Knox and Quinn: 01/14/2018

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports. Oh baby, what a wild
finish we have got going on here. Let's not waste
any time. Brady Quinn, how the hell are you, Bud?
I'm doing fantastic watching this game. It is as advertised.
We thought this was gonna be the best game coming
in the weekend. It's lining up to be that way
right now, and so we do have to get to

(00:22):
the big news. Right off the top, James han finished
a shot back at the Sony Open in Hawaii. So
that is the uh oh no, we're talking about the
playoff games. So here's the status. A forty three art
attempt right now Will Lutts to put the Saints ahead,
and he drills it straight down the pipe, and New
Orleans has just taken a twenty four to twenty three

(00:43):
lead over the Minnesota Vikings twenty five seconds left. The
Vikings have a time out remaining in the fourth quarter.
The winner this goes to Philadelphia to take on the
Eagles next weekend in the NFC title game. So just
an unbelievable finish case. Keenum with the help of a
couple of maybe a non caller to on on Adam

(01:03):
Feeling on the drive before with a kai for Bath
field goal to take the lead. Now the Saints have
just taken it back. But a great game going down
right now in a non call. Well, I mean, all right,
you want to be honest, there was no doubt about it.
Those past interference and he still caught the football. You
want a little behind the scenes here because I don't
think we're all right. We're not on the are at

(01:24):
so we can have this conversation. I actually didn't see
it because I was talking to you. That was my
sort of vague shot at what happened with not really knowing.
How's that? It's great seconds left, The Vikings have one
time out, so they still have a chance. But let's
just look, you know, look forward for a half second,

(01:44):
because the NFL dodged a bullet. Could you imagine if
it was case Keenum and Nick Foles for the NFC championship,
those your headlining quarterbacks. I mean, you'd have to make
the case that, given that Tom Brady is gonna be
taken on Blake Bortles in the a f C Championship,
if the Patriot were to win the Super Bowl again,
it would be what most people would consider the easiest

(02:05):
road to get there. You're unbelievable. Hold, you're unbelievable. This
game is not over. Minnesota's got twenty five seconds left.
They need a field goal and Kai four Basso a
good kicker, and they've got a time out left, and
you're already talking about how thank god it's Drew Brees
in the next round, Like, not only did you knock
the casket over, you're dancing on top of the body
and it's not even lifeless ship. Let's give this thing
a chance here, this game is over. They got they

(02:28):
gotta go too far. They only have one time out.
There's just not enough time. They need a pass interference call.
They need to take a chunk at a pass interference
call call. And now you have a potential false start
with which if it's on the vikings, which it is,
it's a run off. Now if they use the time out,
now they The ironic thing is that that if that
was the Patriots, there would be a personal foul call

(02:49):
to New Orleans, and so the Patriots would have gotten
that ingre yards. Then stop that. You just can't. Now
Here's the deal. NFL fans are like wind up toys.
I like to find him up and I like to
make him dance for me, and that's just the way
it's gotta be. How does that feel? It's decently accurate.
I don't even know where that came from. It doesn't
even make sense, all right, So now a completion to

(03:11):
Stefon Diggs, you gotta take a time out or you
gotta come up and clock it. You're not gonna have
a ton of time left that he's trying to get.
The Saints called for a delay of game, which isn't
gonna happens. Stefon Diggs. Yeah, Stefon Diggs, um this who reference.
I'm working on Robertson somehow. I'll figure that was going

(03:31):
to get to the first segment of the show I
said about it was talked about maybe the last hour
we would do it, and it's been moved all the
way to the first segment. The pronunciations game. Yeah he's
big at times. Yeah he's been. He's been huge in
this game. So a the the Minnesota Vikings are looking
to pull off a bit of a a bit of
a miracle here. The situation is Minnesota's got the ball

(03:54):
on their own thirty nine eighteen seconds left to go,
fourth quarter, down twenty four three case Keenom trying to
get him into field goal range. Two, Here's here's what
you're gonna do. You've gotta Thornton bounds. You're telling them
down down if it's not to the sideline, which in
this case it's incomplete. But now with fourteen seconds really
not a ton of time. So they're gonna to take
another shot at the sideline in order to be able

(04:16):
to preserve time because you just don't have enough time
to be able to throw it inbounds, get everyone back
on the ball to then snap it and spike it.
And even in that point, you know, to be in
field goal range, it's gonna be a really long kick
for four bats. So this ball has to be on
the sideline. I would be shocked to fill as anywhere.
But because I just don't think fourteen seconds is enough

(04:37):
to get everyone up orchestrated to get him to snap
the football on spike it. So here we go. So
the Minnesota Vikings now have the ball on the again
their own thirty nine yard line, and the Saints have
taken a time out. So I and and here's and
you do want to know why I really like that
time out? That the Saints just took Yes, sir, because
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That's exactly why I like that. Just getting it in, Man,
you gotta get it in. You know, Minnesota will feel
good about it because now it gets you know their
operations ready. As I said before, it has to be
a play where it's out of bounds. If it was
in bounds again, fourteen seconds is tight man to get

(05:21):
up there and build to spike it. And then at
that point you obviously have to bring the field goal
unit on or you're trying to throw a hail Mary,
which even in that case from where their position right
there on their own thirty nine, I don't think Case
can't even get the ball at the end zone on
a hill mary if they can't get anything on this play.
So they need to get some sort of positive game
just to have a shot at that. Yeah, so he is.
And look, Minnesota Viking fans right about now are probably like, man,

(05:44):
can we catch a break at some point? Can we
get a break? Because they have had just such playoff heartbreak.
And now another incomplete passed by case Keenum. Ten seconds
left to go, and he was throttled on that play,
So we're looking at ten seconds. So what do you got.
You've got maybe a ten yard out, a twelve yard ten,
twelve yards out just to get you closer to throw
a hill mary um and and I obviously if it's

(06:05):
a ten yard out, you know, the first round doesn't
matter in this case because you only have a couple
more downs, and it might have to be a five
or ten yard out only because one the time element
you have ten seconds. But to the pass rush right now,
I mean the Saints are really getting after this offensive
line for the Vikings and stupid, I mean the crumbing
part about all. This is Minnesota and we're just gonna

(06:27):
crack jokes and bus balls while there's a team whose
playoff fate is on the line, as case Keeno is
back to throw a going deep right side and oh
my god, he caught it. Stefon Diggs, you gotta be
kidding me, and the game is over. Stefon Diggs just
scored on unbelievable. Gotta be kidding me, and the Vikings

(06:48):
just won the game. The final that is the worst
defense in the history of the NFL on a final
play like that, What my goodness, I have no idea
that you know what it looked like. It looked like
the defenders were just worried about getting called for a
p I, that that was the that was their only concern,

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and Stefon Diggs just went up and caught that ball
and ran it. It It turned around and ran and was
untouched into the end zone. That's the crazy part about that.
As you could sell for half second, he was like,
I should step out of bounds. But I think once
he realized that, once PJ. Williams missed, that's a rookie.
By the Who's Who's forty three? Is that Darren Sprowles?
Is he back? Is Darren Sprowls back in New Orleans?

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I believe it's the rookie safety out of Utah. Um,
what the hell was that? I mean, he totally allayed,
he olaid and he's the last line of defense. I
think That's what I'm more bothered by is is how
who was a signed for him? Why wasn't there someone
else besides Williams the only one being back there? And
it's um looking up his name now, for for the

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life of me, that's crazy. There is Marcus Williams from
Utah unbelievable. I'm rookie mistake. That's one of the worst postles,
one of the worst defensive play. You know, we saw
it in the National Championship game with the blown coverage
on the touchdown, and now you saw that played and
I wonder if he was if he didn't want to
go up high to make contact with Diggs and get
called for a p I So I wonder if he thought,

(08:15):
let me just tackle him, but tackle him inbounds and
that way the clock is going to run out because
the Minnesota have a time out or do they use
their time They had to use the time out on
the big game that got them to that point. They
had to use the time out for that play. I
think that was the plan. He he went to undercut Digs.
His Digs went up in the air to catch that
ball and he went to undercut him to drop it.

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And I think he was trying to make sure that
he tackled him inbounds and instead Diggs got the ball,
turned around and took off to the end zone. You
got that is unbelievable. That is that is the most
shocking thing I have ever seen. And as Drew Brees
runs off the field, I can only imagine what he's
thinking in his head, how this defense stepped in front

(08:55):
of his potential chance of going to another Super Bowl,
trying to win another Super Bowl. It's so hard to
get to this point, especially in a very, very tough
NFC South division. They wanted this year, but they had
a lot of competition. Two other teams made the playoffs
from the NFC South. And to think that that play,
it almost it almost reminds you. It almost reminds you

(09:16):
of the Denver Broncos play. Do you remember this Joe
Flacco and the heave to? Was it Jacoby Jones? The
blown coverage on that play in Denver that allowed Baltimore
then to go to the Super Bowl. It reminds me
of that play as far as how bad of a
mistake that was. Now does that make up for Gary
Anderson's miss, Blair Walsh's miss and breath Farve's interception? For

(09:37):
Viking fans, do you think maybe? Only because this is
such an improbable run. I mean, think about what they've
been through with the quarterback situation. I mean, this wasn't
plan A, This wasn't planned B. This is planned C.
Right now, this is a guy you signed off the
street as a free agent, probably the most economical of
any that signed this offseason, that all of a sudden

(09:58):
became the hero. And this is that you drafted Teddy
Bridgewater in the first round and he, after going through
a gruesome injury, has made his way back but not
necessarily to the field. And Sam Bradford who got hurt
and after playing phenomenal last year, uh and playing phenomenal
against this team in Week one, that's the last time
we saw him. Unbelievable. It's crazy, man, that is. And

(10:20):
I do what do you think? Is there anything to
my theory that I think he tried to undercut him.
The defender tried to undercut him to make sure he
tackled him in bounds. I mean, the first thing is
he put his head down. I have no idea what
the thought process was, but yet I think you're onto
something as far as he was probably concerned about how
he wanted to make a play on the wide receiver
in fear of there being a penalty and of them

(10:41):
getting an untimed down and a chance to kick a
field goal to win it. I'm sure that was going
through the back of his mind, given one what the
targeting rule has been in college since Marcus Williams came
from Utaw. He's a rookie this season, and then what
this year, how it's all worked out, uh in regards
to you know, players safety on defenseless wide receivers. So
I'm sure that was in the back of his mind

(11:02):
because he really did look like a whiff. But I'm
just I'm still confused how he was the last line
of defense. I mean, at that point, how do you
not have more guys in coverage? How do you not
have more people in front trying to not only protect
the end zone but really you know, give depth and
and you know, allow them to make a catch and
then come up and make a play. They had so

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long to go and such little time. Um that it
just doesn't make any sense. I mean, that is just
an absolute blunder by the Saints. Unreal executive producer Eric Roberts,
what's up? So I think you might get credit for this, Jonas,
because we have the exact moment, the seconds before this
hat unfolded. We got the audio, So just give give
this a listen real quick, the Crumby part about all

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this is Minnesota and we're just gonna crack jokes and
bus balls while there's a team whose playoff fate is
on the line. As case, Keena is back to throw
a going deep right side and oh my god, he
caught it. Stefon Diggs, you got to be saying, and
the game is over. Stuff. Diggs just scored. Can we
cut to Brady's laugh and ask how many packs a

(12:06):
day you've been smoking since you were ten years old?
Can we cut straight to Brady's laugh on that audience,
It sounds like a car backfiring. It sounds like swallowed
some of those cigars. That's what that's what it sounds like.
That is, You know what that is. That's me being

(12:28):
sick three times the past month and just now being
able to get on the on the back side of
this whole thing. Unbelievab all right. So so that is
a situation on a miracle play. At the end, the
Minnesota Vikings advanced at the NFC Title Game, So everybody
gets what they want. They get keen Um versus folds
in the NFC Championship Game next weekend. So he touchdown
past the Stefon Diggs on the final play, and Minnesota

(12:52):
is onto the NFC title game, so we're gonna have
a bunch of stuff on that also when we come back.
I think, Brady, I are going to try and do
something that every single man has tried to do at
one point in time. Okay, and it's in regards to
what just happened in Minnesota. That's an ext he on
Fox Sports Radio, Jonas knocks Brady Quinn Fox Sports Radio.

(13:17):
All Right, we're gonna try and do something here that
every man has tried at one point or another. We
are going to try and do that. That will be
coming up here in a couple of minutes, and you
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Brady Quinn and I went on the air at eight

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p m. Eastern time, right on the dot on time
as total professionals and turned into fan girls. Towards the
end of the segment with the final, with the final
call with the with the final of the Minnesota Vikings
and New Orleans Saints game, We're gonna hear the Viking
side of it. This is the Vikings Radio Network, the
great Paul Atlan on the column. He set up the situation.

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This is Was it a third and ten? I think
it was a third and ten? Yeah, the Vikings had
the ball at their own thirty nine or ten seconds
left and ten seconds left their own thirty nine yard
line with no time outs left, down by a point,
and here's outsounded courtesy on the virus. Courtesy of the
Vikings Radio Network. Case on a deep drop, steps up

(14:22):
in the pocket, He'll fire to the right side. Stay,
oh my god, are you kidding me? It's step on
the Saints. It's a sixty one yard miracle. Okay, Now,

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do we have the Saint side of that? Do we
have the New Orleans Saints call? Because I want to
hear the difference between the two. Okay, we we we
don't have the Saint side yet. I want to hear
the difference between the two because because those guys, those
guys were out of their minds and uh yeah, well,
by the way, Paul Allen, Yes, one of the best
to do it. So, yeah, he's he's incredible. I don't

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know what the Saints guy is, but it's hard to
live up to Paul Allen in general. Here's the Saints
radio network. Here's Keenan dropping looking throwing near sideline. Then
it's caught by step five dicks. He's gonna take it
inside the fifteen ten five touchdown on the Are you
kidding me? Are you kidding? He could have came him

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up and just tackled him. He stuck, put his head
down and he didn't step out of balance. And they're
gonna do it, but he didn't step out of bound. Wow,
that is that's rough man. That is that's a that's
a rough And by the way, do we have myself
and Brady Quinn. You want to hear broadcast professionals. You

(15:55):
want to hear a couple of pros everybody all right now,
forget Paul Allen, forget all the grades, forget Aikman, forgetting Buck,
forget all the great broadcasters like Tony Romo. You want
to hear a couple of professionals call a miraculous touchdown
live on radio. Take it away the Crumby part about

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all this is Minnesota and we're just gonna crack jokes
and bus balls while there's a team whose playoff fate
is on the line. As case, Keena was back to
throw a going deep right side and oh my god,
he caught it. Stefon Diggs, you gotta be kidding me.
And the game is over. Stefon Diggs just scored on.
That's how it's done. Man, listen, like you guys want

(16:37):
us to give you tips on how how to broadcast games.
That's how it's done. Who was better me or Joe
Davis there? Well? Did he? Uh? I mean you gotta
be kidding me? No idea? Oh man, that was great.

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Little Louis Armstrong there voice kids like John John Fox.
That's actually a great call on the Louis Louis Anderson
Louis Armstrong. Yea. So here's what we need to do,
all right? This is important because I feel like like
you have you ever done this in your life? Because

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this applies to what we just watched and now Minnesota
is onto the NFC Championship game to take on the
Philadelphia Eagles next weekend. Have you ever been in a
relationship and you you did something nice for someone. Just
see you could ask for something, you know what I mean,
Like like you wanted to go to Vegas with your buddies,
But before you propose the question of hey, we're all

(17:41):
thinking about going to Vegas, you get them flowers or
you take them out to dinner or something like that,
and then you dropped the question on them because they're
going to be in a better mood and it maybe
it'll land better. No, I understand where you're going. Not
sure about the flowers standpoint, but carry on. Our boss,
Scott Shapiro is a Minnesota Vikings fan. I heard born
and raised. Now is the time we ask for a raise. Now, seriously,

(18:08):
now is the time. And I'm not talking about just
a little bit of a raise. I'm talking about like,
fo okay, I want it all. We could get a
private jet. We could get I mean, we could have
the show catered. We could we could fly you back
and forth from Fort Lauderdale and here. We could meet
a halfway through. We could do a show in Tupelo,
Mississippi if we wanted to. We were on the air

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when his team just pulled off the most miraculous win
in the history of the franchise. Now is the time
we ask for things. I'm with you. I just think
it could go the other way, where now we're only
working this time slot for the rest of our lives
because of the luck that it brought. So I didn't
think about that. See, you're always You're always thinking big
picture and I'm always thinking small picture. Like that's the problem.

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You're always big and I'm always small. Well, it's way
too early. What do you think I'm getting at there?
I have no idea. Digs uh Stefon Diggs had just
a phenomenal play at the end of the game. I'm
still in shock. I can't believe it of what I
just saw. Well, I can't because it had to have

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been I wonder the safety had to have just looked
at looked at the at the catch and thought, all right,
let me make sure that I just undercut him and
tackle him inbounds. But he totally whipped. He whipped his
entire body and Diggs turned around. I'm surprised Diggs didn't
step out of bounds. Just had a pure shock that
there was nobody behind him. But I don't, I don't know.

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That's that's insane me like that do you ever go
on some of the websites, like ESPN in particular, they
have a win probability. Okay, So what you can do
is you can actually go down to the graph and
you can go through each play throughout the course of
the game and see how impacted a team's chance of
winning one way or another. And they and how they
do it is they base it upon other games situations

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that are similar, and they based on what was the
eventual outcome. Um, I'm trying to find that the one
for this because what it shows is it shows the
second intent play and then that's it. It actually skips
over the third inten um. And at that point this
is kind of crazy to me, only because like last

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year for example, right if you remember the Super Bowl
and they talked about in this game, the Saints would
have been what the only other team to overcome a
seventeen point deficit um in the playoffs in the NFL
history in the second half, I believe, and at that point,
so second and ten fourteen seconds left in the game,
New Orleans had a nine sent win probability. I don't

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know if that sounds high to you. I find that
interesting only because I want to say last year when
it was three at one point in the game, it
was like win probability for Atlanta and then it just
goes to show you how things changed. But in this
in this case, that that changed literally in one play
on one down, one play with ten seconds left. Just remarkable.

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That's insanity, man, This that is that is one of
the most That is one of the most unbelievable plays
I've seen. We were on the air and I kept
looking around, like, this is how the NFL has scarred
me because I kept looking around for flags, you know,
like I just can't. I just assumed, okay, sure, okay, sure,
it's a touchdown, and then there was no flags, and
I was like, well, what do we do? And before
I could even gather my thoughts, you erupted in a

(21:23):
professional laugh on the air, and it just the whole
thing was chaos. I can't you gotta be kidding me.
My voice like, do we need to change the levels?
May with the gains turned that down a little bit
of something. And who knows, Bobo was on Tinder at
the time when the playoff, so he's always swiping right
bapt black people meet unbelievable, weren't you on there one time. Oh,

(21:52):
I get it. Okay, Okay, I get what you're getting.
Are you trying to make fun of the lighting in
the studio, Brady, You don't think I would be, okay,
wasn't saying that? This is the Willie Steed Cool Beasley conversation.
By the way, if we get somebody if we can't
now because the Saints lost, I was so looking forward
to that. I was gonna ask him if we got
somebody from the Saints, I was gonna ask him if
they two have been confused. They see Willie Steed and
they go, hey, Beasley, get out of the huddle. Oh, Willie,

(22:13):
that's you. I know one would win, cool Beasley out
of the huddle. I don't know, It's just it was
just it was just a way to get the joke in,
to be honest with you, thinking all the way through.
I mean, isn't that the kind of an even swap anyway?
I mean they're both like pretty solid receivers, like I
would take either one. Oh it's crazy, Okay, So we've
got to be we need there's a clock. We gotta
pay attention to the clock. We cannot let you butcher

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the clock anymore. Brady. Alright, Brady Quinn Jonas knocks her
Fox Sports Radio Company alive from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio Studios. Um, we already know what important people think
is going to happen next weekend in the NFL. We
already know, all right, So we'll get to that coming
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Steve to say, Wow, it's all I could say. Wow,

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w w L Saints Radio network at the end touchdown
on the final front game, are you kidding me? Minnesota
twenty four, the final on the sixty one yard touchdown
pass and the final seconds case Keenum to Stephen Diggs Digs.
Then they caught up with him on Vikings Radio Network

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kf A n big. Is this win for this football team,
in this organization? I don't even know. I can't even
think right now, Steff, thanks for your time. I'll see
there was more to that, but he couldn't think just now.
Like a lot of fans there in the stadium. Case Keenum,
by the way, Fox did catch up with him, exploited. Man,
I mean we were definitely a dust person. Moan start

(23:42):
to get him. I got sense and digs a matter
of the play. I spent a lot of places today.
You gotta give our guys credit. Man. We fought to
the Marian and uh that's specilman. That's that's one of
the most specialist. So Philadelphia will be hosting Minnesota in
the NFC Championship Game next Sunday on Fox TV. That's
at six thirty pm Eastern time. The Vikings have a
chance to become the first team to play the Super

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Bowl in your home stadium. We've had teams play in
their home area but not their home stadium in the
Super Bowl before. Keep in mind, the home team in
the Super Bowl alternates from conference to conference year to year.
Since the NFC champs were home team last season, the
Vikings would actually be the visitors in Minnesota if it
gets to that for Super Bowl fifty what are we

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fifty three that we would be up to indoors for
that game in Minnesota and under fifteen degrees outside. It
was about fifteen degrees outside in Pittsburgh and the hot
team was Jacksonville got out to a big lead twenty
one nothing second quarter and upset the Steelers there forty
forty two. Leonard four net three touchdown runs a hundred
nine yards rushing. The new head coach for the University

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of Arizona reportedly is Kevin Sumlin X of Texas A
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is easier. All right, so we we now know, Brady, Uh,

(25:09):
the Conference Championship weekend is set in the NFL. We
know that it's going to be the Jacksonville Jaguars at
the New England Patriots. And we know that it's going
to be the Minnesota Vikings at the Philadelphia Eagles. If
you had to guess, all right, let's just play a
little guests here, what would you think the betting lines
would be for each? I would think New England is

(25:32):
a eight to eight and a half point favorite over
Jacksonville at home. I would say that Philly I think
they're a two and a half to three and a
half point favorite at home. Uh. New England is a
nine point favorite at home against Jacksonville and the Vikings
are a three point favorite at Philadelphia. That's that's surprising,

(25:55):
and I guess it goes to show you how people
feel about Nick Foles, even after what I thought was
a darn efficient and solid performance versus the Falcons. But
it goes to show you how they feel about him,
because that is, to me, directly indicative of his quarterback
play and how they feel about that offense. Because you know,
Phillies defense can play well. I mean literally, if you

(26:17):
look at the ten points that Atlanta scored in that game,
they all came off turnovers. Literally, they all needed the
additional field position. And I don't know, maybe that line
will change only because if you go back and look
at the scoring drives for the Eagles, I know some
most of them are field goals um and they had
one touchdown drive. But there there were long drives. Man,

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I'm talking about twelve fourteen plays, twelve plays, seven eight
minute drives. I mean that's not luck. That is methodically
working down the field. That's game planning, that's execution. All
the things that you're looking for out of your out
of your quarterback and out of your offense and the
Eagles did it versus what I believe to be a
very talented Atlanta Falcons defense. So that line, to me

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is somewhat surprising. The overaun the total in that game
for the Vikings of the Eagles is thirty eight. The
total in New England Jacksonville is forty six and a half.
Do you do you give Blake Bortles any chance going
in there? Because I know you were you were talking
a little bit about the Patriots defense and how the
Patriots defense maybe doesn't get the credit it deserves because people,

(27:20):
I think looked at that statistics and they were they
really struggled early on. Is this Are they really nine
points better than that Jacksonville team? Like, is that offense
going to score nine more points on that Jacksonville defense?
I think they can. They have the ability to um
first off Like let's look at Tom Brady's track record
versus Jacksonville seven and oh all time, five and oh

(27:43):
in regular season, two and oh in the playoffs, seventeen
touchdowns the two interceptions. Now, this is a different story,
a different year, a different group. When you look at Jacksonville, uh,
their combination of their pass rushed over two of the
league as far as Sachs go outside to all pros
and boy A and Ramsey at cornerback, like you know
what that looks like to me and sounds like to me,

(28:04):
I don't know, maybe a New York Giants team led
by Tom Coughlin. Oh oh yeah, that's right, he's down
in Jacksonville now like that. This team reminds me a
little bit um not offensively, because Eli Manning played phenomenal
in the playoffs for the Giants in those Super Bowl
runs in those years and had clutch performances in those games.
Blake Bortles has played decent. I wouldn't go anywhere close

(28:28):
to saying he played as well as Eli Manning didn't
those playoffs. Uh. And we'll see how things continue. But
when you look at how they match up, this defense
reminds you a little bit of a little bit of
what you know, I guess Tom Brady and the Patriots
struggle with um and and now the difference being that
that's a neutral site, it's the Super Bowl. They get
them coming to their house. Uh and and that's where

(28:48):
the difference is. So I think it's a it's a
fair line. I know it looks big, but you're talking
about the greatest quarterback of all time. Uh now, this
is a this is a fun little stat. Did you
know that the Patriots are owen or in conference championship
games when they allow the team to score first in
the NFC in the NFL Divisional round the round before.

(29:09):
Did you know that? I did not? Okay, I made
all of that up just now at the top of
my head. All of that was made up. That was
a completely Is that because I had some stats like
ready to go? I felt inadequate? It's okay, that's happened before.
I felt madness. You remember that bathroom brick? Never mind?
Um remember remember when I took my socks off. You're like, hey,

(29:30):
where'd they go? I said, uh d, you can play
this game? But um, I don't know where we're talking about.
All right, okay, So so the Vikings just win that game.
What's the closest you've ever come just on the New
Orleans side, what's the closest you've ever come to feeling
what New Orleans is feeling right now? In a game

(29:52):
that that is that's craziness. And it really is on
one guy, Like it's on which one guy's fault. It's
hard to be put this in comparison, because this wasn't um,
this wasn't a playoff run or anything like that. But
when when we were in Cleveland's Eric Mangini's first year,
we had won one game and after the bye, um

(30:13):
I'd gotten the opportunity to start again. They had benched
me after like the first two games or or something
like that, and we gotten more of a no huddle offense.
We were making strides, but we we hadn't brought home
that next win yet, and we were on the road
plan in Detroit. It ended up being somewhat of a shootout,
and on the final play of the game, Matt Stafford
throws a hail Mary. They call past interference on Calvin Johnson,

(30:37):
so they get a play from the one on an
untimed down. They score and and this is meaningful because
we were up by a touchdown. So instead of electing
to kick, being that they're at home and go play
in overtime, they go for two and they get the
two point conversion and we lose. And that's basically how

(30:58):
things ended. And that is one of the most miserable feelings,
uh that that kind of occurred literally in the last
four seconds of a game. UM, so you know kind
of been there to some capacity. Nothing like this though,
that was so improbable. UM and I can only imagine,
you know, what what it feels like for the Minnesota

(31:19):
Vikings in Case Keenum. Just even you know Case Keenum
to sit back and think about where he was before
the season. He's a free agent watching other guys get
signed fondly, Rick Spielm, and the general manager calls him,
and he goes into a thinking, Okay, I'm gonna be
a backup. You know, who knows what's gonna happen when
Teddy Bridgewater comes back healthy. Maybe I'll be the three,
Maybe I'm the two. I don't know. Sam Bradford's the guy,

(31:40):
and all of a sudden, Sam Bradford gets hurt and
he can't come back. Bridgewater isn't ready yet. And you're
the guy, and you play at a high enough level
to be able to lead your team the n SC championship.
I mean, this is a story book. This is like
a made for TV movie that will eventually come out
one day. Brady Quinn Jonas knocks here Fox Sports Trading. Now,
I don't know if you knew this or not, but
the betting line on the Vikings and the Saints was

(32:03):
the Vikings minus five and a half. Okay, Instead, when
the Vikings scored that touchdown, there was no time left
on the clock, so they went up by five. They
still needed to attempt the extra point, so that extra
point with no time on the clock was going to
determine which side of the bet one. So there by five,
people are waiting around. The degenerates are waiting around. Uh,

(32:26):
their ash tray is just overflowing at this point. They've
got food and beer spilled all over the front of
their shirt. They're waiting around for this extra point, and
Minnesota takes a knee. They took a knee with no
time left, And that way, anybody who bet the Saints
plus five and a half actually won that game, despite
how the game ended. If you had the Saints plus

(32:48):
five and a half, because Minnesota took a knee on
the extra point with no time left, you won your bet.
It's a consolation prize. Okay, Well, we do have somebody
who bet the other side. Okay, we have a live
reaction moments after the Minnesota Vikings took a knee to
win by five. Here's a gentleman who actually had the
vikings minus five and a half. Why don't you just

(33:10):
give me a bottle of scotch and a handgun head off? Okay,
that is I mean, this is good. We don't screen,
we don't screen any of this stuff, but we want to,
like we get the top guests, Okay, the top notch
guests here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, So not
only will we provide you with a guy who bet
the losing side, but we'll provide you with a guy

(33:31):
who might sound a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio. And that's
the least we could do. I was gonna say it
didn't have that Minnesota accent that I thought he would have. Yeah,
I knew that voice sounded familiar. It didn't sound like
he was from um, you know, like you know live
on Lake Minute Talk. I bet Leo has got a
place up there. It's beautiful, yeah, beautiful up there, the

(33:52):
Prince right, he's got a lot, got a lot of places,
And I don't want to go to those places with
you right now, because we got to go to break
That's what that's what it is, all right, Well, profess
sinals here we're staying on on point here with the clock.
We're just going by the clock here as professionals. Coming
up next though this show here, Brady Quinn, Jonas knocks
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(34:12):
this show is responsible for one half of the final
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(34:35):
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(34:57):
it just took place less than an hour ago, as
we were just going on the air, the Minnesota Vikings
on a third and ten play, uh down by a point,
no time outs left owned thirty nine yard line. Case
Keenum throws what I guess you would call a flag route,
like an old school flag route where a guy just
kind of that's flag corner seven, by the way, impressed.

(35:20):
I knew that was a flag rout. Come on, yeah,
really really impressive. You're welcome. I'll break down some other
stuff with you all throughout the like I'm actually Rady
talks to me before he does his show during the week,
just to get it, just to get a run through
of formations and all sorts of fun stuff in all seriousness.
So case Keenum gets Stefon Diggs, he gets Stefon Diggs

(35:44):
on a flag route and the defender for New Orleans
I haven't even had This has been craziest. I haven't
even had time to look up who the defender was.
I know all I knows you wore forty three and
that was Darren Sprowles. Never that's okay, ay, good player
by the um. See, but I wasn't here for that
because I was running over to the liquor store. So
Marcus Williams with on a tackle and so now what

(36:08):
the conversation is going to become. The conversation is going
to become, well, see what the NFL is now done
to these guys. They're so concerned about being flagged for
past interfearence that they're o laying guys that are trying
to make a grab. I promise you that'll be a
conversation that takes place somewhere either tonight or tomorrow when
people are recapping what happened in that game, somebody will

(36:30):
make an excuse for it. Yeah, didn't we kind of
already say that. Well no, but but no, but here's
he blew. He blew the play. But I don't want
to hear anybody do the whole Yeah, but he's so
worried about getting called for a p I because of
the way the game had been called so far stop.
I think he tried to tackle him in bounds and
he went low on the play like there was Adam feeling.

(36:51):
You could have called a p I a short time
before that in the fourth quarter, and they didn't call
it because it was And Troy Agmant and Joe Buck
even made the point that it was a bank play
and that officials are told. Mike Praiery even said officials
are told if it's a bang bang play, do not
make the call. So so I just think this is
gonna be used as an excuse as to why he

(37:12):
didn't make the play in that situation, because they're gonna say, well,
he was worried about getting called for a p I.
That's what the officials have done to this league down.
I think it's a bunch of crap. Well, I think
there's there's a number of things, right, don't you recall
the was a Levian Bell versus Cincinnati Bengals. Memory he
was running up the sideline and the defender in this case,
I think it was William Jackson, he olayed him because

(37:34):
he thought he had stepped out of bounds, that he
didn't want to hit him because he was concerned that
he was gonna get called for unnecessary roughness. Um. This
is unfortunately the dilemma that I do think it enters
the minds of some of these defensive backs because since
that wide receiver is in a position where he's catching
the football, he's deemed defenseless. And what that means is
it's not even if they hit him as far as
the timing, it's it's how they hit him, right. Um, So,

(37:57):
so all those things are going through the course of
their mind and look, it was a bad play. It
was a bad defensive call in the first place. Okay,
let's not put it all Marcus Williams. Why is Dennis
Allen not have more guys back to help out? Why
is that route which was let's say yards downfield where
it was caught not necessarily including the rest of the run,
which I believe it was sixty one yards? So why

(38:19):
wasn't Why would there more defenders back deeper to not
allow that to happen in the first place, is my question.
But at the end of the day, you can't deny
the fact that these guys do have a lot to
think about now as far as how they hit receivers,
um where they hit receivers, you know, players in the sidelines,
whether they stepped out with they didn't, all those things
factor into that play, all right. So we mentioned this

(38:41):
that we are solely responsible for what has happened in
the NFL this season, and if you if you think
that we're crazy, chew on this. The NFC each championship
game next weekend is going to be seeing case Keenum
take on Nick Foles, which is a dream matchup for Nope.
But but it's a dream matchup for us. And here's why,

(39:04):
because both of them played for what coach while members
of the Rams. Jeff Fisher, yes, you do him pretty well? Okay,
well that this is my point. Earlier this week, Brady
thought I was lying when I said I was walking
by the mall, getting ready to leave the mall and
passing by the Apple Store. And by the way, if
you walk by the Apple Store and you just yell

(39:25):
out a geek, people turn around like do it? Sometimes?
Do it? Sometimes? I swear to God. But never mind that.
So I'm walking by and who walks out of the
Apple Store drinking a coffee and looking at their phone?
Jeff Fisher. Our eyes locked. And since that moment, Jeff Fisher,

(39:48):
quarterbacks are two and oh in the NFL playoffs. Put
my feet up here, feet are up on the desk. Yep.
I have more questions about Jeff Fisher being in a
mall on an Apple store that I do about either
of the quarterbacks facing off the NFC Championship. Like, first off,
what was he holding buying? What was he doing? Was
he what was he wearing? Was he wearing like Rams? No,

(40:09):
he was wearing like a Lumberjack shirt, like one of
those uh, you know, like like Lumberjack shirts. Um like
he was Clark Griswold, very very, very gray. He was
smaller than I thought. He was smaller, Like like, you
make me feel small. I'm six too, and I stand
by you, and I feel like Verne Troyer taking a dump,
Like you make me feel small, Brady Quinn, because you're

(40:30):
so big. I walked by Jeff Fisher and I felt
like a monster. He was very small. He was wearing
a lumberjack shirt. Glasses were coming down on the cheek
almost it was him, man him, because I know what
Jeff Fisher looks like. There's a lot of Jeff Fisher
has one of those like mustaches. There's a lot of
Jeff Fisher doppel gangers out there, by the way. You know,

(40:50):
who's a Jeff Jeff Fisher doppelganger, somebody who's got no
luck whatsoever. That's all right. That was Fisher. And this
show is responsible for the NFC Champion, an absolute crazy
ending to the NFC and and the NFL Divisional playoffs
to be as a whole. That just took place a
short time ago. As the New Orleans Saints give away

(41:12):
a game at the end on a Stefon Diggs miraculous
touchdown and a blown coverage by New Orleans will have
all sorts of some post game sound. Sean Payton actually
spoke about the play itself, so we're gonna hear from
Sean Payton. He's gonna join us here in just a
couple of minutes. Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn here, Fox Sports
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(41:33):
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rate quotes. We must start with the game that went
final while we were on the air. Uh the uh.
The Vikings Radio network had the call. Paul Allen, one
of the all time greats at his gig, is on
the call with the Minnesota Vikings down by a point

(41:55):
at their own thirty nine, no time outs, left third
and ten, trying to get a play down the sideline
to get out of bounds to to Stefon Diggs to
set up a field goal. And here's how it sounded.
Case on a deep drop steps up in the pocket,
He'll fire to the right side. Call my Digs stay,
Oh my god, are you kidding a miracle step on

(42:26):
the doorless Saints. That's a sixty one yards miracle. Unbelievable. Man,
I still can't believe that happened. I still cannot believe
that that's how it went down. Um, And so there
it is. So Minnesota is now in the NFC Championship game.
Have you had a chance to go ahead and gather
your thoughts, Brady Quinn about what we saw? Yeah, and

(42:48):
I'm actually gonna kind of reverse, um, the perspective we've
been taken, which is largely from Minnesota. I think that's
because of you know that they're they're recent. Um, I
don't know, ifeople want to call him blunders mistake, especially
in regards to field goals, right, I mean, most recently,
Blur walshmiss is the kick at home, uh to beat
the Seattle Seahawks that sends the Seahawks to That was
the wild card round, I believe. So they sent the

(43:10):
Seahawks to the divisional round. But but that's been their past, right, Um,
like Gary Anderson? Um, So you know this this we
thought it was coming down to a kick, right, and
and then all of a sudden ends up being ended
by you know, a pass the Stefon Diggs in a
tremendous play. But let's think about it from the Saints perspective, Like,

(43:31):
if you're a Saints fan right now, you just suffered
through three seasons in a row of being seven and nine. Right,
all of a sudden, you win the division, a division
that was as competitive as it gets in the NFL.
You have three teams go to the playoffs, okay, including yourselves.
As good as this defense was or improved from a
year ago, they were awful. Okay, the Saints defense was

(43:54):
awful and they are vastly improved. How many more years
do you have like this past year if you're the
Saints and Drew Brees. Now, that's and I think about
this stuff every year at this time because when I
hear people tell yeah, but you know the future is bright,
like you, you of all people know this. There is
no future guaranteed in the NFL. That's why what happens

(44:16):
in New England is so insane. Like it's the most
difficult thing to do in the NFL is to win consistently.
Of the of the twelve teams that made the playoffs
last year, eight of them missed the playoffs this year.
You can't, especially in that division. You can't expect New
Orleans is going to do this again. And Drew Brees
is pushing forty. Man, he's gonna be forty years old.
And is it does? Isn't he a free agent? Isn't

(44:39):
his contract up? I believe he's got an additional year. Um?
But either way to your point, because I mean, look,
they're not let's not letting them go. Um, they might
extend them to a short term you know, deal with
a lot of you know, mostly guaranteed money. You know,
because he's been franchised twice. If he gets franchised again,
it's like forty four million dollars. Yeah, I remember, the

(44:59):
number is pretty big. I think I think after um,
he'd become a free agent. I think I don't know.
I think I think he's a free agent. Um, we'll
have are we actually have Obviously we've got a big
budget here on Fox Sports Radio. UM, so we actually
have a Drew Brees salary cap insider with us here.

(45:20):
So we will have that um coming up here in
just a few minutes. Um. And so let's go live
to our Drew Brees salary cap insider, Steve de Seger
Steve Man, who wears many hats to be the salary
cap insider, Drew Brees has got to be a lot
of work. Is he a free agent? He's listed as
a free agent, but he's not. Drew Brees signed a

(45:40):
one year, four million contract with the Saints, including thirty
million signing bonus average anno. Sally so Breeze, we will
have to carry a capit of eighteen million in so
unless some for some reason that was avoided, I believe
that's still maybe that's just pushed because it doesn't have
him down as a salary, but they'd have to carry

(46:02):
that as the cap hit, which is kind of interesting.
I mean, but yeah, to your point, though, if you're
a Saints fan, man, you can't like they haven't they
haven't really done a whole hell of a lot since
they won that Super Bowl. I mean, that's that's a fact.
They haven't really done a whole hell of a lot
since that Super Bowl. And you just wonder how many
more chances are you gonna get? So when you're in
these positions to capitalize on something like that, you you

(46:24):
got to take advantage of it. That's that's a terrible,
terrible loss by New Orleans. The bottom line, guys, is
that Breeze has said, even to a San Diego station,
I don't plan on leaving New Orleans ever. And since
he's not retiring now that answers the question. Well, I
don't plan on getting a sex change, but you know,
you start drinking and things change. That's not relatable inappropriate.

(46:48):
I don't understand when you say things like how you
think that all of a sudden we can transition to
some sort of legitimate conversation and just testing your ability.
It's like, um, you know, like everybody can do curls,
but when can you do it on one leg? You
know what I mean, like when you're in the gym,
or you do it on one of those like stabilizing
balls three legs? How does that work? Let's go, bobo,

(47:11):
how do you do that? Believable? Um? But so so
me be a professional here, serious, Let's have a real conversation.
If has Drew Brees diminished at all his his skill set?
Because it feels like, you know, don't say it, don't
say it. Has he hasn't diminished at all. I mean

(47:33):
they allowed him to take a step back this year
because they realized what they were doing when they led
the league and attempts with two of the last three years,
it wasn't working. There was seven and out. It stresses
your defense. You're forcing them to be on the field
a lot. And you know, they focused on the running game,
they focused on being balanced, and it paid dividends and
it helped them win the division. So I think he's

(47:53):
still got plenty plenty left in the tank. But you know, again,
that division so good though it's such a tough competitive division.
You just can't guarantee that you're gonna win some of
those tight games that's one the year before. And guess what,
because of because of how well they performed this year,
their schedule is going to be more difficult. Not that
that's it's the NFL. You know, it's not like you

(48:16):
really have that easy of a schedule. Even the Browns
didn't win a game this year. It's not like the
schedule is gonna be that easy next year. Um, but
they're not going to have as favorable of a schedule
compared to what they had this year. And there's reports
that that Marcus Williams um fell to his knees on
his way to the locker room after he missed the
tackle and he was crying with with his head held

(48:36):
in his hands. So have you ever seen a teammate
Rady Quinn who gave up a play that cost you
guys a game, that was crying, like visibly, just totally
distraught because he cost you guys a game and you
didn't feel bad for him because you said, screw you, pal,
you cost me my win. I've never felt like that
for a teammate. I've had instances like that with players

(48:57):
both in college in the NFL. UM I've never personally
been that been that, you know, one to fill away
because if it comes down to one particular play, it's
kind of your fault. I mean, it's it's everyone's collective
fault for not taking care of business earlier than they
could have, and and and everyone likes to point the finger.
But again, I'm not gonna put that nessilian Marcus all In,

(49:18):
Marcus Williams, did he make a poor effort as far
as of making a play. I mean, heck, dude, do
all you can just to get a penalty called, because
even if they would have been in field goal range
at that point, you live to play another down. At
least you're up at that point. You know, who knows
what happenstead of giving up the game when he played then,
But again, why are they in that that coverage? Why

(49:38):
was there not more help? Um, just it seemed like
there was a number of mistakes. It wasn't just one
one particular mistake that he made on that play. Well,
Sean Payton, Saints head coach, talked about the defense on
the final play and he mistackled by Williams outside zone.
We're protecting the sidelines anything inside, and you're in a
pretty good position with the game's over. So it's a

(50:00):
situation we practiced quite a bit and look he jumped
and went for the tackle, and you know, the call
was what we wanted in that situation, the right call.
It's not on one player now, I mean, you guys,
I'm sure we want to swamp his locker. He's played
well for us all year. It was a timing decision, obviously.
You know he'd like to have that back, but he's

(50:21):
been a good player for us all year. Ah Man, Like,
what do you think he's feeling right now? You know,
he he made some pretty bad challenges early in the game,
and and now that we're on the topic of you know,
other things that affected or impacted the game, that'd be
one of them. Let me think about that. From from
the first challenge he had, I mean, you could maybe

(50:42):
see why, you know, he would have potentially, but it
seemed pretty definitive to me um that they were not
going to be able to overturn that ruling. And then
the last one was just ridiculous. It wasn't even close.
I'm not sure who's giving Sean Payton his advice from
the booth, if that's where it's coming from, if he's
doing it based on a gut feeld what he sees
either way, and it took away two time outs, and

(51:04):
it could have really come back to bite them on
on Drew brees final drive if he didn't work so officially.
And this is also the same head coach who a
week ago we talked about it. Why the hell did
he go for it on fourth and two, up by
five by five, four and two midfield and he went
for it, and then Drew Brees threw a ball up
and it was you know, intercepted, although it was not

(51:25):
intended to be intercepted. But nonetheless they got away with
that one as well too. He pretty he got away
with this one. Also, he also did the on side
kick to start the second half in the Super Bowl,
like he takes chances, but those two challenges, like, I
don't know, I mean, what what is the responsibility? Who
is there a guy dedicated to each team whose responsibility
is watch replays, see if it's challengeable and then and

(51:48):
then determine and let the coach know. Because it seemed
like he fell for guys on the sidelines who were
jumping up and down yelling incomplete when it was pretty
clear cut that was a completed pass. I uh, I'm
not exactly sure how the process works for him. All
I know is this, you do have a booth that
should be telling you those things that does have it

(52:10):
that you know, they have a TV feed into that booth,
so they should be able to get a look at it. Um,
if you're listening to the people on the field, in
particular players, man, that is a bad strategy. A lot
of times players, you know, say things and try to
get coaches to do things based on emotion. And that's
where you kind of have to be the grown up
UM in the conversation where the kids are fighting, they're

(52:33):
they're acting irrational, they're acting emotional, and you have to
be the one to say, Okay, you know, is this yeah,
is this the biggest thing right now that that matters most. No,
we need that time out. We can't afford to lose it. Um,
let's let's not challenge this because I don't I don't
I don't necessarily know from my vantage pay didn't look good.
I'm not getting that information from the booth. Um. You know,

(52:55):
I would never listen to players on the field about that,
And that's that's not a knock on and not trying
to be player friendly. It's just a lot of times,
you know, they think, you know the way a play happened.
In the reality of it, you know, the truth is
somewhere in between. A lot of times the player ends
up being wrong and you're costing your team a time
out which could have been could have been crucial in

(53:15):
this case if not for how Drew Brees operated at
the end of the game. Brady Quinn Jonas Knox here
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(53:37):
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but it's pretty good. Next year on fs are Jonas Knox,
Brady Quinn Fox Sports Radio. I can just picture Brady
Quinn at the squat rack listening to this power Man
five thousand song back in the day. Iven know what

(53:58):
this is? Power Man five thousand. Like, here's the thing is,
I can't put this on Bobo because there's no way
Boboo Bobo knew this song. There's no way you had
to have recommended this to him. That's racist. No, I'm
just saying, this doesn't seem like the type of music
that Bobo likes to play. What do you hold on
a second, Boo? Did I tell you to play Powerman

(54:18):
five thousand? Actually you didn't. Okay, for those of you
listen to the podcast right now, you can't hear any
of this. But it's Powerman five thousand, which is like
a twenty year old song and it stinks. Okay, it's
a terrible, but Bo has gotten good musical taste, and
I haven't heard him play anything up until this point
since he's been working with us. Well, listen, he can't
always cater to you. He's got to split a fifty fifty.

(54:40):
This is like a divorce settlement here. So this was
your request that Yeah, I listened to so much different music.
Even my neighbors looking at me funny. Yeah, they're probably
bad song you've played. That's because your neighbors. That's because
your neighbors are probably racist. That's why Bobo. Look. So

(55:01):
I shouldn't play Fallout Boys, Nack. Please don't play Fallout Boy.
That band stinks too. Man. Oh alright? Uh? Jonahs knocks
Brady Quinn here. Fox Sports Radio. By the way, um
case Keenum spoke after the Miraculous One. If you're just
tuning in and you've been out and about, or you
passed out earlier or whatever. The Vikings were trailing the

(55:25):
New Orleans Saints by a point. It was twenty four
twenty three. Uh. The the the Minnesota Vikings on a third
and ten with ten seconds left to go. No time
out on their own thirty nine. A miraculous catch by
Stefon Diggs on a on a mistackle by a Saints
defensive back. Is that Marcus Williams, the Saints defensive back.
I've forgotten his name. Sixty three times. I've forgotten his name. Nonetheless,

(55:50):
Stefon Diggs stays and bounds runs down the field. Mic
miraculous touchdown and the Minnesota Vikings are on their way
to the NFC title game. Here was case Keenum afterwards.
Definitely dost person loan. They spent a lot of plays today.
You gotta give our guys credit. Man. We fought to
the very end, and that's succi man, That's that's what
most crucial. Diggs did have a hell of a game, man.

(56:13):
I think our Digs and feeling the best wide receiver
combo in the league. Well, I wouldn't call him that them.
Let let me prefaces our Diggs and feeling the best
wide receiver combination in the league who play for the Vikings. Yes, yes,
I'm feeling pretty confident saying, how does see that's how
we get That's how we just get get rid of
the confusion and get straight to the point. They were fantastic.

(56:36):
They were big. Yeah, I mean they were big. It
came up clutch feeling was big. Diggs was big. That
sounded really inappropriate. I don't I don't think that did.
Let me tell you. For people that don't understand what's
going on here, all right, Brady's aching me on Okay.
He is aching me on it because he knows that

(56:57):
I can only resist so long. Okay, he knows I
can only resist so long. It would be like if
somebody brought their friend who's got a substance abuse problem
to the liquor store. That's how I feel right now.
He's egging me on. He's waving booze in front of
my face, and I've got addiction issues. And by the way,
addiction issues that is the appropriate term for what you

(57:17):
were trying to get at. All right, and we'll let
people figure it out from there. Yeah, the doctor Phil
story you told me was crazy. No, I why because
we just we're doing a sports show here, man, Like,
we've gotta be professionals here. So we're doing a sport show.
By the way, the most amazing part of that entire
play for the Minnesota Vikings keen Um two digs for

(57:37):
the game winner to send him to the NFC title game.
Is the fact that during the break, Bobo called him
Chase Keenum. That's actually the most amazing part of everything
that we just saw. He that was that was brilliantly
done by Bobo called him who Bobo by the way,
By the way is on stage three of a ten

(57:59):
stage food coma. Right now, I can already tell you
in an hour from now, we're gonna have to but
there's gonna be a chalk outline surrounding Bobo's body because
he waited to eat like he always does, and then
he eats, and then his body literally shuts down. Am
I wrong? You're wrong? Am I? What do you eat? Sometimes?
I was what do you eat? Yeah? It's good, it

(58:26):
is good about it class of chicken burrito. It's pretty delicious.
But the problem is when you eat it early in
the shift and then you know, the back end of
the shift can be a little bit for the end
of my shift wouldn't be on your show. So that's
more of a Arnie Spaniards. That's one way to treat
a host. That really treat a friend like that, unbelievable.
Should we talk about the joke you said a second

(58:47):
ago about you know, let's that's actually okay, we can
do that joke. We can do that joke. Let's do
it an hour four. How about that. I'll make a deal,
all right. So so I need to so so I
need to do this, Brady, because you're gonna laugh at
me over something I'm gonna propose to you here. And

(59:10):
I don't need to propose like that. Um, you're gonna
laugh at me. But I I was signed sort of
onto something. And there's somebody that I really respect that
I like a lot who I didn't speak to about it,
but they said the same thing that I said, and
it just made me feel better about my theory. Okay.
So we talked about this before. The NFL is a
copycat league, right, And what have we been hearing for

(59:34):
the longest time? Now, you need a quarterback. You gotta
have a quarterback. Okay. Now we're looking at a conference
championship weekend that has got bordles, keenum and folds. And
the reason those teams are where they're at is because
they had complete rosters that they built their defense and

(59:55):
they built the aspects of their offense, and they didn't
go by the whole you've just got to have a
order back thing. Do you think we start to see
a shift and the attention paid to the entire team
and not do the old it's got to be a quarterback,
and it's got to be an elite quarterback around you
can't win well. I think this is what you've seen
with teams like you know, when when the Seattle Sehawks

(01:00:16):
won their Super Bowl, when when they went to two.
If you're a call Russell Wilson never had a chance
to sign that big second contract yet. And and that's
one of the things where when you feel like you've
got the guy or a guy um who's under contract
for a reasonable amount. I mean, let's just let's just
look at the situation with Falls and Kingdom. Kind of

(01:00:38):
kind of unique because they're both backups. But the cap
allocation to Sam Bradford isn't that big. Obviously, Teddy Bridgewater
is still on his rookie deal, which will become a
free agent after this year, so none of the allocation
to the quarterbacks. And I said it before, Case Keenom
was probably the most economical free agent signing of a
backup quarterback there was this offseason. One of the most,

(01:00:59):
not not the most, but one of the most. So
when you take all that into consideration, you know you
had extra cap space to put in other spots of
this team. And it's a young team to which helps, right,
because everyone's looking for that big money second contract. That's
where you end up losing guys. That's when guys move on.
So you've got to hit on your draft picks. You've
got to hit with your evaluations of guys that you
bring in as free agents as well. So it's kind

(01:01:22):
of unique. But then you look at the situation down
in Philly, same thing, right, Carson Wentz, we know he's
the futures of the franchise. He's not his rookie deal.
Nick Foles came in as a guy who he almost
retired before the season, so it's not like he signed
some Mike Glennon blockbuster backup quarterback deal. Um, so he
signed a very reasonable contract and you look at the

(01:01:43):
rest of this roster. It helped save money for everyone else.
So so to your points, how it worked out, and
even even Blake Bortles, even Blake Bortles, he's still on
his rookie deal, and even though he was a higher
first round draft pick and they decided to pick up
his option. Um, which you know, really is the interesting
again this whole deal, right, because if Bortles gets hurt

(01:02:03):
all of a sudden there on the hook, I want
to say, for like eighteen million next year against their
cap guaranteed. Uh, if you can't pass that physical come
the first day of the new league year. Um. But
that's beside the point. But either way, you know, my
point is he's still under contract under his rookie deal,
which allows you to have more flexibility with a cap,
more room for the positions to build it out. And
then then you look at Tom Brady. He's taken team

(01:02:25):
friendly deals and more economical deals his entire career. He
could be getting paid more than any quarterback in the
history of the game, or more than any quarterback at
this point in time, right, but he's always taken more
team friendly deals. I want to say, it's like fourteen
million or something like that he'll be making this year.
So to your point, really, if you look at the
business the structure of every one of these quarterback positions,
that that quarterback allocation, if you will, of their cap space,

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it's not that big of a number. And of all
the four teams that are left, it's not that big
of a number. And that's why, you know, with the
exception of Tom Braden the Patriots, which you'd have to
say that the the odds on favor to win the Super Bowl.
When you look at the rest of these teams, you
could talk about quarterback, Cliff you will if you want.
It's about defense. Like people always make that comment, well,
you gotta have a quarterback to win it all, do you?

(01:03:10):
I mean, we we just watched Drew Brees lose to
the Minnesota Vikings and they're known for defense. So maybe
this year is that one where defense does win championships.
It doesn't happen all the time, and I do think
you have to have good quarterback play. But when your
defense is as special as what the Eagles have been
or what the Vikings are at this point of what
Jacksonville has been, you can overcome average quarterback play. The

(01:03:30):
Broncos did it with with broadcast Wall and Paid Manning
a few years ago. Brady quinn Jonas knocks here Fox
Sports Trade. I do have a couple more thoughts on that,
because there was a situation that took place years ago
in which a team thought all we need is a quarterback,
and it totally blew up in their face. So I
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Odds to win the NFL championship from Las Vegas the
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As of last April at about two to one. Jacksonville
was seventy five to one to win the Super Bowl.
Over in the NFC, the Cowboys were the favorite at
five to one, Minnesota was eighteen to one, Philadelphia thirty
to one to win it all, even going back a
full twelve months. Philadelphia and Minnesota are the NFC finalists
that will be next Sunday on Fox TV six thirty pm.

(01:04:36):
Eastern time, Philly will host Minnesota is still alive thanks
to a sixty one yard touchdown pass on the final
play to beat New Orleans four who was a sideline
passed down field of mistackle by a rookie. The Saints
had taken the late lead on a field goal with
about thirty seconds left. Drew Brees in defeat three touchdown
passes in the second half, couple interceptions first half Stefon

(01:04:58):
Diggs had the game winning touchdown. The Saints, though in
their playoff history, are now one and seven on the road.
A wild fourth quarter and there were points scored on
each of the last four possessions in the last four
minutes of this game. Jacksonville pulled off the upset win
at Pittsburgh forty two Leonard four nette with three touchdown
runs a hundred nine yards rushing. Each team scored six

(01:05:20):
touchdowns today on twelve drives each. Ben Roethlisberger five td
passes in the loss. He did have a couple of
first half turnovers, and the Jaguars led twenty one nothing
in the second quarter. Jacksonville's in the a f C
Championship game at New England next Sunday. The Bill's new
offensive coordinator is Brian Dable from Alabama. He's a Buffalo
area native was an NFL assistant from two thousand to

(01:05:42):
twenty sixteen. Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia is reportedly leaning
toward Detroit's head coach. Opening Lions g M. Bob Queen
is ex of New England, and the new head coach
for the University of Arizona is reportedly Kevin Sumlin, former
Texas A and M headman. He had been six years there.
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is easier. So we were talking about this just a
second ago, the how teams. I wonder if teams now
we're going to look at how these rosters are constructed
and saying, you know, maybe we don't always need to
have this superstar quarterback. Let's focus on building the roster

(01:06:27):
because you know, it is a copycat league. And and
I saw Bucky Brooks of NFL Network who I really
like a lot, and he's been on Fox Sports Radio before.
He's done shows on Fox Sports Radio. He kind of
alluded to the same thing about how you build the roster,
you know, what you need to have around a quarterback
to give him success. I remember years ago when the
thought process was, well, the Bears have got to have

(01:06:50):
a quarterback, and they went out and they made this
trade and they brought in j Cutler and what ended
up happening because it's almost like you only have so
much money to go around, and there's only a short
window that you can get it and and and do
it right. It seems like with rookie deals like you
were talking about, to where it's not costing you a
lot to keep certain guys because then when you have
to start paying players and you've got to start paying

(01:07:11):
them when their rookie contracts come up, that's where you
get into a sticky situation. And I just wonder if
it's almost if you don't if you don't win with
talent on their rookie contract, aren't you kind of rolling
the dice that you're gonna be able to find success
moving forward? Like if you're Jacksonville don't. Isn't this the
year you got to do something because there's a lot

(01:07:32):
of guys that are going to be coming out of
their rookie contract in the next year or two. Well,
and they brought in a lot of guys who are
free agents, and you don't know how that's gonna work
out in the long term, Right. I think when you're
bring in a free agent, a guy who was drafted
somewhere else, he has been introduced to the professional game
in a different environment. He might have a different perspective
and when things go bad, which inevitably they will because

(01:07:55):
it's the NFL, there's gonna be adversity. How he reacts
may not be what you on and and may not
be the same as what you're kind of coaching or
preaching to your rookies or some of the younger players
that you've got on your team. So that's the other
element of this is it's not just about the rookies
and their contracts coming up um because you look at
the Packers, they're loyal to a lot of their guys.

(01:08:16):
Right Nick Perry had a double digit sax season a
year ago. They give him an extension, They pay him
a good amount of money this year not as good
of a season. UM. So an example of a team
that rewarded a guy who was drafted there in the
first round who never really meet met expectations till last year. UM,
they signed him and then he doesn't really you know,
take the next step like he did in UM. But

(01:08:38):
I think they've got to do something because it's so
rare that you have the opportunity one to make this
type of run. Given how average Blake Bortles has played.
I mean, let's be honest, You're not gonna find too
many quarterbacks that win a playoff game with a rushed
for more yards than they passed forward, right. I mean,

(01:08:59):
Michael Vick was the last quarterback I believe to do
that in the postseason. UM. And even though he played well,
even though he played well today, right earlier today he
did and we haven't even talked about that, and that
was that was a stunner, right when it came down
to it. Who saw that happening? UM defense stunk. Well,

(01:09:21):
we can get into that. That's that's a there's a
number of issues there, but in my in my mind,
I do think you have a window regardless of how
you allocate your cap to the quarterback position, whether you
draft a guy and you get it right and you
don't have to pay that big second you know money
contract yet um, or you bring him in via free agency,
however you want to talk about it, you have a
window because if you've got talented guys, whether they're about

(01:09:43):
ready to come into their second deal or even if
they're free agents, UM, there's maybe a three too. If
you're really really good at keeping the right pieces and
being able to find that the guys to plug in
that are more economical, you know, maybe three to five years.
And and that's your window. And that's why, like when
you talk about Settle shaks Man, they're gonna make a
lot of tough decisions this offseason and we'll see how

(01:10:05):
that you know, pans out. We'll see where that puts
them next season, the postseason. And and that's why. And
it goes to because and whatever the hell that was
on fourth down that that Atlanta called in that game
against Philadelphia, the sprint right option, which is well, again
we can talk about I mean, these are all games
I think you can break down and talk about, Like
a lot of people had an issue with that play.

(01:10:26):
The bottom line is if Julio Jones doesn't slip, does
it look as bad of a play call? And guess
what the throw was on the money and the ball
actually went through Julio Jones hands. Uh, let me actually
address that. I didn't think it was that great of
a ball. People. People are gonna say exactly what you said.
Here's my issue. The ball probably doesn't go through his

(01:10:46):
hands if he's not so concerned with not only catching it,
but getting his feet and bounds. Because he kind of
pinned him on the sideline. With where he was at,
he was probably concerned about where his feet were as
well as trying to catch the football, and because you
can't focus as well on both, he ends up not
focusing on the most important part catching the football. So
if that ball is thrown more of a more as

(01:11:06):
a jump all a little bit to the inside and
not where he has to worry about where his feet are,
I think he's got a better chance of catching the
football or a better opportunity potentially of past interference. Uh.
If he puts in a spot where that you know,
he has to come back across the defender and the
defender you know, is in the way and he's trying
to make a play, there's also a better chance of that.
And by the way, that play is called a sprint
right option. I know you're new to this whole football thing, Brady.

(01:11:27):
That's a sprint right option that was used years back
in the West Coast offense designed by Bill Walsh. That
is that's actually not accurate, um, because then from the podcast, Yeah, yeah,
so sprint right option, they would have set it up
where the inside guy actually breaks out has an option
route he did in this case, Um, And and the
outside guy actually would have tried to kind of run

(01:11:49):
in and then returned back out and he really ran
more vertical and tried to come back down a stem
like a comeback. Which, look, we could dissect that play
all day. Like I'm I'm a huge XS and nose geek.
I think the fact that you got your your best
player I isolated one on one, you got your quarterback
out of the pocket. He'd been sacked and pressured and
hurried a number of times. So your old line wasn't doing,

(01:12:09):
you know, doing a great job against the Eagles pass rush.
So that made sense to me why you want to
roll them out? Um, I just think that when you're
that close you don't really have If you're a quarterback,
you don't have to worry about getting beat because you
can recover because you know the the end lines. You
know the end zones ten yards deep. You're sitting on
what the three or four yard line, whatever it was,

(01:12:29):
you don't have that much ground to cover. So, you know,
running a comeback doesn't really sell it a lot of times,
I just wish there was, you know, a better design
play or a pick play, something kind of like a
sprint and right option where you know, you can allow
that guy to kind of set them up instead of
just having him outside of released trying to come back
down to stem. But yeah, sprint right option, completely different play. Okay, Well,

(01:12:49):
I think that you miss misunderstood what I was saying.
What I was telling you is that it should have
been a sprint right option. But that play that they
ran wasn't actually a sprint right option. Well, here's the
other predict. The predict a part of it. Do you
know who was the other receiver opposite of where's new
and Jones? Was arre Coleman. Yeah, they're fullback, so you
know who wasn't gonna get the football probably on that play,

(01:13:11):
that guy on that side of the field at that point,
if you're the defense and you heard them talk about
the Eagles said, not only one, did we see them
do a number of spurntouts in that situation on two
point plays throughout the course of the year. But they're like, well,
and they had their fullback out, like we we knew
they weren'ting to target him to win the game, so
you knew they were probably gonna work that side of
the field. So even before they sprunt out where they

(01:13:33):
cut the field in half, you already cut the field
and half because you weren't in the throw of that guy.
So you know, I wasn't a huge fan of the
personnel as as far as how they orchestrated. That's a
you know, to to give a shot of Julio Jones.
But at the end of the day, again they took
a shot to their best player in a one on
one matchup and it didn't work out. Brady Quinn Jonas Knocks.
These are of football knowledge here, that's me Jonas Knocks

(01:13:56):
here on Fox Sports Trade. Anything anybody wants to know
about the West Coast off you can just tweet me
at the Jonas Knocks I will. I'll fill you in
on the rest. That's what I do. You were accurate,
by the way, though, on the Bill Walsh and the
West Coast, you know, sprint right option or that's all.
That's all that matters at this point. Up next, though,
Brady Quinn, we are going to rank some of the

(01:14:18):
best calls in the history of the NFL, and all
of these calls are from one human being. That's next
year on Fox Sports Radio. He caught it, Stefon Diggs.
Where you gotta be kidding me? Jonas knocks Brady Quinn
Fox Sports Radio. Coming up here in just a minute.
We are going to hear some of the all time

(01:14:39):
great calls. But they come from one NFL team, one
NFL team, So we'll get to that here in just
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across the tweet that I think is is kind of

(01:15:01):
worth reading only because when you think about, like how
the circumstances of next week's NFC Championship game. Think about this, Okay,
And this comes from Zach Berman, who's a I believe,
a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. But he says Eagles
traded Nick Foles two rams for Sam Bradford, Foals lost

(01:15:22):
his job in St. Louis case. Keendom takes over Eagles
draft Carson Wentz and trade Bradford to Minnesota. Vikings signed Keenum,
who replaces injured Bradford. Fools returns to Philly, replaces injured Wentz,
now Foals versus Keenum. That's how we've gotten to this point.
Like it's crazy to think about how all that's changed
and what's all happened the past couple of years. But

(01:15:43):
like that's how we've gotten into the NFC Championship game matchup,
and none of that is possible without the great Jeff Fisher. Okay,
So I think people need to pay their damn respects
because I hang out with him in malls on Monday mornings.
That's what is that. What it was was a Monday morning.
It was a Monday morning. We never we never talked
about this. What were you doing? You know? We got
things to get to Okay, we got Orange Julius scoping

(01:16:05):
out the chicks. Orange Julius is good, though, Man, I
actually knew how to make Orange Julius. They're son Orange Julius.
You could give me a large and I would suck
that thing down in two seconds. That sounds really inappropriate.
There's a drop. Why do I do this? Man? I
hate I hate everybody on this show. Just a fun
way to get it in. That's enough, all right? Uh.

(01:16:26):
Speaking of professional broadcasters, here was the final call. This
was Paul Allen on the Vikings Radio network earlier as
Minnesota with a miraculous touchdown catch by Stefon Diggs case
on a deep drop, steps up in the pocket, He'll
fire to the right side by Dick Stay. Oh, oh
my god, are you kidding me? Step On Saints. It's

(01:17:00):
a sixty one yards miracle. Okay, So that was from earlier.
That is Paul Allen on the mic with that call.
Pretty good call, right, oh, incredible. You want to hear
some other great Paul Allen calls, and then we're gonna
rank which one is the best. Here was one back
in the day. This is the Minnesota Vikings. UH in
a must win situation against the Arizona Cardinals when Josh

(01:17:24):
McCown was the quarterback for the Cardinals. And here's how
this sounded, courtesy the Vikings Radio Network. Is the season's
on the line, two receivers left and right. McCown takes
the snap, he steps up, he's all by him, South
fires into the end zone. Dot dot do no. No.

(01:17:47):
The Cardinals have knocked the Fightings out of the playoffs.
All right, So that was I Actually I'm gonna put
that one as the leader so far. I think that's
better than the one earlier. I think that's only because
it's at the dismay of all the Vikings, like like
you're trying to like let them have their moments. We
already said this. Okay, it's our boss. Scott Shapiro is

(01:18:08):
our boss. Here he is. He is a die hard
Viking fan, born and raised Viking ban He actually is
a skull tattoo on his neck. But that's why he
always wears collared shirts because so nobody can see the
skull tattoos. Seven that Scott, I don't remember having a
skull tattoo full blown. Yeah, guys, trust me, Like like
he fits in at hot topic. I know, you go
there a lot. He fits right in there, school tattoo

(01:18:30):
and uh and and this is the day that we
ask for more, for more money catering every single show,
Like this is the day to do it, because he's
in a good mood. So if somebody could could pass
it along and just say we're paying tribute, like we
can get I mean we're talking to private jets. You
and I could get our own studio so we don't
have to surround ourselves with anybody. We can isolate ourselves,

(01:18:51):
Like this is the day to do it. So I
think we've got to be strategic about this. You want
to hear You want to hear another Paul Allen call?
Of course, right, So this is Paul Allen just a
couple of year years ago. Blair Walsh attempting a game
winning field goal in the playoffs. Here's outstounded Blair Walsh
from twenty seven yards left. Hash snapped good spot down
Wolf just kick us off and he missed it? Are

(01:19:14):
you kidnyd the season? Kim like that? He missed it
left and the Seattle Seahawks are off to Charlotte. Blair
Walsh missed a twenty seven yard field goal and the
Minnesota Vikings are going to lose ten to nine. Now,
sometimes you just rather be lucky than good. From the

(01:19:34):
Seattle Seahawks, they were lucky today. Okay, Now those three,
which is the best so far? Of those? I would say,
I would say that the second one, Okay, Soside's the
one we've We've heard a bunch so so the second
one against the Arizona Cardinals from years ago, you've got
ranked as the best, I would agree. And I would

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say that the one we heard earlier from from today
is the second best to on. And then the third
I would say is the Blair Walsh. Are you ready
for the winner? Are you ready for the grand finale?
Here it was Vikings Radio Network almost a decade ago,
Paul Allen in the NFC Championship Game. Brett Farve goes
back to pass, he pumps, Now he fires over the middle, intercepted.

(01:20:18):
I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. It was
intercepted by Tracy Porter near side to the forty and
John Sullivan runs him down at the forty seven yard line.
You've got to be kidding me. I can't believe what
I just saw looking at that play. He should have
just held onto a call he should have He could
have easily have gotten five or six yards if he
would have just pulled that thing down and go forward.

(01:20:40):
But why do you even ponder passing? I mean, you
can take a knee and try a fifty six yard
field goal. This is not Detroit, man, this is the
Super Bowl. Yeah, it is Paul Allen. That is how
it's done. Baby. You can see you can hear the
mystery of having to do his job, but also the
and in him. And I love how each one you

(01:21:02):
know what you could hear him say, I can't believe it,
like every single one been there so much and he
can't believe it every single time. Now, we don't mean
to to show ourselves and our talent off, but Brady
Quinn and I were on the air doing the call
of the Vikings final today on that miraculous Stefon Diggs touchdown,
and you want to hear professionals, listen, read them and
weep about all this is Minnesota and we're just gonna

(01:21:25):
crack jokes and bus balls while there's a team whose
playoff fate is on the line. As case, Keena is
back to throw it going deep right side, and oh
my God, he caught it Stefon Diggs. Diggs just scored.
I have a solution for the NFL's biggest problem. This
is one of the biggest problems in sports. Everybody talks

(01:21:47):
about it, everybody complains about it. I've got a solution.
It is a solution that Brady Quinn, I guarantee is
going to hate. He will hate this and I will
be mocked on the air for making this. This this
idea come to life. It's not true. Come on, you're
gonna hate it. There's a chance that I'm gonna agree
with you, but I'm gonna think it's brilliant, and I'm

(01:22:08):
gonna say that you're one of the smartest people I've
ever met. There's a chance that's gonna take the list.
You know what we could do? Why don't we do that?
We could do it like a reality show. They filmed
different endings, like two different endings. They get into different
clothes and just see which one after they look at
it was the better ending. Yeah, I mean that's what
I hear. I wife and I don't watch I don't
watch too many reality shows. Did she watch Total Divas?

(01:22:30):
I'm big into Total Diva's um I don't know. She
watched a few of those shows. She's always up on it.
I have no idea she watches the Eric Decker Jesse
James Decker reality show. No, but um, yeah, why don't
you guys do really did see? Why would we hold?
I did? I did see though, like Jesse James Decker

(01:22:51):
had like a she's like a music video while pregnant,
which is like kind of interesting, like I would be
concerned for the baby, right, like you want to be
dancing around. Don't know, it seems not really in all that,
But um, I think you and your wife should do
a reality show. She was an olympian. Um, you're you're

(01:23:12):
a you're a superstar quarterback, Notre Dame. What are you
going to be in the college Football Hall of Fame?
By the way, I see all these guys getting in
to the college Football Hall of Fame. What are you
getting in? I have no idea. I don't even know
how any of that stuff works. We didn't want a
national championship, so you're not on the fast track if
you don't want a national championship. So so it goes
to show you money can't buy you everything, right, they

(01:23:32):
can for some people that Wow. Listen, we do not
need to take it. We do not need to take
shots at USC. That is not I never named teams.
I never said anything. I didn't name teams. All right,
So here's the here's the idea I have, Brady. We're
company live by the way from the getic Fox Sports
Radio studios. We're fifteen minutes because save you fifteen center

(01:23:54):
more on car insurance. There's a guy dot com for
a free rate rate quote. So the Minnesota Viking Crazy
ending advanced to the NFC title Game. They're gonna take
on the Philadelphia Eagles next week. Um. Then you've got
the New England Patriots, who again advanced seven straight a
f C championship games, which is crazy to think about.
It's insane that the amount of success they had. They're

(01:24:15):
going to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars, who beat the
Pittsburgh Steelers. We're gonna get to the Steelers coming up
in about ten minutes from now, ten fifteen minutes from now.
I've got a lot of questions for you when it
comes to the Steelers, most notably, what are we going
to the Tequila Cowboys? That is my biggest question, because
that does amazing things to people I hear I've heard

(01:24:36):
that the Pittsburgh Steelers are undefeated, excuse me, or are
defeated one game in the postseason winless. When Todd Haley
attends to that, that is a that is an actual
stat that is a true stat. So we are going
to get to all that. But one of the there
was We've heard a lot about officiating. People have complained
about the officiating and the Wild Card Round, the officiating

(01:24:59):
was brutal. I mean, they missed a lot of calls. Um.
Then you had what happened in the Tennessee Titan New
England Patriot game, in which, come on, let's be honest,
New England, that was a false start, okay, on the
punt at four and five, you know, and whatever it
wouldn't it wouldn't. But but here I was thinking about

(01:25:19):
something like I'm of the I threw this out to
you before to where I think I'm like Bill Belichick.
I think everything should be reviewed, like everything, and I'm
talking about past interference penalties. I think everything should be
reviewable and and okay, the biggest issue with that is
what in your mind the time? Yes, I mean, now
you could limit how many they have, but still it's

(01:25:42):
the time element. These replaced take forever. This is my
idea to solve that problem, because you've got the time
issue that people don't like. And what I don't like
is the certain things are reviewable that certain things aren't like.
I don't like that. Here's what I propose. I'll meet
you in the middle. How about each coach gets five

(01:26:03):
challenges a game. They get five challenges a game, and
they can review anything they want. P I holding a
face mask, whether or not it was a guy was
inbounds on a catch, whatever. They get five of those
a game, and you leave it up to the coaches
to determine which ones they want to have. New York
or whoever it is that takes a look at it all,

(01:26:25):
river N whoever. If they if they want to throw
a challenge flag on a past interference penalty that's called
against them, they can do it and have the officials
and our river N or wherever it else it is
in New York take a look at it. I think
that solves the issue of time, and I think that
also alleviates I think it alleviates the issue of bad calls.
How does that solve this because you can only do
it five times. That's a lot, all right, I'll meet

(01:26:50):
I'll meet you halfway, all right, two and a half,
you get a two and a half. Okay. If you
would have said three, I might have said, okay, okay, three,
I'll do three and and I'll go a step further.
I'll of you three. If they figure out some way
of making the process faster, Like, I don't understand why
if basically the officials on the field are getting direction

(01:27:13):
from New York. Okay, if they're getting direction from New
York as far as what the call should be, we
don't need to have the official walk over to a
little box on the sideline and then look into it
and try to make a determination based on that, because
you know who's in his ear New York and they're
they're basically helping him make that call. They could say

(01:27:34):
whatever they want publicly, but they're helping him make that call.
So to me, why even have him waste time to
walk over and then walk back and make the call.
It's dead airtime, Like, get away from that. So if
you want to have someone in New York make the call,
or someone liking college, they have they have replay officials.
There's two guys. They sit up in a booth um.

(01:27:56):
They're part of each conference. You know, they sit there
and they'll tell you when you know, they'll click down
when they need to review a plan when they don't.
It's a much faster process. Two minutes two minutes total
for review. No, you don't even need to put a
time limit on it, like, honestly, just speed up the
process where you don't involve the officials on the field,
because here's the thing I don't understand the the officials

(01:28:16):
on the field already made the call, like they gave
you their interpretation of it, okay, So if you left
it up purely to them looking at the replay, they're
gonna be more likely to not overturn it, right because
they're the ones making the call. They want to stick
with what they made on the field. So if you're
gonna go to a replay, like, that's human nature. So
if you're gonna go to a replay and you have
someone else who wants to give their opinion based on
not making the call and based on what they're saying

(01:28:38):
on film, not in real time slowed down, you know
all that, then you're talking about a completely different circumstance
or process of figuring that call out. So my whole
point of this is if you're gonna have the element
of replay and you want to make everything reviewable, that's fine.
I'm okay with that. If you limit it to three
And then if you just have the people who are
back in New York or to replay officials up in

(01:28:59):
the booth, have those guys make the call then real quick,
in real time, and then not have to have the
fishers on the field, uh, sit there and walk over
and be a part of the decision. They already made
their call, they had their chance. Okay, But you're okay
with my idea of everything should be reviewed, right? How
about that? Like what if what if say there's a
play late in the game and the coach has got
a challenge flag left and a p I gets called,

(01:29:22):
he can challenge a past interference? Now how about that? Yeah,
the problem is that's kind of a subjective call, right,
like SETI who cares? Like you know, that's that's that's
the problem you're gonna runt to. Anytime you have a
repledge on this, you're gonna run into subjectivity, meaning you
know that guy is gonna have to kind of, you know,
interpret what he feels like what was taking place at
what time, and they're they're trying to make calls in

(01:29:44):
real time, like the only way I think honestly, Like
you're gonna think this is nuts, Like I wouldn't make
anything reviewable, but everything reviewable for those three challenges. So
like you just play the game, and if a coach
thought he got got a call wrong, he throws his
challenge flag. You go through the review process up in

(01:30:05):
the booth quickly, and if they got it wrong, they
got it wrong. He gets it back, he gets one
of his three back. But if he did get it right,
you know, he loses that too. But you move on.
But literally, other than that, nothing else is reviewable. So
that way, at least the speed of play, you know,
it goes like you don't have to worry about slowing
down for review every single time, or or if what's
if it's within the final two minutes, because you want

(01:30:27):
to harness those challenges much like you would if it
was time outs in it too minutes. But you think
I'm onto something, don't you just tell me? I think
there's something there. Yeah, there's definitely something there that's called prep.
And I'll put it this way. The blood's flowing. You've
got some things, you know, going in the right direction.
Are we on FaceTime right now? How did you know?

(01:30:49):
I mean, you know, I just I'm listening to you.
It sounds like it's in there in the studio, and
it sounds like there's a lot going on. Yeah it is. Uh,
it's it's a b oh alley here in the studio.
And that's not because of the homeless guy outside. I
swear to you, there's so. I don't know what happened
to my deodor but somehow, during the chaos of that
vikings finish, my deodorant decided, you know what, let's leave
his body right now and let him sit through the

(01:31:10):
misery of his own filth for the next two hours.
That's enough. So at least we're onto something that's so.
So when the NFL changes and when Al river n
what the hell is it? When Al Riveron and Roger
Goodell and the rest of these these guys whoever they are,
Sarah tor or some of these other guys, when they
all get together, yeah whatever, when they all get by

(01:31:32):
the way, do you hear Joe Buck's wise ass comment
today there was there was like a third down. I
think it was like a third and it was third
in less than a yard and Joe Bucks said, so,
I think it might have been Minnesota and maybe it
was New Orleans. It was going for the for the
first down. He said, uh so New Orleans is a
value pack short of value pack of index cards short

(01:31:53):
of the first down. And of course Roy when you know,
he laughed, because you know, everybody's making a mockery of
the officiating. I just think that we're onto something. So
when the NFL changes this and they and they have
everything be reviewable and they give coaches the opportunity to
challenge or or have looked at everything they want to
have looked at. You heard it on this show first,

(01:32:15):
Brady Quinn Jonas knocks, you heard it here first. Yeah.
I like that, Yeah, I like that. By the way,
Live Bet Jesus, there have been people asking about the
whereabouts of Live Bet Jesus. I do not know him personally.
I don't know how many times I have to tell
people this, but I do have it on good authority
because there hasn't been a Sunday night game in quite
a while that Live Bet Jesus will be returning next week.

(01:32:37):
At this time, oh, I was gonna says, it's kind
of been on vacation or actually, actually, you know, there's
a fight fights going on right now. I mean there's
lions on that right. Don't you make bets and some
of the UFC fights that are air on FS one,
you probably could, But nobody cares about this UFC card. Okay,
and I love the UFC, but nobody cares about it.
This is coming from the guy who was a part

(01:32:58):
of when they sing Live Bet Jesus bet a regular
season NBA game? Was that between the Sons and the
Bucks or someone? Listen, we don't need to go back
to last year. That was a long time ago. That
was two. That's such a two like that was seventeen.
We don't need to We don't need to talk about
that the whole point. God, it's by the way, Live
Bet Jesus had a bad streak corn into the end

(01:33:20):
of Listen. You want to rattle this cage, all right,
you you really want to rattle this cage that LBJ
will bet on Wimbledon and drive this show into the
ground if that's what it takes, right, do not rattle
this cage. That guy's a degenerate and you do not
want to make it degenerate angry. But I've bet Jesus
will be appearing here next week because the Eagles Vikings

(01:33:43):
game is the Nightcaper. Steve to Seger, that's the that's
the late game, right, six thirty Eastern time, Eagles Vikings, Steve,
how excited are you to have live bet Jesus back
next week? Every time you say l b J, I
assume President Johnson is making a reappearance on the show. Yeah,
we dug them up that that's what happened. Do we
not have an LBJ drop? I don't I don't know.

(01:34:05):
Do we have an lb J drop? I'm not sure.
There's there's a lot of stuff there on that board,
a lot of things that are they're probably not the
most appropriate thing to play from Other than that, I
was gonna say with Bob, there's a lot of stuff
on that board. Hold on a second, what the hell
did you just play, Bobo? Okay, that's enough. God, you

(01:34:27):
know what I don't understand after a conversation before the show,
when we couldn't get on a drop of digs, it's
digs now, we allowed that to I mean, it's unbelievable.
I haven't had a chance to go back and talk
to the editors. All Right, I'll work on it, Brady, Okay,
that I do too. But Brady Quinn Jonas snocks here
Fox Sports Radio Company Alive with the getic Fox Sports

(01:34:48):
Radio Studios up next, there is going to be major
changes for a really, really good football team. And I
don't think anybody should be surprised about what happens next.
We'll tell you here on Fox Sports Radio. Why don't
she what's on the other broadcast? Where'd you go to
high school? Brady Coin? What was the name of the
high school? Dublin Kaufman. Yeah, Dublin Kaufman. This is what

(01:35:10):
was playing on in the weight room at Dublin Coffman.
Hack squads and lunges. You see hack squats? Yeah, you
never heard of hack squads where they work your fronts.
You're like, yeah, you're getting it's sort of at an
at an incline and they work your fronts, they work
your quads. Hack squads. Oh got you got you? Yeah?
I think I know you're talking about now. You lost

(01:35:31):
me when you talk about your worked on your fronts
and um, never mind, it's just but did but did?
Was that on the soundtrack at Dublin Kaufman High School? Man,
that's what I kind of grew up, lifting two and
grinding to Mandy grinding? Oh man, this shows on shows on.

(01:35:58):
Still're still waiting for my Stefon Diggs. Hold on a second,
Let's let's get to something here. We're never getting it too,
are we? Just be honest? No, man, I have not
a time. Okay, there's a lot going on here. NFL
playoffs Brady Quinn Jones come up an no, just hold
on like you're so. I don't know why you're hooked
on this thing. I'm hooked on this. What do you

(01:36:18):
have for dinner? Brady? Chicken parm? Spicy chicken parm? Wasn't it? So? Yeah?
Is this like an obsession with you? Like? Is it
your favorite food? Spicy chicken? It is so one. My
wife's an amazing cook. So it starts there. I saw
the picture just now. That's why I asked. It was incredible.
She made that all for you. It wouldn't met her

(01:36:40):
obviously in our daughter Sloan. But here's the thing. So
when I'd go call game on the weekend and when
I get home, you know, there's nothing like a home
cooked meal. Like, there's nothing like that. She's kind of
welcome you back. So that was kind of our routine. Um.
But obviously I didn't have to call a game this weekend.
But I kind of said to her because she's now
she works for the SEC network, so she calls gymnastics

(01:37:01):
meets on the weekends. So when she gets back, you know,
we just want to have kind of a home cooked
meal to kind of hang out together. So she cooked
that for me and Jonas. I swear to you you
see that whole dish of chicken. It was gone. You
ate all of those How many breasts? Well there was,
there was a lot of breasts. Um, but yeah, at leash,
I had a little bit slow and had a little

(01:37:21):
bit and then I just crushed the rest. It's unbelievable.
Did you have a glass of wine with that? Uh? No, No,
I don't like to drink before. Obviously we have our show,
so at least you're a professional. Bobo has been sipping
on Mad Dog. It's two o'clock, so that is at
least one of us is professional here. It was my job.
I know how to blame you. Oh we're on the air. Jesus,

(01:37:42):
I didn't know we're on the air. God Jonas. All right, Brady,
let's get into this. What the hell happened to the
Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday? Well, I would say it was
this you you mentioned earlier. Their defense was awful, But
to me, they really have struggled to stop the run
since Ryan Shay's ear has got now, which you know, terrible,
terrible situation and deal. But Vince Williams, Sean Spence, the

(01:38:06):
guys who are are there inside linebackers, it just hasn't
been the same. Man. And it wasn't only the running game,
which you know what for Net had over a hundred
yards rushed himself, they had over a hundred and sixty
as a team for the Jacksonville Jaguars today. It was
also coverage, like they played a lot more zone coverage.
I don't know why they don't necessarily need to. Hayden's
you know, has really picked up on the outside a

(01:38:28):
cornerback for them, and I think that should allow them
to play a little more man to man. It's not
like the Jacksonville Jaguars have a bunch of world beaters
at a wide receiver insight end um. But they played
a lot of zone coverage and if if your recall
I go back and watch it, how many completions did
you see over the middle where a lot of those
inside linebackers are dropping and kind of into space. And
that's the thing is they're just covering space. They're not

(01:38:49):
really matching up with the guy or really trying to
contest any of the passes. So like that was one
of the things that flew into the radar. I thought
their defense played poorly, but for sick of the their
inside linebacker play was not good. And then the fourth
and shorts, Man, what the hell has happened to? Just
a quarterback sneak? Like your six five sixty pounds, dude,

(01:39:11):
he's a roll forward. You'll get it, you promise. But
but it's what we've talked about it before the decision
on fourth and one or less than a yard? Why
you don't just run a quarterback sneak. It's the fastest way.
It's like the quickest way to pick up pick up yardage.
Like I don't understand, you know, you know who does
a lot of you know does a lot of quarterback
sneaks the Patriots and Tom Brady's ninety and you know

(01:39:31):
a quarterback sneak today that worked Drew Brees and he's
thirty nine, Jesus man, and he's a shotgun most of
the game. So it's like everyone knew what he's pretty
much don't when he came under center in a short
yard scenario, I have no idea. And here's the excuse
you're gonna get. Okay, you here, the coaches go, well,
they were in both A gaps. Where they were in
both A gaps and both be gaps. Guess what that's irrelevant? Okay,

(01:39:52):
because what the line does is they basically form a v.
They create like a wedge and all you do is
a quarterback, is you move forward. And now because the
rules have changed, the running back can't even push you
and assist you forward. It used to be illegal, now
it's legal. And all you do is find a little
seam and you push forward for a yard like it's

(01:40:15):
it's not complicated at all. They had terrible play call
throughout the game. I thought, I thought, Hayley, I know
his contracts up after this year. He's gone gone, yeah,
and we'll see. I mean, who knows, but um they
ran a toss crack plan instead, which you know, your credit,
Jalen Ramsey came up made a great play on that
particular one. They're the one they take a shot at
Judor Smith Schuster and one on one cover versus boy A.

(01:40:38):
My only thing with that is, like some people will say, look,
that might be the one one, you know, one of
your best chances of getting a shot if it's not
Antonio Brown. To me, I'm like, it's a mistake. Like
Judor Smith Schuster has been phenomenal this year for any standard,
not just a rookie, but he's still a rookie, and
that's you're putting the game on in that situation. Like,

(01:40:58):
it's just I didn't like the decision making there. I
thought Ben had in the football a little bit too
long a times, you know. Besides, that made some huge throws.
I mean they're they're they're fourth and long two times
for touchdowns, like just ridiculous plays. But at the end
of the day, like that was that was the Steelers
this year. They were inconsistent. They didn't play well enough
as a team to win win games, especial when they
needed to. Most here was Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin

(01:41:20):
after the game. We didn't get it done. We didn't
play well enough today, we didn't coach well enough today.
The effort was there to resolve was there, but there's
not enough detailed execution to win versus good people in
january football in this you know, that's about the only
way to cut it. And the other thing going for
the onside kick, all right, So that so the Steelers

(01:41:41):
are down, um, they're there within a touchdown and they
decided to go for an onside kick when you've got
two time outs and there's two fifteen remaining, so you
basically have three time outs with the two minute warning.
They do an onside kick, and it was almost like
like you ever done that trick where you take a
bottle cap off and you flick it with your fingers

(01:42:02):
and it flies like a saucer, like like a like
a saucer. You see people do it like that. That's
kind of what the onside kick looked like, because that
went nowhere in a hurry. It went five yards. It
hit off of Pittsburgh steel Yeah. One one of the
worst on site kicks I've seen. And I'm thinking to myself,
like why the onside kick there? Why not pin him
back and make Blake Bortles throw the ball to try

(01:42:24):
and get a first down? Because then what what did
Jacksonville do with the great field position. They didn't end
up getting a first down, but they kicked a field goal,
and the game was how to reach at that point. Yeah,
I did like that decision there. There was a number
of decisions. I mean, really, when it comes down to it, Um,
I thought they got outcoached. And bottom line is credit
Doug Moron. I don't think he's got enough credit. Nathaniel Hackett,

(01:42:45):
the o C did a tremendous job. Um. You know,
the your line, the offensive line for the Jacksonville Jaguars
doesn't get enough credit, Linda Um. Their their center played
phenomenal time about going up against guys like two It
and hey were on the inside hard Grave like, those
guys are really good. This was the number one defense
as far as getting sacks and production in the NFL

(01:43:07):
in the regular season they were Pittsburgh was number one,
and this Jacksonville Jaguars offensive line played musical chairs the
whole year. This is one of the few times they
got the chance to play together. They had a heck
of a game. Now one sack. There are a couple
of times where Boardles had to move. When he did,
he you know, made a good decision and that was
kind of the other thing, you know, obviously not turning
the football over running when he when he could, uh,

(01:43:29):
and then just you know, making some of the passes
he was asked to make. I thought, you know, there
are some things that got overlooked, Like he had a
pass to Yeldon that I can guarantee you it was
fifth read that ended up being a pretty big play
up to the left sideline, will swing route like that
doesn't show up on highlights. It was a huge play
for him, man like, it changed field position. It was
huge on that drive. But the offensive line needs to

(01:43:49):
get more credit for how good they were in the
running game and obviously protecting Boordles. Mike Tomlin also talked
about the decision to go for that on side kick
when he did, you know, we want to get the
ball back, you know, Um, we hadn't stop them convincingly
enough to to take any other approach, in my opinion,
and it was my decision. The bad decision, the bad one,

(01:44:09):
and those are the those are the times when you
interject as as a head coach, sometimes you trying to
make something happen, like like, let's let the game happen.
Like I always feel like that's being too proactive in
that case, where you don't have to be reactive, but
you gotta pick and choose your spots when you do it,
like at that moment, to me, it wasn't a good call. Okay.
Now do you think the Tequila Cowboy around the corner

(01:44:32):
from Hines Field do you think they're going to do
like a Todd Haley Knight. But the theme of the
night for Todd Haley night is when you order a drink,
the drink you get back is the wrong drink. Do
you think that's the move? Maybe I have no idea.
I'm not sure they canna be able to capitalize off
of these Steelers not being not playing any longer, regardless
of the fact that that would have been their last

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home game anyway. I just I can't imagine that the
Tequila Cowboys gonna somehow capitalize off of anybody would even
be there an we please do a remote from Tequila Cowboy.
Can somebody listening, you know? That's what we want? Our
boss is a Vikings fan. They just want he's in
a good mood. We would like to do a remote
from the Tequila Cowboy in your hinds. That would be
a phenomenal would be so much fun, all right, Brady

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quinn Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio Company Alive from the
Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. There was also a really, really,
really big competition going on this week in the world
of sports, A big one. You may have forgotten about it.
We'll tell you what that was next here on Fox
Sports Radio. But for all the latest from around the
world of sports is Steve de Seger and guys on
that on on site kick attempt. If I recall correctly

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from the graphic on the telecast, the Steelers last recovered
an on site kick a decade ago, oh for fifteen
in such tries. Since Pittsburgh lost at home. New Orleans
lost on the final play. We do have this NFL
note from Albert Breer mm qb P his sources. The
Detroit Lions have informed other coaching candidates that they've been
eliminated from the search, so they're moving forward with the

(01:45:57):
expectation that the Patriots Matt Patricia will be the next
Detroit head coach told you Brady when the Patriots season ends.
As for college football, it is official the new head
coach for the University of Arizona is Kevin Sumlin X
of Texas A and M. By the way, Buffalo Bills
have a new offensive coordinator, Brian Dable from Alabama. He's
a Buffalo area native and a longtime NFL assistant. As

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for the NFL playoffs, Jacksonville did get the win at
Pittsburgh forty two, despite five touchdown passes from Ben Roethlisberger.
He threw for four hundred sixty nine yards, but did
have two first half turnovers and the Jaguars led twenty
one nothing in the second quarter. Pittsburgh got close in
the second half, but never tied it. Temperature was in
the teens. Jacksonville is now going to be at New

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England next Sunday for the a f C Championship game.
The early forecast about fifty degrees for that game. Minnesota
will play at Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game next
Sunday on Fox TV six thirty pm Eastern time. Early
forecast for that temperature for about fifty degrees and no
rain in Philly until the next day, Minnesota was a
winner at home over New Orleans on a sixty one

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yard touchdown pass on the final play twenty four over
the Saints. Saints had trailed seventeen nothing late third quarter,
but took the lead on a touchdown with three minutes left,
retook the lead later and still Minnesota wins. Stefon digs
with the game winning touchdown. He had six catches a
hundred thirty seven yards case keenum over three hundred yards passing.

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There were points scored on each of the last four
possessions in this one in the last four minutes of
the game. In the NBA, New Orleans won in overtime
in New York one one eighteen Anthony Davis forty eight
points and seventeen rebounds. Miami and Indiana with wins. College
basketball victories for number three Virginia for Ohio State, Indiana

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and USC Back to you, thanks Steve Jonas, Knox, Brady Quinn.
Here Fox Sports Radio Company Alive from the Geico Fox
Sports Radio Studios, where it's easy to say center more
on car insurance with Geico Good a Guy Dot comic
Call eight hundred nine four semin Auto The only hard
parts figuring out which way is easier. All right, So Brady, Um,
maybe it's the most it's the fiercest competition all week

(01:48:04):
long in sports, okay, And it's not whether or not
you'll allow five minutes to pass before you get an
entire tray of Uh just was it? What? What? What
did you have? Again? It was chicken parm, chicken parm,
spicy chicken parm. It's that good, don't I don't know
why she calls it that. It's just the sauce. I guess,
just a little spice to it. Why wouldn't you want spicy?
It's always better to have spicy chicken parm is good, man,

(01:48:27):
The chicken parm at uh buka to beppo is good.
Did you end up having that? Of course? I thought
you said they ran out of a bunch of they did.
We just went to the store and got some sauce. Yeah,
they ran out Bucca to beppo ran out of sauce
on Christmas? How the hell does that happen? Man? That's
like that's like a kicker running out of feet his elbow,

(01:48:50):
Like yeah, like like what is like, how does that happen?
But they ran out of sauce, so we ended up
getting like a twenty five dollar gift card or some
crap like that. But whatever, all right, can we can
we do the show now? Please? Yeah? Of course? All right,
it's time for this time to put your money where
your mouth is, you know, you lion life. It's over

(01:49:13):
under and for that we turn it over to executive
producer Eric Roberts to find out what the hell we
are gambling on this week. Al Right, guys, before we
get to the championship round or the conference championship round
in the NFL next weekend, we look back at last weekend. Um,
you guys pushed four and one, four and one. You
only differed on two picks and both of you split.

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Um Brady got the correct guests at the under on
the under three and a half number of sacks for
Jacksonville gainst Pittsburgh they had to, and um Jonas got
the under on the under ten and a half for
the margin of victory in NT double A championship game. Yeah,
that's what I do, man, It's just what I do.
I win. And because that was the first week we've
ever done this, we're tied officially. That's said. It has

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been a much more competitive start to the year. For Jonas,
you're only down one game back to back four and
one weeks. Brady's edgy out there because he had a
five and oh week two weeks ago. You don't need
to bring that up, right, So what do we get? Yeah,
we don't need that's that's that's irrelevant here. It's a
new audience. It's radio. The audience tunes in and out.
So what do we got now for this week? Okay?
So we're gonna be looking at the conference championship games
next week. We're gonna start with the over under at

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one and a half for the number of wins for
number one seeds next weekend. Both the Patriots and Eagles
still in it, number one seeds for the respective conferences.
So number of wins one and a half for those
two teams. Jonas, I thought you started this thing. Do
you not start? Yeah, that's okay. I'm gonna take the over.

(01:50:44):
I'll go I'll take the over. I think Minnesota or
I think uh oh no, I'll take the under. Give
me the under. I just thought it through. Give me
the under. I'm gonna say the under as well. Do
you want me to start from that? Want time you
start listen. I'm thinking about it all right. I'm trying
to figure out what, what, what pick I want to
make because I'm tired of being bullied on this show.
So I'm trying to have a better year, and I'm

(01:51:05):
starting off better and I don't want to be mocked anymore.
I'm being the New Year. Knew you, I got you,
all right, let's go all right, guys. In the a
f C Championship Game, a number of tds thrown by
by Blake Bortles against the Patriots over under one and
a half. Oh, this is a tough one. Remember thrown
not running well. The greatest quarterback of all time is

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not Tom Brady. The greatest quarterback of all time is
Blake Bortles, down by four touchdowns. Because man, I don't
know what it is, but if you're a fantasy football
owner style, it's the best. I'll take the over. I'm
gonna be positive. I'm gonna stand by Blake, my guy.
I've always supported Blake Bortles for some reason. I just
think New England's gonna stack the box in every scenario.

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So even if they even if they get down like
the goal line, for example, they're gonna have to throw
it in, man, I'm telling you so. I just think
for whatever reason, it could be two touchdowns, three interception
or something like that. I think he's gonna have to
throw his way, like at least into the end sent
if they're gonna score, and I do think they'll score
a couple of times. So I'm gonna take the over

(01:52:09):
to all right, Okay, guys, So sticking with the a
FC Championship game over under ten and a half for
the margin of victory in that game ten and a half.
That number is high, isn't it. The game line was nine,
so it's it's not It's not that bad. I'll take

(01:52:30):
the under. I think Jacksonville is gonna keep it closer
and people realize. I think they're gonna shorten the games too.
I think they're gonna run the football. Look, they'll play
good defense and and with that, with that d lion man,
I mean, look, the last two times the New England
Patriots were in Super Bowls and lost or were they
playing against New York Giants? Who was the read coach
Tom Coughlin. Tom Coughlin's gotta whistle on weekdays on the

(01:52:53):
sidelines at practice. I'm not sure. If you know that
charts plays all that he is heavily Yes, is heavily
involved with this team. So I think it's gonna be
it's gonna be the under in this for taking place.
I do think it'll be somewhat close. Alright, guys, three
picks three, um, same answer. Yeah, why don't you get
your own idea? So we're going to start. I'll start

(01:53:14):
from switching over to the NFC Championship guys, Championship game, guys,
this will be in play next week, so we'll have
a little bit something on the line here. When it's
on number of tds for Nick Fooles against the Vikings
over under one and a half. Man, this is so tough.
I'm taking the under. I think I'll have one. I

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don't know that he has two. That's a good secondary. Okay,
I'm gonna take the over all right, how about that?
Because because one of us has got to have the
balls to put some faith in Nick Foles, and I'm
gonna do it. I'm taking the over. You put your
balls all over Nick Foles. Okay, um, okay, guys, final

(01:53:57):
one over under? Oh what the hell was in the
it was? What was in the chicken palm booze. What
do you mean, Like, how would you think that saying
that would come across appropriate? You're the one that sat
in the first place. Yeah, because I'm putting I'm I've
got the balls to to bet on Nick Foles. Yeah,

(01:54:18):
I said bet them all over him or whatever. I
end up saying. That is not what you're saying. Bro Okay, well,
and it made us misconstrued. But what I meant, no, no, no,
we didn't whatever. Okay, guys, Final one final, when we
did the FC Championships, We're gonna do the NFC Championship
now over under seven and a half for the margin
of victory in that game seven and a half. Gosh,

(01:54:41):
I think it'll be close, right, Yeah, I think it
would take the under. Yeah, I'll take the under on
that too. Why is it set so higher? But did
you set that? You find it? Say? Look, we do
not do not. Look. This is what Brady does for
people that do not understand, is Brady manipulates the longe.
You know, I set I set the over under for
the championship game last year, the last week, and he

(01:55:02):
ripped me blow And who got it wrong? Brady? You did? Yeah? Okay, No,
National Championship Game, No, the National Champion ten and a
half last week. Here's here's the deal. Brady manipulates the lines, okay,
because he threatens people during the break, because he bullies

(01:55:26):
me on the air. It's I mean, I can't like
this violence. And then he makes me sound like I'm
saying things that are inappropriate. I don't appreciate it. I
really don't. I think it's out of line. Okay, I
will no longer speak the rest of the show. That's
he that's your move. Gonna go silent the next minutes.
If you're paying me twenty million dollars a year, you

(01:55:47):
can rip my ask. Okay, that is out of line.
All right. That is not what I meant by that. Okay,
it's not what I meant. All right. Ah, there we go,
Brady Quinn Jonas knocks here, Fox Sport Trade. Anything else
you want to say, Brady? All right, yeah, that you
better not talk. Hey, yeah, you don't talk on my show.

(01:56:08):
I don't even say a word on my show. Good
luck with that one. Alright. So coming up next year
on Fox Sports Radio, UM, we are going to hear
something that is going to be very surprising to you.
Something you did not realize about somebody and a member
of this show that's next year on fs are Janice

(01:56:28):
is my training name? Brady Quinn Jonas knocks here Fox
Sports Radio? Was this pit bull? Are you Sean Paul?
Sean Paul from Jamaica? He is Sean Paul. Sean Paul
is like one of the biggest reggae artists ever. Well
did you are? Do you know Sean Paul personally? Yeah?

(01:56:50):
If somebody knows Sean Paul, tell him my sad stinks.
How's that? Um? He was kind of he was kind
of bigness day the right. He was big. He had
four albums that just went like multi platinum. It wasn't
like Mr Three or five though. It wasn't like no
he was big, but he got pretty big at one
point a time. It's been a rough weekend for people
with two first names, Sean Paul, Matt Ryan, Dennis Allen.

(01:57:14):
Been a rough one. Just pointing that out. I'd like
to point out some some facts here and give you
drop a little bit of NFL knowledge on your break. Um.
All right, so we are coming to you alive from
the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios, and we've got great News.
There's a quick way you could say money switched to Geico.
Go to Geico dot com, and in fifteen minutes you
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Arnie Spanier are ten minutes away from now. Um, if

(01:57:37):
you want to know why it is that the Vikings,
that the Patriots, the Eagles, and the Jacksonville Jaguars have
advanced to the conference championship games, it's because Arnie Spanier
picked the opposite of all those, all right, So if

(01:57:57):
you would like so, if you would like actual evidence
of that, make sure you stick around for a Planket
span You're coming up here on on Fox Sports Radio. So, um,
you know Tom Brady has as many Super Bowl rings
as the other three quarterbacks have starts in the playoffs.
Jesus man like to think about that, like, think about

(01:58:18):
what the NFL is selling next weekend. I don't. I
don't like. I I know that people look like understand
how great they are, but I don't think that they
understand that we're probably never gonna see this again. This
is never gonna happen again. The way the NFL is
now like this is like they're the last dynasty I
can see in the NFL for quite some time. Remember,
everybody thought Seattle had the making of a dynasty, and

(01:58:42):
Seattle is pretty much gutted their staff. They I mean,
it's gonna be a big transitional year. They're trying to
figure out what the direction is. The parts of that
defense are not going to be back in New England
just keeps doing it man seven straight. Like there are
players that maybe we're drafted by the Patriots back in
two thousand, well, who have never played the first round

(01:59:03):
of a playoff game because they've had a buy every year.
Like it's weird, Like it's just crazy, man like. And
and if you're I wonder if there's player envy, you know,
like do you look at a guy like Blake Bortles
and see the defense he has and as a former quarterback,
do you ever watch it and go, why the hell
couldn't I get that? Oh? Of course? And even just
the patients that the organization has had with him, you know,

(01:59:25):
I mean being with a bad organization, um initially right,
but the one that I think you have to understand,
like Shot Khan was patient even with Gus Bradley, where
they started to build the foundation of I think what
this defense could be. And then as they continue to
add pieces and you see what Tom cough On a
Doug Brown have done this year, Um, you see why

(01:59:46):
they can be successful. I mean, this is a talent
that roster. We thought was gonna take this step. Last year,
it just didn't come together and Bordles played that um
and they had enough faith in him to pick up
the options. So um, you know it. I just think
it goes to show like ownership matters the way they
end up handling all of that. I do think it
that matters some additions and the pieces that you make,

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but it just goes to show you don't even have
to have the best quarterback play obviously want a Super Bowl.
I mean, when you look at three of the four teams,
I think it's fair to say that they're largely led
by their defense. Well, if I had to sum up
Brady the Sun Crazy Sunday in the NFL, it's got
to be with these three legendary calls. Let's first hear
Paul Allen on the Vikings Radio Network case on a

(02:00:27):
deep drop, steps up in the pocket, He'll fire to
the right side. Stay oh hell, oh my god, are
you killing a miracle? Step one on the Doorleans Saints.

(02:00:49):
That's a sixty one yard miracle. And then this was
a Brady's personal favorite from the day. This is from
uh Fox Joe Buck and Troy. That's the rookie Tray Hendrickson.
And you see the left elbow get into the chin.
He and Jordan's there. Hendrickson got to hit first. And
I'll tell you of a huge penalty because Kingdom did

(02:01:12):
not see Diggs coming across the field as early as
he should have. Had the economy early, Digs had some
room to run and and maybe get into field goal range.
But a big fifteen yard penally against his defense and
nothing has gone right for that team. Be careful how
you say step on Diggs his last day. You say
it's too quickly. Other piece of advice, don't say jaguars

(02:01:35):
with food in your mouth? You know what I mean? Well,
you know we kind of got on Tony Romo, Yeah,
for because he stinks. No, But but Jim nance like
you brought this stup before he had food his mouth.
One time we were like, yeah, did he like it
was chewing his way through McDonald's read like those watched

(02:01:55):
the game two days ago. It was unbelievable. But how
about a couple of professionals here on the way out
of a from me part about all, this is Minnesota
and we're just gonna crack jokes and bus balls while
there's a team whose playoff fate is on the line.
As case, Keena was back to throw a going deep
right side and oh my god, he caught it. Stefon
Diggs jokes, you got to be killed and the game

(02:02:16):
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