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Speaker 2: And we are way. Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 2: Action Network podcast. We are a wrap on the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one twenty two NFL regular season. Is time for

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Speaker 2: the playoffs. I'm your host, Brandon Anderson here as always

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Speaker 2: with Raheem Palmer, ready to wrap up it absolutely berserk.

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Speaker 2: Week eighteen. We have three overtime games today, all three

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Speaker 2: of them with playoff hopes on the line for multiple

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Speaker 2: teams and in most cases, wow and crazy finishes. All

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Speaker 2: day long, I thought that it couldn't get any better

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Speaker 2: or crazier than my afternoon late afternoon. I had money

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Speaker 2: line underdogs on the forty nine Ers and the Seahawks

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Speaker 2: we got an even crazier game in the one tonight.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna talk about all of it. Rahim. We

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Speaker 2: Plus two extra games next week, our first ever Monday

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Speaker 2: preview this week. Obviously, the regular season was a wrap.

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Speaker 2: We got college football championship game Monday night. You read

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Speaker 2: all about that at the Action Network. We got that

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Speaker 2: read for the wildcard round. Of course. Odds today from BETMGM,

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Speaker 2: the official odds provider of the Action Howork podcast. Let's

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Speaker 2: get in some of those games and where else could

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Speaker 2: we start but that bonkers Sunday night game, winning your

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Speaker 2: in playoff game and loss. Of course, you just both

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Speaker 2: then the Raiders field goals sailed through. No tie, no

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Speaker 2: Steelers knocked out. Raiders thirty five, Chargers thirty two. We've

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Speaker 1: I think you start in the first half. The Chargers

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Speaker 1: The Raiders come out, they're hot, and they're in the

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Speaker 1: They come out, they get the they drive down, kick

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Speaker 1: They punt, but then the Chargers fumble it. They month

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Speaker 2: So where we go from there?

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Speaker 1: We go from there? It's just I mean, the Charges

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Speaker 1: They ran good on third and fourth down all year,

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Speaker 1: but this is unlike anything I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that. I mean, they literally

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Speaker 2: That late drive. So the Chargers get it back now

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Speaker 2: it's seriously in play. Will this thing end in a tie?

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Speaker 2: And Steelers fans are getting real nervous?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we go to overtime. The Raiders get

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Speaker 1: It feels like the Raiders are going to win it.

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Speaker 1: They stop Jacobs, you get to pass the Zay Jones

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Speaker 1: backs it up. Of course, what does that lead to

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Speaker 2: not like the Raiders came out and did something crazy.

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Speaker 2: They ran it into the middle again and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: I think they would have kicked it from the forty five.

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Speaker 2: I agree, But a sixty two yeard field goal versus

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that that's really what it comes down

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Speaker 2: Two turnovers for the Chargers, none for the Raiders. Five

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Speaker 2: first downs that the Raiders got on Chargers penalties. Chargers

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Speaker 2: the way this game started and played out where the Raiders.

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Speaker 2: This is never in doubt, and the Raiders should have

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Speaker 2: It's heartbreak. I know it's hard to hear, but for

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Speaker 2: Chargers could have been live. This is a wild playoffs,

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Speaker 2: but this is a flawed team. You need a run defense,

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Speaker 2: it's Herbert's sophomore season. This team's not going anywhere that

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Speaker 2: you know Herbert is going to be around. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: I think. But this is the breaks this year. The

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean look, it was a great game,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had the Raiders that had so many games

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Speaker 2: Let's rewind a little bit earlier into the afternoon. I

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Speaker 2: know how the Niners hung around in here? What did

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Speaker 1: I actually took the Rams once I found out about

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Speaker 1: going to lead this team to a touchdown eighty yards

432
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Speaker 1: eighty eight yards in a minute and less than a minute,

433
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Speaker 1: and he got it done.

434
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Garoppolo got it done. I agree. I had a

435
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 2: big position on the Niners. I had the Niners cover.

436
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: I had the Niners money line to win this one.

437
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 2: I had Niners futures. When that Trent Williams news came out,

438
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,159
Speaker 2: I had a sick feeling of my stomach. That is

439
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 2: not a big position I wanted anymore, but I had

440
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,120
Speaker 2: no real way out at that point. I'm in too far.

441
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 2: That's got to hope for the best. Seventeen to nothing,

442
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, we're done, this is done. That Williams injury

443
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 2: just didn't go from seventeen to nothing forward. It's like

444
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 2: the Rams just thought it was over and took their

445
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 2: foot off the gas. That offense that scored the first

446
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 2: three drives. The Rams only had one hundred and twenty

447
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 2: three more yards the entire rest of the game after that,

448
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,440
Speaker 2: and ninety two of those yards came on that one

449
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 2: touchdown drive. You mentioned. They had seven first downs the

450
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 2: whole rest of the game for those on the touchdown

451
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Speaker 2: drive and is you know Stafford made some good throws.

452
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup was huge on that draft too. A Cup

453
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 2: was really the big you know, the big name. Had

454
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Speaker 2: a thirty yard catch, he had a touchdown catch, had

455
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Speaker 2: an eighteen yard run. Yeah. The Jalen Ramsey interception is

456
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Speaker 2: I'm starting to finally feel good. Okay, the Niners are tied,

457
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Speaker 2: we're driving, they're in control, and then I think that

458
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 2: what they got tipped like three times and somehow Ramsey

459
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: makes the catch, and yeah, it the numbers when you

460
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 2: look at this at the end. The Niners finished with

461
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Speaker 2: four hundred and forty nine yards to two hundred and

462
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Speaker 2: sixty five for the Rams six point seven yards of

463
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Speaker 2: play for the Niners, which is really a pretty strong

464
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Speaker 2: echo of what happened the first time these teams played.

465
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Speaker 2: The score is very different. The Niners, I think won

466
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Speaker 2: thirty one to ten in that one, But really the

467
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 2: Rams picked up three first downs on penalties. They're three

468
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Speaker 2: or four in the red zone, kind of seventeen on

469
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Speaker 2: third down. They were kind of smoking mirrorsing their way

470
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Speaker 2: in a sting into this game. The numbers, the underlying

471
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Speaker 2: numbers and the yardage and some of that stuff shows

472
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Speaker 2: a forty nine Ers like a dominant win here, And

473
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Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting. This was another spot where I

474
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 2: noted we're deep in overtime. If the Rams tied the

475
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 2: forty nine ers here, that was again, I don't know

476
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Speaker 2: how we managed to get this twice in one day.

477
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 2: The Sehawks had already beat the Cardinals at this point

478
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 2: because it went overtime and that game ended, so the

479
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 2: Rams have clinched the division. A tie is just as

480
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: good for the Rams as anything else, and a tie

481
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 2: gets the Niners into the playoffs. But what's interesting is this,

482
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Speaker 2: I think the Rams are actually lucky that they lost here.

483
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 2: If they get the tie, then they play the Niners

484
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Speaker 2: again next week. And we just picked this game up

485
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Speaker 2: right where I left off. That's not going so well

486
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Speaker 2: for the Rams these days. I think the nine Ers

487
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 2: have beat them six times in a row. Now, you

488
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 2: don't want any part of playing the Niners again. By losing,

489
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 2: they dropped to the five seed and get the Cardinals.

490
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Speaker 2: I feel much better if I'm the Rams playing the

491
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 2: Knows the way that they're reeling right now. So I

492
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Speaker 2: think this actually could kind of work out for the

493
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Speaker 2: Rams in the long run.

494
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Speaker 1: I can totally see that. I think one thing I

495
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: really want to come in about this game is that

496
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: you got to see the issues with the Rams not

497
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: having a consistent running game. And obviously they did. They

498
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: get Cam Akers back, but he had just five carries

499
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: for just three yards. Sonny Michelle twenty one carries forty

500
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Speaker 1: three yards. When you have a lead in the playoffs

501
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: or a playoff like Atmosphere, you need to be able

502
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Speaker 1: to run the ball. The Rams just had sixty four

503
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: rushing yards for two point four yards per carry. Where

504
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 1: you look at the forty nine ers that second half,

505
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: they controlled the clock one hundred and thirty five rushing

506
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: yards four point four yards per attempt, and you see

507
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Speaker 1: what happens when you have to put it all on

508
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. You get those interceptions. You had the back

509
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: breaking interception, and over time and it's like you got

510
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball, and I think

511
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: that's a concern for the Rams going forward. But I

512
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Speaker 1: think the run game was big for the forty nine ers.

513
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Speaker 2: I agree. We talked about the Niners here. We like

514
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 2: them in the spot because of that run game and

515
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: the run defense too. It's not just the Rams. The

516
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: Niners have I think the number two dvaa run defense.

517
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 2: So that showed up in this game. That is why

518
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 2: I like the Niners as a playoff sleeper. So we'll

519
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 2: come back to that on the playoff picture. So as

520
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: that game is wrapping up, Seahawks Cardinals are playing in Arizona.

521
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: Cardinals can If the Cardinals win and the Rams lose,

522
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 2: the Cardinals get the division and the home game instead.

523
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 2: So okay, the Seahawks win thirty eight to thirty. Cardinals

524
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: got a late field globe, but con close the deal.

525
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: This is another weird, weird game. Second play the game,

526
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 2: the Cardinals return a fumble for a touchdown, and at

527
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 2: this point, again I got Seahawks money line, I got

528
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Speaker 2: forty nine Ers money line. At this point, I'm feeling like,

529
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Speaker 2: all right, I'm out, like this this afternoon is going

530
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 2: to just be a bust for me. The Cardinals are

531
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 2: already up seven nothing, Karrent Williams is out and the

532
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 2: forty nine ers are getting rolled. But later in the

533
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 2: game we have two more weird short field touchdown drives.

534
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 2: We have a a punt where we bobble the punt

535
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 2: by the punter and the Cardinals give it to the Seahawks,

536
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 2: forer Needsy touchdown. We have a Russell Wilson interception that

537
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: gets returned to like the one and the Cardinals touchdown.

538
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 2: And just these weird back and forth plays. After the

539
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 2: fiasco with Denver on Saturday, twenty four hours later, we

540
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: have Cliff Kingsbury down seven with six minutes left, taking

541
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 2: a field goal and ending a fourteen to play sixty

542
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 2: seven yard drive. The Cardinals had a nineteen play sixty

543
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 2: six yard drive per field goal somehow that didn't get

544
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: in the red zone after nineteen plays, and Rashad Penny

545
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 2: had the late breakaway touchdown and Seahawks you got to win.

546
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 2: I think these teams are basically about equal loss, what

547
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: I thought going into the game, and that's about what

548
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 2: this one looked like to me.

549
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought the same thing. I mean, look, we

550
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: spoke about it before. Cliff Kingsbury, he struggles at the

551
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,719
Speaker 1: end of the seasons, and it's really unfortunate, but this

552
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: team has really not been the same team that we've

553
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: seen at the beginning of the year and before week

554
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: eight fifteen five and one. Now with this loss, they're

555
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: nine and twenty after Week eight, And when you combine

556
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: his time at Texas Tech weeks one through seven, he's

557
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: forty two of twenty. When you look at week eight onward,

558
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: he's seventeen and forty four. So, for whatever reason, I

559
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: think teams start to figure out this offense. And obviously,

560
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: when you don't have DeAndre Hopkins in Alana, you're not

561
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: as explosive. And the one thing that I mean, I'm

562
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: not one of those guys who says you got to

563
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: establish the run, but if you have a poor run defense,

564
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: there's gonna be teams who will be able to exploit that.

565
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: And obviously the Cowboys weren't able to exploit that last week.

566
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: But the Cardos run defense there's still seventeen from rushing

567
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: success rate, allowing thirty nine point nine percent rushing plays.

568
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: The great out a successful and you're dead last and

569
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: explosive run play break. So when you looked at Rashan Penny. Well,

570
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: he did it today. He had twenty three carries, one

571
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: hundred ninety yards and one touchdown. I mean he had

572
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: pretty much the game breaking sixty two yard touchdown which

573
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: ice the game. I think this Cardinals team is in

574
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: a bad way. I actually think it's fortunate that they're

575
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: playing a Rams team, you know, which can't run the ball.

576
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: It's so funny, you know, you mentioned that Rams were

577
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: Forcenate to play down. But I think both of these

578
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: teams are probably fortunate to play each other.

579
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Speaker 2: I agree, we as betters are unfortunate that they're playing

580
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: each other, because I was ready to fade both of

581
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 2: these teams into oblivion against basically any other matchup. Instead

582
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 2: they're against each other. I don't know what to make

583
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 2: of it, because I mean, it's gonna be a fun

584
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: Monday Night one when we get there. But yeah, I'm

585
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: ready to be out on both of these teams. Sean

586
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: mcvay's offenses have faded down the stretch yet again. Cliff

587
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: Kingsbury the cars of losing four or five right now.

588
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray negative EPA per play today, took five sacks.

589
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: James Connor left hurt. I don't know what's going to

590
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: be his status. We don't know if JJ Watt will play.

591
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: We don't know if Dander Hopkins will play. It's a

592
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: rough spot, I guess yeah. The good news is that

593
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: the Rams are Colonels have to win. There is no

594
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 2: ties in the playoffs. One of those teams gets to

595
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: make in the second round. You never know. There's a

596
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: lot of talent on both these rosters. We saw the

597
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 2: first half of the year how good they can be.

598
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: So maybe if you want to be an optimist about

599
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: your NFC West teams here, one of them has to win.

600
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 2: Maybe you get that first win for either Kyler or Stafford.

601
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: Stafford's never got the playoff win before. Kyler hasn't been

602
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 2: here yet. Maybe get that first win, get a little confidence,

603
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: get that offense rolling again, and then maybe you're alive

604
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 2: after that. We know the other NFC teams are flawed

605
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: as well, so you know it's nice that they get

606
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 2: to lucky to each other and get a chance.

607
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: Here.

608
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: One team that will not be in the playoffs, though

609
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 2: we certainly gave them our chances, is the Indianapolis Colts

610
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 2: and the Innneapolis Colts are our stink of the week.

611
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: Smelly smelly, smelly.

612
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: It's the smell. It's quite pungent. Dude, plug your nose.

613
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: It's stinks.

614
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: This is your stink.

615
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 3: Of the wi.

616
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: As holy cow, did the Colts blow it? Fourteen point

617
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: favorites against the terrible, awful Jacksonville Jaguars. All the Colts

618
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: have to do just beat the Jaguars. They didn't have

619
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: to cover the spread, they didn't have to make it

620
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: look pretty. They just have to beat the Jaguars and

621
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 2: make the playoffs, and quite frankly, probably are a team

622
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: that you and I both are feeling pretty good about

623
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: as a sleeper. The Colts are good. They're a good

624
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 2: team that should be in the playoffs. They can't do it.

625
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: The Jaguars didn't just win, they dominated. The Colts just

626
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 2: completely laid an egg here twenty six to eleven Jacksonville,

627
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: and it wasn't even that close. The touchdown came late.

628
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: Jacksonville basically held them to a field goal for most

629
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Speaker 2: of the game. Plus six twenty five on the money

630
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 2: line for a huge upset win. Obviously covered the fourteen

631
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 2: and also got to point out here a couple of

632
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 2: weeks ago, as you shouted out on Twitter, Colts plus

633
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 2: one thousand to miss the playoffs when you're going to

634
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 2: that Raiders game for the cold they got the COVID outbreak,

635
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 2: It was a risky what happened if they lost the Raiders?

636
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: Would they be live here? They missed the playoffs here,

637
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 2: And I think they have none to blame but themselves.

638
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they didn't have no one to blame

639
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: with themselves, but I think they caught a raw deal

640
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: the start of the year. Obviously, he had Carson wentz

641
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: he went down with COVID to start the year, and

642
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to comment on his vaccination status,

643
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: but they had a lowed to do it. And then

644
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: obviously he had the foot injury where he missed the

645
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: entire preseason. So it felt like they basically started the

646
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: season with one hand tie behind their back, and they

647
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: spotted every other AFC team a three game lead because

648
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: Carson didn't really get going until Week four. And obviously

649
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: by that time you start to see that they're pretty

650
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: much dominating or winning in every game going forward up

651
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: until they had another COVID outbreak against the Raiders, and

652
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, you look, you go back and look at

653
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: the game against the Ravens, they probably should have won

654
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,239
Speaker 1: that game. You look at the game against the it's

655
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: the second game against the Titans at home. They should

656
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: have won that game. They had a fourteen point lead.

657
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: You look at the game against the Buccaneers, they had

658
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: a double digit leader in that game. So that three game,

659
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: those three games they lost to the started year ended

660
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: up being huge. And then obviously you have the COVID

661
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: outbreak right before the Raiders game, and the Raiders were

662
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: playing some good football as we see now, that set

663
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: them back. And then they're playing the Jaguars team for

664
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: whatever reason, we've had multiple incarnations of the Jaguars, they

665
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: have multiple incarnations of the Colts. They hadn't won in

666
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: Jacksonville since twenty fourteen. You had them going to Jacksonville

667
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: last year as seven point favorites in Week one with

668
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. They still lost. So I don't know if

669
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Speaker 1: there's like a Haitian voodoo doll going on and Jacksonville

670
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: right now with the Colts owner, but they just can't

671
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: win over there. So it's really true.

672
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 2: And let's be clearer too. They lost that game, and

673
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: the Jaguars lost the other fifteen games on their schedule.

674
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: They went one and fifteen Last year, the only win

675
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: they had was at home against the Colts. So yeah,

676
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: I agree. This was a Colts season that was doomed

677
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: in many ways because of the injuries, because the code

678
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: and all of that. Look, we're in a pandemic. There

679
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: are a lot of excuses to be made, and some

680
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: of them are very good. There's no excuse to just

681
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: lay an egg to the Jaguars. Jacksonville Hens scored want

682
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: more than twenty three points the entire season. So this

683
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: is Carson Wentz terrible. In this game. Wentz lost to fumble.

684
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: He threw interceptions on back to back throws won that

685
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 2: got overturned. He took six sacks. But the whole Colts

686
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: were terrible. They had two hundred thirty three yards, four

687
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: of twelve on third down, one of three in the

688
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 2: red zone. They lost the turn of battle to nothing.

689
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: They gave up twenty six to the Jaguars, who had

690
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: only had twenty three or least every game the whole season.

691
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence rookie quarterback in a playoff game. Basically, Trevor

692
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: Lawrence had thrown two touchdowns the last nine games and

693
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: throws two today. This team the Jaguars just lost fifty

694
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: to ten last week. Fifty to ten. You gotta beat

695
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 2: that team make the playoffs. Right before that, Jacksonville lost

696
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 2: to the Texans and the Jets. In case you weren't

697
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: sure just how bad they are. Jacksonville instead first team

698
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy eight to win twice in one season

699
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 2: as fourteen point underdogs. Remember they beat the Bills nine

700
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: to six and that weird game too. So just an

701
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: awful way for the Colts to head into the offseason.

702
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: It's gonna be make for a good Hard Knocks episode.

703
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: I guess we got that coming for us.

704
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, without a doubt.

705
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 2: So the Colts loss as that one is locked up,

706
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Speaker 2: means that the Steelers Ravens is a de facto playoff game.

707
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 2: We thought it almost wasn't the way that the tie

708
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 2: almost happened on Sunday night, but we thought Steelers or

709
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: Ravens is basically a playoff game. That one is close.

710
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 2: Not the most exciting game.

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Speaker 1: In the world.

712
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Speaker 2: Typical Steelers Ravens game always close down to the end.

713
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 2: That one is another one that goes into overtime and

714
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: Big Ben checked down all the way in the field

715
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 2: goal range over and over on the checkdown Nadia Harris,

716
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: a couple of big plays, Steelers kicked the field goal

717
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 2: sixteen to thirteen and get the overtime win. Yet another

718
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: Steelers Ravens game that is within three points or less.

719
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: Yet another cover in one of those where the Steelers

720
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 2: were underdogs. We talked about that all year and where

721
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 2: the line was a three and a half or more. Yea,

722
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 2: always take the underdog in this one. So this is

723
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Speaker 2: basically exactly like we thought was gonna happen on this game.

724
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, look, this was an old school

725
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Speaker 1: football game, and when I'm watching this game, I just

726
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: didn't understand how the Ravens weren't blowing his team out. Look.

727
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you get to turn over in the first

728
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: half to fumble and it's in Baltimore territory. Still just

729
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: kick a field goal. And it just felt like they

730
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: kept finding themselves in situations to where they could score,

731
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: but it felt like Stills just couldn't move the ball.

732
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: The Ravens they're moving the ball, but they either stall

733
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: out on drives and we end up with a three

734
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: to three tie at the end of the first half.

735
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Speaker 1: I put it out on Twitter the Ravens are dominating

736
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: and every fast of the game yards were played first down,

737
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: rushing yards, passing yards. If this was anything but Ravens

738
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: versus Stillers and then roth the Berger's possible, last possible game.

739
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: I'm unloading on the Ravens. And what happens right after halftime?

740
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: You have the Ravens come out and they pretty much

741
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: take control of the game with a long touchdown run,

742
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: and it felt like they were on the version dominating

743
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: this game and putting it completely away. Somehow, the Stillers

744
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: just battled their way back into this game, and it's

745
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: just it's just one of those games where you have

746
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: a divisional battle, both teams know each other and they

747
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: just find a way to keep it close.

748
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look you so, here's the drive chart for the

749
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 2: Steelers in their season saving way against the Ravens. Are

750
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 2: you ready? It's ugly. Here it goes three and out

751
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 2: field goal interception, punt three and out, three and out,

752
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: kneel down. Now hour at halftime, field goal three and out,

753
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 2: punt touchdown, four and out, kneel down, field goal, game winner,

754
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: walk it off, go home, hit the playoffs. It's not

755
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: gonna be a long stay in the playoffs for these Steelers.

756
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: We got another underdog spot and they're gonna keep staying underdogs.

757
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: Tyler Huntley not his best game here. Negative point three

758
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 2: to five EPA per play is a rough look for

759
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: our guy. He did what he could. The Ravens did

760
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: what they could, the poor Ravens. The Ravens were eight

761
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 2: and three and end the season on a six game

762
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 2: losing streak with losses by one, two, one, one, and

763
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: now in overtime by three. Our friend, we've talked about

764
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: this before. Our friend had the Baltimore missing the playoffs

765
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: like a month go. They just couldn't get over the line.

766
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: They pushed all the way. I give a lot of

767
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 2: credit to John Harbot just for even giving them a

768
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 2: chot here, but they just didn't have enough.

769
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, we actually talked about it on this

770
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: podcast multiple times. We spoke about Baltimore possibly missed the playoffs.

771
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: But I mean when we look at this game, honestly,

772
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: this game was decided on an interception. The Ravens are

773
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: up ten to six, they're driving and you get the

774
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: interception and that pretty much changes the game. I think

775
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: if the Ravens scored right there, this game is pretty

776
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: much over in the third quarter, they go three and

777
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: out once again, you got multiple punts and then the

778
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: Stillers eventually just get a touchdown and the Ravens needed

779
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: to actually kick a field goal in order to really

780
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: get it into overtime. But it just felt like this

781
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: was a Michael Cosmo the Ravens season. It just felt

782
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: like they were competitive in so many different games without

783
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and they just lost these one score games.

784
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year with Lamar Jackson, they were winning

785
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: the one score games. With Tyler Huntley, they're just not

786
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: winning them. I mean, he had the one score game

787
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: against the Rams, which they probably should have won. We

788
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: had the one score game against the Packers. They were

789
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: in these games. So I mean, I think Baltimore is

790
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: they're going to bounce back next year. This is a

791
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: good organization, but you got to have your star quarters back. Yeah.

792
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 2: One other thing I'll comment on. We talked about the

793
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: game theory of the overtime in a couple other games,

794
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 2: so in this game, we knew that both teams are

795
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 2: eliminated if we end in a tie. So I loved

796
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: that the Steelers made the clearly correct decision fourth down

797
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: with about three minutes left and overtime near midfield, and

798
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is not a play to win team with Ben Roethlisberger.

799
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 2: They played not to lose. They made multiple other decisions

800
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: like that earlier in the game. He got to go

801
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 2: for it there because you punted away, you're basically just

802
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 2: conceding the season. They make the right call, they get

803
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 2: the first down to Ray Ray McLeod and then kick

804
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 2: the field goal a few plays later, So good process there.

805
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 2: Credit to Mike Tomlin. We rip on the guys when

806
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: they make the bad decisions. Swingemm's credit when they get

807
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 2: one right. Let's hit the rest of Sunday's action and

808
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: wrap up Week eighteen and the regular season. Saturday, I

809
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: forgot we had games on Saturday. The Chiefs blew two

810
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 2: leads but held on to beat the Broncos twenty eight

811
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 2: to twenty four. Denver did get the cover, but had

812
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: a second straight over to finish the year. Vic Fangio

813
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 2: got his walking papers on Sunday, so Denver will be

814
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: looking for a new coach and probably new quarterback next year.

815
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 2: Cowboys ran it up on Philly's backups in the nightcap.

816
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 2: They hit the overall on their own fifty one twenty

817
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 2: six a romp Dak Prescott five touchdowns. On Sunday, the

818
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: Titans held on for dear life to escape twenty eight

819
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 2: to twenty five over the Texans and clinch maybe the

820
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: most shambalock one seed that I've ever seen before. Houston

821
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: covered the spread and got the game over late. They

822
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 2: pushed the Titans all the way by. The Titans just

823
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: were good enough on third down in the red zone

824
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 2: to get over the finish line and get that by

825
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 2: whatever it takes. The Dolphins scored on their first drive.

826
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 2: I've then got a pick six and never really look

827
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: back from there. Patriots fall in Miami yet again late

828
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 2: in the season. It's the one place Bill Belichick can't win.

829
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 2: They lost the turnover battle three to nothing. Rough one

830
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 2: for Mac Jones, bad bad beat for the Patriots. Second half. Betters,

831
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 2: if you had Pats minus four, you are still sick

832
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: over that last play. It's a three point game. We

833
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 2: got the old lateraled around and try to do something

834
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: crazy and with zeros on the clock, the Dolphins get

835
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 2: the defensive touchdown to grab that cover. Isn't that how

836
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: that play all this seems to go. I'm sure Scott

837
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: ven Pelt will be talking about that one. The Jets

838
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: managed a whopping fifty three yards on forty six plays

839
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: in their game. I honestly thought it was a typo

840
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 2: when I looked up the numbers. Fifty three yards all game,

841
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 2: four first downs, one of fourteen on third down, and

842
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: somehow the Bills are only up thirteen to ten in

843
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, but ended up covering and winning the division. Anyway,

844
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: The Aints did their part to make the playoffs pile,

845
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: driving the Falcons thirty twenty. It wasn't that close. New

846
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 2: Orleans was in the red zone six times just in

847
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,240
Speaker 2: the first half alone. Kaysom Hill went out, Trevor Simeon

848
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 2: came in, got the job done, but the saintside the

849
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 2: hearts broken by the Niners in that overtime win knocked

850
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 2: them out. The Panthers got an early lead, but the

851
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: Bucks were true to their word and pushed all game.

852
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 2: Rolling in the postseason with a forty one seventeen cover

853
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: and over Tom Brady over three hundred yards three more touchdowns,

854
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 2: led the league in both yards and touchdowns at age

855
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 2: forty four. Maybe maybe some outside help from my MVP

856
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 2: ticket on Tom Brady. The Bengals backups got a late

857
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: touchdown to cover the spread in Cleveland, but the Browns

858
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 2: got the win rough one if you had the over there.

859
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: Cincinnati got the touchdown late, but then missed the two

860
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 2: point conversion and we went under by half a point.

861
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: The Lions got the upset over the Packers, who did

862
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 2: play their starters for a half, but gave the game

863
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 2: away late. He tried one thirty seven to thirty, got

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Speaker 2: the cover and the money line win plus one sixty five,

865
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Speaker 2: but they cost themselves and number want to pick in

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Speaker 2: the process. We'll see how that turns out. The Vikings

867
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: outscored the Barries twenty eight to three in the second

868
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Speaker 2: half to end Matt Naggy's time in Chicago no doubt,

869
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: and please God, hopefully not extend Mike Zimmer's time in Minnesota.

870
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: Patrick Peterson's pick six late hit the over as the

871
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: Vikings got the cover. The Giants got their first touchdown

872
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 2: from a wide receivers since October, a garbage score in

873
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 2: the final quarter to avoid an embarrassing home shutout to Washington.

874
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Speaker 2: Jake from had a pick six and the Giants tried

875
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,600
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876
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Speaker 2: five before punting, because why not. Jojodge is trying to

877
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878
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Speaker 2: and somehow the Giants proved themselves the actual clown show

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00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,839
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Speaker 2: The show, all right, So no Monday night football instead,

914
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 2: we're talking playoff picture. Let's set the stage here. Let's

915
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 2: start in the NFC. So in the NFC, the Packers

916
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 2: are the one seed, they're off next week. The two

917
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 2: seed is the box they will face the Eagles. We

918
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 2: got Cowboys Niners. Cowboys are the three seed, and then

919
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 2: Rams Cardinals in the four or five. What are your

920
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: first instincts looking at that nac A playoff picture for him?

921
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the NFC playoff picture

922
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 1: is pretty clear that things go through Green Bay. Lambeau

923
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: is a tough place to play. They get to buy.

924
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: As we always say on this podcast, the best way

925
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: to make it to the super Bowl is to have

926
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: that bye week. We all know how those bi week

927
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: teams perform in the divisional round and how they perform

928
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: in the championship game. So I think things go through

929
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: to them. But when you look at the NFC, all

930
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: of these teams are fault I think any one of

931
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: these teams has a shot. So I'm I'm really excited

932
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: to see what happens. I have a few teams that

933
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of leaning towards. But what are your thoughts?

934
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, the game that I've really got my eye on

935
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: for this round, and now we're going to come back

936
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 2: to this one in the hot read. I'm really watching

937
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 2: the Cowboys forty nine Ers. The Cowboys are your team.

938
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 2: They were a team that I mentioned as a super

939
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 2: Bowl sleeper before this season. The Niners are my team now.

940
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 2: The Niners are the teams that I just wrote about

941
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 2: last week as coming in two week eighteen, a possible

942
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 2: team to make a Cinderella run to the Super Bowl,

943
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 2: maybe win the super Bowl again if the matchup switch

944
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 2: a little bit here. Cowboys, Cardinals, Rams, Niners instead pretty

945
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 2: easy reads for me. I like both the not the

946
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 2: Cardinals and not the Rams instead. I like the Cowboys

947
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 2: and the Niners. Both these are both teams that in

948
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 2: an open NFC I wouldn't be surprised to either one

949
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 2: of those teams make the super Bowl. But right now,

950
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 2: when I'm going to get a Limna in the first round,

951
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: the Cowboys defensive line is definitely a super Bowl defensive

952
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 2: line the way that they're playing. But you know, that

953
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 2: matchup is a real key because I think that the

954
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 2: team that's most dangerous to the Packers is actually the

955
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers. That's part of why I like the

956
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 2: Niners futures here. I had them at plus twenty five

957
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 2: hundred to win the NFC, plus five thousand to win

958
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Heading into today, those numbers now at

959
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: bet MGM are down to plus fourteen hundred to win

960
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: the NFC plus twenty five hundred Super Bowl. So I

961
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: don't like the Super Bowl number there at plus twenty

962
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 2: five when you can get the fourteen to one on NFC.

963
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: I do still like that NAFC number because that same

964
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 2: thing we saw today. The Niners going to run the

965
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 2: ball and win the run game. That's even more important

966
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, and all of these NFC teams really

967
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 2: are struggling to stop the run. Packers are bottom five

968
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 2: run defense. That's a problem the Cowboys have. The Bucks

969
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 2: have not been as strong against the run lately, and

970
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 2: we don't believe a lot in the Rams of the Cardinals.

971
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: So if the Niners win as the sixth seed, I

972
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: don't see the Eagles beating the Bucks. So now the

973
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: Niners go to Green Bay, and that's a prime upset

974
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 2: spot if the Cowboys get that win instead, Now the

975
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 2: Packers are going to get the Rams or Cardinals, and

976
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 2: that's a much much better spot for green Bay in

977
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: that spot. Now, Aaron Rodgers is sitting in the NFC Championship,

978
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 2: hosting at Lambeau, and you got a great chance to

979
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 2: get there. So the Cowboys Niners game, to me, is

980
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 2: the pivotal one that will kind of determine where this

981
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 2: bracket goes. I think I do think it's.

982
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: The pivotal one, and I think it has a lot

983
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: to do with the forty nine ers. I think we

984
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: both like the forty Niners, were both high on them

985
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: on their ability to run the ball, and they have

986
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: a dominant pass rush. So I'm not gonna high on

987
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And I think the one thing that stands

988
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: out to me is that since Dak Prescott has returned

989
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: from his injury in Week nine, I'm just gonna exclude

990
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: Week eighteen just because it's playing an Eagles team that

991
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: just didn't play anybody. The Cowboys are sixteenth for EPA

992
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: per play, They're twenty first and success rate. It's just

993
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: like this offense really hasn't been Yeah, it's just not

994
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: gonna get the job done. They're also nineteenth at drop

995
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,959
Speaker 1: back success rate. And look, we know this passing offense

996
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: has been struggling, but the run game hasn't even been

997
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: the same, they're twenty sixth and rushing EPA per play,

998
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: they're twenty seventh and russing success rate. You got Michael

999
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: Gallop out, so that just takes one more weapon away

1000
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: from this offense. The running game isn't it hasn't been dominant.

1001
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: So you saw them Againt the Arizona Cardinals where you

1002
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: got a bottom five run defense and you can't capitalize it.

1003
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: And we just saw what Seattle did the same run

1004
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 1: defense this week. So this is an offensive mind league,

1005
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 1: and if your offense is struggling, it's tough for me

1006
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: to take you seriously. And then obviously I don't think

1007
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is out coaching anybody any one of these coaches,

1008
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: and I mean that includes Kingsburg and we all know

1009
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: how Matt Mitchell feels about him, but they can arguably

1010
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: have the worst coach in the NFC playoffs at this

1011
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: point in time. So as much as I love my

1012
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: Cowboys and they are my favorite team professional sports, I'm

1013
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: not that crazy about that.

1014
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott is zero and three against the spreading the

1015
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 2: playoffs too, so it does start to set up for

1016
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 2: the hot team and the Niners, a very good team

1017
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 2: that is gonna be a tough matchup. Could be another

1018
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 2: one of those dream Cowboys seasons that peaked too early

1019
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 2: and ends on that first playoff game. So we'll talk

1020
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 2: about more about that one in our hot raid. Let's

1021
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 2: look at the AFC. The Tennessee Titans, as we mentioned them,

1022
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: they somehow got the one seed. They got the buye

1023
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 2: a week. The Chiefs are the two seeds. They plays

1024
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: the Steelers, just demolished Pittsburgh only like three weeks ago.

1025
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 2: The three seed is the Buffalo Bills. They will play

1026
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 2: the Patriots. Now that was a tough loss for the

1027
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 2: Patriots today, drops them down that slot there and makes

1028
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 2: a much worse match up for them. And then the

1029
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 2: Bengals and the Raiders are the four or five that

1030
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 2: will be our opening playoff game on Saturday, a very

1031
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon opening playoff game if I ever seen one.

1032
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: We have so many games that we've seen before like that.

1033
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: I mean these are repeat peak games. I mean the

1034
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,479
Speaker 1: Bengals played the Raiders earlier this season pretty much pretty

1035
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: much dominate win. Bills and Patriots are playing for the

1036
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: third time. The Buccaneers and the Eagles are playing for

1037
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: a second time. It's just we got a lot of

1038
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: repeat matchups. We got the Rams and Arizona Cardinals. So

1039
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: this is gonna be interesting playoff weekend because we actually

1040
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: have priors to go off for ye I'll actually go

1041
00:51:58,600 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 1: back and washing the tape.

1042
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cowboys. Cowboys game against the Niners is the only

1043
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 2: new matchup that we haven't seen this season. We had

1044
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,919
Speaker 2: two divisions and then three others that have played each other.

1045
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 2: So yeah, the Bengals Raiders certainly not a playoff game

1046
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 2: I had on my Bingo card for the season. I

1047
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 2: didn't have either of those teams even close to the

1048
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 2: playoffs coming in. So again, for me on this bracket,

1049
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 2: that three six matchup is the king maker. So I've

1050
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 2: got my own Bills Patriots because the outcome of that one,

1051
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 2: I think drastically swings how this bracket goes. So I

1052
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 2: like Buffalo in the AFC because of the matchups. I

1053
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 2: think Buffalo showed a few weeks ago that they're the better,

1054
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 2: more talented team than the Patriots, and now that's who

1055
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,760
Speaker 2: they're playing. And the Bills. Really they built this roster

1056
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 2: to beat the Chiefs, and they did that earlier in

1057
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 2: the season. They built their defense, they built the way

1058
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 2: that they play to beat the Chiefs, And so what

1059
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 2: happens with the Bills. If the Bills win against the Patriots,

1060
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 2: then Buffalo goes and play the Chiefs. Maybe they're the

1061
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 2: team that can knock the Chiefs out. I think they

1062
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 2: might be the only team that can really knock the

1063
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 2: Chiefs out, barring something crazy. But if the Patriots win instead,

1064
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 2: the Patriots as the sixth seed, probably go to Tennessee.

1065
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 2: And you better believe, like I'm all over New England

1066
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 2: in that game at Tennessee, they better not be giving

1067
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 2: Tennessee points on that one. Have ever had a team

1068
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 2: get a bye week and then not be favored at home?

1069
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 2: Because we might have that in that scenario. And I

1070
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 2: think that if New England can beat Buffalo, the Patriots,

1071
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: as bad as they look today, it's Bill Belichick. The

1072
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 2: defense is very good. Let's not over react to one game,

1073
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 2: would they They let it get away a little bit,

1074
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 2: but it's fine. They were in the playoffs already. Patriots

1075
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 2: plus nine hundred at bet MGM to come out of

1076
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 2: the AFC. There are some flawed teams here. I don't

1077
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 2: believe in the Titans. I don't believe in the Steelers

1078
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 2: or the Raiders. I don't really believe in the Bengals.

1079
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 2: If the Patriots knock out the Bills in their first game,

1080
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 2: they're really a Chief win away from maybe getting to

1081
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. So I think the Patriots are interesting

1082
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 2: number there. We don't really get them at a plus

1083
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 2: nine hundred usually, but they could be alive. Do you

1084
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 2: think I'm crazy?

1085
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 1: I do think he's crazy. I just I can't back

1086
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: Michael McCorkle and just in his first playoff scenario. I

1087
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: just I'm not that high on this team. I think,

1088
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: to me, I don't even see them going into Buffalo

1089
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: and winning that game. At the first game against Buffalo,

1090
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: I had a lot to do with the inclement weather

1091
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: that you saw in the wins and everything like that.

1092
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: But if they're forced to match point for points with

1093
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and obviously Josh Allen has had his struggles

1094
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,240
Speaker 1: turning the ball over, but I'm not seeing it, honestly,

1095
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: And I just don't see that the Patriots winning multiple

1096
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: road games with a rookie quarterback.

1097
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very fair. It's gonna be a tough one.

1098
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 2: But to me, after the Chiefs and the Bills, I

1099
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 2: think the Patriots could be alive, and as much as

1100
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 2: I've dumped on them all year, if the bracket breaks right,

1101
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 2: and it might now, the Titans could have a Yeah.

1102
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: I was about to say, actually, I think the Titans

1103
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: are more live than people realize. And if they get

1104
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: Dereck Henry back, I think they're scary because I you

1105
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: have a team who can run the ball, and obviously

1106
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: the Derek Henry hasn't changed things that much. But obviously

1107
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: you got a healthy Aj Brown, you got Hoolly on

1108
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: the lineup. You have a team with an identity, and

1109
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 1: the defense has been playing a lot better. So you

1110
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: have a first round by I think that gives you

1111
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: an advantage over other teams. So, like you said, depending

1112
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: on how to match up breaks, I think they have

1113
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: their lives.

1114
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 2: Make two yeah, well, and again to me, that's where

1115
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 2: that three six matchup becomes really important, because if the

1116
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 2: Patriots win, now, the Titans probably have to beat the

1117
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 2: Patriots and Bill Belichick and then probably the Chiefs. I

1118
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 2: don't see the Titans winning both of those. But if

1119
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 2: the Bills win, Now, the Bills and the Chiefs the

1120
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 2: two really good teams you don't want to play, and

1121
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 2: one of them is gonna knock each other out, and

1122
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 2: the Titans get sit at home as arrested team and

1123
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 2: play the Bengals or the Raiders. That's looking pretty good.

1124
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 2: If you're a Tennessee to beat the Bengals or the

1125
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 2: Raiders and now you're hosting the NFC Championship game. I

1126
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 2: still don't like them there, but you're one game away

1127
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 2: from the super Bowl at that point, So I don't

1128
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 2: know that I would call the Titans dangerous per se,

1129
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 2: but they're not so far away as much as we've

1130
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 2: dumped on them. The schedule, the way that this four

1131
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 2: or five matchup goes, if they can get the Chiefs

1132
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 2: and Bills on the other side of the bracket there,

1133
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 2: if they keep winning, the Titans are going to have

1134
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 2: a real chance here.

1135
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: So Tights are just probably one of the weirdest teams

1136
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: that we've ever seen, because I mean, look, we forget

1137
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: the Titans actually beat the Chiefs twenty seven to three,

1138
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: one week after being the Bills thirty four to thirty

1139
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,280
Speaker 1: one on Monday Night Football. So this team has wins

1140
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: against quality competition. Obviously. They beat the Chiefs, they beat

1141
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: the Bills, they beat the Rams, and they have losses

1142
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: against the Jets, So it's just like, this team plays up,

1143
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,399
Speaker 1: we're down to the competition. They even beat the forty

1144
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 1: nine ers, so this team, like, I don't think we

1145
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: can count this team out, and I think depending on

1146
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: the price, there's gonna be some value in it.

1147
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tennessee has six and two against playoff teams, except

1148
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 2: that the six included two wins against the Colts, So

1149
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 2: now they're down to four and two against playoff teams.

1150
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 2: But we know the Colts are good, so we shouldn't

1151
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: discount those wins as we're thinking about that. However, it works.

1152
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 2: Tennessee is getting the job done against some of these teams,

1153
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens there off next week. Here's

1154
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 2: how it sets up. Saturday, we got Cincinnati and Raiders

1155
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 2: kicking it off. We got Buffalo, New England in the

1156
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 2: night game. Sunday we got three games, Tampa in the

1157
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 2: early one, Dallas San Francisco in the afternoon, Chiefs and Steelers.

1158
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 2: We saved for the night game. I'm not really sure

1159
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 2: why we chose that one. And then Monday night, our

1160
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 2: first ever Monday night playoff game is Rams Cardinals. So

1161
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 2: that is the week that we have to come. As

1162
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: we're looking at that week of games. Let's head to

1163
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 2: our hot read and get one pick each on the

1164
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 2: record for the wild Card round.

1165
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: Hot Guys Rights, ice Cream.

1166
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 2: You and I both love the same team here, and

1167
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 2: they shouldn't be surprised if you've been listening for him.

1168
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: Wants your hot reeds for the wildcut around.

1169
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: I like the San Francisco forty nine Ers. I believe

1170
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: this line is that plus three plus three and a half.

1171
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: I think you want to wait this one out, though,

1172
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: because that public is gonna be all over the Cowboys

1173
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: the scene as a lot. Obviously they're coming off of

1174
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: dominant win over the Philadelphia Eagles, who really didn't play anybody. Look,

1175
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: this Cowboys defense is just it's obviously been one of

1176
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: the best in the league. You look at the third

1177
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: of EPA for play, third of success rate, but I'm

1178
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: not impressed with this offense. I gave you the numbers

1179
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: earlier weeks nine to seventeen, sixteenth for EPA for play

1180
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: just twenty first and success rate. One game is struggling,

1181
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: the passing game is struggling, and I just think this

1182
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers offense they can control the clock they

1183
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: can run the ball, they have a dominant defensive line.

1184
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: I think Kyle Shanahan is the more creative play caller.

1185
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: He's probably a bet better head coach in this matchup.

1186
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna wait this one out and I'm gonna

1187
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: be looking to take the forty nine ers at the

1188
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: most inflated line I can possibly get. I'm looking to

1189
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: play them on the money line to because I think

1190
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna win this game.

1191
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 2: You know, Raheem is confident when he's playing the money.

1192
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 2: Land on the underdog, and I'm with you on this one.

1193
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 2: I've said a lot about the Niners. I've got an

1194
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 2: article up at Action network dot com. You can read

1195
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 2: about my position on the Niners futures here. This was

1196
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 2: part of the reason I like them in this matchup. Here,

1197
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan as an underdog for his career twenty five

1198
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 2: and seventeen against the spread, sixty percent cover rate, there's

1199
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 2: been a good spot for him. You don't want him

1200
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 2: as a favorite. He's not gonna be a favorite because

1201
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 2: they'll be playing on the road in the playoffs. So

1202
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 2: that's part of what you like here. I agree, big

1203
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 2: coaching advantage. We talked about this too. The Cowboys for

1204
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 2: the season are below average running the football on DVA

1205
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 2: and below average stopping the run, and that's what the

1206
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 2: Niners are elite at Dallas is not good running the

1207
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 2: ball anymore, but doesn't seem to realize it and just

1208
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 2: keeps trying. It's not coming through for them. I think

1209
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 2: they're going to waste a lot of plays trying to

1210
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: establish the run and play Cowboys football. It's not going

1211
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 2: to work against this Niners defense. The Niners are going

1212
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 2: to gash them with their run game, and I just

1213
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 2: think it's a great spot for them. One other reason

1214
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 2: I agree with you on why to wait here, though,

1215
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 2: I want to make sure Trent Williams is out there.

1216
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 2: Trent Williams is the MVP of this team, him and

1217
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 2: George Kittle, not Jimmy Garoppolo. I care much more when

1218
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 2: the news came out today Sunday afternoon, Jimmy Garoppolo is playing. Oh,

1219
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 2: by the way, Trent Williams is out You get the

1220
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 2: wrong headline on that one. Trent Williams matters a lot

1221
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: more to me than even which quarterback in this game.

1222
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 2: So wait it out. Let's make sure Trent Williams is playing.

1223
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 2: I think that he will, but we don't know yet,

1224
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 2: so I want to wait and see on that one

1225
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 2: as well. You want to get above the key number,

1226
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 2: but I think it will stay above that because we

1227
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 2: know Dallas is gonna get the money. And as I

1228
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 2: said before, Dak prescotut one to two in playoff games

1229
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 2: all and three against the spread. It's Cowboys things. This

1230
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 2: is America's team that the line is going to be inflated.

1231
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 2: Baroppol is actually two and one against the spread as well,

1232
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 2: So I'm with you. We like the forty nine ers.

1233
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 2: I'm sorry it has to be against your guys, the Cowboys,

1234
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 2: but it's a really good spot for san from Yeah.

1235
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: I think we're in agreement. At the end of the day.

1236
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: I love my Dallas Cowboys, but I love my bank

1237
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 1: roll more. There was a scene and I think I

1238
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: think it's a Bronx tale where's he's talking to the

1239
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: kid and it's just like, look, Mickey min who makes

1240
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars a year, why are you sad

1241
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: that the Yankees lost? At the end of the day,

1242
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: That's kind of how I feel about this. Look, the

1243
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't pay my bills, so I'm a little to

1244
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: my bank world. So the forty nine go out there

1245
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: and crush them, and I got money on the forty

1246
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: nine ers. I'm a happy man.

1247
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 2: That's where I was. But I got my NDSU in

1248
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 2: North Dakota State's butchered on. I made all my money

1249
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 2: I needed back to my Bison, our ninth national championship

1250
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 2: in eleven years. Luckily, I do not need to bet

1251
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 2: on my vikings. We are safely out of the playoffs,

1252
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 2: and this one my hot red. I like the Niners two.

1253
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 2: That probably have been my first pick, but since you've

1254
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 2: got that one, I'm gonna go with the Bucks. I

1255
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 2: like Tampa Bay a lot against the Eagles. It's a

1256
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 2: lot more fun having these seven seeds in the playoffs.

1257
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 2: They're not very good, though the Eagles are fine. They're

1258
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,520
Speaker 2: not good. The Eagles started out three and six. They

1259
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 2: finished six and two, but against two Washington twice in

1260
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 2: the COVID Mess, the Giants twice, who are probably the

1261
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 2: worst team in football at the season end, and the

1262
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 2: Giants won one of those games. The Eagles played the Jets,

1263
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:29,720
Speaker 2: they played the Lions. If you look at playoff teams,

1264
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 2: the Eagles are zero and six against teams that made

1265
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 2: the playoff field minus. They've lost the game by twelve

1266
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 2: points per game in those six playoff team games. So

1267
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 2: one of those, of course, was against the Bucks twenty

1268
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 2: eight twenty two on a Thursday night back in October.

1269
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 2: But those twenty eight to seven with twenty minutes left,

1270
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 2: Bucks were absolutely dominating. Eagles got a couple touchdowns in there,

1271
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:53,959
Speaker 2: but they had a touchdown after a forty five yeard

1272
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 2: defensive penalty, and the Eagles that touchdown after a fifty

1273
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 2: yeard defensive penalty, and that was basically all the Eagles did.

1274
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 2: Three hundred ninety nine Bucks yards to two hundred and

1275
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 2: thirteen Eagles yards tells the story there. Forty minutes to

1276
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 2: twenty minutes time of possession, those penalties the only reason

1277
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 2: it was close. That line was minus seven, and it

1278
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 2: was in Philly. To me, that means this line should

1279
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 2: easily be double digits. It'd be like twelve or thirteen.

1280
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 2: I grabbed it at seven, seven and a half when

1281
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Speaker 2: it first came out. I think now it's at eight

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01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 2: and a half or nine. I still like it. I

1283
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 2: like the Bucks. I don't the Eagles have much of

1284
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 2: a chance, and we know it's a run team, so

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01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 2: once the Bucks do get their lead, this is not

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01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 2: a team that is going to be able to pass

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01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 2: on the secondary and close the gap. So I think

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01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 2: Tampa is going to get a pretty easy win here.

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01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not mad at this pick at all. I mean,

1290
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: obviously Jalen Herbst has been banged up a little bit

1291
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: and it pretty much took a miracle for this team

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01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: to cover the last time they play. And we all

1293
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: know about the Buccaneers road struggles. They're at home so

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01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: that won't be an issue here. The one question I

1295
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: do have for you is how much are you concerned

1296
01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: about the Buccaneers without first guy with without Antonio Brown?

1297
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: Do you think that makes a difference.

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01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 2: I think it makes a difference, just not this week.

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01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 2: I'm concerned about the Bucks. I wonder exactly, you know,

1300
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 2: are we still living off of what this team did

1301
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 2: in last year's playoffs? Like big picture, I have some

1302
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 2: concerns is this is the Eagles. This is just not

1303
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 2: This is not the team that's gonna push them. They

1304
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 2: don't have the passing game to hurt those corners that

1305
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 2: have been injured all season. Mike Evans I was worried

1306
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 2: when he got hurt today, but he came back in

1307
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 2: and got a couple of touchdowns. I have worries about

1308
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. I would like them in the NFC if

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01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 2: I didn't have those worries. But I don't have worries

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01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 2: about this game here. The other hot read that I

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01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 2: thought about doing that. I still like here. I like

1312
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 2: the Chiefs up against the Steelers, same sort of thing.

1313
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 2: We saw them blow the Steelers out. We know I've

1314
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 2: been back in Pittsburgh as an underdog all season, but

1315
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 2: I think you know, we saw last year Drew Brees

1316
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 2: made the playoffs and then retire in a pretty rough fashion.

1317
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 2: I remember the old Dan Reno game against the Jaguars

1318
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 2: seven seven. That's right, you remember the score too. I

1319
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 2: think that's what we're gonna get from Big Ben here.

1320
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 2: I think I think the Chiefs are gonna put him

1321
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 2: in mothballs and maybe make the Steelers fans sort of

1322
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 2: wish that SunNet actually ended in a tie and they

1323
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 2: could just go out thinking about all the wonderful things

1324
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 2: big Ben did these last couple of weeks. I think

1325
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,880
Speaker 2: it's gonna be ugly. So you know, those are the

1326
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 2: two seven games I just like the two seats there.

1327
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 2: They're just far better teams. They were the favorites all season.

1328
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 2: Congrats to Pennsylvania. You got your teams into the playoffs,

1329
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,640
Speaker 2: but I think it's gonna be a very short stay

1330
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 2: for both.

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01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I totally agree with that. I think you

1332
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: got to be looking to play the Chiefs in any

1333
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,840
Speaker 1: manner that you can possible. Like and I'm typically not

1334
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: a fan of teasing down from twelve and a half down,

1335
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: but I think this is a situation where I think

1336
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: it warranted. Like the Steelers, they can't stop to run. Look,

1337
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: even on that fourth and eight that we saw our day,

1338
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: it felt like Big ben was lucky to get the

1339
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: ball eight yards down in the field. That's like Mary, Yeah,

1340
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: So it's just like, I just think they're in a

1341
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 1: bad situation. Great that they put up the effort to

1342
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:07,919
Speaker 1: get Big Benjamin into the playoffs in his final year,

1343
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: but they're gonna get taken into the deep borders and drowned.

1344
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: As I always say. So, I really liked that pick.

1345
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust the Rams to be

1346
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: laying four and a half points. I didn't list this

1347
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 1: stat earlier when we spoke about the forty nine Ers game.

1348
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: But Stafford versus winning teams are thirty one fifty and two.

1349
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: That's thirty eight percent against the spread. That includes the

1350
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 1: loss against the forty nine Ers against on the money

1351
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: line the twenty six fifty seven, that's thirty one percent.

1352
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: So this line is going up to four and a half.

1353
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be looking to probably take the Arizona

1354
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: Cardinals in this matchup. I know it's Cliff Kingsbury on

1355
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: the other opposite end, but these are two divisional teams,

1356
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: team teams that know each other. Kyler Murray's gonna be

1357
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: able to negate some of that pass rush with Aaron

1358
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: Donald and Von Miller because of his ability to run

1359
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: the ball, and I like their chances in this one.

1360
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:04,959
Speaker 1: So that's a dog and I'm looking at early.

1361
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 2: All right, a couple underdogs for you. We will talk

1362
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 2: about all these matchups more on Friday, of course, when

1363
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 2: we get to our other podcast this week. That is

1364
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 2: going to wrap it up today at the Action Network podcast.

1365
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 2: Don't forget to rate and review both Apple and Spotify

1366
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 2: now if you could, please five stars give us those

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01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 2: ratings and reviews. Well. Have the same podcast schedule all

1368
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 2: throughout the playoffs still so Rahim and I are here

1369
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 2: on Monday morning to talk about all the games from

1370
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 2: the weekend, Docking Raybon Wednesday nights to get you with

1371
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 2: their NFL six pack betting guide. Rahima and I are

1372
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 2: back Friday, a little bit different format. Basically, we'll just

1373
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 2: go through the playoff plate and talk about all six games.

1374
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 2: We got a little preview there, what we thought about them.

1375
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 2: We'll have more for you, I'm sure on Friday. Get

1376
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 2: you ready for the playoff weekend for Rahem Palmer. I'm

1377
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 2: Brandon Anderson and this has been the Action Howork podcast.

1378
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 2: We're onto the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Students to the student students, to the stud students to

1380
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: the student students to the same stud