January 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the NFC Playoff picture after teams locked in their bids on Sunday. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila debate the thought of the Bengals 'deserving' to make the playoffs. The table hands out Game Balls for Week 18 before Peter names his Coach of the Week!
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January sixth.
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This is Akbar Baja biam Milli, Peter Straker, Kyle Brandt,
I'm Jamie her at all busy day in the NFL.
It is FATOCOMPLEI for the twenty twenty four regular season,
we know all of the seeds. But Peter, as we
look at some of the coaching changes at hand, just
a quick refresher, I thought it was really important how
we ended last hour, which is some of the names
you're gonna hear about interviews today and why you might
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hear those over others.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yeah, at the league change the rules on who can
interview and when because there was a big push that
why should all these coordinators be interviewing before wildcard games.
So the new rule is only teams that got the
one seed the bye, meaning they have no games this week,
only their coordinators can interview for head coaching jobs this
week and they can only do it via zoom. So
they're not traveling all over the country. They're going to
be doing it over zoom. So four names, Matt Naggie,
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Steve Spagnolo, and of course Ben Johnson.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
And Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
They have the ability to interview this week over zoom.
And of course we know Mike Vrabel can interview Rex
Ryan can interview, John Gruden can interview anybody not employed
by a team or who is employed by a team
that's been eliminated, they can interview in person. But that
is the clarification on that, and Kyle said it so eloquently.
The Bears have already put their slips in. I would
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imagine the Jets and Saints would want to at least
meet with Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson as well.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And Kyle, what a show did those last two names
that Peter just mentioned put on on Sunday Night Football?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
They really did. Let's get into it. It's Brian Flora
is not someone who could do it then because they're
not the one because they lost last night. They could
have if they won, if the Vikings win. I imagine
Flores is going to interview with the Bear. It's the
first part at the Apple. By the way, I think
they're gonna hire Brian Floores. That's my prediction. That's your pick.
I'm not an offensive code, Yes, yes I do. I
told you it's gonna be unconventional. I'm not doing that
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based on sources. I'm doing it knowing the Bears, knowing history,
knowing what they like. Okay, I hire Brian floor just
my prediction. I had some people serpent me on Twitter
after opening segment because I said the Vikings got destroyed
in this game. They didn't get desyed, Yes they did.
It's their lowest point total of the year, in their
biggest game of the year, and they're doing it against
a defense that's been lit up for the past month.
They did not have their best game. I'm not saying
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it's the end of the season. I'm not even saying
they won't win the Super Bowl. They got completely outclassed
in the second half of this game. I take no
joy in saying it thirty one to night. It's still
a fourteen and three season. The problem is now this year,
fourteen and three gets you a trip to LA to
play a Rams team you've already lost to. Let's go
to Washing Dallas.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Marcus Mariota, this was the difference between having to travel
to LA and or maybe having to go to Philadelphia
and say now we're gonna go to Tampa instead. The
clock and how it was going and all the other
games mattered here.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
What do you know, another game winning.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Touchdown drive for Washington. That's what they did all season.
They finished the season.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Twelve and five, the hell of a record as the sixth.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Seed and not the seventh seed. Twelve and five Commanders awesome, all.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Right, Bears Packers.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Kyle mentioned it, the Bears trying to do something they
had not done and quite some time in Green Bay,
and that was so not the site you wanted to
see for the Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Late in the game, one point game, Packers up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Caleb Williams gets the first down, ten seconds to play,
and there they are within field goal range and the
Bears are going to try to accomplish something with time
winding down, not a timeout on the clock.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And they clinched a win. Job done.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Field goal good, fifty one yarder through the uprights. A
beautiful scene if you're a Bears fan and you're hoping
to have your year end on a good note.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Twenty four to twenty two Bears snap an.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Eleven game win streak that they had had riding against
the Packers, a ten game win streak just this season alone.
Now they have some decisions to make because they had
to make those changes in the regular season. Here we
go Wildcard weekend. As you mentioned it, no Lions, no Chiefs.
Here's who you will see next weekend two Saturday, three
Sunday one on Monday night, the AFC North occupies a
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half of Saturday as the Steelers have to play the
Ravens in the opening round. That is an incredible matchup
in the first playoff games to be played and seen
on prime video.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So congrats to those guys.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's whe you're looking at six games, and let's dive
into them.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Now, shall we.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Peter Scheger, you look at this schedule and you pick
apart something that catches your eye already on.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
A Monday, how about a Sunday night Collinsworth Tarico Buccaneers
Commander's game. Like it was nobody's prediction before the season started.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Maybe you thought the Bucks would win the division.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
You didn't pick the Commanders to be a wildcard, and
you certainly didn't pick them as the sixth seed and
not the seventh seed two of the most fun electric
teams that, oh, by the way, have put on great
performances in the month of December in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I love this too, Heisman Trophy winners going at it,
and I like that they.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Got what I consider the premier treatment that Sunday night
game with those two voices on it. You look at
this Commander's story. What they have done in the final
seconds of games has made them the cardiac kids, and
they have found a way.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
They have won on a Hail Mary. Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
They have won on a walk off overtime touchdown on
Sunday night to beat another rookie quarterback, Michael Pennix. They
have beaten the Eagles at home, they have beaten the
Giants at home, and then yesterday they go into their
arch rival Dallas Cowboys building in a game that did
matter for seating and Marcus Mariota says, you know what,
Jaden chill over there.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'm gonna do a little.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Something too, and he finds a way to have the
dramatic win the Commander's Buccaneers game. It's not the same
storied franchises in recent years as the Ravens and the Steelers.
On Saturday night, or the dramatic matchup that we're gonna
have with.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
The Eagles and Packers.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But you got maybe the two feel good stories of
the entire season going at it. What might be the
most fun wild card matchup if I'm picking this one now,
like you're telling me that Jaden Daniels is gonna be
playing in great weather on a Sunday in Tampa with
all the momentum after having just won two key games
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to get in this thing against Atlanta. Of course, but
I look at that Philadelphia game three weeks ago where
they had to get that win at the end and
they did. Gosh, the names of players that have stepped
up for Washington, whether it be Alamid's a Kaus or
zach Ertz, it's a really cool story. I don't know
if it necessarily ends in the Wildcard round, they might
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be marching on. They could be the hottest team in football.
So Washington That's who I'm looking at right now. And
I also love what Tampa's got going on.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I did too. Washington brings me to my point too,
because Sean McVay was a subject of controversy yesterday. It's
an interesting thing that he did so they're at home,
and he said, I'm gonna just play the backups. I'm
gonna start Garoppolo and Jeremy, Jimmy garopolothers were a whole
bunch of yards. Understand that if the Rams won that game,
if they won yesterday, they would be home next week
against the Commanders. So it's a rookie quarterback who's never
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been there before. It seems more desirable because if you
lose that game, they're at home next week against the Vikings,
who hadn't lost the game in three months. So you
want to win, right. McVeigh said, I don't care. I'm
playing my backups. I know my team, I know what
we need. They lost the game, and I love the
decision that mcmay made. His whole take was, look, we
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haven't had a week. Six was our bye. We've been
going at this thing three months. We got a quarterback
who was getting up there in years. We got wide
receivers who battle through injury. I am not in here
to win a wild card game next week. I want
to win the Super Bowl this year. I'm thinking long term.
I'm gonna rest my guys. We'll try to win, but
if we don't, we'll take our chances with the Vikings.
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And by the way, I'm not terrified of that matchup,
especially after what I saw last night, especially that the
Rams have already beaten the Vikings in that building and
the Commanders are in a five game winning streak themselves.
I don't want Jaydon Daniels coming in there like Mike
Vic going in the Lambeau and taking over the game
going on everybody. I like that McVeigh. I know it's unconventional.
You don't want to do that. Who want to play
the Vikings. He knows his team, he knows his weaknesses,
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he knows what they need. And that is a guy
who has don't question me authority. He is a made guy.
If it's a young coach, what are you doing? Mcveigh's like,
I'm McVeigh, You're not. I'm wrestling them. I'm going to
play Jimmy. If we lose, we'll take our chances. I
love the decision and I'm starting to feel like it's
going to pay off for him.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Kyle, you've done this several times today, and somebody in
the production booth just said, in my ear your face
that you make when Kyle repeatedly references the Vikings have
already been here this season and lost in this building
is just one where like the directors like ten seconds
in advance is like you're about to come back on camera, AKA,
change your face, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's not good, it's not great, doesn't feel nice. What
do you look at next week?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Well, well, I do have the same of some of
the concerns, especially since we know that the Rams, you know,
went ahead and beat the Vikings in that last game,
in that last matchup and especially to Detroit, showed how
to rattle. But I'm looking over in the A and
I'm looking at the Chargers, the Los Angeles Chargers against
the Houston Texans, and I really think in this last
game they've gone on a three game winning streak, but
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they might have found their nice little patch into kind
of being a havoc or excuse me, a little bit
of a headache in the AFC run up. I looked
at what Quentin Johnston in the game that he had.
If they can maintain some sort of presence in the
wide receiver in the deep threat situation, the Chargers could
be a handful because they had that run game going on.
So I'm looking at the Chargers as somebody that people
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are probably thinking one and done maybe, but I think
they could go a little further than a lot of
people are giving them credit for.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
And a lot of people aren't talking about them.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
But I saw something yesterday in that game where I
thought that I think the Chargers can really make some
noise in the AFC.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Speaking of wreaking havoc in the AFC, I can't wait
for Sean Payton to go to Buffalo and see what
kind of mess he can get into with the Broncos
and the Bills. That's next weekend, but let's focus on today.
We have the insiders who are joining us for the
following twenty four hours as Monday is very busy. Their
shows will start ten am today Eastern guy, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Ian?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
We'll start with you with some of the changes that
you want to talk about.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
We'll start with the New England Patriots.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
The big news from right after the game yesterday, Drod
Mayo officially won and done in New England. And this
is not shocking because of the Patriots record and because
of the way this season went. Obviously it was bad
and the fact that they came back from the bye.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
It was a bad season.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
All round, but they came back from the by just
never quite could get it together. Never will think they
were improving, didn't always seem to be playing at their best.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I think that's obvious with the amount.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Of blowout losses they came in the last.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Month or a little bit more.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Just never really seemed to find a good place for
Drod Mayo. So the handpicked successor of Biebelichick is now out,
and of course the speculation immediately goes to Mike Rabel,
the former Patriots linebacker, former Patriots captain, who is a
free agent, who had interest in the Patriots stop last year,
who has interested in the Patriots stop this year, and
certainly could be at least one of the reasons one
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of the reasons they're comfortable moving on from Drod Mayo
so quickly.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
I we got another head coach vacancy earlier today, within
the past hour, the Jaguars firing Doug Peterson after his
third Seaton. Peterson, of course, a Super Bowl winner with
the Eagles, arrived with some fanfare in Jacksonville and immediately
took them to the playoffs when nine to eighth his
first season, had that wild comeback, winning the wildcard run
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round over the Chargers when nine and eight. Again last year,
when shot Con proclaimed before the season, this is the
most talented roster we've had and it's time for us
to win. The pressure was on. The Jaguars simply didn't
meet the moment. They had ten one score losses on
the way to a four and thirteen finish that led
them to move on at this point from Doug Peterson
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and once again opened a coaching search, notably, general manager
Trent Balkey, according to a statement from owner shot Con,
will be staying on, which is probably reflective again of
how Conn feels about a talented roster led by quarterback
Trevor Lawrence. It also is of note that the new
head coach will report directly to Con Mike, not to
Trent Balkey, which potentially could make this job a little
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bit more appealing to certain head coaching candidates.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
And I would say that usually we bring a lot
of bad news on this Monday morning, here's some good
news for a couple of guys who have jobs here
in New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
It is Joe.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Shane and Brian Dabole, the general manager and head coach
of the Giants, remaining in place. The team announced I
think we within the last couple of weeks, had realized
Shane was rock solid. He had been out scouting quarterbacks
already with his personnel staff. The question was whether Daboll
would continue, and John Mara, the Giants president, making it
clear this morning that Daboll will continue. The Coach of
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the Year just a couple of years ago, Mara saying
he still has faith in the process that these two
have enacted so far in East Rutherford. Yes, the results
have sort of gone backward, but this is a team
now with the third overall pick in the draft in
a position to take a quarterback, and Mara obviously believes
along with co owner Steve Tish, that there is talent
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in place on this roster and the results should follow.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
This was a really good draft class.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Yes for them, it seemed in twenty twenty four, with
Malik Neighbors all the way to Tyrone Tracy and Theo Johnson,
Tyler Nuban the safety these guys have produced in their
rookie year. So the hope is he continue to stockpile
some talent and these results go up. But I would
say that I would expect in the near future John
Merritt to make it clear that these results have to
come up, have to come up quickly, and this needs
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to be a playoff caliber team in twenty twenty five
for these guys to continue beyond.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
A lot of expectation with that kind of talent in
the building. Mike Gee, you're exactly right, gentlemen. Thank you
so much. We'll talk to you again, Peter. There was
a lot of speculation surrounding Brian Dable Joe Shane. Was
this ever an option that the Giants were going to
move on or were they just putting out a statement
saying we've thought this all along, they're staying in our building.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I think there's a lot of false reports out there,
and this is a good lesson for all of us.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
When you fire a coach online or.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Twitter and you're a reporter and you don't know for
sure that that coach is being fired, it does seem
pretty foolish when they're not. That happens all the time
every year. It's why you have to see things through.
Every team is different, and I think a lot of
us thought that Trent Balkie would be showing the door.
I'm told that for weeks everyone's known that Trent Balki
in that building was going to be okay, and that
it was going to be Peterson. As far as Dabele,
everyone said that Shane is probably going to be saying,
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but Dable's going to be gone?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Who's ever?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
John meredithn't talk to anybody. So it's also a lot
of speculation in this case. I think that Hard Knock
series did not do anyone any favors in that building.
I honestly don't. But I do think the Giants ownership
looks at it and says, Okay, let's get these guys
an opportunity, either draft a quarterback or work around it.
We know that Nuban, Tyrone, Tracy, and Thelik neighbors, we're
all excellent rookies this year. We also know that Sakwon
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Barkley had maybe the greatest running back season of all time,
and they said no to him. So they can bring
in a couple offensive linemen and Devin Singletary.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, Peter, to push back a little bit, you said
to talk about firing someone online. If you wait to
make sure the story is true, you can't be first.
Oh you can't. But you can't be first then and
do that what's the point.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You have to know how many clicks you can get
firing a person on a Sunday and then they actually
keep their job on Monday, and it's saying everyone's shocked
it actually happens.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
You have to do that, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You know how much fun that is than when you
have to walk into the press conference with that person
that you fired.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I'm you don't have to go to Jemmy, You never
have to go in person.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You just it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Then the shame gets with the Yeah, exactly, soone should.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Just tweet anything anytime. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We're not even close to putting a.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Bow on Week eighteen, Yet we got to look back
at the playoff team that could have been for us
anybody else obsessed with the Bengals and their path that winning.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
In it and in for the postseason. We got to
talk Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
And the Cincinnati Bengals and the fact that we will
not be seeing them continue on in January and what
kind of heart.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Breaks does that bring.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Us?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
All right? Game boss? Who deserves one? In a wild
Week eighteen, very strange night, And most importantly, guys, what
multimillionaires made more money yesterday for doing their job. Peter's
going to run all those down. We like that. It
wasn't mentioned enough yesterday on the air. Jim be Honor,
it's a game ball, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good morning Football.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Here we go NFC West.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Not going to see him in January, but let's check
in on how the forty nine Ers and the Cardinals
are doing. There's rock Party. Didn't play hurt his elbow
last week. Kyler Murray is still out there slinging it around.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Massive win, really cool for the Cardinals in the direction
they're going, and they have doubled their divisional wins that
they had the year before.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Look at them.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Go, that's a big number for he said, how about
Aaron Rodgers, Oh, we could talk about this.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Ian Rockport got a nice shout out. Rogers said, all
due respect to Ian.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
He he doesn't know his future himself, so we'll see.
But we love when the rap sheet gets called out.
Rogers goes out with a big game. How about Todd
downing the offense finally looked like it was supposed to
Rogers five hundred passing touchdown, and then on second and two,
Rogers looking this might be the last time we ever
seen him a football field focused pretty catch by DeVante.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
They've been an all time connection.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The Jets win, Dolphins whimpering, and Tyreek Hill had some
comments after the game.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We know that Dolphins are fighting for their Lifelo Dophins, Sunglass,
what are we doing? Good? Unbelievable? All right, Bengals Steelers,
they gotta win as they've had each of the last
several weeks. Jamar Chase, I feel like he has forty
touchdowns this year. What an unbelievable season from him, statistically, esthetically,
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just everything just always looks so cool. Bro wins. But
it was all for not because the Chiefs did absolutely
nothing the next day and got destroyed. Nothing. So the
Bengals on fire nine and eight, they finished about five hundred.
They're all celebrated, but they do not make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And there it is, Jamie, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's the schedule.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Looking ahead to Wildcard weekend, just take your pick. A
lot of awesome matchups like Packers Eagles is a game
at half in Philadelphia to be played, and it spreads
all the way to Monday night and Vikings Rams. But
the name and the team and the players and you
will not see next weekend are the Cincinnati Bengals, and
to their point second half of the season, Bengals started to.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Figure some things out.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Joe Burrow was awesome, Jamar Chase was great.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Peter, you feel a little cheated that we.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Don't get to see the Bengals in the postseason?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
No, because we got a lot of the Bengals right.
They were on national TV the final two weeks in
the season, day of these dramatic comeback wins, and the
Bengals gave us fantasy football, and.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They gave us some really excellent fodder.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
When we heard Joe Burrow be mentioned as the MVP
from Troy Aikman, that was about two segments of content
for us last week, so.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I'm happy with that.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I would also note that the Bengals lost Week one
to the Gerardmeo Jacoby Burssett Patriots at home, and the
first month of the season does happen to matter in
the NFL.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm sorry to tell it. It's an eighteen week season,
and when.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You start off losing the first few weeks every single year,
year in, year out, eventually.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's going to bite you in the butt.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I would rather us flip the table and celebrate the
team that did make it.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Do you see the season that bot Nicks just put
together in his first year.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You could talk about Joe Burrow and cry alligator tears
about not seeing him.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Bow Knicks's head.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
One of the greatest seasons in Broncos history in a
franchise that includes John Elway and Peyton Manning.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Boon Knicks put up the fourth best single.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Season touchdown record in the franchise's history.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
And gosh, let's enjoy this.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
For that fan base that hasn't been to the playoffs
since Peyton Manning was a quarterback and actually earned it
by winning enough games and getting the tiebreakers needed.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Bengals fans, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We got our Bengals moments they have been in late
December and early January were money. Go not give up
five hundred yards of offense to the Russell Wilson led Steelers.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That's my thought.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Go beat a team of significance in September. I have
no problem with the Bengals messing the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You gotta play defense. Also, they didn't do that all
season far your thoughts, Yeah, that was the problem. It
was the defense.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
It was the defense that caused them to be in
the situation that they're But you know, I think you know,
a kid, a fan, a player, you know, you could
dream and wish and you know, no hate in disrespect
to the Denver Broncos, but it would have been really interesting.
It would have been really cool to see the Cincinnati
Bengals going up against the Buffalo Bills, especially because you
start to see a little bit of the change even defensively,
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a little bit of that change defensively happening in the
back half four and the fact that you know, in
the back half for the Bengals, but also to Joe
Burrow being able to overcome some of the deficit of
the defense. And when you get exciting players like Jamar
Chase and you see T Higgins coming along. I would
have loved to have seen that here against the Broncos
on a Sunday, January twelfth. That would have been amazing
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to watch that. I mean, you tell me, I mean
what sounds more exciting? I mean, we can go out
there and put that on X like I think a
lot of people will tell you that the Bengals seems
like a lot more exciting game against the Bills than
the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Of course, and probably other than a half a dozen teams.
I completely agree with it. But one of the reasons
I like the NFL playoff system this this unforgiving. We
don't do a committee here, we don't get eye tests,
we do facts, talk about wins and losses. And you
know there's this The Bengals deserve. They deserve to be in. Bengals,
I'm gonna pay you a combat we deserve to be in.
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You are Gene Hackman in the Unforgiven, lying down on
the ground looking up at Clint, and Hackman says, I'm
building a house. I don't deserve this. You know what
Clint says to him, deserves got nothing to do with it. Bad,
it's nothing. I don't care what you deserve. It's wins
and losses. Yes, you lost Week one to Jacoby Brissett,
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and you lost Week two, and you lost Week three.
Start a season, have a training camp fore you start
a season, because you started one and four last year
started one and three, the year before that you started
two and three. And that's why on this show, all
through September, what are we all saying, just stack wins.
I don't care what the score is, what the stats are.
Now to have to win and Bengals they just say
Pittsburgh sucks. We should be in. Inside Pittsburgh. They forty
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four on you five. You couldn't stop them. I'm sorry,
but to quote everybody ever, you know, offense is only
a third of the game. You are at a great offense.
I loved it. It was really fun. You don't deserve it.
You didn't win enough. Don't come running late. It's exciting.
We all got our hair blown back by the come
running team you've gotten. At least going in, at least
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keep up with the pack in September. I don't need
you to win out in September. Can you go five
hundred one of these years, then you'll get in. Believe me,
if you're walking around the office to say the Bengals
deserve to be in, deserves got nothing to do with it.
We'll see in mini camp.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Well, Kyle, they almost deserved it. They had like seven
they were like seven different scenarios they needed to happen
for them to get in. They missed just one. It
was just one of those things and that was out
of their control. Like like, they almost deserve it. You
don't give them that.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
At least right control their own destinies, isn't it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yes, the Broncos said, screw you, We're getting in the playoffs.
We haven't been in the playoffs in almost a decade.
We're gonna just droy this team. We're doing some cool
things here. I'm sorry, we don't just lay over to
let Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase get in your coch
We're set and the fired after just seventeen games. Girod
Mayo Patriots. They tuned him up to the to them
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up in their building. Yeah, I don't forget.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
When Kyle is referencing what looks like a black and
white film, you know he's going d and to quote
anyone ever.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I think is what you just said.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Time for game balls here on GMFB. It's our final
set of the regular season, off bar. We've been on
quite the journey with you for the game ball because
we went from like your bag of game balls that
you sent out one time and then we're like, no,
you got to pick one guy, who's your final regular
season game ball going to?
Speaker 7 (23:44):
You know what, I'm going to go for the final season?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Punters? Are people too? Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
With Sam Martin now coach Sean McDermott. He decided, you know, look,
my guy, my punter, he needs his incentive.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
So look at this.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Sean McDermott decides to punt from the from the thirty
five of the Patriots right there.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
And look at this.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
My bo actually goes to JaMarcus Ingram, who actually had
no idea that his punter, Sam Martin needed twenty five
punts inside the twenty yard line to get that one
hundred thousand dollars bonus.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
And guess what Ingram did it for him.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Uh, take a listen to h to this real quick
from JaMarcus Ingram.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Erlyn, Sam needed one more pun inside the twenty to
catch his intentive. Nah, I wasn't.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
He came up to me afterwards and well and let
me know, so, Oh man, that's a big time of
contiment for him, and I'm grateful I was able to
make that happen for him.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
You expand upon that how to feel once you learn
that you've helped to me catch that money.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Man, I felt good, like good as hell, because that's
that's something you know what I'm saying that that obviously
he needed and really I was just trying to make
a play and I'm just grateful. I was in a
position to make that play and soot hey got to
buy some money.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So you're gonna you're gonna call him to buy you something.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
He's saying he's gonna take me out of dinner.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
So I'm looking forward to what I eat a lot,
So I'm looking forward to that dinner or whatever he
got in store for that better.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Be an expensive dinner too, man, because that was a
nice That was a nice gesture right there. Shout out
to JaMarcus Ingram for that one.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So good effort.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yeah, Peter, what you got.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Shout out to McDermott two and gosh, you love that
kind of incentive. I think we're all over the multi
multi millionaire like when you hear Sam Martin's get and
then JaMarcus Ingram had.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Have That's the cool story off barm the guy who'd
who Now I can buy a third ferrour. I know
we're good. We're good on those. Can I give my
game ball.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
To a player who has had maybe the biggest roller
coaster season? I can imagine NFL history, it ends up
on top in the best place possible about Bryce Young
getting my game ball for Week eighteen? Bryce Young completes
twenty five passes for two hundred and fifty one yards
and three touchdowns as the Panthers, who quote nquote had
nothing to play for, shock the Falcons who had everything
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to play.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
For and did so in Atlanta. That's the highlight of
the game.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
We know that Bryce also added five roshes for twenty
four yards and two touchdowns there. He's had it at
least two touchdown passes in three straight games and a
passing touchdown each of his last ten games. Those are
obviously the longest streaks of his two year career. Bryce
Young went from being benched for what looked like could
be eternity based on how he looked in the early
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season to having one of the greatest November December January
turnarounds you can imagine for a second year player. The
Panthers have their quarterback, they have their coach, they have
their front office, and for the first time in years,
they have hope and optimism going into next season.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And shout out to my guy Coker. The rookie got.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
A Holy Cross who was freaking awesome in this game.
Cocher was the guy who Bryce Young was looking forward,
including this cool play here.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Cocker almost got in a great finish to the Panthers season.
Jalen Coker Jalen Coker at a Holy Cross League undrafted player,
and Bryce Young, the first overall pick out of Alabama
on a former number one five star high school recruit.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
They both ended the season in the right place. I
couldn't be happier for a player and for a franchise
and for how things ended up for Bryce Young and
the Panthers. Kudos to those guys down in Carolina.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
One of my favorite things to do on Sundays is
when you're texting Peter Schrager. You feel like you're having
five conversations at once because there's so much activity happening
in football, and you're like, what about this guy, what
about this guy?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
What about this coach? And I think one of the
text yesterday was like, to Bryce Young, figure it out?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
What are we?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Where have we gone with Bryce Young? Peter, I'm so
glad you shine a light on it. It's awesome talking
about another Alabama guy.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Jamior Gibbs.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Kyle had that awesome tweet about where he was drafted
by the Lions and all the heat that the team got.
Oh my god, my game ball goes to Jamiir Gibbs.
What a day, a franchise day for the running back
slash X factor for everything offensive for the Lions in
that massive monumental win over the Minnesota Vikings yesterday, four
touchdowns ties a single game franchise record. Twenty scrimmage tds
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for the season is a franchise record, and a franchise
that has names like Barry Sanders speaking up that Jamir
Gibbs for the last three games has had over one
hundred and fifty yards from his line of scrimmage ties,
a franchise record with Barry Sanders back in nineteen ninety one,
he did three straight games and wouldn't you know what
those are the games that the Lions have been without
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David Montgomery, who NBC just happened to trickle out the
fact yesterday that Dave Montgomery has had some workouts.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Are you serious? Could we have Sonic and Knuckles Part seven.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
In January saighty So if you're going up against the
Lions and you got to go to Ford Field, Kyle,
Jamiir Gibbs my game ball.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
It's a very very appropriate game ball. I have mine
to someone in light of the fact that the script
was in. The script was written. The Bengals took care
of business Saturday night, the Dolphins lost, and all the
Broncos are supposed to do is lose to the Chiefs
and then the Bengals get in the playoffs like everyone wanted,
and bow Nick said, screw it. No, I'm not following
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any script. I don't care that you want Joe Burrow
in there. Not only am I going to go and
win this game, I'm going to completely light up the
Chiefs backups as I should because we are a playoff team,
and I'm going to do this as the regular season
finale in one of the greatest rookie seasons we've ever seen.
He's not gonna win Offensive Rookie of the Year. It
doesn't matter. He started wire to wire to a franchise
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that has whiffed in some quarterbacks and hasn't been in
the playoffs. I feel like since I was in college,
I mean, it's just been a long, long run, and
this was your exclamation point. There's magic in the back
of the end zone and I just love him. Peyton.
Everybody on Denver who could not have possibly cared less
that everyone outside of Denver one of the Bengals to
make into the playoffs. He said, we're getting in the playoffs.
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Is their third straight week. They had a winning in situation.
They lost, they lost, and then they won by about
seventy and he did a victory lap round mile high.
Bo Nicks, you have punctuated the dreariness that's been in
Denver for years. Impressed totally across the board, Very very
cool performance. We'll see you in the playoffs, Kyle.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Is that a pirate mentality perhaps that he is taking
on from his head coach.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
It's possible. It really could be Jamie good call.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
All right, we love that personality trade. That was game
balls on GMFB. We've got more breaking news to pay
attention to, of course, rewind that and head scratchers, but
you don't have to question anymore is who's going to
the playoffs? You got Wildcard weekend on deck. We're talking
everything football.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Good morning football.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
What's up everybody?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Every Monday, I give out the Coach of the Week award.
It could be a coordinator, it could be an assistant.
Sometimes it's a head coach. He just does the right
thing and gets the job done. Today's Coach of the
Week Award for Week eighteen, Ghost to a guy who
has now won yet another straight division title in the
NFC South.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Todd Bowles is our coach.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Right week, Tima Bay Buccaneers head coach not only win
the division title with the win over the Saints, but
does the right thing and getting Mike Evans on the
field and getting him a thousand yards so he could
keep that awesome streak going.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Bulls could have.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Easily taken a knee in a lot of ways that
was the right play to make, but Mike Evans is
a special player and this is a special streak that
they've got going on eleven straight years. He now ties
Jerry Rice in the record books for most one thousand
yard receiving seasons. The reaction from the team tells you
everything about how the players felt. Todd Bowles in the
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locker room afterwards, was right there celebrating with a giant
smile on his face, and we see his general manager
Jason Light behind him.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
They're celebrating Mike. This is the family and Mike Evans
has been there over multiple regimes.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He goes back to Lovey Smith and Dirk Cutter, and
he goes back to Bruce Arians but they've had a
lot of success under Todd Bowles. Todd does not get
enough credit for what he's done in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
They have lost offensive coordinators over the year. Dave Kanalisa
left last year.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
They still find a way to win yet another division
title on top Bowles's resume. A guy who's very seldom
given praise on the national media, I gotta do it today.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
He wins and he does it the right way. Todd
Bowles is our coach of the Week for Week eighteen.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, I'm checking notes.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
Peter the Bucks four time NFC South champion, So kudos
to the Buccaneers, but the Lions. They punched their ticket
to the postseason as the number one seed following their
win Sunday night over the Vikings. It's the first time
Detroit has been the top seed in the NFC. With
that they get home field advantage and that coveted first
run buy in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are very own.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
Stacey Dale's found out it could come extra helpful to
offensive tackle Tail Decker.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Under your process that you're the number one seed, you
get a break next week, and you got.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
This feel throughout well hopefully so I'm supposed to have
my wife's supposed to have a baby soon, so hopefully
it's on that bye week and we get them home
field games too, so it's gonna be awesome to rest up,
get healthy. Our bye week was early, and then hopefully
play a bunch of games.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Jared was surgical in the second half. What has made
him so special in these.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
Big moments, He's just got a special feel. We knew
they were gonna try and line us up with blitzes
and a bunch of different looks, and he just got
an uncanny ability to kind of feel that space in
the defense and to deliver the ball and even took
some big hits while he was doing it.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
The guy's incredible.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
I mean, nobody's playing better quarterback than that guy.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
What a game there in the NFC.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
And also best wishes to missus Decker as she delivers
their baby.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But time now for this.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Week's replay review where we look at it an official
review from the weekend, and for that, we're taking you
to Brown's Ravens Bailey's appy connecting with wide receiver Jamori
Thrash who makes the catch at the three yard line.
It appears he got in the end zone. It was
ruled a touchdown on the field, but after official review
determined he did not complete the process of the catch
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before losing the ball, it was overturned. In the end,
it was a incomplete past, the Ravens winning the game
to clinch the AFC North title for the second straight season.
The faced Division rival Pittsburgh in the wild card round.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Now, don't go anywhere coming back.
Speaker 13 (34:08):
We have much more come out the plays that kind
of have to scratch your head and said what happened?
Speaker 4 (34:14):
For seven games at home and eight games on the road,
the Detroit Lions and their media production department have gifted
us Dan Campbell after wins. That is fifteen times we
have been invited into the Lions locker room. And the
week eighteenth finale definitely served you.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Guys.
Speaker 14 (34:32):
Look like you remember.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Who look you are? I was awsome. That's a hell
of a win.
Speaker 14 (34:39):
Guys. All I can think about is, man, we've been
forcing this stuff. Now, this has been three years in
the making. Some of it four Like that just didn't happen.
You got to work through it, grind through it, and
go through the downs to get to the option where
we're at.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Man, Look at him, Look at him. Go look at
the vein, look at the juggular.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Look at everything.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You guys are oh, look at you both looked like
you'relready a rifle.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Head scratchers, Peter, you're at first.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
What could have had the Patriots lost this game, they
would have the number one pick, but they win it
and then their coaches.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Fired immediately afterwards.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
So I don't know what communication was made beforehand or whatever,
but my head scratchers at this play didn't count.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Joe Milton with my players a day.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Joe Milton, who was a combine workout warders Michigan Tennessee
fans know what kind of army has million of course,
is played in not out because of my penalty, one
of my favorite players in.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
The season, this season of this I had to show it.
Joe Millan a lost season in New England. Mahomes could never.
Holmes could never. You know, Mahomes did.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
This talk more about Jayden Daniels, You fools.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I want Joe Millan. I love this play. I want
to show on our show, Joe Millan.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
We see you and Patriots will see who your next
head coach.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Is going to be.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Kyle who's your favorite person that you'd want to sit
next to a flight international flight for nine.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Hours with Marcus Mariota. Because he won't say anything, We'll
just have silence.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Marcus Mariota, come on down.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You are the subject of my head scratcher. On the
final week of the regular season, this caught my eye.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Turn Sponster got him.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
No, there was not.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
A player in sight, but listen, he got redemption. Okay,
this was with about six minutes left in.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
The fourth quarter. You hate to see it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
You also hate to see this when somebody like Malik
Hooker has the audacity to celebrate thinking that someone else
on his defense is going to take down Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's you see him chasing him here, cass to catch
up to get him.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Look at twenty eight yet we got him.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
No you don't. That was a fourth down conversion.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Come on now, So I don't care if if Marcus
Mariota actually got tripped by a real player on the
second player or a fake player on the first play.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
My head scratcher is Bille Hooker, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
But also Marcus Mariota, look out for that turf monster man.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Those lines will trip you up.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
And them turf monsters are real. They just come on
and get you. Get over here, you know. In the
same game.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Yes, yeah, it was like a score for you too.
But in the same game. The punter, Oh boy, I
don't know if you guys saw this. It's so funny.
Check out the punter here. Now, Michelle Simeonowski right here.
She's not aware of this and this it's her right
on the top of the head.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Now, she takes it like a gee.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
She's okay, she's okay.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
We're not making fun of her.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
But it was one of those head scratched like did
you not see her head? She's sitting there with the
pomp pomp And what about the dude down here who
doesn't just here's some very lazy He didn't even try
to block it.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
He could have trying to block it. But she's all good.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
She had a good laugh with it.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
But hey, my in treacherous.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
What was that other cheerleader trying to offer her?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Like that was like a tequila shot, Like that's what
I would.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Have to take it if football got me on the sideline.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
You know what, though, I like it because she took
a shot and she didn't go into the blue tents.
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 14 (37:46):
She's really tough.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Listen, we may have to put her in angry runs tomorrow, guys,
you know what I mean. Like, I'll think about it
well convening of the committee. But in the meantime, my
head scratch it. You will not believe what is going
on in my life right now. I've never encountered something
like this ever. Are you pregnant? What we got? No?
Not even This is the bigger deal than that.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
All right.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
So the Bears meet the Packers end of the game.
Cairo Santos. This is really cool thing because he had
a chance to beat them last time they played, but
they blocked the kick, and this time he made it.
Cairo Santras the Bears of not being the Packers in
over two thousand days. They beat them. The season's over,
and then Santos does this celebration that really caught my
eye that I liked. He goes and he's running around.
(38:25):
He's doing that. I had never seen someone do that before.
It's a person, So I tweeted. Never tweet and certainly
never admit that you've never seen anything before. Bring it.
I have never seen a human do this. Movement ever,
great tweets soccer. You will not believe the thousands of
replies I have gotten to this tweet. Pornographic, No, pe
(38:48):
Peter just showed his hand. I wasn't going anywhere there
soccer Twitter. This has a very famous celebration by many players,
including very famous players. Guys, I'm telling you, there are
thousands of people saying this is a comment on America.
This is ignorance. This is you. You're on cultured to me,
(39:08):
attacking me. I don't know ball, I've never seen this.
I've never I've tweeted some irresponsible things, some really stupid
things over the years, never gotten the viscerays that I've
gotten from this. People are so famous. Diddy a drug bud.
That's that guy. I'm probably just gon pronounced his name.
And now I'm gonna get canceled again. People are they
want to fight me. They're like, where do you live?
I want to meet you.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
We didn't even run the tweets because I think it
would be a security risk. They're so mad that I said,
I've never seen that before. I don't watch soccer. I
don't I don't really like watching soccer. I don't apologize
for it, and don't call me an uncultured swine. All right,
I'm an English major. I like theater, I'm an avid reader.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I like football.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I'm not on culture. Don't you come in America because
I don't know what the heck this is. Stop it
with that.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Get you to some international games over there, man, like,
so you can know that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
I don't want to do. I want to go to
American football soccer. I watch Tony Roads.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Being well rounded?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Kyle, speaking of being well rounded, how was bull riding?
Professional bull riding on Saturday night?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
Also exactly Friday night, Madison Square Garden. You want culture,
I'm at the Professional Professional bull Riding Tour. I'm there
at the garden. They're blasting kid Rockers, Monster Energy, drink everywhere.
I mean, it's it's over your midloaded atmosphere, beautiful, uncultured
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It is FATOCOMPLEI for the twenty twenty four regular season,
we know all of the seeds. But Peter, as we
look at some of the coaching changes at hand, just
a quick refresher, I thought it was really important how
we ended last hour, which is some of the names
you're gonna hear about interviews today and why you might
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hear those over others.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yeah, at the league change the rules on who can
interview and when because there was a big push that
why should all these coordinators be interviewing before wildcard games.
So the new rule is only teams that got the
one seed the bye, meaning they have no games this week,
only their coordinators can interview for head coaching jobs this
week and they can only do it via zoom. So
they're not traveling all over the country. They're going to
be doing it over zoom. So four names, Matt Naggie,
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Steve Spagnolo, and of course Ben Johnson.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
And Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
They have the ability to interview this week over zoom.
And of course we know Mike Vrabel can interview Rex
Ryan can interview, John Gruden can interview anybody not employed
by a team or who is employed by a team
that's been eliminated, they can interview in person. But that
is the clarification on that, and Kyle said it so eloquently.
The Bears have already put their slips in. I would
(01:39):
imagine the Jets and Saints would want to at least
meet with Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson as well.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And Kyle, what a show did those last two names
that Peter just mentioned put on on Sunday Night Football?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
They really did. Let's get into it. It's Brian Flora
is not someone who could do it then because they're
not the one because they lost last night. They could
have if they won, if the Vikings win. I imagine
Flores is going to interview with the Bear. It's the
first part at the Apple. By the way, I think
they're gonna hire Brian Floores. That's my prediction. That's your pick.
I'm not an offensive code, Yes, yes I do. I
told you it's gonna be unconventional. I'm not doing that
(02:11):
based on sources. I'm doing it knowing the Bears, knowing history,
knowing what they like. Okay, I hire Brian floor just
my prediction. I had some people serpent me on Twitter
after opening segment because I said the Vikings got destroyed
in this game. They didn't get desyed, Yes they did.
It's their lowest point total of the year, in their
biggest game of the year, and they're doing it against
a defense that's been lit up for the past month.
They did not have their best game. I'm not saying
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it's the end of the season. I'm not even saying
they won't win the Super Bowl. They got completely outclassed
in the second half of this game. I take no
joy in saying it thirty one to night. It's still
a fourteen and three season. The problem is now this year,
fourteen and three gets you a trip to LA to
play a Rams team you've already lost to. Let's go
to Washing Dallas.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Marcus Mariota, this was the difference between having to travel
to LA and or maybe having to go to Philadelphia
and say now we're gonna go to Tampa instead. The
clock and how it was going and all the other
games mattered here.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
What do you know, another game winning.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Touchdown drive for Washington. That's what they did all season.
They finished the season.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Twelve and five, the hell of a record as the sixth.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Seed and not the seventh seed. Twelve and five Commanders awesome, all.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Right, Bears Packers.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Kyle mentioned it, the Bears trying to do something they
had not done and quite some time in Green Bay,
and that was so not the site you wanted to
see for the Packers.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Late in the game, one point game, Packers up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Caleb Williams gets the first down, ten seconds to play,
and there they are within field goal range and the
Bears are going to try to accomplish something with time
winding down, not a timeout on the clock.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And they clinched a win. Job done.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Field goal good, fifty one yarder through the uprights. A
beautiful scene if you're a Bears fan and you're hoping
to have your year end on a good note.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Twenty four to twenty two Bears snap an.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Eleven game win streak that they had had riding against
the Packers, a ten game win streak just this season alone.
Now they have some decisions to make because they had
to make those changes in the regular season. Here we
go Wildcard weekend. As you mentioned it, no Lions, no Chiefs.
Here's who you will see next weekend two Saturday, three
Sunday one on Monday night, the AFC North occupies a
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half of Saturday as the Steelers have to play the
Ravens in the opening round. That is an incredible matchup
in the first playoff games to be played and seen
on prime video.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
So congrats to those guys.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's whe you're looking at six games, and let's dive
into them.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Now, shall we.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Peter Scheger, you look at this schedule and you pick
apart something that catches your eye already on.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
A Monday, how about a Sunday night Collinsworth Tarico Buccaneers
Commander's game. Like it was nobody's prediction before the season started.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Maybe you thought the Bucks would win the division.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
You didn't pick the Commanders to be a wildcard, and
you certainly didn't pick them as the sixth seed and
not the seventh seed two of the most fun electric
teams that, oh, by the way, have put on great
performances in the month of December in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I love this too, Heisman Trophy winners going at it,
and I like that they.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Got what I consider the premier treatment that Sunday night
game with those two voices on it. You look at
this Commander's story. What they have done in the final
seconds of games has made them the cardiac kids, and
they have found a way.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
They have won on a Hail Mary. Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
They have won on a walk off overtime touchdown on
Sunday night to beat another rookie quarterback, Michael Pennix. They
have beaten the Eagles at home, they have beaten the
Giants at home, and then yesterday they go into their
arch rival Dallas Cowboys building in a game that did
matter for seating and Marcus Mariota says, you know what,
Jaden chill over there.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
I'm gonna do a little.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Something too, and he finds a way to have the
dramatic win the Commander's Buccaneers game. It's not the same
storied franchises in recent years as the Ravens and the Steelers.
On Saturday night, or the dramatic matchup that we're gonna
have with.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
The Eagles and Packers.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
But you got maybe the two feel good stories of
the entire season going at it. What might be the
most fun wild card matchup if I'm picking this one now,
like you're telling me that Jaden Daniels is gonna be
playing in great weather on a Sunday in Tampa with
all the momentum after having just won two key games
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to get in this thing against Atlanta. Of course, but
I look at that Philadelphia game three weeks ago where
they had to get that win at the end and
they did. Gosh, the names of players that have stepped
up for Washington, whether it be Alamid's a Kaus or
zach Ertz, it's a really cool story. I don't know
if it necessarily ends in the Wildcard round, they might
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be marching on. They could be the hottest team in football.
So Washington That's who I'm looking at right now. And
I also love what Tampa's got going on.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I did too. Washington brings me to my point too,
because Sean McVay was a subject of controversy yesterday. It's
an interesting thing that he did so they're at home,
and he said, I'm gonna just play the backups. I'm
gonna start Garoppolo and Jeremy, Jimmy garopolothers were a whole
bunch of yards. Understand that if the Rams won that game,
if they won yesterday, they would be home next week
against the Commanders. So it's a rookie quarterback who's never
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been there before. It seems more desirable because if you
lose that game, they're at home next week against the Vikings,
who hadn't lost the game in three months. So you
want to win, right. McVeigh said, I don't care. I'm
playing my backups. I know my team, I know what
we need. They lost the game, and I love the
decision that mcmay made. His whole take was, look, we
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haven't had a week. Six was our bye. We've been
going at this thing three months. We got a quarterback
who was getting up there in years. We got wide
receivers who battle through injury. I am not in here
to win a wild card game next week. I want
to win the Super Bowl this year. I'm thinking long term.
I'm gonna rest my guys. We'll try to win, but
if we don't, we'll take our chances with the Vikings.
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And by the way, I'm not terrified of that matchup,
especially after what I saw last night, especially that the
Rams have already beaten the Vikings in that building and
the Commanders are in a five game winning streak themselves.
I don't want Jaydon Daniels coming in there like Mike
Vic going in the Lambeau and taking over the game
going on everybody. I like that McVeigh. I know it's unconventional.
You don't want to do that. Who want to play
the Vikings. He knows his team, he knows his weaknesses,
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he knows what they need. And that is a guy
who has don't question me authority. He is a made guy.
If it's a young coach, what are you doing? Mcveigh's like,
I'm McVeigh, You're not. I'm wrestling them. I'm going to
play Jimmy. If we lose, we'll take our chances. I
love the decision and I'm starting to feel like it's
going to pay off for him.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Kyle, you've done this several times today, and somebody in
the production booth just said, in my ear your face
that you make when Kyle repeatedly references the Vikings have
already been here this season and lost in this building
is just one where like the directors like ten seconds
in advance is like you're about to come back on camera, AKA,
change your face, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's not good, it's not great, doesn't feel nice. What
do you look at next week?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Well, well, I do have the same of some of
the concerns, especially since we know that the Rams, you know,
went ahead and beat the Vikings in that last game,
in that last matchup and especially to Detroit, showed how
to rattle. But I'm looking over in the A and
I'm looking at the Chargers, the Los Angeles Chargers against
the Houston Texans, and I really think in this last
game they've gone on a three game winning streak, but
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they might have found their nice little patch into kind
of being a havoc or excuse me, a little bit
of a headache in the AFC run up. I looked
at what Quentin Johnston in the game that he had.
If they can maintain some sort of presence in the
wide receiver in the deep threat situation, the Chargers could
be a handful because they had that run game going on.
So I'm looking at the Chargers as somebody that people
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are probably thinking one and done maybe, but I think
they could go a little further than a lot of
people are giving them credit for.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
And a lot of people aren't talking about them.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
But I saw something yesterday in that game where I
thought that I think the Chargers can really make some
noise in the AFC.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Speaking of wreaking havoc in the AFC, I can't wait
for Sean Payton to go to Buffalo and see what
kind of mess he can get into with the Broncos
and the Bills. That's next weekend, but let's focus on today.
We have the insiders who are joining us for the
following twenty four hours as Monday is very busy. Their
shows will start ten am today Eastern guy, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Ian?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
We'll start with you with some of the changes that
you want to talk about.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
We'll start with the New England Patriots.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
The big news from right after the game yesterday, Drod
Mayo officially won and done in New England. And this
is not shocking because of the Patriots record and because
of the way this season went. Obviously it was bad
and the fact that they came back from the bye.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
It was a bad season.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
All round, but they came back from the by just
never quite could get it together. Never will think they
were improving, didn't always seem to be playing at their best.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I think that's obvious with the amount.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Of blowout losses they came in the last.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Month or a little bit more.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Just never really seemed to find a good place for
Drod Mayo. So the handpicked successor of Biebelichick is now out,
and of course the speculation immediately goes to Mike Rabel,
the former Patriots linebacker, former Patriots captain, who is a
free agent, who had interest in the Patriots stop last year,
who has interested in the Patriots stop this year, and
certainly could be at least one of the reasons one
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of the reasons they're comfortable moving on from Drod Mayo
so quickly.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
I we got another head coach vacancy earlier today, within
the past hour, the Jaguars firing Doug Peterson after his
third Seaton. Peterson, of course, a Super Bowl winner with
the Eagles, arrived with some fanfare in Jacksonville and immediately
took them to the playoffs when nine to eighth his
first season, had that wild comeback, winning the wildcard run
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round over the Chargers when nine and eight. Again last year,
when shot Con proclaimed before the season, this is the
most talented roster we've had and it's time for us
to win. The pressure was on. The Jaguars simply didn't
meet the moment. They had ten one score losses on
the way to a four and thirteen finish that led
them to move on at this point from Doug Peterson
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and once again opened a coaching search, notably, general manager
Trent Balkey, according to a statement from owner shot Con,
will be staying on, which is probably reflective again of
how Conn feels about a talented roster led by quarterback
Trevor Lawrence. It also is of note that the new
head coach will report directly to Con Mike, not to
Trent Balkey, which potentially could make this job a little
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bit more appealing to certain head coaching candidates.
Speaker 10 (12:09):
And I would say that usually we bring a lot
of bad news on this Monday morning, here's some good
news for a couple of guys who have jobs here
in New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
It is Joe.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Shane and Brian Dabole, the general manager and head coach
of the Giants, remaining in place. The team announced I
think we within the last couple of weeks, had realized
Shane was rock solid. He had been out scouting quarterbacks
already with his personnel staff. The question was whether Daboll
would continue, and John Mara, the Giants president, making it
clear this morning that Daboll will continue. The Coach of
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the Year just a couple of years ago, Mara saying
he still has faith in the process that these two
have enacted so far in East Rutherford. Yes, the results
have sort of gone backward, but this is a team
now with the third overall pick in the draft in
a position to take a quarterback, and Mara obviously believes
along with co owner Steve Tish, that there is talent
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in place on this roster and the results should follow.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
This was a really good draft class.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Yes for them, it seemed in twenty twenty four, with
Malik Neighbors all the way to Tyrone Tracy and Theo Johnson,
Tyler Nuban the safety these guys have produced in their
rookie year. So the hope is he continue to stockpile
some talent and these results go up. But I would
say that I would expect in the near future John
Merritt to make it clear that these results have to
come up, have to come up quickly, and this needs
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to be a playoff caliber team in twenty twenty five
for these guys to continue beyond.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
A lot of expectation with that kind of talent in
the building. Mike Gee, you're exactly right, gentlemen. Thank you
so much. We'll talk to you again, Peter. There was
a lot of speculation surrounding Brian Dable Joe Shane. Was
this ever an option that the Giants were going to
move on or were they just putting out a statement
saying we've thought this all along, they're staying in our building.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I think there's a lot of false reports out there,
and this is a good lesson for all of us.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
When you fire a coach online or.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Twitter and you're a reporter and you don't know for
sure that that coach is being fired, it does seem
pretty foolish when they're not. That happens all the time
every year. It's why you have to see things through.
Every team is different, and I think a lot of
us thought that Trent Balkie would be showing the door.
I'm told that for weeks everyone's known that Trent Balki
in that building was going to be okay, and that
it was going to be Peterson. As far as Dabele,
everyone said that Shane is probably going to be saying,
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but Dable's going to be gone?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Who's ever?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
John meredithn't talk to anybody. So it's also a lot
of speculation in this case. I think that Hard Knock
series did not do anyone any favors in that building.
I honestly don't. But I do think the Giants ownership
looks at it and says, Okay, let's get these guys
an opportunity, either draft a quarterback or work around it.
We know that Nuban, Tyrone, Tracy, and Thelik neighbors, we're
all excellent rookies this year. We also know that Sakwon
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Barkley had maybe the greatest running back season of all time,
and they said no to him. So they can bring
in a couple offensive linemen and Devin Singletary.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, Peter, to push back a little bit, you said
to talk about firing someone online. If you wait to
make sure the story is true, you can't be first.
Oh you can't. But you can't be first then and
do that what's the point.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You have to know how many clicks you can get
firing a person on a Sunday and then they actually
keep their job on Monday, and it's saying everyone's shocked
it actually happens.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
You have to do that, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You know how much fun that is than when you
have to walk into the press conference with that person
that you fired.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I'm you don't have to go to Jemmy, You never
have to go in person.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You just it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Then the shame gets with the Yeah, exactly, soone should.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Just tweet anything anytime. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
We're not even close to putting a.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Bow on Week eighteen, Yet we got to look back
at the playoff team that could have been for us
anybody else obsessed with the Bengals and their path that winning.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
In it and in for the postseason. We got to
talk Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
And the Cincinnati Bengals and the fact that we will
not be seeing them continue on in January and what
kind of heart.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Breaks does that bring.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
Us?
Speaker 6 (15:47):
All right? Game boss? Who deserves one? In a wild
Week eighteen, very strange night, And most importantly, guys, what
multimillionaires made more money yesterday for doing their job. Peter's
going to run all those down. We like that. It
wasn't mentioned enough yesterday on the air. Jim be Honor,
it's a game ball, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good morning Football.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Here we go NFC West.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Not going to see him in January, but let's check
in on how the forty nine Ers and the Cardinals
are doing. There's rock Party. Didn't play hurt his elbow
last week. Kyler Murray is still out there slinging it around.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Cardinals.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Massive win, really cool for the Cardinals in the direction
they're going, and they have doubled their divisional wins that
they had the year before.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Look at them.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Go, that's a big number for he said, how about
Aaron Rodgers, Oh, we could talk about this.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Ian Rockport got a nice shout out. Rogers said, all
due respect to Ian.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
He he doesn't know his future himself, so we'll see.
But we love when the rap sheet gets called out.
Rogers goes out with a big game. How about Todd
downing the offense finally looked like it was supposed to
Rogers five hundred passing touchdown, and then on second and two,
Rogers looking this might be the last time we ever
seen him a football field focused pretty catch by DeVante.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
They've been an all time connection.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
The Jets win, Dolphins whimpering, and Tyreek Hill had some
comments after the game.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We know that Dolphins are fighting for their Lifelo Dophins, Sunglass,
what are we doing? Good? Unbelievable? All right, Bengals Steelers,
they gotta win as they've had each of the last
several weeks. Jamar Chase, I feel like he has forty
touchdowns this year. What an unbelievable season from him, statistically, esthetically,
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just everything just always looks so cool. Bro wins. But
it was all for not because the Chiefs did absolutely
nothing the next day and got destroyed. Nothing. So the
Bengals on fire nine and eight, they finished about five hundred.
They're all celebrated, but they do not make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
And there it is, Jamie, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's the schedule.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Looking ahead to Wildcard weekend, just take your pick. A
lot of awesome matchups like Packers Eagles is a game
at half in Philadelphia to be played, and it spreads
all the way to Monday night and Vikings Rams. But
the name and the team and the players and you
will not see next weekend are the Cincinnati Bengals, and
to their point second half of the season, Bengals started to.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Figure some things out.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Joe Burrow was awesome, Jamar Chase was great.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Peter, you feel a little cheated that we.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Don't get to see the Bengals in the postseason?
Speaker 5 (18:20):
No, because we got a lot of the Bengals right.
They were on national TV the final two weeks in
the season, day of these dramatic comeback wins, and the
Bengals gave us fantasy football, and.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They gave us some really excellent fodder.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
When we heard Joe Burrow be mentioned as the MVP
from Troy Aikman, that was about two segments of content
for us last week, so.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I'm happy with that.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I would also note that the Bengals lost Week one
to the Gerardmeo Jacoby Burssett Patriots at home, and the
first month of the season does happen to matter in
the NFL.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm sorry to tell it. It's an eighteen week season,
and when.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
You start off losing the first few weeks every single year,
year in, year out, eventually.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
It's going to bite you in the butt.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I would rather us flip the table and celebrate the
team that did make it.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Do you see the season that bot Nicks just put
together in his first year.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You could talk about Joe Burrow and cry alligator tears
about not seeing him.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Bow Knicks's head.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
One of the greatest seasons in Broncos history in a
franchise that includes John Elway and Peyton Manning.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Boon Knicks put up the fourth best single.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Season touchdown record in the franchise's history.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
And gosh, let's enjoy this.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
For that fan base that hasn't been to the playoffs
since Peyton Manning was a quarterback and actually earned it
by winning enough games and getting the tiebreakers needed.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Bengals fans, I hear you.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
We got our Bengals moments they have been in late
December and early January were money. Go not give up
five hundred yards of offense to the Russell Wilson led Steelers.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
That's my thought.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Go beat a team of significance in September. I have
no problem with the Bengals messing the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
You gotta play defense. Also, they didn't do that all
season far your thoughts, Yeah, that was the problem. It
was the defense.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
It was the defense that caused them to be in
the situation that they're But you know, I think you know,
a kid, a fan, a player, you know, you could
dream and wish and you know, no hate in disrespect
to the Denver Broncos, but it would have been really interesting.
It would have been really cool to see the Cincinnati
Bengals going up against the Buffalo Bills, especially because you
start to see a little bit of the change even defensively,
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a little bit of that change defensively happening in the
back half four and the fact that you know, in
the back half for the Bengals, but also to Joe
Burrow being able to overcome some of the deficit of
the defense. And when you get exciting players like Jamar
Chase and you see T Higgins coming along. I would
have loved to have seen that here against the Broncos
on a Sunday, January twelfth. That would have been amazing
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to watch that. I mean, you tell me, I mean
what sounds more exciting? I mean, we can go out
there and put that on X like I think a
lot of people will tell you that the Bengals seems
like a lot more exciting game against the Bills than
the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Of course, and probably other than a half a dozen teams.
I completely agree with it. But one of the reasons
I like the NFL playoff system this this unforgiving. We
don't do a committee here, we don't get eye tests,
we do facts, talk about wins and losses. And you
know there's this The Bengals deserve. They deserve to be in. Bengals,
I'm gonna pay you a combat we deserve to be in.
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You are Gene Hackman in the Unforgiven, lying down on
the ground looking up at Clint, and Hackman says, I'm
building a house. I don't deserve this. You know what
Clint says to him, deserves got nothing to do with it. Bad,
it's nothing. I don't care what you deserve. It's wins
and losses. Yes, you lost Week one to Jacoby Brissett,
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and you lost Week two, and you lost Week three.
Start a season, have a training camp fore you start
a season, because you started one and four last year
started one and three, the year before that you started
two and three. And that's why on this show, all
through September, what are we all saying, just stack wins.
I don't care what the score is, what the stats are.
Now to have to win and Bengals they just say
Pittsburgh sucks. We should be in. Inside Pittsburgh. They forty
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four on you five. You couldn't stop them. I'm sorry,
but to quote everybody ever, you know, offense is only
a third of the game. You are at a great offense.
I loved it. It was really fun. You don't deserve it.
You didn't win enough. Don't come running late. It's exciting.
We all got our hair blown back by the come
running team you've gotten. At least going in, at least
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keep up with the pack in September. I don't need
you to win out in September. Can you go five
hundred one of these years, then you'll get in. Believe me,
if you're walking around the office to say the Bengals
deserve to be in, deserves got nothing to do with it.
We'll see in mini camp.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Well, Kyle, they almost deserved it. They had like seven
they were like seven different scenarios they needed to happen
for them to get in. They missed just one. It
was just one of those things and that was out
of their control. Like like, they almost deserve it. You
don't give them that.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
At least right control their own destinies, isn't it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Yes, the Broncos said, screw you, We're getting in the playoffs.
We haven't been in the playoffs in almost a decade.
We're gonna just droy this team. We're doing some cool
things here. I'm sorry, we don't just lay over to
let Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase get in your coch
We're set and the fired after just seventeen games. Girod
Mayo Patriots. They tuned him up to the to them
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up in their building. Yeah, I don't forget.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
When Kyle is referencing what looks like a black and
white film, you know he's going d and to quote
anyone ever.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I think is what you just said.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Time for game balls here on GMFB. It's our final
set of the regular season, off bar. We've been on
quite the journey with you for the game ball because
we went from like your bag of game balls that
you sent out one time and then we're like, no,
you got to pick one guy, who's your final regular
season game ball going to?
Speaker 7 (23:44):
You know what, I'm going to go for the final season?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Punters? Are people too? Okay?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
With Sam Martin now coach Sean McDermott. He decided, you know, look,
my guy, my punter, he needs his incentive.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
So look at this.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Sean McDermott decides to punt from the from the thirty
five of the Patriots right there.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
And look at this.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
My bo actually goes to JaMarcus Ingram, who actually had
no idea that his punter, Sam Martin needed twenty five
punts inside the twenty yard line to get that one
hundred thousand dollars bonus.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
And guess what Ingram did it for him.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Uh, take a listen to h to this real quick
from JaMarcus Ingram.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Erlyn, Sam needed one more pun inside the twenty to
catch his intentive. Nah, I wasn't.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
He came up to me afterwards and well and let
me know, so, Oh man, that's a big time of
contiment for him, and I'm grateful I was able to
make that happen for him.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
You expand upon that how to feel once you learn
that you've helped to me catch that money.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Man, I felt good, like good as hell, because that's
that's something you know what I'm saying that that obviously
he needed and really I was just trying to make
a play and I'm just grateful. I was in a
position to make that play and soot hey got to
buy some money.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
So you're gonna you're gonna call him to buy you something.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
He's saying he's gonna take me out of dinner.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
So I'm looking forward to what I eat a lot,
So I'm looking forward to that dinner or whatever he
got in store for that better.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Be an expensive dinner too, man, because that was a
nice That was a nice gesture right there. Shout out
to JaMarcus Ingram for that one.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
So good effort.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Yeah, Peter, what you got.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Shout out to McDermott two and gosh, you love that
kind of incentive. I think we're all over the multi
multi millionaire like when you hear Sam Martin's get and
then JaMarcus Ingram had.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Have That's the cool story off barm the guy who'd
who Now I can buy a third ferrour. I know
we're good. We're good on those. Can I give my
game ball.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
To a player who has had maybe the biggest roller
coaster season? I can imagine NFL history, it ends up
on top in the best place possible about Bryce Young
getting my game ball for Week eighteen? Bryce Young completes
twenty five passes for two hundred and fifty one yards
and three touchdowns as the Panthers, who quote nquote had
nothing to play for, shock the Falcons who had everything
(25:57):
to play.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
For and did so in Atlanta. That's the highlight of
the game.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
We know that Bryce also added five roshes for twenty
four yards and two touchdowns there. He's had it at
least two touchdown passes in three straight games and a
passing touchdown each of his last ten games. Those are
obviously the longest streaks of his two year career. Bryce
Young went from being benched for what looked like could
be eternity based on how he looked in the early
(26:22):
season to having one of the greatest November December January
turnarounds you can imagine for a second year player. The
Panthers have their quarterback, they have their coach, they have
their front office, and for the first time in years,
they have hope and optimism going into next season.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And shout out to my guy Coker. The rookie got.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
A Holy Cross who was freaking awesome in this game.
Cocher was the guy who Bryce Young was looking forward,
including this cool play here.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Cocker almost got in a great finish to the Panthers season.
Jalen Coker Jalen Coker at a Holy Cross League undrafted player,
and Bryce Young, the first overall pick out of Alabama
on a former number one five star high school recruit.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
They both ended the season in the right place. I
couldn't be happier for a player and for a franchise
and for how things ended up for Bryce Young and
the Panthers. Kudos to those guys down in Carolina.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
One of my favorite things to do on Sundays is
when you're texting Peter Schrager. You feel like you're having
five conversations at once because there's so much activity happening
in football, and you're like, what about this guy, what
about this guy?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
What about this coach? And I think one of the
text yesterday was like, to Bryce Young, figure it out?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
What are we?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Where have we gone with Bryce Young? Peter, I'm so
glad you shine a light on it. It's awesome talking
about another Alabama guy.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Jamior Gibbs.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Kyle had that awesome tweet about where he was drafted
by the Lions and all the heat that the team got.
Oh my god, my game ball goes to Jamiir Gibbs.
What a day, a franchise day for the running back
slash X factor for everything offensive for the Lions in
that massive monumental win over the Minnesota Vikings yesterday, four
touchdowns ties a single game franchise record. Twenty scrimmage tds
(27:58):
for the season is a franchise record, and a franchise
that has names like Barry Sanders speaking up that Jamir
Gibbs for the last three games has had over one
hundred and fifty yards from his line of scrimmage ties,
a franchise record with Barry Sanders back in nineteen ninety one,
he did three straight games and wouldn't you know what
those are the games that the Lions have been without
(28:19):
David Montgomery, who NBC just happened to trickle out the
fact yesterday that Dave Montgomery has had some workouts.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Are you serious? Could we have Sonic and Knuckles Part seven.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
In January saighty So if you're going up against the
Lions and you got to go to Ford Field, Kyle,
Jamiir Gibbs my game ball.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
It's a very very appropriate game ball. I have mine
to someone in light of the fact that the script
was in. The script was written. The Bengals took care
of business Saturday night, the Dolphins lost, and all the
Broncos are supposed to do is lose to the Chiefs
and then the Bengals get in the playoffs like everyone wanted,
and bow Nick said, screw it. No, I'm not following
(28:56):
any script. I don't care that you want Joe Burrow
in there. Not only am I going to go and
win this game, I'm going to completely light up the
Chiefs backups as I should because we are a playoff team,
and I'm going to do this as the regular season
finale in one of the greatest rookie seasons we've ever seen.
He's not gonna win Offensive Rookie of the Year. It
doesn't matter. He started wire to wire to a franchise
(29:18):
that has whiffed in some quarterbacks and hasn't been in
the playoffs. I feel like since I was in college,
I mean, it's just been a long, long run, and
this was your exclamation point. There's magic in the back
of the end zone and I just love him. Peyton.
Everybody on Denver who could not have possibly cared less
that everyone outside of Denver one of the Bengals to
make into the playoffs. He said, we're getting in the playoffs.
(29:41):
Is their third straight week. They had a winning in situation.
They lost, they lost, and then they won by about
seventy and he did a victory lap round mile high.
Bo Nicks, you have punctuated the dreariness that's been in
Denver for years. Impressed totally across the board, Very very
cool performance. We'll see you in the playoffs, Kyle.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Is that a pirate mentality perhaps that he is taking
on from his head coach.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
It's possible. It really could be Jamie good call.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
All right, we love that personality trade. That was game
balls on GMFB. We've got more breaking news to pay
attention to, of course, rewind that and head scratchers, but
you don't have to question anymore is who's going to
the playoffs? You got Wildcard weekend on deck. We're talking
everything football.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Good morning football.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
What's up everybody?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Every Monday, I give out the Coach of the Week award.
It could be a coordinator, it could be an assistant.
Sometimes it's a head coach. He just does the right
thing and gets the job done. Today's Coach of the
Week Award for Week eighteen, Ghost to a guy who
has now won yet another straight division title in the
NFC South.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Todd Bowles is our coach.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Right week, Tima Bay Buccaneers head coach not only win
the division title with the win over the Saints, but
does the right thing and getting Mike Evans on the
field and getting him a thousand yards so he could
keep that awesome streak going.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Bulls could have.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Easily taken a knee in a lot of ways that
was the right play to make, but Mike Evans is
a special player and this is a special streak that
they've got going on eleven straight years. He now ties
Jerry Rice in the record books for most one thousand
yard receiving seasons. The reaction from the team tells you
everything about how the players felt. Todd Bowles in the
(31:32):
locker room afterwards, was right there celebrating with a giant
smile on his face, and we see his general manager
Jason Light behind him.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
They're celebrating Mike. This is the family and Mike Evans
has been there over multiple regimes.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He goes back to Lovey Smith and Dirk Cutter, and
he goes back to Bruce Arians but they've had a
lot of success under Todd Bowles. Todd does not get
enough credit for what he's done in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
They have lost offensive coordinators over the year. Dave Kanalisa
left last year.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
They still find a way to win yet another division
title on top Bowles's resume. A guy who's very seldom
given praise on the national media, I gotta do it today.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
He wins and he does it the right way. Todd
Bowles is our coach of the Week for Week eighteen.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah, I'm checking notes.
Speaker 13 (32:15):
Peter the Bucks four time NFC South champion, So kudos
to the Buccaneers, but the Lions. They punched their ticket
to the postseason as the number one seed following their
win Sunday night over the Vikings. It's the first time
Detroit has been the top seed in the NFC. With
that they get home field advantage and that coveted first
run buy in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Are very own.
Speaker 13 (32:36):
Stacey Dale's found out it could come extra helpful to
offensive tackle Tail Decker.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Under your process that you're the number one seed, you
get a break next week, and you got.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
This feel throughout well hopefully so I'm supposed to have
my wife's supposed to have a baby soon, so hopefully
it's on that bye week and we get them home
field games too, so it's gonna be awesome to rest up,
get healthy. Our bye week was early, and then hopefully
play a bunch of games.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Jared was surgical in the second half. What has made
him so special in these.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
Big moments, He's just got a special feel. We knew
they were gonna try and line us up with blitzes
and a bunch of different looks, and he just got
an uncanny ability to kind of feel that space in
the defense and to deliver the ball and even took
some big hits while he was doing it.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
The guy's incredible.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
I mean, nobody's playing better quarterback than that guy.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
What a game there in the NFC.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
And also best wishes to missus Decker as she delivers
their baby.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
But time now for this.
Speaker 13 (33:31):
Week's replay review where we look at it an official
review from the weekend, and for that, we're taking you
to Brown's Ravens Bailey's appy connecting with wide receiver Jamori
Thrash who makes the catch at the three yard line.
It appears he got in the end zone. It was
ruled a touchdown on the field, but after official review
determined he did not complete the process of the catch
(33:53):
before losing the ball, it was overturned. In the end,
it was a incomplete past, the Ravens winning the game
to clinch the AFC North title for the second straight season.
The faced Division rival Pittsburgh in the wild card round.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Now, don't go anywhere coming back.
Speaker 13 (34:08):
We have much more come out the plays that kind
of have to scratch your head and said what happened?
Speaker 4 (34:14):
For seven games at home and eight games on the road,
the Detroit Lions and their media production department have gifted
us Dan Campbell after wins. That is fifteen times we
have been invited into the Lions locker room. And the
week eighteenth finale definitely served you.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Guys.
Speaker 14 (34:32):
Look like you remember.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Who look you are? I was awsome. That's a hell
of a win.
Speaker 14 (34:39):
Guys. All I can think about is, man, we've been
forcing this stuff. Now, this has been three years in
the making. Some of it four Like that just didn't happen.
You got to work through it, grind through it, and
go through the downs to get to the option where
we're at.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Man, Look at him, Look at him. Go look at
the vein, look at the juggular.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Look at everything.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You guys are oh, look at you both looked like
you'relready a rifle.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Head scratchers, Peter, you're at first.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
What could have had the Patriots lost this game, they
would have the number one pick, but they win it
and then their coaches.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Fired immediately afterwards.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
So I don't know what communication was made beforehand or whatever,
but my head scratchers at this play didn't count.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Joe Milton with my players a day.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Joe Milton, who was a combine workout warders Michigan Tennessee
fans know what kind of army has million of course,
is played in not out because of my penalty, one
of my favorite players in.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
The season, this season of this I had to show it.
Joe Millan a lost season in New England. Mahomes could never.
Holmes could never. You know, Mahomes did.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
This talk more about Jayden Daniels, You fools.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I want Joe Millan. I love this play. I want
to show on our show, Joe Millan.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
We see you and Patriots will see who your next
head coach.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Is going to be.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Kyle who's your favorite person that you'd want to sit
next to a flight international flight for nine.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Hours with Marcus Mariota. Because he won't say anything, We'll
just have silence.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Marcus Mariota, come on down.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
You are the subject of my head scratcher. On the
final week of the regular season, this caught my eye.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Turn Sponster got him.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
No, there was not.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
A player in sight, but listen, he got redemption. Okay,
this was with about six minutes left in.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
The fourth quarter. You hate to see it.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
You also hate to see this when somebody like Malik
Hooker has the audacity to celebrate thinking that someone else
on his defense is going to take down Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's you see him chasing him here, cass to catch
up to get him.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Look at twenty eight yet we got him.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
No you don't. That was a fourth down conversion.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Come on now, So I don't care if if Marcus
Mariota actually got tripped by a real player on the
second player or a fake player on the first play.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
My head scratcher is Bille Hooker, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
But also Marcus Mariota, look out for that turf monster man.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Those lines will trip you up.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
And them turf monsters are real. They just come on
and get you. Get over here, you know. In the
same game.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Yes, yeah, it was like a score for you too.
But in the same game. The punter, Oh boy, I
don't know if you guys saw this. It's so funny.
Check out the punter here. Now, Michelle Simeonowski right here.
She's not aware of this and this it's her right
on the top of the head.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
Now, she takes it like a gee.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
She's okay, she's okay.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
We're not making fun of her.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
But it was one of those head scratched like did
you not see her head? She's sitting there with the
pomp pomp And what about the dude down here who
doesn't just here's some very lazy He didn't even try
to block it.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
He could have trying to block it. But she's all good.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
She had a good laugh with it.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
But hey, my in treacherous.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
What was that other cheerleader trying to offer her?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Like that was like a tequila shot, Like that's what
I would.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Have to take it if football got me on the sideline.
Speaker 7 (37:41):
You know what, though, I like it because she took
a shot and she didn't go into the blue tents.
So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 14 (37:46):
She's really tough.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Listen, we may have to put her in angry runs tomorrow, guys,
you know what I mean. Like, I'll think about it
well convening of the committee. But in the meantime, my
head scratch it. You will not believe what is going
on in my life right now. I've never encountered something
like this ever. Are you pregnant? What we got? No?
Not even This is the bigger deal than that.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
All right.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
So the Bears meet the Packers end of the game.
Cairo Santos. This is really cool thing because he had
a chance to beat them last time they played, but
they blocked the kick, and this time he made it.
Cairo Santras the Bears of not being the Packers in
over two thousand days. They beat them. The season's over,
and then Santos does this celebration that really caught my
eye that I liked. He goes and he's running around.
(38:25):
He's doing that. I had never seen someone do that before.
It's a person, So I tweeted. Never tweet and certainly
never admit that you've never seen anything before. Bring it.
I have never seen a human do this. Movement ever,
great tweets soccer. You will not believe the thousands of
replies I have gotten to this tweet. Pornographic, No, pe
(38:48):
Peter just showed his hand. I wasn't going anywhere there
soccer Twitter. This has a very famous celebration by many players,
including very famous players. Guys, I'm telling you, there are
thousands of people saying this is a comment on America.
This is ignorance. This is you. You're on cultured to me,
(39:08):
attacking me. I don't know ball, I've never seen this.
I've never I've tweeted some irresponsible things, some really stupid
things over the years, never gotten the viscerays that I've
gotten from this. People are so famous. Diddy a drug bud.
That's that guy. I'm probably just gon pronounced his name.
And now I'm gonna get canceled again. People are they
want to fight me. They're like, where do you live?
I want to meet you.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
We didn't even run the tweets because I think it
would be a security risk. They're so mad that I said,
I've never seen that before. I don't watch soccer. I
don't I don't really like watching soccer. I don't apologize
for it, and don't call me an uncultured swine. All right,
I'm an English major. I like theater, I'm an avid reader.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I like football.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I'm not on culture. Don't you come in America because
I don't know what the heck this is. Stop it
with that.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Get you to some international games over there, man, like,
so you can know that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
I don't want to do. I want to go to
American football soccer. I watch Tony Roads.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Being well rounded?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Kyle, speaking of being well rounded, how was bull riding?
Professional bull riding on Saturday night?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
Also exactly Friday night, Madison Square Garden. You want culture,
I'm at the Professional Professional bull Riding Tour. I'm there
at the garden. They're blasting kid Rockers, Monster Energy, drink everywhere.
I mean, it's it's over your midloaded atmosphere, beautiful, uncultured
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