Dan Beyer and George Wrighster break down Wild Card Weekend!

Dan Beyer and George Wrighster talk about the Buffalo Bills struggles to beat the Miami Dolphins, another possible retirement in Los Angeles, who bears the most responsibility for the Los Angeles Chargers collapse, FSR NFL insider Adam Caplan joins the show, whether Brock Purdy is just lightning in a bottle for the 49ers, and more!

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It should be in Minneapolis. Replay right now looking over
a play that appeared justin Jefferson was just short of
getting into the end zone. It was ruled a touchdown
on the field being reviewed as we speak. But the
Vikings knocking on the door in their game against the Giants.
But George, I think Monsey, you know, hit the nail
on the head. It wasn't pretty. It was a bit

(00:43):
of a mess. It took four hours, but the Bills
survive against the Miami Dolphins. Now advanced the a f
C Divisional Playoff round and also keep alive the chance
that we could have a neutral site a FC championship game.
But what a wacky, weird day in Buffalo today between
the Bills and do you know what the bad part
about that is? Though? What's that the bad part about

(01:05):
that game for the Bills is what's up? Nothing? Because
they won? I mean that's a little know what I'm
saying that that that that's the playoffs that even if
it's not pretty, who cares? You get it? You get
another week to fix it. You don't. You don't get
style points. I mean, look at a Georgia which just

(01:27):
beat up um uh yeah that that just beat up TCU.
How many champions how many trophies do they get? They
get they get that big one with the football on
top of that one, right, They don't get an additional
one for winning by forty fifty eight or whoever many
they want. They don't get extra points for that. A

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win is a win when you are trying to win championships.
Who cares whether you win by one or you win
by a million? I mean, truthfully, does it matter to you, Dan?
If if if you're a team, if they win, If
the Seahawks win the Super Bowl by by one point
on the last second, as opposed to winning winning about fifty,

(02:10):
you you probably appreciate the one point victory even more. Yes,
for sure, I would have taken a three point victory
over the Patriots in Super Bowl forty nine as opposed
to the you know, the thirty five point when whatever
it was against the bronc Goes of the year prior. Yeah,
they're all the same, but this is the this is
the issue with the Buffalo Bills. And by the way,

(02:31):
Kirk Cousins quarterback sneak gets in the end zone. So
the Vikings are up on the Giants seven nothing scoring
on their opening possession. I understand that, George, and I
think that there is going to be a contingent that
goes out there and says, you know what, that was
Buffalo's bad game in this playoffs, Like that was it
right there? Like that's they got it out of the way.
They were able to move on and now look out

(02:54):
for the Bills, and that very may well happen. That
that could that could be the path for the Buffalo
Bills to Super Bowl fifty seven. But there are themes
that continue to pop up, just like there are themes
with the Chargers that continue to pop up that our
conversations and this is this is a such a they

(03:14):
are who we thought they were, and I think this
is who the Buffalo Bills are. First what ten minutes,
extremely high level of football and they have an opportunity
to go up twenty one to nothing and a touchdown
gets overturned as it should have been. It was an
incomplete pastor Dawson Knox and they end up settling for

(03:35):
a field goal, and it gives Miami life. But Miami
shouldn't have life with Skyler Thompson as their quarterback and
Josh Allen with with turnovers and wide receivers dropping the football.
I understand what you're saying of survive in advance. It's
all that's what you gotta do when you get into
the bracket. But like there are faults of the Buffalo
Bills that keep on appearing. I mean, we harp on

(03:56):
Dak Prescott and throwing interceptions, and if he throws a
couple more tomorrow night, and it'll be a you know it,
we'll be talking about all week long. Doctor Allen has
been has been a little loosey goosey with the football
as well, and the and the the difference is I mean,
that's that well I shouldn't even say the difference, but
I have been not lower. But you know, a little

(04:20):
bit concerned about the Bills because Josh Allen has had
um six games this year, including this playoff game with
multiple picks. Six, that's a that's a lot. I mean
he had fourteen in the regular season, which is a
few more than you want, like you want to court quarterback.

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I mean, if he had it his way, he'd be
around like eight or nine or well, well, actually I
would say if he had it his way, he'd have
it between like six and six and eight. But because
you're gonna make some mistakes, people are gonna drop balls,
tip balls, run the wrong route and all of that stuff.
But for or but for Josh Allen, it's more the

(05:02):
completion percentage. He would like that a little bit higher.
It was only on the season. He would like it
to be around sixties six or so. And and in
this game, it's the turnovers that kept Miami in the game.
It wasn't the Miami spectacular play. It was the thing

(05:23):
that caused the Jaguars to be down and dotton. They
were turning the football. Yeah, and when you look at
the fumble where Miami scored against Buffalo today, the true story, Okay,
this behind the curtain halftime, I'm like, I'm gonna go
and get a little Starbucks down the street. Perfect opportunity,

(05:46):
there's a little delay. Have the game on the radio,
and the game's on at home, so I can rewind
and see what happened. And the radio, you know, Alan
drops back to pass fumble picked up by the Dolphins
ten five touchdown like they must have been it must
have been pinned back deep right, No, they started that
touchdown happened at the thirty yard line. So Josh Allen

(06:09):
is hit at the twenty yard line, holding the football
all Willie Nielly as he always does. Ball gets knocked
loose and then the Dolphins you know, goes down to
the ten. Picked up by the Dolphins and scores like
in ain't any normal situation like that. Maybe it's recovered
at the twenty, but because of how he does hold
the football, and I don't this isn't a Brett Farve

(06:32):
sort of thing, of like chucking it into coverage like
it is who he is. He take the good with
the bad, like that's something that's correctable. With six minutes
left in the game, when the Bills had the football,
Josh Allen is still holding the football out like it's nothing,
and like, those are the things that just drive me
crazy because there is there is no doubt and and

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I'm gonna use a little bit of a golf analogy.
I truly believe when Rory McElroy is playing the best
that he is, there's no one that can beat him.
I think that he when he is on his A
plus game and everyone's on their A plus game, Rory
McRoy is the best player in the world. And I
think when the Buffalo Bills are playing at their A
plus game, no one can beat them, even the Chiefs,

(07:12):
even the Bengals, even the Eagles. I think the Buffalo
Bills are number one. But with what you're saying, with
the turnovers and when I'm talking about these are the
things that keep a Skyler Thompson led Dolphins team. And
Skyler Thompson, by the way, went eighteen of forty five
today and and and I don't know he was he
was not, Yeah, but I mean it's what you would

(07:34):
it like. Like, the performance that we got out of
Brock Party is the performance that we would have I'm
sorry to performance that we got out of Skyler Thompson
is what we would have expected out of Brock Party.
You know, aside from being in Chile. Kyle Shanahan's The
Idiot Proof five ins like like that that that we
we we would have expected him to have a more
pedestrian game, and that's what some of the excitement surrounding

(07:59):
him was. And Scott Scottler Thompson, he wasn't good today.
He was I mean, in fact, I mean he was
bad really, but the uh especially considering that they did
have some some open guys, but Rottle had some had
some drops to reek Hill had a drop like that.

(08:20):
They didn't do everything they could to help out the
young quarterback either though. It was You're right, and Dolphins
fans are probably saying they're talking about the early drops
in the game. Tyreek Kill had one and and like
they were, there were opportunities. The Dolphins didn't even run
the ball well, like like Jeff Wilson had ten carriers
for twenty three yards, and so then you're just saying, yourself,

(08:44):
how is how is this a three point game? You
look at what the Dolphins did offensively, you look at
the team stats, and it's everything to do with what
Buffalo was unable to do get keep third nineteen. You
know they're they're they're allowing that can completion to go down.
And this is what I think is just So what

(09:04):
is frustrating if you're a Bills fan, because you know
how good it can be. But there is no reason
that this game should have been a three point game.
And it's why it's so difficult when you then look
at the rest of the a f C, if you're
honestly looking at it, to be like, all right, who
really are the Buffalo Bills? And I think that at

(09:25):
times this is the team that pops up, and this
is the team that unfortunately last year in thirteen seconds
we saw the Kansas Chiefs go and get three points
in in force and in overtime, and just there, there's
just something that's a little out. There's no way that
this game should have been a three point game today.
And that's what worries me about the Buffalo bill So
I get the wholely one stuff. But the stuff that

(09:47):
they do today, George, has been the stuff that they
have done previously, Um, getting stops, I mean, I don't
know what now, what they're doing, you know, on defense
and in certain times and now trying to slow down
the Bengals in in Chiefs good luck, you know. And
and there was a lot of people who thought that
the emotion from the Damar Hamlin situation was going to

(10:10):
propel them to a Super Bowl. I was like, it's
not gonna happen that easily. That yes, it may help out,
but there is a but it's not going to be
the difference in you know, them just smoking everybody that
that it may have an impact on a little bit
more grit and resolve to win at the end of games,

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but they still have to turn around and and play
well that they that they can't just roll their helmets
out and win. So I think that that's the most
important thing for the Buffalo Bills because they have a
lot to clean up because giving up the this amount
of points to this Dolphins team with uh with Skyler

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at quarterback, with the way that they played you know
eight team for whatever he was, it that that's where
near good enough to win a football game. And and
they are gonna have to go look and look in
the mirror and say, if we play like this, then
if we give Patrick Mahomes forty five attempts and we

(11:16):
give him three three turnovers, oh it's oh, it's a burrito.
That game that you might have will count that game lost.
Bills turned the ball over more than the Dolphins. Dolphins
had more penalties. You mentioned something there about the Damar
Hamblin stuff, and I think it was such a magical
moment with you know, with the kickoff return last week
in the regular season finale. I even thought that there

(11:38):
may have been some hangover in that game with the
Patriots because the Bills didn't turn it on until late.
It was it was a back at fourth game. Then
the Bills are at second half, they end up turning
it on and take off. If they would have done
that today, George, I would feel a lot better if
the Dolphins jumped out to a fourteen nothing lead and
the Bulls are like, all right, guys, you know, like

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maybe we kind of underestimated them because there's Scotlett, you know,
Scott Thompson was the quarterback. I actually would have more
understanding for that. But again, they were on the verge
of going up twenty one nothing. They were up seventeen
nothing because they ended up making the field goal on
the touchdown that was was taken back because of the
replay review, as it should have been. And yet somehow

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they let the Dolphins, you know, have twenty four unanswered
or whatever was seventeen unanswered and then they took lead.
There was no reason for that to happen. They need to,
you know, like they need to finish things off, and
they did not do it. If they would have just
been out, came out, you know, just a little flat,
I would have understood it. But they came out, you know, sharp,
and then they let the Dolphins back in. That's what

(12:41):
worries me. He's George rice Ster, I'm Dan Buyer. The
Giants are into the end zone. Sa Kwan Barkley twenty
air touchdown run extra point is good. So the Giants
and Vikings even up at seven five minutes to go
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That was the first Giants touchdown of the game. As
New York is in the end zone again, Daniel Jones
just hit as Aiah Hodgens for a touchdown pass extra
point is good. So the Giants have taken a fourteen

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seven lead over the Vikings with a minute to go
in the first quarter. Did you see the Aaron Donald's
stuff today, George, Yes, this is a little I don't
know if he's being dramatic, but at one point Aaron
Donald had retired NFL defensive lineman on his Twitter status.
That has since changed. Uh, that is no longer there.

(15:19):
But there seems to be a little bit more going
on in l a than what we talked about. We
talked about Sean McVeigh, we talked about Matthew Stafford. Uh.
Now it has us talking about one Aaron Donald. Yes, Hey,
it's funny about the Twitter. Twitter. Twitter will snitch on
you man. You get to you get to change his

(15:41):
stuff in your bio, taking stuff out, changing changing your picture.
People notice and uh, and a lot of times it's
a nothing burger, like somebody just decided, oh, I'm gonna
do something something aesthetically different with my with my social
media media, and it gets blown into something more significant.

(16:04):
But when you see Aaron Donald, uh, former Pitt Panther former, uh,
professional football player? You're like, what former? And especially now,
you wouldn't ordinarily make too much out of it, Oh
Twitter screw up or something, But he was talking about
retiring last year, and actually that piece of the RAMS

(16:28):
puzzle is completely underrated. Compare like everybody, Oh, Matthew Stafford,
Sean McVeigh, how about the the the Hall of Fame,
the first ballot Shorefire Hall of Fame, best player that
we've seen in in the NFL since, like Lawrence Taylor,
Like that's how how about that guy? How about the

(16:50):
guy that saved the Super Bowl and probably should have
been Super Bowl MVP? How about that guy, Aaron Donald?
How about the guy who sent in a letter of
retirement in early May to the Rams. Remember they just
didn't send it in. May have been a negotiating ploy
on Aaron Donald's part, but this was the conversation last
offseason as well. He didn't know if he was going

(17:11):
to come back. So maybe we're in the same spot
because it's just after the season, but this is you
know this, You look at the RAMS as a whole
and Sean McVeigh coming back, and honestly, I was really
glad that Sean McVeigh returned because I really like Sean McVeigh.
I think that Sean McVeigh is awesome. I think he's
great for the NFL. Even though the Rams beat my

(17:31):
Seahawks usually when their at full strength, I think Sean
McVeigh is great. And we you know, we've talked to
here about the troubles that the Rams had this year,
and I just think it would have been it would
have been a rough look. It would have been a
bad look to ditch out on the team after what
this season was. But that then it would have been
a really really bad look, really really bad. But but

(17:55):
you know what, and he if he had retired, I
would have criticized him super hard. I mean, just went
in on Max, because you can't just only be there
for the good times. Any any anybody, any good coach
can can win if you go full f them pics

(18:17):
and and f the future if you do do that.
But Dan, we we've had this conversation before, so I'm
gonna bring it up briefly again. Now. As a fan,
you're a fan of the Bucks and the Seahawks. Bucks,
you had not seen a championship in your lifetime prior
to nineteen yes. Now, Now imagine if if after that championship,

(18:44):
because they went quote unquote all in that you couldn't
even feel the team that could make the playoffs anymore.
How would you feel about that? Would that with that
championship be worth it if you don't have if you
can't even feel the team that that you're that's respectable
after that? You know this, it's a very very good question.

(19:07):
Because I I looked at I only looked at it
through the lens George of that. It was okay that
they didn't win it again, like last year when they
lost to the Celtics in Game seven of the Eastern Semis,
it wasn't as bad because they wanted the year before then,
you know, didn't You don't take it as hard. You're like,
all right, well we we did get the championship last year.

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I never took into account what it would be like
to fall off the face of the NBA landscape, or
in this case, the NFL landscape, And I think it
would be I think that it would really bother me
because then it's gone and there's nothing to nothing to
build on. Even the Seahawks have been honestly, they've been
a slow death for the last six years, and this

(19:51):
year was supposed to kind of be the start of
the rebirth, and maybe they were gonna be some lumps
with it, and and stuff did get stale, but there
was something, there was so thing to turning it around.
And they end up, you know, going to the playoffs
and losing yesterday. But yeah, I would, I would feel
I I think I would feel cheated if the team
just completely fell off the face of the earth. And

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and I think I've I've changed a little on this
because I've always said I would want my team. I
always I said I'd rather be a Marlins fan than say, um,
at the time, the Braves, but I know the Braves
want a couple of years ago, but because the Braves
would always go to the playoffs and then not win,
and I'm like, I'd rather just had my team win

(20:34):
a couple of titles and then you know, instead of
just always being disappointed every single year, it would be different. Though, Um,
I wouldn't like it, Yeah I would. I would. It
would bother me if they just off. Actually, I believe
that it destroys the fans excitement and energy around the
team that yes, fans want championships and that, and that

(20:58):
they will tell you do anything to get a champion chip,
but I don't think that they like It's almost like
when the companies are inventing new products, you can't ask
to can like, you can ask the consumers what they want,
but you can't give them what they want because they
don't know what they need based upon the technology available
that you are creating. So so it's the same thing

(21:21):
with teams is that people say they want championship, championship, championship,
and they do. But if you're a Pittsburgh Steelers fan,
you you haven't won since what like two thousand and
four or whatever year it was, And and how how
proud are they of their team? Dan? Oh they love it? Yeah? Yeah.
For super Bowl forty three is the last time they

(21:42):
want so fourteen years ago? Yeah so. And but they
have not missed the playoffs one, I'm sorry, they have
not had a losing record one single solitary time. So
so their fans can hold on to that any game
that we show up to, we can win no matter
who is out there. And I think that that's more

(22:02):
valuable than a championship, even though you do want a championship,
having a team that you can brag about, that that
is respected, that is tough and hard, nos is more
important than winning a championship. There is something to the
build as well. And and for as much as you
want to say like the Ram for a building, um yeah,

(22:24):
you know, I don't look at their team that lost
to the Patriots in the Super Bowl and the team
that beat the Bengals last year, like that wasn't That
wasn't the continuation like Darren Aaron Donald, piece of both
of those teams, Cooper Cup, you know, piece of both
of those teams. But it just doesn't feel like it

(22:45):
was like a a build, you know, like like like
like the Bills are building, you know, like the or
the Chiefs, you know, maybe a perfect example, like you know,
like they were there. You know, they had to take
their lumps, they had to lose to the Patriots in
overtime in the a f C Championship game, and then
we're able to make get to the super Bowl, like
taking their lumps. Like in a way, like the Rams
climb almost feels even though they have two Super Bowl

(23:06):
appearances in four years, were just two separate entities that
they weren't even like you know, like that wasn't like
a build towards something because you took Jared Goff, you
took Todd Gurley. You know, you move those guys out
and you bring in Matthew Stafford and you you know,
have cam Akers and whoever at running back, and it
doesn't seem like it was a a build towards it.
You do the Jalen Ramsey deal and bring him in

(23:27):
and and so yeah, it's it's such a it's such
a weird feel and I wonder if that's part of
the reason why to like in this city is is
George and I are broadcasting from l A, why it
hasn't taken the hold as it that it that it has.
It's not to say that the die hard Rams fans
that have been in this city for for, you know,
forty years and still love them through you know, the

(23:48):
days of St. Louis don't exist. They do. But I
still think that there's just a like the Chargers almost
have a feel of like building a little something with
a fan base, and I just don't know if the
Rams are building or adding anything onto it. And I
and I wonder if that's you know, part of the
problem as well, is because there isn't the long term
feel to it? Oh? Yeah, interesting because because now so

(24:12):
like you can deal with the season where your quarterback
gets like the next year like this this year, your
quarterback gets hurt and then you have you know, cool
Cooper Cup is out for the year as well. You
can deal with this season because you can chalk it
up to injuries. But next year, if you're bad and

(24:33):
those players are there, and granted they're not gonna win four,
four or five games again, they'll be you know, there'll
be seven eight win team next year, but the fact
that they won't be able to block people and won't
be as competitive as they need. The fans can't even
be excited about the draft because the draft is one

(24:55):
of the things that that fans get the most excited about.
They want to have hope. And when there's a loss
of hope, there is a like like when when you
don't feel like there's a savior coming, when you don't
feel like there's nothing that can show up to make
this thing better, that's the thing that draws fans in
a bad way. Yeah, drafting that left tackle that you

(25:17):
would want, you know, in the top six or seven picks,
as you have if you're you're the Rams, that is,
it's not gonna happen because that pick is now belongs
to the Detroit Lines. He's George Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer.
This is a Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up next, the Rams job isn't open. Sean McVeigh

(25:38):
is returning. We think Aaron Donald's returning, but he gave
us a reason to pause earlier today. Uh, as you
look at the five coaching vacancies in the National Football League,
which one stands out the most? Will tell you after
Manzi Blanels gives us the latest of what's going on
in the Twin Cities. So much more on this playoff Sunday.
What's happened in Manzy? Hi, guys, Happy Sunday, Happy Sunday

(26:00):
to you. A little slow in the NFL though usually
we've got like thirty seven games going on and today
just three. One in the books that was not pretty
and really long against the Rockets, but thank goodness they
won because I was like, like you said, a win

(26:21):
is a win, even if it's against the Rockets. The
Rocket you would have not let me, yes, mut no, no,
I would have left. I would have called it right
now and Bo Benson would have been the update anchor
for you guys. That's what would have happened if they
would have lost in the Rockets, but they didn't. Yeah, now,
let's talk about the game going on right now in
the NFL. The Giants and the Vikings going at it

(26:43):
in Minnesota. They were tied, but not anymore thanks to
a little help from Isaiah Hodgens takes the stop to
the end zone touchdown Giants. Isaiah Hodgens, he just ran
the post Jones Shaw Hodgens a winning combination and the
Giants take the lead with three to go. With the
first Giants radio network on the call. They just got

(27:03):
going in the second quarter and the Giants are up
on the Vikings fourteen to seven. Earlier today, the Bills
eliminated the Dolphins from the playoffs, holding on defeating them.
They survived thirty four to thirty one. And in the NBA, yes,
my Clippers thankfully beat the Rockets one to one hundred,
but the nixt beat beat the Pistons earlier today one

(27:24):
seventeen to one oh four. Julius Randall, his tenth consecutive
double double, ended with forty two points and fifteen rebounds,
the seventh career forty point game for Julius Randall, and
the Bulls and the Warriors have been going at it.
It's been a fun one, back and forth, back and forth,
but the Bulls are back on top one o two
to ninety one. Still ten minutes to go in the game.
We'll see how this one ends. And on Twitter, everybody's

(27:47):
loving the Aaron Donald situation there. Everyone's joking about it
that it's the quickest and the quietest retirement ever. Back
to you guys, when he signed that deal, it was
sixty million guaranteed in the first two years. There should
be his tenth season in the NFL. He has stated
when he signed the deal that you know, Sean mcveigh's

(28:07):
future as well, tied into his future, and that he
only wanted to play for Sean McVeigh. So that's why
I think that the the retired and then the taken down,
you know, deleted retirement part of that Twitter bio. I
do think he's coming back, But again, George, it's not
a conversation that we've had this offseason. All we talked

(28:29):
about was McVeigh and Stafford and what they were gonna do.
But I think that the most likely scenario was that
Aaron Rod Aaron Donald would maybe just right off into
the sunset, considering how close he was last offseason. Yeah yeah,
it Now any time a players starts talking about retirement

(28:50):
and he's still of playing, aid like uh, like like
Andrew Whitworth, you know where, like he was the opposite,
he was a man in the league. He told y'all like, yo,
I'm done. Like, yeah, you can try to get him,
get him back, but he's old enough to where you're
you're where you're like, Okay, he's not coming back. But
Aaron Donald, when guys like him started talking about it,

(29:14):
you know that we're coming up on the end. And
honestly actually think that that that some of that is
why his play declined a little. I mean, grant granted,
a decline for him is still like pro Bowl level
play and just not all pro level play. So so
I think that when you get to talking about that,

(29:35):
then uh, then that's where you get a little bit off.
There are five coaching vacancies in the NFL, which one
if you were able to pick where you would want
to coach. Oh, the the job that will be open
by Tuesday. That is that is the Los Angeles Chargers quarterback.

(29:56):
It's still occupied. It's still occupied, and lo but of well,
I'm firing him myself. Of the five, this is kind
of I'm setting you up for. It's almost a question alright.
So so of the five openings, right, okay, give me okay,

(30:20):
So you have in Indianapolis, which has a reasonable team.
Texans absolutely no way, no how, get out of here.
Don't want any part of that job. Carolina Panthers is
semi but I don't feel like building everything. Like the
Carolina Panthers need a quarterback and there's not a readily

(30:43):
available top tier quarterback. So I'm gonna pass on that one.
I am going to I've dealt with a short quarterback,
so I can deal with the Arizona Cardinals. But I
don't want to deal with the with their front front
office because Michael Bidwell has not just been just just

(31:04):
eager to open up the open up the pocketbook. So
now now that's another story. So man, yeah, I agreed.
I wouldn't want any of them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I'm just waiting on the Charges job to come open.
If it don't come open, then, you know, or or Dallas.
I don't think Dallas is going to come open even

(31:25):
if they lose. But but even but those are my
two options. If I'm Sean, if I'm Sean not yeah,
if I'm Sean Payton that I'm not taking any of
these jobs that are currently open. But if the Chargers
or Cowboys come open, sign me upal, sign me yeah.
And that's understandable. It's just the situations of these five

(31:45):
that are there right now. Like you're right, I would
I would not want to go anywhere near Houston, even
with the second overall pick and two picks in the
top twelve. I just the there there's too much turmoil
and questions about the front office. You mentioned Arizona situation.
Steve Kimer isn't back either. So now, unless you're Michael
Well and you're giving the coach, you're you're doing a

(32:09):
tag team of a head coach in GM. Maybe that's
the solution that they go in Arizona. But as you said,
you know, you look at the Kyler Murray situation and
and be like, all right, that's something that that I
can work with. And I don't know, I just don't
know if I would want to, Like, there are a
lot of pieces that they need in Arizona as well,
so it's not like they're two players away Denver. I mean,

(32:30):
who knows. I mean their defense I would love to,
you know, be a part of, But you know, do
you have to fix Russell Wilson? Like That's what I
think is gonna be so interesting because there are top names.
There are marquee names that we hear a bunch. You know,
we hear Sean Payton, we hear Jim Harbaugh. We you know,
we we hear Ben Johnson of the Lions, Dan Quinn

(32:52):
and the Cowboys. These guys interviewing for these jobs. But maybe,
like if you're Ben Johnson and the Lions, maybe it's
better to it can Detroit for one more season and
then when a different job, maybe next year, opens up,
then you'll be able to choose that one. I I
don't think. I don't think it's gonna be a who's
who of head coaching hires this round because of how

(33:13):
unappealing some of these jobs are right now, Oh Lord,
have mercy, Like I mean, I I would say the
coach job probably is the most attractive, only because they
they will spend some money, they get your quarterback, you
think if you know their fourth overall, So yeah, yeah,

(33:36):
so you may be able to fix your quarterback situation.
So that is one that I would be pretty excited
about if I were to get that job. And and
arsay is not impatient, so so you know, having an
owner that's not going to be impatient. Um and on
that I do not I would not touch the if

(33:58):
I'm a a person who I think that this could
be my you know, like if you're a black head coach,
I'm not going to the Houston, Texas under no circumstances
or and if I'm any head coach really unless I'm
I'm I'm I'm older and thinking a man, if they
fired me after one year, I'll take this. You know,

(34:21):
this four year, twenty five million dollars. A's like a
severance package and just it just it, just call it,
call it quits. So those are the people that you're
gonna are gonna have very interested in that job, like older,
older coaches who are who haven't been a head coach,
who are who are like, I don't work out, this
is more than I've ever made, you know, I've been

(34:44):
on like you know, nine hundred million dollars a year
and now I'm getting ready to be uh five six
million dollars a year on like a four or five
year deal, and they fired me after one, Say Nara,
And I'm already like sixty two years out, Say Nara,
that waiting known as all my life there there they're

(35:06):
they're just if you're though, if you're if you're a
young guy in a marquee spot. I just don't know
how these you know, appealing. I do agree with you
with the colds portion of I think that is loyal.
Question is is Chris Ballard's the GM there? He stuck
around Frank Roick didn't um and they've gone through a
bunch of stuff. It's all right if things don't go
well for Indie? How long is Ballard? They're in the

(35:27):
same thing for Scott Fitter and Carolina as well. The
GM there, he sticks around, look for a new head coach.
If things don't go well, does a GM change you know,
happen and then all of a sudd now you're saying,
all right, new GM comes in and he's gonna want
his guy. There's there are a lot of negatives in
in in some of these jobs. And it's just it's
not the pick of the litter that we usually did.

(35:47):
He's George, I'll tell you what. We'll do it on
the flip side. You We'll do it on the flip side,
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The Giants are driving, looking to add to their seven
point lead in Minnesota Territory, facing a third and two
from the twenty seven yard line with seven minutes to

(36:09):
go until halftime. Will continue the coaching conversation and so
much more next year on Fox Sports Radio. It's a
Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's George rice

(36:29):
Stir on Dan Fire. Giants kick a field goal, you
go up seven on Minnesota to go until halftime. Dan. Now,
I know that we have seen crazy things happen in
the first two playoffs, and we'll actually yeah, in the

(36:49):
in the playoff game last night and then this morning
already right, m But but this game, the way it's
going feels very Vikings to me. It feels very Vikings,
like actually picked the Giants to win this game straight up, Yes,
straight up like money money line. Because I have not

(37:11):
trusted the Minnesota Vikings this entire season. I have called
the fool's goal. They have been fool's goal this entire season.
If they pulled this playoff game out, obviously, that would
just be just a continuation of the of the season
and it would show that they aren't truly fraudulent, you
know what I mean. But if they lose this game

(37:32):
to the Giants, who you would think that they have
the That the Vikings have the better quarterback, they have
the better three wide receivers, they have the better tight end,
they have the better players on defense. I mean they
literally have on paper, they have the better everything. So

(37:53):
if they lose this game, this would be a disaster,
A disaster after last after a season when well, you
know what, I've called them all season, Minnesota, because they've
been so average. They the record wasn't average, but they
have been. And I think that there's also another factor

(38:15):
to this, and it doesn't necessarily show in the standings,
but I do think the Giants have gotten better. Daniel
Jones's numbers over the last month have been very good,
and you can use his legs Sae Kwon Barkley, I
mean on his touchdown running this game, Um, you know,

(38:36):
look like these Kuwan Barkley at Penn State and maybe
he's back to that. I think the Giants are a
little bit better. But to your main point, and I
completely agree, you just you want the Vikings to just
turn it on with all of those pieces and maybe
you know, you break it down, you're right as a whole.
They seem to be better equipped the Giants on offense,

(38:58):
but on a third one they through a a reverse
pass to Kirk Cousins. It's so you know, like like
you like, Kirk Cousins in the open field is not ideal,
but for some reason they ran it. And I don't
want to pile one Kevin O'Connell because I think actually
through time we'll see what they really are. But I
think we just have been waiting for something from Minnesota

(39:19):
since that week one thrashing of Green Bay to show us,
and and they haven't another in a ten point deficit
left to go in the first half. Were and there's
plenty of there's plenty of time, There's plenty of time,
But it's also the fact of, like we've been waiting
weeks and months for Minnesota. So what is another half

(39:40):
of football going to do? Right? Like, like you know,
it's fool me once, Shame on you, you know, if
we're really thinking that Minnesota is gonna be able to
do a breakthrough. And I think the Giants defense is
a little bit better than maybe we give them credit for.
There is a Giants team that came into Minnesota and
Christmas even you know, Minnesota neither that late field goal

(40:01):
to beat him. These teams are much more evenly matched
than what their records would have indicated leading into, you know,
into this matchup. And as you said, you like the
Giants straight up to wind and right now the Giants
are straight up winning seven with under three minutes to go,
Vikings now facing a second down and nine from their
own twenties six yard line. He is George Rice Stir.

(40:21):
I'm Dan buyer. I still feel like we are reeling
from last night's game in Jacksonville. Brandon Staley does still
have a job as the Chargers head coach. Will he
keep that job this week? And what is the real
problem with the Chargers. We'll talk about it next year
on Fox Sports Radio. And maybe the Vikings have turned

(40:46):
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(41:08):
extra point is good. It's a seventeen fourteen game in
Minneapolis with forty five seconds left to go in the
first half. Welcome in. Get George on Twitter at George
Rice Stir. You can find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer.
On Fox earlier today, you heard Monty say the Bills
took out the Dolphins thirty one and the a f
C playoff picture will be settled tonight when the Ravens

(41:29):
and Bengals end up playing in Cincinnati. Obviously no. Lamar
Jackson will get to him later on in the show
and at the bottom of the hour, the first edition
of Easy As one to three four three is here.
The game is back and I'll tell you the topics
right now. Three NFL questions, one college hoops question. That's

(41:50):
what you've got for you, George, at the bottom of
the hour going for a perfect score of ten. Is
now that the NFL regular season is over easy as
one to three, four is back deciding You'll have Sam
Iowa Sam as a lifeline, You'll have bow Benson, you
have Mancy Belanos, all for that perfect score that's coming

(42:11):
up at the bottom of the hour. I just posted
something on Twitter at Dan Buyer own Fox get George
at George Rice Stir and I want to get your
thoughts on it, George, because I thought that this was
awesome by Brian Dable. The Giants drive stalled inside the
five yard line, they had to settle for a field
goal to at the time go up ten on the

(42:34):
Minnesota Vikings. And as the Giants are setting up for
the field goal, the camera catches Brian Dable giving someone
an ear full and even not not not out of
the ordinary where he would be like whoa, but like
someone is hearing it from the head coach. And there
was even a point where day Ball then even went
back for a little bit more and then he turned

(42:56):
around knowing that Daniel Jones hurt everything that he just
said and I think that's why he did it these
and he pats him on the arm and then starts
talking positively to Daniel Jones. I thought it was awesome
because we've seen coaches do this at times. I remember
in the Packer days, you know, Steve Maryucci and Andy
Reid would talk about how Mike Holmgren would just give

(43:17):
it to them when when Brett far would do something
you know, bad, negative, whatever the case is, those coaches
hurt it. Now Brett maybe hearing Mike Holmgren doing that,
but it's homegrin giving into the coaches and I and
I find it it's such a unique way to work
with your players or your better players, your star players.

(43:39):
And I just thought it was awesome by Brian Dabile,
who obviously wasn't happy that the team had to settle
for three gets on his coaches case, but with his player,
you know, gives him a pat on the butt, pat
on the arm, pick it up, go out there and
try to score some more points. I thought it was
really cool, and my reading too much into this, George No,
I just read it just a tab it differently, but

(44:00):
against something to be read into it. Um. The thing
I read into it is is that there are different
ways to coach different players, right and he knows that
how that that Daniel Jones may be the kind of guy,
especially in this sort of playoff game, you don't get
on him like that in this sort of playoff game.

(44:20):
Maybe you get on him hard in the in the
film room, but maybe not hard during the game because
he's a guy who's taking a ton of criticism, a
ton of criticism. So maybe he's a guy who needs
to end the game be built up in a certain way.
But the most important thing a coach can do. And

(44:41):
I talked to an NFL coach today, um and he
just finished coaching with with with Mike Tomlin, and he
talked about how steady he is no matter whether that
that when they were two and six or when they
were eight and eight, that he was just steady the
entire time him and that impacts how the players feel

(45:03):
and react in in situations. So so that's something that
I was that was interesting for me to here and
Brian and he has an accountability that he holds everybody accountable.
That he doesn't treat the the quarterback different thing in
terms of accountability. Right now, of course he as a coach.

(45:25):
You do have to treat some some players differently because
of their because of their upbringing or their demeanor, stuff
going on with their in their personal life and all
of that. But you do have to make sure that
everybody knows that everybody is accountable, that nobody is above reproach.

(45:45):
That means even the head coach. So that sounds that's
I looked at that as Brian Dable holding a coach accountable,
given his player a little bit of love, doing the
right thing for his UH in the moment, you know,
and you saw nobody battered, deny or anything, which leads
me to believe that he holds himself accountable as well. Now,

(46:08):
who needs to be held accountable with the Los Angeles Chargers,
Uh Staley? Staley needs to be held held accountable. That
was a true. First of all, it was Week eighteen
that was atrocious. He had no business. But because if

(46:28):
Mike Williams plays in that game, Keenan Allen isn't getting
double covered and then playing man coverage in the second half,
because you can't do that with Mike Williams on the
on the field, And he defended the decision while everybody's
in danger in football. Yeah, but what but why would
you You know, everybody's in danger in football, so why

(46:49):
would you put some of your most important players in
danger in a meaningless game? Don't do it? Yes? And
and then how how do I feel about going for
it on fourth down? Uh? You know, risk it? You know,
risk it or no biscuit? Right? Yeah? But but at
the same time, I think that you are at my

(47:12):
My saying is is that fortune favors the aggressive. Yes,
there is a difference between aggressive and reckless. And sometimes
Brandon state the errors on the side of being reckless.
And you can't have a coach being reckless and he's
reckless at times. So so sorry, If Sean Payton wants

(47:36):
this job, then he's got to go because I have
two rules for hiring and firing coaches. The first rule
is that after every season, every coach, no matter whether
you won the Super Bowl or you went defeated, and
defeated means that you lost every single game. So whether
you won the Super Bowl or went defeated, that two

(47:58):
questions that every needs to be evaluated. Two questions need
to be answered. First question is is there a coach
that I can guarantee get that will do a better job.
That's the first one, and then there Sean Sean Payton.
The answers yes. And then the second question is there
a loss of hope? Can I go in the locker
room and can I have free agent meetings and say

(48:22):
and sell them on the fact that the future is
brighter than the past? So, Dan, I will ask you
those questions and you tell me whether if you can
answer those questions, then you should know whether he should
be fired or not. So the first question is is
there a coach that they can guarantee get that would
be better than than Brandon Staley? Yes, okay, so then

(48:46):
he gotta go. Then the second question is there a
loss of hope? Yes, he gotta go. He has to
like like there's not even and and and you who,
I think that's that That may be the first of
the second time that you've heard heard that test. Is
that a reasonable test? Yeah? I think so, And I

(49:07):
think that it's I think that it's very fair. And
I would I would even say like there is something
too and I know, like you can't sit there and
and and do what the the guy in section you
know to one four is yelling. But the Chargers to me,
are like the poster child of when you have fans
who are, you know, apathetic about their head coach. And

(49:28):
I think if two of them, like I think that
they got apathetic about Anthony Lynn and I think they
got apathetic about Mike McCoy. And there comes to a
point where if no wonter what you do, something is
likely to go wrong. Or even if things are good,
when the one bad thing pops up, everybody goes here
we go again. And that that's what That's what chargering

(49:50):
is like, that's what that's that whole phrase that has
has gained so much momentum over the last twenty four hours,
Like that's a real thing and and that needs to change.
And and and also, George, just to add on to that,
I'm not trying to to cater to you, but I
just found the criticism last night given the Justin Herbert
as just completely for the for the for the simple

(50:14):
fact of this, when you look at the Chargers who
have no running game, you have wide receivers who are hurt,
one of the reasons because your coach played one of
them in a meaningless game last week. But it's not
like Keenan Allen's been a you know, healthy body for
the seventeen games they had in the regular season, was
in the case. They had a couple of guys go
down last night. They can't stop the run. They can't

(50:34):
stop anything on defense. And that's also where Staley's bread
is buttered. He's the defensive coach. And you've spent money
on j. C. Jackson, who I know is injured, and
you know, you bring in Khalil Mack and you make
these pieces and you have Joey Bosa and Dona. Joey
Bosa's penalties at least the one on the the conversion
on the on the touchdown inexplainable. But the point is
is it's still Jacksonville was able to go back and

(50:57):
you know, go on a thirty one to three run,
you win that game. Justin Herbert's when you really look
at it, he's the only thing that they've got going
for them right now. Like we look at Austin Ekeler
and and and the multifaceted back that he is, and
he was great in fantasy this past year. But I
just mentioned they're one of the worst running teams in
the National Football League. And it's also there's injuries on

(51:17):
the offensive line. So maybe that's not all Brandon Staley's fault,
but justin Herbert's the only thing that they really have
going for them, and he's so valuable. I just thought
that the shots that he was taking last night were
completely unwarranted for what the Chargers are and who the
Chargers are, Oh yeah, oh yeah, because they want to
play the West Coast ball controls sort of sort of system.

(51:43):
You I mean, like like that being nit that's what
they want to play. That's not how you're going to have.
Like that's why it's so hard for the Chargers to
blow people out. They play struggle football. Struggle football, that's
the that's the difference they are. They continuously keep the

(52:04):
game close. They are the NFL's verse and and they
do score a decent amount of points, but they are
the NFL's version of I don't know, like Mario crystal
Ball at at at and the and the offense is
that that he had in Oregon, very talented. They won

(52:26):
a ton of games. He's a good coach, but sometimes
the the style of play and the amount that they
won by didn't necessarily match, like like like it wasn't
commensurate with the talent on the field and every and
that's not a criticism of like like that doesn't say

(52:48):
that he's a bad coach. What that what that means
is is that every single person has blind spots and
stuff that they need to work on. I have some,
you have some, Dan Colin has. Everybody has stuff that
they can work on and be better at, even even coaches.
So I'm not so I don't look at that as

(53:11):
a condemnation on their future as coaching. But that's something
that they do have to get together if they want
to to take the next step in coaching. And now
they've put their players in danger and all of that,
and now they've lost the game that Mike Williams gonna
helped them in. Bad news, buddy, he's George rice Ster

(53:31):
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(53:53):
he's George Rister. I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox Football Sunday.
He's George rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer. It's a Fox
Football Sunday wild Card edition. Excuse me, super wild Card editions.
We're live from the entirect dot com studios. Second, after
just getting underway, Giants leaving the Vikings, is it a
requirement to say Super? Yes, well, that's what the NFL

(54:14):
wants it to be called. Now they've they've added the
Super to it because it was just wild card is
the divisional round, so it's not like this is the
Super wild Card, and then there's a regular wild card.
I think they're trying trying to maximize Super as much
as they can Maximum and next and next weekend is

(54:34):
the maximum division round. It's the it's the double down
division round and then we and then we have the
colossal Championship weekend. That's you know like that that's actually
the genius of like Elite eight, Sweet sixteen. They work
so well together to your point that this the adding

(54:56):
of Super just a wild card weekend, which that's what
the NFL is officially calling it. So that's what I'm
calling it. I don't know how super it is until
the second time we've got the it's a it's wild
card weekend. What what made it so super that we
get it on you know exactly the Monday? Make it super?
The two more games? Yes, where seven seeds are now

(55:18):
and six version get the extended version of the playoffs
this year coming to a field near you instead where
instead of paying twenty four dollars for for for this,
we're gonna You're gonna cut the price in half and
give you two more games. Well, it's funny you say
that because joining us now as part of his contract

(55:41):
with Fox Sports Radio is super Adam Kaplan. So now
for three are NFL insider who you can find on
Twitter at Kaplan NFL and you can hear him on
the inside the Birds podcast must be known as super
Adam Kaplan when he joins us? Does that? Does that
work at him? Guys? I like that. I appreciate that. Yeah,

(56:01):
you know, it's funny. For years when I would talk
to the NFL about scheduling and so forth and how
close games were, and I would say, boy, there's a
lot of parody they go no, no, no, no no, no,
call it competitive balance, don't call it parody. I'm like, okay,
all right, I'll do that. What do you what do
you call the articular about our terms? What do you
call the job that Brandon Staley did as the Chargers coach,

(56:23):
not only last night, but even over these last two
seasons that looked they made the playoffs. I thought it
was very questionable if I should not have played Mike Willains.
But let me just explain to you, most likely how
they went down a decision to play Mike Williams. Almost
all personnel decisions, the general manager should always be in
those meetings when it comes down a playing time or not.
I'd be shocked if Tom to LESCo, the general manager,

(56:43):
was not clued into that going into the Week eight
team game when wanting to wind up having a back fracture,
so he would have to okay, and it's just he
has personal control. Tom does, so I can't imagine that
he didn't say like he didn't have a say in it.
So that turned out to be a mistake. That's not
what they lost, but that's certainly what that that would

(57:04):
have a contribute to had Williams played to them potentially winning.
But you can't blow a twenty seven point leads, you
just can't. I mean, it's ship third a historic I
mean the third worst than NFL history. But there are
a lot of problems. And the word in the in
the coaching ranks right now is not that Stale is
in trouble. But believe it or not, you might see
some changes on their offensive staff. We'll see what happens.
But that's the word with a bunch of coaches that

(57:26):
talked to this week. Okay, now, now I know that
things are always, you know, a work in progress because
a year ago we thought that the Giants head coach
was was safe until until he did something insane with
the quarterback sneaks and that got him fired. So now

(57:48):
is there any way that we are the combination of
Week eighteen and then losing a twenty seven point lead
in in the playoffs partially because of what happened in
Week eighteen and then your team showed a lack of
discipline with with slam and helmets and all of that.
Is there in a way that he got himself unsafe? Well,
I would tell you this the word that I got

(58:09):
this week and and especially the last twenty four hours
is that the change that may occur will help Staley
concentrate more on defense, because their defense, by the way,
was a major disappoint terrible against the run. Now they
were down three defensive tackles. But the word that I
got from inside sources like managing one likes Staley to
concentrate more on defense and get the defense going so

(58:32):
it doesn't have to kind of keep an eye on
the offense and the Joe Lombardi runs it. He's the
offensive coordinator coming up from the Saints. So again we
might have a reorganization of the offense. Will have to
see what happens. But yeah, and they look the stuff
with Sean Payne. We could address that. I've addressed it
on Fox Spits rated for weeks. I've never seen it.
I just don't see it simply because the Giants just scored.

(58:52):
Simply because the Charges are not a team that spends
a lot of money. You would have to pay You'd
have to pay John Payne, you have to give significant
raft picks at home. By the way, and I keep
telling people this, They're gonna want to extend Herbert's contract,
which could be fifty million fifty million plus per season,
maybe four years of four years of fully guaranteed money.
I don't see the charge of spending that kind of money.

(59:15):
That's not an organization that does stuff like that. Daniel
to Daniel on that Giant's touchdown, Daniel Jones to Daniel
Bellinger puts the Giants back up, as Adam Kaplan told
you by nine extra point coming up. Get Adam on
Twitter at Kaplan NFL. George and I were just discussing
the five vacancies. I wouldn't want any of those jobs.

(59:35):
Just my personal opinion. Which one gets filled first? Do
you think, Adam? I don't think there's any timeline, to
be honest with you. Um, what they're gonna do is
the teams that have coaches that are in the playoffs,
they did zoom. I'll give you the hottest name is
Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator for the Lions. Three teams
are really in it for him. One of the teams

(59:55):
I spoke with said that the only thing is he's
so young. Is he too young to be a head
coach right now? Could he get another year under his belt?
And that that's kind of what you wrestled with, Like,
look not that anyone Sean McVeigh, and we we have
to understand like that's just once in a lifetime somebody
like Sean McVeigh. But McVeigh was technically thirty years old
when he signed his contract. A couple of weeks later

(01:00:16):
turned thirty one. It's not a president. Johnson's a young
guy in his early thirties. But he is probably the
hottest coaching game. If you look at the mall, I
could certainly see by the end of next week, maybe
next weekend, one or two of them filled. These typically
take two to three weeks to fill because remember you
have to get second interviews. And the other problem that

(01:00:36):
you have is we saw this is Kevin O'Connell last year.
By the way, Denver really was interested in in in
Kevin O'Connell last year, but they decided not to wait
and hired Nate Hackett, who I'm told, by the way,
is uh is being looked at the Jets to be
an offensive coordinator. But yeah, I would say it's just
gonna take a little bit time because you've got some
of these coaches still in the playoffs. All right, Well,

(01:00:57):
well we know how the Jets offensive look next season. Um,
but Essentially they're looking at like three or four guys.
So for us, Okay, so, uh, the Seahawks they have
an early draft pick. They have Geno Smith, who led
the league in completion percentage. What happens there? Do they

(01:01:20):
draft a quarterback or do they say, you know, you
know what we can We can win with Gino if
we put more pieces around him. Yeah, he'll be back
as the starter. It's certainly the most unlikely story, guys,
of this year's season, not nothing even rivals at It's
just hard to understand. I was talking to UH, I
was talking to another team this week about their quarterback position.
I said, Hey, what did you guys think of Gina Smith?

(01:01:41):
Got the guy stops? He goes, Dude, if we knew
that he was this school, we would have signed him,
which tells you kind of what the league's thought about him.
Not very much. It's just a great story. Became a
very decisive quarterback. He'll be their starter. But what they
have to do with any playmakers and defense, they know
that they'll continue to look towards that that they need
pass rushers in the major way. They grew better against

(01:02:02):
the run. They've got the running back, they got their receivers.
They addressed their offensive line. Remember they drafted two tackles,
Cross and Lucas, so they're set there. A get a
little bit younger in the your tiory their offensive line,
But it's all about their defense. For the Seahawks going
for it, yeah, because they don't have much of one
right now. Adam Caplan joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,

(01:02:22):
the forty matters had very little resistance in yesterday's win.
Tonight the Ravens take on the Bengals. There is no
Lamar Jackson, but there was a lot of Lamar Jackson
UH news this past week. He comes out and says
his diagnosis of what's going on or what's happening with
his knee, how do you think this ends up playing out?
And is this is this all able to be patched

(01:02:45):
up and and good to go, or are we starting
to see real fractures in this relationship? Well, listen, he
the first thing you have to understand is they've built
this entire offense and this is really the team around
Jackson and is running do you dual threat quarterback? Now?
What the re know why he went on the offensive
is because the the rumors that he was milking the injury.
I'm pretty certain that's why he went on the offensive

(01:03:07):
to put the statement out with exactly what the injuries.
And by the way, a grade two or Grade two
plus TCL sprain is at least six weeks, particularly for
running back. She's a running quarterback, and it could be
as much as eight weeks to legitimate injury. It's way
worse than an MCL sprain. And by the way, that's
a minimum a half of a terrorist past a cruciate ligament.
It's a bad injury. So he shot down all the

(01:03:29):
rumors about it was a one or three week injury
that turned out to being correct, and it's much worse now.
As far as his future, I can't imagine the walk away.
I don't think they're particularly happy that he went out
on Twitter and put this out there. But the fact
the matter is they've built this offense around him. That's
why they drafted him, that's why they moved on from
Joe Flackle. People forget about that, So we have to

(01:03:49):
we have to understand that. See, if they moved on
from him, which they're not going to do, but if
they decided to completely change course, what is the recourse folks.
We'll talk more about this in future weeks, but Mike
count twelve to fourteen. Teams do not know who their
starting quarterback will be. Where they getting quarterback exactly? Adam,
I keep asking this. I'm like, everybody wants a new

(01:04:12):
court quarterback. What are you gonna do? Prime Prime example
via Raiders. It feels like they're more likely to end
up with with with Jimmy Garoppolo than than anybody else.
And if you were gonna do that, why didn't you
just keep their car? Yeah? Or Brady? Yeah? But it
car didn't play well with Josh mcchannels. Let's call it
like it is. He he just was not comfortable in

(01:04:32):
that offense. It requires you to make quick decisions. He
did not, and that's why they benched him. Obviously was
contractually related as well. They made a decision he would
not be their guy going forward, and they're gonna move
on from the only question with cars can they figure
out a trade before by the third day of after
the Super Bowl, when when that thirty two and a

(01:04:53):
half million will become fully guaranteed. So they're a tough way,
and they're definitely in a tough way because they need
major help on defense absolutely major. How they have a
very bad defense and they need a lot of players
on the back end. Adam Caplan is our Fox Sports
Radio NFL in center here. I'm on the inside the
Birds podcast, and they hit him up on Twitter at
Kaplan NFL. That's super, Adam Kaplan. Adam, we appreciate it.

(01:05:14):
Can't wait to talk to you next week. Okay, thank you.
He's George Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer. Easy is one, two, three,
four is back next, But first let's go to the
news desk. Live from the direct dot Com studios is
the one and only mans Blani. The Giants may have
just intercepted the ball, but they threw a flag, so
I don't know if it is official, but they did

(01:05:35):
score again. So now they're up by ten against the
Minnesota Vikings. Their latest score was a touchdown pass from
Daniel Jones to Daniel Bellinger. Is a score about ten
minutes to go in the game. Possible interception flag on
the play. If I get an update, I will let
you know, and I'll tell you this because as you
were saying that, they showed a replay and the interception

(01:05:56):
looked like the ball hit the garage. Yeah, Oh, I
think they just official they called it. Yes, they're going
to their down officially. You know, I would not like
to be a ref because in lifetime it looked good
and then when the when you slow it down, you're like,
oh yeah, dang, I imagine I would not like to
be Arrests were really good today in any sport, yes,

(01:06:20):
any sport. But Daniel Jones is having a good game
for the Giants. Sixteen of twenty two and eighteen yards,
two touchdowns, no interceptions. Kirk Cousins fourteen of eighteen hundred
and forty four yards and a touchdown. Plenty of game left,
but the Giants are up by ten. Earlier today, in
the NFL, the Bills and the Dolphins went at it.

(01:06:40):
It wasn't pretty, but the Bills came out on top.
They've officially eliminated the Dolphins from the playoffs they won
and other NFL news. Adam Schefter earlier today tweeted that
the Carolina Panthers have put their name in the Sean
Payton sweepstakes. They received permission to interview the former head coach,
so we're keeping track gets Carolina, Arizona, Denver, and Houston.

(01:07:03):
So far that have at least asked to interview Sean Payton.
We'll see how this sweep stakes goes, because obviously the
Chargers on social media are trending, and not the Chargers,
but Brandon Staley. He won't stop trending all day and
if you just look him up, it's quite awful. Everybody's like,
is he still not fired? Why is it he fired?

(01:07:24):
What's going on? Somebody tweeted, I woke up late. Why
hasn't he been fired? What's going on? Everybody's talking about that.
So we'll see what happens in the end with Sean Payton.
In men's college basketball Top twenty five, there was a
bit of an upset. Number six Yukon lost to St.
John's eighty five to seventy four. The Huskies had twenty
one turnovers compared to St. John's. Head No, yeah, juice.

(01:07:45):
When I looked at that, I was like, well, obviously abvio, abvio.
And number twelve Xavier. They held on to defeat number
twenty five Market eight to seventy six. One game going
on in the NBA right now. It's okay, see taken
on the Brooklyn Nets in Brooklyn and they're playing without.
It was the last minute scratch, but no Ben Simmons
for Brooklyn. But okay, see is up twenty three to

(01:08:05):
twenty two minutes to go in the first quarter, so
plenty of game left back to you guys. Thank you
very much. Monty. Don't go very far because you are
a lifeline. Oh yes, in our first ever game three
of easy as one to three four. You heard the
categories earlier, NFL and college basketball. George, are you ready

(01:08:26):
to play? Yes? I am, and I have been specifically
uh preparing Monty for this bye bye by building up
some good will for a couple of weeks. With that,
camaraderie is good. He feels better about me. Forget what
he tweated me, Like every time the Coopers have lost

(01:08:48):
the last week, he tweets at me, what do you mean?
Which is known as the gascon Remember when gascon tried
to say avatage George? Yes, yes, the tail pipe? All right,
let's play it live from the tirect dot com studios.
The lifelines are Monster, Belanios Iowa, Sam and Bo Benson.

(01:09:12):
The goal is for George Rice to to get ten points.
I asked him four separate questions. He doesn't have to
give me all of the correct answers, just some of them,
just some of them. The over under today eight and
a half, So I expect a lot from you. Vikings
in the end zone, Kirk Cousins to Irv Smith Jr.
Uh touchdown pass and catch. So the Vikings pulling closer.

(01:09:33):
Now a four point game, extra point coming up? Are
you ready to play? George? Yes? Alright? Name one of
two teams that have gone to exactly three straight Super Bowls.
We know the Bills want to four in a row,
but I want to know exactly three straight Super bowls.
That's happened twice in Super Bowl history. Name one of
the two teams that have accomplished that feat. Oh, okay,

(01:10:00):
let's let's think. So you have Oh my gosh, I
want to say that Denver Broncos. But I'm going to
actually call on a lifeline early. I'm calling a lifeline
early today. I am calling on Iowa Sam Boy and
Iowa Sam She's I was thinking the the Denver Broncos,

(01:10:28):
okay or Green Bay like a long time ago. Um,
I was thinking, what are you thinking? Uh? Well, I
was thinking maybe the St. Louis Rams in the late nineties,
early two thousand's, uh, could be wrong there. I was
also thinking about the Chiwboys lunked in Georgia's stuff. Straight

(01:10:58):
super bowls, pretty straight? Yeah, um, alright, gosh um, I'm
oh wait, hold on, hold on, hold on? Did did
did Tom Brady go to three straight Super Bowls? That
was also a thought. All right, I'm going with the
just take a shot in the Donald. We'll go with
the Patriots, all right? That your final answer? Yeah, show

(01:11:21):
me the New England Patriots. Oh yes, sec, you know
the you know the que you know, George knows like
you didn't even hear the bell. You didn't even hear
the bell the New England Patriots for years, bro, We've
been doing it for you. Georgia screamed over the bell
so you could hear. The New England Patriots went to

(01:11:43):
Super Bowl fifty one where they beat the Falcons, lost
to the Eagles, and Super Bowl fifty two, and then
one Super Bowl fifty three over the Ramps. The other
answer that was except the bullet team that played earlier today.
The Miami Dolphins went to Super Bowl six seven and eight.
Seven was their perfect season. Eight they beat the Minnesota Vikings.
Going back to back, all right, George named two of

(01:12:03):
the three starting quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl
for the New York Giants. Oh um, okay, oh Eli
Manning and oh Frank right, yeah, Frank Wright. Those are

(01:12:26):
your final answers. Oh my god, was it Jeff Hostetler
or was it Frank Oh I'm gonna go with Frank
Frank Wright, Okay, because Frank Bright came came back in
that in that playoff game. But okay, go on, show
me Eli Manning there he is, Yes, win are of
Super Bowl? And is it Frank Wright? No, it was Jeffler.

(01:12:51):
Jeff Hostetler Quarterbacks, Super Bowl twenty five. Frank Reich brought
the Bills back in their comeback against the Oilers in
the playoffs, but then Jim Kelly ended up coming back
in quarterbacking the Super Bowl. Phil Simms was the other
acceptable answer. So one point there for for George, who
just punched something. Phil Simms the quarterback. It's like that

(01:13:15):
meme from Malcolm X where uh Denzel watched Smacks Smacks
the desk. That was me right there. Two for three
still have an opportunity to hit the over, but the
game is out of the question again. Vikings trailer Giants
one is that extra point was good? Midway through the
third quarter? George has got two points? Can he finished

(01:13:38):
nine of ten? Find out next. He's George Rice Stir.
I'm Dan Buyer, live from the Direct dot Com studios.
This is Fox Football Sunday, Fox Football Sunday. I'm Dan Buyer.
He's the NFL VET, George Rice Stir. Glad to have
you with us as we were live from the Entirect
dot Com Studios. George in the middle of a game
of easy As one to three four, while the Giants
and Vikings are in the middle of a tight one

(01:13:59):
in the twins of these. Vikings just forced to punt
so they'll get the football down three with four twelve
left to go in the third quarter of New York
leading at twenty one, George's two lifelines left. Bell Benson,
our executive producer, and Monster Belanos is at the news desk.
Are you ready to resume easy As one to three four? George?
The topics today are the NFL and college basketball, and

(01:14:21):
we continue with the NFL theme with this question. George
named three of four non quarterbacks to have won the
Associated Press NFL MVP Award. Since two thousand, So there
were four players who weren't quarterbacks that were named m
v P named them. Okay, now, Lord have mercy. Now

(01:14:50):
now you gotta go running backs. Now I know Marshall
fall one one act. I think all of these are
running back because I don't think any wide wide receivers won.
So I am gonna go Marshall Falk, Sean Alexander. That's

(01:15:12):
a I don't know why his brain he sticks. He
sticks out in my brain so much. And then the
next very next year, La Dainian Tomlinson one. But I
don't know who the fourth one is. But okay, all right,
so those are your three ye all right, show me
Marshall Falk. Yeah I wanted in two thousand as a
member of the Rams, show me Sean Alexander, two thousand

(01:15:35):
five of the Seahawks, and then that monster six. Show
me Ladinian Tomlinson. And three for three is George now
has five points. You won't get any extra points, but
go ahead to Adrian Peterson. Yes that is correct one
in twelve. So good job, George Rice Stir on that one.
And you were right for the AP Award in trying

(01:15:58):
to find someone that that is in a running back. Yeah,
you're gonna have to go all the way back to
nineteen eight six, Lawrence Taylor won the m v P.
So that was the last time a non quarterback or
running back when the Associated Press NFL MVP award. Alright,
final one and you got Monty and bow available if

(01:16:18):
you need. George named four of five teams ranked in
the top five of this week's a P Men's College
Basketball Top twenty five poll. So four. Yes, that's gonna
change on Monday because the new poll comes out tomorrow.
But I want to know who were four of the
top five teams that were ranked this week in the

(01:16:41):
top five? Oh my god, the I know two? I
know Houston and Kansas. Um, now, I'm gonna call on
Monzi Milanos. She has to be able to help help
me here. She does updates like this. Has to be
like Monsey, you have to be able to help here.

(01:17:02):
I'm gonna try what's the question again? Yeah, the teams
that were ranked in the top five and this week's
AP Men's Top twenty five College Basketball poll. Okay, and
you said who and who do you sit in? Kansas? Now?
I know that Perdue was ranked in because Perdue was

(01:17:25):
ranked number one a few weeks ago, but then they
took an Ale, so I don't know if they're still
in the top five though, Okay, I I was thinking.
I was actually thinking in Tennessee. I think Perdue. I
think you're right on do you still being in the

(01:17:45):
top five? But I don't know the other one. Okay,
let's go with Mr bow Benson. How are we doing?
You know, college basketball is my favorite sports, so this
is great. But don't throw shade, uh because because I
work with Aaron Torres, I think, uh yes, I think

(01:18:07):
Alabama is up there. They should be because he keeps
tweeting about them all the time. Okay, I would say Obama,
thank you, hey, there you there you go, because he
knows his college basketball. So I'm gonna go, uh Kansas, Houston, Alabama,

(01:18:27):
and Tennessee. Okay, all right, show me Houston there, it
is number one in the rankings. Show me Kansas. Hanging
on to that number two spot hasn't been easy for
the Jayhawks at times, Show me Alabama. It has been

(01:18:49):
easy for the Crimson Tide at times to Joe Bow
and show me Tennessee day after losing to Kentucky today,
but they are today and that works for this game.
Nine of ten and George, your spiky sense was correct.
Purduers ranked third, So Purduers third. So you guys did

(01:19:10):
a great job nine of ten. You hit the over
in our first game of easiest one to three four.
It is hard to forget Perdue this year because they
literally have the biggest human in college basketball is enormously
a good basketball player. Now he has improved greatly. Yeah,

(01:19:31):
Purdue is that center factory now, I mean there is.
There's a lineage of centers from Etti edny something. Zach
Zach eat Ye, yes, Zach eat. That is who it is.
I only said it like five times, I think, but
that that's all right, George, don't worry about it, just kidding.
You've got nine out of ten hit the over and

(01:19:53):
we are winners today. The Giants lee the Viking one
minute forty three left to go in the third quarter.
Vikings have the football at midfield. He's George Rice Stir,
I'm Dan Bayard. What a pretty performance for the Niners yesterday.
What does it mean long term? That's next and down
the stretch they come in Minnesota. The Vikings on a

(01:20:14):
third and eight have just appeared to get a first
down thanks to not a second, not a third, but
a fourth effort from t J. Hockenson, who had a
huge fourth down catch earlier on this drive. The Vikings
first intent from the Giants fifteen yard line, down three
as they play early in the fourth quarter. We are

(01:20:36):
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Rice stir as a fellow tight end? Of course, man like,
that's what you're supposed to do. Wind called upon may

(01:21:00):
get happened. Doesn't matter whether you have to run through
a wall, worn't through a brick, It don't even matter.
Get it, get or done. They are going to review
of Hockinson made it across the line to gain They
gave him the first down, he had to get to
the fifteen yard line. On replay it appears that he

(01:21:20):
is just shy. That's what what the I sees. But again,
you know the the second push you had an offensive
linement of the Vikings come in who pushed Hopkinson forward
to help him try to get the yardage. UH now
ruled short, So that is what they are reviewing when
Rough came in and signaled first down to move the chains.

(01:21:41):
Graphic right now showing fourth and one. We'll let you
know how it all plays out. But the Vikings are
down three. They are an absolute field goal range. But
if it is fourth and short, I think you're gonna
see Kevin O'Connell go for it in this sort of situation.
But we shall see again. Vikings and Giants in a
tight one. You can see it right now on Fox.
It was tight for a half yesterday in San Francisco,

(01:22:04):
but then the Niners end up pulling away with ease
past the Seahawks. So San Francisco onto the divisional playoffs
with that win over Seattle, and and and brock Purty
was was a machine And Georgia think that you and
I have similar thoughts. You mentioned something earlier in the
um almost idiot proof offense of Kyle Shanahan, and it

(01:22:26):
really helps when you have the pieces around you. It
also helps when you face a team that can't stop
the run. Or yeah, trouble stopping anything. But brock Purty
goes eighteen of thirty three and thirty two yards and
three touchdowns, probably should have been four, but Brandon and
I you dropped that one on what could have been
one of the plays of the year. And then he
had pretty also going in on a touchdown run. Four

(01:22:49):
carries for sixteen yards, like was yesterday the statement game
for brock Purty to to continue as the forty Niners
quarterback not only after this playoffs but in the next season.
Absolutely not, and we need to stop. I'm happy that
we're talking about this right now. Brock Party is doing
a fantastic job. Fantastic job. But you know what we're

(01:23:12):
watching right now? Dan, what's up? Lin sanity? Now? Now, now,
lisanity may may turn into greatness, right, but it but
it starts out as len sanity. It's been six games, Dan,
six Are we trusting that that? That? And do we

(01:23:32):
believe that this is some kind of way you know,
over and done with and that and that he's gonna
be a great player? No, Like, it's it's a like
the books not out on him. You know, it could
all fall apart next next game. Six games is such
a small sample size. I mean, how many times have

(01:23:54):
we seen guys have a good week in the NFL,
I'm sorry, in the yeah, or a couple of good
games in NFL or in the NBA, and it we're like, yeah,
that dud's up next. And then you're like, damn, yeah,
what what what happened? All the people in the bubble,
So listen, he maybe, but I'm saying I heard on

(01:24:14):
the broadcast. Oh, he's been the best quarterback in the
NFL since he's since he's taken over. No, he hasn't.
He he has not been asked to do as much.
And then he showed out in the playoff game. I
think that was his first three yard game. Like, guess
he's played well. But he was like eight touchdowns, five,

(01:24:35):
five picks. He was cool, So like, let's not overstated.
He might turn out to be a great player. Maybe,
but let's like hold our horses just a little bit.
And then people trying to throw trade Lance in the trash.
The dude play one and like one in one seventh
of a game, and they're like, hey, he's the best

(01:24:56):
quarterback in the forty niners roster. Uh, Jimmy g looked
pretty good. And the and the reason why like that
that people are praising brock Party so much, it's because
he's a rookie. If if he were Jimmy Garoppolo and
they'd be like, oh yeah, a good game, that's all
they would say, they wouldn't be fawning over him the

(01:25:17):
way that they are. It was a good game. But
but I mean, if Justin Herbert has that game, if
Joe Burrow has that game, if Josh Allen has the game,
they're gonna be like, man, the dude had a great,
great game, good job. They're not going to try to
anoint him into the Hall of Famer. It's such a
small sample size, like let's chill, give give it a

(01:25:38):
chance to play itself out. I don't love the Lyn
Sanity comparison because I think Lyn sanity and and it
heard it be you know that mentioned and trying to
figure out a way to to characterize it because number one,
the Knicks weren't an NBA title competing team. The Knicks

(01:25:59):
were the X. Mike d'antoni's teams don't play defense, so
it allowed Insanity to do what he did. This is
the keys to a machine that you can't mess up
like that that that's what this is, and Jermy Leno
was able to do his thing. Brock Perty is in
a different situation with this is a team that's trying
to make a push towards winning a Super Bowl. I

(01:26:21):
think the Mr. Irrelevant thing plays a lot into this
if he would have if he was taken a pick earlier.
I don't know if we are going as as crazy,
but I think of being the last pick in the draft,
like when we hear the Michael Jordan's story. I love
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Well, yeah,

(01:26:42):
he was cut when he was a sophomore. It wasn't
like he was a senior, and then went to North
Carolina after being cut and became this magnificent player like
he's fifteen, sixteen years old like and then ended up
developing into you know, the greatest basketball player that we've
ever seen or so we like to debate about. But
the point, because it's a it's a different story. And

(01:27:04):
I think that with with Purty, like that sort of thing,
if he was if he was an undrafted free agent,
I even think that it's a different story. But to
be the last pick of the draft, I think adds
to it. But most importantly, I think it's your point
about Kyle Shanahan's offense, and it's the way that I've
that I've just felt of when you have the and
and and And it's not to diminish because Pretty did

(01:27:24):
make plays yesterday with his legs that were very impressive,
including the drop on the Brandon Aiyuk touchdown. He had
another pass to Eli Mitchell and keeping a play alive.
There is some moxie to him, if you want to
use that phrase. But that system is so driven and
allows the quarterback to have success, and it helps when

(01:27:46):
you have George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo, Samuel Trent Williams,
you add Christian McCaffrey, you have a defense and Nick
Bosa and Eric Armstead and Fred Warner and they just
go down like they are so stacked and loaded that
that that, you know, maybe Pretty gives them something a
little extra. And I do think I do think it
will be a I think it will be up to

(01:28:09):
Trey Lance to steal the job from him in training
camp if they go to the Super Bowl. I do
think that that is what's going to be on the line.
But to your point, I just I want to see
the bigger sample too. I know it's a long way
of saying I agree with George and the the reason
why I compared it to I was saying that we're
in the lensanity portion of it to where it's a

(01:28:31):
it's a it's a bunch of hype and all of it
it is, and that it doesn't have any long longevity
or or sustained success yet. I'm I'm saying that, like, first,
go from having a good game to like a good
stretch of games, and then that's a that's ale insanity.
And then once you extend that further than you know,

(01:28:54):
a few weeks or you know, a quarter of a season,
now all of a sudden, once you're in half season,
whole season, now you're like, okay, now now we're now
it's real. Now it's real because if he can hold
onto this starting job, because the forty niners are now

(01:29:14):
in great shape, because they can say, oh good, now
we feel very comfortable let letting Jimmy Garoppolo walk walk
out the door. They're they're not even gonna attempt to
keep Jimmy, and then they're going to say, okay, where
depends on what happens in the playoffs. If the forty
Niners lose the next game, Trey Lance is coming back

(01:29:35):
as as the starter with Jimmy garop with um Black
Party as the opportunity if he doesn't play play well,
because they believe, like a lot of other people believe,
is the trade Lands can bring a dynamic to the
offense that they don't have. So I'm actually excited to
see how all of this plays out. That dynamic and

(01:29:57):
maybe not to the extent of trade Lance, but that
that Ammock was on display yesterday with Purdy's mobility, which
was much more than Garoppolo has. There were times when
he evaded pressure that Jimmy Garoppolo, that is all you need.
You do not need somebody. You do not need Lamar
Jackson running ability in Kyle Shanahan's offense. You just need,

(01:30:21):
you know, justin Herbert's or or Air a young Aaron
Rodgers or or that type of guys. Uh, rushing ability
and ability to pick up big first downs for you.
There there's going to be, uh, there's going to be
a point where the forty Niners don't have all of
the pieces that I just rattled off, whether it's between

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hour or the next five years. That's also the gap
that the quarterback like Trey Lance would be able to
close with his skills. If you take away half of
the pieces that we talked about there, I don't think
that Brock Purdy is as effective as a quarterback now.
It doesn't mean that he won't develop into that quarterback,
because that's a whole other sort of question. A lot

(01:31:05):
of times you just take a guy as he is.
But just the toys in that toy shop for San Francisco,
you know what I mean, they're just I mean crazy,
and and to be able to play with those players
really really helps Purty because there's so many other things
the defense has to worry about. Um, but if you
don't have George Kittle anymore, or if you know, Deebo

(01:31:29):
Samuel is injured and there's other pieces, that's going to
be the question. And that's what the type of player
that maybe Trey Lance would be. And maybe Brock pretty
develops into that. Not saying that he's going to be
exactly like Trey Lance, because he's not, but maybe there
are things that he progresses and gets better at in
his career. But that's also something I think you have
to look at long term. If you're the forty Niners,

(01:31:50):
I'm gonna give you a quick comparison, and I want
because Vikings fans are wondering why we left them out.
It was fourth and one, there was a false start,
so the Vikings ended up going from four than one
to fourth and six. They were gonna go for it,
but then couldn't kick the field goal. So it's tied
at twenty four between the Giants and Vikings. Giants now
have the football in Vikings territory with ten minutes to go,

(01:32:13):
tied up at twenty four apiece, eleven minutes to go,
and the Giants are facing a second and tent. But
you know what it reminds me of quickly when Case
Keenum took over in Minnesota, and like Case Keenum, and
it's not exact because Case Keenum wasn't a rookie, but
you know, Case Keeno was a pretty good quarterback when
he played at Houston through for a lot of yards,

(01:32:33):
but bounced around the NFL and shown that that he
was capable. But he led that Vikings team to the
NFC Championship game. Has the Minneapolis Miracle him and Stefon
Diggs hooking up against the Saints, you know, but then
time ran out at the end, And I think that's
where I'm at right now with Brock Purdy. Maybe his
Cinderella story continues, but for right now, that's more of

(01:32:54):
the feeling I get is when case Keenum took over
for the Vikings, You're like, wait, who's this guy? He
bounced around the NFL for soul long, and now he's
gonna lead a team to maybe do a Super Bowl.
That's what I think is more apropos and talking about
brock Purty is what case Keenom did with the Vikings
about five years ago. So exactly now now, could it
turn into Tom Brady or something, or a or Kirk Cousins,

(01:33:18):
a guy who is who was not a starter that
turned into a starter or something. Sure it could absolutely
do that, but until it does, you just have to
take it for what it is. Sure, I'd love to
see what brock Purty does if he's the number one
guy in camp. What you do with the snaps, how
you how you improve, how you know you you gain

(01:33:39):
in that way and and continue doing improving that way
going to be interesting. Giants first and ten at the
Vikings sixteen yard line. They are now under ten minutes
to go in a ball game that's tied up twenty
four piece. You can see it on Fox. He's George
Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox Football Sunday.
Coming up. At the end of the show, we'll give
you our m V piece from wild Card weekend. But
coming up next, how does this drama in Baltimore gets

(01:34:03):
solved between Lamar and the Ravens. He's George Rice Stir,
I'm Dan Buyer. That's next here on Fox Sports Radio.
It's a Fox Football Sunday. He's George Rice Stir. I'm
Dan Buyer. And the Giants are in the end zone.
So Kirk Cousins, you, my friend, have seven minutes in
forty seven seconds to change this narrative. Is the Giants

(01:34:28):
just went on a twelve play seventy five yard drive.
It was se Kwon Barkley with the touchdown run, his
second of the game. The Giants have taken a thirty
one to lead. He is George rice Stir, I'm Dan Buyer,
live from the Tirek dot Com studios. All right, it's
it's all there for Captain Kirk George. This is this

(01:34:50):
is his opportunity to right or wrong, to lead a comeback,
to lead his team late in the playoff game and
come back and defeats the New York Giants. It's all
there for Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I mean, he's got a
tie first before he comes back to defeat them. But

(01:35:12):
this is a this is gonna go oh loss here
would go a long way in the Kirk Cousins narrative.
People like like they would use this as a prime
opportunity to uh to a bass Kirk Cousins and to say, oh,
he's the same old guy. There's nothing different prime time

(01:35:33):
even though that this is I mean, Waxy, is this
technically a prime time game because it's not prime time
time but it is the only game on right now. Yes,
it is a standalone game, and I would I would
consider yes, because it's also Central time, so we are
now in Sunday evening in Minneapolis, So yes, I believe

(01:35:55):
that would be the case. I think I think this
does characterize the last twenty five minutes once he got
past six o'clock, plus the sun's been down for you know,
about an hour or so. In the twin cities. So yeah,
I would say I would say this qualifies, this is
an opportunity, and this isn't This isn't to say this
isn't to say that it's all on Kirk Cousins because

(01:36:18):
their defense today has given up thirty one points to
the Giants. We know that that's the problem. But just
as we were talking about Trey Lance and Brock Purty
and what you need to do, and it's actually one
of the things with two of that you and I
have talked about, not only this year but last year
when there weren't as many weapons, is how much of
the gap that the Dolphins you know are are are

(01:36:39):
operating from between where they are and maybe we're a
team that's better than them. How much of the gap
can be closed by the skills of the quarterback and
the talents of the quarterback. And that's what we're talking
about here. Can the can the Vikings? You know? Can
Can Kirk Cousins and his talent survive an other day

(01:37:00):
for the Minnesota Vikings in spite of what their defense
has done, And that's going to be the queen it. Okay,
I watched their game against the Buffalo Bills, so anything
is possible. But ah, man, something feels different about this
Giants team. I just don't see them blowing this game.

(01:37:22):
And and Cousins has been really good today or thirties
throwing two touchdown passes has a rating over over a
hundred ten. Isn't that? The enigma of Kirk Cousins though,
is that is that you have this twenty five for
thirty for two fifty and two t D game. Is

(01:37:43):
that there's a lot of opportunities in his career to say, oh,
it's not it's not his fault. There is a lot
of that opportunity. Now he has had some flameouts personally,
but there have been some opportunities to to say, oh, hey, hey,
what what more do you want the guy to do? Now?

(01:38:04):
I believe that sometimes you do have to be a superhero.
But Okay, in Josh Allen's loss to Kansas City last year,
at the end of the game, yeah, you were saying
what more could Josh Allen have done? But you also said, man,
that dude was absolutely incredible in the game. You I mean,

(01:38:27):
like like he wasn't even regular, he was incredible. Are
you looking at this game saying Kirk Cousins was incredible?
Or are you saying it looks a lot like Justin
Herbert last last night, where you're where you're not gonna
say it's incredible, but but you're like, he was, he
was he was solid, he was good. Well, that's that's
where the rubber meets the road, if you want to

(01:38:48):
use that cliche. The the Vikings and the Vikings fans
and NFL fans understands that you can go, you know,
of thirty for two and fifty yards, But what they
want to know is can you go seventy eight yards
when the game's on the line in two minutes or

(01:39:09):
in this case, when there's seven minutes left in the game.
So all of that is, all of that, you know
is great in yeah, Kirk Cousins is this and that.
But when you want to start separating the good from
the great, that's where this comes in. And that's why
this is another situation, and this is this isn't fake narrative.
There are a lot of fake narratives out there that

(01:39:31):
people try to throw out there, just even last night, like,
I just don't know how you can leave that game
and think that Justin Herbert was a problem for the
Chargers or Justin Herbert, isn't it. I just I don't
know how you can watch a game and see that
or think that that just is that's that's you know,
just stupid takes. It's just not real. This is a
real thing, Like this is this is who Kirk Cousins is.

(01:39:54):
It is a narrative that has followed him. And now
when you need your offense and quarterback with all the
weapon that you do have, including going and getting t J.
Hockinson at the trade deadline, you know that this past
year when you have all of those weapons, are you
able to do it? And the Vikings now just forced
to punt on the third and twelve pressure got the Cousins,

(01:40:15):
they were unable to block for him. So now the
Vikings defense is going to have to get a stop
as there's six minutes left. This is this is what
we're talking about. This is a game. And do you
remember when uh, when people wondered, well, I mean I couldn't.
It was inexplicable to me at the time when they
were like, oh man, I don't know how good Cavon

(01:40:38):
Thibodeaux is. He he doesn't he doesn't have a motor
and it and I was like, have you watched the
dude play, and since he's been in the NFL, he's
been a he's been a terror. Like he's been an
absolute tear. Uh. You add him with Leonard Williams and
this and this past worst has been pretty good. This year. Yeah, lines,

(01:40:58):
lines up front have been excuse me that the Giants
up front have been, uh pretty good. Maybe not to
the uh to the Giants in the eighties and nineties
when you have LT getting after the quarterback. Maybe not
the Justin tuckand JPP, you know, like in those one

(01:41:21):
of them, one of them, the Ricky, the other ones
on a year with four or five. Yeah, So yeah,
the Giants, giants up front on both sides of the
ball getting better, Andrew Thomas getting um some All Pro
recognition as their left tackle. Uh, second team All Pro,
I believe this past season. I think Trent Williams got
first team by the Associated Press. But so the Giants

(01:41:42):
have the football. Here's here's another situation, just just to
put a bowl on this Kirk Cousins thing. And then
I do want to get your thoughts on on Lamar
Jackson and the Ravens. But if Daniel Jones, who has
also been in the the the under the microscope, and
in the spotlight throughout his young career, if he can
figure out a way to over the next six minutes
off the clock and have a driver or at least

(01:42:04):
go down and make this a two score game that
compares exactly to what Kirk Cousins didn't do for the
Minnesota Vikings. So that like this is this is not
unfair to Kirk Cousins. It is there for him, it
is there for the Vikings. And we just know that
quarterbacks are treated differently and and that's the nature of

(01:42:24):
the game. And that's what Kirk Cousins is gonna have
to deal with. Is the Giants get a first down,
is Daniel Jones does the smart thing and dumps it
off to say Kwon Barkley after he feels pressure, So
the Giants get a fresh set of downs. Let's talk
some Ravens and Lamar Jackson George in just a second,
but let's jump over to the news desk. Mont Blanio's
giving us the latest. And we've been talking a lot
about this game, Monti, but it is what's happening right now,

(01:42:46):
g men and purple people eaters. Oh no, I know
this one. Looks like it might be going down to
the wire. We're getting down to almost the last five
minutes of the game. Giants up four. And that was
a crazy one handed catch by s A. Kwon Barkley
just a second ago. I don't know how he got that.
Giants do have the ball there on the run. We'll
see what they do next. Earlier today, it really wasn't pretty.

(01:43:09):
It lasted way too long, but the Bills beat the Dolphins.
The final score was thirty four to thirty one. Josh
Allen He completed twenty three or thirty nine passes for
three hundred and fifty two yards. He had three touchdowns,
two interception, two interceptions. Skyler Thompson completed only eighteen of
forty five passes a rookie quarterback, yes, twenty yards total,

(01:43:30):
one touchdown, two interceptions as well. Right now in the NBA,
the Nets are beating the Thunder fifty eight to fifty
five halfway through the third quarter. Earlier today, the Clippers
beat the Rockets, Thanks Someone's God, one to one hundred
Terrence Man thirty one point six rebounds. Well, no DeMar
de Rosin, no problem for the Bulls. They topped the
Warriors one thirty two to one eighteen, and then Nicks

(01:43:52):
beat the Pistons one seventeen to one oh four. Julius
Randall forty two points and fifteen rebounds, tenth consecutive double double,
his seventh were forty point game. In men's college basketball
Top twenty five, there was an upset Number six. Yukon
lost to St. John's eight five to seventy four. Those
Huskies had twenty one turnovers compared to St. John's ten turnovers.

(01:44:13):
And this just in not a great story. University of
Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been reportedly charged with
capital murder. He is one of two men that has
been charged with capital murder in a shooting. Yes, University
of Alabama basketball player. He's a junior, Darius Miles charged

(01:44:35):
with capital murder. That just happened this weekend. Darius former Clipper, No,
if not former clipper. University of basketball player of Alabama, Yes,
Darius Miles. This story just came out. Uh. He was
yesterday the team announced that he actually was going to
miss the rest of the season to focus on rehabbing
his ankle. And then today there's video that he has

(01:44:57):
been taken and arrested and charged the capital murder University
of Alabama basketball player Darius Yes. But this story just
just to make you think of what you were doing
when you were sixteen years old. The Padres have given
today in Major League Baseball was the first day of
international signing uh and the Padres have signed a sixteen
year old catcher, Ethan Salaz of Caracas, Venezuela to five

(01:45:22):
point six million dollars. A sixteen year No wa got
six yor old five Caracas, Venezuela. This guy Ethan or
this child who has more money than I'll probably ever
see in my life. Already, sixteen year old Ethan Salez

(01:45:43):
is part of a family of baseball players. His younger brother,
Jose Salaz, is a top prospect already in the Miami
Marlins system. His uncle, his grandfather, everybody in his family
has played, apparently in Major League Baseball. So already it
really does. Some battles were born in the Some battles

(01:46:04):
were born were one in the womb, right, Monty? Did
you hear that the Padres were also looking at eleven
year old Lucas Ramos. No, where did you get that from?
They shied off because of his own father Ramos technical

(01:46:25):
producer uh off with this part of the show. But
the rolling of r R is over over here. I
want some next There you go. Mill's been fun. Thanks
good stuff. Giants on a fourth and one just converted
on a quarterback sneak because we are alive from the

(01:46:47):
Tire Act dot Com Studios. Vikings have two time outs.
There's three eighteen left to go on the clock. The
Giants continue to lead Minnesota thirty one to twenty four.
He is George Rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer, So Lamar's
knee injury a little bit more serious according to him.

(01:47:07):
Ravens never gave out that information. They played. I don't
want to say coy because that is not the right term. Um.
I don't want to say dumb either, because that's not
the They just weren't necessarily forthcoming. There were reports that
the Ravens thought that Lamar could play. Lamars apparently said differently.
There's obviously the contract at hand. How do you think

(01:47:29):
this ends up in Baltimore with the relationship between Lamar
Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. Listen, man all, Lamar Jackson
wants his respect and do you know how respect is
spelled in the NFL with dollar signs. M oh yes,
m e y. That's how you spell respect because the

(01:47:55):
the highest paid players are the respected ones, by the
by the France ties. I'm not talking about respect and
much or your peers, because there there are no dollars
that come up for respect from your peers. And how
much do you really truly care about that respect from

(01:48:15):
your peers if you are not compensated according to what
what you believe you should be compensated as. But the
the fully guaranteed portion of this is it like we
are now. We've seen what Kyler Murray's contract could mean

(01:48:37):
for the Arizona Cardinals and maybe the troubles that it's
that it could provide. We know Deshaun Watson got his
fully guaranteed contract. This what I what I find so
intriguing about this Lamar Jackson story is that everything is
played out to a way where this just continues to
get strung out. George, and the same con cerns are there.

(01:49:02):
You know, you and I have done this show for
the last four years and we have said it's not
we are past the point of is Lamar good enough
to be paid that amount? He is his His track
record shows that it is. The question, though, if you
are the Ravens, now comes down to how healthy can

(01:49:23):
he be and how much do you want to guarantee that?
And that is that is why we are at the stalemate,
and actually why the stalemate now. I think it's pushing
the sides further apart because if I'm the Ravens who
reportedly offered him an extension, we're two million dollars but
only half of that was guaranteed. If you're the Ravens,

(01:49:45):
why would you up your offer in guarantees after what happened?
If you offered him two hundred and fifty million dollars
and only half of it was guaranteed, that's a slap
in the face. That is a slap in the face
considering Kyler Murray just got one sixty guarantee. Man, if

(01:50:06):
you don't get out of my face, I'm an MVP.
And you see the team is averaging six and a
half I mean sorry, twelve and a half points a
game without Lamar Jackson. They stink without Lamar Jackson. And
on the offensive side, because they don't have tremendous offensive
weapons at the skill position players except for Mark Andrews.

(01:50:28):
So so he makes this entire engine go. So so
here's here's the thing that Lamar Jackson. Because people got
on him for not having an agent and all this stuff,
he's actually played this very very well because he is
essentially going to have a no trade clause in his contract.
I mean this this offseason because they're gonna franchise tag him.

(01:50:52):
If they don't come to a deal, that franchise tag
then means that he's going to Yeah, after he's franchise tagg,
He's not going to sign that that franchise tag immediately.
He's going to wait and put pressure on the Ravens
because that cap number is gonna be over the over

(01:51:15):
forty million dollars, and that means that it is gonna
absolutely destroy some of their ability to put together a
competent football team. And if you're you know, compromising what
the team is going to be able to look like,
now they have to trade you. Oh I'm not If

(01:51:36):
I'm getting traded, I better have a contract in place
with the new team and a team that I want
to go to. Otherwise I'm not signing it until weeks
into training camp. So he has a lot of power
in the situation, and you know what, there's gonna be
a lot of people bidding for his services, just like
Deshaun Watson, except for he won't have to wait. He

(01:51:58):
there won't be two years in between games that he's played.
He's never been in trouble any of that stuff. So
so somebody will pay him what he's looking for, because,
like we when we talk to Adam Kaplan Dan, he said,
it's damn near half the league that's quarterback desperate right

(01:52:18):
and right now. So somebody will give him what he wants.
I agree with that. I just don't think it's going
to be the Baltimore Ravens. And that's why it might
it might not be. But but you know what, he
will he will have his money at the end of
the day, and and and I think that's the case.
I just didn't think that I would ever see them divorce.

(01:52:38):
And and the more that this goes on, the more
that I think it's likely to happen. Because and I'll
just quickly end with this and then we'll give you
a quick update of what's happening in Minneapolis. Is that
I just don't know how if you're the Ravens, how
you can up your offer of guarantees after how this
season played out like that would be that it just
it wouldn't make any sense. I don't know how you
could feel comfortable to be like, Okay, here we have

(01:53:00):
a guy who missed half the season because of a
knee injury, and he missed more games, which is one
of our concerns, and now we're gonna give him more
guaranteed money and now are another year on into the contract.
I just I don't, I don't, I don't. That just
doesn't make any sense to me. That So I think
there's the Vikings have football and they are now at

(01:53:22):
the forty six yard line of their own forty six
yard line on the other side of the two minute warning. Minnesota, though,
does not have any time outs, so Minnesota's out of
time outs. Giants leading thirty one to twenty four, now
a second down and ten two oh three left to go.
He's George Rice, Sir, I'm Dan Buyer. We are live
from the tiraq dot Com studios are m v P
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(01:53:44):
on Fox Sports Radio. First upset of the NFL Playoffs.
The Giants are about to defeat the Minnesota Vikings thirty
one twenty four. The Giants just need to take one
more knee and this game is over with Vikings out
of time outs. On a fourth and eight, George kirk

(01:54:06):
Cousins through it to t J. Hockenson, who was four
yards short of the sticks. He was tackled and the
game ended at midfield. The Giants beat the Vikings thirty
one to twenty four, So the New York Giants will
go on. They're gonna face the Philadelphia Eagles in the

(01:54:28):
next round. So tomorrow's winner of the Cowboys Buccaneers game,
we'll get San Francisco in the next round of the
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(01:55:12):
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(01:55:35):
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(01:56:00):
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(01:56:20):
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hear on Fox Sports Radio. So the Vikings lose, Giants

(01:57:08):
move on, They'll have the Eagles next round. Uh. You
can put a period at the end of the Minnesota
Vikings season as it is now over and again, George
ends out of fourth and eight and Kirk Cousins, feeling
the pressure, dumps it off to t J. Hawkinson, who
was four yards. What you can't do, That's what you
can't do. He would have been better off just hoisting

(01:57:29):
one up near Jamar, near Justin Jefferson, because guess who
might catch it? Justin Jefferson. We've seen it this season, right,
but one had to catch. Yeah, that unbelievable catch against
an unbelievable, inexplicable catch against Buffalo. That was insane and

(01:57:49):
in this scenario, and this is why. And I think
there's gonna be a lot. There's gonna be a lot
on talk radio. This may end up getting lost in
some of the shuffle, but this is going to be
something that you're going to hear and I would imagine
that in the Twin Cities that this week that this
is you know, Daniel Jones just put together a performance

(01:58:10):
for the Ages and when if you think I'm exaggerating before, Yeah,
the first quarterback to throw for three hundred yards, two
or more touchdowns and have more than seventy yards rushing
in a playoff game. And that's what happened with Kirk
Cousins today. By the way, Kirk Cousins on that past
George was feeling a little heat, but it wasn't like

(01:58:31):
a desperate throw. It was there. There was some pressure
coming up from upfront, but just let it go to
t J. Hockenson and it didn't have any It had
no chance at all of making a first down. And
now the Giants move on. Man. Oh, the only people
happier than Giants fans are Packer fans right now. I

(01:58:52):
guarantee you that because they like nothing more than a
a Minnesota Vikings team. Uh, losing when there are expectations.
Just the question is is I'm not sure how many
expectations there were, considering this seems to be the Minnesota
team that we've seen all season. Man, Oh jeez, Minnesota
may be saved from what the Chargers did last night.

(01:59:14):
That that this won't get as much a topic of
conversation for what's going on, well see the see. The
other thing though, is to is that this wasn't a collapse.
They were down the whole game, and you can, you know,
so you can deal with losing a game like like that,
it's just you just can't just lose everything. No, man,
when they needed at most, and he had multiple opportunities

(01:59:36):
to go down and score in that fourth quarter and
they were unable to do so. He's George rice To
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