speaker 1: in the Bill Belichick Tom Brady era, a thirty four

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Speaker 1: overtime when uh, the biggest comeback in the history of

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, the biggest comeback in the history of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots period, a game that was twenty eight to

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Speaker 1: three midway through the third quarter. Greg, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: would be the good talent to retire as a fan

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Speaker 1: because it will never get better than this. Five rings. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm done. I'm retiring. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: a little it was almost too much retired to the

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Speaker 1: third quarter. By the way, we should all be flying

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Speaker 1: high here. You know, I know you maybe a rooting

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Speaker 1: different rooting interests here, but we all love football. It's

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Speaker 1: one forty in the morning. We're all a little loopy.

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Speaker 1: And if you like football even a little bit, or

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Speaker 1: if you like sports even a little bit, to watch

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest if not, you know, I would

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Speaker 1: say the greatest ever to do it, to make a

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Speaker 1: twenty five point comeback in the Super Bowl and witness

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Speaker 1: that live. I mean, we we were all writing our stories.

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Speaker 1: We everyone thought the game was over. It was almost

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Speaker 1: like the beginning of the comeback snuck up on on

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Speaker 1: us at the stadium, because you know, we're in we're

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Speaker 1: in work mode. We're almost in postgame mode at that

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Speaker 1: point when when it's three, when it's nine. Absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: mean we were discussing back with our editors in l

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Speaker 1: a story ideas. I was about seven hundred words into

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Speaker 1: a feature about how the Patriots defense had utterly collapsed

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Speaker 1: against the Falcons, but then they started to make one

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Speaker 1: big play and one big stop, and then a turnover happened.

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Speaker 1: I thought, this story is crumbling before my eyes. By

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Speaker 1: the way, this mark you've been You're the king of

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Speaker 1: pre writing things. Yeah, sometimes it leads to you getting

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Speaker 1: a little angry in the newsroom during the season. Can

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Speaker 1: this be? Can this Super Bowl fifty one collapse for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons be the thing that finally gets you off

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Speaker 1: writing stories in the middle of a game. Well, as

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Speaker 1: is often the case, I was assigned this story, so

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Speaker 1: I thought, I'm gonna get this thing in before deadline.

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Speaker 1: But it is a fair point. I am never going

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Speaker 1: to write again before something is that you know the

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Speaker 1: game is done. Tonight was the lesson Wes. You carry

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Speaker 1: that water up and down the hill for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: So this has to be sweet for you as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: It is because I am I am a huge fan

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Speaker 1: of people who are great at their jobs, and Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick is the greatest coach in the most sophisticated era

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Speaker 1: of football. Tom Brady. Look at the numbers. He is

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Speaker 1: the only quarterback in history to have over five record

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Speaker 1: in games in which he's throwing the ball fifty or

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Speaker 1: more times, and he's eighteen and nine in those games.

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Speaker 1: No one else's even close. He's also got easily the

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Speaker 1: best record in games in which his defense has allowed

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Speaker 1: twenty one or more points. I think he's put so

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Speaker 1: much distance between himself and any other quarterback now what

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Speaker 1: do you think, Patrick, Yes, we have a microphone in

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Speaker 1: situation here now we're west sharing with Patra, so Patrick

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Speaker 1: But really, Patrick, where are you in the camp to

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people are now myself included, even

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Speaker 1: as it pains me to say it that this stamps Brady,

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Speaker 1: even if you kind of were on the fence before

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Speaker 1: a fifth title. Uh, he's gonna have all the individual

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Speaker 1: the nature by which he pulled it off this time

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Speaker 1: the best. I was already in the camp that he

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Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't get you know, puffed up as

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Speaker 1: out there that wants to create the clickbait offseason article

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Speaker 1: two me because for the second Super Bowl show in

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Speaker 1: This is what he looks, very self satisfied moment. I'm

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Speaker 1: being honest. Let's see what Tom Brady had to say

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Speaker 1: But Brady's thoughts on the comeback. Coach talks about you

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Speaker 1: never know which play it's gonna be in the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and every single thing they failed to execute West And

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Speaker 1: So many plays in this game, whether it was getting

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Speaker 1: I don't go to that territory. A lot of things

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Speaker 1: They're not a bad Falcons team, but they will go

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Speaker 1: But there aren't the you know, I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: you said it on the way back. We're taking a

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Speaker 1: M uh sports talk in Houston that you almost have

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Speaker 1: Like I said, thirty four and uh and and Greg

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Speaker 1: getting to the point I was practically giving up, but

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Speaker 1: you asked me, I need to scale the peace scale

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Speaker 1: to you, Greg, in case you don't know, listen, you

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Speaker 1: just won the fifth super Bowl. You can't explain the

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Speaker 1: pie scale. Give me something, Greg. One, your pants are dry.

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Speaker 1: You win your nice suit that your wife got you

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Speaker 1: and she said you look handsome in it, and she

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Speaker 1: wants you to have that suit for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Five got in Tokyo. I'm in trouble. Let's get a

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Speaker 1: little soggy down there. Ten. Excuse me, wife, I need

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Speaker 1: a new suit. Excuse me, wife. So you were are

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Speaker 1: a man not confident in pronouncing my wife Emmaica's name? Cop? Alright,

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Speaker 1: So alright, what we're gonna say? Uh? Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: probably about an eight. I mean I was. I was

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Speaker 1: like Mark, I had about I had about seven, well

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Speaker 1: over nine for the record, Yeah, you know this is half.

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Speaker 1: You know, I will say, you could go check your

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Speaker 1: slack channel. You uh you asked me at halftime, Dan

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Speaker 1: think they have a comeback in them? I'm not, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I asked that I would never count them out.

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Speaker 1: What did I say? You said the same thing. Now

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Speaker 1: you said you're not counting them out either. No, I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: And so anyway, I was getting a lot of that,

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Speaker 1: a lot of hashtag comments, and by the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, you can guess what happened, it all came

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Speaker 1: back the other way for like an hour and a half.

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Speaker 1: So my my timeline was an absolute disaster of hashtags.

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Speaker 1: Uh so everybody had fun. I guess you know, you

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Speaker 1: come just a little annoyed by it. I could you

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Speaker 1: come at the King, you know best not miss you

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Speaker 1: can come with Tom Brady. You gotta be right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: has been four minutes into the show. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: That was totally unnecessary, you know. Anyway, here we are

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Speaker 1: twenty one three in the third quarter. Um, and you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: even more bad news. The Falcons get the ball in

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Speaker 1: the third quarter there, you know, Billy boys favorite little

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Speaker 1: trick of getting the ball last in the first half

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Speaker 1: and then getting the ball again. He doesn't get to

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Speaker 1: do that. And the third quarter. What happens. The Patriots

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Speaker 1: get a stop and they're a little bit pumped up, Greg,

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Speaker 1: aren't they? Little Dante Hi Tower Love. Sure, I thought

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Speaker 1: that would be a big moment, and yet it didn't

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Speaker 1: matter at all. Patriots, you know, blew it right. The

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Speaker 1: next possession right, and then the Falcons take the ball over,

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Speaker 1: take take it over. And with a thirty one to play,

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Speaker 1: they marched eight plays eighty five yards over four minutes,

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Speaker 1: and at the eight thirty one mark, now almost midway

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Speaker 1: through the third quarter, Matt Matt Ryan throws his second

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Speaker 1: and final touchdown pass of the game. Jones lined up

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Speaker 1: here to the left Butch. Look right, Ryan gonna throw

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Speaker 1: Here's Coleman at the five. He'll beat Nikovets to the ends.

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Speaker 1: All touched out Atlanta. There's too many weapons. Last they

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Speaker 1: got too many guys to pay attention to. To be clear,

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Speaker 1: this is when I started to write feverishly on this

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Speaker 1: article that no human This was the moment I will

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Speaker 1: post one of the third qu I'll post this on

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Speaker 1: a on a website that I've yet to launch, but

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Speaker 1: this article. But this is when I thought everything that

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Speaker 1: we thought about Atlanta's offense that we had been talking

489
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Speaker 1: about for months was materializing. It was tangible, it was real,

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Speaker 1: and the foul and the Patriots were the latest defense

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Speaker 1: that couldn't hang with it. Taylor Gabriel had just got

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Speaker 1: done embarrassing Malcolm Butler on Broke tell you should have

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Speaker 1: held on to him. Mark Well, I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how many different networks and broadcasts need to educate

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Speaker 1: us to the fact that he was once on the Browns.

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Speaker 1: We get it, Thank you. Another classic mistake by the

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Speaker 1: Browns organization accepted and for all the podcast fan fans.

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Speaker 1: The eight part Browns and Jets off season preview starts Thursday. Thursday,

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Speaker 1: on that uh. First week, the first episode is a

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Speaker 1: big breakdown on John Morton, the new offensive coordinator of

501
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Speaker 1: the Jets, and more of an analysis. Is he Johnny Morton?

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Speaker 1: Is he older Johnny Morton that dropped the n why

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Speaker 1: or excuse me? I E? I believe it was? Is

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Speaker 1: that right, Patrick E? Or is it a different person?

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Speaker 1: That is? The first episode will do an hour on

506
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Speaker 1: that and what does the Falcon's collapse mean for Browns

507
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Speaker 1: coach Hugh Jackson? So make sure you stay too. It's

508
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Speaker 1: the off season. You know the Pods, they get fun

509
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Speaker 1: when the off season comes. But so so so here

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Speaker 1: we are soree and that's outrageous. There's there have been

511
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Speaker 1: more than a ten point come back. People start spacing

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Speaker 1: a little bit now, like we were talking about before

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Speaker 1: the started. Now everyone is starting to process, Okay, the

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Speaker 1: Falcons whip the Patriots, alright, how what From our job standpoint,

515
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Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out how we're gonna cover it

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Speaker 1: and twitter the game. It's everyone's kind of moved on

517
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Speaker 1: from whether or not this is who's gonna win this game,

518
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Speaker 1: and it's more into having fun with the Patriots demise

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Speaker 1: and also talking about where the Falcons are historically, Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's where we were. I think the mood in the

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Speaker 1: building and the mood on Twitter was everybody was ready

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Speaker 1: to be an expert and say I told you all

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Speaker 1: that the Patriots just aren't athletic enough or fast enough

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Speaker 1: to hang with this Falcons team. There's a tweet that

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Speaker 1: alb Albert Brier had he spoke to an a FC

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Speaker 1: executive and you know scouch talk. He's like the team

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Speaker 1: in red his head and shoulders better in talent than

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Speaker 1: the team in white. Absolutely, and in the building, which

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Speaker 1: early on it was a Patriots crowd all week long

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Speaker 1: in Houston, it's been heavy Patriots, but you could feel

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta mob in their started pretty good. They absolutely

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Speaker 1: were good, and they were they were about to they

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Speaker 1: were beginning to celebrate something that they had never felt

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Speaker 1: as Atlanta Falcons fans. And then it started to turn well,

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Speaker 1: I want I want to point out, you know, on

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Speaker 1: the next Patriots possession. You know, you know Brady mentioned

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Speaker 1: there's thirty plays you could point out, and the first

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Speaker 1: one you have to start with in the lowest moment

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Speaker 1: on ESPN's little you know, what's the percentage that you

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Speaker 1: win this game? I know you're sick of it. The

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Speaker 1: lowest that the Patriots ever got was point three percent.

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Speaker 1: That was the moment. I could be wrong here because

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Speaker 1: off my memory after Julian Edelman through a pass on

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Speaker 1: third and three on their own side of the field.

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Speaker 1: And I know, I know, it seems obvious that you

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Speaker 1: go for it on fourth and three down three in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I don't know if every team goes

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Speaker 1: for it. I just don't. I think coaches are just

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Speaker 1: so wired into their normal way of thinking. They think, well,

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Speaker 1: the game's over if if we don't get it, and

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Speaker 1: and I don't think Belichick even thought twice about it.

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Speaker 1: He goes for it on fourth and three. They hit

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Speaker 1: Amondola on a great throw for seventeen yards, and that's

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Speaker 1: one of those plays. If you don't get those three yards,

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Speaker 1: there's no way they come back and win. That is

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Speaker 1: your point that Bill Belichick is a talented coach. It's

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Speaker 1: a good guy like him. Hey, one a side here, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm in bad job with the Browns and Teller Gabriel,

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Speaker 1: but also bad job of you once again, Mr f

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one podcast, The Old Zeusler forgets it

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Speaker 1: off the top. I need you to jump into the

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Speaker 1: top of the show and remind me, well, I was

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Speaker 1: saving it for a special moment to be honest, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's do it right now. Now that now that we've

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Speaker 1: but uh, we love you, Mr F. Anything else you'd

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Speaker 1: like to add? Wes, Why would Mark lie to our

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Speaker 1: audience like this? Mark never? I don't know if Marx

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Speaker 1: ever lied. He's like the time, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: about a bold faced lie. And there is a difference.

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Speaker 1: This felt more like a lie. Though this was not

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Speaker 1: a lie, was alternative preparing it in my mind and

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Speaker 1: you know it. It has now been unleashed on the listener. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So thank you Mr F for all you do. And

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Speaker 1: if you if you are interested in the economics of

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Speaker 1: and there you go. Mr Flame's economics class will will

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Speaker 1: treat you right. All right, now back to the game. Listen,

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Speaker 1: what time is it? It's damn two twelve in the morning.

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Speaker 1: You can't do everything right. The Patriots comeback starts now, uh,

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Speaker 1: and it starts at of course, as the Patriots take

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Speaker 1: the ball late in the third quarter, march thirteen plays

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Speaker 1: and Greg, this is what you were getting at now

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Speaker 1: Now it starts to really build here thirteen plays, seventy

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Speaker 1: five yards in six minutes twenty five seconds. And it's

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Speaker 1: a amazing how many more plays the Patriots ran. If

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Speaker 1: somebody could look that up compared to the Falcons, it's

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Speaker 1: like a historic split. Anyway, that is the number, Greg,

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Speaker 1: Is that the first time it's been stated on the show?

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Speaker 1: This is like, what was it? What was the thing

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Speaker 1: we kept repeating the other week? No, I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: Not asked me to remember things from the other week.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's two fourteen in the morning. Anyway, So

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00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: they march all the way down the field and they

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Speaker 1: finally finally get uh in the end zone for the

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Speaker 1: first time all game. And Uh, the man that gets

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Speaker 1: in is James White. But then Gastowski misses the extra

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Speaker 1: point and that's a little familiar joinking it off the upright,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, So you settle for twenty eight nine? Uh,

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Speaker 1: with where were we at this point two or six

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Speaker 1: to play in the third quarter did the whole fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter ads the Patriots were making their comeback. The biggest

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Speaker 1: pit in my stomach was that the Patriots season could

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Speaker 1: end for the second straight season because got Kowski missed

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Speaker 1: the extra point and they and they were chasing it

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Speaker 1: the whole time, and and now I think every every

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00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: Patriots fan was probably thinking that once it got to

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Speaker 1: the point where they had to get to two point conversion,

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Speaker 1: because because Belichick push us for this rule. I love

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Speaker 1: the rule. But then it comes back to bite him

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Speaker 1: because his kicker has been missing extra point all right,

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Speaker 1: which takes us to the next Atlanta possession, three and out.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons go backwards actually negative fifteen yards. Patriots take

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Speaker 1: over and here we go again. Here we go again.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Falcons getting uh starting the defense

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Speaker 1: starting entire twelve place seventy two yards. This time they

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Speaker 1: keep him out of the end zone though, um and

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Speaker 1: after there was an onside kick attempt, I believe after

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Speaker 1: the first touchdown and like, am I correct or? I

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Speaker 1: have the timing right there? Yes, that's when they went

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Speaker 1: backwards fifteen yards, so they didn't even get they didn't

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Speaker 1: they pick up, they start the ball at the forty

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Speaker 1: one and the greatest offense in the NFL, and this

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Speaker 1: really starts what was a miserable fourth quarter for them.

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Speaker 1: Four possessions, none of them went more than six plays

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Speaker 1: to three and ounce and this one they went backwards.

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Speaker 1: It was yeah, and what felt to me it felt

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Speaker 1: like a desperate move by Belichick, but not necessarily the

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Speaker 1: wrong move, the one that facing the Falcons, knowing that

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Speaker 1: you need to start piling up some points. And when

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Speaker 1: it backgards, it's another moment. It's like, oh, this is

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Speaker 1: cute that they they tried this, but this game is

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00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: still feels over at this point when the onside kick

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Speaker 1: is recovered by the Falcons. Well, that's the thing because

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Speaker 1: the Patriots took eleven and a half minutes to get

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Speaker 1: those ten points on offense, So it didn't it kind

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Speaker 1: of felt like they were playing into the Falcon's hands.

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Speaker 1: It didn't feel like they were, you know, making this

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Speaker 1: fast comeback at this point that even when it was nine,

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Speaker 1: it's not like it felt like it was much of

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00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: a game. So it's and they need to Yeah, the

644
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: time's ticking away now, but then they need a break

645
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: and they get it. They make their own break because uh,

646
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan drops back to pass or he's actually in

647
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: the shotgun. This is another play that surprised me. On

648
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: third and one. Uh, perfect situation where a couple of

649
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: first downs burns off a good amount of clock time

650
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: and put you in a good situation. But they dropped

651
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: back the pass on third and one, and disaster strikes

652
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: for the Falcons. Ryan waits on the staff and the

653
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: staggered stance. He'll take it backs up. Uplitzer coming and

654
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: high power gets to the quarterback, follows most you can't

655
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: Friot's sackings and recovering up the putty far helln Branch

656
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: comes away with the football fours on a fumble by

657
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: Crian off a sack by high Tower. By the way,

658
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: this is our first of many calls from Bob Socy

659
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: and Scott Zolac of w BZ is gonna go flying

660
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: a little bit? Oh absolutely, he doesn't even know what's coming.

661
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: But if that Legarrett Blunt fumble in the first half

662
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: felt like the you know, turning point of doom for

663
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots. This was the absolute lost opportunity for the Falcons.

664
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: You could have played it safe here, You could have

665
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: gotten a field goal instead that you get this this this,

666
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: this strip sack happens and you can feel the game turning.

667
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 1: The stadium itself started to change, the Patriots fans getting

668
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: back into this, and you started to wonder, this thing

669
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: is changing entirely. That was the believe moment for Patriots,

670
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: and they they allowed themselves to give themselves over to

671
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots at that point in the game. Dante Dante

672
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: High Tower is gonna go down with Patriots fans as

673
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: making you know, two of the biggest plays in Super

674
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: Bowl history that will probably be overshadowed in Super Bowl history.

675
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: He's the guy that winds up tackling Marshawn Lynch at

676
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: the goal line to set up Malcolm Butler. And he's

677
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 1: the guy who who forces this fumble from Matt Ryan

678
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: and it might be the last, you know, big play

679
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: he makes as a New England Patriot's gonna be a

680
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: free agent like a lot of these guys, and uh,

681
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, nine key free agents for this team and

682
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: and some of them are gonna get paid huge. Yeah,

683
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: that's that's what. There's a lot of Bellowship Check disciples

684
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: running other front offices now, too, right, and they'll sign

685
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: eight players out of Rutgers and go right back to

686
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So not little problems here. And what

687
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: happens now you really start to see the strain that's

688
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: being put on the Atlanta defense as they start to

689
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: break because after that fumble, uh, they need just five

690
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: plays to go twenty five yards. The Patriots do and

691
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: just to twenty eight o'clock time. And now with five

692
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: five fifty six remaining in the fourth quarter, Tom Brady

693
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: drops back to pass, looking to pull the paths closer.

694
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Tom takes the step, backs up, looks left, throws it

695
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: for us Pats. Pats will go for two five fifty

696
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: six to go. Here on the fourth Brady realigns at

697
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: him an in short motion strect step to James White.

698
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: What's up the middle for two? Brady faking guess a

699
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: high step, but the full directly fit to one. She's

700
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: just way forward. It's a game. How long will we

701
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 1: seen that play being used in the Patriots playbook that

702
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: goes back to Kevin Falk and they use that in

703
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? I believe was it a two point

704
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: conversion in the Super Bowl back in the day. I

705
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: can't remember at the top of my head. Either way,

706
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: they they've they've been using. It was kind of cool

707
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: for them to go back to that at that moment.

708
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: Think about it again again when you think about what

709
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: needed to happen for the Patriots to get this game

710
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: to overtime. And by the way, Mark, yes, sir, congratulations,

711
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: Chop Chop when at the all time go get my

712
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: lunch prop victories. You predicted. You might have predicted this

713
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: last year, but that doesn't matter. You predicted that the

714
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: first overtime Super Bowl game would occur on February seventeen,

715
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: and you nailed it. My friend. Let me tell you

716
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: one thing that is disgraceful is that I that has

717
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: got to be for me the most ugly and eat well. No.

718
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: I also said the game would have no winner. But

719
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: in terms of a realist bet calling over time that

720
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: all I had were you two measly people in here.

721
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: I'm only getting two sandwiches out of it. Well, I

722
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: normally could have gotten probably Sydney on board with that

723
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: if we were back in the studio. I mean, what

724
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: a joke, A real victim of timing. You are, yes,

725
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: I am, but you don't like sandwiches. So at the

726
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: end of the day, well is more than that. Well,

727
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: it's too bad because Mark and I are leaving the

728
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: hotel somewhere around five six in the morning, about three

729
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: three and a half hours from now, and when we

730
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: get to the airport, breakfast sandwich, AHOI, Mark, whatever you like?

731
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: A breakfast sandwich is about the last thing I want

732
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: to put in my body right now. But thank you.

733
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: It's not called go get my breakfast. That's right, that's

734
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: not It's hard to have a high oct He was

735
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: the one who said sandwich at the can I say

736
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: one thing about the Falcons defense at this point because

737
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: I was watching this game through binoculars, and all right,

738
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: I know that sounded ridiculous, but I was at some

739
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: point they were so listen to my binoculars wisdom, everybody listen.

740
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: I'll just say this that at this point, watching them

741
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: in between plays, they were all kind of in their

742
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: position but not looking at each other really or communicating much.

743
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: They I think they were frozen, and they had been.

744
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: And then you start to realize we're playing the Patriots

745
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: and they've been here a thousand times before and we

746
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: have not. Vick Beasley said he thought, I don't know

747
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: what this means. He said, he thought that, you know,

748
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: Brady kind of figured out their game plan and just

749
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: started getting rid of the ball quickly. I don't know

750
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: what that means, because that's not necessarily true. There were

751
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: some deep drops in that in that comeback, but whatever

752
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: it was, they stopped geting getting pressure on them. So

753
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: here we were. Now we're late in the fourth quarter,

754
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: Atlanta now holding on, but still in good position. I mean,

755
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: all the those silly probability win charts are probably soaring

756
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: still in the favor of the Falcons with an eight

757
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: point lead, because not only do you have the ball

758
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: with under three minutes to go, uh you even if

759
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: you give you a touch give up a touchdown, and

760
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: you could still get out of this with a win

761
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: if you get to stop on the two point conversion.

762
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: And this is what I thought to myself. All right,

763
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, you just got named league m v P.

764
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: Take your team on the field, matriculate, get a couple

765
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: of first downs, and we all go home. You don't

766
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: even you don't even have to go We don't have

767
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: to go crazy here. Just get down the field and

768
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: win this game. Don't let your defense have to get

769
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: on the field in a situation where Tom Brady can

770
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: tie the game. You can't let it happen. It starts

771
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: off very well actually because on the first play the

772
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: Patriots and West this was and they had an excellent

773
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: fourth quarter in defense, but this was a bad coverage

774
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: of US because Freeman gets all by himself in the

775
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: flat uh and takes it thirty nine yards to midfield.

776
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: And the first play of the game, and once again

777
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: you start to feel you feel like, all right, this

778
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 1: is the Falcons game. So even at this point after

779
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: that play, you're feeling like this is probably at Lanta's day,

780
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: still commanding Uh, DeVonta Freeman, like you said, wide open.

781
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: It was among the most wide open players you'll see

782
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Goes thirty nine yards and they're

783
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: they're all ready back in scoring range in one play.

784
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: And and this this was the point Logan Ryan Uh

785
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: set it in the press conference after the game. He

786
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: he said they were essentially playing the Madden coverage like

787
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: when you're on punt block, that they're going all out.

788
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: That that Logan Ryan's taking one guy, Malcolm Butler has

789
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: taken another. They're dublin, you know, they're they're putting those

790
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: guys on an island. They changed their coverage up. They

791
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: went to Matt Patricia asked for them to change and

792
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: they're trying to get aggressive. So it's kind of a

793
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: boomer or bust strategy that they're playing at the end

794
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: of the game. Uh. And obviously they stepped up with

795
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: it alright. So then they have a short run for

796
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: two yards and then again and this is another situation

797
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: you added to the list. When it looks like the

798
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: Falcons have made the play to win the Super Bowl

799
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: and the Patriots will get close, but no closer, Matt

800
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: Ryan drops back and drops a beautiful pass just over

801
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: the outstrated stretched arms of a defender into the hands

802
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: of Julio Julian Julio Jones. Guys, it's to the morning

803
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: who toe taps on the sideline and seven yard game,

804
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: which means it is now first in ten at the

805
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: New England twenty two with four forty two play in

806
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,479
Speaker 1: an eight point lead. This game is all but over.

807
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: About that, Julio Jones catch just pause a moment to

808
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: appreciate that that's his Lynn Swan play that in the

809
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: future when they put him in Canton, they're running that

810
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: play over and over again. It's on all the top

811
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: ten lists for catches, And at this point, I think

812
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: Julio Jones has been an injury prone guy, but I

813
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: think these playoffs playing through what he did and the

814
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: performances he had, He's in the Hall of Fame now,

815
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: barring some catastrophic injury. Well how about this, I'll just

816
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: counter Julio Jones four eight seven in this game, targeted

817
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: four times. And you could give the Patriots a lot

818
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: of credit for finding ways to make Ryan met Ryan

819
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: look off, but four targets in the Super Bowl, maybe

820
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: they're double and then even triple teaming him in And

821
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: think about how hard I can They only threw the

822
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: ball so nobody could cover them. I can't think. I

823
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: can't think of the fourth, fourth catch. But three of

824
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: those catches were outrageous where he wasn't open at all,

825
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: two of them on the sidelines, one where he rips

826
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: the ball away from the defender early in the game.

827
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he deserved better. And you know when Logan

828
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: Ryan said after the game, you know all the writers

829
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: were deleting their their articles and everything. That was the

830
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: lead of a lot of their articles was that play.

831
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: That that was that was the play. It was like

832
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: the It was the Julio Jones and Matt Ryan make

833
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: make their their hay play. Translation, that was the lead

834
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: of Greg's how dare you? How dare you? All right?

835
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: And now and you know is going to keep stopped writing.

836
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: Then that's how you know it's true. That's how you know. Again, Greg,

837
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: that one hurt you, that pierced you a little bit,

838
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: nothing's hurting me right now? All right, this is when

839
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: the agg commences in full. Now, this is where they go.

840
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: The Falcons go full choke mode and uh shout out

841
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: look listen, Greg, I'm not saying this to be a jerk.

842
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: It just we gotta keep it real here. This will

843
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: go down in history because, like I said, first and

844
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: ten at the two field goal, game over, and you

845
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: have DeVante Freeman who was chewing up the Patriots early

846
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: in the game. In my mind, uh and take this

847
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: from somebody used to have a herm ed Words as

848
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: a head coach. So maybe this is instilled in me

849
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: a little bit. Get a little safe, run the ball

850
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: three times, choose some clock, make the Patriots use time outs.

851
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: Maybe you get a touchdown, maybe you get five yards,

852
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 1: maybe get no yards, but you're still lining up one

853
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: of the best kickers in the league this season for

854
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: a very makeable under forty yard kick. But what happens?

855
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: One run, negative one yard? Gate? How about Gate? How

856
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: about gate by that plan game? Three yards on that

857
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: first run, then maybe then you get a second don't

858
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: lose the yard? Well, obviously I mean execution, execution, but

859
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: now don't go away from the plan, I guess is

860
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Uh, if you trust your your offensive

861
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: line and your backfield, try it again. Instead, they dropped

862
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: mac Ryan into shotgun and he makes the biggest mistake

863
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: of his career. He takes a sack, losing twelve yards.

864
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,479
Speaker 1: Mr Flowers, Flowers you want to make Flowers today takes

865
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: him down and all of a sudden, uh, where a

866
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: situation third and twenty three at the New England thirty

867
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: five And now you're thinking, WHOA, they really jacked this

868
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: up because they're gonna put be in a position potentially

869
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: where they have to decide whether they want Matt Ryan

870
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: to attempt a fifty yard field goal depending on how

871
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: this next play turns out, and ended up getting even worse.

872
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: I have a hard time with the play. Cara called

873
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: criticism here. I saw it everywhere, and it's completely hindsight.

874
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody was questioning them. Right after DeVonta

875
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Freeman was wide open for thirty nine yards, Julio Jones

876
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: makes a great catch. They're humming. They've been doing this

877
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: all year. I don't think anybody in the moment was saying,

878
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: oh God, why are why aren't they running it? It

879
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: wasn't until I got I was. I'm just saying, even

880
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: before Ryan got sacked, you was. I was surprised he

881
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: was in shotgun. After that, they weren't gaining They didn't

882
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: run the ball ton down the stretch, but they weren't

883
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: gaining yards when they did run it. That was. That

884
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: was a play where they had a little time before

885
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: the play. Trey Flowers basically put his hand up said

886
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:20,959
Speaker 1: I want to be the guy who goes on a stunt.

887
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: They were gonna call a stunt Alan Branch. It's kind

888
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: of been the story of this this team. They've had

889
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: good interior defensive tackles. We talked about it on the

890
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: show on Thursday. Branch occupies two guys, he gets through

891
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: to me. It was just a great play and a

892
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: mistake by Matt Ryan kind of running into it. Trey

893
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: Flowers had five quarterback hits and two and a half sacks.

894
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean that's a that's a much better game than

895
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: some guys who have won Super Bowl m v P,

896
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: like Malcolm Smith. Trey Flowers was the best play. This

897
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: guy played one game as a fourth round pick as

898
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: a rookie. He was the best defensive player on a

899
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion this week eight. I mean, yeah, he

900
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: came on big time. That's a Michael Bennett game. Um

901
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: so now it goes in bad. Let me set the

902
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: table again here. So now it's three fifty uh to

903
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: play in the fourth quarter. Uh. New England has just

904
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: called the time out, so they have two time outs

905
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: to play. And then disaster strikes again for the Falcons

906
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: who are not executing when it matters most. Matt Ryan

907
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: dropped that connects with most a new for a nine

908
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: yard game. That puts him back at the twenty six

909
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: and back into say field goal range. But no, Jake

910
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: Matthews gets hit with the biggest holding call of his

911
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: life ten yards uh enforced at the thirty five, and

912
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: now it's a third and thirty three at the New

913
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: England forty five with three forty four to play. So

914
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: let's say it again. It went from first and ten

915
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: at the New England twenty two in a situation where

916
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: you play for a field goal and you win the

917
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, to third and thirty three at the forty five.

918
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: And then Matt Ryan, who heading it late in the

919
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Mark had a perfect passer rating. Uh So

920
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: that just gives you an idea how great he was

921
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: despite not having a lot of snaps. He sales went

922
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: out of bounds trying to get it to Gabriel and

923
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: it's fourth and thirty three punt by Bosher and the

924
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: Patriots take over deep in their own territory. I think

925
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: it's fair to go back to what Greg just said

926
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: a word he used execution, because a number of Patriots

927
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: players used that same exact word after the game that

928
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: they acknowledged that they weren't doing that in the first half,

929
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: but they have so much experience doing that, and the

930
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: Falcons started to crumble. You saw killer penalties, weird decision making.

931
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you on the play calling, Chris. They are

932
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: who they are, and they they trust themselves, but they

933
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: did not get these plays made at the most critical

934
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: times tonight, and you saw the Patriots that this is

935
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: just their Patriots are at home in this situation. I'm

936
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: not saying the Falcons are prone to this, but they

937
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: did give up a almost impossible lead that earlier in

938
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: the season at home to San Diego, so there was

939
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: some there was some history there, and then the Patriots

940
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: logan I talked about, look we've come back. It reminded

941
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: me a lot of went back twenty four and nothing

942
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: against the Broncos. If nothing else, you have to believe

943
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: the cliches of all the defensive players that that said,

944
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: we believe the whole time we could still win because

945
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: they played that well. I wrote a piece after that

946
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: exact same thing that they all this stuff that the

947
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: Patriots say year after year, and it's easily ripped on

948
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: and people find it kind of ridiculous and mechanical and robotic,

949
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: except that they buy into it. And here's the thing,

950
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: it actually produces results. So there is something to be

951
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: said for do your job and all this is because

952
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: it happens. They really went into the locker room at

953
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: halftime and believed that if they got back on track,

954
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: they could win this thing. Every player downstairs said that

955
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: after this game, I tweeted right before they got the

956
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: ball back here, I thought you could feel the buzz

957
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: and the stadium at this point that every Patriots fan

958
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: knew Brady was gonna get it done if they could

959
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: just get the ball back to them down one score,

960
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: and what happens ten plays yards and along the way,

961
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, one of the most famous plays in Patriots history,

962
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: shot that staff to pretty stands and throws download for

963
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: Adam Ball's chip time be for as all for in

964
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: front of the receiver adamant has itt? Did he make

965
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: the catch? Who got How do we describe that? Kevin

966
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: patra that play ridiculous, stupid, shouldn't be happening by physics.

967
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I think what uh West called it the

968
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: ankle catch, which I told him we need to come

969
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: up with a better word for that because it can't

970
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: be known as the ankle catch forever and ever. This

971
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: sounds like he caught it with his ankles, but he

972
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: caught it off somebody else's ankle. Like that's the screaming

973
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: headline in any other game, like this game was so insane,

974
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a little while for it to set in.

975
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: I think for for everyone that watches football, like that

976
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: that play alone would have been the biggest story in

977
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: any super I don't even think we wrote a story

978
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: on that play, you know what I mean, because it

979
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: was one of a million different things that happened. You

980
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: said at the time, you knew it. You said, that's

981
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: that's the Tyree curse thing. And you don't have to

982
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: be a Patriots fan to evoke those two names. It's

983
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: and it's the same thing that happened against um the

984
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: Patriots with Malcolm Butler right before the big interception with

985
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: Chris Matthews. Was it curse er excuse me, a similarly

986
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: circus freak catch that got lost in the in the

987
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: lost into the ether because how the game turned out

988
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: this but the receivers were awesome, by the way, I mean,

989
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,240
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a flute play, although

990
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: great after play Edelman, Hogan, Mitchell, they came back to

991
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: the ball and we're making really tough catches for Brady

992
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: in the second executed insanely well. After the game, Matthew

993
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: Slater went on a riff and he was very humble

994
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: and thankful. I think he Belichick loves Matthew Slater, but

995
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: he basically said that all week long they heard everyone

996
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: talking about their receiving corps versus the Falcons at the

997
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: page it's a sieming corps, just a bunch of Jags,

998
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: he's you know, but they struggled in the first half.

999
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: He said, Basically, the Jags got it done. I know

1000
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: you don't like to hear that day. No, it's like

1001
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: who they disrespecting the Patriots wide receivers. They have a

1002
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: nice group. Maybe they do it, maybe a job of

1003
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: putting that chip on their shoulder when it's not actually there.

1004
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: I think Mark's right that they took a lot from that,

1005
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: but I think it's completely manufactured. I was in Falcon's

1006
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 1: camp all week and they you could tell they legitimately

1007
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: respect the Patriots receivers. How about Danny Amendola only shows

1008
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: up for Super Bowls lately? This guy is like, well

1009
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: that's a nice uh. He's like the Scott Brocious of

1010
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots. It's incredible. If you can get to the

1011
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: nineteenth game of the season or whatever, he will thrive

1012
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: for you. You know, the Yankees Patriots, you know, they

1013
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: share a lot of DNA greg whether you like it

1014
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: or not. They used to, they used to. Why not anymore?

1015
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 1: Let's get into some Yankees. Tal Yankees aren't the Cubs.

1016
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: Dan oh, I see, I got it? Um okay, So

1017
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: here we go. Now, this is when it's over, by

1018
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: the way, as as someone that was divorced from the proceedings,

1019
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: and the game's over at this point once that catches made,

1020
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: the magic is in the air, and you know the

1021
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna win the game. It's just a matter

1022
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: of time of it playing out. So what happens. I

1023
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: wish I knew that at the time, well, because you

1024
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: were emotionally like when you're on the roller coaster. But

1025
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: first and ten at the forty one, twenty yards to

1026
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: a Mandola two minute warning. And now it gets crazy

1027
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: because Atlanta used up their time outs. So it gets

1028
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 1: to the point where where you think, oh, the Patriots

1029
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 1: would be trying to fight the clock, uh to get

1030
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: into the end zone to tie the game. But now

1031
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: it's a situation where they they're smarter to kind of

1032
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: take their time so Atlanta doesn't have any time left

1033
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: if the Patriots manages tie the game, and that's exactly

1034
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: what happens. After the two minute warning, they get it

1035
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta eight, they get it to the Atlanta one,

1036
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: and then James White. We've heard this name before and

1037
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear it again. Uh punches it in, Brady,

1038
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,919
Speaker 1: We'll move under setter White behind him, at him into

1039
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: the right, Betett to the right. Brady surveys the defense,

1040
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: Tom takes the step. He backs up, hands at the

1041
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: White hats as drying with them. Two. It's Super Bowl.

1042
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: It's amazing how this team is never ted. The dead

1043
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: may never die. James White, I'm so I want to

1044
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: apologize for anything bad I ever said about James White

1045
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I did not believe it is really

1046
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: outrageous that James White lad the game in yards from

1047
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: scrimmage in one of the best Super Bowls of all

1048
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: time fourteen catches a hundred ten yards, and that they

1049
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: chose for him to be the guy in this game

1050
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: that surprised me. He scored three t d s and

1051
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: a two point conversion with the game on the line,

1052
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: and he had the game winning set a record for reception.

1053
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: But were we not halftime one dreams? Where is Dion Lewis?

1054
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: One of the most explosive players in the entire a

1055
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: f C barely used in this game. Well, Pats fans

1056
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: blame James White for them losing to the Broncos last

1057
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: year for a couple of drops that if they had

1058
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: a Louis they would have thought they would have won

1059
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: that game. And then here you are a year later. Well,

1060
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: if you want to be a Patriots homer, here he

1061
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: is a good example of their coaching staff, you know,

1062
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: coaching players up because he was really was not a

1063
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: good NFL player. I don't think he was. The tape

1064
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: showed that he wasn't a very good player, That's what

1065
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And then he gets to his third year,

1066
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: he had a really good year. This year he was

1067
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: a different, different player. And then it all comes together

1068
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: in this spot. And again, none of this, this beautiful

1069
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: little comeback story matters if Atlantic could just find a

1070
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: way to get a stop on the two point conversion.

1071
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: And yet another failure, and this one was an other

1072
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: one that was in the stars because once you saw

1073
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 1: the Patriots wide uh it was empty backfield, and you

1074
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: saw I think it was Edelman and Avendola on the

1075
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: left side. They're gonna do that little thing where the

1076
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: guy in the slot like juts out and it always works.

1077
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: And what happens they run the play seven seconds to

1078
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: go a two for the tide, trips to the luck

1079
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: Brandy under shut it, Tom picks and stuff, quick throw

1080
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: to amadol screens, luft a flag is he reaches across

1081
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: the cold side for a score. There is a pen

1082
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: ofy marker on the plays. Its damn suns for everybody.

1083
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: What are you looking at that beetle? I can't believe

1084
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: it about him yelling at he is high fiving fellow

1085
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: broadcasting technicians in the booth, completely nude at this point.

1086
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: There are no clothes on Scott Zolak at this point.

1087
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that play has never not worked in the

1088
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: history of the page. And they should just run that

1089
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: place seventy times a week. And yet you know you

1090
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: asked about peace scale earlier. That play was about my

1091
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: peak peace scale because they just well right, I just

1092
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: had I was worried that during the whole comeback that

1093
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: it would be this great thing all leading to them

1094
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: failing on a two point conversion. It would just be

1095
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 1: this wet fart the game AFC title game last year

1096
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 1: a similar score, I believe too. Or they almost came

1097
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: back but couldn't get the two point conversion, and you

1098
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: know they got pressure on Brady and that play in

1099
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: Denver to win the AFC title, and that was something

1100
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: they were so gassed at this point in Atlanta that

1101
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: Brady was back to being what he had been for

1102
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: a lot of the season all day in the pocket,

1103
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: completely comfortable and just picking apart the secondary. I think

1104
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: at that point we looked at each other, or maybe

1105
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: it was even before then, and we said, he's in

1106
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: the zone, he's dialing in, and he is a cool

1107
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: blooded assassin. Yeah. That those were your exact words that.

1108
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: A couple of drives before that, you said that when

1109
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: on his touchdown drives and now and now the Falcons

1110
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: just need to be put down at this point because

1111
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: you know they still have second to play. They don't

1112
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: have any time outs. Uh, but something you would think

1113
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: an offense that we've been putting in the in the

1114
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: class of the all time greats, they can do something

1115
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: with fifty four seconds. Great offenses have done uh more

1116
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: with less time than that. To be quite honest with you,

1117
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: they've done it with that right season long. They've scored.

1118
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan got his nickname from doing this about three

1119
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: times his rookie year, getting the ball with about a

1120
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: minute laft and setting up a field goal, and he

1121
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: did it against the Packers right earlier this year. I

1122
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: think he did it a few times, you're right, did

1123
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks in the playoffs a couple of years ago.

1124
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: But they don't get help on special teams because Eric

1125
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: weims he might have been at the pub, I think, uh,

1126
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: watching Gaga because he he catches the ball near the

1127
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: goal line, and again maybe he was kind of close

1128
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: where he couldn't tell if he could kneel on it.

1129
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: He kind of stumbles towards the sideline, goes out abound

1130
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: at the eleven. So now they have terrible field possession

1131
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: position and they lost five seconds of clock time. And

1132
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: then Ryan again cannot move the offense. He gets a

1133
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: twelve yard games so new that a four yard game

1134
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: to Austin Hopper that kills them because the clock ticks

1135
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: on them and they spiked the ball. And then a

1136
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: incomplete deepass again to Hooper with flowers and coverage. It

1137
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: was ruled incomplete even though it was nearly an interception.

1138
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: And then a punt which sends us to overtime mark

1139
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: which then that's when you were flying high because you

1140
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: just made some Sangwiches. Well, you talked about your mentions.

1141
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: I haven't even gotten to mind. And I appreciate it's

1142
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: you know, uh, podcast listeners and zero point zero point

1143
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: one percent very confused other people, but they I, you know,

1144
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: this very unlikely thing happened in in my Twitter feed

1145
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 1: just exploded. We were so overdue. We went fifty straight

1146
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowls without a single overtime game. This is the

1147
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: season where I believe there were three straight Sunday night

1148
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: overtime games. It was gonna happen, and it happened and

1149
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: made Mark some Sangwiches. You want to kill the Falcons coaches,

1150
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: in hindsight, kill them for not having any time outs there.

1151
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: That is a killer. I mean, I'd have to go back.

1152
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: I need to go back. This is where the blur

1153
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: of the moment and look at why all those time

1154
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: outs happened. But the Patriots had all three, which is

1155
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: one reason why, uh they I don't think milk the

1156
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: clock at the very end, because they could have maybe

1157
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: even gotten the ball back even if they didn't get

1158
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: the two point conversion, and the Falcons had none of it.

1159
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: And at that point, I think the fact that at

1160
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: that point, I think the game, like you said, almost

1161
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: was over because if it got to overtime. I think

1162
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense, if they lose the coin toss, they're

1163
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: flying at that point, Logan Ryan Logan, Ryan said that

1164
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: they weren't. I said, well, you know, what were you feeling?

1165
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: Then he said, we were looking for our Malcolm Malcolm

1166
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: Butler moment. We wanted to pick him off and win

1167
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: the game on our own. That's what that's what we're thinking.

1168
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: So now you need a little luck. If you're the Falcons,

1169
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: maybe maybe win the coin toss, and somehow you write things,

1170
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: because what if you get If you get a uh,

1171
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: lose the coin toss, you know the defense is cooked.

1172
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: They've they've you don't even you can't even really get

1173
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: on them because they've been on the field for so much.

1174
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: What happens the Pats win the toss. Of course, they

1175
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: take the ball. I shouldn't say, of course, because last

1176
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: year they won the toss in overtime against the Jets

1177
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: and elected to kick off story for a different would

1178
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: of course, with a coin toss, it's very much a

1179
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: thing of chance. They went one for two tonight. So

1180
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: they take the ball, and what happens let's go home,

1181
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 1: guess eight place, seventy five yards. And it was never

1182
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: even in doubt. I'm looking at this. They never even

1183
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: got to third down. I would think about that. They

1184
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: go right down the field, they go six yards, fourteen yards,

1185
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: eighteen yards, They get a three yard loss on a

1186
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: screen fifteen yards, ten yards a p I call? Was

1187
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: that a good call? I didn't. I was kind of

1188
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: checking out emotionally. Okay, it was fine, Mark, Yeah, it

1189
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 1: certainly was not. No, it wasn't when they when I

1190
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: saw that call, because that's almost like ends the Super

1191
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: Bowl type of call. I was really hoping it was.

1192
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: It was a good call. It was a fine call.

1193
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't. It could have been a no call, but

1194
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: it was a good call. And now it's just a

1195
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: matter of time. First and goal of the two. It

1196
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: gets a little dicey because Brady drops back to pass

1197
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: targets Martell's Martel's Bennett Vic Beasley gets his hand on

1198
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: the ball, unable to make an interception, but stops it.

1199
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: They give it to James White on second and goal

1200
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: from the two, and oh my god, the Patriots cap

1201
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: an amazing comeback second and goal to go from the two.

1202
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: Toss me White for James. White cuts it up in

1203
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: the red art, cuts it up fields driving forward, not

1204
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: a title. They have completed the greatest comeback in Super

1205
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: Bowl history? What by the greatest quarterback? Look at city

1206
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl and NFL Adam James and a silver trophy.

1207
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: It's coming back to New England. Zo like at that

1208
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: point jumped out of the press box onto the field.

1209
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 1: You just swan dived onto the field. Uh, Sydney, I'm

1210
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: gonna you know it pains me, but let's put that

1211
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: into the discussion for the top ten calls of the year.

1212
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not trying to be mean, and

1213
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: I swear to guy, I'm not trying to rub it in.

1214
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: But it was a historic play in Super Bowl history.

1215
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear the Falcons call? Yeah? From West.

1216
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: I want to hear Joe Buck too, but I guess

1217
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: I'll wait till I get it home to get Joe's

1218
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 1: gotten better. He's had a nice bounce back. But do

1219
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: we need to hear Joe? I mean not right now?

1220
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: All right, we don't have anyway. Wester Durham and Dave

1221
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: Archer of w z g C. I've it I'll wait

1222
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: to go. In the first overtime, they'll toss it the

1223
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: white left all right side white, He'll cut back and

1224
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 1: he will get in touchdown. New England. The Patriots storm

1225
01:03:57,120 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: the field and James, why there's one the Super Bowl

1226
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: for New England that hurts um. Let's maybe a final

1227
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: takeaway from everyone, and mine will be this because it

1228
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: it dovetails off the sadness. Uh there that you heard

1229
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 1: in west Durham's voice. We didn't he even hear Dave Archer. Yeah,

1230
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: maybe he just passed out by that point. Uh, but

1231
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: this there is a new sheriff in town. It's a

1232
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: sad sheriff to be, but the most tortured sports city

1233
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: in America now with the Cubs winning a title, with

1234
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: Lebron bringing the Calves a title, it is Atlanta and

1235
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think it's close. A hundred and

1236
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: seventy nine years. We talked about this on Thursday Show,

1237
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: A hundred and seventy nine seasons. I should say just

1238
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: one title, that being the Braves. And and now you

1239
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: have this where you came so close to winning a

1240
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, where you're up three against an all time

1241
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: historic team in the in this Patriots with Brady and Belichick,

1242
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: and you have the biggest collapse in NFL history. So

1243
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 1: that is now the cherry on top of what is

1244
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: always been a kind of under the radar. They are

1245
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,919
Speaker 1: to me the new tortured sports city. And I feel

1246
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: terribly for the Falcons fans because they were outnumbered heavily

1247
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: uh in Houston this week. But like we said, um,

1248
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: we had a doomed trip that we took to uh

1249
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: Papa Charlie's Barbecue UM in downtown Houston, where we we

1250
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: walked about fifteen minutes a group of a bunch of

1251
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: us and only to see that they were sold out

1252
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,959
Speaker 1: of meat. I didn't know that happened, but it's Super

1253
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:35,440
Speaker 1: Bowl week and we stubbled upon this little section of

1254
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:39,920
Speaker 1: Houston that labeled itself Falcons Fan Headquarters. And they were

1255
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: having such a fun time on Saturday night. Uh. They

1256
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: were excited, they're happy, boisterous, and they were outnumbered in

1257
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: that stadium. But that stadium was allowed. And that's who

1258
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: I thought of, uh when when this game got away

1259
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 1: and and how the crush those fans must have been

1260
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: because this is to me the worst loss in NFL history. Yeah,

1261
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: and I will never forget what you and Kevin and

1262
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 1: I saw down outside of the Falcons locker room, where

1263
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: owner our Arthur Blank was with family and just hugging

1264
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: what I believe was his grandson and the child was crying,

1265
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: but Arthur Blank just raw emotion because I I just

1266
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: think how close they came, and you, you rode the

1267
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,720
Speaker 1: wave with the fans in the stands. My takeaway though,

1268
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 1: is that two years ago when the Patriots won and

1269
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: Greg I was standing next to you, and you you

1270
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: earnestly called it maybe just anything here on out his

1271
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: house money, and it was thought, maybe, you know, the

1272
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 1: Patriots may never get to do this again. My question

1273
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: now is not, hey, is this the last one? But

1274
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 1: why not two or three more of them? I'm not

1275
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 1: kidding because this was the last one. It is not.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you there's no reason to put these book

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01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 1: ends on the Patriots this point. You've got the best

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01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: quarterback in football who just at his age, shattered record

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01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: book records. He shattered you passing yardage and played as

1280
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 1: well as he ever has. So I don't see any reason.

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01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: I don't care what's happening with free agency. I don't

1282
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: care about any of that, there's no reason to think

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01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,439
Speaker 1: they can't be right back here again next year. There's

1284
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: no team to put above them right now. He just

1285
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: entered his prime. So that's the only thing I got,

1286
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: And I was getting a lot of a lot of

1287
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: tweets like, oh Dan, make sure Dan is gonna be dying.

1288
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: I I like Brady. I really do like Tom Brady.

1289
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: Like I feel like it's been like an honor being

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01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: able to be at like these type of games, this one,

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01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: the Seattle game. Um, I wasn't dying when that game ended.

1292
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: It was cool. I was happy because like my father,

1293
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: my brother in law were at the game, they got

1294
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: to see another classic game that was That was pretty cool.

1295
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:51,959
Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing I got is that time

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01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: keeps ticking. But what I learned and what I wasn't

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01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: the only one that learned, is that Brady now is

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01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: operating on his own time clock entirely. So I don't

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01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: know how much it goes on from here, but yeah,

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01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, you're right in the sense that there's

1301
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: no reason to think Peyton Manning fall off the cliff

1302
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. They can keep on reloading as long

1303
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: as they have that coach in that quarterback. My takeaway,

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01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: let's stay with Brady. And you know, Aaron Rodgers is

1305
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: more talented, Brett Farve was more fun to watch. But

1306
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, like these last two Super bowls of his

1307
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 1: in the last three years are to me like the

1308
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: last three years of the Jordan era with the Bulls

1309
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: where he came back and it's almost like a separate

1310
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: a separate career, and it's Michael Jordan with the game

1311
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: on the line two times in the last three Super

1312
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: Bowls of the building had an utmost, most, utmost confidence

1313
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady was just gonna come through and carry

1314
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots to victory. And I think this has cemented

1315
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: him as one of my favorite football players to watch. Well,

1316
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 1: this this era, Brady was better, I really think so.

1317
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: And the fact that he's a multiple champion now in

1318
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 1: this area eric kind of cements it. I mean, the

1319
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,719
Speaker 1: gronk Arab Brady to me is is what's the greatest

1320
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 1: of all time? It's not the it's not the two

1321
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 1: thousand one to two thousand six six eraout the two

1322
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 1: thousand seven that was pretty good. Was that guy better

1323
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: than this guy? Well, I guess it's you're talking about

1324
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: this guy better. That guy was thrown to one of

1325
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,200
Speaker 1: the greatest wide receivers in the NFL history, who made

1326
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 1: every quarterback better. Yeah, the fact that Gronk wasn't even

1327
01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: playing in this game or even close to this playoff run,

1328
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: you have to add that to Brady's resume. Patrick, your

1329
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 1: your final thought, Well, I'll go with the Falcons, and

1330
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: just if it wasn't for Brady, we'll be talking right

1331
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 1: now about how great that young defense played today. We

1332
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: talked about Dion Jones, Grady Jarrett, h Kian O'Neil, and

1333
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: I think they have the base to come back. I

1334
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 1: was in that locker room and it was a sad moment,

1335
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: but it was a kind of a resolved moment. They

1336
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,560
Speaker 1: answered all the questions without being dick. Nobody asked me

1337
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: how big my penis was. Well, that's good. You're right

1338
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: up right off the bat, you're well Patris, the rare

1339
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,679
Speaker 1: guy who it was like hoping they did. Yeah, well,

1340
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: start taking stripping off his clothes. Yeah, he's just ready.

1341
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: He's ready. I think I think with a few more

1342
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 1: pieces to this defense, I think that Falcons defense it's

1343
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: already athletic. It's already fast. I mean, you get a

1344
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: couple of pass rushers in there, it doesn't it doesn't

1345
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: have to go away. I see where you're going with that, Patra.

1346
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:21,639
Speaker 1: And there's no reason to think that that these guys

1347
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 1: will all be so scarred emotionally that they'll never get

1348
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: close to the summit again. But I'll also say it's

1349
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: not unheard of in in sports, just not just football,

1350
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: that these type of losses can linger with a franchise.

1351
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be stunned if it had some type

1352
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: of effect long term on them. It was that bad

1353
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: a loss. To me, I would worry much more about

1354
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: losing Kyle Shanahan's mind than losing this game. I think

1355
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: bat Ryan has to prove he can play an m

1356
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: v P level without Kyle Shanahan, who, to my in

1357
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: my mind, is the best schemer and play caller in

1358
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: the NFL. Alright, boys. By the way, in the locker

1359
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: room after the game, I got some footage which you

1360
01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: could check out on NFL dot com. Somebody stole Tom

1361
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: Brady's jersey, uh and Trump maybe they stole his jersey.

1362
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. If you are a listener, uh,

1363
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: the around the NFL jersey. Send the jersey. Uh, you

1364
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: don't have to label it where you're coming from, but

1365
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,680
Speaker 1: send it to me and I will make sure it

1366
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: gets back to Tom personally. Wait a minute, back the

1367
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:29,759
Speaker 1: truck up. You have exclusive footage of Tom Brady's jersey

1368
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: being stolen. Now you've put up a ruse for some

1369
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: listener unlabeled is gonna send you said jersey? I wonder

1370
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: who might have that jersey right now? Is he in

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01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: the words that would be? That would be all time? Heils, No,

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01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: I don't have footage of the jersey being stolen. I

1373
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: have footage. Interesting, that's why he's in such a good mood.

1374
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: Who's good you? I love good football. I love the

1375
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I love that we got to cover another one,

1376
01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: our our our fourth together, six for market. You know

1377
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: what'll put you in even better first time? Yes, Mart,

1378
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: Greg me making my last point. Now, I think Greg

1379
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 1: was adding on to West's Poe. That was a conversation.

1380
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 1: You've got this is your night, but this will be quick.

1381
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: I'll try to be quick. It's a few things, but

1382
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: I'll still make him quick. Here we got a quick one.

1383
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: Let's not forget that last the game winning touchdown should

1384
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 1: not be overlooked. The guy got tackled at the two

1385
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: yard line and he ran through it like that is

1386
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 1: an all time Super Bowl play that's almost almost getting

1387
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 1: over like too quick. The Patriots. For as much as

1388
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: everyone kind of hates you know, a lot of people

1389
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: around the country hates the page, the quality of these

1390
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 1: bonkers games that they provide in the Super Bowl has

1391
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:53,560
Speaker 1: been awesome for the sport and then providing someone for

1392
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: for everyone to hate. But I don't know what it

1393
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: is because it's not like they do this in the

1394
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: regular season. The super bowls they're in are are insane.

1395
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 1: Like six of the seven Super Bowls there have been

1396
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: in have been absolutely insane endings where by the end

1397
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: of the game someone wrote the column, this is the

1398
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: best super Bowl of all time. That has happened six

1399
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,720
Speaker 1: times the Patriots are in the Super Bowl. This qualifies

1400
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: as a blowout for the Patriots. The six point margin

1401
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 1: of victory is the largest ever. Everything else has been

1402
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: four or less. And then finally, I just they kind

1403
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: of last. They came in as underdogs, like they're the

1404
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: way Brady and belich I kind of came on the scene.

1405
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: Especially Brady. It was it was as big an underdog

1406
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: story as possible. And there's no way the Patriots can

1407
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: kind of be underdogs anymore because they're the Patriots. But

1408
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: coming back from twenty eight to three, that is about

1409
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: as no one believed in us as you can ever get.

1410
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: That's that's as much of an underdog, if nothing else,

1411
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: improbable sort of story that you can ever get a

1412
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit like how they started that.

1413
01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 1: This guy Tom Brady, I think when we think of him,

1414
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: he's going to be for doing the the improbable. This

1415
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: was the last look you had of him, and this

1416
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:05,880
Speaker 1: at this stage, you know, so it was a special

1417
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:10,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't complain. I mean, it's it's been enough alright. Alright, boys,

1418
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: I think it's almost three o'clock here, uh in in Texas,

1419
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: and we all have to get back to California. Patrick,

1420
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 1: You've got to get back to your Jim in Chicago.

1421
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 1: Thank you for your help this weekend, and also you're

1422
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: helping the studio today. Really good to see you, buddy.

1423
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: Um But that's it, guys, great season, another one of

1424
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: the books. Where are you going next, Wes Whaler? Tomorrow

1425
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: afternoon I may be joining you. I'm running out of

1426
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: options here. I may be right there with you. All right,

1427
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: we gotta get out here. It's time to go back

1428
01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: to l A. But thank you to everyone for listening,

1429
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: anybody that's stayed up late to listen to anybody's listens.

1430
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: Tomorrow or next week or the week after that, we

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01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: love you. We'll be back on Thursday with our next

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01:14:56,360 --> 01:15:00,040
Speaker 1: all new shows, so thank you, and until then, this

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01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 1: is Dan Hanzas signing up for The Quiet Storm, The Mailman,

1434
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:10,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick coming at You, the Boss, and New Money

1435
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: Behind the Glass The Thursday m