The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz Talk CFP National Championship, NFL Week 18, & So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning, Go morning, God morning. E buddy, heaby Abby
Abby Abby. Week eighteen. Yes, this is it, man, This
is the last weekend of the NFL season.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man, it goes by fast on it.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's just just fires by flies. Where the fellas Jason Fitz,
Anthony Garganham Figgy, Kevin Figures, Birthday boyche Mighty Mark All
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way tire buying should be. Fitzy, good morning. Can you
believe it's Week eight team, It's the last final weekend
of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
You know, here's the thing.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
I hit Week eighteen with a little bit of sorrow,
but a lot of appreciation. You know, Like we've talked
over the course of the last couple of months a
few times about the fact that, hey, you know, right
around the corner, this whole thing is gonna be ending, right,
we won't have any more NFL every single weekend and
there's something about Week eight team where I just look
around and it's like the last day in high school.

(01:22):
You're just you're hanging out with your buddies. You're like,
this has been fun. It's been it's been a wild ride.
This season has been an incredibly interesting and hard to
predict season.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm not sure the football has been great. Who cares.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
It's been entertaining, Like it's like a fast and furious movie.
You knew things were gonna blow up, the good guys win,
Like we got it all figured out here. Like there's
a sense of appreciation as we go into week eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
For me, that's a great perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Dude, that's a great perspective because I give you more
selfish sorrow. I appreciate that. Man, figgys don't Figgy's oh god,
he's gonna come to me today. He's gonna have the
same thing because I've been for years. I would bend

(02:07):
Figgy's ear. I'd say, oh my god, it's almost over,
and then when it would be over, I would cry,
like it's terrible.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
You know, like you have a great healthy attitude today.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
I mean, but let's be honest, can we can we
all acknowledge that the Sunday after the Super Bowl is
the weirdest Sunday of the entire calendar year. Like you
just sit there on your couch and there's this weirdness
of am I supposed to do something? Then you realize,
did I really spend the last several months not doing anything?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Like it wasted? Do I have?

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Like is there a honey do list I'm supposed to
go out there and accomplish.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
The Sunday after the super Bowl is always a weird one,
but right now, I mean, heck, we still got like
we're actually gonna have weekends of good football coming at
us too, from at least presumably decent football teams.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Although oh yeah, well but left yeah have some good football.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I have an existential NBA problem too that I have
to throw what you guys, Yeah, yeah, No it's not.
It's depressing because that's to do with football. Good morning, figure,
Happy New Year.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yes, Happy New year, gentlemen. Yeah, far beard from me
to lament the fact that we're gonna not have a meaningless,
you know, bad NFL football games moving forward, and only
good teams as we made to hit the postseason the
most exciting part of the year. Yes, I know it's
tough that the it's the end of the year and
there's no more red zone and bouncing around from game
to game and having all the games going on at once.

(03:34):
But isn't this kind of what we look forward to
the best of the best as we gear up towards
the Super Bowl? I think what it is, Anthony, you
have to live in the moment. I live in the moment.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I'm pushing back right away. I mean, now we've got
our first Fellows fight of the new year.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's been five minutes into the show. Let's go.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
I'm gonna be very clear to the entire world. I
would rather watch a Terrible Raiders game than any good
football I don't care. Like I would rather go on
there seeing my favorite team take the field and the
juice that you get when you know you're watching the
silver and black out there, that just does it for me, right, Like,
you know, look, we're gonna I've heard so many people

(04:12):
tell me, oh, the best weekend and all the year
is Championship Sunday, where you've got the AFC and NFC
Championship because it's the four best teams. Let me be clear,
I would rather watch the Raiders play the Browns week
one of next season than I would ride then watch
the AFC NFC Championship.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
I'm just saying, from watch week one.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, week one week once about.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, because week one, I know I have the whole
season aaded me.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
See, you're looking ahead to the end as opposed to
just appreciating the moment that we're actually living. That's the
thing I need you guys kind of just take a
couple of deep breaths and just appreciate where we are.
Why don't fast forward the calendar a month from now?
The super Bowl is a month from now. Why right
now you want to watch?

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Like I don't want to watch, you know, my buddy
go out on a date with the hot girl. I
want the hot girl date right Like so like watching
some somebody else playing the AFC NFC championship game, I
don't care about that, Like I want my own AFC
NFC Championship. I mean, I care about it because I
love football. But no, I'd rather watch Week one not
just because of what's coming, but just because I want
to watch my favorite team play, like after after tomorrow.

(05:15):
The only way that's fascinating see.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, it's funny we all view it differently because
you view it strictly from the prism of your team.
I even like, even if the figure will tell you,
like if last year the Eagles are, you know, in
the super Bowl and I was depressed because I mean,

(05:40):
you know, like listen, you know, I grew up an
Eagle fan, the whole thing. But I love football and
you know what it is. And I'll give you this figgie.
I have an existential NBA problem. Last night, I'm watching
six Ers next it's just a bad.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Game, right, oh yeah, well bad game for one team.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
And then you know I was watching, Yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then I'm watching and I you know, I had
the NBA thing, and I'm checking on Boston. That's a blowout,
and I'm looking around and Indiana it's fun. They go
up and down. Halid Burton's great, but you know whatever,
And then I'm going on on and I'm and I'm
realizing that man, it's early January and I'm not into

(06:24):
it and I'm not getting into it until the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
So I like that about the NBA regular season. That's
uh that you're excited.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Because it finally got me, like I watched this stuff
as a loser that I am but all the time.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
But I got news for you.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
The NBA regular season really is it's just too much
meaningless ball.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Look, I don't I don't disagree with any of that.
I think part of what you're talking about, and this
is interesting to me.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I've never thought about it.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
So you just mentioned this, honestly, But when you think
about it, there is fatigue that sets in for a
lot of just casuals. Right in the NFL season. There's
fatigue maybe through the year where you've got to you know,
two terrible teams that have won three games all year
between them facing off in Week thirteen and we're sitting
there saying, God, why are we watching this matchup? Fatigue
sets in. I think that fatigue sets in earlier in

(07:22):
the NBA because the regular season just is not perceived
as this important piece, you know.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
And this year.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
What's interesting, we were talking about some of this the
other day with Yahoo. We're talking about the fact that
Minnesota sits in first place and nobody seems to even
be paying attention, you know, And yet again we're sitting
here with the Lakers outside the playoffs, and frankly, it's
not because the main two haven't played well, so like
what do you do with that? But I don't think
anybody's paying attention to any of that because you still

(07:50):
have months and months and months. Like in the NFL,
it feels like you have to watch it even if
it's bad, because it's really one day a week that
is this cultural phenomenon every night.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
And I don't think it's bad. Now you have bad teams, yeah, no,
of course, but the products good. The product is way
better than the NBA product.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
But if if two bad teams are playing, if you
don't have red Zone and you don't have Sunday ticket
and two bad teams are playing on your local market
on a Sunday, you watch because it's the one day
a week that it's a cultural phenomenon that is the NFL.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
In the NBA, you could just.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Missed the Thursday like games Like I missed the Thursday.
I'm trying to figure out why. Like I would watch
every I mean every night. I would be in on NBA.
I love the NBA, right, so I'd be in on
the NBA every night, and really the last couple of
years and now this year I'm last night I'm just

(08:46):
going stop doing it for me.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well, go ahead, I don't understand. I mean, I look,
I understand. I guess why that is to your point,
And we've talked about it for the through the years
on this show that the regular season maybe a little
bit too long, drags on a little bit, find a
way to make things more interesting. I think that's what
they at least attempted to do with the Ncason Tournament.
Didn't do a whole lot for a lot of people,
me included. When it comes to that. I also think

(09:11):
it's just a tough perspective at this point in time
because we do still have football on the calendar, and
it's also very easy for us to say, at this
very moment in time on January sixth, you know where
are we going to be on March eighth, when there's
nothing going on football wise, and really all we're going
to have is gearing up for the NCAA Tournament and
gearing up for the NBA postseason. I think that it's
going to change a little bit, but we still are

(09:33):
still in the midst of fightball.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Being on the calendar right now. No, I think you're right.
I think the NBA like I'll get way more into
like I'll gear back into it as you are towards
the playoffs. But I man, I you know, I mean
it's it's not the best product in season.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Because let me let me ask you a question.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
As somebody that loves the NBA, you also love and
we make a lot of movie and music analogies on
the show. When you're going in and you're seeing some
sort of an action movie, we can all agree that
no matter what it is, good or bad movie, you
need a hook at the beginning, something that really brings
you in, right, Like, there has to be a moment.
Whatever movie you're watching, you got the first ten to

(10:17):
fifteen minutes to really capture you.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Right.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yes, I would argue that that's what the NBA is
missing most nights. I don't as a I'd say that
I'm past a casual, but not a diehard. That's why
I'm on the NBA. And what's interesting to me is
that when I turn on a game, I don't feel
electricity from the players.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I don't feel.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Electricity from the broadcast. I don't feel electricity from the arena.
Nothing feels special. I don't feel like, oh my god,
I have to watch.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
This, and that's what a great movie. Like.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
When we were playing concerts, you certainly didn't wait till
six songs in to get somebody into your set, right like,
you got to come out with a banger, Gotta get
him in right away, got to lock them in. The
NBA lacks that lock them in moment because there is
not the same intensity from the fans of players, the coaches,
from everybody early on in the season, when we're just
flipping through. And if I'm just flipping through and you

(11:07):
got me for three four minutes, man, that three four
minutes better capture me. They better catch me, and they don't.
And so if they don't catch me, you just keep
flipping through and through and through. I don't know how
you manufacture intensity when you simply have more games.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
That players don't care about as much.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And then the only game, like I'll tell you, the
only game that I lot that caught me last night
was you know, the Pacers are nuts because they play
at such a high pace and I love watching hal
Burton play, right yep. But that but then the game
becomes a blowout quick and then you know that's it,

(11:43):
right that was the first half was kind of fun,
and then it died out and then it was just
like very little intensity. I just don't feel like I
think Fitzi's right in that there's the energy, doesn't feel
like it's there.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, the problem with the NBA is when you have,
you know, twenty games or fifteen games or whatever it
is on a given night, sometimes it can be hard
to parse through which ones are the most important to
have the most intensity too of them. But I mean,
if you, I don't know if you watched any of
that San Antonio Milwaukee game the other night, are you telling.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Me that.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
There?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Did you see did you see Boston take on Oklahoma
City the other night? I think that was one twenty
five and one twenty eight or something. There was intensity
between two really good team right with phenomenal talks.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Now, you're right about the Bucks Burs game.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
So it's it's good fun.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Web Web was and Weby had me like, you know,
Weby's interesting.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
So I'm just saying that those games do exist, and
they might be few and far between at times. You're
right there, they are there.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
You can't you can't.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
I hear you on that, and I think you're right,
and your specific examples are absolutely one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
They were great games to watch.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
I guess in part of my thought process here, having
not really thought about this until these moments, but part
of my thought process here is that, like you start
to know as the season wears on in the NFL,
what teams bring that energy, what teams don't. You start
to know consistently, like what you're gonna watch, and if
you don't like what you're watching in a red zone world,
you got twenty other games you can you can find
the best one. I don't know that the NBA product

(13:15):
makes it as easy to do that. So, like, again,
it's just tougher because more often than not, if I
flip on the NBA on a Tuesday night and I
don't like what's happening, I just flip it off right
Like I'm just I'm not on Sunday. You're you're in
this moment, You're in the thick of it. And because
you're in the thick of it, and it's the one
day that you have all of these games going on
at once, to flip through capability is better.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Like, I just don't know that consistently.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Like your examples are great, but I mean, am I
watching Wemby every night to see that same level of
intensity from the Spurs. No, like it happens some nights
when it's a big matchup and we're paying attention because
it's against Giannis. You know, we're paying attention to Jaw
dunking on somebody. But like that's a much different, Like
that's not a consistent every night thing even from those teams.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Now, for the nfls and just football in general, because
of how it's set up, is just easier to track.
Like you know, on a Sunday, you're watching eight games
at once and you can bounce around. If the NBA
had a schedule where you knew they played Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
everybody played in two different windows, it might be easier
to kind of sift through and flip over through games
that you think might be better versus another. Because teams

(14:20):
that have such staggered schedules and they play seven nights
a week, you just don't know what there could be
a game, a night full of dog games and a
night full of really good games and some in between.
It just makes it more difficult to kind of pick
those out. So I do think the NFL is football
in generals, that didn't hear an advantage because of the
way it's set up.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Listen, I feel you like
the Magic are a good story. And I guess, you know,
I watched, Yeah, you know, I guess what I'll do is,
you know, I guess after that, at some point the
season will be over and I'll, you know, just find
myself there.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
And it's more of a.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Of a mourning the loss of Paul than anything else,
and probably that's kind of what it is.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Look, I certainly understand it. But there are there are
good teams to look forward to watching in the NBA.
We mentioned a couple already. Indy, the Celtics are really good.
The Clippers are on fire right now. Celtic do I
hate the Celtics too. I grew up in now Los Angeles,
trust me, but they're They're a phenomenal team. Minnesota is excellence,
the best record in the Western Conference where they got

(15:27):
a good young team and one of the best players
in the NBA there. So I mean there's you know,
the Mavericks have Luca didn't even play the other night
and they still dropping one forty. There's some good stories
in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, there are.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
But as we've talked about before, I'll just say this quickly.
If Minnesota doesn't lose another game for the rest of
the season and then goes out and loses in the playoffs,
nobody will remember this season. That's the other part of
it that is very like because regular season success does
not translate to postseason success, and because of the way.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
We cover it, like it's hard.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
It's hard for me to sit here and sell somebody
man start watching Minnesota every night because if they're in
their questions, ooh they can win the chip maybe, and
if they don't, then it all feels like it was
for not and useless.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah. I mean, I'd say in most years in the NBA,
more than any other sport usually that the cream rises
to the top every single time, but the top couple
of teams in the conference generally speaking, or right at
least in the conference finals every single year. You can
say that in basketball more than any other sport, just
because of the way the talent is distributed.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, I know, no, I feel you, all right, I
got one thing. Happy birthday, Shay.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Whoa Hey Shay, all right, thanks GUYZ. It was on Wednesday,
generate third.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
So what'd you do? You turn up do some partying?

Speaker 7 (16:39):
Nah?

Speaker 6 (16:39):
No I was, I mean I did, I turned up,
but we ain't got mimosas for breakfast. And then we
went to this bar. It wasn't too crazy, and then
we got dinner at night. We got this place boiling crab.
I don't know if you guys have had like we had,
like the shrimp crawfish and like a crab and a
bag and they put all the spices in it and
like they sovey it. Have you guys had that before?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
Okay, yes, I've had a crabil crap like or crawfish
boil either one. But you just said they survey it.

Speaker 6 (17:08):
Is that what they do?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Like okay down in like in New Orleans. That like
they're not out there doing like fancy cheffing techniques to it.
They're just putting it in the bag and shake. That's
just just very.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
And shake it very. I thought they survey it. I
thought they like survey it in the bag.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Maybe they cook it in the bag, but they also
cook it in the bag. Like what what he ain't
using any of them terms down it like that that
that is not happening, Like I don't know man, that
was a very l a way to turn you turned.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
A very thing, just cooking it in the bag.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Well again, though, we're using terms here that I don't
think anything like when you're out in the country and
you're at the me Mall County Festival down in Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Nobody is turning out and turning.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
Around like they're not con atve And I got you,
that's just justistic.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
L a very l a thing, very sophisticated.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
The compliment.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, well, I just wanted to wish Shaye a happy
birthday because I forgot to, you know, text him on Wednesday.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
Everyone did except Mark.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Shout out, Mark Mighty.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Mark is the man, and I did know it was
his birthday.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
So Mark, thanks for texting the rest of the group
and saying, hey, guys, just a reminder it's Shay's birthday
anytime much appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, we wanted to at least get that out there,
all right, because we love Shay and we want to
make very listen and it's his birthday. He wants to
feel special. We love the guy, all right, So happy birthday,
my brother. All right, Now, let's get to business. We
got Black Monday ahead of us. We have the NCAA

(18:44):
Title game.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
The two games that, Oh my god, college football.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Is so good. It's I'm going to miss that too.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
NFL Final Week, all the playoffs, we got a ton
to talk about. I will promise I will not lament
the loss of football until it actually is not here.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
All right, then you have to deal with me.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
All right.

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(20:34):
let's talk college football because those two games were awesome.
I mean, those were incredible, incredible games, beginning with Michigan
Alabama and then way into the night, Oh my god,
that ending was crazy, Like it was just wild. I mean,

(20:58):
the kid from Washington gets hurt, could time out, and
the clock stops, and the Texas viewers comes down the
field and he's got real chances to win the game.
That was such an amazing New Year's Day of football.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
So I'm sitting right now in what they're calling Audio
Arena in Houston, getting ready for the National Championship game,
covering it for Yahoo and by myself in the whole
radio room area. They They've left me a whole conference
room because I can't. I can't promise I'll behead. But
what's funny to me is for Yahoo I do a
lot of quick video moments, So like at the end

(21:37):
of big games, I fire up a camera, sit there
and I give a two minute quick you know, recap,
take that sort of thing, and they pop it up
on Yahoo Sports, right like's put one of my jobs.
So what's funny to me is that particular game, with
about a minute and a half left, I was like,
all right, this thing's done. I'm gonna go ahead into
you know, Washington. It's got the ball, though, run the
clock out. I'm gonna go ahead and make my video.
And all of a sudden, I go to look at

(21:59):
the stat line while I'm talking to the camera, I'm
getting out.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
I do the little like tab over.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
So I can see the final stat line, and I
see in the court of my eye Dylan Johnson get hurt,
stops the clock and I look the say looking at
a camera, I said, son of a biscuit, like I
because here I am. I'm halfway through my video, and
all of a sudden, now we don't know what's gonna happen.
It's crazy that the end of that game got as
wild as it did. I just have one, like one
general beef right now because I keep hearing people tell me,

(22:25):
oh my god, Michael Pennix Junior played in a way
we haven't seen all Like, tell me you haven't watched
Washington football all year? Without telling me you haven't watched
Washington if you thought that most of that game was
outside the norm of who they've been as an offense,
particularly this year, Like, at what point are we just
going to start respecting that football team?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
I dude, we talked about this only show yep. We
talked about this last week. We talked about it again.
They're good. Panix is great, the receivers are great. The
NFL it's it's yeah. The nobody goes down the field
like them and that, and that's what's gonna be very

(23:05):
interesting because they're gonna be able to go down to
field on Michigan. That's that's This game's gonna be incredible.
I think this game is gonna be incredible. What do
you think, fake?

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm one hundred percent with you, guys. It's contrasting styles,
you know, the high flying offense is almost like the
nineteen sixties Packers versus the greatest show on turf. To
a certain degree, Michigan wants to make it ugly, run
the ball up and down the field, eat up some
klock in. Washington wants to throw the ball all over
the place it really is. And maybe you guys can
think of one. But from a national championship standpoint, I
really don't know which way it's gonna go, because these

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teams are just so fundamentally different in how they're built
and how they play, more so than any other two
teams that I can remember playing in this game throughout
the course of the fourteen playoff.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
I think both teams are.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Gonna get fed because of that, though, Figgy like, I mean, look,
I think Blake korm is gonna have a huge game.
I think Blake korm is gonna go off and that's
gonna be amazing to watch. I don't think Washington can
slow down the way he runs the football. But conversely,
if you're Michigan, your method has been we're gonna disrupt
the pocket, We're going to take over, And I don't know,

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I know everybody keeps hiving Pact twelve teams. It's still
the Joe Moore Award winning offensive line for a reason
they communicate well. So part of Alabama's problem is communication
on the front end. So I think if you can
leave Pennick junior, like, if he can stay standing, and
I believe he will be able to, then he's gonna
be able to carve up Michigan secondary. Like this honestly
feels to me like you're going to have to get

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to the mid thirties to have any shot at winning
this football.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, I completely agree, and I'll be honest with you.
McCarthy has to like, you can't just ride Korm. I love,
I love Korm, but you just can't ride him. Yeah,
that Washington pass defense is not good. Yep, Right, You're
going to have to and and Washington will have explosive

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scores like we like, you know, he's going to go
down the field, listen, should get its your of sacks
right and you're like you saw Alabama the first the
first half, first quarter, they were they were in his
grill all day.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, Now, I will say too, like Michael Pennix just
doesn't get sacked because on top of by the way
that you know, everybody talked about the Texas front seven
and now great they were, and the a few times
they did get pressure of Michael Pennis, he just slid
it to the side, slide to the left, slide to
the right extra time. And that's just something that that
you know, Alabama's quarterback just wasn't able to do and

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really hadn't been able to do all season long, and
talking about him, he thrived on being able to sit
back in the pocket and take deep shots and that
really was the reason why their offense took off on
this the second half of the season. Well is also
a game Yeah, it's a game changer.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
He's ridiculous and and he's like you see the difference
the rawness from Milroe right right to now, you know,
Panics reminds me like of an NFL veteran, no doubt
he's got that. The way he now navigates the pocket.
So like, I agree with it, But Michigan still still
will pressure him. He's going to complete He's they're gonna

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minley play is they're gonna go down the field and
they're gonna you're gonna get some big plays. Mischig just
can't run the ball like they're gonna need McCarthy to
match because the Washington pass defense will give you plays.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Right, and that was my only thought. Fits. Ye, I
do think Korm is gonna have a good game, but
I also believe Washington basically is gonna dare J McCarthy
to beat him.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Yeah, I don't disagree with that as an approach.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
And by the way, I think Harball's constant you know, oh,
JJ McCarthy's the best college quarterback maybe of alt I
like all he's doing is like, I mean yeah, Like
I'm frankly to be very transparent. I'm gonna go to
media days right after this show where we have the
opportunity to try and talk to the coaches. And my
question to Harball if I get the opportunity to ask,
what will be about that? Like, why does he keep

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telling the world that JJ McCarthy is one of, if
not the best college quarterbacks of all time, yet he
won't let the offense open up to take advantage of it.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Right, It makes no sense in my mind.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
If he's just this great, incredible quarterback the way that
Hardball is talking him up, then you should be comfortable
with that. I think that's the right approach at times
to beating Washington. But I also think that you know,
we'll go back to what keeps Washington's offense on the
field is controlling the life. I don't know that Washington's
defense honestly is gonna be able to stop most of
what Michigan does. Like I could see Korum just going

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off and JJ still having some big moments. It's the
real question here is can Michigan get enough stops to
keep this thing in like right now?

Speaker 4 (27:31):
I mean, definitely, I put my money on Washington to cover.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
I just can't figure out if Washington's actually gonna win
this football game.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I think they have a really good shot at it.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
I do too. I do too. I think they have
a really good chance. I like him.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'm actually surprised that, and I believe, unless it's been
updated in the last day or so, I mean, Michigan
is still favored by what four points or something like that. Yeah,
I mean, I'm surprised by the ad words. I thought
this should be a pick them, and I mean, if not,
I would have Washington favor by a point or two.
I'm surprised that Michigan is favored, especially by more than
a field goal. That really surprised me.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
An interesting nugget on the gambling side was that before
the playoff games actually happened. You know, they do the
future spread on what the games would look like, and
the largest spread of any possible outcome from the semi
final before the semifinal was played was Michigan over Washington.
At the time, they set that line at almost seven,
and so it tells you how much they thought of Washington.

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Then Washington gets the win over Texas, and then you know,
the it opens and it's moved a little bit.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
I got it at four and a half.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
But I just I feel like at some point it's
just about the fact that every single week people just, oh, no,
this is the week it's going to fall apart.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
For Washington. It's like, guess what has Every time.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
It's calling back to the Oregon game. I mean they've
been underdogs for the last I feel like four games
they've played, and they've answered the bell every time.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, and listen, maybe I don't know what is the
Utah game.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
There's a couple of games.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah, why to the Apple the Apple Cup? Yeah, it
was a close one. The Arizona State game they played
horribly and found a way to win. They definitely have
won by the skin of their teeth. To a certain
degree can't deny that.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, I but but they're so dynamic, they really are.
I also don't think Texas.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is that good. Uh well yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
What like honestly, like and I know we talked of
this a million times, you know, and you couldn't put
Georgia in because of Alabama but losing the Texas, But
Georgia is better now than Texas.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure Alabama's all like right, I mean,
I think in this moment, let's say it this way.
Alabama was certainly a flawed team in the semi final
and we saw that. And Texas had some flaws of
their in the semi final and we saw that. But
I don't I don't know that. I look, Georgia might
be better than all of them, but in this situation,

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I don't know. I mean, Georgia couldn't figure out a
way to handle Jalen Milroe. Georgia's defense couldn't figure out
a way to get past Alabama. Washington's a much more
dynamic offense than Alabama could present to anybody.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I know, they're different, you know, styles make fights, But.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
More about Georgia versus Texas.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, I mean Georgia is a better
team than I think george is probably a better team
than Texas. But also that feels like that feels like
a little revisionist history, only because a few weeks ago,
everybody was sitting there saying, well, Texas might actually be
the best team in the country. Not everybody, but a
lot of people were saying, well.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I was arguing for Georgia, which is why I bring
it up now. It's more self serving that I never
believed in Texas.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
So it was more considering how the rolls ball specifically
played out. I mean, if all things were equal, and
let's say that, you know, everybody was healthy and nobody
opted out, and Florida State actually made it in, do
we believe that Florida State couldn't have put up the
same effort that Alabama put up against Michigan. I think
they could have easily. Really yeah, absolutely, I don't think

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they're any good. I didn't think Forest State was any good.
All right, Well, that's i'd sorted considering how good they
have been defensively all season long. If Jordan Travis is healthy,
they put up at least as good of an effort
in my opinion as Alabama put up in that game.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
I think if Jordan Travis was healthy, I would give
you that that. I think that. Yeah, I think they
could have been.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
I think they came out quickly interesting. It'd be interesting.
It's interesting. Yeah, I don't. I don't see that one
I think is why I do say. I see some trending.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, I see a lot of NBA, Anthony, I know
you're looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I told you existential problem.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
I know, I understand. I understand. We'll start with some
of some Left Coast basketball from Friday night, Warriors beating
the Pistons one thirteen to one on nine step Curry
scoring twenty six points. The big story out of that game,
Chris Paul left in the third quarter with the hand
injury later diagnosed as a fractured left hand and it's
going to require surgeries. To a tough blow there for
a Golden State Memphis beating the Lakers one twenty seven

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to one thirteen. How about Marcus Smart making nine three
pointers scored a team high twenty nine points for the griz.
La has lost four games in a row. A triple
double for de Monta Sabonis as the Kings defeated Toronto
one thirty five to one thirty Clippers, the hottest team
in the NBA. They've won fourteen of their last sixteen games,
with Anthony's favorite former Sixer James Harden one eleven to

(32:25):
ninety five victory there over New Orleans for the Clips, Dallas,
Chicago and the Knicks, also with victories New York hammering
the Sixers one twenty eight to ninety two. In college basketball,
top rank Purdue with verb which FIRB, what do you mean? Hammering?
Just a college basketball perdue beating Illinois eighty three to
seventy eight. They improved a fourteen and one on the season.

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Fourth ranked Yukon picking up an eighty eight to eighty
one win over Butler. Some injury news out of the NFL.
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence expected to be a game time decision,
officially listed as questionable for that matchup against the Titans
on Sunday as he nurses a shoulder injury. Falcons quarterback
Taylor Heineke a game time decision as well against the
Saints as he battles an ankle injury. Back to the fellas.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Ah, thank you, fig I appreciate it. We are the fellas.
That's right, from the tire rack dot Com studios. We'll
come back and we got a lot of nfl ado man,
a lot of sworting out in this final week eighteen,
we'll begin that as well. We'll get back to the
College National Championship game hanging as always the Fellas on

(33:34):
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Speaker 2 (33:49):
Ah, welcome back, Fellas from the tire rack dot Com studios.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
So what's the vibe like down there?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Man?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Live in Houston. Man, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
I know you're down there, finci uh so, I forgot
you were down there so far.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
It's it's you know, I mean, it's early in the
morning today, I got yesterday. People are starting to flock in.
It's not yet slammed, but I did you know me,
I'm gonna go do.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Orange Theory no matter where.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Went to Orange Theery in Houston yesterday a bunch of
Washington fans, bunch of us so based solely on the
T shirts I've seen there. And then I went to
the Fan Experience thing yesterday. It feels like the Washington
fans are already out and here. That doesn't surprise me, though.
I think given the history of both of these teams
and both of these programs and how long it's been,
I honestly think it's just gonna be an absolute madhouse

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all weekend. I feel like even people without tickets are
gonna be coming down here just to try and be
around the experience and the environment.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
So it's it's it's it's gonna be electric.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
It's always electric anyway, but I feel like with these
two particular teams in this city, it's gonna be pretty spectacular.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, I think it's. Uh, I love it, man. It's
such a great match up. The whole thing. It's it's
gonna be a lot of fun. And you know what
the best is, guys.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I mean, college football is going to be awesome next
year because you have the expanded playoffs. I was talking
with buddy of mine who's works for a big program,
and he said that he loves the He thinks what's
going to happen is do you remember the idea we

(35:22):
talked about with like the AFC and the NFC, basically
the big ten in the SEC.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, like that, that's how it will.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
The alignment will wind up, and then there'll be all
the divisions for all the teams, and then everybody else
will will be like a secondary league like in the
NIT type of thing, and then there'll be relegation.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Here's here's my big question for you, with all of
this expansion happening, with all of the changes happening, if
Washington wins the National Championship Monday Night next year, when
they come into the Big ten, is there some moment
here where the Big ten claims him as a champion?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
That's a violation. I mean, that's a violation. I don't
figure would lose his mind.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
I mean, technically they would not be a Big Champion
as a Big ten representative since they don't join the
Big Ten I believe until August first, So.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
But they would still be the reigning champions when they
joined the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Eh Nah, that's a violation. I'm sorry, by the way,
I will respect them to a certain degree for trying it,
but that's not gonna fly. No.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Well, you, especially the way you feel about the PAC twelve.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Now, the interesting thing is the PAC two. Whenever they
have hanging on left. You know are Washington State, Oregon State,
and it's like, you know, you guys won the national championship.
There's a trophy that goes to the conference, or the
trophy that goes to the team. The conference is the
two of us. Let's let's get our get that conference
trophy and send it on this way, send it to
the Pacific Northwest and keep it here with the pack

(36:57):
two pack. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
And to the point of relegation, I think if relegation
was added to every sport in every league, in every
possible way, it would be amazing.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Like I am, I am such a fan.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Of that's a way to actually, yeah, I mean, that's
a way to pump up the via regular season. Is
that your franchise is going down. The problem is there's
no other ways. It only works at college football because
you need, you know, massive numbers of teams.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well even in college football, when you're talking about conferences
and power fives and groups of fives and revenue distributions
with TV contracts. I'm sure there's a way around it,
and I'm not smart enough to figure it all out,
but it's tough to tell. Hey, all right, Vanderbilt, you're
playing Western Kentucky and whoever loses goes down. It's like, well,
we allotted, we allocated all this money for our leg

(37:50):
athletic department next year, and we can't turn this all
around based on one game here in December. Look, I'm
sure there's some way around it eventually in the future
and they can figure it out, but that that's a
tough hurdle to have to jump through, even though because look,
usually at the end of the season we talk about
these ball games that people feel are meaningless. I still
like them. I don't know fits is really into a
lot of them as well, But these ball games are

(38:12):
flipped to turn into pop tar and Mayo. I mean
it was pop Tart was cool. I like that, although
I to be a pop Tart man, I don't know
if I want to win the Mayo bawl sometime about
again dumped.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
With cultural phenomenon, but you got to shower a lot afterwards.
Like the other part of relegation from the college football
standpoint that I think we have to acknowledge is that
not everybody in the conferences want the Vandy's out. Like
I talked to one SEC team a couple of years ago,
you know, making the Vanderbilt particular conversation because let's face it,

(38:44):
they don't invest in athletics and to the to the
right degree, and they never have and they don't care,
like their student body largely doesn't care. I learned that
national over time talking to people there, and I was
asking one person in the SEC a couple of years ago,
you know, at what point do you guys kick Vandy out?
And I got laughed at and the answer that I'll
never forget was we want Vandy in the SEC because

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not only does it help some of the academics. Sure,
that's great, it's an in conference win. You know you're
gonna get every single year. Like that's a real thing
for some of these like hey we you could say.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Each other, yeah, we necessary.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's a built in victory along with the other three
non conference built in victories SEC gets every year. So sure,
I get it.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I mean, if you're Tennessee, you're starting every year. Want
to know because you know you got Bandy coming up.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
That's right right after Valdasta state that your scheduled.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
The week before Figott state.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Hey, I'll take the payout by all means, I'll go
one on twenty two, bring it on.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
I once wrote a story from the eye of the
Pats scene.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
You tell me about this.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah, it was. It was cool.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
What the teams that get paid just to get drubbed
by these big you know, mammathed walking into the minds, then.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
The ones that get paid and come in and actually
pull the upset.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot that get drubbed though. Crazy.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Alright, Uh, listen, we got a lot of NFL to
get to next hour, so as we hang, we'll go
through all that stuff and Black Monday, where the fellas
right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
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Speaker 2 (41:01):
East Coast getting ready for a storm, at some I
maybe Boston. I think should be getting hit with a
lot of snow somewhere in New England. You see some
snow in the mid Atlantic States, is going to be
a lot of rain. It's a big nor'easter. But like
right now, guys, it's twenty four degrees. So you dodged it.

(41:25):
You know that FITSI you got out of Connecticut.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Oh yeah, no. But here's the thing. I'm very frugal.
You know, I'm frugal. Everybody knows I'm frugal. But I'm
also frugal for the companies I work for, Like I
spend everybody else's money like it's my own. So I'm
usually the person when I fly out, I will go.
There's one parking lot at thee at the Hartford Airport,
right there's one parking lot that's like it's a solid

(41:49):
ten minute drive from the airport, but it's only like
five bucks a day to park there.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
It's an outdoor, just awful lot.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
I usually park there because here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Even though I can.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
Expense this like it's corporate travel, like I can expense it,
I never want the bosses to look at the line
item at the end and be like, oh, why would we.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Be that much fat? Right?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
I saw the weather forecast before I left, when they
said fourteen inches of snow coming into too Hartford over
the weekend. It's like, Nope, I'm parking in the covered
garage that's right at the airport for like twenty five
bucks a day.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Nope, I am.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
I don't care if I gotta pay for it my
cheap you know what. Was like, Nope, I am not
gonna do it. I'm not gonna bury myself out, dig
myself out of snow when I get back from Houston.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing cousins.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yah, Yeah, that's all. That's miserable. No, you can't do that. Hey,
you made the right call, man, Listen, feel good about it.
If if it's you know, spring, summer, you know, no
problem to fight out a lot, you know what I mean? Yeah, fall, whatever,
but not like the dead of winter. There's nothing worse
than getting into a car that's frozen.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
Like I'm not getting I'm not getting the brush out.
That's the weirdest, the weirdest thing for anyone that's ever
never tri ever never. That's beautiful for anyone that's ever
traveled to New England. If you ever rent a car,
when you get there, like you know, when you're at
that time of the year when the car rental come,
like you just look in the back seat and there's
a brush sitting there. That's the snowbrush to tell you,
hey man, welcome to New England. That's a real thing

(43:14):
in every rental car when you start to hit like
November December, and it's the realization that you can bark
your car, go inside for an eight hour workday and
come out and you're like, there's eight inches of snow
all over my entire car that.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
I now have to deal with. Like it's it hits different,
my friend.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Yeah, it does so for uh, for us, it's twenty
four degrees right now. Now somehow the temperature is gonna rise,
so the storm hits at noon. We'll see if the
temperature rises fast enough for us to get rain instead
of snow.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Is that what you want? Would you prefer rain over snow?

Speaker 5 (43:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (43:52):
I want, I like snow. So do I be to Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 (43:56):
We like, we don't get nearly the amount of snow
snow two years here.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
It used to.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
When I was a kid, we were always gad you know,
maybe four five storms a year in winter, like significant
snow storms, and now it's like next to nil, So yeah,
I miss it.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
My My hottest of hot takes is that I would
rather shovel the driveway than mow the lawn, like like,
it doesn't bother me to to get out Like, so I.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Agree with that.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
Look at this, this is why the fellows work.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Like, I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Hey, if I'm mowing the lawn, which I'm allergic to
grass anyway, so I can't buy something.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
No, no, I'm allergic to that too.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
It's one of those When I was a kid, this
true story, when I was as opposed to the false ones.
When I was a kid, I would go out there,
my mom would make me mow the lawn, and I
would come inside and I'd be wheezing and I could
barely breathe, and my mom, being the tough woman that
she is, would look over and she'd be like, maybe
a fat ass needs to get in shape. That's my
mom used to always say, seeing to me after I'd
come in from mowing the lawn. Well, then in high school,

(45:03):
my senior year in high school, would see an allergistet
stung by a Bee would see an allergist, and the
allergist says to my mom, it's like, I'm really surprised
you guys have never noticed this. He has a very
severe allergy to cut grass. The chemical that is released
when you cut grass makes me welt up, like I
gotta roll my windows up if my neighbor's like cutting
the grass, Like, so it's bad for me. So it

(45:24):
saves me from mowing the grass. But that being said,
like I actually enjoy getting bundled up, put on the gloves,
get the tiny, like one hundred dollars snowblower that I
have that really doesn't blow anything, and just sort of
like make my way across the driveway takes like solid
thirty minutes, come inside, get some cocoa afterwards, Like, oh
that is divine.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
I'm all in for that.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, it's I'm completely with you, man. I'm still away
thinking's like what I'll the snow.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
You're like just enjoying a sixty one degrees in partly
cloudy the forecast for Los Angeles this weekend.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Figgy. So, I got in my uber in Houston when
I landed and it was like fifty five and the
guy had the heat cranking and he was like, oh man,
it's just so cold. And I looked at I was like, man,
this does not work for me. I like fifty five
coming out of Connecticut right now, I'm like doing, I'm.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Surprised fifty five is even hot and is I consider
cold in Houston even that's surprising to me.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
He was. He was cranking it.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Geez. Yeah, I've been I've been in the snow what
three times, two or three times in my life, and uh,
you know what, I was a fan, to be honest
with you, Uh no, it's all to the East Coast.
Went to Philly once when I was a kid, New
York another time when I was a kid, uh, And
it was cool. It was like it was a driving
like snow. I don't know if I can call it

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a storm.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
I mean you guys, you've actually experienced no storms.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
But it was.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
It was. It was pretty crazy when I was out
there in k but I enjoyed it. You know, you
were a kid and you hear about like white Christmas
is and all that.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
It was time.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
But I was like, wow, this is pretty cool. I'm
freezing my ass off, but it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
After being outside for about twenty men. So I was like,
all right, can we head inside and somebody light up
the fire and we can retire for the day.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
You know, you know, it's awesome about snow and a snowstorm.
What I love about storms is that everything kind of
shuts down. Yeah, yeah, and it's like you get like
two days, especially in the city, right because I lived
in the city forever. The city during a snowstorm, it's
like pristine, Like you don't see this until the snow

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turns gray and black with the soot and everything else.
But it's quiet, like all of a sudden, because there's
the buses stop running.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
The car.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
It's just quiet and you almost hear like the flakes
falling like feathers, and it's just beautiful, it really is.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
You have shown you your talents as a writer in
the situation because you're describing such a perfect scene. And
I tell people all the time, like, if you know,
going back to Christmas the end of the movie, you
know Christmas story where he's sitting on the couch and
it's facing the window and the snow is falling. That
doesn't necessarily happen at Christmas time anymore.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
For whatever reason in the world.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
But I feel like that is what I love about
February and Connecticut. Everybody I know that lives in Connecticut
absolutely hates January of every March because it's winter. To me,
it's that exact moment where like I'm sitting on the couch,
I got my dog curled up with me, I'm looking
out the big window. The snow is like halfway up
the window, and you realize like, hey, I can't go anywhere.
I'm not going to do anything, so I'm just gonna

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sit back and be calm for a little bit. And
it's like, I don't know, for me, it's serene.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
I think we as human beings, especially Americans, because we're
always on the go, you need that those moments, that
blocks of time of serenity, like of just peacefulness.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
I always laugh too, because then I've got friends that
are like, I've just got capin fever, I got to
do something. I'm like, you're the same people that wanted
to sit in a pool at the at the bar
in Mexico for like five straight days and just get drunk.
Like for me, I get bored there, Like if I'm
sitting in a pool in the middle of summer and
I'm not doing something, I get wildly bored. So like
it's it's funny how we're all different in how we

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respond to that. I find tremendous peace and being at
home inside in that atmosphere, knowing, hey, this is gonna
be a couple of days snowed in then we.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Can go there.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
But I don't find that same piece just you know,
sitting somewhere do it nothing I got you.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Well, you know what would be better during February is
if you had all like a full slate of football
to watch while you're see snobal.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
That's the thing that I and I've never experienced or gotten.
The you know, you're freezing your tail off. You're going
to a football game and you're literally sitting and or
standing there for three and a half hours watching a game.
That's that's next time, that's the worst. That's next level.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
That right there is the reason I watch this segue
into football. That right there is the reason that the
entire NFL is rooting against the Buffalo Bills, like nobody
wants to watch their favorite team have to go. Not
because I think the Bills are a great football team.
I think this year the Bills have been maddeningly and consistent.
They have some huge wards that were just glossing over
because we presumed coming into the season they'd be very good.

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But that being said, I don't think anybody wants to
have to go into Buffalo in January just chance it
that the weather's not going to create that exact atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Year one, you know, I mean, I think it's a
different story this year.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, But also one of the few teams that could
probably you know what, we can weather this. We were
used to it. We can handle it.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
It's just the thought of most of the Like, if
you're Jacksonville and you're thinking, man, might have to go
on the road to take on Miami.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
That's gonna be tough. Yeah, that is gonna be tough.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
If you're Jacksonville and you're like, might end up having
to go to Buffalo at some point, that.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Just heaven forbid Miami. The Buffalo gainst the two seat
in Miami has to hop up there for some reason.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Yea.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
And then all you need is that to be the
weekend that there's seventy four inches of snow and all
of a sudden, the whole season That's part of why
I hate this conversation so often of you know, what
does playoffs success mean for each of these individuals?

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Like the weather variable in.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
The playoffs is such a huge part of how these
games play out. It's it's the thing that I become
scared of. Maybe it's the remembering the tuck rule in
the snow. I'm the first to admit that that's part
of it, but I forget, like there is something about
Yea that I can't there is something about the variables
you cannot control, and the variables you cannot control in Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
With weather are more severe than they are in most places.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
I did, You're spot on. I mean, it's crazy. Did
you see Bill's Mafia taking over Miami? There are flights
and flights from Buffalo filled with Bill's Mafia.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
It's singing Bill's songs. It's pretty awes for.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Them, dude.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I So I flew to do people by way of
Orlando for some reason, and that was where my layover was.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
I'm not It's like I'm not a scholar. But it
seemed like there should be an easier way than Connecticut
to Orlando to Houston. But the Southwest had digress. The
funny thing to me is I was sitting and then
the flight was delayed. So I was sitting in the
Orlando airport for two and a half hours a couple
of nights ago. And the crazy thing is I was
sitting there, the food court was packed with people that

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were all wearing the same like nineties zubaz like Bills
pants and shirts, like they'd all out of it. I
sat there and I was like, man, this is the
connecting flight. Buffalo was out. So I'm not surprised to
hear that, because I note it was noticeable in the
Orlando airport that the entire place was taken over with
Bills fans.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Now, if I was a football fan of living in
Buffalo and I had a chance to get to Miami
in January, I'd probably do that too. So like SCE
to me, Yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Makes perfect sense. Man, this is perfect time, all right,
So let's do this. Let's go through every game of
the weekend. And we got playoff ratifications and we got
Black Monday ramifications, right, So we'll go through each of
the games and we'll look at the state of each
of these teams all right.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
And then I'm looking forward to this deep dive in
and he had I found maybe you're good?

Speaker 3 (53:19):
We good all that?

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Oh, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Well, I can hear Figgy's eyes rolling.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Now you know what, for once, I'm actually looking forward
to this. Let's do it all right? Every game?

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Let's go every game? I can just all right, that's good.
I will take quick time out. We'll come back and
we'll start with today's games. Yes, Steelers and Ravens, and
my god, the Ravens, they're amazing. We'll talk about both
those teams, the Steelers' chances. We'll talk about the playoff

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game that is tonight in Indianapolis where we got the
Chexans and the Cults. That's coming up next right here, fellas,
right on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas from the ti iraq
dot Com studios. Jason Fitz, Kevin Figures, I'm Anthony Gargano,

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Shay and Mighty Mark.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
All right, a couple of things, let's get right to it.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
So first on the docket, the Mighty Mighty Ravens, who
I've destroyed Miami. After destroying the Niners, they absolutely annihilated
the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Lamar cemented his MVP rain.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
They signed Dalvincook too, which I thought it was a
good move. And you know what, look I mean you
saw the Jets were just a mess of their offensive line.
Breace Hall, who's a I think a star waiting to happen.
I couldn't get enough carries on the field. Dalvin Cook
had like seventy touches all season long, so he's fresh.

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You saw what Zeke being fresh in New England kind
of breathes a little life into him. They could get
a little something with Dalvin Cook for the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
I like that move a lot.

Speaker 5 (55:13):
And there are certain moves that I look at and
to oversimplify, just say why not, right, Like, why not
add a little bit of depth there? Give themselves that situation.
It's good for the player, it's good for the team.
I think it's frankly, it's good for Everybody's the smart.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
And they're running back. Yep, I've gotten beat up, you
know it just lost Keaton Mitchell. It was a big
weapon too. That fits you.

Speaker 5 (55:32):
Yeah, and by the way, you mentioned rising star like
he every week. I feel like we've looked at that
over the course of the year and been like is
this Mitchell thing sustainable or is it just popping big
runs And it looks like it is sustainable, you know
for them, So congratulations, I'm fine to that. But yeah,
I think anytime you can add depth going into this,
why not, especially when you know what's on the line
for the Ravens, Like, let's be let's be honest. I

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think they understand that that building what it's taken most
of us two months to figure out, this is that
super window for him. So why not add a little
bit of depth knowing that you're going into a situation
in the playoffs where you're gonna get that coveted by,
You're going to get that home field advantage.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Everything is lined up the right way for Baltimore right now.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Yeah, I mean think how about it likely becomes a star,
Andrews goes down, likely becomes terrific. They had directed likely
and Charlie Kohlar two tight ends and their back it's
paying off is eight Flowers Is Flowers an amazing player,
right You got obj and.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
An incredible defense, and you watch Lamar.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
And you know he's been just magical, Like just I
think one of the things that is and you go
back to thinking about last offseason where anybody could have
him right, like it's it's wild. But you go back
to what Lamar has become and I just think he
understands the positions so much better, Like it just clicked

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in the focus for him, and he's just he makes
every read, every throw. I mean, he's ridiculous just spinning
it off as a risk thrower.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
But he's been just playing some amazing quarterback.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, with a lot of question marks surrounding him as
to why he didn't really get a lot of action
last offseason. The contract, he wanted, all the guaranteed money,
like Deshaun Watson, his mom was his agent, he had
knee injuries, he was dealing with, so a lot of
reasons as to why he didn't get the sort of
attention that he was looking for from other teams. But
he signed the EXTENSI with Baltimore, and obviously everybody wins out.

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The thing I'm most happy about here is if you
look at his statistics, they're not really gaudy at all.
They're not anywhere close to what they were his second
year in the league when he was a league MVP
in Baltimore. You know, had that unceremonious exit against Tennessee.
But it shows that a player can have such great
value and be a difference maker for a franchise, and
it goes beyond the statistics. Every single time, he doesn't

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have to put up gaudy numbers. You know the difference
that he makes specifically when they're playing against quality opponents,
and he plays his best when they're going against the best,
And that's all you can ask. And he even though
his numbers are not astronomical, and you know, all these
numbers through the roof, all the passing yards and the
tough passing touchdowns. I think he has twenty four to
twenty five on the year. You cannot argue that he's

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not the most viable player in the NFL with the
production he's had in the biggest moments in the biggest games.

Speaker 4 (58:25):
Well, isn't this where Cousin is right?

Speaker 5 (58:29):
Oftentimes because y'all know that I'm the guy that comes
in and I'm like, yeah, we'll look at the numbers constantly.
And this is one time where I'm like, you have
a look at the tape, like just just missing all
this conversation about like, watch the couple of things that
stand out is that he.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Doesn't ever make the wrong play, it feels like.

Speaker 5 (58:45):
And then when you talk about the thing that I
think makes mahomes indefensible so often is that as he
climbs the pocket, he keeps his hips and his feet
forward in a way where he can always still throw
the ball with the flick of the wrist. This year,
particularly in ways that I don't think we have seen
the last few years.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
We've seen that from Lamar.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
I think Tom Munkin has found a way to unlock
the while you are moving you can still chuck the
ball down field. And the accuracy on some of those throws,
I mean, I get the likely we keep talking about
the one handed catch for likely. I think he also
put that ball in kind of the only bleaks he
could right like while he's jumping and throwing the football,
because he got his hips lined up like. That's the

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thing that I think is really impressive. You know when
he talks two guys that played and you do this
all the time because with Baldy, right like, when you
actually look at at the way he's doing what he's doing,
I just think that anybody that's sitting here and saying, yeah,
but the numbers tell you that's just that's just their
way of saying they haven't watched the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
You said it beautifully.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
It's funny because I was just about to say the
same thing, Like it's one of those things where you
watch him and you go, oh wow, I get it.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
You know, you're spot on it.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
And you brought up Monkey who's done an amazing job
as as Mike McDonald on defense for the Ravens. Like
that Ravens defense that they play that matchup zone, which
is awesome. It's nasty, right, I mean they got a
great front, you got you know, they just float to
the football.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
You got real linebackers.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
I mean they are they Roquon and Patrick Queen, Like,
they're just nasty, man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
They're They're really good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
And I think the only time I've kind of saw
them vulnerable was against you. Like, the quarterback has to
play perfect. And we broke this down Baldy and I
in the film room, and it was Stafford. And Stafford
was so good, was so quick and accurate that that

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was the only quarterback that gave them real trouble.

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
Well, now, now let's play that forward a second, because
part of what we're looking at here is what it
means for everybody, right, Like, how many quarterback in the
AFC playoff discussion are the type of quarterback that are
known to get the ball out of their hand quickly, accurately,
tight window throws that they run with urgency. I'm not
talking about a mobile guy that can beat you twenty

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seven different ways. I'm talking about a slice and dice,
stand there guy, which is what Stafford is right Like,
I don't think there are many quarterbacks, if any, in
the AFC playoff conversation that really fit that mold.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
So you know, styles make fights.

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
I feel like the Ravens are even stylistically in a
pretty good situation. If that's the type of quarterback it's
going to take to beat him, I don't think they're
going to face that much.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
The only one who could, and he doesn't fit this
profile because he's turned the ball over too much in
his short tenure since he's been back, is Joe Flacco.
He's a guy who can stand back there, stand tall,
and pick you apart a bit. But he's he's been great,
but he's also been a little bit reckless and against
this defense here for the postseason and as far as
just fitting the profile. No, no, you're a type of

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player that he'd be the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
No, No, you're you're right. No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
No, It's funny because I said the same thing that
the Browns the only team that match that really kind
of matches up against Baltimore, and that could be like
an amazing game. Here's the thing about Flacco that's different
than Stafford is that because he's so big, he extends
plays almost like Roethlisberger. And that's that could be a

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little bit dangerous because it's it's they're so quick and
flow to the ball, but the longer if the quarterback
could extend to play on them and is accurate, that's
when the defense is a little vulnerable, but.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
It goes accurate on the move a little bit too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
So he is I mean you so over that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
I mean Litsten that game got crazy against the Jets,
but he I mean like he was throwing dimes all over.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
It feels like we're headed in my mind to a
Browns Ravens AFC championship game. I mean, they are the
two teams playing the best right now, that the two
most complete teams right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
They're the two closest.

Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
Things I can say to trusting in this playoff conversation.
So you know, I don't trust Miami for obvious reasons
I just mentioned.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
I think the Bills have been a bit of a I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Think the Bills are legit. I'll be honest with you,
I FITZI, I think the Bills are legit with Cook
because Cook has just been incredible, right, So I think
they kind of understand like if the balls inside the
five or inside the three, Josh is going to take it.
Otherwise we're gonna run it with Cook, right and then

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and then we'll throw off the running game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
There's just so Jaklin Hyde, you just don't know what's
gonna get from Buffalo. And I know they've played well,
you know, down the stretch here, but I mean they
easily could have lost to the Patriots.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
Yeah, football games, but that's there's a difference there. Like
I think the Patriots the Chargers were two games that
they almost lost. And I'm looking at it saying, my god,
like I'm with you. I look at all of it
on paper like this is one of those things where
you open up the dating app and by god, she
looks perfect, and then you go out on a date

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and you're like Nope, I'm out. Like that's where I
am with the Bills at this point, Like everything is
supposed to be perfect because it looks perfect and the
talent's there, and you would think that there's the ability
to go out and win a bunch of games. But man,
and the funny thing is, I think the Bills are
gonna beat the Dolphins. I genuinely think that's gonna happen tomorrow.
I still do not trust them at all in the
playoffs because they have not shown up too many times

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this year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
All right, well, we'll get to them coming up in
a minute. But let's let's talk about the Steelers for
a second. Because Ball Theer's not gonna play, obviously, Lamar
not playing. They're gonna sit a bunch of guys. Although
Hontley is a good I like Huntley, it's a backup.
I think he's dangerous. So this is not a walk
for the Steelers. But since Rudolph has been quarterback, the

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offense looks so much better. Man, They're getting the ball,
the pickings they're able to. That has opened up the
run game.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Nine M.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Seattle is not good against the run. And you know
Warren and Nagy had their way last week. So that's
not going to happen against Baltimore. But they do need
the game to give them a chance to get into playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
But here's the craziest thing, Like, if the Steelers win
this game, a year that we have made sound like
just the wheels are falling off the entire organization. We've
had media people come in and saying this isn't Steeler football.
You got Ben out there saying maybe the Steelers don't
even remember who they were.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
All of these things.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
You got people calling for Tomlin to maybe be let
go and go somewhere else. Steelers win, they get to
ten and seven, ten wins, like we're talking about this
season like it's been just an absolute dumpster fire, which
just shows how stupidly some of the conversation has been
dominated for the Steelers, Like maybe they're not a tremendous

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football team, but man, like it's hard for me to
put them in the category, say.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
A tremendous football team we had.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
A quarterback right right exactly, or it's extremely difficult. You
have a pretty dominant defensive run game if you're gonna
get to that point in time and they don't have it.
The crazy part Is you spend a first round pick
on Kenny Pickett. You're throwing miss Trubisky and we know
what he is at this point in time. Now, Mason
Rudolph comes in and plays well, Mason Rudolph gets him
into the postseason, and hean't forbid they actually win a

(01:06:19):
playoff game. I don't think they will, but if they did,
are you going into the offseason now saying like there's
gonna be a quarterback battle between Mason Rudolph and Kenny
Pickett for.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Your start dealing?

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
You know what I'm doing. I'm doing Who's who's available? Yeah,
you're looking right fields available? Is Kyler Murray available?

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Like that? I'm looking. I'm squarely looking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
Like I think the two teams that have to look,
or three teams have to look, whether draft or free
agency or whatever. Is you got it. You're Atlanta. It's
clust you a season and Washington has to have a cart.
I mean, I think show God bless him. Plays plays
really hard and he's a tough kid, But I don't

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think he's your answer. Pittsburgh. You gotta have a quarterback,
yea gona need the whole makeover.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Yeah, there's a lot of looking for quarterbacks is the issue.
You know, the Raiders are in there. Saints, yeah, you're
gonna stay with him. You know, there's a lot of
quarterback needed teams. Denver is going to be in that mix.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Going to have to draft something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
You know, it's weird. I think they'll draft somebody. Peyton
likes Stidham. I think he wants Stidham to take over that.
I don't think it plays out like this without Peyton
because he knows he's going to be in cap hell.
But if Stifham's your quarterback and they're paying him nothing,

(01:07:49):
I think that kind of you can get by over
the next year or two because I think he's building
that team. I don't think this is like some five
year thing. I think he's wants to try to get
to the next year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
You'll consider how they played the majority of this. I mean, look,
they got off to a bad start and then got
hot and then kind of tailed off towards the end. There.
If they can play, you know, play good defense, run
the ball, and if Jared Stidham can be at least
as effective and maybe not turn the ball over as
often as Russell Wilson, maybe they can be in the
same situation next season and be competing for a playoff spot,
which if they're going to be in cap hell, which

(01:08:21):
they will be with Russ's contract, that's probably the best
you can ask for.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
I mean, they're in a kind of an interesting situation
where all they have to do is decide they're going
to keep Stidham and then let's see what the draft does.
Right Like, if one of these quarterbacks have fallen and
somebody they love happens to be there, great, and if not,
then you address best player on the board, you keep
addressing your whole roster, and you try and go after
a quarterback next year.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
You know, I think they can.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
They have the luxury of trying to be patient because
at least they have I'm not gonna say Jared Stidham
is going to be very good, but at least they
have somebody capable that they can put. I mean, you
mentioned Tyler Huntley earlier in playing for the Ravens. I
was a little surprised that Huntley didn't get some action
this offseason to try and get a shot somewhere. Like,
I think we're desperate enough at quarterback right now that
every name is going to be out there. You know,

(01:09:05):
it is interesting to see because Figgi's right, there are
so many teams that need a quarterback. If you're the Steelers,
you're gonna have to be aggressive because there is no
way you can keep doing this and Kenny Pickett's not
the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
It's just not no you could tell, you know, I
mean here Mac Jones, like, you know, it's a shame
like at some point if all Picket had a chance,
but you just don't say it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
You just see flashes here and there, but not nearly
consistent enough. He looks like a backup.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Yeah, what do you think of Levis because I think
he's got more of a chance than say mac Jones
or or Picket.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
Yeah, I think Levis is one of the most interesting
things that we're going to see this offseason because right
now the Titans would pick seventh in the draft, so
they will in theory have a shot at probably one
of the top four quarterbacks draft. I would think, you know,
maybe even one of the top three, depends on how
it plays out. I think three are going to go one, two, three.
But there is some level here of like, if you're

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the Titans, you can't keep wasting picks on quarterbacks and
not giving him a chance, like well Levis was they
traded up in the second round to get him. You
got to give the kid a chance at some point,
I would think, I don't know though the rest of
the team is terrible. If I'm the Titans, I'm just
looking at best player available. Let's just start an entire
roster rebuild. It's interesting too, because I still can't get

(01:10:31):
a sense on if Mike vrabel is back next year
for the Titans, and that's going to make a huge
difference in all this too.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
I think he's entering his lame duck season two, so
this is kind of the time we were talking about
an extension or you know, what are you going to
end up doing there? But I think it's too early
to cut bayd on Levis. Look, I wasn't necessarily a
fan of his coming out of college, and he show flashes.
He's had some solid performances, just not the consistency. But
it fits his point. I mean, doesn't really have a
lot of weapons to work with, and the offensive lines

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have been that good and Derek Henry yes has crossed
a thousand yard rushing mark, but it's definitely hit the
decline at this point. So you have a rookie quarterback
that doesn't have a lot to work with, you can't
really expect all that much. So I think it's a
little bit too early or premature to try to draw
a judgment based on what he can or can be
because he just hasn't had much to work with.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Yeah, I feel you, I completely feel you, all right,
the Texans and the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Oh, this is a great game.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
I love the Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
I like the Texas, and I I just love CJ.
The level of quarterback play. It's completely eclipped to anything
I thought he would be at. I thought he was
a project. I thought he was going to be good,
but I thought it would take some time. He's just
been incredible. I mean, I mean playing amazing quarterback.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
And to me, this game is very simple, which team
is going to make the mistake? And so far this year, Now,
I know the Colts didn't make a mistake last week,
but so far this year c J. Stroud has not
typically made the mistake that cost his team a game,
and we have seen Gardner do that a couple of times. Right, So,
to me, if all things being equal, going into this matchup,

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I like the Texans in the game, simply because I
can't believe I'm saying this about a rookie that hasn't
even finished his first year.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
I trust c J.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
Stroud far more than I trust Gardner Minshew. And that's
just I trust the weapons too. I trust the entirety
of the Texans' ability to hold on to the football.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
I think the Texans win this football game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Yeah. Yeah, the people that made it play last week
for Indianapolis with the zebras who called Jack Jones off
sides on a clearly he was not and got a
good jump on the field goal block. But I digress.
I agree with you guys when we come back to
Houston on this one.

Speaker 8 (01:12:42):
C J.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Stroud, to your point, has been absolutely amazing, and they
look they have the one game where case Keenum got
the start and he played well and didn't play well
the following week. The fact that we're at a time
now where a rookie quarterback can make that much of
a difference for an offense and it looks night and
day when he's not in there just tells you how
amazing of a player that he is and the impact
that he's made from day one to your point, and

(01:13:04):
He's an enjoyable watch. Every time I get a chance
to watch the Houston Texans, I make sure that I
do when c. J. Stroud is playing, because it's it's
amazing to watch a rookie work the way that he does.
I will give credit to the Indiapolis coas Stephen being
in this position, because there are a lot of people
coming into the season stand they're not good. You know,
Richardson gets hurt early in the season. Minshew is a

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backup and for a back, and I think he's a
really quality backup. To ask him to play for the
basically the entire season, He's done an admirable job. And
Psychin is gone a really good job getting this team
to nine and potentially ten victories and even knocking on
the door for the playoffs when a lot of people
thought this was a four or five win team.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
Gardner's gonna start somewhere right next year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:45):
He's gonna be a bridge guy, right, I guess see
one of those teams.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
That starts if.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Depending on how the offseason breaks down and who drafts who,
and if the if a rookie is not ready yet,
I can see him being a bridge guy. One hundred per.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
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(01:14:21):
As we hang out on this incredible week. Last week eighteen,
two interesting games, we were talking about Steeves Ravens, Texans Cults.
Enough can't be said about Change Stikeen and what he's done.
He not only have the Cults been really good nine

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and seven, the whole thing, but Dave endured injuries. You
mentioned the quarterback spot with Anthony Richardson and Minshew having
to come in. But beyond that, I mean Taylor's been
in and out, Pittman has been in and out. Their
defense has been split by injuries at times. I mean

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they've been banged up. For a team that's still alive
in the AFC South, they've been banged up.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Yeah, I think that's a huge key of why sometimes
the context of where season's gone as we start to
look forward, and it's always difficult to look into future
years because the league changes over so much.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
But if you're the Colts organization.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Right now, you've got to feel good about the fact
that you've got some young guys locked up that you
know can play, and you've got young guys that are developing,
like Pittman is has truly become this revelation, right, Like
Pittman is not just pretty good, like right now, if
you're the culture looking at and saying, we have a
great weapon. So yeah, you start to look at the
way the roster is constructed and you feel like, man,

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it's amazing how different we feel about the Texans and
the Cults frankly right now compared to where we thought
we would feel a year ago. Right, So kudos to them,
and that's why I think this is such a building block.
It is crazy that they've lost a year of reps
for Anthony Richardson, because I do think we can't forget
the one argument on Anthony coming in into the draft

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is that he just hadn't played a lot of football.
So it's interesting that that's what we thought this year
was going to be, was this learning curve year for
Anthony richards and now that's going to be next year
as he tries to learn and rock that knock the
rust off like, that's a kind of a weird dynamic
to go into next season with considering the success they've had.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Yeah, especially difficult because he did get a few reps
in the season opener and played pretty well against Jacksonville.
So and then you talk about getting guys getting mental reps, Well,
he wasn't even to get able to get practice reps either.
He just bent the entire year rehabbing. So that's no
reps whatsoever. It's be different if he was sitting on
the bench as a rookie and just sitting behind a
veteran and getting mental and physical reps in practice. He

(01:16:41):
hasn't even been able to do that. And by the way,
for a team like the colt some people would say like, oh,
they haven't played anybody on their schedule. I mean, you
realize they beat Houston earlier this year. They actually beat
Baltimore and overtime earlier this year. I mean, they have
some quality wins on their schedule. Granted most of them
were early in the season, but Tampa Bay is a
playoff caliber team. I'll be in the NFC South, but

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it's not like they've just had this cupcake schedule that
they've run through to get to nine wins, They've had
some really tough opponents that they've played when they've played
really tough in most of these games, So I think
it's a positive moment for them moving forward.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
But Figgie, like, I'm just going to make this bold
proclamation about the NFL this year. I think any conversation
about who you have or haven't beaten this year should
just be used as toilet paper, like it is completely
useless because this has been the most inconsistent up and
down year I can ever remember in the NFL where
a bad team comes out in place with the thunder
of the gods, and so you can turn around and say, well,

(01:17:33):
how did you lose to the Cardinals? Then you watch
the game and say, man, the Cardinals came out and
played lights out. This wasn't playing down to an opponent,
This was an opponent playing up to that moment, right Like, So,
I think because you're totally right in what you're saying
in the context of their season, I just am also
going to add the extra level here of because this

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year was so inconsistent as far as bad teams that
came out big at different times. I think frankly, every
win actually has a lot of weight this year in
the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
It's fair.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Oh, We'll say, considering how how the Eagles have played
of late, last week was a really bad omen for
them against the Arizona Cardinals team that does not typically
run the ball very well, and they just out muscle them.
I mean, they out physical with them from day from
from jump, if not from a couple of big plays
in a pick six. I mean, Arizona was dominating that
game pretty much from start to finish, despite the fact

(01:18:26):
they were amusing at halftime.

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Well, I'll give you the state of the Eagles. It's
not it's not good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
Let me ask you this, who's mailed it in?

Speaker 5 (01:18:34):
Like because usually at this point of the like, I'll say,
Carolina is you know, Carolina has been an easy win
all year. Outside of Carolina, do we really believe like
New England is one of the worst teams in the
NFL not for lack of effort.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
I mean Giants White did Giants play hard?

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
For sure?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
I mean Washington's been a little.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
Yeah, Washington, they've been lucky, but there don't have you know,
I mean, I just still can't believe they traded away
when they trade away Chase Young Montest sweat.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Yeah, like that was a big that was it for
their defense.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Their defense just became horrid.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
It was actually puzzling for me that they traded Montes,
that Chicago traded for him. But he's made a difference
and they put themselves to a great position at the
end of the season going into next year.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Oh my god, we gotta talk about the Bears, Like, yeah,
we've been talking about them a lot, but yeah, you know,
it's funny. The team that missed out on Montest sweat
was the Lions. Like, could you imagine if you guys
him opposite Hutchinson's shoes? Scary it would have been. It
would have been frightening, it really would. We got a
full slate on Sunday games to get to all kinds

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of a high drama, and uh we got Monday, which
is Black Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
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be fellas going over. The NFL had a looked about
tonight's games, and let's look at tomorrow boys. As we
dive into it and we begin, Tampa can win the
NFC South Derrik Carolina Carolina. Well, first, let's tackle the Buccaneers.

(01:20:54):
Can the Buccaneers make any noise like it's funny? They
got trounced last week two weeks ago? They look good.
Baker was sensational a couple of weeks ago. Can the
Buccaneers like especially if they match up against like say,
the Eagles. Can the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win a playoff game?

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Nah? No. The thing of it is, you're right.

Speaker 5 (01:21:18):
And Baker, by the way, gonna make himself some money
today if they make the playoffs. He gets a nice
little cash bonus for that too, So good for him.
I hope that that opportunity comes. I think Baker is
interesting because part of the Bucks season sort of becomes
about what we've seen from him in my mind, and
you just mentioned a couple of weeks ago he looked
fantastic and then sort of the wheels fell off. I'm

(01:21:38):
trying to figure out what's real with Baker Mayfield, what's
real with the Bucks, what's real with how good they
actually are. I just think every year there's one of
those teams. And we always used to see Hawks years
ago in the losing record, there's one team that you're like, eh, yeah,
you made the playoffs, Congratulations, you weren't any good. I'm
not saying the Bucks aren't good. I just think that
they're a lot closer to being one of those teams

(01:22:00):
than they are to being an actually good foot. Like
I know, the Eagles have their wards and the sky
is falling and it hasn't looked as good as it should.
But I still think that you just you stack the
two of them together. If I had to bet my house,
I would take Philly over Tampa right now.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Yeah, because you spotlight Tampa and say, Okay, what's one
thing that they do exceptionally well, I don't know if
there is. You know, they they don't run the ball
exceedingly well. Rash Out White is solid at times. Baker
Mayfield had a good year, but certainly had to make consistencies.
And I don't really trust them defensively either. Most weeks
they're fairly inconsistent. So even against the team that is

(01:22:34):
as inconsistent as the Eagles are, I really don't know
if I trust them to really make a lot of
noise against any potential opponent in the NFC playoffs in the.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
First round, to be honest, So I obviously I would
agree with you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
The only thing that would give me pause against.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Tampa and it is a fact the Eagles back seven
so bad, Yeah that you got you still got Mike
Evans and you still got God when they both can
play so and in Cotton's not a bad tight end,
so are kaye Otton. So I mean that would be
the only danger, like why the game could be a

(01:23:11):
swag because I could see Baker from for like three
hundred yards and the game being you know, I could
see the Eagles like winning, but it would be like
twenty seven, twenty four or something along those lines.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
All this too has me and I was going to
run this by you today anyway, to me, you see
the demise. I won't say the demise, you see the
step back from the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
Let's say it that way.

Speaker 5 (01:23:33):
This year, we've talked a lot about the fact that,
you know, coordinators, replacing coordinators isn't always easy, and then
you see what particularly those two coordinators have done as
head coaches. I think it just speaks to how good
the staff was last year and how much Chef's kiss
credit the coaches deserve and part of what was accomplished there,
because like the loss of Shane steike and Jonathan Gannon

(01:23:54):
has been as significant as anything we've seen in the
NFL this year when you look at the impact it's
had on any particular team. The Eagles taking a step back,
the Colts taking a step forward. The Cardinals, while they're
not a great football team, have played really tough and
have had some big wins along the way. Like, I
feel like there's some sort of a coaching statement that
comes out of what's happened from those former coordinators of

(01:24:14):
the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Yeah, I'll tell you this, they missed stiking big time.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
They do. They Missedtyking in a big, big way. I
like Brian Johnson a lot. I don't know that he's
ready to or that he was ready to be the
play caller. I thought they were proved too predictable, you know.
I think stike In was sharp, and I think he's
showing that in Indianapolis. As far as the defense concern,

(01:24:46):
not taking either from Gannon and they had a ton
of sacks last year, But there was a couple of
things that played in their favor. One their front was
so ridiculous last year. Yeah, I mean, Hargrave was amazing.
Son was amazing. Uh, you got veterans like Brandon Graham
and Fletcher Cox.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
They were a year younger. So this year, I mean
he had a rookie wall.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Jordan Davis and Baldy pointed this out the other day
during our show. George Davis has just been a non factor.
He's barely a factor in the run game. Like, he's
just been a huge disappointment.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
He made such an impact for them last year. That's surprising.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Yeah, he's I mean, he has been bad and non
existent in passing down and passing down. He's out of shape,
Baldy said, he heard it. You know, they're struggling with
his weight. That was always the fear with him is
that you know, would he be okay, you know, would
be able to navigate and take care of himself. So
that's been a big problem. And then they're back their

(01:25:50):
back ends not good Yeah, not good man, Well he's
been out.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
I mean the back end to a degree was there
Achilles Hill last year, but it was covered up because
the seven was so good.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
That's I mean, that's the approach for so many teams,
Like we hear that for years, but I think you
really see it this year that you know, you as
a team, when you build your your structure right now,
I think you've got to decide you're gonna either be
dominant in coverage or you're gonna be dominant in trying
to rush the passer. And we are seeing so many
we talked about this about a month ago.

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
There are so many freakish.

Speaker 5 (01:26:23):
Pass rushers in the NFL right now, Like that seems
to become the methodology. Can you get somebody that can
get after the quarterback quickly? And pass rushers are gonna
make more and more and more money. Like we're living
in an era where, you know, a generation to go,
it would have been any one of these guys getting
after the pastor would have been the guy for that generation,
like Max Crosby would have been a superstar in the

(01:26:44):
like defining league guy my uh Garrett would have been
one of those guys. JJ Watt would have been or
t J Watt would have been one of those guys. Like,
and they're all right now feasting in the league at
the same time, right, Like, Yeah, that's just it's amazing
how pass rush has really impacted everything.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
No, I know, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
The other thing that I think was I don't want
to say half a fool gayzy, but if you go
back last year, they did not this year. They played
the first play schedule last year. They did not last year.
They did not play uh many good quarterbacks. They got
lucky that they faced a lot of teams without your
either they faced bad quarterbacks or quarterbacks who were hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
Even in the.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Playoffs, they got, you know, six plays at a party
and then you had to face the Giants and Daniel
Jones and that was it until you face Mahomes who
weigh them up on one leg. So I think their
defense last year was a bit of I don't want
to say it a fraud, but it was it was,
there were factors.

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
Is it is it? Is it gazy?

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
It's a little gayzy, little yeah, a little big.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Like the name of a rapper, little gayzy. Oh my god,
that's what you know what? Nevermind, guys, forget it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
I quit. I'm gonna go make a rap album that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
I'm just I'm gonna be a little gazy and that's
gonna be my name.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
And I'm gonna be a hip hop since.

Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
If you can fiddle while spitting bars at the same time,
I mean, I mean, I will bow with your feet,
let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
If the the phrase spitting bars, the way I say
that in and of itself shows you that I should
never be part of hip hop in general, like there
is zero reason that I should actually make a hip
hop record. All the more reasons like I'm gonna be
the Lindsay Sterling of hip hop violin and I'm just
gonna spit bars.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
I'm gonna show my flow as as as as as
I make an iconic hip hop album works for me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
I love it, a little gazy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
Little gayzey.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
I love it because a little gayzy figie man at.

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
You won't get a man.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
You imagine that that way that's a little gayzy over there.

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
Did I just get my Philly nickname? Did I just
get all? You know you're making it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
Like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
Because yeah, I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
I like it roll, it's gayzy. What's some gazy it flows?

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Does it flows? That's man a little gazy over there. Yeah,
it's good. It's good people.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
There's so much now because I'm just saying, like we are.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Sha works shouts more of a nickname than the first name.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
Can we double it up?

Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
Can it be like like and it's just there, like
something extra. I'm just thinking, like we walk into the bar,
we're rolling deep into the bar, and we walk in
and you're like, yeah, that's cousin Figgy and that's a
little gayzy and that's sh I mean, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Yeah, Shah works. I like, I'm definitely works. It works.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
Say you gotta spit pars for us.

Speaker 6 (01:30:04):
At some point, me and my me and my friends
we used to, uh, we used to have this rap
game we used to play and you would have to
like rhyme three words back to back to back. But
then you can't stay within like the same like like
the same genre of like whatever you were talking about
and we would just go around for like hours on it,
and one time we went for like twenty minutes without

(01:30:26):
like messing up.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
And I don't know, I don't know why I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Explaining this, but it was just a game that we
played just between us and it was a lot of fun.
But yeah, I'm a I'm a rapist, as you could say,
a rapper rapist.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
A rapist rapper is better. Let's go with that one. Yeah,
I'm not a fan of the previous one. It sounds
a little too close to something we'd Yeah, I was
thinking I don't think it would be alone our shaw.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Yeah, yeah, fellas gonna watch.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
All right, two piece. You are talk about a violation.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
He wants to be a rapist better of his trappists. Uh,
let me tackle this real quick, Carolina. Uh, first of all,
who's the coach? Do you want to work for Temper?

(01:31:33):
Because David Tepper is a guy, is it? Obviously howly successful,
very very wealthy, one of the most wealthiest people in
the country.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
But very hands on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Like I heard stories that he would like the offensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Not this year, this is going back.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Would did not know who the quarterback would be until
Tapper said it like it was. It was like that, Yeah,
that's like those old stories that you like on Wednesday,
like what who's wait, you can start? It was that
sort of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:32:15):
So I think when you ask who the coach is
going to be h not to not to give you
a bailout answer here, but this, this one's pretty simple
to me. I think every substantial candidate that even takes
an interview with Carolina Panthers is simply using the entire
organization for leverage to get a real contract somewhere else.
They're going to end up with a coordinator that we're

(01:32:35):
not expecting. And I don't think the thing of it is.
I think the lasting effect of the Frank Reich experience
is that if you're a second term coach, if you're
one of those guys that you know, I saw somebody
the other day saying Raheem Morris, for example, deserves some
interviews in a shot. If you're a guy like that
that wants your opportunity to show that you do belong

(01:32:56):
as a head coach in the league, and you realize
you're probably not going to get a third chance, I
don't think there's any chance to taking the Carolina job.
So I feel like this ends up being kind of
like Matt Rule came from out of nowhere in that
sense when he took that job. I think this ends
up being some sort of a coordinator that we're all
looking at saying, oh, like somebody that's just taken the
stab at a bunch of money and hopeful that they

(01:33:17):
can be the one that gets it right. I don't
think this is where any of the big name options go.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
I'm thinking like a David Cully, who's a guy that just, hey,
just itching to get a head coaching job. I've been
in the league for a while. I just want to
see what I can do. Ben Johnson, anybody that will
be in this year, I will say, fine, take the
interview to put it on the resume. For the love
of God, do not work for this guy. Do not
take this job. There's gonna be better jobs. The offense
is going to be better next year, other jobs. There'll

(01:33:44):
be other opportunities for you. But if this is the
one that his name is, and this is the one
he's been connected to more than any other, there's no
way in hell I go work for David Tepper right now.
Absolutely think he's.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
Just using that fifteen million dollars a year price tag
to let the Chargers and the Raiders and the Patriots know,
like where his where his price tag's gonna end up?

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Well? Yeah, interesting?

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
I Brown's and Bengals Bengals out. They put a valiant
effort that Bengals day have to lose in Barrow, but
they're they're cooked. And uh and then Cleveland Joe, how
about this? How about Flacco sits on Sunday tomorrow to

(01:34:28):
protect him for the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
I think that's wild? Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
You think Flacco is is back next year? Like, I'm
not even trolling with this, Like he's played well enough.
I know he's four thy, seven hundred and thirty two
years old, But I mean, if you're the Browns, he's
played well enough that you you got to consider at
least bringing it back if he's willing, right, Like, But.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
I mean, if you're him, don't you say maybe I
go start the chance to start, because Deshaun Watson is
going to start next year by the way, you're thirty eight, right, yeah,
which I mean in today in the NFL as a quarterback.
I mean, and look what he's done with no training camp.
He's played five games. He's gonna win Comeback Player of
the Year, probably playing amazing after sitting on the couch
the entire offseason. You get this guy a full training

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camp with another team that has just a modicum of talent.
This guy can still play for a couple more years.

Speaker 6 (01:35:15):
I know, if he wins the Super Bowl, I don't
think he'll play again.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
I think he'll have a way to walk off. That's
exactly I think he'll walk off. You imagine winning a
championship for Baltimore and then coming back and winning a
championship for Cleveland. Yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (01:35:31):
Win a championship for the Browns. The first thing you
do is you go buy a palace in Cleveland for
your whole family. You move there because you're never going
to pay for anything for the rest of your life,
and you're gonna be a hero. You're gonna be in
every parade. You you're the starting quarterback that wins the
Browns of Super Bowl. My god, that that that you're
a made man.

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
For the rest your statue next to Lebron's would it
would solidifyz I mean the last time, the last time I've.

Speaker 6 (01:35:52):
Talked about Joe Flacco before he was on the Browns.
I was calling him lazy. Oh this guy that got lazy.
He won a Super Bowl ring and just didn't care.
He just kind of was just going through the motion,
just being a high paid quarterback in the NFL. That's
literally what everyone was saying, Like just no one was
really talking about Joe Flacco. But the fact that we're
even having this discussion that he might walk off after

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winning a super Bowl with the Browns is like something
that you would have to slap me in the face
and be like, no, you're lying to me.

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
There's no way this is real.

Speaker 6 (01:36:24):
So it's just the fact that we're talking about this
right now, I think just for him is like one
of the coolest things. And then on top of it,
just the fact that he's giving the Browns a Super
Bowl and just being a Browns fan, Like, are you
kidding me?

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
The only variable.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
And look, I haven't talked to her, been around anyone
that knows him for several years, but I did in
the Baltimore days. I knew his agent really well at
the time. And the one thing that I always got
the impression of with Joe is that he's he's perceived
a certain way because he's just not a dynamic human being.
Like he's very low key in everything he does. He

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absolutely loves football, like he lives eats breeze football. That's
all he cares about. Like there are pretty legendary stories
of him being offered massive endorsement deals and he's like, Eh,
I don't really care about that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
I just want to play football.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
Well, I will tell you that's true. I know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
I mean he lives twenty minutes from me, literally, I
mean he lives in Jersey, South Jersey, like twenty five
minutes from me.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
And he's that guy. He went to Delaware.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
He loves football, man, I think he would play next year.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
I think he loves it. I think he's happy. I
got the sense.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
In fact, we were going back and forth this week
because I was trying to get him on the show
with Baldy and I.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
I get the sense that he's he's feeling great.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
I you know, listen, he's with the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
He realized the whole thing's fleeting, so I could see
him taking another shot. I think it's you know, because
I think I don't think he missed the training camp
and that sort of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
Yeah, but think like when we sit here and say, oh,
it's Cementsa's legacy. Again, I haven't talked to him years,
because you know this better. I think he's one of
those people that does not give a damn what any
of us say about whether Joe Flacco's He doesn't care
about the legacy. He doesn't care what any of us think.
He doesn't care about how will perceive his career. He

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just loves playing football. And like that's so simple that
we've made it like he's weird. I just think I
just that's what makes this hard to predict, because when
you were one of those guys, like we all know
coaches that have been around the game forever that just
refused to go away because they can't imagine their life
without the game. I think there's a bit of Flacco
that's just like, if I can play football, i'm'na play
fooball because it's fun and I love playing football.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
I feel like that's part of the reason why he
has such great success in the postseason, because he doesn't
really feel the weight of it because he's playing the
game that hel he loves and enjoys and doesn't feel
the pressure. I think to a certain degree, that's why
at times Eli Manning played well in the playoffs. He
just didn't know any better. I'm just playing. He was
having a good time. Peyton had to wait on his shoulders.
Eli's like, let's just go out and see what we
can do. Who cares?

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Yeah, it's great, it's a great point.

Speaker 6 (01:39:03):
I don't know if I could agree with you guys there,
just because I feel like with this one, it's like,
if he wins the super Bowl, he's for sure going
to be in the Hall of Fame. Like, if he
doesn't win the Super Bowl, do you think Joe Flacco
is going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
In the Hall of Fame?

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
I don't think if he wins the super Bowl with
the brownsn first, come on.

Speaker 4 (01:39:20):
Jim gets got to superl Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
And also, I genuinely don't think he gives a damn
about being in the Hall of Fame, right, Like, these
are not the things that motivate him.

Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
With legacy stuff like say like Browns fans would care.
But so I to the your guy points, I don't
know Flac cares one way or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Yeah, And to and to what you guys are saying,
what Figures saying with fits he was saying, or little
little gage he was saying, is that Flacco right now
has the game figured out. It's like Brady. If you
remember when Brady was like forty one or forty two,
he said that he was playing he was a better

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quarterback then than he was at thirty Do you remember.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Him saying that, yes, yeah, and Black.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Goes thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
He's got the game figured out, like he knows where
to go with the football.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
He's sees like when.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
You've read defenses that long, nothing gets by you. So
you're you're you're, you know right, you're computing this stuff right,
you know the line of scrimmage. You're so confident, like
you just see it and you know it. So that's
I think where he You know, why wouldn't you want

(01:40:37):
to play when you had the game figured out? Now
again taking a hit and you know you're going to
get bagged around, But at some point you look at
him right now, he's playing the best football of his career.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
This is incredible to say at his age and considering again,
didn't play all season long, came in in a pressure
cooker where there was a team with high expectations and
in a playoff team, and came right in and did
not miss a beat. It's like you've been playing all
season long.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
I know it's it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
But again it goes back to like when at that age,
if you're in shape, and you're and you're and and
nowadays thirty eight is like thirty so you can you know,
you can navigate this. Your mind is so mature. It's
like the Brady thing. All right, we'll take a quick too,
we'll come back where the fella is. We got lots
to run through, man, right here on Fox Sports Radio.

(01:41:30):
All right, welcome back seven thirty from the tai iraq
dot com studios. The fellas figure Gayzy Cuz Shaye and
I were just talking. Gayzy works, it works.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Works, Casey feels good.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Yeah, I look, I'm in. I'm in.

Speaker 5 (01:41:58):
I feel like this is this is the street crowd
I've always needed. I feel like I'm about to go
to a different edge.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
You know, like here's the thing that fits fitsy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
All those things like that, that's that they're they're good,
they're natural, they flow part of me.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
I get it. But man, you gotta have like on.

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
This show particularly, you gotta be part of the spruns,
right like you're just like you gotta have the I
sat outside of a deli. I'm having a peculiarly small
cup of coffee, Like don't understand why it's in the
tiny thing. And I'm standing out there full suit. I'm
just I'm sitting there full suit and uh and and
like nobody's really saying anything and we're just sitting there
like that. This this is the scene and and in

(01:42:39):
that scene, fits just feels too happy. Gayzy feels like
you know, you know you don't mess with Gayzy, like
Gayzy smiling at you, but you might understand that, you know,
you know, you don't walk away. You don't walk away
from Gayzy, like nope, you keep one like your side
eyeing as you walk away, like maybe you turn around
backwards so that you can face me when you walk away,
Like I feel like I have the street edge I've
always deserved.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
What do you think that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:03):
Makes sense to me? I like it.

Speaker 6 (01:43:11):
Gayzy is like your serious name. When you want to
get serious, we're gonna call you Gayzy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:15):
The funny thing is, like here's the thing, Like if
I'm just smiling at somebody, like everybody thinks, look at
that goofy s O B right, Like Kazy smiling at
somebody they're like, what's he smiling about?

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Like what like he's up to something like something like you.

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
Know why that just appears and disappears into the brushes,
into the weeds.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
You know, here's why it works because gayzy feels like
crazy a little bit, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
So it kind of works.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Like who like the the how it originated was half
of a fool gazey a half of fraud.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
Is it gazy? Right? That's that the origination of it.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
Right, So like which is also actually works in some
ways because think about it, like, in general, I'm the
least intimidating.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
I'm all happy, go lucky.

Speaker 5 (01:44:12):
I'm more likely to awkwardly hug somebody than I am
to ever start a fight, like like I'm gonna bring
everybody together and hug, so like it's a little bit,
you know, it's a little fugazy for me to try
and have any edge, So it only makes more sense
that it's just just a little gazy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
I like it. I like it. Well, figure, do me
favor and hit it's what's treadick?

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
All right? That'll go to the NBA. Sweet night for
the Golden State Warriors. They did defeat Detroit one thirteen
to one O nine. Some say Detroit's a fugazi basketball team.
I would not say that, but somewhat anyway, the Cood
State Warriors didn't learn unfortunately that guard Chris Paul fractured
his left hand is going to require surgery. He's going
to be out indefinitely. Memphis handed the Lakers their fourth

(01:44:55):
straight loss. The final score there was one twenty seven
to one thirteen. Le Broad James scoring thirty two points
there in the losses quote after the game, we just
suck right now. I would say that's accurate. Lebron thirty
one points from Grayson Allen, of all people, hit nine
three pointers for the Suns. They defeated the Heat one
thirteen to ninety seven, Indiana and Dallas with victories Clippers,
who are on fire. They got twenty four points from

(01:45:16):
Paul Georgia one to eleven to ninety five victory in
New Orleans. A couple of college basketball matchups as well.
Number one Perdue beating ninth rink Illinois eighty three to
seventy eight fourth ranks Yukon and eighty eight to eighty
one victory over Butler, NFL injury Newspackers running back aj
Dillon out against Chicago with the stinger. Falcons quarterback Taylor
Heineke a game time decision against New Orleans with an

(01:45:37):
ankle injury.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
Back to the Fellas, Fellas, that's us from the tyraq
dot com studios. All right, so here's the deal. Let's
keep going back to tomorrow and where we stand. Let's
go to Minnesota and the Lions. We're up tomorrow. How

(01:46:02):
we feel about the Lions fellas as opposed to are
they It's a shame because they got screwed that Saturday
night in Dallas a week ago. That was clearly ridiculous.
They got completely hosed. But I like the way they're
playing now. Can they hold up outside of a dome?

Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
I think two things can be true too about getting
screwed last weekend. They can get screwed, and it also
can be their fault they lost that football game. Like,
I don't understand why at some point you don't just
reevaluate the fact that, hey, let's just kick the extra point,
you know, let's just make things let's make things easy.
But I also think that speaks to a little bit
of the Dan Campbell, you know, unpredictability in this situation, too,

(01:46:50):
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:46:50):
So, look, the.

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
Lions are not quite where I thought the Lions would be.

Speaker 4 (01:46:56):
I want to be fair.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
I think a couple of months ago I made the
case for why I thought they would have the number
one seed simply because their schedule was so easy in
front of them. They have had some hiccups and they've
had some problems with turnovers.

Speaker 4 (01:47:08):
Those are all very real things.

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
And now because of where they sit, not just from
that one play, they're gonna have to go on the
road and that's gonna make things more difficult as the
playoffs advance, right, Like, they're gonna have to find a
way to win against a tough team at that tough
team spot.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
So that's just a variable Detroit.

Speaker 5 (01:47:26):
Home field as long as it's been since they've had
anything like that, it could be magical. But like, if
they gotta go on the road for any meaningful sort
of playoff victories, I struggle to the turnover thing bothers me.

Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
Yeah, just the over aggressiveness at times too, talking about
going for two from the seven yard line the game
against Green Bay that they lost, they just kept going
for two or excuse me, going forward on fourth down
and missing it. Yes, they had a risky one. Yeah,
they had a risky one against the Chargers that they
ended up getting and winning. But at the time you're
like I was coaching Brandon Stay right now. I like

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it to a certain degree, but when it has to
be smart aggressiveness, and oftentimes I do think Dan Campbell
is where the tougher football team, we're gonna ram it
down their throats and we're gonna there's a time and
place for that. I do think that it's timing and
strategy at certain times has been questionable, and you just
can't afford to make those sorts of decisions in the postseason.

(01:48:21):
So I do like them. They're very talented. Obviously the
defense is taking a bit of a step back recently,
but we know they can score points. But the decision making,
you know, down the stretch, when the teams get better,
the competition is better, games get tighter. Every single solitary
decision that you make, whether to punt, whether they kick
a field goal, go forward, or fourth down is magnified.
And as of right now, I don't know if I'd
necessarily trust Dan Campbell's game management skills whether they're at

(01:48:45):
home or on the road to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
Yeah, And the one of the other offshoots is I
just don't know do they translate out of the of
that that their offense is so good, it's so exports outside.

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Of a dome? Can they trains?

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
So that's the one thing I worry about. I do
agree with them out at the same brown that he
got hosed.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
How is he not a Pro Bowl? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:49:11):
That's wild to me.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
He's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Yeah, people say like, oh, the Pro Bowl is just
a flag game or whatever. It's not even about go
playing in the actual game. These guys have contract incentives
of the you know, part of their career resumes. It's
a big deal to be named to a Pro Bowl.
So it's not about playing flag football in Hawaii or
I don't even where the hell of game is this year,
But you know that it's not about that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Yeah, what do we think about the Vikings moving forward?

Speaker 5 (01:49:39):
The Vikings are funny because they're gonna have to figure
out what to do with the quarterback position. You mentioned,
like earlier we were talking about teams that need a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:49:46):
Are we just willing to.

Speaker 5 (01:49:47):
Presume that Kirk Cousins is gonna be happy go lucky
coming off that Achilles injury, and everything's gonna be glorious,
Like right now, I wouldn't be shocked in a if
in a year Kirk Cousins is sitting at a TV
desk somewhere like, I don't know what the future of
Kirk Cousins hold. And and that suddenly means now you've got
to figure out the quarterback position, right like, and that's

(01:50:08):
it's just such a everything hinges on it. They've had
a pretty good season considering what they've been up against.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Their defense was improved better than more.

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I just what good is that
going to do? I'm going in.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
I like Chandler the running back, young running back. I listen,
I think there's some things I agree with you. Although
coming back from Achilles, now you can so let's you know, he's.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
Up there in age though too, not the necessarily the
most mobile guy. So where's Yeah, thirty thirty seven, I
think thirty six, maybe thirty thirty six or thirty seven
thirty six?

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I got to look it up, all.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
Right, Jets and Patriots, Man, uh, it does do these codes?
This is interesting, like what happens to Belichick and what
about you know, sala Is is Robert sala Is he
safe now?

Speaker 1 (01:51:01):
I feel like Woody Johnson gave him and Douglas the
voting confidence a few weeks ago, right.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Yeah he did, he did, But like you don't, you
don't never know what's looming. So true, that's your reason
I bring it up. I think obviously with the Rogers situation,
Rogers played GM for Joe Douglas, so.

Speaker 1 (01:51:17):
God winning most inspirational players, Like can we please stop?
I know, God get everything, but gave this guy an
ownership stake and they probably would have if they could have.
I know, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:51:28):
I think the other side of it is the more
interesting one only because of this, Like I'm not one
hundred percent sure that everybody's right, Like I know everybody
thinks Belichick's gone in the next week.

Speaker 4 (01:51:39):
I just I have a hard time finding it, I
really do.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
I know, I trust the reporting of smart people, and
you know, Tom Kerrn has done a good job covering
that team for a long time, and I'm not taking
anything away from that. I just wherever Bill Belichick goes,
I do believe that he's probably going to have to
work with the GM. If he's going to have to
work with the GM anyway wherever he goes, why would
he not at least consider having a GM come in

(01:52:04):
in New England to help with some of the personnel stuff.
Stepping back and just being a coaching that's where he's
gonna be where he goes.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Next to be your favorite sit tight on that. Let's
go a little deeper with it coming up next, Gayzy. Okay, Yeah,
we're the fellas right here, Fox Sports Radio Fellas from
the tai Iraq dot Com studios. All right, we're going

(01:52:34):
through the last weekend. It sees a kind of state
of all these teams heading into the playoffs or heading
into the abyss of the off season.

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
So we were talking.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
About the Patriots and with the future holds for New England.
So you think that Belichick returns to the Patriots, Gayzy,
Isn't that right?

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
I'm taking Belichick to run it back for one more year.

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
And I was talking to an insider a couple of
days ago and he said something that I'm going to
just start putting to my mind around every time we
break down situations like this, and what he was saying
was that oftentimes we take really complicated things, and we
try to make them simple. And when it comes down
to something like Belichick, if you're the Patriots, there's very
little about this that is simple. If your bill even

(01:53:20):
there's very little about this.

Speaker 4 (01:53:21):
This is simple. If your bill and you want to
go somewhere else, what's that look like? Who are you
taking with you?

Speaker 5 (01:53:26):
If you're the Patriots and you want a fire bill,
you'd be firing everybody that's in the building. Also, you'd
have to replace everybody that's in the building. And the
Mike Rabel conversation is interesting because so many people have
been trying to link Vrabel to the Patriots job. But
that's also not simple. You would have to actually trade
for Mike Rabel because he is still under contract. And

(01:53:47):
are you willing to trade assets to get a coach?
Are you going to try and hold Belichick to trade him.
The layers of complication on the Patriots, other than simply
walking in and saying you're fire real parting ways, the
layers of complications even in replacing him, are so stacked.
I just am left to wonder at this point if

(01:54:07):
it doesn't make the most sense for everybody involved. Again,
I don't think Bill's gonna take the Chargers job and
then suddenly get complete creative control, right like they are
going to be checks and balances. I would think wherever
he ends up. Also, he's not a spring chicken, So like,
is he gonna want to go somewhere and decide that
he wants to rebuild That could take three years to initiate.
Like I just all of these layers have me thinking

(01:54:28):
he's headed back.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
We think fake that you gotta tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
For some reason, My gut is telling me that it's
that it's still over and that well, look, there's been
talk about a potential rift between Belichick and Craft to
a certain degree for the last few years. And look,
the defense still players played well. The team has played
hard for him. I don't think he's lost the locker room,
but you just wonder. And I'm never a fan of
making change for the sake of change, But if you're

(01:54:55):
gonna make one, I guess you can say the way
the team has performed, or at least the record on
the field the last couple of years as would justify that.
And Belichick's gonna have I won't say any job that
he wants because he's gonna come with a high price tag.
And I don't disagree with you, Fitzie that wherever he goes,
there's probably gonna have to be some sort of line
of check and checks and balances. But there's also a
part of me that says, I don't know if a
franchise has been desperate enough. If you're the Chargers and

(01:55:17):
you haven't won the way that you've tried to win
the last fifteen to twenty years, and you're willing to
give up total control to somebody. Is that somebody gonna
be Jim Harball. Is that somebody gonna be Bill Belichick?
I would personally give it to Horrorball, but Belichick, I'm
sure will be in the running for that. And it
wouldn't surprise me if somebody were to say, well he
just wired as welcome into England. We can run it
back and give Hi an opportunity to do it here too.

(01:55:37):
So if I if I were a gambling man, I'd
still say that Belichick is probably done in New England.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
It's gonna be fast staked too, Like Horrball is the
big Fix is the big Fish? So where does Horball
wind up? Chicago made a lot of sets up until
the last, you know, six weeks where the Bears are
playing great football. Ebra Flues deserves to be back. He's
done a good job. I understand the allure of Harball.

(01:56:08):
So but if not Chicago, if I'm Washington, I go
make a big play to try to have the hardball brothers,
you know, down the road from each other, down ninety
five from one another.

Speaker 1 (01:56:20):
But where does he go? Washington hasn't come up much,
and I'm surprised by that considering Josh Harris and the
deep pockets and wanting to make a splash with Washington.
Of all the franchises, that will seem to make the
most sense, because I would doubt that Josh Harris would
care about Hey, Jim, if you want to be the
guy and want to hire her own general manager, by
all means, the football operation is yours. The Chargers historically

(01:56:40):
have not done that to their own detriment, and many
other franchises are just wary of doing making that sort
of decision. So Washington, to me kind of makes the
most sense.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Well, I bring it up because I do think Washington's.

Speaker 1 (01:56:51):
In play, and that should be, absolutely should be.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
And I know you have it heard, I know you
have it heard them a lot. But I think there's
a reason for that. Remember, Josh, he's new in the league,
and he's he's not a big you know, not one
of these guys. It's always talking a ton, So I
could see it and he listened. He's a guy I

(01:57:16):
saw with the Sixers. He'll go out and get the
most expensive coach out there. Yeah, he's He had a
coaching staff filled with like ex coaches, and Doc had
an amazing coaching staff at one point, so he's not
afraid to put money into coaching.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
So I could totally see Horball down there.

Speaker 5 (01:57:35):
I honestly, guys, I think he stays in Michigan. I know,
like everybody thinks he's headed in the NFL. But if
the reports are true that there's a ten year contract
out there that's been offered to him, that ten year
contract at whatever one hundred and twenty five one hundred
and fifty million dollars plus incentives, even if he gets
a five year offer from somebody in the NFL, you're
talking about substantially more money to simply stay at Michigan

(01:57:59):
because of the length of the deal. In the fully
guaranteed aspect of coaching contracts, like, if you turn around,
if Washington turns around and offers him twenty million dollars
a year for a five year deal, that's one hundred
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
But if he turns.

Speaker 5 (01:58:13):
Around and gets a even slightly covered even in Michigan
only Upstair offered a fifteen million, that's one hundred and
fifty million dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:58:21):
That's a fifty million dollar difference. I think he's back
in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
Yeah. The only two things that fight against that is one,
he hired Don Yee earlier this week, and he as
an NFL guy and well tied into the National Football League.
And then two, as toothless as the NCAA is. We
know he's not well liked in those offices. And if
they can and will, they will throw the book at
him for the COVID situation, with the recruiting and the
O'Connor stallion situation. And it wouldn't surprise me if they

(01:58:47):
try to go like show cause level with this guy
and try to do something really, really punitive against him.
That will be the only reason why I think he's
on his way out.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
Yeah, I agree, don't. I don't see him coming back, man,
I just don't. And By the way, it's an easier
life in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
In many senses. Yeah, especially if you're the head of
the snake and you're you're high, you're the president of
football operations and the coach, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
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Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
So we love it. Uh, big big weekend of football.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
And then you're in Houston, FITZI, and you're getting ready
for the National Championship Monday night, and I think all
of us kind of leave Washington in this game.

Speaker 5 (02:00:56):
God, I think Washington covers do I think Washington outright?

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
Ah, it's hard for this is.

Speaker 5 (02:01:03):
So tough because you know, you look at the way
Michigan is built, and we talked about it earlier, but
they can't stress this. Michigan's gonna eat, right, Like, you know,
Michigan's gonna eat. They're gonna be able to throw the football,
They're gonna be able to run the football.

Speaker 4 (02:01:16):
They are going to eat.

Speaker 5 (02:01:18):
This whole game to me just comes down to the
very basic Michigan's defensive line versus Washington's offensive line. And
everybody keeps telling me, well, they you know, they won
the Joe More Award. Washington's offensive line that is, which
goes to the best offensive line in the country, and
people then say, well, but they played against pac twelve teams. Okay,
I should just at least remind everybody that Joe Moore

(02:01:41):
Award voters are fat guys that played right, and so
the fat guys that played the game that are watching,
fat guys that play the game think that these fat
guys communicated and did a better job than any.

Speaker 4 (02:01:52):
Other group of fat guys in the country. Like that
has meaning to me.

Speaker 5 (02:01:55):
And what we saw in the game against Alabama was
so much miscommunication up front, Like the stunts were getting
right up the gut, the tackles were slow to get
out of their stance. For Alabama, like Michigan just absolutely
dominated in every way because they were better, they were faster,
they were more explosive, but also because Alabama's offensive line
us played poorly.

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
I just it was a huge mismatch.

Speaker 5 (02:02:18):
I don't know if you can get that sort of
an advantage over that Washington offensive line. And then go
back to what Sarks said afterwards, where he said, there
were a couple of times we thought we had Panick sacked,
but he's just he's slippery, He got away, he climbs
the pocket, really well, Like this is interesting because I
genuinely think this is going to be an incredibly high

(02:02:38):
scoring football game.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Yeah, I don't see how either of these teams, you know,
get a lot of stops. I because first of all,
you mentioned you know, Panix and who is just amazing.
He's got ridiculous NFL weapons. I mean, you know, they're
going to move the ball, They're gonna go down the field,

(02:03:01):
and they will stress Michigan secondary and you know, well conversely,
you know, Michigan's gonna go up and down the field.
I mean the run of a quorum and Washington's pass
defense is just bad. So yeah, you saw it. You
actually saw at the end of the game. I didn't
like the Texas's game plan. I thought they should have

(02:03:23):
been attacking down the field more often.

Speaker 1 (02:03:26):
Well, if anything, I thought they should have run more
often because they were having success, and they kind of
got away from it. And when you thought that Washington
was really gonna pull away, you know, be up by ten, twelve,
fourteen points, whatever it was, it never really happened. And
I think Texas sort of panicked, and maybe that's what
it was. Washington strikes so much fear in you. You
feel like, well, we got to score touchdowns and score
them as soon as we possibly can. We can't afford

(02:03:46):
to run and get stopped and give them the ball back.
And maybe that factored into their game plan. But they
ran for almost two hundred yards. I mean, they didn't
get stopped on the on the ground at all. It
was just a really interesting strategy. I thought they should
have stuck with the run a little bit more.

Speaker 5 (02:04:00):
Let me throw a variable at you guys here that
I'm thinking of now, because I think of explosive offense
and how's Michigan going to stop all these weapons? Is
there some benefit that Michigan has from having not maybe
not this year, but especially last year CJ.

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
Stroud Marvin Harrison Junior.

Speaker 5 (02:04:16):
Like they faced an Ohio State team that is every
bit as difficult to figure out how to defend, and
they beat them, Like maybe there is some level. Maybe
I'm under selling Michigan's past experience against explosive teams in
this situation, because Michigan has certainly played teams over the
last couple of years that are as capable as Washington

(02:04:37):
of scoring. I don't know that Washington has faced a
team over the last couple of years that are as
capable of doing what Michigan can do as they've done.

Speaker 1 (02:04:44):
You know, I don't yet to a degree. Yes, I
also don't know if Michigan has faced to this level.
I mean, you got three two first round pick receivers
and another guy that's going to be an NFL player
at receiver. You got a first round pick at quarterback.
Dylan Johnson is one of the better better running backs.
Had twelve is a joe. I don't Ohio State had

(02:05:05):
specifically this year with year even last year, Like, I
don't think they faced the level of offense, uh that
they're gonna face coming up on Monday, even last year.

Speaker 2 (02:05:17):
Wow, Yeah, I think last year's comparence the Ohio State
was good. Last year, I mean cheefe, I mean you
see we just talked about Yeah, no, I agree. I
mean so you know, I don't know it's gonna be
It's gonna be interesting. Yeah, I mean it's funny, man,
Like you know, and I hear what you're saying about,
you know, the Texas run game. I was just thinking

(02:05:37):
about that. But man, I keep going back to yours.
In the last the last frenetic, like six minutes, was
just getting chunks of yardage down the field well.

Speaker 5 (02:05:51):
And youwers had the opportunity at the end to make
the play a couple of times. I mean, just yea,
it was there for Texas. That's that's also not lost.
Both of these teams are in the championship game and
both of them had operate like moments where I thought, Golley,
they're gonna let this.

Speaker 2 (02:06:06):
Go Ala Bama took control in that third quarter. Baba
took control of it.

Speaker 1 (02:06:12):
Control the game. I mean, because I mean, but Texas
also has you know, Jatavion Sanders, Xavier Worthy and like
legit receivers. I'm not hating on Michigan, but that's not
necessarily the strength of their offense, which is why I said,
for like, my belief is if Washington is just gonna
sell out on the run and challenge Michigan, Yes, Washington's
weakness is their secondary and for them, they might say,

(02:06:34):
you know what, JJ McCarthy, if you are the best
quarterback in the history of the University of Michigan, then
improve it. We're not gonna let Blake cornbidaz. Blake's gonna
have a good game. I don't know, he's gonna run
for two hundred and thirty yards.

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
Well, look now, because if you're Washington, you have to
crew have to crowd the box, right, you gotta go
with an eight man front, nine man. You gotta force
JJ McCarthy to beach all day long.

Speaker 5 (02:06:56):
I agree with everything that you're saying, and that is
the app right approach. My only question is do we
really believe it? Like, look, I can all day long.
You can roll the ball out in the court. I
can hand it to Lebron and I can say, you
know what, Lebron, I'm not gonna let you score on me,
and he is still going to destroy me in a
game of one on one. Right, Like I can try
all day long to stop it, doesn't mean I can.

(02:07:17):
I'm not sure even if Washington stacks the box that
they're gonna Stopcorn from getting fed, Like that's just Washington's
I mean, Alabama was certainly trying to stop him from
getting fed.

Speaker 4 (02:07:27):
And that's a better Alabama.

Speaker 5 (02:07:28):
Defense than Washington's defense at this point. Right, So I
just I hear that like that's the right approach. I
I just you know well that you can stop that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
No, no, no, and listen, I don't think just because
you put eight men in the box and automatically you're
going to stop it, even though the numbers game, but
you know you're going to force like the correct way
to the attack is to attack through the air. And
I think either way, I think McCarthy, you're he's I'm

(02:08:00):
curious how he's going to react.

Speaker 3 (02:08:02):
Yeah, because there's a lot of pressure on him.

Speaker 1 (02:08:05):
Man, And because within that, you know, you score twenty
points in regulation to get to Alabama. Twenty points is
not as good as Michigan's defense is. That's not gonna
be enough to be Washington. It just isn't. So you're
gonna have to be able to score some points and
pound and corm up the middle, you know, three times
and getting the first down here and there, you know,
a long drive to score sit ten seventeen points. You're

(02:08:25):
only gonna be able to do that so much macarth.
If they're gonna win, mcarthy's gonna have to be the
one to make.

Speaker 3 (02:08:29):
The big place.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
I feel, yeah, I agree, And I because I don't
worry about Penix, Like I know Panis is gonna show
up right, and what Peedicks is gonna get me?

Speaker 1 (02:08:41):
I don't know what McCarthy's.

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
Gonna do is there, Like there's some level for me.
I'm just if this is a thought process for me,
because like I said, my money's on I put my
money on Washington minus or plus four and a half because
or minus four and a half. Because uh, there's just
some level of I think the point spread was too high, right,
Like I think we get the to me, this is
a field coal game.

Speaker 4 (02:09:02):
But so I like, I like the points in this situation.

Speaker 5 (02:09:04):
But when we're talking about winning outright, the other complication
and all of this is, like you win these games
because somebody makes mistakes. JJ McCarthy, to his credit this year,
has not made mistakes. What's he had four picks all
year long? Like he's been efficient his completion present, Like
he's been efficient as a quarterback. Do we have it
and we've got two quarterbacks in this game that this

(02:09:26):
is one of the interesting modern developments in college football.
We have two quarterbacks that have played like they've played
a lot of football. So, like, I think that's also interesting.
I don't know who I think is more likely to
make a mistake. If we're asking both quarterbacks, I.

Speaker 3 (02:09:39):
Think it's clear. I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (02:09:41):
I think it's McCarthy, yeah, Gayzy.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
Like, look, look at Panics has been forced to carry
that team. I mean, I like Dylan Johnson a lot,
but come on, it's a Panics production, whereas Michigan will
do anything not to throw right, Like, look and look
at the streke. That's schedule who Washington played and who
Michigan played and where they needed McCarthy to throw the

(02:10:07):
ball to win.

Speaker 4 (02:10:10):
There is a level you're not You're not wrong everything
you're saying.

Speaker 5 (02:10:13):
And by the way, Penix, I just looked it up
because I was like, maybe I'm forgetting No, Penix has
been incredibly efficient too. I want to give him his
his flowers for this, and Dylan Johnson his health is
a big part of this game too. I don't want
to take anything away from Washington. I think there's just
an element of I know, I know Michigan's pass rush

(02:10:34):
can at least at least be disrupted, and one mistake
can be such a turn in this game. But I'm
with you, like I'm trying to I'm trying to pull
holes in my own argument here. But the more we
talk about it, the more I continue to lean Washington.
I don't know if I'm just being counterculture on this,
but they just man, it just feels like it's there.

Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
Well. The one thing I'll say about Washington's defense too,
is they might not be very good at getting stopped,
but they are extremely opportunistic and that's how they've you know,
kind of made up for the deficiency. They force a
lot of turnovers, so they're gonna be stripping that balls
if they're going to challenge JJ McCarthy to make a play.
They're very aggressive defensively, and I think that's part of
the reason why they get beat as often as they do,

(02:11:11):
is because they're aggressive. And so if we're talking about
one turnover being able to turn the game as efficient
as McCarthy has been to because his point, they just
haven't leaned on him a lot. He hasn't had to
throw the ball a lot. Michael Pennis, this is where
he lives. He wants to throw the ball forty times
a game. By all means, I've been doing this all season.
I've been doing my entire college career. So that's kind
of why I lean more on watching. If you're talking

(02:11:32):
about who's more apt to make a mistake. Even though
McCarthy hasn't made many, he hasn't had a lot of
opportunities to make them because he's just been really conservative
with the way they've played. I tend to trust pinis
more putting up the ball in the air to make
fewer mistakes than McCarthy.

Speaker 5 (02:11:46):
Yeah, can I give you one, like this is the
one stat I think you could continue to say to
everybody that will really encapsulates this whole thing. JJ McCarthy
has less attempts this year than Michael Pennick Junior has completions.

Speaker 2 (02:12:00):
Yeah, and that's not surprising. I mean, right, we talked
about it before, Like penn State came, he be throw
the ball in the second half rank, you know, I
mean like and then you had then you had all
the half the donkeys on the schedule that they played.

Speaker 1 (02:12:16):
Right now, there's a certain element of just because JJ
hasn't done it doesn't mean he can't. But it's hard
for me to ride with him when I just haven't
seen him do it. You know, It's like, you gotta
show me before I can actually have confidence that you can.
That's kind of where I'm sitting with it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:33):
And and I just can't get passed. I can't get
past panics down the field. His it's sick. It's unbelievable
how he throws the ball down the field. I mean,
I mean, first of all, those receivers are insane, three

(02:12:53):
of them. They all they could all run, they all
are great route runners, and they all can track them ball.

Speaker 3 (02:13:00):
But I mean he's thrown at fifty sixty yards on
a rope.

Speaker 1 (02:13:07):
And dropping it in perfectly. We're only you know, a
dude the left side line that at one pass last week.

Speaker 5 (02:13:13):
It was just like every you gotta believe, every single
NFL scout just started salivating at that time. Have him
streaking down the sideline and not even really have to
put his hands out like it's just landed in the basket.
Like that's insane, insane accuracy.

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
Yeah, yeah, ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:13:29):
All right, real quick, because we got the big brain
coming up and I want to be able to get
the hand. But there's a couple of other games that
we got to get to. Uh did Jaguars and Titans did?
Speaking of teams leaking oil man, did Jaguars look so good?
And now, man, you know, you don't know if Lawrence's

(02:13:51):
going to play. I guess he's going to try. Obviously,
he's going to try but that Jaguars team just fell off.

Speaker 3 (02:14:00):
What's the issue there?

Speaker 4 (02:14:02):
It's had a sink.

Speaker 5 (02:14:03):
You know when Trevor Lawrence said a few weeks ago,
looked like we didn't even practice one thing. You and
I talked about what probably two months ago, mob way
through the season, was like, it felt like their offense
had lost rhythm right, and as many stars as they
have and as much as we thought that we could
trust the development of this and the coach and all
of these different things, it just feels like they have
lost sink. And so what happens is they find themselves

(02:14:27):
in negative down and distance too often, trying to get
themselves out of a hole. Too often, one little play
here and there has managed to just sabotage everything. Trevor
Lawrence also not healthy. Like Frankly, I get that. You
know he's going to try and play, but you're taking
on Ryan Tannehill at this point, looks like he's going
to start for the Titans. I just the Titans are awful.
The Titans right now today, I think are the second

(02:14:50):
worst team in the NFL. So you shouldn't need Trevor
Lawrence to beat them, but man, you got to get
some sort of good feeling. If you're the Jags going
into this playoff.

Speaker 3 (02:15:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:15:00):
I think they're going to and I think they're going
to compete. I think Tennessee will compete.

Speaker 1 (02:15:06):
Oh, Tennessee, I think has a great shot to beat
him based on the way Jacksonville has played all season long.
You know, and this is something Anthony, you and I
talked about this going into the season in Fitzy too.
Is like success a lot of times, especially for young
teams who don't have a lot of experience in young quarterbacks,
is almost never linear. You know, the teams are going
to adjust to you. They had that great end of
the season to comeback against the Chargers in the postseason,

(02:15:27):
played Kansas City tough in the divisional playoff game. You know,
you have to be able to adjust to the adjustments.
And it doesn't seem like, amid the injuries and other issues,
that they've done a good job of doing that this year.
And they've kind of taken a bit of a half
of a step back, and that's been the big issue.
I mean, Trevor Lawrence has been turning the ball over
at an alarming rate, losing fumbles left and Right's been
sacked almost forty times this year. It's just a bad look.

(02:15:50):
I can absolutely see a path where Tennessee and Ryan
Tannehill get to victory tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
Yeah, I kind of feeling the same thing, man.

Speaker 2 (02:15:59):
And then, of course, Tomorrow night is an amazing game
for the AFC East Bill's mafia, traveling h to Miami
and South Beach and droves. They're doing the Bills chance
the Bill's songs, they're singing the songs. They're descending upon Miami.

(02:16:24):
So this is a great game. I think the Bills win, man,
I do. I Look, I know Miami's better than what
happened last week and and no waddle last week against Baltimore,
but I think the Bills handled him the first time
forty five to twenty. And I think Sean McDermott knows
how to knows how to limit Tyreek a little bit.

(02:16:49):
Russell Douglas has been big for them. I like the
Bills Tomorrow night.

Speaker 5 (02:16:53):
I do too, actually, And Miami is also just limping
into this game, right, like the injuries are smart special defense.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Right, yeah, And I just don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:17:03):
So often by the time you get to the playoffs healthy,
his team wins and it feels like the wheels have
fallen off on that. For the Dolphins, it's it's hard
to figure out how they're going to manage the injuries
going into the playoffs. There's even a part of me,
I know this is ludicrous, they would never do this,
but there's a part of me that that just wonders
if I was sitting there, if I just sit a
bunch of guys like, hey, well, we're gonna play next

(02:17:24):
week either way, I'd rather play in the wild card
healthy than play at home and be decimated. And right
now that the injuries are just too much, they're stacked
up against the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 (02:17:33):
You stole the words right out of my mouth. Fit. See,
I would sit everybody and not even worry about winning
the division championship. You've already made the playoffs. Let's get
as healthy as you possibly can. Losing Bradley Chubb is huge,
is a huge loss. The fact that he's out for
however long this playoff run is for them. But these
defense I've been playing so well the last month and
to lose one of the biggest reasons for that turnaround

(02:17:54):
is a hard one. And Xavian Howard's out too, So
if those two guys are gonna be out in this game.
We think Buffalo is gonna come in obviously with everything
to play for. If I'm Miami, I don't even risk it.
I'd sit most dirt, sit Waddle all the guys who
are questionable, and just raise the white flag on this one.

Speaker 2 (02:18:08):
I'm playing yeah, because to your point, you gotta have
Waddle and Tyreek healthy.

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
Yes, right, like you got it, dude, and then Tyreek
k went through.

Speaker 2 (02:18:17):
It's an awful thing with the house, the fire to kill,
with the lighter and all that stuff. So like you
want you just want those guys to be healthy next week,
and you know, and they go at it because look,
with those two healthy, you could beat almost anybody, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (02:18:37):
So think you just got to play.

Speaker 1 (02:18:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:18:40):
It's by the way I said it earlier, I'll say
it again, the entire AFC is rooting it against Buffalo
in this game. Like you just don't want to have
to go to Buffalo for a playoff game. It's such
a variable and it's gonna be wild. We'll know by
the time that game kicks off if it's winner or
go home for the Bills, which is also just an
insane scenario, they could end up with the second seater

(02:19:02):
out of the playoffs all together.

Speaker 2 (02:19:03):
Yeah, what do we think of the Chiefs once again? Offensively?

Speaker 1 (02:19:09):
Not much of them, to be honest, this struggle well
live it off their defense. It's really hard to flip
a switch all of a sudden in the postseason. So
I as much as I love Patrick Mahomes, it's hard
for me to imagine that all of a sudden, you know,
Tony and all these guys are gonna start making catches
and the offense is going to light it up. And
as good as the defense have been, it's shown some leaks.

(02:19:30):
I mean, the fact that the Raiders were able to
run down their throat and close out that game in
Kansas City on Christmas says a lot. That defense has
a lot on the shoulders and it's good, but it
definitely has some holes. So I'm not confident in Kansas
City at all.

Speaker 5 (02:19:43):
Yeah, Kansas City, by the way, is who they are
and happen all year like this. We've put so much
emphasis in who Kansas City has been for a generation
at this point, it feels like for five years at
this point, like we put so much emphasis on who.

Speaker 4 (02:19:57):
The Chiefs usually are.

Speaker 5 (02:19:58):
It's okay to admit that she usually can fix everything
while also admitting that right now the Chiefs are broken
and they just for who Kansas City is. I know
they sit with ten wins right now, they are broken
as a football team. They're going to make the playoffs.
That's great. I don't know that I would favor them
in almost any playoff game in the first round.

Speaker 2 (02:20:16):
I mean, the only thing they need to do is, oh, well,
the thing they need to do is become a power
running team. They're gonna have to They're gonna have to
let pitcheck o and then Andy has to get really creative.

Speaker 3 (02:20:26):
That's hard to do.

Speaker 1 (02:20:27):
And the you know, in week eighteen or week you know,
the first week of the postseason, well the Bills kind.

Speaker 3 (02:20:32):
Of made the Bills did that transformation a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:20:34):
Showing that they have the ability to do it. But
I don't know if Kansas and Kansas City's offensive line
isn't that great to.

Speaker 2 (02:20:40):
Help them lost in the whole thing the receivers and
dropping pants is replacing both tackles. Yeah, really, what got
Andy this year?

Speaker 1 (02:20:48):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (02:20:49):
You know, absolutely all right, we'll come right back, and
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(02:21:11):
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(02:21:32):
in your heart radio app. All right, let's bring him on.
He is, of course, our own big brain betting analyst.
He is brad a Domas Bradley.

Speaker 3 (02:21:44):
How are you.

Speaker 7 (02:21:46):
I'm in beautiful Nashville, Bahamas, Anthony, how can it be bad?

Speaker 4 (02:21:49):
Oh my god, that's better than Houston.

Speaker 5 (02:21:52):
I'm just just for the record, Bahamas wins over Houston.

Speaker 4 (02:21:55):
That's better.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
God bless you, man, God bless you. You're living wonderfully man,
and you deserve it. That's awesome. Uh, let's get let's
get right to it. The you are mister Michigan. You
went to Michigan. You are a huge Michigan fan.

Speaker 5 (02:22:14):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:22:14):
Most Michigan games. I think you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (02:22:17):
You were spot on last week you said it would
be that the game you said Michigan would win a
close one. This is an interesting one with Washington and
the offensive threat the Huskies have with Panics and their receivers.

Speaker 1 (02:22:32):
How do you who you got?

Speaker 7 (02:22:35):
You know if you look, I'll be honest, that's interesting.
I think what happens is people get certain people get
caught up in their power ratings, like from what a
team was before the year, and sometimes it just doesn't
catch up. And in my opinion, Washington guys, their power

(02:22:55):
rating hasn't caught up. They had a tough sketch stretch
when they were not playing well down the end of
the year, a little bit when they had some injuries
to their wide receivers. Pennis was a little banged up.
I think this line is way too high, I really do.
Michigan has not had to face a team like this.
I don't think there's many teams like this, just in general,
that the passing game that Washington has. I kind of

(02:23:18):
thought Washington would beat Texas and I think this can
be a really hard game for Michigan. Anthony and the
only way I can look it's taking the underdoalkofskies. I
think this games can be close. Again. I lean here
slightly to Michigan winning the game, but with the four
and a half points spread. The only way I could

(02:23:39):
look at the underdoalkofski is because I really do respect
the passing offense quite a bit. I will say this
from the line of scrimmage point of view. Michigan really
could have their way. We saw they dominated offense Alabama's
offensive line. Michigan again, I think there's a good chances
as Kotar balls last game, and I think Michigan will

(02:24:01):
have a lot of success offensively against the Washington defense.
This is so great. I think games in the pass
where dynamic offenses like this. You know with Sam Bradford
going way back in the day with Oklahoma, they faced
a good defense in Florida, then boom, they couldn't score.
I don't think that's we're going to see though. I
think Washington will have success against Michigan's defense enough successful least.

(02:24:22):
I think it's gives to be close. Think Michigan went
the close one lean over as well.

Speaker 4 (02:24:27):
Yeah, that's where I was going to go with you.

Speaker 5 (02:24:28):
Next, my friend is like just thinking about the over
on this because it feels like points are just going
to be galory. I'm not sure either side can score
against either side.

Speaker 4 (02:24:36):
So I feel pretty confident on the over. You feel
in the same way.

Speaker 7 (02:24:39):
Then, because listen, yeah, I think that Michigan really should
have a lot of success offensively against Washington.

Speaker 3 (02:24:48):
I do.

Speaker 7 (02:24:48):
I would be very surprised if Michigan does not score
into the thirties in this game. I would and Washington again,
like it's hard to hold this Washington team in to
less than thirty as well, just for how dynamic they've been,
how great they've been. And I think Penis is a winner.
Just going on a side note from the where he's

(02:25:09):
going to be drafted, Like, I don't know why he's
not getting more love.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I love that kid.

Speaker 7 (02:25:14):
Yeah, yeah, like I think he's again. I don't know. Look,
we'll see all it plays out, but I think Pennis,
you know, I just you know, I happen to like
him very very much. But anyway, fifty six is in total,
I definitely lean to the over because I think Michigan's
going to score over thirty. And they score over thirty,
you know, then that means Brian Washington's only you need

(02:25:35):
to score in the mid twenties, and I think Washington
definitely will do that.

Speaker 2 (02:25:40):
All right, So let me ask you as we kind
of move on tomorrow, Week eight today, Week eighteen. NFL,
how do people get a hold of you? I'm sure
if people want to playoffs and the whole thing. And NBA,
I mean, your record is ridiculous, and I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:59):
I've seen it. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (02:26:02):
Yeah, if the Brad's Best bets on Twitter, Brad's best
bets on Twitter right now, six hundred and sixty wins
one or ninety eight losses, something about ninety seven units.
Ridiculously And if I do tip my cap to myself
winning around fifty seven percent. No one in the industry
is winning, has a winning percentage. But I know if
anywhere in the United States as high as mine is

(02:26:24):
right now, and you know, right on Brad's Bets bets
on Twitter, I'm betting one unit per game, and in
four months time, you're up almost one hundred units. Uh,
that's pretty spectacular. And look, yeah, you get all my
futures too, you get uh, and it's funny. I've gotten
some bad luck with some of these futures. Anthony had
brock Perty MVP ticket where he was a favorite at

(02:26:45):
sixteen to one. Uh and I had a real chance
to you know, that came down to that that Ravens game.
But you get all my futures, which usually are amazing,
and you get all my props, all my bets, everything
on Brad's bets bets. Just go on Twitter and you
click on it. But you know in again, you know, zamthy,
I worked my butt off doing this. So this is

(02:27:05):
my life. So I'm in the Bahamas. I gotta, I gotta,
I getta. I have to keep winning to get going
on these trips.

Speaker 1 (02:27:11):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (02:27:13):
I like it. Well, you want to try to send
us to Bahamas.

Speaker 2 (02:27:17):
You came close the last couple of weeks. What do
you got? What do you got anything today? Today's games?

Speaker 8 (02:27:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:27:27):
I do.

Speaker 7 (02:27:27):
I do something today. And I want to tell you
the interesting thing that people and again most people don't realize,
but you know when people that these games on the
last week, they're usually like so and so needs to win,
the other team doesn't need the game, and they take
the other team. Listen to this. In the last since

(02:27:48):
nineteen ninety. Okay, teams in the last few weeks that
need to win to make the playoffs versus teams that
don't have anything to play for. Team has nothing to
play for. One hundred wins, sixty four losses, four ties.
The team is no, quote unquote no. Because what happens

(02:28:08):
is these lines get over compensated. And there's four games
this week that do fit that criteria. Well, one of
them that I don't think technically, I don't know if
it technically fits the I don't know if the team
has nothing to play for. It it's actually you know
it does. Is Baltimore against Pittsburgh. I was able to
get four, and for my clients, it's still at three.

(02:28:31):
Look when this line came out, I said, Fly would
be Techham. Baltimo would be laying double digits in this
team if they were playing their players is Lamar Jackson
and a couple other starters worth like fourteen points. I'm
gonna say no, I don't think they're worth that much.
These games are always tight anyway. To me, the backup
quarterback is a decent backup. You know, I've always liked him.

(02:28:53):
I've always thought Huntley is serviceable. I know pittsburghquartericwoud has
to win in rule I played, okay, but I bet Baltimore.
I think it's you know, I kind of thought that
game should be closer to pick. That's one game other
games admit their criteria is and FYI that you know,
Seattle against Arizona you can get three. I think that's

(02:29:15):
a fifty to fifty game. I do give me Arizona
getting three afty we saw them absolutely, you want to
talk about it. They punt against the Eagles. I know, no,
they I don't think they did. I think that's fifty games.
I think that's a fifty to fifty game. You want
to give me three points with the Arizona A I'll

(02:29:35):
take it all day long against the Seattle team who's
been very disappointing all year, and then other games that
fit their criteria that you know, the quoteunquote motivation factor,
Carolina going against a Tampa Bay team that clearly needs
to win the game. Couldn't quite get myself to bet
that one. But you know again that the Carolina doesn't

(02:29:56):
need the game him does, you know, But they're baking
that into the line where you're probably getting a point
and a half from value extra by taking Carolina, and
that would be a little I'll give you those games.
I like, I'm gonna take New England laying two and
a half points, guys against the Jets. If you look
at what New England's done down the fire last seven

(02:30:16):
eight games, every one of their games has either been
a win or a very very razor in tight loss.
The Jets have been blown out five times in the
last eight games, probably Belichick's last game sim me a
low scoring game. Obviously not a ton of points, and
I know it's tough toly any points in a low
scoring game, but I did bet New England. I think

(02:30:37):
they win like a twenty to three kind of game
or something like that, where I just think I'm gonna
get a much better effort from them. Then i'd trust
out of the Jets. And I know it's a quote
unquote hold your nose game, but I like the way
New England's playing, relatively speaking, guys, Another one, I like,
we've seen coach McVeigh of the Rams treat three season

(02:31:01):
with such a disdain, with such a I don't care
what happened. They lose every game by fifty. You know,
I've read a lot of quotes from Shanahan in the past.
Now he isn't starting Purdy, but he talked about how
with his dad, and he talked about with Peyton Manning
with the Colts, how would they arrest the guys it
hurt them in the playoffs. Well, I know he's resting
some guys like McCafferty to injury and Purdy, who's also

(02:31:24):
a little banged up. I think we'll see a lot
more starters from San Francisco against our friend Anthony Carson wins.
I think Chrisco wins this game by at least a touchdown.
I do, I don't. I think Pukuo cool at his
whatever he needs yardage wise, and then the Rams will
shut it down. So that's another game that I happen
to like, h and I know it's not a quote unquote,

(02:31:45):
you know, one of the top games, but it's the
game I like this week where I think that I
just I don't trust McVeigh at all and those kind
of spots, those kind of games, and not another game
which I was just really off on the line. I
really thought, guys that Myami Buffalo game would be close
through a pick. Let's think last week they were laying
three points uh baverage, laying three at home right against Miami.

(02:32:11):
Now Buffalo, who's significantly worse, and I do mean significantly
worse than Baltimore is laying three act Miami. And I
know Miami has some injuries. Just think far too much
of an overreaction there. I think that's gonna be a tight,
close game. And I for one, don't like the way
Buffalo is playing. Actually, I don't like the dude, trow Brady,

(02:32:32):
let's run in the playoffense. I think you're taking the
ball out of your best player's hands. And mark my words,
this guy is there's gonna be a playoff game. They're
losing twenty one, nothing like well we just kept running
the ball, which I don't like the way this this
Buffalo team has actually headed. They were detted, they were
due for positive regression. Anyway, I think this run, run, run, run,
run offense is only going to hurt some long term.

Speaker 3 (02:32:52):
A great stop as always, that's the luck.

Speaker 2 (02:32:58):
And enjoyda Bahamas, baby, enjoyed the Bahamas.

Speaker 3 (02:33:02):
I appreciate you guys, you two, we appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (02:33:05):
How about that fifty listen, I know you got to
split and enjoy the championship game. We're gonna have a
great time. I mean, you're gonna have a blast. I
love it.

Speaker 3 (02:33:18):
Uh send us all the pictures, would you?

Speaker 5 (02:33:20):
You know?

Speaker 4 (02:33:20):
I will.

Speaker 5 (02:33:21):
I can't wait for this game. Real quick, before I
get out of here. I've made my decision. I'm picking Washington.
I think Washington is gonna win the Natty.

Speaker 1 (02:33:28):
Nice look at that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:30):
Look at that baby, you brother, I love it.

Speaker 3 (02:33:35):
I love it. Well, listen, I have a safe journey.
All right, enjoy the game.

Speaker 2 (02:33:40):
We'll be watching and hit me up Gaisy on Monday.

Speaker 4 (02:33:44):
All right, you know it, cuz I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (02:33:46):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (02:33:47):
Here he is Jason Fitz live in Houston for the
National Championship Game. We'll come back, fellas right here, still
one more segment to hang Fox Sports ringing Ah Fellas
from the ti raq dot com studio.

Speaker 3 (02:34:12):
I'll tell you, fig, I can't wait for Monday night.
That game.

Speaker 2 (02:34:16):
I was more and more I figure about that game.
And I and I and our big our dear friend
Lick and Kennedy. Oh yeah, who was mister Husky? Uh
will be there and uh of course man, it's uh
it's great. I I'll be honest. You I root like
hell for Washington.

Speaker 1 (02:34:33):
As am I Michael, you know me. I mean, like
I said, this is the PAC twelve's last stand. Yeah,
you imagine justice for them to win it. It really
is for all the crap they've been through. Uh, listen
to this whole ordeal Butcher in the TV deal, the
commissioner not knowing as you know what from a hole
in the wall and being the big reason why this
thing is going down.

Speaker 7 (02:34:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:34:54):
I think it will be a great way for for
the PAC twelve to go out to get a championship
here in the fourteen playoff where they had been shut
out for a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:35:02):
Yeah, no, I agree, man, You're right. Justice, Justice all
day long, says the Washington wins.

Speaker 1 (02:35:09):
And it's a classic matchup. It's like it reminds you
of like rolls Bowls passed, Washington versus Michigan, the Big
ten versus Pack Packed and Daddy have them all. Just
a week later in Houston.

Speaker 3 (02:35:22):
I'd love to hear I would love to hear Keith Jackson.

Speaker 1 (02:35:25):
Called a another products.

Speaker 2 (02:35:31):
Only a year yard the vilely Wiley VU real quick,
any chance there's a slip up in Washington, d C.
On Sunday and the Cowboys do not win the division.

Speaker 1 (02:35:49):
Oh there's always a chance. Talking about the Dallas Cowboys
here on the road, no doubt. Do I see it happening. No,
But look, this happens almost every single year where there's
a team that has everything to play for versus a
team that has literally nothing to play for, and the
team that has nothing to play for knocks them off,
and really in convincing fashion. I mean, look, to a

(02:36:11):
small degree, it wasn't everything, but that happened last week
in Philly. He but Arizona Cardinal team that's playing out
the string against the Eagles who basically help their own
destiny in their hands to clinch clinch the AFC or
the the NFC East, and they got dominated from start
to finish. It's hard to explain. So there's absolutely a
path for Washington to be able to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:36:31):
You have to tea Yeah, I'll tell you one thing, man,
That Bears Packers games.

Speaker 3 (02:36:35):
Could be a good game.

Speaker 2 (02:36:36):
Yes, absolutely, because Chicago's the way Chicago's playing.

Speaker 3 (02:36:40):
They would love love to knock off Bag.

Speaker 1 (02:36:44):
But I'm telling you, you say, love who has played
better at quarterback in the NFL than Jordan love for
the last month. How about that kid, how he's turned
the corner and out with people we're talking down about
him in the first month, month and half of the
season and rightfully so. But a lot that kid to
be able to continue to develop, go through some growing pains, injuries,
young talent at the receiver position. Now all of a

(02:37:07):
sudden you look up and I know stats aren't everything,
but his stats basically are better than Aaron Rodgers stats
were when he was a first year starter.

Speaker 2 (02:37:14):
No, I mean, look, he's legit and just when you
just watch him play, all you could do is just
watch him play and you go, I love the work
he's going. He's poised the whole thing. We were, You
and I were high on him actually start the year,
if we remember, we definitely were because I liked how
he ended the season last year. The other guy, I

(02:37:34):
tell you, man, I and I'm root for the kid
is Fields.

Speaker 1 (02:37:40):
Yeah, because my own accounts.

Speaker 3 (02:37:42):
Well, Man, he's playing really well.

Speaker 1 (02:37:44):
He's playing as well as he possibly can to a
certain I still think there's limitations to his game. He
got one weapon though, yeah, and DJ Moore and he's
wearing them out. And rightfully so, I would too.

Speaker 2 (02:37:54):
I mean, imagine if they get another receiver. I don't know,
and I look at him like a man with one
weapon to dude, dude's pulling out.

Speaker 1 (02:38:04):
I still think he takes a lot of sacks and
he's not the most accurate. And then and look, he's
still young, he's still developing. I think if with the
right offensive coordinator or the right situation, he can be
a solid starting quarterback. I don't think he'll ever be
a star, but I think you can potentially win with
him to some degree.

Speaker 3 (02:38:19):
I like him. I don't know what you know. I
hear you, I listen.

Speaker 2 (02:38:23):
There's some flaws and some bugs that I see, but
I think he can get a I think you can.

Speaker 3 (02:38:29):
I think you win with I'm with you, but I'm
rooting for him. With him, And who are you watching?
What are we watching? We always do that.

Speaker 1 (02:38:34):
Well, I mean I kind of have to watch. I
have to watch my Raiders play off the string against Denver, Right,
see if they see if they can lock up this
saad coaching John for Antonio Pierce.

Speaker 2 (02:38:43):
Yeah, and I'd love to see that happen. Man, same, right,
he deserves it, he does, he really does. Hey, Shay
and mighty Mark. Great job as always, you guys are
the best, keep us going.

Speaker 3 (02:38:55):
Everybody we love you.

Speaker 2 (02:38:57):
Enjoy the final week in a football will see you
next week.

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