WEBVTT - Conference Championship Weekend Preview 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:08.040 And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:09.400 What's up, everybody? 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.399 Welcome to move the sticks, DJ, Bucky Rhett with you boys. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.960 We are gonna look at these conference championship games today. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.439 Excited about him. We got some great matchups. I'll start 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.400 with you, Buck first of all, just the one you're 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:24.119 looking forward to the most. What's the most compelling on 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:25.880 the AFC side of the NFC side. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.640 Well, look, I'm gonna say the NFC and just because 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.000 I'm excited to see how the rookie quarterback handles the 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.240 pressure being in the championship game in his first year, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.960 Jayden Daniels has look again a lot the commanders of 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.120 sitting here one game away from going to the Super Bowl, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.120 something that none of us had on that being go 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.400 card at the beginning of the year. To see this 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.120 turnaround happen so quickly really shows you the magic and 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.200 the power of a franchise quarterback. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:50.960 That's it. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.440 All of the wonderful things that Jayden Daniels has done 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.080 to this point phenomenal. Can he lock in and be 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.640 the same player in the championship environment when the stakes 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.400 are high? We've seen the poise the composure of the 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.480 confidence and all of that. Does he change at all 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.960 with look the super Bowl on the line, that's what 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.720 you want to see. Will he be the same player 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.160 that we've seen throughout the season. Because if he is 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.280 the same player, man, they have a great chance of 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.039 pulling this off. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.640 Yeah. Look, I think if you look at the formula 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.920 that the Rams used to try to beat the Eagles, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.080 I mean I kept looking at it as like, you know, defensively, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.280 I know they let up those two explosive plays like 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.600 the first one of Jalen and then you know, the 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:38.000 second one to Saquon, But boy did they absolutely get 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.840 after him. I mean Jared Verst and Byron Young and 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.679 Kobe Turn I mean they were if the if the 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:49.680 Commanders can find some disruption along that defensive front. It 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.000 feels silly saying, but and keep Saquon Barkley from banging 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.520 his head on the goalpost on a seventy five yard run, Like, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.480 if you can limit the those fifty plus yard touchdown runs, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.400 just kind of make it a little bit more methodical, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.400 I think they've got an excellent chance. So to me, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.079 it's kind of more about how the defense plays. Jalen 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.360 Hurts and Saquon Barkley here, and if they can limit 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.480 those huge plays, which were massive in the way that 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.320 game turned for the La Rams into the Eagles corner, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.359 I think Commanders a really good chance here. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.959 They're not gonna stop Saquon Barkley going for a buck 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.160 fifty against them twice. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.799 So I mean, and he's on a roll. Like think 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.600 about this, Think about he had what two hundred yards 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.840 against the Rams. If you go back he. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.760 Took a knee one, what would have been like a 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.040 seventy nine yard touchdown against the Packers. He would have 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.680 had like a bucks sixty, seventy whatever in that game. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.120 We're talking about an epic postseason ride here. I was 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.080 talking about him last night, and the flashback I'm having 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.600 is it's rare for a non quarterback and offense players 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.560 a non quarterback to just like dominate the playoffs. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.280 Larry Fitzgerald did it with Arizona on that run. Remember 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:00.639 that buck. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.760 Yes, And this feels like that, like sometimes you get 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.639 in a zone and that dude is in a zone 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.240 right now. But I'm going to get to the key 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:09.840 to this game in my opinion, But also I'm gonna 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.600 wrap it together with all these other games as as 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.440 we go on here, but it's time for Hot or Not, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.560 brought to you by with Sabi Hot Cloud Storage. So turnovers, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.560 you know what, you know what? Looking at last week's games, Buck, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.440 these are the four teams that won Kansas City, Buffalo, Washington, Philadelphia. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.119 How many turnovers combined for those four teams zero? They 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.560 did not turn the ball over. So if we're going 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.880 to talk about this game right here with Washington, they 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.120 have to continue to keep a clean sheet, which is 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.920 not easy ratt when you've got Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.080 and all those guys bearing down on you, and when 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.600 you've got everybody in the secondary slay can take it away. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.600 Everybody's punching at the football. And oh, by the way, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.080 it's going to be cold. It's going to be really cold. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.160 It's not going to be in a dome. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.200 So too many pieces of it to me. Also, you know, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.760 are injuries. Sam Cosmi's out, leave your best offensive lineman 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.760 or you know, among them up there for the commanders. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.240 So that's that's gonna hurt you, dealing with Jalen Carter 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.920 and that whole crew in the interior. And then you know, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.720 for the Eagles. What's the status of Quanyon Mitchell. I 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.000 think it'll be something to follow too, because I don't know. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.800 I think I think Terry mclauren versus Darius Slay has 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.320 advantaged McLaurin. But you know, seen as how Aj Terrell 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.839 kind of locked McLaren down, I feel like that's more 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.760 of Quenyon Mitchell's skill set. So let's let's kind of 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.599 see what that part of the matchup looks like. But 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.080 I think those are two kind of intriguing pieces of 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.360 this thing to follow throughout the week. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.120 Well, and I will say this, and there's an injury 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.760 to Isaiah Rodgers at the NAIM and we don't know 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.520 what his status is, but he certainly. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.920 Was waldough in that game. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.760 And man they went on and Diami Brown showed up 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.520 and showed up in a major way in that divisional round. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.200 And so you'd like to think that they're going to 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.880 take their shots down the field, whether it's versus the 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.839 young guy and Queenyan Mitchell or Isaiah Rodgers going to 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.400 be speaking, they can't. Can the Commanders cash in on 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.680 those chances if they're given the opportunity to push it 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:05.200 down the field. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.200 So We'll see what happens with Jalen Hurts health on that. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.520 On that side of things, I would say my sneaky suspicion. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.240 Knowing to Vante Smith and how much he loves big 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.400 stages and knowing that his drop cost them the last 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.039 game against Washington, I think that could be a that 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.479 could be kind of a sneaky one to keep an 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.400 eye on. Because all the resources are going to go 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.840 to slow down Saquon Barkley. You're gonna get one on ones. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.800 But I think Vante Smith is a tough cover out there. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:33.320 I agree. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.920 Yeah, So now let's let's be honest. This is why 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.440 the Commanders made the move. But let him whether he's 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.120 up or not, if he's available. Part of part of 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.320 the reason they made it is because dan Quinn said this, hey, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.599 hurd or not, like you always got to take advantage 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.919 of an opportunity to get a number one cornerback. Well, 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.520 these are the games that those guys have to show up. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.599 He hasn't played often for the Commanders, but if he 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.279 does play, can he take on one of those matchups 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.760 that allows you to pour extra resource versus devote extra 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.400 resources to dealing with Saquon. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.159 Bar Yeah, well, I mean again, I think just to 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.800 kind of put a bow on where we started with 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:08.320 this whole thing. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:09.679 Play clean. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.360 You know, you've got to try and take the ball 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.240 away if you can, But offensively, you've got to play 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.680 clean because you know, if we're talking about hot or not, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.040 like man, it's not you turn the ball over, you are. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.920 Not advances that ain't gonna be it. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.360 That was this week's Hot or Not segment, brought to 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.359 you by with Sabbi Hot Cloud storage, Store more and 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.360 do more with your data. Try them for free at 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.839 withsaby dot com. All right, let's let's move on to 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.080 the next, uh the other game here. When you look 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.760 on the other side in the afcaby on more time, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.800 does this feel like I mean, it's just kind of 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.279 felt inevitable. Man Like once once, I would say, once 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.960 Burrow and the Bengals kind of scuffled along. It just 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.920 felt like whether this was going to be the championship 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.760 game or some point in time, these two teams and 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.360 these quarterbacks are going to deal with each other. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.800 It did feel a little different to me though, with 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.840 Baltimore this year and the way that Derrick Henry was 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.320 running the ball late that maybe that that that they 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.599 would have a shot to be that that team. But yeah, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.440 I mean, like this, if you'd have told us this 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.599 was going to happen before now, look, actually you go 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.200 back to it before the season, I don't know that 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.040 we all thought that this was necessarily going to be 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.880 the way that the Bills were going, you know, to 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.400 find themselves in an AFC championship game, you know, as 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.440 more of a physical, run first type of team, but 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.880 still allowing you know, Josh to put that that cape 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.840 on and become Superman when they need him to, like 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.520 he has. But their defense has played a lot better. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.160 Matt Malano coming back. I think it's been huge for him, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.960 too huge in the run game, and so that'll be 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.800 big here. You know, you you kind of make that 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.840 one dimensional for Kansas City. They're not the explosive team 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.240 that they have been. But how do you know, how 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.920 do you deal with Kelsey who proved he could still 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.119 get open in the big moments like he did against 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.160 the Houston Texans there, and they had some they had 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.800 some busted coverages, which is unfortunate against you know, one 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.120 of one of the top targets. But I man, this 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.840 is gonna be a lot of fun. But I really 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.080 like the bills chances in this one. I really do, Buck, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:57.560 What do you think? 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.360 No, look, man, this is is kind of like one 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.120 of those moments, man, where we've seen so many championship 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.840 teams have to go through this. It's very reminiscent of 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.240 like as a kid watching the Bulls through the Tristons 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.720 and finally having to vanquish the Bully. And so for 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.960 the Buffalo Bills, this is the opportunity to do it. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.360 It's not only the fact that they beat him in 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.640 the regular season, but going all the way back a 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.760 few years ago when they had the game won thirteen 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.720 seconds left, all they got to do is finish the deal. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.840 This is that full circle moment for them to do it, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.040 because if able to knock this off, it really opens 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.560 the gates for them to not only win the Super Bowl, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.120 but to be the team that we talk about. But 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.640 can they lock in mentally and not worry about all 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.719 the previous failures and take this game for what it is, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.080 one game to get it done. Lock in, do the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.280 same things that have done throughout the year, which is 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.760 take care of the ball. Josh Allen, not trying to 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.319 get outside of himself. Just do what the defense gives you. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:52.960 If you do that, yeah, they have a great chance 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.400 to win. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.960 I think I think real quick a ret on that game. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.199 You go back to their earlier meeting this year, and 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.640 Josh Allen ran the ball I think twelve times, so 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:04.960 that that's got to be a part of it. He 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.160 had twelve carries for fifty five yards and a touchdown, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.839 which was the iicer late late in net ball game. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.400 But I think Josh looks fresh. He's probably as healthy 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.920 as he's been at this point in time in the 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.800 season that I can ever remember. He's coming off of 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.920 a game where really not much was required of him, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.760 to be honest, against Baltimore, they you know, just kind 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.600 of played a clean game, nothing special. I think he's 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.040 I think he's got to change the math a little bit, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.120 and you change the math by what you do as 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.679 a runner. So I would look for him to get 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.680 double digit carries again. And then on the other side 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.880 of it, if they're going to you know, stop k C. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.320 You go back to that first meeting. Travis Kelcey had 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.360 two catches for eight yards in that one and make 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.920 them left handed. We say it all the time, don't 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.559 do what Houston did, which is play zone and ask 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.280 Al Shaier to try and locate Kelsey in space. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.120 That was a nightmare. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.560 So you got to get on him with the line 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.280 of scrimmage, no free releases, and make these other receivers 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.080 beach if they if if they beat you, as navior 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.000 Worthy and Hopkins tip your cap. But you can't let 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.600 Kelsey go out there and get a hundred yards. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.280 And Homes had two picks in that game too, you know, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.520 you think about that part of it. You know. The 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.520 other thing is like we remember when the Chiefs traded 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.040 away Tyreek Hill, right, it forced a different way to 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.199 play the game, you know, for basically the same kind 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.880 of way we're seeing it now from Kansas City. It 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.120 almost feels like that's what's happened in Buffalo too. Once 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.040 they got rid of stuff on Diggs and gave Davis 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.080 that it's become a little bit more a little bit yeah, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.600 a little bit more half court, right, a little bit 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.600 more of what we saw from Cad And obviously, you know, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.239 Kaysas City is still in an AC championship game every 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.160 year and in the Super Bowl more often than not. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.280 So I think this formula has worked well for Buffalo, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.600 you know, kind of in a similar ways as it 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:46.440 did for Kansas City. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.080 Man, this is such a it's such a thing. So 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.760 it's funny that you talk about Pat Mahomes into two interceptions. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:58.360 He has quietly curbed and eliminated all of that from 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.520 his game and if he can continues to be efficient 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.000 and do what Pat Mahomes tends to do in the postseason, 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:08.000 which is extend plays with his legs, make a handful 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.600 of plays, draw a penalty or two on a late 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.400 slide or something that he does outside the pocket to 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.600 lead to another fifteen to thirty yards. This is what 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.520 the Kansaity Chiefs do, like, they find ways to win. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:27.240 And look at home, he's thirteen and two in the postseason. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.240 At home, it is hard to knock them off in 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.679 that building. The crowd, the noise, the environment, all of 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.080 those things play a part of it. Man, It's an 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.720 uphill This is an uphill road that they have to 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.040 travel for Buffalo. And it's just as much as I 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.600 want to see the Bills, it's hard for me to 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.959 say that the Bills are gonna win because I've seen I've. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:48.480 Seen this movie. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.040 I feel like i've seen all these movies before, and 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.320 at the end of the movie we can see Pat 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.560 Mahomes gets to Lamar Hunt Trophy as they make their 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:57.520 way to another. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.280 Super Yeah, it's hard to to argue against that. Let's 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.120 let's take a quick break we come back. I want 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.559 to talk about if each one of these four teams 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.120 were to win, Who's on the Who's on the Who's 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.560 on the cover as the pivotal reason they won that 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.120 ball game? And I'm taking quarterbacks off, so no quarterbacks. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.760 We've got to come up with somebody else. We'll do 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:26.720 that right after this. All right, guys, let's go back 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.480 to the NFC, and I'm going to tell you that Washington. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.720 Now this is going to be hard buck because Jaden 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.440 Daniels is the central figure here. But if Washington goes 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.080 into Philly and shocks the world and gets to a 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.920 super Bowl in Jaden daniels rookie season, who's going to 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.040 be the sidekick, Who's going to be the one who 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.840 was pivotal for them to win that ballgame? 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:49.199 Bobby Wagman. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.760 And the reason why I want to take is not 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.599 because of the plays he'll make directly, but Bobby Wagner's 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.800 ability to be the traffic cop for defense that has 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.920 to play lis out, his leadership. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.800 Ability, the pedigree, all of those things. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.040 I think about a calming influence for a defense that 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.720 have some youth and inexperience in the back end. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.480 To me, it's Bobby Wagner's show. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.040 Part of the reason dan Quinn made him the first 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.440 guy to be brought over is because he wanted that 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.319 extension of himself on the field. To me, this is 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.800 when Bobby Wagner's presence pays off for the Commanders. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.200 I swear to you, I was going with Frankie Luvu. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:33.920 So the second level man, those off the ball backers. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.559 You know, if if they are uncovered with an opportunity 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.080 to tackle Saquon Barkley for a four yard game and 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.680 not a forty four yard game, that is what is 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.839 going to be huge for the Washington Commanders limiting those 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.160 explosive plays, and they will play a big part of it. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.560 Sold Jeremy Chin and so will some of those other 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.760 guys for Washington. But to me, those two off the 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.320 ball backers have to be all over the place and 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.400 they have to be like they have to kind of 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.400 set up a force field that five yard Mark like 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.840 you cannot have Saquon Barkley consistently going for seven for 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.600 eight for seventeen and nineteen. It's gonna be game over 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:09.840 before it even gets done. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.679 Yeah, I'm gonna go just for the storyline and Zach 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.520 Hertz going back into Philly with the fun interaction. I 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.520 guess I'll use that word which Siriani and him had, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.760 So that would be, uh, that would be kind of 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.000 a fun watch, and I would know nobody would enjoy 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.440 that more than Ertz if he was able to go 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:28.840 in there and make some plays in the red zone, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.680 maybe make some plays on third down. He has definitely 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.240 been the security blanket there for Jayden Daniels. All right, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.840 let's flip it over the other way here, buck Philly, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.200 Philly wins this game. Jalen hurts, we don't know right 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.240 now as we're recording us what the health situation is. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.840 But who else and luck say Kwon Barkley's low hanging fruit. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.880 Let's acknowledge he's going to be the dude. So let's 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:48.840 go with somebody else. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.720 Oh no, no, it's a combo platter. On the perimeter is 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.880 aj Brown and DeVante Smith one A one B in 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.080 the passing game. The receivers have been bored all year. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.400 The receivers have been kind of keeping their frustrations to themselves. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.600 This is the game where they give rewarded for their patients. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.760 They have to be big parts of this game. I 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.760 cannot imagine in any world that Dan Quinn is going 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.560 to say, Hey, I'm gonna let twenty six beat me. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.520 I'm gonna take my chances seeing if Jalen Hurts and 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.360 the Eagles passing game can get on track. Remember, this 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.960 passing game has struggled most of the season in terms 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.840 of the consistency. Well, I'm gonna test them. I'm gonna 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.800 go one on one. I'm gonna match up. I'm gonna 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.800 bring heat to Jalen Hurts, and I'm see if these 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.480 two playmakers on the outside can beat us, because. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.320 That's the only way that they can win, right. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.000 The only way that the Commanders can win is they 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.440 got to sell out to stop Sakwon Barkley. So this 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.760 to me is an aj Brown DeVonta Smith that type 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:43.120 of game. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.040 Yeah, I'll look at Cooper Degene to me out in 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.000 space and the nickel and the slot. I think he's 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.320 gonna see Jays Daniels a bunch, and I think his 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.520 ability to tackle in space is going to be huge 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.040 in this game. Again, preventing those explosive plays, preventing those 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.680 those heartbreaker plays like those soul crush where it's third 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.160 and eighteen and Daniel's escapes get paid and he goes 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.640 for twenty one and like that. That's the play where 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.640 you think you're getting off the field and then it doesn't. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.120 You know, it doesn't happen. So to me, that's where 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.200 I go Cooper de Gene, you could maybe throw you know, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.480 the other exciting white in there and read blanket chip 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.520 at the safety spot. CJ. Gardner Johnson fits that bill 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.040 to those guys that are going to have to tackle 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.440 in space, I think it will be huge. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.920 Yeah, I'm gonna go dead middle of the field. Zack Bond. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.480 Zach Bond's had an unbelievable year. I just think he 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.400 has a chance to have the most impact on the game. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.960 And when you're up against a dual threat quarterback who's 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.880 throwing it all over the place and also can run it, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.800 I think whoever's in the middle of the field has 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.000 a chance to have the most impact. That Jalen Carter 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.800 in front of him, which would be an obvious one, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.040 but I think Zach Bond, Who's play lights out all 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.760 year long, so I think he would be one definitely 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.240 to keep an eye on. All Right, Buck, if Kansas 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.880 City gets to yet another Super Bowl outside of Mahomes, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.680 who's going to be the key pivotal person here? 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.800 It's the same guy is showed up in a major 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.200 way on Saturday, and they will be George Carloftish Chris 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.359 Jones do it alone, He's gonna need someone else to 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.040 help him get after Josh Allen and George Caloftis has 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:11.520 proven to be the guy that can do it. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:13.800 He's a capable sidekick. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.360 He's someone who plays with relentless energy and effort, and 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.880 as Steves Bagnulo is prone to do in these high 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.760 leverage moments, what is he going to do? Blitz and 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.800 blitz preshle he creates one on one opportunities for Kaloftus 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.160 to get free. To me, is George Carloftis being the 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.240 robin to Chris Jones as batman. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.240 I'll go with Isaiah Pacheco. I just I don't think 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.000 we've seen enough from the Chiefs run. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.040 Game any of it yeah. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.600 Yeah, then it's a fifty yards against the Texans. I 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.280 think that that's got to be a bigger piece of 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.440 the puzzle for Kansas City to get past the team 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.120 like Buffalo, who has shown at times that they've had 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.679 some vulnerabilities there. Although they you know, they were okay 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.000 against Baltimore, but I still think that that's the place 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.040 that the Kansas City Chiefs can go to find some space. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.200 I'm gonna have a very weird one for you on 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.880 Kansas City here because I feel like this this might 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.840 be well, no, I'm gonna go special teams when I'm 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.600 not going pucker, I'm gonna go with matt Riza. This 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.440 this feels like a very close game. Look at how 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.720 Buffalo played last week, right, Hey, we're not gonna make mistakes. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.040 Look how Kansas City plays, We're not gonna make mistakes. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.840 I think this could be like a sneaky, low scoring 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.359