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January 9, 2021 46 mins

LaVar Arrington, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Plaxico Burress react LIVE as the Indianapolis Colts take on the Buffalo Bills to kick off Super Wild Card Weekend. Do the Washington Football Team have the right formula to pull off an upset over Tom Brady and the Buccaneers? 

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(02:37):
listening to your heir. A man gaving back their birdman
rubbing his hands. I was saying, back there with his
with his Uh, what is uh? What is that? Is
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gas on in the back without updates. I mean we
fully loaded. We let hold on, hold on, hold on,

(02:59):
hold on, hold on JJ Wow man, I'm back baby.
We got stretched in the house. All right, y'all. It's Saturday,

(03:22):
January nine. Shouts out to my daughter, Happy birthday, to
to March she bro. Can y'all believe my baby just
turned fifteen yesterday. Happy birthday a plex She was just
trying to walk when we was in my last training.
Ain't that crazy? Man? Unbelievable And speaking of unbelievable, we

(03:43):
got a great slate of games today, guys. It's wild
Card wild Card weekend, Super wild Card weekend. Uh. We
got some great matchups and I think and you know,
we all collectively felt as though, let's let's let's people
up on game about how how the playoffs work. Let's

(04:03):
talk about the games that are about to take place.
Let's let's put them, Let's put them in the mindset.
Let's get our callers in and let's hear about what
they think about what's gonna take place. I saw y'all
choices on who y'all think are going to play in
the UH in the super Bowl, and who you think
is gonna win. We could touch on that as well.
You know, I'm so crazy, though, that was my preseason pick,

(04:25):
the Chiefs in the Bucks before the season started, and
it looks good. I had the Chiefs in the Packers preseason.
If you recall, I did say Chiefs and Packers, but
I did make a last minute adjustment. You got audible
audible to the Bills, Chiefs and Bucks sounding good to be.
But I need a healthy Mike Adams. Evans, Mike Evans,

(04:46):
we don't gotta have my guy. He didn't look as
good as he he should have coming out of that.
You know, he playing, it's his first playoff game, he's playing.
We gotta see. Okay, well, let's let's jump into it.
Let's let's jump into this thing. The Coats and the
Bills they kick off the wild card weekend. First, now,

(05:08):
I just told y'all, I see the Bills. I see
the Bills making it all the way because I think
that they're that one team that got hot at the
right moment in time, and if their defense brings anything
more than what they're already bringing to the table, which

(05:30):
the defense last year was the reason why we thought
this Bill's team would go far because they would help
carry uh, Josh Allen. But now it's Josh Allen carrying
this team and they have some really, really good players.
But on the other side of it, guys, the Colts,
they have a dope defense. People may not know how

(05:52):
good this defense is, but this defense is stingy. And
they got one of the best doing it in in
the middle linebackers position. And they got old, tried and
true and and Philip Rivers at quarterback. This is a
pretty good offense. And the kid Taylor at running back
out of Wisconsin has found a way to get it

(06:15):
going at the pro level. This could be a short
lived call for me with the Bills because the Coats
are very capable. What what say you, guys to to
the match up? What are you looking at? What? What
do you like they're about to kick off right now.
How you guys feeling about it? I mean, for me,
and one thing you didn't touch on. The Coats probably

(06:37):
have the best offensive line in football, and so that helps.
What concerns me about the Coats is this, They've had
big leads in multiple games and they've given it up.
They're beating the Steelers. I believe it was twenty four
to seven with the four to five minutes left in

(06:58):
the third quarter and you look up and they're down.
And so they do have a good defense. But when
you're playing the Buffalo Bills, in a way, their offense
has looked as of late. And it's what you said,
there's two teams that got hot going into the playoffs.
Is the Buffalo Bills and it's the Baltimore Ravens. The

(07:19):
Bills look almost unstoppable. They look kind of Kansas City
Chiefish a little bit, and so it's what you said.
The defense has carried them. But Josh Shalon with Stefan
Diggs going to that team and they really look unstoppable.
So it's gonna be can the Indianapolis coach offensive line
slow down Buffalo's defensive line if they can't it's a wrap.

(07:43):
They're gonna get run out of the field. They're gonna
get run out of there stretch. They're just like you said,
man in Indianapolis have the best offensive line in football.
But I don't think people really understand how good this
Buffalo defense is. I mean that they're really good. Every
time I watch them, I get more and more impressed.
But I think if Buffalo wants to win this game,

(08:07):
I think, uh White, the cornerback, is going to have
to shadow t Y Hilton. If the Bills want to
make it to the FC Championship game, which they are
capable of, he is going to have to shadow t
Why Hilton and slow him down and stop him from
making big plays. He is a big playmaker. And I
tell you what, if he is able to get going downhill,

(08:30):
he's a North the South type of runner, I don't
think it it fears well for him in this matchup
of being a downhill guy. We've just seen Admins, Tremont
tremon Atmans make the tackles. I love tremon Atmans by
the way. I love his game. He's super long, super tall.
Yes I'm a taped it by a season that's super fast,

(08:54):
very very very mobile backer. He you know, he hasn't
been as physical this season and um due to a
shoulder he's been dealing with shoulder shoulder issues. But he
is one of those guys to watch in this game
that can make a difference from that middle backers position. Uh.
But let's talk about this because we were talking about

(09:16):
game plans as it applies to this playoff run and
getting hot at at the right time. Plex you've played
on a Super Bowl winning team, You've you've played deep
into the playoffs much of your career. UM play for
some some really good organizations. T j Uh. You kind
of had the same type of setup I did. Is

(09:38):
your your talent was wasted and and for the most part,
you didn't have a whole lot of opportunities like I
didn't have a whole lot of opportunities to get the mindset.
But yet you you did get what. I played in
probably five playoff games, okay, how many times? Like how
many years? Like like I, I made it to the playoffs.

(09:59):
I only played in one playoff in my entire career,
but I made it too. I was hurt and in
New York playoffs three times, went to the playoffs three times,
how many times, Man, I was one of the blessed ones.
He probably didn't go three times. You know what, I
was really one of the blessed ones. Man. Out of
a thirteen year career, I only missed the playoffs three times,

(10:23):
only three times in thirteen years. And I'm gonna tell
you guys a story back in two thousand and seven
when when when we went to Buffalo and there, yeah,
we went to Buffalo. We went in to Buffalo to
to clinch a playoff birth and I came back in
the locker room and Jeff Figgles was crying and I'm like, Jeff,
what's going on? Man, why are you crying? And he

(10:45):
said to me, he said, man, this is my first
time going to the playoffs. And he he had been
in the NFL for twenty seasons. And it made me
to take a step back, and I'm like, wow, you
know I've been I've really been blessed to be able
to get into get into the tournament, you know, ten
seasons out of thirteen year career. And here we have

(11:08):
a punter who has been playing in the NFL for
twenty seasons and to the playoffs. People don't realize, man,
where you get drafted in the organization you're drafted to,
it really plays a huge part in your success and
historically how you're looked at in this game of football.
I mean, that's probably the biggest thing. And everybody wants
to be drafted high and go to the team so

(11:30):
I can accumulate this amount of money initially. But if
you're not drafted an organization like you were with the Steelers,
it's tough, man. And then went to the Giants, like
you went from one good organization to another good organization. Yeah,
but when I when I went to the Giants, the
Giants had three losing seasons in the road. They went
six and ten, four and twelve fours. Was there, but

(11:52):
but there ran well, the Mayor family, the Tesch family,
they run their first class, first class, first post organization.
And that's that's the thing about it, Like it's one
thing they're struggling right now. But if there's one thing
that you're thinking to yourself when you look at the
DNA of what the New York Giants are, they're gonna
figure it out because at the top they have some

(12:15):
really really strong character people, uh you know, running running
what they got going on third and eleven right now
a third long for the coult. It looks as though
they completed at the t Y your boy, t Y Hilton.
Now that same complete did they call incomplete? Yeah? If
if the flat defender had played the ball, it would
have been a picky you know, speaking of wide receivers,

(12:36):
man having having uh Steffonds has just been absolutely spectacular
this year. Yes, oh god, he leaves Minnesota and you know,
Adam Feland doesn't look like Adam Feland now. But meanwhile,
this man goes for fifteen hundred yards, leads the league,
eight touchdowns and his first team All Pro and a

(12:57):
lot of and he goes there and revital is Josh
Allen in the whole offense, and they thought he was
a cancer leaving even Minnesota. You know how it is
plex when the receiver says something, you're deva When anybody
else there says anything, they care about the game so much.
You know how that works. Man, It's crazy. It doesn't
make any sense. You two are to the ones that

(13:20):
they did at the most. I mean, Ocho might have
took a lot of of the the headlines, but I
mean a lot of people knew you as a fiery
a fiery receiver. T J like an s talking receiver,
like over the top. And if people it's funny because
if you know t J, if you're around t J,
t J has the worst trash worst trash talk mouth

(13:42):
out of the two. Out of the two between Ocho
and and and t J, t J, you you talked
the most the you know, let's just call it uh
south south south Los Angeles. Let's let's say Los Angeles slang.
You you peak more uh confrontational. Then then what Senko

(14:04):
did it? Like plex you because you kind of quiet,
but you are a double you know that guy on
on the on the football field too. For those three
and a half hours, Man, I was a sailler. You
know that nothing it was, it was no filter. I

(14:26):
never could get miked up. You can forget about that.
That that that would never happen to. Kind of funny,
do you guys think that that became a reason why
if if Plexico or t J says something, it's oh
he's got he's a problem. More, Why is he so
upset when other guys said it's like he loves the game.
He cares about the game. Like I almost feel like

(14:49):
that that played a major part in Pro Bowls for
you guys as well. Like you guys, y'all had more
enemies than y'all had literally had up. One of my
buddies that played on another team said they don't want
to vote for you. They said they don't like you.
I talked too much during the game, dude. I wasn't
all pro more than I was a pro bowler figure

(15:10):
and so, but I didn't. I came in through the
back door, unlike you guys and so, and I've always
been this well. I always felt like I had to
prove myself and so I just that's just how I am.
Chad's talk was all in fun. He just wanted to
have fun with it, and mine is just you really
meant it, yeah, like you like forget your family, like

(15:34):
and not those words, and you really meant it. But
I mean, it's like Philip Rivers the game we're watching.
He loved to run his mouth when he's gonna talk
talk talk. But with Philip Rivers is looked at it's
being competitive. But Philip Rivers has also looked at as
just being an agitator because the words make a difference

(15:55):
as well, because he's not cursed. I give you a
great example. I give you a great example. I remember
we were playing Tampa Bay and it's funny because my
old team is playing Tampa Bay today and Aaron Stecker
it was. This was a preseason game. This was a
preseason game. But it didn't matter to me because any
time I played against a team that had a linebacker
that they thought was the best in the game, I came.

(16:17):
I came ready to go, no matter what what part
of the year was. And Derek Brooks was on that team.
We get out there, Aaron Stecker gets a handoff. I
hit Aaron Stecker so hard his helmet flew and rolled
rolled across the ground. I chased after his halming like, oh,
oh my gosh. I turned around. I look at Aaron Stecker.

(16:41):
Aaron steckers on it, has one hand on the ground,
got a knee on the ground, and his eyes is
super big, like he saw a ghost. I turned around,
walk up to him. I told him, and get your
bleep off the bleeping ground. Don't knowbody give a bleep
about your bleeping life. Went over and picked up his
helmet something like that. In today's game, we were in trouble.
I went ahead and told him I cared nothing about

(17:03):
his life, so get up right. So, but but from linebackers,
from certain players, it's actually like you expect it, you know,
you expect it, And I wasn't. I was never penalized
in terms of people voting me into the Pro Bowls
and stuff like that. But for you guys, it seems
to be very very when y'all get into lock ups,

(17:26):
like I remember hearing Fred Smooth talk about, you know,
after he played against you, plex and and and just
different guys, Pete, when y'all don't like each other, y'all
don't like each other like it's on a different like
it's on a real beef like personal even after the game. Yeah,
so uh saying send a moss. You know, you know
a good friend of mine who's playing for the Washington

(17:46):
risk Is and my scouting report, he told me that
my scouting report was, you know, like before the game,
they would put a big picture of me up on
the screen and the coach would say, leave this guy alone,
don't talk to him, don't get him started. We don't
need him playing any better than he already is. So
that was my scout report lead that man alone, don't

(18:08):
talk to him Oh my gosh. All right, we just
had a third and three missed by the Buffalo bill,
so they're gonna have to punt. Uh. This seems to
be a defensive filling out process right now taking place
in this wild Card Super wild Card Sunday Saturday, excuse me,
against the Colts and and the Buffalo first time ever

(18:28):
three playoff games on Saturday and Sunday. They might need
to make this a regular thing. We've never had three
playoff games stand alone Saturday and Sunday. That's that's I'm
I'm pretty excited about it. I hope you guys out
there are excited about it. You want to get in
on the conversation. You got any questions or comments or
thought processes on what's going on with Super wild Card Weekend,

(18:50):
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(21:46):
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I'll just be nervous with y'all. Man. Once I get
a little little cooler, man, I'm gonna start flowing like
Meek Mill out this bad boy stick. Yeah, you're right,
you got that right. Definitely stick to my day job.
Speaking of the day job, we we got uh blank
Ship is that his name? Blanket Rod a regal Rod

(22:09):
Frego coming in to kick a field goal, see if
he could put some points on the board for the coach.
They had a nice drive going, its stalled out fourth
and seven, three nothing coats. They just finally got on
the board. So first blood drawn by the Indianapolis coach. Guys, Uh,
what what does that do with mindset? Wise? What what

(22:31):
does that do when you are in a playoff game
and it's a defensive struggle and then somebody finally scores.
It wasn't a touchdown, which maybe that's a good thing,
that could be a bonus. But what's the mindset when
they put points on the board, um, finally in in
the playoff game, if you're the Coats, were on the board,

(22:52):
if you're the Bills, and it's really weird just because
it's three points. It's it's nothing to you because in
the last month of the season the Bills have put
up points, and they put up a ton of points
against every team they face, so they're offensively, they're very
confident in, Oh, it's only three points, all right, We're

(23:13):
about to get the ball and go down here and score. Guaranteed,
that's what they're thinking. We're gonna get the ball and
go down here and score. And the defense is center.
We held them with three points, and so three to zero,
it's almost like it's zero to zero for them. Hey, man,
Field goes win games, Field goes win championships. If you're Buffalo,
you know you're saying to yourself, you're playing at home.
You haven't won a playoff games as nineteen. You got

(23:35):
fans in the stands. You know what Every point means something,
every possession means even more. It's the playoffs ain't no
next week. So these get degrees in this one ain't
next week. Oh, any points is better than anything. But
as a player, and PLEX obviously played the more playoff

(23:56):
games and us, if you start looking at it that way,
you're gonna start to put undue pressure on yourself to
try to make every play the play. And so you
gotta stay composed, you gotta stay within yourself and let
the game plan work. Let's just make plays, let's execute.
And if we do that, because I believe the Bills
are the better team, if you do that, you should

(24:18):
be fine. You know, I was made for the playoffs.
I played in one playoff and I had ten tackles.
I think I had like an interception, a couple of
tackles for losses. Like it was crazy. If you put
that over about twelve games, it's unreal, right, if I did, right,
but we never played. But at that one time that
we got then even in the game against Seattle, I

(24:40):
could just remember, the level of energy was way different. Man. Man,
it's one thing I missed about the playoffs. Man. It's
just like you said, involved in energy different and just
you know, you just miss how everybody is so locked
in because because it means so much. Everybody's in the tournament,
you know, you trying to get to the super Bowl

(25:02):
and and all those things. Man, I just missed it
competing and each week you go from you know, UH
wild called weekend, to the divisional weekend to the championship weekend,
and it just seems like every week the speed of
the game gets faster and faster, and it gets it
becomes more physical. That's what I missed about the playoffs. Man.
All I remember is I was watching UH inside the

(25:26):
NFL and they were they were previewing the games, and
I was just I just recalled sitting in my my
my basement and in my little war room where I
studied my film, and I'm just listening to them talk
about the matchups, and I'm like, I'm finally in the discussion.
My team is finally in the discussion for one of
these games. And then they highlighted Sean Alexander and they

(25:49):
just kept talking about how Sean Alexander is going to
be the reason why Seattle wins the game, and this
that and the other man, and all I could think
of was Sean Alexanda. His face went up on my kill,
It went on my kill Wall like like I'm gonna
kill him, like I'm literally going to off this cat
in this gang. And I can remember me and Marcus

(26:11):
Washington came came walking out into the field and they
was like you know back then that that was when
they was like really thugging and bugging um player wise
with with Seattle, like you know, so they you know,
they kind of see us and they're on something like
we was really on some street type stuff man like
like Washington had hand signs and Seattle had hand signs,

(26:33):
were throwing them bad boys up coming out on the
field man and I on guy. It almost we almost
popped off with three or four different sets of Seattle
groups when we because we just came out just the beef.
I didn't come out, we didn't come out to stretch,
we didn't come out the jog. We came out walking
in ice grilling dudes like like I'm coming for your plate.

(26:54):
I'm coming for your plate, and I'm coming for your
plate right now, and I want you to know them
coming for your plate anyway. Launch story short because we
gotta get the day gas on and get a get
a nice little update going on right now. Josh Allen
just made a nice run on second and ten through
nothing Indianapolis coach Buffalo have nothing, no points yet. Um
Sean Alexander gets the ball and I recall I think

(27:17):
it was the first first series, first second series of
the game. I knocked him smack out. And when I tell, y'all,
I knocked him smack out. When I tell when I
hit him, I have so many I have so many stories,
interesting stories of the faces that I've seen and help with.
Sean Alexander have a different, uh viewpoint on what you

(27:38):
did to me today. Maybe because he was sleep when
I hit him, that was a great catch. Maybe he
would have had a different Stefan Diggs unbelievable. He's grown, man,
I call into the show. Anyway. Anyway, anyway, I hit

(27:59):
him and he was on the ground and he was
he had mad. It was he was doing something something,
he was doing some weird stuff. Man. All I can
remember doing was like telling the their sideline to come
get him, like y'all gotta hurry up and come get him,
like come get this man. And all I could think

(28:19):
about in my mind was I put another body on
my wall, Like this is a body I'm standing over
this dude. Now, I think about the mentality right because
there are people out there listening to this show and
they're mortified by the fact that I was. I was
okay with hurting him like I hurt him, and the
first thing I thought was, I got another body for

(28:40):
my wall, and we're gonna win this game. That's a
lot of guys are back when we played defensively, they
didn't care taking bodies. Roy Williams was like, dude, I
ran a slant route. The ball didn't even come to me,
and he hit me and I tried to fight him
like I was that mad, Like he crushed me because
because we wanted your we wanted your soul, we didn't
just made me so mad like I didn't even like
three plays after that, I didn't even do what I

(29:02):
was supposed to do. I was just looking for I
was just trying to get him back. I'm like getting
their bill rung man boy. I speaking of ringing the bell,
Let's ring David Gascons bell. Let's get a little update
going on right now? What's the guy? Play boy A
TJ real quick before I get into it, was a
scrap kind of like Andre Johnson and Carlin Uh Carna, No, no,

(29:22):
I wasn't like that. He hit me on a slant
route and I didn't get the ball crushed me. And
so the next three or four plays, I didn't block
my responsibility. I was running to the middle of the
field to get him back. Biled guys. As you mentioned,
Indie leads right now three nothing over the Buffalo Bills
and game number one wild card to weekend. Bills so

(29:45):
far have four first downs and they're moving the football
in their second possession. The opening drive was a quick
three now. Two guys playing in today's ball game Stefon
Digs and Cole Beasley. They were listened as questionable throughout
the week. Do you trade lines of requested permission to
interview Bucks defensive coordinated Todd Bolts for the head coaching
vacancy and Urban Meyer has been collecting some pieces with

(30:06):
our reports right now. He's gonna make a decision at
some point within a week if he's gonna take the
Jacksonville Jaguars head coaching spot. Philadelphia seventies sixers and Denver
Nuggets are expected to play today. Philadelphia, through contact tracing,
has nine eligible players so far, but Jewel and beat
m Ben Simmons are both listed as out. Kylie Schober
has signed with Washington Nationals a one year deal where

(30:28):
ten million dollars and plax. You brought this up a
couple of moments ago. So I gotta ask you, guys,
in your in your entire lives now, because of where
you were at, especially in the playoff experiences, have you, guys,
ever been a part of something so fast and so
it was so much intensity that compares to playoff football?

(30:53):
Ah and and normal life now, yeah, there's nothing that
compares the playoff football. Uh and normal and regular life.
I can't even think about nothing that that would definitely
I would say, getting getting your kids up and ready
for screen man, I would say that play that Josh

(31:14):
Allen just made was unbelievable. Touchdown passed by Josh Allen.
Right now, Bill's got a pt Penn and they lead
India right now six to three. Fells back to you guys. Yeah,
I gotta say playoff football is definitely comparable to three girls,
um getting ready for school and one boy who's grossly outnumbered.

(31:36):
I feel really bad about that. All right, did you
did you fall out? Did do we need to see
Sean Alexander himself. Was that Sean Alexander just happening with
chick Google of Moogla? What? What a nice little pump fake?
All right, let's let's let's go to the call lines.
Man Lou from Washington, d C. Man, talk to us.
What you got? What's going on? My man? What's the word? Alright?

(32:00):
The bro word? Word is that I got a spoiler
alert for y'all today. Man, I think I got I
got we we you know, I think we're gonna pull
out of upsets today. WU. You know, l A, your
your your old former team. You know. I think we're

(32:20):
gonna find a way to try to I guess you know,
um find a way to win today. Man. We put
that pressure on Brady. I think that we don't know
who's who's playing quarterbacks. So I think Heineke looked good
in that first quarter. You not that lest Yeah, I
think he he looked okay in that uh a fourth
quarter play, I mean when he played against Carolina. So

(32:42):
they don't know what we have. So I like, you know,
going on there our chances today, man, I think we're
gonna pull out the upset. You know, Brady, he just
like us sit in the pocket. He can't move. So um, yeah, man,
I think from you, from you, from you from Suitland,
You're from PG. Yeah, I'm about I'm a running around
the northeast right now. Yeah yeah, man, I hear yeah,

(33:05):
I hear that, young, Young What do you think is
what is it gonna take for us to pull out
an upset? I mean, I know a D line is
gonna come, but I think the linebacker, I think we're
gonna kind of lack off you know, coverage and uh covering, uh,
you know, the tight ends and things like that. But
as far as the d N goes, man, I think
I like our chance it's going to have. I'll tell

(33:27):
you that. You can't give him no time. You know
what people are giving the Bucks. The Bucks have a
really good themselves, and so where will Washington's points come from.
They need Tampler to turn the ball over, they need
special team points, they need everything to be perfect and

(33:49):
go right, in my opinion, just for them to score.
He I don't care how good you looked against Carolina.
This is a playoff game and the pressure that will
that he'll be under is something he's never faced before,
and so everything needs to be right for Washington to
just score, let alone win the game. I think they're

(34:09):
fighting up Hill big time. M you know what what
what the red Skins are going to the Washington football team? Oh,
I'm sorry. I know you from there, so I know man.
You know that that NFC rivalry is real. You know
that NFC East rivalry is real. But everything has to

(34:33):
go right for the Washington football team to win the
day is uh? You know, Tom Brady just can't get
off the bus. They can't beat the Bucks to day
if the Humbody doesn't show up. So other than that, uh,
I think that the Bucketeers will probably win by seventeen points.
It's one of those games where I do believe if

(34:55):
they can pressure Brady and and not give him too
much time, UM, make him uncomfortable in the pocket, close
it down, um touching, I think it it could make
a tremendous difference. But again, I think the biggest issue
here is not what the defense of Washington Washington can

(35:19):
do against the Tampa Bay offense. It's going to be
what you said, t J. It's going to be Ken Heineck.
Come in and give them enough offense because they're going
to have to score to be able to win this score.
That's gonna be the key. You can't This is not
going to be a defensive struggle game, as much as

(35:39):
it may sound or seem like some people may want
it to be that. But you know, Tampa Bay is
gonna put points up, so the Rids, jeez, look, I'm
about to do it. The the Washington football team is
going to have to be able to score somewhere in
around more than twenty five to thirty points to win

(35:59):
this Gay, I don't think that they can do. That's
almost possible with a young guy making his first start
in a playoff game against Tom Brady, and he's going
against and Dominican Sue Shaquille Barrett Um, Jason Pierre, Paul
Paul Lavonte, David Devin White like that. That's not an

(36:21):
easy task. You talk about that Washington defensive front, but
the Bucks got some guys over there as well. But
I will say it is the rest of Peter beating
Tom Brady is getting pressure. Isn't that any without that
any quarterback though, without blitzing, But and I get you
that that is one of the key things that if

(36:42):
you can get get pressure without without blitzing in Washington.
Washington can do that. But again, I I think that
we see an amazing game from Washington's defense, I really do.
I think that they show up and you see them
put up a valiant effort. I just don't see their
offense being in position to make this a winnable game.

(37:07):
I don't see what we're all integrants on that. There
you go, Joe, Florida. Maybe you're calling about Tampa Bay.
What we got? Thanks thanks to Lou from d C.
By the way, What you got, Joe, What we got?
How you guys doing. I've actually moved to Florida about
six months ago, but I'm a die hard Cowboy fan
the past forties, and I accidentally I have to admit

(37:30):
I didn't I know y'all even had a show. But
I definitely want to know how to tune in next
time because when I first heard the three names on
it with Black, Pico, t J and look for a
Cowboy fan has to be good. This has to be good. Definitely,
um down down the road and when I can hear
you all again. But y'all were talking about trash talking,

(37:52):
and I know two of the three You'll have definite
memories of either your worst or best moments facing the
Cowboys and TJ. I'm sure you probably had one as well,
but I don't have the best moments facing the Cowboys.
But go ahead. I mean you were talking about trash talking,
and I'm trash talking you right now. Oh ain't nobody
worried about no Cowboys player the past in the past,

(38:17):
You in your prime, You've got to have some great stories.
Oh man, great story. You know what, I'll hear the
I'll hear whatever it is. I can take it. You know.
I always say, you know, there's no better win than
going into Texas Stadium and hearing all those Cowboys fans

(38:37):
just be silent. There's nothing better than that. Winning in
the National Football League is winning in Texas Stadium. Yeah.
I used to love it when you ask specifically trash
talk like this is just my experience and I only
played the Cowboys a few times. Is nobody on their
defense really trash talk? Like nobody When I tried to

(38:59):
go out Roy what he was just kind of smiling
at me, like, bro leave me alone. And I was
mad that he hit me, and so I was trying
to get him back. But nobody in their secondary really
talk trash at all. They wouldn't. They wouldn't. Oh, man,
I got a great story. I was playing against the
Dallas Cowboys and but two thousand and seven and Ken
Hamlin was the free safety. So I end up having

(39:20):
I end up having like eight catches, a hundred forty
four yards and three touchdowns. Right So, in about the
third quarter, it's a TV time out and Hammel, you know,
brings me over a man. He said, you're killing us.
Can you just slow down a little bit? I said, look, man,
it's never personal, man, it's just business. And Hammah told me.
Hammah said, uh, then just to think I don't even

(39:42):
have you on my fantasy team this week. Has you
on my fantasy team, you might get a no more
yards and another touchdown. It was like, I don't even
got you on my fantasy team. It would have helped
him out, I'm sure, And then I'll tell you what
else will help you out. Listening to up on game
that was t J Plex, t J Hooplex co Birth

(40:03):
shared stories, olavar Arrington. Yeah, it's a super wild Card
weekend and and the Bills are up seven to three
right now, but it looks like it's a great game. Ensuing,
so make sure you stay too. Ten to us on
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down these these playoff games, and yeah, if you want
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(40:26):
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(42:17):
Everything's good. Glad to be back here another weekend with
you guys to try to call and since you guys
started a love the show, I think you guys are great. Um,
I just want to talk a little bit by my
l A Rams today. I'm I'm feeling hopeful, but I'm
feeling a little worried. Um. I just it's just still
flabbergast me thinking about last weekend with Walford man two

(42:40):
to to rush the most by quarterback, and McVeigh and
Golf spend there for four years now and he already
rushed more than that. I mean that I think that
showed that it's it's time to move on from Golf.
I'm not saying that Golf is a better quarterback than
um than uh Walford, but at the moment, especially for
the playoffs, it's it's who who who fits the who

(43:01):
fits the team best right now, and I think Walford
showed that he fits the team best right now. I mean,
he's that type of quarterback where this is where the
league is going. You know, you gotta be able to run,
and Golf just reminds me so much of Matt Ryan,
and I feel like we're just going backwards that way,
like it's not gonna work. What do you guys think
about that? I let the receivers take that. Thanks for
the call, Bro. I like Wafford. I like the way

(43:23):
he came in there and beat a good Arizona Cardinal team.
I actually believe he's probably gonna start today. Um, and
I believe the Rounds are gonna win Seattle's struggle to
move the ball offensively in the last forti five games
of the regular season. The Rounds one of the best
defenses in the league, and him, with his legs and
his athleticism, will be able to create plays that golf can't.

(43:47):
But golf is the future of the Rounds of the court.
They're just on way too much money, too much guaranteed
money to move off of them. Man, these divisional games
can go either way. You know they split during the
regular season, they know each other well, and you know,
playing playing somebody a third time in in in a
in a in a single season and division Man, this
game can go either way. I mean, was playing the

(44:08):
Dallas Capitals back in two thousand and seven. They swept
was the first two games, and we end up beating
them in the in the divisional championship, we go to
the conference championship. But this game go either way. The
drop off from from Jared Golf in the past few
years has been unexplainable. I think Bill Belichick put him
on wax in the Super super Bowl, forced him to
read coverage and the combo coverage and stuff like that. So, uh,

(44:33):
I'm gonna pick the Rams. I'm gonna take the Rams.
I'm with you, all right. Well, I'm not really sure
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