Martin Weiss & Monse Bolaños React to Divisional Round Action, Talk Harbaugh to New York & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Football Saturday.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
As Josh Allen drops back to pass, and I mean
it has.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Been that type of day.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I mean has it, Because it's been a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I would say, like this is one of the criticists
I had of Josh Allen earlier in his career. It's
called the Josh Allen stock exchange because we'll go up
and down, and up and down and up and down.
And while he has way past all of the demons
that we have seen from like way back when he
had that playoff game against de Sean Watson in Houston,
we've seen him have a lot of interesting plays. Today,

(00:40):
Now we're in overtime, third and ten, Josh Allen looks
like he's changing the play. I looked at earlier Bronc
the Bills bonci are I know, I'm sorry eleven for
fifteen on third down going into this play. It's overtime,
thirty to thirty. As Josh drops back to pass, and
that what a cat going to beat?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh intercepted?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
What? I think? That's an interception?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I am you know, we will see what that is
as soon as they make the announcement. But I am
ninety eight percent sure as I sit here today it
would look live to me, and the reactions are all
showing me that that is going to be Josh Allen's
fourth turnover today. I believe three turn through two fumbles.
It's an interception in this one, which I honestly was

(01:26):
gripped from the arms of Brandon con.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
As they hit the floor as he hit the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yes, this was very much to me.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Unless they are going to somehow say that Cooks was
down with possession of the ball, that to me reads
an interception.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Mancie, what do you think it does to Steve the Sager?
While you're here? Why don't we all weigh in because
this is the moment of the moment.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't think it's a clear interception anymore. I feel
like you could argue that you give it to the
he does catch. Cooks catches the ball. To me, he like,
I think he's down.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm feeling survived the catch. Energy might be an issue, Steve,
what do you think.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Plying the ointment there is did the defender have a
hand on the reception and therefore it wasn't a clear
reception in the first place as Cooks went down.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, I'm with and is Broncos balls ball? Yeah, Nicks
out there? Five for the Buffalo Bills game. Not lost yet.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
When you started the show, you used interesting to describe
Josh Allen's place today, and I wanted to be like, well,
that's a nice word, because you could have picked a
much harsher word. Interesting is putting it nicely because Josh
Allen has done today what.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I would say this he's been I think he's been bad. However,
there have been a lot of moments today where it's like,
if the didn't make that play correct, then this game
would have been over. But I ultimately, when I all
said and done, this is a Seeds get the grease
type of game.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
For me.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
This is I'm a SE's get the grease type of guy.
You don't have to get a plus to pass the tack. Okay,
but that's why is that interesting? Because he's been flatly
bad to me at moments, But that's why said the
talking stage. Sometimes that thing goes right back up and
he's had good moments. But I do think overall C
minus out of this.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
He's teetering on that you know what, it just has
not been good and the fact that they're still in it,
Like you said, it's a lot of credit to Josh
Allen that they're still in it. But you're in it
because of the holes you put them in, and not
just you, but also James Cook kind of had a fumble.
Like it's been bad. While their defense, who has been
the questionable part of the team throughout the season, has

(03:29):
delivered for this game. They've played better than they have.
This is the most I think that the Broncos defense
has given up, you know, yards on the ground. So
it's the roller coaster. Yeah, that's what This entire game
has been a roller coaster.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
And by the way, Buffalo's defense was forced onto the
field after they ruled it a Denver interception, Buffalo called
time out in overtime, maybe hoping they would look.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
At it again. No, it stands.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
It is Denver ball and bow Nicks on the field
and this is the first overtime gamestseason game since the
Chief Super Bowl against the Niners.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, Steve, you got the sound up in there. I
saw you pulling your headphone away. Is it hot? Would
they have been able to initiate a challenge on that
play or all in overtime.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
All challenges come from the booth right the booth man
man man a red flag, no red flag.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
The bad news for Denver here is they've actually got
to march into field goal range. I know we're at altitude,
but they're inside their own twenty five. That was a
long pass they just intercepted.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
R J.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Harvey. Now you know, Steve, you said it was bad news. RJ.
Harvey just did a little bit of something to try
to make it a little better.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
And he's still not all the way there yet. They're
still south of their fifty, so they're not in field
goal range. Up a Rjarvy with about a twenty five
yard catch it run. I was about to say here,
the problem with Denver's offense is well, all day today,
first down to the flat, second down to the flat,
third down, Let's see if somebody can find a way
open in the middle of the field.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Cortland Sudden didn't have a catch the whole day until
the last five minutes and the fourth.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Even that one was right there on the margin of
the sideline. He barely got those two feet in.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
But we are the.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Next score wins six minutes twenty seconds left.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Mon see look at the listen, and Denver's had no
ground game today. The leading rusher by far is the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah, Denver. Right now that they showed the bench, they're
not even that you know, excited yet like anything can happen.
That's the way this game has gone. Nobody interceptions in
this game.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I was just about to say, I was just about
to say super locked in everyone every Yeah, no one
is no one celebrating prematurely.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
See a second attendant.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Bonnet took a deep shot on first down to little
Jordan Humphrey. Now earlier in the drive the Josh Allen.
It'll be lost to history because Matt Prater made the
field goal. There was a pass interference, like everybody will
talk about it. It was not passion interference because Brandon
Cook stopped running.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
He stopped running. Steve Arbage loses.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
The deep ball to the end zone.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, he stopped running. And then and then the next
play they ended up getting a first down or play after.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
They get the know if the ball landed in bounds
either I mean and.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Steven Buck Oh my god, I got a call the police.
It's been a passive affair.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Two things Buffalo is just called a second time out
in overtime. We have six h nine left in overtime.
Bill's at Denver tied at thirty. The next game is
due to kickoff right about now. Fox is holding off
San Francisco at Seattle. Game has yet to begin.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's what I was telling Monsei secretly, all the reasons
these overtime rules are so punitive and did.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
The game to end quickly. There's generally another one coming
on after.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
The Niners haven't even taken the field yet on Fox.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Wow, they really warming up? Yeah, I mean, I mean,
you don't know when an overtime game' is gonna end.
It's true, and there will be obviously at least, you know,
and then they'll treat it similarly to like a weather
delay or something. The players will have X amount of
time to get ready and warm up, you know. So
it's not the end of the world over there for
the Seahawks and the forty nine ers. But right now,

(07:01):
second and ten monts, what do you think is going
to happen? If you have to predict check the Manci.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Magic right now?

Speaker 4 (07:06):
I mean, I thought Buffalo would win this game, so
right now, it seems like Denver, you have it. You
can't let this slip. And there were times in this
game where I thought Denver was playing a little bit
safe on their offense.

Speaker 7 (07:19):
Pass interference Buffalo Meeta, Well, there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
We go, Tron Johnson. And honestly, I thought the past
before had a much better I did too. Of the
contested argumental potential arguments that you could have on past
interference that have been in this fourth quarter overtime, the
one directly before this snap was the most egregious. However,
Toron Johnson did get a pass interferences.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
The flag in the backfield also, it might be offsetting.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh my goodness, gracious, what are we doing here? Okay,
two flags on the defense, so they'll take the pass inference.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
That will be the spot foul. Right well, the spot
foul is longer than.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
To take the passinger, right, Okay, So rough thanks Joey Bosa.
Just remember, hey, they both sat down, pal, Joey Bosa said,
around the corner and got.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
A seventeen yards instead of fifteen roughing.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I think though, speaks to the fact that that was
a non catchable ball. Probably I should not say non catchable,
but if Toront Johnson had just been in phase. Courtland
Sutton is not catching this ball you just touched. You
touched on it earlier today. How the Broncos have seemingly
been very conservative on the outside. This has been an
issue they've had all day. You know what Bill's defense

(08:33):
did anyway, roughing the passer. If that hadn't been passed adventure,
still getting a first down.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Field goal from here would be about fifty four yards already,
Will Lutz is hit from fifty. Of course, we saw
a Buffalo tiet with a fifty yard or late in
regulation altitude. Remember we're at Denver.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, Now this is where Sean Payton is going to
lose me here.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Lost, What are we doing because what he just We've
seen this play called three times once by a Buffalo
to seal essentially their field goal attempt.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
They ran student body left.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
They called it in college when Josh put all the
receivers on one side and have Josh allen Just's roll out.
The Broncos in did it in the fourth in the
fourth quarter to get a first down here. Now bo
Knicks does it again on second is Now it's basically
the point I'm trying to make it.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Sean Payton is.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
About to get incredibly cute because now they just got
into the very urge of the inch of field goal
range instead of going and getting a first down to
being more aggressive.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
And that's the thing that drives me crazy my team.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's been this whole game, and I know we've seen
b Nix use his legs to extend to play a lot.
Oh lord, I thought he was gonna be picked again incomplete.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Deep but fo okay, I'm not with that one on
Trey White.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
If that's going to be the.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Pass interference mems downfield.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Mems downfield mems who caught the fourth quarter dutchdown fast
Josh Allen Camp believe it, he's got his hands in
his head, But that will mean that's spot foul on
Trey White.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Josh All's not touching the ball again.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh goodness, So they're gonna change the rules again, now, hid,
I'm just getting that was but Trey White spot foul.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
That's gonna to be about what the eleven yard line
thirty yard game?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh no, not the eleven yard line. The six yard
line will be Broncos ball.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Now, I'll be honest with the way this Broncos offense
has been moving.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Through overtime, you're still not trusting kick a first down.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I might kick a first down field goal and get
up out of here. Okay, seriously, yeah, because I've only
gotten first down the last three first downs I've gotten
that been by Buffalo penalty.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
So it make no.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Masaking me kick it right now in prime position to
win this game. But this over time has been a
Buffalo defensive meltdown.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
In my opinion, bo Nicks takes any on first down,
So that's back to the eleven yard line. We have
about five minutes left in overtime. Kicker is coming on
the field for a second down field goal.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Look at M Steve. They were trying to jump. They
were trying to commit a penalty on that play right there.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
The Buffalo's defense.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Was it felt like as as bow Nicks was taking
the knee, I get you want.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
To like rush into it, but I mean there's.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
A lot of time left, guys, five minutes fifty four
seconds left.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
What's the flag going.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
To be here?

Speaker 5 (11:01):
I think White still complaining about the PI off coming
off the field.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I feel like what you should be complaining about is
the interception that happened that led to display.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I thought that was clear and obvious unsportsman like, oh yeah,
oh yeah, I know I would.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Have at this point. At this point, you do who cares?
I am? And I'm a sore winner. If we're being
honest here, this will be.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Hilarious if he makes this field goal, but it would
have missed shorter. Now, yeah, it's obviously going to be shorter.
But again, he was kicking it. His line of scrimmage
was the sixth so now would have half to distance
the line.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
First down and a first down.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
So even if you get a bad snap, you could
take a knee three more times.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's the thing that I was gonna get to in
a mission before I saw them.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Buffalo taking its final time out on defense here.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
But here's the reason why, in my opinion, kick a
first down field goal because obviously missed field goal, you'll
get redos. But if it's a bad snap, just don't
kick it. Hit me here and we'll kick a thirty
five yard field goals. Got a twenty five yard field
goal fallow up, Well you'll say, we'll kick a ford
of the yard field going by all of that, just
for cover, right, just for cover.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Whatever mistake potential it is.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
If I'm the kicker, and I see that even the stripe,
the stripes on the ball aren't facing the right way.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'm not even going okay.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
And they still haven't kicked off. At San Francisco. Tom
Brady is still speaking pregame. They are waiting for this
Denver game to finish up. This is gonna be I mean,
a Bills fan put it this way. We watched some
of that Hallmark Buffalo Bill's theme movie where we said,
we're the team that almost always wins.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
This once again, once again, par for the course.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
You give up the ball five times and still can't
take the game. When Denver is over and over not
accepting what you're trying to give them, it has to
go overtime before the Bills lose.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
This is the game.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Twenty four yard field goal attempt. No way he's missing
this straight away. Wow, the Buffalo bill season is about
to end.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
That could be the strongest announcemer Jinks I have ever
seen in my.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Life straight through, But it wasn't there. You go is
going home?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
In fact, Mary, if you have the SpongeBob music right now,
they'll do it next segment. But that's right, Josh Allen
and the Buffalo bills. That's what they said they were
gonna They said, no Mahomes, Josh, no Lamar, Josh, no
Joe Burrow, Josh.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
You know what, no playoff win in the divisional rounds
for Josh Allen.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
This guarantees the AFC Championship next Sunday, Now tomorrow, next Sunday,
three pm Eastern is in Denver. Their top seats.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, my High Stadium will play host of the AFC
Championship game with a.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Chance to go to a Super Bowl at the Niners Stadium,
just like Manning and company did their last time.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
They made to run a decade ago.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
So minse you thought this was gonna be a Buffalo win.
I'm not trying to rub it in your face. Obviously
came down to the closest of margins. I was going
to say, just what happened that you didn't expect?

Speaker 4 (13:57):
That's only the only thing you could rub in is
to remind me how terrible Herbert was. That's really the
only thing you can rub in. And we're not talking
about that now that the Chargers are out.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
In the line.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Not just Herbert, you know.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
But the Herbert was No. No, I I thought, Josh Allen,
I don't trust bon Nicks the way I trust Josh Allen.
And that's really what it came down to. And I
thought it was going to be a close game, and
it was almost like, Oh, there's enough time for Josh
Allen to tie the game. I didn't expect him to
have so many turnovers and so many fumbles and have
one of the worst games that we've seen in a

(14:27):
long time.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Play alone, right before halftime, where you could.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have taken a knee children of the game.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
He scrambles with no timeouts down the middle of the field,
fumbles it away, hands Denver three right before halftime. So
it's a twenty to ten deficit instead of seventeen to ten,
and you lose by three.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
And it was by three, and then you fumble against
to start the second half. There was so many things
that you, how are you even in this game?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
So it's interesting because I've kind of been working on
this theory since last Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
No, seriously, I love it because I try to, you know,
watch it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I look at this like I was trying to study
this game, you know, I try to really see because
I was so wrong about the Super Bowl, so wrong,
So how could I have.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Been this wrong.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
You know what, I'll tell you what I learned and
why in fact it played out today on this field.
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Sports Radio on the iHeartRadio app MANCI. The game was
delayed the San Francisco forty nine ers a little bit
later than the Seahawks when they got in here six
seven nothing already thirteen seconds off the clock or shiza he.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
You know, hey, there's teams who made moves right before
the trade deadline, and the Seahawks were one of them,
making their special teams even better. And that's the guy
that they picked up. We've seen him do this already
this season.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
He won them again.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I shouldn't say won thing, but give them a major
position to win the game in Atlanta where they were
struggling offensively, and the Rams again as well as Steve
de Sega just chimed.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
In my ear.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
And this, honestly is the reason why I think Seattle's
gonna win the Super Bowl. Is the reason why I
think that Buffalo lost today, and it's the reason why
I was so damn wrong about last Super Bowl and
the rest of I learned.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
And I feel like I know where you're going just
based on how you've presented everything. Yeah, I'm going to
Can I take a guess to what you learned? Did
you learn that you can't rely and put it all
on a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's not just that.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Because last year I went, you were talking about the
Chiefs and the Eagles, Right, We're all like.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's not just that you can't trust, you can't put
it all on a quarterback. I think it's this. Some
quarterbacks can do that heavy lift, right, but it is
incumbent on teams to make sure that they are building
it out around their quarterback to where it's easy enough
to whar They only have to do the heavy lifts sometimes, Right,

(17:52):
Mahomes and the Chiefs last year, it wasn't like Mahomes
is not any less special than he ever was. It's
but the lift was just too much. He had five
special plays in him. He didn't have fifteen. Right today,
Josh Allen, he had ten wild plays. And I think
that's been the that's been the true. That's been true

(18:12):
of Josh Allen the entirety of his career. Any single
time you watch him take the field, he's gonna have
ten plays where you were like wow for one reason
or another, right, and what they did, and they when
they got Stefan Diggs and they started running the ball more,
they started limiting Josh in a way that it's like,
we're gonna take you. We understand that you have the cape,

(18:34):
we understand, but we're not gonna make you fly like
the matrix when NEO you only fly every so often.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
You could do that slow motion wing WAYNM ging all you.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Want, right, Oh, but.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
We're only gonna fly every so often. The Bills needed
them to fly today, and I think that's the problem.
The Seahawks do not need Sam Darnold to fly in
that way, in part because of the Rashisha hed pick
up and kart, because there's great defense that they had
Sam Donald. I was telling this to the guys earlier.
Sixteen for twenty one is the perfect is the perfect

(19:06):
place for Sam.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
We've seen Seattle win at the end of the season
in spite of Sam Donald. And that's what you're talking about.
It's like, it's great to have a good quarterback, but
what about everything else make it easier on the quarterback?
And you're one hundred percent right, because the Seahawks do,
I think seem like the most complete team. Rams are close,
and that's because I'm giving Matthew Stafford the edge right

(19:30):
like you, and then Pukinakua and that offense. Rams are close.
But the Seahawks seem like they can just beat you
at every part of the game. And even if Sam
Donald doesn't have a great game, they're still winning. And
like you said, he doesn't have to do much. He
doesn't have to put on the cape, which is the
best part for the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
So do you know the I'm gonna lay out here
for a second because you're gonna be mad about this. Yeah,
you know, the like the meme where it's like, uh
xyz is the blank of that, like where I'm doing
a terrible job explaining a But it's like, Chuck Norris
is our Bo Jackson is the Chuck Norris of running backs.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
So it's like, you know, the super hyped up story.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
About whatever, all right, Josh Allen is the Michael Jordan
of Justin Herbert's. Okay, I get you may say why
you say that because a lot of the time when
you're watching them teams play, it's like, man, I understand

(20:29):
what the score is. I see what's happening, but it
is not I do not want to blame this on
the quarterback. It doesn't feel right to be blaming this
on the quarterback. When I'm sitting here watching the game.
I can look at the stats and I'll say, you know,
I look at these numbers. These numbers look like I
might I might need to blame him. But then when
I watched the game, it's like, Man, if they if

(20:50):
he didn't have that underhand flicked on the first time,
and then if he didn't step out of that sack
and get that two yard game, it would have been
a disaster.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
But also too, if he had an on the ball
backwards on that fumble, maybe they would have won. Right.
So it's a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
But then it's also too when I say this again,
Josh Allen is the Michael Jordan of Justin Herberts.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
I get that.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
The surrounding cash I'm looking at we're debating over not
w that that ball was stolen by McMillan, who was
a Denver starter. Brandon Cooks was the intended target. Okay,
like Brandon Cooks was making playoff catches and doing celebrations
today because that's who they got.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Catching the ball for them.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Keon Coleman is a bust, a healthy scratch in four
or five games this year, and he was like the
end zone target today.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
You look at the Chargers, same deal. They're running the
ball with Naji Harris. Oh no wait, never mind they
running ball? Oh the wait, no mind Hampton never mind?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Right, all right?

Speaker 2 (21:47):
You know what I'm saying, Like we are finding people
that we are googling to see who's out there.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Kay Beckton plays guard for you guys. Wait, Trevor Penning.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
So it's just this whole like you look around him
and then you look at the post game and you
can find if you are going to be the person
who's going to do it, you will find your little reason.
And today Josh had a lot of reasons today why
they didn't win. But you could find a reason why
the quarterback didn't win. But it's hard to flame it
all on the quarterback. That's why I say that, And
you're so right.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
It was such an interesting game when it came to
evaluating Josh Allen. If now that the game is over,
those are done, congratulations to done. Further moving on, But
if you wanted to evaluate Josh Allen. You are confused
because you are the reason that they went to overtime
and that they were in the game. But you're the
reason they went to overtime, that they were still in

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the game, because it seemed it quickly seemed in the
beginning part of the game that Buffalo's offense was rolling,
and then James Cook fumbled, and then little by a
little things started to unravel. And it just had a
lot of unraveling to do, specifically with Josh Allen, which
is not something we're used to seeing. It was just

(22:57):
a lot of mistakes by Josh Allen back to back.
Miss I don't know why they why they went for
it with eighteen seconds before the half that I guess
we could have Sean mcdermy one day. But it's hard
to evaluate Josh Allen after this game. And when you
bring up Justin Herbert, it's just kind of like Justin
Herbert is a lot of I as a fan, like
I'm still holding onto a lot of like hope that

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he can do something like that, but he actually has
not delivered the way Josh Allen has well, and that's
the thing, and that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
All of them justin Herbert Well, I say all of
all two of them was true of both of them.
They're both their best games have come and losses. Yeah,
like their best game. They're both their best postseason games
have come and lost. Josh Allen is the king of
beating that seven seed stealer whoever comes up out of
that seventh seed but wildcard. But then when it gets

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to this round, it's I'm not in win lost, whatever,
because but it's just it's a lot of time you
can sit up and say, man, Josh Allen, really, if
he had just not made two or three of those plays,
the Buffalo Bills would have been put in a better position. Now,
obviously that doesn't speak about all leading up to it.
I get all the circumstances that Josh had on his
plate prior to But when I'm sitting there watching the

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game and I see on thirteen second at thirteen, oh
my goodness, no.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
What Seattle's defenses rattling Rockberdy and the forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Let's kick it over to Steve the Seger because there's
been about four minutes left, four minutes into this football game,
and it has been all Seahawks.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
It's about as lopsided as it could come, and the
only thing that could make it worse for San Francisco
is they haven't suffered an injury in the first four minutes.
It's seven to zhering Seattle over the Niners in this
divisional playoff. The opening kickoff was run back ninety five
yards for a touchdown by Rashid Shaheed of the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
There was a.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Flag on the play because Eddie Paniero, the kicker for
the Niners, tried to trip the return man on the
way by.

Speaker 7 (24:51):
The flag was picked.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Very sly, tackle less. It reminded me of the football
with a U.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
It was.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
It was the last bastion of a team that has
no answers.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'll put it that way.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Seven nothing a deserved Seattle early lead. Meanwhile, San Francisco's
offense just went for it with a run up the
middle on third and one, and Christian McCaffrey was stuffed.
After a timeout defense, they went for it on fourth
and one, gave it to the fullback Kyle Yushchak running
right short side of the field no space, thought about

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pitching it to the right and essentially pitched it out
of bounds off the head of.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Christian He thought about pitching. It decided and they say,
you know what, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Do it anyway.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
So a turnover on downs, Seattle gets the ball on
its own forty four yard line, already up seven to
nothing on the Niners in the opening minutes. And by
the way, Houston's playing tomorrow, that was the best defense
I saw in the NFL this year. They're going to
be at New England three pm Eastern and then the
Rams at Chicago cold game comes after that. You know,

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it's the windy city. It's going to be windy tomorrow,
and it's to be under twenty degrees and maybe twenty
miles an hour with the winds, so the feels like temperature.
They say, we'll be closer to.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Zero Rams today, I saw it felt like minus five.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
And and by the way, for all the people that
are saying, ah, that LA team, they're not going to
be used to Okay. Caleb Williams played in Los Angeles
for two years just recently. He hasn't finished two years
in Chicago, does he automatically?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (26:26):
People, let's just settle down here a little bit. Who
played the Eagles the best of anybody in the postseason
last year with the Rams in the snow.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's the thing that I laugh about the most, is like,
because I obviously am doing these a lot for work,
and I'm like, I'm just okay, cool. The Rams are
since nineteen sixty four, bay da da da dah.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
Like.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
The more important thing is that they've only played eight
games since nineteen sixty four in these conditions. But you
know who has played a lot more than eight games
in these conditions.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Matthew Stafford when he was a court people.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Are you forgetting that, Steve?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
It's a dome, all right? Well, you know the Bears.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Every year he played at Green Bay, every year he
played at Chicago. So I was mentioning defense is one
great defense. The Bears are not a great defense overall
this season, just for the record, not for an elite
playoff team. But the Texans are, and we'll see what
they can do at New England to borrow. Amazingly, if
you look it up as far as just points per
game allowed, Houston allowed only seventeen point four points per game.

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Seattle allowed seventeen point two points per game, the best
in the NFL. The Niners Seahawks games are often low
scoring anyway, what's left of the Niners roster is giving
it the old college try in this playoff game on
the road tonight. I don't think it's a stretch to
say out loud that this had better be a low
scoring game or San Francisco has no chance in this

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game at one seed Seattle tonight. Meanwhile, the Buffalo Bills
are out. They wound up losing in overtime at one
seed Denver thirty three point thirty on a short field
goal at the end. Matt Prater, ex of Denver, had
kicked a fifty yarder for Buffalo in the final seconds
of regulation to tie the game. But the Bills are
now the first team ever to win a playoff game

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for six straight seasons. They won last weekend to get here,
and yet not make a Super Bowl in any of
those six seasons, and under quarterback Josh Allen and coach
Sean McDermott, the Bills in postseason overtime games are now
a crushing zero and three. And Associated Press looked up
their records back to the nineteen forties. What is the

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win loss record of a team that, like Buffalo today
has five giveaways or more and yet only gets one
takeaway or less with that huge margin. The answer is
such teams like the Bills today one and thirty seven
in the playoffs with that big a difference. The one
win was when the Jaguars came back against Brandon Stay's

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defense in Jacksonville.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Three in America.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
As for the NBA, we've got Detroit leading at home
late first half fifty two twenty four over the Indiana Pacers.
Dallas beat you to a one thirty eight one twenty
Cooper flag of the MAVs out again with the spraying
day collect We do have NFL coaching news, as Green
Bay gave head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension.
The Giants officially gave coach John Harbaugh a five year

(29:15):
deal that's finalized. The front runner for the Dolphins head
coaching job reportedly as Jeff Hafley, green Bay's defensive coordinator,
and the top candidate for the Falcons job is Kevin Stefanski.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
X of Cleveland seven.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
I think Seattle over San Francisco, ten minutes to go,
first quarter, Seattle with the ball and driving there in
field goal range. Back to you.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
You know what Moncie.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's uh coming to you live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios, Marnwise, Monster Vilanos, as we watch Seattle run
the ball down the field on the on the the
Niners b squad. Really, when you consider all the injuries
that they've had over the course of the season, it's
time to go ahead for the Buffalo Bills to.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Call that travel.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Agent call it. Yeah, go go far away, go far away,
old up there. Yeah, you you're you really are gonna
want to forget this game.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Mister Steinfeld, go ahead and book that vacation.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
It's different, right when you lose a game where it's
like they were just better than you, Like we, you know,
we put up a good fight. That is not what
happened today. You had the opportunity to win multiple times
and you and you did it.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
How many at least three?

Speaker 4 (30:27):
At least three? It's like, this is this is gonna
be a tough one. It's gonna be a tough one
for Josh Allen to swallow. It's gonna be a tough one.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
For in his head as the ball goes through the.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Upright, he's in tears in his post game.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I mean, I'll be honest, it's partly because he can
look into the rader because there I.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Don't care what you say, I don't care how you say.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
But as a professional athlete, there are times that you
lose as a team, but you know.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
There was nothing more that you could do right.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
And I know for a fact that from all to
do enough of these guys is that like those losses,
they hurt, But the losses that hurt way more are
the ones where it's like, dude, you had it, I
blew it.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
You blew it.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
And Josh Allen have to be feeling right now.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Despite all the highs, his lows were so low that
it's like, dude, I blew it now. I honestly put
a lot of that on the coaching staff because to me,
you gotta know what you got right, and they should
know putting the whole thing on Josh's shoulders continually. You
can do it for a game, you could do it
for two games. Eventually it'll start to run out.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
And he just did it against the Jaguars, like he
just put on the cape. How did you expect him
to carry that much? But it didn't seem like he
was carrying a lie at the start. It seemed like
things were going in there in their favor, in their direction.
They seemed comfortable, they seemed good, and then that first
fumble happened from Josh. I'm not talking about the James

(31:55):
Cook one because even though that one did happen, the
first fumble by Josh Allen to start the in the
first half, I was like, what was that? You? You
of all people like when quarterbacks have their handout like that,
holding the ball, like butt the ball, tuck the ball in?
What are you doing you think your one arm is stronger.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
That's one of those. To me, it's like the Steph
Curry three. If you do it, if you shoot that,
you better make it. If you have the ball out there,
you'll be better.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Hold on to better hold onto.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
It as you know how it's supposed to be done.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
He's not the only one to do it. But when
I see a quarterback too, I'm like, why you're putting
so much risk? Like, just put tuck the ball in.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Seahawks into the red zone just about seven minutes left
in the first quarter, seven nothing, the score she had
on the lead off the opening kickoff touchdown. Looking to
add to that, Sam Donald only two completions aus far
they've been running the ball quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Coming up next, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
This is an interesting one that the court would have
to adjudicate.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Josh Allen, guilty your innas I don't know, guilty your
inn for the fifth Look, let me tell you what
what probation? Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
We'll play sports court coming up next.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Out fill again, Monty, I'll tell you what's going on.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Bow balls out as.

Speaker 9 (33:20):
Julian Love runs into the end zone to celebrate with
the Seahawks defense.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Was that Christoph McCaffrey, though, who is the eighty eight ton?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just the backup tight end puts the ball on the ground,
Nick him and Warrior I believe forces the fumble.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
The second round pick who held Ernest Jones? My bad.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Ernest Jones forces the fumble. Devin Witherspoon on the hit.
Seattle in business, already up ten for well four minutes
and thirteen seconds up in the first quarter, Monti.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
In the first quarter.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
No, it's been all Siahawks this game, literally from the
moment of kickoff, and uh, Seattle. Seattle is a type
that's not gonna their foot off the gas. So San
Francisco's gotta be careful.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
I mean, especially defense.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Obviously, the score is what it is, the mar turn
of a margin is what it is. The physicality that's
not necessarily reflected in stats and score or whatever.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah, it is coming through the screen.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
No sound on Seahawks are thumping them boys out there hitting.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, the boys out there hitting.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Look like you said, no sound in it already looks so.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Like, oh right, looks rough. You're hearing this. You're hearing
the sounds.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Just you just hear just you just know what they
sound like, ments like you just hear it.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Like Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'm sorry that Christopher Cavy keep it in the wrong
eighty eight times, just when he put the ball down.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Just now, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
That's what I just keep thinking about. How stupid that
lateral was by you. Check McCaffrey put that one on
the ground. Yeah, forty nine ers definitely guilty of ball
security issues so far in the early going.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Let's play sports court.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
The defense is wrong sports sports court, all right, guys,
is that time the week We're headed back into the
sports court. So I've got a list of people here,
as I do every week, from the world of sports
that I'm gonna put on trial here in the sports court.
I'm gonna present to you guys their case and you're
gonna tell me, as the jury, whether they are guilty
or innocent. So let's start with Darien Mensa stands accused.

(35:15):
So Darien Mensa, if you don't know him, was the
quarterback for Duke this past season. He transferred in from
two lane last spring, and he honestly played pretty well
this past year for the Blue Devils to the point
where he was considering entering the NFL Draft. So he
actually announced his return to Duke a few weeks ago.
So after considering the draft, you decided, no, I'm gonna
stay in school at Duke. That seemed to be that

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until earlier this week when it was reported that Miami
is targeting him to be their Carson Beck replacement next year.
He had a whole nil deal signed with Duke, but
Miami is paying off the entire thing on top of
giving him a new nil package to get him to transfer.
Sure enough, Mensa entered the portal yesterday and it's no
mystery where he's headed. So, guys, Darien Mensa, guilty or
not guilty?

Speaker 4 (35:55):
We'll start with Manzi not guilty.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
I did not do it.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
This is the way it's going to be from now on.
This expected you can't get mad. You've opened the door
to nil and to money being the reason people are
gonna leave their schools or not. It's the new way
of college football.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
They're not guilty.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
Well, these allegations, I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
This is the adult's fault, right, But like Darien mentioned,
didn't go to Duke because he just grew up loving
watching coach kb Wrome Cameron Indoor.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
He went to Duke because they paid the money.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
He's not going to Miami because he just loved the
thirty for thirty all about the youth. Okay, He's going
to Miami because they're gonna double the money right now.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
He was at tool Lane because.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
He liked it there because that's what they recruited him
to and he probably would have stayed there if they've
been able to offer.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Him a long term contract, but they weren't. This is
only adults. They got to fix it.

Speaker 7 (36:47):
Next up, Dante Moore stands accused. So after a great
first year as the starter Oregon quarterback, Dante Moore was
a presumed top two draft pick in the upcoming NFL Draft,
as both the Raiders and Jets are desperate for a quarterback.
So More surprised everyone this though, when he announced live
on Sports Center that he would in fact be returning
to Oregon for another year. Some people think it's the
right call, giving him more time to develop, but others

(37:07):
are calling him dumb to leave that kind of guaranteed
money on the table when his draft stock already can't
really go much higher. But what do you guys think,
Dante more guilty? You're not guilty?

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Start with Martin, not guilty, your runner.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
I abject because it's devastating to my case.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Sure, his draft stock could it can't really go higher
than two or one, But you know what can his
bank account when he hell, he's that year in college football,
gets that money. God forbid he has anything but a
catastrophic injury. Guess what, he'll be a first rump pick
next year, and you know what, he'll get a fully
guarantee contract. And even if he doesn't, it still may
be the better move because guess what, he won't get

(37:42):
drafted by the Jets or the Raiders or the Browns
or one of the Cardinals.

Speaker 7 (37:45):
Or you name it, well, they'll probably be bad again.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
But but I'm saying if he falls, right, if he falls,
you can fall to the second round, to somewhere, a
third round, somewhere where you can actually make a difference
and actually maybe get on the field and have a career.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Monty guilty, Guilty. I feel like it's really risky what
he's doing. I know he's gonna have the money in nil,
but you are already expected to be such a high
draft pick. You have no idea, not even just let's
not even say injury, let's not put that out there.
But what if he just has a bad year, what
if it just does not come out the way he

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thinks it's gonna come out in this next year? And
I know he's only twenty, only had twenty starts. I
get all that. I just think it's so risky when
you could have entered the NFL and there's no there's
no real way to say that you're not gonna be
a jet or a raider next year too.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Got to remember to Dylan Rayola is now at Oregon
as well, right sitting on the bench behind him. Yeah, well, yeah,
he's fine sitting out the same year that Mahomes is
sitting out right.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
He's following the script.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Of course. Next up, Sean Payton stands accused the now
victorious Sean Payton, but dragging him out of the victory
parade just to bring him into the sports court here. So,
in a press conference this week, a reporter asked Broncos
coach Sean Payton a question about linebacker Dre Greenlaw returning
from injury. Green Law back of this game as ability
to attack down hill in the run games out? Is
that at the timing of it this one?

Speaker 10 (39:06):
Do you want him to attack downhill? Is that You're like,
what do you know about attacking downhill in the run game?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
You don't know?

Speaker 10 (39:12):
All right, that's right, have him attacking downhill. It's good
to have a healthy Trey green Law back in the game.

Speaker 7 (39:18):
Yeah, sit down, you don't know anything about attacking downhill
in the run game. So, guys, that speaks for itself.
Sean Payton guilty or not guilty, not guilty, not guilty.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Innocent And I mean just I don't I don't even
know where that I want to see it now. I
hadn't heard that. But whatever, he's coach, he's been a
right can say whatever he wants.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
It's not definitely not guilty, not guilty. You're letting them
go again.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Part of the reason why he was joking with the reporter.
They have a back and forth report. But I'll take
the minute to tell you this is why he's actually
not guilty, because I listen to all these press conferences
day in day out. It's what I do for work,
and it drives me insane when I hear a reporter
saying something that like a Kurt Warner type tweeted out
and is like, oh, you can tell like running down
hill in the right getting downhill in the run game.

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The question is, Seawan, Drake Genlow's back in the lineup,
How did that impact you specifically in the run game?

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Seawan?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
That answers, he really runs downhill. Great, that's a big impact.
You're answering the question because you don't know the question
to ask. And I'm not trying to beat the kid
up for it, but that's what's happened here.

Speaker 7 (40:27):
I say, not guilty. Any won one more very quick one.
Here we know aj Brown stands accused, so I know, yeah,
then we're all those issues. This season, he actually requested
a trade multiple times. This year, though it was not reported,
so guilty or not guilty? AJ Brown, and.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
He asked out, I want to be out of here. Hey,
you know what, I'm shick, gu tired.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
You want to be out of a Super Bowl winning
team that was winning.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Shack at tired. Everybody make an excuse for verybody.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
Jalen Hurts, No, straight to jail.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
And that's why we're broadcasting live on a Fox Sports
Radio studios. Monts from the Fox Sports Radio Studios on
a Fox Sports Football Saturday, Monsie, I'm getting so just
there's so many angles from this Bills Broncos game that
just occurred. A banger of a game in the first

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window for divisional weekend. It's easier to talk about it
today because right now the game on currently not so
much a banger unless you considered.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
About you don't like watching a seventeen.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Zero game, Well, I mean, I've bet banger. In terms
of entertainment.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
This is a banger in that the Seahawks are banging
on the forty nine.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
And this is a banger if you're a Seahawks fan.
But for you and I who are not fans, You're right.
The Broncos and the Bills game was a great football
game if you're just watching it for funzies.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
So we talked a lot about the Bills, and often,
as Ben Mel will tell you, the better story is
in the losing the locker room. We're actually going to
effort some Josh Allen sounds here from the postgame press conference.
I mean, I just say hang on for that, because
he is very, very you know, worked. He could tell

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this loss really impacted him. And we'll play some of
this ount in just a moment. But let's look at
the Bronco side of this thing, because again, as we
talked about it, it felt like in overtime that was
a Bills defensive meltdown, right, especially just the fourth quarter
stuff when you looked at the way the Broncos were
able to move the ball. They had I think three

(42:34):
first downs due to penalty and late in the fourth quarter,
in and overtime. But ultimately the Denver Broncos are moving
forward here. I think what I saw today from Denver,
when I watch Houston and when I watched Seattle and
I watched Denver, those are supposed to be the three
defenses that we have here that are like the three

(42:56):
Kings of defense. I watch the those defense and everybody
on the field is bringing major pain from from deep safeties,
hitting corners, hitting linebackers making huge plays. Right Seattle, we've
already seen the linebacker force to fumble today. Saw like
there's a lot safety corners. They're physical guys. With Denver,

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they're corners and safeties. I know they guy Whu funga
back there who's more physical and obviously we just heard
talking to doing the Drake Greenlaw, who's obviously a physical
ad to their to their lineup. But when I look
at like the Patsertas, I get super great cover corner.
But those were those cornerbacks did not seem to have
the same impact that I'm watching these other two defenses have.

(43:43):
If I'm Denver, we gotta win on the defensive side
of the ball. Our offense is not good enough. That
will cause me big casts for concern no matter who
I play going forward.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
I feel like, aren't most safeties and corners a little
bit softer when it comes to hitting? Isn't it typically stereotypical?

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Like you know?

Speaker 4 (44:04):
So I feel like, yeah, for for some reason, Seattle
does look more like the bullies out there. When you
see their defense in comparison to the defenses of Denver,
I will say Texans also are bullies there. Their defenses
also looks like it hurts a lot. Uh No, Seattle
seems like every single person on that team, from top

(44:24):
to bottom, is on the same page, reading the same
sentence of the book. They are all you go. They're
not just on the same page, They're literally on the
same sentence as they're going through these games. Seattle does
look unstoppable and their one question remains with Sam Darnold,
but it doesn't seem like he has to do much

(44:45):
in order to get Seattle to win, and watching them
against the forty nine, the forty nine is just uh.
It was a good run. It was a good run
for what they did, but they are just understaffed.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I picked the Broncos to win the AFC at the
start of the year, did you I did?

Speaker 3 (45:04):
I had the Broncos in.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
The loss of because of coaching or because because we
just said their offense. There's questions when it well, I thought.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Some of those questions would have gotten answered with the
full off season, with Sean Payton and bow Knicks being
able to develop some things. I think I overestimated their
their offensive talent a bit when I look at just
kind of their their skill players.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
I really am a big fan of.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Their offensive line, though I say skill players talent more
so offensive line I am a big fan of.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
And the defense.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
What you name another defensive start and two defensive Player
of the years, right, you know what I'm saying. Nick
Benito had a huge play today, But they just get
after the quarterback. They're able, and they have really sticky
defensive backs all season long. I think the reputation was
a little bit greater than what the output was, but
the output was still really freaking good. You just had
some spots in that defense, like Riley Moss the pass

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interference that wasn't today, but he got flag for a
ton of pass interferences. Now, excuse me, as as the
season went on, the part of that is because you're
playing opposite Patrick Shartan, but I thought this Denver team
had a real shot to make a move. In part,
Sean Payton was saying to me all off season, I've
only coached four or five teams that I shot to
win the Super Bowl, and this is one of them.

(46:15):
And so you know, when Sean Payton starts talking his
ass like that, I'll start to listen, right because but also,
but so it was all of that that played into it.
But the defensive output that I saw today much less
of the score, but more just the physicality of it all.
Because you get five takeaways in the playoff game, you
should win, right, you should absolutely.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Win that thing.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
But of the five takeaways, three where Josh Allen just giveaways.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Yeah, So you still feel confident that the Broncos are
coming out of the AFC, I.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Would say, right now, sight unseen on the Patriots, I
think it's gonna be the Broncos of the Patriots.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
It's with this game against.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Buffalo, I thought it was gonna be that going in.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
My feelings of the Broncos have still the same in
the sense that, I you, you should have crushed Buffalo, Sure,
that should not. You should not have gone to overtime
with all of the turnovers from Josh Allen and the
Bills together, because it wasn't just him, it's just Josh
Allen had most of them. You should have won that
game easily and not been stressed out in overtime, and

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even till the very end, Buffalo was in the game.
So I'm actually walking away from it feeling the same
way I felt about the Broncos, where I'm like, I
don't I don't think that you are going to come
out of the AFC. I think because of the question
marks surrounding your offense, I'm gonna give it more to Houston.
I can't wait to see what Houston does.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Wall make sure I got you straight.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Yeah, should the Denver Broncos offense as a quest now,
they do have questions.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
I'm not debating that part.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
I'm not saying Houston doesn't have it, and Houston.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Texas offenses have a lot of questions as well.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
We've seen it. Nico no Nico Collins this week. But
I call me crazy, I'm gonna put it more. I'm
gonna get more trust on coming Crazy. I'm putting more
trust on CJ Show than I am on Bownicks. So
you should have crushed Buffalo. You should have crushed Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
It's a mix between quarterback and head coach for me,
So it's not just sure, but also too. We got
to make sure that the Houston Texas were able to
get the ball back to the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
That's a big thing.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Generally, the play starts with that they had trouble, not one, nothing, but.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Five times he does that again.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
What was the chances you do it the first time?

Speaker 6 (48:28):
The five.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
It's a pretty tough one. Okay, so not so great
for Buffalo Bills fans. And I do think, as we've
talked about this, when we talked about how John who
started the show saying just how devastated we felt, that
Josh Allen likely was the way he played that game right,
the way that he played that game. We have some

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of the sound from the post game of Josh Allen Montie.
Let's take a listen.

Speaker 8 (48:59):
That's extremely cool.

Speaker 6 (49:04):
I feel like I yeah, I feel like I let
my let my teammates down tonight.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
You did.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
And again, these are all human beings, right, so that's
why you know you touch at this.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
But like he.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
That's the thing we can't I think, let go here
is that as good as he played, he also played poorly.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
And now it is all set.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
You can hear it in his voice, and it is
a bigger off season conversation with the Bills.

Speaker 6 (49:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
I am not saying that they need to make that.
The Bills do not have a Josh Allen problem, however,
what they have to do. When you have the Ferrari
that can go two hundred miles an hour, sometimes you
have to slow down. Sometimes you have to take the
gas and take off the gas a bit. They needed
to have that number one rushing attack right and you

(49:54):
know what they probably needed today two or three more
wide receivers that could make a play, that could get
up downfield. Because one of the reasons why this We've
heard this comparison a bit with Josh Allen and Caleb Williams.
The thing about the difference between their offenses this year,
it's about Caleb william hitting the layups that Ben Johnson
is giving him. Josh Allen has no layups available.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Is the thing I think Buffalo has to pay attention
to this offseason.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
And maybe losing was actually a good thing because the
problem was Martin, is that Buffalo thought they were going
to go through a what am I trying to say?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Rebuild?

Speaker 4 (50:32):
A rebuilt thank you? I was like, what was the
word I'm looking for. They thought they were going to
do a rebuild last year and then they didn't, and
then it went well, and so I don't know if
they thought they didn't have to rebuild. It's like, no,
you were in a rebuild. You just happened to squeak
by and have a successful season. And so maybe this
is exactly what they needed because I think they thought
that they didn't need to make any bigger moves because

(50:52):
of what happened last year. But you were in a rebuild.
Kean Coleman dropped a touchdown today and the ends on
that was it wouldn't have counted anyway because I think there.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Was a holding penalty on the play.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
However, however, how did he not catch that?

Speaker 3 (51:07):
A drop went around the world.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
In that moment. Josh I was like, Okay, I guess
I'm not throwing you the ball anymore.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
He actually went back to him and he did catch
the touchdown. But to the point a hold of two targets.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
Because of what like you said, there's not anybody really
around him to build and he said.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
It's that's a target.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Can expect him to do everything.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
That's a target per round Kean Coleman a second round pick,
A target per round for Keon Coleman in the divisional
round game.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
And this is an.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Off season in which Monsei, I'll tell you a little story.
You love this Brandon being the GM of the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
You know they did.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
He called in the talk radio. I'm not sure if
it was for his shacks. I'm sure it was for
an interview. I'm sure he just wasn't just driving around listening.
But he called in and it's called Jerry and Joe
I believe their names are. Now I'm not trying to
wgr in Buffalo. He said, y'all need to go with
bitching about our Lacqua wires.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
That's a quote.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
He said, y'all come bitching about this. I got you
got a bitch about something. You gotta have a show. Well,
you know what if I was Jerry and Joe, you
know what tobody bitching about today.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
The lack of wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Yeah, I sure it would be the lack of weapons.
Sure it would be of options.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
It was tough, and honestly, I thought Buffalo was weak
against the run all year, and it showed again in
the postseason.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
And your defense actually came to play today. Your defense
was not the problem. And so to almost almost win
in spite of all of the turnovers, how do you
not see that maybe you needed to make some moves.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Well, we'll see the type of movie I mean. And
here's the other thing they did make a trade for
Darius Slade. Darius Saycelet, I would rather retire than play
for you guys like, uh, they.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
Didn't go to the Eagles game.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Was that he was at the Eagles game as the
Bills were playing. He's like, you know, saying, well, I'm
not gonna be there. Yeah, and it's just to me,
I one hundred percent. Like Rashisia, he was available for everybody.
He scored a touchdown at the round. Because that's the
other thing, is like Buffalo, you could improve in other places.
Maybe you get some secret yards and special teams. Because
I'm convinced that's why Seattle got them. It's because we're

(53:10):
gonna get some more yards and kick return. We're gonna
get more yards and gadget plays. Then we don't have
to trust our quarterback to do everything because we know
if we put the lift too heavy on Sam, we're
not gonna say it out loud, out loud, everything is
gonna be. We love Sam and support him unconditionally. Who
wouldn't love that red hair?

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Right? Like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
We love him one hundred percent. That's why we gave
him three years, one hundred million dollars game. And we
love Sam, we love them. They know the real, right,
they know the real And that's why I think that
this team is just impressive to screen boom no issue. Right,
I'm not gonna make Sam throw the ball forty eight
times a game.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
You know, and then they're winning. They're keeping it simple.
And let's say it's like Buffalo Draft like you don't
have or like build like you have a Sam Darnold,
don't build like you have Josh Allen. And I think
that's the that's the message that you're trying to send because.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
If you just operate like you don't correct when in
fact you need somebody to do something superhuman, they're just
gonna be in that much of a better spot. And
fully disclaimer, I think that Sam Darnold has the ability
to do some of the things that we see.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
These high not as consistent.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Consistently, And it's so cool. You don't need to do
it four quarters. How about you do it for four
plays a game?

Speaker 4 (54:23):
Right, and there is one of them maybe you could
have been.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
How much you do it for four plays a game?
So coming up next we have this is do you
really dive in to one of this twin of these
playoff games? You really truly have like the grizzled old,
like like the the establishment and now the new up
and comers coming and they want Monty.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
I'm here.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
People don't like them. Around the block, people don't like them.
Peter Schrager was saying, how like, uh, around the league,
people are uncomfortable with what is happening?

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Do we have breaking news?

Speaker 4 (54:59):
I think so? But well, yeah we can do it
on the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
We will do it in a moment on the way back.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
We'll get the Rams Bears and Monzie secret Coming up next.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Comes see line for the Fox Sports radio studios. Hit
us up on Twitter. I'm at Martin Weiss, I'm at
Mons Moncey that gasp you here that.

Speaker 10 (55:24):
That?

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Oh my god, are you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (55:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (55:28):
The Serrancis Coport diners didn't come back. No, no, no,
but in a moment and bars across Denver screen, no
breaking news across the wire. Bow Knicks fractured ankle on
the second to last playoff overtime.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
His season is done, done, done over?

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Does this add salt to Josh Allen's wound. Absolutely, it does.

Speaker 7 (55:59):
I think I know this.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
It adds to the narrative.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
It adds to the narrative.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Josh Allen lost the playoff game to bone Nicks on
one ankle. Now never you mind that one ankle was
on the second and last playoff overtime. But honestly, I'm
not even but you know what, because you made the point.
That's what's reing reported right now, the second and last
player overtime. But Joey Bosa got a roughing the passer
penalty on the first pass interference call that they ended

(56:26):
up accepting. Wondering if it happened on that play or
if that.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
Was the beginning of it, right, like tweaking his ankle
and then all of a sudden it gets a little weak,
And now, yep, that's immediately what I thought of. I
was like that that play where Joey Bosa, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
It's actually kind of well, it's funny for everybody, but
bone Nicks his Auburn career ended in a very similar way,
fracturing an ankle on the like after his best, like
biggest game, no like moment, and that's that ended up
rehabbing and transferring the Oregon. Everybody ended up okay out
of the whole situation, and the Denver Broncos are gonna

(57:01):
advance and this one in Boknicks ultimately will be okay
from this injury.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
But for this week, it's tough.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Bo Nicks was one of the few quarterbacks in the
NFL that started all seventeen games for his team this year.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
That's gonna be a tough one to lose. Jared Stidham
stepping in in relief, you know.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Jared Stidham's gonna put on the Tom Brady Cape and
take over for an injured quarterback.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
I think that's the case.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
No, I don't, actually I will say this.

Speaker 10 (57:29):
But.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
I will say this.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
In the world of the NFL that you and I
have been describing for the last ninety minutes, right where
we just watched Superman Josh Allen go down, we're missing
Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow from the
postseason as well as art should say, as well. As
interesting as bo Nicks played today, I'm not saying they would.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Have benched Bo Knicks by any shutch of the imagination.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
However, what he was just a tick over fifty per
completion percentage to an interception to a defensive lineman, like,
I don't think that there's there was a better option.

Speaker 7 (58:06):
I'm who's at nick Foles? Nick Foles, so bring him back,
I will say.

Speaker 10 (58:14):
So.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
The thing I'll say to that point, because I know
you're saying it kind of as a joke, I would
leave Nick Foles where he's at. But there's a lesson
to be learned from that, because if you remember that
Super Bowl Moncie nick Foles. Beforehand, they were only running
the read option in college. All of a sudden, Nick
Foles and Doug Peterson institute this RPO that nobody was

(58:39):
really doing, and then boom, nobody could figure it out
in three weeks and the Eagles win the.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Super Bowl with their backup quarterback.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Right now, they got nick Foles paid too, and down
the line, we can find out that Nick Foles was,
you know, probably an average starter level back up.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
I say that to say.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
You, now, I'll have a guy in Jared Stidham, who
you brought in here to be your backup quarterback, and
in my opinion, your backup quarterback. His job is to
over a five game stretch, win you three of them, right,
that if he can't do that, you need a better one.
Ye right, that's what mac hell. If mac Jones hadn't
have done that, the forty Nines wouldn't be getting whooped
up in the first half of this playoff game right now. Well,

(59:20):
Jared Stidham, your time to go, Sean Payton, you're the
offensive genius, you're the offense.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Your time to go.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
Yeah, they might not be in obviously this is not
the situation Denver wants to be in. But kind of,
as you hit it seems like Denver has built a
team where you may still have success by just calling
the easy plays, not expecting Jared Sidham to be a
hero in any way, shape or form. So I'm curious
to see how how Sean Payton handles this. You know,

(59:51):
obviously this is not ideal, But no, I mean, it's.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Definitely not ideal.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
And don't get me wrong, I don't want to make
a mistaken I don't want anybody to message what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Everybody in Denver wants bot nicks to start ones.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
Including Jared's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Did him right?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
But again, if you've built your team the appropriate way, right,
this is not a cluster injury. This is not and
it's not again, if Josh Allen had lost, we're automatically
riding off Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
I that's my I think that's my point.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Yeah, if the Texans win against the Patriots, I will
not just be wrote riding off to Denver Broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Now against the Patriots. That might beat the story.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Now, bears at the Rams want I want to ask
you which head coach quarterback combination do you trust more
this season? Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay had him at
an MVP level, but down the stretch played a little rough, okay,
and I feel like the opposite no, not quite the
MVP level with Caleb and Ben, but early this training
camp they were like, I don't know if he likes

(01:00:52):
me very much.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Now they're giving each other game balls, right, see what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Like, so, like the vibes way different, and we've seen
some of the things that Caleb can do when the
odds are literally ninety nine percent go in the other direction.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
Yeah, the logical and safe answer is Sean McVay and
Matthew Stafford. That is the logical and safe answer. And
I think the Rams will pull this win off. But
I think it's going to be a high scoring, very
close game, and I think LA wins it. You know,

(01:01:30):
in the fourth quarter, late in the fourth quarter they
pull away, not that they went off a field goal
out like that, but I think it's going to be
a close game until late in the fourth quarter where
maybe the Rams just pull away. I'm excited because I
feel like I think Chicago has a legit chance. Okay,
a legit chance. I think Rams win. I just think

(01:01:50):
Chicago has a legit chance.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
So the head coach, quarterback, I trust more is going
to be McVeigh and staffage.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
But yes, that is the logical safe answer.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Of course it is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
And I will say this, We've seen what Caleb Williams
can do, the magic out of the hat. I mean,
you know David Copperfield Caleb Williams. Have you seen the
two of them in the same place at the same time,
because I have not, right, good old.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Fourth to day was ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
It was ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
That fourth day was insanity. What are we talking about.
I'm a Green Bay packer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
If I'm at LA floor, i walk into my contract
to cent your meetings, I'm looking at fourth and eight.
I'm like that fourth today what do you want me
to do that breaks all the rules of football? Okay,
I just think the Rams are gonna be able to
follow more of the rules of football while because the
Bears break all the rules of football all the time.
And that's the problem, right if they if they only

(01:02:37):
broke it on fourth to eight right there, they're still
figuring out how to hit those layups like we talked
about earlier with Josh Allen. Then the lack of layups.
There are layups there for Caleb Williams and and the
way that Ben Jonson draws it up. Also, they have
to run the ball better. If they do not run
the ball better, it kind of gets into that same deal.
How many Wow plays do you have out of Caleb Williams?

(01:02:57):
Because you have a bunch of wow, but how many
are gonna be good?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
How many gonna be bad? Right?

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
That's the Bear. That's why the Bears have a chance,
and that's their edge. It's because of the unexpected factor.
You don't exactly know what you're gonna get from Ben
Johnson and Caleb Williams. And that's why I think they
have an edge. When I feel like you look at
the Rams and you kind of know what you're gonna get.
You're gonna get a well play between Matthew Stafford, Puginakua

(01:03:22):
Kiren Williams out there, Blake what you know more of
what you're gonna get When you look at the Rams,
I feel like there's a lot of unknown when it
comes to the Bears, and that's why I think they
have a real chance.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Well, speaking of unknown, we have just stepped into the
unknown for the AFC Championship Game.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Quarterback situation. Steven Sager is all over that more stieve
and you mentioned the Bears. By the way, Chicago.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
After last weekends come back against the Packers, Bears now
have seven wins this season after trailing in the last
two minutes of the fourth quarter. Previous season, the team
had five wins total before the coaching change. And by
the way, speaking of the Packers today, they did give
head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension. Twenty twenty
six would have been his final season under contract. The

(01:04:06):
Giants finalized a five year deal with coach John Harbaugh. Well,
let's get to it's The Broncos in overtime eliminated the
Bills in the Divisional playoffs. But then the announcement in
the press conference right afterwards.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Not good news.

Speaker 10 (01:04:22):
On the second to last play in overtime, Bow fractured
a bone in his right ankle. John Paydon here he's
scheduled to have surgery Tuesday of this week, which will
put him out for the rest of the season. Stead
he's ready to go.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
Jared Stidham is going to be starting the AFC Championship
game at one seed Denver in about a week's time,
as starting quarterback Bo Nick suffers the broken ankle late
and is out for the postseason.

Speaker 8 (01:04:53):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Bills had five turnovers today, lost in overtime thirty three
to thirty at Denver. Josh Allen touchdown passes, two interceptions,
and two fumbles. James Cook after such a great year
on the ground one hundred seventeen yards rushing today one
fumble as well. Broncos took the lead with about a
minute left in regulation, and then Buffalo kicked a fifty

(01:05:14):
yard field goal to tie it on a short field
goal Broncos win. Bo Nicks had taken a knee to
set up the short field goal. Remember, he finished with
three touchdown passes one interception, was not sacked even though
he was twenty six of forty six passing two hundred
and seventy nine yards, So Buffalo season ends even though
against a good defense it has nearly four hundred and

(01:05:36):
fifty yards of offense today on third down conversions, the
Bills were ten for fifteen five turnovers though, will kill
you at top seed Seattle in the NFC Right now
on Fox TV, it was seventeen nothing late first quarter,
now seventeen to six Seattle over San Francisco four minutes
to go in the second quarter. The Niners in period

(01:05:57):
two have put up points on a forty yard field
goal and a fifty six yard field goal from Eddie Pinero,
who kicked off to start the game, and Rashid Shaheeda.
The Seahawks return at ninety five yards for a score.
Seattle also with a field goal in the first quarter,
also with a touchdown pass from Sam Darnold to Jackson
Smith in jigbut that is his only catch so far

(01:06:18):
in the first half. Niners down seventeen to six late
in the first half at Seattle. Coming up tomorrow, it's
the Rams at Bears. Under twenty degrees expected and windy.
That's the late game. Six thirty Eastern Sunday. Before that
three pm Eastern Tomorrow, the Patriots host a Houston team
that's won ten in a row, but wide receiver Nico

(01:06:40):
Collins is out with a concussion. To the NBA Dallas
beat Utah one thirty eight to one. Twenty. Cooper Flag
of the MAVs out again with a sprained ankle, but
Klay Thompson scored twenty three points off the bench for
the Boston Celtics Jalen Brown forty one points. Tonight, they
are blowing out the Hawks in Atlanta, with about five
minutes left to eighty eight. Piston's lead ninety five fifty

(01:07:03):
five over Indiana early in the fourth quarter. College Hoops
Top twenty matchup has BYU leading at Texas Tech fifty
two to fifty, eleven minutes to go. Already, Cincinnati beat
number two Iowa State NHL Minnesota went in overtime at Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Back to you, thanks Steve Martin Wise Monsey Belanos, coming
to you live from New Fox Sports Radio Studios. So
we heard a little bit of Sean Payton h about
as somber as a hero man after winning a divisional
playoff round, announcing that bow Nick's going to have surgery
on Tuesday on that fractured ankle out for the year.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
I'll say this off the top of my head, I
would I'm going to ask this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
I'm gonna find the research on it. Sean Payton's got
to have one of the best records with backup quarterbacks
in the NFL. I know Teddy Bridgewater came in. He's
saying with five and zero at a time with the
backup quarterback. But we'll see how that lands. Zach Sharpenay
right now down for the Seahawks as they lead this
game seventeen to six with three minutes left in the
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Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Just more of the fallout.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
I know that we've been talking about this a lot
of the day, But we should probably get to Sean
McDermott because.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
What does he have to say about all this?

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Because I think if you had asked me prior to
the end of the year, is Sean McDermott on the
hot seat?

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
We said absolutely, what are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
Of course he is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
But then now after seeing a third a third of
the league was the thirty two teams, ten vacancies, a
third of the league fired their head coach, I wonder
how hot is that seat all in McDermott, Because at
a certain point in time, if everybody else is firing
their head coach, I'm ultimately gonna be the last one

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to the party, and all the good dates make it taken, right,
So I just stick with the one I might bring. Yeah, right,
because I think that you might be in a scenario
if you're Buffalo, where you feel that way, but then
you see how this game went, How does that impact
how you feel?

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Before we hear McDermott talk about to the media, I
thought it was.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
A little bit unfair that he was always kind of
put on the hot seat, even at the start of
the season. Again, they were supposed to be in a rebuild, right,
and they had a successful year, so I feel like
it was a little bit unfair. And then as the
season progressed, I thought I was like, no, he can't
be on the hot seat. Like they're winning in spite
of their defense, in spite of these things, are still
winning today's game. Questionable decision to try and get points

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out of eighteen seconds in the first half. That's where
the first fumble came from Josh Allen that led to
quick three points to extend the lead for Denver before halftime.
I feel that's question of But because of the multiple
turnover a game that Josh Allen had, let's also include
James Cook's turnover, I don't think you put this on

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Sean McDermott. And just because all these other other teams
fired their head coach, which maybe would you think would
give teams that are on the edge a push, I
feel like they kind of were like, we don't need to,
we don't we don't need to make this push. And
I do think Josh Allen's performance in a way save
Sean McDermott.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Now let's hear what Sean had to say after the game.

Speaker 11 (01:10:38):
I called a time out to try and slow it down.
It would just it would seem logical to me the
head official would walk over and want to go and
take a look at it, just to make sure that
everybody from here who is in the stadium to there
are on the same page. That's too big of a play,
in a play that decided the game potentially as well
to not even slow it down. And I've had a

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chance to look at It's hard for me to understand
why it was ruled the way it was ruled. And
if it is ruled that way, then why wasn't it
slowed down just to make sure that we have this right.
That would have made a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
So I'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
And he does not leave it at that. Do you
have the next part where, yeah, he does not leave
it at that. Before he's asked another question, he continues
on with.

Speaker 11 (01:11:26):
I'm saying it because I'm standing up for Buffalo, damn it,
I'm standing up for us because what went on is
not that is not how it should go down. In
my estimation that that plays these guys spend three hours
out there playing football, pouring their guts out to not
even say, hey, let's just slow this thing down.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
That's where That's why I'm bothered.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
So now I understand in that moment I thought it
was an interception. You didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
So right here we got we both got two eyes
watching the same play. It had two wildly different opinions
on it. So the Shawn's you'd like to see that potentially.
However that was, it was in overtime. It wasn't like
I get all plays and overtime have through view up
the top, but it wasn't like a two minute end

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of games, you know what I'm saying. But it's just ultimately, Sean,
when I hear that and you're talking about standing up
for Buffalo, that to me reads as a guy who
knows I have choked or I have blown it in
the postseason again, and I'm trying to curry public favor
because I feel like I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
About to get fired.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
I don't know if I agree with that. I think
I've told you I hate when we slow down to
play and dissect it because I can make an argument
if we slow it down in anyone's favor. You know
what I'm saying. I hate slowing down the play. So
in that moment, I feel like it all did happen
really fast for such a big moment that was going
to change the direction of the game, for how quickly

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they came with that decision of no, I was intercepted,
no problem. When we also asked our producer Ian in
the moment, in the moment, watching him in fact, and
he's like, no, I thought his knee was down. There
was so three different opinions like this in that moment.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
So well, I wonder, though, dode you have any like
when you saw the way that Brandon Cooks got up
and the way that the McMillan got up and was
McMillan was celebrating and Cooks was like, oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
Time I saw the Denver Broncos celebrate when they thought
they took the ball from Josh Allen because they didn't
blow the whistle fast enough that you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Do not get me started. We only have a little
bit of time. But four progress is the dumbest thing
I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
You know what I'm saying. But like I saw that
in the game multiple times where they celebrated and it
was like a dead ball.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
So my point being though, like.

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
That wasn't try at the moment, I didn't think of
it because of what I had seen earlier in the game.
I was just like, let's wait and see it. And
I think like he's frustrated instead of saying I'm throwing
this on my quarterback because he could have He's gonna
focus on one play that he knows people are having
a different opinion on it. Sure he could he could

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have said something else and made it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
You know, I am going to read this tweet courtesy
of Aaron Torres, who will be gracingway shortly after we're
out of here in about an hour. Twenty twenty two,
blew a fourth quarter leader at Kansas City that no,
I'm not sure j twenty twenty two, blew a fourth
quarter leader Kansas City. Twenty twenty three, blown out by
Cincinnati at home. Twenty twenty four, blew a fourth quarter

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lead at versus Kansas City. Twenty twenty five, blew a
fourth quarter lead at Kansas City. Twenty twenty six, blew
a fourth quarter lead at Denver. That is the last
five years of postseason endings for Sean McDermott and Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
I mean, that is a lot of I'll put it
like this, all five of thems are will.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
Blow yeah, and who has he had to play against
for the last five years. The Kansas City chiefs, Well,
I feel like we have threw the last five But
I'm saying there that's been I feel like it's unfit
or how we're looking at this. Has Sean McDermott made
questionable decisions? Yeah, I yes they have. But at the

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same time, the Bills, I don't know if they've necessarily
lost because of him or if they just lost because
they weren't the better team.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Now you know what, Michael Jordan got a lot of
coaches fired. Coming up next speaking up fired Sean McDermott.
His job is his seat is hot. Moncey says, I
don't think his seat should be that out. I said,
I understand why is he just hot? But I don't
know if I was firing because who the hell is
supposed to sit here? In fact, let's figure out just
who might set They will play a little game at

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McDermott or Blank, Martin and Moncey Fox Sports Radio coming
to you a lot from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
He hit us up on Twitter. I'm at more than Weiss.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
Moncey's at Moncos.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Like Jason B. Diamond, What up? Buddy, He says, he's
enjoying the show. We're enjoying you listening to the show
like Jason, eh big fan of his. Now, I'll say this,
I don't know if i'd hire Jason over Sean mc dermott.
But that's where we're at, seemingly in the coaching carousel,
where we're finally like, who's that guy, Jeff Haffley, Well,

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we do have one vacancy filled Tevin Stefanski, the new
head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Do you wonder if the Falcons got that deal done?

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Because that Buffalo job might open up in the next
twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
It could have Manzi.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Let's go ahead and rank some of the candidates that's
up in a little game of McDermott or blank.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Or blank or more.

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
All Right, so I'm gonna ask you guys whether you
would rather have Sean McDermott or these hot coaching candidates
right now. So these are the guys who, in theory,
would be potentially replacing him. They'd at least be bringing
these guys in for interviews. So let's start with this.
Would you rather have Sean McDermott or Robert Salah as
your head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:16:52):
For the Bills, for the Bills for the Bills. Sean McDermott, You, guys,
I don't think he's in the hot sea. I don't
think he's in the hot sea.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
This would be an informative exercise. I too, would prefer
Shawn mc doing Overroa Sollie. Their head to head record
would be enough to argue why I haven't Preferredarnon dermott.

Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
I'm with you guys there. How about Jeff Haffley or
Sean McDermott.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
I'm still going with Sean.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
I think Jeff Haffley, I don't know she was Boston
College that coach two weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
Yeah, Sean McDermott. No, that one even easier than Robert Sala.

Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
Okay, hopefully this one's a little harder. How about Sean
McDermott or Kevin Stefanski.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Kevin Sefanski just took that job in buff I mean
in Atlanta. This is the first one I'm thinking about,
But I still would go Sean McDermott.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
Thinking about it, Yes, because you want Buffalo's defense to
kind of bring it to the next level. Maybe, but like, no,
Sean McDermott.

Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
Okay, how about Sean McDermott or Clint Kubiak oc for
the Seahawks who are laying it on the Niners right now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
You know what, I'll say this, I think I would
go Kevin Stefanski over Sean mcderbtt now that I stick
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Because I would a click.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Coobyack is a guy that I should have felt the
way I feel about the boy Keviston fans.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
I will go with McDermott, but Koobiak is the type
of I'll be.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Really interested in listening to Sean McDermott. Same thing. How
about Sean McDermot or Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
That's the only one where I kind of I'm like, hmmm,
sounds interesting. That was interesting. But after I sit down
and I'm like, how interesting in the idea of Mike
McDaniel and an offense with Josh Allen, Oh my god,
that sounds so fun. I'll take Sean McDermott.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Give me that. I too, would go with Sean McDermott.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
I think that Mike McDaniel, though, is gonna be the
best offensive coordinator in football, and he could be that
for a while if he stays there.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
All right, How about Sean McDermott or Mike McCarthy, who's
been getting a few looks to make his return to
the NFL after a year off from the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
Dude, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
I will go with you know what, I'll go Mike McCarthy.
Bro I will go with Mike mccartholind too. It's a
CEO type guy offense this time though, and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
I think he also is better offensive mine.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
He's had success with Aaron Rodgers says with Dak and
the thing with Dallas he doesn't get to pick anything.
If he could pick his own defensive coordinator, the defense
might be a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
I will go, I will go with uh, I go
with my McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
I get it. I understand that one. Like if if
the news did come out that the Bills fired Sean McDermott,
they were looking at McCarthy, I'd be like, Okay, I'm
still I'm sticky with Sean McDermott.

Speaker 7 (01:19:21):
Okay, this one's interesting. How about Sean McDermott or his
current offensive coordinator, Joe Brady, who's getting looks.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Do you fire the king for the prince or kill
the king to promote the prince? Fire the president and
hire the vice president, trying to think of another one.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Thats good though, I like that picked the older brother
Ralse so the little brother could take.

Speaker 4 (01:19:42):
The bigger room, get rid of Batman and bring up
Robert Robin. Right there you go, What do you say, No,
don't give me Robin. I'm gonna keep Batman, I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
Would say, man, because here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
I think if Joe Brady was really gonna go, I
think I will keep Joe Brady because Josh Allen wasn't
Josh Allen before. Joe Brady was really to get over
that run, right, So that was jo that we were
talking about there was you gotta take the ball out
of Josh a little bit because he's gonna do something crazy.
Joe Brady felt like he had a good handle on
that projorc the last few weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:20:19):
Okay, let's move on to a few names here who
already have head coaching jobs right now. But we would say,
would you rather have these guys or Sean McDermott. So
would you rather have Sean McDermott or Nick Sirianni Sean McDermott,
Sean McDermott.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
Okay, Joe Brady over.

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
How about Sean McDermott or Matt Lafleur fresh off.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
An extension, Sean, yeah you sewing?

Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Okay, Sean McDermott or Dave Canalis.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Now now you have my attention. But Dave can Allen
did this year, I don't know that was very, very impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
I might go old Davy boy on that one.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
I mean, you know I love Bryce Young.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Don't listens radio now, Manci.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
I'll tell you this as we broadcast live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Kyle Shanahan's record and come from
behind games is, in fact not great. Kyle Shanahan's record
in postseason games when he's down twenty four to six
at the half, I don't think it's ever happened like
down twenty four to six at the half. I know
he's been up twenty four to three. Is offensive coordinator

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of a Super Bowl team. But right now, the Seahawks
dominating on the scoreboard. Seattle let a little bit off
the rope from San Francisco in the second quarter, but
again San Francisco, while gaining yards in the second quarter,
really only able to get those six points on the board.

Speaker 4 (01:21:43):
I'm still looking at this catch that's really what I
care about, because I think you're wrong. Also, Philip Rivers
is trending, guys, Philip Rivers is trending.

Speaker 7 (01:21:52):
So would that be allowed, Like, would the Coults have
to trade him? I don't know how that works.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
Is that legal?

Speaker 7 (01:21:57):
I don't know if the Colts would have to trade him,
but it's the deadline technically.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
That because he was on the active roster at this
like I cannot imagine. No, that actually no, because he
was on the active roster at the end of the year,
he's not eligible. He's not like you have to sign
a guy from waivers, right, right, he's not on waivers.
He was on the active roster. Now he's gonna go
to the retirement list, right, That's how they were able
to sign. Uh. He caught the touchdown today, not Kean Coleman,

(01:22:23):
not Dalton connect the other one. They got the touchdown
form Cole Hartman. The Bill sign mccol hartmon because he
was on a practice squad. That's why he's able to
play today. Right, that's you know, one catch, four yards
and a touchdown. Yeah, Cole Hartman. Talk about a guy
who has bounced around the NFL but had a ton
of massive.

Speaker 7 (01:22:42):
Huge moments in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Yeah, yeah, big, So, Manci, I don't know if he's
gonna pay attention to me until we adjudicate the interception.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Heard around the world that Sean mcdermoty was just standing
up for Buffalo. When that play wasn't reviewed. I thought
it was clear and obvious to the point that to
replay what.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
Are you watching, Martin, even what you wanted to argue
with me during the.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Break right, his foot exactly what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
His foot comes down, right, So we're watching Brandon Cooks
and McMillan catch the ball, right, So as is, his
first foot comes down. McMillan and Cooks then grabbed the
ball and the ball is in question. In order to
have a catch in the NFL, you have to have
you have to have control of the ball two feet down,
a foot, two feet down, a knee or an elbow.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Right. That's that's what a catch is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
He catches down balls down with his knee.

Speaker 7 (01:23:39):
Steve mentioned at the time, because I was with you, Monci,
I thought it was a catch. But Steve mentioned at
the time, if the defender McMillian, I think it was
McMillan the defender, if his hand is lodged between the
ball and the receiver's tors over it, or like stopping
that it's not technically a reception because he doesn't have
total has not been.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
You lose the first wrong tea, No, that's exactly what
it is. You lose the first part of the Does
he have control of the ball right? The way we're
looking at it is we're looking at this way this
way because McMillan got up and ran with it and
intercepted the ball. Right now, if you wouldn't be thinking
about this at all, that this has happened on the
sideline and there was only one foot down or one

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knee down on the ball was knocked out of bounds,
that the result is what's playing tricks on your eyes?

Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
Maybe maybe I just all right, let's go the result.
We could do a three hour show just on this couch.
Go go interception. Excuse me because it wasn't a catch.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
You know what, we're doing more to lose, because Monci's
got to lose a few more times today.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
We'll do it at the do it at some point
because I don't like the way she's not taking the
fact that she's obviously wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
You think you think it don't matter if you're right
or wrong, Sarmon for Sar mcdermot's jobs.

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
None of this matters anymore. This is old news. None
of this matters.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
He's out because he definitely tried to make that point
in this post game press. That's the reason I bring it,
and I agree.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
I don't think it's doing anything. I think it's just
that's what he chose to mention instead of talking about
the turnovers that his team caused.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Both, yeah, his quarterback and running back right, primarily.

Speaker 4 (01:25:15):
The court primarily, And that's what I'm saying. He could
have gone that way, and I feel like he just
chose to discuss the easy thing, which is a controversial
interception slash catch.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
So normally we would make picks at this time, right,
seeing as there's two games with that that haven't kicked
off yet, right, we could do it a little bridge version.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
Okay, we also have to get updated on how we're
doing with the picks, So let's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
Go ahead and do it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
That's right, let's go ahead and do it. So from
the wild card round, Monsey went three and one, Martin,
you went one and three.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Hell yeah, dude.

Speaker 7 (01:25:46):
Now actually last week we forgot to update the actual
overall regular season score. Now that we're out, Moncey, you
won forty eight and thirty nine. Who Martin forty six
and forty one? Super close all year, Monsey ended up
squeaking it out. Well done, Moncie, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
So that's a loss for you.

Speaker 7 (01:26:01):
And then for our playoffs, we have already obviously only
done the wildcard round so far, so Monty sits at
three and one and Martin at one and three.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
Over was the only one that I got right was Carolina?

Speaker 8 (01:26:13):
You got.

Speaker 7 (01:26:15):
You picked forty nine Ers over the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
What's happened? I'm looking at the four.

Speaker 7 (01:26:24):
That was your correcting.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Oh I picked the Panthers to cover last week, cover
the ten anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
I don't know if we picked that game.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Yeah you didn't because I already had already played already have.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
A second, because you know you're right, because we.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
Both we did. We both were on that game always. Yeah, yeah, okay,
you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
I did pick the Packers to beat the Bears did,
and then it took fourth to eight and then all
we got there, heh yeah, how about the Bears? How
about the Bears?

Speaker 7 (01:26:52):
So We're gonna pick the divisional round games remaining, so
tomorrow's games and then just to have a third one
there to make things interesting, We're picking the National Champion
game between Miami and Indiana. So let's start with tomorrow's game,
Texans at Patriots. Patriots, the home team are favored by
three points a field goal there. Start with Monty on
this one. Who you got.

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
This one? Is the both of these games. I feel
like it just depends which side you want to focus
on more to like make your point, I really think
that Drake May is going to have a hard time
with Houston's defense. The question, Marcus Sarandon cut is Houston's offense,
especially no Nico Collins. We've talked about the easy strength

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of schedule that New England has had. I don't know
if Drake May knows what he is exactly going to
get with this pass rush from the Texans. I say
the Texans cover.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
I'm going to take the Patriots here to win by
more than three.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
I expect New England to get to about twenty four points,
maybe twenty seven points. Don't expect Houston to break over twenty.
That's more to do with their weapons and than it
is to do with their quarterback.

Speaker 6 (01:28:03):
I do not.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
I am a believer in c J. Stroud. It just
so happened that c J. Stroud.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
I've watched them lose a ton of big games, especially
to Michigan. But I'm a believer in CJ. Stroud all
in all. But when it comes down to dismatchup in particular,
I am more believer in Josh McDaniel's ability to game
plan around that, Mike Josh v daniel's ability to game
plan around that Demico Ryan's defense than I am of
anything else around here. Houston has to win defensively. I

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expect Joss mc daniels to keep Drake May in good positions.

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
The Chargers gave Drake May a hard time, like I
and you know so like I'm just I'm just pointing
out how the Chargers defense, to me, does not compare
to Houston's defense.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
I think that was more.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
Again, it's all about how you look through what glasses
you're looking for. I'm giving that first first playoff game
average generous, a little little little I'm a little nervous.
You never know how something to play in that first
playoff game. I think now you kind of got a
different idea of the speed of everything and so on.
Sid Not that I expect them to come out and
play incredible. I just expect them, very much like Seattle,

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to make less mistakes at the quarterback position.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
And you said, you think it's gonna be sorry, a
score of what like you think Patriots are gonna score
like twenty four points?

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
I feel like this is gonna be a low scoring
game and it's gonna be ugly. Whoever wins it is
gonna win it in an ugly way.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
But I think twenty four to seventeen something like the
lower lower than that, I think under the total of
forty whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
Okay, Next up, the Los Angeles Rams are flying to
Chicago to take on the Bears. The Rams, as the
road team, are actually favored by four and a half points.
Here start with you on this one, Martin, who you got?

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
And now, full disclosure, I flew back from Chicago Thursday night,
so I was there. I got in Sunday at six
am local time, so literally one sleep after that Bears game,
and all I heard all, how about the Bears? You
seed a Bears game this weekend? Don't my goodness, Caleb?
What a fourth to eight hot, can't you believe it?
And to the point that I almost wanted to say

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I didn't see the game just to see the look
of pure shock ye on people's faces. With all that
being said, I think the Rams are going to annihilate
the Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
I think we're gonna be looking.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
At an AFC game very similar to the one we
saw today, and an NFC game that very similar to
the first half of the one we see today, where
it's been Seattle left, Seattle right, Seattle up the middle,
and San Francisco's hanging off for dear life. That Bears
defense is atrocious and they are making they look they
forced a ton of toneovers and maybe Matt Stafford has
that four turnover game that he's flirted with a few

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times this season.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
I just do not see it at all.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
I don't see what Martin is seen at all. I
think the Bears cover, and I think the Bears have
a legit chance of winning this game. Weather should not
be a factor. And I know Caleb willis played at USC,
but kaya Williams does live in Chicago for most of
the year. Now, if he moves out, I don't know,
but he he lives in Chicago. The weather I think

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will be a factor, not for both teams, not just
for the Rams, which is why I think it could
be another kind of ugly game. But I think I
think Chicago has nothing to lose and is an unexpected team,
and that's what makes them dangerous.

Speaker 7 (01:31:16):
So I take them to cover and I think they
have a chance now before we get to the National Championship.
There's something I saw about that game that's actually worth noting.
The Rams offensive coordinator is Mike laflor brother of Matt Lafleur,
who has emerged as this big rival with Ben Johnson.
Oh yeah, so I wonder if after seeing the way
Ben Johnson shook his brother's hand, all the gloating about

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I hate the Packers and all that, I wonder how
Michael Floor is gonna come out.

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
Sean McVay has literally said that he's close friends with
Matt or MICHAELA Floor. Yeah, Matt Lafloor, Matt Lafloor, thank you,
they're best friends. They're absolutely talking and discussing how to
take down the Bears.

Speaker 7 (01:31:56):
Is happening, and Ben Johnson is not like in their
circle either.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
S who's this you know? Since you brought that up.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
I just want to take a second before we get
to the college game, Like, think about that, right, because
for the last few years it has been McVeigh and
anybody you could touch from McVeigh, right, Shanahan and anybody
you could touch from Shanahan, including mcveay. Have you heard
about that Washington twenty twenty twenty thirteen quarterback room that
had not just not just Sean McVay, not just kylege Shannon,

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but also Mike McDaniel. They invented offense there, right, according
to the Like they've written books about it. Okay, Like
Ben Johnson's got to set up there and be like
you m efforts, right, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Do you see what I'm doing? Do you see what
I'm doing over here? You know what he looks like
to me?

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Hell, he's got an opportunity to go to the NFC
Championship game in game one of a head coach.

Speaker 7 (01:32:46):
And I honestly think year one, yeah, year one rather but.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
I honestly think that some of the things that he does,
the defense, the way that they focus on turnovers, special teams,
I think I like that better than some of the
guys on the tree. Just a quick aside, because I
love the me girls of all of this. Yes, let's
get more of that. Thanks Ben first, like that long
we don't have to be friends.

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
Right, He's a lone wolf and I like that. Again,
I feel like Chicago is not well liked necessarily by
the NFL fans, like I don't. I feel like people
don't like Killi Williams. People don't like Ben Johnson, you
know what I'm saying. But I like all of the
weirdness that come with Ben Johnson. I'll be there.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
I think.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
I don't see that. I don't see that, just like
that wasn't an interception. I'll never see it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
It's been b to way in for Indiana for the
entirety of the college football playoffs and most of the year.

Speaker 7 (01:33:35):
Go ahead, Yeah, so let's pick that a last game,
the National Championship game set for Monday night. We're gonna
be talking to JD. Pikel in about fifteen minutes here,
and he's from that. He actually gonna be there in Miami. Yes,
and Miami is favored by eight and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Here even though it is Indiana. Excuse me, excuse me.

Speaker 7 (01:33:53):
Indiana's favored by eight and a half. Here despite it
being pretty much a home game for Miami, not even
pretty much like they're playing at their home stadium the
first time and national championship history. So you guys gotten
this one. Eight and a half is the spread.

Speaker 4 (01:34:03):
Like I said, listen, Indiana's gonna win this game. There
is no question about it. I just don't know about
how much.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
He says. There's no question.

Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Oh, there's no question Indiana is going. It's it's the
bullies against the team of Destiny, and the team of
Destiny is gonna finish the job. You know what, give
me Indiana, They're gonna win.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
I just don't know by how much I'm taking Miami
to cover because I just can't.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Indiana has been playing the College Football Playoff like they
had FCS West and Southeastern Missouri State as the two opponents.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
I just don't I know what I've seen.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
It just doesn't make sense, right, But I think Miami,
physically at the front at the point of attack, should
be able to handle at least some of what Indiana
can do at the point of attack. Fernando Mendoza has
not had to wash this jersey after two games, right, that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Thing stink all right? He has that's zero grass names.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
I think if they can hit him a little bit,
then maybe we can see some variants. There's been no
one has made Indiana throw a curveball the entirety of
the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
I think Miami has the opportunity to do that. So
that's Will Dobb definitely take the over a touchdown underdog.
I actually kind of like them to win. Also, sneakily,
I need them to win because my take of Michigan
being the last undefeated national champion is only gonna last
for one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Season because of Ohio State couldn't beat Michigan. So I
just kind of need that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
You need that for your own day for me, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
I only hanging on to a few things here.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
I don't know I hear what you're saying, because I
Miami the Bullies, like their front seven are going to
rattle for Nanda Mendoza. They're gonna they're gonna rattle him.
But I think he's just I feel like we've seen
him be rattled during the regular season. You're right, in
the postseason, it's been too easy for them. You're one
hundred percent right. I feel like during the regular season,
we saw him get rattled, but then he was rattled

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for a play or a series and then came back
and then delivered a win.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
Also, just this is something that's going to happen. It's
going to and it's going to drive me in saying
if Miami wins a national championship, if right this will happen,
what will there? It will one thousand percent be Can
you believe the struggles that Carson Beck has over oster

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Carson mech is making six million dollars to play quarterback
at Miami.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
He already won a national show.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
Two all right, So look, I understand that the only
stories that we could really write about college football are
this guy didn't recruit me, this guy didn't want me,
or I guess now you can add the transfer portal
didn't want me. And you know I'm overcoming adversity. Carson
Beck is doing just fun, okay, and he's gonna go
pro if something other than sports probably you know what,

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he will have made more millions in his twenties than
most of us will ever make in our lives. So
he is not exactly a sympathetic tale.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
No matter how this thing ends.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
I agree, he's a champ at two time champion, one.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Of that George I mean two times, but he wasn't
the starter at Georgie was back even.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Still, even still, it does it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
So, yeah, you've been here, you got double birds.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
If he wins this thing. Sam Donald down for a sack.
Let's see if San Francisco can turn that sack and
into a little bit of positive momentum, because it's been
all Seahawks going forward. Coming up next, we're actually going
to talk about John Harbaugh more likely to be the
next Tom Coughlin or the next Pete Carroll.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Two wildly different endings when you consider this. Martin Weis
Wontzu Blano's Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
We got two jobs filled as the coaching carousel continues
to spend New York and Atlanta getting off of the ride.
Coming to you a lot for the Fox Sports Radio studios.
By the way, you can follow us on Twitter and
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John Harbaugh. It was reported this is one of my

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favorite slash s, being various, sarcastic, things that happened to
sports media when it was Thursday breaking news John Harball,
the New York Giants reportedly close to an agreement on
a contract that suicides apparently have much to discuss, but
breaking news John Harball next head coach, Like, clearly it wasn't.

(01:38:34):
It wasn't until today and now he's a new head
coach in the New York Giants.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Don't be calling me out for doing breaking news on
Thursday when I was here at.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
It is not your fault. It is not your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
We are symptoms of a much larger disease, all right,
We are symptoms of a much larger disease.

Speaker 4 (01:38:51):
I definitely did breaking news when that came out on
Thursday night. I was here at the news desk, So
I definitely did that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Surprise, not really, not really. I think New York seemed
like one of the better jobs out there, and all
day we had heard before the breaking news. It was
like how long he was there? He was there all day.
They pulled out all the stops, the red carpet, a
private jet, they did everything and didn't want him to leave.
He didn't leave until I want to say, like maybe

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seven thirty Eastern time, and then it was like about
three and a half hours later where it came out
that it was like, oh, he's not going to see
the Tennessee Times tomorrow as it was scheduled to happen. Sure, instead,
they're finalizing this deal. Everybody. One of the feelings that
I think everybody would want to have at all times
is a feeling of being wanted. And if the Giants

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made Harbaugh feel wanted from the minute he got off
the plane to even maybe when he got back on
the plane to go home, they did their job. They
made him changes the rest of his plans for the
rest of the week and stopped him from talking to
anyone else.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Well, I think ultimately what they did, to your point,
they nailed it on that regard. They also went out
and got who was regarded to be the best coach
of the cycle. That is something that is the space
the Giants have not operated in for quite some time.
So they went out and guy who everybody thought is
the consensus best option. And you know what, Honestly, I'm
not saying that Baltimore shouldn't have fired John Harbaugh. I

(01:40:20):
understand why they did. When you consider it's very much
a similar argument as to why Buffalo would fire Sean McDermott.
Were not necessarily saying that there is that many better
options out there, but at some point, ya.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Gotta do something.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
You need to change, You need to change.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
And so I think what John Harball will bring to
the Giants is like stability and culture and the reality
that a higher baseline for a team that has a
lot of young talent. I'llbeit injured at the moment, but
a lot of young talent. And I also think that
I'm a little concerned if he brings Greg Roman to
be his offensive coordinator with Jackson Dart, because that's a
little too much running for me.

Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
I think jack talked about Jackson Darten and just not
playing the safe.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Ball, running through the field like a crash dummy yep.
Is a paraphrase of a Nicki Minaj's lyric I would
use to to categorize Jackson Dart. But I will say
this about John Harbaugh in this matchup. The problem that
the Ravens had with John Harball, if those same problems
show themselves in New York, New York can only look

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at this as a win because we're talking about a
guy who can't get over the hump, right, Okay, Like
that's John Harbaugh's big sin is he can't get over
the hump.

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
He has too many fourth quarter blown leads. All right,
Well let's get some leads in the fourth quarter and
let's see how we do with that, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
And also the other thing that had the reason why
also sneaky think that the Balltimore job is maybe not
as attractive as some other people think. We'll talk about
this ten forty five, John Harbaugh had super Bowl or
bust and he busted. So now next coach has super
Bowl or bust, yes, and who knows if they bust.

Speaker 4 (01:42:03):
Now he busted two three years in a row where
they should you know, always expected to get at least
to the super Bowl, So he busted a few years
in a row. I feel like I was not surprised
of this hire Martin, because I think it was a
safe situation for both of them. Sure like for the
Giants it was a safe hire. You just got to,
like you said, who everyone thinks was the best guy available,

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and then you Harbaugh went to a situation not just
with young talent, where where they're telling you you have
a quarterback. We just had Kevin Stefanski news that he
took the Atlanta job. I also think the Atlanta job
was a good job. I think that one on paper,
maybe they even have more talent, like you know, be
Jon Robinson, whatever. Sure, but there are question marks surrounding
the quarterback. So anyone who takes that job, like Kevin

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Stefanski just did, you are gonna be responsible for figuring
out the quarterback situation. Harbaugh is going into a situation
in New York where he's being told we've got a quarterback.
Now if it doesn't work, He's not gonna be the
one to blame. They're telling him he has a quarterback,
We've got it, Jackson Dart. But that wasn't his decision. Sure,
so I feel like it was a win win, easy,

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easy decision on both sides.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Also very interesting Joe Shane keeping his job, but apparently
that was a little bit of a hang up Joe
Shane who drafted Jackson Dark. Let's kick it over to
Steve Deseger for update on this NFL contest.

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
Is it a contest?

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
One team's contested, the other team is tapping down?

Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
It is being contested. You're correct dramatically, but it's quite
apparent the forty nine ers are being taken out of
their misery, quite frankly, because they've had injury problems since
opening day and they're trailing at top seed at Seattle
twenty seven to six, late third quarter, right now, and
in fact, San Francisco's top two receivers in this game
are questionable to return due to injuries. Trying to work

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through them. On the sidelines are tight end Jake Tonchias
and running back Christian McCaffrey, who on the ground has
just twenty nine yards rushing on nine carries. We mentioned
earlier in the show Seattle best in the NFL, allowing
just so seventeen points a game, and that there was
no chance that San Francisco is going to be scoring.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:44:05):
What they need right now twenty seven to just send
it to overtime. It's not fourth quarter yet, but wow,
this season is ending tonight for San Francisco. They turned
it over on downs early in the game. They turned
it over on downs early in.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
The second half.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
They also had a fumble in the first quarter. They
also had an interception here in the third quarter. The
only scoring for the visiting Niners second quarter field goals
of forty and fifty six yards from Eddie Pinero, who's
also the guy who kicked off, and that kickoff to
start the night was returned ninety five yards for a
touchdown by Seattle's Rashid Shahed. So Sam Donald has a

(01:44:42):
touchdown pass to Jackson Smith and Jigba, who has only
two other catches this entire game, and yet it's twenty
seven to six Seattle late in the third quarter, Denver
with a home win in overtime to eliminate Buffalo thirty
three thirty on a short field goal at the end.
Bo Nicks touchdown passes, one interception, no sacks, but apparently

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on a running play late in ot Bownick suffered a
broken ankle, according to the team, and he is out
for the postseason with surgery coming next week. So Jared
Stidham will be the starting quarterback in Denver next weekend
for the AFC Championship game against the winner of tomorrow's
Houston at New England contest. Jared Stidham has not thrown

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a regular season pass in two years, when he started
a couple of games when Russell Wilson was benched. So
since the Big Frank Reich playoff comeback for Buffalo in
the early nineties. They had to use two starting quarterbacks
that postseason because of a Jim Kelly injury. In the
thirty plus years since, only one team has had to
start two players at quarterback in the same postseason, and

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that comes with an asterisk because it was when the
Rams didn't want to start Jared Goff a few years
ago and they chose to go with John Wofford and
then after the season got rid of golf. So what
the Broncos are facing is darn near unprecedented in the
last thirty years of NFL postseason football. Seattle has just
scored again thirty four to six over San Francisco with

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two twenty three left third quarter Kenneth Walker with his
second touchdown run of the night. He has fourteen carries
seventy nine yards. The top candidate for the Atlanta Falcons
job was Kevin Stefanski X of Cleveland, NFL Network and
others now reporting he and Atlanta are working towards a
deal that he'll get the job. The front runner for
the Dolphins head coaching jobs reportedly Jeff Hafley, Green Bay's

(01:46:36):
defensive coordinator, so Green Bay now scrambling because they feel
that they'll have a vacancy there, but they are giving
head coach Matt Lafleur a multi year extension. Twenty twenty
six would have been his final season under contract. You
mentioned Lafleur's brother on the Ram staff, and we'll see
the Rams at Chicago in that frozen playoff tomorrow night.

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We have in this game going on right now, San
Francisco at Seattle. The two brothers that are each offensive
coordinators for this team, and their dad used to be
a head coach in the NFL, So congrats to that family.
The Giants finalized a five year deal with coach John Harbaugh.
In the NBA, Oklahoma City's Shay Gilgis Alexander has thirty

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nine points and with about thirty seconds left, OKC leads
at Miami one twenty to one nineteen. Boston's Jalen Brown
scored forty one points in a victory at Atlanta one
thirty two to one oh six. And in the NHL,
you might know that the Bills owner is also the
Buffalo Sabers owner, Yepol. Buffalo was at home on ice

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and losing in overtime on four to Minnesota. Yes, I
said they lost in overtime back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
Wow, back to back overtime losses in Buffalo. I'll tell
you a tough scene now.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
I hope it's not a tough scene for j D
Pakel right now, because it's ten thirty on Saturday night,
my boys of Southeast JD, how you doing, brother.

Speaker 6 (01:48:00):
I'm doing well. I had to unfortunately miss our last
our last rendezvous. I'm i fleck im on a I mean,
I'm not in the hot seat, I hope, But I
mean it's getting toast you over here in South Beach
Man a cool seventy seven degrees. So I'm happy to
be on with y'all. And uh yeah, it's natally get
on Monday. Man, how about that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
I will speak for my co host well, when I
tease you at the bottom of the hour, she said, oh,
he's joining us this week, so I'll let her.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
Answer her question.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:48:28):
That's fair, that's fair, all right, So fair.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
J D Monci and I are on two different sides
of this game. She thinks it's Indiana and it's just
a question of what the final score will be. Basically
the same way that the first two playoff games have
gone for Indiana. I like Miami. I say I'm lying.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
I'm lying.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
I can close my eyes and plug my nose and
find a way I can think Miami can win this game.
To say I like them, that's a stretch. But I
do think Miami has more of a shot than everybody's
giving them.

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Where are you on it?

Speaker 6 (01:48:57):
So I would agree with the Miami more of a
shot and they're being given. I think eight and a
half is jarring.

Speaker 1 (01:49:03):
It's crazy because it's jarring.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
I will not disagree with that at all. So we
had media days today and all you hear about Miami,
you know, whenever you watch a Miami game, is they're massive.
They got a bunch of trench monsters there. They got
a bunch of big, old offensive line. They're gonna push
you around. And like some of that you hear, and
then you see them in person, You're like, this is
what I've been hearing about for the better part of
this entire season, and it kind of falls flat. It

(01:49:27):
was the exact opposite of that today at met Today
it's like we're seeing Reuben Bain the Edge from Miami
in person. Dude looks like a freaking freezer. We got
Franchis maleanoa walking around the offensive tackle for them. He
just he is legitimately a good head, shoulders and probably
a bit of his chest like tall that everybody else
in a good two to three of the average human
being with Why so the hype, I will say, is

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real when it comes to the size for Miami. Now
that only matters if they can play a clean football game,
which goes back to the whole Carson Beck question, which
to me goes back to what's third down? Its third down,
third and three, give or take where we can be
a little more creative and take something off his play
or is it third and seven? Carson? Go win the game?
And if we're living in that world, I think you're
playing Rushian roulette. So I think Miami absolutely has a chance.

(01:50:14):
I still like Indiana, but I'd like to be a
game going in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
Do you think Miami pulls off the win by shutting
down Fernando Mendoza or do you see a situation where
Mendoza still has a good game. It's just that the
bullies that are Miami were better.

Speaker 6 (01:50:31):
But the toughest part for me is for Fernando Mendoz
to get shut down, it would be two different I
guess that there's two different trains of thought around this.
There's one thought of, well, hey, he hasn't been shut
down all year, he must be due. Or there's the
side of the fence that I'm on is well, he
hasn't been shut down all year. I have a really
hard time forecasting something I haven't seen all year because

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my take here is like I think, if you're due
for something bad to happen, that's gonna happen conference title weekend,
that might happen first round of the playof I don't
think you're due for a bad result come national title game.
I think national title game you kind of just are
what you are. So if Miami's going to get it done,
I think it is a situation where Mendoza plays clean,
maybe has like one pick, but it's still efficient. I

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think if you're gonna beat an Indiana team that's been
so dominant and so efficient, you keep the ball away
from them. Like I'm looking at time possession in this
thing being like thirty eight minutes favoring Miami, if they
can play keep away and just keep it in big
Mark Fletcher's hands and you know, elongate these drives of
ten to twelve plays and get three, gets seven that
can play keep away and get one time of turnover.

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Then we maybe crack up on the door. Maybe the
home crowd gets into it, and we got a little
home national title victories of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
And I'll tell you this, if that happens, it'll make
that ten million. Reportedly, they're about to spend on their
next quarterback. Ten million dollars for Darian Menza.

Speaker 8 (01:51:50):
What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:51:53):
They're about to walk into the national championship game with
Carson's back, who's making a paltry six million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
Oh you know what, that's all right? How about we
just what two thirds more of that? We'll go right
there to ten I mean, JD, I mean ten million
dollars to Dari and Mensa. I get it that college
quarterbacks are are right, you get wins, but ten million
dollars for the year, Dary and Mensa here for Miami
talking about the new college football because this should not

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be a topic. And I know that you were walking
around Media Day and the contant everybody who's with ten
million dollars, ten million dollars, ten million.

Speaker 6 (01:52:29):
Dollars So there's there's a couple different layers to that,
the first of which been what you just said, Hey,
four million dollars, that's that's hump change, and you get
mean four million dollars you can't even get out of
better form million. So he was making four million at Duke.
The thing that's interesting with Darian Mensa is that ten
million dollars that you're speaking to, some of that is
baked into getting him out of his contract at Duke

(01:52:51):
because he doesn't have a buyout, but you have to
cancel his nil rights and you kind of have to
settle up with Duke there if you're going to get
him from So like there's a there's a certain amount
of that ten million that he wouldn't see, but still
goes into it regardless. Being willing to spend ten million
dollars regardless of what goes to the player is absolutely
wild in the world college football. Now, I said this

(01:53:12):
the day before it happened. Like we've seen Miami pull
a rap out of a hat here a couple of
times when it comes to getting the quarterback. I'm thinking
that the last couple of years, like y'all, cam Ward
and Carson Beck were both declared for the NFL's rafts
like they were done with college football, and then Miami's like, hey,
how does the how does two million dollars? How does
four million dollars sound to come hang out in South
Beach for a semester? You do with that?

Speaker 10 (01:53:33):
So? Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:53:34):
I mean, at at the end of the day, like
my big takeaway is here, Mario Cristobal, whatever the price point,
will have a quarterback. And they don't care what school
you're at or if you're going to go play pro.
They will get a quarterback. They don't care what else
stands in the way.

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
Let's move on to a quarterback that is not going
to the NFL. Dante more going back to Oregon. Bad
decision or smart decision?

Speaker 6 (01:53:57):
I liked it. I liked it. I mean, so here's
my thing. I totally understand this thought of, hey, I
want to be the highest draft pick possible, and Dante
Moore probably could have been, I mean not an NFL's
draft guy, but everyone's saying could have been that I'm
going to number two overall pick. Whatever it was going
to be, that's great. I'm here for that. I would
much rather get to the NFL than be drafted in

(01:54:18):
the second round and have a better chance at sustaining
in the NFL and into that decond contract than being
drafted second overall and having my moment on the stage
and all those things, like it'd be nice, but the
reality is, like Dante Moore started twenty games in college football.
The threshold for Bill Parcell's number he had out there,
and then the number we see for most success in
the NFL is like right around twenty five stars. So

(01:54:39):
like it's five games changing the world for Dante Moore.
I guess we'll see. But this is also a guy
too that we've seen, like he's very comfortable in an
instant gratification society, delaying his own gratification, Like he transferred
to Oregon with the intention to sit like he's I know,
I'm not ready yet. I have to sit behind Dylan
Gabriel to get right and figure out, you know, how
to play this game level and will shoot the evidence.

(01:55:01):
So it wasn't super shocking to me from that angle.
And I mean selfishly, now here's my thing. I will
always be pro college football, So coaches, players, anyone's saying
no to the NFL to stay in college football. I
will always carry the flag there for that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
But I'll say this, Jay Dan, more of a comment
than anything. I'm sick of hearing about how Dante Moore
did y'all watch.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
The last game that he played against Indiana. Dante Moore
was not going to be the second pick in the draft, right,
he was not going.

Speaker 6 (01:55:29):
To be right, it was going to be second pick.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, give me a second pick.

Speaker 2 (01:55:33):
I don't know who was going to be the second pick,
but I'm telling you it wasn't going to be Dante Moore,
just like Sha Doris Sanders was never going to be the.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
Top ten pick in last year's draft.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
We it's easy to say it now, but I don't
think that Dantey Moore was going to be the second
overall pick. I say that I agree with you that
he can go back, and honestly, I ultimately agree with
you that if I would rather be of all the
first round picks in the NFL last year, not hell
would you have to be Tyler Shuck or Cam Wore
today right where you're you drafted into a team that

(01:56:04):
didn't expect you to come in and win right away.
Or maybe Tyler Shuck's a bad example, but there's plenty
of examples of guys whose careers can elongate and stretch.
And when you look at Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold,
they're lucky to still be here when you look at
the chances that they've had after being drafted highly, after
being very productive college players, both of whom were way
more productive than Dante Moore was. Danteymore was not going

(01:56:26):
to be the second Pigon that try. I'm sorry, but
in JD, have fun down there, buddy, en joy.

Speaker 6 (01:56:32):
I appreciate it. I appreciate I appreciate you'll having me back.
I appreciate you guys being gracious here and hey, I
don't know if at the same time next week's situation,
but regardless, been a phenomenal season with y'all and excited
to round the season out the right way here.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
This is what it's all about, JD. This is all
from training camp to Oka's to two and days.

Speaker 9 (01:56:52):
So that's that Thanksgiving you skipped to that Christmas morning
you open the presidence of the random practice.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
This is what it's all about, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
Enjoy yourself, love having you on, Thanks for coming, Thanks Pop, buddy, Yes, sir,
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(01:57:22):
show posted right after we get off the air. That
one great game, one terrible game. Expect the same tomorrow.
One of us does, one of us doesn't. Who is
on which side? Figure it out?

Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
Next?

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Hey, we gotta have an emergency ruling of sports court
right now, cause I think Monsi Bolanos is guilty.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty?

Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
What did I do?

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Okay, so listen, I'm gonna lay it out here. I'm
gonna lay it out here.

Speaker 4 (01:57:48):
For you a lot of time.

Speaker 3 (01:57:49):
I'm gonna lay it out here for you. Shut the table,
Shut the table, rogie. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
Fourth quarter starting all right, and this we're coming to
you line for the Fox Sports Radio studios on Martin
Weiss's and the accused is Monty Bilanos.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
Okay. Fourth quarter is starting straight to jail. She's got
a friend, let's call her Jane.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Okay, Monty texts Jane and says congratulations on the Seahawks.
Jane text back and says it's not over, but thank you.
Monty says it was over thirteen seconds in.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
To me, if I was a Seattle Seahawks fan name
Jane that received a text with Mancy, I would be like,
it's it's a thirty four point march, and however, we
are far from congratulations in this moment.

Speaker 4 (01:58:34):
No, it is forty one to six thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
So, hey, I know you're a Jets fan, so the
playoffs is new for you, so this may not unheard of.
This may not touch you in the same way. However,
your team's gotta win, not just this.

Speaker 3 (01:58:49):
This game's in the bag.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
Sure, However, we just watched the Denver Broncos pull a
rabbit out of the Bill's meltdown, right, and then they're
thinking they are miles high and miles high and then
bow Nick's ankle done. You can't risk something like this
ahead of times.

Speaker 7 (01:59:08):
Oh Am, I wrong, No, you're right, But Monty's just
congratulating on the win, not not the Super Bowl win.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
Like she knows it still worked to men, congratulations on advancing,
because you.

Speaker 7 (01:59:19):
Would say that to a Broncos fan, even with the boneck.

Speaker 9 (01:59:21):
And you know what that Bronzo fans would tell you
for telling me congratulations, my quarterback just broke his right
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:59:27):
And that's not the situation. This game has been over
since it started. And trust me, I know what you're saying.
And her name is Grace. Grace is actually know you've
talked about I've talked about Grace before. Yeah, Grace a
big Seahawks fan. I did text her. Did I text
Dan Byer? No, because he would have responded just like you,
He would have yelled at me for texting him. I'm
just saying my friend Grace is not yelling at him.

(01:59:48):
She said, thanks, girl, but it's not over, And I
said it was over thirteen seconds into the game, just right,
because it's devastating to my case. Girl.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
I think I land on Dan Buyer's side of this.

Speaker 4 (01:59:59):
That's I didn't text him.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
Think I land on Dan's side.

Speaker 4 (02:00:01):
I didn't text him. I also didn't text Rich Davis
to say it sucks.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
For you now that one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
I think I could let that one fly. I think
if you wanted to send the mess and sickond you know,
and Rich right now to the to the forty nine
er side of that one. I think that would be better.

Speaker 4 (02:00:18):
That one's better than sending grace to congratulations on advantage one.

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
Hundred percent because this thing is over now.

Speaker 4 (02:00:23):
Oh now it's over. Well minutes ago when I said.

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
The text, there wasn't well, no see, because here's the deal.
It's over all the way from San Francisco. There's no
like like right, I said.

Speaker 4 (02:00:32):
Congrats an advanc scene on Van scene. I didn't say
congratulations off quarterback.

Speaker 9 (02:00:39):
When inured day's obleak in the bye week and you're
texting your textings things like good luck.

Speaker 4 (02:00:44):
I didn't say good luck on advancing, Oh, advancing.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:51):
Probation that let the least probation, at the least coming
up checks will be Airtori's Jason Martin is the best
wrap up show.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
And for this time, the NFL playoffs, not college.

Speaker 4 (02:01:02):
It was a catch, No, it was a catch

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