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Speaker 1: an odd start to the really Jackets start. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: week fourteen, and we talked about it um on Thursday's
Speaker 1: preview show that we had some A plus games and
Speaker 1: a minus game. That's a Sunday night game we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about. We had a B plus game and then
Speaker 1: a bunch of filler. But you know what, when it's
Speaker 1: July and when you're watching preseason games and taking them
Speaker 1: too seriously, you're gonna miss even these bad games, Greg.
Speaker 1: In the regular season, you're gonna miss him if you
Speaker 1: missed the bigger games more. And this is what we've
Speaker 1: been building to absolutely and uh yeah, So we have
Speaker 1: some games. You know, the complexion of both the a
Speaker 1: f C and the NFC at top Uh, those conferences
Speaker 1: shifted with those big games, and it's getting interesting down
Speaker 1: in the wild card hunt. Greg, this is where you
Speaker 1: really shine. You're the You're our conscience, You're our guide
Speaker 1: mathematically when it comes to figure out who's in, who's out,
Speaker 1: who's on the rise, who's start to see how conscience
Speaker 1: plays the factory. Okay, so let us get into it,
Speaker 1: and let's start with Really, I gotta say, in all
Speaker 1: my years at the NFL one of the best games
Speaker 1: I ever watched. The newsroom. It occurred down in New
Speaker 1: Orleans the Superdome. To be exact, Ritchie James, you're you're right,
Speaker 1: drop him back? He throws on left talk. George Kindled
Speaker 1: on the sideline, party lunch by a man, stiff ards
Speaker 1: a man still push it out, flag three flax to
Speaker 1: may they make it charge for a personal file on
Speaker 1: the stiff firm? Marcus, will you grab his face mask? Face?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a penalty on New Orleans. George Kindle
Speaker 1: went crazy on the play, caught it, ran down the sideline,
Speaker 1: did stiff firm? On a fourth down they got the
Speaker 1: Baltic Kittle on the outcut, went down the sideline and
Speaker 1: that was Marcus Williams who gave up the Minneapolis miracle.
Speaker 1: You just lost the game for the Saint Papa Tim
Speaker 1: Ryan forty Niners Radio Network. Yes, Jimmy Garoppola's clutch completion
Speaker 1: to George Kittle, who rumbles thirty nine yards, gets that
Speaker 1: penalty the face mask on top of it. Marcus Williams,
Speaker 1: Poor Marcus Williams with the call leads to Robbie Gold's
Speaker 1: game winning kick and an all time classic at the Superdome.
Speaker 1: The Niners pull out at six win over the Saints,
Speaker 1: a game that, as of when we're talking in this
Speaker 1: very moment, moves the Niners into the number one seed
Speaker 1: in the NFC, it knocks the Saints out. And um,
Speaker 1: this was just a classic, classic shootout. And sometimes, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point to um, the Rams Chief shootout last November. Um,
Speaker 1: sometimes when I watch these type of games where they're
Speaker 1: going back and forth in the field, it starts to
Speaker 1: say a little exhaustion sets in. It feels like we're
Speaker 1: not even watching football anymore. It's like we're watching bon
Speaker 1: Jovi's arena league team or something, and it kind of
Speaker 1: doesn't feel good. By the way. Yeah, yeah, thirty years
Speaker 1: great run, it's over now, Um, alright, And in this case,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that way. This just it was a
Speaker 1: great shootout and epic shootout. And with the Steaks what
Speaker 1: they are, these are both teams that will be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Um, But knowing how competitive the NFC is,
Speaker 1: how much was at Steak Beautiful and great quarterback performances
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. Just an excellent game.
Speaker 1: And I know you guys, um, I'm sure it kept
Speaker 1: an eye on this game. Uh. This was the game
Speaker 1: obviously that I drafted first overall. Um, if you didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to really soaking in, Uh, you have
Speaker 1: something to look forward to tomorrow to be about seventy
Speaker 1: two minutes long on game pass, So prepare yourself. But
Speaker 1: it will be a fun seventy two Uh. In fact,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the offense. This is a game. This
Speaker 1: is why football is funny slash stupid, is that everyone
Speaker 1: was talking about these two great defense. The Niners entered
Speaker 1: this game the number one defense in the league, um,
Speaker 1: statistically and you and what do you expect? You expect
Speaker 1: some big stops. Instead, each team traded touchdowns throughout the
Speaker 1: first half. There was one punt in the middle, but
Speaker 1: it was touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. And um, just an
Speaker 1: excellent game. And I just want to focus first since
Speaker 1: the Niners, one on Jimmy Garoppolo because he showed no
Speaker 1: fear in this game. This is the game where I've
Speaker 1: always been a fan of Garoppolo, but I always, you know,
Speaker 1: wondered if he's that next tier quarterback. He kind of
Speaker 1: had the he's always had the look. He looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, We joke around about Drew Lock, but Garoppolo
Speaker 1: has always looked like a guy that's a superstar quarterback.
Speaker 1: He played like one. He's done it several times this season,
Speaker 1: but in this game with the stakes, he was fearless
Speaker 1: and um right down to that fourth and two when
Speaker 1: he connected with George Kittle, who's just a tremendous player.
Speaker 1: So uh, the Niners with a huge win. Whoa. The
Speaker 1: Niners are a team that have had throughout their history.
Speaker 1: You know, when we grew up watching the Montana and
Speaker 1: Steve Young Niners, so many indelible film clips and highlight
Speaker 1: real images that you just would remember and are drenched
Speaker 1: in as a football fan forever. That George Kittle play
Speaker 1: has suddenly right up there, smack dab at the top.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was one of the craziest, toughest, wildest
Speaker 1: displays of power I've seen from an offensive player. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of Saints fans are getting flashbacks
Speaker 1: the vernon David Davis and the play that the former
Speaker 1: tight end made against the Saints to break their hearts
Speaker 1: in the playoffs earlier this decade and in one of
Speaker 1: the in one of the best games. I'm so impressed
Speaker 1: that the forty Niners can win this type of game.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good sign for the Saints that
Speaker 1: that they're passing game can be involved in a game
Speaker 1: like this where they're the ones throwing the ball and
Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns on their final two drives despite losing Jared Cook,
Speaker 1: who has been so big for them, had two touchdowns
Speaker 1: but leaves with an injury. Yeah. I think if you're
Speaker 1: looking at Alvin Kamara and the running game, that's the
Speaker 1: part of the Saints offense that you're just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, why is this not working right now? Especially
Speaker 1: in this matchup you thought I would work? Yeah, Kamara
Speaker 1: average less than two yards to carry and Wes, you've
Speaker 1: you've been on this and yeah, killer fumble and you
Speaker 1: know that does Breeze have the army used to have?
Speaker 1: Can he put the throws in the tight windows that
Speaker 1: he used to a couple of years ago? Probably not,
Speaker 1: But when you watch this game, it just shows you
Speaker 1: he's still absolutely a star and a guy that can
Speaker 1: go punch to punch in a game. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's close to being a liability or anything like that
Speaker 1: with this team, and this was just a nice reminder
Speaker 1: of that, I thought he was excellent as well in
Speaker 1: this Yeah, at this stage of his career. For these
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks to combine for a two seventy point one
Speaker 1: passer rating the highest by a pair of quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: ten win teams since at least nineteen fifty so they
Speaker 1: I think that was also the most points ever by
Speaker 1: UH to ten win teams too, So they made they
Speaker 1: made history in this game. And I sensed all year
Speaker 1: long a lot of doubt about Jimmy Garoppolo through the
Speaker 1: early part of the season. I get it. They were
Speaker 1: they were run game heavy. That was what they did.
Speaker 1: The defense carried it. Since mid season, he's had to
Speaker 1: move the chains by himself in that offense with a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries, and I think more often than not
Speaker 1: he's come through. I think one thing that flipped the
Speaker 1: switch for them was trading for Emmanuel Sanders, who is
Speaker 1: versatile enough when Kyle Shanahan trusts him enough to have
Speaker 1: him throw a pass and throw a touchdown in this game,
Speaker 1: and that he has. This is someone who was rehabbing
Speaker 1: a bad injury all off season and to come back
Speaker 1: and look at the way he does, I just think
Speaker 1: that he has when good teams trade for players and
Speaker 1: it clicks. And we've seen that with the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: this year with Marcus Peters, and it's happening right here
Speaker 1: with emmanual trade of the year, it's the trade of
Speaker 1: the year. I mean what they I think they swapped
Speaker 1: the middle to late round picks with Denver Sanders coming back.
Speaker 1: He's thirty two years old. He had shown he looked
Speaker 1: really good before probably resigned him too, so like got
Speaker 1: to jump on that. They he suffered the tour to
Speaker 1: kill his last season, but was playing well before it happened.
Speaker 1: He showed in September with Denver that he could still
Speaker 1: make plays. So you you wonder, and you know what
Speaker 1: other gms are thinking right now, Wow, why didn't we
Speaker 1: be more aggressive with that? Including the Saints and Mickey Loomis.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this again to creditor Breeze that Jared
Speaker 1: Cook goes out with a concussion after a second touchdown catch. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it was kind of more of the same. Ted
Speaker 1: get Ted Gain made one big play down the sideline,
Speaker 1: but it was you know, Michael Thomas pouring into Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas over and over and over again. You just wonder
Speaker 1: come playoff time, if someone figures out a way to
Speaker 1: slow down that Thomas the breeze connection, and then it
Speaker 1: really puts the pressure on Cook. But they could have
Speaker 1: used the second. But now, like many centers, is my point.
Speaker 1: I'm just so impressed by the forty Niners all season long,
Speaker 1: overcoming more injuries than any team out there. So many
Speaker 1: teams use injuries as an excuse. This has been one
Speaker 1: of the most injured teams in the NFL. Full stop
Speaker 1: in this game too. They lost their center, Western Richbrook,
Speaker 1: they lost d Ford, they lost uh Richard Sherman. At
Speaker 1: one point, they lost Kawan Williams, another starting cornerback, and
Speaker 1: they find a way. Their two losses are at the
Speaker 1: very end of the game against the Ravens and Seahawks.
Speaker 1: They control home field advantage in the NFC. Now we're
Speaker 1: taping this at an unfortunate time, but that game against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks is gonna matter either way. Though. Now the
Speaker 1: forty Niners know if they win out they are the
Speaker 1: one seed. And I thought last year when the Saints
Speaker 1: lost at home, I thought, wow, you know, Drew Brees
Speaker 1: at forty year, they ever gonna get a chance to
Speaker 1: have home field in New Orleans again, this might be
Speaker 1: it for them. They're back in position, but they have
Speaker 1: lost that control right now where they might be the
Speaker 1: two seed in the NFC. Let me give the final
Speaker 1: word to Richard Sherman, who uh who after the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's been kind of pounding the table in his media
Speaker 1: a lot this season. After the game is about Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: how much he believes in him. And here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say after Garoppolo's brilliant performance. Um. Obviously Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo being clutched down to stretch. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a big game and he played. You know, he played
Speaker 1: like the best quarterback and football today. He beat a legend.
Speaker 1: Um beat a legend, and the Niners they are battle
Speaker 1: tested before the playoffs begin. Let's now move to another
Speaker 1: potential uh playoff matchup. This one went down in Foxborough.
Speaker 1: Gretty a long count here, trying to give a hand
Speaker 1: signal to Edelman, takes the snap. Chief Spring crush left
Speaker 1: side throw. It is broken up in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Broke it up in the end zone. Twitter around to Edelman.
Speaker 1: Knockdown by bra Shot Brean five yards deep in the
Speaker 1: end zone. The Chiefs hold on down at the five
Speaker 1: yard line, and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnola brought everything but
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink right there. Brady had to get rid
Speaker 1: of it. And just a great coverage play as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Bible shot Mitch holt Is and Kendall Gammon of the
Speaker 1: Chiefs Radio Network with a call Spack strikes again. Greg.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs needed. That's just a little in joke between
Speaker 1: Greg and Eye and our Sky Sports listeners which share
Speaker 1: the Chiefs needed someone to step up and make it,
Speaker 1: make a play. Brashot Brelan was the man. He knocked
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's fourth down end Zon pass away from Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: The clinching play in Kansas City is huge over the
Speaker 1: Pats in Foxborough. It breaks New England's twenty one game
Speaker 1: winning streak at Gillette whoa Greg gut check victory for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and a potentially massive one with the playoffs approaching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's big. You could have this rematch again in the
Speaker 1: playoffs that right now they'd be the two and the
Speaker 1: three seeds right now would be in Foxborough. The Bills
Speaker 1: will have something to say about whether you know the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have to go on the road. But it just
Speaker 1: strikes me how much these teams have changed since they
Speaker 1: played in the a f C Championship, and the fact
Speaker 1: that they can win games. The Chiefs that is different
Speaker 1: types of ways, with a very good past defense and
Speaker 1: a very aggressive mindset where they blitzed Brady like crazy
Speaker 1: and they double teamed Edelman and the Patriots couldn't win
Speaker 1: enough one on one matchups to get it done. I
Speaker 1: just think this Chief's team is so much more dangerous,
Speaker 1: and the focus is gonna be on everything that happened
Speaker 1: in the second half of this game. But I go
Speaker 1: back to the first staff, and I think in the end,
Speaker 1: both defenses and their coordinators. I think one most of
Speaker 1: the time the Chiefs get two touchdowns on short fields,
Speaker 1: that Patriots difference did what they wanted. Mahomes beat the
Speaker 1: Patriots on a second and a third and nineteen with
Speaker 1: just sensational individual plays. He evaded the rush so well
Speaker 1: so many times, especially in that first half. The Patriots
Speaker 1: don't have that sort of game breaker. I mean, almost
Speaker 1: no one does that quarterback, But that ultimately was the differences.
Speaker 1: Mahomes can beat the perfect defense. I don't think Tom
Speaker 1: Brady can right now. The Patriots have always seemed like
Speaker 1: a team because their coach and their quarterback give them
Speaker 1: a couple of percentage points advantage every week over other
Speaker 1: teams that they rely on smoke and mirrors, And when
Speaker 1: you watch this offense, it seems like more smoke, more mirrors.
Speaker 1: They need a trick play to move the ball they're
Speaker 1: throwing to Matt Lacosse with the game on the line
Speaker 1: in the end zone. I just don't think the Patriots
Speaker 1: have been impressive in any game since October. Offensively, that's true,
Speaker 1: there an average to below average. I mean the whole
Speaker 1: team combined, you take them as as an entity. I
Speaker 1: have not been impressed with them, and since before Halloween, well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's meeting out in the sense that you've
Speaker 1: lost to Baltimore decisively, You've lost to Houston, You now
Speaker 1: lost to Kansas City. West is putting out the alarm
Speaker 1: bills that Cincinnati will take out New England potentially next week.
Speaker 1: That would be a free fall. It's definitely a different
Speaker 1: Patriots team, and you know, we've been over it so much.
Speaker 1: They they do have something about them in terms of
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and Brady just mentally that look they
Speaker 1: made adjustments in this game. What they did in terms
Speaker 1: of taking away the deep past, they totally stuffed Kansas City.
Speaker 1: In the second half, they get a big special teams play,
Speaker 1: and more importantly offensively, you know, they started doing these
Speaker 1: outside runs. They also put Edelman on the outside. Tony
Speaker 1: Romo is so good at recognizing the changes that they make,
Speaker 1: and they still found ways to get the ball inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line, you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the game and it's down to one play, despite having
Speaker 1: a kick being blocked, despite having some calls you know,
Speaker 1: definitely go against you. They do that and that gives
Speaker 1: you some confidence that maybe they can figure things out later.
Speaker 1: But when you just watch them against the best teams,
Speaker 1: they don't stack up. They're not in that same tier.
Speaker 1: They're gonna need like an outstanding coaching job in a
Speaker 1: different offense compete. And I hear you about not harping
Speaker 1: too much on what happened in the second half of
Speaker 1: this game, but there were some insane official moments. I mean,
Speaker 1: and that in Patriots fans and it's not easy to
Speaker 1: you know, back them as a group all the time,
Speaker 1: but they have a right to be uh peeked and
Speaker 1: annoyed by what happened with the with the officials to
Speaker 1: kill Harry had a touchdown taken away. They said he
Speaker 1: stepped out of bounce short of the goal line, but
Speaker 1: a replay showed clearly he had made it in and
Speaker 1: because it wasn't ruled a touchdown, it needed to be challenged.
Speaker 1: But the Patriots are out of challenged challenges, so they
Speaker 1: got screwed. And then Jacobe Myers is a chance to
Speaker 1: erase that mistake by officials and he drops the ball
Speaker 1: in the end zone. Uh so they get a bad break,
Speaker 1: the Pats, and then they don't help themselves out. And
Speaker 1: because the margin of errors seems so small with this offense,
Speaker 1: those type of um for you know, bad bad break
Speaker 1: with the officiating and then a failure to take care
Speaker 1: of your own business with the drop, those things come
Speaker 1: back to hard because they don't seem to have very
Speaker 1: many opportunities where this team in the offense is built.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers drop was huge, and fans that want to
Speaker 1: get upset about the officials they should, I mean they
Speaker 1: it was not just you know, the one touchdown being
Speaker 1: taken away. They also had the whistle blown on Stephon
Speaker 1: Gilmore happens too much in the end. Crazy. Here's the
Speaker 1: one thing, the only thing that really bothered me about
Speaker 1: the officiating, because those things happen. It's like, sometimes it
Speaker 1: goes for you, sometimes it doesn't. Like make the play
Speaker 1: they they didn't make a million different places. The problem
Speaker 1: to me is in the rules in that the Patriots
Speaker 1: had to challenge to change that Stephon Gilmore play to
Speaker 1: a turnover because they messed it up in two ways.
Speaker 1: Not only did they blow the whistle and stopped Gilmore
Speaker 1: from scoring, but they also also didn't even blue blow
Speaker 1: it a fumble in the first place. So the Patriots
Speaker 1: got that challenge right so that they could get the ball,
Speaker 1: and that was why they were out of challenges, because
Speaker 1: they had gotten their first challenge drawing. Belichick is among
Speaker 1: the coaches that it's been brought up a few times
Speaker 1: that you should be able to keep your challenges if
Speaker 1: you could keep your second challenge, if you get you
Speaker 1: don't have right. And before the owners meetings every year
Speaker 1: you get that list of potential rule changes suggested by teams,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots always have a massive laundry list. This
Speaker 1: year ripe for that that what I think I honestly
Speaker 1: think Belichick has suggested it before, different people have. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they're so afraid of like giving an
Speaker 1: extra challenge if you get one right. But in terms
Speaker 1: of like what they didn't do well, a three place
Speaker 1: suite sequence in the first half really stuck out to
Speaker 1: me where they needed to score and they're trying to
Speaker 1: stay it. They're up seven three. Actually at the time,
Speaker 1: Philip door Set doesn't recognize a blitz, doesn't turn around.
Speaker 1: The blitz was getting home all day. Brady throws it
Speaker 1: to nowhere. The next their down, Brady makes a good throw,
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers has drops it. He's kind of been killing them.
Speaker 1: The Patriots then choose not to take a forty five
Speaker 1: yard field goal. I know you noticed because they're kicking.
Speaker 1: Situation has has been so bad and folks had, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, gotten blocked and it was fourth and seven.
Speaker 1: And then Brady misses a throw on fourth and seven,
Speaker 1: where again the pressure got home. But in previous years
Speaker 1: he had held him and open on that play, I
Speaker 1: think he would have maybe stepped into that throw and
Speaker 1: made a tough throw. So it's like it's never just
Speaker 1: one thing, but it's a lot of things. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs clinched the a f C West with the
Speaker 1: wind because the Raiders are in a free fall. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're nine and four, and yes, they obviously now have
Speaker 1: the head to head tiebreaker on the paths uh and
Speaker 1: their one game out. So we'll see the Pats still,
Speaker 1: you know, control their destiny in terms of staying ahead
Speaker 1: of Kansas City. But it's not gonna be easy. Because
Speaker 1: it was. It's just not easy for the Patriots anymore.
Speaker 1: And I think people make a big making a huge
Speaker 1: deal that they need the trick plays and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: But you know what, it's true, and Brady when the
Speaker 1: blitz does come, he just seems helpless. Well, we've learned
Speaker 1: not to make any grand, sweeping conclusions about what will
Speaker 1: happen in January when the Patriots go through these late
Speaker 1: season funks. This is not the first time in November
Speaker 1: and December that we've seen an aging Tom Brady look
Speaker 1: less than we expected him to and then he turns
Speaker 1: it on in January. I'm not writing them off. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying everything I've seen for the past month and
Speaker 1: a half, this team just isn't very good. And the
Speaker 1: a f C East is up for grabs the Bills
Speaker 1: Patriots game in Week sixteen. If the if the Bills
Speaker 1: can get there, having one next week, uh, it could
Speaker 1: be for the division, which which is pretty exciting, and
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots fans and the Pagriot should welcome
Speaker 1: that because they need to get a win against the
Speaker 1: quality team. Here down the stretch, speaking of the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: fourth down and eight, Josh Allen out of the shotgun,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary with him in the backfield, raven show blitz.
Speaker 1: Here comes Earl Thomas off the edge, Singletary's pass over
Speaker 1: the middle. It is incomplete, no flag on the play.
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters what the play? And with one oh three
Speaker 1: left in Buffalo, the Hayes in the barn. He's in
Speaker 1: the barn, Jerry Sandusky says, w B A L yes.
Speaker 1: Facing fourth and ade at the Baltimore sixteen, Josh Allen's
Speaker 1: pass intended for John Brown broken up by Marcus Peters,
Speaker 1: who's celebrated by jumping into the stands and chucking a beer.
Speaker 1: The Ravens beat the Bills seventeen. That's nine wins in
Speaker 1: a row for Baltimore. Mark This game is pretty much
Speaker 1: the opposite of what we saw at the Superdome today, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it's you could look at both of these teams
Speaker 1: and I do coming out of this game as having
Speaker 1: super Bowl worthy defenses. It's yes, the Ravens do what
Speaker 1: the Ravens do, and they you put them in any stadium,
Speaker 1: they're gonna grid it out and find a way to win.
Speaker 1: And they've done that again. I thought Buffalo's ability what
Speaker 1: they showed against Lamar Jackson in this insane Ravens offense
Speaker 1: was admirable today. The problem with Buffalo, and we've pointed
Speaker 1: this out, you know, all year long, is that if
Speaker 1: they do give up more than twenty something points too often,
Speaker 1: you cannot you cannot really convince yourself that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be have fine ways and have the weapons to hang around.
Speaker 1: And this was a game where Josh Allen faced so
Speaker 1: much intense pressure in heat from Baltimore's front seven that
Speaker 1: has become absolutely dangerous at this point that you you
Speaker 1: saw some of the quintessential bad Josh Allen's throws early on,
Speaker 1: and it's not just because he's inaccurate, it's because he
Speaker 1: had people in his face all day long. They had
Speaker 1: thirteen drives the bills for two hundred and nine yards
Speaker 1: one point three point one yards per play, and there
Speaker 1: were multiple multiple marches where it was three and out
Speaker 1: and it was you just did not You could not
Speaker 1: find a way that Buffalo was gonna score in this game.
Speaker 1: And the Ravens lost Mark Andrews, their playmaking tight end,
Speaker 1: and they never really thought found a way to get
Speaker 1: out of that situation. He's so important to them. I
Speaker 1: think that game, this game magnified how important he is.
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst had a one of his rare big play
Speaker 1: scores today, but you take that away, this game would
Speaker 1: have been I think a really rough asked for Baltimore
Speaker 1: because Buffalo fought and fought in the second half. When
Speaker 1: you watch in that second half, they have nothing on offense,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, Devin Singletary doesn't something really
Speaker 1: nice for you, but then it's taken back by penalty.
Speaker 1: And then Josh Allen, you know, he's not no interceptions,
Speaker 1: so he's not turning the ball over, but you can't
Speaker 1: count on him to make those window throws that you need.
Speaker 1: And that coverage by Marcus Peters at the end. If want,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about shot like he had one
Speaker 1: of him on John Brown is one of the great
Speaker 1: cornerback efforts today. I have seen um and with on
Speaker 1: the Bills in and no one's gonna take anything away
Speaker 1: from the ninety three start, or that they went to
Speaker 1: Dallas um and one on Thanksgiving, but this did feel
Speaker 1: like another chance of the Bills to you know, put
Speaker 1: a big stamp on the season to say, not only
Speaker 1: are we a team that's going to the playoffs, we're
Speaker 1: a team you better watch out because we you know,
Speaker 1: we might win some games and make a run. They
Speaker 1: almost beat the Patriots in their building. Now they almost
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens. So I think, as much as it
Speaker 1: might annoy fans in Western New York, you do have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to win a game like this
Speaker 1: to really get people to believe. Yeah, and who knows
Speaker 1: what beating the Cowboys means now or what it will
Speaker 1: mean in a month. Although I just keeping it close
Speaker 1: against three, I'm so impressed with the Ravens in general
Speaker 1: that to you know, getting it to a point where
Speaker 1: it comes down in the last play, to me is
Speaker 1: a step forward and signed their playing better than they
Speaker 1: did earlier in the season. Here are the records of
Speaker 1: the last seven teams that the Ravens beat nine and four,
Speaker 1: eleven and two, seven and five, eight and five, one
Speaker 1: and twelve, ten and three, and then a ten win
Speaker 1: Seahawks team. So they're they're winning all these games against
Speaker 1: like great teams. And I guess the last two weeks
Speaker 1: have shown you can hold their offense down in some
Speaker 1: rough weather conditions. I mean, they didn't exactly, you know,
Speaker 1: rack up yardage in either of those games, and those
Speaker 1: games came down to the wire. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: And it's about as good a regular season as you
Speaker 1: can have with two losses. I think we all kind
Speaker 1: of looked at the Bills schedule a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: and said, even if we we respect him, that lead
Speaker 1: in the wild card race is gonna dwindle when they
Speaker 1: play these tougher teams. And now you look up, Titans
Speaker 1: and Steelers are only one game behind them, and the
Speaker 1: Bills have to go into Pittsburgh next week the game
Speaker 1: a team that is ruling in a defense which I
Speaker 1: believe is better than Buffalo's. Same kind of quarterback issues.
Speaker 1: You don't trust the quarterback from week to week on
Speaker 1: either team in prime time in primetime, right if you
Speaker 1: want to like try to imagine or picture away that
Speaker 1: Buffalo wins a playoff game and caps this awesome regular season.
Speaker 1: It has to happen in Buffalo. And to Alan's credit,
Speaker 1: although he had a tough game and he was in
Speaker 1: the Luke Fox zone today, three point seven yuards couldn't
Speaker 1: get attempt um. He did ball out with millions and
Speaker 1: millions of people watching on Thanksgiving, So I think he
Speaker 1: could step up in primetime. But that's another big test
Speaker 1: for him, and that entire Bill's teams from him, including
Speaker 1: you know, a key lost fumble. He'll do that and
Speaker 1: that's I think why they're afraid of him, you know,
Speaker 1: running around so much. I think the number was one
Speaker 1: for eleven on throws over fifteen yards, one for sixteen
Speaker 1: went under durest. So the Ravens one upfront and Alan
Speaker 1: clearly didn't four for seventeen on third down and it
Speaker 1: looked that way. And yes, the lost fumble was I
Speaker 1: I just think that he was hurt at one point.
Speaker 1: He hurt his ankle and he was hoppling around. He
Speaker 1: wasn't the same guy. You take that punishment over and over,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get you amazing to fifty seven yards for
Speaker 1: the Ravens. All right, let us now stay in the
Speaker 1: a f c UH playoff chase with a game with
Speaker 1: huge wild card and division ravvications. Tannehill works under center,
Speaker 1: two receivers to the left. Crowd gets loud bay fake
Speaker 1: Tannahill looking throwing deep down the middle, going for Brown.
Speaker 1: Brown's got it at the fifty, breaks the tackle of
Speaker 1: the forty, to the thirty, to the twenty, to the ten,
Speaker 1: to the five to the end zone. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: That is ninety one yards touchsdown. Titans their longest touchdown
Speaker 1: pass in over five years. That was so great and
Speaker 1: it happened here. That came straight out of the black hole,
Speaker 1: right down to the other end. Mike Keith and Dave
Speaker 1: McGinnis with a call, Titans, you know what to do, Ricky,
Speaker 1: bring me the girl? WHOA Now you gotta check out
Speaker 1: the YouTube show what are we wearing? I'm looking spelled.
Speaker 1: I like it. The surge its Titans keeps surging. Ryan's
Speaker 1: Hannehill through yards, three scores, Derrick Henry two more touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He goes over a hundred yards. He cannot be contained,
Speaker 1: and he made it look easy even with his leg
Speaker 1: taped up the Titans four straight wins. Now beat up
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders. You know, put the Raiders under the
Speaker 1: ground one at the black hole and um, the Titans.
Speaker 1: You know, it started out not so hot. Uh. They
Speaker 1: there was a deflected interception, big man run back for
Speaker 1: the Raiders. They punch it in touchdown. But from that
Speaker 1: point on at seven nothing, he just took over the game.
Speaker 1: And and Oakland, who was undermanned and didn't have Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Damn it. That's on me for not tracking that closely
Speaker 1: enough because I locked up the Raiders. That didn't work out. Um,
Speaker 1: but they were you know, to their credit, Oakland kept
Speaker 1: pace and it was at a half uh, and then
Speaker 1: the Titans just took over. Um. They scored touchdowns on
Speaker 1: five of their next seven possessions after that open opening
Speaker 1: Raiders score. And they are six and one with Tannehill
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill as their quarterback and west uh. Reports started
Speaker 1: percolating over the weekend that the Titans might be looking
Speaker 1: to do business with Ryan Tannehill, who's do can be
Speaker 1: franchise at the quarterback rate of twenty seven million, but
Speaker 1: they might want to get into business in a long
Speaker 1: term way. And the way he's playing this doesn't feel unsustainable.
Speaker 1: It feels like he has found a home here. Well,
Speaker 1: that team that nobody wanted to watch with Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: the team that couldn't move the chains, couldn't keep their
Speaker 1: quarterback upright and off the ground, the Titoons is now
Speaker 1: a high octane thirty point a week attack that have
Speaker 1: five hundred yards by the end of the third quarter
Speaker 1: in today's game, and come back Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: did not include Tannehill because you're checking some boxes and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at players coming back from major injury or
Speaker 1: some kind of life event, and I think that award
Speaker 1: it's not there's no real definition for it. It's sort
Speaker 1: of like the threshold for obscenity by Um Potter Stewart.
Speaker 1: Judge Potter Stewart. I know it when I see it.
Speaker 1: You know a comeback story when you see it. Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill was given up for dead by the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: given away to the Titans, comes off to the bench
Speaker 1: and because of him, completely turned the team around. That's
Speaker 1: a comeback players. One of the great comeback stories of
Speaker 1: the decade. I agree. Tannehill was just the guy. When
Speaker 1: he was signed as a backup quarterback, I think everybody
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that was pretty good signing. That gives
Speaker 1: him a choice of Mariota struggles again, but nobody, nobody
Speaker 1: thought he would take over the offense and then turn
Speaker 1: it into one of the more lethal tacks in the
Speaker 1: a f C nine him. Look at Arthur Smith vying
Speaker 1: for coordinator. I mean, we hit the game, the games
Speaker 1: with Mariota, Yeah, the games with Mariota still counting against
Speaker 1: the record, but nine point four yards per attempt. The
Speaker 1: Raiders defense just they hadn't They never had a chance
Speaker 1: this year. I don't believe they never they ever really
Speaker 1: had a chance because I think they were ranked in
Speaker 1: my mind either thirty one thirty second in talent on defense,
Speaker 1: and they were always just trying to scheme around that
Speaker 1: and figure it out. And they did a pretty good
Speaker 1: job getting a six and seven, and maybe they'll get
Speaker 1: to eight and eight. But it's like they were never
Speaker 1: going to be explosive enough to keep up with this defense.
Speaker 1: Who's better at football the New England Patriots of the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans as we stand right now. I think if
Speaker 1: it was a new trush field right now we are
Speaker 1: right now, I think it was a neutral field. Titans
Speaker 1: might be favored playing They don't need to score this
Speaker 1: many points every week either because their defense is legit.
Speaker 1: So it's like they're a balanced team and they're getting
Speaker 1: hot at the exact But the crazy thing is Tannehill
Speaker 1: only every week he only throws it seven this week.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of throws for Tannehill usually doesn't even
Speaker 1: have to. Now they the wind moves them into a
Speaker 1: first place tie with the Texans. And now it gets
Speaker 1: interesting because they play twice in the final three weeks,
Speaker 1: which is wild. I don't love the scheduling to pack
Speaker 1: them together, like, but you know what, Uh it is
Speaker 1: what it is, So let's just ride with it and
Speaker 1: and enjoy the carnage because uh that is going to
Speaker 1: I mean, we could see both of these teams in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, or one of these teams could absolutely take
Speaker 1: out an arch rival in the biggest way in the
Speaker 1: final three weeks of the year. It's is nail biting
Speaker 1: time in Houston, and we're gonna get to the Texans.
Speaker 1: But I mean, where we stand right now, who's the
Speaker 1: better team that the Titans of the Texans. After what
Speaker 1: we saw today, one team is more consistent than the other.
Speaker 1: The Titans show up every week. The difference is that
Speaker 1: the Texans are gonna have the tiebreaker if they split
Speaker 1: and if their other game goes the Texans way, because
Speaker 1: the Titans have an extra division loss, UH so they
Speaker 1: they would win on that tiebreaker. The Texans play at
Speaker 1: Tampa in week week sixteen, that is their extra game,
Speaker 1: whereas the Titans uh plays the Saints. So who knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, anything could happen, but it's still an uphill
Speaker 1: battle for the Titans. They might need to sweep it
Speaker 1: to to get the division and hopefully Derrick Henry's okay.
Speaker 1: He had a leg injury. Um, he left the game briefly,
Speaker 1: and like I said, he had his leg taped up.
Speaker 1: I think it was a hamstring. They were two and four, UM,
Speaker 1: and he just boring and bad. Henry Henry just made
Speaker 1: it look easy. He didn't. It didn't even seem like
Speaker 1: he was trying that hard. Obviously he was. And he
Speaker 1: just went over a hundred scored two more touchdowns. It's
Speaker 1: it's he's having a special speci. No one other thing
Speaker 1: that Marcus Mariota could not have pulled off. Today. Was
Speaker 1: the insane Ryan Tannehill darting down the field to blow
Speaker 1: up Maurice Hurst. One of the best tackles I've seen
Speaker 1: in the entire year coming from a quarterback. He's a
Speaker 1: great tackling quarterback. That was like twitter joke of mine
Speaker 1: back in when he just was throwing pick after pick.
Speaker 1: By the way, look out, Derrick Henry. I know if
Speaker 1: this is updated, he is just behind Christian McCaffrey at
Speaker 1: number three. Um he he has he could win the
Speaker 1: rushing title, but not And this is not, you know,
Speaker 1: an attack on you at all, Dan, which is a
Speaker 1: bad way to preface anything. But there is a trend
Speaker 1: right now of like guys who leave Adam Gaze and
Speaker 1: are playing playing better without him, and especially at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I think that's you know, that's significant. Uh yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I will say that that Tannehill did. It's not aboue
Speaker 1: look about me. Don't proface it by mentioning Bryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: did look really good with Adam Gaze and then he
Speaker 1: blew out his knee and thanks got walk had some
Speaker 1: had some moments. But whatever I attempted at the same
Speaker 1: point with Dan on the Thursday show. I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: go back down. Yeah, if you guys want to bring
Speaker 1: it up every week, it's it's not like my uncle.
Speaker 1: It's not like it hurts me. He's just the coach
Speaker 1: that will be fired before long, just another Jets coach.
Speaker 1: I am under the attemption that any Jets talk is personal.
Speaker 1: He's Christy for the something. I mean, I don't take
Speaker 1: it personally in this case. I mean, that's that's undeniable
Speaker 1: that Dolphins players have done well without Mr Gays. All right,
Speaker 1: let's now talk about the Houston Texans. My goodness, Denver
Speaker 1: looks like the RuSHA three. They will watching quick for
Speaker 1: a winside pass. Caught g t q T again, but
Speaker 1: he fumbled the football and is picked up by Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Tosshu who hands it to Kareem Jackson. Jackson's on the loose.
Speaker 1: Jackson and the foot race and here you got thirty
Speaker 1: down the Broncos side ten high stepping into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Touchdown Denver, no whistle, no flags. If it stands, it
Speaker 1: would be the Broncos first defensive touchdown of the year.
Speaker 1: It did stand. Dave Logan, Broncos Radio Network. My goodness,
Speaker 1: Craim Jackson had an intercession returned to fumble seventy yards touchdown,
Speaker 1: gains his old team and drew lock the kid grow
Speaker 1: that beard doesn't matter. More important that you're playing well
Speaker 1: through four three yards of three touchdowns, all three of
Speaker 1: those scores in the first half. The Broncos blow the
Speaker 1: doors off. The Texans. Don't even pay attention to their
Speaker 1: final score. This game was thirty one three at the half.
Speaker 1: Greg After the game, von Miller said this of his
Speaker 1: rookie quarter rookie quarterback, incredible. That guy's an effing rock star.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have something here, I hope so it will
Speaker 1: make them more watchable. I don't take von miller um
Speaker 1: hype like too seriously because he did call both Paxton
Speaker 1: Lynch and Trevor Simme in the next Peyton Manning. I
Speaker 1: believe what did he call him? Effing rock star? No.
Speaker 1: I love von Miller. I love hearing about von Miller.
Speaker 1: He's playing on a bum knee. By the way, today,
Speaker 1: he had to play on the opposite side of the
Speaker 1: field because he can only rush in one way. I
Speaker 1: had to do it against Tunsil and he still got
Speaker 1: a couple of quarterback kits, they said after the Vikings game,
Speaker 1: And I know I wasn't playing the start with this,
Speaker 1: but I love von Miller. After the Vikings game, that
Speaker 1: terrible loss that he had, he went up and down
Speaker 1: on the plane and told invited everyone out to dinner
Speaker 1: that night. And they went out that night like trying
Speaker 1: to fire everyone up after the worst last of the year.
Speaker 1: And this team plays like a team that's still in
Speaker 1: the mix. Like there. If you want to judge your
Speaker 1: coaches by how hard your team plays, the Broncos show
Speaker 1: up each and every week. They're very unlucky to be
Speaker 1: only five and eight, and they are the NFL's berserker
Speaker 1: because you don't want to play him in December. This
Speaker 1: is exactly exactly how John Elway, uh and Vic Hajio
Speaker 1: wanted this season to close. Once you realize that you
Speaker 1: weren't gonna make the playoffs, forget about tanking and hoping
Speaker 1: you find the next quarterback. Get put something on tape
Speaker 1: that you feel good about and that you feel like
Speaker 1: you figured some things out and you're not on the rock.
Speaker 1: It's not just all about being on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of field goal luck. At the end of games. They
Speaker 1: are a team that's making progress west as the game,
Speaker 1: as the season goes along, and it is the credit
Speaker 1: to the players and the coach. Dave unearthed some absolute
Speaker 1: stars on this team. Justin Simmons at safety is having
Speaker 1: an All Pro year, Alexander Johnson at linebacker has come
Speaker 1: out of nowhere to make a pretty big All Pro bid.
Speaker 1: They're turning their defense around. Courtland's Sutton been a fine
Speaker 1: and now Drew Lock is the X factor if he's
Speaker 1: really this good. Right, we'll see yes the next three
Speaker 1: weeks for the Broncos and then in the offset it's
Speaker 1: all about just trying to find out about Lock. Now.
Speaker 1: He didn't have to do too much last week. This
Speaker 1: week he made a handful of nice throws against pressure
Speaker 1: early in the game. Absolutely didn't have to do much
Speaker 1: in the second half. That that's fine. I also give
Speaker 1: their their coaching staff and in my guy Rich Skangarello,
Speaker 1: who I was like, this guy's not giving them a
Speaker 1: big advantage like open places and that was the opposite today. Uh,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of open receivers. No. A fan
Speaker 1: made two big place for for one thirteen before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. Uh in a touchdown caught all of his targets,
Speaker 1: and there were there were open players for uh for
Speaker 1: Lock to go to. They didn't run the ball well
Speaker 1: at all. They had thirty eight points before they had
Speaker 1: thirty eight rushing yards because it was a pass heavy
Speaker 1: attack that the Texans didn't know. I hit him. Do
Speaker 1: not go and place faith in this Texans defense. I
Speaker 1: just don't get. This is the most disc whoting result
Speaker 1: from today because we are coming off a week where
Speaker 1: the Texans fried the Patriots and it was this. There's
Speaker 1: the game that re emphasizes everything good you think about
Speaker 1: the Texans, and they could be wild, they could catch
Speaker 1: a three game windstreak and wind up in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I think they're much more likely to ultimately every
Speaker 1: week lay an egg like this because this is not
Speaker 1: This has happened throughout this entire season. They've been brutally inconsistent,
Speaker 1: but it's still it doesn't I don't know what I
Speaker 1: take out of this game other than that they can.
Speaker 1: But there's the thing. The defense is a game plan defense,
Speaker 1: or maybe sometimes it works, but man, and when they
Speaker 1: had no pass rush, they're getting destroyed in terms of
Speaker 1: their linebackers. Their linebackers in coverage were awful. They were
Speaker 1: the same guys who showed up to the game dressed
Speaker 1: up as uh the Dodgeball movie concluding a wheelchair guy
Speaker 1: as a prop. Don't put a guy in a wheelchair.
Speaker 1: And then that guy, I mean, you hate to point
Speaker 1: it out, did limp off the field with you know
Speaker 1: now it needs a wheelchair. Well, as my mother says,
Speaker 1: don't spit in the sky, that's how you get I
Speaker 1: don't like that West. To your credit, on Thursday, you
Speaker 1: did ask the question. He said, what about this Texans
Speaker 1: defense can they make? Is this a defense to be trusted?
Speaker 1: And the Broncos, even though they are improving, this is
Speaker 1: not an offense that you teams live in fear of.
Speaker 1: What do we expect when they play the big boys?
Speaker 1: You know what they're missing Kareem Jackson. They ought to
Speaker 1: They ought to melt his helmet trophy out to give
Speaker 1: it to the winner of this team every year because
Speaker 1: he tips the field every time this game is played. Right,
Speaker 1: you said that was the best game anyone played all year.
Speaker 1: Kareem Jackson against the Broncos last year. It was so
Speaker 1: good that they had to give him a monster contract.
Speaker 1: He had three passes defense on top of the interception.
Speaker 1: Eleven tags. I mean he was just flying around, got
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Good job. I mean you can shut down
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, but the idea that you're gonna shut down
Speaker 1: Drew Luck and his second start is beyond. Will Fuller
Speaker 1: is the Jenga piece for this team and will Fuller
Speaker 1: is out. They are not the same. And it was
Speaker 1: I feel like he's out every their game too, right.
Speaker 1: This is just it was his replacement QT who had
Speaker 1: that killer fumble, Rick s Gangarrello Skangs, Papaskango. Remember Papa Shango.
Speaker 1: He was one of the more ethnically questionable wrestling gimmicks
Speaker 1: of the early nineties. Some type of voodoo guy. I'd
Speaker 1: agree with that. He had a lot of You don't
Speaker 1: believe that he put a curse on the Alternate Warrior.
Speaker 1: I remember during one interview where the Warrior was given
Speaker 1: an interview to me and Jean, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, like a black goose started running down his face.
Speaker 1: Why is heart exploded? I don't know Papa Shango had
Speaker 1: put a curse upon the Alternate Warrior. This is during
Speaker 1: kind of a fallow period in the witt It's not
Speaker 1: a h a lot of blank faces in the control
Speaker 1: room right now, but there are definitely four hundred wrestling
Speaker 1: fans listening right now, Like I love Dan Way to
Speaker 1: bring up Shango in a big spot. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on. Bartlett pumped his fish. Here's the stop pass
Speaker 1: right out the point to make fundball football picked up
Speaker 1: by the Buck Fox tamp the ball, Tampa Baya's course
Speaker 1: to take away. It's Mike Edwards with the football, Harlan
Speaker 1: rolling on the Tampa Bay lounger ares forts the first
Speaker 1: take away the game. Jen Decker off Bucks Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston through her four hundred fifty six yards at
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, helping the Bucks rally beating the Colts five.
Speaker 1: See this is like a chase through the streets of
Speaker 1: old school Los Angeles cops and Roberts seven West. Winston
Speaker 1: also threw three interceptions, including his fifth pick six. Wow,
Speaker 1: is that I have the double check? That's that. But
Speaker 1: it's another quintessential Jamis game. What do you make of
Speaker 1: this wild up and down Jamie season. It almost seems
Speaker 1: like a Jamie season at steroids this year. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a refined version of Jamis Winston. It's just like
Speaker 1: distilled through three hours of simmering into four fifty yards,
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, and three interceptions, which is as Jamis as
Speaker 1: you can possibly get, and he joins Gus Farrott as
Speaker 1: the only other winning quarterbacks to reach those statistical markers
Speaker 1: in a game and still win. He should have had
Speaker 1: another interception that might have blown the game, but Pierre
Speaker 1: to see her uh dropped it in a thirty game.
Speaker 1: And what happened after that was the Devin White fumble
Speaker 1: was huge because it had come after Marcus Johnson, who
Speaker 1: had a pretty big game for the Colts, drew a
Speaker 1: long pass interference penalty. Naim Hines is in the red
Speaker 1: sun the Colts. Colts are driving for the score. That's
Speaker 1: gonna put the game away. Devin White pokes it out
Speaker 1: and then Jamis throws an interception right after that, throws
Speaker 1: behind Paraman, it's tipped and goes to Lee Hooker, but
Speaker 1: he ends up coming back again with another opportunity, which
Speaker 1: Jacoby percent I thought, for three quarters played my favorite
Speaker 1: game I've ever seen him play, just stepping up in
Speaker 1: the pocket, getting away from pressure, taking chances downfield, and
Speaker 1: he never throws downfield, so it was nice to see
Speaker 1: him doing that attacking downfield. He didn't do much in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and Jamis did. It should be noted
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston suffered at what Bruce Arians labeled a little
Speaker 1: bitty fracture in his right thumb. Played the second half
Speaker 1: with the injury. He had some issues gripping the football. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a credit to Winston playing through an injury. There
Speaker 1: also the most playing through the injury and putting the
Speaker 1: most yards on the Colts since that game. I know
Speaker 1: you guys remember this as soon as I say that
Speaker 1: game where Big Ben and Andrew Luck combined for like
Speaker 1: almost a hundred points and maybe the best passing game
Speaker 1: I've ever seen by a pair of quarterbacks. Winston with
Speaker 1: Thruce Arians. I guess this was We should have known
Speaker 1: this was coming because it's like, it's all risk it,
Speaker 1: it's all bestcuits, it's all Winston. Like that, you're getting
Speaker 1: everything that you could possibly get. At least you are
Speaker 1: getting you know, you're getting the interceptions, but at least
Speaker 1: you're getting the four fifties and four Like sometimes is
Speaker 1: that there's so much focus on the interception and you think,
Speaker 1: like maybe he's unlucky. No, he has the appropriate amount
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of dropped interceptions, but you are
Speaker 1: getting the four fifties, six and four like that should
Speaker 1: be that should be accounted. We got risk its biscuits
Speaker 1: and briskets in this game. That's pretty good. That's good football.
Speaker 1: Are they going to bring him back now because of
Speaker 1: this late season? So well, that's the question of kind
Speaker 1: of posing. It's like it sounds like they want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he annoyed you, if he's annoyed to his whole career,
Speaker 1: if the Bucks have been quietly or not so quietly
Speaker 1: doubting whether he's the guy. Has this season reinforced their
Speaker 1: feeling or has it gone the other way? Do they
Speaker 1: see these big plays and the fact that he's gonna
Speaker 1: throw for probably close to five thousand yards and thirty
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, whatever he's gonna end up with, will they
Speaker 1: be swayed by that? You know that trope when people say,
Speaker 1: you know, there's open in college football, where there's a
Speaker 1: big window you throw too, but in the NFL, you're
Speaker 1: only open if you have like a little bit of
Speaker 1: a step on the receiver. Jamis Winston's open is like
Speaker 1: if you have an inch on your on your cornerback.
Speaker 1: He's throwing it and I think that's gonna plague him
Speaker 1: for the rest of his Yeah, I think so too,
Speaker 1: And I think I think the decision will be up
Speaker 1: to Jamis Winston on some level, because I think the
Speaker 1: Bucks will absolutely offer him a competitive enough contract, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure anyone else Like to me, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be worth more to them than anyone else, and I
Speaker 1: think he's probably gonna want to stay there and it
Speaker 1: might get worked out before you even get the free agency.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a hilarious season he's having. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was his fifth pips picks six of the season. He's
Speaker 1: on pace for to throw forty yards, averaging eight yards attempt,
Speaker 1: nearly twenty nine touchdowns and rested in peace. Yeah, they're done,
Speaker 1: six and seven, it's over. You lost those two uh
Speaker 1: two games behind now with three to play. Whereas Matt
Speaker 1: Gage drilled a field goal right after Pierre Decier dropped
Speaker 1: that interception, the Colts missed another kick. Chase McLaughlin missed
Speaker 1: a kick today and he made a couple too, But
Speaker 1: the Colts have missed fifteen kicks this year, the most
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and it's cost them thirty three points. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the eight and eight tenants line is thin. If your
Speaker 1: kicker keeps missing, you're gonna probably end up on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of that. Let us move on and puts
Speaker 1: it out of there a big rush. Deante Johnson has
Speaker 1: to chase it back, takes it his own seventeen yard
Speaker 1: line up to the fifth twenty the twenty five curty.
Speaker 1: He's off for the racist forty forty five forty thirty
Speaker 1: five thirty twenty five twenty there goes Deante Johnson. Well
Speaker 1: then return touchdown. I don't see any markers down to you. Oh, Pilly,
Speaker 1: I do not. I was saying every time he catches
Speaker 1: the ball, you'll hold chip breath. And now he finally
Speaker 1: took it to the house. His longest previous part return
Speaker 1: unch was fourteen yards. This one to the house. Bill
Speaker 1: hill Grove and touch iillkin Grove and Tounch in the morning.
Speaker 1: That's a good team, Steelers Radio Network. Deante Johnson eighty
Speaker 1: five yards to the house on a punt return. He
Speaker 1: also had a touchdown reception. Steelers beat the Cardinals seen
Speaker 1: in Arizona in Glendale with a billion Steelers fans in attendance.
Speaker 1: West the days of the Killer Bees and blowing off
Speaker 1: the doors, blowing the doors off lesser teams like the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That's over in Pittsburgh at least for now. But hey,
Speaker 1: a dub is a dub, and the Steelers keep stacking.
Speaker 1: It would have been interesting to see if the Steelers
Speaker 1: blew the doors off this Cardinals team had Benny Snell
Speaker 1: not fumbled and given the Cardinals crime field position. When
Speaker 1: the Steelers were threatened to run away with the game early,
Speaker 1: they let the Cardinals back into it and then it
Speaker 1: became a bit of a slug fest. But I would
Speaker 1: say my opinion on their quarterback situation had a lot
Speaker 1: more to do with Mason Rudolph than Duck Hodges. I've
Speaker 1: been a little bit fearful that Duck wouldn't get it done.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not the most talented guy in the world.
Speaker 1: Every week that goes by, now I'm a little more
Speaker 1: confident in Duck Hodges. You're starting to see that the receivers.
Speaker 1: James Washington was coming off two big is back to back,
Speaker 1: and he drew a couple of penalties today that his
Speaker 1: numbers don't look as good as as he played. Deonte
Speaker 1: Johnson after having an awful game last week, comes back
Speaker 1: and has his coming out party this year with the
Speaker 1: punt return. And then he had a great play in
Speaker 1: the red zone where you think he's getting tackled for
Speaker 1: a big loss, and his punt return skills come out
Speaker 1: and he sets up his own touchdown with that play.
Speaker 1: He had a really nice game. Duck Hodges started out
Speaker 1: eight for eight on third downs and he only missed
Speaker 1: three completions all game. So you're you're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy who is certainly not hurting his team and in
Speaker 1: many cases is helping his team. Greg, you mentioned the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Patriots. Is being so vastly different than
Speaker 1: they were in the a f C Championship. The lineup
Speaker 1: in the box score for the Steelers week to week
Speaker 1: is ultra insane. I mean, obviously it starts with Duck
Speaker 1: at quarterback, but Kirath White is running for eight yards
Speaker 1: per carry. It's the Benny Snells. It's like everyone that
Speaker 1: was there is no longer there, and they are winning
Speaker 1: these games and they were currently had the tiebreaker over
Speaker 1: Tennessee Well Defensive Player of the Year candidate t J.
Speaker 1: Watt had an interception in the end zone on a
Speaker 1: play where Kyler Murray probably could have kept the ball
Speaker 1: and run and picked up the first down or touchdown
Speaker 1: on fourth down, but he passed it instead. And I
Speaker 1: don't think Kyler is himself while playing through this. I
Speaker 1: think it's a hamstring injury. He's not really effective as
Speaker 1: a scrambler right now and that's a big part of
Speaker 1: his game. Uh And t J. Watt. It was interesting
Speaker 1: that Tomlin told the CBS crew if you if you
Speaker 1: asked me in September, who's the leader of your defense,
Speaker 1: it's Cameron Hayward. And he said, now it's definitely t J.
Speaker 1: Watt And it's been fun to watch him. Just take
Speaker 1: ownership of that situation. Any concern of Kyler's decision making
Speaker 1: three interceptions fumble, it takes a lot of sacks. I
Speaker 1: know it's not a good offensive line, but a lot
Speaker 1: of that is on him. It seems like it's it's
Speaker 1: slowing down. Maybe it is this hamstring injury. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's a combination of the hamstring injury and an
Speaker 1: erosion of trust with his offensive line, which I think
Speaker 1: early in the season, I was surprised he wasn't getting
Speaker 1: sacked more often, considering how bad they were, and now
Speaker 1: it feels like it's been building up over time to
Speaker 1: the point where he doesn't trust him much. Al Right,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is chasing that wild card spotting there in good
Speaker 1: position right now. Uh, let's see another let's check out
Speaker 1: another team. Uh, gunning for a wild card slot. Hayfield shotgunt,
Speaker 1: He's got the snap back, settles, looks up in the pocket,
Speaker 1: runs up to the corner. He said the tad, he
Speaker 1: said the five. He tucks around the pylon. No, sick up,
Speaker 1: happy dude. Touchdown Baker Mayfield, what a job by his body.
Speaker 1: Don't hung around the pilot and get it in as
Speaker 1: he runs it in from seven yards song curt and
Speaker 1: goals tie it at thirteen. Jim Donovan Brown's Radio Network
Speaker 1: with a call. Guess Baker Mayfield didn't throw for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but he did run for one as the cream hunt.
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb went over a hundred, including ninety nine after
Speaker 1: the halftime break. Cleveland stays alive in the a f
Speaker 1: C Playoff Pics nineteen win over the Bengals, who come
Speaker 1: down to earth after their first win of the year. Mark, Uh,
Speaker 1: this doesn't sound like a flawless effort for the Browns,
Speaker 1: but hey, I need the wind got the win. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't really specialize in flawless efforts, and I my
Speaker 1: biggest concern with the way this game started was that
Speaker 1: this is a Cincinnati is the worst run defense in
Speaker 1: the league, and they played better of late and there
Speaker 1: it's not that's you know, that's the collective stats there.
Speaker 1: But Cleveland had Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt with seventeen
Speaker 1: combined yards at halftime in a game that I thought
Speaker 1: this was where you just at home, pound away with
Speaker 1: your best player, Nick Chubb and used Cream Hunt the
Speaker 1: way you've used them, and don't put Baker Mayfield into
Speaker 1: strange situations through the air. They they took them a
Speaker 1: long time until that touchdown. We just showed to get
Speaker 1: their flow together and then from there they took care
Speaker 1: of business. And you look at these you look at
Speaker 1: the stats and it's like Andy Dalton no touchdowns and
Speaker 1: he had to pick six. I thought he Pray played
Speaker 1: pretty well. Actually, I mean, it's just that there's not
Speaker 1: much around any Dalton. Joe Mixon had one of his
Speaker 1: best games of the year. The Browns, to me, are
Speaker 1: not a playoff team on any level at this point,
Speaker 1: because they seemed to be I think definitely a year
Speaker 1: away and a lot of different categories and ways of
Speaker 1: really being an effective offense at all. They seemed mentally
Speaker 1: discombobulated in terms of their game planning. I don't trust
Speaker 1: their coaching staff to adjust at halftime or to go
Speaker 1: into the game with the best way to attack. No,
Speaker 1: they gave up twenty seven first down to the Bengals.
Speaker 1: They were outgained by a hundred and twenty yards. Mayfield
Speaker 1: through two interceptions. One of them I just say one
Speaker 1: of them was like David the Joku catching the ball
Speaker 1: and falling on his back and everyone thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a a catch, then be in a joke
Speaker 1: of fumble, and then it was ruled the Baker Mayfield interceptions.
Speaker 1: So but but still right, just just that it was
Speaker 1: a day where their red zone defense ultimately saved them.
Speaker 1: I think the Bengals were one for five in the
Speaker 1: red zone, and that the field, the fact that Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield's going under fifty percent completion, I know he had
Speaker 1: some big plays against the Bengals, and then the fact
Speaker 1: that after the game, the conversation is about Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: where j. Glazer before the game, says this Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: talk how he's not committing to Cleveland long term, which
Speaker 1: kind of came from a press conference, uh, you know
Speaker 1: last last last week pops up and then after the
Speaker 1: game Baker Mayfield's kind of throwing his training staff under
Speaker 1: the bus. We have that sound, let's listen to. I'd
Speaker 1: say that, you know what, it wouldn't handled right. Um,
Speaker 1: He's not able to run as well as he should
Speaker 1: be able to as well as he knows, and that's
Speaker 1: frustrating for him. Uh it's you can since that's some
Speaker 1: of his frustration where that comes from. So uh, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't handle the right way in our training room. So
Speaker 1: uh well, you know it is what it is, and
Speaker 1: so his not is still good enough for us. I
Speaker 1: feel like Browns fans have experienced every kind of frustration
Speaker 1: to the sun, and this year has brought a new one.
Speaker 1: That every time you win a game, you're not talking
Speaker 1: about the football, you're talking about some other controversy after
Speaker 1: the fact, that you never get a chance to unwind
Speaker 1: and enjoy a win. He's a smart guy, right, What
Speaker 1: does Mayfield things gonna happen when you make that comment?
Speaker 1: Stand up he's trying to make because that becomes the
Speaker 1: story that he's throwing his team under the bus in
Speaker 1: a way. And even if his intentions are noble, which
Speaker 1: is to say, I'm on O b J side, all
Speaker 1: you guys getting on him, that he's having a down here,
Speaker 1: but this is one thing you don't do. And like
Speaker 1: West of saying, it's just should be about the Browns
Speaker 1: saying alive, and it said, it's gonna be about Baker
Speaker 1: mouthing off about his team. He did come out and
Speaker 1: apologize strongly on Twitter for not wanting to make it
Speaker 1: seem like he's throwing no I get it, but he
Speaker 1: just did. But part of it is you haven't heard
Speaker 1: much from Odell Beckham at all, and I think that
Speaker 1: he is speaking for someone who typically is the person
Speaker 1: drawing all this media fire. I hear you, though. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like, I'm not just gonna stick up for
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield because I'm a Brown. It just makes the
Speaker 1: organization look bad. It first of all that Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: wants out, and then second that the quarter quarterback is
Speaker 1: sort of blaming the organization. So you've got to think,
Speaker 1: as the leader, like you want to make your organization
Speaker 1: look good. Baker is going to be there long term,
Speaker 1: whether oh b J is you know or not? And
Speaker 1: I get that he's trying to stick up for him,
Speaker 1: and it helps explain maybe you know, Beckham's poor year,
Speaker 1: But does it also explain why Beckham made that comment
Speaker 1: in the first place, that he's maybe upset behind the
Speaker 1: scenes at how the Browns and I think that, but
Speaker 1: I think when you see splits, and we've seen it
Speaker 1: this year with with in Washington too, when there are
Speaker 1: issues between player and medical staff that can lead there's
Speaker 1: still so much upside though with Baker and that offense
Speaker 1: and Odell, I think it would be a huge mistake
Speaker 1: of Beckham forced him forced his way out of town.
Speaker 1: There's no sense digging on that because we don't there's
Speaker 1: so much to be told in that story. But they
Speaker 1: need an off season around. I cannot think of a
Speaker 1: team that needs to just flush this experience one today though,
Speaker 1: Mark you want, but he's right though every win feels
Speaker 1: tinged with something darker that you can't really painted. Just
Speaker 1: you can't enjoy it. Shout out before we go to
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, the Bengals coach, for having Randy Bullock lineup
Speaker 1: for a forty six yard field goal with twelve seconds Ramaker,
Speaker 1: I don't want to log version. What is this? I'm
Speaker 1: going to brought the rain? I want to hear this.
Speaker 1: Turn it up here, come never again clean? Greg. What
Speaker 1: concerns me is be voice the lead singer of a
Speaker 1: of a band at some point? Yeah, why are you
Speaker 1: so ashamed of the voice that sold four copies of
Speaker 1: an album? How do you want to cut? At least
Speaker 1: what a great title? Wait? Do you think he sold
Speaker 1: forty seven copies? That means there's at least forty seven
Speaker 1: copies out there? Is that? How you sang in that
Speaker 1: for that band? I just want to know what that
Speaker 1: was like. You're more like, No, it wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: hit those tough notes. Who was We just did the
Speaker 1: throwback podcast talking arcade fire, Greg? Who would? Because every singer,
Speaker 1: whether he admits to or not, is influenced by someone
Speaker 1: out there that he listened to or looked up to.
Speaker 1: Who would be? Who would be the voice that you
Speaker 1: may be modeled yourself after during your days fronting Delaware,
Speaker 1: the emo goth band in Western not an emo van,
Speaker 1: not a goth. I would say the dead milkman. Whoever
Speaker 1: that the dead milkman. Not a lot of people would
Speaker 1: answer the dead milkman for that question. All right, um,
Speaker 1: let us move on, uh to the NFC. Back to
Speaker 1: the NFC. So it's first and Gold Vikings in a
Speaker 1: scoreless game from the Lions nine. Alexander Madison the jailback
Speaker 1: play action Kirk straight drop to the end zone, touchdown
Speaker 1: hold off. BC Johnson has caught two touchdowns in his
Speaker 1: many games against the Detroit Blons, and the Vikings have
Speaker 1: taken a six year old lead. Oh, Paul Allen's one
Speaker 1: of the zero truthers. I've had some words with Matt
Speaker 1: money Smith about this because Money is also a zero truther.
Speaker 1: There's no six nothing when he's calling the game. It's
Speaker 1: six zero. That doesn't sit well. I could couldn't. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. Hunter technically correct, and that's why a
Speaker 1: real broadcaster like a Money or a Paul Allen does
Speaker 1: do it. But I don't love it. I'd like you
Speaker 1: don't like Moneys take on it. I don't. He's a
Speaker 1: six zero guy. He's a zero truther and Money, but
Speaker 1: I shouldn't he be allowed to make his own call game?
Speaker 1: So what's the problem. I'm just saying, he you're I'm
Speaker 1: a twenty nothing guy. I understand what money nothing means.
Speaker 1: I don't need it to be twenties zero. I'm a traditionalist.
Speaker 1: I'm a nothing guy. Killing would it killing? The throwing
Speaker 1: a little bucks? Now? They don't do that. They what
Speaker 1: is the exact definition for the zero numerica zero? I mean,
Speaker 1: there are reasons that Matt money Smith has been hired
Speaker 1: to call games and some of us have not. He's
Speaker 1: a pros pro b C Johnson had a touchdown catch
Speaker 1: and Daniel hunt Dirt had three sacks five for the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Uh. Their defense needed a big game. They got it,
Speaker 1: took care of business against the Lions twenty to seven. Uh.
Speaker 1: Six straight losses for the Lions in Minnesota. UH the
Speaker 1: win as they continue to charge towards the playoff spot. Now,
Speaker 1: let us welcome in Nick Shook. Oh my god, who's
Speaker 1: straight out of the gym. He's lending us a hand
Speaker 1: on a full Sunday slate. Shook, How are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm still captivated by that audio clip of
Speaker 1: of of here comes the Rain. Thank you, Nick, Here
Speaker 1: comes the rain. And by the way, are you are
Speaker 1: you a zero truth or also no, I'm cool you
Speaker 1: can use nothing. I didn't even think about that until
Speaker 1: you brought that up. I mean, technically it's correct, and
Speaker 1: if you want to be a stickler for it, then yeah,
Speaker 1: but now you can use nothing nothing to find That's
Speaker 1: why I love him anyway, Shook. So yeah, we needed
Speaker 1: we needed a hand and those big masculine meat pause
Speaker 1: of yours are gonna help us out here. Um, talking Detroit, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: we know where the Lions are at this juncture, which
Speaker 1: is a very bad place. But what were your what
Speaker 1: was your big takeaway from the Vikings in this game? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they did enough. I think you know, their
Speaker 1: defense was the story of the day, you know, the
Speaker 1: five facts that you mentioned really shutting down anything that
Speaker 1: Detroit could do. It was more of a game where statistically,
Speaker 1: if you look at you know, the the Lion Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins had, it's it's really good. But oftentimes they couldn't
Speaker 1: really take advantage of just didn't take advantage of the
Speaker 1: opportunities that they had. But they took advantage of enough
Speaker 1: opportunities to win the game. It's not like the task
Speaker 1: was that great, you know, concerning the Lions team that
Speaker 1: they were playing, and they got a really big boost
Speaker 1: at the end of the half. There was like a
Speaker 1: minute a half left and the Lions, you know, we're
Speaker 1: tried to settle for a field goal, missed that field goal,
Speaker 1: and then the Vikings had a big play to Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs ended up capping it with a Dalvin Cook touchdown
Speaker 1: run and it pretty much felt over from there, and
Speaker 1: it ultimately was I think that was pretty much the
Speaker 1: turning point. It's one of those games where you have
Speaker 1: a team that's clearly superior, uh and just needs to
Speaker 1: do just enough to win and get to the next week.
Speaker 1: And that's what we had here. Dalvin Cook, like look
Speaker 1: like a guy playing through an injury or did he
Speaker 1: look like an m VP candidate? Uh? Handoffs wise, you know,
Speaker 1: carries wise, he looked like somebody was playing through an injury.
Speaker 1: But I didn't notice that much of an issue with
Speaker 1: him running the football. He still looked explosive, he still
Speaker 1: looked strong through the hole. You know, I was watching
Speaker 1: the Browns game in this game at the same time,
Speaker 1: and I was getting, you know, framed by frame comparisons
Speaker 1: of him and Nick Chubb, and I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: if I had to take a running back to start with,
Speaker 1: I would pick Dalvin Cook over Nick Chubb. He's just
Speaker 1: more explosive, uh from the backfield to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmers than a guy like Nick Chubb. Not that you know,
Speaker 1: knock anything and yet him, but uh so he looked fine.
Speaker 1: I just think you know, he'll It was a game
Speaker 1: where he could have sat out and I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had an issue with it. I mean, now he's inter
Speaker 1: Madison still had four teen carries or forty six yards,
Speaker 1: and he would have done a good enough job. But again,
Speaker 1: you're kind offending off the rams who are coming up
Speaker 1: on their tails, and you're also trying to still win
Speaker 1: your division. So I understand why he played. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a huge, huge issue going forward for those
Speaker 1: of us that started a fan club based on the
Speaker 1: exploits of David blow Should the Blowhards be concerned about
Speaker 1: the overall arc of where we're at with this quarterback? Right?
Speaker 1: Hard Nation wants to know, Well, you know, every time
Speaker 1: Bloud takes the field, there's a certain term for that
Speaker 1: span of time. It's called blower hour. And yeah, blower
Speaker 1: hour wasn't so great this week through a couple of interceptions.
Speaker 1: One of them was really bad and kind of killed
Speaker 1: their only strong drive at the second second half. But again,
Speaker 1: I mean he's hand the ball off the bow Scarborough
Speaker 1: and you know he connected with Kenny Golladay and a
Speaker 1: garbage time touchdown. That's pretty much the majority of what happened.
Speaker 1: You know what they're dealing with here. They're just not
Speaker 1: a full strength team, and especially not with a full
Speaker 1: strength quarterback. So everybody loves David Blow and having spent
Speaker 1: training camp covering him to enjoy David Blow and his
Speaker 1: his magic tricks. You know he's good with the cards
Speaker 1: and everything. But were you just dismissive of all of
Speaker 1: us bohemians out there because we like it? Won the
Speaker 1: Rookie Show in Barria, I'll tell you that, But I
Speaker 1: don't know how far it's gonna take him. The NFL
Speaker 1: Wow shout out to Daniel Hunter, the youngest player in
Speaker 1: NFL history to at the fifty sacks. I feel like
Speaker 1: he gets slept on as one of the great pass
Speaker 1: rushers this year. He's second in sacks, fifth and hits first,
Speaker 1: and Hurry's seventy nine pressures here by the neo hunter.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't week after week, and it feels like
Speaker 1: an even better in that dome, in their home stadium
Speaker 1: where they have an advantage against, you know, with the
Speaker 1: crowd noise. He just plays so well in that dome,
Speaker 1: shook you believe in the Vikings before we say goodbye.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at their their nine and four right now,
Speaker 1: they're the They're the Where are they they are? This
Speaker 1: projected sixth seed they got at Chargers home, Packers home, bears.
Speaker 1: Tell us where the Vikings end up New Year's Day
Speaker 1: right now? Let us know, well, they could win, they
Speaker 1: could go win their division. I mean I think that
Speaker 1: the Packers in Week sixteen, I believe that they'll beat
Speaker 1: the Packers. I don't fully believe in the Packers. Every
Speaker 1: time they've come against the team that they faced strong
Speaker 1: test against, they've fallen short. And I think that they
Speaker 1: might fall short against this team as long as Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins can play statistically and on tape, because sometimes there's
Speaker 1: a difference and and he's only done that really in
Speaker 1: the big moment once in his career, so he needs
Speaker 1: to do that. But I think they're equipped enough. You know,
Speaker 1: Greg mentioned Daniel Hunter and everything that he's done. This
Speaker 1: is really two strong seasons for him in a row.
Speaker 1: That he's a premier pass rusher, and I think they
Speaker 1: can ride that defense as long as their offense does enough.
Speaker 1: But as Kirk Cousins was better than just a sterling
Speaker 1: stat line, they could beat the Packers, they could win
Speaker 1: the division, and they could make a serious run. So
Speaker 1: I think they'll beat the Niners or another team like
Speaker 1: that the playoffs. I don't think so, but I think
Speaker 1: they're good enough to compete all right. And I'm just
Speaker 1: curious before we say goodbye. Now that you're back in
Speaker 1: the NFL dot com family, which are so excited about.
Speaker 1: These Sundays are long Sundays. You're covering a lot of
Speaker 1: the NFL um watching TV all that. Do you get
Speaker 1: a chance to get a pump on a Sunday? Uh?
Speaker 1: Actually no, Usually, I mean if I get up early enough.
Speaker 1: But the last has not. It's been it's been a
Speaker 1: designated off day. It's all football, that's uh. That's what's
Speaker 1: feeling me on are you Are you as committed to
Speaker 1: your physique as you were when we knew you here?
Speaker 1: That's the question that had to be asked you bar Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: of course, absolutely all right. That's got a really weigh
Speaker 1: on your mind while you're sleeping on Sunday nights that
Speaker 1: you didn't get a pump in. You know, it does
Speaker 1: not at all the past day failures at all. Moved forward, Schuck,
Speaker 1: We're probably gonna need your help again in the coming weeks,
Speaker 1: so we'd love if you could uh rejoin us down
Speaker 1: the line. Does that work for you? Yeah, Lions every
Speaker 1: week for you. By the way, we'll hook up with
Speaker 1: a better game before that before we uh say goodbye
Speaker 1: to the twenty nineteen regular season, Nick Chuck, Thanks buddy,
Speaker 1: thank you. Speaking of those Packers and the snap, But
Speaker 1: kid Jones up a middle cuts it back story to
Speaker 1: head did the end zone he died in for a touchdown?
Speaker 1: Can the Packers take us six? Nothing lead? Four yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run by Aaron Jones to the lambo lead to
Speaker 1: the south end zone? Stand Aaron Jones. He's been gone
Speaker 1: for a while, but he's back. A hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four yards season high total, not only sixteen carries Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: he threw it for a buck and a touch Packers
Speaker 1: win over the red Skins at lambeau Field West. I
Speaker 1: didn't see a second of this one. Tell us about it,
Speaker 1: but I am so tired of hearing every week how
Speaker 1: many passes Aaron Rodgers has gone without an interception. If
Speaker 1: you hold the ball instead of throwing it, there's no
Speaker 1: chance of getting it. Oh no, you know what he's saying, luging.
Speaker 1: Everybody can read between the lines. I love Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but this has been a story, whether it's Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: or Matt Lafleur, for it seems like three or four
Speaker 1: years now. Why is Aaron Rodgers holding the ball because
Speaker 1: his receivers aren't getting open? Or is it because the
Speaker 1: quarterback needs for the perfect play to be there in
Speaker 1: order to release the ball. Probably a little bit of
Speaker 1: column A little bit of column B. This was a
Speaker 1: big part of this game, and maybe we're not talking
Speaker 1: about it. If uh Rodgers doesn't throw slightly behind Jay
Speaker 1: Sternberger on a potential touchdown, If Jimmy Graham was the
Speaker 1: Saints version of Jimmy Graham and leap up for a
Speaker 1: catch in the red zone on a pretty decent Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers throw, if is long gone, it's long gone, And
Speaker 1: I thought Graham should have made the catch, But you
Speaker 1: know that's the ghost of Jimmy Graham. Aaron Jones on
Speaker 1: a third down, Rogers just barely missed him on a
Speaker 1: on a play that would have gone for a lot
Speaker 1: of yards. So this is what we talked about with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers almost after every game. They just missed on
Speaker 1: a series of plays where the throws were pretty good.
Speaker 1: But when you hold the ball for so long and
Speaker 1: you can't convert third downs, you tend to talk about
Speaker 1: the players you just missed because you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the players you made. How about haskins little progress report? Uh,
Speaker 1: he has a major sack issue, like to the point
Speaker 1: where it's a Jamis Winston interception issue here, like go
Speaker 1: to the doctor. Let's put this in perspective. Deshaun Watson's
Speaker 1: sack rate last year was ten point nine percent when
Speaker 1: he got sacked the fifth most times by a quarterback
Speaker 1: in NFL history. Haskins is at fourteen percent. Case in
Speaker 1: him was a six percent behind the same offensive line.
Speaker 1: This is a Haskins issue and whoever coaches them next year,
Speaker 1: who have to spend the offseason working pretty common one
Speaker 1: for rookie quarterbacks, certainly probably the most common one. Just
Speaker 1: holding the ball too long. He played through an injury today,
Speaker 1: six point three yards for TI. The result doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: The fighting Callahan stay in. This was more about the
Speaker 1: Packers than the rest. Okay, but it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: on the Packer side either, because I'm with Nick that
Speaker 1: I don't know what you have right now with this
Speaker 1: Packers team, great record. This is the ninth time this
Speaker 1: year Aaron Rodgers has had a passer rating under one
Speaker 1: in a game that should not be happening. It just
Speaker 1: feels like a clear middle tier to a collection of
Speaker 1: like the Vikings and the Packers. I you know, you
Speaker 1: asked Nick, if you see them making a run, I
Speaker 1: can see them winning a playoff game. I simply don't
Speaker 1: buy that with the Vikings, and I don't see that
Speaker 1: with Green Bay at all. I'm with you, and yet
Speaker 1: they're intriguing, just like because some years that's the best
Speaker 1: you got. Like some years the teams like this are
Speaker 1: a one or a two or a two seed, and
Speaker 1: it it's kind of fun if they If these guys
Speaker 1: are the end of the NFC playoffs, like that is
Speaker 1: a fun little turney. All right, Let's rip through three
Speaker 1: games that have. I was gonna say zero implications, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. Let's say no implications. Nailed it.
Speaker 1: They gotta be alert for pressure. Here they come up
Speaker 1: line from the pocket're gonna take the shot. Zakius is
Speaker 1: out there, a Lambaday's first professional tach. He breaks away
Speaker 1: and a Labada is a Kias. It's gonna go to
Speaker 1: the house. Ninety three yards. Ununbelievable. Dante Jackson got caught
Speaker 1: in the dust. They came able to sell out Blitz
Speaker 1: zero coverage and a Labadi Zequius receiver in Virtinia history
Speaker 1: finally gets clean and finally gets an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: put up the bat and the rookie delivers big time.
Speaker 1: It's almost like Western and David Archer, the Falcon's radio
Speaker 1: network had a little inside joke side bed who could
Speaker 1: say his name the most on that call on Roddy
Speaker 1: White Day in Atlanta, A Lama days as called in
Speaker 1: Yes a touchdown passer Matt Ryan that was the longest
Speaker 1: in the Great Quarterbacks career, ninety three yards. The Falcons
Speaker 1: double up the Panthers forty greg. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a meaningless NFC South tilt. You'd be weirdly excited
Speaker 1: about No, not too excited. I mean it was a
Speaker 1: lot of points. It could have been the bloom is
Speaker 1: off the Falcons roast. Yeah, I guess it can go
Speaker 1: two ways when you're an interim head coach. You can
Speaker 1: either kind of have a couple of fun wins and
Speaker 1: become a new personality big arms from Dan Campbell or
Speaker 1: Jovits press conference. Or you can be Perry Fuel who
Speaker 1: gives up forty points or his defense gives up forty
Speaker 1: points and then his cornerback Dante Jackson after the game
Speaker 1: blames that play and a couple others on his awful,
Speaker 1: horrible calls for not practicing these situations uh throughout the
Speaker 1: week and that they didn't make any sense. This was
Speaker 1: a season he gave up that place. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: running laps this week. Remember when we were in London,
Speaker 1: we watched the Panthers and that one and they beat
Speaker 1: the Falcons and they were riding high. These seasons can
Speaker 1: turn quickly in our league. Kyle Allen uh pretty Graham
Speaker 1: that the Falcons have intercepted Kyle Allen more than the
Speaker 1: rest of all their games combined. So they love they
Speaker 1: love facing Kyle Allen. They own Kyle Allen. The four
Speaker 1: and nine Falcons will not never lose to Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: Let's move up alright then now in for Gordon not
Speaker 1: Why the numbers right and the slot as Henry left.
Speaker 1: You got a linebacker on and here comes the quick blitz.
Speaker 1: There's Heckler gets a block. It's a foot race forty
Speaker 1: fifty into Jack's territory. Thirty twenty Austin Eckler to the end,
Speaker 1: touched up Chargers, Boston. Eckler is having himself a day
Speaker 1: jet and Allen cannot stop dancing. Eighty four yards. There's
Speaker 1: nobody there. I mean, you had blockers and two defenders
Speaker 1: and once he got by that from the superfluous is
Speaker 1: what it is. Matt money Smith there he is, and
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah with the call KP, I am Phil Rivers.
Speaker 1: There into fourteen yards, three touchdowns, including in eighty four
Speaker 1: yard or to Austin Ekeler, the longest completion and the
Speaker 1: history of Philip Rivers football in The Chargers are the
Speaker 1: latest team to humiliate the Jaguars mark in a tough year.
Speaker 1: It was a happy birthday to your boy, Billy Rivers.
Speaker 1: It was a celebration, did Sky Sports that Mark was
Speaker 1: very excited about phil Rivers him up. I have thought
Speaker 1: that one of the more depressing visual sites has been
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers over the past couple of weeks. And it
Speaker 1: was a week ago that you know, whispers are bubbling
Speaker 1: up that he's gonna be benched. We have Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: warming up on the sideline. But you know what fixes
Speaker 1: these kinds of problems the defense of the Jaguars, which
Speaker 1: at this point is beyond a ghost. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about, not coaching well on
Speaker 1: defense and not figuring out how to handle these assignments.
Speaker 1: This was a game where the Chargers basically looked at
Speaker 1: what's happened to Jacksonville over the past three or four
Speaker 1: weeks and said, all we need to do is take
Speaker 1: deep shots down the field over and over. We will
Speaker 1: unleash Austin Ekeler for two hundred plus yards off of
Speaker 1: nine touches. I mean, wouldn't you rather have him than Leonard?
Speaker 1: For I don't even think it's a question, is no doubt.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think he had these insane runs of
Speaker 1: thirty five yards, twenty seven yards, twenty three yards this
Speaker 1: was a game that I had to write up for
Speaker 1: the site, and it played about as beautifully as one
Speaker 1: could ever hope for a project like that. Because the
Speaker 1: game was over in like twelve minutes you knew was over,
Speaker 1: and they never let up. Philip Rivers instead of having
Speaker 1: to watch Tyrod Taylor warm up and take his job,
Speaker 1: was sitting by the beginning of the fourth quarter because
Speaker 1: it was like, this game is absolute curtains and it's over,
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars are as disorganized as they come right now.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Gardner Minshew did not play well.
Speaker 1: He also simply has nothing, no chance to and neither
Speaker 1: did Nick Foles. And I can't help but wonder if
Speaker 1: you're the Jaguars, and who knows who's gonna be around
Speaker 1: a month from now, or who's even to care about
Speaker 1: what's happening next season, I might get another look at
Speaker 1: Nick Foles for a couple of games, because no, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why, because at this point you're you're putting
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew in a bad situation. But this year, this year,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I have no problem with doing that because
Speaker 1: it's like you have to figure out what whoever they
Speaker 1: play is going to get hurt or ruined. I just
Speaker 1: I don't like any quarterbacks million dollar contract. If it's
Speaker 1: about like saving a guy from injury. Well, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not employed by an NFL that this never as
Speaker 1: bad as fall as was last week. It has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the quarterback. This is this team is
Speaker 1: just completely packed it up. I mean, they're the worst
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. They have not been. It is
Speaker 1: hard in the NFL to lose by three scores or
Speaker 1: more five straight weeks. And some of these games are
Speaker 1: like five scores. That's how much they're losing. They have.
Speaker 1: They have lost five straight, all by seventeen point at
Speaker 1: least seventeen points. The nineteen eighties six Buccaneers the last
Speaker 1: team to drop five straight by at least that's what
Speaker 1: did that? Greg? You? You put it on my radar
Speaker 1: last week that this is gonna be a epic free
Speaker 1: fall down the old power. I hate to see it
Speaker 1: for the jagu Rs and how much farther can they
Speaker 1: fall from where they were last? But they're going, I
Speaker 1: mean they're going to the thirty two. I think I
Speaker 1: think you gotta put them down there. Um, And you
Speaker 1: know what, This is what it looks like when when
Speaker 1: a team quits on its coach and it's not pretty us. Well,
Speaker 1: I think they're gone. I think Greg talked about this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Everybody's gone there. Uh, finally,
Speaker 1: let's head to the swamps of Jersey. Brian Flores' is
Speaker 1: not near the officials, I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna let him tick it forty four yards away
Speaker 1: for ficking to try and win it. How to the
Speaker 1: whole of the fens, please spot kick on the way
Speaker 1: it is. God then sap the right up right for
Speaker 1: Sam stick it. Then on the last play of the
Speaker 1: games the Jets pull it out. They've winning over Miami two.
Speaker 1: One nice call Bob was shoes in. He ain't playing
Speaker 1: out the string, Sam facing kick that forty four yard
Speaker 1: as time expired, given the Jets one comeback win over
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. The game that and if you're watching it
Speaker 1: on YouTube, or you watch this game, you're watching us
Speaker 1: on YouTube, I should say you see Brian Flores running
Speaker 1: sprinting toward midfield as the Jets celebrated. Because this game,
Speaker 1: for me, will be in a game between two two
Speaker 1: teams are at of contention. Another example of the past
Speaker 1: interference rule, which was they changed this rule in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, which is not the only one.
Speaker 1: I mean, they say they didn't. They say they didn't.
Speaker 1: But for the past three weeks something has changed. Uh.
Speaker 1: And what it is is they're now calling it closer
Speaker 1: to the letter of the law rather than it being
Speaker 1: have to be something absolutely egregious for to change. And
Speaker 1: of course coaches are mad, not that they're now getting
Speaker 1: the calls, they're actually changing the calls where a guy
Speaker 1: actually has interfered with it's that that they don't know
Speaker 1: what to expect anymore. And that's why Flores is so mad.
Speaker 1: And let me just give you a little context of
Speaker 1: how big the call was. The Jets were facing a
Speaker 1: third and eighteen from about their forty yard line with
Speaker 1: less than a minute ago, no time outs, and Sam
Speaker 1: Donald incomplete. Uh so they're set up now they're near midfield.
Speaker 1: Actually they're set up fourth and eighteen near midfield, no
Speaker 1: time outs, uh, eating a field goal to win. In
Speaker 1: other words, the Dolphins were set up for the win,
Speaker 1: and they buzz down and call past interference. Um on
Speaker 1: Nick need Hum and the Jets, to their credit move
Speaker 1: another fifteen or so yards down the field and then
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal. So the Dolphins have every right
Speaker 1: to be angry. Uh, it was the right call, I
Speaker 1: should say it was. He was interfered with. But it's
Speaker 1: just the fact that they've been inconsistent with it. And
Speaker 1: the one thing that they've kind of not gotten right
Speaker 1: here is I think it's clear. It's like you couldn't
Speaker 1: you couldn't have corrective steering in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: You kind of had to pick a way to handle
Speaker 1: this and stick with it. If you change mid season
Speaker 1: without making any type of announcement, which of course you
Speaker 1: would never do, it's just gonna lead to confusion and frustration.
Speaker 1: And that's what we saw. And met Life Stadium shout
Speaker 1: out to Jason Sanders who went seven for eight and
Speaker 1: field goals, well, this game had the most field goals.
Speaker 1: Let This game had the most field goals by two
Speaker 1: teams in NFL history. It was like a John Fox
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher fever dream. Did the box fild these teams
Speaker 1: are as even in the box scores any game lall season.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. If it says anything.
Speaker 1: Two first downs one each one team's four for thirteen
Speaker 1: on third down, the others five for thirteen, eight seconds apart.
Speaker 1: Uh in time of possession, I mean Dolphins Jets. They
Speaker 1: will not be in last place. The Jets. They will
Speaker 1: get that third place schedule now because they won this game.
Speaker 1: And I just want my last note. And I even
Speaker 1: checked in with NFL media research because I was like,
Speaker 1: because the Jets defense wasn't great. Uh, they gave up
Speaker 1: seven scoring drives, but they're all field goals. Has there
Speaker 1: ever been a case where a team punted just once,
Speaker 1: which the Dolphins did without scoring a touchdown? And it
Speaker 1: turns out that it happened once last season, but just
Speaker 1: six times since two thousand, So it's rare but not
Speaker 1: hardly unprecedented. Bell Sam Donald played a fairly poor game.
Speaker 1: Uh here, So the Jets are lucky to get to win,
Speaker 1: and you never, even in the last season. Don't want
Speaker 1: to get swept by the Dolphins. As bad as this
Speaker 1: rivalry is right now, it's fallen on hard times. I
Speaker 1: don't want to ever get swept and handcusted eat that
Speaker 1: handsome heck? Uh? Which takes us to Sunday Night football.
Speaker 1: Jerry Goff under centers looking to build on a twenty
Speaker 1: one to nine lead. He gives a Gurley. He tries
Speaker 1: a loft side to the perimeter, up dishes stiff arm,
Speaker 1: and he goes in on his feet. Touchdown. Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: touchdown away with eleven. It was seven ago in regulation.
Speaker 1: It's top seven nine and pour Gurley. It's his twelve
Speaker 1: touchdown in nine games against the Seahawks. Chris Wesseling neighbor
Speaker 1: J B. Long with the call. Todd Gurley goes over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards from scrimmage in a twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twelve Rams victory. I'm Greg you know, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been on the show this whole time. But Dan
Speaker 1: at the step away take care of some family matters.
Speaker 1: So we are wrapping up Sunday Night football in style,
Speaker 1: and the Rams Chris Wesselyn are making a playoff. Pushed
Speaker 1: and think they had it in him. They were the
Speaker 1: team last week that most convinced me. They were just
Speaker 1: different than when we saw earlier in the season. They
Speaker 1: are a different team now. It starts with Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: being back, and we saw it tonight, Mark several times
Speaker 1: throughout the game. It seemed like in the second and
Speaker 1: third quarter you said, Gurly is running really tough tonight
Speaker 1: And Tyler Higbee, who before last week had played sixty
Speaker 1: two games and it only top fifty yards twice in
Speaker 1: those sixty two games, back to back one D performances.
Speaker 1: It looks like Todd heaping his prime out there. He's
Speaker 1: been wasting away as a blocker. They need that and
Speaker 1: that's a big added element to their offense. They were
Speaker 1: doing a lot of Jets sweeps tonight with Josh Reynolds
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods and friends, and you know, just getting
Speaker 1: finding creative ways to attack Seattle. I thought that when
Speaker 1: the Rams won me over in this game, was you
Speaker 1: had the golf pick six next possession, the Rams come
Speaker 1: back and throw another interception, and you can feel the
Speaker 1: potential meltdown beginning to happen in Seattle beginning to do
Speaker 1: what they do. Whatever the deficit is, they're gonna find
Speaker 1: their way back in. But the Rams defense has been
Speaker 1: lights out the past couple of weeks, and they put
Speaker 1: the clamps on Russell Wilson tonight. I came into this
Speaker 1: game saying, all right, Aaron Donald, this defensive player of
Speaker 1: the years kind of up in the up in the
Speaker 1: air right now, go make a statement, and and he did.
Speaker 1: I think you saw the four quarterback hits. He saw
Speaker 1: tackle for loss, he saw a sack and a half,
Speaker 1: and you saw what he does. Kind of like Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson opens up uh plays for his teammates, Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: opens up plays for Dante Fowler and Samson Ebcon who
Speaker 1: both had you know, single blocking opportunities all night. And
Speaker 1: even on plays where Donald is kind of darting inside.
Speaker 1: There was one where he had three or four blockers
Speaker 1: on him and then Fowler gets around the edge. Clay
Speaker 1: Matthews had a big hit on Russell Wilson on a
Speaker 1: key spot. And the Seahawks who scored six points on
Speaker 1: offense because they got that pick six basically Collinsworth set it.
Speaker 1: But I agree, like when they just have to pass protect,
Speaker 1: they're they're a bad pass protecting team. And I know
Speaker 1: we're we're picking on the Seahawks. They're they're due to
Speaker 1: have one bad game team, but ten and three, I
Speaker 1: would be a little concerned by this result that they're
Speaker 1: not that they weren't competitive in this spot, concerned enough
Speaker 1: about a playoff spot, or just concerned that they won't
Speaker 1: be riding momentum when they go into that, I guess
Speaker 1: I I've been concerned all year that the offense works
Speaker 1: on a lot of low percentage plays and Russell had
Speaker 1: his chance for him tonight where a couple of deep
Speaker 1: plays to Lockett that they just didn't hit. But your
Speaker 1: county on Russell Wilson to make magic. The running game
Speaker 1: is a little up and down the defense, at least
Speaker 1: tonight they're big players. Clowney and Bobby Wagner didn't step up.
Speaker 1: That won't be the case every week, but it's just
Speaker 1: been a very slim margin for Air. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have about as many two score wins I think as
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins do this year. Every game is down
Speaker 1: to the wire, and that would worry me a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's a little slimmer margin too because Rachad Penny, who
Speaker 1: we had seen emerging as that sort of robin to
Speaker 1: Chris Carson's batman, it just goes down with a bad
Speaker 1: knee injury and he was on crutches with a large
Speaker 1: knee brace after the game. That looked like it might
Speaker 1: be a season end ruled out really quickly, and that's
Speaker 1: been a one to punch for them. I thought, if
Speaker 1: you're a RAMS fan. The reason that there's hope is
Speaker 1: that outside of the interceptions for Golf, when they're using
Speaker 1: him outside of the pocket, he looked really good tonight.
Speaker 1: He made some big plays and they're just their offensive
Speaker 1: starting to show working concert a little bit. And my
Speaker 1: biggest issue with them was that they were not only
Speaker 1: not running well, they were boring to watch. This Rams
Speaker 1: team tonight had some juice, a completely different situation rhythm there.
Speaker 1: Higgbie was killing the linebackers, Golf was hitting throws in rhythm.
Speaker 1: The first third and four of the game, he hits
Speaker 1: Robert Woods on a crosser, and it was those plays
Speaker 1: that you saw all the time a year ago. But
Speaker 1: then you're also seeing some new elements of the offseat
Speaker 1: the offense with Higbie following Everett up Gerald. Everett was
Speaker 1: playing really well before he got hurt, and then Golf
Speaker 1: being on the move, and then Todd Gurley running with
Speaker 1: some heat. I know it didn't he didn't have a
Speaker 1: monster game, uh stats wise, but you can just tell
Speaker 1: the juice is back, and the whole narrative it's like, well,
Speaker 1: Sean mcve you know, he said he was an idiot
Speaker 1: for not giving him the ball, early Sean mcveigh's is
Speaker 1: putting that on him because he's a good coach. Anyone
Speaker 1: that thinks that they made a mistake because of Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley's usage in the first half of the season, we're
Speaker 1: watching the game. He's just playing better. Now. He's a
Speaker 1: different player. Right now. He wasn't making anyone missed then
Speaker 1: he was. He was trying to run them over because
Speaker 1: he couldn't go around them. And at mid season you
Speaker 1: mentioned Gerald Everett. It looked like Cooper Cup and Gerald
Speaker 1: Everett might be the two players who raised the level
Speaker 1: of this offense. Instead it's been Girly Higbee and Woods.
Speaker 1: They showed that that graphic on on Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: the first trio with back to back one yard games
Speaker 1: each since the two thousand vikings. Think about that. What
Speaker 1: kind of a day it has been for forty Niners fans.
Speaker 1: You win one of the most electrifying, franchise altering wins
Speaker 1: of late early on against the Saints, and now this
Speaker 1: happens tonight, And because Seattle was sitting in the driver's
Speaker 1: seat with that Week seventeen showdown coming, had they won
Speaker 1: this thing, and now that game which probably should be
Speaker 1: flexed into that. I think it's happening. Seattle's got two
Speaker 1: winnable games coming up here, and before they play the
Speaker 1: forty Niners in week seventeen, they're almost guaranteed to be
Speaker 1: playing for home field advantage. The only way that they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as if if the forty Niners blow out
Speaker 1: the next couple weeks. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a perfect night. I mean, the
Speaker 1: the Seahawks offense got bogged down on a couple of drops,
Speaker 1: some things that that were preventable. But the Rams have
Speaker 1: played there their two best games of the year in
Speaker 1: a row, much like the Falcons two years ago, much
Speaker 1: like the Eagles a year ago. The NFC champs like
Speaker 1: shaking off the hangover. You know, hangover last until late November,
Speaker 1: and the fact that they got a win tonight means
Speaker 1: they could enjoy what was ultimately um kind of a
Speaker 1: silly moment. Some might say it's embarrassing. I would say
Speaker 1: it was delightful. It involved the Rams cheerleaders. Let's take
Speaker 1: a listen, all right. That was prefaced by Jared Goff
Speaker 1: stepping up the line of scrimmage about to snap it
Speaker 1: and they had to stop playing that and then there
Speaker 1: was about a ten second delay, and you could not
Speaker 1: have been more delighted. I love things like this, you know,
Speaker 1: the Bags almost getting lost for the Chiefs and then
Speaker 1: having to maybe forfeit of game was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite narratives in a weird football season. This was right
Speaker 1: up there. And I think if you go watch that
Speaker 1: clip again, if you find it on game Pass, it's
Speaker 1: the presence of this gigantic absurd Ram's mascot right sandwiched
Speaker 1: in between all these cheerleaders trying to get you know,
Speaker 1: just controlled chaos. Like you could watch games for another
Speaker 1: hundred years and you may never hear this again. The
Speaker 1: first perfect Alan Chris taking us home in style. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's it for the show. You know, we we missed
Speaker 1: stand here at the end, but he will be back
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. We'll be back on Thursday to preview all
Speaker 1: the week fifteen games, and uh, it keeps rolling on
Speaker 1: and on. It's the home stretch. We're here, We're happy
Speaker 1: over Tuesday show is gonna have a thirty five minute
Speaker 1: recap of Giants Eagles. Yeah, right, let's let's go home
Speaker 1: for Dan hands. Our host Eric at tam Pose, Ryan Bartlett,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris West, Lene and needed the old boss.
Speaker 1: See you Tuesday,