Anthony Gargano and The Fellas Breakdown and Preview NFL Wildcard Weekend

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to sports. All right, well, good morning, good morning,
good morning, good morning, good morning, Good morning, buddy. It's
Super wild Card weekend right here with the fellas. I'm

(00:21):
Anthony Gargano and a uh what a day, man. We
got Super Bowl, Super wild Card weekend be getting today
with an incredible six games. As much as I depresses
me that the playoffs mean we're at the end, this
is what we wait for, right, This is really incredible.

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This is a great weekend of football beginning with the
Niners in Seattle, and it's gonna be in the rain. Man,
that's cheez Santa Clara. Everything's getting nasty weather. It'll be
the Niners and the Seahawks in the downpour. Uh, it's

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gonna be amazing theater. And then we then we go
into Jacksonville where we got the Chargers and the Jaguars.
And you just heard Figure you say, no Mike Williams,
And we gotta talk about Brandon Stally. I mean, it's ridiculous,
some of the worst most ridiculous coaching move last week
in which he played Mike Williams against the Broncos. We

(01:28):
gotta talk about that. And then uh, of course that
will take us into tomorrow where we have the Bills
and it does feel like to me like it's a
bill season. Bills get underway tomorrow against the Dolphins and
Skyler Thompson as Uh Teddy can't go. We know about
two Uh it's gonna be a Skylar production tomorrow and

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then uh Giants and Vikings. That gives way to Sunday night.
Ravens ends the Bengals who are still upset over home field.
And then Monday night you heard Bernie talk about it,
tell of of two friends, well one player and one franchise,

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Brady versus the Cowboys, and the Cowboys with all of
their playoff failures. Uh, magnified on a Monday night in Tampa.
But it all gets started. It this is incredible theater.
It all gets started today four thirty eastern, one thirty Pacific.

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It's gonna be incredible. Man, It's just gonna be amazing.
And Uh, I'll tell you I'm the onion, absolutely fired up.
Cannot wait for what's going to happen. Man, this is
this is pretty cool band. Good morning, Figgy, Morning Anthony.
This is one of the better weekends of the year.

(02:57):
We always look forward to what the NFL playoffs are here. Yeah. Man,
I do love the Super wal Card format too. Yeah,
adding a couple of extra teams that adds an extra
layer of excitement. I like the fact I think it
actually adds intrigue to the regular season that you now
only have one bye week divide for in each conference

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because now games down the stretch, whereas you may rest
starters for the last couple of weeks, you know, you're
putting your guys out there and laying it all on
the line in the last week of the year, hoping
to get yourself a bye Yeah. Man, you're dead right
about that. You know that's a huge deal, huge deal.
But uh, we gotta start to lead before we get
into today's games. In the whole weekend, I gotta ask you,

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because you're closest to it and you know a lot
about this team, what in the world was Brandon Stalely doing. Yeah,
we've been all asking that question. We we asked it
after last weekend when Mike Williams got hurt and Kenneth
Murray got banged up in that game as the Joey
Bosa a little bit. Those guys are fine, they'll end
up suiting up tonight, and Brandon Staley was the fine

(04:00):
at the podium on Sunday after the game when he
was asked. He was defying on Monday when he was
asked again, and then he was defying on Friday when
he was asked again. So he just keeps doubling and
tripling down on This is our culture, this is how
we do things. You know, Oh, he can only grow
so many players out there in the field. You only
have so many guys on the team. The most egregious
quote for me, Anthony that he had, and it was

(04:22):
unbelievable and I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said, you know,
you can't prioritize who you play on the field or
who's more important than who you know, what player is
more important than another. So you're you're telling me that
the backup, that the fourth string tight end is just
as valuable as Mike Williams. Is that what you're telling me?
Because if you're telling me that, I'm really having serious
questions as to your qualifications to be a head coach

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in the NFL. And that after he cost the Charges
the playoffs last year, Yeah, in that Raider game when
he could have played for the tie. Yeah, and he tried,
and he cost him that game. It's he was better
this year when it came to going forward on fourth down.
I still contend he went forward on fourth down as
often as he did last season because he didn't trust
his defense. So he's better at that this year. But

(05:05):
still just some head scratching plays and calls that, you know,
one thing, one bounce, one call can cost you everything.
You know. It's it really is mind boggling. And now
he puts himself in a position where I think if
they lose just to Jacksonville tonight, I think that the
charges front office might be in serious consideration of making
a change. I truly, I truly believe that here's your

(05:27):
here's your quote, exactly the way it is that you
just said from the l A Times. I stand behind
what we did in that football game. All my players
are really important to me. There were a lot of
players that were playing that game that were in harm's way.
That's just the nature of football. It's very difficult to

(05:49):
decide who plays and who does it, and who's more
valuable than the rest. What you're trying to do is said,
it's standard for your program up out, how you do things.
That's what I believe in. I didn't want anybody to
getting hurt in that game, regardless of their status, because
everybody's important. Are you an idiot? All right? Oh my god?

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See I don't understand it. I mean, and especially when
you look at you have to look at every individual
players situation, let alone the fact that but first of all,
he's dead wrong and he knows this if you ask
them behind closed doors. Obviously, justin Herbert is more valuable
to what you're doing than the long snapper. Let's be
real here, I mean, come on, and then too. Keenan

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not Keenan Allen, although he's been injury prone to Mike
Williams is a spectacular player, but has been injury prone
specifically this year. So in a in a game, by
the time kickoff happened last week between themselves in Denver,
they knew they had nothing to play for. If you
wanted to say, hey, these guys warmed up, we want
to get them out there and work up a sweat,
play a series or two, I still wouldn't do it.
But if that's more justifiable than leaving them out there

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for an entire half and into the third quarter, it
just made no sense to run somebody who was that
valuable to your offense out there in a meaningless game
when he has a history of getting banged up. It
made absolutely no sense. Zero. It's amazing, man, you're right.
I remember watching that game and going what's he doing?
Like like live that's going on. It's like, right, what

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are you? Like? What are you doing there? Which Stanley,
what are you doing? And by the way, Herbert's in there,
Eckler is in there, Dorwin James, who's also a spectacular
player but can't stay healthy, he's in there. I just
don't understand. I don't get it. It doesn't make sense
to me, and to your point, to fig think about this,
this is this is the only thing that has kept

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that team down. That team's got great talent and they've
been banged up all year long. You're right on. It's
it's my boggling. He's gotta get fired. This team is
too good to to health him make these kinds of mistakes.
The margin is too thin. Look, even when you are

(08:02):
super talented, you know, and you're healthy, it's difficult to
win football games. You can't be shooting yourself in the
foot with bone headed decisions like this, it's you can't
do it. I've never heard anything like it before. Honestly,
I've never seen it. I've seen this before. He's gotta go.
He's already on the staff that goes you, dude, what

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are you doing? I would think so all the players
publicly have have supported him, uh, which I guess they're
going to do that, and they do like him overall,
but I mean a kind there has to be a
sect of players in that locker room that sit there
and say, hey, look man, I'm I'm the seventh defensive
back and I think I'm important. But I mean, my god,
Mike Williams, all the numbers you look at in the
statistics have that office performs when he's there and when

(08:46):
he's not it is night and day. And you're telling
me that he's not more valuable than a backup to
the backup because all players are important. Really, Yeah, I mean,
well that's your right on what you said too. That's
one of these I'm trying to defend my actions and
I'm gonna make up some stupid, ridiculous, nonsensical thing that

(09:08):
everybody knows is idiotic. Yeah, people will respect you more
if you just fess up and say I made a
mistake and I shouldn't have done that, and I could
have cost our team if he would have come out
publicly and says, you know what, I screwed up. I
thought these guys would benefit of getting some extra reps,
you know, staying warm, not getting complacent. And you know,
unfortunately Mike got hurt. And I'll own that. If he

(09:30):
would have said that, it would have softened the blow
a lot. We still would have criticized him for playing him,
but at least you're not doubling and tripling down on
a terrible but terrible decision. That's the part that makes
him look so much worse. Part of me might believe
that he is just thinks in another realm, like I.
I know, I don't want to be nasty about it,

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but I mean, I how's this guy head coach? I mean, seriously,
he quots in the playoffs last year? We he coach
that game is it was idiotic? And not even just that,
I mean there are games he cost him early in
this and that game could have not mattered. They could
have been in that situation where the game didn't even
matter at that point, and he cost him. He could
have cost I remember the Cleveland game earlier this year,
like they when they went for it on like fourth

(10:13):
and two, like from their own forty or something late
in the fourth quarter. Now, because Cleveland was just so
uneptown offense, they couldn't move the ball and they missed
a field goal. But I mean, any sort of competent
NFL offense would have easily been able to get eleven
yards and a manageable field goal and win that game.
And maybe the charges are not in the playoffs because
of something like that. I don't know that there's there's analytics,

(10:34):
I understand that part, and there's just common sense too.
There's just been too many decisions over the last couple
of years of Brandon Staley that that are inexcusable, absolutely inexcusable. Yeah,
I mean, listen, analytics ship that plays a role in everything.
I get it, sure, but I mean we're not talking

(10:54):
about that at least stopped that. I mean, I can't
even entertain this nonsense. It's stupid. Well yeah, not in
the Mike Williams situation, but like the stuff like that,
they're going forward on fourth down, like backed up on
your own territory, on your own nineteen yard line against
the Raiders last year, which was a big play that
cost them to And I was like, well, you have
a you know, fifty eight percent chance of making the

(11:16):
first half and I was like, I don't care because
the other percentage, if you don't make it, you're backed up,
and then they can go three and out and kick
a field goal when you're down. It doesn't make sense.
It's not horrible for those players. Same absolutely, Listen. I
would say their fan base, but they have no fans.

(11:36):
They have more than they had i'd say three or
four years ago. But in the in the grand sense, yes,
you're right, they're they're establishing a solid fan base in
Los Angeles. I will say this, it has improved over
the last couple of years. Yes, all right, I mean
you know, and I'll defer to you. So whatever that
don't strike me as it's not exactly bills mafia. Well,
I mean a few things are with all due respect,

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I mean, what else you gonna do? And Buffalo I
mean go Sabers and everything, you know, But you know
what I mean, there's a lot more options than Los Angeles,
and the charges are the Johnny come Lately is when
it comes to that exactly. The first of all, they
should never be in the l A said, but you
know whatever with that team anyway, I it's just more

(12:19):
of the players I feel horrible for because they should.
They're good. I was having this conversation with on the
air this week. Um, they're better than Jacksonville. Herbert is
better than Lawrence, Eckler is better than Etten. The receivers,

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you know, Mike Williams and Allen are better than Kirk
and Za Jones, and their defense is better. But they're
gonna lose because dude just not coach. Well, yeah, I
will say I don't know if they're going to lose
because the defense has been playing so well Reesa me
especially in Boses back healthy. So I think they might

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even even despite Brandon Staley's egregious, you know error in
judgment with Mike Williams, I think they're probably good enough
still to go down in Jacksonville and get a victory
because Herbert is that good, the defense has been playing
very well the last month, and Jacksonville's offense, I mean,
look terrible. There's they have a chance to lose, Yes,

(13:23):
they do, because of their head coach. Whereas if Let's
say Mike Williams was healthy billion times better than than Staley.
They're at a coaching disadvantage. I will give you that.
If you're checking all the boxes, if you're checking the
boxes of pros and cons, you definitely check the boxes
box of coaching. UM put it on the on the
side of Jacksonville. I'll give you that. Yeah, Yeah, and

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that's all. It's unbelievable. We gotta take quick t o
I need more on this. It's because it's unbelievable. I'm
still I'm I can say it over it all right,
we got lots to get to. Where the fellas just
kicking it off Super wild Card weekend. My main Kevin Figures.
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I had a nasty echo, fig and there's nothing worse

(14:50):
than to hear your own voice, just in general, my
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is is Staley getting getting eviscerated? Because this was Philadelphia,
he would be. I mean, I told you about relentlessly
pounded by fans and media. Is that going on? I
wouldn't say that it's relentless, because again it is the
Chargers so you know, you have a lot more established

(15:57):
brands out here that are you know, more at the
front of them are key. You know, we have the Dodgers, Lakers,
you know all that, even the Rams people are talking
about the Rams of them vas situation. So but this
is definitely getting its due because this is a time
right now for the Chargers to kind of establish themselves
in Los Angeles. The Rams are down, they're not in
the postseason. You know, you're the loan representative in the city.

(16:18):
The Lakers are down, the Dodgers aren't playing, So this
is kind of their time to shine. This is your
opportunity to kind of grab the market and you know,
and seize hold of the fan base. You know, maybe
people are on the fence. People love Justin Herbert. They
love Justin Herbert. He's an amazing player. You want to
see him make a deep run in the postseason and
you need to help him. You're not helping him, Brandon Staley,

(16:38):
You're making this very very difficult, very difficult. Yeah, you know,
the players bust their asses to try to win every
single week and coaches screw it up, and it's a shame, right, Like,
I look at these players, I love the Chargers right,
like like I love like as players and guys Herbert Alan,

(17:04):
Mike Williams, Eckler, Boats, Darwin James like you go one
and on. You know, I think I love those players, Palmer.
I mean, like those kids. They're good and they were
a good bunch of dudes. Like I really I like
them a lot. I just I feel bad for that

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they had that kind of leadership. I mean, I'm ownership.
I'm embarrassed and no end. Yeah, and Tom Telesco, who
has been in battle with himself, who was put together
really good rosters in his tenure, but they just had
injury issues. And now you finally had a chance to
break through this year and the guy you hired to
half the ship is leading it to the is leading
it to the sirens. They're gonna crash, crashing, burned to

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the sirens. I love it. It's ridiculous and you're right.
And they are a great group of guys, they really are.
We do training camp broadcasts every year out of their
training facility, and we've spoken to all the guys you
just mentioned. They're all phenomenal. They're easy to root for,
they really are, Yes, and it's a it's a shame.
And look, it's a short shelf life for NFL players.
We know that. Uh, you know, one one thing can

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happen in your career is altered. You only get so
many bites at the apple when you make it to
the postseason. You know, Auston necklace. I believe this is
just his second postseason appearance. He was there in two
thousand and eighteen, the last time that they made it.
And look how how much time has passed since he's
gotten back. Who knows how many times a player like
that is going to be able to make it back.
You need to maximize these opportunities and wasting one of

(18:27):
your most talented players and a meaningless it's essentially a
preseason game afford to be honest with it at that point. Basically,
as far as the stakes go, to waste them in
a situation like that, it's totally irresponsible. Uh, it's irresponsible
to and it's and it's a detriment to the remainder
to the players on the roster. It really is. All right,
So let's now I'll move on, and because they won't

(18:48):
be the last time we criticize Brandon Stelly today Because
I like to make a sport out of it. I
would like I would love for Charger fans just to
call up you know, We'll do a whole segment that
if you want to rip Brandon Staley, I just I'll
give you, you you know, sixty seconds unfiltered. Just don't curse

(19:08):
and you and you're good man, because I know it
would drive me insane having to deal with that. I
really it would, you me insane. But let's look at
the game, because I do agree with you. I do
think they have a still have a chance to win.
I would just making a case that because Doug Peterson
is such a much better coach that they they're up

(19:31):
against a little bit, but they should win. I mean,
they're a really good team. I know, Jacksonville, we both
like Tennessee last week if you remember to get inside
the number, and they did and they played them tough
if not for the the fumble return. I mean, you
know we were talking about Tennessee and Vrabel, right, Yeah,
the Jags aren't even here if not for that for

(19:52):
that play, Which is why, uh, despite all the issues
with the Chargers, if I were to lean in one direction,
it would be more towards the chart than Jacksonville. But
certainly the gap is closed significantly when you don't have
one of your best offensive players on the field for you.
Yeah yeah, I mean, and he's he's the big play guys. Yes,
he makes that offense go. He's as great as Eckler

(20:16):
is and as many touches as he's had, and he's
a phenomenal player. He's really checkdowns, checkdowns running the ball.
But to open things up and that, and you know,
Mike Williams opens things up underneath for Keenan Allen, you know,
but who's a possession guy. So it all works in
sync together. So you don't have Mike out there, it
really handicaps your entire your entire offense. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(20:37):
that's the only thing defensively to your point, and you
and you listen, you fole them close. You know, this
team inside and out. I thought that there's regular season
that they've just been bagged up defensively all year long.
That's a good unit when they're all healthy, right, Oh,
it's an excellent unit for the phenomenal But you know,
Bose has been out the majority of the season, growin

(20:59):
j Mes has had a lot of injury issues. Some
injuries in the defensive backfield. J C. Jackson, who they
got from the Patriots, you know, wasn't playing well. Then
he got injured for the entire season in like Week five.
So they've been playing banged up the entire year, and
that's why they I think there are the twenties six
or something like that there in the bottom third and
most defensive categories. But again, since they've gotten some of

(21:20):
these guys back healthy, they've been one of the best
defenses in the last month. So I think they lean
on that to try to carry them, specifically in this
game against the Jacksonville offense that really struggled last week
against Tennessee. Yeah, and that was interesting to me, um,
because look, this Jacksonville team has weapons. Lawrence has been

(21:40):
first of all, let's start with the quarterback, who had
took a huge leap this year once he got a
real coach. Yeah, I mean, I still even though what
happened last year with that that was just two told
about a disaster. Yea, where I will say and and
and I don't think our it was good by any stretch.

(22:01):
I don't think the talent is a little bit better
this year than it was last year, too, agree you
didn't have Kirk e t n is healthy, you know, so,
I say, I do. I do think those are some
factors as to why they've turned around. But Doug Peterson
certainly is a big reason for that too. Yeah, I agree,
I agree, I I do. I like the offense a lot.
I mean we we saw you mentioned Kirk and you

(22:22):
know he's a legitimate take the top off the defense,
down the field threat. You know, you got j Jones,
you got et Ten. Like you said, Ingram has had
a renaissance. I mean you want to talk about, you know,
saving his career. I bet when Ingram's done down there, Yeah,
it's been spectacular. And I credit that to Douck Peterson too.

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You know, putting people in the right position to be
able to thrive, that's what good coaches do. Yeah, you know,
it's not putting somebody in the position to thrive playing
them in a meaningless game. Okay, sorry, you still haven't
moved off of that in my apology. You should. I
wouldn't be the dog with the boat man girl fright
on all day long. All right, here's the thing, my trending,

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and then we'll kind of match it up. All yeah,
we'll start there. In the NFL, as we've been discussing here,
the Charges receiver Mike Williams out for Tonight's wild card
game against Jacksonville with a back injury. Not only that,
if they happen to make it out of this game tonight,
he's out reportedly for the next two to three weeks,
so at best he'd return to the team if they
make it to the Super Bowl. So just a devastating

(23:28):
blow for them. Sean McVeigh did announce he what we're
turned for a seventh season as head coach of the Rams.
Vikings safety Harrison Smith limited and practice this week, questionable
for Sunday's game against the Giants. You also have Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson officially ruled out against Cincinnati. Tyler Huntley
was a full participant in practice on Friday. He is
questionable with the shoulder injury and they're hopeful that he

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will be able to make the start there nine game
slate in the NBA. On Friday, you at the Denver
Nuggets winning their fifth game in a row one fifteen
to one oh three over the Clippers in Los Angeles.
Jamal Murray twenty four points there for Denver Golden State
hammered the Spurs in the Alamo Dome to one thirteen,
Jordan Pool scoring twenty five points there a triple double
for Demonta Sabonis. A Sacramento dominated the Rockets. Minnesota's won

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four of their last five. They defeated Phoenix thirty or
four points for Jalen Brunson. As the Knicks defeat at Washington,
you have the Hawks, Thunder and Utah Jazz with victories
as well. Back to the Fellas, all right, that's us.
We are the Fellas. Come you alive hanging out on
a super wild car weekend from the Tirack dot Com studios.

(24:33):
I fig, let's kind of match this up and then
at some point you gotta hit me with this McVeigh
story too, because that's another one that was kind of
surprised that. But when we match this game up tonight
and Jacksonville and the Charges, and I'm curious, I think
the one area of concern from the Charges standpoint is

(24:55):
the Jacksonville front, which really dominated the line is scrim Midge.
I thought, because look, I thought Dobbs played well. I
thought he did whatever he could do. He was on
the the rest that whole game. Did Jacksonville front I thought,
really dominate the line of scrimmage and look, they're the
ones that causes the two turnovers that ultimately wins the game.

(25:16):
Very true, Very true. Now the difference is now the
Chargers offensive line has been a little bit better lately,
but has been their achilles heel all season long. Ray
Shon Slater, their top left tackle who's been out all
season long, is back in the practice window, but he
wouldn't be able to play until next week at the earliest.
So they have what they have. As good as Dobbs
played last week, he's not Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert is special.

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You know, we talked about last year's playoff run for
the Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Burrow. How many games did
he get sacked like six and seven times and they
still won? You know, Justin Herbert is that good and
that tough and that mobile that I think despite the
offensive lines issues, despite the fact that they cannot run
the ball at all, I think they were thirty first
in the league in rushing, it doesn't matter because Justin

(25:59):
Herbert is that spectacular. So I would lean more on
that than the issues up front. Are definitely a problem
and will be a problem. But because Justin Herbert is
so spectacular, I think his skill set, uh, and his
his ability to break the pocket and be able to
throw accurately on the run kind of diminishes or takes
away the impact that that front four potentially could have. Yeah,

(26:20):
I'm with you, I'm with you on that big time.
Um you know, Uh, that's where he gets the ball out.
And look, it's not like they're devoid of weapons without
Mike Williams either, because Eckler out of the back field.
We talked about Keendan all the time. Palmer has been
big for them this year. He really has at times
has kind of tried to fill the Mike Williams role

(26:41):
as best as he can, even though he's not Mike.
But he's definitely a deep threat. So it's like they
have no vertical threats. H Palmer obviously is not in
the same caliber of Mike Williams, but he certainly can
make plays for them. Yeah, I mean, li'sten Mike Williams freak.
I mean, Mike Williams makes those ridiculous circus catches toe
tappers like you know. He mean, he's on level level
and he's unique because when he's covered, he's open because

(27:03):
of his his wingspan. He's one of those you know,
the highball guys. Yeah, he's he's a trite Sarah Tops,
He's got that kind of thing. But Palmer can stretch
the Palmer could run. Like you said, Palmer legitimately can
stretch the field. So that's that's still there. And then
you know, I mean, you got a couple of tight

(27:25):
ends that you were you were to fit to the
mix that could play. So I'm with you. I think
ultimately can can see any can the Chargers can l
a attack at Jacksonville Secondary because that's where you're vulnerable. Yes,
that's where their weakest. And that's why, even more so,
to keep harping on the Williams thing, you had such
an advantage if Mike Williams has actually suited up and play,

(27:47):
if he wasn't questionable, and let's say we knew that
he was going to be healthy throughout the weekend he
was practicing. The line is what two and a half
right now? Is there any doubt in your mind that
line will be closer to five or something or maybe
even six of Mike Williams is in there. I think
he makes that big of a difference. Will you consider
the matchup you mentioned Jacksonville secondary, that's their Achilles heel
on defense. They get there, you know, they make their

(28:07):
hay in the front, the front four, in the front seven,
and they're most weak on the back end. Uh that
the gap is closed significantly because you just don't have
a major threat like Mike Williams. But even with that
being said, I still think the Chargers have the advantage
from a skill position standpoint, and they'll be able to
move the ball through the air. Uh so so quite honestly,
if I had to pick, I still think the Charges

(28:28):
are would would be my favorite to win the game. Yeah,
how do you and you look you know the charge
of defense? Well, now to me, you're gonna have to
try to run it and you're gonna have to try
to establish ET ten and the established some sense of
ball control. If you're Doug Peterson and Jacksonville offense, that
will be best. And ETN has been effective. The Charger

(28:50):
run defense has been better of late. Getting both in
there definitely helps, even though I know he's more of
an edge guy, but it only helps your your defensive front.
When you have a player of that caliber. Uh, you know,
playing that well, you get Kenneth Murray back healthy. He's
had some injury issues, So, uh, that's you're right. I
think that's gonna be the key, because if you're Jacksonville,
the best way to make hey against the Charger defense

(29:11):
would be running the ball because they've been vulnerable that
they're all season long. Uh. But and if I were them,
I think I opened up the game and try to
try to test the middle of that defense as often
as I possibly can, because that's the best way for
them to be able to move the ball, because I
don't know if they can drop back Trevor Lawrence multiple times,
you know times and win this game with Joey Boston
Khalil mcbaron down on him. Yeah, I don't think that works.

(29:33):
I think you're right. I think you gotta run, run, run, run, run,
and then you take your shots, you max protect and
then you know, play action and you maybe you move Lawrence.
They ran that play the touchdown they scored last week
against Tennessee. Do you remember that touchdown where they took
their shot. It was a max protect situation and he

(29:57):
winds up hitting Kirk for the touchdown. Yeah, that play
which is a Peter I know that play inside it
out from Doug, and that play is going to be key.
They will run that play a handful of times tonight
and he's gonna take his shots and that's gonna be
it can be convert and get a big play to

(30:19):
try to steal some momentum and grab a quick touch
stuff like at some point when they're inside the forty
yard line. Are the charges you keep an eye on
that play. Yeah, that's a good point. And the point
with that is you have to play complimentary football. So
if you're gonna play that style and try to run
and grind it out and take shots when you can,
it's imperative that your defense holds up. It's into the bargain.

(30:40):
You can't come out and get down you know, fourteen nothing,
you know what I mean, and give it and and
and let that charge or offense get going, so I
don't can't come back. You can't come back because that's
where to your point, that's when they unleash that front
and you're dead. Yeah, So Jacksonville is not built that way.
So that will be my only fear. You're relying on

(31:00):
the Jacksonville defense to muster up the same effort they
had against Tennessee, and Tennessee was playing with one arm
up tie behind its back. All due respect to Dobbs,
you know, he's a backup to a backup quarterback. You know,
this is this is one of the elite quarterbacks in
the entire NFL. And Justin Herbercher planning against it's a
completely different beast. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you
big time. It's a completely different atholet Stone right about that.

(31:25):
All right, we gotta touch on the other game today,
and that's gonna take place in Santa Clara at four
thirty eastern, one thirty Pacific, and whether it will be
an issue. First of all, all of our hearts go
out to Uh, the nasty weather that the western part

(31:45):
of this country has had to endure this entire winner.
It's amazing. You go from drought two two massive floods.
I mean, it's been an awful situation. Figure. Yeah, it
really has people having to be evacuated for homes, mud slides.
It's uh, and it hits you especially bad when it's

(32:05):
something you're not really used to, you know, because they're
not built for it. You're you're not. The infrastructure is
really not there. Uh so it's uh yeah, it's very
unfortunate where Uh, I know, the Los Angeles areas had
to get hit pretty hard again, uh coming up tonight
and into uh and into Sunday as well, but nowhere
near as badly as a as a few other places
as you mentioned. So yeah, it's it's been a tough

(32:26):
go unfortunately. Yeah. Well you guys, you guys have gotten
it too. I mean last weekend was bad. Last weekend
was very bad. It's just nowhere for the water to go. No, no, again,
the infrastructure is not there because it happened so unfrequently. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. All right, we'll come back and uh we'll

(32:47):
talk about Niners and Seahawks and uh, this Niner team
is it's a dangerous team. We got to discuss it.
We'll talk about it. Uh. There there the state of
the NFC in little bit of Flocks with Jalen Hurts
his injury update you on that, uh in the Eagle

(33:07):
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(33:57):
Figure be happy to know that the fourth grade Fairty
to fourth Grade sat Margaret Squad got its first win.
Alright this week here we go. Yes, did we share
the wealth a little bit? Did uh we have a
you know, balanced scoring across the board? Do we have
eight players and double figures like the Warriors on Friday Night?
Or what are we doing? No? No, but Masmo did

(34:20):
ple It was like Jordan Poole. Okay, so came in
and lit it up. Huh, all right, congratulations, I have
my two ballers, right. I figured out a way that
we're gonna have our two main guys play every second

(34:42):
of the game. Because this way we can control. We
can actually have a semblance of a basketball game and
we'll rotating all the role guys. Okay, you know what
I mean. Yeah, so this isn't like one of those
where you stagger the minutes of your two stars. You
just leave the two stars out there and that's the
minutes everybody else correct. All right, how did you guys?

(35:05):
How did you win? Because from what you were saying,
from what you were saying last week, it was like
you were never going to get the ball in the
in the net. It sounded like, right, okay, fake. I
mean it was like, especially it was possible chucking it
up and nobody else will do anything. That's what we
that's you know, that's what I heard. I don't too. Congrats,
I mean that's huge. I don't know. Just tell us
how it went down. Yeah, give us it was a

(35:27):
barn burn for Actually, you know, we got we covered
to fourteen to six victory four seven. What do you mean?
What do you mean you covered? You guys? Come with
the spread because people, I was taking some extra some
of taking some action on the side. You're betting the
other dads on the other team. Yeah, come over here,

(35:47):
and you're slipping twenties and pockets. What's going on? Well,
I lead over to my assistant that I said, because
uh it was four. It was like tended ten to
five I think it was. And then they made a run.
They made a tense seven and I go, I want

(36:09):
to call time out right, And then I and I go,
you know, we got a bucket and and the next thing,
you know, so I went das for the cover. It's amazing.
I had to reward all our loyal all of our
loyal fans. Three of them should have taken the team

(36:29):
at the lunch, Yes, exactly. You know. So it was.
It was a lot of air balls and a lot
of traveling, but it ultimately got that w that's aught
that matters. Uh my maide Joey Uh, who's the bread
guy who's listening right now, Joey bred Man, who was

(36:52):
said the huge dog Peterson fan. I mean your mongous
Doug he loved was Doug e pig? He says, listen,
tell fig we got cake form, we got muffins, we
got the whole ship. Bang, we're gonna send out nice.
They want your support, Okay, yeah, are you have my support?

(37:17):
Trust me? I would love for I would love for
Doug Peterson and Jackuards to get themselves a victory. I
don't think it's gonna happen, but I would love for
it to happen. But you have it. But for the record,
and Biggie are you are you on board too? I'm here,
I'm on the I hear it on the record. You're
on the record. You guys are on the record. You

(37:38):
are supporting Doug Peterson, So Joedy Cake Guy and Tasty
Cake Tom. I want to send you guys, so you're
you're just so we know that your allegiance can be
bought for cakes. Wait wait, so what you're saying is
that I'm making a heartbet tomorrow because the whole world,
because I'm gonna be honest, I was gonna take I

(37:59):
hate to say, right, I want to take the Jacks
because I love the Jacks. You know, I love Doggie.
Brought me a super Bowl, everything was great. But the
charges I really think are gonna win. So I gotta
take a heart beat and not bet with my brains.
What you're saying now, I mean, it's just the public
or I want you don't need to bet it, or
you can bet whatever you want. Betting it, but just

(38:20):
to support you, support behind Dougie pe want You're just
looking for some love, all right, Joey, fine, I can
I can just give you my support. Part me kind
of wants Staley to eat it for his arrogance to
be honest with you, So I gotta be honest with you.
I agree, keeping it real. You know, yes, he listen

(38:41):
to the cake. Joey's cake is on the Jacksonville side, Sabby,
Staley does not deserve the cake. No, no, this will
be poetic justice if they find a way to lose.
And it's like, do you know what? This is what
you do? And I hate that it happens to the players,
but this is the consequences. This is what happens. I know,
you know. I'm trying to make the difference. The k

(39:04):
could make the difference. That's U we are. We discovered
what's going to make the difference in the game tomorrow.
It's a cake. Nobody else knows, that's right, Well, whoever
everybody who's listening knows. But I got a question, is
it who's dumber hockey or Staley Hacket. That's a good question.

(39:30):
I don't know. I mean, you answer pretty quickly. Tell you.
I think it's close dunk of this Daley guy. B
he's in the postseason. It's almost like appe him. You know,
I don't know. You guys are not giving this guy
enough credit. I yeah, I get the guy a shot shot.

(39:52):
He cast him. He called him the playoffs last year
and almost did it this year, and he might called
him this game tomorrow. What if they win today? That's
because the players. Oh, it's good suppliers. It's Herbert and
Ackler and Allan and Bosa fellas on Fox all what

(40:15):
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(41:02):
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are ready to rock and roll. You have officially given
your your support to jug Peterson and the Jaguars. So
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other game today, the earlier game is the Niners and
the Seahawks. Now, I think this game is a mismatch

(42:06):
in every which way. Usually the inclement weather and we're
gonna have steady rain in Santa Clara today, but usually
that that impacts the underdog, but not in this case.
I think if there's one team right now in the
NFC that can challenge the Eagles, it is the Niners.

(42:28):
They are you know, I know everybody's talking about Purdie
and the playoffs are a different animal. But uh, he
this is the perfect system for the perfect situation for
him with the way Shanahan, who is one of the
best play calls, best offensive minds out there, has that
team going. I love. I love where they're at, how

(42:51):
they play the game. You got McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell back
to complement of Debo will be back. You got I
you you got kindled down the middle. I mean, you
know pretty I said, just run the offense what he's
been doing the ever since Garrappo got hurt where you know,
he's got a little movement so he can move a

(43:11):
little bit. He gets the ball out on time, quick
easy throws. And I think they should dominate Seattle, which
is poor against the run. I think it's a bad
matchup all the way. And listen, Seattle has had a
great year and Gino, god bless him, has has had
It would be the comeback play of the year if

(43:31):
not for McCaffrey. But you know, they have not been
playing well over the last five weeks. You want to
talk about limping into the playoffs, They limped into the playoffs. Yeah,
they have hit the skins for sure. I still think
even as good as McCaffrey has been, I think Gino Smith,
just as the quarterback and considering where he was a
few years ago to where he is now, might still
win Comeback Player of the Year. He probably deserves it

(43:52):
more when you think about it, you know, I mean,
because you know, McCaffrey just come back from injury. He's
a great player, But Gino Smith is came back from
the dead. Yeah. Oh, his issues with both New York
teams bounced around as a backup. People thought he might
be going to the CFL or something, and people were
chalking up so, yeah, they thought Seattle was gonna be
competing for our top five pick this year. Now they

(44:14):
might get one anyway. Well, they're gonna get on anyway
because of the different Broncos. But as far from from
their own standpoint, they absolutely obliterated expectations this year, and
a big reason for that is Gino. But you're right
that they're running up against the juggernaut. I know, the
third time they're facing the forty niners, and it's hard
to beat the seen three times but not win the matchup.
The talent gap is this wide. You know, we talked

(44:35):
about brock Purty right after Jimmy g got hurt. Uh.
And you mentioned how he had like a bit of
a new alarm and that there's a significant drop off
between him and Garoppolo, and to a degree there is.
But when you have this much talent offensively, when you
could run the ball the way they can run, you
have a defense as good as that defense is. To
your point, they just need him not to screw up,
just just manage the offense. Makes a couple of short

(44:55):
throws here are there? And I do think it's it's
gonna end up impacting them the deeper they get into
the postse reason. I'll say that because I do think eventually,
if you're gonna end up going all the way which
the forty Niners have designs of doing, your quarterback is
gonna have to make a player two when it matters.
And I don't know if Brock can do that, but
in a game like this against Seattle, implement whether or not,
well you have all those offensive weapons and who the

(45:15):
forty Niners can run the ball sixty times and I'm
not exaggerating. They can run the ball sixty times down
the throat of the Seattle Seahawks and they won't be
able to stop it. So the weather factor doesn't matter
one bit as far as I'm concerned. You know, they're
gonna play the way that they play. Uh, and Kyle
Shanahan's offense is not gonna be stopped by Seattle. So UM.
I don't know what the line is on this one currently. Uh,

(45:37):
but uh, if it's if it's a touchdown or so
for San Francisco, if the line is, i'll hit you
it's nine. I just saw it nine. Yeah. I don't
know how why. That's not that it's hard to it's
hard with a double digits in the NFL. But when
the missat mismatches this wide, yeah, at no, I think

(46:00):
I would take San Francisco to cover that. I can
see Francisco want to buy two touchdowns easily. Yeah. Because
the other issue is how are they gonna Scott Seattle
going to score? Well? Look, they the way they've been
doing it, Kenneth Walker has been spectacular. They run the ball,
keep you honest, and they hit you deep with metcalfe. Uh,
that's kind of been their formula. The problem is they
can't run the ball against San Francisco. They tried doing

(46:23):
that they left the last matchup a few weeks ago
and it was futile. They couldn't do it. And Tyler
Lockett as a weapon too, and he's been he's been
in and out of the lineup with some injury. So
they have the weapons. But Gino Smith, you know, it's
not gonna drop back forty times and beat you either.
You know, you have to kind of scheme things for
him to be able to thrive as well. So they're
gonna shut down that run game with Kenneth Walker, and

(46:43):
now you're gonna be asking Gino Smith to drop back
multiple times and be able to beat beat San Francisco,
who was good on the back end and even better upfront.
I just don't see. He didn't want to talk about
boast or reaking havoc and you know, I mean chee, Yeah,
he's probably gonna be a defense a player of the year. Yeah,
I mean, you know again, I just think that that team,

(47:07):
I think the match up, it's just a bad match up,
bad match up. The only way that it would be
a good game if we're taking the weather into account
and if this is just ugly and slashy like Opening
Day when the forty Niners played the Bears and that
sorrential downpour at Soldier Field, and it's just ugly for
both teams. Now, I don't know what the fuel conditions

(47:28):
are gonna be like by kickoff, and if if it's
like that and the weather is that bad, then kind
of all bets are off to a certain degree and
you just don't know. But I don't think. What did
you hear the latest out there? I just saw. I
just saw up north. I just saw rain in the forecast,
so I haven't really lad a chance to look deep
into the severity of it, but just just kind of

(47:49):
just fifty five degrees in rain, that's all I saw.
I can look a little bit deeper and see exactly
how bad they expected to be. But yeah, I saw
the same thing you did, and she's I just don't
know how Again, I agree with you. I don't know
how how you you beat that team. I think that
team is really good. I got I gotta tell you.

(48:09):
I'm very bullish on the Niners and as an Eagle guy,
and that the Eagles are my squad, right. I covered
the Eagles, and I know a lot about their my
boiled team, I know a lot about them. I think
the Niners are the the biggest threat to the one seed.
And you know, I'll give an update on them in

(48:32):
a in a in a little bit, But that Niner team,
I think they match up against everybody in the NFC.
I think their only issue comes if they have to
play in the Super Bowl against the Buffalo or Kansas City.
I just don't know if they can match scores, because
keep up with on the scoreboard, because those teams will

(48:52):
score on that. As great as that defense is, well,
Buffalo and a Kansas City will be able to get
score some points. I mean, look, I mean Jared stid
Him lit him up a couple of weeks ago, you
know what I mean. So granted it was a new quarterback,
they didn't have table on him. I understand all of that,
but it showed you that you can move the ball
on them, you know. And Josh Jacobs ran pretty well

(49:14):
on them that that game too, So they're not This
isn't the two thousand Baltimore Ravens were talking about. They're
very good, but they're not necessarily dominant, so a good
offensive unit can move the ball on them. My fear
is even against Philadelphia, you know, I know, Philadelphia is uh,
you know, the the issue with Jalen Hurtzy and Mitchie'll
get into that later as well. I just don't know
if brock Purty just has you know, even enough to

(49:38):
put up let's say points, you know, to keep up
with the Philadelphia offense. And I think Philadelphia can score
on San Francisco. To my issue is just brock Purty.
If he's in a game where you have to rely
on him to be able to win and win the
game for you, I don't think he can do here healthy.
They're gonna be a handful. Yeah. And even for that
for the Niner defense as good as that Iron defense, listen,

(50:01):
I think it would be a great football game. Uh.
But here's the issue. When it comes to the Eagles
and stopping the Eagles, the Eagles can come at it
in a middle multi myriad of ways, especially if Jalen
can run the ball, so r p O s and rprs.
You'll hear a lot about that when it comes to
the Eagles and the run past run option is what

(50:26):
makes Jalen so damn dangerous because he's improved his arms
so much, He's become a really good thrower that you know,
he's already he runs as well as a running back.
I mean, I all can decide he's got a great
lower half, all right, I mean you don't like a
running back he is, and he's smart. He knows when

(50:50):
to tuck it and he knows when to and I listen,
I was dubious as to whether or not, Uh, you know,
Jalen can actually throw the football. But he's had a
great year. We talked about it all year long. Um
he I heard good things about how he was working
out in the all season, second year in Syrianty system,
and he's had a great year. And it's shame because

(51:12):
you know, he got hurt in Chicago a few weeks ago.
And it was a really, really frigid day in Chicago
and he just got pounded on a on a repass
run option. He got driven to the ground. And that's
a shame because you know, I get why they want
to run him all It's so effective when you have

(51:35):
a J Brown and DeVante Smith and Dallas Goddard in
that offensive line. They're they're a handful, man, They're a
handful because they create space everywhere. Yeah, but the and
the the run pass option is part of the reason
why they're effective in the passing game too. That's that's
key to their effectiveness offensively. Jalen Hurts is also not
gonna drop back straight drop back and you know and

(51:57):
pick you apart. The reason why he's been effective as
a esther is because you have to account for him
as an offensive run threat. So that's so my fear
with Jalen is and you mentioned you'll give us an update.
We don't have to do it right now, but just
that shoulder situation and if he gets hit, is he
strong enough to be able to abstain it, stay in

(52:18):
the game, and still be effective. That's kind of the
thing that I'm anxious to see when they get on
the field next weekend, regardless of what they end up playing. Yeah,
we'll have something to keep an eye on. Yeah, you
and I have worked together a long time, and you're
in my brain because I said that all week long. Uh,
it said it all day yesterday. So we'll I'll tell

(52:40):
you what. We'll take a quick update, a quick uh,
we'll do a quick t O will come back, I'll
give you the update, and then we'll continue breaking down
all the games of the weekend. It's the super wild
card weekend. I also need to show him McVeigh update
from you. We'll get dive into all this stuff when
it comes to the NFL. Right here the Fellas on

(53:02):
Fox Sports Radio. Uh fellas coming alive from the entire
i rack dot com studios. So figure is what's going
on in Philadelphia? Two major injuries, one you know about

(53:25):
with Jalen Hurts and yesterday he threw lightly for the
first time. Uh. He admitted this week that he is
in uh some series pain. I mean he's he said, uh,
he said that he needed the bye week, that he
settled play, but he needed the bye week. He threw

(53:46):
with a towel on Thursday. Okay, what's had me a
little concerned? Um, were there any regrets of him playing
against the Giants or do they feel he needed that?
They feel like he needed that. Uh Uh. The injury
is such that it's more pain bearing than anything else,
so that you know that they needed. But you saw

(54:09):
you brought up a very astute point, because that's you,
You're figgy stute you. Uh. You said, well, you know
you still gotta be able to run them, because that's
what makes him most effective. If you take away his
RP R and R p O. Then the issues are

(54:31):
he's much more easier to defend. You saw that with
the Giants last week, especially in the red zone. It
it takes away a lot of their playbook. So you
gotta feel confident in being able to run them. Now.
You know, if you're gonna run those plays, he's gonna
take shots, right, you know, the even even when he

(54:52):
when he hands the ball off, he's gonna take shots.
So you know, you gotta make sure or that you
know he can withstand it. They believe, you know, from
all the guys that talk about they think that he
should be all right. But you know, and they'll be
able to have their full compliment of of you know,
playbook in there. The other issue is Lane Johnson. So

(55:17):
Lane needs surgery. He's got an abdominal issue. I mean,
by all rights, if this was any other guy or
they're like most guys, they would be shut down. If
this was Lamar Jackson would never play again in his life.
But Lane Johnson's warrior and late Johnson will play. And

(55:41):
he was a practice yesterday. It's amazing this dude's not
He was a practice yesterday. So he's their old world
right tackle the guy they need desperately the tackle in
the game. Yeah, I mean, you know, show with Jalen
being dinged up and and Lane John being dinged up.

(56:01):
That's the only vulnerability when it comes to the Eagles.
So that's it. That's something to watch out for. I mean,
you know, I don't think that they can get bit
in the divisional round. So if the Giants beat the Vikings,
the Giants would come to Philadelphia, correct, right right? Obviously

(56:24):
if Seattle won, they would be there, or if the
Cowboys beat Tampa they would be there. If all the
higher seeds win, then Tampa would come to Philadelphia. So
that's kind of how it's That's kind of what it
looks like. I think the Eagles should beat all those
other teams. But really, to me, it comes down to

(56:44):
the Niners because the Niners are physical the Niners, you know,
I mean, they match up and then that's a tough game.
I think that's a tough game for both teams. I
think it's growing a great football game. So no concerned
whatsoever with the team outside of San Francisco. If there
was a team in the NFC field after San Francisco
that would give you concerns against Philadelphia. Who would that be?

(57:09):
I guess I gotta go Dallas. I Dallas with be
the obvious one, right, yeah, I guess I now, Now
it's funny because Dallas has Dallas has the weaponry right
like you know. Again, their offense is good and they
got you know, a nasty front. It's why I think
they're gonna be Brady. I just take Parsons, he's just soon.

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I mean that the front should be able to get
pressure against that weak offensive line to Tampa, They've been
struggling with it all year long. So my guess is
Tampa against pressure on Brady disrupts what he does and
they do enough offensively to win. So I think, and
I look at Dallas, I think Dallas could give them issues.
The only thing is is that the refront ruder team McCarthy.

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How many times have we seen McCarthy the spot is
foul And the same goes for Dak too. Yeah, both
of them, too many times. All the way they've they've
dropped off considerably defensively the last few weeks. Dallas hasn't
played well. Mica Parsons was getting comparisons to Lawrence Taylor
before the season. Again, I think he has thirteen and
a half fourteen sacks, but he has like one and

(58:18):
a half sacks over the last six games. He's disappeared.
He's totally disappeared, a bit of a wall. Maybe maybe
it's a wall, I'm not sure, but I mean, this
is not the player that you see now over the
last month, is not with the same player you saw
in September and October. So I don't know if there's
an injury that we're not aware of. Uh, DeMarcus Lawrence
has been banged up, which is par for the course.
He always has been, but he's an effective player when

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he's out there, so they have not been I don't
think they'll have much of an issue against Tampa. Tampa
as a one Patrick Pony at this point, they you know,
big play to Mike Evans and outside of that, they're
pretty much they have nothing. So so Dallas shouldn't have
a whole lot of an issue beating Tampa unless Dak Prescott,
you know, turns up all over four times, which he
certainly is capable of doing. And I think the big

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issues they've had running too offensively is because they've been
banged up on the offensive line. They have been able
to run well. Uh, Tyler Bean has been out, he's
supposed to be back, so that's gonna help them on
Monday Night. Uh. But I wouldn't agree. I think the bigger,
the big obstacle to Philadelphia outside of San Francisco is
absolutely Dallas from a talent standpoint, And I wouldn't discount
the familiar familiarity standpoint there too. Yeah, I mean you're right.

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I mean that's the team. Yeah, and again I just
keep going back to isn't an uncanny since we're on
the Cowboys, isn't an uncanny that that team constantly just
under cheese lumps up. You know, you wonder about what
people say, well, it starts from the top, that old cliche,

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but it does. Yeah, it's the and and it's like
it's for a different reason every year too. Dad doesn't
play well, there's the bonehead to play. Last last year
you had against San Francisco with the running out of time.
It's just you're at the Detroit In situation a few
years ago with the picked up flag, you know, like
it's which they were fortunate to even get a victory

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in that one. So there's there's always drama surrounding Dallas
either how they win or they lose. But yeah, when
to your point, it's followed Mike McCarthy going back to
his Green Bay days, and I guess, I guess that
part of Green Bay is still has stayed there because
they have found way to lose the last couple of
years with McCarthy even not even being there too. Uh So,
when you want to pick Dallas and everything that seems

(01:00:27):
to have lined up in a in a way where
you can say, yeah, I can see them making a run.
They always find a way to trip over themselves. It's uncanny,
isn't it not. I mean, it really is. And you go, wow, yeah,
you don't want to say lose there. But well, you know,
as voiceterous as fan base is, sure, I have not
done a lot of winning over the last thirty years.

(01:00:52):
A little for just keeping a real yeah keepney, if
they're going to take it away. Yeah, Well I'll start
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Oh my, that that's the story. It's that ain't gonna
go away. I mean at some point, because you know,
you know, it's funny you and I were talking about
this last week that the Charges could be one of
these dark horses, Like obviously, you know the two best
teams are Buffalo in Kansas City. But if if there

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was one long shot that could come in and shocked
the world, the Chargers went healthy, could do that. They
could be Cincinnati from last year easily, very easily. But
the coach gotta get out of the way. I can't
let the coach get in the way. And so are
That's what Brandon Staley has been doing in a short
tenure as Charger head coach, screwing it up. So what's

(01:03:07):
the deal with McVeigh? How serious do you think that was?
And and how much the is it that the Rims
are in a bad spot right? I mean, they have
no first round picks that they've They've through a really
tough rebuilding spot. It's hard to say. Only Sean McVeigh
and his closest inner circle knows just how close he

(01:03:29):
came to to hanging it up. Um. But I will
say for the people that are criticizing him saying that, well,
he's just trying to cut and run because of what
you mentioned, no salary of the salary cap situation, the
draft picks situation. Don't forget that after they won the
Super Bowl last year, this stuff came up. Whether or
not he was burned out and he wanted to take
a couple of years off and you know he he

(01:03:49):
wanted to move on and do television. So this is
something that just popped up overnight after this tough season
for the Rams. He flirted with this last year, So
I don't believe it has anything to do with him
trying to run away from a rebuild. You know, he's
been dealing with a lot. His wife is from the
Ukraine and they've done a lot of efforts and trying
to help people over there. That's taken up a lot
of his time. And it's just someone who works in

(01:04:11):
grinds as hard as he does in the head coaching position. Uh,
it's it's a lot. You know. The The l A
Times did interview with the Dick for Meal, who I know,
you know well after coaching the Eagles, how many times
the Dick for Meal coach and then leave and then
come back and then leave. He says, it wears on
you men, and when you have success early, it's actually
a detriment, is what Dick for Meal told Sean McVeigh.

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After Sean won the Super Bowl. He says, I spoke
to him and said, you know, you, you're actually making
this more difficult on yourself having so much success early on,
because once you succeed, you know, it's hard to get there.
Once you get there, it's much harder to stay there.
So when you get there early now you have to
grind even harder and harder and harder every single solitary
year to try to to try to maintain that, and

(01:04:52):
he gets increasingly difficult and the pressure amounts. So I
don't think it's that Sean McVeigh was necessarily running from it,
but dealing with the whole lot. And also I think
I give a credit to him because if he felt
the job was too much and it was too stressful
and he couldn't deal with it at that point in time,
I think you're doing a service to the organization by
saying I'm too distracted. I cannot give a percent like

(01:05:15):
I was giving before. You guys just started deserve somebody
in that seat who can do it. So I'm gonna
take a step back. Now, clearly he was able to
work through whatever issues uh he was having, whether it's
burnout or whatever else and says I'm gonna give it
another go. But as as opposed to just grinding through
and sticking your nose out and say I'm gonna tough
it out, uh, knowing that I'm not fully committed, I

(01:05:36):
applaud him for saying, you know what, if I'm not
fully committed and can't give the effort I've been giving
the first six seasons as a head coach, then I'm
doing a disservice to the franchise by actually staying here
and being having one ft in and one ft out.
So I give him credit for that at least. Yeah, Yeah,
this is the burnout. Things are real. Is a real deal.
It's why, and I think I got your support here.

(01:05:58):
It's why that could make an argument that as great
and dominant as Belichick is that Andy Reid's better that
Andy Reid goes and does it twice. Now he did.
He does have the Super Bowls that Belichick does, but
to be able to go build something in Philadelphia. I mean,

(01:06:19):
I mean they didn't win the Super Bowl, but they
won everything. But that I mean they were there every year.
And then he goes to Kansas City redes it wins
and it's there every year. I mean the level of
this year and year out. I'm amazed by Andy. Like
I mean, you see how the eight up McVeigh. I mean,

(01:06:43):
that's what Andy does this every He's been doing this
since I know. I remember I met Andy when he
was with the Packers. He's been doing that ever since then. Yeah,
you're right, and I give credit to Andy and Belichick.
To be honest, I the only reason I would say
it's more difficult for Bill Belichick is because you have

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to maintain that standard of excellence in one place for
twenty plus years. You know, if you're Andy, you know
you you had. He had a long successful run in Philadelphia.
But he gets to move over to Kansas City. He's
it's a new voice, it's a new area. He can
be rejuvenated at the franchise. To be rejuvenated, you start
a new Bill has been there for forever, for twenty plus,

(01:07:25):
almost thirty years. It seems like at this point in
time to try to keep the same message with a
lot of the same people in the same building. I
think that's increasingly difficult to be in one place and
and to play at that high of a level and
to continue to reset every single solitary season with a
lot of the same characters. So I do think they're
great in their own right. Yeah, I agree, I And
you know what it's I guess I meant to to

(01:07:48):
put the Brady factor in there too. Yeah, that's a
big part of it to have like you never had Bright.
Now he's got my home. So now he's got his guy.
But Donovan was not Brady, so you know, and know
we're close, so that that's kind of where the differences.
But you're right there, it's even more difficult for Belichick,
even with Brady, to be able to do that for

(01:08:10):
as long as he did it. Yeah, especially in today's
day and age, just isn't like you know, the NFL
in the seventies where Tom Landry will be the head
coach of the Cowboys for ten years and be terrible
and still keep his job, you know before before turning
it around, you just don't have It's a different level
of pressure. Uh and to be able to to play
or to coach at that high of a standard for
that long of a period of time. Look, regardless of

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our franchise, I'll even go back to Bill Parcelves and
with the success he had from New York, from the Giants,
going to the Jets, turning them from also ran too,
to go into the a f C Title Game, taking
the Patriots to the Super Bowl, turn the Cowboys were
bad for a long stretch of time before he got there.
I mean that's that's as impressive, maybe even more impressive,
to go from place to place to place and to

(01:08:52):
instantly turn it around. Uh. So all those guys are
impressive in their own right for different reasons. Yeah, And
I guess the real you know, the reason why I
bring up Andy was the burnout like McVeigh, you know,
and listen to Dick for meal, very similar. Andy was
the same way he had success young now didn't win

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it like McVeigh, but he you know, he's buzzing, buzz
and buzzing, and he doesn't even take a year off.
I mean he's going strong. What's his twenty he's twenty
four years? Yeah, he got his job or nine nine
with Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah, that's a grind, it really is.
His first season was the ninety nine season. I'll tell

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you great sorry when you're a great story. So, uh,
Andy gets the job. It's January two thousand nine nine.
I mean it was it December and it was January.
He comes to Philadelphia under the cloak of secrecy because

(01:09:54):
nobody knows what. You know. Everybody's talking about who's going
to get the job, this and that, and Andy's in town.
Nobody he knows Andy other than outside of football circles. Uh.
He's a quarterbacks coach for the Packers. He wasn't even
a coordinator. No, he was the quarterbacks coach. He was
Brett Farves guy. So he's in a there's a snowstorm

(01:10:16):
in Philadelphia and the only thing opened is there's a
there's an Italian restaurant in South Philly. And and he's
with the security guy, guy named Butchy. Butch Kanico former
cop and uh it sounds like a cop. Sounds like
a cop from a from a cop drama. Yes, and

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he's and if you met him, you you'd think right
out of Central Casting. He's got the mustache like he
later went on to do the Governor's detail for ed
Rendell like he he was a he was a mountee too,
he was a mounted cop. So he had his horse
and uh, great, dude, I called Mr Wolf because is

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off the pulp fix and think you make things about away.
And so it's it's Andy and Mr Wolf and the
only other play the only other people in the restaurant.
There's a couple on one side, and then there's a
priest and a couple other people including this priest on

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the other side. And the priest sends over a bottle
of wine to the table and in as grace, thank you.
You know, he don't even drink the wine. He's like,
thank you, thank you. So the priest comes to the
table and goes coach and he he look shakes his
hand and he goes boom, and he goes, I just

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want to make you feel at home, because that's what
you're going to get up. That's great, And that was
the story his first night in Philadelphia. Well yeah, he
and Donvin mcnapkins share that story. So there you go.
But it was a cool, cool little antidote. That's great. Yeah, yeah,
it was good. It was good. But you know that

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burnout that they it must be. I mean good, it's
got to grind you out, it really does. Yeah, but
you put every single and the thing is the problem.
I don't know if it's a problem. But the interesting
part is he's so young. You know, he's only thirties,
six thirty seven, I believe as how old he is
at this point in time, And people like, how can
you be burned out at that point? But I think

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you also have more of an emphasis uh and this
generation puts more of an emphasis on mental health and
work life balance. Uh and And I don't think there's
anything necessarily wrong with that. I think it's just a
matter of you know, your own interpretation. I don't know
if there's a right or wrong. But for him, if that,
if you know, being with his family and his wife

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and supporting her through what she's going through, and and
and a bunch of other things are important to him,
then by all means, football doesn't necessarily have to be life,
you know what I mean. It could be an important
part of your life and important aspect of your life,
but it doesn't necessarily have to be everything. You know,
every coach doesn't have to show up to the building
at one o'clock in the morning and then stay there
until four o'clock in the morning the next day. Gruden

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might do that, but I remember Bruce Arians when they
did that. When Amazon was doing the in season Heart
Knocks whatever it was called, and they were talking to
Bruce Arians. They were covering the cardinals. He says, I
want my guys to be able to go home to
their families at night and eat dinner with their kids
and take them take them to school. I don't want
them sleeping at the facility and looking at tape when
they're at home. They having a satisfying home, healthy home

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life is very important and I put a emphasis on that.
And nobody, whatever regrudge, whether brother or not, Bruce Arians
was an excellent head coach, you know what I mean.
So there's there's more than one way to do it.
I agree. Let's because I you know, the stories Gruden
was was here too and write those stories are leeged
there and and I remember and he talked about it,

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you know, And I know that, and he had some
regrets about that. But you know, they were brought up
that way. I mean, that fabled Mike Hongran staff. They
would all like they would they would compete on who
would be there earlier, how many times they would stay
over in the office. I mean when Ay was coaching
the Eagles, he had his office huge sleep on the

(01:14:14):
couch three four nights a week. You know, I mean,
like that's not even healthy for you, you know, No,
not not at all. Oh, look, I mean to a
certain degree, you can say the recipe has worked because
he's been as amazing as he's been. But you know
someone else who had that philosophy of work life balance,
Chuck noll An old school Chuck no with the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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made it made a point to tell his assistance and
tell his players spend time with their families. Football is
Football is important, but it's not everything. And he's one
of the great coaches in the history of the sport
and one multiple Super Bowls. There's more than one way
to do it, all right, We'll take quick TiO will
come right back where the Fellas diving into It's all
NFL the ha ha ha super or a wild card

(01:15:01):
weekend with the Fellas right here on the best Fox
Sports radio. Yikes, we thought it would be bad, but man,
I mean we did. We didn't think that sixty seven.
Oh man, that is uh at his next level beat

(01:15:24):
down right there. I mean, wow, that was uh. I
mean the you know so much for the three three five. Remember,
because we were talking last week and were going, well,
you know, uh, can Georgia run the ball? You know,
you know they could throw it, but can they run it?

(01:15:47):
And blah blah blah blah blah. We did. We talked
about brock Bowers and a whole thing. But oh my god,
I mean it was just they and I actually actually
felt bad for dugging because even the third string kids
and they just didn't stop. Man, they just had pressure, pressure, pressure.

(01:16:07):
He could even get any cheap touchdowns. No, they did
not give up anything. He look, we even say like that,
the talent discrepancy was just so wide and it showed
itself ridiculous. Mean, if not for just that, if not
for that busted play in the first quarter, dealing, I'm
gonna shut out because you didn't put up half a
threat after that. Really, no, Johnson, I mean he wasn't

(01:16:29):
even at all. It's not his fault because he was
open at times, but do you you know Duncan kid
was under the rest the whole game. Yeah, No, time
to throw. It doesn't matter. What are you supposed to do? Wow,
Georgia is a beast, and you're only gonna get better, dude,
Like they're like, I'll whatever. I mean, They're only gonna

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be status quo, which is ridiculously dominant. Now, do you
subscribe to the theory that they have officially knocked saying
in Alabama, Alabama off of the mountaintop and Alabama's done,
their dynasty is over. Yes, Okay, I'm not willing to
go that far quite yet. I mean, Alabama had a
bad year and within that bad well, I mean for

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their standard, for their standard. Sure, a couple of losses,
you know what I mean. But for people to say like, oh,
they knocked them off, and Georgie's this done in Alabama?
Alabama was just there a couple of years ago. Alabama
lost two games this year, they could have easily been
in the National Championship despite the issues that get drilled.
And you know me, I'd rather I wanted to see

(01:17:36):
Obama over TCU, right, but just for the sheer football
aspect of it. But but George, I think destroys Alabama.
But they still destroy them this year. Yes, but in
general as far as where the programs are, I'm not
willing to say that Alabama is completely done. I can't.

(01:17:56):
I can't go that far. Yet. They still are getting
top recruiting classes despite the issues they had last year,
weapons playmakers all that. I'm not willing to say that
they're that their their run is over. Based on when
that was pointed out to him, I did did do

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you think you think Saban needs any extra motivation already?
Is Kirby one of his assistants giving it to him
last year in the title game. So I'm not willing
to to to write off Alabama quite yet. And I'm
surprised at how many people actually are. Yeah, you know,
I mean we, I mean, which, what's your definition of
right off? Like, do I think that people are saying

(01:18:39):
that Alabama will not win another national championship under Nick Saban?
I'm not willing to say that. Yeah, I get you
on that, like that, that's a ridiculous statement to make.
I'm sorry. I agree with that. I agree with your
assessment that you can't say they'll never win. I mean,
that's stupid. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Now, if you want to
say that, Kurb like Kirby and Georgia over the next

(01:19:01):
decade are probably gonna overtake them. I'll give you that.
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Card weekend and uh we've been going over the games

(01:20:07):
of course San Francisco, Seattle today in the rain in
Santa Clara and the Chargers and Jacksonville and can the
Chargers overcome a stout Jacksonville front? Uh, Lawrence Etti end
Christian Kirk and of course the idiocy of Brandon Stanley.

(01:20:31):
Fig that's the question. I think that's a major question,
you know, even you know, even without having Mike Williams
in this matchup, the Chargers are still favorite, and I
still think they should be. But all it takes is
one questionable decision going forward and a fourth down at
the wrong time, in the wrong part of the field.
You know, in these playoff games, one play can change everything,

(01:20:52):
one bone headed call, and I do not I would
not put it past Brandon Staley to make that call.
So right, it's worth at nine from bioa too. Oh yeah,
we're got him right where we want him. Let's go
go for it. Well, uh yeah, yeah, go for it. Okay.
I do feel and I said this earlier in the

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show too. I do feel because the defense is performing
better recently, because they're healthier. I think Brandon Staley is
less inclined to be risky as risky as he was
last season and earlier this year when the defense wasn't
uh in a supreme position and healthy. So I'll see.
I could be wrong. I could percent be wrong, but

(01:21:34):
I do believe it. He'll tend to be a little
bit less aggressive and trust his defense as opposed to
going forward or fourth down cavalierly, I see why you
say that, And uh, I would you know believe that
as well. The only thing is he's Brandon Stale exactly,
and you know, you just never know what he does here.

(01:21:56):
Used to be a coach and he was a nice guy,
but boy, he was just challenged. His name was rich
Code Tight. Oh yeah, do you ever have you heard
of him? Yeah? Right? I worked with Rodney Pete every week.
He talks about Rodney knows about every day, that's right, yes,

(01:22:19):
he uh, And I'll never forget that. The people of
Philadelphia were castigating for running rich Coat Tight out of town. Yeah, like,
oh my god, how could you do that? So he
went to the Jets and they were like, oh my god,
how could you? What's what's wrong with these people? Are
you running rich Coats out of town? Those people are jackals?

(01:22:43):
And then rich coatsyp proceeded to go one of fifteen
or whatever it was, and they were like, oh, okay,
well he needs to go. He was a horrible coach.
I was trying to think of the worst coaches that
I've I could ever imagine how well, did you know
Marty morning Wigg doesn't need the offensive coordinator out there?

(01:23:04):
For a year or two under Andy or Marty, As
I said, things did not go well for him in Detroit.
I know that. I mean the coot thing Mary. Marty
was smarter than Marty. Wasn't a dumb guy like he
was a smart football guy. Probably just wasn't suited to
be a head coach like guys just aren't that. You know,
Remember Mike Tys I do remember Mike Tyson, Yes, with

(01:23:27):
the pencil behind his ear. Yes, with the Minnesota Vikings. Yes,
came back to me the Yeah, he was the Raiders
officsive line coach for a few years after that. Mike
Tukes wasn't exactly the brightest football guy. He was like
one of those tough guys, you know, right, but not
what you would describe as a tactician stretch No, not no,

(01:23:50):
you don't want him devising your front line man. No,
probably best suited to be an officsive line coach, to
be honest with you, that was probably the best role
for for him. Yeah, he reminds you know what reminds
me of a gym teacher. Yeah, from my tight four

(01:24:11):
all the kids lined up doing You're jumping, Jack's trying
a few laps, you say, and I got this for you. Ah,
I was. I was shocked at how bad hack it was.
And and this Brandon Staley, he's right there with them,
he says, a better team, you know, the big e

(01:24:33):
ore producers like he can't be that bad. Yeah he is.
I will say, if you stacked up talent across the
board with both you and it's Chargers in Denver, I
feel like it's I don't know if it's even, but
it's pretty close. That's why I had to think about
really close to when you said between Staley and Hackett,
because it is unfathomable to me that the Broncos could

(01:24:54):
have been that bad and be that talented. She The
only thing is the Russ legitim Lee was not in
shape and when I saw him getting tracked down from
behind easily. Yeah, that's the difference. Like Herbert. You know,
you put Herbert with the Broncos. Broncos are in the playoffs,

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So that's the thing. So it's a it's the issue
of Denver is okay, so was it Russ's abilities have diminished,
which they obviously have he's been in the league for
ten years, that's gonna happen. Naturally, they've diminished so much
that he's literally a shell of himself and he can't
play anymore. Or the ineptitude of the offensive staff to
not transition and bring over the things that he was

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good at from Seattle to allow him to excel in Denver.
And it was a square peg, round hole to begin with.
Because if that's the case, then it falls squarely on
the shoulders of the offensive staff. I'd like to think
that it's somewhere in between, probably to be honest, because
let's face it, you know, Russ looked a little dumpy

(01:25:56):
this year, and I'll be honest here or even times
last year in seatt know where he you know, you
can see some signs of him not necessarily being the
kind of player he was years before that he had
his skills at did. And the problem is with a
guy like that, you know, who relies on breaking the pocket,
making plays with his legs. The moment you can't do that,
you're ineffective. He can't drop back, he can't see over

(01:26:17):
the offensive line. That's a problem. Exactly, a dumpy Russ
who can't get away from people, he's a recipe for disaster. Yeah,
it actually may have worked in the Seahawks favor that,
whether he wanted out or Pete wanted him out, or
if it was mutual like they said it was, or whatever,
you know, getting out a year earlier rather than a
year late, it looks like Seattle got out right on time,

(01:26:40):
right at the perfect time. I agree. I think you're
it worked out great for Seattle. And look, I you know,
I'm shocked they made the playoffs. I'm shocked they were
competitive this year. About Pete Carroll too, though, Yeah, I
mean you would have thought, to flip the scenario would
have been flipp Denver would be nine and eight fighting

(01:27:02):
for a wild card spot and Seattle will be five
and ten or five and eleven or however whatever record
Denver finished with. But yeah, it isn't credit to Pete
Carroll revamping that defense. A whole host of young, young
guys who we found in the third and fourth round. Again,
I don't know if this is gonna be the legion
of Boom two point oh, but he's certainly found some
really good players late in the late in the draft

(01:27:22):
and yet again and rebuilt that defense they're not dominant.
But who's a great football man? He really is he
trust me, I know, yeah he is. He's a great
football man. Yes, you've been listen, you've been with him
the USC. You know, he's just been Jets, Patriots, USC.
And here's a guy you were talking about Belichick and Andy,

(01:27:43):
there's another guy who just he just he's been at
it for thirty years years. Yeah, and did it at
both levels at a high level. Didn't really get a
whole lot of run in New England or the Jets
to really be judged off of much. Uh So, goes
back to the college game and obviously Terence USC was
a dormant program, hadn't done anything in years, and turned
them around almost instantly. And then goes to Seattle and

(01:28:07):
you know, within a few years they're a super Bowl
contender and you know, our a bone headed play away
in the red zone from winning two in a row. So,
I mean, people were debating is he a Hall of Famer?
I was like, he's absolutely all of Famer. I don't
have to think twice. I that that's a heartbeat even close.
I I agree with you, brother, that's not even a debate.

(01:28:28):
Like he I don't even have to think about it.
He's Hall of Fame all all the way, all the
you know, Yeah, he's a lock. And you trade away
your franchise quarterback and come into the season when people
think it's gonna be a full on rebuild and you
more than hold your own, uh in a pretty tough division.
You know that's that's saying something. Yeah, dude, I I'm

(01:28:50):
with you all the way. Brother, He's a stone Hall
of Famer. That's not even close. Yeah. One thing I
will say, Bridge cod type one story that Rottney told
me so. And he's with the Eagles and Richard already
moved on to the Jets at that point. Uh, they're
playing each other in the preseason, and so rich is
on the field talking to a couple of coaches or whatever.
They're in Philadelphia. Somebody threw a full can of beer

(01:29:13):
at rich ko tight and I hit him like right
in the chest. And so so rich tells Philadelphia that
the staff he was like, just for that, I'm blitzing
you guys the entire game. This is a preseason game,
by the way, And Rodney says, sure enough, they blitz
the living you know what out of us for the
entire game in the preseason game because a fan threw

(01:29:34):
a cannon beer at him. No, are you serious? That serious?
A full can of beer, by the way, he was like, she,
I wouldn't even show up. The canny beer was open.
You just threw it right, Oh get no, listen they
I'm sure it wasn't open. I mean, you know these dudes,

(01:29:55):
they were back in the day, you know what they
would do. So that was when it was the vet
at the end of the vet was like I asked
Ronny about it. It was the ghetto of stadiums. Oh yeah,
he said they had a rat problem, so they brought
in cats to to shoot out the rats. But then
they hadn't turned out having their cat problem. Cats everywhere.
They tave me, who was it? Oh my god? Who

(01:30:18):
was it was somebody on Andy's staff? Was it run
Was it Ron Rivera? Was it Ronny? Anyway, that was
one of his coaches. I think it was Ron Rivera
who was at his desk right, and all of a
sudden a cat fell through the ceiling. Oh my god,

(01:30:44):
like a big fat cats literally, like because you would
hear them and I've heard it, like you see the bows.
He didn't say that you'd hear them in the walls
and the ducks and the yeah, yeah, I mean and
like always little feet like like the like between rats
and cats. Like just imagine the scene of this cacophony

(01:31:08):
of the rat and the cat sounds. I mean, that's
what you heard underneath because their offices were down there
and the cat fell through the roof. Wow, on the
on his desk, Could you imagine? That's insane? You think

(01:31:28):
you've got workplace issues? Yeah, like, come on, hazard hazard pay, Like,
oh my god knows what kind of diseases this cat has.
And by the way, you just messed up my entire
game plan for the Redskins. So thanks exactly. Gotta start
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(01:32:14):
Oh my god, on the vet. Yeah, I always wanted
to do that. Great, Yeah, I wanted to do. I
wanted to add in like you know again they you know,
they had the story that they had the jail there.
You know they used to do they painted the so

(01:32:34):
I used to know a lot of the security guys
and all the you know, all the people back there.
I worked at the Spectrum when I was in high school,
did you Yeah, so I did. I was looking on
shore so I could watch sixer games and uh, the
the VET guy, I was, you know, whats while want?
My friends went to the Vet. They painted the walls,

(01:32:56):
the elevator walls read so when they got a guy,
they would beat him and the blood didn't stand out
on the wall. Yeah, I cannot be that's a true story.
This is like a prelutitious world. Yeah, yeah, dude. They

(01:33:18):
would open fig they used to open There was these
two glass doors right outside security that led to the
street and it was like underneath like where it was
underneath the ramps and stuff where you actually got in.
They would take a guy. It would be like four

(01:33:40):
security guys. They would take a guy and they would
open these glass doors with his head. Wow, yeah, I
sold him. Do it like they don't get the guy
and then you know, what two three? You're like a plunger,
you know, like back in the day, like where they

(01:34:02):
would have the huge plunger and they try to like
in the you know and these ancient wars, but they
would use a human as a human plunger as brutal.
Oh my god. They used to wear yellow jackets to security, right,
so all through the VET there would be like massive

(01:34:23):
brawls and fights and every Sunday you'd see the security
and they were like bees, like bumble bees, and you
could see them gather and then. But they were worse
there the fans, because they were just a gag of thugs.

(01:34:44):
So like I knew a lot of the guys, Like
I knew a lot of these dudes, and they used
to love to just fight, and so they would just pubble.
They would just pubble people. It's like you come to
work and hope that there's a fight so you can
jump in as a guard. They loved it, man, there
wasn't though, like they loved it. They lived for they

(01:35:07):
mean guys that they would just swoop in and it's
just were I mean, they used to do, you know,
twelve rounds in every game. Sounds like a fun time.
It was unbelievable. And then you know they even love
it too, they for sport, especially because there's so much
drinking going on, and you know, I mean, the worst

(01:35:27):
thing you could possibly do, f y. I Now, factfully
we're in more of a civil society and something, but
where there's a more civility right there, you know, that's
the old term beer muscles was never a good idea.
You know, you'd sit there, your reflexes are off, and
they would just clock you, like I see these guys. Man,

(01:35:50):
the guy couldn't struggle in his hands up. Boom, guy
came in with a sledge hammer, right, the guy would
just collapsed in the ground. Oh my god. That would
have been like a hundred hundred times during the game.
And I'm assuming they have not transitioned these methods over
to the link now that the links way more civil.

(01:36:12):
It's it's nothing like that. That's why I had to
have a jail. Yeah, now does link. I feel like
most stadiums now have some semblance of a jail underneath
and the bowels. No jail. HU surprised by that. Yeah, no,
no jail. No issues. I mean, I mean very few issues.
Everybody's still got drinking issues, but nothing like now the

(01:36:35):
the eighties were, in the nineties were or just you know,
I mean death. I mean it was. It was the
middle It was like the Middle Ages. All I was
missing was a mace. I'm sure somebody had one somewhere. Yeah,
I hope me yet. All right, we gotta take quick
to you. Uh, and we'll get back to football. Sorry,

(01:36:58):
I digress telling great some of these great stories. We'll
talk more about medieval times at the event. I'm all for.
That's my thirty and I want to shoot it like
I would shoot Gladiator right like you know the movie Gladiators.
I would. I'll do it like that. I love it,

(01:37:19):
you know you my uh, I'll make your producer alright,
let's do it. Alright, alright, great, Figgy. I'm because Biggie
year around. What do you think you know those stories,
don't you? Oh? Great, I'm loving it. Yeah, I'm just
letting you guys have it. We'd have fellas right here

(01:37:40):
on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas, Figgy, um, because the biggie
as we hang out. We got my man Chicago Mark
hanging out on this Saturday morning, thig. I. I let's

(01:38:06):
take a look at tomorrow for a second, alright, because
we do. We went through extensively Seahawks and Niners, Chargers
and Jags. Then we start off tomorrow boarding ten am
in the West, one pm in East Bills, Mafia, Dolphins

(01:38:29):
and Bills. Skylar Thompson fig, no, no, Teddy, Teddy can't go.
We're gonna try to be the backup. And so Skylar Thompson,
I mean, you know, we saw this. I just don't
know how to me. It reminds me of the Niners

(01:38:49):
in Seattle. I just can't I don't foresee anyway. It's
not a double digit Bill's win. There might be more
tables broken in the parking lot by Bill's Mafia than
points ard for Miami tomorrow. That's that's the way I'm
looking at it. So, I mean they had tough sledding.
They got out to a good start initially when Tour
was still healthy, and then Buffalo came back and beat
him the last time they played in Buffalo. Uh, it's

(01:39:11):
cold but not freezing. I think that last check I
was supposed to be thirty five degrees or so. Um.
I can't believe he's just did that. I you know,
it's funny. I just I'm on the weather at huh
it's I can't believe you said that. I mean, well,
I'm wanting it out here. It is so the weather
is this tomorrow, I'm looking for it. The high is

(01:39:37):
going to be? Where is it? Twenty nine? Okay? I
last saw three to thirty five. Okay, it's twenty nine degrees,
but no precipitation. I don't believe. I don't believe there's
any snow snow showers tonight. But tomorrow I'm looking at
kick off. Here we go at one o'clock, seven degree,

(01:40:00):
he's mostly cloudy. Three percent chance of precipitation. Yep, yeah,
all through game time from one tick to five, it's
gonna be yea. So here we go. You're on a
third string quarterback, a warm weather team going up to

(01:40:22):
Buffalo and twenty seven degree weather. Good luck, yeah, good luck. Yeah.
I mean it's gonna be cold. Skyler is gonna be cold.
And this is where unfortunately for the Dolphins and Mike McDaniel.
The funny part is, you know he was supposed to
be He was the run game coordinator for Kyle Shanahan
in San Francisco, and they brought in most dirt and

(01:40:44):
all these guys, and they're supposed to run the ball
and and copy the Shanahan model in Miami, and they
really haven't done that. If anything, they made most of
their hey in the passing game with those speedy receivers
on the outside. This would have been a perfect situation
for Hey, I got a third stream. I mean, it's
it's Francisco. The reason San Francisco can thrive with Brock
Party is because we know they can run the ball

(01:41:04):
and play defense and scheme guys open well. I mean,
Miami is ineffective at running the ball against anybody. I mean,
Skylar Thomas, you can't drop back there thirty times and
beat anybody. What are we doing? I know, what do
you think about that? I it's it's weird. I do
think eventually, Mike we Daniel will get it turned around.
For whatever reason, it just hasn't happened this year. They've
were just better passing the ball than running the ball

(01:41:26):
for whatever reason. Uh. But unfortunately it's gonna end up
costing them because you have a third stream quarterback. And look,
it's gonna be difficult. Mike we Daniel can't do anything
about that about to uh and the concussion issues was
obviously a terrible situation, and then Teddy be getting injured
as well, So it's just tough sledding. Do you like him?
Are you? Are you bullis shooting Mike mdaniel? It's inconclusive.

(01:41:48):
I will say he's gotten more out of two of
than I thought he would, so based on that, I'm
willing to give him a little bit more time, So
I'll put it that way. The offense has definitely been
better than now. Now granted he has while I'll and
he has Hill, but uh still, I want I don't
want to take credit away from mc daniel because he
did come in and the offense until Ta got banged up,
you know, it was one of the best in the

(01:42:09):
NFL for for many weeks. So I'll give him that.
But it is funny that he was supposed to be
a run game coordinator and they haven't been able to
really run the ball very well at all this year.
I yeah, I I don't know how they feeled it.
Sometimes I like him and all the times they go here,
you're fall into that new age. Yeah, like I like

(01:42:31):
part of that. This makes sense. I think there's some
great new minds right that add to that add to
to the NFL great new coaching minds, fresh outlook, but
there's also you gotta have a little mix of the
old school in you like that what really works as

(01:42:54):
a meld of the two. You agree, you used the
long hail principles that you know, work from a coaching standpoint,
but then try to make those relatable to the players
you have. Now it's kind of the way that I
that I would look at it so, um, like he's
only been on the job for a year. I realized
what he's trying to do. He's trying to be relatable
to look not that much older than the players. I mean,

(01:43:16):
he's he's in their range, you know. He you know
Sean McVeigh the LA floors, like, these guys are all
in their thirties, early forties, you know. Um, so just
by virtue of the fact that they are the age
that they are, they're going to relate closer to the
players than your fifties sixty seven year old coaches. You know,
so just by default they're going to kind of react
that way. So, I know McDaniel turned off a lot

(01:43:37):
of people with uh, you know, the historyonics and the
dancing during the warm ups and the you know that's
freezing cold. The T shirt and all that stuff like
it doesn't That stuff doesn't bother me personally. I don't
care about that stuff that they were getting on Serrianity
for doing the same thing with the T shirts. He's pandering.
Who cares wears? Yeah, it doesn't bother me. Any coach

(01:43:59):
is the team winning. And I'll say this, when Miami
was healthy, they were winning games. You know, you know
what I mean. I just don't know. I'm not a
tuit guy. I'm just not. My old thing with Two
always was he had to be in the perfect system
with a good running Things had to be set up
perfectly for him to be able to succeed, is what
I always say. And I didn't know that it was.

(01:44:20):
He was worth taking that high in the draft because
you can find quarterbacks like that anywhere to be second round,
third round, fourth round, you know, especially especially when you
took you took him ahead of Justin Herbert, who's a
generational quarterback. At this point, that's where it stings. It's
stings big time. You know, you could have found two

(01:44:40):
a tig any at any point in the draft, or
at least in you know, on Day two somewhere not
in the top ten. So I think that's where I
never questioned his ability to be able to play at
the NFL level. I just didn't think that he was
worth the first round pick. I didn't think his talent
was elite or special enough to take him that high. No,
and I'll quit. Truth Fully, I still wondered, is he

(01:45:03):
a is he me four? A quarterback, which means the
bridge between the starter. He's call was caught between starter
and backup, Like he's too good to be a backup, right,
but he's not good enough to lead you. I think
he's good enough to lead you because I do like
the intangibles he presents. Uh he and he and Jalen

(01:45:27):
Hurts kind of have those those things in lockstep. The
two Alabama guys, their leaders. Guys seem to want to
follow them. He might have some physical limitations. The guys
will play hard. The guys in the offense will play
hard for him and with him, and I do think
to a certain degree that does matter for me. He's
just in line with and we talked about tiers of
quarterbacks a couple of weeks ago. He's I think he's

(01:45:50):
Derek Carr, he's Kirk Cousins, he's Jared Goff. If things
are set up well for them and there's good enough
talent around them, you can win with him. I think
that's the ceiling for you or for me. But it
has to be set up perfectly for him. Yeah, I
don't know. I think he's below those guys not also
think it's early. I think it's to a certain degree.

(01:46:11):
It's only a couple of years in too. Like if
you asked me right now, who do I want a quarterback,
Cousins or Tia healthy Ta, I go Cousins all day.
But it's not even not even a choice. The only
reason I would take to us, because I I it's
the cheek code is I've already seen Kirk Cousins and
what he can he can't do, especially what it matters

(01:46:33):
most two others just isn't enough out there quite yet.
And the little bit that I've seen again, I've been
so I've been pleasantly surprised and happy to say that
I was wrong to a certain degree. So maybe there's
more there and maybe I missed something. I don't think
he's elite. He's never gonna be a superstar, but he's
probably a little bit better than I thought he was.
Then I thought he would be Kirk Cousins is you know,

(01:46:54):
kind of is what he is at this point. There's
still some upsides there potentially for to of because he's
just so young and still growing as a player into
the position. Yeah, I hear you. I think Javelin should
passed him. Yes, and even Jalen is thriving because again
he's in the right system with the right players. You know,

(01:47:15):
without a doubt, he's in a great system. He's also
got a j Brown, DeVante Smith and a tremendous offensive line. Yeah,
and a good tight end like and got her like
he is. He's a guy that also has a bevy
of weapons to be able to throw two, which makes
it easier for him. Yeah. Yeah, alright, figure want to
hit this with some trending, Yes, let's go. Let's start

(01:47:37):
with the NBA. We had nine games on the slate
Friday night. It was capped off by Denver beating the
Clippers in Los Angeles one fifteen to one, or three
twenty four points there for Jamal Murray. For the Nuggets,
they've won five games in a row, best record in
the Western Conference. At and thirteen. They did not have
Nacola Yoki in the lineup as he set out with
a wrist injury. Golden State hammered the Spurs at the

(01:47:58):
Alamo Dome to one routeen Jordan Pool scoring twenty five
points a triple double for Demontes Sibonis says the Sacramento
Kings dominated Houston one nine to one fourteen Minnesota what
they want one to one, sixteen win over the Phoenix Suns,
thirty or four points for Jalen Brunson as New York
defeat at Washington. You at the Hawks, Thunder and Jazz
with victories as well. In college basketball third rank per

(01:48:20):
Due and Proved to sixteen and one, a seventy three
to fifty five victory there over Nebraska. In the NFL,
Shaw McVeagh announced he will return for his seventh season
as head coach of the Rams. Charges receiver Mike Williams
will miss Tonight's wild card matchup against Jacksonville with a
back injury. Vikings safety Harrison Smith limited and practice this week.
He is questionable for Sunday's game against the New York Giants.

(01:48:41):
Back to the fellas so fig Why is Mike Williams
missing the game tonight because somebody decided it was important
enough for him to play in a meaningless game in
week seventeen. That's why, thank you. We just cannot forget
the adc of Brandon's stale that will get uh. We'll
talk about that all the time today as well. It

(01:49:03):
deserves it exactly exactly, so fig one of the really
interesting games because you brought up Kirk Costles and we
got to dive into this game. And there is all
kinds of giants love. I've heard this constantly. Costly Giants, giants, giants, giants, giants.

(01:49:30):
All I hear is giants love, Giants, who gonna win
the game? Giants out right and interesting. I'm clearly I'm
on the other side. I like Minnesota in the game.
I know they just played. I know they would the
Minnesota need a field goal to win in I think
you played again. I think I just don't see the

(01:49:52):
Giants being able to keep up. Well, I will say
about Minnesota needing a field goal to win it, that's
that's on par for how to Sea. It's gone for them,
So it wouldn't surprise me if they needed to feel
going to beat the Giants. Again, that's just how they
and they've had all those breaks, you know, break their
way this year when it comes to close games. So
I can see why people are picking New York because

(01:50:13):
they were saying all season long that the Vikings are
winning with smoking mirrors and they're yeah. So now the
thing is, we all know what that the Giants are
a one trick pony on offense. Quan is not running,
they're not doing squad, so that's the and Minnesota knows that.
So I'm I tend to lean on your side there,

(01:50:35):
and I see I would if I had to pick,
I would pick Minnesota. But I certainly wouldn't be surprised
if the Giants won because again, Minnesota has been winning
by the skin of their teeth every single year or
excuse me, every single week this year. So it will
be hard pressed to say, like, well, I can't see
an avenue for the Giants to win, because there have
been so many avenues where the Vikings could have lost.
They have a negative point differential, but twelve wins that

(01:50:57):
doesn't happen. It's never happened. It was ridiculous. Like when
they lose, they lose badly. When they win, they win
by inches, you know, which is unbelievable when you think
of you talked about weapons. The best receiver in football
in Jefferson easily feeling wildly veteran kJ Osborne and up

(01:51:20):
and comer Dalvid Cook, one of the best backs and
also can catch the boy out of the backfield Hockinson
and tight end. I mean, you know, you got all
the weapons in the world. The funny thing is this
is like one of Kirk cousins worst statistical seasons in
a couple of years. Like outside of passing yards, which
I think is he has a few more than he

(01:51:40):
had last year. His numbers are down across the board
because police your percentage. His quarterback rating is like twelve
points lower than it was last year. Yeah, they have
one more. Yeah that's the funny part. Yeah, it really is.
All right, Uh, let's match you up. We'll talk about
giants and Vikings on the other side, and then uh
alts surely to shortly become But we got to talk

(01:52:03):
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(01:52:55):
going and I come back to this when I metch
this game up. How will the Giants keep up with Minnesota? Now?
I'm thrown out the game in the regular season a
couple of weeks ago because that's just how it played
out last last time. I just keep thinking, if you
play that game ten times, eight out of ten times
in Minnesota's going to outscore them because they're just offense?

(01:53:18):
Is that much better the Giants skill people? You got
Barkley Hodgkins. Hodgins is probably the best guy that they have.
Richie James had a big game the last time they played.
You talk about like you know, matchups and you know
and rematches and all that, like it's repeatable that Minnesota

(01:53:41):
can rack up, you know, twenty seven points and Justin
Jefferson gonna get a hundred and thirty yards receiving in
a couple of touchdowns. Is it repeatable for Daniel Jones
to throw for a three hundred and thirty yards? You
know what I mean? Probably not. That's the thing I'm
not willing to hang my hat on Daniel Jones being
able to light up Granted, Minnesota's defense is not good. Yeah,
uh so, I guess there is that, um but it's

(01:54:03):
it's very difficult for me to envision that Daniel Jones
will be able to light up their defense again. Now, Granted,
Sae Kwon Barkley. He ran for eighty four yards, which
is certainly not terrible, but it's not great. So you
can say there's room for Barkley to be better in
this game than he was in that game too. So
I think, I guess we can open the door for that. Yeah, yeah,

(01:54:24):
I I listen. I think the Giants success begins and
ends with the head coach. I think he's that good.
I think Brian Dable is a great head coach. And
while Brandon Staley makes the least with his immense talent,
Brian Dable's the opposite. He's got a team with middling

(01:54:45):
talent and he makes the best out of it. Yeah,
I agree, which is why I do give them a shot.
To your point, I do think they have the coaching
edge here. Uh, And look, using Daniel Jones has been
really effective using his legs this year, you know. And
I could see a lot of you know, design quarterback
runs and and and keepers and trying to keep the
defense off balance and really just trying to keep the

(01:55:06):
vikings offense off the field. Like I don't remember exactly
what the time of possession situation was, and I'll see
if I can find it here. It was nine to thirty.
So it's basically, you know, even between the two teams,
if you're the Giants, you're your soul goal outside of
scoring points obviously, is to keep control of the ball,
which has really been their recipe when they have won

(01:55:26):
games this year. Is how they've done it. You play
decent enough defense and you play well enough offensively to
keep the defense off the field so they don't get exploited.
So that that's the key for them. Yeah, I agree
with it, and it's doable. I think it's definitely doable,
and I think it's as I think the crowd is
going to be wild. I mean that lines three it is,

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and that's probably I feel like that's probably where it
should be. I do. I think it should be if
at least three in the Hawk if not for Yeah,
and that's a big number because it's through a football number,
right well, and you know what it is. It's just
Minnesota people just do not have faith in them. That's

(01:56:10):
what it is. And rightfully so. And by the way,
we're talking about the vikings in the playoffs. We've we're
talking about kickers in in big situations. They've had their
share of issues in the playoffs in the last you know,
twenty years when it comes to that. So I know
what happened Gary Anderson has nothing to do with this year.
But you know, still there's those UH demons of the

(01:56:32):
past do haunt that franchise when it comes to big
moments in playoff games. Yeah, that's true, that is true.
They are a lumper type of of UH franchise. You
had the Blair Walsh against Seattle, remember that he had
a chip shot field goal to beat them. Is an
interesting the great lumper franchises, right, the choker franchises Minnesota.

(01:57:00):
Now Dallas became it. Dallas was always great, right, but
in the moment Akmen leaves, they become a choker franchise.
I guess you gotta say in history. I don't want
to really say it like this because I actually have
a real soft spot for him, but the Bills in history,

(01:57:23):
I mean he lost, you know, I mean the four
straight Super Bowls is is tough to swallow. And then
go back to last year. How does that happen? Oh
my god, what is it? Twelve seconds? Whatever it was? Yeah,
it's almost like you know, a d n A thing sometimes, Yeah,
it's you have to overcome your d n A, right, right,

(01:57:46):
I And I don't know how well. I do know
how you do it. You just go out there and
play and don't think about that sort of stuff. The
problem is when it happens to you so often, it's
it's easy for me to say, don't don't think about it. Yeah,
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because we have not talked at all about Baltimore Cincinnati.

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I face value. You think, well, it's the Bengals, and
we know how the Bengals, you know, playing with a
chip on their shoulder. They've hot, right, They've just playing
great football. The Ravens they're praying and hoping that Hutley
can give it a go. And it's not Anthony Brown

(01:59:40):
Lamar checking out on you. Uh. First, let's talk about
the game itself before we get into Lamar Jackson. I
got a weird, nagging feeling that the Ravens keep this
game close. Maybe it's just the Ravens that you know,
knowing the Ravens well and hardball, and they don't usually

(02:00:01):
get blown out. But I think they can keep the
game quite so. So thick sit Tonight wins, but I
think the Ravens get inside the big number right now.
I agree, and well, obviously who starts at quarterback makes
a big difference Huntley versus Brown. But one thing that
he keep note of is Mark Andrews didn't play last week.

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They're arresting him for this game, and neither did J K. Dobbins.
Those are two huge pieces of the Baltimore offense they
were missing. And I know it was what seven or whatever.
The final score looked more respectable than the game actually
was last week, so take that into account as well.
But if it is Tyler Huntley and he's able to go,
and you have those two offensive weapons back in the mix,
I'm with you. I think Cincinnati wins, but I think

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it's much closer than people think. John Hardball six and
oh on the road and wild card games, uh, since
he's being the head coach in Baltimore. It's your point.
They're they're tough, they're gritty, they don't get blown out.
I don't expect him to come in and lose by
two touchdowns or anything. This game is gonna be a
nip and tuck game for sure. Uh So I would expect. Uh.
I will expect nothing less from this Baltimore team than

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we've seen in the past, almost regardless who the quarterback is. Now,
if it's Anthony Brown, then obviously it's gonna be tough sledding.
But if it's Tyler Huntley, I have a little bit
more confidence in that. I don't see them pulling off
the upset, but it's possible. Yeah, I remember you remember
when no obviously much better team, but still they go

(02:01:24):
up the fox Borrow and they beat the Patriots and
then they wind up owning the Patriots. Patriots wanted nothing
to do with Baltimore. Remember that there, And I believe
the year before they almost beat the Patriots in Foxboro again.
Lee Evans dropped the touchdown pass that was right in
his lap and they would have Vans I want to
crock that would have beaten the Patriots back to back

(02:01:46):
years in Foxborough. Have you made that catch? Yeah, that's right,
that's right. Even I know. Uh. In reading Michael Lombardi's book,
Gridiron Genius, he writes about one of those games, those
playoff matchups between those teams, and he even said Bill Belichick,
of all the teams that he didn't want to face
in the postseason, it was always Baltimore. Yeah, you know,

(02:02:07):
Hardball is a good coach man with all the all
the noise that his brother makes. He's where's he going here?
You go to Denver, He's you go to Caroline's going
back to Michigan again? Now was something. There's a lot
of talk that he's going to go back to Michigan. Meanwhile,
old John Horrible does just win and be relevant? Yep,

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just to consistent every single year, that's what you want. Now.
I guess it hasn't laid itself out in the results
of having multiple Super Bowls. But all you can ask
is just put yourself, give yourself a chance sustained success,
you know, the NFL if you can go. That's why
marvel at Mike Tomlin. The job he's done too. To
be in one place for that long and not have

(02:02:50):
a losing season is absolutely incredible in today's NFL. And
and they get better. You know, the mark of a
good coaches, you get better every at the end of
the year. And look at the Steelers this year. They
played their best football down the stretch the last four games.
And that's that's tomlin Man. And imagine if if they're
best probably the best individual defensive player not named Aaron

(02:03:14):
Donald T J. Watt, if he's actually healthy for the
entire season, maybe they make the playoffs, you know, And
it's not even a question. Yeah, because there was a
point where their defense was leaking oil bad. Absolutely, they
were so hurt. Yeah, so banged up. Yeah, I know,
I'm I'm with you all the way. All right, let's
tackle this game and let's uh, let's talk about Lamar's

(02:03:36):
role in this thing, Like are you where you at
with Lamar? And you know, I mean, is there a
point where you say, I got a question kind of
what's what's in your ticker? Yeah, it's trying to be
careful when questioning whether how it hurts somebody actually is

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at times, but it's fun keeping because of the way
that John Harball is kind of handled being asked about
Lamar Jackson. The last couple of weeks tells me that
he thinks Lamar is probably uh holding out on him
a little bit here. Now. I don't know if there's
a right or wrong. I think it's just it's a
matter of opinion, because if you look at it from

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Lamar standpoint, it's like, well, I don't have a long
term contract. I am opending free agent. If I'm not
knowing how much I rely on my legs to be
an effective player. If I go out and stink it
up or heaven forbid, get hurt even worse, how does
that affect me in my future? So I totally understand that.
From the organization standpoint as to why they wouldn't give
him a contract extension, Well, your numbers have not come

(02:04:40):
close to what they were your m VP season. You've
regressed mightily. You can't stay healthy. You're a guy that
does rely on running all the time, and now you're
banged up and hurt. You're not gonna get better as
you get older. From that standpoint, so why are why
why will we give you two thirty whatever million dollars
guaranteed over a ten year period. It doesn't make business
sense for us, So it definitely seems like posturing from

(02:05:01):
Lamar's stance. I know it's it sucks if you're one
of his teammates, because you said you're that your guys
in the locker room, you want to go out there
in battle. Uh. But to a certain degree that it's
sixty individuals to make up the team, and there's sixty
individual businesses in that locker room too. Lamar wants to
look out for the team, But I certainly can begrudge
Lamar looking out for l Mar's future too. Yeah, I

(02:05:26):
hear you. I don't know. I I kind of I
kind of waver on this thing. I'm kind of disappointed
by Lamar and by the way the Ravens offered him
that big deal. Yeah, it turned he just didn't get
the guarantees he wanted. I mean, you know, I get
part of the other thing is to you, I'm an agent. Yeah,

(02:05:47):
well that's another buddy's the water, and I know you
want to be Deshaun wants you want that contract. But
quite frankly, if I'm the Ravens, I can't do that.
That's a bad deal. There's no way I do that.
There's probably three players I do that for, probably Josh Allen,
Justin Herbert, and Patrick Mahomes. I wouldn't even have done
it for Deshaun Watson though those are probably the only

(02:06:09):
ones I would have given that much guaranteed money too,
because it's just the sport itself just doesn't live. I mean,
you get injured again, especially a person like Lamar who
has not produced a way that he produced in his
MVP year and he continuously gets hurt. How am I
going to commit that kind of money in those kind
of years to you? You can't do that, I just

(02:06:32):
as soon, you know. So, people were criticizing them for
signing ro Kuan Smith to that extension, saying like, well,
they're signing him so they can save the franchise tag.
I think that's just smart business because quite honestly, if
you have him play on the TAG next year, if
he gets injured again or as production dips, at what
point you start seriously considering moving on and saying, Okay,
we got to reevaluate what we're doing at the quarterback position,

(02:06:55):
because the shelf life for a player that plays that
style is short to begin with. We discussed this last
week when it comes to Jalen And and other quarterbacks
who played like this. Yeah, and you know I was
having that conversation with that NFL guy and you know,
I it's funny. Who did I hear? We played a
clip of someone talking about it. Baby was Dan Patrick

(02:07:17):
who was talking about what we were talking about, how
they almost view these running quarterbacks, These these quarterbacks who
really run. That's so much mobile, Like if you looked
at Russell Wilson, like he's more mobile than a runner
or than a runner, right, Yeah, he moves around within
the pocket to find players down field. Yeah, Lamar is

(02:07:37):
more of a runner. And Dan Patrick said kind of
what we were saying, which is these teams treat the
running quarterbacks almost like running backs because you get bagged up,
you almost have self life, isn't there? It isn't You
have to have a backup that plays almost a similar style,

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one which the Ravens at LEAs do have. Uh and two.
To your point, you just you have to recognize that
instead of the standard eleven twelve year career that a
quarterback might have, these guys might have six or seven
before they fall off a cliff. And that kind of
money is a huge commitment to give to a guy.
You know what I would do if I were Baltimore,
and maybe Lamar wouldn't go for this, but I would

(02:08:21):
have tried to go for a shorter deal, maybe front loaded,
and say after year, will give you like a four
year or four or five year deal, but after a
year two we can let you loose with minimal cap
hit something like that, just so the franchise can protect itself.
You know, you get your big bonus up front, but
we get some protection in case things fall off the
rails and we need to reset. Now. Lamar but doesn't

(02:08:43):
want to sign up for that. But it's like almost
like a take it or leave it situation if you're Baltimore.
If I'm them, I'm playing hardball because I have to.
It's too much money to commit to a guy who
can't stay on the field. Let's play this out real quick.
Bo says that we're out. We're to see get that
money from nowhere. Nobody's paying him that. Is there any

(02:09:04):
desperate team? I don't know if we do that, the Raiders, No,
I don't think any team in their right mind. I
don't think he's not even a fit with Josh McDaniels.
He doesn't even fit Josh McDaniels off, So that wouldn't
they wouldn't do that Miami. I still think Miami has
faith in TWA. They're gonna double and triple down on
to until you know, they until they can't anymore. I know,

(02:09:27):
to just talk about the Giants, you know, signing Daniel
Jones or a long term deal. But don't I don't understand,
because I I agree, I would not. I wouldn't sign
Daniel Jones. I don't see that a little bit. No,
I would not if I were any NFL franchise, I
would not sign Lamar Jackson to a contract that's any

(02:09:47):
longer than three to five years, and even five years
just pushing it. Yeah, I any any contract I give
him as to be four years or shorter. I'm just
trying to figure like, who's out there would do that?
Seattle maybe Houston probably would because they'll just take whatever
cache they can get. I don't know, if you don't

(02:10:08):
want to go there. Yeah, so you might have like
a downtrodden franchise like that. They're be like, well we'll
we'll throw him in there, We'll sell some you know,
put some butts in the seats, have something to be
excited about Arthur Smith in Atlanta. Might because they ran
a similar offense to a degree in Tennessee when he
was there. Uh with Tannehill, he was it was a

(02:10:30):
run first. They can run some read option stuff and
do it even better with Lamar And they did a
lot of that down there this year with Marcus Mariota.
So maybe that's a fit for a team that has
money and just needs a halfway decent quarterback. I can
see that. But outside of that, I feel like there's
not a lot of destinations because he's such a he

(02:10:52):
has such a unique skill set. You have to revamp
your entire offensive philosophy to fit what he does. It's
not like a standard NFL offense with him. Yeah. Any
other issue with him again, and we've talked that a
number of times. He just hasn't approved as a thrower.
I mean, you know, if anything, he's regressed. I mean,
he unless he's he's one of those quarterbacks you have

(02:11:13):
to scheme things open for him. He's not just gonna
make throws if it's a he's not How many does
he throw? Not many? Usually when he's when he's making
hey in the passing game, there are guys running wide
open in the middle of the field. That's true. All right,
we're gonna take a quick t o will come back.
Uh should we both just just to put a little

(02:11:35):
uh exclamation point. We both like Baltimore to keep the
game close. Yes, do you think are you a believer
in the Bengals? Absolutely? I remember talking to you and
Psycho Chris, who was on the show at the time,
maybe about a month ago, about pretenders and contenders. How
I've been bullish on Cincinnati all season long. I thought,

(02:11:57):
once they got healthy, once they settled in, it'll be
right where they are right now. So, um, I've always
been in on Cincinnati. Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, I remember that conversation.
All Right, we'll take quick TiO will come back the
big Brain on Brad to take a look at the
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Big Brain on Brad brad Fineberg Bradley. What where are
you calling from? Now? We're yet Jamaica, sum plummetum? I know,

(02:13:23):
I know, I mean you were You'd say you were
in Turks and Caikos, you were in Aspen, you were
in Chicago, you were in Jamaica, Miami Beach. Yeah, yeah,
I know. How about that at biggy at I have

(02:13:48):
to I have to make make some appearances here to
keep U know, keep it straight. I could dig it,
my brother, I could dig it. All right, here we go.
You're ready, so let's take a look at this. Let's
go through. Have the games today. We got Seahawks Niners
in a downpour. It's Santa Clara Niners and nine point

(02:14:11):
favorite where you leaning? You know? After the look these
teams played twice. I watched both the games. The Niners
um really did outplay them in booth games at a
very high level. Uh Seattle after a very nice star
at Anthony the last five or six games. To me,
this team has been extremely, extremely mediocre. UM. The only

(02:14:35):
good game they had really down the stretch was against
the Jets, where they won three six. They did not
look good against Fresco, Kansas City, Carolina Vegas, the Rams.
They didn't look at against anywhere, Campa Bay. I mean, so,
I look I like Frisco here, and I love them
in teasers, Anthony, you can tease them down from lane
nine to lane two and a half. I have a

(02:14:57):
ton of teasers with San Francisco. UM, And I believe
I would be very very very very very surprised is
Seattle is able to basically pull off this upset, because
when you're cheasing it down through the seven and through
the three, they went by one or two. I'll take
my medicine. But I like firstly here, I do UM.
I think I think it's me very hard for Seattle

(02:15:18):
to pull this one off. But the weather is obviously
a factor. UM. And and maybe that by mucking it up,
maybe it helps them. It's certainly possible. I did bet
Brandon a uk under forty seven and a half yards
with all the players back. Uh, this is the healthiest
first has been. I'm gonna day with Kittle, with the
butle with McCaffrey half forty eight yards. I don't think

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he's gonna get there. Yeah. You know what's interesting is, uh,
and people have been talking about this, well, you know,
we opener in the season, Chicago is at tordential doubt
pour and the night is lost, and you go, yeah,
but it was the beginning of the year and not
a playoff game. And they're built now their bill to

(02:16:06):
tackle that. I mean, let's face it, Brad, I mean,
though there's no better run team than then, that's exactly right.
And I Aunty, I couldn't agree with you more. And
also I do like Kenneth Walker under sixty one and
a half yards. Um. Now, look, you've got a crazy
amount volume in the last few games. Uh, but I
can no one I'm antony. I know you obviously know

(02:16:28):
this as well as anyone you those told off the
Eagles teams back on the day with Reggie White, Jerome Brown,
Clyde Simmons, Mike Pitts, no one could run on them.
No one can run on the Durst game. You just
can't do it. So I'm gonna make Walker show he
can have that kind of running game. Uh, and be
that successful. I don't think anyone's had that against them
all year. I'm gonna make him sure it will be
the first one to do it. I took his under Yeah,

(02:16:51):
yeah I could. I could always say. The game tonight
is an interesting one. The line is down to one
and a half with the news that Mike Williams will
not play with a fracture in his back. Uh, we've
been killing Brandon Staley all day today as well. We should.
And I know you because you and I were texted

(02:17:13):
about how ridiculous that whole situation was. Yeah, I have
to tell you. And again I know I stand my land.
I know what things I know and what things I
don't know. But to me something like that, when I think,
in my opinion, he's the second most important player in
that team, he's shown, he's had injury uses this year,

(02:17:34):
why do you put him out there? Is it's akin
to like letting one of your young kids play with
fire and saying, oh, I didn't think he'd get hurt
or I didn't think she get hurt? Like, what what
is wrong with you? It's it's it's it's a fireball offense.
And his excuse was the all time. Excuse I've seen.
It's better than the dog gate the homework. Oh, we

(02:17:54):
didn't have enough players to play? I again, I I
I can't. I don't like what I see incompetence from
people get paid eight million dollars a year to be competent.
And that to me was just one of the as horrible,
absolutely horrible. Again, ask Brian Dable, did they have enough
players to play? They didn't play one player you've heard

(02:18:15):
of Against Seagulls they were able to do it. But
the Chargers how to play every one of their players. Um,
it just doesn't make sense to me. And again it's
that's a huge injury. Again, I think he's the second
most important parton everything. Wait wait, I gotta I gotta
rally up more. Here's your exact quote. I stand behind
what we did in that football game. All my players

(02:18:36):
are really important to me. There were a lot of
players that were playing in that game and they worried
Harm's way. That's just the nature of football. It's very
difficult to decide who plays and who does it, and
who's more valuable than the rest. That's your job, you, Anthony.

(02:19:01):
This is the all timer. I'll be on I don't.
I've ever heard more idiotic comment since I've been falling
this again, I find it unforgivable. You're paying this guy
crazy sum of money to run a billion dollar franchise
billions in all franchise, and this is who you want
is running the face of your franchise, A guy who
makes a comment like that. It makes you look silly
and foolish. Yeah, yeah he could be my coach. I'd

(02:19:27):
seriously you would be out. Yeah, I mean, this is
that comment alone writer game last year. Look, Anthony, this
guy has just been a comedy of errors. But that comment,
to me was just absolutely disgusting. I I don't, I don't.
I don't know what. You know, what he's smoking? But
not nothing good? Um listen. But the game itself, now,

(02:19:48):
I do think this was a big, big, big injury, Anthony.
I do. I really did like the charges. I still
do like the charges here. I think the Charges will
find a way to win the game. But I do
think that lost to Williams. It was a big one.
I think the Charges would have definitely won this game
by somewhat of margins. Actually, they're more advanced version of
Jacksonville to me, Herbert, some more polished Trevor Lawrence Ecklers

(02:20:10):
are more advanced e t n. You know they have
guys like Allen who are you know? Yeah, yeah, they
just they have They're just a Jackson's a nice story.
But I just think that, you know, we saw it
last week against Tennessee. There's still not a great team there.
Their team that won probably the worst second worst division

(02:20:32):
in football. Uh and they got in the playoffs thing,
and I give them kudos for that. I like the charge.
I think Herbert's gonna play a good game. I played
Herbert over one of the touchdowns. That's more of a
fuel play for me. I mean, the math on it
wasn't terrific, But I think he's going to have a
good game. And I played offs neck over four and
a half catches. He's averaging seven half catches without Mike Williams. Um,

(02:20:54):
I'll take my chances he gets over four and a half.
I'm with you. I'm with you all day long. Uh.
Let's look at tomorrow and the early game is Buffalo
Miami is another one. I just can't see Miami with
Skyler Thompson keeping that game close. This game is uh

(02:21:15):
is this is an ugly ugly game where it's like
you say to yourself, who's you know who, who's betting
on Miami, Because betting on Miami requires uh, you know,
a lot of a lot of guts, so to speak.
This is the one game on the board I haven't
personally wagered on Anthony. Um. I only could look at

(02:21:35):
the Bills. I did bet Josh Allen over UM one
and a half touchdowns thirty two and ten is last
forty two. Um, there's I I would be stunned shocked
that would actually you want to use if he doesn't
get there in this game against Miami. But again I cannot.
I can't. I just can't take Scott on Thompson here.
I do think that Bill is a little bit overrated Anthony,

(02:21:57):
I do. I just haven't seen quite uh, either offensively
or defencly, what I thought they had a chance to be.
I know they had a great year, they went thirteen
and three, but I still think they're susceptible to being
engstrom one of these games. But it's certainly not gonna
be in Miami and does at him. Yeah, i'd look
they needed to kick off returns last week. I mean,
that's that's different that game was the game last weekend.

(02:22:20):
It's interesting. Um, they actually were outplayed by New England.
Uh they got that, they got that you, Um, they
got that you pick off returned for a touchdown. That's
a present the reason they won the game. Um, they
actually didn't look so good. Um. But and they they
still turn them all over a lot. They're just it's
I mean, it's just a team that I know they're

(02:22:43):
good Buffalo, but I actually think they're susceptible. On all year,
I thought maybe they were the favorite to come out
of the s C. Now I don't think so. I
don't think they're gonna get I don't think they're gonna
get there. Really are you got gig Kanas City Eileen
Eileen Casey Eileen Casey, Um, I do, um, but obviously
they could do it. But I just something about them.

(02:23:04):
They just feel like one last year Buffalo. I still
I still like him. I still so they're all you know,
there's three teams are all are all pretty close. They're
all pretty close. And I see I got kids City
Buffalo over over Cincinnati. I think there's a I think
they're the top tier and I think Cincinnati's did a

(02:23:24):
little below that yeah, yeah, well look that certainly that
certainly could be. That game will be in Buffalo, and
I would certainly, you know, lead Buffalo in that game
for sure. Gets it done. Sounds good, My brother hanging
uh tight for one second. Let's get some trending with
my man the fig. Alright, guys, Well you've been discussing

(02:23:46):
wild Card weekend. It is here two games on this
late today, the nightcap featuring the Chargers in Jacksonville. You
guys were just discussing that will be without one of
their main targets. My receiver Mike Williams will be out
with a back injury. Coming up on Sunday, Lamar Jackson
ruled out of Baltimore's matchup with Cincinnati. Backup quarterback Tyler
Huntly questionable there with a shoulder injury. To replace him,

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Miami will star rookie quarterback Scotter Thompson against Buffalo and
hope to have Teddy Bridgewater healthy enough to be the backup.
On Friday. Ramsayd coach Shaw McVeagh announced he will return
to the team for a seventh season as head coach
in the NBA known Nicola Yokich. No problem for Denver,
they win their fifth straight after beating the Clippers one
fifteen to one oh three. John Collins the game winning
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one eleven victory over Indiana. The Warriors had eight players
scoring double figures as a steamrolled San Antonio in front
of more than sixty eight thousand fans in the Alamo Dome.
New York defeat of Washington once well to want a
wait despite forty points from Kyle Kuzma, who had victories
for Sacramento, New Orleans, the Thunder and the Utah Jazz
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let me ask you a question about the Vikings and
the Giants. I always have a saying the public dog
never barks, and uh, I think the giants are there. Yeah, listen,

(02:25:58):
I'm with you. I was able to get um the
Viking was playing two and a half. I laid the
dollars for me, That's what I was waiting for it
and it hit. That number of look on the line
was three and a half the last time these two
teams played. Uh and to me, ay, look like Minnesota's

(02:26:20):
the one team look home sort of van has gotten
uh more difficult in terms of it hasn't been as
beneficial recently as time has gone on. It used to
be back in the day when Alange going on as
the candy. You give a stone cold three points for
home deal. That's just the way it was. Maybe it's
the travel or it's easy to travel now. I don't
know what it is, but they all home field has
kind of been knocked down close to one and a half.

(02:26:41):
Maybe Max too, But I do think the Vikings are
one of the rare, rare, rare teams. Anthony that maybe
I do get them closer to that field goal at home,
but that crowd knows in that dome, and I think
in a game like this, I think it's gonna matter. Um.
I think Jefferson has a huge game. I think Daniel
Jones lucky in a decent year this year. Um, I'll
give him his duo in the terms of he said

(02:27:02):
better than I I thought he would be. I still
don't think he's very good. I think the Sharons team
is extremely untalented. Uh. And I think Minnesota at home
with that dome, will win and cover this game. Again,
it's not from a power ratings number. It's not that
it's a bad number, but I just my I just
think he works a little bit overrated. And I think Minnesota,

(02:27:22):
just with guys like Jefferson, Uh, I think that and
being at home will make the difference in this one.
That's your football spiky sense kicking in. Yeah, I just
again this. Both these teams are play against teams for sure,
But I think Minnesota will get the job done and
I think they will. They look they for the most part,

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they've won these kind of games at home, Anthony, that's
say what you want to say about them. I think
they won thirteen and four, but they basically won these
kind of games. I think they'll add it to the list. Alright, Uh,
Cincinnati at home against Baltimore. My spiky sense is telling
me the Ravens Huntley now it looks like he's got
a chance to go. Yeah, yeah, they look it's interesting, like,

(02:28:10):
look this is a game. Um, look the Ravens, Anthony.
All they've done all year, even without Lamar Jackson, even
without Lamar Jackson, all they've done is playing extremely, extremely
close games. And this team's defense, Anthony, is really good.
I mean it's really good. And last week when they

(02:28:30):
played and then and they played their players, they played
their players the things. Um that was somewhat of a
deceiving sixteen score I thought. I mean, they won the game,
but the Ravens had about two hundred more total yards
and uh or maybe it wasn't it, but it's a
lot more yards. And and the Ravens really kind of
moved the ball in them and and Burrows didn't have

(02:28:51):
one of his great games and only talk about two
hundred yards and they didn't do much, um, and what's
what the Ravens do. It's kind of like we talked
last weekend about the Titan Jaguars games. I'm like, ravel
kind of MUCKs it up and they just before you know,
it's like, shoot, you're in the fourth quarter. It's a
close game. I'm gonna lean here the same way. And
I will say this, UM, I have no problem taking

(02:29:11):
Baltimore in a in a teaser here if you want
to tease them down from eight and half down to
like that too area, because I do think expect them
to win the game. And I don't even hate at
all teasing them up that you usually never tease teams
eight and halps to over two touchdowns, but this is
a game where I do think if you want to
tease Baltimore up to over two touchdowns, have no problem
with that either, because I do think this game is

(02:29:33):
going to be a one of a close game. That's
the way the Ravens always play these games. And I
would not be anxious that you missed the party. This
game open at six and a half. That was one
to take the Bengals right now laying eight and a half,
I don't think this is the time to do it. Yeah,
I'm with you all the way. The final game Monday night,

(02:29:55):
Tampa and Dallas. Now, we saw Dallas sleep walk through
alw US at Washington and everybody played. People go, oh,
that's out of the Cowboys. Now, the Cowboys are a
front runner team and they always disappoint. We talk about
Brady's career playoff record versus the entire Cowboys franchise over

(02:30:16):
the last twenty five years, and Brady owns them. But
I like Dallas and I'm curious see where you're at. Yeah, Anthony,
look these are again. We talked about New York and
Minnesota being fed against teams. Whoever wins this game. I
really don't care who it is. I truly don't. Um.

(02:30:37):
I'm gonna be looking to play if they play throw
it off the I'm gonna be looking to play Philadelphia
the following week, and and I feel pretty strongly about that. Um.
I think both these teams are are against stade teams
going forward, and whoever wins the game's gonna get credit
for a quart unquote good wins. I don't think it's
gonna be a good one to think both these teams
are not truthfully very good. Right now, I'm gonna my

(02:30:58):
favorite way to bet this game. Look again, this line
open three. I did make a bet on Tampa plus three,
but now it's two and a half. Those are completely
two different, two different things. I don't recommend taking Tampa
plus two and a half, but I do like Tampa
and teasers. You can get a man over a touchdown
and over a field goal update and a half nine.
And we talked about games like San Francisco teasing them down. Um,

(02:31:20):
and I think that's a viable play the game itself, Anthony. Again,
I thought the line would be two and a half. Um,
that's now what it is. Don't see much edge in
the game itself. I did that Rashard White under thirty
I think thirty eight and a half rushing yards. We
always hear about that playoff anything, Anthony, Where for Net
is the guy who gets most of those carries, and
he has the last two postseasons, so me and maybe

(02:31:42):
this will be a third straight year they do that.
Plus he's only gone over White three of the fourteen
games he's played, So I did bet his under uh
And again I as I said, I'm looking to fade
the winner of this game the following week. Yeah, you know,
it's funny, I could say I like his I kind
of view it. I think the Vikings beat the Giants
and then go to to Minnesota and get annihilated. Then

(02:32:06):
I think the Cowboys beat the Tampa beat Tampa and
then go to Philadelphia and get annihilated. Yeah, look, I'm
gonna go. I'm with you two for two. I think
that the Dallas, because Dax has some six to success
against Philly, they'll they'll I think that'll be one of
those games where Philly gets up for nothing in the
first quarter. Yeah, you can ride. I'm like, there's gonna

(02:32:27):
be great value of both those games. Yeah, I do
think so. I think it's gonna be very hard for
Minnesota to win it first go, and I think it's
to be very hard for Dallas to win it Philly.
Uh I. And again I think that the winner, especially
Anthony of the of the Tampa Bay game, as Tampa
Bay wins, Oh, Brady is still great, No, he's not.
Or Dallas win so they just beat the Green. You know,

(02:32:51):
I think the winner of that game is going to
get more credit than they deserve. Yeah, I can totally
say it. I always say, I big brand, I got
like ten seconds anything in the NBA or college basketball?
Uh yeah, in college MESSI the anti here. Shoot. Let
me bring it up real quick, because there was something
I did like in college Anthony. It was Yeah, I'd
like TCU Anthony against Kansas State, I laid four points.

(02:33:14):
Kansas State has been great this year. I get it, um,
but this is gonna be, in my opinion, their toughest game.
I guess the TCU team they just lost a puffle.
Infects should have won that game. I need. TCU is
actually a pretty really good team in that conference. I
like tc That was my best college game of the day. Alright,
my man, thanks, my brother, great stuff. As always the
big brain on Brad. We'll be back figuring out how

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the day figures his art. Uh So, we talked about
a little bit about Cowboys bucket as you heard Brad
talk about it, and you know, I do agree with

(02:34:41):
him that there's gonna be value in who wins. I
do think this sets up for the Cowboys. I feel
like they have to win this game. Tampa Bay is
just so uh terrible offensively. Again, we talked about unless
they're throwing it deep to to Mike Evans, what else
do they have? You know, And if you're the Cowboys,

(02:35:04):
if you're smart, which I'd like to think that Dan quinn,
is you just McCarthy's yeah, exactly. You you try your
best to try to bracket uh Evans and uh put
your best defender on the other the other receiver, and
see and try to take those away and see if
Tom Brady can beat you elsewhere. But this should be

(02:35:24):
a relatively easy and simple victory for the Cowboys, and
if it's not, there are big problems, which of course
there always are with Dallas because this is the perfect
This is the perfect scenario for them for things to
blow up in their face. This is the perfect time
for them to not show up. Except you know what's funny,
I almost think that they have a big win and

(02:35:47):
then everybody goes, oh, let go how about them all
as right? And then they go lady egg. Then they
fall on their face. Yeah that's their m oh, I
just have it, unless that Prescott turns the ball over
at a high rate, which you can do. I really
don't see many avenues as to how Tampa Bay wins
the game. I don't. Yeah, I know I don't either.

(02:36:13):
I can't. I can't see it. First of all, Dall's defense,
I know they're playing well, but it's still good and
it's still get pressure that you know they saw well,
Michael Parsons has had a sack in five games. He's
still nasty and dangerous. So you know, I mean that
in that line still is flimsy. Do we forget like
who the Tampa Tampa stakes? Yeah? Well yeah, Tampa's offensive

(02:36:36):
line is there's nothing to ride home about. So along
with the Dallas's defensive line getting healthy again, I mentioned
if de Marcus Lawrence is back in there healthy again,
they should be able to get a healthy amount of pressure.
And then on the other side, Uh, the Cowboys have
had issues on their offensive line with injuries. They'll get
Tyler Beads back and those shuffle guys back to the
positions where they were previously, so they should be stronger
there because they struggled running the ball the last few weeks. Yeah,

(02:37:01):
I'm with you, brother, I'm with you. I'm excited. It's
a great. It's a great this weekend, next weekend, or
great because you have the divisional round the four games.
Then I start to press because then it's only at
least you have the pro bo to look forward to,
so that's good. Whatever. At least talk about a waste

(02:37:27):
of time, like what are you even doing that? Don't stop,
it's ridiculous. Yes, it's stupid. At least pictures of catches
will be around, so thank goodness. Uh, that's great, all right,
thanks to uh Biggie and Mark for figguring, and I
have a great to everybody. We love you guys.

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