January 27, 2025 • 30 mins
Richard Sherman reacts to the Championship Round of the 2024 NFL Playoff. Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs over Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship to clinch Kansas City's fifth Super Bowl appearance in the last six years. Is the GOAT case for Mahomes getting any closer to Tom Brady's? Will Allen and the Bills ever get past Kansas City to make their first Super Bowl since 1994? In the NFC Championship, Saquon Barkley ran wild as the Philadelphia Eagles dismantled Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders. Sherm breaks down how Jalen Hurts' offense systematically took apart the Commanders defense, how fumbles from Dyami Brown and Austin Ekeler were backbreakers for Washington, and how he sees the Eagles faring in the Super Bowl 52 rematch against their former head coach Andy Reid and the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Volume Bowl Championships. That should always do the expectation.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, man Ax, you go ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Mitchell, We're gonna
get this thing started off right with the Uber Eats
Sunday Night food Ball segment. Obviously, the game of the
week is both games, but we're gonna start it off
with the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Buffalo Bills. And
what a game it was. We knew it would be
a nail bier. It lived up to all the billing.
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How you feel about it, The billing is right.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I mean, Buffalo had a shot in this game early
and often, and ultimately the Cream rose to the top.
Kansas City Chiefs enter into their third Super Bowl in
a row.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean you got to give Buffalo
a lot of credit. They did everything they did the
whole year. They ran the ball well. James Cook thirteen
carries for eighty five yards, Josh Allen thirty nine yards
on eleven carries. They ran the ball. They ran the ball.
They ran the ball, they did not go away from it.
They didn't turn the ball over again. This is their
nineteenth straight game, winning the turnover battle usually when that happened,
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you win a lot of football games. They did win
a lot of football games. Unfortunately, you need more than
that when you're going against Andy Reid, Patrick Mahons and
this Kansas City Chiefs team. And that's what happened. This defense,
the Kansas City Chiefs defense stood up. Did they get it?
Did they not get it? It was very close. It
was very close in this game. It was like that.
It was a nail biter throughout. You saw the two
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point conversion. They tried to push, they got stopped. Was
that the right decision? I don't know. It was a
very close game throughout, but he came down to that.
Mac Collins had a really good game. James Cook we
talked about, had a really good game. Matt Mlano, and
Jordan Phillips came through clutch. I thought that Jordan phillips
play could have been a game changer when he got
the sack late in the game on first down, first
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in goal for the Kansas City Chiefs to push them
back and make it a much tougher situation for them.
They ended up getting a field goal in that situation.
Now you got Josh Allen with the ball in his hands,
three minutes to go in the game, a chance to
win it, a chance to finally slay the dragon, and
all the speculation put your team in the super Bowl,
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And unfortunately Spags had more tricks in his bag. For
Josh Allen, he brought pressure on third down, he brought
a zero pressure and then he disguised it and brought
some kind of crazy fire zone at the end that
was kind of unsound. And if you go back and
look at it, Josh Allen, if you would have had
a sliver more time and could have found Dalton Kincaid,
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there was space there to be found. It eventually did
get to Dalton Kincaid's hands and he drops it right there.
That would have been the biggest play in Buffalo Bill's history.
If he had been able to pull that in come
down with that would have been the difference in the game.
I think if he catches that, the Buffalo Bill's going
to win this game. But unfortunately, if if it was
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a fifth, we'd all be drunking. If does not win
you this ball game. Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Spags, Chris Jones,
Nick Bolden and the boys. You gotta give Joe Tooney.
Joe Thony a ton of credit. They had trouble at
the tackles. They had troubles, so they took their all
pro guard and moved him to tackle, and he has
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just been a stud there. He is a huge reason
why they're able to make it to this Super Bowl run,
why Patrick Mahoons is a lot more upright than he
had been. And I wonder what they're gonna do in
the Super Bowl because Jalen Carter is on the inside,
Jordan Davis is on the inside. Their troubles are on
the inside. But I think they stick with kali Endo,
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you know what I mean. They're starting to become some
chemistry there and I think they trust kali Endo and
what he's been doing. But that Jordan Phillips sack, he
took kali Endo ride Mette on a ride. Grown man
has a different game in those trenches. But this game
was really cool. You got to give credit to Xavier Worthy.
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Played a fantastic game. Just look looked like he had
been there before. Well, you know what I mean, you
would have thought he's been part of the other two
Super Bowl teams. You wouldn't have thought he was a rookie.
I mean, he was just having a good time swagging,
you know, doing the first down celebrations. Crucial catches Juju
Smith Schuster only has two catches in the game. One
of them is in the first quarter, the last one
is in the fourth quarter, and they are both critical catches.
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He gets a lot of yak afterwards. Huge plays in
the game. Kareem Hunt carries the ball and does a
great job in this game. I mean, there are so
many MVPs and they lost a fumble in this game.
It's the first Chiefs turnover since November seventeenth, and they
were still able to overcome that. I thought. Once they
turned the ball over and it happened twice in one drive,
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but a penalty negated one of them, and then a
few plays later it happens again. All don't lie, it's
gonna happen if it's supposed to happen, And it happened,
and I thought, oh my god, that might be the
one that might be the thing that changes this game
for good. But unfortunately, I mean fortunately, unfortunately depends on
which side of the coin you sit on, side of
the seat you sit on. But it was a huge
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play in the game. The Chiefs overcame it and They're
going back to the Super Bowl to play the Philadelphia Eagles,
another Andy Reid Bowl, a rematch of the twenty twenty
two Super Bowl versus the Eagles is going to be
a great game versus two great teams, and I can't
wait for it. But Mitchell, I was very very I
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was sitting on the edge of my seat this entire game.
Both teams deserve a lot of credit. Josh Allen. I
know he, you know, zero and four against this Chiefs team,
but it's no fault of his. You know, he battled
his butt off and you know, did everything he did
to put his team in a in a position to
be successful. I give a hat tip to Josh Allen
the Buffalo Bills, but the Kansas City Chiefs again find
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a way to get it done.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And he's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
But I think it goes back to midway through the
fourth quarter on that fourth down, and the Buffalo Bills
had an opportunity to take this game into their hands
and really like take possession of it for the long haul,
and they resorted to the tush push again and they
ultimately whether you want to call it short or right
on the line or just short of the line. They
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ended up by definition short of the line. It just
was not working all game and they just kept going
back to it and back to it and back to it.
And as if you were, I'm like, what are they doing?
Like they got so much more at their arsenal than
just this. They got Josh Allen after arsenal, lining them
up with your boy James Cook and let them work,
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and instead they just pounded the rock and it wasn't
working all the game, and it did not work for
him in that crucial moment, and ultimately the sky cam
viewed them short and that was what it was. I mean,
your thoughts on that play, well, well, I got to
give them credit.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
They were twenty eight for thirty on it during the
season and that was on third down and the other
two times they missed it, they got it the next down.
So you gotta go with what's gotten you here, And
I think that's what their mindset was. You know, you
got Josh Allen who's six four sixty five two thirty
five two forty and he hasn't been stopped all season.
You can't assume he's gonna be stopped in the championship.
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And if you do anything else, you go away from it.
You you run a different play, you hand it off
to James Cook and they get stopped or or the
Chiefs get penetration. They'll be questioned to all until the
cows come home. So I think it was the right
decision to go with what you know, to go with
what got you here, because there's less questions. You know,
the Chiefs made great play, they got to stop. You
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got to give them a lot of credit. But I
think if you do anything else and the Chiefs stop them,
they're there's like, oh my god, why don't you do
the touch push? You've you've done it all season all
and now during the biggest game of the season, you
stopped doing it. So I think there's you know, you're
damn if you do damned if you don't. But in
this situation, it didn't work out. But I don't think
it was the wrong decision. I think on the two
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point conversion, there were other options that you know they
could have gone with, but on the fourth down you
gotta go with what you know.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, Richard, this is another loss for Josh Allen against
Patrick Mahomes in the clutch. I know he's owned him
in the in the regular season, but when it truly matters,
Josh Allen just hasn't been able to get it done.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I hate to hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
For the Buffalo bill was fan base because they've been
on the They've been on the cusp of everything that
could be. You know, the Kelly era, right you look
back at the Kelly era. Is Josh Allen ended up
for another Kelly era esque with the Bills?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't know, because Kelly went into four Super Bowls,
you know what I mean. So I don't even know
if you give Josh Allen that kind of credit because
he hasn't been won and so until he does. Now,
Kelly didn't have to go against this guy. You know,
this is Patrick wall Owmes, guy who seems to be
a once in a generation kind of guy, once in
a lifetime kind of guy, quite a quarterback and in
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a perfect situation that suits his strengths. And so he
also got Lamar Jackson and things like that. You got
Joe Burrow, who's gonna have to contend with So this
is some of the best quarterback play and honestly in
the history of the National Football League, especially on one
side of the coin. You got the AFC would probably
you know, three, three or four of the top five
quarterbacks in the National Football League. And you guys can
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argue in debate all you want, but that's what the
numbers say. I think it's this is gonna be a
tough pill for Josh Allen to swallow. But at the
end of the day, if you go back and look
at every single one of those games, Josh Allen played
really well. Josh Allen played his butt off in a
lot of these games. It's not like, hey, he goes
into these games and he turns the ball over a
ton and he doesn't play well, he doesn't run the ball,
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he just gives it up and he's playing two tentatives.
He really plays well in these games, they just don't
win them. And that's the big that's the thing that
you know, everybody says wins and losses aren't a quarterbacks stack,
but they also say, this is mahomes seventeenth winning He
passes Joe Montana for a second all time for a quarterback,
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still behind Tom Brady's thirty five. So these losses still
do count against what Josh Allen wants to do in
terms of legacy, in terms of how he's seen in
a bigger picture of things. And again, everybody's behind Mahomes.
And this is just another reminder this.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Patrick Mahomes left Chiefs team is they're so dominant. I mean,
they had to fumble today, but Richard, the craziest stat
that I've ever seen. This is the first turnover that
the Chiefs had committed in the previous eight games. I mean,
it's just wild how consistent they are offensively, And it
starts from the top of Patrick Mahomes. He has truly
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entered that goat conversation with Tom Brady. I mean, and
he's so young. He can get it in his game.
It doesn't rely on the scrambles. He can do that,
you know, and no question about it, he can do that.
But it's just it starts up here in his head
and you can see the longevity of his career right
in front of you. How far along do you think
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he can take this? Like, what do you think is
truly the cap for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, I don't know, because there isn't necessarily one. Because
if he continues to have Andy Reid at the helm,
and Andy Reid doesn't seem like he's going anywhere, they
continue to support him with with really good players. Xavier
Worthy the drafted this year two All pros on offensive line,
and Creed Humphries and Joe Toney, and they'll probably go
draft another tackle for him in the draft. You got
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you got Spags on the other side with a really
talented defense and all pros and Chris Jones and McDuffie
and Justin Reid. Plays really good football. Nick Bolton is
right where he needs to be. Car Loft, this plays
really good football. So the sky's the limit for this
team because they're just getting more and more talented. They're
getting more and more talented, more and more guys that
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are developed and home home bread, home homegrown talent, and
that's what you need to be a consistent championship caliber team. Obviously.
You gotta know, you know, at some point, Travis Kelsey's
gonna retire and they're gonna have to deal with that,
you know. I think that'll be a huge loss for him,
even no matter how much you think he's productive or not.
He's a safety blanket for Patrick Mahomes and their chemistry
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is unmatched and unrivaled. I'm sure he's gonna make a
ton of plays in his super Bowl, and he's gonna
have his hands all over the outcome of that football game.
So I don't think it's stopping anytime soon. They've been
in what four of the last five of the last
six super Bowls, So you gotta you gotta tip your
cap off to him. You know, they're doing a lot
of things right. And if they get this third in
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the road the first time in the National Football League's history,
and this game has been around a long time, I mean,
I know what you're gonna say. You know, Tom is
to go. We don't really debate that, but the guys
who see mahomes play, the kids from this generation, are
gonna say something else. If he wins this one and
he continues to win, you know what I mean, this
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would be four. He only needs three more. And at
you know, I mean, you always thought Tom seven silly.
It's not even no chance anybody catches that, not seeming
as crazy of a thought anymore. With the way this
guy's playing in this franchise is developing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Guys, he's almost halfway there. I mean, this team has
risen the occasion their third grade super Bowl, fifth super
Bowl in six years. I mean, for them to win
the fourth I mean, he's gonna be over the halfway
point of Tom Brady's seven. He's going to be right
in that conversation, no question about it. That's this week's
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of the NFL. You know, obviously taking out of Philadelphia
Eagles and good goodness, gracious, it was like a reversal
of the Detroit Lions game. When the Washington Commanders took
down my Detroit Lions in Ford Field All the mistakes
were on the Detroit Lions. All the mistakes were on
the Washington Commanders in this game, early and often, and
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Philly took advantage of it. Philly puts up fifty five points.
That's the most points scored in a conference championship game, period,
and sakwon Barkley. My goodness, I just took over this
game early, often, inconsistently.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And I knew it would be a difficult game for
the Washington Commanders coming in because they weren't the better team.
They're not the better team, they're not the more talented team.
They're the feel good story. But the quarterback is hot,
the offense has been hot, and I thought if they
played a good game and they played like they did
against the Detroit Lions, if they did played like they
did against the Bay Buccaneers, they would have a chance
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to win this game. They turned them all over three times,
and not that these were unforced errors, because it came
from guys punching at the ball. Bond punched at the ball,
Warren Burks punched at the ball. Call it both of
those fumbles. The other one contact fumble on a kick
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return that they shouldn't have even come out like, why
are you returning kicks when you haven't bought the ball
past the thirty at that point, just kneeling and in zone,
like give it, give it to your quarterback. You're not
running one back against this team. They're clearly superior in
the special teams department, at least on the kickoff kickoff
return side. Just down the ball, give it to your
quarterback and let them have a chance. But you know,
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you got to give the Philadelphia Eagles a lot of credit.
They ran the ball really well. Sakwan Barkley only had
fifteen carries in the game, had one hundred and eighteen yards,
three touchdowns, could have had a lot more if he
wanted it. Jalen Hurts had three touchdowns. He had the
two toush pushes and got another touchdown. He played a
really good game of fishing with the football, not putting
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it in harms way. AJ Brown six for ninety six.
He was having his way with Sanshril, who had a
really good game. The rookie had a great game against
Detroit and had the probably the worst game of his
career to date in the NFC Championship against AJ Brown.
No I thought that would be a tough matchup. Another
critical moment in the game was a fourth and five.
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They just dropped back Marshawn Lattimore on AJ Brown bombed
him up and that was a huge play. I thought, Hey,
that's the moment Marshaun Latimore has a chance to put
his his stamp on the game. You know, if he
makes that stop, it keeps the game really close, you
know what I mean. That was a huge moment. But
instead AJ Brown shows why he's an All Pro Pro
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Bowl player while he's getting the money that he's getting,
and he made the play that to help his team
get to the Super Bowl. Warren Berks is playing some
of his best football, and placement replacement of Nakobe Dean
and Jalen Carter has been wrecking things. Davis had a
huge play in the game. Nolan Smith had a huge
sack in the game. He's having a great playoffs. He's
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having a better playoffs. Then he had a regular season,
and then you got to give Vic fangiol a lot
of credit. You know. Vic Fangil had a great plan
for Jayden Daniels held him to two fifty five forty
eight one touchdown. The one interception he had six carriages
for forty eight yards, but in the last game he
had eighty one yards rushing, so that's a that's a
big stop. He had the one touchdown on a really
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great play by him. But I think he called a
really great game just keeping him in the pocket, keeping
him contained, tight coverage in the back end. Quinjon Mitchell
with a great play. Then I don't know if you
noticed it, Mitchell. I didn't know if you noticed his celebration.
Did you see it?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You're gonna have to remind me, Richard.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Quin Yon. Mitchell picked scary Terry off in the end zone.
That was pretty much the closer of the game, and
then he did his celebration. Mitchell, he did it. Selly,
I said to be in the moment like that. He
had that plan and Quen y'all. Mitchell has had a
really great rookie season. Again they've had Howie Roseman deserves
another award to stack on his shelf because another great offseason,
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you get Sa Kwan get, you get too great a
great corner, you get a great nickel. Cooper Dejeen has
had a solid season. Quinjon Mitchell looks like a star
in the making. On the opposite side, of Darius Slay,
who's had a really really good and productive season. Then
you get CJ. Gardner, Johnson back, you know, things like that.
Orrin Burks is probably an underrated signing that nobody's talking
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about or they talking about now because I mean, he's
playing really well now. But Zach Baond Zach bad became
an All Pro, you know, went from a special teams
guy to an All Pro in one season. And so
all these moves have really contributed to what they've become
and their championship team. They're going to the Super Bowl
and they're probably again the more talented team going into
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the Super Bowl, the more complete team, the offensive line,
best offensive line in football. And I didn't even mention
Cam Jurgens and land and Dickerson both playing center. Landon
Dickerson hadn't played center really since college. I think he had.
They said, forty snaps at it and then he gets hurt.
He's limping, he's battling, tough as hell, and then Cam
Jurgens says, Okay, my back's hurt, but you can't go.
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I'm gonna finish this game off. And he finishes the
game off. That's I mean, that's just warrior mentality. Hopefully
they're healthy for the Super Bowl and they can heal
up with the injuries that they have. But it was
a great season for the Washington Commanders. Obviously, they got
one hundred and two million dollars in cap space, they
get the twenty ninth pick. You know, the future is bright.
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They'll they'll pick up some more talent, some receivers that
want to play with a great quarterback. I'm sure defensively
they'll find some more talent, offensive line help, etcetera, etcetera.
Guys want to play for dan Quinn. But I think
it was still a great season for them. This is
further than anybody could have expected them to go. Hats
off to the Eagles and what they were able to do.
Dominant game, dominant performance on both sides of the football.
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Seven rushing touchdowns was the most in the postseason game
since the nineteen forty Bears, which is I mean, that's
taking it very far back. That's that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I want to talk about Saquon a little bit because
Saquon Barkley Richard, when with this game was going on,
I texted you and I said, Saquon Barkley is the
biggest waste of a superstar by any professional sports franchise
in NFL history, in regards to the New York Giants,
when you see what he is produe with this Philadelphia
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Eagles team, bringing them to the super Bowl, being at
the forefront of that Super Bowl charge, and then you
look at what the New York Giants have done with him.
I mean, can you disagree with that statement?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No, you can't. And you gotta look at Mara and
you gotta look at the GM of the Giants like
it should have been fired like that fireball fens, like
it should have been soon as they got rid of
Daniel Jones, fire him to because when you make such
a catastrophic mistake, like a franchise defining mistake, it's tough
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to recover from them. They'll be chasing this mistake for
years to come. And not only do you do you
make the mistake of letting him out of your franchise,
but you give him to a division rival who then
takes him rides him to a Player of the Year
MVP candidate season all the way to the Super Bowl.
Clearly the best running back in football, the most explosive
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sixty yard run to start this game, and you look
at the Giants and you're like, you're talking about a
million or two million dollars. You don't have a player
in the stratuspare. I mean, you got Melite Neighbors now,
but again you're still Milik Neighbors is a developing talent.
It's gonna be a really good NFL player, potentially great
NFL player. Saquon Barkley is an MVP candidate, great NFL
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player right now. And for them to have a debate,
I mean even right now, he's twelve and a half
million dollars, might be the fifth or sixth highest paid
running back in the National Football League. Playing like this,
he's underpaid, underpaid by a lot. You got two receivers
making twenty five million dollars, and I don't think either
of them have as many yards as Saquan right now combined,
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you know what I mean? It might be close them too, combined.
It might be close to what Saquan is at. And
that's not a shot at them. They are two great receivers.
They deserve their money. But it just goes to show
maybe Saquon is gonna do something for the running back
market this year. Maybe people are gonna get the point.
But the Giants our joke for what they've done, Joe,
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absolute joke for letting him get out the building. And
then to have the background, like to have the cameras
in the room when the GM's making a decision, and
here are the discussions and you're talking about you're not
gonna pay a fifty running back fifteen million dollars to
get to get handed off to by forty million dollars quarterbacks?
Like who told you to give the quarterback forty million dollars?
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He wasn't worth it in the first place. He's a
bum and not you know, you know what I mean,
like like, let's not be let's not be crazy right now.
And then you for you to say that get rid
of Saquon and then cut the quarterback that same season,
is I mean, it's it's really, it's really, it's dumb,
it's idiotic.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's wild.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And you know what, the Washington Commanders deserve a ton
of credit. Obviously they are a team on the rise.
Jaden Daniels is a star in the making here in Washington.
And Dan Snyder, you know, he was quoted as saying
he was pissed off and I don't know. I mean,
this is all social media rumblings that I've seen by
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How would you feel if you're Dan Snyder right now
seeing this team rise to.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Glory when you're not no longer involved?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Rich, I wouldn't be Dan Snyder. I just I wouldn't.
I mean, I can't dance Dan Snyder. I ment, I
pray if I woke up Dan Snyder. I got a
lot of problems in my life. But no, I hope
I'm never waking up Dan Snyder. But yeah, I'm sure
there's you know, I mean, there's jealousy, you know, resentment,
you know, whatever the case may be. But move on,
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you know, you you the franchise is a disaster under
your your watch, under your guidance and ownership. A ton
of scandal, a ton of problems, a ton of issues.
Guys didn't want to play for that franchise, terrible fields,
Every great player you had wanted to leave. They tried
to kill Trent Williams, you know what I mean, tried
to hide his freaking cancer in his brain. You know
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just how many crazy things happened under his watch. And
so no, I don't, I don't. I don't care that
he feels bad or he's frustrated. I mean, it sucks,
but great for them, Great for Josh Harris Magic, you
know that ownership group and and what they have, Great
for Jadon Daniels and his family. Great for Zach Ertz.
Zach Hurtz had a really great game and great season,
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another All Pro season for Bobby Wagner. A friend of
the program and happy for him, was really rooting for
him to get get back to another Super Bowl. And
you know that's that's frustrating Austin Eckler as well. But
you know, unfortunately they didn't make enough plays and the
Philadelphia Eagles came in there and handled business. And we'll
see how this Super Bowl goes in New Orleans. We'll
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talk about that another day. But Mitchell, this has been
a great day of football, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Richard, your early thoughts on this matchup Philadelphia against the
Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, it certainly seems like the
two hottest teams in football. I mean, the way Kansas
City played today, I think they deserve that accolade. And
the Philadelphia Eagles, Richard, who do your initial thoughts? I
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don't want to get in the full game breakdown. We'll
get in there later on. But initial thoughts, who do
you think has the upper edge today, Philly or Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's tough to say, because, like I said, Philly is
the more talented team. You know, you look at their
offensive line and what they've done. You look at Saquon
Barkley and what he's done, and there you take all
that away and just look on the edges. They're two
really really talented receiver, a really talented tight end in
Dallas Goddard, and they're gonna be a difficult offense to
stop and a difficult offense to game plan for. But
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you see their defensive court and at Kansas City, Spags
has a plan for everything. Obviously we talked about James
Cook had some success on the ground. I'm sure the
Philadelphia Eagles will watch that tape and think, hey, we
can get to some of those plays, we can get
some of those looks, and we have a better back
and a better offensive line to maybe open some of
those gaps. We have more weapons than y'all had to
create more issues for you. So it's gonna be it's
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gonna be a tough game plan for Philadelphia Eagles. But
on the flip side, This is a much better offense,
in a much more experienced offense than they faced before.
So many weapons. You know, you talked about we talked
about Travis Kelce, we talk about Kareem Hunt and he's
had actually a really solid season. But Creed Humphries, the
All Pro. Their offensive line is is a really talented
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group that's played together a long time and been through
a lot of championships. They've been through multiple Super Bowls.
And then you guys got guys like Juju Smith, Suster,
NW Hopkins, Xavier Worthy who just already I mean, Hollywood
Brown looked really good, was really impactful in this game.
The first the first playoff game they they I think
the receivers didn't have a catch, and then this game
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you're getting impact all over the place. I think there's
probably ten twelve catches from the receivers. So you see,
the Kansas City Chiefs can attack you in so many
different ways, and I expect it to be a dog fight.
You know, Patrick Mahoons is a whole different beast than
any other quarterback in the National Football League. He at
the top of the mountain and it's gonna be an
earned Super Bowl. Philadelphia Eagles can pull.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It out, no question. Well, hat tip to Patrick Mahomes.
He certainly deserves to be back in here, man. I mean,
we'll see if the Philadelphia Eagles can take him out, Richard.
This concludes our NFC and AFC Championship Podcast. We're gonna
be more backing at it this week, and we're excited
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to be I will let you sign us off, my friend.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, it's been another great week of football. Thank you
guys for joining us as always. We know you could
be anywhere in the world, but you're here with us
and we sure do appreciate it. Love and respect. Hope
you're having a great start to the New Year's Hope
you enjoyed this with your family and friends. And I
can't wait to give you more information for this Super
Bowl matchup. This is one of the best matchups in
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the history of the Super Bowl. It's gonna be a
good one. To see you there. The volume
The Volume Bowl Championships. That should always do the expectation.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, man Ax, you go ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Mitchell, We're gonna
get this thing started off right with the Uber Eats
Sunday Night food Ball segment. Obviously, the game of the
week is both games, but we're gonna start it off
with the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Buffalo Bills. And
what a game it was. We knew it would be
a nail bier. It lived up to all the billing.
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How you feel about it, The billing is right.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I mean, Buffalo had a shot in this game early
and often, and ultimately the Cream rose to the top.
Kansas City Chiefs enter into their third Super Bowl in
a row.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Your thoughts, Yeah, I mean you got to give Buffalo
a lot of credit. They did everything they did the
whole year. They ran the ball well. James Cook thirteen
carries for eighty five yards, Josh Allen thirty nine yards
on eleven carries. They ran the ball. They ran the ball.
They ran the ball, they did not go away from it.
They didn't turn the ball over again. This is their
nineteenth straight game, winning the turnover battle usually when that happened,
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you win a lot of football games. They did win
a lot of football games. Unfortunately, you need more than
that when you're going against Andy Reid, Patrick Mahons and
this Kansas City Chiefs team. And that's what happened. This defense,
the Kansas City Chiefs defense stood up. Did they get it?
Did they not get it? It was very close. It
was very close in this game. It was like that.
It was a nail biter throughout. You saw the two
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point conversion. They tried to push, they got stopped. Was
that the right decision? I don't know. It was a
very close game throughout, but he came down to that.
Mac Collins had a really good game. James Cook we
talked about, had a really good game. Matt Mlano, and
Jordan Phillips came through clutch. I thought that Jordan phillips
play could have been a game changer when he got
the sack late in the game on first down, first
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in goal for the Kansas City Chiefs to push them
back and make it a much tougher situation for them.
They ended up getting a field goal in that situation.
Now you got Josh Allen with the ball in his hands,
three minutes to go in the game, a chance to
win it, a chance to finally slay the dragon, and
all the speculation put your team in the super Bowl,
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And unfortunately Spags had more tricks in his bag. For
Josh Allen, he brought pressure on third down, he brought
a zero pressure and then he disguised it and brought
some kind of crazy fire zone at the end that
was kind of unsound. And if you go back and
look at it, Josh Allen, if you would have had
a sliver more time and could have found Dalton Kincaid,
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there was space there to be found. It eventually did
get to Dalton Kincaid's hands and he drops it right there.
That would have been the biggest play in Buffalo Bill's history.
If he had been able to pull that in come
down with that would have been the difference in the game.
I think if he catches that, the Buffalo Bill's going
to win this game. But unfortunately, if if it was
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a fifth, we'd all be drunking. If does not win
you this ball game. Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, Spags, Chris Jones,
Nick Bolden and the boys. You gotta give Joe Tooney.
Joe Thony a ton of credit. They had trouble at
the tackles. They had troubles, so they took their all
pro guard and moved him to tackle, and he has
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just been a stud there. He is a huge reason
why they're able to make it to this Super Bowl run,
why Patrick Mahoons is a lot more upright than he
had been. And I wonder what they're gonna do in
the Super Bowl because Jalen Carter is on the inside,
Jordan Davis is on the inside. Their troubles are on
the inside. But I think they stick with kali Endo,
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you know what I mean. They're starting to become some
chemistry there and I think they trust kali Endo and
what he's been doing. But that Jordan Phillips sack, he
took kali Endo ride Mette on a ride. Grown man
has a different game in those trenches. But this game
was really cool. You got to give credit to Xavier Worthy.
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Played a fantastic game. Just look looked like he had
been there before. Well, you know what I mean, you
would have thought he's been part of the other two
Super Bowl teams. You wouldn't have thought he was a rookie.
I mean, he was just having a good time swagging,
you know, doing the first down celebrations. Crucial catches Juju
Smith Schuster only has two catches in the game. One
of them is in the first quarter, the last one
is in the fourth quarter, and they are both critical catches.
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He gets a lot of yak afterwards. Huge plays in
the game. Kareem Hunt carries the ball and does a
great job in this game. I mean, there are so
many MVPs and they lost a fumble in this game.
It's the first Chiefs turnover since November seventeenth, and they
were still able to overcome that. I thought. Once they
turned the ball over and it happened twice in one drive,
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but a penalty negated one of them, and then a
few plays later it happens again. All don't lie, it's
gonna happen if it's supposed to happen, And it happened,
and I thought, oh my god, that might be the
one that might be the thing that changes this game
for good. But unfortunately, I mean fortunately, unfortunately depends on
which side of the coin you sit on, side of
the seat you sit on. But it was a huge
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play in the game. The Chiefs overcame it and They're
going back to the Super Bowl to play the Philadelphia Eagles,
another Andy Reid Bowl, a rematch of the twenty twenty
two Super Bowl versus the Eagles is going to be
a great game versus two great teams, and I can't
wait for it. But Mitchell, I was very very I
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was sitting on the edge of my seat this entire game.
Both teams deserve a lot of credit. Josh Allen. I
know he, you know, zero and four against this Chiefs team,
but it's no fault of his. You know, he battled
his butt off and you know, did everything he did
to put his team in a in a position to
be successful. I give a hat tip to Josh Allen
the Buffalo Bills, but the Kansas City Chiefs again find
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a way to get it done.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And he's no question about it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
But I think it goes back to midway through the
fourth quarter on that fourth down, and the Buffalo Bills
had an opportunity to take this game into their hands
and really like take possession of it for the long haul,
and they resorted to the tush push again and they
ultimately whether you want to call it short or right
on the line or just short of the line. They
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ended up by definition short of the line. It just
was not working all game and they just kept going
back to it and back to it and back to it.
And as if you were, I'm like, what are they doing?
Like they got so much more at their arsenal than
just this. They got Josh Allen after arsenal, lining them
up with your boy James Cook and let them work,
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and instead they just pounded the rock and it wasn't
working all the game, and it did not work for
him in that crucial moment, and ultimately the sky cam
viewed them short and that was what it was. I mean,
your thoughts on that play, well, well, I got to
give them credit.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
They were twenty eight for thirty on it during the
season and that was on third down and the other
two times they missed it, they got it the next down.
So you gotta go with what's gotten you here, And
I think that's what their mindset was. You know, you
got Josh Allen who's six four sixty five two thirty
five two forty and he hasn't been stopped all season.
You can't assume he's gonna be stopped in the championship.
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And if you do anything else, you go away from it.
You you run a different play, you hand it off
to James Cook and they get stopped or or the
Chiefs get penetration. They'll be questioned to all until the
cows come home. So I think it was the right
decision to go with what you know, to go with
what got you here, because there's less questions. You know,
the Chiefs made great play, they got to stop. You
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got to give them a lot of credit. But I
think if you do anything else and the Chiefs stop them,
they're there's like, oh my god, why don't you do
the touch push? You've you've done it all season all
and now during the biggest game of the season, you
stopped doing it. So I think there's you know, you're
damn if you do damned if you don't. But in
this situation, it didn't work out. But I don't think
it was the wrong decision. I think on the two
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point conversion, there were other options that you know they
could have gone with, but on the fourth down you
gotta go with what you know.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, Richard, this is another loss for Josh Allen against
Patrick Mahomes in the clutch. I know he's owned him
in the in the regular season, but when it truly matters,
Josh Allen just hasn't been able to get it done.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I hate to hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
For the Buffalo bill was fan base because they've been
on the They've been on the cusp of everything that
could be. You know, the Kelly era, right you look
back at the Kelly era. Is Josh Allen ended up
for another Kelly era esque with the Bills?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't know, because Kelly went into four Super Bowls,
you know what I mean. So I don't even know
if you give Josh Allen that kind of credit because
he hasn't been won and so until he does. Now,
Kelly didn't have to go against this guy. You know,
this is Patrick wall Owmes, guy who seems to be
a once in a generation kind of guy, once in
a lifetime kind of guy, quite a quarterback and in
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a perfect situation that suits his strengths. And so he
also got Lamar Jackson and things like that. You got
Joe Burrow, who's gonna have to contend with So this
is some of the best quarterback play and honestly in
the history of the National Football League, especially on one
side of the coin. You got the AFC would probably
you know, three, three or four of the top five
quarterbacks in the National Football League. And you guys can
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argue in debate all you want, but that's what the
numbers say. I think it's this is gonna be a
tough pill for Josh Allen to swallow. But at the
end of the day, if you go back and look
at every single one of those games, Josh Allen played
really well. Josh Allen played his butt off in a
lot of these games. It's not like, hey, he goes
into these games and he turns the ball over a
ton and he doesn't play well, he doesn't run the ball,
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he just gives it up and he's playing two tentatives.
He really plays well in these games, they just don't
win them. And that's the big that's the thing that
you know, everybody says wins and losses aren't a quarterbacks stack,
but they also say, this is mahomes seventeenth winning He
passes Joe Montana for a second all time for a quarterback,
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still behind Tom Brady's thirty five. So these losses still
do count against what Josh Allen wants to do in
terms of legacy, in terms of how he's seen in
a bigger picture of things. And again, everybody's behind Mahomes.
And this is just another reminder this.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Patrick Mahomes left Chiefs team is they're so dominant. I mean,
they had to fumble today, but Richard, the craziest stat
that I've ever seen. This is the first turnover that
the Chiefs had committed in the previous eight games. I mean,
it's just wild how consistent they are offensively, And it
starts from the top of Patrick Mahomes. He has truly
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entered that goat conversation with Tom Brady. I mean, and
he's so young. He can get it in his game.
It doesn't rely on the scrambles. He can do that,
you know, and no question about it, he can do that.
But it's just it starts up here in his head
and you can see the longevity of his career right
in front of you. How far along do you think
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he can take this? Like, what do you think is
truly the cap for Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, I don't know, because there isn't necessarily one. Because
if he continues to have Andy Reid at the helm,
and Andy Reid doesn't seem like he's going anywhere, they
continue to support him with with really good players. Xavier
Worthy the drafted this year two All pros on offensive line,
and Creed Humphries and Joe Toney, and they'll probably go
draft another tackle for him in the draft. You got
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you got Spags on the other side with a really
talented defense and all pros and Chris Jones and McDuffie
and Justin Reid. Plays really good football. Nick Bolton is
right where he needs to be. Car Loft, this plays
really good football. So the sky's the limit for this
team because they're just getting more and more talented. They're
getting more and more talented, more and more guys that
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are developed and home home bread, home homegrown talent, and
that's what you need to be a consistent championship caliber team. Obviously.
You gotta know, you know, at some point, Travis Kelsey's
gonna retire and they're gonna have to deal with that,
you know. I think that'll be a huge loss for him,
even no matter how much you think he's productive or not.
He's a safety blanket for Patrick Mahomes and their chemistry
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is unmatched and unrivaled. I'm sure he's gonna make a
ton of plays in his super Bowl, and he's gonna
have his hands all over the outcome of that football game.
So I don't think it's stopping anytime soon. They've been
in what four of the last five of the last
six super Bowls, So you gotta you gotta tip your
cap off to him. You know, they're doing a lot
of things right. And if they get this third in
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the road the first time in the National Football League's history,
and this game has been around a long time, I mean,
I know what you're gonna say. You know, Tom is
to go. We don't really debate that, but the guys
who see mahomes play, the kids from this generation, are
gonna say something else. If he wins this one and
he continues to win, you know what I mean, this
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would be four. He only needs three more. And at
you know, I mean, you always thought Tom seven silly.
It's not even no chance anybody catches that, not seeming
as crazy of a thought anymore. With the way this
guy's playing in this franchise is developing.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Guys, he's almost halfway there. I mean, this team has
risen the occasion their third grade super Bowl, fifth super
Bowl in six years. I mean, for them to win
the fourth I mean, he's gonna be over the halfway
point of Tom Brady's seven. He's going to be right
in that conversation, no question about it. That's this week's
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of the NFL. You know, obviously taking out of Philadelphia
Eagles and good goodness, gracious, it was like a reversal
of the Detroit Lions game. When the Washington Commanders took
down my Detroit Lions in Ford Field All the mistakes
were on the Detroit Lions. All the mistakes were on
the Washington Commanders in this game, early and often, and
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Philly took advantage of it. Philly puts up fifty five points.
That's the most points scored in a conference championship game, period,
and sakwon Barkley. My goodness, I just took over this
game early, often, inconsistently.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And I knew it would be a difficult game for
the Washington Commanders coming in because they weren't the better team.
They're not the better team, they're not the more talented team.
They're the feel good story. But the quarterback is hot,
the offense has been hot, and I thought if they
played a good game and they played like they did
against the Detroit Lions, if they did played like they
did against the Bay Buccaneers, they would have a chance
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to win this game. They turned them all over three times,
and not that these were unforced errors, because it came
from guys punching at the ball. Bond punched at the ball,
Warren Burks punched at the ball. Call it both of
those fumbles. The other one contact fumble on a kick
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return that they shouldn't have even come out like, why
are you returning kicks when you haven't bought the ball
past the thirty at that point, just kneeling and in zone,
like give it, give it to your quarterback. You're not
running one back against this team. They're clearly superior in
the special teams department, at least on the kickoff kickoff
return side. Just down the ball, give it to your
quarterback and let them have a chance. But you know,
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you got to give the Philadelphia Eagles a lot of credit.
They ran the ball really well. Sakwan Barkley only had
fifteen carries in the game, had one hundred and eighteen yards,
three touchdowns, could have had a lot more if he
wanted it. Jalen Hurts had three touchdowns. He had the
two toush pushes and got another touchdown. He played a
really good game of fishing with the football, not putting
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it in harms way. AJ Brown six for ninety six.
He was having his way with Sanshril, who had a
really good game. The rookie had a great game against
Detroit and had the probably the worst game of his
career to date in the NFC Championship against AJ Brown.
No I thought that would be a tough matchup. Another
critical moment in the game was a fourth and five.
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They just dropped back Marshawn Lattimore on AJ Brown bombed
him up and that was a huge play. I thought, Hey,
that's the moment Marshaun Latimore has a chance to put
his his stamp on the game. You know, if he
makes that stop, it keeps the game really close, you
know what I mean. That was a huge moment. But
instead AJ Brown shows why he's an All Pro Pro
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Bowl player while he's getting the money that he's getting,
and he made the play that to help his team
get to the Super Bowl. Warren Berks is playing some
of his best football, and placement replacement of Nakobe Dean
and Jalen Carter has been wrecking things. Davis had a
huge play in the game. Nolan Smith had a huge
sack in the game. He's having a great playoffs. He's
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having a better playoffs. Then he had a regular season,
and then you got to give Vic fangiol a lot
of credit. You know. Vic Fangil had a great plan
for Jayden Daniels held him to two fifty five forty
eight one touchdown. The one interception he had six carriages
for forty eight yards, but in the last game he
had eighty one yards rushing, so that's a that's a
big stop. He had the one touchdown on a really
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great play by him. But I think he called a
really great game just keeping him in the pocket, keeping
him contained, tight coverage in the back end. Quinjon Mitchell
with a great play. Then I don't know if you
noticed it, Mitchell. I didn't know if you noticed his celebration.
Did you see it?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You're gonna have to remind me, Richard.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Quin Yon. Mitchell picked scary Terry off in the end zone.
That was pretty much the closer of the game, and
then he did his celebration. Mitchell, he did it. Selly,
I said to be in the moment like that. He
had that plan and Quen y'all. Mitchell has had a
really great rookie season. Again they've had Howie Roseman deserves
another award to stack on his shelf because another great offseason,
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you get Sa Kwan get, you get too great a
great corner, you get a great nickel. Cooper Dejeen has
had a solid season. Quinjon Mitchell looks like a star
in the making. On the opposite side, of Darius Slay,
who's had a really really good and productive season. Then
you get CJ. Gardner, Johnson back, you know, things like that.
Orrin Burks is probably an underrated signing that nobody's talking
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about or they talking about now because I mean, he's
playing really well now. But Zach Baond Zach bad became
an All Pro, you know, went from a special teams
guy to an All Pro in one season. And so
all these moves have really contributed to what they've become
and their championship team. They're going to the Super Bowl
and they're probably again the more talented team going into
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the Super Bowl, the more complete team, the offensive line,
best offensive line in football. And I didn't even mention
Cam Jurgens and land and Dickerson both playing center. Landon
Dickerson hadn't played center really since college. I think he had.
They said, forty snaps at it and then he gets hurt.
He's limping, he's battling, tough as hell, and then Cam
Jurgens says, Okay, my back's hurt, but you can't go.
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I'm gonna finish this game off. And he finishes the
game off. That's I mean, that's just warrior mentality. Hopefully
they're healthy for the Super Bowl and they can heal
up with the injuries that they have. But it was
a great season for the Washington Commanders. Obviously, they got
one hundred and two million dollars in cap space, they
get the twenty ninth pick. You know, the future is bright.
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They'll they'll pick up some more talent, some receivers that
want to play with a great quarterback. I'm sure defensively
they'll find some more talent, offensive line help, etcetera, etcetera.
Guys want to play for dan Quinn. But I think
it was still a great season for them. This is
further than anybody could have expected them to go. Hats
off to the Eagles and what they were able to do.
Dominant game, dominant performance on both sides of the football.
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Seven rushing touchdowns was the most in the postseason game
since the nineteen forty Bears, which is I mean, that's
taking it very far back. That's that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I want to talk about Saquon a little bit because
Saquon Barkley Richard, when with this game was going on,
I texted you and I said, Saquon Barkley is the
biggest waste of a superstar by any professional sports franchise
in NFL history, in regards to the New York Giants,
when you see what he is produe with this Philadelphia
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Eagles team, bringing them to the super Bowl, being at
the forefront of that Super Bowl charge, and then you
look at what the New York Giants have done with him.
I mean, can you disagree with that statement?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No, you can't. And you gotta look at Mara and
you gotta look at the GM of the Giants like
it should have been fired like that fireball fens, like
it should have been soon as they got rid of
Daniel Jones, fire him to because when you make such
a catastrophic mistake, like a franchise defining mistake, it's tough
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to recover from them. They'll be chasing this mistake for
years to come. And not only do you do you
make the mistake of letting him out of your franchise,
but you give him to a division rival who then
takes him rides him to a Player of the Year
MVP candidate season all the way to the Super Bowl.
Clearly the best running back in football, the most explosive
(22:59):
sixty yard run to start this game, and you look
at the Giants and you're like, you're talking about a
million or two million dollars. You don't have a player
in the stratuspare. I mean, you got Melite Neighbors now,
but again you're still Milik Neighbors is a developing talent.
It's gonna be a really good NFL player, potentially great
NFL player. Saquon Barkley is an MVP candidate, great NFL
(23:20):
player right now. And for them to have a debate,
I mean even right now, he's twelve and a half
million dollars, might be the fifth or sixth highest paid
running back in the National Football League. Playing like this,
he's underpaid, underpaid by a lot. You got two receivers
making twenty five million dollars, and I don't think either
of them have as many yards as Saquan right now combined,
(23:42):
you know what I mean? It might be close them too, combined.
It might be close to what Saquan is at. And
that's not a shot at them. They are two great receivers.
They deserve their money. But it just goes to show
maybe Saquon is gonna do something for the running back
market this year. Maybe people are gonna get the point.
But the Giants our joke for what they've done, Joe,
(24:02):
absolute joke for letting him get out the building. And
then to have the background, like to have the cameras
in the room when the GM's making a decision, and
here are the discussions and you're talking about you're not
gonna pay a fifty running back fifteen million dollars to
get to get handed off to by forty million dollars quarterbacks?
Like who told you to give the quarterback forty million dollars?
(24:23):
He wasn't worth it in the first place. He's a
bum and not you know, you know what I mean,
like like, let's not be let's not be crazy right now.
And then you for you to say that get rid
of Saquon and then cut the quarterback that same season,
is I mean, it's it's really, it's really, it's dumb,
it's idiotic.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
It's wild.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And you know what, the Washington Commanders deserve a ton
of credit. Obviously they are a team on the rise.
Jaden Daniels is a star in the making here in Washington.
And Dan Snyder, you know, he was quoted as saying
he was pissed off and I don't know. I mean,
this is all social media rumblings that I've seen by
(25:04):
How would you feel if you're Dan Snyder right now
seeing this team rise to.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Glory when you're not no longer involved?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Rich, I wouldn't be Dan Snyder. I just I wouldn't.
I mean, I can't dance Dan Snyder. I ment, I
pray if I woke up Dan Snyder. I got a
lot of problems in my life. But no, I hope
I'm never waking up Dan Snyder. But yeah, I'm sure
there's you know, I mean, there's jealousy, you know, resentment,
you know, whatever the case may be. But move on,
(25:36):
you know, you you the franchise is a disaster under
your your watch, under your guidance and ownership. A ton
of scandal, a ton of problems, a ton of issues.
Guys didn't want to play for that franchise, terrible fields,
Every great player you had wanted to leave. They tried
to kill Trent Williams, you know what I mean, tried
to hide his freaking cancer in his brain. You know
(25:56):
just how many crazy things happened under his watch. And
so no, I don't, I don't. I don't care that
he feels bad or he's frustrated. I mean, it sucks,
but great for them, Great for Josh Harris Magic, you
know that ownership group and and what they have, Great
for Jadon Daniels and his family. Great for Zach Ertz.
Zach Hurtz had a really great game and great season,
(26:17):
another All Pro season for Bobby Wagner. A friend of
the program and happy for him, was really rooting for
him to get get back to another Super Bowl. And
you know that's that's frustrating Austin Eckler as well. But
you know, unfortunately they didn't make enough plays and the
Philadelphia Eagles came in there and handled business. And we'll
see how this Super Bowl goes in New Orleans. We'll
(26:38):
talk about that another day. But Mitchell, this has been
a great day of football, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Richard, your early thoughts on this matchup Philadelphia against the
Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, it certainly seems like the
two hottest teams in football. I mean, the way Kansas
City played today, I think they deserve that accolade. And
the Philadelphia Eagles, Richard, who do your initial thoughts? I
(27:04):
don't want to get in the full game breakdown. We'll
get in there later on. But initial thoughts, who do
you think has the upper edge today, Philly or Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's tough to say, because, like I said, Philly is
the more talented team. You know, you look at their
offensive line and what they've done. You look at Saquon
Barkley and what he's done, and there you take all
that away and just look on the edges. They're two
really really talented receiver, a really talented tight end in
Dallas Goddard, and they're gonna be a difficult offense to
stop and a difficult offense to game plan for. But
(27:35):
you see their defensive court and at Kansas City, Spags
has a plan for everything. Obviously we talked about James
Cook had some success on the ground. I'm sure the
Philadelphia Eagles will watch that tape and think, hey, we
can get to some of those plays, we can get
some of those looks, and we have a better back
and a better offensive line to maybe open some of
those gaps. We have more weapons than y'all had to
create more issues for you. So it's gonna be it's
(27:58):
gonna be a tough game plan for Philadelphia Eagles. But
on the flip side, This is a much better offense,
in a much more experienced offense than they faced before.
So many weapons. You know, you talked about we talked
about Travis Kelce, we talk about Kareem Hunt and he's
had actually a really solid season. But Creed Humphries, the
All Pro. Their offensive line is is a really talented
(28:21):
group that's played together a long time and been through
a lot of championships. They've been through multiple Super Bowls.
And then you guys got guys like Juju Smith, Suster,
NW Hopkins, Xavier Worthy who just already I mean, Hollywood
Brown looked really good, was really impactful in this game.
The first the first playoff game they they I think
the receivers didn't have a catch, and then this game
(28:43):
you're getting impact all over the place. I think there's
probably ten twelve catches from the receivers. So you see,
the Kansas City Chiefs can attack you in so many
different ways, and I expect it to be a dog fight.
You know, Patrick Mahoons is a whole different beast than
any other quarterback in the National Football League. He at
the top of the mountain and it's gonna be an
earned Super Bowl. Philadelphia Eagles can pull.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It out, no question. Well, hat tip to Patrick Mahomes.
He certainly deserves to be back in here, man. I mean,
we'll see if the Philadelphia Eagles can take him out, Richard.
This concludes our NFC and AFC Championship Podcast. We're gonna
be more backing at it this week, and we're excited
(29:24):
to be I will let you sign us off, my friend.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, it's been another great week of football. Thank you
guys for joining us as always. We know you could
be anywhere in the world, but you're here with us
and we sure do appreciate it. Love and respect. Hope
you're having a great start to the New Year's Hope
you enjoyed this with your family and friends. And I
can't wait to give you more information for this Super
Bowl matchup. This is one of the best matchups in
(29:48):
the history of the Super Bowl. It's gonna be a
good one. To see you there. The volume
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