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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast drops forty on the rag.

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis that come to you from

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

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Speaker 1: and Chris Westling. What is up, boys? Hey? Bday? Week

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Speaker 1: seventeen flagship show. Yes, we have reached the end of

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Speaker 1: the yellow Brick Road, two hundred and fifty six games

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Speaker 1: and we've covered them all on the Round the NFL Cast,

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Speaker 1: or I should say we will have by the end

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Speaker 1: of today's show. And Mark, I know you're in a

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Speaker 1: good mood today because, for the first time in the

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Speaker 1: history of this program, the Week seventeen slate will not

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Speaker 1: be the end of your favorite football team season. And

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that. But I just want to

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Speaker 1: let you know that I like the smile on your

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Speaker 1: face and I could tell the joy rages within. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's mostly just relief, um, compared to what the other

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Speaker 1: narrative would be had they lost today. But I am happy,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know we can get into it. It's you.

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Speaker 1: It's coming out of your pores. I can see it.

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Speaker 1: It's a strange. It's a strange sensation. It's it's very surreal. Um.

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Speaker 1: I know Mark very well, and I've gotten to know

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Speaker 1: him as a sports fan very well. He externalizes anger

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Speaker 1: about the Browns, but internalizes joy and there's so much

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Speaker 1: within him right now, West that you could see it

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Speaker 1: coming out of his pores and his skin. Look, he's flush.

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Speaker 1: You do don't know what to do. It's he's got

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Speaker 1: a also a reputation to a p and he can't

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Speaker 1: just go gaga right now after all these after all

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Speaker 1: these years. You know, he's gotta there's a certain brand

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Speaker 1: that we have here to protect absolutely, and well, guys

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Speaker 1: have figured it out. You figured it out. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to it the playoff schedule and everything at the

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Speaker 1: back end of the show. But I I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: say right now, I don't I don't have a problem

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Speaker 1: with the Browns Week one or playoff matchup either. A

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about this week, but first let's go

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Speaker 1: through all the games. We're gonna go by conference here

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Speaker 1: UH this week, and first we're gonna get uh to

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Speaker 1: conference is set up for January football, and then hit

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Speaker 1: the NFC capped with the Sunday night game between the

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Speaker 1: Eagles and Washington football team. But yes, let's start in

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Speaker 1: an FC, and yes, let's start in Cleveland. Mayfield takes

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Speaker 1: the snap. He's gonna run it to the rights. Mayfield

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Speaker 1: right side. He slides inside the forty yard line, making

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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick tags about first down, Browns at the thirty nine

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Speaker 1: yard line of Pittsburgh and the clock is running. We're

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Speaker 1: fifty two seconds left. Took all what's up? First down

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Speaker 1: and at Cherry I'm starting to feeling right now. Jim

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Speaker 1: Donovan with the call w k r K that Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns are back in the postseason, qualifying for the Dance

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Speaker 1: for the first time since two thousand two. They snuff

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Speaker 1: out a late Pittsburgh rally to beat the Steelers two.

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Speaker 1: The Browns eleven and five. They're going to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, They're going to the playoffs, and you'll be

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Speaker 1: watching them in your garage or your living room. I

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Speaker 1: don't know they're going, Mark, they're going. It's um it's

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Speaker 1: sinking in. It's still sinking in. I these Browns games, Um,

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Speaker 1: I thought, Nick Shook, who will be on later put

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Speaker 1: it well that they just they don't make it easy

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Speaker 1: know what the conversation piece would be there. I thought

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Speaker 1: UM because of a really rough, uh eight year period

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Speaker 1: The Steelers are a very good team. Well, I still

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Speaker 1: think the Browns should a be happy. You know that

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Speaker 1: They kind of missed a call on a Mason Rudolph interception,

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Speaker 1: I mean this just nearly caused um something of a

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Speaker 1: I just told you was over in the third quarter

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Speaker 1: Head break some hearts. They did. End of the air,

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Speaker 1: The Bills pour it on against the Dolphins fifty six

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen plays a half, throws three touchdowns because eighteen

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Speaker 1: the Ravens rookie touchdown record, Patrick Queen on the defense.

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Speaker 1: It's a different team. Uh. They want to have a

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Speaker 1: better result than they've had in recent playoff games. I

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Speaker 1: I just I like a lot what I'm seeing from them,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people um agree. All right,

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Speaker 1: So the Ravens keep rolling. They are the number five seed. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they will play the Titans. The Titans had a chance

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Speaker 1: to win the division the a f C South on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if they could do it. Hack thirty seven

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Speaker 1: yards to win it, Snap, said Sloman's kick us up.

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Speaker 1: His kick hits the upright, he goes through. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: Thank shot for Sloman in the a f C South

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00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 1: champions reside in the six one five Mike Keith of

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Speaker 1: another great call that I think that was like a

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Speaker 1: West like Bob Yucker in Major League when the announcer

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Speaker 1: is so excited that he runs away from the microphone

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Speaker 1: to celebrate, and it's like, Mike, come back from Dave McGinnis,

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Speaker 1: come back. You gotta call the game. Yes, always trust

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Speaker 1: Sam Sloman I was a a caller, robo caller, or

446
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Speaker 1: a cold caller for Sloman Shield for two weeks in

447
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Speaker 1: the late ninety nineties and so I don't get that

448
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: out there no matter what. Trust Sam Sloman, the villain

449
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: kickers thirty eight yard attempt playing off the right, upright

450
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Speaker 1: sputtered over the crossbars, time expired, the deciding points in

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Speaker 1: the Titans forty one thirty eight win over the Texans,

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Speaker 1: clinching the a f C south Um Ryan Tannehill, through

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Speaker 1: a touchdown pass, ran for two more that gave him

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Speaker 1: an even forty scores on the season. Think about that

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Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry, he did it rushing for two and

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Speaker 1: fifty yards to become the eighth player in NFL history

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Speaker 1: to amass two thousand yards in a season. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it was so weird because that's a that's an incredible game,

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Speaker 1: two d and fifty yards. But the Houston defense is

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Speaker 1: so ridiculous and and so non competitive, and we've seen

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Speaker 1: it because Derrick Henry's previous two games against the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans defense he also had over two hundred yards. But

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Speaker 1: in this game, needing the tree or whatever it was

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Speaker 1: to get to two thousand, it was kind of like

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Speaker 1: in the bag. Even by halftime he wasn't He still

466
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Speaker 1: was like a hundred and fifty yards away, but it

467
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Speaker 1: was like no, he's gonna get this, and then it

468
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: just became waight is he's not gonna catch Dickerson because

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Speaker 1: he's done that his entire career, these last three years,

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Speaker 1: amazing Hall of Fame years where you know his numbers

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Speaker 1: are good but not great. Oh then all up seventy

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Speaker 1: seven yards down the right sideline and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you could make up a lot of ground have become

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Speaker 1: the all time rusher. He didn't get that, but he

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Speaker 1: got two thousand, and the Titans win the a f

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Speaker 1: C South, even though Chris Wessling they're a hard team

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Speaker 1: to trust because I can't I continue. I tweeted about

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Speaker 1: this because I struggle wrapped my head around it. I

479
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: know it's a different world now in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: the numbers are a little screwy, especially when you compare

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Speaker 1: it to old errors. But here's a team that has

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Speaker 1: a two thousand yard rusher and a quarterback in Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tannehill who had thirty three touchdown passes and seven rushing

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Speaker 1: scores for forty and yet I see them as one

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Speaker 1: of the weaker uh A f C uh contenders quote

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Speaker 1: unquote because the defense is so bad to have all

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Speaker 1: that on offense, and still I feel like the highly

488
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Speaker 1: vulnerable in round one. That's unusual, so weird to picture

489
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: the Titans in that way, where offensively just flush with talent,

490
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: you win with superstars and a J. Brown. That play

491
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Speaker 1: he made down in the middle for fifty yards. What

492
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: an awesome play. And then he just makes plays every week. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis falls fifteen yards side of a thousand and

494
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Speaker 1: what he people who watched him every week. No, he

495
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: had his best year by far. John who Smith one

496
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: of the better run after catch tight ends in the league.

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Speaker 1: They are flushed with talent on one side of the

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Speaker 1: ball and then the other side of the ball, saying

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Speaker 1: every week they cannot rush the passer, so they can't

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Speaker 1: stop anyone. It's like next level how they can't stop

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Speaker 1: anyone though. I mean, if Brandon Cooks doesn't drop a

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Speaker 1: first down throw that from the show on Watson with

503
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: about thirty six seconds left, you know either would have

504
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: had a first down and been closer in field goal range,

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Speaker 1: or it would have set up second down to the

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Speaker 1: clock would run. This thing would have either gone overtime

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Speaker 1: or the Texans would have won regulation. I had no

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Speaker 1: faith that the Titans were gonna be able to force

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Speaker 1: a stop there. They needed a little luck. They made

510
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Speaker 1: a couple of good plays after that to force force

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Speaker 1: the field goal. But the crazy thing is, you know,

512
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: the the Titans got the ball back, I believe with

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Speaker 1: nineteen seconds of eighteen seconds left, and I thought in

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Speaker 1: one time out and I thought like, oh, that's probably

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Speaker 1: enough time. That's probably that's probably enough time for Ryan Tannell.

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Speaker 1: I figured it would take two plays to get into

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Speaker 1: field goal range, not not one. I was like, that's

518
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: probably enough time to get a kickoff here, because the

519
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: Titans are that good and the Texans are that bad,

520
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: and uh it came together. What what an awesome game

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Speaker 1: the way that I was down on Week seventeen going

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Speaker 1: into it, But I have to say the way that

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Speaker 1: the late games were all like back and forth, like

524
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Speaker 1: you didn't the Colts could have been anywhere from the

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Speaker 1: four were seed out of the playoffs with like eight

526
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Speaker 1: minutes left. It worked out pretty good. They gave us

527
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Speaker 1: some good late Week seventeen drama. So thank you Texans.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, it is an odd thing from an

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Speaker 1: employment angle to be heavily tracking seven games at the

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Speaker 1: same time. It may be a few more than I

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Speaker 1: need on a weekly basis. But it was You're right, Gregg,

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00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: it was thrilling. And I'm just watching the Mike Rabel's

533
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: expressions underneath the mask, but you can still sort of get,

534
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: you know, read on the eyes um watching his defense

535
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: just get literally fried. But but the floor for the

536
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Speaker 1: offense is so high that I don't I kind of

537
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Speaker 1: have more belief than doubting them. They're in and they're

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Speaker 1: in every game at least because of that. I'm with

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Speaker 1: you Dan that it's hard to like see them surviving

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Speaker 1: all the way, but but you also figure like they're

541
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: they're in every game. One one quick thing I saw

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Speaker 1: after the game was verybel giving a big shout out

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Speaker 1: um to his owner who's from Houston, who ripped the

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Speaker 1: team away from Houston. It's kind of an underrated art

545
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: model situation. So the first comment he has is given

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Speaker 1: his credit to Amy Strunk Adams, who's you know, whose

547
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: dad took the team from Houston. How about that they

548
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: go to Houston, they win the division over him to

549
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: end their season, and they stick it in their nose

550
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Speaker 1: like are we celebrating this or not? I don't like it,

551
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: but it's sort of like an underrated thing that like

552
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: they're just allowed to dance on the team's grave that

553
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: they stole away, and you know, to finish the way

554
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: the Texans did, which is what four and twelve they

555
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: get five or the four four four and twelve And

556
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: what comes out of a season like that is a

557
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Speaker 1: bedrock draft pick. Hopefully you don't even have that because,

558
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: as we said, the Miami Dolphins have the number three

559
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Speaker 1: overall pick because of the Bill O'Brien trade to get

560
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Speaker 1: Laramie Tunzill. Uh So just an all around, uh really

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Speaker 1: bad season. Uh for Houston and uh and for Tennessee

562
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Speaker 1: maybe West. Maybe this is because you look at the

563
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: rest of the a f C and you know, even

564
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Speaker 1: the Steelers defense, which we've sung the praises up all

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Speaker 1: year and rightfully so, they've had some moments of laps.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's gonna be a wild type of playoff where

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Speaker 1: the team with the most explosive superstar talent on offense

568
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Speaker 1: just makes a run. And you know, the Chiefs are

569
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Speaker 1: a team that can match anyone and shootout. But I

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00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't be too hard on the Titans, And

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00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: I was a little bit earlier because the defense is

572
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: that bad, but the offense might be that good to

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Speaker 1: shock some people. Yeah, who wouldn't like a Banansa playoff? Right?

574
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: Just to scoring Banansa just take off every game Bills, Chiefs, Titans,

575
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: Ravens like there there's a lot of forty burgers in there.

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00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: That was the most obvious forty one game ever. There

577
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: was no doubt that Deshaun Watson was gonna go nuts

578
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: one more time, and no doubt the Tennessee Titans defense

579
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: would stink. And you knew Derrick Henry was gonna go

580
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: absolutely mad. Uh So, a fun game to watch, even

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00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: if it was I guess in a way a little

582
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: bit predictable. One more thing I gotta get because we

583
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: just did the announcer power rankings. Lest I wish you

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00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: were on that show. Um, but and you know, some

585
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: maybe shots were taken at the a certain team, Gregg

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Speaker 1: Gumbel and Rich Gannett. I don't think they were high

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Speaker 1: up in either list. For Greg and Mark. Maybe gannon

588
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: did a little bit better. I think part of it

589
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: every judging in his teams. But Derrick Hennery, Derrick Henry

590
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: runs for two thousand yards, and I mean it is

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00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: beyond an afterthought with these guys. This is what it

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00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: sounds like when Derrick Hennry goes over two thousand, second

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Speaker 1: and five. This is Henry Henry. He has enough for

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00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 1: the first down at midfield. One thing about Tennessee, they

595
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: won't panic. They played to a certain style offensively. That's

596
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: now he's now over two thousand, just the eighth player

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Speaker 1: in NFL history to do that. Congratulations to Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: That is a that is a season full of work.

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: That's that's not not easy. Three seventy two carries to

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Speaker 1: get it done. He's just a beast. A season full

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00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: of work. I think they I think they nailed it.

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00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: The mood, the tone, the moment, like a season full

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: of sentences, like an exhibition game, is what it sounded like.

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00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: And and and since I'm getting down on somebody, let

605
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: me pull back. Going back to the Browns game and

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00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: Kevin harland They showed Jarvis Landry on the sideline flossing

607
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: for some reason, which is like an insane person would

608
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: floss in the middle of the football game. Kevin Harlan

609
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere with this gem for the ages,

610
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: and there's teal hygiene. There's something thing to take note,

611
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: kits out there and there's never a bad place to flush.

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00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: He sounds wait a minute, so wait, so Stephen Diggs

613
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: was also flossing today? Who what? Wait? Who is that

614
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: it was? I believe it was Stephen. I am sorry, Mark,

615
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: I apologize. I just you know, in the sake of

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00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: that he's and that moment is like, why what does

617
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: Kevin Harland remind me of? He's like a he does

618
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: like voiceovers for Ovaltine in ven. He's the total package.

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Speaker 1: Enough of this funny business, all right? Talked about the Titans.

620
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: The Colts entered this game, entered this week on the

621
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: outside looking in in the playoff picture. Uh nearly won

622
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: the damn division and they're going to the dance. They

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Speaker 1: have the Jaguars in Week seventeen. Rivers for all the

624
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: hear hash hands off to Jonathan Taylor, Chal dirty, He's

625
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: gonna go touchdown, ch Ath Taylor. This is the line

626
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and writing into paper from forty five yards out?

627
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: Touch down? Hid? Why chot Athan Taylor have a day

628
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: over two hundred rushing yard? Nice call? Matt Taylor? W

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Speaker 1: F and I forgot about j T T Remember JTT

630
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, Thomas all about j F T Jonathan and

631
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: Taylor running back Capa Tori close to his rookie season

632
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: with two hundred and fifty three yards, including the game

633
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: winning forty five yards score in fourteen win over the Jaguars.

634
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: The Colts flinched the seventh seed. They'll face the Bills

635
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: next weekend. Greg Taylor's rise has been a game changer.

636
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: I can't remember a player improving this much within one season.

637
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: He was one of the biggest bus in the first half,

638
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: and I think one of the best running backs in

639
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: the league down the stretch. I mean he's gonna be

640
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: a first round Fantasy pick next year, I would imagine. Uh,

641
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: And I think remember a month ago when I asked you,

642
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: starting now, whose career would you rather have, Jonathan Taylor

643
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: or James Robinson. Yeah, now I'm taking Taylor without a doubt.

644
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: What did I say that? Did I get it right

645
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: or wrong? Then he said, you gotta go with Robinson.

646
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: See that bad job. You gotta look into the future.

647
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: This guy, I mean he yeah, even he changed. I

648
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: mean Robinson was out for this game. Who knows what

649
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: would happen? Then, Uh, it was fitting that Taylor did

650
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: it because he's really what separates them right now from

651
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: a hugely disappointing end to the season. What like what

652
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: a the closier day for the Colts. They get the

653
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: help they need early, you know, they find out the

654
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: Dolphins lose and that they're winning in they get up

655
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: twenty and nothing. Okay, we're gonna sail to this thing.

656
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: Then the Texans start blowing their game and they're starting

657
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: to think we can win the division. But right as

658
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: that's happening, Mike Glennon starts hitting third and fourteen, third

659
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: and eights, third and nine, and the Jaguars score a

660
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns to cut it from twenty to fourteen,

661
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: and the Colts offense goes to sleep, just like it

662
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: did a week ago sixth straight possessions without a single

663
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: point against the Jacksonville Jaguars in a must win situation

664
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: that included two missfield goals by Blanket Ship who's had

665
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: a good year. Um, but it was fitting that Taylor

666
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: was the guy who kind of put them on their

667
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: back with that run, and that the Forrest Buckner and

668
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: Comico Terrey, who have you know, both been good this year,

669
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: but Bucklinger's obviously carry them had two sacks and Terre

670
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: with a huge sack kind of saved them. The defense

671
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: stood up at a certain point when it really felt like, Wow,

672
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: the Colts are gonna gag this thing away? Is this

673
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: how Philip Rivers is? Career ends? And the defense and

674
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 1: the running game ultimately didn't let it happen. Thank God,

675
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: I'm at least I'm happy. And Darius Leonard to um.

676
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean, when he makes an impact, he does not

677
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: do it without flash. And you know, there were reports

678
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: before this game that Philip Rivers basically has said unless

679
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: he's brought back to play for the Colts, he's going

680
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: to hang up the cleats. And so we get one

681
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: more week of Philip Rivers. That could have been the end.

682
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: And you're right, Um, they didn't have the scores in

683
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: their stadiums, so they didn't know what was going on

684
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: with Tennessee. But they made this far too interesting. And

685
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 1: when I look at the a f C playoff field,

686
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: I'd have to put the Cults um as a team

687
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: that I just struggled to believe in uh to the

688
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: level of some of these other teams. But they find

689
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: a way to win these games ugly and if you're

690
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: gonna get that kind of rushing performance. Who knows they

691
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: have the Bills. If they were playing the Steelers, you're thinking, okay,

692
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, or even the Titans are they're familiar with.

693
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: But but the Bills, that's a tough job. I mean,

694
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: you got the Chiefs obviously, you have the Bills, you

695
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: have the Ravens, and you have the Steelers. Even though

696
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: I know that they stumbled down the stretch. They started

697
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: the season eleven straight wins. That's a twelve win team.

698
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: I think the Colts, uh, you know, they're they're very good.

699
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: Are they? Are they great? West? Do they have that

700
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: next year which you're not gonna need to hit to

701
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl? No, I think we've We've been

702
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: talking about it all year. They're they're just shy of

703
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: being great because they don't have their full compliment of receivers.

704
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: They never had Paris Campbell healthy, they never had all

705
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: their young guys healthy. At the same time, Philip Philip

706
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: Rivers needs Jacoby Brissette in the red zone to have

707
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: a complete quarterback because he's too limited in the red zone.

708
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: They're just shy of of being a full team. Well,

709
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: we and we they we also haven't mentioned since we've

710
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: last tape they've lost Anthony Costanzo. They're great left tackle

711
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: for the season. He's not coming back. That wasn't their

712
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: problem today. Rivers was really not bothered um. But their

713
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: passing game hasn't developed. I don't think it's injuries either.

714
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: You know, compared to most teams, they're they're relatively healthy,

715
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: and they had a stretch where the passing game looked better.

716
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: But when Rivers is going six point one yards protempt

717
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: against the jag he had a bad interception in the

718
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: second half, could have had a couple. You never know,

719
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: Maybe he comes up with one great last playoff performance.

720
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't be shocked if the Colts did bring

721
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: him back. I mean, I don't know, just knowing their history,

722
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: are they sure they're gonna be able to do better

723
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: than Philip Rivers? Maybe not. So it might not be

724
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: the end for him, but many they avoided what would

725
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: have been a regrettable gag job to to end the

726
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: season having back to back games like that. All right,

727
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: let's move on, and it is time. It's the time

728
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: of the show. It's tag team time. Too, handsome ball

729
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: gentlemen on the show but not for long, because Nick

730
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: Shook joins us, and Chris Westling says goodbye West. As always,

731
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: your presence lifts the show to a much higher plane,

732
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: and we have no them but love and respect for

733
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: your abilities and you giving us the time today. Any

734
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: final words, Uh, my voice is done, Shook, take it

735
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: from here. You wanna you want to stick me with

736
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: anything else? Dune I said a month ago, West, before

737
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: you go. No, Actually I asked the whole podcast that question.

738
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: You were the only one who answered, Okay. See the

739
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: rest of us are like, I'm not saying anything. There

740
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: you go, Chris Wessling, the King, go rest up, my friend, Chooke,

741
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: How are you, buddy? I'm fantastic. I've spent the last

742
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: what is this five hours or so um in between

743
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: watching multiple games once and all the audio from the broadcast.

744
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: Hearing people outside my apartment screaming with joy is a

745
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: celebration in downtown Cleveland. You think they won the Super

746
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: Bowl here? So in a way, you know, for a

747
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: team that has had as uh much bad fortune as

748
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: the Browns have since they rejoined the league, I get that.

749
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: Hopefully people are doing it the smart now. Many people

750
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: are in that stadium look like thousand or something or

751
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: twelve thousand, sound like the letting more people in there.

752
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: It was twelve. It was. I saw some guy tweet

753
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: at Joe Thomas. He was like, he's like, come on out.

754
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: You know the bars are open only for three more hours.

755
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, Joe, please don't go to the bars. I

756
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: will try a blind eye this one time. To you

757
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,240
Speaker 1: go do whatever you need to do. Cleveland right outside. Alright, Chookie,

758
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: So congratulations to you on the Browns. You are doing

759
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: yeoman's work this week, because we're gonna take kind of

760
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: a brief pause from the playoff implication level games in

761
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: the a f C before we get to the a

762
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: f C to fill in the rest of the margins

763
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: of week seventeen. Two more games, three more games, excuse

764
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: me hitting the a f C. Let's start with what

765
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: went down in Denver two point a town car looks

766
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: left fire, got it? Waller, Jeff Card, Jeff pod Raids,

767
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: thirty two, Proco's thirty one Suckers, Vitru Lock Braby, listen,

768
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: bred Musburger. That that man, he's not a young man anymore.

769
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: To have that level of vigor for a meaningless week,

770
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: seventeen tilt. That was a nice higher by the Las

771
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. H Musburger k r l V Yes. Josh

772
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: Jacobs plunged in from one yard out to get the

773
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: Raiders close, and Derek car and Darren Waller converted on

774
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: that two point conversion in the final second, securing a

775
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: win over the Broncos. Mark thirty points in the fourth

776
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: quarter alone by these two teams. Sounds like a fun,

777
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: dumb game to close out disappointing season for the West Roers. Yeah,

778
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: fun and dumb would be accurate. Um, they really want

779
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: to thank the Raiders for going for the two point

780
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: conversion there versus taking this into overtime, which you could

781
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: put on for kind of gone on for another twenty

782
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 1: five minutes or so. Note no human needed that, Um,

783
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean the Raiders. Um, this was kind of every

784
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: Raiders game. Like Jerry Judy of the b Goes We said,

785
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, we saw what happened against the Chargers last week,

786
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: drop prone, horrible performance. You think that would be the

787
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: note that you go into the off season with. It's

788
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: the Raiders defense, so they get right. Um, Jerry Judy

789
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: at a ninety two yard touchdown that you know, looked

790
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: like it could have been the game winner, and then

791
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: Oakland came back. Oakland at one point had three turnovers

792
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: and five snaps. Um, you get a little bit of

793
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: good from Derek Carr, you get enough from Derek Carr. Again,

794
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to read, um, what's going on with

795
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: some of these coaches. But Gruden, underneath the mask looked

796
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: absolutely steamed at Derek Carr at points in this game.

797
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: But the issues are on defense. They they did enough

798
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: on offense to get this thing done. Uh. You know,

799
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: two teams with a ton of questions. I don't know

800
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: if either starting quarterback is the starting quarterback next year. Um, well,

801
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: I mean I go, I don't know. I think this

802
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: is we're putting Derek car in the same class as

803
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: Drew Lock. I know I'm not putting we put a

804
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: lot of heat on Derek Carr in this podcast, but

805
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: now we're getting crazy. I'm not putting them in the

806
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: same class. I just think that like there's something and

807
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: this is this is just in the water. I think

808
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: it's been that way the whole time. I don't get

809
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: the sense that Gruden is thinking we're good at quarterback.

810
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: I think that that you know today kind of advertised.

811
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: Why you know, Derek Carr is um a quality starter?

812
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: But is he gonna get you over the hump? And

813
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: at what point do they look at somewhere else? How

814
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: about this? How about from this perspective, maybe you also

815
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: like him a lot more than I do, And there's

816
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: no he's fine. I guess I defend him because I

817
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: think he's a little better than he gets credit for it.

818
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: But he is not great by any stretch. You could

819
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: probably do better than him if you hit on a

820
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: quarterback in the draft, or maybe even one of these

821
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: veterans that shake free. But if I'm if I'm looking

822
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: at the Raiders, if I'm Mike Mayok and John Gruden

823
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: and I'm like, how do I fix this team? I'm

824
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: going to the defensive side of the ball before I

825
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: go replace the quarterback. That's just well, well, if they

826
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: do that, they would they would have done something. He's

827
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: been there three years, so I mean they certainly have

828
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: to keep trying. All I could think watching the end

829
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: of this game is Andy Reid. I mean, I know

830
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: he wasn't you know, free to be watching on TV,

831
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: but if he was, he should just be thinking, Man,

832
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: this is a nice division of being these coaches just bungling.

833
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: He's like like they were, you know, Vic Fangio and Grew.

834
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: This is how Belichick had it. Wow, what a setup, right,

835
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: Like he basically was looking to be like, are you

836
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: guys doing an Anthony Lynn impression on purpose? Like are

837
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,280
Speaker 1: you trying to lose this game? With the time management?

838
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: It was. It was crazy going back and forth that

839
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: I was losing my mind. Well, and Fangio took a

840
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: time out at one point that allowed the Raiders to

841
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: completely climb by. I was thinking, you know, and there's

842
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: all all all these games had these moments like Greg's

843
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: head would explode. You were watching it. Took his headset off.

844
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: With twelve seconds left and potentially like three more snaps

845
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: for the Broncho, he just decided, you know, I'm just

846
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: not even gonna I'm not even gonna be involved with

847
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 1: the strategic decisions for the rest of this game. I'm

848
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: just like done with this season. Which you know, well,

849
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe it's not car and it's not the defense.

850
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: It could be the head coach, but I know you

851
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: love him as well. Done, so I will get off

852
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,720
Speaker 1: my No, that's not true either, I don't love John Gruden.

853
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: I don't know personality, but there's no sense debating whether

854
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: John Gruden should be the right head coach because he's

855
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: gonna be the head coach because he's just ten year

856
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: contract and he's i think entering just finishing year three.

857
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 1: That doesn't make it right, but you are correct that

858
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: that is the case. Um, all right, let's move on.

859
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: A hand off to Michelle coming to the near side,

860
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: clips of factor Marus. He's gonna throw it to the

861
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: right for Cam Newton makes me catch at the seventh

862
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: inside the five into the end zone, touchdown, Patriots. I'm

863
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: a second TV toss budget, Kobe Meyers. Let's throw all

864
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: days right there, Bob Sochi, of course, Scott Zolak goes

865
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,959
Speaker 1: out on a high note. W b Z. Cam Newton

866
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: threw three touchdown passes and caught another, and the Patriots

867
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: rallied to beat the Jets, who win snapped a three

868
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: game losing streak for the Pats. Um and that's ten

869
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: straight wins over the Jets. So everybody else gets healthy

870
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: against the Pats, not the Jets. Shook. Uh. This is

871
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: the end of the road though for the Patriots, and

872
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: that's a new reality. Yeah, it's a new reality, and

873
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: it's an uncertain reality. And this is gonna be the

874
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: second straight offseason which they go into it not really

875
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: knowing what their situation is going to be a quarterback.

876
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: The difference is is last year it was well Tom

877
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: Brady either comes back or we figure something out. Now

878
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: it's do we want Cam Newton back or do we

879
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: look somewhere else? Because I think we've learned enough from

880
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: what they've done with jetson Stidham or not done with

881
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: him this year to really tell us what we think

882
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: or what they think about him. And Kim goes out

883
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: on a strong note at least for this season and

884
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: maybe gives you some consideration for bringing back means sparkling

885
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: passer rating two or forty two yards, three touchdowns, all

886
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: that good stuff. Um, but again it is the Jets,

887
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: and unlike last week, the Jets couldn't hold onto their

888
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: early lead that that stretched into the second half. But

889
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's no better way I think they

890
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: come back, uh in a game than by scoring and

891
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: then getting an interception after you threw a touchdown past

892
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: to your quarterback, and then scoring two more touchdowns and

893
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: putting a game that you were trailing in against a

894
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: bad team away and going to the off season at

895
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: seven and nine and not really knowing what the hell

896
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: of your team is going to be next year other

897
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: than the guys are gonna get back who opted out?

898
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: Uh this year. So it's a weird reality. It's death

899
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,959
Speaker 1: not one that we associate with that flying Elvis logo

900
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: on the side of the helmets. Well, Belichick was really

901
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: annoyed at after the game about what he thought was

902
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: a report from Adam Schefter that they were, you know,

903
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: that they were moving on from Kim Newton. And it

904
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: got to the point where I think Mike Reese he

905
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: certainly clarified on Twitter. I think he might have done

906
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: it on the call actually say no, Adam Schefter didn't

907
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: really report. That was like one of those games a

908
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: telephone that Schefter was just kind of in a conversation

909
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: thinking that, you know, saying he doesn't think the Patriots

910
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: are gonna keep him. Then it gets passed along as

911
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 1: some report when it wasn't a report, and like Belichick

912
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: was spitting fire, He's like, well, why don't you go

913
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: ask your anonymous sources, you know who our quarterback is

914
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: next year. Jake trying to stand up for Camp. He

915
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 1: has appreciated Cam all year. Um, I don't think that

916
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: was phony, Like Cam won the Good Guy You award

917
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: from the media. They're like, you know, they all they

918
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: all liked the experience. But I can't imagine Cam is

919
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: gonna be back. We have the whole off season. This

920
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: game doesn't matter. Seven and nine. That just felt like

921
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: it felt like this was a seven and nine Patriots

922
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: team all along. And that's like right where they ended up.

923
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: And that's where they are seven and nine, and Belichick

924
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: will decide who his quarterback is. We don't know who

925
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: the Jets quarterback is in, but it won't be Adam

926
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: Gates that has anything to do with that. Decisions came

927
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: down a few minutes ago. UH, the New York Let's

928
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: get some missive music here, Ricky the New York Jets.

929
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: UH informed Adam Gates that his time with the franchise

930
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: is over. Here's what Christopher Johnson, chairman and CEO, said

931
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: in a statement. Our strong finish last year was encouraging,

932
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: but unfortunately we did not sustain that positive momentum or

933
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: see the progress we expected this season to our fans.

934
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: It is obvious we have not been good enough. We

935
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: are committed to building a strong organization on and off

936
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: the field and will continue to provide the necessary resources

937
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: to field a team that you can be proud of.

938
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: It has been a long time since I've been proud

939
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: of a Jets football team. It's been ten years. In fact,

940
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: uh it you can stop that now. In fact, it's

941
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: no longer his miss if it's not mine. In fact,

942
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: now that the Browns are in the playoffs and the

943
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 1: Bucks are in the playoffs, no team in the NFL

944
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: is on a longer playoff drought than the Jets. Uh.

945
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: And they have to do something big this offseason. We

946
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: have to see how it's all gonna play out. It starts, though,

947
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: and I sincerely believe this, not with the number two

948
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: overall pick, and that got a little bit more interesting

949
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: with what Justin Fields did in the college football playoff

950
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: over the weekend, but with the head coach. They need

951
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: to hit on this head coach and get an adult

952
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: in the building, a CEO type dude who knows how

953
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: to run an organization and can work alongside Joe Douglas

954
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: and Joe Douglas a GM needs to be the guy

955
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: that picks who the head coaches. They need to be

956
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: on the same page and and they want to keep

957
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: the structure in place that where the ownership is the

958
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 1: you know, the GM and the coach report to the owner. Fine,

959
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: but give Joe Douglas the power to choose who this

960
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: guy is. That's how you get this thing off on

961
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: the right foot. It It can go in any direction,

962
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: um in terms of who they go with, whether it's

963
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: an Eric b Enemy type or Arthur Smith or someone

964
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 1: from college. I don't I don't really care. I don't

965
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: have a strong feeling on who it is. I just

966
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: needed to be someone uh that again can handle the

967
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: job and everything that comes with it. Because that was

968
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: Adam Gates among his Amongst his many failures was his

969
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: inability to handle the job in the locker room with players,

970
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: with the media, and even starting with his opening press conference,

971
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: which goes down in the annals of New York Sports.

972
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: UH for how it's funny. It was too people. They

973
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: need to be better. Enough is enough? Get this right?

974
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if I I trust ownership to just

975
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: be letting Darodagoas make the decisions. You shouldn't nobody should

976
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: trust Jets ownership after what's happened these last this last decade.

977
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: But I'm hoping maybe they've learned some lessons from the

978
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: Gates Higher, which obviously was a disaster h from start

979
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: to finish. Another way to look at it, all right,

980
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: I feel like we've we've we usually like do the

981
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: thing where we kind of like read an obituary and

982
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: go over like you know what the coaching tender. I

983
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: feel like we've we've done that four times at least

984
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: with Gaze, Like we've written his obituary like six times. Yeah,

985
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: this is probably the least surprising firing that happened immediately

986
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: after a game in the last five years in NFL history. Maybe, Yeah,

987
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: all right, let's keep rolling the Chargers and the Chiefs

988
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: and meaningless listen to the grittiness of Cleveland. Neighbor sounds

989
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: like the fantasy corners. Something that's like a fire truck. Well,

990
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't help them, like right across the street from

991
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:42,440
Speaker 1: like the Justice Center for downtown. So you're gonna be

992
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: up late tonight. I predict the people of mean, they're

993
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: out in the streets. They're just going wild. You can

994
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: are you looking and what are you doing? Yeah? I

995
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: mean I'm not near a window. I mean this room

996
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: is surrounded by windows, but I would have to stand

997
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: up to walk away from the camera to look at this.

998
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're out there. All right. Let's let's keep rolling.

999
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: Let's head to arrow him. Herbert play action again downfield

1000
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: with the heat left sideline. Mike Williams car touchdown Chargers Yes,

1001
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith of course, with the call for the

1002
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: Chargers radio network. Justin, Herbert cappt the glorious rookie season

1003
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: with three touchdown passes, leading the Chargers to over the

1004
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes less Chiefs shook the Bolts end the season

1005
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: on a four game winning streak. And you know that,

1006
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: combined with the brilliance of Herbert's debut season, makes you

1007
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: think that Anthony Lynn is gonna be safe at the end. Yeah,

1008
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: you know, I think if they didn't have quarterback figured

1009
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: out at this point, it might be a little less stable.

1010
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: And you kind of have to discount the win today.

1011
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: I know the Chiefs are obviously the number one c

1012
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: the FC, but not having Patrick Mallins is a big

1013
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: deal um and affects a game like that. But I

1014
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: think the fact that they have quarterback figured out answers

1015
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: a really big question for them, and they have a

1016
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: core roster wise, and you look at their starting lineup

1017
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: on on both sides of the ball, I think really

1018
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: defense will be more than offensively that you could say, well,

1019
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: this this is a team that you compete. But that's

1020
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: also been the story this team for the last two years.

1021
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: We've talked so much about how they lost nine of

1022
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: eleven games last year by one possession. They lose close

1023
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: games again this year because they're still kind of out

1024
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: of sorts. We just discussed that, you know, in relation

1025
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: to the Broncos and the Raiders. So I think it

1026
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: does give him, you know, a little bit of a

1027
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: boost and sticking around. And I have a weird feeling

1028
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: that the Chargers aren't going to be about making a

1029
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: change because of this type of result and because of

1030
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: Herbert's play as a rookie. But I'm not really convinced.

1031
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I needed I needed to be proven to me, uh,

1032
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: in a close game if he does keep his job

1033
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: next year, that they finally turned a corner, because at

1034
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: this point, I'm I'm, uh, you know, this is kind

1035
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: of a negative take on this, but I'm kind of

1036
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: tired of just making excuses, are thinking, well, but if

1037
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: but it feels like what Brown's fancy used to do

1038
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: with their team. Well, they won, they almost beat this team,

1039
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: and you win this game, and you win this game,

1040
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: the situation turns out a lot different. That's not enough

1041
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: for me. But they do have quarterback feared out, which

1042
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: is you know, that's a really positive sign. I mean

1043
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: Jake Blazer this morning when in the other direction and

1044
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: reported that Lynn was not expected to be safe. Um,

1045
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: I mean tb D. But I don't think it's totally

1046
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: um decided. And you know, to his too, in his argument,

1047
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: they've missed a hundred and nine starts by players that

1048
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 1: should have been starters for them this year, which is

1049
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: among the highest in the NFL. And Um, to your

1050
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: you're right, Nick, it feels like every year we're talking

1051
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: about Chargers injuries. But UM, it just to me, it's

1052
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: a case studying how different organizations proceed, because I don't know,

1053
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: I want to be convinced that if they keep Lynn

1054
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: it's because they truly think that Lynn is the best

1055
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: coach for the job, versus we're an organization that doesn't

1056
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: want to pay um fired coaches while hiring another one.

1057
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Detroit, where the Vikings

1058
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: and Lines finished out their slate back to past nine

1059
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: seconds ago. Throws left, it's caught by Baby bounces off

1060
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: two Lions, ten five touchdown, a forty yard touchdown for

1061
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: Chad bb who like a pinball in a pinball mach

1062
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 1: Jean bounced off a couple of bumpers wearing Honolulu blue

1063
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,320
Speaker 1: for the second touchdown of his career. And for Kirk

1064
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: he has three, which means he's thrown the second most

1065
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a season in the history of Vikings football.

1066
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: And we have taken the lead. Paul Allen k f

1067
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: A N with the call a meaningless Week seventeen game

1068
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: against the Detroit defense, it's Kirk Cousins domination time. Baby

1069
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,479
Speaker 1: Cousins through three touchdown passes, ran for another score, pass

1070
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: for four oh five total in the thirty thirty seven win.

1071
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Minnesota been for seven and nine, Detroit five and eleven shook.

1072
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: What are the positives to take out of the season

1073
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: for the Vikings. Number one positive that you can't ignore

1074
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: is the fact that you found your replacement for Stefon

1075
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: Diggs in a bona fide number one receiver in Justin Jefferson.

1076
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: That's the greatest trade perhaps in the history of the

1077
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: NFL in terms of how it worked out for both sides.

1078
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: He's been he's been awesome this year. Um, he's he's

1079
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome because what makes him good is going

1080
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: to continue. It's not the fact that he's necessary early

1081
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 1: a burner. He's a fast guy, but he's a complete

1082
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: route runner even at his age, and um, it's only

1083
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: going to continue to get better. Kirk Cousins has made

1084
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: the most I think, or at least at least established

1085
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: a relationship with him on the field where you think

1086
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: that you know they can reach new heights as the

1087
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: seasons go on. UH And of course you have Dalvin

1088
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: Cook in the offensive side of the ball. Now the

1089
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball is where they need to

1090
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: get better. This is a season of change for them.

1091
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: They had a lot of different personnel, a lot of

1092
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: different moving parts coming in and out of UH Minnesota,

1093
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: a lot of veterans that they relied on who left.

1094
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: They had to turn to young guys at corner, Cam

1095
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: Dancer being one, Jeff Gladney being another. So, UM, I

1096
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: know they kept their safeties intact. But I guess we

1097
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: shouldn't be entirely surprised by the fact that they weren't

1098
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: this good. They need to get off to a better start,

1099
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 1: and maybe we're talking about a better team, you know,

1100
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: going forward, and maybe that happens. I I saw some

1101
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: comments from the Lions, you know, beat guys. It really

1102
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: feels like Matthew Stafford's you know, in his pressers have

1103
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: almost been like saying goodbye to Detroit. He's like opening

1104
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,240
Speaker 1: up more than he ever is. He's sort of putting

1105
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: his whole ten you're there into context. You're seeing his

1106
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: media buddies like Dan Orlovsky make the case aggressively that

1107
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: he needs to be out. I don't think any of

1108
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: this is a mistake. I think Stafford wants out. Um

1109
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: there is hoping that that he gets out, and we

1110
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: don't need to go over it now because I want

1111
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: to get to the good games. But I think it's coming.

1112
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: I think it's coming. One little lion snugget. There are

1113
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: reports that there reports the Detroit. When you're trying to

1114
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: move the show along, it just like speeds up, and

1115
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: there are reports that Detroit is gonna chase Seahawks general

1116
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: manager John Schneider. So ian Ian got that one. That

1117
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: would be interesting. That would be a heck of a coup,

1118
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: I think for them. And yeah, it's been all it's

1119
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: been all over the breadcrumbs on this. I agree with you, Greg,

1120
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford the fact that he played in that game today,

1121
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: and I know he's a tough dude, but with all

1122
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: the injuries, it felt like a guy that wanted to

1123
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: go out with one more game with Detroit. We'll see

1124
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: on the field what happened, shook, You've come, you survived.

1125
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if the building urn is gonna survive.

1126
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: What's happening in Cleveland right now. Um, I almost worry

1127
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: about the city if they win a playoff game. But

1128
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: for now, it appears that you're safe. And we thank

1129
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: you for giving us excellent work as the six Men

1130
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: of the Year. That's why Greg agreed that you should

1131
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,919
Speaker 1: be named the Pipe. No, we did not. Now I called.

1132
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: I said, let's just go sixth Van or whatever. I

1133
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: don't know, but pipe is not is not good. You

1134
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: know what's funny about that? Danny, We've talked about this.

1135
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: My profile picture on Slack for the last four years

1136
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: has been a picture of j. R. Smith walking downtown

1137
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: next to my little sister during the cast parade, so

1138
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: it fits. It fits. But about worrying about the state

1139
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: of the city if the Browns a playoff game, They're

1140
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: not gonna have a home playoff games, so we don't

1141
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: have to worry about that, at least not this year,

1142
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: all right, I said, not the guy you are next year, sister.

1143
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think you know she was. She was like fifteen,

1144
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: all right. Hopefully, Well, we hope and we just you know,

1145
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,919
Speaker 1: it doesn't and you know, you better treat Nick shock

1146
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: sister well in general, because Nick Shook will be coming

1147
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: after you if you ever do her dirty. See it's

1148
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: all out there, Nick. There he goes. The pipe is off.

1149
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: Let's now head over to the NFC playoff relevant games,

1150
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: starting right at the top, where the number one seed

1151
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 1: was up for grabs, at least until the Packers were

1152
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: done with the Bears. Rogers looking over the defense and

1153
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: third down, third and about four snapped to Rogers blitz

1154
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: on Rogers lofts it deep down the middle. Got a

1155
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: man out there, it's mvs and he is John ten

1156
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: five end zone touchdown, Green Bay Packers seventy two yards.

1157
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: You know, I think that was Wayne Lara by w TMJ.

1158
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, I believe finished with forty seven touchdowns. Uh

1159
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: this year, he'd have probably fifty nine if MBS caught

1160
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: most of the wide open bombs throwing to throw his

1161
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: way this year. He dropped another one today, but he

1162
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: did catch that one. That's seventy two yards strike from

1163
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Uh. That put the Packers in control. They

1164
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 1: cruised to a Yes, they clinched the number one seed

1165
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: in the NFC. They will have an open round next week.

1166
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: They will not play. They have the bye, and then

1167
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: they will host uh, the lowest seed remaining in the

1168
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: divisional round. And if they get out of that round, yes,

1169
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: they will host the NFC title game. The Packers have

1170
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: gone thirteen and three now and each of Matt will

1171
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: Floor's first two seasons on the sideline pretty damn good.

1172
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers enters the playoffs boys playing at a

1173
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: level that approaches the highest of highs h in his

1174
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: legendary career. Yeah, I think getting a game without David

1175
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: Baktieri under their belts, especially you know, matched up against

1176
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: Cleil mac in this you know, solid pass rush, uh

1177
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: and doing what they needed to do. I think it

1178
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: would be good for their confidence. I mean it's Rick

1179
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: Wagner and Billy Turner, two guys who are you know,

1180
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: pretty disappointing elsewhere, like free agent pickups, and it's really

1181
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: all about the system, and it's Rodgers making them look

1182
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: better because their offensive line is great and they're gonna

1183
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: miss Box tr But to be able to put up

1184
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: thirty five and ultimately pull away from the Bears says

1185
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot. And I think the NFC is still very balanced.

1186
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: I don't think they're huge favorites here, but I know

1187
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: I think they'll be rooting on the Bears next week.

1188
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: I can hope for this rematch, you know, because and

1189
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: then get the Bears again. And just to be clear,

1190
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: David Botr they're all pro left tackle. He blew out

1191
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: his knee in practice on Thursday. That happened after we recorded.

1192
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: That's what Greg's referring to. I mean, these stadiums with

1193
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: you know, very few are no fans. What makes up

1194
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: a home field advantage? I think we'd all agree that

1195
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: a team like the Bucks or the Rams having to

1196
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: go into you know, my subminus temperatures UM is a mess,

1197
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: and part of it is the way that we see

1198
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: Green Bay play in the snow as if there are

1199
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: no elements at all. And UM, I think Matt Lafleur,

1200
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, last year, I think I was on the

1201
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: record saying that thirteen and three didn't look like thirteen

1202
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: and three to me. I tell really believe in this

1203
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: team in the NFC right now, and I think that

1204
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: his two year span of UM coaching is massively under

1205
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: the radar. It's it's almost like it's been normalized or

1206
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: people are just board with it, or it's not a

1207
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: talking point. I mean, you're getting Aaron Rodgers playing right

1208
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 1: now at a level that UM, it's gonna take something

1209
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: rather remarkable to shake them up. I mean they're like yet,

1210
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: like losing your left tackle is huge. But but every

1211
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: every team is dealing with something like this somewhere and

1212
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: can they overcome it? UM. I don't love their defense,

1213
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: but yes they can. This NFC side of the board,

1214
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 1: it's nothing close to the a f C s. We

1215
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:37,439
Speaker 1: can lift up teams like the Rams and and fill

1216
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: in the blank, but the Packers have an easier course

1217
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: than almost any a f C team would. This is

1218
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: an interesting game too, because you look at the final score,

1219
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: six team oh blowout, just like we all predicted, which

1220
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 1: is why all three of us locked up the Packers.

1221
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: It just felt like Green Bay, with a lot to

1222
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: play for, was going to bring the Bears down to Earth,

1223
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: who were on a three game winning streak, But it

1224
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: was against three of the worst defenses a football. It

1225
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: kind of played out that way. But this was also

1226
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: a game that was UM with eleven minutes to play

1227
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and Chicago has the ball. Uh.

1228
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: The drop by Valdes Scandling that I referred to came

1229
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. It was as bad as bad gets,

1230
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: the worst drop you'll see by any guy this season.

1231
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: It would have put the game essentially um on life support. Instead,

1232
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers takes a sack on third down. After that

1233
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: they have to punt it away and the Bears go

1234
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: on a fifteen play fifty one yard drive that takes

1235
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 1: up over eight minutes of the clock, and it ends

1236
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: on fourth and one at the Green Bay twenty five

1237
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: with an incompletion from Trabinsky to Allen Robinson and after

1238
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: that turnover on downs, which again chewed up more than

1239
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: half a quarter of game time. Uh, Chicago's defense gave

1240
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: up touchdown Mitch Drabinsky interception, Green Bay touchdown, game over.

1241
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the Bears are gonna do

1242
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: going forward. It's a It's an interesting situation because Trabinsky

1243
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: obviously played a lot better once he got his job back.

1244
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: But I I would sometimes we put too much into

1245
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 1: weeks seventeen, and by we I mean decision makers in

1246
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: the league. But I think Bears fans, Bears management, if

1247
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: they are thinking of giving Trabisky another chance on this team,

1248
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: should look very closely at this game compared to the

1249
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: other three games, because once the competition rose up, he

1250
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: was not able to play at the same level who

1251
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: was earlier this month. Well, they'll have next week's, you know,

1252
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: game against the Saints to look at. In that defense

1253
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: might find a way to solve miss Robinsky too. I mean,

1254
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: I I don't know who should be making those decisions.

1255
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't allow the GM to be making any and

1256
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: we don't know that for sure. Although there was a

1257
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: report Naggy is expected to be back, which makes me

1258
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: think Ryan Pace the GM is gonna be back. I

1259
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,360
Speaker 1: think making it to the playoffs will matter with this ownership,

1260
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: which is, you know, not known as the most active

1261
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: ownership in the world. You're you're also known as a

1262
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: sleep at the wheel. That's why it come one way

1263
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: to put it. You know, who wasn't asleep at the wheel?

1264
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: Old Dan Hansas, who had Aaron rodgers Um getting that

1265
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: All Pro I will recognize now would be stunning if

1266
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: he did not win m v P and First Team

1267
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: All Pro. And you you just mentioned La Fleur and

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Speaker 1: that got me thinking. You know, Mark, these voters send

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Speaker 1: in their votes this week. It's like, I think it's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's do Wednesday or Thursday, something like that.

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Speaker 1: It's before the playoff games. In the way the season

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Speaker 1: ended for Miami. Who would have been my pick um

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Speaker 1: Floor Brian Flores. I think he still would. I would

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Speaker 1: go floors in the way it ended for Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think Sean Payton will get some votes,

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Speaker 1: Stefanskill get some votes. I think La Fleur will get

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Speaker 1: some votes. It's it's pretty unpredictable, but I wouldn't wouldn't

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Speaker 1: shock me if La Fleur ends up winning that award,

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Speaker 1: and it would be well earned. He I mean, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Twenty six and six uh to start his career. In

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Speaker 1: the regular season, they won a playoff game last year,

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Speaker 1: got wiped out in the NFC title game. The way

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Speaker 1: the NFC sets up, and we'll get to the playoff

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Speaker 1: pick sure at the end of the show. Um, you

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Speaker 1: could definitely make the case for the Packers going back

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. UH, something they've fallen short on

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Speaker 1: ten years in a row. I'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: what happens now. One of those other superpowers in the

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Speaker 1: NFC is the Saints. They entered Sunday hoping for a

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Speaker 1: chance to swipe that number one overall seed, but they

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Speaker 1: needed help to do it. But first they had to

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Speaker 1: take care of the Panthers fakes. The handoff looks to

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Speaker 1: throw over the middle, touchdown right down the center of

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Speaker 1: the field. Zack Streeve w w L Drew Brees through

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Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. The Saints had five interceptions, Teddy

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater benched by Matt Rule, and New Orleans the feed

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Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers thirty three to seven. That locks

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Speaker 1: New Orleans into the number two seed and the Saints

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Speaker 1: yes will host the seventh seed at Chicago Bears in

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Speaker 1: next week's wild card round feels like a nice set

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Speaker 1: up for the Saints. Well, I'm gonna lock it up,

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Speaker 1: but hold up on that, hold off on that. But

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Speaker 1: I already like where you're going with that. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Saints were rocked by COVID madness in the days leading

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Speaker 1: up to this game. They lost their or most of

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Speaker 1: their entire running back room. But an elate, an elite

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Speaker 1: team like the Saints, they adapt and then they thrived.

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Speaker 1: So no Alvin Kamara, uh, no Latavious Murray all right,

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Speaker 1: entered Tie Montgomery, who ran for a hundred and five

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Speaker 1: yards on eighteen carries to get the Saints their twelfth win.

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Speaker 1: They swept the NFC South. That has never happened before.

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Speaker 1: How about that? The NFC South, which is famously, at

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Speaker 1: least until recent year, has been this ping pong type

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Speaker 1: division where nobody had even won back to back titles

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Speaker 1: in the first uh twenty some odd years of its existence,

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Speaker 1: where I guess it would be less than that about

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Speaker 1: fifteen years initially. Uh. Now the Saints have taken control

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Speaker 1: of this division and you're feeling good about them entering

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, Mark? Oh? Absolutely, and I think you

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Speaker 1: nailed it. The U the versatility to overcome losing Kamara

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Speaker 1: and the rest. I mean, you weren't playing a playoff

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Speaker 1: team today, but that doesn't matter. I mean, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's no small thing to lose a position group, and

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Speaker 1: the way that they fought through that, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I I look at someone like Emmanuel Sanders, who without

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Speaker 1: Mike Thomas once again, uh nine catches today's sixty three

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Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown. Not huge numbers, but he's had

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks like that where he stepped up

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Speaker 1: and they've found a way. Um as much as any

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Speaker 1: team in the league, I think to mask over star

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Speaker 1: players not being in the lineup, whether it's Breeze or

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Speaker 1: Mike Thomas fill in the blank. Um, they're extremely balanced.

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Speaker 1: Their defense is super concerning in the NFC if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with them, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would love to see them have this you know,

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Speaker 1: final trip with Drew Brees in the postseason, because I've

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Speaker 1: presumed it will be UM in New Orleans. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to go on the road at some point. Um,

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Speaker 1: But this team is this team is a tough out

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Speaker 1: and I think that there you have to look at

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Speaker 1: the way that They've three years in a row lost

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking playoff losses, that breaks franchises, that breaks teams. But

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Speaker 1: the combination of Sean Payton, Breeze and the rest of

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Speaker 1: this team is different. Right. I'm I'm so fascinated by

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Speaker 1: this team. I love the narratives. I mean, you said

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Speaker 1: it up. I mean, I just love the spot there

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01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 1: at It's so unique. It's it's one of the best

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Speaker 1: four year runs any organization has had the last two decades.

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Speaker 1: The the only other teams that you could possibly throw

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01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,680
Speaker 1: in there would be, you know, the Patriots, who you know,

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01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: made you know in one three super Bowls in those

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Speaker 1: four years. The Seahawks, who you know, we're in two

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01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 1: super Bowls in one one. The Chiefs of the last

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01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: four years, you know who, who have a chance to

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Speaker 1: go back and in one one and an ANFC championship game.

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Speaker 1: The Saints have like two lame playoff wins to show

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Speaker 1: for it, and they have a Hall of Fame quarterback

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Speaker 1: in his last year, and they have this class of

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Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen rookie group that's entering their you know

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Speaker 1: contract years came here, got resigned, but you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of like Alattimore and Hendricks and everything's blowing up here.

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Speaker 1: After the year, it's it's definitely gonna be a lot different.

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Speaker 1: There's just a lot on this to team. But I

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Speaker 1: like how they're coming into the playoffs, especially their lines.

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Speaker 1: Their offensive line can take over. And you never know.

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Speaker 1: The two seed matters mark because you say they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to go on the road eventually, you know, not

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Speaker 1: if the Packers losing the divisional round, they that's what

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Speaker 1: they gotta hope for there. And I think getting that

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Speaker 1: two seed does matter because it means the Saints, if

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Speaker 1: they can beat the Bears, get another home game in

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Speaker 1: the division round, and that's big. Yeah. Sean Payton has

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01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: done such a great job this season, navigating through everything,

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Speaker 1: including a slow start, especially by the defense, and then

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Speaker 1: the Drew Brees injury and then handling of the Taysom

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Speaker 1: Hill situation and Jamis Winston to get to twelve and

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Speaker 1: four again, I mean, the guy just knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: Like him or not. The Carolina Panthers finished five and eleven.

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Speaker 1: After the game at rule Um, he didn't put it,

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Speaker 1: he didn't label it an outright benching of Teddy Bridgewater.

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01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: He said that he felt that Bridgewater was lacking velocity

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Speaker 1: on his throws because he had an ankle injury earlier

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01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: in the game, which is why he the decision uh

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Speaker 1: to bring in his backup and and it was a

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01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: disaster for p J Walker, who came in and was

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01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: intercepted three times. So the Panthers, I think that's the

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Speaker 1: one other big story for them. They obviously are a

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Speaker 1: team that's rebuilding, and it's gonna be on Rule and

1389
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: whoever the new GM is to figure out what the

1390
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Speaker 1: quarterback room is gonna look like. You got the feeling

1391
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: it might look very different. I think it'll just be

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01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:26,839
Speaker 1: Teddy in a rookie, you know, just because Teddy's guaranteed

1393
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: so much money next year and it just makes sense

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Speaker 1: for them to add to add a rookie. They're they're

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01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,560
Speaker 1: gonna be in the top ten picks. They've asked to

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01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 1: interview Patriots personnel had Nick Cassario, which would be a

1397
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Speaker 1: very interesting hire if if that were to go down,

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Speaker 1: pairing him with Rule. I like that. I would like

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01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 1: that move. Um it's I like. I like this season

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Speaker 1: from the Panthers, I do. I also like that the

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01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: Saints were so unlucky that they somehow didn't get a

1402
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: buy there, like the first number two seed you know

1403
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: in the NFC too, I'm not gonna buy all right,

1404
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:04,680
Speaker 1: Let's uh continue uh to move, heading over to San

1405
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: Francisco where the Seattle Seahawks Harvard Slim hopes of being

1406
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:11,640
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC. Let's see how

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Speaker 1: their day turned out. So here we go to turn

1408
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Speaker 1: in hand Collins this time inside the ten, inside the five,

1409
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: pe dives touchdown Seahawks. So back it's up five. It

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01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,720
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Alex Collins is gonna punch it in for

1411
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: you anyway. Steve are abel k I r oh with

1412
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 1: the call. Alex Collins ran for eight yards an eight

1413
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,880
Speaker 1: yards score. Russell Wilson through two fourth quarter touchdown passes

1414
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: the Tyler Lockett, the Seahawks rally with three win over

1415
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:45,679
Speaker 1: the Niners. Uh. They end twelve and four, the Seahawks

1416
01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:48,840
Speaker 1: with a four game winning streak, but they are locked

1417
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: in at the number three seed because of the Saints

1418
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: and Packers winning. The Seahawks will host the rival Rams

1419
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 1: in the wild card round next weekend, Mark, how good

1420
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Speaker 1: do you feel about Seahawks after today's game? I would Um,

1421
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Speaker 1: I'm concerned about their offense. UM. It's it's almost like

1422
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 1: a flip inverse relation to where they were earlier in

1423
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: the year where the offense was. Um, we watched it

1424
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: through the air. We we had Russell Wilson pegged as

1425
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: a potential m v P because of how they were

1426
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: allowing him to play and how dk Metcalf and Tyler

1427
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: Lockett were playing, and the defense was all the concern.

1428
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, Locket today set a Seattle Seahawks record for

1429
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,840
Speaker 1: receptions in a season. Dk Metcalf set a franchise record

1430
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: for yardage in a season. But a lot of that

1431
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 1: has to do with the compiled numbers from earlier on.

1432
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: This team had a hundred and nine yards at the

1433
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: start of the fourth quarter. They couldn't run the ball. UM,

1434
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: and it took a very typical Seahawks finish of the

1435
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: two Tyler Lockett touchdowns and the Alex Collins um dash

1436
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: for a score. I mean, they came up late, UM

1437
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 1: in a game where you know, and I would put

1438
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: this a little bit into it's a divisional game against

1439
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and who uh and Robert Sala who. I thought, again,

1440
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: it's been weeks in a row coaching lights out. UM

1441
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: made things real tough for Seattle. Seattle made things tough

1442
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 1: for the Niners in in in in the opposite way.

1443
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: UM just sort of a typical NFC West beat down.

1444
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: And uh, you know this Niners team, they keep flashing

1445
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: to the box up in the sky where like seven

1446
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: star players are not in the game. I mean they're

1447
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: doing with nobody and Seattle. Um, you know, they worked

1448
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 1: themselves out of a funk to some degree. Do I

1449
01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: trust them right now? My trust to them is a

1450
01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: lot lower than it was a couple of weeks ago.

1451
01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: The one other thing I'd add is that Jamal Adams,

1452
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: who UM played really well today, he got he injured

1453
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: his shoulder, and Pete Carroll basically said, look at we're

1454
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 1: not we feel like you can play. We that will

1455
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 1: be decided in full next week. But um, uh you

1456
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: know that's something to monitor. But they they feel like

1457
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: he didn't. He avoided a major injury. At least six

1458
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: points in their first seven drives. You know, Russ had

1459
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: a hundred and one yards in his first four attempts. Now,

1460
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: part of it, I do think you're right, is because

1461
01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 1: they're the division and these teams, they know each other.

1462
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 1: I think they've got to beat a little bit on

1463
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: what Seattle does. But guess what They're in the division

1464
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: next week against the team that they just played two

1465
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 1: weeks ago, whose defense made Russell Wilson and the Seahawks

1466
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: offense look just as bad until they finally broke a

1467
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: midway through the fourth quarter last week. So it it's

1468
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: it's weird that the NFC West is actually the closest

1469
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 1: thing to the old NFC East or a f C North.

1470
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 1: They're like the last division defensive division kind of left,

1471
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: and it doesn't make any sense, but that's where the

1472
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:34,679
Speaker 1: Rams and the Seahawks and the forty niners, at least

1473
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: at right now, it just doesn't feel like it's trending

1474
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 1: in a good direction for the Seahawks. I agree that

1475
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,840
Speaker 1: Adam's injury, we'll see how serious it is, but it's

1476
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury and he came right out of the

1477
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:46,759
Speaker 1: game with it. He's obviously the key to that defense,

1478
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: and the offense has just been going in the wrong

1479
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,720
Speaker 1: direction for weeks now, and you have Brandon Stallion, that

1480
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: Rams defense that that feels like it sets up. Well. Now,

1481
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: we'll see if it's John Walford or Jared Goffin. We'll

1482
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: get into all that, uh this week. But that twelve

1483
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: and four record for Seattle and the division title, all,

1484
01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, positive and a really nice season. But it

1485
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:11,360
Speaker 1: is that the offense is disappearing act on some level

1486
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: in the second half. That really would have me most

1487
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: worried if I'm supporting Seattle, especially with the possible defenses

1488
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: that they're face, gonna be facing the Rams and then

1489
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: potentially the Saints. Then again, we were seeing teams flip

1490
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,559
Speaker 1: flip the switch. They gotta be happy they got back

1491
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 1: to this point with Russell Wilson once again, and all

1492
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: these veterans, they're they're in good position. Speaking of the

1493
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: Rams and John Wolford, he's hit as he throws its tent,

1494
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 1: it is caught, it is intercepted. Troy Hill, that's twenty

1495
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,560
Speaker 1: down the left sideline. He hits midfielding cuts to his

1496
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,719
Speaker 1: right in his space. Troy Hill at the twenty. Troy

1497
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 1: Hill at ten, stubbing the pay dirt A pitt Sits

1498
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: turned a half j B long the great JB along

1499
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:01,320
Speaker 1: with the ball for KSPN. Troy Hill picked off a

1500
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 1: pass from Chris Struggle little and took eighty four yards

1501
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 1: of the house. That was the defining play in the

1502
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: Rams eighteen to seven win over the Cardinals, in the

1503
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,879
Speaker 1: game that prominently featured back up arback's Greg John Woolford

1504
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: did pretty solid work in place of Jared Goff, accepting

1505
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: that opening interception and Kyler Murray will now plenty of

1506
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: time to heal up what looked like a pretty bank. Um. Yeah,

1507
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: it was disappointing that the Cardinal season ends, you know,

1508
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:31,560
Speaker 1: essentially with Kyler Murray injury and his ankle on the

1509
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: on the first drive of the game, he takes a sack,

1510
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:37,800
Speaker 1: his his ankle bends backward awkwardly. He has been struggling

1511
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: and and Straveler comes in there and it's the battle

1512
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 1: of the backups. Um, But I kind of thought it

1513
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: was about all the coaches too, And I would have

1514
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: said going into this game, Sean McVeigh had it all

1515
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: over Cliff Kingsbury. I'm a little down on Cliff, and

1516
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: I definitely think coming out of this game, Sean McVeigh

1517
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: has it all over Cliff Kingsbury. He didn't know he

1518
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: was gonna have his backup quarterback. To be fair to Kingsbury,

1519
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 1: but you know, they had nothing the Cardinals offense did.

1520
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: They had fifty six yards late in the third quarter.

1521
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: Is a tough matchup. Whereas the Rams were moving the ball,

1522
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: they were dominating this thing. It's weird that it took

1523
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 1: that pick six to get them finally into the lead.

1524
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:20,440
Speaker 1: But Wolford looked good. McVeigh you know, had him comfortable.

1525
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: It was an aggressive game. They could not run the

1526
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: ball at all, and they pretty much put it on

1527
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 1: Wolford's arm. And despite throwing a ghastly interception on his

1528
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 1: very first throw and you thought, oh my god, this

1529
01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: is gonna be a disaster, I thought he played great

1530
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 1: after that. He did a lot of the next level

1531
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: stuff with his legs and with his army. Next level, Yeah,

1532
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: I mean, here's what I mean, above the level he

1533
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:47,679
Speaker 1: was before. No, I mean like next level, like quality

1534
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:51,679
Speaker 1: quarterbacking stuff, like multiple times they hit third and long

1535
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: throwing it where he threw past the sticks multiple times,

1536
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: he went through his progressions and got to his second

1537
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:01,320
Speaker 1: um or third read and then with his legs, you know,

1538
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: he was the leading rusher in the game. He outgained

1539
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: the entire Cardinals team and he picked up you know,

1540
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: a couple third lines with his legs, So that was

1541
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 1: next level for a backup quarterback, and next level that

1542
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:13,599
Speaker 1: mattered too, because the Rams are banged up in their backfield.

1543
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:15,680
Speaker 1: They can't do what they were able to do a

1544
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 1: month ago with you know guys out of the lineup,

1545
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: and he had fifty six yards. Wilford and our friend

1546
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,560
Speaker 1: Jason Zumwalt, who friend of the show, who is a

1547
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: Cardinals fans, so not happy. But he texted us Dan

1548
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: and I early in the game suggesting that Wolford was

1549
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: essentially just a clone of Sean McVeigh, that he's just

1550
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: sort of Sean mcveigh's body and face in a helmet

1551
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 1: and it looks just like Sean McVeigh. Decided, I've had

1552
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 1: enough of Jared Goff. I'm gonna put myself out there.

1553
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: I could see it, and I don't know what. Yeah,

1554
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Jared Goff, of course had surgery. I

1555
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: think expected to play. They actually had tape of him

1556
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 1: throwing the ball quite well in pregame where I was like, wow,

1557
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: could he play because they had him throwing at twenty

1558
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:59,320
Speaker 1: five yards on the field to play. He is expected

1559
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: to play, I think, you know, based on what Jim

1560
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: Nance got from from McVeigh and and based on the

1561
01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 1: video they showed, I was like, wow, God was kind

1562
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: of spinning it today. Already interesting. Um, all right, so

1563
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 1: the Rams back in the dance, third time in four

1564
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: years under Sean McVeigh. Sorry about that, Mark, and we

1565
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,559
Speaker 1: now I am. I am not against that at all,

1566
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: and you're very entiled for them. That could be it.

1567
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: By the way, for Larry Fitzgerald and Patrick Peterson in Arizona,

1568
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: I think that it was a sad way to end. Fitzgerald.

1569
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 1: It wasn't even healthy enough to play today. Wolf. All right,

1570
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: let's head to Tampa. The staff Brady looking looking, looking flushed,

1571
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:41,240
Speaker 1: looking those up all I don't favor. It's caught by

1572
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. Flagthone, Brown will score touchdown, Tampa Bay touchdown,

1573
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay bucketeers. See what the flags all about? Part

1574
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: of cannae. Anyway, we got plenty of gun powder. This

1575
01:20:52,200 --> 01:21:01,560
Speaker 1: is the season for the alley. Yeah dreams a w

1576
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,680
Speaker 1: f us with a great call, Tom Brady through for

1577
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: three yards and four touchdowns. It's Tom Brady helping the

1578
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: playoff bound Bucks clinched the fifth seed in the NFC seven.

1579
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,400
Speaker 1: They whoop up on the Falcons, who aren't so younger

1580
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 1: under Aheam Morris anymore. That's four straight wins for the Bucks. Uh.

1581
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 1: They will get the NFC East champion on the road

1582
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: next weekend, Greg, Tampa Bay is right where it wants

1583
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 1: to be as second season Beckons. There they are because

1584
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:36,799
Speaker 1: they're like an offense first team that is just rolling.

1585
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: They lost Mike Evans during this game to a knee

1586
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,719
Speaker 1: injury that Bruce Arians said after the game. They're hopeful

1587
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 1: is is not that serious. I don't know what that means,

1588
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, reading, yeah, there were there reports that he

1589
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: did not have structural damage, so reading between the lines,

1590
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,679
Speaker 1: it might be a legament strain which could be anywhere

1591
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: from your back or a couple weeks. We'll see because

1592
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna do more tests. But the crazy thing is, like,

1593
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:08,639
Speaker 1: you don't miss Mike Evans that much. When Antonio Brown

1594
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: comes in and has his best game as a Buck,

1595
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: gets a couple of touchdowns, goes well over a hundred yards,

1596
01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: eleven catches, Chris Godwin does the same. Rob Gronkowski. You know,

1597
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: I we gave him them grief about Gronk looks better

1598
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,880
Speaker 1: than he's ever looked and like, no, that's not true. Man.

1599
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: He does look a lot faster right now. So you're

1600
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:34,560
Speaker 1: saying that the coach in the quarterback who is the

1601
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback of all time, actually know how to assess

1602
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 1: their own tight end, which we laughed at me or

1603
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,640
Speaker 1: days ago. I still laugh at it because he's not

1604
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:44,800
Speaker 1: the same guy he was. It's not that there are

1605
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: two different ways to look. Yeah, I don't think he's better,

1606
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: but there. They threw a screen for him today where

1607
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: he had juice running it that I really don't think

1608
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: he had even four or five weeks ago. He look,

1609
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: he only had two for twenty nine in this game.

1610
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:00,640
Speaker 1: But they didn't get stopped. The Falcons didn't stopped the

1611
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: Bucks except for one possession in the entire game. And

1612
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: that one possession that they stopped them was off a

1613
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: perfect throw for Tom Brady to Scotty Miller that went

1614
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: right in Miller's bread basket that just bounced up in

1615
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: the air and they got an interception. That that's how

1616
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: like unconscious they are on offense right now. The Falcons

1617
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: put up a great fight. It was thirty seven, uh,

1618
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: pretty late in this game, and they had been matching

1619
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: them and score for score, and it was just like

1620
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna they would have scored eighty points if

1621
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: they got more possessions. And and don't forget what the

1622
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 1: Falcons feisty Falcons defense did to the Chiefs seven days ago.

1623
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:38,760
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't a totally lost team. They they're

1624
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: playing hard for Morris. And so this Buck's offense, this

1625
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 1: is week's in a row now where like I, you know,

1626
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: you have to strip away doubts and just sort of

1627
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: wonder what their heights are. This is gonna be the

1628
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:54,679
Speaker 1: Buck's first postseason game in thirteen years, and it needs

1629
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:57,400
Speaker 1: to be said. You know that the Paths finished seven

1630
01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: and nine. They're going home. Tom Brady ends his first

1631
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 1: season in Tampa with forty touchdown passes. And I know

1632
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: we are in a pass happy NFL world, but that

1633
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 1: is an amazing season for a forty three year old man.

1634
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: And there were some peaks and valleys, of course, uh

1635
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: for the Bucks the season on offense, but Brady played

1636
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 1: sixteen games and ends with forty touchdowns. The Bucks are

1637
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: getting for what it was a two years and fifty

1638
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: million whatever that deal was worth, every penny for what

1639
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 1: he has brought to this organization and now they're gonna

1640
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,479
Speaker 1: be playing January football that matters. That's uh, that's a

1641
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: big deal. Unbelievable. Gotta respect. Listen, I am a Torture

1642
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: Jets fan, Greg, But you know what, I love the

1643
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady gets out of New England and I get

1644
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: to appreciate him like other people on the outside, just

1645
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 1: for what he's been able to do. Because you look

1646
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:45,920
Speaker 1: at what he was doing at the end of his

1647
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 1: New England run, it looked like a guy in decline.

1648
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 1: And he's still He's not the same guy was six

1649
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: or seven years ago. But this has been a really

1650
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:56,439
Speaker 1: strong year and I think he would have Like that's

1651
01:24:56,479 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 1: the thing. It says more about where the Patriots offense

1652
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,120
Speaker 1: was at. Look, I don't think Tom Brady in New

1653
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: England would have been that much better this year. That

1654
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: was the worst, you know, set of characters in the

1655
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: entire NFL. Like, I think that would have probably been

1656
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: a disaster, maybe a slightly better disaster, uh than seven

1657
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 1: and nine, But I don't think they would have made

1658
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs with Tom Brady. He's the best forty three

1659
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 1: year old player of all time. I mean, it's it's

1660
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: not even he was a top ten quarterback this year.

1661
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 1: He's even at a diminished level, he is a top

1662
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,360
Speaker 1: ten quarterback. And when you say right now, his arm

1663
01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:29,680
Speaker 1: in certain ways is as good as it's been all year,

1664
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean it's deep. Passing is stronger over the last

1665
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: three weeks than it was at any point in the

1666
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 1: season for the most and they got and they got

1667
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: a nice set up with the schedule here in terms

1668
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. And one thing to keep in mind

1669
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: their defense not playing as well. But they were without

1670
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 1: three starters, including Devin White and JPP because of COVID.

1671
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: But those players, like some of the Browns players, are

1672
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: uncertain for next week depending on the timing of when

1673
01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: they come off the COVID list. So that's that's gonna

1674
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,479
Speaker 1: be something we're tracking. All right. Let's wrap up by

1675
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 1: spinning through the carnage of the NFC East. Let's start

1676
01:26:03,320 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: in the Metal ends, third and goal at the seventeen

1677
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:11,280
Speaker 1: of the Giants dalk back to throw Nobody's open. He

1678
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 1: slides to his left. Now he side arms it into

1679
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: the end zone and it's intercepted by the Giants, picked

1680
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: off by Xavier McKinney. The rookie against his first career

1681
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: interception that seals the deal for Pick Blue. With one

1682
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 1: fifteen to go, Bob Papa played them bongos for w

1683
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: f A and Leonard Williams applied the pressure. Andy Dalton

1684
01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 1: threw up the desperation balloon and rookie Xavier McKinney came

1685
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: down with the ball in the end zone with one

1686
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: fifteen to play. One Giant's first down in some ridiculous

1687
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:48,679
Speaker 1: Wayne Gallman fumble recovery later, and the Jilans stayed alive

1688
01:26:48,760 --> 01:26:51,880
Speaker 1: in the NFC race with three to nineteen win over

1689
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Greg the Cowboys never failed to let down

1690
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: in the Big n I mean, just when you you

1691
01:27:00,479 --> 01:27:02,800
Speaker 1: think you've seen it all as as a Cowboys fan,

1692
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 1: if you know for them out there you're losing this game.

1693
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:09,240
Speaker 1: That Jason Garrett, I mean, that just puts a little

1694
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 1: extra sauce in your your pants. How about how about

1695
01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: what it's been a long day? What kind of sauce?

1696
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 1: It's some bad sauce, A little bit extra though. I mean,

1697
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: it's just like this was Jason an outside sorcerers. Did

1698
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: he create the sauce? Don't look too deep into art

1699
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:32,959
Speaker 1: sometimes just accept what it is, uh week Week seventeen,

1700
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: that this was Jason Garrett's move from thirteen. This was

1701
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:38,160
Speaker 1: like what they did every year was they'd get to

1702
01:27:38,240 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, they put them on Sunday night and they

1703
01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: would blow it. They didn't put this one on Sunday night.

1704
01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:45,560
Speaker 1: But man, you were watching this game knowing that the

1705
01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: winner could be the NFC East champion and the loser

1706
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: gets eliminated. And so there was that that feeling. But

1707
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 1: then there was another part of me that's watching it

1708
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:58,880
Speaker 1: like these teams stink like I watched like they looked

1709
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 1: every bit five and end and six and nine trying

1710
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 1: to blow the game back and forth. And and Mike

1711
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 1: McCarthy really ended on a down note by not challenging

1712
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 1: this this play that seemed like a pretty clear overturn

1713
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 1: that helped the Giants kick a field goal that made

1714
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 1: it four. He also didn't go for two. The fans

1715
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 1: are not happy with Mike McCarthy. Andy Dalton had a

1716
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 1: really rough game, was very lucky not to throw about

1717
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:24,600
Speaker 1: four or five interceptions. I'm glad the Giants won this

1718
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: game because they were the much better team today, but

1719
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:30,680
Speaker 1: but it it carries through another week where you know. Now,

1720
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say confidently because we've been tricked so many

1721
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,719
Speaker 1: times that we're cautious to speak at this point about

1722
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 1: the NFC East, But thinking, you know, twenty four hours ago,

1723
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: this Dallas team is the team that could you know,

1724
01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:45,120
Speaker 1: do some damage if they click on offense, and you

1725
01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: know a week ago, Andy Dalton looks great today. He

1726
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: in the first half rout for three point three yards

1727
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: per carries, throwing passes all over the place. Um, is

1728
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:55,040
Speaker 1: that the Giants defense doing that? Or is that the

1729
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys just being totally um, you know, inconsistent And watching

1730
01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:01,880
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's interview after that game, I mean, it is

1731
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 1: a man with a thousand yards stair. Very few people

1732
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: seem to need a vacation as much as him without

1733
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: deserving one. Um, yes, no vacation for you, Mike McCarthy.

1734
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 1: I think I've been burned by the Cowboys so many

1735
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:17,880
Speaker 1: times on this podcast for getting sucked into those little

1736
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: mini um spurts of relevant relevance. Um, this time, I

1737
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 1: stay it out of it because they did again. They're

1738
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 1: so obvious about it now that they do it just

1739
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: to get people to get sucked in and then they

1740
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,200
Speaker 1: lay the egg and you say to yourself, how did

1741
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:36,439
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team come out of the one that we

1742
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:39,719
Speaker 1: saw last week where the three wide receivers were going

1743
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:41,839
Speaker 1: nuts and Andy Dalton is throwing the ball with authority.

1744
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: That's what the Cowboys do now, That's what they've been

1745
01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: doing for decades now. They're just an up and down

1746
01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 1: mediocre organization in terms of their ability to put out

1747
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:55,280
Speaker 1: a winning product. And it happened again, uh in. And

1748
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: come next summer, you're gonna hear if Dak Prescott's back there,

1749
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear about Ced Lamb and year two

1750
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: who had a huge drop by the way right before

1751
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:05,599
Speaker 1: that interception. You're gonna hear about how the Cowboys are

1752
01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:08,000
Speaker 1: back and they're gonna be and then they'll suck everybody

1753
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: in again and then the same thing will happen. It's

1754
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 1: just enough the Cowboys for the coverage they get. It's

1755
01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:17,880
Speaker 1: time to actually put together a real team that we

1756
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:20,600
Speaker 1: could take seriously. This was not the team. And and

1757
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,800
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones doing all the same moves. Saturday night, we

1758
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 1: learned that he signed Kellen Moore to this like big time,

1759
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:30,640
Speaker 1: like one of the highest paid offensive coordinators in the

1760
01:30:31,080 --> 01:30:34,800
Speaker 1: in the league after Moore's agent pretty transparently used the

1761
01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:38,720
Speaker 1: Boise State you know, his alum maybe maybe intended to

1762
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: possibly go to Boise State, but the end result was

1763
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: they used Boise State to get a ton of money

1764
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,519
Speaker 1: out of Jerry. That puts Mike McCarthy in the bad spot.

1765
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:48,680
Speaker 1: That's what they did with Jason Garrett back in the day.

1766
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 1: To Wade Phillips, they they gave Jason Garrett the money.

1767
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Like it all, just like it keeps repeating itself. I

1768
01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 1: knocked my water over. Okay. So the Giants win on

1769
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:04,240
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, but to win the putrid NFC East with

1770
01:31:04,360 --> 01:31:06,959
Speaker 1: a six and ten record, they would need the Washington

1771
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 1: football team to fall to the Eagles. Did it happen?

1772
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 1: Sunday night? Fall? Lets loose Young picks it up Scott

1773
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:23,840
Speaker 1: is here and rides him out of out of the

1774
01:31:23,920 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line. Can you believe it? They get

1775
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 1: a big break and they give it right back two

1776
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 1: plays later. That's the story of the game. On Sunday night,

1777
01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: Nate Sudfell replaces Jalen Hurts with thirty five to play

1778
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and immediately goes into the tank

1779
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 1: of the Eagle's offense does the interception by Sudfeld followed

1780
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:54,679
Speaker 1: by and Alex Smith pick that led to sun Felt

1781
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:57,519
Speaker 1: unable to handle a shotgun snack. Chase Young recovers it,

1782
01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:02,320
Speaker 1: Washington takes it from their final score fourteen and the

1783
01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 1: football team, at seven and nine, claimed the NFC East.

1784
01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: And good for Washington, who won five of the last

1785
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:16,320
Speaker 1: seven games to take this sad division, and good for

1786
01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. One of the great comeback stories in the

1787
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 1: history of our league. But that is not what people

1788
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 1: are talking about immediately after this game to markets. Yeah,

1789
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, uh, you bring Sudfeld in.

1790
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:35,600
Speaker 1: Your quarterback of the future is Jalen hurts um And

1791
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 1: they want to under the guys of wanting to get

1792
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:39,559
Speaker 1: a look at Sudfelder has been on the roster since

1793
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:42,599
Speaker 1: seen so a lot of new information to be gleaned.

1794
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 1: Of course, in this situation, I find it um utterly absurd,

1795
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:47,560
Speaker 1: And I you know, I've got got a bunch of

1796
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: smart um you know, whipper snappers telling me, don't you

1797
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: see that they want to secure their draft pick this

1798
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: or that. Okay, look um, that's your freedom. But I

1799
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:00,280
Speaker 1: just think that there is uh something to be said

1800
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:02,680
Speaker 1: about a code in the NFL that you don't do that?

1801
01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:04,840
Speaker 1: And and and it's also just to me, what are

1802
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:07,920
Speaker 1: you You're putting Nate's sunfelt sud Felt into a tough position,

1803
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: And all I needed to look at was the faces

1804
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:14,799
Speaker 1: of the Eagles offensive lineman and other players along the sideline,

1805
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:17,519
Speaker 1: including Jalen Hurts the other game, just wondering what is

1806
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:20,639
Speaker 1: going on here and the reaction of players not only

1807
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: just on the Giants but around the league. I think

1808
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: it's an absurd um way to handle a totally broken

1809
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:29,560
Speaker 1: season in Philadelphia. Um. And it leads me just to

1810
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:31,880
Speaker 1: wonder what on earth Doug Peterson was up to? Is

1811
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 1: he smarter than I am and all of us? I

1812
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:35,599
Speaker 1: don't know. I I found it to be a really

1813
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 1: ill note to end the Eagles season on and the

1814
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 1: Giants and Washington's well, it's gonna be a great chapter

1815
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 1: in the sequel to Doug Peterson's book, you know, with

1816
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 1: that he really he really knew what was going on. Fearless. Wait,

1817
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,439
Speaker 1: let's let's give credit where credits due. It's pretty fearless

1818
01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:58,200
Speaker 1: putting Nate Sudfeld into a game that is still within

1819
01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:00,880
Speaker 1: striking disser. It's saying you don't give a flying crap

1820
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:03,439
Speaker 1: what anyone thinks, so I'll give them that, yeah, or

1821
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: or that you don't really care about winning the game,

1822
01:34:06,439 --> 01:34:10,000
Speaker 1: so that that's why everyone's upset. And it totally understandable

1823
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: why why everyone's upset. But they told me they weren't

1824
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:17,040
Speaker 1: really that interested in the game before it started, So

1825
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:20,880
Speaker 1: these are these are weird lines. And I do think

1826
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:24,280
Speaker 1: you're not doing right by your players that are out

1827
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:28,320
Speaker 1: there competing by having a plan. And it sounds like,

1828
01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:31,320
Speaker 1: according to Al Michael's and Chris Collins were that the

1829
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: plan all along was to bring Sudfeld in, which we

1830
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Mike Garafolo indicated um something to this nature,

1831
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:42,439
Speaker 1: not not totally specific, but thought we'd see Sudfeld. So

1832
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:45,160
Speaker 1: they wanted to look at Sudfeld. Now they now Alan

1833
01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:48,040
Speaker 1: Chris asked Peterson, why would you really do that if

1834
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,720
Speaker 1: like the game's close, and yeah, he didn't answer that

1835
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: question to them, and apparently they answered yes, And it's

1836
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:55,519
Speaker 1: it kind of makes a mockery of the other players,

1837
01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 1: but teams do this stuff all the time. Players who

1838
01:34:58,280 --> 01:35:01,720
Speaker 1: finished last week's Eagles game, we're just ruled out for

1839
01:35:01,800 --> 01:35:06,200
Speaker 1: this game. Um, it's a little different pulling obviously superior

1840
01:35:06,240 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 1: player in the middle. And it's such an annoying way

1841
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:12,519
Speaker 1: for the season to end, for this NFC East crown

1842
01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 1: to be given uh to Washington, but it's kind of fitting.

1843
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:18,240
Speaker 1: I can't believe NFL got to two fifty six all

1844
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:21,160
Speaker 1: the games in time, but man, they're like limping to

1845
01:35:21,240 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 1: the end these last couple of Browns weeks like this

1846
01:35:24,080 --> 01:35:26,200
Speaker 1: has not been great football. And anyone that watched the

1847
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 1: Giants Cowboys like I don't feel bad for those two teams.

1848
01:35:28,600 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 1: They're dreadful too, right, I mean they they dug their

1849
01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: own grave in double digit lost season. So the Giants

1850
01:35:35,080 --> 01:35:37,600
Speaker 1: fans have the right to be frustrated right now and

1851
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:40,960
Speaker 1: upset with Doug Peterson. But ultimately, Doug Peterson didn't do

1852
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 1: this to the Giants organization did by not fielding a

1853
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:47,040
Speaker 1: better team. Also, Doug Peterson, I don't agree with it

1854
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: at all. I think, yes, there's there should be some

1855
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 1: type of code. You're playing in prime time, you're representing

1856
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:56,000
Speaker 1: the league and your team, and you have a really competitive,

1857
01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 1: not great football game, but a competitive football game going on.

1858
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 1: Jalen Herbs is an exciting young rookie quarterback and to

1859
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:05,639
Speaker 1: just remove him from the equation, uh, it doesn't pass

1860
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:08,120
Speaker 1: the smell test. It also could have helped if Nate

1861
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:11,000
Speaker 1: Sudfeld looked at all prepared to play when he came

1862
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:12,760
Speaker 1: in the game, the guy for a guy that's a

1863
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:15,880
Speaker 1: technically a three year veteran. I understand part of the

1864
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:19,000
Speaker 1: reason Doug wanted to get a look was because Nate

1865
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:21,519
Speaker 1: hadn't had a lot of opportunity to play well. I

1866
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: don't know what Doug saw in this quarter that's in

1867
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 1: that quarter of play that's gonna help. And it also

1868
01:36:27,600 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: felt like part of something um ichier around the Eagles

1869
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:36,360
Speaker 1: right now that this happens on the same day, uh,

1870
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:40,679
Speaker 1: that a report comes out that the relationship between Doug

1871
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 1: Peterson and Carson Wentz is fractured and we see the

1872
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:48,880
Speaker 1: divorce coming between the former franchise quarterback and the head coach.

1873
01:36:49,240 --> 01:36:52,559
Speaker 1: They make Carson Wentz inactive a healthy scratch. They don't

1874
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 1: want to risk getting him hurt. And then it felt

1875
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:57,680
Speaker 1: like almost like a show, like, Oh, this is my

1876
01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm Doug Peterson, this is my situation. Jalen Hurts is

1877
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:02,720
Speaker 1: my quarterback of the future, but I want to get

1878
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:04,720
Speaker 1: Nate Subtfeld in there to see if I have my

1879
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,400
Speaker 1: backup of the future, because I know it's not Carson

1880
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:11,120
Speaker 1: Wentz because our relationship is fractured, and it all felt

1881
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:14,320
Speaker 1: a little bit ugly and really a tough way for

1882
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 1: the Eagle season to end. You feel for the players

1883
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,360
Speaker 1: who compete and wanted to win on national television tonight.

1884
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I would like, you know, to flip it

1885
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: a little bit, like, UM, yeah, you at least we

1886
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 1: get a seven win UM NFC East winner. I guess

1887
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 1: that's something. UM. And there are a lot of good

1888
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,800
Speaker 1: stories for Washington and we've been over them countless times

1889
01:37:32,840 --> 01:37:34,760
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith and Ron Rivera. So it's not to

1890
01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: take anything away from from them, and they I think

1891
01:37:38,200 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: they probably are the best team in this division. I

1892
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:44,960
Speaker 1: although I'm so things like that like they I and

1893
01:37:45,040 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna move off my prediction that I've had

1894
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: for months that um, the Bucks will lose to the

1895
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 1: NFC East. I don't that at this point when you

1896
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:57,519
Speaker 1: can't know, you can't and then you're thick with it

1897
01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:00,920
Speaker 1: because it might still be proven right, could have it

1898
01:38:00,960 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: could happen. All I would say one thing. It's like

1899
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:05,680
Speaker 1: you had other chances during a terrible year to get

1900
01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: a look at Nate Sudfeld. I get it look at also.

1901
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 1: By the way, when when April comes and they're in

1902
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,559
Speaker 1: the first round picking at number six versus number nine,

1903
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people will be telling us how smart

1904
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:19,040
Speaker 1: and cunning that was. I mean that this the story

1905
01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:22,760
Speaker 1: will flip and suddenly they'll be celebrated for their Why

1906
01:38:22,880 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 1: why big of a deal? Yeah? Is it that? Here's

1907
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,640
Speaker 1: the thing that Washington had two eight yards in this

1908
01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: game against the Eagles backups um Smith wasn't wasn't wasn't

1909
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 1: careful with the football in this game. There was not

1910
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: a lot to take out of the offense here. No

1911
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 1: if and if you follow any Washington fans or read

1912
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 1: the reply to some of the reporters, I mean, it's

1913
01:38:45,680 --> 01:38:48,599
Speaker 1: a heartwarming. Alex Smith is a heartwarming story for everyone,

1914
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: except for Washington fans who are who I have noticed,

1915
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,640
Speaker 1: are sick of watching him check down on plays. And

1916
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 1: they and the reporters covering the team kept saying, you know,

1917
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 1: updating all must every drive that oh Taylor Heineke is

1918
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:04,559
Speaker 1: not coming in this drive. I guess they were under

1919
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 1: the assumption that was possible, that like maybe Heinek would

1920
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: come in UM for Alex sand I think the Giants

1921
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 1: had probably the highest upside, but who who the heck?

1922
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: I mean maybe Ron Rivera just Um just held off

1923
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 1: on a real craving to get a look at Tyler

1924
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: heineke H with the division on the line in minutes

1925
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:24,719
Speaker 1: to go, please and and Greg. When we talked about

1926
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:27,559
Speaker 1: the Bucks earlier, you said they got a nice matchup,

1927
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:30,240
Speaker 1: they get the NFC East winner, And yeah, I think

1928
01:39:30,280 --> 01:39:32,280
Speaker 1: the Bucks are a safe pick to advance out of

1929
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:35,439
Speaker 1: the first round. But you know that pass rush they

1930
01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:38,519
Speaker 1: get hot. Tom Brady sometimes can look lost when he's

1931
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:41,719
Speaker 1: got pressure coming at him. In his forties. That could

1932
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:45,200
Speaker 1: be a lower scoring game than people might think, despite

1933
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:48,120
Speaker 1: what Tampa Bay has done the last few weeks. But

1934
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:51,320
Speaker 1: we will have time to talk about that. Um. Alright,

1935
01:39:51,439 --> 01:39:55,040
Speaker 1: So Washington Wensley's I haven't said I'd never said there

1936
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 1: are word once this entire season. I just want to

1937
01:39:57,080 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 1: say that when Alan Chris are saying it repeatedly, the

1938
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:02,679
Speaker 1: old Juicer went to fifty six, never said the R word.

1939
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:05,040
Speaker 1: I think I had an a plus record on that too.

1940
01:40:05,320 --> 01:40:08,360
Speaker 1: You go Sessler nailed it as well. Greg fourteen times.

1941
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't think I have it right here on my notes.

1942
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:20,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's spin forward. It's been you don't think,

1943
01:40:20,840 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 1: but he did. Alright, let's spin forward. This was. This

1944
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,200
Speaker 1: has been branded by the NFL. And again I like

1945
01:40:27,360 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: to think that we are plugged in fellows to the

1946
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:35,599
Speaker 1: league and also through our connection with our fans, both

1947
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:38,400
Speaker 1: of this podcast and the writing side of things, like

1948
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 1: we might have some, um, I don't know, some type

1949
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:44,840
Speaker 1: of creativity that we can offer to the NFL when

1950
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:47,280
Speaker 1: they say, hey, we want to brand this weekend of

1951
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 1: upcoming playoff weekend in a different way. Nobody did. And

1952
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:54,920
Speaker 1: now we're learning that has been branded Super wild Card Weekend.

1953
01:40:55,240 --> 01:40:58,120
Speaker 1: How about that? Because there's three games on each day

1954
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 1: this year, because there's two extra playoff teams. Uh, it

1955
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:03,759
Speaker 1: is no longer wild Card Weekend. It is Super wild

1956
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:07,280
Speaker 1: Card Weekend. And here is what it's gonna look like.

1957
01:41:07,439 --> 01:41:11,559
Speaker 1: Saturday one a f C game, two NFC games. Starts

1958
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:15,719
Speaker 1: with Indie at Buffalo in the one oh five pm

1959
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:19,960
Speaker 1: time slot on CBS, then the NFC the Sandwich game

1960
01:41:19,960 --> 01:41:22,280
Speaker 1: in the middle of the Sandwich Los Angeles Rams at

1961
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:26,920
Speaker 1: Seattle for forty on Fox, so that will be Troy

1962
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: and Joe Buck. We hope Tony, Romo uh and Jim

1963
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:33,040
Speaker 1: Nance will be together on the early game, but Romo

1964
01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 1: uh COVID nineteen will see what happens late game Saturday,

1965
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at Giants, NBC. Then on Sunday, and this

1966
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 1: is this is notable. That would be news if they're

1967
01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 1: out the Giants. But I think you means, excuse me,

1968
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:50,320
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at Washington Football Team Sunday, The early game Baltimore, Tennessee.

1969
01:41:50,400 --> 01:41:54,160
Speaker 1: That's an ESPN, ABC joint. The middle game four forty

1970
01:41:54,280 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: Eastern Chicago at New Orleans on CBS, and then the

1971
01:41:59,200 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: Closer or Cessler the Closer Cleveland at Pittsburgh on NBC.

1972
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:08,760
Speaker 1: And it should be noted Alvin Kamara um arguably the

1973
01:42:08,800 --> 01:42:11,560
Speaker 1: best running back in football, who got sent to the

1974
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:15,760
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list. He tested positive. I don't know if

1975
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 1: this has changed, but I had read yesterday that if

1976
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:20,960
Speaker 1: the Saints played on Saturday next week he would not

1977
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 1: be able to clear protocol. But if they played Sunday,

1978
01:42:24,040 --> 01:42:26,640
Speaker 1: which they are, he may be available next week. That

1979
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:28,559
Speaker 1: that's a story. He also has to be healthy enough

1980
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:32,200
Speaker 1: to play. He was not a close contact COVID list.

1981
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:36,280
Speaker 1: He was I have COVID list guy. So big weekend

1982
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: of football coming up. You made it to the final um,

1983
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: to the Final nine, Mark I. I you know when

1984
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:45,160
Speaker 1: I when I used to have root for teams that

1985
01:42:45,160 --> 01:42:47,760
Speaker 1: would make the playoffs, or I remember when I was

1986
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:50,519
Speaker 1: like a Yukon basketball fan. You know, I liked if

1987
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 1: they were in the Elite eight game in Sunday afternoon

1988
01:42:53,040 --> 01:42:54,599
Speaker 1: because I was like, well, I'm I'm one of five

1989
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,799
Speaker 1: fan bases left still rooting for a team that's alive.

1990
01:42:58,040 --> 01:43:00,599
Speaker 1: The Browns will be one of the nine teams still

1991
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:03,600
Speaker 1: alive for the Super Bowl late Sunday afternoon. You've been

1992
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:06,080
Speaker 1: guaranteed that. Well, I'm you know, I'm glad they didn't

1993
01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:08,639
Speaker 1: get the you know, the Andy Dalton versus the Texans

1994
01:43:08,760 --> 01:43:13,080
Speaker 1: spot on Saturday, like ten am, Um, you're right, it's Steve.

1995
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:15,240
Speaker 1: You got Alan Chris. By the way, they did Confervent

1996
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:17,839
Speaker 1: the Alan Chris game. Mike Terrico is doing the Saturday

1997
01:43:17,920 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 1: night game. It's also about three minutes before we start

1998
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 1: our podcast, so there could be some raw emotions coming

1999
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 1: off of that. I would just say the super wild

2000
01:43:25,479 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: Card weekend. I don't know what what we're critiquing here.

2001
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:30,600
Speaker 1: I feel like the message was stretched the bounds of

2002
01:43:30,720 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: human creativity, and I think box checked. Call it like, uh, divorce,

2003
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:42,599
Speaker 1: you know, divorce weekend. You know it's a lot of football. Well, yes,

2004
01:43:43,120 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 1: and we are not going to jinx this because yes,

2005
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:48,560
Speaker 1: now it's the playoffs and there are a lot of

2006
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:50,640
Speaker 1: games to play in The NFL has not bubbled up

2007
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 1: or done anything like that, so we are hardly in

2008
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:54,720
Speaker 1: the clear on code. But just to make it out

2009
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 1: of the regular season and get to fifty six played, um,

2010
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:01,960
Speaker 1: that is my her miracle. It's a great slate, by

2011
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: the way, I mean, other than that NFC East game,

2012
01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:06,639
Speaker 1: you know, the Washington get in there, those other five

2013
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:10,200
Speaker 1: games all look great to me. I don't know, Chicago

2014
01:44:10,240 --> 01:44:12,639
Speaker 1: New Orleans doesn't do the whole. I guess, I guess

2015
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,599
Speaker 1: I take it back. And I've seen the ram even

2016
01:44:16,640 --> 01:44:19,400
Speaker 1: though I'm intrigued by the Rams. Um, I've seen the

2017
01:44:19,560 --> 01:44:23,400
Speaker 1: Rams Seattle like defensive struggle a couple of times this year,

2018
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 1: and I feel like I've watched every single Seattle game

2019
01:44:26,280 --> 01:44:30,080
Speaker 1: on an isolated island on Prime just it's NonStop Seahawks,

2020
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:32,880
Speaker 1: but I'm glad for them, happy for you Seattle. Yeah,

2021
01:44:32,920 --> 01:44:35,040
Speaker 1: but there's no there are no complaints about the a

2022
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 1: f C wild Card weekend. That is going to be

2023
01:44:37,400 --> 01:44:39,240
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch, all right, So there

2024
01:44:39,320 --> 01:44:41,680
Speaker 1: you go. We've done it all, we've said it all.

2025
01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:46,439
Speaker 1: And as we take this at eleven forty two pm

2026
01:44:46,479 --> 01:44:49,920
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, only Adam Gates has been let

2027
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:53,360
Speaker 1: go UM as coach. He is now the fourth coach

2028
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:56,680
Speaker 1: that's been fired UM and there are usually a couple more.

2029
01:44:56,880 --> 01:45:00,560
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor should be noted a report from Florio on

2030
01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 1: NBC that he may not be safe. All this up

2031
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: in the air right now as we record this, and

2032
01:45:05,680 --> 01:45:09,599
Speaker 1: that's why we have a special around the NFL podcast

2033
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:14,560
Speaker 1: episode coming up earlier than usual late Monday. Will tape it.

2034
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: It is the New Horizons Monday podcast. We don't call it,

2035
01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:24,519
Speaker 1: we don't call it Black Monday. It's New Horizons maybe

2036
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:27,920
Speaker 1: because opportunities abound us, so we will break down all

2037
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:32,320
Speaker 1: the movements probably on Monday. Maybe Greg, maybe nothing's happening

2038
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:34,559
Speaker 1: on Monday, and we'll say maybe, we'll wait to Tuesday.

2039
01:45:35,080 --> 01:45:38,679
Speaker 1: But either way, the New Horizons podcast coming up next

2040
01:45:38,720 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: we'll be flexible listener. If you're a listener, you need

2041
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:44,240
Speaker 1: to be flexible. And well, we gave them the best

2042
01:45:44,280 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 1: decision a lot to listen to today. So you got

2043
01:45:46,600 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 1: to crank through this one quickly, crank it. Send it

2044
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Speaker 1: up to two times uh in terms of velocity of

2045
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Speaker 1: the show, all right, velocity of the show. Okay, it's

2046
01:45:57,479 --> 01:45:59,479
Speaker 1: definitely time. Been a long day. It's been a long day,

2047
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:03,639
Speaker 1: all right. This is Dan Anson signing off for Quiet Storm,

2048
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Speaker 1: the old Boss, the Mailman, the Pipe, and of course

2049
01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:10,840
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood behind the virtual glass, who's going to do

2050
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:14,479
Speaker 1: excellent producing work. I know she will on this mega

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Speaker 1: app alright, everybody until Tuesday when maybe Monday, stay tuned.