FOX Football Saturday with Brian Noe and George Wrighster: 01/11/2020

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports. Yes, what's going on to
finitional round of the NFL playoffs? George Rice stir A magnificent,
majestic NFL weekend. It's off to a hideous start. Good lord,
what a yawner, What a yawner with the Niners just
dropping the people's elbow on the on the Vikings another
dud after an emotional playoff win. How you doing this evening,

(00:24):
George Rice, Man, I'm great, but you you're acting like
you didn't see this coming. You didn't see the Vikings
getting housed coming when they went out to San Francisco.
You thought that they were gonna go that Kirk Cousins
was gonna pull a rabbit out of the hat and
play two good, prime time, meaningful games in a row. Well,

(00:44):
that wasn't prime time, George. I had to correct you
off the off the bat here. That's not prime time.
Any playoff game is prime time, Brian, Brian, No, it
doesn't matter what time of day it is. It is
prime time because it is win or go home. And
if you thought, if anybody that Kirk Cousins was gonna
break the mole, was gonna that last week broke the

(01:05):
curse that broke his you know, regular poor playoff, poor
primetime game streak, then you were sadly mistaken. Even if
broke clock is right twice a day. That's what happened
in New Orleans last week. Okay, now there are a
couple of things here. Let's circle right back to this game.
But I've noticed something about you, George. I have noticed

(01:28):
that you are an absolute expert after the game is
done right, like right and listen, not to say that
you're you're getting stuff wrong before the games, but based
on this saying, oh, how could you not see this comment?
It was clear as day. How about a few predictions,
just rapid fire style, the three games left this weekend
in the NFL playoffs. How about Titans Ravens. Ravens favored

(01:52):
by ten into the George Rice stir crystal ball. As
you take a look, what do you see? Ravens lay
the points, buddy that you are going they are going
to cover this this this ten points you're gonna have.
The Only difference between last game against the Vikings and
the Forts versus the game tonight is is that it's

(02:15):
going to be more interesting. That's gonna be because you
have Musty TV, Lamar Jackson in play and Musty TV.
Ryan Tannehill. Let's not stop stop. He's not Musty TV.
Derrick Henry is the Musty TV. He is He's box
office man. How about that five Heisman Trophy winners in
this game and two of them are backups in r

(02:38):
G three and Mariota? Is that wild? We still have
Lamar Jackson, you got mark ingram, Derrick Henry is here tonight.
Is that a career? I mean, is that an all
time high? Like a play? I would think, yeah, I
mean I can't imagine that there would be I mean

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because when you look at Heisman Trophy players, they're usually
not on the same team. Yeah, and you've got what
three of them on the Ravens have three Heisman guys. Yeah,
that that normally does not happen because if you win
a Heisman, you're getting picked pretty dog on high. Now nowadays,

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I'm not talking about twenty years ago when you could
win the Heisman Trophy and get drafted in the fourth round,
or win the or win the Heisman Trophy, or be
the best player in college football like like Charlie Ward
and then and then you end up going to the NBA. Yeah, okay,
so you say lay the points, Ravens big. They covered
the ten quickly Quiff Cliff notes version. And we'll get

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to more in depth here as we go forward. But
into the George Rice Stir Crystal Ball Texans at the Chiefs.
Chiefs are favored by nine and a half. Close game.
Kansas City wins. Unfortunate. I would love to see Houston.
I would ideally, I would have loved to see, you know,

(04:06):
Deshaun Watson versus Lamar Jackson in the a f C Championship.
You still could. It's it's not it's not happening, and
if it did, it would not be much. You know,
it wouldn't be very entertaining because as good as Deshaun
Watson is, I think we all have to question Bill
O'Brien's coaching right now. And we have to question Bill

(04:27):
O'Brien just in general when he's dropping MF bombs to
a fan that says he sucks. Like we'll get into
that too, but was swimming up upstream, dude. They are
winning in spite of him more than because of him. Okay,
so you say Chiefs win, but don't cover. It's a
closer game. You still got k C at home. Okay,
Seahawks at the Packers, and the Packers are favored by

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three and a half, and it's probably gonna be snow
in there, right so I know it's snow and tonight
they're saying there should be enough time to clear the
field and it might not be much of a factor tomorrow,
We'll have to see. But they are playing on natural grass,
which doesn't dry the same way that you know that
that turf does, so it is going to be so
footing on some level is going to be a factor.

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I'm going with give me the Seattle Seahawks. I believe
in Russell Wilson. He's just absolutely uh he just gets
it done. And this game is gonna be ugly. I
mean on a scale from one to ten, like this
is gonna be a ten ugly you're gonna have. They're
gonna be playing in in between the forties a lot

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of the game. Not a whole lot of points, I
don't think. And and Russell Wilson ends up with the
ball with a minute and ten seconds left on his
own ten yard line, down by two points, and they
kick a field go to win the game. Aren't you
hoping on a side note that Lamar Jackson comes out
there doing the pregame intros and does the Ray Lewis
intro dance? Come on? How great would that be? No,

(05:55):
I hated the ray Lewis introd hated it, dude, it
was it was. It was just No, I was a Jaguar.
You never played for the Ravens. No, it was absolutely awful.
It was awful. But who are all the teams he
played for, George? Just the Jaguars and the Giants, Oh, Jackson, Giants.

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But I think you played for the Ravens at some point.
No idea, but but I do have some interesting raven
stories though. Their fans are absolutely spectacular. Yeah, the introductions
are on right now. So they have a dope band
who plays well. I mean it is very much college

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atmosphere like, which is smart because they endeared. I mean
that's one of the things that they've gotten the fans
to be just so spectacular about. I love the Raven Eyes.
They're coming out and there's a little canopy there, Raven
Eyes just underneath all the Geico signage. It's just like
Geiko and then the Raven Eyes. I love that. Yeah,

(06:59):
and and and the crowd when they announced the other team,
so they would they would go Brian No sucks, George
Rice sucks. And then it would be the coach. They
would go, uh, Jack del Rio sucks. Sucks, dude. Their
fans are spectacular. I love him their Their fans are

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the equivalent of Wisconsin Badger fans in college football. Spectacular fans.
What in the world did you hate about the Ray
Lewis dance intro? It was I give it points for originality.
It just wasn't dope. I should see it and and I
should be like, okay, like I don't like. I don't

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know if that's a Miami guy dance or something. But
it just wasn't that tight to me. I'm not feeling it. No,
I love that, And I loved how he would like
in the later years, how they switched to field turf
they would still have it was a little square of
natural grass, and so he took take the natural grass
and like smeared on his chest and then he would

(08:06):
do his side to side dance. I was awesome. George Rice,
I can't believe you dislike yeah, and he's like, oh, team, team, team,
but but but for seconds, it is all about me
the dance. What's wrong with the dance? I am all
about I'm all about self self promotion. However, as cool
as Ray Lewis is, as good as a leader he is,

(08:28):
there there are sometimes it feels a little disingenuous, a
little hollow. Okay, that's what you're telling me. I got you.
I'm Brian though, he's George rice to We're coming to
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as we circle back to the one divisional round playoff

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game that is in the books, the Niners smack around
the Vikings seven to ten. They're just playing bullyball, George,
where they out rushed the Vikings one eighty six to
twenty one, They're just smacking them around on the ground.
Niners played really good defense. They limited the Vikings to
only a hundred and forty seven total yards, and a

(09:11):
lot of those were in fourth round. Kirk Cousins didn't
even pass for over a hundred yards until it was
complete garbage time. And that picked Sherman was bad, bad, Yeah, dude,
it was just the forty Niners were hunting in the zoo.
That's what it looked like today. It was such an

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easy when they it didn't look like the Minnesota Vikings
should have been there. It looked like it's they should
have been playing the Saints. That made it feel like
that they got a little bit lucky in last round
because they clearly didn't have the stuff to even compete

(09:54):
with San Francisco. And look at the other teams in
the playoffs that we saw play San franci this we
saw the Seahawks played San Francisco twice and what did
we get? Two really good games, really good games, and
they split. We saw them play the Ravens, right, yeah,
really good game even well sort of the rate Ravens

(10:16):
handled them. And we saw them play the Saints, which
was a thriller and absolute thriller, probably the game of
the year in New Orleans. They did smack around Lee
Robert to lap the fourth Packers something fierce for that game.
They put it on them. But yeah, they played some

(10:36):
thrilling games. There's no doubt the Niners have and except
for the two teams I mean, so, it just didn't
feel like the Vikings belonged. They did not. I mean,
there was nothing that they could do today. And I granted,
I understand when you're playing a really good defense that
it's tough sledding, that it's very difficult. I get that.

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But eight teams find a way to put up points.
You don't get held to ten points, yeah, yeah, and
you don't get held to a hundred and forty seven
total yards either. It's back just last week, George, after
that incredibly emotional win against the Saints, they went in
over time. Unbelievable performance, unbelievable outcome. Many didn't see that coming.

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And Mike Zimmer, the Vikings head coach, in the locker room,
he said this to his team. The last time we
won a game in the playoffs, at the last second,
we didn't play very good next week. So when we
come back to Tuesday, we have to be ready to work. Yeah.
So it's the second straight time after an emotional, pull
the rabbit out of the hat type playoff win, they

(11:46):
completely laid an egg the next The quarterback problem, I'm
telling you that's what it is. It starts because if
you look at the defensive numbers, the same the Vikings
defense actually played okay to win. Yeah, like they they

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played well enough to keep them in the game, to
keep them in the game. If their offense could have
like been serviceable, they weren't even serviceable today. And granted
San Francisco's defense is really good. However, when you look
at the courts of their season, they have given up

(12:28):
uh thirties, twenty six points, twenty seven points, forty six points,
thirty one points, twenty one point, twenty four points. It's
I'm sorry, twenty seven points. It's not like this defense
cannot be scored upon. And the Vikings have Dalvin Cook

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feeling digs Rudolf. They're not short on playmakers. So guess
whose fault this is? You have depended on the quarterback,
on the eighty six million dollar man. He's got to
find a way to to to to get the ball
in holes fine open receivers, put it on a dime,

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and also encourage his guys and lead them in the
right way. Coming up next from the Geico Studios, George Rice,
I'm gonna disagree with you. I hear what you're saying.
It's not a complete disagreement. I'm gonna push back a
little bit with what you just had to say. As
far as the Vikings loss, and we spin it forward. Also,
could the studliest of seasons still be diminished? We'll get

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to that as well. I'm Brian No. He's George rice
ster This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No. He's
George Rice stir Near on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming
to you from the Geico Studios. First criticism in this
Titans Ravens game, George, third and seven and the Titans
take a delay of game penalty. It drives me crazy.

(13:57):
When you're on the road against the rave and number
one seed, best record in the NFL. The little things matter.
Call it time out. Make sure it's third and manageable
instead of third and twelve. Right. If pan Hill doesn't
call it time out, someone from the sidelines gotta bail
him out. Call it time out. You're with me on that, well,
I mean, he was trying to get the ball snapped
that they just didn't. I mean, but this is the

(14:21):
way of the NFL now. They're all all the time.
You see quarterbacks, I mean fifteen twenty times a game
like clapping like hey, snap it, snap it, snap it,
snap it. Well we see you know, twenty times a
game that is not abnormal. So at this point in time,
I mean, if they don't get the ball snapped in
the first quarter, are you gonna blow a waste of

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time out with twelve with twelve minutes? Yes, yes, you're
on the road, hostile environment. You gotta get off on
the right foot. Okay, so third and seven you can
convert third and seven. I'm taking a t o and
I'm setting up third and seven instead of third and twelve.
It's third and seven. You're still in third and long, Brian, No,

(15:04):
it's third and shorter. I think a good start is important.
Would you agree with that? That doesn't mean you were
going to get the first down if it were not
saying it's a certainty, your your odds are just better
then if it were third and two. Maybe, but third
and one, I mean four. How far can we stretch this?

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It depends on where we're at on the on the field.
If we were they were at their own I don't know,
say about thirty eight yard line, no, dude, absolutely not.
How about it the forty one yard line? No need
to be like the seven. Okay, I'm trying to stretch
at six from your own forty seven time out possible, Okay, okay,

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but you're not gonna do it third and seven from
wherever they were their own No way, no way Inhale
and Lamar Jackson is already going crazy. He just ran
four yards fifty yards. He ran fifty yards for a
four yard game. That's right. Well, I want to go
there with minimal effort. Yeah, he's nasty. He's had such

(16:12):
a tremendous season. But here's my question for you, George
Rice Stir. Would a loss tonight diminish Lamar Jackson season.
That's the point where it's washed away. But would it
diminish what is going to be an m v P season. No,
it's still gonna be an m v P season, but
it would knock somebody shine off though, absolutely knocked a
lot of shine off of that thing. They go home

(16:35):
to the Titans. They don't need to win the Super Bowl,
but they do need to be an AFC championship game.
If they lose next next week, it won't be a
big deal at all. I think it depends on how
and without knowing that that's a big piece of information.
But let's just say if Lamar and the Ravens lost tonight,

(16:56):
if he played okay, didn't do anything special, did do
anything that really lose the game for him, it's just
a ho hum game. Yeah, it would diminish the season greatly.
Like this is just the nature of sports. How many
times have we seen this throughout the the years, where
a great regular season, if that player doesn't bring it
in the postseason, they get crushed for Remember when Dirk

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Navitski won League m v P and they got bounced
by the Warriors in the playoffs and they handed him
the m v P trophy in some closet with Mark
Cuban and all. He got crushed. He got crushed for
not getting his team to at least the next level.
That's the way it goes. The more you do in
the regular season, the more we expect from you, and

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if you lay an egg, you're gonna get crushed for it. Well,
the greatest players in all the sports step up in
the playoffs. That's where legends and legendary performances are built.
And if you're gonna be a great player, then that's
when you need to step up. I mean, how many
people really remember Robert Oryes regular season career as opposed

(18:02):
to all the big shots that he hit for San Antonio,
for the Houston Rockets, for the Lakers, all of them. Yeah,
that's a great point. Think about some of these regular
season dudes that had horrible reputations for a long time
because they faltered in the playoffs, Clayton Kershaw, Peyton Manning
for a long time, Alex Rodriguez. So to make it

(18:23):
seem like, oh, Lamar is good. No matter what happens
in the playoffs, it's not gonna diminish his season. That
is crazy to me. Yeah, it'll It will definitely knock
some shine off if if if he went out and
played tonight and he had four total touchdowns, no picks,
through for three yards today and they lost, everybody would

(18:45):
be like, well, wasn't wasn't wasn't his fault? Maybe the
defense should have showed up. Sure, fair enough. If he
has this really good individual game they lose, he might
not get knocked for it. But no, that would knock
any shine off of it either. I'm just telling you, George,
and you know you mean to tell me. If he

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throws for over three yards, has four total touchdowns, no turnovers,
that that that would knock some shine off of his season.
If they lost if it was two three. Yeah, take
a guy like Aaron Rodgers is a great example. Aaron

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Rodgers and the Packers lost to the Arizona Cardinals fifty
one to forty five in the playoffs. Aaron Rodgers got
crushed for it. It was like hell that they gave
up fifty one were talking about. That's the way it
goes with quarterbacks that accomplish a lot. If they don't
survive in advance, they often, you know, get crushed for

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it in a way that isn't the most reasonable criticism.
As Lamar Jackson throws a pick on que and that
one was I'm I'm giving him fault for that because
the because the ball was a little bit high. They've
got a good secondary. Dude, that was not a secondary.

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I'm just telling you they got a good secondary over
the intersections. Come on tips and overthrows. You can't crush
a I mean it's like you don't get a like
kudos for a guy being open. Yeah, held, terrible throw.
Kevin Byard is a very good not that not that

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he's not a good player. However, we're not gonna sit
here and act like he made an amazing play on
that play. Wow, did they get Lamar for a horse
collar tackle? Yeah, man, he was. He was furious. He
was bad that he got his money's worth though for
that one. Goodness yep, and the co parties. He's gonna
get fine for that, Yeah he will. How crazy is that?

(20:58):
By the way, Ja, David and Clowney didn't get fined
for his hit on Carson Wentz. He didn't deserve to
get fine. I agree with you. I like if we
dive into that for a second. I love this. We're
just going all over the place football. If it's ball,
we're talking about it. You know, Clowney, I agree with
you for all the talk about he should have been
ejected from the game for the hit on Carson Wentz.

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If you didn't see it, Carson Wentz was scrambling with
the football last week when the Seahawks beat the Eagles
and Clowney as Wentz is diving forward, Clowney hits him.
Happened to be helmet to helmet. Wentz suffers a head injury,
doesn't play the rest of the game. And I can't
tell you how many talking heads George were saying Clowney

(21:42):
should have been ejected from the game. That should have
been penalized. He should have been fine. What are you
talking about? Carson Wentz is a runner at that point
exactly if he didn't want to be hit, you must slide.
And the truth about football is this, and the truth
in in life. Just because the result ended up bad
does not mean that something was wrong. And this is football.

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Here is the most important thing is everybody under the
sound of our voice. The most important thing that you
can understand about football, if you don't know anything else,
is that bad things happen to good people. There is
you can do all the things right. You can be
the greatest person in the whole world. It is a

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violent game. And your Dave and Clowney was just putting
a little He was just trying to get a little
lick on him. He wasn't trying to try to hurt him.
You don't know that something like that is gonna hurt somebody.
He just tried to put a little shoulder on him
to let him know. Listen, if you try to try
to run, try not to do that because you might

(22:47):
get hurt. But here's the thing that a lot of
people weren't talking about and shy it away from Bran No.
If that I talked to a bunch of players, and
I know we've got to get to it in a minute. Oh,
I think you're going to where I want you to
go here, Carson Carson Wentz self reporting, self reported, George,

(23:07):
this is exactly where I want you to go. Talk
to a bunch of current and former players about this.
They weren't real happy. I hear you, I hear you.
His trainer called him. His trainer called him a hero,
say he was heroic, heroic for self reporting this. Yep,
I get it, Like I get that logic. However, at

(23:31):
the end of this is football, and yes, you have
to protect your brain. You have to look out for
your long term future. If he couldn't remember the plays
or something, if he didn't know where where he was at,
that's totally different. Yeah, But if he just felt that
concussion pain or something like like like that, it's tough

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because on one hand, you are the leader of the team.
You are the quarterback. And we've seen other quarterbacks like
Russell Wilson some other people like if if that sort
of thing happens, they had they try to play through it.
And it sucks that that's the expectation because your long
term health is the most important. However, this is the playoffs,

(24:16):
and it's a bad look. We don't have to debate
whether it's right or whether whether it's wrong. When his
teammates are looking at him with a side eye, that's right.
They're looking at him like he pulled himself out. And
then and then, and then they also said had they
had a game this week, he would have been able

(24:37):
to play. So it's so it's not like he had
a severe concussion and you know, and he was down
and out and all these things. No, that wasn't the case.
So that makes your teammates look at you with a
side eye and then and then us back up though, Georgia,
let's pick it back up because I got a couple
of questions for you. I like where you're going with

(24:58):
this thing, for sure, and uh, there's some more layers
to it. Absolutely clowney hitting Wentz. Wentz self reports it
doesn't play another down. I think it's a really interesting
conversation that you're right, you didn't hear much of this
throughout the week. We've got Steve de Sager with us,
a friend of America, to spin us around here real quickly.
What's going on? Steve Hello, and good evening, gentlemen. We

(25:20):
have about six and a half minutes to go in
the first quarter of tonight's AFC playoff game at top
seed in Baltimore and his scoreless Ravens and Titans. Lamar
Jackson has thrown an interception. Baltimore andres not only fourteen
and two overall, but winners of twelve straight games they've
beat in Seattle, San Francisco, New England, Buffalo, Houston. San Francisco,
the top seed in the NFC advanced to the conference

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title game that'll be on Fox TV a week from Sunday,
six thirty pm Eastern. The Niners dominated Minnesota twenty seven
to tend the Vikings with only seven first downs under
a hundred fifty total yards. Kirk Cousins was sacked six times.
Minnesota as a team ten carries twenty one yards rushing
Tevin Coleman the winning side two touchdown runs a hundred

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five yards. Tomorrow on Fox six thirty pm Eastern time
playoff game with Seattle at green Bay. Seattle guard Mikey
Potty is doubtful. Tackle Dwayne Brown questionable. He did return
to limited practice yesterday. Green Bay defensive tackle Kenny Clark
was listed as questionable with a bad back. The snow
is not due to return to Green Bay till after
the game tomorrow night, but game time temperature stud to

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be twenty two degrees before that three pm Eastern time tomorrow.
Houston's at Kansas City temperature and Casey in the thirties
and Windy College Football's national title game as Monday night
l s U against Clemson. The teams arrived in New
Orleans yesterday. In the NBA, the Lakers have won seven
in a row, their thirty one and seven overall, but
Lebron James is out tonight due to illness, Anthony Davis

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out again with a bruise tailbone, and starter Danny Green
is out with a hip injury, and the Lakers are
leading forty one to nineteen after the first quarter. At
Oklahoma City, Rajon Rondo gets the start. He has twelve points,
seven rebounds, four or assists already for l A. Houston
one again one thirty nine one oh nine against Minnesota.

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Among the games in progress, Celtics lead ninety to sixty
six over New Orleans mid third quarter. In the top
ten in college hoops, it was number four Baylor winning
at number three Kansas sixty seven fifty five. Indiana beat
eleventh ranked Ohio State. They lost again sixty six fifty
four Rady Louisville one at Notre Dame sixty seven sixty
four Syracuse one in overtime at Virginia. Wisconsin won at

(27:30):
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(27:50):
scoreless with under five minutes to go in the first quarter,
but the Titans are driving second and goal coming up. No,
and Wright stir back to you, by the way, how
much money do you have in the bank, Steve, that's
a non question specifics, But how much money you got
in the bank roughly, I don't know. Put it all

(28:12):
on the bucks tonight against the Blazers, all of it.
What Just trust me on this. The Blazers are brutal
this year. I live in Portland. I watch them every
single game. They stink. Hassan Whiteside is out. They are
gonna have I don't know how many points the Bucks
are gonna have in the point in the paint tonight.
The points that the Bucks score in the paint might
be enough to outscore the Blazers, even though the Bucks

(28:32):
just played last night. It's another road game. Different. Put
it all in the Bucks, George, how much money do
you have in the bank enough to live? Okay, this
was coming from a gambler. We both do that question.
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I'm Brian, He's George, Rice Stir. We got John hu Smith.
Are Tannehill hooking up with the tight ends back to
back weeks in the playoffs here? But I know you
had a comment on the Blazers Bucks. Anytime somebody gives
me their blood bank guarantee of the century, Yeah, dude.

(29:18):
Their lack of the century. That means either stay a
completely away from it or or it's a loss. Except
when it comes to your twenty nineteen twenty Blazers. That's
the fine print. Except when it comes to the Blazers
this season. They have to turn it around at some
point in time, right not with what they have right now,
but yeah, if they make a trade, if you get

(29:39):
Nerk back healthy, Zach Collins, all that stuff, but as
currently constructed, they are brutal. I'm telling you, George, They're awful.
They are. They're sixty three right now and the Bucks
are thirty four and six. Yeah. Okay, so you hit
on something and it's hilarious because I was gonna tee
up for this and instead of me throwing you the

(30:00):
are you you do? You're just like I got on
my own here, Tomahawk dunked it. It was awesome. But yes,
this is what I wanted to ask you. If you
are a teammate of Carson Wentz and he quote unquote
self reports this head injury and then doesn't play another down,

(30:21):
are you looking at it and saying, hey, man, it's
a head injury. I don't love it, but I get it?
Or are you saying, look, man, it is go time.
If you can remember the plays, if you can somehow
get out there. I remember Julian Edelman and the Super
Bowl getting deemed noticeably and then somehow he got back
on the field. You could alter your game. You don't

(30:42):
have to run as much. Maybe you just or a
pocket guy and you're looking to unload the football. You
can alter your game a little bit. Do you look
at it like that, Like, dude, if you can go,
you gotta go. I know that this is a weird,
middle of the road answer, and we are not in
the middle middle of the road business, but I would

(31:04):
have both thoughts at the same time. At first, I'd
be saying, all right, look, I get it. It makes
it makes sense your brain health and all of that stuff.
So I wouldn't knock you for it. However, if you
do go in and go play, I'm gonna give you
some props for it, you know what I mean, Like

(31:25):
like like there's like there's not a negative, but there
is positive. Like it's like you can you can move up,
but you can't move down. Because I'm not gonna hold
it against you, because I'm like, all right, look I
don't know, Like in a head injury is one of
those that is that you can't see if if somebody
has a broken arm, you can see how badly it's broken.

(31:50):
So is this like Terrell Owens leg that he played
in the Super Bowl with with with with with a
broken leg or is it? Or or was he joked Wiseman? Yeah,
the risk is a lot more known when it's a
non head injury, correct, So, and the severity is much
more known. Yeah, and you can't know what somebody else

(32:11):
is going through. But it's almost it's almost like you
don't give it, like you don't like if if this
were the military or something like that, you don't. You
wouldn't knock a guy for not jumping on the grenade. However,
the guy who jumped on the grenade, he's been a hero.

(32:32):
It's it's like you don't get knocked, but you but
you do get extra points. I hear what you're saying. Yeah,
it's probably a good way to put it. I think
this the trainer or the medical dude or whatever that
said he was heroic for doing this. That's a disservice
to Carson Wentz. Correct, I mean really towed it. Down here, trainer,
dude or document and he's he's he's heroic for his No,

(32:56):
he just did He's that was self preservation. Yeah, and
I get it, but at this but at the same time,
you are playing for a bunch of other people around you.
It's not just about you. So and then there's those
people who wanted to take it to the next level. Oh,
Carson Wentz is it wins? His injury prone? Oh? And

(33:20):
I'm saying, and my my stance on that what actually what?
What was your stance on the ban on the Carson
Wentz is injury prone? It's one of these deals. I
hate it. But you can't trust him physically because the
last three postseasons he hasn't been around. He had the
torn a c L when they won the Super Bowl.

(33:42):
He had the back injury last year, he had the
head injury this year. I don't think the head injury
this season had anything to do with his previous ailments, right,
But the guy is, he's absolutely injury prone. There's no
way you could say he isn't. You could blame it
on being injury prone. You can call it bad luck,

(34:05):
call it whatever you want to. But the best ability
in sports is availability, and Carson Wentz is not available
to his team when they need him the most. So
what that ultimately means is, at some point in time,
your your unavailability outweighs the potential, outweighs your talent. Because

(34:31):
they're still saying, no, car Carson Wentz is an m
VP candidate, nobody was healthy, all of these things, played
played great, but then he's not there when we need us,
when we need him the most. So how many years
can he be unavailable? And you still sell that? Sure, Hey,
I hear you on that too. And that's where it's

(34:54):
really a tricky scenario with this latest injury, with the
head injury, because on one hand, you could say, it's
a head injury. We know all the effects of CTE
and this is a major deal, right. On the other hand,
you say, do you think Brett Farve wouldn't have come
back in that game? You know, right like and if

(35:14):
you he's had these injury concerns in the past, and
it seems like there could at least be the possibility
that Carson Wentz says, forget that, I'm going back on
the field. Try to stop me, and he wasn't willing
to do that. Then it plants the seed to have
a question in your mind, is this guy willing to
do whatever it takes to get back on the football field,

(35:34):
And the answer it can't be yes. Okay, So I
have a question, does Nick Foles come out of the game? Self?
Self report and checkout? My guess? And it's a total
guess is no, because that's a guy who's scratching and
clawing to especially in the position he was in, being
a backup guy, not having the long term deal, and

(35:56):
I think the chances are better than not that he
would come back. But that's a comple eat guess. There's
nothing for me to to truly substantiate that. Yeah, it
was all right. Let's let's look at the other playoff
quarter quarterbacks. Ryan Tannehill I would I would imagine he'd
come back. Lamar Jackson, I think he would come back.

(36:21):
Drew Brees, I mean, why not to the end of
the road. Almost Russell Wilson's We've seen him do it,
so that's not even a question. Jimmy Garoppolo, Well, because
Russell Wilson drinks, you know, questions, he wouldn't have had
it to begin with. So yeah, Russ is absolutely back. There,

(36:43):
Jimmy g I don't know, man, Tom Brady, absolutely, I
think you he would have fought the trainer. Alright, coming
up back from the Geico studios. I love all this
agreement that we're having, George. It's nice. I'm gonna disagree
with you about something here about the previous playoff game

(37:05):
that's around the corner. I'm Brian, though, he's George Rice. There,
this is Fox Sports Radio. Tannehill takes the snap, pressure
comes late. Tannehill throws the fade left side ball up
and caught. Is it in? Bounced? Gas toutsdown Titans. Jottismith
tips it to itself. What hey play? I'm Brian, No,

(37:30):
he's George Rice. Stir that call from our friends at
w g F X one O four five Titans radio network.
As air, Tannehill hooks up deep ball touchdown as the
Titans look to go up. Fourteen nothing? Whoa fourteen nothing,
George Rice. They're on these mighty Ravens who have won
twelve straight. How about that? Right? They'll be fine? Huh

(37:55):
be fine? But oh oh, just a double move? Who
are this? Who is this? Mass Man Raymond? Yeah, calif Raymond.
He was the guy who got these dudes not get open.
Remembering remember the game against the Saints and it was
his head and fumbled because he was knocked out. Yeah,

(38:17):
that's him. But that was nice catch. I love playoff defense, George,
where the Ravens went for it fourth and one at
their own forty five and the Titans stuffed Lamar Jackson
on a run. I love when it's third and one,
fourth and one. It's like you get nothing. You get
nothing in the playoffs when it comes to your ground game.
So we'll see man to touchdown lead for the Titans.

(38:39):
You're not worried at all. You got the Ravens, no doubt.
It's the second quarter. You still have the Ravens by
ten points. Yes, no, no, no, no no no no, no,
no no no. That would need a Ryan Tannehill fall
fall apart, and he's playing and he's gonna be as
cautious as possible, which is gonna let the Ravens come back.

(39:01):
That ship is sailed. Ravens winning by ten Okay, no, no,
not not completely. He's not loving it. Yeah, I don't
love it. At this point. We could tie. However, now
the Ravens the Tennessee Titans, like if you look on
the betting sites, the Tennessee Titans are still underdogs right
now that you're looking at the in game betting lines.

(39:23):
This is what I love to hear from you, George Rice.
Stir My gambling heart just smiled when you gave that
fun fact. I don't even bet on games, but but
but I do look and pay attention though. I like that. Okay,
we can expand on this at the top of the hour.
We have a minute left. But I'm gonna push back
on you, George Rice Ster. You coming after Kirk Cousins,
and he didn't play well. He had a terrible interception

(39:44):
to Richard Sherman. He should be playing better. He makes
eight four million dollars guaranteed. We know all of that.
But if you look at the Vikings, they are built
starting with their running game. Dalvin Cook at ninety yards
rushing two touchdowns last week against the Saints. There's a
big reason why they were able to win that game.
Their running game could do nothing today. Dalvin Cook had

(40:06):
eighteen yards on nine carries. As a team, they rushed
for twenty one yards. You're not gonna do anything offensively.
The Vikings aren't. If the running game isn't working because
that's what everything is based on. No, sometimes you have
to throw the ball to be able to run it.
You got Kirk Cousins, Adam Feeling Diggs, you got Rudolf,

(40:26):
you have weapons like stop making excuses for people, Brian, No,
I'm just telling you. They're built with the running game,
and they go play action off of that. I will
yell at each other a little bit more coming up
next to the Geico studios. It's a trend this year,
but is it here to stay? Still? Down fourteen to nothing.
The best team in the NFL all season, the Baltimore Ravens.

(40:50):
They trail as air Tannehill through a quarter and a
little bit more has been outshining the soon to be
m v P. Lamar Jackson. You still say the Ravens
got this one, hunt, George, it's the entire second quarter.
I saw Tom Brady come back three and the third quarter. Man,

(41:12):
this is not a granted, you're not in an ideal situation,
but this is football. And then they've got so much
time left to play. It's not even funny. You don't
say this. Um. I mentioned this before the playoffs. I
thought that it was really really important one of the

(41:33):
the biggest keys to beating the Ravens is get a
lead on them. And it's not to say they can't
come back. This isn't me saying Lamar Jackson, if you
need him to throw the ball, you can't do it.
I'm not saying anything like that. I'm just saying it's
so unfamiliar for them. You know, they've been playing from
ahead throughout most of the year and then being down

(41:53):
by two touchdowns. Some teams, if they're not used to
being in those situations, they don't handle it very well.
And it's not to say they're incapable. It's just they
aren't really experienced playing from this point of a game.
So we'll see, all right, because it's so it's still
so early in the game that they don't have to
they're they're not forced to just run the football. They're

(42:17):
in good shape. So with no points and Lamar three
for six with one interception, you're still good. You're like
they're one play away from being a one score game.
I mean, this is a non this is a non factor.
I think you're too nonchalant. They're getting a stop on
this drive, they're getting if they give up points on

(42:37):
this drive, Yes, you should be concerned. But if they
get a stop, this is this is nothing. I think
it's more than nothing, because I do I think that
not playing from behind throughout most of the season, they're
not used to this. There's no way you can say
they're used to it. And I just don't think that.

(42:59):
Look at the it's as much of a layup as
you're making it out to be. How many times do
we see this the team who played the previous week.
When you have a bye week, they come out a
little bit hotter because they are, you know, there in
their routine. The Ravens have been off essentially for three
weeks because they didn't play the last week of the season,

(43:23):
so they've been off for three weeks. So now they
got to get back into the groove of a it
what look at look at this game, and remember Clemson
versus Ohio State. Clemson had not been tested. They had
to settle down. And that's what you're seeing with um
with the Tennessee Titans right now. I'm sorry, So you're

(43:43):
telling me that, you're telling me that the Ravens are
they're gonna pull a Clemson here, They're gonna take out
of this thing. Clemson was trailing sixteen? Nothing, do we
need a targeting penalty to jump Startdom? Kind of like
that Clemson game. No, no, no, all you all you
need is what you just got right there. You got
Raymond John at Humphreeze, John at Johnett whoever. It just

(44:08):
takes a little bit of a spark and that'll do it. Okay,
All right, Well, this one bears monitoring, and we will.
We will monitor this one like crazy. But something that's
tied to this game, George, it's a trend here in
the NFL. In the twenty nineteen season, you have four
teams that were the tops in passing offense. None of

(44:31):
them made the playoffs. And if you look at the
four top rushing teams in the league, they're still alive
in the playoffs. Two of the teams are playing right
now in the Ravens and the Titans. You also throw
in the Seahawks and the forty niners. So we all
know it's important to run the football. But I don't
see this being a longstanding trend. I hear the stat

(44:53):
being thrown out all the time as if what having
a top passing offense is bad? Oh, you got a
top passing off a no chance to win. Really, I
think this is just one of those random stats in
the twenty nineteen season. You're not gonna see this commonly
in the NFL. With the top rushing offenses they go
deep into the playoffs. The top passing offenses they don't

(45:14):
even make the playoffs. I think it's a standalone season.
What do you think about that? I totally agree with that,
and and you have to consider that part of that
is if you are a top passing offense, sometimes it's
because you do not well because you're always playing from behind,

(45:34):
so you have to throw the ball a ton. I
mean that's what you saw with like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
They're throwing the ball all the time because they're in
shootouts because Jamie's keeps both teams in the game, so
they have to continuously throw it. It's like, you know,
it's like you you just shoot your like you you
just what what what they cut? Cut your nose off

(45:58):
despite your face? Yea yeah. So that's what you have
in that when you look at the season leaders in passing,
like for the regular season, you had Jamis Winston throw
for five thousand yards, Dak Prescott and and the Cowboys

(46:19):
one of the top tops and yards, but they gave
up points Jerk Goff. Their defense couldn't stop people. Philip
Rivers stay from behind, Matt Ryan, same thing. Five top rushers,
I mean, five top passes, and then the man who
led the NFL and rushing, Derrick Henry quarterback played pretty

(46:40):
well too, defense played pretty well. I mean it's total
teams make make the playoffs. I'm sorry, yeah, total teams
make the playoffs. The only one that's really an anomaly
really is where you got Dak Prescott in the top
second in yards passing and Ezekiel Elliott fourth in rushing.

(47:04):
That's not common where you have a top rusher and
a top passer and you don't make the playoffs. Yeah,
if you go back to last season, the Chiefs were
third in passing yards throughout the season and they were
a whisker away from going to the Super Bowl with
that a f C championship getting lost to the Patriots.

(47:25):
The Rams were fifth in passing offense they went to
the Super Bowl, right, So I that's an interesting stat
this year with the top four passing offenses not making
the playoffs. But think about the Ravens Ravens were number
two in rushing last season, and they got bounced right

(47:46):
away the playoff lost against the Chargers. The Carolina Panthers
were number four in rushing offense. Where did they go
last season? Right? They didn't make the playoffs. They completely
faltered down the stretch. So I think that it's it's misleading.
It's one of those misleading stats. I think, George, we're
on the same page again. We're in the same foxhole

(48:06):
again on this one. It's nice agreement. Good. I totally
agree because there there's so many times that people try
to take, you know, a little bit of data and
turn it into something major, and you have to take
right more than one season. You can't just say, oh,

(48:28):
well this is a trend. No, it's not a trend.
One season is not a trend. One season can be
an outlier, but not a trend. Absolutely, We're coming to
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he's George Rice Stir. You always hear this, George, that

(48:49):
it's a game of inches. And remember the great speech
from al Pacino. In any given Sunday, we scratch and
claw with our fingernails for at inch. Right. We hear
that a lot and sometimes you roll your eyes and
say it's a cliche. But you think back to that
Week seventeen game where the Niners beat the Seahawks and

(49:12):
it was down to the very last play, fourth and goal,
Jacob Hollister literally an inch away from scoring a touchdown
and just the way the seating would have worked out
in the NFC, a complete turnaround where the Saints last week,
who lost, they would have been a two seed. They
wouldn't have even played, and who knows where we would

(49:33):
be if somehow Hollister sneaks into the end zone. But
Dre Greenlaw, rookie linebacker for the Forts, prevented that from happening.
And literally it was an inch away from changing the
seating for numerous teams. Crazy how that worked out. Yeah,
the NFL, it would say game of inches. This is
not for the faint of heart. You can't think that

(49:55):
everything is gonna work out for you and you have
to play to the end of the whistle like that.
That's the difference between the Patriots and some other teams
is that they you have to beat them until the
until the game clock hits all zeros, Like, you can't
think that ever, that you are just oh, yeah, we

(50:19):
have enough points to win, because that doesn't work when
you play prevent offense, prevent defense, that just does nothing
but prevent you from winning. Nice little third and ten conversion,
Lamar Jackson hooking up with Hollywood Brown. That helps your cause, George,
because a punt there, if they didn't convert third and ten,

(50:39):
a punt there didn't even hurt, as long as they
don't give up points. Yeah, because they could have. They
could have given up points. The Niners who won today,
who will host whoever wins the Seahawks Packers game tomorrow.
The Niners would have been a five seed if Jacob
Pollis their scores there in week seven teen. So with

(51:01):
the Niners getting that bye week if finans with pots
and pans, the whole world being kitchen Brian. But it
just blows my mind how much things changed in the
NFC playoff picture, and the Seahawks were literally an inch
away from winning that game, winning the NFC West and
changing the playoff seating for four teams that's wild. It's crazy.

(51:25):
But shout out to Drake Greenlaw. I was a little
disappointed because this was his NBC introduction for that week
seventeen game. Check this out, George, University of Arkansas. It
was changed today. Do you notice that he said, Drake
green Law University of Arkansas. I prefer saying Arkansas. I

(51:46):
like that better. It's got some stink on it, dude.
That's that's like the l s you commit. Who said
the the University of Louisiana. I'm sorry, no, the University
of l s U. The universe. He said that. I
didn't catch that one of the l s U commits
on nationals on the early national signing day, that's what

(52:08):
he said. Excuse me, Oh that's great. He said it
like it was I U p U I Indiana University.
Uhh yeah, Indiana University, Yeah, yeah, perdue University of Indiana. Yeah.
Oh that's funny, man. I didn't catch that. The University

(52:30):
of l s U. That's good. That's that's pretty interesting, man.
I like that all right. Coming up next to the
Geico Studios, we pay tribute to one player in particular,
and then also which would be the best scenario for
the NFL going forward. When it comes to a Super
Bowl winning quarterback, we'll dive into that. I'm Brian, though,

(52:52):
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little bit of business here. The Titans gave up a
field goal to the Ravens, so Titans still leading third
fourteen to three, as Derrick Henry is just doing Derrick

(53:57):
Henry like things. A hundred and eighty two yards ushing
last week and he's just bulling over people knocking him
around a little stiff arm on, Earl Thomas. You're still
not worried. You're still good though, George Rice Stir with
your ravens here. Huh, you're at the forty. I mean
this is a fourteen to three game. It's a two

(54:18):
score game. This is not a problem. I don't like
the look at Earl Thomas getting spun around and pushed
in his back by by um By Derrick Henry. He's
playing bully ball right now. He is man this, dude.
That's the thing is if you're able to run the
ball effectively, which the Titans are, and then you can

(54:38):
allow Tannehill to make plays, play action pass just straight dropbacks.
I'm telling you, George, Titan's got something working here. Nope,
you're not worried at all. I'm monitoring you. I find
this even more interesting than the game, is monitoring your
worry level. Where if there's a score, if they score

(55:00):
a touchdown on this drive and it's twenty one to three,
I want to hear the level worry of George Rice
Stir on a scale from one to ten, ten being
the biggest or greatest where's your worry level for the
Ravens winning this game right now? Two to not even
you're yawning at this point. Yeah, there's nothing to be worried, upset,

(55:22):
concerned about at all, nothing at all. Not Derrick Henry.
Derrick Henry's got fifty five yards rushing on ten carries.
They're using them in the passing game, No worries. Tannehill's
got two touchdown passes already. You're good, Yes, Okay, these
are these are outlier results. They are anomalies. As long

(55:47):
as I always look at these things, I don't. I
don't just oh, you know, I'm not quick to press
the panic button. Guy, No, we can tell I just
if this is the same score fourteen to three with
I don't know, five minutes to go, maybe George is like, yeah,

(56:08):
now it's they gotta put a drive together. But I'm
not worried because if they get a stop here on
third down at six, that's what Tannehill comes alive. George,
you know this, that then puts you in a position
to come down in and it be fourteen tanded halftime,

(56:29):
fourteen six, fourteen six at halftime. This is a non issue. Okay,
all right, by the way, shout out to George Kittle.
I know in this fantasy football day and age, a
lot of the talk is only about what you do
catching the ball, what are your your stats as far
as that goes, But George Kittle in the rushing game,

(56:52):
as a blocking tight end, there isn't a better blocking
tight end who can catch the way George Kittle does.
He is a hybrid great blocker, great receiver. And that's
why Chris collins Worth accurately pointed out he's the best
tight end in football where he can make a huge
impact in a game where he had what three catches
for thirty three yards. He's nasty in the blocking game. Yeah,

(57:15):
He's a complete player. When you look at tight ends
and you look at the best tight ends in the game,
I would go George Kittle one, Kelsey two and the
and the thing that they both do really well, which
which Kittle does even better. He runs violent. He runs
like Jeremy Shocky. Did you remember every time Jeremy Shocky

(57:39):
got the ball, he felt like he was on attack
or Bivarro old school Mark Bavar, But they didn't. He
didn't have the athleticism as a George George Kittle because
he's fast. He's fast. That's the difference between where like
so many people gave Gronk a lot of credit because
he was very good, he used to catch the foot ball,

(58:00):
but his size was his advantage. Where when you look
at George Kittle Kelsey, it's their speed athleticism that creates
matchup problems and the fact that Kelsey runs So I'm sorry,
Kittle runs so violently. He's like Earl campbella tight ends

(58:20):
just running the ball. So I mean, it's just hard
to defend. And it's like when do you remember when
they asked Marshawn Lynch about his running style and about football?
When you run through a dous phase, Yeah, in the
or's face, over and over and over and over again

(58:46):
and over. And that's that's football because at some point
in time, there's a physical map matchup in people as
much as football players. You know, you understand that there's contact.
There are some people who thrive on that more more
than others. It's like if you're in a social setting,

(59:07):
you know how there's some guys who just like to fight. Yeah,
you know most they looked at me funny through that guy. Yeah,
there there are people who don't want to fight, who
are willing to fight if they if they have to,
and then there are people who look for fights. That's right,

(59:27):
that's George, George Kitto, He's looking for a fight. I
like that. It's a good way to put it. And
it's interesting because I'm gonna tie this back to Derrick Henry.
There's gonna be some moving parts here, but stay with me, George.
I look at George Kittle and that's a good comparison
with Travis Kelsey. How they run with the football. They
look similar. They look more athletic than a guy like

(59:51):
Gronk did. Gronk reminded me of Derrick Henry, where they
were deceptively quicker, then it seemed like they were on
TV like Gronk didn't have He didn't look athletically the
same way running with the ball the way Kittle and
Kelsey do. But I think that Gronk was still effective

(01:00:13):
and it reminds me of Derrick Henry running with the
football a little bit. They don't look like graceful, quick athletes,
but they're still more athletic than it looks like when
you're watching them. Does that make sense? You co signed
that one that Kittle doesn't look as graceful of an athlete. No,

(01:00:34):
I think Kittle looks graceful like Travis Kelsey. I think
they both look athletic. And the way Gronk looked running
the ball, it's kind of how Derrick Henry looks running
the ball. They don't look quick athletic, but they are
that they're more is not very quick. He was not
very very quick. I think he was quicker than he looked.

(01:00:57):
I'm not saying that he was Kittle quick. I just
think he was. You know, there was no deceptive quickness.
I'm going to the Gronk is the guy who got
who in that page in that Dolphins game, which was
on the hundred and fifty greatest at the end of
his career though, George, that's who. That's who he was. Though.

(01:01:19):
Look at look at um, look at Gronk and the
Super Bowl against the Seahawks, split out wide matched up
on him a lot uses his body extremely well. He
is excellent ball skills, but he is not in any
way deceptively quicker. No, no quicker. He looks like this lumbering,

(01:01:44):
clunky dude running the ball, But I'm telling you he's
quicker than he looks. I'm not saying he's quick, saying
he's quicker. But but Derrick Henry though he's he's gotten
faster because he used to be a guy that if
you kept him from getting started, then he was gonna

(01:02:04):
kill you. I'm sorry, he couldn't hurt you. But now
he slimmed down, gotten his feet a little bit quicker,
He's able to make plays like that. He's become a dominant,
a dominant running back because of that. By the way,
I want to see if you agree with me on
this one. Stefon Diggs his pregame cleats. It was a

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shout out to Michelle tann Michelle Tanner. Remember he was
the baby on the TV show Full House, so he
had some full House cleats for pregame warmups and also
George Kittle. He had the Rock on his cleats. And
I think that wearing custom pregame cleats, it's like acting

(01:02:45):
cool while test driving a car that you can't actually
buy and own, you know what I mean, Like you're
just having these cleats and pregame warmups. You can't wear
him during the games, and it's just like, Okay, that's cool.
But I don't understand why this is such a thing
for these dudes. You can't wear them during the games.
I don't care what your pregame cleats are. Who cares
what you warm up in? Do I sound like I'm

(01:03:07):
fifteen years older than I actually am saying this. Yes,
you sound awful right now? You sound why is this
such a thing? Oh, check out my warm up cleats.
I don't care about your warm up cleats. You can't
wear them in a game. I don't care about your
warm up cleats. Everybody else does and their social media marketing.

(01:03:30):
There's dollars attached to it. They there is branding people
want to see. It's the same reason why in the
NBA players, I mean because they if the NFL wasn't
just the no fund league, they wouldn't just be pregame cleats,
they would be full game cleats. They would wear them
in the game, but the NFL doesn't allow it. What

(01:03:53):
would you say if an NBA player had warm up shoes,
couldn't wear him in the game, but he's warm up
in These shoes are awesome, or you'd be like, that's
there there, he wore them in warmups? Who cares? They
do change shoes a lot of times between warmups and
the game starts. I mean, dude, the the okay, I'm

(01:04:16):
I'm I'm gonna give you a great equation. So the
NBA warm up cleats are just like the NBA I'm sorry,
NFL warm up cleats are just like the NBA players
walking into the stadium. You know, you know how they
wear all types of funky clothes or you know, they
come in themed like the Houston Texans or whatever. That's

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what that is. It is a fashion state. It's a
fashion statement. They want to be you know, they want
to be seen. It's for the look. They may have
some sort and be trying to make a make a statement. Yeah,
I like, hey man, look good, play good, feel good,
all that if you want to get right mentally with

(01:05:00):
your dope pre game kicks. Okay, all right. I just
don't understand how people are drooling over these like, oh man,
look at these rock pregame cleats from George Kittle. I
don't care you can't wear them in the game. I
don't care that you caught a slant pattern in pregame warmups.
It's content, man, Don't you understand business? I understand it.

(01:05:25):
I just it's just funny to me that it's become
such a huge thing. It's everywhere, it's all over the place,
all right. You know who else is a phenomenon? Steve,
that's absolutely right, A friend of America, Steve the Sager.
You take it away. Well, you had mentioned earlier that
the Ravens don't add of a lot of periods being behind.
They've been so good this year earning the top seed.
In fact, the NFL says they haven't won a single

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game this season when they're down by more than seven
points at any time in any game. They were down
fourteen nothing in this one to Tennessee, and they just
took a sack Steve to sag at their own five
and mark Ingram out of the game with that strain
calf and apparently wrapped and not in the game on
this drive part of their offense. Three Tennessee leads with

(01:06:06):
under two minutes to go first half. The two touchdown
passes from Ryan Tannehill. Meanwhile, Lamar Jackson threw an interception
early in this game. Coming into tonight, he'd only thrown
one pick in his last two hundred fifty two passes. Remember,
he threw an interception and had fumbles last year and
they went nowhere. And Lamar Jackson last year in the
playoffs was getting booed at home when in the fourth

(01:06:29):
quarter they were down twenty three three to the Chargers,
who had kicked five field goals at that time or
else it really would have been a blowout. Things not
going well. It's only first half, but not going well
for the top seeds so far. In Baltimore. They enter
with a twelve game winning streak, but down fourteen three
to the Titans minute forty three till halftime. San Francisco,
top seed in the NFC, eliminated Minnesota seven to ten.

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Tevin Coleman with two short touchdown runs a hundred five
yards on the ground. Minnesota as a team rushing had
ten carries twenty one yards. You know, San Francisco and
the regular season was the NFC's number one rushing team.
Minnesota was number four hundred thirty three yards rushing per
game twenty one rushing yards for the Vikings today. In fact,
the Minnesota offense starting late first half, didn't get a

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first down for over twenty seven minutes, nearly half the game.
Tomorrow at three pm Eastern time, Houston's at Kansas City
Sunday on Fox TV. Seattle at Green Bay six thirty
pm Eastern time. College Football's national title game is Monday night.
In the NBA, Boston ended a three game losing streak,
ripping New Orleans one forty two one oh five, Jayson

(01:07:35):
Tatum forty one points at Houston, James harden At thirty
two points and eleven turnovers in a dominant went over
Minnesota one nine, one oh nine. The Bulls have ended
a six game losing streak, winning at Detroit one ninety nine.
The Lakers tonight or without Lebron James due to illness,
without Anthony Davis again due to the bruised tailbone, without
starter Danny Green due to a hip injury, and they're

(01:07:57):
at Oklahoma City, a team that's won eleven and it's
last thirteen games. Lakers are up one at okay See
with about five minutes to go in the third quarter.
Kyle Kuzma twenty seven points. Rajon Rondo started. He has
twenty one points, ten rebounds and seven assists. And in
college hoops, number four Baylor one at number three Kansas.

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I don't know if you saw this yesterday, but With
the l s U Clemson game coming up, the teams
arrived in New Orleans yesterday. L s U canceled classes
in Baton Rouge for Monday and Tuesday, pushing back the
start of the spring semester there. The title game is
in New Orleans, only about eighty miles from campus. Back,
I thought you were gonna say they got off the
plane with pregame cleats already. I will say that once

(01:08:39):
there are, and there are entire shows devoted to, for example,
sneakers and what athletes were. Yeah, it's it's a little
over the top, but we have twenty four hours of
programming on five thousand channels, so in that sense, it's
not really overkill. I guess, is it. I hear you,
Steve the Seger. I'm with you on that. People love it.

(01:09:00):
Hey man, if it sells, then I get it. It's
good branding. I just I'm surprised there's that big of
an audience, Like, who did you see? Oh b J's
pregame cleats that he warmed up in and then changed
before the game started because he can't wear him. Then yeah,
I saw him, and I don't care if but people do.

(01:09:21):
I'm in the minority on that one imb though he
is George Rice Stir Yes, confirmed by you, right, George, Yeah,
We're coming to you live from the Geico Fox Sports
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(01:09:42):
for you, George. You look at Lamar Jackson in this
game tonight, and then you think about two other a
f C quarterbacks duking it out tomorrow, Deshaun Watson and
Patrick Mahomes. Of those three quarterbacks, if you could say,
if any of them win a Super Bowl this year,

(01:10:04):
which guy do you think would benefit the NFL most
By winning a Super Bowl They're able to promote him,
maybe stylistically, his play, whatever. Which do you think would
be the biggest deal for the NFL? Lamar Jackson? You
go Lamar, because the Shaun's already a star. People believe
in him, his style of play, all of those things.

(01:10:27):
Patrick my Homes already a star doing all State commercials,
discount double check in with Aaron Rodgers. He's a star, already,
already got an m v P. Lamar Jackson, Bill Polion
said he was supposed to be a wide receiver or
a running back and then doubled down and didn't even

(01:10:48):
vote for the man for first team All Pro. Come on, man,
we know okay, is your Apple watch talking to you?
Georgian did it? It was a little fired. Siri was
fired up about it too, did it? Say, Hey, Lamar,
he can't take a sack to knock him out of
field goal range temporarily? Right? No, that was a non

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issue because they because they had um time outs left. Okay, man,
you are just you are? They had in the ravens here, dude,
he took a sack, They had three time outs left.
He didn't even have a chance to get the ball off.
It was a four yards sack. Am I supposed to
kill him for that? No, if they did have field

(01:11:34):
goal range for the time being, and it pretty much
effectively took him out of touchdown range, there's not enough
time a four yard sack with three time outs left,
it took Brian, No, it took four seconds off the clock.
You are classic. First of all, it was the last
just four yards you had to burn a time out.

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There's only eighteen seconds to go. Now after some passion
the time out. I'm not a classic panic guy. I'm
just telling you are like, it's all right, Yeah, the
Titanic's going down, but we'll be good. It's cool. By
the way, what a catch by Hollywood Brown. Interesting. Okay,

(01:12:16):
they have to burn a time out, their last one
with eleven seconds to go. They got one or two
shots at the end zone. Why do you Why do
you think? I don't worry. They got three shots at
the end zone if they need it. Man thrown into
triple coverage. That was a nice hell of a catch.
Good thing you didn't throw at the Roberts when he

(01:12:36):
dropped with some kind of injury. Man, is he got
a fever in his foot? Is when he when he
got right now? I don't know how Seth Roberts drops
that ball earlier today. That's the same way he dropped
it across the middle of the We got we got
alligator arms right now. I'm gonna agree with you about Lamar.
If it's between Lamar Jackson, Mahomes or Deshaun Watson, one

(01:13:01):
of those three young gun quarterbacks winning a Super Bowl
this year, what would be the biggest deal for the NFL.
I think it's Lamar Jackson for this. We're gonna try
to copycat it. They will, But I think that there
were so many people that weren't believers that Lamar was
gonna be a legitimate franchise quarterback. And you know, people
want to be right. So if Lamar falters, there's gonna

(01:13:24):
be a whole lot of people that said, I told
you so. I never bought it. There's that type of
factor with Lamar way more than Mahomes and Deshaun Watson.
As he scrambled around with no time outs, throws it away,
barely saves the field goal. I didn't like that. I
didn't like that he got set. This is That was

(01:13:47):
a classic example of where Lamar Jackson's athleticism. Yeah, took
him out of his quarterback play a little bit because
he wanted to make sure he didn't take a sack.
So he knows that he can get away from the
defensive alignement. So as soon as he felt a little
bit of pressure, he kind of bailed on it. But

(01:14:07):
they're gonna get another six points, not not a problem.
So now Brian Brian no being down eight at halftime,
Where's where? Where's your level of worry as far as
the Ravens winning. My my level of worry, it's at
a five. Titans, got my attention, baby, you're kidding me.

(01:14:28):
They're up fourteen to six. You got Derrick Henry running
the ball? Is the first quarter? They've gotten like two
first day, I since the first quarter, or it's given
up six points. They've given up two field goals in
the first half. No, I'm not yawning this one away.
This is legitimate. Three more field goals they lose, that's

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assuming they get shot out in the second half. Do
you think the Titans are putting no points up in
the second half? Oh? No, we're me and you on
this same program when we were going over the Clemson
Ohio State game, and you what did I tell you?
Hold the hold on? And and I started talking about
those field goals. If they hold Ohio State the field goals?

(01:15:16):
And you were like, no, no, no. I was like,
if they hold them the field goals, and what did
they do? Held them to field goals and then shut
them out? So so so, Brian, No, this is to
oh and at the beginning of the program today, you
had to nerve the audacity and the unmitigated goal to
call me a a a Monday Morning quarterback analyst expert

(01:15:39):
after the game is played. This is what it is.
I figured it out. You said the Ravens would win
tonight by at least ten points. That was your prediction,
and somehow you have mine ninjaed yourself into believing, well,
they're good because I thought they were gonna win by
double digit digits going into this game. So let's figure
it out. So so, Brian, uh huh? Do you remember

(01:16:02):
when we were watching me Clemson Ohio State game and
you were saying like you just laid out off Clemson
holds Ohio State to field goal field goal hold lest
you called me you had the nerve to call me
armchair Monday Morning analysts when during that game I showed

(01:16:23):
you my expertise during that you looked out in that game,
Church You had j. K. Dobbins dropping a walk in touchdown.
You had the scoop six reversed, which was outrageous, by
the way, and then you had a mess up at
the end of the game between Justin Fields and his receiver.
Why they didn't get to thirty points? You locked out there.

(01:16:44):
The luck luck is when preparation meets opportunity. There there
are some people who have it in some people who
do don't. There some people who have it, and then
some people try to call other people lucky. All right,
coming up that some the Geico studios. I asked George
about waffles. It's gonna be great. I'm telling you, stay

(01:17:06):
tuned for it. I'm Brian No. He is George rice Stir.
This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No. He's George
rice Stir here on Fox Sports Radio. Where coming to
here from the Geico studio is by the way, on
a random note here, George, because I get down randomly
from time to time. As you well know, we're watching
this game on CBS, Ravens trailing the Titans fourteen to six.

(01:17:27):
George isn't worried at all. They just showed a commercial
for the upcoming Grammys. Did you see Alicia Keys with
the dual pianos during the Grammys? Did you see that?
I was unbelievable. She was playing two pianos at one time,
and uh, it just it looks there was something visual
because obviously you're really not that much different than playing

(01:17:47):
one piano, right, But it just looked different. It was great.
I loved it. She is a musical genius, Like in
terms of what she can do with the piano, she
is absolutely the fan fantastic. She's got a great voice,
she's been around, she's had staying power, all of that.
I like Alicia Keys and too yeah, and I'm all

(01:18:09):
in on her. I love Alicia Keys. See you downplayed it,
you started to go love, you retracted went with with like,
I respect her craft and I just said she's been
around for decades, She's made some quality albums. Yeah, there's
nothing to take. There's nothing to knock. Like there are

(01:18:30):
pop rock whatever singers that will that are that would
kill to have her career. But I do have a
point today. I want to make a point today, all right,
is that have you noticed there's one thing that we
have not had on Rejoined Music today? Yeah? Metal? Correct?

(01:18:53):
And have you noticed the the how much we've agreed
on the show today. So that's why it's how you know,
communicative and and not quite as argumentative if you start
words here tonight. Yeah, yeah, I mean I told you
that metal it just stirs something up in your spirit.

(01:19:15):
You got I don't know why, why are you so
anti metal here, George, something wrong, something with your stance
when it comes see see see, see watch. I'm getting
eyes from from from across the board. I know he's
plotting something. Don's looking through his catalog of Lamb of
God as we speak right now, I can see he
is a habitual line stepper. He's the guy A right.

(01:19:39):
I got a question for you, George Rice Stir. I
was reading some of these blurbs and all these tweets
with fantasy football. It's the time of year for fantasy
football punishments. Heaven forbid if you come in last place,
some of these leagues, they make you do all this
random stuff. Wo yeah, you gotta dress up, you gotta

(01:20:02):
eat something random. I saw this girl. She had to
drink an entire stick of melted butter and stuff like that.
Not too bad. How about this the waffle house challenge.
Here's how it works. The loser, this guy, Cyrus, he

(01:20:22):
had to sit in a waffle house for twenty four hours,
and for every waffle that he ate, an hour would
be subtracted from the sentence. So if this was you,
George Riceter, You're in the waffle house for twenty four hours.
Every waffle you eat. We subtract an hour. How many
waffles do you think you could put away? That was confident?

(01:20:46):
That was a confident twelve right there? You big like
plate size. These are waffle House waffles. They are they
are made with water, not milk, so so they're a
little bit thinner and are not Belgian waffles. These are
the little skinny joints. So so you and if you're

(01:21:06):
not drinking, I mean, and if you're not eating other
food on top of this, Oh, you can't eat anything
besides this. Come on, you gotta get out of there
as quickly as possible. That's enough. You're gonna You're gonna
start with at least four waffles at first, and then
three hours later, three and a half hours later, you're
gonna be hunger again, knocked down another four waffles. How

(01:21:27):
about syrup? How do you how's your syrup intake? Go
with that? You're trying to get out of there, dude,
I am nervous because I don't eat syrup sauce. I
don't eat fake syrup. I only eat real maple syrup. Alright,
fake we put a bowl on this. And also you
gotta be more professional, man. I'll tell you what if

(01:21:49):
you were doing a drinking game and took a shot
every time a Ravens player got hurt, you'd be borderline
coma toast right now, George Rice, there are you kidding me?
Chopping like flies over here? Does this not make you
a little bit more nervous about them pulling this game out,
about the tiny end being being hurt? Boil, Yeah, we
got boils hurt. Seth Roberts banged up Ingram's. By the way,

(01:22:15):
great rush for a first down by Lamar Jackson to
keep this initial drive alive, and he only picked up
a couple of yards. But it's the little things, man.
You gotta do the little things right in playoff games
like this, low scoring games. Keep the chains moving. That
was a really nice run by Lamar. Very nice. You're
not gonna see it on the Highlight show either, you

(01:22:37):
might well, actually no you're not. You're just gonna see
it on the uh on the on the the film breakdown.
You're gonna see it on NFL matchup or something like
like that when they break down the film when they
use the analyst there, okay, moving the chains at midfield
Hollywood Brown with a version more hollywo oh No, like,

(01:23:01):
there we go dropping like flies. Ah, man, he got dinged,
you know, holding his head. Nope, see the differences. Guess
what not Carson Wentz is what you're telling me. Huh yeah,
He's like, yo, I'm fine, listen, it hurts, but I'm fine.
By the way, it's one of the most interesting things

(01:23:22):
you said tonight. And I'm not going to ask you
to name names, but you threw it out there where
some of Carson Wentz's teammates with the Eagles, they weren't
too fond of him leaving the game with a head
injury not returning at all. How many players did you
hear from? Two? Two players and they just weren't feeling

(01:23:42):
him leaving the game like that. No, No, they like
they were like, you know, he he didn't look bad
after the game, and he looked okay, you know what
I mean? So yeah, yeah, yeah, look like a bit
of a neck issue for Hollywood Brown. He will be
just yeah, okay, alright. So to start the second half

(01:24:03):
real quickly, why can't the Ravens wide receivers catch man,
I'm noticing a little bit of fear in your voice here.
What's your level of panic for them? Pulling this game.
I'm still there's still no panic, zero panic. So what's
the level? It was at a two? You staying true

(01:24:25):
at a two? It's at a zero, right, So the
film it's plummeted to zero. No one score game. It's
a one score game. Mark mark Ingram's in the game, dude,
this is a non issue right now. You know who
else is in the game? Air Tannehill, Eric Tannehill. There's

(01:24:45):
no such thing as Air Tannehill. All right, So I
want to talk a couple of other quarterbacks with you,
George Rice Stir the earlier game, Jimmy Garoppolo, Kirk Cousins.
Let's start with Jimmy G because his team moves on
to the NFC Champions Up game, had a terrible interception,
throwing it right to the linebacker. Eric Kendricks. This was

(01:25:06):
all about the forty Niners running game. Where are you
confidence wise with Jimmy G heading into the NFC title game? Oh? No,
on what is the scale, whatever scale you want? If
they can rely heavily on their defense and heavily on
they need and they depend on him to win the

(01:25:26):
game if the defense struggles, no, absolutely not no way,
no trust in him. Is in terms of a an
elite quarterback, because there's only a couple of elite quarterbacks.
And I define elite as guys that if you put
them in adverse situations, their their wide receivers are hurt,

(01:25:48):
old line not blocking, uh, minimal time on the clock,
not playing well, that they will find a way to
get it done. And that is who he is. Oh
and Lamar's loose man. That's when the spy. You can't
rush in there and missed the tackle if you're the
guy spying Lamar jacks And then and then Lamar Jackson's
mad he didn't score a touchdown. So but but but

(01:26:12):
when it comes to Jimmy g he's not the guy
that you're gonna be that you feel like that you
can trust him to or believe in him to go
save the day. Like he doesn't have a superhero cape yet,
And I don't know if he is that guy in
terms of being a superhero. He's a good player, but

(01:26:35):
he's he's more of a he's more game manager, which
I know is a four later word at times. Then
he is an actual um, Yeah, he's more of a
game manager than he is a superhero. Yeah, I hear
you because there, because if if you look at the league,
who are the superheroes you got? You've got Tom Brady, Yeah,

(01:26:56):
Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers still even pressed a
little bit this year, Breeze. Yes, and you used to
have Roethlisberger. You gotta put my homes up there? Oh yeah, yeah, yep?
Those those are it? Have you seen enough from Lamar
to put him there? No? No, because because because they've
been playing from a head so much. That's like, that's

(01:27:18):
like the stat that that that said, oh, they haven't
won when they've been down by more than seven points.
This year, they only lost two games. Essentially that third
game didn't even count because they weren't even playing, that
none of their starters played. So guess what, they only
lost two games, So that that's such a misleading stat

(01:27:40):
it's like cherry picky. Yeah, I hear you on that. Okay,
So we've got about what six quarterbacks in that elite territory.
I think there's also there are quarterbacks that aren't elite,
but you feel pretty confident about them. If you don't
have Lamar in that territory. For the reasons you explained,
you feel pretty confident about him. Deshaun Watson pretty confident

(01:28:04):
about him. Yeah, he's he's on he's on the edge
of that because he's done it well. He is right.
He did it in the last game. He had a
superhero moment when when he spun out of that and
where he got crunched. Yeah, he he had a superhero moment,

(01:28:26):
and you have a couple more of those. He will.
I mean, I guess he may be the sixth. Now
take off Big Ben, because if you're not available, you
can't do it. So take off Big Ben. He's retired
for this year and then we have to see if
he can do it again next year. Yeah, And I
think that if you're not in that that top tier,

(01:28:49):
um the tier that I think both quarterbacks Kirk Cousins
and Jimmy Garoppolo, your confidence level in can they be
the different rents? If you've got to have a drive
with either of them, do you think it can happen
and you can't be confident in either? I think they're
very similar as far as that guy. I would trust

(01:29:10):
Ryan Tannehill more than I would trust Jimmy Garoppolo. You're
trying it sounds like you're you know, you don't believe
in Tannehill that much. His whole career said don't believe
in him, and yes, he made some big throws last week.
But I'm not saying I can't say that this is
like a trend that I'm all of a sudden that

(01:29:32):
I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, he's been doing this for
a long time. He Ryan Ryan Tannehill has to make
me unbelieve what I already felt like I knew this is.
This is no different than you having a behavior in life,
and then you're trying to like it, like if you're

(01:29:54):
a liar, like if somebody's a liar, and then all
of a sudden they're like, listen, I'm gonna change my
life all on the honesty train and all of that,
and then it takes people a long time to believe
that they've changed, or somebody who was who was a cheater.
It takes people a long time to believe that you
are not just trying to fool them again. Yeah, that's fair.

(01:30:15):
I think it takes a lot to change your reputation
if you're known as the cheap guy. If you go
out with a group of friends and you're just cheap,
you never pick up the check or anything like that.
You can't pick up one check and then say hey man, wow,
look at Bill. He's a very generous man. It doesn't
work like that. I'm Briban though, he's George rice Ster.

(01:30:37):
We're coming to you Alive from the Geico Fox Sports
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free rate quote. Okay, So a game tomorrow Texans at
the Chiefs in the a f C Divisional Playoffs. Bill O'Brien,
head coach of the Houston Texans. So there was a

(01:30:58):
video that surface. This goes back to week fourteen. The
Texans got demolished by the Denver Broncos and there was
a fan that yelled at Texans said coach Bill O'Brien,
you suck, and Bill O'Brien lost his mind. Listen to this. Yeah,

(01:31:27):
that's a head coach. Drop in F bombs, m F bombs,
all of that, and this is Bill O'Brien After that
video surfaced on TMZ talking about his actions. I was
made aware of a video that's out there and um,
at a halftime in the Denver game, coming off the field.
You know, I used inappropriate language. Uh, and I just

(01:31:47):
want to apologize for that. You've had hard knocks, You've
been to a lot of this stuff before. What's it
like when that when you see that video and that
that appears and you you're forced addressed it during a playoff? Yeah, no,
I apologize for it. You know, I said, UM, you know,
just inappropriate um comments and you know, like I said,
I apologize for it, and UM, sorry that it happened.

(01:32:10):
I look at it like this, man, you gotta be
a pro. And that's the G level version that Heckler
is not saying anything that's you know, some hecklers are crazy,
like racist, sexists, say personal things about your family and
all of that. He said, you suck, and Bill O'Brien
lost his mind. You gotta be better than that. Okay,

(01:32:34):
So the Ravens just did not converted. I could tell
your panic level. It's changing over you. You couldn't even
speak his Lamar Jackson got stonewalled on fourth and one.
That was just perplexing to me. Their play call was
just O lord, that was like a delayed quarterback sneak.
What was that he tried to do? What the there

(01:32:54):
was a quarterback who just did a quarterback sneak like
that in a bowl game. Uh, he went all the
way to the I. It was just atrocious and um so.
But back to Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien is the same
guy who on on Hard Knocks he said, Oh man,
my my mother was so embarrassed. She she tells me

(01:33:17):
to stop using this language all of this, Like, come on,
come on, bro, this is who you are. We all
know at this point in time. So guess what, Just
accept it. Just be who you are. The only bad
part about his whole thing was just the fact that, Okay,
you can't yell at fans like that if you if

(01:33:39):
as the head coach, that's more of a player doing that.
As a coach, you have to keep it together and
you can't react to a player to a fan saying
something like that he lost his school. But then on
the other end, I'm not apologizing for it. I'm not
apologizing because you're really you're just like, hey, here's what

(01:34:01):
it is. Yeah, really like, look, um, I should not
have used that common, that sort of language towards a fan.
That's what I would have would have said, because he
was like I used some language and you're just like
you do that every single day, Like, don't act like
you don't got it all right, So you would say

(01:34:24):
I shouldn't have directed that type of language to that fan,
How would you say it, I should not have directed
that sort of language at a fan, Okay, But he
made it sound like I shouldn't be using that language,
and to your point, he uses it every single day,
every single day. Yeah. I think it was a poor
comeback to with him saying like, if you say you

(01:34:45):
suck too, you're basically saying, you know what I do,
suck as Derrick Henry of the gate. Baby, look at
Derrick Henry go he ran out of gas, but he
got inside the ten yard line. You have to check it.
I think he was down. Marcus Peters tackled him and
thought he had the ball, but I think, uh, Derrick
Henry was down. How about this, George Rice, stir your

(01:35:08):
level of panic here with the Ravens. Huh, where's it
at now? Still from one to ten? You're crazy? It
can't be a zero. You're serious, dude. Nobody wants to
tackle to this guy. Hey, Derrick Henry is nasty. That
is a that is a legit running back. I think

(01:35:29):
he's the most underrated running back in football because it
look at the short list of running backs at the
top of the game with Ezekiel Elliott and the guys
that are always mentioned. When is Derrick Henry mentioned alongside
those guys, He's not hardly ever mentioned. He's not and
they better put another running back in right now because
he's out of gas. Derrick henfres fell down. He's like,
oh my gosh, dude, Pet we don't They got Dion

(01:35:53):
Dion Lewis, but he's not really short yardage guy down there.
That was a little iffy on the replay. Now he
had it the whole time, not if he hadn't. Yeah,
I take that back, all right. We'll see if the
Titans punch it in. Coming up next to the Geico studios,
I've got a hypothetical, a total hypothetical for George, but
I think it's pretty interesting what the the answer is

(01:36:16):
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got a lot to catch up on, George, we have
a lot to catch up on here. As the Titan
score a touchdown, the jump pass from Derrick Henry to
Corey Davis. This is how it sounded on w g

(01:37:17):
f X one oh four or five Titans Radio Network.
Titans in the pistol Mariota. Now he goes in motion
direct snap, Derrick Henry throws it jump pass in the
end zone. Touch staff Titans hitle me to Colly Davis.
Oh my goodness. That play is from the eighteen hundreds,

(01:37:41):
just like Tebow did with the jump pass at Florida,
Derrick Henry throws it to Corey Davis for the touchdown.
One to six Titans. On the ensuing possession, Lamar Jackson
stripped by Jarrell Casey. Titans with the ball third and
six in the red zone. Crazy in this George field

(01:38:02):
hardball should have kicked the field goal. But at the
same time, you gotta be able to convert, oh lord,
fourth and one actually four inches, and you gotta be
able to get a stop when it matters the most. Okay,
So I don't like the Ravens body language right now. Okay,
the level of of worry for you, George, scale from

(01:38:22):
one to ten tend being the most. Where is it?
It's gonna be higher than zero At this point. I'm
going to blame this number on Don Brown because he
came in with that awful intro music and it just
threw off my spirit so and and got me in
a in a flustered state. So now I'm at a six.
At a six, Derrick Henry bowling towards the end zone.

(01:38:44):
The Titans are trying to go up to six, George
to six, they hold him to a field goal. They're
they're still in business. I don't think so, man, Patriots
were down three. This is Lamar Jackson. They had Tom Brady.
That's great of a year as Lamar Jackson has had.

(01:39:06):
This is uncharted territory. They are not used to playing
from behind to begin with, let alone down by three
plus touchdowns. If Derrick Henry bowls in, he's oh out
at the one out at the one yo. It takes
an army to take this dude down. They gotta grab
his leg, hit him up top all at the same time,

(01:39:28):
he's a man. Wow, man, it's it's been a crazy game.
And okay, you mentioned this. It was fourteen to six
when the Ravens were in field goal range, but they
went for it on fourth and one. It was fourth
in just a little bit and they got stuffed and
since then it's been downhill for the Ravens. It could

(01:39:50):
have been fourteen to nine. And you mentioned this quickly, George,
they gotta pick that up by going for it. If
you go for it, you gotta pick that up. But
do you come back and say Hardbaugh I don't like
that decision. No. I I apologize for saying that because
I'm not a revisionist history guy, not going for If

(01:40:12):
you have the number one brushing offense and all of football,
you can't get stuffed on two fourth and one in
a playoff games. And that's what they've done all year. Right,
it's dance with who brong you? He's been aggressive all year,
so I have no issue with them going for it. There, Tannehill,
touchdown you, Tannehill, Aaron ground Tannehill, if you will, As

(01:40:37):
the Titans are about to go up by twenty two points,
if this extra point is good, Wow, man, Marlon Humphrey,
the stud cornerback with his helmet off, crouching down at
the goal line, seeing their season crumble away. That's what's
happening to the number one seed in the a f C,

(01:40:59):
best record in a ball the Ravens about to be
down by twenty two points at home against the sixth seed.
Welcome to the NFL. It's like all these people that say, oh, yeah,
parody is parody, isn't that interesting? Really? So it'd be
a lot better if what the Ravens were up by
twenty two points and you're like, oh, yahn knew that

(01:41:20):
was gonna happen. This is way more interesting to have parody. No,
it's not, absolutely it is. No, it's actually more interesting
to have spectacular performances. Regardless of whether it's parody or not.
Fans want to see spectacular They don't want to I mean,
and regardless of whether that means the Patriots when ten

(01:41:42):
times in a row, or whether it means there's ten
different Super Bowl champions. They just want to see great
playoff performances. They don't want to see blowouts like we
saw earlier. They just want to see they want Last
weekend in in the NFL, last weekend in the NFL
was absolutely one of the best playoffs that you get,

(01:42:04):
one of the best playoff weekends that you can remember
in quite some time, right, and that was it was
tied to parody. You saw two six seeds win. You
saw a huge upset in the Vikings going to the Saints,
who a lot of people thought the Saints would win
the super Bowl. That's parody right there, not knowing what's

(01:42:25):
gonna happen, not knowing that, oh, this super team is
clearly going to win, no chance the other team has
of winning the game. That's parody. What happened last week,
and it was awesome, It was great. We don't want
to see dominance to the point where you know who's
gonna win a championship before it's played. How can you
ever know you thought you knew that the Warriors were

(01:42:46):
gonna win last year. That's the only way they lost
is because they were decimated by injury. But how many
times do we see the well last year in particular,
did we have them that the just hand them the
trophy teams lose? You had Alabama, Oh, just hand him
the trophy. They're the team of the century, they're unbeatable,

(01:43:09):
and then they get hammered by Clemson in the National
Championship exactly. Great example. Think about going into this year,
it was, well, it's gonna be Clemson Obama one too,
whichever the order is. Yawn, wake me up when they're
duking it out in the National Championship game. And Obama
didn't even make it to the playoff and Clemson wasn't

(01:43:30):
a one or two team, right, So it's changed a
lot based on what we thought, and it's been way
more exciting because of that. I mean, was it though? Absolutely,
you would rather have Bama Clemson instead of l s U.
And everything's see but that goes to prove my point.

(01:43:50):
We saw the spectacular l s. You just didn't just
squeak in. They dominated basically from cover to cover. They
had a close game with Texas, had a great game
with Alabama, but aside from that, they just stomped a
hole in everybody. Joe Burrow was spectacular. That's what fans
want to see. They want the spectacular. I mean, remember

(01:44:13):
when your Notre Dame fighting Irish went to go play
in the National Championship in the Orange Bowl against Alabama.
I remember that there was there was nothing spectacular about that.
But no I disagreed. Obama crushed. Obama had a spectacular
performance and it was a yawn fest. It sucked, it

(01:44:33):
was there was nothing spectacular about it. They were They
were just a more dominant team against an inferior team
rushing for ten yards a clip. It was a beatdown,
total beat down. The point is is that it wasn't
a spectacular performance by an individual. But here's my point.
We want drama. We want tight ball games, so we

(01:44:56):
want the unexpected. We don't want predictability. Predictability is boring
and that's why in the NFL you don't have predictability.
Everybody thought there's gonna be a layup for the Ravens
and you blink in their town twenty two at home.
That's exciting. Yeah, it's exciting, especially if they come back.

(01:45:18):
Oh that's that ship is sailed. Ain't happening. Oh lord,
it ain't happening, George, not tonight? All right? Okay, what
percentage chance do you think the Ravens have to win
this game? They're down by twenty two with three forty
nine left in the third quarter. That's not a penalty,
by the way, That's a good football hit by Rashiana.

(01:45:39):
It looks like a penalty to me, buddy, Well, they've
probably gonna call it, But do you think that legitimately
is a penalty. That's look illegal contact. They didn't call
it penalty on the hit. So according to the win
probability predictor point seven. Okay, so you'd taken the one

(01:46:02):
point three percent with the Ravens. You're going on all right,
I'm saying there's a great chance that this will be
another award winning update from a friend of America, Mr
Steve the Seger. You take it away, Steve, Wow. Ryan
Tannehill with two touchdown passes and a touchdown run and

(01:46:23):
the Titans are leading at top seeded Baltimore to six
about three and a half minutes to go in the
third quarter. Guys, this is reminding me this postseason run
of a team from the eighties and also won from
the nineties. There was a Minnesota Vikings team seven when
eight and seven a strike year and out of the
blue dominated as a wild card win on the road

(01:46:43):
at New Orleans and then upset Joe Montana in San
Francisco to make the conference championship. And remember the year
that Jim Harbaugh was Colts quarterback and comeback player of
the Year. By the way, Ryan Tannehill could get a
few votes for that award this year Harbaughs Colts. The
Cardiac Colts won their playoff game in an upset at

(01:47:03):
the defending a f C champion San Diego won by
a couple of touchdowns in their wild card and then
the upset win the next week on the road at
Kansas City to make a conference championship game. And then
there are these Tennessee Titans, a club that started two
and four this year, nothing special, and then they went
on a run, starting with a crazy home win at
the goal line where they stopped the Chargers in a

(01:47:26):
game in October. And remember these Titans did lose a
couple of December games. They were the last team into
the playoffs. And here they are beating the top seeds
handily to six, under three minutes to go in the
third quarter. Derrick Henry eight team carries a hundred forty
four yards rushing the likely m v P of the
league this year, Lamar Jackson has no touchdowns, one interception,

(01:47:48):
and one fumble. The top seed in the NFC, San
Francisco advanced eliminating Minnesota with ease twenty seven to ten.
The Vikings had only seven first downs and under a
hundred fifty total yards. The forty nine will host the
NFC title game on Fox TV a week from Sunday,
six thirty pm Eastern time. As for the NBA in progress,
the Bucks are already out to lead at Portland late

(01:48:11):
first quarter. I think our co host may have referenced
that game earlier in the show. The Cleveland Cavaliers are
ahead at Denver late third quarter eight one sixty five,
and Dallas leads four over Philly with under five minutes
to go. Houston and Boston got wins, Bulls got a
win to end a six game losing streak, and the
Lakers did not have Lebron James tonight due to illness,
and did not have Anthony Davis again due to a

(01:48:32):
bruce tailbone and still won their eighth in a row
one one ten at Oklahoma City. Kyle Kuzma thirty six
points nets. Guard Kyrie Irving is probable to return from
injury finally tomorrow. In college hoops, Baylor ranked fourth, gotta
win at number three Kansas sixty seven fifty five. And
I don't know if you saw this on the pregame
show tonight before this telecast from Baltimore, but the Hall

(01:48:55):
of Fame director surprise Bill Kawerd, and I want to
welcome you to it in Ohio. Bill Kauer is going
to be in this year's large class of the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Keep in mind, with the hundredth
anniversary of the league, the class of will have twenty members.

(01:49:16):
The usual yeah, you're not the only one to come
in on that. The usual five modern air members will
be at a night before the Super Bowl when the
selection committee meets. But there's also in this centennial slate
ten seniors that will get in. Three contributors and two
head coaches. Bill Ker announced tonight. The other will be
announced on Wednesday morning. Could be maybe Jimmy Johnson, Mike Holmgren,

(01:49:39):
somebody else from that list. But when this happened tonight,
one of the first comments in the hallway here at
Fox was, well, I guess I mean Mike Tomlin is
getting into the Hall of Fame one day. And if
you look it up their Steeler careers as head coaches
Bill Ker fifteen years, Tomlin, It'll be fourteen years next season.
Bill Kaer one super Bowl title and one Super a loss.

(01:50:00):
Tomlin one super Bowl title, one Super Bowl loss. Coward
winning percentage six three Tomlin sixty two. And Mike Tomlin
has never had a losing season either. Back to you, interesting,
by the way, Steve, did you take all of your
resources and put it all on the bucks tonight against
the Blazers were already of double digits in the first quarter.

(01:50:21):
Oh my god, sorry, Blazers are so bad, I'm telling you.
And no white side tonight due to illness as a layup.
George Ricetir, did you take my advice and put all
your worldly possessions on the bucks tonight. No, man, what
do you mean? No, man, I could I could have
doubled all that you're worth. Nah, I'll save that for you.

(01:50:43):
I don't, I don't What were they I mean, I
probably what was the line in the game seven seven
bucks are favored by seven, and you could have gone
money line, money line. There's no way they were losing
the game tonight. So if you go money line, it
was mine us three ten. You know, putt put six

(01:51:04):
hundred bucks on it. It's you're walking away with two
hundred guaranteed. How many times in life could I say, George,
here for a small investment, you can guarantee you win
two hundred bucks. Oh like like the like the way
that that people would have bet that the Golden State Warriors,
I mean, well that the Rockets would have beat the
Golden State Warriors on Christmas, kind of like that. In

(01:51:27):
one game scenario, anything could happen, exactly safety, except when
it comes to the Blazers. That again, it's the fine print, George,
It's a different deal with this this version of the Blazers.
I'm probably no, he's George Rice to will coming to
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out which way is easier. I've got a hypothetical for you, George.
I want to hear what you have to say about this.
Oh it's Lamar Jackson throws an interception late, Kenny Vaccaro
picks it off. It was an out pattern, he threw
it late, telegraphed it. Terrible throw. Look, we started off

(01:52:11):
the show by diving into this question. Would a loss
tonight diminish a stud season from Lamar Jackson? And I
told you then and I tell you now, abs a
freaking lutely, you can't have a stud regular season laying
egg in the playoffs and not have your season diminished
at all. So diminished season for Lamar. Sadly not rooting

(01:52:34):
for it, I'm just calling a spade a spade. Bill
Polian is somewhere like gloating right right now, and I
absolutely hate it. I hate it too. I'm completely there
with you. I hate that he's had this bad performance,
but look, man, it's that's the way it goes in sports.
The more you do in the regular season, the more

(01:52:56):
we expect in the postseason. There's a reason why Clayton
Kershaw gets criticized so heavily. And it's just the nature
of sports man. You gotta bring it when it matters most.
And sadly Lamar hasn't done that tonight. There's still a chance, buddy,
still as Derrick Henry is just rumbling downhill. It is done, man,

(01:53:16):
this thing is on ice. It is over. Jeez, look
at that whole I could run through that. Man. You
talk about one of the more disappointing playoff efforts ever.
That's not. Yes that the Ravens were fourteen and two,

(01:53:40):
they were ten point favorites at home against the sixth
seated Titans. Yes, this is one of the most disappointing
playoff efforts ever by the Baltimore Ravens tonight the most.
That's one of the most outrageous comments of And I
didn't say the I said when finishes. That will be

(01:54:03):
one of the most outrageous comments of you. You said
here saying that the Ravens were gonna win by ten
at least, you know, almost everybody expected them to win
and win convincingly, and they're down by twenty two at
home and counting. What else do you have? I mean,
you've got some disappointing playoff efforts. You can start naming

(01:54:23):
them one by one. The Ravens are on that short list. Absolutely.
The game is not over, man, that the same bumbles,
the same fumbles that happened or a turnover can happen
on the other side. Man, just just chill acts a
little bit. No, this one is over. You're in the
nial here because you had the Ravens winning this one.

(01:54:45):
M listen, I'm telling you this, Brian, Brian, no, because
we'll be off air by the time that by the
time this game is over, I'm going to call you
tweet you spiked the football so hard. Oh that's not
if they come back. So if it's not happening. I

(01:55:05):
want to know, though, what is your take on Monday
on the National Championship game, because that Yeah, let's get
to that coming up, George, because I want to get
your thoughts on it too. And I also have a
hypothetical for you. Okay, so we could go hypothetical, then
we could go National Championship stuff, and then we can
update the Ravens being down what like at least thirty one? Well, no,

(01:55:28):
they'd be a down five or twenty nine by that
time when we get back. Is that you think that's
what it's gonna be. No, man, stop stop, stop stop
trolling me and Don Brown. You you put on some
good music, some good comeback music. Man. I think Angel
of Death from Slayer is a great way to close

(01:55:49):
this one down he does. If he does that, I
will change all the way to I will go to
ten death con one when you just clinched it, man,
you oh, what you're gonna hear? Coming up? Alright? The
Geico Studios hypothetical, some National Championship game talk Angel of
Death from Slayer. All that's around the corner on Brian Though,

(01:56:10):
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here on Fox Sports Radio. As we get into the
fourth quarter, Titan still lead to six, just under fourteen

(01:56:53):
minutes to go. What are the official odds right now, George?
It was one point three percent chan that the Ravens
had to pull this one out. Are we still holding true?
Right around there? Are their odds a little bit better
now they're at point four They've gotten worse point six chance,

(01:57:14):
don't the Ravens they have to get Yeah, they have
to get points on this drive. Don't try to get
it all back at one one time the mar yeah virtue.
All right, before we get to the National Championship game,
I've got a complete hypothetical for you, George. If Brady

(01:57:34):
and Belichick we're a packaged deal, meaning they're like, we're
gonna go to another team, we're free agents, but were
joined at the hip, how many teams do you think
would say no, no, we're good with our quarterback, coach
Combo or or what have you. Now, this is a
complete hypothetical. I know it's you know never gonna come

(01:57:56):
to that. But I think what's interesting is it does
give you a sense of real football, which is, who
are the teams that are that sold on their QB
coaching tandem? So, off the top of your head, how
many I'll throw a couple of teams out at you?
The Seahawks. I think the Seahawks would say no, They like, no,

(01:58:19):
absolutely not no chance, no how, no way. Why would
you even call us? What that foolishness? Okay chiefs. Chiefs
would say no, good Lord, Patrick Mahomes might be in
the NFL for another fifteen years. There's no way. They
would say yes. Chiefs would absolutely say no, way, no,
how kick rocks. Okay, here's where it starts to get interesting.
The Brady Belichick free agent packaged deal the Saints. The

(01:58:45):
Saints have an aging quarterback and Drew Brees. No, they
agree with They wouldn't kick Peyton and Breeze to the
curb for that tandem. No, no way, no, how, not happening.
How about this one? How about them Cowboys? Would they
take on the Brady bell a check two headed monster?
They would say, no, really, you're that sold? Garry Jones

(01:59:07):
would say no, what would you say, I would say
no to you would say, did you see Tom Brady
played this year? Did you bows around him largely? Well, well,
guess what they'll if somebody gets hurt, there'll be somebody
else to blame. You know, you can't depend on a

(01:59:29):
aging quarterback to get you to the promised land. Okay,
is there any other team other than the ones we
mentioned that would also say no, we're good, We're set
to the Brady Belichick package deal? Ravens, I agree with that.
I would say no. The Titans would even say no.

(01:59:50):
Titans would say no, they don't even have a future
quarterback at this at this at this point, right, and
they would say no to that. Tom. How many years
does Tom Brady have? He's got to maybe two. You're
saying no to the greatest coach of all time, who
could have what another five to seven years left for
vrabel and he may retire to when Tom Brady retires.

(02:00:14):
You don't have very much Yeah, Okay, well that was fun.
I like that. Thanks for indulging me. All right, National
Championship Game l s U Clemson Monday night. What are
you seeing here, George? You have a strong stance. Yeah,
what are the Tigers and we're Tigers of what university?

(02:00:35):
And throws a touchdown pass and we're playing for death
valley rights. That's right, and truthfully, Lamar Jackson should have
two touchdown passes. If if, if your boy Raymond didn't
could catch the football. Sorry, Seth Seth Roberts, Seth Roberts, Yeah, yeah,

(02:00:56):
I don't think you would have scored. But what are
you talking about? He would there was nobody behind him,
and provided he didn't pull a hamstring, he was gonna score.
But it's Seth Roberts. You know, like have you seen
on Scott Van Peltz Show where he does the bad beats?
How that horses way ahead of every other horse and
then somehow the jockey falls off of it, Like there's

(02:01:17):
always that. That's the Tennessee Titans today. Okay, I get it.
But in the National Championship game, I like Clemson. I've
like Clemson all year. There's no reason, and this is
this almost feels like a team of destiny for l
s U. Right like this, this feels like a team

(02:01:40):
that can't lose. Almost they're playing at home in the Dome.
They got so much riding in their favor. Yeah, I
can't say it's that much of a lock. Their defense
is pretty effy. I think Clemson is going to give
him a heck of a ball game. I really do, though, Yeah,

(02:02:00):
what wouldn't I'm saying, wouldn't it be heartbreaking for LSU?
Absolutely no doubt about it. If you look at the
two playoff games tomorrow and the National Championship game on Monday,
there are six teams total. In those games. You could
take any one of the six teams with the point spread.

(02:02:21):
Which team are you feeling most confident about? Clemson because
they're because they're dogs and I think that they're gonna
win out right? Okay, you go Clemson plus six. How
about the total is sixty nine and a half George
Dead shootout. That's about right. Neither team is going to
be able to get full stops. Fun Stuff will play
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