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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Greet eggs, Welcome inside. Happy Monday, The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Holidays, Holidays, holidays. Oh here we are Monday Night football. Yes,
scintillating battle, a flugame that you are watching because it's on. Hey,
Rogers is almost perfect.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Rogers is Aaron Rodgers tonight, sixteen out of seventeen throwing
the football. The Steelers lead the Dollars fourteen to three
midway through the third quarter. But this was supposed to
be the Jalen Warren flu game. It was supposed to
be that, and now it's not.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
He was only supposed to blow the bloody doors though.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was supposed to be the Jalen Warren flu game,
and now this isn't. He's barely touching the football. They
did give it to him twice in the goal and
he couldn't get in.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
He didn't move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Kenneth Gainwell catching every other pass and Rogers, Hey, look
at this, Look at me.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's a Dolphins defense.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
We're at home.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm still good. I'm watching. This is supposed to be
the Jalen Warren flu game. Was this one of those
where you celebrate the fortitude of the Miami run defense
to stiffen up or do you just say the hell's
wrong with your offensive line and that tight end, slash
offensive lineman, slash wizard.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's supposed to clear up his path? He did nothing.
He whiffed.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Ah, this is a game. Look now, this is It's
tough to break this game down because it's a game
of two teams that are just mediocre. Yet it has
huge implications on the playoffs in the AFC because you
have the Steelers trying to stay atop the division at
seven and six. Eight and six would be a huge
u be a huge step for them. The Dolphins trying

(02:09):
to stay in the playoff race as well, while the
Steelers it's gonna come down to them winning the division
or the Ravens winning. It's gonna come down to one
of those things. The Dolphins absolutely have to have this
game if they're gonna stay in at six and seven.
They've been red hot and now here they are. But
they're down fourteen to three zero offense, and this looks
like the worst offense that you've seen under Tua. Like

(02:29):
that's when when things are bad for the Dolphins and
you think of how bad the offense looks, and Tua
can't really complete a pass and they can't run the football,
and the weather is too cold, like this is the
game you think of. I just hate whether you get
into the the how what the temperature is. When you're bad,
you're bad. Yeah, you might have a little bit between
the ears of boy, my fingers are a little cold,

(02:49):
but you're on a football field being chased by three
hundred pound men at a high rate of speed. I
don't think the weather's the first thing on your damn mind. Hey,
look that reception was in aplicable That was just a
terrible throw. Otherwise we saw him take a sack on
their last possessions. Like you're a left handed thrower rolling
to the left, you're outside the pocket, yet you get

(03:12):
chased down for a sack, like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was cold when they played the Jets and they
ran for two hundred and eighty yards. I mean Jets like, Oh,
Trevor Lawrence is great, dude, Jets. Come on, I actually
watched the game. Unlike everybody else. I mean, they're committed
to anything.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
They're committing to nine touches.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Come on, all right, what do you got?

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
First of all, congratulation to Justin Frossburg. Fresh off his
plane trip back from Kansas City, where the Chargers ended
the chief season.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
He ended Patrick Mahomes. You've been talking about it for
all these years. You ended Mahomes, man, You ended Mahomes.
How many happy people are out there today because of
the Chargers, because the Chargers won well for two fans
one people wanted, Yeah they're bad. There's a lot of
bad here, man, a lot of coal being handed out
by old Sandy Closs because people really reveling in mahomes injury.

(04:03):
That's just a whole subset. Well, that's different. This is
what we'll get to Mahomes injury in a minute. This
is about the game steps being vanquished ones. What did
I tell you that defense would get after what I
will get it done. I will tell you about the
playoff picture. That's why I said what I said. Oh okay, well,
I was going to say, you know who's not in
the playoffs. Who's not in the playoffs? The Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
The celebration, you know, the Chiefs are kind of and
here here's the deal, uh is for? And Frost, Well,
you were off Friday, and I very boldly said, listen,
Justin Froster's gonna have a great plane ride back from
from Kansas City. Because Patrick Mahomes has difficulty with good defenses.
The Chargers have a top five defense. It's going to
be an ugly game, just like it was when the
Chargers beat the Eagles on Monday Night. But they're coming

(04:45):
out with the victory. They come away with a victory,
the Chargers and the chief season. But it is a
little bit of okay. Yes, so many anti Chiefs fans
of last year is because they've been so dominant. You
look at the TV ratings of the biggest games in
the end NFL the last three years. They all have
the baseball The Chiefs are the Cowboys, Chiefs Cowboys, Chiefs, Cowboys,
Chiefs Cowboys, so This is kind of like, hey, everybody

(05:07):
hates the Yankees, love to see him get knocked out,
but oh well, we don't not going to have him
in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
We want to watch him spiral, yeah, and be vanquished
somewhere along that road. Yeah, there's no question about it. Uh.
And now it gets in that fun part of the
year where we add extra games, right, Christmas Day, Saturday games, whatever.
A lot of these primetime games, they happen to feature
well teams with a bunch of guys that are no
longer available, including It's going to be difficult afore mentioned

(05:34):
Patrick Mahoons, it's going to be cardr minshew Mania is
going to be running wild during this holiday season.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So now, yeah, let's get into it again.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Fourteen three a in a in a very tepidly exciting
Monday night football game.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
These Steelers lead it. He's actually thrown the ball at
Rogers is downfield more than the last four or five throws.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Suddenly he's Warrings.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Having an okay night, He's having oak. I'm telling you
he's playing an average team. He's having an oak sixteen
out of seventeen. I think his average air yard was
He's you know what, it was effective. He's sixteen out
of seventeen for thirty eight yards.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
All right, he's getting he's.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Getting there, chasing real quick. Yeah, what do you got,
f Rosburg? I was gonna say, you know who's not
in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Who's that the Chiefs?

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Dk Metcalf is in the end zone. A touchdown from
Rogers make it twenty to three, extra point pending twenty
eight yards from Metcalf.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
It looks like the Steeler is gonna walk out of
this one with a victory. Yeah, but you never know. Hey,
you know, being behind by by.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Three touchdowns is when TWA does his best work. But
the thing about the Chiefs is this, right now, you
have a double edged sword with with this situation with
they're eliminated from the playoffs and Patrick Mahomes torn ACL
already underwent surgery, a surgery done, like, no, he'll have
it next week. We're gonna wait till the swelling goes down.

(06:59):
He was able to avoid a more damage on his
knee than you normally get to see sometimes in an
ACL injury. Right, that's the best way to explain it.
He was able to avoid some of the worst it's
still a torn acl still long rehabs of everything else.
But the fact that he was able to have surgery
now didn't have to postpone, it didn't have to wait
a couple of weeks anything else. That's a good sign
for his recovery.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah. I cursed audibly as it happened. I want you
could see his leg in the way it pot was like,
oh no, yeah, it was tough.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
It was tough because.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Whatever you think of the teams, we need stars. Yeah, no,
no stars in a league where we're at quarterback sixty.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
And I want to say this, the fact that he
had surgery so fast, because now obviously this season is
cooked for the Chiefs and there's gonna be and and
you know now that what are they doing?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
What are they doing?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's an off season of change. No, I'll tell you
exactly what it's gonna be. And I'll tell you this.
Remember when when Colorado, when Dion first took over, and
you know, they owned September and they won a bunch
of games, and Dean was like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
then they lost like four in a row, and his
thing was, get us now, right, remember the big press commers,
get us now? Because after I you know, I get
my guys coming in the future. Get us now, because

(08:10):
you're not going to get us in the future. It
turns out now you can get them whenever. Right, we
get you now, we'll get you later, We'll get you
next season. We're looking for you on our schedule. We're
trying to schedule a game with you. Yeah, we want
to get you any time, because maybe maybe you're not
that coacha.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
He was good sound bite. His son isn't walking back
to that guard.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Shadi walking out unless he's coming to say hi to
his dad. He's not walking back through that Travis Hunter
aint walking back through that door. But I want to
say this, Get the Chiefs now, because what they're going
to do in the off season is going to be
the Chiefs back with a vengeance.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
I've talked about this early in the year. No one's
been a bigger Chiefs whisper this year than I've been.
I've told you a great year for Mahomes, rough year
for the Chiefs. They'll struggle to make the playoffs. Other
teams are younger, more athletic, and they're better. And you
watch this year, it was a struggle. Mahomes played terrific.
Now he is out, they were down to their third
and fourth string offensive tackles yesterday. They had guys playing

(09:05):
that beginning of the season. I don't think even not
a glimmer in the eye of Andy Reid. They're gonna
have to play some games. So but you know what's
gonna happen in the offseason because they know Mahomes looks
like the fact he has a surgery now avoided a
lot of damage. This means he should be able to
be back to the beginning of next year. You talking
about twelve months recovery, Mahomes should be back. And I
guarantee you you are going to see big changes. And

(09:26):
the Chiefs are gonna attack the offseason like Jim Harbaugh
attacks every day with a zeal unknown to mankind. They're
gonna fortify the offensive line again like they did four
years ago when they were coming off the Super Bowl,
the loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Goes, hey, we
gotta go out and get some guys out and got
Joe Tune, he got a couple of other players. They
know we need big change and it's gonna be offensive line. Obviously,

(09:49):
it's gonna be a number one running back. It's gonna
be another number one wide receiver, or at least a
one a wide receiver. It's gonna be a big stud
tight end because they know they need to make sure
that for the last half of Patrick Mahomes's prime, they
are in the best position possible and they can't go
with get by guys anymore. Look, Travis kelce is done.
How many times? Not not Sunday obviously, but how many

(10:10):
times did you have to see the headline this year
of boy, that Kelsey drop in the second half killed them,
or the Kelsey drop that turned into a karmed interception
really killed the Chiefs. Like three games they've lost because
Travis Kelcey has dropped big passes.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
He's done.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
As much as he might want to come back and
not want it to end this way, you don't always
get to pick your ending. And if you're the Chiefs,
you need another tight end because obviously Mahomes is using
tight ends in his for the last few years. Not
gonna suddenly not throw to the tight end anymore, but
he's gonna play a little bit differently. He's gonna have
more weapons at his disposal, and it's gonna be more
of the old Mahomes where instead of running to lead

(10:44):
the to lead the team in rushing, he's gonna keep
plays alive and he's gonna be able to use his
big arm to get the ball downfield. Two guys that
can make plays. They know we can't just get buy
anymore with Hey, we're Mahomes driven, and we can put
a bunch of bunch of wide receivers out there that
are Jags and make it work. It's gonna be an
offseason of we're coming for you, Breese Hall. We're coming
from the one a wide receiver to pair with Rushi Rice.

(11:06):
We're coming for a big time tight end. Maybe we're
gonna we'll do some kind of we'll make some kind
of move for a team that wants to get out
from a from maybe like a TJ. Hockinson type player
where hey, someone's making too much money, will make a
deal for a player like that. You are going to
see big, bold moves by the Chiefs this offseason. So
they're gonna enter twenty twenty six saying yeah, you like
this last year when you hated us. Now now watch

(11:27):
out because Mahomes has two great wide receivers and a
great tight end a great running back.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Look out.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
They are going to absolutely come back next season with
a vengeance. Like I said, get them now, unlike Dion,
We're get Colorado now. Do you get a No, get
the Chiefs now, because next season is gonna be a
different story.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, the fun secondary storylines that have gone through all this,
Kyle Pitt's name comes up right the hero of Week fifteen,
going back to Thursday Night with his three touchdowns. He's
a free agent at the end of the year, so
potentially there's one domino to fall, but the other, you know,
Mahomes getting her when he did. The timeline is early
similar to when Brady had his injury and we watched

(12:06):
the Matt Castle and that that team rise up as
they did, they missed the playoffs, but then you reset
and go that way towards the second iteration of the
the Brady run of dominance. But what they need to
look at is you've got what eleven guys that are
scheduled to make at least eleven million dollars on this

(12:27):
team next year, including Mahomes who counts for seventy eight
million against the cap, and Chris and Chris Jones, who
was a shell of himself oftentimes. Remember going all the
way back to early in the season when he was
getting into it with teammates over missed assignments and giving
up his run lane. Remember the game against the Chargers
early in the year, right, the game ceiling run that

(12:48):
Herbert had was because Jones took an inside path. And
I don't know that those guys ever got along thereafter,
Like there always seemed to be a bit of a riff.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
But he's on the.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Books for forty four million dollars next year, so you're
gonna have to do what they call fuzzy math and
a reallocation. I think in some of this as well,
because in terms of available cap space, and obviously there's
a lot to change and you can slough off some
money and rework some deals, but front offices has a
bunch of work to do as well. But this will
be the first time they'll actually draft in the upper

(13:18):
half for a while. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Look, it'll be big. It'll be big changes. It'll be
absolutely big changes, and they're gonna have to do them.
But it's gonna be a different team. NeXT's not gonna
be a we're gonna get the band back together. No,
it's gonna be different guys, different, big playmakers.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Different. It's be different everywhere. Why can't they be like
your team and just start firing people? Hey, Matt Naggy
beat it.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, there's only so many losses we can have where
we could just fire a guy because it was his fault.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Dude, he's slopping off guys like Rocks a shank. Who's
the next the quality control guy?

Speaker 4 (13:48):
I mean, come on.

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Speaker 3 (14:08):
Next year?

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Hey, justin give me favorite you check check standings right now?
Can you tell me are the Chiefs and the playoffs?

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
No, they are not. They're not. Okay, very good, I
got there right there? Exit?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
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Speaker 5 (15:44):
I'm feeling better than a Dolphins that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Who this This looks like one of those Dolphins games
for the last couple of years where it's like, yeah,
end of the year and two is not great and
they just wind up mailing it into cold weather game
like this is every game of the Dolphins down the
stretch the last two years.

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Speaker 3 (16:17):
Okay, very good. So we'll let it go.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Don't want to put it out there. Don't want to,
you know, don't want to ruin the carmb out there.
Uh So today, obviously the big story we've had Patrick
Mahomes's torn acl already having surgery. You know, the next
day he's had it. We talked about this a few
minutes ago. Big changes coming for the Chiefs neck this
coming off season, weapons, offensive line. You on board with

(16:39):
the big changes for them?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah, I mean, and I wonder if Big Red becomes
one of them really well, yeah, I mean, this is
not your average pair. This is a guy who you
know has at this stage of his life, at this
stage of his career, given some of this health issues
in the past. He's you know, he's somebody who's it's

(17:03):
always some degree of conversation between him and his family
and doctors about you know, what makes sense. And I
don't know, guys, I just have a gut feeling that
this could be an opportunity for him to pull back,

(17:26):
for him to stay in the organization in some capacity,
for him to give Steve Spagnolo, who certainly deserved the
second chance as a head coach, or Dave Tobe, who
absolutely deserved the first chance. And it's kind of staggering
that he never got an opportunity. But then again, these
are bobo NFL billionaire owners making them higher, so they

(17:49):
rarely get it right. And I mean, they're not a
couple of players away, They're not an off season away.
You've got it sit race with Mahomes where he's probably
not going to be right again until twenty twenty seven.
I don't know. I just every year there's a surprise
right in the coaching ranks. Somebody gets fired who we

(18:13):
didn't see coming. Somebody retires who we didn't see coming.
Teams make a trade or pro or consider a coaching trade.
I mean even last year you could say, well, there
wasn't one except Bill Belichick wanted to Chapel Hill. I'm
going to say that qualifies. So I'm just you know,
it wouldn't shock me if some time between now and

(18:35):
let's face it, this is the first time in forever
that he's not coaching games in late December that matter,
and he knows you won't be coaching in January, that
he doesn't reach out to Clark Hurnt or whatever, and
they don't. There aren't there aren't some discussions. I just
wonder if this is the football God's telling him, you know,

(18:55):
now's the time you've endured tragedy, and I don't flow
that order around lately, tragedy in his family. He sacrificed
a lot for this game. If you were to tell
Andy Reid right now and go back and rewind to
him walking out of you know, the the whatever it

(19:16):
was called at the time, I guess it was still
the link walking out of Philadelphia, walking out of that stadium,
clearing his office out at the team facility, and you're
gonna say, hey, coach, just letting you know you're gonna
end up in Kansas City, and no one's gonna talk
about he can't win the championship game anymore. They're going
to talk about all he did is bring Lombardi trophies,

(19:37):
you know, And you're gonna draft this kid and you're
going to have a Tom Brady esque arc for six
years with him or whatever. Seven years with him. I mean,
he would have signed up for all that. He wouldn't
have believed you, And now that's happened. And I don't know, man,
I just feels like a big circle closing to me.

(19:58):
Could just be caught up in the moment, could just
be pontificating. And that's really all I'm doing here. But
this is it for Kelsey. This is it for a while,
Like Mahomes is not going to do Mahomes again until again.
I'm telling you twenty twenty seven at the earliest. They
need a new offensive line. They didn't need a new
defensive line. The division doesn't suck anymore, like I mean

(20:21):
they might have. I mean, they were the third best
team in that division, and that's despite the Chargers not
having either their tackles for most of the year. I
don't know, I.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Don't know how the plus side, you've always got the
Raiders seventy five yards of offense, all right, but that's
enough about them.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
The other side of the injury coin, we've got the
Micah Parsons injury. Christian Watson avoids a big damage, might
be available as early as Saturday. But from Micah Parsons
the loss man, how how huge is this to their playoff?
Pitcher still slight favorites against the Bears this week.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Oh, I mean, look, in the moment, it was everything.
It took the air right out of the balloon. It
shifted that game. I like them coming in. I thought
they could be a super Bowl team coming in. But
then you get that shout of adrenaline and you make
that trade right before the season starts, and the defense
isn't just really good like it was last year. It

(21:18):
was menacing, it was intimidating. It had a different element
then last year, when they were still a top five
team in yards allowed for play. You had this sense of,
you know, for voting that there's imminent doom in a
close and leaked situation that this one cat's going to
take the game over and that's not there now. And
Halfway's a great coordinator and he'll scheme it up and

(21:40):
don't go more zone, and they'll they'll they'll make some adjustments.
But I do wonder if there's a hangover effect from that,
and this could be the Bears catching them at the
right time.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
When it comes to quarterbacks and expecting what we've got
to see Sunday, we didn't expect to see Sunday. What's
your take on what you saw from Philip Rivers?

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Come on, I mean, I'm glad he survived. I'm glad
all of acls are intact. It's impressive in some respects,
but it's also a bit of an indictment. You know,
otherwise that they that that's where the calls ended up.

(22:24):
You know that you didn't have somebody on your practice
squad or somebody sign off somebody else's practice squad, Like really,
I mean, it feels a little bit like a publicity stunt.
But then again, the team played so well and played
so well, primarily defensively, and Sam Darnold, who does have
that choke team. I don't know what was going on

(22:46):
with him for a lot of that game. And this
is a big play offense that all of a sudden
didn't have a whole lot of big plays in it,
and they're kicking field goals left and right. But I
would try to get Richardson that's out there. I mean,
that would be my priority as an organization, even it's
just for a game or two, even if it's just
to help boost his trade and potential or whatever. I

(23:10):
don't really I don't really understand honestly that Philip Rivers
is the best quarterback option for them on the entire planet.
But I guess he was, and I guess he.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Is, at least for one moment. We always should hope
to have one person who believes in us that way, Jason,
how about the belief that Joe Burrow he gets out
there Wednesday, he has all this stuff and speculation swirls.
He didn't look like he wanted to play football in
a shoutout loss to the to the Ravens on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
That was his soulless, vacant, rapid, insipid, disinterested as I've
ever seen him. It was below below grade. It was shameful.
And you know, he can act like whatever that it
maybe he wasn't that, or he can the comments he

(24:01):
made and then to come out there and look like
you wanted nothing to do with that football game, that
football field, those football fans. He's never going to play
his whole career there. He never was going to play
his whole career there. And there's plenty of people in
the league to think he's got plenty of buyers remorse

(24:22):
about re upping with them, And if that's not the case,
he's got a funny way of showing it. And I
he's a pretty calculated guy, and he had two months
during this recovery to think about a lot of things,
and for this to turn as quickly as it did
telt me that he doesn't think that the people who

(24:45):
run that organization are ever going to win as much
as he wants to win. And he's a smart guy.
He understands the CBA, he understands the salary cap, and
he understands depth charts and talent, and that team is
nowhere near competing. And he the way he threw balls away,
the way he opted to not to run out of bounds,

(25:08):
the refusal to push the ball downfield. It almost looked
like in subordination, man, And that's staggering because that's a
stone could assassin. But things are way off there and
there's gonna be another weird offseason in Cincinnati. But then again,
that's far for the course.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
So what why do you think the whole Zach Taylor
Prescotte today saying Joe Burrow is gonna play the rest
of the season. This is Joe Burrow wanting to play
the rest of the season, or just a Bengal saying, hey, blank,
you are making you play the rest of the season.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
I don't. I mean, I think it's more just that
everybody who knows anything about football and what any part
of that film is like, so what's up there? Like
what's going on? But he's the same guy who came
out of a league go and said I get paid
a ton of money to play football and that's what
I want to do, and then three days later said

(25:58):
I'm not really having fun here anymore and I'm really frustrated,
and man, I'm just super angsty and pouty and oh
life's tough, and drop the whole bunch of sort of
you know, non sequiturs that could be taking a whole
bunch of different ways, and then didn't clear that up
at all, like played like he wanted anything other than
to be there, and then comes out after the game

(26:20):
and it's like, yeah, there's really nothing to see here,
Like everything's fine. I like, Zach, you know whatever, Like
I don't know, man, he will not be a Bengal
for life, I'll tell you that much. And I don't
think he'll be a Bengal. Like he'll probably be a
Bengal next year, but I don't think he'll be a
Bengal for the totality of that extension.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Finally, operations shut down one that does go through Jadon
Daniels after another reoccurrence of the injury. This doesn't play
this week, and they finally make that announcement.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Well yeah, I mean that's just a common sense, obvious
thing to do. And at this point, again, that's another
that's an organization that misread their talent level, that believe
their own press flippings and went out and had a
pretty nonchalant collect all the old guys off season. And
they've paid the price for it. But they need draft picks.
They need high draft picks. That I don't see a

(27:13):
whole lot of blue chip down there, and I especially
don't see a whole lot of young blue chip talent
there except for the quarterbacks. So yeah, it makes all
the sense in the world for them to be picking
as high as possible and to make that quarterback as
healthy as possible for the off seasons.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
You can followhim on Twitter at Jason lock and four.
That is at Jason lock and for Oughtyssey one oh
five seven the fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay is
always buddy, Appreciate it, man, We'll talk to you next week.
Have a great one.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Always my pleasure, Gunmen.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Thank you, James. Wow, this could be it for Andy Reid.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
The one thing is that you know, Jason talked about, hey,
maybe the Chiefs aren't good till twenty twenty seven. I
mean the fact that Mahomes had his surgery. Now he's
not gonna take it. He's everything he can to be
back for next year. They're not going to take a
year to say I don't know now, well, Andy Reid leaving.
I could see that, but I don't believe we're going
to see the Chiefs say yeah, maybe twenty twenty six

(28:08):
is a punt here. I don't think that's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, it would be interesting.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Just again, with that, you have to retool that roster
in addition to him coming back from the injury that
I don't think they'll be good again until twenty I
agree with that part of it. But does that mean
Andy Reid doesn't stick around for a year. I think
I'd start being on air shaming him like I did
Sean McVeigh when he was thinking about going to television
and then he ended up back in the coaching box.

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(28:56):
almost been perfect. It's Steve de Segrich.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Rogers is twenty two of twenty six through the air
at Pittsburgh tonight, two hundred and nineteen yards passing two scores.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Steelers are leading twenty.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Eight to three over the Miami Dolphins with twelve minutes
to go. Dolphins were up three to nothing late first half,
and the Steelers have scored touchdowns on four consecutive drives.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
For those of us.

Speaker 6 (29:19):
Who've seen this offense throughout the year, touchdowns on four
consecutive drives is news. My goodness, Pittsburgh about to go
to eight and six. And by the way, this will
be twenty three straight wins at home on Monday Night
football for the franchise dating back to nineteen ninety one.
The Jets fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who was in

(29:39):
his first year there. The team is allowing twenty eight points.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
He was also in his last year there, Steve, Just
so you know, it is officially his last year there.
The Jets still have no interceptions, by the way, this season,
for those keeping score at home. The Colts will start
Philip Rivers at quarterback again next Monday Night against the
forty nine Ers. Washington shutdown quarterback Jaden Daniels for the
rest of the season. He aggravated his dislocated left elbow

(30:02):
a week ago, so Marco Mariota will start. Still, the
Bengals are due to keep starting quarterback Joe Burrow even
though they've been eliminated. Packers defensive end Micah Parsons has
a torn ACL. The MRI confirmed that today he's led
the NFL in quarterback pressures this season. Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes had surgery tonight on his torn ACL. Kansas City

(30:24):
QB Gardner Minshew is expected to start the Chief's final
three games. The team was eliminated from playoff consideration yesterday.
Denver play safety Brandon Jones on ir with a pectoral injury.
Texans defensive tackle Mario Edwards is out for the season
with a torn pectoral. Bill's kicker Matt Prater is out
this week with a quad injury. Florida Gators quarterback DJ

(30:45):
Lagway will enter the transfer portal next month, and reportedly
Nebraska QB Dylan Reyola will also Former South Carolina quarterback
Steve Tannehill died at the age of fifty two, no
cause of death provided, and former cal and Raiders coach
Mike Wa died at the age of eighty nine. He
also coached Illinois in the NBA. Tonight, Detroit advanced to

(31:05):
twenty one and five this year with a win at
Boston one twelve one oh five.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Are any of those teams playing for the E Cup
Championship tomorrow night?

Speaker 3 (31:15):
No, they're not, Steve, it's the E Cup.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Is this some sort of video game?

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Ecup's taking place?

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, I could do like a sign on a video
like an E Cup, Like you do your finger with
an EEC for E Cup Cup E Cup.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
You're just really trying hard for that to catch hag.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Tomorrow's gonna be Jalen Brunson's first championship with the Knicks. Okay,
just understand that first and last, as we go back
to the Jet story doesn't matter. Las Vegas will be
hosting the NBA Cup Final on Tuesday Detroit and Toronto,
with road wins tonight and Dallas is leading eighty three
seventy seven and the third at Utah twenty eight points
for Cooper Flag NHL victories for Anaheim and Florida. The

(31:52):
Braves re signed shortstop Huss Soong Kim to a one
year deal. The Phillies signed right fielder Adulas Garcia X
of the Rangers to a one year contract pendinga physical,
and the Twins agreed to a deal with first baseman
Josh Bail Back to.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
You, thank you, Steve O.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Darren Waller is in the end zone for a touchdown
and look just for a second to the heel peek.
Darren Waller going up in double coverage and just being
the biggest guy on the field, goes between two dbs
and pulls down a touchdown. So the Dolphins getting some
cosmetic points here. It's twenty eight to nine extra point pending,

(32:29):
still a lot of time to go, still not have
to go on the fourth quarter. Looks like they're going
for two. We'll have more on this game coming up next,
as well as a quarterback who had the game of
his life Sunday. I'll tell you why you gotta slow
your role on him in a big way next. Jason
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Nassist dot com. Haileyon Assist dot Com. So here we
are in the fourth quarter, a twenty eight to nine
lead for the Steelers. They have the Football Dolphins touchdown
Darren Waller. They do not get the two point conversion,
so the Steelers have a chance to take some time

(34:12):
off the clock here and walk away with the victory.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
On Monday night, they had a long handoff also known
as a quick swing pass to your guy Jalen Warren.
Another one point six points for you. But they're a
big guy in the Flu night, the flu game for
Warren as the Steelers tried to salt this one away.
We've watched Aaron Rodgers over the course of the night,
a lot of short things that people would be to

(34:36):
take the pejorative dink and dunk. It's been winning football,
yeah right, if you can scheme it up. And I've
been long a critic of the shortcomings of Arthur Smith.
Tonight he and Rodgers perfect game plan. Can we find
a way to be just a little bit better than average?

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yes, I could do that for you, all right, that
that should be enough against this Miami Dolphins team.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
But in the twenty twenty five NFL season, can't you
say that for the most part, that's kind of where
we're playing. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
The Dolphins did win a game in forty ish degree
whether a couple of weeks ago, but it was the Jets.
So temper expectations because you see what happens tonight when
they're playing a team that's just a little bit better,
they're getting boat raced. And that's why I want to
tell you, Oh, Trevor Lawrence is great. This is the
best version of himself he's ever been. Trevor law Hang
on one second. Trevor Lawrence has played pretty well. I will

(35:27):
say that he has played pretty well. But from someone
who actually watched the game yesterday and didn't you didn't
just look and say, wow, six touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
It was the Jets. The Jets.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
I'm telling you, man again, with eight minutes to go
in the first quarter, another week where the Jets game
is over right, I mean, but Aaron Glenn's got it
all fixed. He's gonna keep firing guys like Steve Wilkes
because Aaron Glenn's got it.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
The Jets are quitting. They're not prepared. The Jets run.
The Jets were so unprepared for this game. This is
where I go.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
You know, you're the head coaches said here, tell me
about creating a culture and and X, Y and Z
and how you're building. I don't know what the hell
the Jets are building. They have nothing. The Jets next
season are gonna go win with no optimism. Right now,
if you said, hey, what are you gonna go into
next year. Say we're building off this for next year.
There's not one thing you are building on that's every season.
Your offense is terrible, right, maybe your offensive line is

(36:17):
a little bit okay, and you get Garrett Wilson back,
but that's not you can't build on that. This cat,
Brady Cook, he had a couple of years are you
are absolutely terrible. And I'll tell you this that when
Trevor Lawrence scampered in for his first touchdown run right,
it's a big third and fifteen play. The Jets had
all his receivers covered and ah, Trevor Lawrence runs at

(36:38):
fifty one. Watch the replay of that play. The Jets
had five guys standing in the middle of the field.
Standing in the middlefield at the goal line, okay, twenty
yards away from where Trevor Lawrence was.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
You had five defenders just dead. But I guess we're here.
I guess you know. We're hanging out.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
We're having conversations like I look at that and I go,
how the hell do you have so many players around
one player at the goal and he just scampers. He's
you shouldn't be running fifteen yards for a touchdown on
a play where everybody is covered. You can't throw the
football right you want to. You have some kind of
play where it's a fake or it's a it's a
draw and and it's a design play. Great, but you

(37:15):
shouldn't be scrambling that way for a touchdown. It was
easy for Trevor Lawrence yesterday.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
It was easy.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
It was the Jets, and the Jets fired their defensive
coordator who's been absolutely terrible, Steve Wilks. You know why,
he's one year everywhere, one year, not even one year
here with the Jets.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
He was awful. The Jets defense is terrible again. The
last couple of weeks has been bad. They've lit up
points all year long. Whether they had Quinn Williams and
Sauce Gardner, don't have these guys. You can't measure your
success in a game against the Jets.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You just can't. You can't give me a better team again.
I talked about the Dolphins, Hey, cold weather game they
run for two to eighty against the Jets. Yeah, it
was the Jets tonight. It looks like they looks like
they've quit and they can't even They're not even gonna
break double digits against the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Right again.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
You can't measure how good you are in one game.
Again to Jets and say, alwa.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
He's back.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Let Trevor Lawrence do with the rest of the season.
The Jaguars are having a good season right top of
the AFC South. They figured out a way around him
for the first half of the year. We're running the
football well and playing good defense. Right, they figured out
a way around Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, he's had a couple
of good games. This was the Jets.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
You cannot measure success in one game against the Jets.
It's like me measuring success like, Hey, I can beat
my dog in a video game. I just won that
game of Madden against my dog.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Didn't even press the button at all, just sat there
and slept the whole time, and I won thirty one
to nothing.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
I mean, you can't do that. You equated these Jets
to your dog.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Which one.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Oh, Benny's got more game. Yes, Benny's been around a minute.
He's pretty crassy. He's been eyeballing you.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
For a while.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
He's got more game. Bareley likes to sleep a little
bit more so. Yeah, But when we look at the
totality of it, for Trevor Lawrence this year has been
uneven to your point, running the football well, dual headed
monster Travis etn massive game yes day. It was his
first three hundred yard game of the year, just so

(39:04):
you know at three point thirty. But I think the
big thing is fantasy playoff wise, and just the fact
that that game kept coming back up on the red
zone channel. It was in your face a bunch. And
what you can do is say, over the last four weeks, hey,
he's got twelve touchdowns now against three interceptions, plus the
rushing efforts whatever. So those are stats that you can

(39:27):
you can mythologize, right, that is that a word I'm
looking for here? Right?

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Now it is now I just might have. But you
create a myth of hey, he's rolling. Well, their schedule
has been soft, but you can only be who's on it.
And they've been putting up points, what is it, twenty
five or more in seven straight games. So you go
back and they got absolutely drummed by the Seahawks and
the Rams. They were shut down. They scored fewer than

(39:54):
ten points in both of those games.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
So when you have that.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Decided step up in class, not quite there, but in
the AFC, right, now you got a lot of middling teams,
go take advantage of what's on the schedule. In this case,
it was a dead from the neck of Jets squad
and you had the next fall guy.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Look it's it's Lawrence is playing better. Is a little
bit better, don't get me wrong, but he's still a
league average quarterback. Look at the guys who had big
games against the Jets. Everybody does everybody, But that's just it.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
And was it the roster has constructed or is Wilk's
that bad?

Speaker 1 (40:29):
It's it's everything. It's the Jets. That's all you have
to say is Jets and Jets. So I have to say,
is oh yeah, Jets, right.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Right, I got it, I got it. That's it, I
got it. Just that that's your That's gonna be the way.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Is that what you're right on?

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Cards Jets? Coming up next, the quarterback story. I was
happy to be sort of wrong on this weekend Fox Insidekicks.
I've seen a good kick had spinning, whirling dervish Tasmanian
devil like a fool, the hell lot of feeling when
you come right underneath him, and he had no idea

(41:04):
how to judge it.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You know, the thing is is there's the way you
see so many players with on side kicks. Now you
see the the old way always would been, I'm gonna
come down kick the top of the ball, and you
hope to get a big bounce, right, you hope to
get a big bounce. That's kind of out because you
know players feeling that ball, it's a little bit easier.
You also have the forward momentum where even if the
guy doesn't catch it, it's gonna go out of bounds.

(41:26):
So it's a really difficult thing to try to just hey,
we're gonna get the hop.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Or by time the hop comes down, it's gonna get
blown up. Yeah, it could be like on both sides.
It's it's a problem. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
So the thing is to see on this is that
watching the kick when you can kick the kick the
ball and it's it's bouncing around on the side and
it's a bigger target, Like that was the whole thing. Well,
this is a ball that that's that's side spinning, that
feeling doesn't get and so it just bounces away from
him like and it stays on the field because you're
kicking it that kind of way. Like I think that's

(41:58):
that's what you gotta see that. It's like the way
of oh okay, you can kick it like that, you
can you get much more fourth downs. But again I
wonder what sometimes what some kickers work on, because not
everybody can kick it like that, and every single field
goal kicker, every single kicker should be able to have
an on side kick down PAT at this point, find
some way this is gonna give us the best chance
for recovering an on sidekick.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
I don't know why. Yeah, I've always wondered because going
to traveling training camps like I used to do, guys
are just kind of sitting around most of the time.
I remember Robbie Gold used to just drive around the
car to deliver water, Like could you be working a
little harder? Yeah on something, Thanks for the water, but like,
how about you work on it like you're there for
a couple hours. I know you can't keep driving fifty

(42:39):
yard field goals for two hours. I get that, but
now you're just driving a cart around. And he was great,
one of my favorites, and you know, I lamented his
departure for many years when he was kicking for the
forty nine ers, but it was just to kind of
thing if he was emblematic of what kickers across the
league were doing, that's a lot of wasted time. You
get back to, you know, operational efficiency as everybody starts

(43:01):
thinking about their own workplace practices.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
On sidekick, as we said, doesn't work out, but it
also doesn't work out for the Steelers. Aaron Rodgers slides
down rather than try to throw the football into traffic
and risk an incomplete pass, makes it fourth and thirteen.
The Dolphins use their final time out, so they have
no timeouts left, but Brandon Eckles is able to down

(43:26):
the subsequent punt at the three yard line of the Dolphins,
so To and company have two to four to get
the length of the field touchdown on sidekick length of
the field touchdown, and then hey we got a game.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
He's got a big arm.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
I mean it's so we'll keep you out pated here. Yeah,
what you got frost delaying your apology? Just get to it.
I got what you st to it. This is what's happening. Now.
Just go back and watch video the Chargers beating the Chiefs.
Go ahead and do that just really quick though. The
guy that like flipped the ball back. Former Northwestern Wildcat

(44:01):
Ben's coronic. Oh very nice, you go. Hey, he's had
a nice, long career in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
So again, two minute warning. Now that the Dolphins have
a rushing play for their first play, Okay, all right,
old strategy. Why not Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Now you're thinking maybe maybe this is the one back.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Yeah, this one will get him ninety seven yards and
won't be expecting it. Oh no, no, well they'll take
us out of the two minute warning. Okay, let's do it.
Uh So Philip Rivers return to the NFL a day ago.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Now, I want to be accurate. I want to be
accurate and I want to be correct. So just say
your as I said, stop I said last week, I said,
no one wants to be more wrong about Rivers coming
back than me. This this comeback against the against the Seahawks,
not the week two. It's gonna be awful. He's forty four,
he hasn't played. What are we really gonna get?

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Now?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
He finished the game, stayed upright, He put him in
the chance to win the game. Right, You need a
sixty fifty six yard field goal from Jason Myers. Your
defense played out of their shoes offensively. You got what
you you got enough from the game, but six field
goals fifty six yarder a little bit too much. Rivers,
of course, had to juice the ball down the field.

(45:15):
The last pick I'm not going to put on him.
You got you only have thirty seconds or twenty seconds
to get down the field. You need something to get
into field goal range. So you have to kind of
take a chance on that throw. It was an overthrow, Okay,
So I want to be accurate about this. I was
very happy to be sort of wrong on Philip Rivers
because how he looked. To be honest about how Philip

(45:38):
Rivers looked. He looked like a quarterback that most teams
have where the backup gets no reps because the starter
gets all of them, and he is thrust into play
at a moment's notice, and you get as good a
game as you could expect from him in that situation.
Meaning I don't expect him to come in and throw

(46:00):
four touchdowns, But hey, can we get down the field enough,
can we be in a position and maybe steal a
game where offensive we just don't look like we're absolutely
bereft of everything. And that's kind of how Philip Rivers
played yesterday. He played like a like when when Lamar
Jackson gets hurt and snoop puntly, or someone else has
to come in right when when Tarrod Taylor gets hurting,

(46:21):
Brady Cook has to play. Whatever it is when a
backup quarterback with no reps comes in and is thrust
in right away in a short week preparing for a game,
you would expect, Hey, what's your realistic best case scenario?
It was how Philip Rivers looked on Sunday. We moved
the ball. Didn't look great, not like Rivers went for
three twenty and three touchdowns, like move the ball a

(46:41):
little bit. Still was a little slow in the pocket.
You know, you can tell his accuracy wasn't there the
reason why he was retired. But he looked better than expected,
better than I thought he was gonna be. But that's
exactly what it was. He looked like that kind of
quarterback that well, if you told the Colts, you're gonna
get this kind of week where you're gonna score fifteen,
sixteen points points and you're gonna have a chance to

(47:01):
win the game because your defense is gonna play well,
your office is gonna light the world on fire. You know,
he's not gonna be great, but he's gonna be serviceable
enough where you don't just tank it and say, well,
good luck. We'll try to figure it out for next week.
Maybe Riley Leonard is back, maybe Anthony Richardson comes back,
whatever it is. But that's what you saw from Rivers.
That was the best case scenario you could see, like
a backup that was thrust in.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Hey, that's as good as we can expect a guy
to play. I mean, Richardson now cleared to get back
to work, so that came out today. Leonard was off
the injury report, so in theory he should be good.
But you look at Rivers on the balance, was it overwhelming. No,
you didn't expect it to be. He finishes eighteen to
twenty seven, just one hundred and twenty yards, but made

(47:45):
the plays they needed and put him in position to
win the game. You get a big kickoff return, and
nowadays you know we stole the virtues of and lament
the accuracy and the aptitude of these kickers to be
able to bomb through stuff. In the mid fifties, Once
upon a time you had like three guys in the
game that could do that, right, you had Janikowski, Prader,

(48:06):
and then you'd have a random guy that would come
in right and over time, now it's become the norm
that you can at least tap into that with virtually
every kicker. So unfortunately you end up on the down
side of it. But when it's all said and done,
I indict the effort of the Seattle Seahawks. I'm embarrassed
for them because I saw the excuse making you know,

(48:31):
started to drugs, like, well, they're looking ahead to Thursday.
It's like you still have to win this damn game.
So to suddenly say, well, we didn't take it seriously,
This isn't the NBA with eighty two games where guys
don't play, guys don't show up. No, everybody played, and
you all should run a bunch of extra laps or
do something as penalty for a LA. How do you
not get at him? You had one sack, You had

(48:54):
a couple of things where he was crumpling down like
when he had to when he had to move. It
was not pretty.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Why are you not blitzing on every every sales overloads,
every single sar You could beat us downfield, have at it.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
But but all of that to say, it's like, look,
for folks that want to dismiss it, and we keep
going in the it's the indictment of the Colts. How
about it's the indictment of the rest in the NFL
that there's not a guy that you say, Okay, he
might be better physically, but it's so hard to come
in and learn the system whatever that we're not gonna bother,

(49:28):
you know.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I remember I remember Jerry Glanville telling this story. Was
it was really funny. Yeah, when Joe Namath was at
the end of his career, he played that very briefly
with the Rams when he thought, uh, hey, I'm gonna
go out to Hollywood and be a big, big TV
start everything else. He goes play for the Rams and
like his first or second game, I think they played whoever.
Jerry Glenvill was defensive courted for maybe the Falcons and

(49:50):
Lehman Bennett was the head coach right, and it was
just absolutely awful for Joe Namath. Like he got hit,
he got sacked a whole bunch of times and everything
and was just a really bad Like it's one of
those where all the video highlights of Joe Namath with
the Rams like were from this game. It was like,
oh my god, Joe, like he couldn't run anymore yet,
no more mobility everything else. And he told a story
where I remember Jerry Glavill telling the story where he

(50:12):
said that after the game, the coach said to me,
because he was a defensive coordinator, and he said, hey,
uh do.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
You did you?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
You blitzed you know, Nameth a lot, right like you
made sure you blitz the nameth a lot in this game.
And he said, I said to him, coach, I think
there was one play where I did not blitz him,
like we flits him on every single play. I think
there was one play we did not blitz him. And
I think he said it was like the end of
the half and thought they'd throw a hell Mary. That's
the only play they didn't blitz him. All that said
splits him every single time. But that's what I thought

(50:40):
we'd see. I mean, you had we talked about it
on Friday Show.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
I mean, and I was hoping for the best, which
I thought that the Colts could still win the game,
and they were there, but that you would attack. They
were what fourth or fifth coming into this weekend's game
with forty one team sacks. They got him once. Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
And here's the other part is that maybe there was
a quick because now Philip Rivers has already been named
the starter for Monday Night Football against the Niners, already
already that he's been named the starter for next week.
I don't know if this was one of those Hey,
if you come out and play, we'll guarantee.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
You a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
But if you are the if you are the Colts,
you want to say, Okay, Riley Leonard is clear he's
maybe coming back. Anthony Richardson, as you said he was
coming back, and you still have three games left the
regular season.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
He'll never come back.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Not that you're gonna keep Anthony Richardson, but boy, wouldn't
you want to put him out there? Wouldn't you want
to put Riley Leonard? Because Riley Leonard came in and
ran the offense pretty well, you know when he came
just just for that little bit in relief of Daniel Jones.
So I don't know if this was the case of where, hey,
we promised Philip another game, or we promised him to
start the rest of the way. But you would think

(51:47):
for them the rest of this season, it's well, we
really we want to get guys on the field that
can maybe get us to more points. Right, So it's
it's kind of it's it's I think there's a little
more drama surrounding Rivers back then, you think, because it's
not like you suddenly lit the world on fire. He's
a great it's a great story. But let's not get
it confused that you know, he looked like a guy

(52:07):
that was thrust in and at the minute you can
get back to your old quarterback, you go back there
that that was for River.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
That maybe you don't like either of those other quarterbacks,
and you realize that the playoffs are are a distant
past in terms of your aptitude and ability. So now
it's the all right, let's just finish out the string.
By the way again, San Francisco terrible rushing the passer.
So for Philip hey Man, he was able to stand

(52:35):
tall against the Seahawks, should be able to sit in
the pocket nice and clean against forty nine ers. A
Christmas gift for us we get was easiest, the softest
apology I've ever heard of my life. Because I was
only sort of wrong. I was only.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
I was only sort of wrong. I didn't have to
fully apologize. I was at first of all, they lost
the game. No, No, you thought he was going to
be they lost the game. They lost the game.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
He did everything he said he could. He threw one
hundred and twenty yards. I thought he would know for
about one hundred and twenty yards he said he could.
He did. By the way, the over under on his
passing yards was one hundred and fifty three paid Fay,
he wasn't even closed. I was sort of wrong. I
was sort of wrong. You were very wrong. I was
sort of right.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
I would know I'd be very wrong if he went
for two seventy five and three touchdowns and they won
thirty one twenty three that I would have been one
hundred percent wrong.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
No, I had people that don't care about football that
were texting me, going, this is not the greatest story ever.
It's like I stopped watching when they left Sandy. Yeah,
and all that stuff. Let's understand there being a good
story and a really good showing. Like he was, he was,
he was going to be sincere about it. I don't
need to be that fifty six goes wide. Is Philip

(53:46):
Rivers not the hero of the day, Okay, but he's
offensive players should happen. It should have never. He put
them in position to win. Yeah, they had the big
kickoff return and then it just took a little bit
after it. It did happen, it didn't, not happen, doesn't happen.
Lost Jets interception. Hey, you know what else is not
happening this year? Frostburg, the Chiefs winning a playoff game.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Oh yeah, out of Fresca exit swollen Dome.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
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