December 7, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the snow globe game in Buffalo with the Bills beating up on the 49ers, Christian McCaffery going down, the Broncos winning a wild shootout with the Browns, Maller's Mountain of Money: Britney Spears Edition, and more!
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Boss likes to say from time to time, So.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Our lead this hour, coming from Western New York, the
island life, if you will, brock Perty and the forty
nine ers traveling by stagecoach from the west coast to
the northeast. There a little snowball fight with Josh Allen
and the.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Buffalo football team.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
A powdery mix, a powdery mix from kickoff until the
end of the game.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's probably still snowing there in Western.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
New York, and the snow the size they said on
the broadcast, the size of dipping dots, the size of
dipping dots there. The players staying warm by drinking lots
of hot chocolate, little hot cocoa, some chicken broth sounds lovely.
And Mike Turrico, the day before he goes under the knife,
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was calling the game with Chris Collinsworth. There they were
on hand on the peacock and don't bear the lead,
all right, we be If you didn't see the game,
it was good, it was fun, and we love games
like this. We sit on our sofa in a nice
climate and we watch thousands of people spending four hours
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outside in cold, snowy weather.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
What's not the well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Josh Allen had the trifect He had a receiving touchdown,
he had a passing touchdown, and he had a rushing touchdown.
He did a little bit of this, a little bit
of that, a little bit of that, and in the end,
the Buffalo Bills get her done. They clinch their fifth
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straight AFC East title. If I told you years ago,
when the New England Patriots were dominating the AFC East
for an entire generation, that there will be a point
in time where the Buffalo Bills will own the AFC East,
we are now at that point. You were saying, Ahi,
you're crazy. It wasn't even close. Thirty five to ten,
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thirty five to ten, the final Buffalo stampede over the
Niners on that snowy night game. There Josh Allen touchdowns, passing, rushing,
and receiving. As mentioned, the first quarterback, according to the
NFL Propaganda Arm, the statistical propaganda on the first quarterback
to do that. Seventh player in the Super Bowl era,
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the modern era to have the trifecta receiving, throwing, and
catching touchdowns, the first one to do it since.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His teammate Christian McAffrey.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Doesn't sound as impressive if you say that it just
happened a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But it did.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
McCaffrey did it in twenty twenty two. And so Buffalo
has now won seven straight since back to back losses
to Baltimore and Houston. They are ten and two or
better for the fifth time, fifth time in franchise history,
first time since way back in nineteen ninety one. Holy
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Andre Reid Batman, nineteen ninety one. But the better story
is in the losing locker room, and so that is
where we shall go here. San Francisco is now five
and seven.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
They suck.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They're five and seven on the season, back back blowout
losses in cold environments at Lambeau and now in Buffalo.
So let us discuss the question who is responsible for
the forty nine ers downfall at this point. Now, they
still have a mathematical chance of getting the playoffs because
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of the division. The entire division blows. Seattle sucks, the
Rams are no good. The Cardinals have alligator arms, Murray,
what a joke that is?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So the division's garbage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So someone's gonna win the division and get a home
playoff game. The Niners still mathematically have a chance but
who's responsible for the Niners being two games under five
hundred after thirteen game weeks of the season have been
played here. So I've got poster boy all inclusive and demarcation,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice HOGI is what
we're going to make. So the first part of this
is obviously the replacements. We start with that, right because
the game of football, the injury rate is one hundred
percent in the game of football, and the forty nine
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ers have depended more so than in other years on replacements,
backup players to fill the void. And it's fair to
say the backup players have not been.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Able to fill the void. They have not.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You don't need some blow hard on the radio to
tell you that. Just watch the games. That's the way
it is. And Kyle Shanahan, if you look, he's worked
as a bartender here and he has served up the
perfect toxic cocktail this season. You've got equal parts injury,
some season ending injuries like Brandon Auk, the wide receiver
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who demanded to get paid, got paid, then got hurt.
Underperformance of players that had had success in the past
but are not having success now guys who have needed
to perform at a higher level and had been unable
to perform at a higher level. Now, I would argue
that the poster boy of that group, of the forty
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nine er locker room, is d Bo Samuel. Deebo Samuel,
for one season was the most electric, most dynamic playmaker
in the NFL. But that's it. If you look at
the rest of his career, he hadn't been that impressive.
And this season Deebo needed to rise up right, needed
to step his game up for the forty nine ers,
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and this game on Sunday night a perfect example. He
did nothing, really nothing in the past past game. It
was snowing, all right, it was snowing for both sides.
But Deebo Samuel, his contribution for most of these games
has been when the players come out on the field,
he dances while somebody holds a boombox. He's really good
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at that, like he's really entertaining with the boom box.
But then when the game starts, he sucks. It's fascinating,
it really is. The last three weeks, Deebo Samuel, by
the way, not his real name, nine catches, no touchdowns
and sixty three total receiving yards over the last three
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weeks when the Niners have needed someone the last three
games here to step up, and he's the guy making
the big money, and his days are numbered in the
Bay Area, without a doubt, his days are numbered here.
He's likely going to be sent packing at the end
of the season. Now, speaking of being sent packing and
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the forty nine Ers, who still have a shot to
make the playoffs, we mentioned location location, location in the
NFC West is not very good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So someone's going to get into.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The playoffs, and someone's going to get a home game
as a division winner in the playoffs. But the forty
nine or running back Christian McCaffrey suffering what is believed
to be a ligament damaged the PCL, not the Pacific
Coast League. The PCL in his right and he is
in Jeopardy, but not on the TV show Jeopardy, but
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he's in Jeopardy the rest of the season. Kyle Shanahan,
the coach, said he thinks it is a season ending injury,
although more tests need to be done, which tells you
that Shanahan obviously he already knows that it's a season
any injury, but he's trying to be optimistic, like maybe
somehow there'll be some pixie dust that somebody puts on
Christian McCaffrey and his right knee there and he'll be
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able to come back and play. It's normally at minimum
a several week injury at minimum, And if you do
the math on this, it's not looking good. So has
Christian McCaffrey played his final game for the forty nine
ers here in this NFL season, And I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know you're you're probably wondering if I'm doing that
or not because you can't see me because it's radio.
Even though it's a camera in here. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
I'm not in my Yes. The Niners what they're doing now,
and I determined this was a delayed reaction. But it
is playing out the way that we originally had thought
the original take, all the hot take artists had when
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the Niners went out and made the big sexy move
with Carolina a couple of years ago. Now the Niners
are getting the all inclusive Christian McCaffrey experience. There was
a delayed reaction for the first season and a half.
It was wonderful. It was Casablanca, perfect fit. Just everything
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was great. McCaffrey, the honeymoon period there with the forty
nine ers, twenty seven games of goodness, not even good
greatness for the forty nine ers of McCaffrey, MVP level
football from the running back. He got more money. And
now here we go, and all of a sudden, you're like,
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wait a minute, this is more like the twenty twenty
twenty twenty one version of Christian McCaffrey, battered Bruce the
completely beaten by the NFL, broken down running back. McCaffrey
limited to four games this season if his season is over.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's it. Four games all the season.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now, I mentioned that the Niners have a shot here
to make the playoffs. Now brock Perdy, who's also going
to demand a bunch of money and will get paid
a bunch of money, whether it's the forty nine ers
or someone else is going to pay him a gazillion dollars,
He's going to get tons and tons of money. Well,
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here he is dipping into the bag of cliches to
talk about what has to happen now for the Niners.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Take a listen. Every game's got to be muscle win
for us.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You know, we don't have any room clearly if we
want to make the playoffs, and you know, get ahead
and do the thing that we've set out to do
before the season. Man, everyone's got to be a must win.
And so that's playing this day and we all know that. So,
like I said, we all just got to be accountable
and grow from it.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And you know, we don't have a lot of room
for air right now. We got to go Okay, thank you,
captain obvious. So does that mean the Niners haven't been accountable?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are we supposed to surmise from the comments by the
Niners quarterback that every game hasn't been must win, That
there hasn't been a sense of urgency by the Bay,
that there isn't accountability in the Niner locker room, and
that now now with their backs against the proverbial wall,
now all of a.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Sudden, they're trying to have accountability.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now at this point, every game matters, But they didn't
take every game seriously? Is that what brock Perty is
implying by that commentary? Meanwhile, last word, let's go to
the winning side. Always get crap from Bill's mumbile.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Will the Bills win.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You don't talk about the Bills because they win, and
you talk about the losing team. Oh, that's true, because
it's a better story. But the Bills played wonderful. They
played as they were supposed to do, an outdoor team,
a cold weather team against a West coast, soft west
coast team.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
They played the way they were supposed to play.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Congratulations, But do Josh Allen and I heard this commentary
a lot, the implication on the broadcast and just in
general the NFL conversation over the last couple of weeks
about home field and the Bills beating Kansas City head
to head, So they have should they end up with
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the same record as the Chiefs, Chiefs beating the Bills
or the Bills beating the Chiefs. So if they end
up with the same record, advantage tiebreaker goes to Buffalo,
and in a proverbial matchup down the line, that game
would be played in western New York. So do Josh
Allen and the Bills have to have home field advantage
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for them to get out of the AFC? And the
answer to that is an obvious no. Despite what you
likely have read and what you have heard and what
you have seen. The answer is no, that is a myth.
It is a myth that we can debunk the bills
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Last year at home and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The playoffs went belly up, Yes they did, Yes they did.
And all Bill's Mafia is great and it's fun to
watch fat, middle aged people jump on tables and light
themselves on fire. Who doesn't enjoy that? That said, right,
it's not a point of demarcation. It's not He's like,
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if they have to play on the road, they've crossed
the rubicon. No, it's just not true. And it comes
down to us every single time, and we talk about
the playoffs every year and the same thing comes up,
and it's people get all worked up into a ladder
about this that things that don't matter, the matchups, this
is gonna blow you away. The matchups don't really matter.
They don't. The film doesn't really matter matter all that much.
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It doesn't home field certainly doesn't matter, even a snow
globe outdoor, cold weather team. The injuries, believe it or not,
don't really matter that much. All that matters in these
postseason games is who performs better in the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's it. That's it. You have backups.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl with their backup
quarterback few years ago because he played better than Tom
Brady for that one playoff run.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
He was better.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But if you say, if you look at the matchup
said wow, no chan Nick Foles, come on, They said, well,
that's an outlier, but it has happened more than once
where backup quarterbacks have gone on runs in the playoffs
and all that. But the point is, don't suck at
a time you cannot suck. And if you rise to
the occasion, the immense pressure of the playoffs, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Whether at home or on the road, or in the
dome or you're outside, it doesn't matter. You play anywhere.
That's what matters.
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Let's play the hits there. We'll start out with a
final game for Week thirteen, Final game Week thirteen on
the NFL Card, and we go to the Centennial State
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and that is where Jameis Winston and the Brownies Traveling
Circus arrived. The Browns playing out the string on another
miserable season, win loss wise, and they had a playdate
with the Broncos. It was the Jerry Judy Revenge Game.
Although nobody anticipated that the Jerry Judy Revenge Game would
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be a classic, nobody had that Cleveland taking on the
team from Colorado, the Fox Refugees, Troy Aikman and Joe
Buck where they're calling the game. They were in the
broadcast spot did you watch? Did you have something else
going Well, I don't know what else you had going on.
Maybe you had something else going on, but we were
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watching so our good mitch with it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
We thought, well, no one's gonna watch this game.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And the brown suck and the Broncos aren't a sexy
team and they haven't been that for a long time.
But it was a hum danger, a umdanger of the game,
and it came down to the very end for those
of us that bet on these games. Someone named Jaikwan McMillan.
We don't know who that is, but he had an
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interception forty four yards out of the end zone, the
game ceiling, game ceiling play with one forty eight remaining
in the game there the Broncos. That was a game
ceiling touchdown by McMillan. There's also an interception at the
end there the Browns and the final seconds driving down
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trying to get a touchdown and then they would need
the on side kick and all that the Broncos able
to win. Despite his story oracle performance by the Cleveland
Browns offense, This is like wake Up Bernie Kozar.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The Cleveland Browns quarterback, their backup quarterback Jameis Winston, and
wide receiver Jerry Judy in the Jerry Judy revenge game
put up monster stats, the kind of stats if you
play fantasy football. It was orgasmic the type of numbers
these guys put off. Winston through a franchise record, franchise
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record fourunited ninety seven yards Jameis wins The Browns have
been playing football for a minute and four at ninety
seven yards, the most in franchise history. Four touchdowns. Jerry
Judy had not one, not two, not three, not four,
not five, not six, not seven ninety How about nine
catches for two hundred and thirty five yards, the most
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in NFL history by a receiver against his former team.
So the greatest revenge game by a receiver in NFL history.
Aside from the five I'll score, Judy had played not
very well. You probably don't remember this four seasons in
Denver and made no tangible impact on the Broncos. He
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was booed every time he touched the ball, and he
was soaking it all in like a sponge, enjoying all
of the booze that were raining down in Colorado. So
let us discuss the question, what is we'll go to
the Browns here even though the Browns are not going
to play the story here is the Cleveland offense. So
as we discussed the question, what was your reaction to
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Jameis Winston and Jameis Winston's play for the Browns in
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mona, Lisa, lunch, money, and stump speech, and we will
combine all of these things together and we will have
a rollicking good time, is what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So a this was for Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It was sparkling and discussed thing at the same time.
It was equal parts sparkling and equal parts disgusting. And
it was just a fun night. Now, I did have
a little skin in the game, and I'd like to
thank Winston for that final interception when the Browns got
the ball down to the two yard line and Winston
through that interception in the end zone, because if the
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Browns had scored a touchdown, which it seemed they were
going to do, that would have covered the spread. The
line was up to five and a half or six,
depending on where you got it on the game. The
Broncos a rather sizable favorite, but just in general, that aside, right,
the gambling element aside.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It was just entertaining. And there's not a lot of
these games.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We always look forward to the NFL, you know, we'll
talk about the NFL every night pretty much in the show,
and then we'll get to the playoffs in the super Bowl,
and then we'll talk about the scouting combine and free agency,
and we'll look forward. We'll lick our chops for next
NFL season. But the reality is there's only a few
nights like this. These nights are far and fewed between.
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Most of these Island games aren't very entering. They mostly blow.
This was not that, this was not it. I'm not
a Browns fan or Broncos fan, but I enjoyed watching
the game and Jameis Winston. Get back to the point,
was your reaction to Jameis Winston's play. Jameis Winston showed
the world the skill set that got him to a
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very high position of the NFL draft coming out of
Florida State. He also showed the world what he played
like when he was the starting quarterback for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. He painted his own version of the Mona Lisa.
Jameis Winston painted the Mona Lisa. He did it with
finger paints, but it was still the Mona Lisa. It
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was still his version, the good, the bad, and the
ugly for Winston, right. And it's like they say in
the in the Bible, famous jamis, of course giveth, and
famous jamis taketh away.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
And it's gonna sound crazy. I don't think I'm alone
in this though.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
How incompetent to the Cleveland Brown's ownership looked, how dumb
to the front office and the coaching staff looked. Jameis
Winston should have been the quarterback all year. And it's
a joke. I know why they did it, for financial reasons,
but the fact that Winston didn't start all season is
an indictment of ownership in Cleveland, of the coaching staff
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in Cleveland, of the front office. What a bleeping' joke,
what a you should have started that guy all year?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Who we most a game? I don't care, light out care.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And here's the thing, right, Jamis, for whatever it's worth,
the very powerful microphones of the overnight hours here on FSR,
I rubber stamp, I rubber stamp Jameis Winston as the quarterback. Now,
I believe in the spectrum of suck, and if you
look at the spectrum of suck, Jameis Winston is what's
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known as fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, at
least be fun bad. He's a one man band. He's
a cun of all Jameis Winston when he's out there
more saying for your buck. The teammates love him, the
fan base loves him. He plays with a great amount
of joy when he's on the field. These are all positive.
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Now he is he a good quarterback? That's debatable, right,
A lot of mistakes and those kill you and whatnot.
But that's not the point here. The fact is the
Browns kept rolling out the total turn berger Deshaun Watson
the creepy quarterback instead of this guy. And Watson is
the polar opposite of Jameis Winston. Right, Jameis Winston is
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fun bad and Deshaun Watson is pull your hair out?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Why am I even a fan?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I've got apathy bad watching that guy play a What
a terrible you talk about the polar opposite? Right, Jameis
Winston on one side and Deshaun Watson the other now
page two, as for the other dominating performance for the
team from Ohio in a loss, how do you explain
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how do you explain Jerry Judy and his performance for
Cleveland and not just this game, but since since they
had a quarterback changed there in Cleveland, since Winston took over,
so this night in particular, because we just focus on
what we just saw.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So watching this game, it was like a movie.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It was the Laurean get it up to eighty eight
miles an hour? Where's Doc Brown? This was a back
to the future performance. That was why Jerry Judy was
drafted as high as he was. That was him at Tuscaloosa.
And if you blocked out the Browns uniform and the
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fact that it was a Monday night and all that,
you'd say, well, wait a minute, that's Jerry Judy playing
against Arkansas or Old Miss on a Saturday afternoon in
the Southeastern Conference. That's the kind of performance. In fact,
he wasn't even that good. He wasn't even that good
at Alabama. It wasn't even that good Man and the Broncos.
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The thing that confused me, and I was screaming profanity
at my television I'm not gonna lie to you, but
the thing that confused me watching this game, and I
know handicap. Handicapping is a funny thing because you were
basing everything on what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And if you look at all the numbers and everything
the Broncos had done defensively, you're like, well, this is
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a pretty good defensive team. They've got to be the
dumbest team on the face of the earth. Because did
no one at any point during the game thing, well,
maybe maybe we really should key in here on Jerry Judy.
They made no in game adjustments. The Broncos defense seemingly gobsmacked.
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I guess they didn't hear that Jerry Judy was upset
with the franchise and that clearly the Browns made it
a point of.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Emphasis to find the involved.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
There were some of those catches there was no one
within ten yards of Jerry Judy.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
He was out in the out, in the clear. It
was wild. How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
And even at the end at Jerry Judy, if he
had played like this, with this meticulous approach where he
was very precise with his preparation, he would still be
with the Broncos, he wouldn't have been a bust in Denver.
But even at the end of the game, Winston throws
that interception, the game ceiling interception, and Jerry Judy's sprinting.
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He's hustling to make the tackle to avoid the indignity
of a three pick six. Kind of a day for
his quarterback, Jameis Winston. I get it because Jerry Judy
now leads the NFL, leads the entire league in receiving
yards since Jameis Winston took over. I read that number.
He's got five hundred and eighty one receiving yards. And
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that includes the Browns having a bye week in Week
eight the Browns actually I think it was Week ten
they had their bye, but either way, it doesn't matter.
So Winston has clearly target did Jerry Judy, and it's
worked out. And so you have a guy who's playing
at this point, whether this last or not. For right now,
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Jerry Judy is one of the top ten receivers in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All right, last word.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So on the other side the winning locker room, A
lot of build up for this game was based on
the offensive rookie of the year and the honor which
is up in the air right now, Who's going to
get it? Where are you at on bow Knicks and
his Rookie of the Year campaign offensive Rookie of the
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Year campaign here for the Broncos after the Monday night game.
So if you look at this like an election on
the campaign trail, I looked at this Monday night game
like a stump speech, a very important stump speech. And
at a couple of points during the stump speech for
bow Knicks, the teleprompter wasn't working. There was a teleprompter malfunction.
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It's an island game. The world was watching, and it's
fair to say bow Knicks he did not reach many
key voters in the I ninety five corridor. And that's
important now since he plays in Denver. As we know,
bow Knicks has to be head and shoulders above the
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others who are equal to him at that position and
up for that ward. And when you take a couple
of steps back and when you break things down, he
wasn't terrible. He said, wait, two hundred and ninety something
yards passing. I think it was two hundred ninety four
yards passing for bow Knicks in this game. But he
was under fifty percent most of the game.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He ended up just barely.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Above fifty percent completion percentage. And while he averaged eight
point four yards per attempt bo Nicks, there was that
one blown coverage by the Browns, and that was a
ninety three yard catch and run for a touchdown for Denver.
So outside of that, the other thirty four pass attempts
and the ones that were completed for Bo, he averaged
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less than six yards per attempt. He also had two interceptions.
One of them was a tipped interception, but it still counts.
It still counts. And while Bo had some issues more
interceptions than touchdowns in this game, you look around and
Jaden Daniels, Jaylen Daniels, they're in Washington. Three touchdown passes
and a touchdown on the ground, so they had four touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Daniels did for the team formerly known as.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The Redskins, and the offensive Rookie of the Year race,
the offensive Rookie of the Year race in the NFL
this particular point, it's not over. It's like, it's not
like all of a sudden, Daniels is way ahead of
bow Knicks. However, it's too close to call, and you
give the edge to the player that's in the high
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ninety five corridor, and that would be the player from Washington.
And I keep going back though to that Broncos defense.
I'm trying to figure out what they were doing. I
don't know. Did they think they could start their buy
early here? And as well they didn't intercept Jamis Wentz
And although a couple of those passes, I think he
thought the Denver defensive players were part of the Browns.
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That Jamis thought those guys they were wearing blue now
and that he was throwing them the ball the way
he threw them the ball. But Cleveland had five hundred
and fifty two yards of offense, five hundred and fifty
two yards of offense, twenty eight first downs. They were
great in the red zone until the end when he
threw the interception. But three or four in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That is where we are, and Monday night, a comprehensive
look back. We'll take your phone calls if you would
like to be part. We open up the phone lines
right now. You can chime in as we can goof
on the Browns for not starting Jamis Winston all year.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But Watson, he's the forever quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, forever in purgatory, that creepy quarterback to
Sean Watson while Jamis Winston. Well, you're not gonna win
many more games. At least you'll be entertaining. And it
is the entertainment business.
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Speaker 3 (32:14):
How lazy was Bill Miller? My god, let's get to
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Let's Todd ever Bill Schmuck, the Todd Father is in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Hello, Todd Father. You ready to play Todd Father?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
First time time? All right, we'll see how you do.
Who do you want to partner with? You got me?
Or you've got cooble oop? No, what I'll go. Let's
do this tom all right as opposed to last time? Yeah?
I got it? All right, Tod Father, you're gonna play it.
We also we uh, what could go wrong? We have
(32:48):
Brian in Minnesota, who's gonna play? Hello Brian, Hi, how
you doing? Welcome in Brian. Good to have you.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You want to play with Lorrainer or Coop.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
All right, Brian, what are you doing? You're you're up
late here? What do you got going on? I work night,
I'm a I'm a demo. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember, Yeah,
you're a demo. Guys back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I got you all right, beat yeah, Todd, Todd Father,
what do you got going on?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Tod? What are you doing in the Bay Area? There? Todd?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm actually done thinking on all my dogs in the
Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
So I'm all my way home. Oh nice? Are you doing?
Are very good? All right, gentlemen. So the way this works,
we have a we have different categories to explain the game.
Cool quickly please, all.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Right, gentlemen, You're gonna guess a list of athlete names.
You need the first and the last name in order
to get points. This is Malard's amount of money the
Britney Spears edition. She turned forty three on Monday. The
categories are baby, one more Time, Lucky, Oops, I did
it again, until the World ends, the Todd Father.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You were on first? Which category would you like? Let's oops?
I did it again? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
These athletes have been suspended multiple times in their career
you're gonna have forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Are you ready? Let's do it? All right?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Begin all right? Star with the Golden State Warriors. Let's
to kick guys in the jump. Yes, running back for
the l A Rams in the eighties, one of the
all time greats in NFL history, Number No. Eighties Before that,
how about Star pass Rusher with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He's now on the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
One of the all time sack kings for Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Star for the Red Sox, but not back in the
early two thousands. They played with the Dodgers as well.
Played with the Cleveland Indians. Not Big Poppy, but his
other other Star for the Red Sox. Oh okay, and
I'm about to hit the wall. Uh Star for the Titans,
the defensive tackle he stopped on a cowboy player's head.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Oh I got.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I think he did stomp on somebody's head though, Uh no,
Uh it was Albert Haynesworth. Yeah he missed. Eric Dickerson
was the Rams running back. And nobody's Manny Ramirez. Nobody
does Van is all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh, you know, when the when the pressure's on, it's
a little tough. All right, Brian, I just want the
record to show those clues were amazing. Brian, would you
like till the end of the world, till the end
or till the world ends? All right? I think the
world just standed for me.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
These athletes never changed teams, stayed with the same team
their entire career. Forty five seconds, let's begin quarterback for
the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
He may have raped somebody.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Yes, uh, the German, the big german for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, yes, yes, uh. This guy is a broadcaster. Now
he was on the pacer as a shooter. Yes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
This guy was Tiki's brother. He was a defensive back
for the Tampa Bay Bucks.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Vanderway.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Uh, I don't know, if not not Kiky Teak Tiki.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, so his brother, his twin brother Barber, and uh,
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Ronde ron Day, Rondez bar All those Barbers are the same.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
No, it's Rondez Barber. Come on now, all right, well
you know you're not too far behind. Ben. We only
got sixty points there.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
We still got we still believe it or not, Todd father,
we still got a shot. We're still in the game.
It makes no sense, but we're still in the game.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
What do we have we have a baby one more time?
Or lucky?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, all right? Which one do you want there, Todd Father, Lucky?
I need to get lucky. Yeah, we all need to
get lucky. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
These sports figures are considered lucky or had a very
lucky moment. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
All right? Forty five second on the clock. Here we go.
Quarterback for the Patriots when they won all the Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm ready, Yes, quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, dog Dog
Michael Yes. Broadway quarterback of the Jets in the seventies
to play with the Rams the sixties, nicknamed Broadway.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
One.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
All right? How about this?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
A coach of the forty nine ers after Bill Walsh,
coach of the forty nine ers after Bill Walsh?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
How about this helmet catch for the Giants in the
Super Bowl with Eli Manning.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
He caught that ode? No, this is somebody.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
How about mister big Shot they called him for the
Lakers and the Rockets and the Spurs. Why am I
even doing this? I don't even understand. If it makes
no sense, Lord, have mercy, correct. I think Jameis Winston
had a better day than you believe my.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
God, Broadway, Joe Namath, is you missed there? No one's
ever heard George.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I don't know how old. How old are you? By
the way, Todd father, you're a young guy. I'll give
you a pass on that. George Seaffert was the guy
that replaced Bill Walsh.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
That's before your time. David Tyree, the famous hen When
was that Tyree? Catch? What year was that?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It was like one of them? Yeah, I know, but
you should not be kind. He's thirty two, so I
don't know who cares you?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Running out of time to win. Let's get out. I
already wont damn already, don't catch up.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
We already want we beat.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I'll shut up, shut up, shut up. But what's wrong
with you? I said the wrong that, Brian? What's wrong
with you? Brian?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Listen this guy, Todd father, it's his first time and uh,
he'll be much better next time. But he'll never play
with me again. I'll play with Coop next time, but
much better next time. All right, Thank you, Todd father,
thanks for playing all right, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
By the way, alright, so he's thirty soh yeah he was,
he was old enough to know that play right.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
He's thirty two.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
It seems like a teenager when that boy, he was
a teenager when that happened. Holy crap on a cracker man,
is time flying by? Wow wowsers.
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Our lead this hour, coming from Western New York, the
island life, if you will, brock Perty and the forty
nine ers traveling by stagecoach from the west coast to
the northeast. There a little snowball fight with Josh Allen
and the.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Buffalo football team.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
A powdery mix, a powdery mix from kickoff until the
end of the game.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
It's probably still snowing there in Western.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
New York, and the snow the size they said on
the broadcast, the size of dipping dots, the size of
dipping dots there. The players staying warm by drinking lots
of hot chocolate, little hot cocoa, some chicken broth sounds lovely.
And Mike Turrico, the day before he goes under the knife,
(02:33):
was calling the game with Chris Collinsworth. There they were
on hand on the peacock and don't bear the lead,
all right, we be If you didn't see the game,
it was good, it was fun, and we love games
like this. We sit on our sofa in a nice
climate and we watch thousands of people spending four hours
(02:56):
outside in cold, snowy weather.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
What's not the well.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Josh Allen had the trifect He had a receiving touchdown,
he had a passing touchdown, and he had a rushing touchdown.
He did a little bit of this, a little bit
of that, a little bit of that, and in the end,
the Buffalo Bills get her done. They clinch their fifth
(03:21):
straight AFC East title. If I told you years ago,
when the New England Patriots were dominating the AFC East
for an entire generation, that there will be a point
in time where the Buffalo Bills will own the AFC East,
we are now at that point. You were saying, Ahi,
you're crazy. It wasn't even close. Thirty five to ten,
(03:45):
thirty five to ten, the final Buffalo stampede over the
Niners on that snowy night game. There Josh Allen touchdowns, passing, rushing,
and receiving. As mentioned, the first quarterback, according to the
NFL Propaganda Arm, the statistical propaganda on the first quarterback
to do that. Seventh player in the Super Bowl era,
(04:06):
the modern era to have the trifecta receiving, throwing, and
catching touchdowns, the first one to do it since.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
His teammate Christian McAffrey.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Doesn't sound as impressive if you say that it just
happened a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But it did.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
McCaffrey did it in twenty twenty two. And so Buffalo
has now won seven straight since back to back losses
to Baltimore and Houston. They are ten and two or
better for the fifth time, fifth time in franchise history,
first time since way back in nineteen ninety one. Holy
(04:42):
Andre Reid Batman, nineteen ninety one. But the better story
is in the losing locker room, and so that is
where we shall go here. San Francisco is now five
and seven.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
They suck.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
They're five and seven on the season, back back blowout
losses in cold environments at Lambeau and now in Buffalo.
So let us discuss the question who is responsible for
the forty nine ers downfall at this point. Now, they
still have a mathematical chance of getting the playoffs because
(05:20):
of the division. The entire division blows. Seattle sucks, the
Rams are no good. The Cardinals have alligator arms, Murray,
what a joke that is?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So the division's garbage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So someone's gonna win the division and get a home
playoff game. The Niners still mathematically have a chance but
who's responsible for the Niners being two games under five
hundred after thirteen game weeks of the season have been
played here. So I've got poster boy all inclusive and demarcation,
(05:51):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice HOGI is what
we're going to make. So the first part of this
is obviously the replacements. We start with that, right because
the game of football, the injury rate is one hundred
percent in the game of football, and the forty nine
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ers have depended more so than in other years on replacements,
backup players to fill the void. And it's fair to
say the backup players have not been.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Able to fill the void. They have not.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You don't need some blow hard on the radio to
tell you that. Just watch the games. That's the way
it is. And Kyle Shanahan, if you look, he's worked
as a bartender here and he has served up the
perfect toxic cocktail this season. You've got equal parts injury,
some season ending injuries like Brandon Auk, the wide receiver
(06:47):
who demanded to get paid, got paid, then got hurt.
Underperformance of players that had had success in the past
but are not having success now guys who have needed
to perform at a higher level and had been unable
to perform at a higher level. Now, I would argue
that the poster boy of that group, of the forty
(07:10):
nine er locker room, is d Bo Samuel. Deebo Samuel,
for one season was the most electric, most dynamic playmaker
in the NFL. But that's it. If you look at
the rest of his career, he hadn't been that impressive.
And this season Deebo needed to rise up right, needed
to step his game up for the forty nine ers,
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and this game on Sunday night a perfect example. He
did nothing, really nothing in the past past game. It
was snowing, all right, it was snowing for both sides.
But Deebo Samuel, his contribution for most of these games
has been when the players come out on the field,
he dances while somebody holds a boombox. He's really good
(07:51):
at that, like he's really entertaining with the boom box.
But then when the game starts, he sucks. It's fascinating,
it really is. The last three weeks, Deebo Samuel, by
the way, not his real name, nine catches, no touchdowns
and sixty three total receiving yards over the last three
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weeks when the Niners have needed someone the last three
games here to step up, and he's the guy making
the big money, and his days are numbered in the
Bay Area, without a doubt, his days are numbered here.
He's likely going to be sent packing at the end
of the season. Now, speaking of being sent packing and
(08:34):
the forty nine Ers, who still have a shot to
make the playoffs, we mentioned location location, location in the
NFC West is not very good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So someone's going to get into.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The playoffs, and someone's going to get a home game
as a division winner in the playoffs. But the forty
nine or running back Christian McCaffrey suffering what is believed
to be a ligament damaged the PCL, not the Pacific
Coast League. The PCL in his right and he is
in Jeopardy, but not on the TV show Jeopardy, but
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he's in Jeopardy the rest of the season. Kyle Shanahan,
the coach, said he thinks it is a season ending injury,
although more tests need to be done, which tells you
that Shanahan obviously he already knows that it's a season
any injury, but he's trying to be optimistic, like maybe
somehow there'll be some pixie dust that somebody puts on
Christian McCaffrey and his right knee there and he'll be
(09:28):
able to come back and play. It's normally at minimum
a several week injury at minimum, And if you do
the math on this, it's not looking good. So has
Christian McCaffrey played his final game for the forty nine
ers here in this NFL season, And I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I know you're you're probably wondering if I'm doing that
or not because you can't see me because it's radio.
Even though it's a camera in here. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
I'm not in my Yes. The Niners what they're doing now,
and I determined this was a delayed reaction. But it
is playing out the way that we originally had thought
the original take, all the hot take artists had when
(10:12):
the Niners went out and made the big sexy move
with Carolina a couple of years ago. Now the Niners
are getting the all inclusive Christian McCaffrey experience. There was
a delayed reaction for the first season and a half.
It was wonderful. It was Casablanca, perfect fit. Just everything
(10:35):
was great. McCaffrey, the honeymoon period there with the forty
nine ers, twenty seven games of goodness, not even good
greatness for the forty nine ers of McCaffrey, MVP level
football from the running back. He got more money. And
now here we go, and all of a sudden, you're like,
(10:57):
wait a minute, this is more like the twenty twenty
twenty twenty one version of Christian McCaffrey, battered Bruce the
completely beaten by the NFL, broken down running back. McCaffrey
limited to four games this season if his season is over.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That's it. Four games all the season.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Now, I mentioned that the Niners have a shot here
to make the playoffs. Now brock Perdy, who's also going
to demand a bunch of money and will get paid
a bunch of money, whether it's the forty nine ers
or someone else is going to pay him a gazillion dollars,
He's going to get tons and tons of money. Well,
(11:44):
here he is dipping into the bag of cliches to
talk about what has to happen now for the Niners.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Take a listen. Every game's got to be muscle win
for us.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You know, we don't have any room clearly if we
want to make the playoffs, and you know, get ahead
and do the thing that we've set out to do
before the season. Man, everyone's got to be a must win.
And so that's playing this day and we all know that. So,
like I said, we all just got to be accountable
and grow from it.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And you know, we don't have a lot of room
for air right now. We got to go Okay, thank you,
captain obvious. So does that mean the Niners haven't been accountable?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are we supposed to surmise from the comments by the
Niners quarterback that every game hasn't been must win, That
there hasn't been a sense of urgency by the Bay,
that there isn't accountability in the Niner locker room, and
that now now with their backs against the proverbial wall,
now all of a.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Sudden, they're trying to have accountability.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Now at this point, every game matters, But they didn't
take every game seriously? Is that what brock Perty is
implying by that commentary? Meanwhile, last word, let's go to
the winning side. Always get crap from Bill's mumbile.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Will the Bills win.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You don't talk about the Bills because they win, and
you talk about the losing team. Oh, that's true, because
it's a better story. But the Bills played wonderful. They
played as they were supposed to do, an outdoor team,
a cold weather team against a West coast, soft west
coast team.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
They played the way they were supposed to play.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Congratulations, But do Josh Allen and I heard this commentary
a lot, the implication on the broadcast and just in
general the NFL conversation over the last couple of weeks
about home field and the Bills beating Kansas City head
to head, So they have should they end up with
(13:38):
the same record as the Chiefs, Chiefs beating the Bills
or the Bills beating the Chiefs. So if they end
up with the same record, advantage tiebreaker goes to Buffalo,
and in a proverbial matchup down the line, that game
would be played in western New York. So do Josh
Allen and the Bills have to have home field advantage
(14:00):
for them to get out of the AFC? And the
answer to that is an obvious no. Despite what you
likely have read and what you have heard and what
you have seen. The answer is no, that is a myth.
It is a myth that we can debunk the bills
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Last year at home and.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
The playoffs went belly up, Yes they did, Yes they did.
And all Bill's Mafia is great and it's fun to
watch fat, middle aged people jump on tables and light
themselves on fire. Who doesn't enjoy that? That said, right,
it's not a point of demarcation. It's not He's like,
(14:39):
if they have to play on the road, they've crossed
the rubicon. No, it's just not true. And it comes
down to us every single time, and we talk about
the playoffs every year and the same thing comes up,
and it's people get all worked up into a ladder
about this that things that don't matter, the matchups, this
is gonna blow you away. The matchups don't really matter.
They don't. The film doesn't really matter matter all that much.
(15:01):
It doesn't home field certainly doesn't matter, even a snow
globe outdoor, cold weather team. The injuries, believe it or not,
don't really matter that much. All that matters in these
postseason games is who performs better in the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's it. That's it. You have backups.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
The Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl with their backup
quarterback few years ago because he played better than Tom
Brady for that one playoff run.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
He was better.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But if you say, if you look at the matchup
said wow, no chan Nick Foles, come on, They said, well,
that's an outlier, but it has happened more than once
where backup quarterbacks have gone on runs in the playoffs
and all that. But the point is, don't suck at
a time you cannot suck. And if you rise to
the occasion, the immense pressure of the playoffs, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Whether at home or on the road, or in the
dome or you're outside, it doesn't matter. You play anywhere.
That's what matters.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
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final game for Week thirteen, Final game Week thirteen on
the NFL Card, and we go to the Centennial State
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and that is where Jameis Winston and the Brownies Traveling
Circus arrived. The Browns playing out the string on another
miserable season, win loss wise, and they had a playdate
with the Broncos. It was the Jerry Judy Revenge Game.
Although nobody anticipated that the Jerry Judy Revenge Game would
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be a classic, nobody had that Cleveland taking on the
team from Colorado, the Fox Refugees, Troy Aikman and Joe
Buck where they're calling the game. They were in the
broadcast spot did you watch? Did you have something else
going Well, I don't know what else you had going on.
Maybe you had something else going on, but we were
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watching so our good mitch with it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
We thought, well, no one's gonna watch this game.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And the brown suck and the Broncos aren't a sexy
team and they haven't been that for a long time.
But it was a hum danger, a umdanger of the game,
and it came down to the very end for those
of us that bet on these games. Someone named Jaikwan McMillan.
We don't know who that is, but he had an
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interception forty four yards out of the end zone, the
game ceiling, game ceiling play with one forty eight remaining
in the game there the Broncos. That was a game
ceiling touchdown by McMillan. There's also an interception at the
end there the Browns and the final seconds driving down
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trying to get a touchdown and then they would need
the on side kick and all that the Broncos able
to win. Despite his story oracle performance by the Cleveland
Browns offense, This is like wake Up Bernie Kozar.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The Cleveland Browns quarterback, their backup quarterback Jameis Winston, and
wide receiver Jerry Judy in the Jerry Judy revenge game
put up monster stats, the kind of stats if you
play fantasy football. It was orgasmic the type of numbers
these guys put off. Winston through a franchise record, franchise
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record fourunited ninety seven yards Jameis wins The Browns have
been playing football for a minute and four at ninety
seven yards, the most in franchise history. Four touchdowns. Jerry
Judy had not one, not two, not three, not four,
not five, not six, not seven ninety How about nine
catches for two hundred and thirty five yards, the most
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in NFL history by a receiver against his former team.
So the greatest revenge game by a receiver in NFL history.
Aside from the five I'll score, Judy had played not
very well. You probably don't remember this four seasons in
Denver and made no tangible impact on the Broncos. He
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was booed every time he touched the ball, and he
was soaking it all in like a sponge, enjoying all
of the booze that were raining down in Colorado. So
let us discuss the question, what is we'll go to
the Browns here even though the Browns are not going
to play the story here is the Cleveland offense. So
as we discussed the question, what was your reaction to
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Jameis Winston and Jameis Winston's play for the Browns in
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mona, Lisa, lunch, money, and stump speech, and we will
combine all of these things together and we will have
a rollicking good time, is what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So a this was for Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It was sparkling and discussed thing at the same time.
It was equal parts sparkling and equal parts disgusting. And
it was just a fun night. Now, I did have
a little skin in the game, and I'd like to
thank Winston for that final interception when the Browns got
the ball down to the two yard line and Winston
through that interception in the end zone, because if the
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Browns had scored a touchdown, which it seemed they were
going to do, that would have covered the spread. The
line was up to five and a half or six,
depending on where you got it on the game. The
Broncos a rather sizable favorite, but just in general, that aside, right,
the gambling element aside.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It was just entertaining. And there's not a lot of
these games.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We always look forward to the NFL, you know, we'll
talk about the NFL every night pretty much in the show,
and then we'll get to the playoffs in the super Bowl,
and then we'll talk about the scouting combine and free agency,
and we'll look forward. We'll lick our chops for next
NFL season. But the reality is there's only a few
nights like this. These nights are far and fewed between.
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Most of these Island games aren't very entering. They mostly blow.
This was not that, this was not it. I'm not
a Browns fan or Broncos fan, but I enjoyed watching
the game and Jameis Winston. Get back to the point,
was your reaction to Jameis Winston's play. Jameis Winston showed
the world the skill set that got him to a
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very high position of the NFL draft coming out of
Florida State. He also showed the world what he played
like when he was the starting quarterback for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. He painted his own version of the Mona Lisa.
Jameis Winston painted the Mona Lisa. He did it with
finger paints, but it was still the Mona Lisa. It
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was still his version, the good, the bad, and the
ugly for Winston, right. And it's like they say in
the in the Bible, famous jamis, of course giveth, and
famous jamis taketh away.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
And it's gonna sound crazy. I don't think I'm alone
in this though.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
How incompetent to the Cleveland Brown's ownership looked, how dumb
to the front office and the coaching staff looked. Jameis
Winston should have been the quarterback all year. And it's
a joke. I know why they did it, for financial reasons,
but the fact that Winston didn't start all season is
an indictment of ownership in Cleveland, of the coaching staff
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in Cleveland, of the front office. What a bleeping' joke,
what a you should have started that guy all year?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Who we most a game? I don't care, light out care.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And here's the thing, right, Jamis, for whatever it's worth,
the very powerful microphones of the overnight hours here on FSR,
I rubber stamp, I rubber stamp Jameis Winston as the quarterback. Now,
I believe in the spectrum of suck, and if you
look at the spectrum of suck, Jameis Winston is what's
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known as fun bad. If you're gonna be bad, at
least be fun bad. He's a one man band. He's
a cun of all Jameis Winston when he's out there
more saying for your buck. The teammates love him, the
fan base loves him. He plays with a great amount
of joy when he's on the field. These are all positive.
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Now he is he a good quarterback? That's debatable, right,
A lot of mistakes and those kill you and whatnot.
But that's not the point here. The fact is the
Browns kept rolling out the total turn berger Deshaun Watson
the creepy quarterback instead of this guy. And Watson is
the polar opposite of Jameis Winston. Right, Jameis Winston is
(24:33):
fun bad and Deshaun Watson is pull your hair out?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Why am I even a fan?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I've got apathy bad watching that guy play a What
a terrible you talk about the polar opposite? Right, Jameis
Winston on one side and Deshaun Watson the other now
page two, as for the other dominating performance for the
team from Ohio in a loss, how do you explain
(25:00):
how do you explain Jerry Judy and his performance for
Cleveland and not just this game, but since since they
had a quarterback changed there in Cleveland, since Winston took over,
so this night in particular, because we just focus on
what we just saw.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So watching this game, it was like a movie.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It was the Laurean get it up to eighty eight
miles an hour? Where's Doc Brown? This was a back
to the future performance. That was why Jerry Judy was
drafted as high as he was. That was him at Tuscaloosa.
And if you blocked out the Browns uniform and the
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fact that it was a Monday night and all that,
you'd say, well, wait a minute, that's Jerry Judy playing
against Arkansas or Old Miss on a Saturday afternoon in
the Southeastern Conference. That's the kind of performance. In fact,
he wasn't even that good. He wasn't even that good
at Alabama. It wasn't even that good Man and the Broncos.
(26:04):
The thing that confused me, and I was screaming profanity
at my television I'm not gonna lie to you, but
the thing that confused me watching this game, and I
know handicap. Handicapping is a funny thing because you were
basing everything on what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And if you look at all the numbers and everything
the Broncos had done defensively, you're like, well, this is
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a pretty good defensive team. They've got to be the
dumbest team on the face of the earth. Because did
no one at any point during the game thing, well,
maybe maybe we really should key in here on Jerry Judy.
They made no in game adjustments. The Broncos defense seemingly gobsmacked.
(26:45):
I guess they didn't hear that Jerry Judy was upset
with the franchise and that clearly the Browns made it
a point of.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Emphasis to find the involved.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
There were some of those catches there was no one
within ten yards of Jerry Judy.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
He was out in the out, in the clear. It
was wild. How does that happen?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
And even at the end at Jerry Judy, if he
had played like this, with this meticulous approach where he
was very precise with his preparation, he would still be
with the Broncos, he wouldn't have been a bust in Denver.
But even at the end of the game, Winston throws
that interception, the game ceiling interception, and Jerry Judy's sprinting.
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He's hustling to make the tackle to avoid the indignity
of a three pick six. Kind of a day for
his quarterback, Jameis Winston. I get it because Jerry Judy
now leads the NFL, leads the entire league in receiving
yards since Jameis Winston took over. I read that number.
He's got five hundred and eighty one receiving yards. And
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that includes the Browns having a bye week in Week
eight the Browns actually I think it was Week ten
they had their bye, but either way, it doesn't matter.
So Winston has clearly target did Jerry Judy, and it's
worked out. And so you have a guy who's playing
at this point, whether this last or not. For right now,
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Jerry Judy is one of the top ten receivers in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All right, last word.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So on the other side the winning locker room, A
lot of build up for this game was based on
the offensive rookie of the year and the honor which
is up in the air right now, Who's going to
get it? Where are you at on bow Knicks and
his Rookie of the Year campaign offensive Rookie of the
(28:33):
Year campaign here for the Broncos after the Monday night game.
So if you look at this like an election on
the campaign trail, I looked at this Monday night game
like a stump speech, a very important stump speech. And
at a couple of points during the stump speech for
bow Knicks, the teleprompter wasn't working. There was a teleprompter malfunction.
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It's an island game. The world was watching, and it's
fair to say bow Knicks he did not reach many
key voters in the I ninety five corridor. And that's
important now since he plays in Denver. As we know,
bow Knicks has to be head and shoulders above the
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others who are equal to him at that position and
up for that ward. And when you take a couple
of steps back and when you break things down, he
wasn't terrible. He said, wait, two hundred and ninety something
yards passing. I think it was two hundred ninety four
yards passing for bow Knicks in this game. But he
was under fifty percent most of the game.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
He ended up just barely.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Above fifty percent completion percentage. And while he averaged eight
point four yards per attempt bo Nicks, there was that
one blown coverage by the Browns, and that was a
ninety three yard catch and run for a touchdown for Denver.
So outside of that, the other thirty four pass attempts
and the ones that were completed for Bo, he averaged
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less than six yards per attempt. He also had two interceptions.
One of them was a tipped interception, but it still counts.
It still counts. And while Bo had some issues more
interceptions than touchdowns in this game, you look around and
Jaden Daniels, Jaylen Daniels, they're in Washington. Three touchdown passes
and a touchdown on the ground, so they had four touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Daniels did for the team formerly known as.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The Redskins, and the offensive Rookie of the Year race,
the offensive Rookie of the Year race in the NFL
this particular point, it's not over. It's like, it's not
like all of a sudden, Daniels is way ahead of
bow Knicks. However, it's too close to call, and you
give the edge to the player that's in the high
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ninety five corridor, and that would be the player from Washington.
And I keep going back though to that Broncos defense.
I'm trying to figure out what they were doing. I
don't know. Did they think they could start their buy
early here? And as well they didn't intercept Jamis Wentz
And although a couple of those passes, I think he
thought the Denver defensive players were part of the Browns.
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That Jamis thought those guys they were wearing blue now
and that he was throwing them the ball the way
he threw them the ball. But Cleveland had five hundred
and fifty two yards of offense, five hundred and fifty
two yards of offense, twenty eight first downs. They were
great in the red zone until the end when he
threw the interception. But three or four in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That is where we are, and Monday night, a comprehensive
look back. We'll take your phone calls if you would
like to be part. We open up the phone lines
right now. You can chime in as we can goof
on the Browns for not starting Jamis Winston all year.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But Watson, he's the forever quarterback.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, forever in purgatory, that creepy quarterback to
Sean Watson while Jamis Winston. Well, you're not gonna win
many more games. At least you'll be entertaining. And it
is the entertainment business.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
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Speaker 3 (32:14):
How lazy was Bill Miller? My god, let's get to
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Let's Todd ever Bill Schmuck, the Todd Father is in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Hello, Todd Father. You ready to play Todd Father?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
First time time? All right, we'll see how you do.
Who do you want to partner with? You got me?
Or you've got cooble oop? No, what I'll go. Let's
do this tom all right as opposed to last time? Yeah?
I got it? All right, Tod Father, you're gonna play it.
We also we uh, what could go wrong? We have
(32:48):
Brian in Minnesota, who's gonna play? Hello Brian, Hi, how
you doing? Welcome in Brian. Good to have you.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You want to play with Lorrainer or Coop.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
All right, Brian, what are you doing? You're you're up
late here? What do you got going on? I work night,
I'm a I'm a demo. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember, Yeah,
you're a demo. Guys back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I got you all right, beat yeah, Todd, Todd Father,
what do you got going on?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Tod? What are you doing in the Bay Area? There? Todd?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm actually done thinking on all my dogs in the
Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
So I'm all my way home. Oh nice? Are you doing?
Are very good? All right, gentlemen. So the way this works,
we have a we have different categories to explain the game.
Cool quickly please, all.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Right, gentlemen, You're gonna guess a list of athlete names.
You need the first and the last name in order
to get points. This is Malard's amount of money the
Britney Spears edition. She turned forty three on Monday. The
categories are baby, one more Time, Lucky, Oops, I did
it again, until the World ends, the Todd Father.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You were on first? Which category would you like? Let's oops?
I did it again? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
These athletes have been suspended multiple times in their career
you're gonna have forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Are you ready? Let's do it? All right?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Begin all right? Star with the Golden State Warriors. Let's
to kick guys in the jump. Yes, running back for
the l A Rams in the eighties, one of the
all time greats in NFL history, Number No. Eighties Before that,
how about Star pass Rusher with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He's now on the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
One of the all time sack kings for Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Star for the Red Sox, but not back in the
early two thousands. They played with the Dodgers as well.
Played with the Cleveland Indians. Not Big Poppy, but his
other other Star for the Red Sox. Oh okay, and
I'm about to hit the wall. Uh Star for the Titans,
the defensive tackle he stopped on a cowboy player's head.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Oh I got.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I think he did stomp on somebody's head though, Uh no,
Uh it was Albert Haynesworth. Yeah he missed. Eric Dickerson
was the Rams running back. And nobody's Manny Ramirez. Nobody
does Van is all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh, you know, when the when the pressure's on, it's
a little tough. All right, Brian, I just want the
record to show those clues were amazing. Brian, would you
like till the end of the world, till the end
or till the world ends? All right? I think the
world just standed for me.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
These athletes never changed teams, stayed with the same team
their entire career. Forty five seconds, let's begin quarterback for
the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
He may have raped somebody.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Yes, uh, the German, the big german for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, yes, yes, uh. This guy is a broadcaster. Now
he was on the pacer as a shooter. Yes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
This guy was Tiki's brother. He was a defensive back
for the Tampa Bay Bucks.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Vanderway.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Uh, I don't know, if not not Kiky Teak Tiki.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, so his brother, his twin brother Barber, and uh,
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Ronde ron Day, Rondez bar All those Barbers are the same.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
No, it's Rondez Barber. Come on now, all right, well
you know you're not too far behind. Ben. We only
got sixty points there.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
We still got we still believe it or not, Todd father,
we still got a shot. We're still in the game.
It makes no sense, but we're still in the game.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
What do we have we have a baby one more time?
Or lucky?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, all right? Which one do you want there, Todd Father, Lucky?
I need to get lucky. Yeah, we all need to
get lucky. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
These sports figures are considered lucky or had a very
lucky moment. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
All right? Forty five second on the clock. Here we go.
Quarterback for the Patriots when they won all the Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm ready, Yes, quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, dog Dog
Michael Yes. Broadway quarterback of the Jets in the seventies
to play with the Rams the sixties, nicknamed Broadway.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
One.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
All right? How about this?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
A coach of the forty nine ers after Bill Walsh,
coach of the forty nine ers after Bill Walsh?
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
How about this helmet catch for the Giants in the
Super Bowl with Eli Manning.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
He caught that ode? No, this is somebody.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
How about mister big Shot they called him for the
Lakers and the Rockets and the Spurs. Why am I
even doing this? I don't even understand. If it makes
no sense, Lord, have mercy, correct. I think Jameis Winston
had a better day than you believe my.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
God, Broadway, Joe Namath, is you missed there? No one's
ever heard George.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I don't know how old. How old are you? By
the way, Todd father, you're a young guy. I'll give
you a pass on that. George Seaffert was the guy
that replaced Bill Walsh.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
That's before your time. David Tyree, the famous hen When
was that Tyree? Catch? What year was that?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It was like one of them? Yeah, I know, but
you should not be kind. He's thirty two, so I
don't know who cares you?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Running out of time to win. Let's get out. I
already wont damn already, don't catch up.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
We already want we beat.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I'll shut up, shut up, shut up. But what's wrong
with you? I said the wrong that, Brian? What's wrong
with you? Brian?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Listen this guy, Todd father, it's his first time and uh,
he'll be much better next time. But he'll never play
with me again. I'll play with Coop next time, but
much better next time. All right, Thank you, Todd father,
thanks for playing all right, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
By the way, alright, so he's thirty soh yeah he was,
he was old enough to know that play right.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
He's thirty two.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
It seems like a teenager when that boy, he was
a teenager when that happened. Holy crap on a cracker man,
is time flying by? Wow wowsers.
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