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The Tennessee Titans beat the Baltimore Ravens. The narrative that
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you're gonna hear on Monday relentlessly, it's going to be
the boom or bust on Lamar Jackson and the rust
versus rest, and we will discuss those things. We've got
plenty of time to break this down from every angle. Well,
let me tell you what people need to actually do
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something that we have not heard enough of. It is
time not to look at the team that lost, but
the team that won. Last week the story was what
it was Tom Brady. This week, nationally, it's gonna be
the top seeded Ravens and Lamar Jackson being oh and
two in the playoffs, But really it should be the
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Tennessee Titans. They beat the defending champions on the road
where almost no one wins ever, even in the regular season.
Then they went to Baltimore and they played the guy
that's about to be named League MVP, and he threw
it fifty nine times, ended up with a sixty three
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point two passer rating and a thirty one qb R,
and was sacked four times. It's time to give credit
to the victors, not look at the losers first. The
Ravens had a wonderful season. When Lamar Jackson was asked
what this team was gonna be remembered for? He was
asked this after the game. I was still watching the
postgame interview, and Lamar Jackson is introspective and he's also
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very colloquial in that he will just say stuff. Whatever's
on his heart, whatever's on his mind. He's gonna be dead, honest,
He's gonna tell you. So, he said, what is this
Ravens team gonna be remembered for? He goes fourteen and two,
being a family oriented team. He said the right things.
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But right, they're gonna be remembered for being a two
lost football team that lost in their first playoff game.
John Harball has lost his last three playoff games, as
a matter of fact, and they lost to a team
in the Tennessee Titans. That once they made a quarterback switch,
it's all changed. It's not like I'm gonna sit here
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in wax poetic about Ryan Tannehill to night. He's thrown
for a hundred and sixty combined yards in the last
two weeks. Through for seventy two against New England against Baltimore,
doesn't matter, through for two touchdowns, ran for another one.
It doesn't matter. Not when you have Derrick Henry And
I was I was trying to think about this. It's
weird when you are close to an athlete in terms
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of proximity. I mean, I've interviewed him this year in Nashville,
of course, and we cover the team here where I
do the show out of and so it's kind of
hard for us to see it the way the rest
of the country season Like we're sitting here. If you
don't live in Cleveland, you know, we watched Lebron James
and we marvel at it. We see the superstar level
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almost transcendent figure. It's never really been this close to
home with an athlete like this that's doing these kinds
of things, and I have to imagine that this is
kind of the rest of the country feels right now.
How I felt about Marshawn Lynch back in like two
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thousand eleven, two thousand twelve Beast Mode era prime Marshawn
Lynch time, when he was all over the place. I
don't think Derrick Henry is getting quite as much notoriety.
I guess you would say, as Marshawn Lynch, not as
many things been written about him. But I think that's
probably about to change. But maybe that's just because Derrick
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Henry doesn't say quite as much. Although he had a
pretty good singer for Earl Thomas that CBS picked up
during the postgame interview where he dropped the s bomb.
It was sort of in fun, and Earl Thomas poked
funded himself for giving them bullets and board material afterwards
as well. But Derrick Henry rushed thirty times for a
hundred and ninety five yards in this game. That is
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quite a day six point five average against a very
good defense in Baltimore. If it were the only time
he's done it, then we'd just be talking about an
unbelievable performance, and it was. But this is on the
heels of last week rushing thirty four times for a
hundred and eighty two yards and then the regular season
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finale going thirty two for two eleven. Folks, do you
realize that seven of the last eight games Derrick Henry's
rushed for over a hundred yards and six of the
last eight he rushed for at least a hundred and
forty nine literally dating back to the Kansas City game,
which is important to mention because it could be the
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matchup next week. That was back on November tenth, and
he skipped one game against the Saints at home, which
was the penultimate game of the regular season back on
the of December. But dating back to that game, nineteen
for one, nine for one, eighteen for one oh three.
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His lowest performance was twenty one for eighty six against
Houston when he clearly did not look fully right. And
that's when he took the week off right after that,
and then thirty two for two eleven, thirty four, two
and thirty. I don't even know what to say about that.
I will tell you this. Jeopardy this week had their
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championship week. They're all time gree this week with Jennings
and hols Hour and those guys, and it did insane ratings,
better than postseasons and major sports have done. If Derrick
Henry is the answer, what is the question? This will
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boggle your mind if you haven't heard this stat yet.
The question, if Alex Trebeck was reading it would be
what NFL running backs have rushed for a hundred and
eighty plus yards in three consecutive football games, postseason or
regular season. Derrick Henry is the answer. Derrick Henry is
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the only answer. Think about how much ground that covers.
How many great backs we've seen in the National Football
League dating back to when running the football is what
every he did. Now nobody seems to do it, except
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that both the two teams that we watched in that
football game relied on it more often than not. Jimmy
g is not exactly light in the world on fire,
and Dalvin Cook was really the offense for Minnesota entering
their game. Derrick Henry, in an era where it's all
about the quarterback and it's all about passing, has done
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something no running back has ever done in the NFL.
And I think it is just flat out mouth feasance
not to credit the Titans and talk about what they've
done the team that they've become. Pretty much as soon
as Ryan Tannehill became the starter after the debacle in
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Denver when they got shut out by Joe Flacco and
the Broncos. In came Tannehill. Around that time, Taylor of
the One, had come back from his suspension left tackle,
and the offensive line started to get a little healthier.
Roger Staffold, who had come over from the Rams, struggle
for the first month and then became the guy that
John Robinson, the general manager of the Titans, wanted, the
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guy the Rams didn't want to see lose. Lindsey Theory
reported that, and she covers the Rams about as well
as anybody, But I talked to some other folks as
well who said the Rams hated to lose them, but
they couldn't keep everybody. You know, their situation, their money situation,
the money they have tied up, the lack of draft picks,
everything that they have tried to do to maximize the
window with the Jared Goff contract, which that window is
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now closed. So the offensive line got better. First year
offensive coordinator Arthur Smith began to gel with Ryan Tannehill
as quarterback, and Tannehill was throwing up incredible numbers, had
the highest passer rating in the league once it came
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to a close with Drew Brees in second made very
few mistakes, was throwing for decent amounts of yards, but
it wasn't on fifty nine passes. It was on passes.
And the bell cow was a true bell cow. Derrick Henry,
who was a two down back. That was the knock
on him at the beginning of the year. He couldn't
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catch all of a sudden me Tannehill there. He wasn't
dropping balls anymore, and he became a legitimate three down
back that no one wanted to see in the second
half of football games because why would you want to
tackle that behemoth? And how could you tackle that behemoth
if you were at all fatigued. So he begins just
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tearing people up in the second half. He wins the
rushing title erroneously. He's named second team All NFL at
running back. If you have a running back in a
flex back position, why not give that to two different people.
I've got no qualums of Christian McCaffrey winning the awards
that he won, except for the fact that he should
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have won the Flex Award because you were include a
lot of stats that he did from a receiving spot
where he was over a thousand. Derrick Henry rush for
more yards, and Derrick Henry was much more of a
threat as a running back the McCaffrey was. I think
McCaffrey should have been second team in the running side.
Derrick Henry should have been the running back on the
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first team, and McCaffrey could have been your flex back.
But before we start talking about the Ravens, we're gonna
play some audio from Lamar Jackson. We're gonna play a
lot of audio during this show. May have a special
guest as well from Baltimore. We're working on that. But
more than anything else, this was about two things. It
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was about Derrick Henry and it was about the Titans
defense doing enough right that Baltimore started doing enough wrong.
And Baltimore certainly did look a little rush see which
is a debate that we will have on this program.
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But we so often jumped to a storyline about the
teams that lost and how could this happen? The Ravens
were the number one seed, they were fourteen in two.
This does not make me think Lamar Jackson can't play football,
by the way, folks, And if it makes you think that,
you're wrong. One game doesn't dictate anything. How much leeway
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have you given other guys that have been quarterbacks in
this league? How long did it take before Peyton Manning
started winning. I'm not saying Lamar Jackson's Peyton Manning. I'm saying,
dude struggled against the Chargers last year when the Chargers
were on fire and Lamar was still finding himself as
an NFL quarterback. And this year he ran into a
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red hot Tennessee Titans team that is not afraid of
anybody that takes on the mentality of their head coach,
a guy who's won multiple rings on the defense of
the greatest coach in the history of the sport. That
mentality that workman like. It's not arrogance, but it's somewhere
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above confidence. They're not just confident. They walk in thinking
they're gonna win, and then they just beat you. And
the Ravens had not trailed very often. They were outscoring
everybody by nine seven points in the first quarter of
this season, and then after this first quarter that number
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had dropped to ninety because they trailed the football game
by a touchdown. I know, paying running backs is not
something that I do. Derrick Henry is the exception. You
can't get him fifteen million season, but you also can't
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let him walk out the door. At worst, you have
to franchise tag him. And I think they're gonna pay him.
He's the only back in the NFL that I would
pay what would seem like absurd money too, And maybe
that would end up being my downfall, but I think
I would ride with that guy. Would you tweet me
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nine nine on Fox. That's six three six nine. We will,
of course get into the narrative of the Lamar Jackson story,
the rest versus rust argument, all of it, and we
will talk about the other game that was played as well,
that was much less exciting. It just seemed like watching
what the Titans were doing to the Ravens was actually intriguing.
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What we saw in the first game was just once
they got up on them, San Francisco's defense just said,
all right, Minnesota, you're done, head on home. But the
Titans beat the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore Ravens didn't go out
there and lose that game. Tennessee won that game. We'll
let you hear from Lamar Jackson we'll discuss it amongst
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you come back as well. And again if you're in
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So we talked about Derrick Henry in that first segment,
and Chris Perfett, who handles the boards and does an
exquisite job for us out in Los Angeles, came over
and told me during the break, came over my earpiece
as he's in l A. He didn't walk over to
me in Nashville. That would be pretty impressive, very long walk.
It would be uh and the trek back would be
a problem as well. But you said, I probably would
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have a unique take compared to what everybody else is
gonna say on Fox Sports Radio, because we I know
what the narrative is gonna be. We all know what
the narrative is gonna be. It's gonna be about Lamar Jackson,
and I understand that, but I also think at some
point you credit the victor when the victor actually won
the game. This wasn't about I know what Lamar Jackson said.
We're gonna hear from him here in just one second,
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but it what Derrick Henry is doing needs to be
talked about before anything else right now. The m v
P is a regular season award that was voted on
weeks ago, Lamar Jackson's gonna win it, deserves to win it,
especially based on that criteria. You would have a hard
time convincing me right now that anybody is more valuable
that's currently playing football than Derrick Henry is for the
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Tennessee Titans. And I have dogged them out and talked
about their inconsistency for years, but Tannehill stabilized him, and
now they run it behind Henry, and they played defense,
and the defense has woken back up. The offensive line
has done a much better job of the past five
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or six weeks, and this team has become that one
become that dreaded, oh you don't want to see them
in January kind of team. That's what they've become. And
just because they're doing old school things, well except that
Derrick Henry is also throwing a Tim Tebow jump pass
into the end zone in the back of the end
zone to Corey Davis, which I when I saw that,
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I immediately tweeted out, this game is over, and people
were all upset. Y'all got to get over your superstitious
I used to be superstitious. I no longer really feel
that way. I was positive after that play that the
game was over. You know why, Because the game was over.
They weren't coming back. What were you seeing that was
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going to change? Unless they got like three on side
kicks in a row. They were eventually gonna have to
kick it back to the Titans. You know what's gonna happen.
Then they were gonna turn around and hand it to
Derrick Henry. He was gonna chew up the clock and
it was gonna be a riggety, riggety rap And that's
exactly what it was. Now, We've got a couple of
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pieces of audio from Lamar Jackson in his post game
and he said some really cool stuff this year, and
this was a tough moment for him, and he's still
said things that made sense, especially for somebody in the
second year that has a lot of confidence. Bro. And look,
they got shook. The crowd definitely got shook. They weren't
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expecting this. I don't think they respected the Titans, but
they're just not used to what the Titans did to them.
They're not used to falling behind early in these games.
So who exactly was going to get the credit here?
And Lamar Jackson, more than anything, believes that it falls
on him and it falls on his football team. Here's
what he said. He just beat our sales. You know, um, yeah,
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well I had a lot of mistakes and might we
have three turnovers that shouldn't happen. But you know they
came out to play. You know, we just started off slow.
You just gotta do better next time. But moving forward,
get rid of for the all season, didn't give it infin,
We just gotta do better. There is nothing we've never
seen before. We just gotta put points on the board.
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I don't know that there's anything really wrong with what
he's saying there. He's not disrespect and the Titans, they
have not seen what they saw. And if this is
the way I read this, if they didn't do anything spectacular,
if they didn't do anything that you haven't seen before,
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then that means that Dean ps the defensive coordinator of the
the Tennessee Titans, and what he usually dials up just
if the Titans play their game, they can flummox they
can cause trouble for the league MVP. They can cause
trouble for the Baltimore Ravens. However, and this is just
an unbelievable quote, especially if you're a video gamer logan.
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Ryan was asked after the game how the Titans shut
down Lamar Jackson, and here's what he said in postgame quote.
We wanted to give him loaded boxes all night to
get him out of the run game. We were either
playing with a loaded box and man to man making
beat us the on the ball outside Mono imano, or
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we were gonna play his own defense, a quarters defense
similar to what Buffalo did, and Buffalo played them well.
Buffalo just didn't score a lot of points on offense.
So we had eight nine man boxes all night. You
play Madden and run engage eight all day, it's hard
to run the ball. We pretty much did that, and
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we gotta lead. And once we gotta lead, they had
to go to the past game. And that's our strength
with the DBS we have and having the ball skills
we have. When we get a lead, we can get
some interceptions. Just the idea that he goes to Madden
to explain that, to dumb it down for the rest
of us to understand exactly what was going on there.
They watched Buffalo, who did cause some trouble, and they
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followed through with that. So Lamar Jackson's dead right. He
had seen it before. He saw it against Buffalo, but
here he saw it not against Josh Allen, but against
Derek freaking Henry and Derrick Henry and the offense who,
other than one drive, the one with the big bomb
from Tannehill early, didn't make it. They had no drives
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longer than thirty five yards all night, with the exception
of that drive, and they still won this game, and
won it handily, and won it basically on all sides.
Lamar Jackson had a little bit more to say. Let's
hear what else? Uh the Well, he's not the m
v P yet, but he will be soon. Here's also
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a few more comments from Lamar after the game. Did
you feel like a long time since you played two year?
Not at all, Not at all, he said he didn't
think it had been a while. They were arrested in
the final week of the regular season than they had
to buy, so it's been a few weeks. Jeff Warts,
who you know very well here on Fox Sports Radio,
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I talked to him earlier this week and he told
me that the reason he still believes so heavily in
the Ravens in this game, who he had doubted all year,
was at the Ravens are not a precision based offense,
so the rust was not going to affect them the
way that it would some other teams. He thought they
would be just fine because of their method of playing.
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When you watch that football game, I would suggest to
you that maybe one of the biggest players of the
entire game came because Lamar Jackson was a little high
on the pass that Mark Andrews could have maybe caught
if his ankle wasn't hampered. He wasn't able to go
fully up to make the grab, so it went off
of his fingertips and into the hands of safety Kevin
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Byard of the Tennessee Titans. A turnover on that drive,
Baltimore was moving it early. It looked like they were
about to score a touchdown and take a lead. I
have no idea if we're still having this same conversation
if that play doesn't happen. There are a few things
that you can usually pull out of games. Games can
be decided by mistakes on one side, or opportunities off
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of those mistakes, or sometimes if you don't I meet
it out right after that interception, it doesn't matter. Turnover
means nothing unless you put points on the board. You've
got to move the football and put points on the board.
And that's what Tennessee did. They got the lead and
they never looked back. But I point to that one
play and say that was a turning point very early.
Now you have almost had a secondary turning point at
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the end of the first half when the Ravens that
ridiculous catch by Hollywood Brown. Two insane catches in this game,
that one and the one John Nu Smith caught for
the first Titans touchdown where he got the cheek down
and the cheek was equivalent to two ft. Just a
insane play for a tight end to make. Just super
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athletic is John Nu Smith. But Marky's Brown makes this
great play get some within the five yard line. It
looks like Baltimore is about to score touchdown right before
the half. Then they're gonna get a two for one
because they're gonna get the ball first after intermission in
the second half because they deferred and the Titans hold
him to a field goal. Shoot, huh, it's fourteen to six,
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It's not fourteen to ten. Everything changes right there. Fourteen
to ten momentum, you feel like you've lost a few
of the Titans Europe fourteen ten at the half, because
it shouldn't be that you had a bad defensive possession,
you gave up a big time play and now you're
only up four. But instead you didn't do that. And
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the same thing that we saw last week on the
gold line stand from the Titans against the Patriots, where
no one almost ever stops them, well, no one had
stopped the Ravens all season on fourth and one. It
happened twice in this game, and fourth down the Ravens
failed three times against the Titans once again. You take
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Derrick Henry and the way he's running the ball. Not
a lot of mistakes being made by Ryan Tannehill, not
a lot of spectacular plays either, but a couple of
runs for first downs instead of a risky throw, willing
to throw it away, not fumbling, just doing enough. He's
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the very definition of a game manager in the playoffs.
That's not really what we were seeing in the tail
end of the regular season, or really since he came
into the into the lineup. But you take the way
Derrick Henry's running, and then you add a defense that
is now starting to look a lot more like the
one that was given up fifteen points a game when
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this team was under five hundred with Mariota as a starter,
then the defense that was getting gashed and beaten by
big time whiteouts and quarterbacks down the stretch where the
offense had outscore everybody. Now, I will make one point
about what we're going to see in the a f
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C title game, whether or not it's Kansas City and Houston,
I think it will be the Chiefs. One thing that
the Ravens and the Patriots have in common is they
don't have much receiving talent. Lamar Jackson had Mark Andrews,
and he had Hollywood Brown, and then he had dudes
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stopping passes. He had mark Ingram that hadn't played in
a while and didn't feel very good. The Patriots, we
know what they had, not a whole lot. That will
not be the case for the Kansas City Chiefs, and
really it's not the case for the Houston Texans. But
in division against that team and that coach, I think
I'm taking very Bill over Bill O'Brien the other way.
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I'd be hard pressed not to pick Kansas City. But
at this point, counting Tennessee out, I mean, are the
Chief's gonna stop Derrick Henry. What's the game plan that's
gonna stop him? Six of the last eight over a
hundred part me seven and the last eight over a
hundred six of the last eight over a hundred forty nine.
I wish I could say one fifty, but he had
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one game one forty nine. Absurd numbers. Let's go to
Brian Finley and I'm gonna try to interact with b
during his updates a little bit more. Brian Uh, Derrick
Henry is a man. He is a gigantic human being
that I don't know how much money you'd have to
pay me to tackle him. He is a battering ram.
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He is a wrecking ball, and that brings back that
Miley Cyrus song. But yeah, I mean he is a
wrecking ball, and I would I can't imagine the pain
that you feel, the ice baths, the hours having to
kind of recover your body after trying to deal with
him as a defender, especially in the second half. I mean,
once you're tired and he's running over you, I just okay,
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you win, you win. Enjoy Enjoy the win, Enjoy the spoils.
They're calling him King Henry Oliver Nashville and they're doing
it for a reason. I haven't seen anything like this
since Marshawn Lynch. I don't think it's unfair to compare
the two at this point. And Jason, by the way,
how nice was or how much did you love his
pregame suit he wore when he was rolling It wasn't
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that amazing that all white just looks like a pope?
He did. He looked like a pope when I saw him.
I'm like, oh boy. Last week it was the Professor
Plum in the library with the candlesticks suit for his birthday.
Now it's all white. I am curious to see what
Derrick Henry is going to roll up that either Kansas
City or Houston End next week. But I can tell
you this, if I'm a Texans fan or I'm a
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Chiefs fan, I don't know that I want to see
this football team right now. No, and and how many
times have we seen this, Jason, where it's it's the
team that's playing the best right towards the end of
the season, maybe not the whole season, that it's the momentum,
the charge that you feel at the end. Those are
the teams that end up winning in the NT double
a tournament. Remember when Yukon was I don't know they
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were basically yeah, I mean, all of a sudden they
started clicking and it That's kind of how it is
in sports. It's at least in something. Even when Aaron
Rodgers one is his Super Bowl, that was the it
team that got hot down the stretch. They weren't the
most dominant team during the regular season. It often plays
out that way. I just wonder what the Titans record
would have been if Tannehill played all year and the
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offensive line had been healthy, because this team looks a
lot better than a team that finished nine and seven
of the regular season. Yeah, and and here we go
Lamar Jackson, he flops in the playoffs, the guilty of
three turnovers, and Jason's Titans they domesticate the Ravens. Yeah,
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you like that. Trying to think of something different a Titan,
said coach Mike Rabel, naming other factors that also contributed
to Tennessee's win. We defended from number to number and
made him go Laterally, they weren't big plays, and then
we're able to get some stops, and it could have
been a lot better if we're able to, you know,
get him off the field on some those third and
long situations, but we didn't and we played great red
zone defense. You were talking about the red zone defense
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and that defense and short situations against the Patriots. Here
it was again Jason against this Baltimore Ravens team, and
like you said, Derrick Henry one hundred ninety five yards rushing.
He did not have a touchdown on the ground, but
he did throw one, which was pretty cool. Yeah, And
the Titans are onto the a FC Championship Game and
they will play the winner of Sunday's matchup between the
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Chiefs and the Texans, and then earlier on Saturday, the
forty Niners claim a spot in the NFC Championship Game
after their defense tortured the Vikings in a twenty seven
to tend w That Vikings offense helda one hundred forty
seven yards Minnesota only seven first down Niners had six sacks,
two from Nick Bosa, and San Francisco head coach Kyle
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Shanahan addressing after the game that Bosa effect, he played
pretty good all year. I think he gotta I don't
know how many sacks you've got today, but he's been
pressing on the quarterback all year. It's great that he
ended it. I thought he sat there and milked us
injury for a little bit longer just to hear the
crowd Channa's name. But now he's been a stud. He's
been awesome on the field off the field. Extremely happy
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to have him. Our team and those Niners will wait
for Sunday's winter between the Seahawks and Packers and one
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Eastern Conference by six and a half games. And Jason,
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I know you're still just basking in this Titans glory.
As I gotta say, Man, when I lived in Memphis
and we would cover some Titans stuff, they were nowhere
near the level that they're playing right now. It's it
must be a lot of fun to be around the
buzz in Nashville. It's different, that's for sure. Um next
week is gonna be I imagine most Titans fans are
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gonna be huge Texans fans for the first time in
a while on Sunday. Because I'm looking at those two matchups,
and I want Bill O'Brien, I don't want any part
of my homes a second time this year, much healthier
than he was the last time you saw him with
all of those weapons. That that is not not ideal,
but the Titans still playing is ideal. Also ideal Geico.
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Scott cas more Football Outsiders who I should probably just
pay a little bit of my salary too because they
use so many of his stats. He does such a
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good job and I enjoy his the way he tweets
all this stuff out is tweeting out some pretty amazing
stats from this game. Tannehill number of completions on each
touchdown drive versus the Ravens last night. First touchdown drive
one completion, twelve yard touchdown. That one did John new
Smith second touchdown drive, one completion, the forty five yard touchdown,
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the bomb to calif Raymond five ft eight the third
touchdown drive zero, the fourth touchdown drive one nine yards.
Three completions combined on the four touchdown drives for the
Tennessee Titans against the Baltimore Ravens. That is utterly nuts.
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Maybe only more nuts? Is this? Since nineteen forty three
D six teams have had at least five hundred thirty
offensive yards in a game. Three out of those three
D only the Baltimore Ravens did not score fourteen points.
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I don't again, there are times when you just lay
a number out there and then you just kind of
sit there and you think about it. Because if you
look at Lar Jackson's actual like yardage totals, he was
definitely effective three sixty five yards passing a hundred forty
three yards rushing. But I can't imagine the game plan
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for the Baltimore Ravens folks was, Hey, Lamar, we're gonna
have you throw it fifty nine times in a football game,
and you're gonna have one touchdown one touchdown. Ryan Tannehill
is gonna throw one more than you. He's gonna throw
two less interceptions than you. And guess what else, Derrick Henry,
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he's gonna rush for one, not score on the ground,
but Derrick Henry is going to equal your passing touchdown
totals in this game on the road. I what are
you supposed to say, Lamar Lamar Jackson won the Heisman,
He's gonna win the NFL m v P this year,
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but he's also gonna be watching the a f C
Championship game next week. Because I don't nobody want to
see these boys right now. Nobody wants to see that
dude in twenty two. We're in twenty two. I don't
care if it's Kansas City, I don't care. If it's
huston In. I don't care if it's San Francisco. I
don't care. No one wants to see this guy because
it's like the Tennessee Titans have taken football and moved
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it back twenty or thirty years, and nobody else was
prepared for the switch in the opposite direction, just bludgeoning fools,
and then what the defense is doing is just outrageous.
So yeah, I've spent a good bit of time and
I said this off the top, and this is what
the guys out in l A said. You're gonna have
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I let off this show by saying, we don't talk
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enough about the victors because we want to explain the losers.
Give credit to the Titans. They snatched this game by
the throat and told Baltimore not this year. Quote the
King nevermore. We'll be right back Jason Martin Show, Fox
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Head is interesting because I did see a tweet that
compared Derrick Henry to Optimist Prime, who, of course was
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keep dropping Scott Kasmar tweets because there's so many stats
that he's put out that are just mind boggling. About
this Ravens Titans game. How about this one? Ravens had
the sixth best scoring differential since the merger didn't win
a playoff game. They joined the nineteen forty two Bears
as the only teams since nineteen forty to not win
a playoff game with a scoring differential of at least
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two forty nine. That's just another one of those ridiculous numbers.
There are so many of these. How about this, He
tweets this out. Baltimore's offense had fourteen drops all season seven.
In their first playoff game, they were on fourth and one.
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I did mention this one failed twice. They averaged twenty
plus every week and scored twelve. He says that's a choke,
and he kind of does it like it's Jeff Foxworthy.
It may have been a choke, but it was also
the Titans thrashing them and that defense. Flummox is the
word I'm gonna keep using about Lamar Jackson. He said
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they didn't do anything spectacular. They may not have. If so,
that's more of an indictment on Baltimore, because if that
was just what they were expecting to see, then Baltimore
certainly wasn't ready for it. Maybe that rust versus rest
thing has a little bit to it, because Baltimore didn't
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look right from the outset. I'm going to continue to
tell you that the play of this game, and there
were a few different things that I could point to,
but the I think that the turning point of the
game came very early when Baltimore was driving and about
to score points and Mark Andrews couldn't go up enough
for that past and Lamar had put it just high
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enough that it went off his fingertips and into the
hands of Kevin Byard and the Titans got to turn over.
I think it changed the entire football game that in
the end of the first half, holding them to a
field goal. But I think if that ball is not
picked off in the raven score right there. I have
no idea the conversation we're having right now, but that's
all hypothetical. The Tennessee Titans are still playing football, the
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top seed of Baltimore Ravens are looking at the off season.
We'll let you here again from Lamar Jackson before we
end the show, but we still got two more hours
to go. Stick with us here on Fox Sports Radio
our number two or three. That's the usual way we
roll here on the Jason Martin Show. Welcome in Fox
Sports Radio wherever you are across the country. I am
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certainly blessed to have you as a part of my audience.
You can find me on Twitter. I am j mart
by the way, at Jason Martin j Martin Zone is
how you find me on Twitter. Two big games on Saturday,
and still to the preview for Sunday that we will
certainly get to. But look, when the league MVP gets
beaten pretty summarily by the six seed in the playoffs,
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that becomes a gigantic story. And I let off this
show and led to the guys out in l A
telling me that I'm probably to have a take on
FSR that no one else will have. I feel like
we don't spend enough time talking about the victors because
we immediately try to go to, well, these guys lost
and why did they lose. We need to talk about
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Lamar Jackson. We need to talk about how he can't
get it done in the playoffs. I'm gonna give you
a list before the end of the show of quarterbacks
that you really like that struggled a whole lot before
they found any level of success in the NFL playoffs.
One game doesn't mean anything except that this season came
to an end. One guy that has covered not just
the Tennessee Titans, but specifically them, but also the a
(41:36):
f C South for many, many years. He's also a
colleague of mine at Fox Sports radio affiliate one oh
four five is own w g f X FM here
in Nashville is Paul Kaharski. He covered the game. He's
in Baltimore right now, up late, Paul, that was quite
a football game, quite an experience. How are you feeling
right now? Oh? Tired? Uh? But so you give me
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a way to bridge to the gap between arriving back
at the hotel and hitting an uber to get back
to the airport. It's funny you mentioned, uh, you know,
people covering the loss. I saw friends of mine, Judy
Batist staff from NFL dot com and Bob Glaubert from Newsday,
uh last week in New England, but I didn't see
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them in the Titans locker room because they were writing
the Patriots story. But I saw him today in the
Titans locker room and I gave him a hard time.
I said, oh, now you're now, you're ready to write
the sight. But I wouldn't have been surprised. And I
think most of the national folks that were there were
doing exactly what you say that they're they're there really
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um to cover the the bigger team, the bigger story,
the bigger seed, um, you know, and they don't move
the other direction kind of until until something like this happens,
um you know. And I think maybe next week in
the NFC Championship game, um, you know, it's probably not
(42:59):
a story again unless they win it, um, and then
they become even more than Cinderella. Derrick Henry thirty carries
for a hundred yards. He doesn't score on the ground,
but he does throw a jump past Tim Tebow style
to Corey Davis in the back of the end zone.
What he is doing. I was trying to contextualize it
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in off the start of the show, and I said,
I wonder if this is how like everybody else around
the country sees it differently than us because we're so
close to him and we're following this team so closely.
But this has gotta be how I felt about Marshawn Lynch,
how the rest of the people are starting to feel
about Derrick Henry. I know that's a dangerous comparison to
make because of what a legendary figure he was, But
what I'm seeing from Derrick Henry right now seems awfully
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special and awfully rare. Just um, the first guy in
history to rush for one eighty or more in three
games in a row, whether those games bled into the
playoffs or not. So uh. And you know Mike Rabel
put that well, he you know, he didn't really care,
like what the thing after first guy in history too.
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He's like, blah blah blah, whatever comes after that. You know,
it's a big deal if that's the preface to do
the statement, Um, so uh, you know, really incredible. It's funny.
You know, I saw a colleague of mine in Green
Bay saying, you know, next time he has uh La
Fleur on his radio show, he was gonna ask him,
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like why he took him so long to get to
Derrick Henry last year. And people just can't comprehend the
idea that for you know, uh, twelve games, eleven games
last year, Derrick Henry was not this guy. Derrick Henry
in the Patriots game last season during the regular season,
was demoted to to third string. They started handing the
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ball to a guy named David Flewellen who was behind
Dion Lewis, knocking Derrick Henry to to third. David fle
and quickly twisted his knee and kind of changed changed everything.
But um, Derrick Henry, you know, Eddie George had a
big conversation with him, and I'm sure there's a lot
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else that went on in the house, but he did
not turn into this back until really, uh five or
four games to go last year where he became this
guy that really figured out how to use the size
um to get everything he could going forward. He he
was uh and Eddie George is uh, you know, regular
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on my show at the mid day one eightie in Nashville.
Um and and talked about how he thought too much.
They was Barry Sanders for a while. He's got good
feet for a guy his size, certainly, but um, he
needs to to get going forward. It takes him a
little while to get going forward. And um, he was
taking too much time going side to side before he
got going forward. Once he figured that out, he's turned
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into this guy who, um, you know, it's something to behold.
And one of the pierce the nose tackle um for
the Ravens tonight was same. You know, for the first
time kind of in my life, I thought, I don't
think I could stop a guy. That's unreal. It really is.
Paul Kaharsky our guest. He's on Twitter at Paul Kaharsky NFL.
His website is Paul Kuharski dot com. Does so some
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midday when eighty Fox Sports radio affiliate one of four
five Zone in Nashville, watching Lamar Jackson and watching the
Ravens offense. One thing that struck me, Paul, was similarities
between them and the Patriots and that there's not a
whole lot of receiving talent. I mean, they had Marquis
Brown who made a couple of plays, and they had
Andrews who didn't look to be fully right, that could
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be different next week against either the Chiefs or the Texans.
But look, I don't know if it's as much the
rust of the Ravens as this was an offense that
maybe could be exploited as long as Lamar Jackson didn't
rush for five yards. Yeah, I mean that's certainly how
the Titans approached it. And Um, the Titan in two
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thousand and again in two thousand and eight, with the
number one seed in the a f C two thousand
was probably the best team they've ever had. It was
a better team than the year before when they won
the a f C and lost that dramatic Super Bowl
to the Rams. Um and both of those seasons two
thousand and two thousand and eight as the number one seed,
the Ravens came to Nashville and did to the Titans
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pretty much what the Titans did to the Ravens is
the number one seed tonight, Um and and most of
us close to this team didn't think the Titans would
be able to do it without the Ravens really botching it.
And really botching it entails turning it over three times
and uh and failing to convert four three three, four,
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four fourth downs. I guess the first three of them
really mattered. Then the early two of them they turned
into touchdowns right away. And so you if you're a
number one seed and you're gonna lose it home, you
really in the best team in football during the course
of the year, You're gonna have to contribute to your
own demise. Um. And so the Titans had to play
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largely mistake free and then do the things that kind
of invited the Ravens to uh to hurt themselves. And
that's exactly what they were able to do. And Uh,
I texted with Daddie George, I texted with Frank Wi
Chick guys that I talked to earlier in the week
to write about that kind of revenge factor. And Rashaun
Evans talked about having texted with with Keith Bullock earlier
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in the week. Um, and and all those old timers felt,
you know, that's so far removed from it, but felt
some degree of of franchise revenge. UM that I think
was you know, some some nice karma. And and that's
big for the fans to who still you know, it's
now the Colts and and the Texans who are the
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franchise's rivals because they're in the same division. Once upon
a time they were in the same division as the Ravens.
But that too, thousand losses is probably the biggest one
in franchise history, and it's certainly uh it was the
one for Eddie George, who's one of the franchises all
time greats, who Derrick Henry is gonna clearly be going after.
I know you can second guess the Ravens. I think
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you're erroneous to do it if you do it, because
any of us would have done the same thing in
week seventeen. And obviously they had to buy. But I mean,
you're not gonna risk getting somebody hurt. But how much
do you put did you see rust from based on
what you had seen on film and studying the Ravens
in the run up to this game, did you see
some level of rust? They didn't appear to be as
crisp off the start of the game. But I had
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always heard all week that, look, they're not a timing offense,
they're not a precision offense, so russ shouldn't hit them
the way that it hits a lot of other teams.
But did you see it differently on the field that
they just didn't look quite the same. Well, I mean,
I think the Titans made him not look the same
by playing very disciplined. There was one play we were
talking about in the press box where where Rushaan Evans
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came up and and uh and didn't really go for
the tackle. He kind of broke down and made Uh
Jackson move, you know, towards the inside where Evans knew
there was help coming, and two other guys arrived and
made a pretty solid tackle. That might have been a
seven yard game for Jackson, which is a a good game,
but it's not a killer game, the kind of thing
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that turns into a big problem. And had he gone
for a kill shot there, you know, Jackson could spin
out of that or make a move and and do
things that really hurt you. And so I think the
Titans played probably is sounded defensive game against them as
anybody has certainly since September um and that made him
look rusty. I think I think that stuff tends to
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be overrated. Nobody is gonna say, hey, I'd rather go
into the playoffs as a six seed and position myself
to play three road games to get to the Super
Bowl instead of being the number one seed, and the
number one seats tend to fare a lot better. I think, uh,
they've only been two six seats that have gone all
the way and won the whole thing, So the percentages
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aren't in your favor. Though, when a team gets hot
like this and then it talks about, hey, yeah, we
really like coming into the playoffs having had to play,
you know, playoff games in week seventeen and the week
before we got to this big matchup and and all
of that. You know, so whatever, whatever the hot team
is doing, whatever the winning team is doing, always seems
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like the better, better path. Ryan Tannehill has combined to
throw for a hundred and sixty yards in these two
playoff games. You and I think we're on the same page.
I saw what you were tweeting before the game. It
was similar to what I had said all week long,
which was, Derrick Henry alone is not gonna be enough
to win this game. Tannehill is gonna have to make
some plays. Now. He threw two touchdowns, He had the
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one bomb, and then he had the play that Johnny
Smith made in the in the corner of the end
zone as well. But how stunning is it that this
team has managed to to beat the teams that they've beaten,
the defending champions and the number one seed with a
quarterback that is the very definition of a game manager.
Just don't lose it for is, don't turn it over,
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and the defense in the running game will be enough
to win it. Yeah, I'm gonna say the same thing now.
I don't. I don't think they win a third one
with him seven passes, But I mean I thought he
was more comfortable in this game, UM and able to
do more things UM. Certainly the after one of those
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fourth down stops, he threw the bomb the Calife Raymond
for the forty five yard touchdown, which then was more
than half of his eight passing yards UM. But you know,
if they don't need him and Henry's doing what what
he's doing, it's perfectly fine. I don't think anybody cares
that's interested in the Titans is how the how they
win it. But it's funny. I've started to write a
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story for tomorrow and Marcus Mariota's last game UM in
weeks six against Denver a lo and behold, he completed
seven passes and that his demise. That was a seven
for eighteen game, uh, for sixty three yards, worse than
either of these Tannehell games. But um, you know, look
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Nat now, who would have thought his replacement who Tannehill
was obviously fantastic in his ten starts, but here he
is with seven completions in back to back playoff games,
like you said, against the defending Super Bowl champs, against
the best team in the regular season. Um, and it's
felt like, you know, completely sufficient in in both games,
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they weren't quarterback desperate and you weren't watching them and saying, God, God,
how money they need to play from the quarterback right now?
Um during any of the snaps in the game. Um.
So it's really bizarre. I haven't found the staff from
anybody h official except people repeating it. But I think
the Bengals and the Dolphins each one h two playoff
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games with the same thing, with quarterbacks throwing for under
a hundred yards, and uh, both went to the Super
Bowl with with such a thing. So that's the kind
of season the Titans are having where they joined the
club like that, and they've got to feel good. Um,
you know, they've beaten the Chiefs this season. The Chiefs
has gotten a lot better on defense. They're beating the
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Texans this season, though not with not with the Shawn Watson.
But you know they're not scared of either of those teams,
certainly not after we're winning these two games, and so, um,
you know, I think their their mantra in the preseason,
which got made fun of by people, including me after
yet another nine and seven season, was good, too. Great.
They're in the final four now, so I think they
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qualify and I think it's completely possible that they win
two more. Yeah, no, man, I think you're I think
you're absolutely right about that offensive coordinator defensive coordinator Arthur
Smith and deem Ps. Which one has been the m
v P between the two, because I think you could
make a really good argument. I could give you content
(54:58):
right there. You could write a rowing compiece on both.
The cons would be very very short. Both of them
have just been knockouts over the past few weeks. Yeah. Well,
I mean P's is a known known commodity. It's pretty
uh fun for him that he's just devised plans to
beat the two teams that he coordinated previously. Smith, you know, uh,
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this was a make or break Marcus Mariotta was he
the guy or was he not the guy? Clearly showed
that he was not the guy in those first six games, UM,
but we didn't realize just how much he was slowing down.
Arthur Smith and his first uh first six games as
an NFL offensive coordinator, and he's certainly has shown himself
to be a clever a clever play designer and a
(55:42):
good play caller. UM. So that that's been interesting to watch.
But we're watching guys that opposite ends of the spectrum.
You know, a guy in Peace who had retired two
years ago from the Ravens who've rabeled then offered a
you know, entirely different kind of opportunity, UH, who's seventy.
And Arthur Smith, UH, you know who who started off
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not that long ago as a quality control guy and
has been with the organization that's come to so so
much change UM and finally got his opportunity to move
up to UH to a higher level UM and a
higher pay grade. UM. Not that he needs it because
his dad uh came up with the FedEx idea, a
little little idea about overnight package delivery. UM. But yeah,
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the the game plans have been really really sound, and
you know, people have doubts about Mike Rabel too, who
made some some debatable decisions along the way this season.
I think we're seeing a lot of growth from a
lot of people. Um that's that's peaking at the right time.
One final thought, we got about a minute left. Paul
Kaharsky my guests follow him on Twitter at Paul Kaharsky NFL.
(56:49):
Check out his website Paul Kaharsky yachts Com. I'm a subscriber.
It is worth every penny, especially if you are a
Titans fan or somebody that just wants to know a
little bit about this team that you that you might
not other wise already be following. Maybe you're paying more
attention now. Chiefs Texans. I think it's clear as day
you don't want to see Kansas City if you're Tennessee
next week now. I don't think either one of those
teams really wants to see the Titans either right now.
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But the Chiefs and their weapons and they're improved defense,
especially over the past month or so. I think every
Titans fan should be a huge Houston Texans fan. On Sunday,
Am I wrong? I no, I agree, but I don't.
I don't see it happening, but again and happening. But
I mean Andy Reid will mess up in a close
(57:32):
game generally speaking. And I can't see Bill O'Brien coaching
too playoff wins in a row either. So I think
Mike Rabel might get a check mark over both of
those guys after beating two very good coaches, the best
in history. And uh and Hardball who's pretty damn good. Also,
so um, Andy Reid late in a close game. Uh,
(57:53):
you know you can't be very confident about that. And
and Bill O'Brien's team has a tendency to go really
glad at um. This team doesn't. Paul, we appreciate it.
I'm gonna let you get yourself to the airport and
get home safely, but I appreciate you making time. Thanks
for an about Jak, No problem. That's my good buddy. Paulkohrsky.
(58:13):
He's at Pacoharsky NFL on Twitter. Paulkaharsky dot com has
covered the an FC South or ESPN dot com. You
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He's one of the best in the businesses website. We'll
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We will talk about that Kansas City Houston game, Andy
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read in late games against Bill O'Brien. I mean, there's
a lot here. Plus there's another football game Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson. A question that I'll ask and I'll
go ahead and just get your get your brain moving
on this one right now? Which quarterback would you rather have?
Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson with the game on the line.
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of years ago than it is now. And I think
it's kind of staggering how easy, At least in my opinion,
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I want to plug him. He's he's a fantastic writer.
He showed up on a radar while back check him out.
This was just freelance work all over the place too. Yeah,
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this was this made me laugh, and it just says,
after watching Derrick Henry tonight, I've decided I want the
Lions to spend pick three on that Wisconsin running back
whose name I don't remember right now. I think there's
gonna be an opinion like that for a lot of
NFL fans out there, I really do. Everyone's seeing what
Derrick Henry does does and it's it's kind of like
what we did with uh with Sean McVeigh for a
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coach the other year. It's like, give me a coach
like Sean McVeigh. No, everyone's down saying, yeah, I want
one of those. Just he looks like Derrick Henry, big
giant guy out of the backfield. Just give me one
of those, please. Yeah. The problem is there's not a
whole lot of those. They're pretty rare, yeah, very rare. Um.
I don't know who that guy is in college. I mean,
there's some really talented running backs in college right now.
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But that's the problem is, Man, we gotta go get
us with Derrick Henry. There's only one of those dudes.
That the same reason I keep talking about all these
coaches getting fired the SEC because they couldn't beat Nick Saban.
Now it might be beating coach O, but uh, there's
a reason why you care about them beating Nick Saban,
and that is because there's only one of those guys,
and everybody else was for a time chasing him. Now
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you've had Dabbo win a couple of times. And of
course Dabo will be playing his Clemston Tigers will be
playing tomorrow night against other Shoe. A game will break
down a little bit later on in the program as well.
But it is interesting, you know, you're thinking about streaming,
and the stats came out that there were over five
hundred and twenty scripted series that were in development or
or there are in development this year or aired last year.
(01:02:13):
I can't remember which one it is. And there's all
these different services, right, I mean, Friends just left Netflix again,
which has upset a lot of people. It's going to
the NBC Universal deal. The Office is going to do
the same thing. You've got Disney Plus, you've got Hulu,
you've got Amazon Prime, You've got ESPN Plus, perhaps you've
got w WB Network, maybe you've got Fight TV, Bleacher
(01:02:35):
Report Live. All these different things, a lot of them
that have entry fees, right, they've got cover charges. And
you start getting all those different bills throwing through your
PayPal every month, and you realize you're spending a lot
of money. And then somebody's gonna come up with this
brilliant idea or it's like, can we take all these
streaming services and put them together and bundle them into
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this one big thing where I can just have one
thing that I pay for each month? And then you're
gonna have people from like ex Afinity and what is
it now, Spectrum. I used to know it was Charter,
but Spectrum just laughing their rear ends off because they're like, yeah,
that's something called cable. We've been doing that for a minute.
So are we now getting to the can we find
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the bell cow running back again? I thought this was
a passing league. I thought this was all about the quarterbacks.
Did you see the quarterbacks that we're playing on Yesterday?
I mean, Jimmy g had one of the worst games
of his career. Kirk Cousins played against that San Francisco defense,
So that didn't go particularly well. Ryan Tannehills thrown for
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combined a hundred and sixty yards in the past two
weeks and beating the defending champions and the league MVP. Who, Yeah,
had a lot of yards. A lot of it was
in garbage time and he had a thirty one QBR
and a sixty one passer. Ready, that's your quarterback a league.
Now you got two games today because we are now
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into Sunday where you do have some quarterbacks playing football.
You've got last year's league m v P. Patrick Mahomes
who And I heard Kevin Clark of The Ringer say this,
and he is a million percent right. Because people have
been paying attention to Lamar Jackson and they've been looking
at some of these new things, they've forgotten about the
fact that Patrick Mahomes is really freaking good at football,
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like superb even I just went full fall Horn Leghorn
with you right there, So purr befu. This dude is
real good. He's been hurt this year, his weapons have
been hurt this year, but he's real good. And DeShawn
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Watson that play he made last week that we're probably
never gonna not see that led to the game winning
field goal for the Texans that put him in a
position to play in this game in the first place.
That dude's really good too. I stood on the sidelines.
Oh you got the Wisconsin kids name? Yeah, I got Taylor, right?
Is that right? I was thinking I thought it was
Braderick Shaw. He's six pounds. Oh we're talking. We're not
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even talking about the main Wisconsin running back. We're just
talking about the one that looks like Derrick Henry. That's
even better. I'd have to look up Taylor just to
make sure his uh his his high now he does
He's not. No, no, he's not Derrick Henry. I just
thought you just met you take the running back. He
thinks the best in the country because you saw what
Derrick Henry did. But yeah, with a lot of weight
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to him. Yeah, just grab a defensive tackle. See how
fast he is. Get fat guy touchdowns all over the place.
But yeah, So you've got Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah they're pretty good. And then you've got Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson, two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. The question
that I asked before the break was which one of
those two guys do you want with the game on
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the line. You might have had an argument two or
three years ago between them, five or six years ago
would have been close. Remember, Aaron Rodgers was the best
quarterback in the history of the NFL. He's got the
most talent if anybody has ever played the position. Well,
he's got the most talent of anybody's ever played the position.
That has one Super Bowl and after this season, he's
still gonna have one super Bowl because they're gonna lose today.
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I know we usually do the predictions in the third
hour in the show, and maybe we still will. In fact,
we I'm sure we will. But I'm taking Russell Wilson
eleven times out of ten. Russell Wilson I still think
has the prettiest deep ball in the league. And it's
just a flat out winner. It's not been in spite
of Aaron Rodgers that the Packers have won this year,
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but it hasn't really been because of him either. It's
been because of the other a a Ron a a
Ron Jones, the running back. Imagine that, what were we
talking about for the last hour and a half. A
running back that plays for the Tennessee Titans, that beat
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a quarterback that when he starts to run, puts the
fear of the Lord into you. And now we're talking
about a a Ron Jones, not a a Ron Rogers.
And then we're talking about a green Bay defense that
at times played pretty well. Right now, is suspect just
about a suspect as Seattle's defense. Neither one of these
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defense is really good. You can look at Lambeau and
say that's an advantage. I don't see it that way
because I don't think Russell Wilson cares. I love Davante Adams,
and then there's other dudes that play receiver for green Bay.
Russell Wilson just finds a way to get it done.
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If I'm San Francisco, I definitely want the Packers coming
to my place next week, not the Seahawks for the
third time. The Vision matchups can get wonky anyway. I'm
not saying Aaron Rodgers is washed. That's a term that
I don't use very often, but I will use it
about Philip Rivers. I'm not quite there with Drew Brees.
I'm definitely not there with Tom Brady, and I'm not
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even close to close to close to there with Aaron Rodgers.
I will say that that level of elitism that was
surrounding Aaron Rodgers for a time that's washed. Now it's
State Farm Aaron Rodgers, who throws for two hundred yards
a game. That's the dude. You got, the dude that's
rejecting fist pounds along with Patrick Mahomes and commercials. But
(01:08:30):
my if I had to lay money on it, which
that's not my style, I would say that of the
two dudes in that State Farm commercial, one of them
is going to be playing a week later, and it's
gonna be the one wearing red, not the one wearing green.
Both of them are playing at home. But a a
Iron can start attending Bucks games again real soon. They're
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thirty five and six. Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks. That's
an incredible record. Can't wait to see them fail in
the end FELL playoffs or the NBA playoffs. They're definitely
gonna fail in the NFL playoffs, but in the NBA playoffs.
But he could start at tending those games all he wants,
man Like, they got all the time in the world.
Once they get beat by the Seahawks. So I ask
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you again, who do you want to see with your
game on the line, your season on the line. Who
do you want as your quarterback? Do you want Aaron
Rodgers or do you want Russell Wilson In I think
the answer is clear. I know who I want as
my quarterback. Out in Los Angeles. When it's time to
find out what happened in sports, it's Brian Finley. Brian
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Finley has got the prettiest deep ball at fs are. Hey,
what's going on, Jason? You know, I was listening to
you talk about these quarterbacks and how some of these
guys are getting away with wins despite some of the
paltry numbers they're putting up, and the trend that this
is really becoming. And now we see this and it's
really no surprise that guys like Brad Johnson and Trent
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Dilfer actually got to a Super Bowl. I mean, really,
was it really them that got them there? Trend Dilford,
by the way, was joking about how many people were
wearing his jersey he was at the Ravens game because
they were all wearing number eight jerseys. That's pretty good
stuff from Trend Dilford. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Meanwhile,
speaking of that Ravens game. The Titans defy the Ravens
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twelve Saturday in the a f C Divisional Round, Ravens
quarterback Lamar Jackson puking up three turnovers, Tennessee running back
Derrick Henry plowing through that Baltimore defense with one yards
on the ground. After the game, Baltimore had coached John
Harbaugh trying to process this beat down. He took, I
felt like this team was the best football team that
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it could be this year, you know, with with the
with the group that we had, I thought we made
the most of of us becoming the best football team
it could be. We just weren't that today, and that's
the disappointing thing. So the Titans make their way to
the a f C Championship Game and will await the
winner of Sunday's contest between the Chiefs and the Texans.
In the NFC Divisional Round, the forty Niners defense barbecuing
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the Vikings on the way to a seven to ten
thumping San Francisco, doling out six sacks, and they held
Minnesota to one forty seven yards of total offense. Afterwards,
Vikings said coach Mike Zimmer, with his raspy voice, touts
San Franz d. It's a cliche, but I think you know,
they played very well. I thought they got off blocks well.
(01:11:25):
I thought they did a nice shot of disrupting the
passing game as well. And so, um, you know, I
think that that all those entered into it, and the
Niners will host either the Seahawks or the Packers. Those
two get it on later today. Ten carries twenty one
yards be Tan carries for twenty one yards combined for
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the Minnesota Vikings in sixty minutes of football. Unbelievable. I
just wanted to throw that out there. I don't even
have anything else to add to it. I don't think
I need to add anything else. So I think that
speaks for itself. And I'm with you, Seahawks are going
to win. I I'm all in on that. Back to you,
where's your NFL fandom be? So, Jason, when I I
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grew up in San Diego and I was a Stango
Chargers fan, and you know, they happened to decide to,
you know, head out of town, and so now I'm
kind of a free agent as far as fandom, and
I basically go where U C. L A Or Olemas
football players are playing. So I'm a Titans fan. I'm
also a Seahawks fan, and maybe both of them will
meet in the good old Super Bowl. Well, how do
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you feel about Mike Leach? Love him? Love him? When
I worked in Spokane, A at a local TV station
up there, we would cover him and film his press
conferences and it was great because I learned more about
dating advice from Mike Leach than actually football games. And
I can't wait to see the egos and the personalities
between Mike Leach and Lane Kiff and go at it.
(01:12:52):
It's gonna be great television. Egg Bowl is going to
be something you can't miss for sure. That's me. Good
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The only hard part figuring out which way is easier.
I joked about this yesterday. I said, because I kept
seeing experts say, here's all you gotta do to beat
the Ravens. You just gotta hit lamar Jackson, and I said,
people have been trying to do that since Louisville, and
then of course somebody fights back and says they did
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at Louisville when he lost games. It's like, right, yeah,
I mean, I am aware that he has been hit
in his career. I'm also aware he's lost games at
times in his career, But how consistently you can do it?
And it's just like, oh, it's just that easy, and
nobody's trying the same thing. Is finally gonna be well,
how many people do you have to put in the
box to stop Derrick Henry? And Tannehill has proven if
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you do that done that dude wearing number eleven, the
rookie A J. Brown, he's gonna get loose. And Johnny Smith,
who's just one of those tight ends in that class
from a couple of years ago that has just I'll
go through the list, I'll find it during the break,
we'll come back and I'll tell you about that tight
end draft. Robert Mays the Ring of Road of fascinating piece,
just saying you need to draft tight ends who are
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athletes and then figure out what they're gonna do for
you at the next level, because a lot of teams
have run into flat out gold rushes because of decisions
they've made in the draft early, going for tight ends
that maybe didn't have gigantic names, but have just been
studs for what they've done. I mean, think about San
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Francisco has got a pretty solid tight end and they're
still playing football, and that's of course Kittle, the Titans
pretty solid young tight end John new Smith, and then
you look at the Chiefs have a pretty dag on
solid tight end, and Travis Kelsey, now he's been in
the lead a little bit longer. And then the Texans,
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well they don't. So I guess if I'm making a
tight end argument, I'm saying the Chiefs are gonna win.
But I think I've already done that because one team
has Bill O'Brien on the sideline, and I watched his
act last week against Buffalo, and that's a Buffalo team
that could not score points pretty much all season consistently.
Their defense had a very small margin for error. Because
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of that, Uh, Chiefs don't have any problems scoring points
when they have all their weapons, which they do right now.
I picked them in the preseason to go to the
Super Bowl. Also picked the Cowboys will let that one go.
But I picked a Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
this year, still very much in play. They're at least
gonna get the a f C title game. I know
we've given you both my picks, but we'll break it
(01:15:43):
all down. Well, we gotta break to take. We got
money to earn. We'll be back to finish off this
hour of the program. If you want to join us,
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Josh McCown where it was revealed that Josh McCown basically
ripped the hamstring off his leg in that injury, where
he was out there in relief for Carson Wentz on
Sunday against the Seahawks after the hit from Clowney. It
was amazing They stayed in the game and he was
SCRAMed when he was doing everything he could like that
was that was heroic stuff. It really was. But now
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you've got you've even got media types that are suggesting
that Carson Wentz is soft because he went into a
tent and said, hey, I think I've got a head injury.
They checked him out and then he ended up going
out of that game that he should have played with
that Have you not paid attention to anything in the
(01:17:29):
news this decade when you consider where he plays in
that market with those fans, the fact he had never
won a playoff game, never started one, how badly he
wanted to be in there, how they had found their
way in and wanted to prove why they deserve to
(01:17:49):
be there. Despite playing in the woeful NFC East, the
knocks that he had taken and folds winning a Super
Bowl while he was on the shelf, the fact that
he would take himself out of that game, to me
was a very mature, laudable thing. And the people that
are saying, well, Josh mccowns basically got one leg and
(01:18:11):
he's out there, but Carson Wentz gets a knock on
the head and he's out. Yeah, I'm not saying Carson
Wentz would have been playing with the hamstring. I don't
know if he would have. He has been injury prone.
I think there's no question about that, even dating back
to college he had. You know, he's dealt with different injuries.
First off, injury prone and then you get a concussion.
Those those are separate issues. The way that he took
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that hit from Clowney, anybody in that same situation, I
would imagine more often than not probably gets concussed. Right there,
Multiple things in this world can be true at the
same time. Okay, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches can be good,
so can ham and cheese sandwiches. When I tell you
I like ham and cheese. That doesn't all of a
sudden me and I have to hate peanut butter and jelly. Okay,
(01:18:56):
there's always that which would you rather have Batman or Superman?
Something like that. M I will always say Batman. But
luckily I don't have to make that that decision. I
get to watch both, I get to enjoy both. So
it's not you know, it's not a zero sum game here.
Just because Josh McCown was heroke and what he did
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doesn't mean that Carson Wentz wasn't Because you think that
he just took a boo boo on the head like
you fell off your bike when you were six. This
dude was concussed and was willing to say it, even
if it meant his day was gonna have to be over.
If you've got a problem with that, that's a U problem, homes.
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It's a little pitchy for me. Dog like you need
to do you need to go check yourself. What Carson
Wentz did had to be excruciatingly tough for him to
make that decision, just as excruciating as the pain that
Josh McCown played through. Both of them deserve positive mentions
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deserve a little bit of honor. Honestly, super impressive what
Josh McCown did. But that doesn't all of a sudden
mean that what Carson Wentz did is somehow lame. Multiple
things can be true at the same time. I know
social media tries to tell you otherwise, but I promise
you nuance is the spice of life. Good for Carson
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Wentz and for Josh McCown. It's absolutely incredible. We'll be
right back with our three here. I'm Fox final out
of the program. You're glad to have you with us
wherever you are. If you're waking up and you went
to sleep early, or maybe you ran into storms. There
were some pretty rough storms in the East Coast from
what I saw. We had a lot of rain here
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in Nashville, Tennessee. But Derrick Henry and the Titans are
still playing football. Baltimore Ravens are not. The m v
P of the league is done for the year, or
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in just a second. Titans win it in Baltimore. The
biggest player the game came on the Ravens first offensive
series after they had forced the Titans punt and deferred.
They were moving the ball down the field and Lamar
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Jackson through one just two hair high and Mark Andrews
that went off his fingertips, off the tight ends fingertips
and went into the hands of Kevin Byer, the Titan safety,
for an interception. At the end of that play, Lamar
Jackson gets flagged for a fifteen yard penalty, which really
probably was a bad call, but that's gonna happen, and
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the game totally changed from there. What we had not
really seen from Baltimore in their fourteen and two and
certainly during the twelve game win streak was getting punched
in the face early. How are they going to respond
if something didn't go right. This is a team in
the Ravens that had outscored opponents by nine seven points
in the first quarter, and they trailed by seven at
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the end of the first quarter against the Titans. I
don't think that they ever fully stood back up from
the haymaker that they took on that turnover on that
first series. That sounds insane because they had a good
drive near the end of the first half, but I
only got a field goal out of it, and it
was an insane catch, a crazy catch by Hollywood Brown,
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Marquis Brown down the field to set him up for it,
and Lamar Jackson had a ton of yards, a lot
of them came in garbage time, but I mean, he's
very elusive. He ran for a hundred forty three through
for over three hundred, but he was ineffective in terms
of being able to get into the end zone in
this game. Credit to Dean ps and the Titans defense
for forcing that. I am not sure, folks, if that
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interception does not happen. If we are having this conversation,
I think Derrick Henry was gonna get his, but I
didn't think that would be enough. That it was gonna
take some other things to beat the Ravens. And they
got him. They got turnovers, They got a fantastic catch
from Johnny Smith the tight end one handed and then
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got his butt down in bounds and that was held
up for the first touchdown in the game. Ye had
Derrick Henry with a jump pass, which they said they've
been they've had in the playbook for a couple of
weeks and felt pretty confident about Tannehill said he wasn't
even watching Derrick Henry because he had seen this movie before,
he seen him in practice, trusted he was gonna be
able to make the play, and he was actually watching
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Corey Davis the receiver, to see if he was gonna
be free enough to actually catch the pass. Everyone is
going to talk about the Ravens. They're gonna talk about
Lamar Jackson, and they're gonna point to the fact that
he's now owing two in the playoffs. And ha ha,
I told you I was right about Lamar Jackson. No,
you weren't. He's the NFL m v P. He was
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a quarterback of a fourteen and two team that made
a whole lot of professional people to get paid millions
of dollars to do this look foolish, and he lost
his first two playoff games. I'm a Denver Broncos fan.
John Elway lost his first two playoff games. Pay Manning
loss More than that. The list goes on and on
and on. Sometimes you have to crawl before you walk.
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And Lamar Jackson this year it's far better than what
we saw last year against either in the Chargers game
or the fact that he was very limited. He's a
lot less limited now. Do I think he's Patrick Mahomes?
Not really. But this is not the referendum on Lamar Jackson.
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That's what it will become because those that did not
like him or didn't didn't like him is the wrong
way to put it. Not didn't like him, didn't believe
in him. Okay, those that didn't believe in him and
said that forever and have looked bad all season are
now going to take victory laps like they've been right
all along, and that's gonna Your reaction to that should
(01:25:35):
be shut up. You should have taken the ail before.
Losing in the playoffs doesn't all of a sudden, mean,
the dudes a scrub. If you were measured and you said, hey,
he can make a lot of plays, I also think
he could be vulnerable at times, then maybe you can
actually start to say some stuff not necessarily long term.
(01:25:58):
We'll see. I mean there was a was there a blueprint?
And what the Titans did, I don't know. They handled
Lamar Jackson pretty effectively. They let him see eight nine
boxes and they just went after him whenever they dropped it.
One thing that you would notice early in this game,
when the Titans dropped eight people into coverage, Lamar Jackson
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made him pay every time. That was not the way
to handle them. That was when he was getting the
thirty and thirty five yard completions down the field. But
if you ask Lamar Jackson how this game played out
and who was most responsible for it, even though he
credited the Tennessee Titans, he put the blame on himself
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and on his top seed of Ravens. Here is the
soon to be league NFL m v P trying to
explain what happened last night. You know, um, yeah, well
I had a lot of mistakes and might we have
three turnovers that shouldn't happen. But you know, they came
out to play. You know, we just started off slow.
You just gotta do better next time. But moving forward
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to get rid of the all season didn't give it
a fini. We just gotta do better. There is nothing
we've never seen before. We just gotta put points on
the board. I don't know. What never made sense to
me about this coming in was that it seemed like
the consensus was that the Ravens were just gonna blow
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the Tennessee Titans out. And I looked at the rest
of the season and I said, based on what, who
has blown Tennessee out? Especially since Ryan Tannehill has become
the quarterback of this football team. I mean really, I
mean I'm looking at their entire schedule. Okay, from the
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time Tannehill came in, there's a three point win, a
four point win, a ten point loss at Carolina. Now
that one was that was a tough day, that was
a tough game. Then a three point went over Kansas City,
a twenty two point went over Jacksonville, a fourteen point
went over Indy, a twenty one point over Oakland, three
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point lost to the Texans, ten point lost to the
Saints in a game that Derrick Henry did not play
in and a game that the Titans knew they really
didn't need because it was all gonna come down to
the final week of the season, because the Steelers had
lost to the Jets, right, this is for playoff. Who
was gonna get that six sed once everything played out.
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The Saints game wasn't particularly important, and they actually had
a lead in the first quarter of that game, and
then they crushed the Texans in the finale against mostly backups.
But generally they've played everybody close. So why all of
a sudden were the Ravens gonna win by thirty? In
the eyes of Song, That's what never made sense to me.
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This felt like it was going to be a close
game and it was going to come down to who
made more mistakes. It wasn't necessarily gonna be who made
more plays. It was gonna be who made fewer mistakes.
And the answer to that question is crystal clear, and
it's the Titans. The Ravens turned it over three times.
The first one was the killer. I thought the Titans
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defense stiffened up in the red area, stiffening up on
short yardage. Two fourth and ones failed by the Ravens.
They hadn't failed a fourth and one all season long.
It's it's it's unbelievable, but it it could have been predicted,
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not even necessarily that the Titans are gonna win, but
that this was going to be a close game. When
I saw the line, I said, you know, I don't bet,
but I could probably cash in on this because I
did not for a second think the Ravens are gonna
win this thing by double digits. That I didn't think
they were necessarily gonna lose it by double digits either.
But the Titans play everybody close here. They didn't play
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him close. They out played them and almost blew them out.
I don't know that you call us a blowout, but
this was from a statistical standpoint in the game. It
is unbelievable when you look at the stats how this
game played out, and it can show you, folks, how
stats can lie without some degree of context. Okay, this
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is a twelve football game. Remember that won by the Titans.
First downs Ravens twenty nine, Titans fifteen. Third down efficiency
Ravens eleven for eighteen, Titans seven for thirteen. Total plays
Ravens ninety two Titans fifty three total yards Ravens five
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thirty Titans three, equal number of drives yards per play,
basically the same five point eight and five point seven
passing yards Ravens three forty five have Titans eighty three. Rushing,
of course in favor of the Titans, but not by
much to seive penalties Ravens seven for fifty six, Titans
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five for twenty. Ravens had about a four and a
half uh, just a little bit over four minutes more
in terms of time of possession thirty two oh six
fifty four. I will look at one other one though,
and that's fourth down efficiency Ravens over four. Titans didn't
have one. But statistically it looks dominant. Like if you
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didn't know the final score and you saw the status,
you say, wow, Ravens probably won that thing. What three touchdowns?
They lost the game by more than two. We were
they lost by two plus the two point conversions. Stats
can lie. That's why you actually have to watch the
games you and make them tell a story that will
lead you astray. But Lamar Jackson said we beat ourselves.
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He took the onus on himself and said I made
mistakes can't have that now we look at the off season,
and then the next question, we don't have that audio.
We don't really need it, I guess necessarily. But the
next question from a reporter was what are you guys
gonna do in the off seas You're gonna do more
of the same or it was it was a very
like I guess he was just trying to get a
quote out of it because there was really nothing to
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say there, and Lamar's just like it was gonna go
back to work, like it was just lame. The fact
that the Ravens have an off season that they need
to worry about today stuns a lot of people because
this was when you look historically, I don't have the
exact number of people were trying to figure this out
across Twitter, but I haven't seen it officially out there
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because of the point spread and the home field and
everything else was going on. This is one of the
bigger upsets we've seen in the playoffs in a long time,
and a top seed losing at home when it's happened.
This was a first meeting between these two teams. It
wasn't a division meeting like the Jets Patriots. One was
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towards the end of the last decade. I think there
was another one. Maybe it was the Giants and the Packers,
and both those games were close games. On top of that,
this was a destruction, a dismantling, and it was all
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done by a defense and a dude named Derek. That's
a whole lot of d's in one paragraph. I love alliteration,
but that was unintentional. And then it became intentional on
my part. Derrick Henry folks, I let off this show saying,
rather than talk about the Ravens losing, I wanted to
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talk about what the Titans did right, and especially what
Derrick Henry is doing to everybody in his way at present.
He had thirty carries for one in this game, which
would be one great day, but it's just one of
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many that he's had just in a row. I mean,
he had forty rushing yards on the season. He won
the rushing title, was second team All NFL behind McCaffrey,
which is a force. Not the mccaffies and I Gray
running back, but he's a flex back. He should have
been named best best Flex and maybe second team All
running back. Derrick Henry should have been named the best
running back in the league thirty and thirty four two
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and two playoff games this year. That's sixty four carries
for three hundred and seventy seven yards just one touchdown.
He also threw one in this game as a quarterback
jump pass. He's averaging five point nine yards per carry
in the playoffs in two road games in Foxboro and Baltimore.
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Is that any good? And dating back to the Kansas
City game on November tenth, only one time has he
been held under a hundred yards and that was eighty six.
Only twice has he been held under a hundred forty
nine yards. These are the totals. I'll read him again
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for you quickly. Twenty three carries for one eight against
the Chiefs, Nineteen carries for a hundred and fifty nine
yards against the Jags, twenty six carries for a hundred
forty nine yards against the Colts, Eighteen carries for a
hundred and three yards against the Raiders, Twenty one carries
for eighty six yards against the Texans in a game
where he wasn't feeling right and he ended up taking
the next week off against the Saints, thirty two carries
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for two hundred eleven yards against the Texans in the
regular season finale, and then the thirty four for one
eight two in Foxborough and the thirty for one in
Baltimore last night. This is a quarterbacks league, so we're
told over and over again we're gonna see that come
to fruition today, at least with named quarterbacks that matter
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in this league in both the games, all four of
them as a matter of fact, Watson, Mahomes, Rogers, Russ Wilson.
But what did we see on Saturday? Kirk Cousins was
bad against that San Francisco defense, Garoppolo was not good,
Tannehill through for eight eight yards, and Lamar Jackson struggle.
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Quarterbacks leagues all about the passing game. Meanwhile, Derrick Henry
has turned back the clock and his team is one
of the final three standing in the a f C.
It will be too in about twelve hours or so,
and we'll find out which team the Titans are going
to face and where they're headed. Are they going to
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Kansas City or are they going to their division foe
that they know so well. To Shaun Watson in the
Houston Texans. The one thing we do know is Baltimore
is no longer in the equation. Derrick Henry thirty carries
yards if you need him. I know Lamar Jackson's the
m v P and totally deserves that honor, especially when
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it was given right now. You have a hard time
convincing me that anybody is more valuable in this league
than Derrick Henry is to the Tennessee Titans. We'll be
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playing four teams in action. On Sunday, we'll see whether
or not it's the chiefs of the Texans advancing to
host the a f C title game. And we'll see
who's traveling to San France. Will it be Green Bay
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or will it be NFC West Foe Seattle. We'll predict
those games here in a little bit. But I do
want to bring in the crew. The games that we
saw on Saturday. It's not really much to say about
San Francisco, Minnesota. But Derrick Henry and the Titans doing
what they did to Lamar Jackson. I said last week,
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I didn't understand why the line was as big as
it was, even though I'm not a gambler. It just
didn't seem to make any sense based on the team
that I've watched during the season. But still, how stunned
are you guys from afar watching this Tennessee run attack
that feels like it's twenty five years old that no
one can seemingly stopped. I I I really, I think
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I've again I have my envy on the line here
for Derrick Henry. I don't. I don't think it's as
old fashioned as we thought. As I've been talking with again,
some lines means about it like this has been a
blueprint for a lot of former Patricia I mean, excuse me,
Bill Belichick, guys like my Patricia and Mike Rabel. I
just don't think a lot of guys have had the
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I never thought it was it was outdated. It's just
that you had to execute and you had to have
the right personnel in place. In a lot of places
just didn't have that personnel. Tennessee's got that stuff in place,
and no bigger lynchman than Derrick Henry. But I mean
it's I mean, it's outside zone and a cutback run.
I mean, it is very basic. There's not a whole
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lot of pizzazz to it. It's just smash mouth in
your face. And that's the kind of stuff that we're
told doesn't work anymore. And all we're seeing is there's
a team that's doing that that's now defeated the defending
champions and the team of the century in American Professional
sports and the Patriots and this year's IT team in
the Baltimore Ravens featuring the league MVP. Now, the defense
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deserves a lot of credit for what they're doing as well,
But Derrick Henry is towing up numbers right now. I'm
trying to figure out who's gonna stop him, cause I
think he's already played against two better defenses and then
he's gonna see whether it's the Texans or the Chiefs
to get there. I mean, I think that the Titans
are gonna win the game necessarily, but I don't see
them stopping Derrick Henry. No, because you also have to
stop that Tennessee Titans line too. Like they were making
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some big holes for him, and then the linebackers just
weren't getting to him. There were there was this this
that's the thing. When this thing works, it's a team effort.
There are there are the offensive lineman, there's the quarterback
with a handoff that's just can fool people out sometimes.
And then it's the running back. It's like everything is
working perfectly, the blocks are going out great, You're you're
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not just playing against one guy here, You're playing against
the whole team coordinating against you. And man, when you
have the physical guys to do that, it's it's hard.
It's it's demoralizing when you are when you know you
are up at the line of scrimmage and you're just
being bullied. And that's what I mean. You need some
big defensive tackle up up the center, like ready to
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eat up the run. And I'm trying, I'm racking my brain.
I have to go look at rosters now to see
who is out there that is probably that big. Probably,
I mean San Francisco obviously probably has the the obvious answer,
But I'm I'm still trying to think within the a
f C right now. It's I don't know that the
answer is there. That doesn't mean that they're gonna win.
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I personally believe this. I believe if they play the Texans,
the Titans are going to the super Bowl. And if
they play the Chiefs, then my preseason pick of Kansas
City going uh is going to happen. I don't think
they're gonna beat the Chiefs twice in a season unless
we're gonna see something which we don't want to see
in terms of an injury happen today. Mahomes in that
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game where the Chiefs had like a chance of winning
it and still lost it. That was his first game
back after the injury. He didn't look to be full
range of motion. They've got all their weapons, their defense
is much in proved from the team that Tennessee saw
at that point. I think that game will be intriguing,
much more intriguing in those two teams when they match up.
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What yourd things happened, and Andy Reid has a horrible
record against the Tennessee Titans in his career, but I
don't like them against the Chiefs winning that game against
the Texans. Bill O'Brien, I know Watson has a lot
of heroics, but he usually one of the first defenders
he has to deal with is his own head coach.
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I would like the Titans chances in that game. I
don't like him near as much against the Chiefs. You
mentioned Football Outsiders earlier with Scott Jasmer EI lean on
their d v o A stat, which is efficiency. It's
it's kind of just a catch all stat. I won't
go into too much where you can find on football Outsiders,
but neither the Texans nor the Kansas City Chiefs crack
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the top twenty in rush defense efficiency this season. So
that I mean they some of them have some good
numbers against the past, but you need to worry about
Derrick Henry right now. Yeah, you really do another crazy stat.
Before tonight, NFL teams were thirty and oh undefeated in
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the postseason when they outgained their opponent by at least
two hundred and thirty yards. It was five thirty yards
for the Ravens to three hundred for the Titans last night,
so that thirty and oh now has its first bruise.
It's now thirty and one. There were so many weird
stats coming out of this game and historic things about it,
not just the fact it was a ten point underdog
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entering the game winning and Derrick Henry now the and
I said this, I said, you know, it was crazy
week for Jeopardy, and they had their primetime deal, the
three day deal with their greatest champions of all time,
and the thing was a wild success, which didn't surprise.
I haven't watched it yet, and I actually don't know
who won it or however it played out. But I
d v RD the whole thing because I knew it
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was coming on. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna watch this.
I just haven't sat down in on it yet, but
a lot of people just kind of tuned in. It
was easy because it was just three days and it
was something you can kind of get excited about watching
and move on. But in honor of Jeopardy is Big
Week in their third teen plus million, fourteen plus million
audience number. If the answer is Derrick Henry, what is
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the question we If Albeck asked me, I would say,
what is the name of the running backs that have
run for a hundred and eighty plus yards in three
consecutive NFL football games, regular season or postseason? No one
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else has ever done that. Derrick Henry has now done that,
and it is very simple concepts that have been around
for ages. But when you've got a guy like that
and you've got a line to creating enough space. But still,
I mean, he's just running through this. I mean he
didn't just stiff arm Earl Thomas once. He stiff armed
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him twice on the same play. After what was a
eighty two last week and two hundred and eleven in
the regular season for nowe And if the bet was
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is he going to go over a hundred and eighty
next week? I think that the number might Actually I
think a lot of people might put money on Derrick
Henry right now. I mean they're showing highlights right now
on the screen. I'm looking at Sports Center and just
watching all of this against the loaded box meaning more
blockers or less blockers out there than defenders. Derrick Henry
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had sixteen carries for a hundred three yards against the
Baltimore Ravens on the road. His yards after contact are ridiculous.
He had sixty seven yards after contact. It's the first
playoff rush with sixty yards after contact he had. He
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had a touchdown rush where he was contacted almost immediately
then he ran all the way through and that's a
stat that has not been seen since the wild Card
in two thousand and ten. Like, there's so many things
that are popping out right now. Some of them don't
even make sense as they're being put on television. There's
so many tweets that I keep retweeting of just all
the crazy stuff that happened in this game. And it's
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the kind of thing that has to happen to be
the top seed. You have to get turnovers, you have
to have a couple of weird things happen. If the
tip pass doesn't happen off of Mark Andrew's fingertips that
goes into Kevin Bayer's hands, I have no idea how
that game goes. But as much fun as the Ravens
had during the regular season, going fourteen and two and
having a twelve game win streak, it came to a
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crashing halt at the hands of rock solid defense and
discipline and playing. I wouldn't call it pristine football because
there were a couple of things that Titans did that
I didn't like in the game, but pristine enough that
the Ravens margin for error became so small that all
it took was one or two mistakes on their part
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to flip this thing, and not just flip it, but
flip it convincingly by sixteen points in the opposite direction,
you get a couple of turnovers. And the other thing
about that Mark Andrews play that you might not remember
is after the interception, Lamar Jackson got flagged for a
fifteen yard personal foul and horse collar, which was a
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bad call. Actually, Gene Territories said it was, and he
was right in this case. A lot of times I
disagree with him, but if they showed the replay, yeah,
they got this one wrong. This shouldn't have been tacked on.
But it was one of those deals where sometimes the
bouncers are going your way and the determining factors to
whether or not you're gonna win the game is are
you going to take advantage of them or not? Kevin Bayer,
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it's not a guy that usually lets those opportunities go,
and he didn't hear. That's why I got paid this
offseason because they knew how valuable he was at safety,
maybe the best at that position in the league. And
he made the play. Kenny Vacaro made a play, stepped
in and got another interception. Later on, Lamar Jackson just
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hadn't seen this. That interception, the first interception just seventh
of the year, and after that, they just didn't look
like the same team to me. They were rolling and
then all of a sudden a wheel fell off, and
even though they threw a punch back towards the end
of the first half, they were only able to get
a field goal, not a touchdown, So the momentum did
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not fully go back into their favor even though they
were going to open up the second half with the
football and the Titans won, and the Titans were the
better team. It wasn't that the Ravens completely choked, although
they did. It was more that the Titans ran the
football and played smart defense and just outplayed him and
beat him. A much easier scenario to look at is
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what happened in the early game yesterday, And we'll talk
a little bit about that, and then we'll get our
predictions in for the two Sunday games. Let's go to
Brian Finley one more time right now and gonna look
at the latest in the world of sports. Hey, Jason,
the a f c s number one see the Baltimore
Ravens get stage fright in a twenty eight to twelve
lost to the Titans on Saturday in the Divisional round.
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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson throwing two interceptions, he fumbles once.
Raven said coach John Harbaugh, trying to soften the pain
of this loss. This game is going to be the
one that will remember because it's the last one I
told him. And then there's only one team that gets
to be the one true champion, uh and that's not
gonna be us this year. So that's where we're at.
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The Titans, where they're at is they are waiting to
see who wins Sunday's game against the Chiefs and the Texans.
That winner, of course, will take on Tennessee in the
a f C Championship game. Elsewhere in that NFC Divisional
Round on Saturday, the forty Niners stymy the Vikings twenty
seven to ten. San Francisco's defense discombobulates Minnesota six sacks, forced,
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seven first downs allowed. Niners defensive back Richard Sherman had
an interception. After the game, he took another opportunity to
call out his critics, Sherman saying, quote, he's tired of
hearing excuses for why he's great, saying in the playoffs
and big games, I show up. The Niners will host
either the Seahawks or the Packers, and those two will
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get it on later today. In the NBA, the Lakers,
playing without Lebron James and Anthony Davis, won an eight
straight game as they tamed the Thunder one ten. The
Bucks get by the Trailblazers on one. Janice had thirty
two point in seventeen rebounds. In Milwaukee's record, it approves
to thirty five and six. That is the best in
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the NBA, and the Mavericks come back in the second half.
He's a big third quarter to send down on the
seventies six years one. Oh excuse me one. Dwight Powell
had nineteen points as we sent it back to Jason
Martin and the Geico Fox Sports Studios. Nothing personal against
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the person who tweeted this. I'm sure he's a lovely
human being. But I mentioned the Jeopardy deal and how
I had him d v Ard and I didn't. I
thought it was already over, but apparently you can go
seven days. I I didn't actually know all the rules
of it um, but that I had it on DVR.
Hadn't watched it yet, hadn't seen the results, and somebody
(01:51:34):
tweets me and tells me it can actually go seven days,
and then gives me how the scoring has gone those
four so I know who's won all of it. So
I guess I can just delete that off the DVR.
This is why we can't have nice things great news
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call eight hundred nine four seven auto. The only hard
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part figuring out which way is easier. I don't think
that anything we saw on Saturday should change how you
feel about anybody in particular. Was it a good day
for Kirk Cousins. No, is not awful, but he wasn't
very good, and he made a couple of real bafflingly
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bad basses. But when Dalvin Cook rushes nine times for
eighteen yards and Minnesota is a team rushes ten for one,
that's gonna happen. Adam Theuen was questionable. He did play,
had five catches fifty yards. He and Diggs did what
they usually do when over a hundred combined on seven catches.
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Garoppolo was eleven for nineteen for one. He won, but
how good was he? Not very Tevin Coleman rushed for
over a hundred yards and two scores. That was big,
but this was about San Francisco's defense. Quarterback wins is
a stat that sucks. Honestly, Sometimes you can tell the stories,
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sometimes they can tell the wrong story. I'm not a
big proponent of Kirk Cousins because of the money he
was paid. I've always thought he was over rated relative
to that. But I also like Kirk Cousins. I like
what he stands for. I like how he carries himself.
This is a tough day and he's had his share.
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I don't think they have a great coach in Minnesota either.
I also think they have a pass to the buck
coach in Minnesota. But you should not in this world
look at a result of one football game and then
just apply that to the rest of the guy's career.
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And that's what you're gonna hear. You're gonna hear the
regular hot take artists, the ones you love and the
ones you loathe, all have a take on Lamar Jackson
based on his loss they's lost to playoff games. This
is what we said you can't win a super Bowl
with him because playoff football is different. Da da da
da da da. Always lost his first two playoff games,
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and Peyton not successful. A lot of guys not successful.
A lot of them lost their first playoff game and
lost it convincingly. I give you a very lengthy list
of that. Whatever you believed about Lamar Jackson before, you
likely still believe now. If you didn't believe in him,
then this gives you evidence. If you did believe in him,
you'll say, this is one game I didn't believe in
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him but came around, and I still believe that's gonna
be good. Do I think he is a transcendent quarterback
that's going to change the world forever. I don't know
about that, but I was wrong about his ability to
play quarterback in the NFL, and he was a joy
to watch this season. And the way he led that
team and the things that he said and the way
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that he conducted himself just awesome. We will see what
next year look like for Lamar Jackson, but there will
be so many scorching hot takes burying Lamar Jackson and
propping up opinions that have already been declared null and Voyd.
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This is dude's second year in the NFL. It takes
some time, especially when you look around, I mean, really
consider the weapons that Lamar Jackson has around him. I
think if we saw one thing that does need to
be addressed, it is the lack of receiving talent around him.
Like mark ingramund And played in a month. Mark Ingram
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had six carries for twenty two yards in this game.
Gus Edwards probably should have been used more, quite frankly
than he was. But I mean, you've got Hollywood Brown,
he can play. Then you've got what Willie Sneed and
Seth Roberts. Those are your two and three whiteouts. Then
you've got tight ends, Mark Andrews, who was banged up
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a little bit, Hayden Hurst. Then you got Miles Boykin
and all these guys. And I hate to call them
all out, but those are not exactly household names. You've
got to have a little bit more. But I would
not give too much credence to those that try to
bury Lamar Jackson if they were already burying in before
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and then just stopped talking for a few weeks. They
are just trying to ride this wave back to them.
Being right and they've already been declared wrong. This result
should not change that. You can look to this and
say wow, but I think the while needs to be
more on the side of what the Titans did, not
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what the Ravens didn't do. Just a personal opinion. We'll
be right back to finish up the show. We'll predict
both of the Sunday games. All the crew will join me.
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I'm on Twitter at j mard Zone. To the show.
Out of Nashville, Tennessee. We've talked a lot about the
team that plays in my city, Tennessee. Titans beating the
Baltimore Ravens eight to twelve. They advanced the f C
title game. They will play the winner of Chiefs hosting
the Texans today. That'll be the early game, three o'clock,
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three oh five. I think it's a kick Eastern time.
Texans Tennis six, Chiefs twelve and four. I honestly don't
think this one's close. I think the Chiefs are just
way better than the Texans. This ain't Week six. Guys
are not hurt for Kansas City. Their defense is better
as well. With the Chiefs. I think the Chiefs flat
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out roll the Texans today. Yeah, I'm with you there.
I I don't even want to see the Texans advance,
to be honest at this point. Not nothing against Houston,
but I I did. I'm still amazed they got out
of the wild card round as it is. And I
think just I want my homes. I think the team's
better it just I think the Chiefs. I'm with you,
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the Chiefs are rolling today. Yeah, I'm gonna go with
Chiefs to I just I'm just curious as who's gonna
get the more gush fest. Um, you know J. J.
Watt or Patrick mahomes here. It's a very very lovable guys.
By the broadcast teams. Well it's on CBS, not ESPO,
so ESPN, and they're probably gonna try to get their
heads in there somehow test it tour Booger somehow live
(01:58:28):
stream or something. Yeah, you know, he could be maybe
Booger a rolling with the old Booger mobile and do
that deal again. Tony Romo being a quarterback, I could
see him talking a lot about both Mahomes and DeShawn
Watson in this game. Uh. And then l a game
Seattle at green Bay, Seattle eleven and five, Russell Wilson
against Aaron Rodgers. Rogers ain't been Rogers like to me,
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which means easy either do for one of those games.
But that's a phrase I don't believe in. I don't
believe in their due. That's a loser mentality to me.
I just trust Russell Wilson if it comes down to
a close game at the end, a little bit more
than I do Aaron Rodgers at this point, or maybe
clearly better than Aaron Rodgers. And if I'm the forty Niners,
I'm pulling real hard for green Bay to win this game,
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and I just don't see it. I think Seattle is
gonna go into Lambeau and win this thing on the road.
This is a rough game. I think this is gonna
be a real rough, sloppy game. They're already like plowing
snow up there in Wisconsin. But at the same time too,
like green Bay has been a paper tiger all year.
I don't trust them at all. But on the other hands, like,
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I don't know how much you can trust Seattle on
the road either. It's gonna be really close. I think
Seattle will pull it off, but I mean this could
go either way. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Seattle. To guys,
I've been on Russell Wilson. I love Russell will something.
I drive the bandwagon, And honestly, this game, my phil
could come down to just who has the ball last.
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I mean, who knows what the weather conditions will be like,
and it could be, you know, get within field goal
range and kick it as time expires. But I'm gonna
stick with Russell Wilson's Seahawks here, guys. I could I
could be wrong, but I'm hoping that one's close, because
I think the early one might have us all watching
something else in the second half. The Outsiders premiers on
Our Partment. The Outsider permiers on HBO tonight. Taken from
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Stephen King story. I have screened the first episode. I'll
be writing on it weekly. Pretty good, at least early on.
What I've seen so far is going to keep your entertainment.
But if you want my real recommendation on the way out,
go see nineteen seventeen. That movie is flat out incredible. Uh,
it will blow your mind how that film is shot
and how it's executed. Congratulations to the Tennessee Titans. You
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beat the m v P and you beat Tom Brady
and back to back weeks, you've earned my respect. I'll
tell you that. Next week, we will tell you what's
gonna happen. Well, we'll be down to four next week.
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