December 18, 2023 • 37 mins
Part One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Ravens win putting them atop the AFC Playoff picture. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Super Bowl Champion Jason McCourty discuss how the Bills are pushing their way to the playoffs. The Browns stayed alive with a last play stunner over the Bears. Plus, how will the Cowboys address their issues playing on the road?
Stay tuned for a MNF preview for Eagles/Seahawks coming up in Part Two of the GMFB Podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Always here in New York City.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's a Monday, wrapping up a very thrilling weekend of football.
I'm jb right all, there is Kyle Brand, Peter Scheger,
and Jason mccordy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Busy, busy weekend of football.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I think we might just put a speed limit sign
up for some of those come running teams.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Bills are sprinting.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh my god. Dallas versus Buffalo is incredible, absolutely incredible.
The Cowboys Eagles are going to the playoffs. Are the
Ravens going to go to the playoffs? It really looks
like it. Should we get into the late game, you guys,
are you ready to change out? Jamie, Let's go to
do Val County.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
All right, let's go to do.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Vall County, where Sunday night football doesn't often go. In fact,
it's spend years and years and years two thousand and eight,
thousand and eight here, but really flat night for Jacksonville,
who lost their third game in a row. They've lost
two of these primetime games. But never mind them. Baltimore's cruising.
They are crushing. They are going to the playoffs. They're
gonna be a tough out. Twenty three to seven. Let's
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hear it from Lamar, who's got this cool like golden
underarmour thing on. It looks amazing. Lamar clinched the playoff
birth hows it feels.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I didn't know we clinched the playoffs. You know, I'm
just trying to win. I'm trying to get there. I'm
trying to win the game at a time, you know.
But I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for the opportunity.
I believe we're just getting started. But that was a
tough team, and that was a great team. We just played,
came down play what was going on out there on
that field, even though, like you said, was double digit score.
But that was a tough team. You know, things just
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happened like that in the league. So you gotta be
prepared each and every job, each and every play. You
gotta stay focused. I believe both teams were.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, they got the job done.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The Baltimore Ravens did ian rapport joining us now. Lamar
Jackson says they are just getting started. But unfortunately the
Ravens suffered yet another season ending injury to one of
their potent stars.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And what's going on.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Yeah, the only bad thing to come really out of
this game is a couple a little bit of injury
news for the Baltimore Ravens. Keaton Mitchell, their big play
running backer, really has been a revelation young player.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But has delivered big play after big play.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
When he's been on the field, has been the key thing.
Not going to be on the field now for the
rest of the season. John Harbaugh announcing that he suffered
a knee injury that is going to require surgery that
will knock him out this season, from my understanding, make
it difficult to be ready for the start of next season.
A serious knee injury, obviously, hope for the best for him.
That was not the only injury to come out of
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this game, and for the Jacksonville Jaguars, not a good
one for next week. Trevor Lawrence was placed in the
NFL's concussion protocol. According to Doug Peterson, this from a
hit that he took late in the fourth quarter. We
do not know how players are going to react from
a concussion and all concussions are different, but certainly this
does open up the possibility during the Jaguars play the
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Buccaneers next week, it is going to be CJ.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Bethard.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
He did have one week this season when he took
most of the reps and got ready. Of course, when
Trevor Larwrench was doing with the high ankle spring, perhaps
that will be up some assistance.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But CJ.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Bether potentially going to start next week for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
We also have some injuries to look at for tonight's game.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Eagles will start with Geno.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Smith, who missed last week with a groin injury list.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It is questionable.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
My understanding is he's got to improve a lot from
now until game time to be able to play. Considered
a bit of a long shot. Status up in the air,
however you would like to say it. I would say
there is a pretty good possibility that is Drew Locke
out on the field tonight for the Seattle Seahawks. And
then we got some news yesterday during game day morning.
Jalen Hurts, who battled an illness late this week, seemingly
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was okays a little bit, was officially listed as questionable,
so it was downgraded from totally fine to questionable. Flew
separately to Seattle with his team, just so we didn't
infect anyone else, So dealing with the illness.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
More in his status later today.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I would say.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Most players should deal with something like this do end
up playing.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But obviously more coming later.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Guys, All right, rap cheet. We appreciate you. As it
pertains to Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Very curious where the Jacksonville Jaguars sitting, how they have
done over the last couple of weeks. If they have
to go without him for a week as he is
in concussion protocol, Thanks, talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
AFC playoff pitcher.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
As we sit here right now, Ravens one seed, Dolphins
two seed.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They play each other in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Here it is if the Dolphins weed out the Finns
clinch home field and the bye, so the Dolphins can
still get the first seed. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are right there,
the Chiefs beating the Dolphins in Germany.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They're the three seed.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Jacksonville now of three in a row and four to
six down to the four seed, with two teams in
the ANFC South nipping at their heels there.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Texans and Colts.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Bengals with their win on Saturday, get back in and
then we'll talk about the.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Browns today as well.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We absolutely will.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The Ravens though, the first in the AFC to hit
eleven wins in this conference. Clutch road win in a
meaningful way against Jacksonville last.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Night, so impressive, and I think the one thing when
you look at him, and you look at Lamar Jackson,
and sometimes you'll turn and you'll go on the line
and you'll look at the stats from the game, blah,
Lamar was okay, it didn't seem like a crazy game.
But when you watch it what he does with his
Baltimore Ravens team, the spark that he has, and how
demoralizing it is for a defense as you watch him
just sit in the pocket, scramble, do so many different
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things that just feel like it's unstoppable for you on defense.
And Duwayne Smooth is trying to get to.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
Lamar Jackson on a long one and likely he gets
up and he just looks at him.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
He's like, how And we're watching him stand in the
pocket play after play when he has to scramble and
make something happen.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
He does that for this instances.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Throughout that game last night where he's just standing still
waiting for somebody to get open and then make the play.
Had ninety seven yards rushing on the ground for this
team in this offense, watching what Lamar has been able
to do this season, how he's changed with Tom munkin
as an offensive coordinator. We just said they're at the
one speed one seed. They clinched their playoff spot. To me,
they're the scariest team in the ANFC, and we see
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if where they're ranked, but the potential they have.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
We'll watch a game where Jay.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Flowers goes off and he has a touchdown late in
the game and Lamar's throwing the ball all over the
field against the Rams, and then we watched him last
night where he's scrambling and making plays and a guy
like Isaiah.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Likely is stepping up.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
So for this Ravens team, there's different guys that can
kill you on any given day, and Lamar is still
the guy at the helm spreading the ball out and
making it happen.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What we learned about last week the Lion spike.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Ye, when we got the Lion's spike, the Ravens give
it out in their locker room to the player that
puts the game away. Tyler Wallace got it last week,
his first punt return of his NFL career, thrown into
action when Devin Duvernet was injured, returns it for a touchdown.
They escape a crazy shootout with the Rams, and they win.
The Lion spike was determined at the spot at the
end of the third quarter when it's Lamar Jackson making
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the play of what I think the season for the
Ravens ten to seven.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
They're winning.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
It's a big play and let's let Mike Tarico and
Chris Collins been taking away the Lamar Jackson experience.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Final a minute of the third from the thirty, Lamar
Jackson got out of it, would be sacked, keeps.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It alive and flinch.
Speaker 10 (07:30):
It in the air.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It is burned by Likely at the five. Isaiah Likely
goes up between Darius Williams. It makes a spectacular catch.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh my god, look at this flight as the free
Diculous coming over here.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Okay, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Sack right, No problem, I miss him.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I'm gonna go get him again, get him again. No,
just throwing up in the ear and then let's Likely
go between two guys, stop it.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
There's your Lion spike moment, and there's your Chris collins
Worth potential MVP moment.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I mean, when you hear.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
The goofaing collins Worth, that's usually reserved for maybe Mahomes.
Josh Allen gives it from Labar right there though, to
put him away, and that was it for the Jaguars,
and that really did put the Lion's spike into the
AFC playoff picture and then saying hey, we're that number
one team. Gus Edwards would score two plays later, that
was the game and they would just bury the Jaguars.
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From that point on, Lamar is doing special things. The
numbers aren't going to add up to some of the
other contenders for the MVP award, but when they need
him most in big spots, Lamar has always been there
this season, and he seems to be getting seemingly better
as this degate the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We do a lot of bits and segments around the holiday.
We're on Christmas Day. We do give each other gifts
and stuff. I think we need to get Peter Alliance spike.
We got to track one down. Maybe Chad Steele could
help us.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Maybe or or we might need to take a little
Good Morning football trip to the jungle and.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Find our own. I don't Yeah, we'll have to do.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, earned the lion spikes. Been a long year. You
said it right there, Baltimore, great defense, Lamar magic. I'll
run with that anywhere. Those two ingredients. Whoever plays, seems
gonna be a really, really tough out. And I think
we're supposed to be talking right I think we were
worried that we were going to be talking about Mark Andrews.
Mark Andrews, Mark Andrews, Lamar is not the same. And
then Mark Andrews, No, Lamar threw it the nine different
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players last night, the week before, it was just the same.
We do that with teams when they struggle, Like I remember,
for a good six weeks on the show with the Bills,
we would say Matt mlonal, Matt Mlone. They lost Matt Malone,
and like we put Matt Malone on the Hall of Fame,
I forget injured. I'm so pleased that I'm the only
one bringing up Mark Andrews, because it's a good of
a player he is. He's not relevant right now because
of likely because if everybody else they're moving on. Lamar
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looks seamless, he looks comfortable. I say it all the time.
There's nothing better in this league than happy Lamar. It's
so fun to watch, it's so contagious. And right now
in December. I liken it to when you go if
you ever go to the horse track, there's something called
the paddock, all right. The paddock is the last place
where they walk the race sources around before the track.
It's like you get your last look at him. Maybe
you're thinking about who you want to bet on or whatever,
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and they just kind of march him around. It's real
show pony stuff, and then they go race. December. Right now,
this is our paddock month for these teams. We're gonna
get one last look and you better be ready because
the race starts in January. Jacksonville doesn't look ready. They
don't look good in the paddock. I don't know. Dallas
does not look good in the paddock. We're gonna see
how the Eagles look in the paddock. Right now. Baltimore
looks great in the paddock. You're like, well, that's a horse.
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I can bet on that number eight and on the
side of the saddle, that's a horse. That's gonna run.
That looks ready, looks been there before. Just a great
showing last night on the road. This was not really
a game. I feel like it was over at the
end of the first half from Jaguars can get three
points and like Baltimore just led the whole way. Tough,
tough out. They look ready to run.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I like your shirt today, Thank you, Jaki.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Rocky one was on the TV in my hotel room
this week.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh really, Danapolis, and I caught the good the great
part of it, which is Polly doesn't want the.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Relationship to happen, and the trainer and then.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The montage and so you know when he's sprinting along
the water and he's had a pretty good run, he's
been jogging with his dog, and then Rocky all of
a sudden, is he running, always running faster? Oh my god,
look at that man's stride. It is the thing of beauty.
This is how I feel about the Baltimore Ravens. I
thought they were running since week eleven, and now they're
getting faster, and anyone else behind the Chiefs, the Jaguars,
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the Dolphins. They've all lost games since week eleven, and
the Baltimore Ravens. Have not you thought the game was
over at the end of the first half last night.
The Ravens had only run for forty seven yards at
the end of the first half, and they finished with
two hundred and fifty one rushing yards to.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Finish that game. All the teams that accomplished that this
weekend are teams like the Bills, the Colts. They ran
the ball down.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Team's throats in the AFC this weekend and that's going
to be a key when your sprint really breaks out
in December.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The Paddock and the Rocky and it's great.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The Eagles, I don't know how they would feel about
the appropriating the Rocky story line for Baltimore, but take
it back, you know what. We need it from you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sometimes you can't turn it away when it shows up
in your hotel room TV.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And it's nice to Eve went for the Baltimore Ravems.
It was something other than the Wire. It's always the wire.
They can do something else, right, I do it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The Holiday Classic is back when it's on NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Do you plans Christmas Eve? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And if you meet some watch a special Sunday night
of Primetime Football, Patriots Broncos light up the night the
NFL Holiday Class at Christmas Eve Live at eight pm
Eastern only right here on NFL Network and streaming on
NFL Plus. Still a come on our show, though it
is a fun filled Monday after a week and filled
with spectacular plays. We're gonna break them down some of
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our favorites from week fifteen later on Plus.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Ah, that Bill's Cowboys game was really something. How about
this Bill's team? Are they back? Are they terrified? Are
they gonna make the playoffs? Are they gonna miss the
playoffs in Dallas? What do you do with them? This
one had it all Bill's Cowboys right after this Good
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Morning Football.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Chiefs Losers are two straight coming into this one.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Flexed out of the Monday night game.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
They flexed out of Belichick versus read the ultimate in
from the Networks twenty seven to seventeen. Patreets hung in
this one for a while. There was too much cheats
at the ark to a lot of questions.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
But you know what you're not questioning.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
That's probably the San Francisco forty nine ers heading the
Arizona to take on the cards. That's Block Party trying
to state his MVP case and he's just he's just
looking on like this is just what we do. They
win this one forty five to twenty nine and clinch
to NFC West.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I have McCaffrey and fashion who wants to touch me? Guys?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It fun so first first over, I'll pick for you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, god, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I did too, But also a dack as my quarter
it back?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All right, well you might be exiting the playoffs. Dak
did not have a day. But I thought this was
gonna be a shootout. No, it was a blowout. Dallas
ninety two total yards. Haven't had that few in a
quarter in years and years and years. You think maybe
they win this game. Sure, they're at home. A lot
of people picked him to win, not like this. And
we're we're gonna get into in a second. What do
we make the Cowboys wearing the bills?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
James Cook, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The best running back Josh Allen's ever had. It's the
best performance from a running back they've ever had in
this era. They ran right through the Cowboys. They go
home now where they're really, really good. But they got
a lot of questions to answer about how flat they
were in that score. Thirty one to ten. The Bills
look incredible. Josh Allen self deprecating afterwards. I can see
the stats there, seven of fifteen ninety four yards. He
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talked about it.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
James ran hard, Tay ran hard, Ty ran hard, you know,
and when you can stay in front of the sticks
like we did today. I don't know how many third
downs we had, but it couldn't have been that many.
I don't think I threw the ball that many times,
which again, I don't just get it done. Let's just
find a way to win. And you know, felt like
the kid that didn't do anything in the class project
but gotten a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That's a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You passed the group project this weekend, Buffalo Bills, and
you've been doing so over the last couple of weeks.
It's been a challenge for them at times, yet they've
also won five games by twenty plus.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Go figure.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Buffalo Bills are officially our come running team. We think
lurking doesn't even feel applicable to them at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Look out for anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They have to face down the stretch and if they
went out, they could still retain the top of the East,
which is an absolute curious situation. Peter Bill's dominant win
over a Cowboys team that man look out when they
leave Dallas.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
They lost that Eagles game thirty seven to thirty four,
and I think a lot of people wrote them off
for dead and said it was done.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They went on the bye.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
They've emerged from the bye, and they've now beaten the
Chiefs and the Cowboys, and then the Cowboys won in
decidedly fashion. I you know what, it's been a weird
season for Sean McDermott and for Brandon Bean and for
all of them up there. And they fired offensive coordinators.
And there was the article that came out during the
by Hats off to that team, Hats off for that
locker room, hats off for those guys. I thought that
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it's all in their future right now, like all that
stuff in the past. The bad loss of the Patriots,
the bad loss of the Jets to open the season,
the bad loss to the Broncos on Monday Night, you
can wipe it all away, because they really they decide
their own future at this point. This game was a
culmination of months and months of frustration of wondering, why
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have we not been the team we could be? Why
have we not been the team that everyone thought we
would be here they are. This is the as we expected,
did it on national TV with everyone watching against everyone's
darling cowboys. Cowboys will talk about in a while, But
I gotta I guess, gotta say Sean McDermott when he's
in a corner and everyone in the world is mocking
him on the internet, and the Bills are the joke
of the league, and Josh sounds it they win a
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game like that on NASH Time, it's kind of like
that dropped the Mike moment, and now who wants to
face the Bills?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
To your point, I certainly don't.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
If all the teams in the AFC, they're the one
that probably looks the scariest, right though.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
And you're right, this is kind of what we expected
them winning games like this. But if the fashion in
which they did it is something that we haven't really
seen from a Josh Allen led Buffalo Bills team, And
you mentioned him firing their offensive coordinator Kendorsteen and Joe
Brady gets in and you're watching that game yesterday, and
whenever the Bills win, especially a big game like that,
you're like, all right, if Buffalo's winning thirty one to ten.
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How many touchdowns did Josh Allen throw for? How many
did he rush for? Just show me the insane plays
of him jumping out. It wasn't that it was James
hook not great, it was amazing, Josh Allen said after
the game group project he got eight and didn't do anything.
All right, that was a little extreme, but fifteen pass
attempts less than one hundred yards throwing the ball, and
the Buffalo Bills won the game by a lot. This
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is the first time in his career that he started
and finished a game and threw the ball that many
times for less than one hundred yards. First time they've
won the game in this fashion since twenty fifteen, where
Tyrod Taylor was the quarterback when they beat the Dolphins
in a Week nine matchup. So when you're watching him
last night, yes, we expected Buffalo to win games like this,
but not to do it like that, to be able
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to hand the ball off time after time after time.
I think the running backs had like thirty nine carries. Typically,
whenever we see the one game after the game, we're like,
why didn't they keep running it? And they just don't
do it? And they did that yesterday and they dominated
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
This team's going to the playoffs, I said out a
Friday if they beat Dallas, which is a huge ift
because Dallas is great, They're gone. Like they're gone. They
got the Chargers, they got the Patriots, they got the Dolphins.
I still think they might be able to lose one
of those. I don't think they will. They've turned the corner.
It's crazy too, because we keep saying this phrase to
come running team. Let me make some of that means
at the end of December, a team that started off
really poorly finds itself and comes tearing down the stretch
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and can they get in mathematically? Typically the come running
team would be like Houston this year with the rookie
quarterback and you were there, Denver. That's kind of a
new iteration of themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Last year was the Lion.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Last year the Lions, like, oh, they put it together.
It's not supposed to be the Josh Allen Bills. Can
you imagine if you were one of these teams in
the AFC who wins your division and you get the
T shirts we won, We're the division champs, and then
you have to play Buffalo in you're opening round at home, like,
that's not fair. We're supposed to have a warm up game.
We got the T shirts right here, It's not that
was a terrifying display of saber ratleying by Buffalo Bills.
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They destroyed them. There was never a game. Dallas, the
team that we thought had the MVP, I don't think
they do anymore. We thought had found itself. I don't
think they have any more. It's also to Jason's point,
during the first run of the Jordan Bowles in the
first three titles, sometimes you'd have this random night where
Jordan would have twelve points, but like you get the
big Scottie game and Horace would have twenty and ten
and you'd have this bizarre will Purdue had twelve rebounds.
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That was this and they won. And it's like, if
they can win like that, we're gonna have the forty
point game from Michael when we need it. But the
fact that Josh Allen on the class project is what
we used to call the secretary, the person just taking
notes and pretending to work, and when the teacher walks around,
you just pretend like you're working really hard. That's scary.
The Superman thing. If they did that in one fine
we know that they have the big overhand right if
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they have the other stuff and James Cook really becomes
see all the time. Late in the season, teams will
find a running back who just gets really really hot.
Random example, I remember late in the farv air in
Green Bay, Ryan Grant became this guy. We're like, where
the hell Ryan Grant come from? That looks like Cooks
right now for the Bills, And if they have a
running back to go with him, they have a Scotti
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and you don't want Michael to have a Scotti. I
think they're going to the playoffs. I said it. They win.
They did. They win by twenty one points. The Bills
are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It would almost be better for teams in the AFC
if the Bills did not win their division, because then
they wouldn't have to go on the road and for example,
faced Jacksonville, because Jacksonville, to your point, is like great
Bills come to town and run all over us, all out
with the Baltimore Ravens did last night, that would be
terrible fate for Jacksonville. Defensively, I thought the Bills were
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fantastic as well.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They totally upset Dallas Cowboys team on the road.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Just curious your thoughts on what had Dallas stymied fully
in Buffalo.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
They got pumped. There's nothing more than that. They came
out and you just said it. Defensively, Dak didn't have
much time. They lost Zach Martin earlier in that game,
which absolutely crushed him. They handed the ball, Poulard had
some nice ones, but they couldn't sustain anything.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
You just seen Dak get hit time after time after time.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Buffalo team is desperate and you can see that when
they're out there playing right now.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
They're fired up. They're running around the field and they're
making plays.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
We talk MVP all the time, and last week when
Tyreek was out, you're like, that's an argument for MVP.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Is zachar In the MVP of the Cowboys?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Because that offense looked terrible once he went down like that.
That was not the Cowboys we've seen off season, and
we did it again as a media. We jumped on
board and we'll talk about him more of it on us.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
All right, welcome back, Let's go to lambeau Field. The
Tampa Bay Buccaneers are eyeing a home playoff game. They
wanted bad on two in a row, and Baker Mayfield
played the game of his life. I think it's the
best game he has played as a professional and has
played a lot of football. The Bucks win again. They're
in first place.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right c Up the Atlantis Moore set under the Texans
Titans highlight with the Titans wearing the Oilers gear with
the Texans in town, fifty four yard game winning field goal.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Nineteen to sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Texans stay alive case Keenum first wins in the Texans
is twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Nice. What a call by the Miko to go to
Keenum in that game? All right?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Tyreek at the works out before the game, they say no,
he's inactive. Jets fans little pep in their step. But
it didn't last long.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Thirty to zero.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Wow, that's the way he bounced back from the Miami Dolphins.
Let's get some Bears and Browns right there. That's Joe Flackle.
But now they sit at the five seed Flagel has
been balling three hundred and eleven yards last week.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
That is justin fields.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
He was still have a chance four seconds left on
the clock. Scrambles, scramble, Hail Mary. When the ball goes
in the air, just knock it down. You don't have
to catch it, just knock the ball down. Browns go
up there.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Go to knock it down.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
In his chazz, he cannot believe that Browns are celebrating
that close for the Bears to come away with that
one oh twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
The Browns win this game. And here's Kevin Stefanski in
the locker room after the Browns win.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I'm so proud of this team. Guys. We're not perfect,
all right, We're not perfect. It's tough.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
It's gonna be hard, but this team fights, and that's
number nine. It's gonna be hard sometimes you have to
fight with each other. But I saw a bunch of
guys out there that are like I will not be
denied for my brother, for the guy next to me.
I appreciate that team. On three one two, three.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Ninth win in a row for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Kevin Stefanski, we will talk about him later on Good
Morning Football. Joe Flacco led the Browns to a stunning
comeback win over the Bears. Despite his three picks. He
had over two hundred passing yards in the fourth quarter,
more than any other Browns QB in the last forty
five seasons. Well, they're not in the playoffs just yet.
The Browns are holding on to wildcard spot in the AA.
Can the Browns keep this thing going?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
The Browns are rolling. I think that's what two in
a row for them.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
With Joe Flackle now making plays and figuring out how
to win games. Late in ow fourth quarter, the veterans
stepped up and he made throws. You saw the fade
away pass that he threw to David Nijoko and won
on Marii Cooper. And that's what a veteran led quarterback
can do for your team coming in here and we
know how good the defense is. When you say can
they continue this? My only concern is flat going three
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games is throwing the ball for over forty times. This
is a team led by their defense. That is the
strength of the team. I don't know if that's the
recipe for successful then moving forward getting into the playoffs.
It's just continued to throw the ball time at the time.
This year in the NFL, teams are thirty three and
seventy one when they throw the ball forty plus times.
The Browns are figuring out ways to win the game.
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I'm not hating on that Joe Flacco has been unbelievable.
But I think they have to figure out a way
to run the ball a little bit more and lean
on Miles Garrett in that defense. But just watching Joe
Flacco straight from the crib to go out there and
just throw the ball around the field has been so
fun to watch thirty eight. You know, I played against
flackl many a time. So the thing now I'm sitting
at this desk talking about how he's out there ball
and it is fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Browns have fourteen players on injury reserve quourteen players on
Injuri reserve, Flaco office of the story. And yet the
night before the game at the team hotel, Stefanski sat
everyone down and brought up David and Joku and said,
this guy right here represents everything we want to be.
He's tough, he's formidable, he's humble, and he is our guy.
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And let's felp. They go to do introductions out of
the tunnels. The last person introduced yesterday was David and Joku, who.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Had the biggest game of his career last yesterday.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
David and Joku was amazing when they and it's like
you talk about late late blossoming and like kind of
like you know, late bloomer, like Joko was a first
round pick and they extend, they pick up his extension,
They're like, all right, we'll do one more year, and
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Like, he is unstoppable right now, and he has.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Been Flacco's guy, and you look at this team. He
is representative of everything. And me think about what he
went through already this season in Week four when he
was at the fire pit and we know it went
down there, and yet every single big play, it's this
guy right here, this warrior.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He's incredible.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
You want to talk about a team that you don't
want to face the playoffs, so talk.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
About the Bills.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Do you know who the best road quarterback in the
history of the NFL is in playoff history, It's Joe Flacco,
Not Joe Flacco, not Joe Montana, It's Brady and Flacco
as the most road wins.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't let him in Flacco.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Don't let Flacco in a road playoff game.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
He'll come in.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
He'll gut you.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
If you're sitting there and you're in Miami and you're
looking at who you want to face, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Joe, no doubt, no doubt, Sheriff Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's everyone.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I don't want to see Joe Flacco walk in there
and amazing fourteen players on I are and Joke who
carrying them, and then Flacco just doing what he does.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I don't know if I want to see Brownian walk
in there either too. This was more exciting than some
hail marys that have been completed, and like it actually worked.
You gotta understand, this is the Bears, blew the lead,
They're gonna lose again. Field Store is a perfect hail Mary.
Darnald Mooney gets the bounce of lifetime. He says afterwards,
it was tough. How many times do you see a
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hail mary work and actually fall into being able to
make a catch. It is what it is. It was tough.
I think there was more at stake here than just
that game. Guys. The Bears are very pivotal right now.
The battle lines are being drawn in the justin Field's future.
This would have given them the win of the year,
a game winning touchdown pass. They would have gone to
six and eighth if I have it right. Instead they're
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five and nine. Fields did not play well. That's everything
that we could talk about coaching staff that could have
been affected by that. Justin Field's future, The draft might
have been affected by that Donald Mooney draft that was
so much bigger than Oh my god, it was almost
a hail Mary. I mean, I screamed, a Browns fan scream.
Bears fans screamed, I can't believe that wasn't pulled in.
But if everything changes for the Bears in a few
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weeks and the draft, look at that play. Little things
like that have the ripple effects. I still can't believe
what I saw.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It was right there when you look at the box
or nineteen for forty for Justin Fields, twenty for forty
would have hit.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If he had Yeah, with a big touchdown on a wins.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
You almost watch it in slow motion. It's worse because
you see it hit every part of his body. It
is absolutely heartbreaking, Peter.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
To put a ball.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And you said fourteen players of the runs, that's nearly
twenty six percent of their cap space that they have
right now. That leads the league by far and away
for the Browns. For players that are on I are,
the fact that they're still winning these games, close.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Games is remarkable for them still to come on our show.
Week fifteen isn't over, Dusty out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're going to previous tonight's game and the Eagles and
the Seahawks looking ahead to a Monday night battle of
the Birds in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
My family and I drive around, listen to the Very
Philly Christmas album. It's good. My lot of just sores.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Oh god, Jordan David, it's beautiful.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
Yeah, good morning football.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The Bills we talked about earlier, No, great looking team.
Don't know if they're going to be in or not.
They got three games left. But the Cowboys, we thought
this one was different. Is it? Here's Dak talking about
the struggles specifically when they go on the road.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
Yeah, it's a huge difference, and really it's it's what
the this next week of preparation and honestly, these next
couple of weeks are about is figuring out what that
difference is and trying to close that gap. Obviously, we
would love to come out start like we play at home,
produce like we do at.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Home, but that just hadn't been the case.
Speaker 14 (28:26):
So we've got to find out what those answers are
and try to close that close that gap. And we
can't be those two different of the team's.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Big loss for the Cowboys in a lot of ways here. Yes,
they clinched a playoff berth yesterday and that's fine, But
the Eagles now take control of the NFC East, and
the Eagles if they went out against a very manageable
schedule Seahawks Giants, Cardinals Giants, they will be.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
The NFC East champions.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
They will have a home field game and the Cowboys
will have to go on the road for all of
their playoff battles. That's the situation right now. You can
see the rest of the playoff picture in front of you.
We'll get into it, but Eagles control their The NFC
East Cowboys look like they're.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Gonna have to be road warriors. But as they do
not look comfortable being in January.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Climate control is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The Cowboys get to play in seventy degree domed home
field advantage and then they hit the road and.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It was ugly in Buffalo yesterday. Jason, your thoughts on
how the Cowboys fared away from home?
Speaker 9 (29:23):
It was ugly.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Last week On our show, we did our trust scales
and you had to pick teams and where you wanted
to put them on your trust scale, and I went
with the teams that I picked to be in the
Super Bowl this year. That was back in August. I said,
the Dallas Cowboys in the Baltimore Ravens. I want to
double down and my trust in these teams, how teams,
of how well they're playing and their ability to get
to the Super Bowl. Baltimore handle business. They beat the Jaguars.
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Cowboys just didn't show up. I said it earlier in
the show. They got punked. It was like at your
school and you go to your friend's neighborhood on the
week and you say, hey, on Friday, I'm showing up.
We're playing pickup basketball. I'm bringing my crew and I'm
coming on your turf and we're gonna beat you. You
show up for that basketball game and they just send
you home packet.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
You're yelling for mom. You take your basketball with you
because you're so pissed.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
And now they can't even keep playing because they were
expecting your ball to be there.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
The whole time.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Cowboys going the road and they go to Buffalo and
it was as if they left their game in Dallas,
and I know it's one game they've lost it.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
They can be able to bounce back.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
The tough thing is as we watch these teams and
we're picking our few in each conference and say, all right,
this team is one we believe in that can be
in the super Bowl and can win that game. To
lose a game like this late in the season when
we're talking about you're starting to catch streak as catch
fire and playing your best ball for the Cowboys just
to not show up. They couldn't stop James Cook at
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all on the defensive side of the ball. They couldn't
protect that. There was nothing that they were able to
get right. And you watch Dion Dawkins, who they called
the snow Man, on one of the James Cooks runs
right here where he's just slamming a Cowboys defender. And
early in the game they get a run to James
Cook and they pushed a pile about fifteen yards.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
That was kind of the game.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
And Buffalo just setting a tempo from early on and
carrying it throughout the game. For Dallas moving forward, we
watched them bounce back after forty nine ers lost early
in the season.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Can they do it?
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Order time as a playoffs are upon us and strikes
how you just said where they are in a playoff seating,
they're going to have to go on the road and
win games, which is something they haven't done a great
job of so far in the ruction.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
It doesn't matter if they end up with the third
best record in the NFC. The way the playoffs work,
if you don't win your division, you do not get
a home game. Right now, they're not going to win
the division if the Eagles take care of their business.
And that's asking a lot from the Eagles. I know
the Cowboys on the road are a mediocre team, and
that is just objective.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That is from last year, that is from this year.
Look at the splits home and away.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
There might be no better team at home, Like there
might be no other team in the league. I would
want to go play in their building. There might be
twenty other teams i'd rather. You know, I'm not scared
of or I'm scared of less or more than the
kind of life.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, we're feel it's not Kellen Moore's fault.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Nope, it's not necessarily any of the players who were
discarded last year's fault. This is at the end of
the day, we're all at to blame for crowning the
Cowboys and we fourteen was what we did, and then
week fifteen, which is what we did. Until they win
a big road game. This is not a Super Bowl contender.
This is not a team that we can get behind.
Those historic teams that are like road dogs that go
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and do the thing during the playoffs, the Giants and
seven and the Packers in twenty ten, and that wasn't
Mike McCarthy coach team Grant the Steelers did at one
time like those were teams that were like so hot
and they found themselves and they got their footing. And
the Bucks a couple of years ago with Brady like
you had a feeling like this was happening. Just when
you want to crown the Cowboys, they go on the
road to a cold weather environment and they lay an egg.
(32:37):
And you know, I feel foolish because I was one
of the people talking Dak MVP amongst the many they
use the leader, No, no, you have to win road games.
And in this case, unfortunately, they lost that game to
Philly in Philly, and Philly has taken care of their
business and right now it looks like they're gonna have
to go on the road in the playoffs and at
the very least they're gonna have to play at San
Francisco or at Philly, and I have no confidence they
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can do that based on what we've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Here's where I come out. You can lose by twenty
one points, it's fine. Same teams get thumped some days,
that's happens. You can lose in December. You can't lose
by twenty one in December. What are we doing? You
can't do both. The last ten Super Bowl winning teams
do not have a double digit loss in December. They
have not lost by even ten points in December. The
last ten teams in a row. They just lost by
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twenty one on the road. So I find myself thinking,
what did Mike McCarthy have to say after this? I
really like to hear an explanation about how you come
up that short because you've been playing really well, and
he just straight up acknowledges it. He says, it's a gap.
There's two big of a gap in our road games.
It's something we're talking about. We'll start doing something about
if the playoffs are almost you're talking about it. This
has been going on for four months. What are we
doing about it? Because like, that's the big boys stuff
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you can win at home, blah blah blah, Like you
can get your ten wins, eleven wins, twelve wins. You
got to win on the road. That's what makes you
a killer, That's what makes you a champ. I just
look at Dallas like I'm trying to describe it because
I'm trying to hang up a fresh way, and ironically,
because they can't come up with the fresh way in
the fast food industry, particularly, let's just say if they
do sort of a Mexican food, like the same four
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ingredients over and over, and you repackage it and you're like, well,
now we're wrapping it up like this, but this is
totally different. Now it's in a bowl. Now it's this,
Now it's in a shell. It's like, but it's the
same ingredients. You guys can't get me with this, Like no, no, no, no, no,
it's the the blah blah blah wrapped the supreme. This
is what the cowboys are doing. Like it's the same
ingredients presented in a different way, and you can put
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some sauce on it, and you can heat it up,
you can give it a different name. This version of
the same ingredients can't win on the road. The last
one couldn't close out games. The one before that mismanaged.
Same ingredients, guys, you're not fooling us with squad. Peter
started a sentence with just when you want to crown
the cowboys, Peter, stop crowning the cowboys. That's all of us,
not a you thing. I know it's sexy and it's
fun and it's Deck. Let me get me Lenon on something.
(34:49):
Deck's not winning the MVP. He just lost it last night.
You can't give the MVP to a guy who loses
by three touchdowns in December. You can't. I think it's over.
I think he's done. Don't fall for the rope dope
of the four ingredients, guys, don't do it anymore. They
tasty as hell, They're salty, and they're hot and they're spicy.
The same ones is last year, SAME's next year. It's
just repackaging. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Even if they tell you the only way you can
get the Casadia is if you order it online.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's still the same. Like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
The cow has got put into the Casadia crisper and
they got burnt Christ in Buffalo. Yeah, they get the
poster that was a great, beautiful take, and now I
know what I'm having for Lunchhow rappaport reverting to you
crap seat Jalen Hurts and Gino Smith playing against each
other tonight.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Maybe maybe, maybe we'll start with Gino Smith, who's probably
more of a maybe than Jalen Hurts. His Gino Smith,
dealing with a groin injury, tried to go last week,
didn't seem like it was particularly close to being able
to get out there with a groin strain, sort of
a two week injury. This would be the second week
here and has not been ruled out yet. My understanding
is that Gino Smith has an uphill battle to be
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able to play, needs to improve a lot between now
and game time to get out there.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
If he cannot go, it would be Drew.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Locke and is the start of this second straight week.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Played fine last week.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
He did play really good tonight against the Philadelphia Eagle,
who may or may not have Jalen Hurts their starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He's listed as questionable.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Was fine, and then yesterday morning, I would say his
sickness got a little worse, started feeling weak, started feeling bad.
Was officially listed as questionable. Flew separately from the team
from Philadelphia to Seattle, just to make sure he didn't
infect anyone. Most players this time of the year who
have an illness end up playing, so I would say
he's probably in that same category. But more information later
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today as it comes. Meanwhile, he significant change on the
defensive side of the ball for Philly. Sources say that
Sean Desigh, the defensive coordinator, one of the up and
coming minds in the NFL, will now be in the
booth and Matt Patricia, who is a senior defensive assistant
for the Eagles who has been assisting Decie, he now
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will be the primary play call.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
He will be down on the field, He'll be talking
to players.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
He will be calling the defense of the Eagles, hoping
that after three straight games they're giving up thirty points,
if this provides the spark that they need.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Very curious rap sheet, Thank you very much. We're just
talking about Jaalen like he's asked to fly separately from
the team, but he's trying to get it to go.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
He had the extra day. We'll see how this fair
is on Monday night. Football rap sheet, thanks so much.
Talking that's on our show.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
And Jason has to fly separately from the broadcast team
too on the private.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Chat right just because those are my demands, I'm not
with the rest of.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
The man what he needs and what he wants. Full
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How was the caviar on the plane?
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
Busy, busy weekend of football.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I think we might just put a speed limit sign
up for some of those come running teams.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Bills are sprinting.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh my god. Dallas versus Buffalo is incredible, absolutely incredible.
The Cowboys Eagles are going to the playoffs. Are the
Ravens going to go to the playoffs? It really looks
like it. Should we get into the late game, you guys,
are you ready to change out? Jamie, Let's go to
do Val County.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
All right, let's go to do.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Vall County, where Sunday night football doesn't often go. In fact,
it's spend years and years and years two thousand and eight,
thousand and eight here, but really flat night for Jacksonville,
who lost their third game in a row. They've lost
two of these primetime games. But never mind them. Baltimore's cruising.
They are crushing. They are going to the playoffs. They're
gonna be a tough out. Twenty three to seven. Let's
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hear it from Lamar, who's got this cool like golden
underarmour thing on. It looks amazing. Lamar clinched the playoff
birth hows it feels.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I didn't know we clinched the playoffs. You know, I'm
just trying to win. I'm trying to get there. I'm
trying to win the game at a time, you know.
But I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for the opportunity.
I believe we're just getting started. But that was a
tough team, and that was a great team. We just played,
came down play what was going on out there on
that field, even though, like you said, was double digit score.
But that was a tough team. You know, things just
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happened like that in the league. So you gotta be
prepared each and every job, each and every play. You
gotta stay focused. I believe both teams were.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, they got the job done.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The Baltimore Ravens did ian rapport joining us now. Lamar
Jackson says they are just getting started. But unfortunately the
Ravens suffered yet another season ending injury to one of
their potent stars.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And what's going on.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Yeah, the only bad thing to come really out of
this game is a couple a little bit of injury
news for the Baltimore Ravens. Keaton Mitchell, their big play
running backer, really has been a revelation young player.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But has delivered big play after big play.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
When he's been on the field, has been the key thing.
Not going to be on the field now for the
rest of the season. John Harbaugh announcing that he suffered
a knee injury that is going to require surgery that
will knock him out this season, from my understanding, make
it difficult to be ready for the start of next season.
A serious knee injury, obviously, hope for the best for him.
That was not the only injury to come out of
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this game, and for the Jacksonville Jaguars, not a good
one for next week. Trevor Lawrence was placed in the
NFL's concussion protocol. According to Doug Peterson, this from a
hit that he took late in the fourth quarter. We
do not know how players are going to react from
a concussion and all concussions are different, but certainly this
does open up the possibility during the Jaguars play the
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Buccaneers next week, it is going to be CJ.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Bethard.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
He did have one week this season when he took
most of the reps and got ready. Of course, when
Trevor Larwrench was doing with the high ankle spring, perhaps
that will be up some assistance.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But CJ.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Bether potentially going to start next week for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
We also have some injuries to look at for tonight's game.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Eagles will start with Geno.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Smith, who missed last week with a groin injury list.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It is questionable.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
My understanding is he's got to improve a lot from
now until game time to be able to play. Considered
a bit of a long shot. Status up in the air,
however you would like to say it. I would say
there is a pretty good possibility that is Drew Locke
out on the field tonight for the Seattle Seahawks. And
then we got some news yesterday during game day morning.
Jalen Hurts, who battled an illness late this week, seemingly
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was okays a little bit, was officially listed as questionable,
so it was downgraded from totally fine to questionable. Flew
separately to Seattle with his team, just so we didn't
infect anyone else, So dealing with the illness.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
More in his status later today.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I would say.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Most players should deal with something like this do end
up playing.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But obviously more coming later.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Guys, All right, rap cheet. We appreciate you. As it
pertains to Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Very curious where the Jacksonville Jaguars sitting, how they have
done over the last couple of weeks. If they have
to go without him for a week as he is
in concussion protocol, Thanks, talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
AFC playoff pitcher.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
As we sit here right now, Ravens one seed, Dolphins
two seed.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They play each other in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Here it is if the Dolphins weed out the Finns
clinch home field and the bye, so the Dolphins can
still get the first seed. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are right there,
the Chiefs beating the Dolphins in Germany.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They're the three seed.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Jacksonville now of three in a row and four to
six down to the four seed, with two teams in
the ANFC South nipping at their heels there.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Texans and Colts.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Bengals with their win on Saturday, get back in and
then we'll talk about the.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Browns today as well.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We absolutely will.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The Ravens though, the first in the AFC to hit
eleven wins in this conference. Clutch road win in a
meaningful way against Jacksonville last.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Night, so impressive, and I think the one thing when
you look at him, and you look at Lamar Jackson,
and sometimes you'll turn and you'll go on the line
and you'll look at the stats from the game, blah,
Lamar was okay, it didn't seem like a crazy game.
But when you watch it what he does with his
Baltimore Ravens team, the spark that he has, and how
demoralizing it is for a defense as you watch him
just sit in the pocket, scramble, do so many different
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things that just feel like it's unstoppable for you on defense.
And Duwayne Smooth is trying to get to.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
Lamar Jackson on a long one and likely he gets
up and he just looks at him.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
He's like, how And we're watching him stand in the
pocket play after play when he has to scramble and
make something happen.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
He does that for this instances.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Throughout that game last night where he's just standing still
waiting for somebody to get open and then make the play.
Had ninety seven yards rushing on the ground for this
team in this offense, watching what Lamar has been able
to do this season, how he's changed with Tom munkin
as an offensive coordinator. We just said they're at the
one speed one seed. They clinched their playoff spot. To me,
they're the scariest team in the ANFC, and we see
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if where they're ranked, but the potential they have.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
We'll watch a game where Jay.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
Flowers goes off and he has a touchdown late in
the game and Lamar's throwing the ball all over the
field against the Rams, and then we watched him last
night where he's scrambling and making plays and a guy
like Isaiah.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Likely is stepping up.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
So for this Ravens team, there's different guys that can
kill you on any given day, and Lamar is still
the guy at the helm spreading the ball out and
making it happen.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
What we learned about last week the Lion spike.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Ye, when we got the Lion's spike, the Ravens give
it out in their locker room to the player that
puts the game away. Tyler Wallace got it last week,
his first punt return of his NFL career, thrown into
action when Devin Duvernet was injured, returns it for a touchdown.
They escape a crazy shootout with the Rams, and they win.
The Lion spike was determined at the spot at the
end of the third quarter when it's Lamar Jackson making
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the play of what I think the season for the
Ravens ten to seven.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
They're winning.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
It's a big play and let's let Mike Tarico and
Chris Collins been taking away the Lamar Jackson experience.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Final a minute of the third from the thirty, Lamar
Jackson got out of it, would be sacked, keeps.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
It alive and flinch.
Speaker 10 (07:30):
It in the air.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It is burned by Likely at the five. Isaiah Likely
goes up between Darius Williams. It makes a spectacular catch.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh my god, look at this flight as the free
Diculous coming over here.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Okay, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Sack right, No problem, I miss him.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
I'm gonna go get him again, get him again. No,
just throwing up in the ear and then let's Likely
go between two guys, stop it.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
There's your Lion spike moment, and there's your Chris collins
Worth potential MVP moment.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I mean, when you hear.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
The goofaing collins Worth, that's usually reserved for maybe Mahomes.
Josh Allen gives it from Labar right there though, to
put him away, and that was it for the Jaguars,
and that really did put the Lion's spike into the
AFC playoff picture and then saying hey, we're that number
one team. Gus Edwards would score two plays later, that
was the game and they would just bury the Jaguars.
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From that point on, Lamar is doing special things. The
numbers aren't going to add up to some of the
other contenders for the MVP award, but when they need
him most in big spots, Lamar has always been there
this season, and he seems to be getting seemingly better
as this degate the season goes on.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We do a lot of bits and segments around the holiday.
We're on Christmas Day. We do give each other gifts
and stuff. I think we need to get Peter Alliance spike.
We got to track one down. Maybe Chad Steele could
help us.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Maybe or or we might need to take a little
Good Morning football trip to the jungle and.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Find our own. I don't Yeah, we'll have to do.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, earned the lion spikes. Been a long year. You
said it right there, Baltimore, great defense, Lamar magic. I'll
run with that anywhere. Those two ingredients. Whoever plays, seems
gonna be a really, really tough out. And I think
we're supposed to be talking right I think we were
worried that we were going to be talking about Mark Andrews.
Mark Andrews, Mark Andrews, Lamar is not the same. And
then Mark Andrews, No, Lamar threw it the nine different
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players last night, the week before, it was just the same.
We do that with teams when they struggle, Like I remember,
for a good six weeks on the show with the Bills,
we would say Matt mlonal, Matt Mlone. They lost Matt Malone,
and like we put Matt Malone on the Hall of Fame,
I forget injured. I'm so pleased that I'm the only
one bringing up Mark Andrews, because it's a good of
a player he is. He's not relevant right now because
of likely because if everybody else they're moving on. Lamar
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looks seamless, he looks comfortable. I say it all the time.
There's nothing better in this league than happy Lamar. It's
so fun to watch, it's so contagious. And right now
in December. I liken it to when you go if
you ever go to the horse track, there's something called
the paddock, all right. The paddock is the last place
where they walk the race sources around before the track.
It's like you get your last look at him. Maybe
you're thinking about who you want to bet on or whatever,
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and they just kind of march him around. It's real
show pony stuff, and then they go race. December. Right now,
this is our paddock month for these teams. We're gonna
get one last look and you better be ready because
the race starts in January. Jacksonville doesn't look ready. They
don't look good in the paddock. I don't know. Dallas
does not look good in the paddock. We're gonna see
how the Eagles look in the paddock. Right now. Baltimore
looks great in the paddock. You're like, well, that's a horse.
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I can bet on that number eight and on the
side of the saddle, that's a horse. That's gonna run.
That looks ready, looks been there before. Just a great
showing last night on the road. This was not really
a game. I feel like it was over at the
end of the first half from Jaguars can get three
points and like Baltimore just led the whole way. Tough,
tough out. They look ready to run.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I like your shirt today, Thank you, Jaki.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Rocky one was on the TV in my hotel room
this week.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh really, Danapolis, and I caught the good the great
part of it, which is Polly doesn't want the.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Relationship to happen, and the trainer and then.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The montage and so you know when he's sprinting along
the water and he's had a pretty good run, he's
been jogging with his dog, and then Rocky all of
a sudden, is he running, always running faster? Oh my god,
look at that man's stride. It is the thing of beauty.
This is how I feel about the Baltimore Ravens. I
thought they were running since week eleven, and now they're
getting faster, and anyone else behind the Chiefs, the Jaguars,
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the Dolphins. They've all lost games since week eleven, and
the Baltimore Ravens. Have not you thought the game was
over at the end of the first half last night.
The Ravens had only run for forty seven yards at
the end of the first half, and they finished with
two hundred and fifty one rushing yards to.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Finish that game. All the teams that accomplished that this
weekend are teams like the Bills, the Colts. They ran
the ball down.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Team's throats in the AFC this weekend and that's going
to be a key when your sprint really breaks out
in December.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
The Paddock and the Rocky and it's great.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
The Eagles, I don't know how they would feel about
the appropriating the Rocky story line for Baltimore, but take
it back, you know what. We need it from you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sometimes you can't turn it away when it shows up
in your hotel room TV.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And it's nice to Eve went for the Baltimore Ravems.
It was something other than the Wire. It's always the wire.
They can do something else, right, I do it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The Holiday Classic is back when it's on NFL Network.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Do you plans Christmas Eve? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And if you meet some watch a special Sunday night
of Primetime Football, Patriots Broncos light up the night the
NFL Holiday Class at Christmas Eve Live at eight pm
Eastern only right here on NFL Network and streaming on
NFL Plus. Still a come on our show, though it
is a fun filled Monday after a week and filled
with spectacular plays. We're gonna break them down some of
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our favorites from week fifteen later on Plus.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Ah, that Bill's Cowboys game was really something. How about
this Bill's team? Are they back? Are they terrified? Are
they gonna make the playoffs? Are they gonna miss the
playoffs in Dallas? What do you do with them? This
one had it all Bill's Cowboys right after this Good
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Morning Football.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Chiefs Losers are two straight coming into this one.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Flexed out of the Monday night game.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
They flexed out of Belichick versus read the ultimate in
from the Networks twenty seven to seventeen. Patreets hung in
this one for a while. There was too much cheats
at the ark to a lot of questions.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
But you know what you're not questioning.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
That's probably the San Francisco forty nine ers heading the
Arizona to take on the cards. That's Block Party trying
to state his MVP case and he's just he's just
looking on like this is just what we do. They
win this one forty five to twenty nine and clinch
to NFC West.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I have McCaffrey and fashion who wants to touch me? Guys?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
It fun so first first over, I'll pick for you.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, god, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I did too, But also a dack as my quarter
it back?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
All right, well you might be exiting the playoffs. Dak
did not have a day. But I thought this was
gonna be a shootout. No, it was a blowout. Dallas
ninety two total yards. Haven't had that few in a
quarter in years and years and years. You think maybe
they win this game. Sure, they're at home. A lot
of people picked him to win, not like this. And
we're we're gonna get into in a second. What do
we make the Cowboys wearing the bills?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
James Cook, it's.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The best running back Josh Allen's ever had. It's the
best performance from a running back they've ever had in
this era. They ran right through the Cowboys. They go
home now where they're really, really good. But they got
a lot of questions to answer about how flat they
were in that score. Thirty one to ten. The Bills
look incredible. Josh Allen self deprecating afterwards. I can see
the stats there, seven of fifteen ninety four yards. He
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talked about it.
Speaker 11 (14:20):
James ran hard, Tay ran hard, Ty ran hard, you know,
and when you can stay in front of the sticks
like we did today. I don't know how many third
downs we had, but it couldn't have been that many.
I don't think I threw the ball that many times,
which again, I don't just get it done. Let's just
find a way to win. And you know, felt like
the kid that didn't do anything in the class project
but gotten a.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That's a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You passed the group project this weekend, Buffalo Bills, and
you've been doing so over the last couple of weeks.
It's been a challenge for them at times, yet they've
also won five games by twenty plus.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Go figure.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Buffalo Bills are officially our come running team. We think
lurking doesn't even feel applicable to them at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Look out for anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They have to face down the stretch and if they
went out, they could still retain the top of the East,
which is an absolute curious situation. Peter Bill's dominant win
over a Cowboys team that man look out when they
leave Dallas.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
They lost that Eagles game thirty seven to thirty four,
and I think a lot of people wrote them off
for dead and said it was done.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
They went on the bye.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
They've emerged from the bye, and they've now beaten the
Chiefs and the Cowboys, and then the Cowboys won in
decidedly fashion. I you know what, it's been a weird
season for Sean McDermott and for Brandon Bean and for
all of them up there. And they fired offensive coordinators.
And there was the article that came out during the
by Hats off to that team, Hats off for that
locker room, hats off for those guys. I thought that
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it's all in their future right now, like all that
stuff in the past. The bad loss of the Patriots,
the bad loss of the Jets to open the season,
the bad loss to the Broncos on Monday Night, you
can wipe it all away, because they really they decide
their own future at this point. This game was a
culmination of months and months of frustration of wondering, why
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have we not been the team we could be? Why
have we not been the team that everyone thought we
would be here they are. This is the as we expected,
did it on national TV with everyone watching against everyone's
darling cowboys. Cowboys will talk about in a while, But
I gotta I guess, gotta say Sean McDermott when he's
in a corner and everyone in the world is mocking
him on the internet, and the Bills are the joke
of the league, and Josh sounds it they win a
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game like that on NASH Time, it's kind of like
that dropped the Mike moment, and now who wants to
face the Bills?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
To your point, I certainly don't.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
If all the teams in the AFC, they're the one
that probably looks the scariest, right though.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
And you're right, this is kind of what we expected
them winning games like this. But if the fashion in
which they did it is something that we haven't really
seen from a Josh Allen led Buffalo Bills team, And
you mentioned him firing their offensive coordinator Kendorsteen and Joe
Brady gets in and you're watching that game yesterday, and
whenever the Bills win, especially a big game like that,
you're like, all right, if Buffalo's winning thirty one to ten.
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How many touchdowns did Josh Allen throw for? How many
did he rush for? Just show me the insane plays
of him jumping out. It wasn't that it was James
hook not great, it was amazing, Josh Allen said after
the game group project he got eight and didn't do anything.
All right, that was a little extreme, but fifteen pass
attempts less than one hundred yards throwing the ball, and
the Buffalo Bills won the game by a lot. This
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is the first time in his career that he started
and finished a game and threw the ball that many
times for less than one hundred yards. First time they've
won the game in this fashion since twenty fifteen, where
Tyrod Taylor was the quarterback when they beat the Dolphins
in a Week nine matchup. So when you're watching him
last night, yes, we expected Buffalo to win games like this,
but not to do it like that, to be able
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to hand the ball off time after time after time.
I think the running backs had like thirty nine carries. Typically,
whenever we see the one game after the game, we're like,
why didn't they keep running it? And they just don't
do it? And they did that yesterday and they dominated
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
This team's going to the playoffs, I said out a
Friday if they beat Dallas, which is a huge ift
because Dallas is great, They're gone. Like they're gone. They
got the Chargers, they got the Patriots, they got the Dolphins.
I still think they might be able to lose one
of those. I don't think they will. They've turned the corner.
It's crazy too, because we keep saying this phrase to
come running team. Let me make some of that means
at the end of December, a team that started off
really poorly finds itself and comes tearing down the stretch
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and can they get in mathematically? Typically the come running
team would be like Houston this year with the rookie
quarterback and you were there, Denver. That's kind of a
new iteration of themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Last year was the Lion.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Last year the Lions, like, oh, they put it together.
It's not supposed to be the Josh Allen Bills. Can
you imagine if you were one of these teams in
the AFC who wins your division and you get the
T shirts we won, We're the division champs, and then
you have to play Buffalo in you're opening round at home, like,
that's not fair. We're supposed to have a warm up game.
We got the T shirts right here, It's not that
was a terrifying display of saber ratleying by Buffalo Bills.
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They destroyed them. There was never a game. Dallas, the
team that we thought had the MVP, I don't think
they do anymore. We thought had found itself. I don't
think they have any more. It's also to Jason's point,
during the first run of the Jordan Bowles in the
first three titles, sometimes you'd have this random night where
Jordan would have twelve points, but like you get the
big Scottie game and Horace would have twenty and ten
and you'd have this bizarre will Purdue had twelve rebounds.
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That was this and they won. And it's like, if
they can win like that, we're gonna have the forty
point game from Michael when we need it. But the
fact that Josh Allen on the class project is what
we used to call the secretary, the person just taking
notes and pretending to work, and when the teacher walks around,
you just pretend like you're working really hard. That's scary.
The Superman thing. If they did that in one fine
we know that they have the big overhand right if
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they have the other stuff and James Cook really becomes
see all the time. Late in the season, teams will
find a running back who just gets really really hot.
Random example, I remember late in the farv air in
Green Bay, Ryan Grant became this guy. We're like, where
the hell Ryan Grant come from? That looks like Cooks
right now for the Bills, And if they have a
running back to go with him, they have a Scotti
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and you don't want Michael to have a Scotti. I
think they're going to the playoffs. I said it. They win.
They did. They win by twenty one points. The Bills
are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It would almost be better for teams in the AFC
if the Bills did not win their division, because then
they wouldn't have to go on the road and for example,
faced Jacksonville, because Jacksonville, to your point, is like great
Bills come to town and run all over us, all out
with the Baltimore Ravens did last night, that would be
terrible fate for Jacksonville. Defensively, I thought the Bills were
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fantastic as well.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
They totally upset Dallas Cowboys team on the road.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Just curious your thoughts on what had Dallas stymied fully
in Buffalo.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
They got pumped. There's nothing more than that. They came
out and you just said it. Defensively, Dak didn't have
much time. They lost Zach Martin earlier in that game,
which absolutely crushed him. They handed the ball, Poulard had
some nice ones, but they couldn't sustain anything.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
You just seen Dak get hit time after time after time.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Buffalo team is desperate and you can see that when
they're out there playing right now.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
They're fired up. They're running around the field and they're
making plays.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
We talk MVP all the time, and last week when
Tyreek was out, you're like, that's an argument for MVP.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Is zachar In the MVP of the Cowboys?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Because that offense looked terrible once he went down like that.
That was not the Cowboys we've seen off season, and
we did it again as a media. We jumped on
board and we'll talk about him more of it on us.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
All right, welcome back, Let's go to lambeau Field. The
Tampa Bay Buccaneers are eyeing a home playoff game. They
wanted bad on two in a row, and Baker Mayfield
played the game of his life. I think it's the
best game he has played as a professional and has
played a lot of football. The Bucks win again. They're
in first place.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right c Up the Atlantis Moore set under the Texans
Titans highlight with the Titans wearing the Oilers gear with
the Texans in town, fifty four yard game winning field goal.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Nineteen to sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Texans stay alive case Keenum first wins in the Texans
is twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Nice. What a call by the Miko to go to
Keenum in that game? All right?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Tyreek at the works out before the game, they say no,
he's inactive. Jets fans little pep in their step. But
it didn't last long.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Thirty to zero.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Wow, that's the way he bounced back from the Miami Dolphins.
Let's get some Bears and Browns right there. That's Joe Flackle.
But now they sit at the five seed Flagel has
been balling three hundred and eleven yards last week.
Speaker 9 (21:51):
That is justin fields.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
He was still have a chance four seconds left on
the clock. Scrambles, scramble, Hail Mary. When the ball goes
in the air, just knock it down. You don't have
to catch it, just knock the ball down. Browns go
up there.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Go to knock it down.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
In his chazz, he cannot believe that Browns are celebrating
that close for the Bears to come away with that
one oh twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
The Browns win this game. And here's Kevin Stefanski in
the locker room after the Browns win.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I'm so proud of this team. Guys. We're not perfect,
all right, We're not perfect. It's tough.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
It's gonna be hard, but this team fights, and that's
number nine. It's gonna be hard sometimes you have to
fight with each other. But I saw a bunch of
guys out there that are like I will not be
denied for my brother, for the guy next to me.
I appreciate that team. On three one two, three.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Ninth win in a row for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Kevin Stefanski, we will talk about him later on Good
Morning Football. Joe Flacco led the Browns to a stunning
comeback win over the Bears. Despite his three picks. He
had over two hundred passing yards in the fourth quarter,
more than any other Browns QB in the last forty
five seasons. Well, they're not in the playoffs just yet.
The Browns are holding on to wildcard spot in the AA.
Can the Browns keep this thing going?
Speaker 9 (23:06):
The Browns are rolling. I think that's what two in
a row for them.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
With Joe Flackle now making plays and figuring out how
to win games. Late in ow fourth quarter, the veterans
stepped up and he made throws. You saw the fade
away pass that he threw to David Nijoko and won
on Marii Cooper. And that's what a veteran led quarterback
can do for your team coming in here and we
know how good the defense is. When you say can
they continue this? My only concern is flat going three
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games is throwing the ball for over forty times. This
is a team led by their defense. That is the
strength of the team. I don't know if that's the
recipe for successful then moving forward getting into the playoffs.
It's just continued to throw the ball time at the time.
This year in the NFL, teams are thirty three and
seventy one when they throw the ball forty plus times.
The Browns are figuring out ways to win the game.
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I'm not hating on that Joe Flacco has been unbelievable.
But I think they have to figure out a way
to run the ball a little bit more and lean
on Miles Garrett in that defense. But just watching Joe
Flacco straight from the crib to go out there and
just throw the ball around the field has been so
fun to watch thirty eight. You know, I played against
flackl many a time. So the thing now I'm sitting
at this desk talking about how he's out there ball
and it is fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Browns have fourteen players on injury reserve quourteen players on
Injuri reserve, Flaco office of the story. And yet the
night before the game at the team hotel, Stefanski sat
everyone down and brought up David and Joku and said,
this guy right here represents everything we want to be.
He's tough, he's formidable, he's humble, and he is our guy.
(24:31):
And let's felp. They go to do introductions out of
the tunnels. The last person introduced yesterday was David and Joku, who.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Had the biggest game of his career last yesterday.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
David and Joku was amazing when they and it's like
you talk about late late blossoming and like kind of
like you know, late bloomer, like Joko was a first
round pick and they extend, they pick up his extension,
They're like, all right, we'll do one more year, and
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Like, he is unstoppable right now, and he has.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Been Flacco's guy, and you look at this team. He
is representative of everything. And me think about what he
went through already this season in Week four when he
was at the fire pit and we know it went
down there, and yet every single big play, it's this
guy right here, this warrior.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He's incredible.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
You want to talk about a team that you don't
want to face the playoffs, so talk.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
About the Bills.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Do you know who the best road quarterback in the
history of the NFL is in playoff history, It's Joe Flacco,
Not Joe Flacco, not Joe Montana, It's Brady and Flacco
as the most road wins.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't let him in Flacco.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Don't let Flacco in a road playoff game.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
He'll come in.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
He'll gut you.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
If you're sitting there and you're in Miami and you're
looking at who you want to face, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Joe, no doubt, no doubt, Sheriff Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's everyone.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I don't want to see Joe Flacco walk in there
and amazing fourteen players on I are and Joke who
carrying them, and then Flacco just doing what he does.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I don't know if I want to see Brownian walk
in there either too. This was more exciting than some
hail marys that have been completed, and like it actually worked.
You gotta understand, this is the Bears, blew the lead,
They're gonna lose again. Field Store is a perfect hail Mary.
Darnald Mooney gets the bounce of lifetime. He says afterwards,
it was tough. How many times do you see a
(26:11):
hail mary work and actually fall into being able to
make a catch. It is what it is. It was tough.
I think there was more at stake here than just
that game. Guys. The Bears are very pivotal right now.
The battle lines are being drawn in the justin Field's future.
This would have given them the win of the year,
a game winning touchdown pass. They would have gone to
six and eighth if I have it right. Instead they're
(26:32):
five and nine. Fields did not play well. That's everything
that we could talk about coaching staff that could have
been affected by that. Justin Field's future, The draft might
have been affected by that Donald Mooney draft that was
so much bigger than Oh my god, it was almost
a hail Mary. I mean, I screamed, a Browns fan scream.
Bears fans screamed, I can't believe that wasn't pulled in.
But if everything changes for the Bears in a few
(26:54):
weeks and the draft, look at that play. Little things
like that have the ripple effects. I still can't believe
what I saw.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It was right there when you look at the box
or nineteen for forty for Justin Fields, twenty for forty
would have hit.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If he had Yeah, with a big touchdown on a wins.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
You almost watch it in slow motion. It's worse because
you see it hit every part of his body. It
is absolutely heartbreaking, Peter.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
To put a ball.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And you said fourteen players of the runs, that's nearly
twenty six percent of their cap space that they have
right now. That leads the league by far and away
for the Browns. For players that are on I are,
the fact that they're still winning these games, close.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Games is remarkable for them still to come on our show.
Week fifteen isn't over, Dusty out.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
We're going to previous tonight's game and the Eagles and
the Seahawks looking ahead to a Monday night battle of
the Birds in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
My family and I drive around, listen to the Very
Philly Christmas album. It's good. My lot of just sores.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Oh god, Jordan David, it's beautiful.
Speaker 13 (27:41):
Yeah, good morning football.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The Bills we talked about earlier, No, great looking team.
Don't know if they're going to be in or not.
They got three games left. But the Cowboys, we thought
this one was different. Is it? Here's Dak talking about
the struggles specifically when they go on the road.
Speaker 14 (28:08):
Yeah, it's a huge difference, and really it's it's what
the this next week of preparation and honestly, these next
couple of weeks are about is figuring out what that
difference is and trying to close that gap. Obviously, we
would love to come out start like we play at home,
produce like we do at.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Home, but that just hadn't been the case.
Speaker 14 (28:26):
So we've got to find out what those answers are
and try to close that close that gap. And we
can't be those two different of the team's.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Big loss for the Cowboys in a lot of ways here. Yes,
they clinched a playoff berth yesterday and that's fine, But
the Eagles now take control of the NFC East, and
the Eagles if they went out against a very manageable
schedule Seahawks Giants, Cardinals Giants, they will be.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
The NFC East champions.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
They will have a home field game and the Cowboys
will have to go on the road for all of
their playoff battles. That's the situation right now. You can
see the rest of the playoff picture in front of you.
We'll get into it, but Eagles control their The NFC
East Cowboys look like they're.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Gonna have to be road warriors. But as they do
not look comfortable being in January.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Climate control is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
The Cowboys get to play in seventy degree domed home
field advantage and then they hit the road and.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It was ugly in Buffalo yesterday. Jason, your thoughts on
how the Cowboys fared away from home?
Speaker 9 (29:23):
It was ugly.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Last week On our show, we did our trust scales
and you had to pick teams and where you wanted
to put them on your trust scale, and I went
with the teams that I picked to be in the
Super Bowl this year. That was back in August. I said,
the Dallas Cowboys in the Baltimore Ravens. I want to
double down and my trust in these teams, how teams,
of how well they're playing and their ability to get
to the Super Bowl. Baltimore handle business. They beat the Jaguars.
(29:44):
Cowboys just didn't show up. I said it earlier in
the show. They got punked. It was like at your
school and you go to your friend's neighborhood on the
week and you say, hey, on Friday, I'm showing up.
We're playing pickup basketball. I'm bringing my crew and I'm
coming on your turf and we're gonna beat you. You
show up for that basketball game and they just send
you home packet.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
You're yelling for mom. You take your basketball with you
because you're so pissed.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
And now they can't even keep playing because they were
expecting your ball to be there.
Speaker 9 (30:06):
The whole time.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Cowboys going the road and they go to Buffalo and
it was as if they left their game in Dallas,
and I know it's one game they've lost it.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
They can be able to bounce back.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
The tough thing is as we watch these teams and
we're picking our few in each conference and say, all right,
this team is one we believe in that can be
in the super Bowl and can win that game. To
lose a game like this late in the season when
we're talking about you're starting to catch streak as catch
fire and playing your best ball for the Cowboys just
to not show up. They couldn't stop James Cook at
(30:35):
all on the defensive side of the ball. They couldn't
protect that. There was nothing that they were able to
get right. And you watch Dion Dawkins, who they called
the snow Man, on one of the James Cooks runs
right here where he's just slamming a Cowboys defender. And
early in the game they get a run to James
Cook and they pushed a pile about fifteen yards.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
That was kind of the game.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
And Buffalo just setting a tempo from early on and
carrying it throughout the game. For Dallas moving forward, we
watched them bounce back after forty nine ers lost early
in the season.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Can they do it?
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Order time as a playoffs are upon us and strikes
how you just said where they are in a playoff seating,
they're going to have to go on the road and
win games, which is something they haven't done a great
job of so far in the ruction.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
It doesn't matter if they end up with the third
best record in the NFC. The way the playoffs work,
if you don't win your division, you do not get
a home game. Right now, they're not going to win
the division if the Eagles take care of their business.
And that's asking a lot from the Eagles. I know
the Cowboys on the road are a mediocre team, and
that is just objective.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That is from last year, that is from this year.
Look at the splits home and away.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
There might be no better team at home, Like there
might be no other team in the league. I would
want to go play in their building. There might be
twenty other teams i'd rather. You know, I'm not scared
of or I'm scared of less or more than the
kind of life.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, we're feel it's not Kellen Moore's fault.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Nope, it's not necessarily any of the players who were
discarded last year's fault. This is at the end of
the day, we're all at to blame for crowning the
Cowboys and we fourteen was what we did, and then
week fifteen, which is what we did. Until they win
a big road game. This is not a Super Bowl contender.
This is not a team that we can get behind.
Those historic teams that are like road dogs that go
(32:16):
and do the thing during the playoffs, the Giants and
seven and the Packers in twenty ten, and that wasn't
Mike McCarthy coach team Grant the Steelers did at one
time like those were teams that were like so hot
and they found themselves and they got their footing. And
the Bucks a couple of years ago with Brady like
you had a feeling like this was happening. Just when
you want to crown the Cowboys, they go on the
road to a cold weather environment and they lay an egg.
(32:37):
And you know, I feel foolish because I was one
of the people talking Dak MVP amongst the many they
use the leader, No, no, you have to win road games.
And in this case, unfortunately, they lost that game to
Philly in Philly, and Philly has taken care of their
business and right now it looks like they're gonna have
to go on the road in the playoffs and at
the very least they're gonna have to play at San
Francisco or at Philly, and I have no confidence they
(32:58):
can do that based on what we've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Here's where I come out. You can lose by twenty
one points, it's fine. Same teams get thumped some days,
that's happens. You can lose in December. You can't lose
by twenty one in December. What are we doing? You
can't do both. The last ten Super Bowl winning teams
do not have a double digit loss in December. They
have not lost by even ten points in December. The
last ten teams in a row. They just lost by
(33:21):
twenty one on the road. So I find myself thinking,
what did Mike McCarthy have to say after this? I
really like to hear an explanation about how you come
up that short because you've been playing really well, and
he just straight up acknowledges it. He says, it's a gap.
There's two big of a gap in our road games.
It's something we're talking about. We'll start doing something about
if the playoffs are almost you're talking about it. This
has been going on for four months. What are we
doing about it? Because like, that's the big boys stuff
(33:43):
you can win at home, blah blah blah, Like you
can get your ten wins, eleven wins, twelve wins. You
got to win on the road. That's what makes you
a killer, That's what makes you a champ. I just
look at Dallas like I'm trying to describe it because
I'm trying to hang up a fresh way, and ironically,
because they can't come up with the fresh way in
the fast food industry, particularly, let's just say if they
do sort of a Mexican food, like the same four
(34:05):
ingredients over and over, and you repackage it and you're like, well,
now we're wrapping it up like this, but this is
totally different. Now it's in a bowl. Now it's this,
Now it's in a shell. It's like, but it's the
same ingredients. You guys can't get me with this, Like no, no, no, no, no,
it's the the blah blah blah wrapped the supreme. This
is what the cowboys are doing. Like it's the same
ingredients presented in a different way, and you can put
(34:27):
some sauce on it, and you can heat it up,
you can give it a different name. This version of
the same ingredients can't win on the road. The last
one couldn't close out games. The one before that mismanaged.
Same ingredients, guys, you're not fooling us with squad. Peter
started a sentence with just when you want to crown
the cowboys, Peter, stop crowning the cowboys. That's all of us,
not a you thing. I know it's sexy and it's
fun and it's Deck. Let me get me Lenon on something.
(34:49):
Deck's not winning the MVP. He just lost it last night.
You can't give the MVP to a guy who loses
by three touchdowns in December. You can't. I think it's over.
I think he's done. Don't fall for the rope dope
of the four ingredients, guys, don't do it anymore. They
tasty as hell, They're salty, and they're hot and they're spicy.
The same ones is last year, SAME's next year. It's
just repackaging. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Even if they tell you the only way you can
get the Casadia is if you order it online.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's still the same. Like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
The cow has got put into the Casadia crisper and
they got burnt Christ in Buffalo. Yeah, they get the
poster that was a great, beautiful take, and now I
know what I'm having for Lunchhow rappaport reverting to you
crap seat Jalen Hurts and Gino Smith playing against each
other tonight.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Maybe maybe, maybe we'll start with Gino Smith, who's probably
more of a maybe than Jalen Hurts. His Gino Smith,
dealing with a groin injury, tried to go last week,
didn't seem like it was particularly close to being able
to get out there with a groin strain, sort of
a two week injury. This would be the second week
here and has not been ruled out yet. My understanding
is that Gino Smith has an uphill battle to be
(35:51):
able to play, needs to improve a lot between now
and game time to get out there.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
If he cannot go, it would be Drew.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Locke and is the start of this second straight week.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Played fine last week.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
He did play really good tonight against the Philadelphia Eagle,
who may or may not have Jalen Hurts their starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
He's listed as questionable.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Was fine, and then yesterday morning, I would say his
sickness got a little worse, started feeling weak, started feeling bad.
Was officially listed as questionable. Flew separately from the team
from Philadelphia to Seattle, just to make sure he didn't
infect anyone. Most players this time of the year who
have an illness end up playing, so I would say
he's probably in that same category. But more information later
(36:31):
today as it comes. Meanwhile, he significant change on the
defensive side of the ball for Philly. Sources say that
Sean Desigh, the defensive coordinator, one of the up and
coming minds in the NFL, will now be in the
booth and Matt Patricia, who is a senior defensive assistant
for the Eagles who has been assisting Decie, he now
(36:52):
will be the primary play call.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
He will be down on the field, He'll be talking
to players.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
He will be calling the defense of the Eagles, hoping
that after three straight games they're giving up thirty points,
if this provides the spark that they need.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Very curious rap sheet, Thank you very much. We're just
talking about Jaalen like he's asked to fly separately from
the team, but he's trying to get it to go.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
He had the extra day. We'll see how this fair
is on Monday night. Football rap sheet, thanks so much.
Talking that's on our show.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
And Jason has to fly separately from the broadcast team
too on the private.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Chat right just because those are my demands, I'm not
with the rest of.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
The man what he needs and what he wants. Full
breakdown of all the action that went down on Saturday.
It was a big dann NFL network.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
How was the caviar on the plane?
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Jason was a good cavia and Vincent truckles on spaghetti
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