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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
But as we leave, did you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think we picked the games obviously before we on Friday.
The only one I missed on was a stupid Chargers,
Game Man's Chargers, Patriots, and the Chargers had every opportunity,
couldn't couldn't find a way. Hats off to the Patriots.
There you happy with the way everything shook out? Are
you happy that we got the Bills? Because there was
some some controversy. As controversy I some apparently what he Paige,
(01:10):
I guess reads my Twitter account although he doesn't follow me,
And when I was talking about the Chargers versus the Bills,
and how I thought the Bills were actually a better
fit for the Broncos to take on than the Chargers
were at full health.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What did what he say to you even say anything?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What did you lie?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He subtweeted several times and said that as opposed to
the amateur media, something like that, I've always said that
the Bills are a tougher matchup or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And then I made a tweet about how Josh Allen
just played you know, down a road at Wyoming and
apparently that was painful for for for Woodrow as he
said that I that down the road actually meant up
the road or you know, since Wyoming is north heavy
up the road, although that's not where that colloquialism got invented.
It has to do with with rivers to begin with,
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being up and down the river. And it really doesn't
matter if you say up or down. It doesn't mean
north or south anyway. But that's beside the point, because
I don't want to be pedantic like someone else. Oh
the point to be crotchety, I guess, and weird. I
don't know, like why why sit there and subtweet me
of all people?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Like what if I got something to say, I'll put
your name on it, So trying to gain some of
those Twitter.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Followers, I guess, I mean, you know, yeah, it's always
just kind of also like amateur media.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I worked for the broadcast part of the Broncos. Like,
so was he.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Saying, I guess the whole point was alluding to the
Bills more of a threat.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He was saying that the Bills are a tougher opponent
than the Chargers, and it kind of felt like basing
that only on this weekend, which is kind of weird.
But I think the Chargers at full health are a
tougher opponent than the Bills for the Broncos, just because
the fit like the way the Broncos played our strengths
and our weaknesses. I think the Chargers are a tougher
team to beat. Now that said, here we are, we
got the Bills. It doesn't matter anyway at this point.
(02:55):
But that was solely based on the fit, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I think for me, more of the issue comes down
to the quarterback on once you get to the playoffs,
it's about what are you doing at the quarterback position?
Because here I can see an argument on both sides.
And then I'm gonna lay it out for you. Now,
the Broncos had this great home record. Now they're eight
and one and they get the chance to host throughout
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the playoffs. That is a huge bonus for them because
the Broncos country fan base, when they show up, they
show out, and they are pretty damn loud when they
do it. Right now, there's a way to nullify the
crowd noise. But on the surface that is that's somewhat
of an issue. And then you think about the defense,
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the defense that has carried you this far and leaning
on them heavily to slow down not just Josh Allen
but James Cook.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Which is not an easy task.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But my main point is when you get into a
game like this, and you look at the number four
fourth quarter games that the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Have won, right, and then you say, okay, well, now.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You're playing another quarterback who is good at fourth quarter comebacks.
And we've seen it, right, We've seen it multiple times.
We've seen it against the Jags. We've seen it against
Kansas City, only to watch Kansas City be able to
move the ball down the field and score.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And now Josh Allen's on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So it's gonna come down to, or could come down to,
like what we saw against the Jags, who possesses the
ball late, what can you do with the ball late?
We know Josh Allen and the Bills can move the ball.
The Broncos now have to prove that they can do
it because in the last couple of quarters that we've
watched them that they have not been that successful. And
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anyone can at me or whatever if you want to,
it's at Nick ferguson Underscore twenty five. I'll tell you
the same thing is that the Broncos have to prove
that they can do that. If they cannot do that,
they put themselves at risk of losing this game. So
this is where you elevate your level of confidence being
able to score inside the RAI zone but also being able.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
To sustain drives.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's kind of where we are right now, Ben, because
it is we're gonna go home.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, that's what it is. Well, let me let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Let me ask you by spill off the trivia question, what
two teams if Bodex had the least amount of passing
yards against this year.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Passing yard is Yeah. Part of me want to say,
I want to say the Raiders. For some reason, I.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Want to say the Chargers. As the Chargers both Chargers
games hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And twenty four passing yards on hundred and forty seven
passing yards. I think the Raiders game he was close
to that with like one thirty six. So it was
basically the charge the two Chargers game and the Raiders
were the lowest, even if you throw away the air
quotes backups game. His other game against the Charger is the
only one hundred and forty seven passing yards, so that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That would indicate that there was something that jesse Mentor
and Patrick Graham.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Last last thing you want to do is play a
team three times in a season, especially when it's got
your number as far as that goes, and they.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Do okay well.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
With that being said, now, with the odds now being
a Broncos favor, I think the Vegas odds would be different.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the Vegas ods would be on Denver if
the Chargers were back here.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But I just thought they were a tougher matchup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Than the Bills based on the way they take the
pass away from us.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And they do. That doesn't mean they're unbeatable.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, no, nobody's unbeatable, but it is once again using
what is perceived to be a weakness of yours and
turning into a strength. Right, because the Broncos haven't taken
a lot of shots down fields, as far as explosive
plays are defined in football, do.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They have the capabilities of explosive plays.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We've seen them all season long, right, short get short
passing completions turn into explosive plays, both in the run
game in a passing game, and we've seen from Patrick
Graham from the Raiders and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Jesse Mentor from the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They're gonna keep everything in front of them, They're gonna
play down, they're gonna be solid, and the one thing
that the Bills do well as a lad is being
able to tackle an open field, and part of that's
getting dude. I can't tell you or emphasize how important
that is to limit the amount of yards after content, especially.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you run his own scheme like that.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yes, looking at the Houston Texas against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You look at Jalen Warren going into that game.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He was explosive once you get him on the edge,
and he had the ability and equickness to break tackles.
What the Texas did was they played on the opposite
side of Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line and they tackled well
as a unit on those plays where you're trying to
isolate a guy and get him out on the swing
route as far as dumping off to the running back.
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That's why this time of the year is so important,
because can you elevate your level of play from what
it was in the regular season to the postseason.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, And I think at the end of the day,
that was my like, I didn't understand. I guess I
didn't understand coming to me sideways about that, But whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Mommy, I mean, you are Benjamin, are bright, and you've
been known to kind of say some egregious things so well.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't take egregious things, but I will. I love debating.
I love to I love to talk about that stuff.
My opinion is not law. I'm I love to debate.
I don't like when people are rude about it. But
I also like if I debate somebody, I put their
name on it. Like if I'm talking about somebody, best
believe I'll put your name on it, which I did
in this segment.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Like I'm not you know, I'm not one of those people.
My phone is buzzing right now. Yeah, it's just saying
like I am not, you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Know, I mean, whatever else you think of me, Like
I'm not a coward, you know, like sitting here tweeting,
tweeting somebody and not putting their name on it, like weird. Anyway,
My question, the larger question was did we get the
best matchup? Did we get the matchup we wanted here
with the Bills because our eyes are options would have
been what the Chargers, yeah, if they want or or
(09:04):
if the Bills had lost uh and and then the
Texas that could have possibly been the Texans of the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The Steelers, I mean, we all saw that they.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would have been a pushover but the Detections, we played them,
We had a pretty tough game against them. I just
I look at this and I say, man, I don't know.
I think we I think we got the team we wanted.
And it's still one of those ones. I'm a little
shaky on.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't know if it's fair to say, well, you
you got the team that you wanted. Now, if you
wanted to say well, because of the whole revenge factor, well,
I mean all that stuff, you can make an argument
and say, okay, well now you got the team that
you wanted because now you can kind of get a
little revenge last time you had to go into someone
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else's backyard?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Would you rather played any of the other teams?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I mean, obviously Pittsburgh, so we won't count that, But like,
would you was there another team you would have rather
played this weekend than Buffalo?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
For me, both of you, I would say, you want
to say Chargers, because once again you're thinking, okay, well,
the whole narrative was that there was a vanilla game
plan and then all of a sudden, there's going to
be something else that's out there playing the Chargers again.
But in comparisons to Buffalo, I would for me, just
(10:18):
for me, that I would have loved to see the
Charges here other than Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
See, I was more afraid of the Chargers than I
am Abu.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why I just think they I just think they have
our number in a number of ways. We've managed to
keep games close to it because four of our total
four of our fourteen forced turnovers this year came against
the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
What the reality is they put this offense in check.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Our unloatus outputs are against them, and that's not including
I mean, if you want to take away and say
last game was a throwaway game because we're up against backups, fine,
go back to the game the third week of the season.
They did the same thing. They completely shut us down.
We had one hundred and forty seven passing yards, right,
we had in that game? We had what nine first
downs on offense.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Nine.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The reason I would say I wouldn't look at Buffalo as, oh,
that's a favorable matchup, right, because I look at their quarterback.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
He's a tough quarterback. Get that now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The only thing I would say, based on the number
of injuries that the Bills that'll suffered at the wide
receiver position. And then Jordan Pourier. Now you can say, Okay,
well that may prove to be more advantages for the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Right you want to say something, I'm just gonna say
it doesn't matter what the matchup is because you're gonna
have to play the Buffalo at some point, you're gonna
have to play the good teams. You're gonna have to
play the Patriots, you might have to play the Texans. Like,
it doesn't matter. This is the beginning, like you said earlier,
the revenge Tour. It starts this week like you got
to you gotta win the games in front of you.
I understand that, yes, you want an advantageous matchup to
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make it to the AFC Championship, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You're gonna play damn good teams and it starts this
weekend against Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh they are. And it's a great point.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm just the way I'm looking at this is was
was asking the question, like, did you get the matchup
you were hoping for going into the weekend?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And no, I would have rather play the Chargers. Okay,
but I didn't know all those numbers that you just gave.
But it just feels like Josh Allen, he knows this
is his year. Like when they were celebrating in the
locker room after that win, he like shut everybody up
and was like, hey, this is one game, Like we
aren't where we want to be yet, and he knows.
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There's no Joe Burrow, there's no Patrick Mahomes, there's no
Lamar Jackson. This is his time to get that championship
that has eluded him so far. That's the only thing
missing in his career, in his Hall of Fame career,
as a super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And he knows this is his time. That's what scares
me as a Broncos fan.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The motivation from Buffalo, like hey, we got the path,
this is our chance.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But not just that, it's just knowing as though what
he can do in the fourth quarter. It's not one
of those things like, hey, you're playing against Cincinnati, Dallas
or even I'll even play put green Bay in there,
because green Bay was kind of litmustas for.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Me watching the team play.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But Jordan Love didn't have like a history of having comebacks,
great come moments that never say die type of uh
Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan's mentality, well, like you said, Josh
has that mentality.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Will he be able to see it through one thing
about it?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We get a chance to see it unfold here at home,
But that is something that's I'm sure on his mind
when he goes home.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's thinking about.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That and it's in his hard not to separate yourself
from the outside noise.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And that could also impact him negatively, you know, that
could make him take some chances that he shouldn't take
and the Broncos defense can capitalize on him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, it'll be It's gonna be a like honestly, like
it's here, and I'm kind of intrigued by the matchup
because the strengths and weaknesses are obvious, and there are
mismatches here. You know, there are things that they are
bigger than us. They did blow us off the ball
last year, and there's a revenge factor. They don't defend
the run particularly well, even though we don't run particularly well,
and so there are there are obvious things here. I
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think obvious match up points that uh that make for
an interesting game because who's who's gonna be the one
that gives Is it going to be their past defense
is going to be our past offense? And and so
there are there are a lot of questions as we
head into this thing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So is it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wrong for me to look at this game through the
leands and the eyes of my my younger self when
I used to go watch those Rocky movies, like like,
is this.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
A game of cover laying versus Rocky? Or is it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's the thing trying to decide the reason I pose
it that way because in those movies, even though we
know what happened at the end, it was always very
comatic and there was a lot of drama to it.
And it was two fighters in the center of the ring,
throwing bows, going head to head.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You're like, no pay, no pay. I can just see
Rocky saying that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And this is one of those historic moments for both
franchises when you think about it, Sean Payton is trying
to make NFL history being the first coach to ever
win a Super Bowl in two different places. Sean McDermott
is just trying to get there, win his job and
win the Super Bowl, do something that mar Levy had
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never done in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
His four years.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And Josh Allen he's trying to do the same thing.
He's like, Lamar Patrick, I'm an MVP two as well.
But now I'm a super Bowl champ, so all of
that is going into this Saturday, the weekends game, and
I can't be more excited to be the front center
to see it happens.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The stamic eight count.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Right, you're just going in both knicks trading blows with
Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's gonna be insane and we get a chance to
see it.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I just got so pumped up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
As long as we're a lot Tommy Gunner thunderlft simokay,
I think I can do any of the and the
other an of the other Rocky opponents.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
See now, no need. Now we need the Broncos to
come out and use this music and come out with
a training montage. How don't would that be right before
the kickoff?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And then they lose and everyone man's amen, man, you
blew my food. High man. We were coming into this
thing wrapping it up. Oh, we gott it a break.
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Broncos versus the Bills cut off this weekend exclusively right
here on your official home that if for Broncos A
kwa oh. We want to take one final look back
at this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
NFL Wild Card weekend recap. It started off the Rams
hanging tough. I guess the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Out of the shotgun.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Stafford looking down the middle, launching to the right side.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Oh reach and grab it the pylon, park and set
the hole.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Set in, oh Man.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Toby Parkinson using all of that six foot.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Seven frame right at the fringe of the field to bring.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It in high four town of ten. Snap, too young,
He's back in five. He throws in his drop by horn.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
He reached down to his ankles, couldn't haul it in,
and the coverage from Quinton Lake to sink the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That called courtesy of Jason Bennetti with Westwood One and
as Matt Stafford put it, snatching the hearts of the
Carolina Panthers. Great game though it really was interesting game
plan by the Rams.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There's Coker had himself a day for the Panthers. Interesting
game plan for the Rams who have struggled against the
Carolina Panthers all year to get the three point win,
not covering, but who cares in the playoffs. He won
three hundred and four yards of stafford three passing touchdowns
as he probably will be the league MVP by the end.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Of the year. Probably he is the don League MVP.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But here's what I would say that there was a
lot of negativity about both of these quarterbacks, but probably
leaning Lords wars Bryce Young, but uh, he's Bryce. Lla's
gotta get his fifth year picked up. I felt as
though he played better. But this was a game that
Carolina felt as though they could actually win. They played
well against the Rams before Matthew Stafford turned the ball over,
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which he did in this game, but they had enough
juice in to take.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
To pull out the win.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
People talking about Vans Joseph gets some head coaching runner
Jerald Verral is going to have to get some here soon.
The job that he's done there in Carolina turned the
defense around. By the way, in that game, you know,
the Rams had four hundred and eleven offensive yards. They
found the yardage, but Carolina Panthers were clutch on third down.
They held the Rams to twenty three point one percent
conversion on third down while they got forty two percent themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's the reason they stayed in that game.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Second game, man, this would look like it was gonna
be a blowout for the Packers. And then the Chicago
Bears came stormedback re.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Receivers out to the left side of the formation.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Williams gets the staff poor man rush pulps to his left,
rolls deep, cotting.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Out over it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's got it.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's hucksdown, gushuchsdown.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Guys to shape for call up.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
William too strikes have The Bears have taken the lead.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
With one forty three to go, Love gets the shotguns
stab he dropped it back to pass.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Long in trouble, spits out to his left. No time
of the clock, poling right, steps up, Love looking still
looking He's gonna throw it up. The ends up, intercepting, No,
it's dropped. He does it better.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The game is over.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
HiT's all over. Let's Huttago Bears, for the first time.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Since two thy tens have one a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That call courtesy of Ryan Ragkey.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
With Westwood one twenty five points from the Bears in
the fourth quarter, come back and beat their division rival.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
As Ben Johnson says, f M Packers, the Bears get
the win. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Headshake was the handshake after the game was the only
thing colder than the ambient temperature in the stadium. As
Ben Johnson's sort of like lightly brushed him as he
raced on by ahead to the locker room.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This is another game decided by third downs.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Fifty two point six percent third down complete a third
down percentage conversion percentage for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I know Ben Johnson got a lot of heat, but
Ben Johnson was like, hey man, I'm standing on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's cold as hare. Hey you said here they keep
it moving. Yeah, I will tell you Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
We decided at the meeting of the Bens just last week,
we're going to upgrade him the VIP status along with Affleck.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And some of those other guys. I think he deserves it.
When do you get your VPP stever.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
By the way, going back to the Packers beating the
Bears earlier this year, I think it was the game
that they won. It was Matt Lafleur who gave a
very quick handshake and moved right along to Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So I think that's where it was all stemming from
what he.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Also, I want to mention in his game, Michigan tight
end rookie tight end Coston Lovelin went off in his
game one hundred and thirty seven yards, So notably, I.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Don't believe in love, but I do believe in Loveland.
And by the way, on that call that you played,
I know you know in your head it's DJ Moore,
But when you hear him at amped up, how much
did you expect him to to drop a DJ khaled
in there be the best?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And then he says more and.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You're like, oh, all right, Broncos are going to play
the Bills courtesy then beating the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty seven,
twenty four, first.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Out in ten at the fifteen yard line, motion from
Shakir out of the backfield, fakes the screen to him,
Alan will throw down the sideline on the run Dawson
Kincaid into the.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
End zone for a Buffalo touchdown. What does Trevor Lawrence
have left? Shotgun snap on first down?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Bills rush three over the middle, throws to Incepting.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Picked up by col Bishop on the deflex, and Buffalo
is gonna be able to walk out of Jacksonville with
a playoff win.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Beckall courtesy of Kevin Coogler with west Wood one and
the Bills win.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But Liam Cohen can still hold his head high.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He can and by the way, if the Broncos do lose,
I have been dared to have that exact same combat
as that lady had in Jacksonville, to Liam coh and
to Sean Payton, to somebody who dared me to sit
through the presser and say just keep your head up,
young man.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You gonna be dude, I got money to see that.
How fast do you think my credential gets yang? It's
definitely not back next to it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yes, officers move the guy right in the middle, getting
the body here.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, out of no where. Ice is moving me out
of the country. Oh yeah, the Bills man found a way.
Jacksonville at points in this game looked like they could
be in control of it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
The Bills are a team.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I thought they made a tactical mistake there at the end,
not getting under center and kneeling down instead of going
for the touchdown on first down to eliminate any chance
of Jacksonville being able to come back and kick the
field goal to send it to overtime. It ultimately worked
out for them, but I thought that was a tactical
error on the Bills part.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well, you look at this game.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
The East team was matching point for point and the
only difference is is that kick right like your kicker
has been crushing in all season long, kicked like a
sixty three yard but he missed kind of what was
we can look at it being the chip shot.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Fifty four yarder I think for him, I mean that's,
you know, yeah, chip shot.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And going back to that Bears Packers game man Brandon
McManus might.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Randon mcmissed this. That was bad. It's so so. I
tweeted that out live during the game. That sounds just
like something you would do. That was I was just
sitting there while he left seven points by himself.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Friend of mans has seven points by himself on the field,
and they lost by four.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
They lost by four. That's got got wrenching when you
look at that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Forty nine Ers took all the Eagles in a classic
NFC struggle.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
First to the tad at the Philadelphia twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Now moving from left to right, the Caffrey in the
backfield and they are gonna fake it on a jet
sweep and throw it downfield, but Caffrey over the shoulder.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Crab tucks down. Think just the one who didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Fourth and eleven at the San Francisco twenty one Hurts
shut up. Two receivers left, Parkley to his left, two
receivers right. Brown goes in motion to the outside, takes
the step, Perks steps up, Hurts fires over the middle
into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It's broken up. Forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Come up big I an eagle with Westwood one on
the call.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Forty nine Ers get to win, but lose.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
George Kittle he got a bottle tequila to ease his pains,
and Kevin Petullo fired as the Egos offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
A couple of different things here.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
First of all, Uh, the Niners are gonna have a
heavy fine at minimum for that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You are not allowed to have alcohol in the premises
like that. Well, well, who's counting? Literally the league downard
didn't carry did it himself? Fine, Yeah, that's of the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Most expensive bottle of tequila ever served. We're all said
and done that. When he gets the quarter million dollar five, that.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Dude, that's got your bet. He's not only he handed
it to you, he's willing to pay the freaking fine. Yeah.
The other thing, I wonder how much Shelby Harris was.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Was upset when Juwan Jennings because that touchdown passed.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That was that was who Shelby got into it with
earlier this year. At that point, you can't say anything
on the playoffs. By the way, John Jennings was a
quarterback back in the day.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
A matter of fact, when Jowan Jennings came out of
high school, he was rated as a better quarterback than
Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. He was a higher Rivals
rated quarterback than Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, Kyle shand ahead going head to head against the
defensive coordinator he tried to hire several times in Vic Fangio,
Kyle finally gets the better of him.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Twenty three to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Party played a pretty good game outside the interceptions, and
that was a DeMarcus Robinson really was I think the
biggest factor for the Niners in that one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Who continue to hemorrhage bodies. And then you saw on the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Other side of that, the Eagles just can't do anything
between twenty They're nice when they get in the red zone.
They were nice when they got in the red zone.
Boy there, that offense was ugly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They ran what was it twenty four hitches in that game.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You know, it's frustrating and I understand why Nick Sirianni
made the change with Kevin Batulo because it wasn't really working.
We've seen this offense stall in the second half. But
kudos to San Francisco forty nine is College Sanding and
Mike Sanahan.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And also how they're using Christan McCaffrey. They don't even
have to just hand it to him, They're throwing it
to him out of the backfield. Grcery.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
McCaffrey is what Cordell Stewart was back in the day.
The weapon right, just put the ball in his hands.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Weapon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
By the way, you think one of the Eagles weapons
AJ Brown back next year. I do not.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That was Yeah, that was great, grand opening, grand closing.
I believe Draft Pick will be in his place next year.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Los Angeles Chargers, a lot of people kind of
wanted to see them back here.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I didn't took on the New England Patriots. They had
opportunities but couldn't get it done.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Henry coming in motions to the near side off the play,
fake May drops back to pass, Henley fell down, May
pros to his left. He's got Henry inside the five
came to the inside, just inside the left coming on touchdown. Patriots.
Off the Playpake Herbert drops back to pass. Herbert has hit.
Herbert is sacks. It's the sixth sack of the day.
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Milt Williams wraps him up and slams him down at
the forty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That is gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
That call courtesy of Tom McCarthy with Westwood One. Patriots
beat the Charger sixteen to three. I almost felt kind
of bad for Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
At the end of that game. He was getting demolished brutals, took.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Six sacks, a couple of fumbles, the fact that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The Chargers couldn't get any run game going.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And Omario at Hampton, although he dressed, got one carrier
for negative one yard, didn't look right and the instantly
pulled him, and that was part of the problem. You
could see that the Chargers could not get anything going
on short yardage situations. They got stuffed a couple of
times and it ultimately cost him. Despite the opportunities that
they had, they only had two hundred and seven total
yards of offenses, as the Patriots passed ran the ball
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pretty well.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Overall, neither team was good on third down.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The Chargers completed only ten percent of their third downs
in that game ten percent. The Patriots skunk to them
at thirty six point four percent, and that's a bad number.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
The one thing that is glaring about this matchup is
when you look at both quarterbacks statistically, they were like
almost evenly matched, but Drake May had more passing yards,
because it proves that your quarterback in those tough moments
have to make plays.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
And there was a point in that game.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It was in the third quarter the square was like
six to three and I was like, what the heck
is going on in this particular game.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
This was what I say, this be the dog game
with the playoffs. But Drake May and the guys kind
of pulled it out.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, tough, gritty win for the New England Patriots and
they will, of course, me and Lie there'll be the
other home team scarts a right next weekend here. And
then we had the final matchup in the game we
thought was gonna be the dog game of the weekend,
and for one team.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It was for Houston Texans against Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Shotguns nap four man rush sets in the pocket, hit
them behind town, he goes, did he.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Lose the ball?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Rogers is down the ball picked up on the play
by Rakens. He'll run it down the middle from the
twenty to the ten to the five and a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
He was not chased.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
He sits in the pocket. There's a line drive down
the middle, intercepted at the fifty and picked off on
the play by Pullet. He's down the far side, thirty
far side, twenty down the far sideline.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Ten, five touchdown.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Rogers is throwing a pick six and what might be
the final pass of his career.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Kevin Harlan with Westwood one on the call. Texan beat
the Steelers thirty to six. You think this was the
last time we saw Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
What a way to go out, though, I mean, how
many guys can say they threw a touchdown for the
last pass And Mike Tomlin steps down as the steel
Head coach. I knew that was coming. He's got that
job at Fox if he wants it. I think he
may take a reset year here, kind of kind of
get himself recentered before re entering the coaching fray.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know what was interesting about this game.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We knew how Holton the Texans defense was the pass
rush and ability to force and create turnovers. But their
offense had been struggled. They had not been able to
establish the run consistently. But what he marks one hundred
and twelve yards and then he also part of it.
Nico Collins went down with that concussion and Kristen Kirk,
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the former Jacksonville Jaguar, he came alive.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It was almost like it was several years ago when
he's playing for the.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Arizona card He catches one hundred and forty four yards
and a touchdown on nine targets along a forty six
in that one, and the Texans looked like they were
rolely offense. If it had meant for CJ and all
the fumbles and everything else, five bumbles had been for
CJ in a fumbles this game, it might have had
a sixty burger out there. It was. It was that
dominant the Houston Texans and the most disrespectful defense I've
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ever seen it in my life.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
They don't blitz, they don't disguise anything.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
They just run straight cover three and send their front
four and they are and they dare you to beat them.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And nobody does. You know what that's like wearing a
suit with no pocket square, right? I mean you you
just coming in playing charcoal fa Pinchtrice. Whould I go
double breast? No, none of it. Yeah, and they just
can see it win games.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I don't know if you guys watched when the
CD Shroud was fumbling the ball, Dimico Ryan's face.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Is almost like he was saying in this head man,
you bout to lose his game for me. You got
to lose his game.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
From Yeah, five fumbles, he lost two of them and
also had an interception in that. One can't play better
than that. Yeah, You're gonna have to figure that out.
And that's that's been It's been interesting bec see J.
Stroud's rookie year was phenomenal. It's been weird ever since then.
A lot of people blame the former coordinator, Bobby Slowy,
but it's been the same with me, whether Tam or
Nick Kayley Dunner.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
By the way, I hate to do this, but got
to give Ben his flowers.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But records for a wild card weekend Nick three and three,
Grant three and three and Ben five and one.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
But as we leave, did you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I think we picked the games obviously before we on Friday.
The only one I missed on was a stupid Chargers,
Game Man's Chargers, Patriots, and the Chargers had every opportunity,
couldn't couldn't find a way. Hats off to the Patriots.
There you happy with the way everything shook out? Are
you happy that we got the Bills? Because there was
some some controversy. As controversy I some apparently what he Paige,
(01:10):
I guess reads my Twitter account although he doesn't follow me,
And when I was talking about the Chargers versus the Bills,
and how I thought the Bills were actually a better
fit for the Broncos to take on than the Chargers
were at full health.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
What did what he say to you even say anything?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
What did you lie?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
He subtweeted several times and said that as opposed to
the amateur media, something like that, I've always said that
the Bills are a tougher matchup or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And then I made a tweet about how Josh Allen
just played you know, down a road at Wyoming and
apparently that was painful for for for Woodrow as he
said that I that down the road actually meant up
the road or you know, since Wyoming is north heavy
up the road, although that's not where that colloquialism got invented.
It has to do with with rivers to begin with,
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being up and down the river. And it really doesn't
matter if you say up or down. It doesn't mean
north or south anyway. But that's beside the point, because
I don't want to be pedantic like someone else. Oh
the point to be crotchety, I guess, and weird. I
don't know, like why why sit there and subtweet me
of all people?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Like what if I got something to say, I'll put
your name on it, So trying to gain some of
those Twitter.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Followers, I guess, I mean, you know, yeah, it's always
just kind of also like amateur media.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I worked for the broadcast part of the Broncos. Like,
so was he.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Saying, I guess the whole point was alluding to the
Bills more of a threat.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He was saying that the Bills are a tougher opponent
than the Chargers, and it kind of felt like basing
that only on this weekend, which is kind of weird.
But I think the Chargers at full health are a
tougher opponent than the Bills for the Broncos, just because
the fit like the way the Broncos played our strengths
and our weaknesses. I think the Chargers are a tougher
team to beat. Now that said, here we are, we
got the Bills. It doesn't matter anyway at this point.
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But that was solely based on the fit, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I think for me, more of the issue comes down
to the quarterback on once you get to the playoffs,
it's about what are you doing at the quarterback position?
Because here I can see an argument on both sides.
And then I'm gonna lay it out for you. Now,
the Broncos had this great home record. Now they're eight
and one and they get the chance to host throughout
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the playoffs. That is a huge bonus for them because
the Broncos country fan base, when they show up, they
show out, and they are pretty damn loud when they
do it. Right now, there's a way to nullify the
crowd noise. But on the surface that is that's somewhat
of an issue. And then you think about the defense,
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the defense that has carried you this far and leaning
on them heavily to slow down not just Josh Allen
but James Cook.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Which is not an easy task.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But my main point is when you get into a
game like this, and you look at the number four
fourth quarter games that the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Have won, right, and then you say, okay, well, now.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You're playing another quarterback who is good at fourth quarter comebacks.
And we've seen it, right, We've seen it multiple times.
We've seen it against the Jags. We've seen it against
Kansas City, only to watch Kansas City be able to
move the ball down the field and score.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And now Josh Allen's on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So it's gonna come down to, or could come down to,
like what we saw against the Jags, who possesses the
ball late, what can you do with the ball late?
We know Josh Allen and the Bills can move the ball.
The Broncos now have to prove that they can do
it because in the last couple of quarters that we've
watched them that they have not been that successful. And
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anyone can at me or whatever if you want to,
it's at Nick ferguson Underscore twenty five. I'll tell you
the same thing is that the Broncos have to prove
that they can do that. If they cannot do that,
they put themselves at risk of losing this game. So
this is where you elevate your level of confidence being
able to score inside the RAI zone but also being able.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
To sustain drives.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's kind of where we are right now, Ben, because
it is we're gonna go home.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, that's what it is. Well, let me let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Let me ask you by spill off the trivia question, what
two teams if Bodex had the least amount of passing
yards against this year.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Passing yard is Yeah. Part of me want to say,
I want to say the Raiders. For some reason, I.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Want to say the Chargers. As the Chargers both Chargers
games hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And twenty four passing yards on hundred and forty seven
passing yards. I think the Raiders game he was close
to that with like one thirty six. So it was
basically the charge the two Chargers game and the Raiders
were the lowest, even if you throw away the air
quotes backups game. His other game against the Charger is the
only one hundred and forty seven passing yards, so that.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
That would indicate that there was something that jesse Mentor
and Patrick Graham.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Last last thing you want to do is play a
team three times in a season, especially when it's got
your number as far as that goes, and they.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Do okay well.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
With that being said, now, with the odds now being
a Broncos favor, I think the Vegas odds would be different.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I think the Vegas ods would be on Denver if
the Chargers were back here.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But I just thought they were a tougher matchup.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Than the Bills based on the way they take the
pass away from us.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And they do. That doesn't mean they're unbeatable.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, no, nobody's unbeatable, but it is once again using
what is perceived to be a weakness of yours and
turning into a strength. Right, because the Broncos haven't taken
a lot of shots down fields, as far as explosive
plays are defined in football, do.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They have the capabilities of explosive plays.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
We've seen them all season long, right, short get short
passing completions turn into explosive plays, both in the run
game in a passing game, and we've seen from Patrick
Graham from the Raiders and.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Jesse Mentor from the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They're gonna keep everything in front of them, They're gonna
play down, they're gonna be solid, and the one thing
that the Bills do well as a lad is being
able to tackle an open field, and part of that's
getting dude. I can't tell you or emphasize how important
that is to limit the amount of yards after content, especially.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If you run his own scheme like that.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yes, looking at the Houston Texas against the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You look at Jalen Warren going into that game.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He was explosive once you get him on the edge,
and he had the ability and equickness to break tackles.
What the Texas did was they played on the opposite
side of Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line and they tackled well
as a unit on those plays where you're trying to
isolate a guy and get him out on the swing
route as far as dumping off to the running back.
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That's why this time of the year is so important,
because can you elevate your level of play from what
it was in the regular season to the postseason.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, And I think at the end of the day,
that was my like, I didn't understand. I guess I
didn't understand coming to me sideways about that, But whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Mommy, I mean, you are Benjamin, are bright, and you've
been known to kind of say some egregious things so well.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I don't take egregious things, but I will. I love debating.
I love to I love to talk about that stuff.
My opinion is not law. I'm I love to debate.
I don't like when people are rude about it. But
I also like if I debate somebody, I put their
name on it. Like if I'm talking about somebody, best
believe I'll put your name on it, which I did
in this segment.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Like I'm not you know, I'm not one of those people.
My phone is buzzing right now. Yeah, it's just saying
like I am not, you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Know, I mean, whatever else you think of me, Like
I'm not a coward, you know, like sitting here tweeting,
tweeting somebody and not putting their name on it, like weird. Anyway,
My question, the larger question was did we get the
best matchup? Did we get the matchup we wanted here
with the Bills because our eyes are options would have
been what the Chargers, yeah, if they want or or
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if the Bills had lost uh and and then the
Texas that could have possibly been the Texans of the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The Steelers, I mean, we all saw that they.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would have been a pushover but the Detections, we played them,
We had a pretty tough game against them. I just
I look at this and I say, man, I don't know.
I think we I think we got the team we wanted.
And it's still one of those ones. I'm a little
shaky on.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I don't know if it's fair to say, well, you
you got the team that you wanted. Now, if you
wanted to say well, because of the whole revenge factor, well,
I mean all that stuff, you can make an argument
and say, okay, well now you got the team that
you wanted because now you can kind of get a
little revenge last time you had to go into someone
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else's backyard?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Would you rather played any of the other teams?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I mean, obviously Pittsburgh, so we won't count that, But like,
would you was there another team you would have rather
played this weekend than Buffalo?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
For me, both of you, I would say, you want
to say Chargers, because once again you're thinking, okay, well,
the whole narrative was that there was a vanilla game
plan and then all of a sudden, there's going to
be something else that's out there playing the Chargers again.
But in comparisons to Buffalo, I would for me, just
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for me, that I would have loved to see the
Charges here other than Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
See, I was more afraid of the Chargers than I
am Abu.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why I just think they I just think they have
our number in a number of ways. We've managed to
keep games close to it because four of our total
four of our fourteen forced turnovers this year came against
the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
What the reality is they put this offense in check.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Our unloatus outputs are against them, and that's not including
I mean, if you want to take away and say
last game was a throwaway game because we're up against backups, fine,
go back to the game the third week of the season.
They did the same thing. They completely shut us down.
We had one hundred and forty seven passing yards, right,
we had in that game? We had what nine first
downs on offense.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Nine.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The reason I would say I wouldn't look at Buffalo as, oh,
that's a favorable matchup, right, because I look at their quarterback.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
He's a tough quarterback. Get that now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
The only thing I would say, based on the number
of injuries that the Bills that'll suffered at the wide
receiver position. And then Jordan Pourier. Now you can say, Okay,
well that may prove to be more advantages for the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Right you want to say something, I'm just gonna say
it doesn't matter what the matchup is because you're gonna
have to play the Buffalo at some point, you're gonna
have to play the good teams. You're gonna have to
play the Patriots, you might have to play the Texans. Like,
it doesn't matter. This is the beginning, like you said earlier,
the revenge Tour. It starts this week like you got
to you gotta win the games in front of you.
I understand that, yes, you want an advantageous matchup to
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make it to the AFC Championship, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You're gonna play damn good teams and it starts this
weekend against Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Oh they are. And it's a great point.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm just the way I'm looking at this is was
was asking the question, like, did you get the matchup
you were hoping for going into the weekend?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And no, I would have rather play the Chargers. Okay,
but I didn't know all those numbers that you just gave.
But it just feels like Josh Allen, he knows this
is his year. Like when they were celebrating in the
locker room after that win, he like shut everybody up
and was like, hey, this is one game, Like we
aren't where we want to be yet, and he knows.
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There's no Joe Burrow, there's no Patrick Mahomes, there's no
Lamar Jackson. This is his time to get that championship
that has eluded him so far. That's the only thing
missing in his career, in his Hall of Fame career,
as a super Bowl championship.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And he knows this is his time. That's what scares
me as a Broncos fan.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
The motivation from Buffalo, like hey, we got the path,
this is our chance.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But not just that, it's just knowing as though what
he can do in the fourth quarter. It's not one
of those things like, hey, you're playing against Cincinnati, Dallas
or even I'll even play put green Bay in there,
because green Bay was kind of litmustas for.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Me watching the team play.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
But Jordan Love didn't have like a history of having comebacks,
great come moments that never say die type of uh
Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan's mentality, well, like you said, Josh
has that mentality.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Will he be able to see it through one thing
about it?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
We get a chance to see it unfold here at home,
But that is something that's I'm sure on his mind
when he goes home.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He's thinking about.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That and it's in his hard not to separate yourself
from the outside noise.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And that could also impact him negatively, you know, that
could make him take some chances that he shouldn't take
and the Broncos defense can capitalize on him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, it'll be It's gonna be a like honestly, like
it's here, and I'm kind of intrigued by the matchup
because the strengths and weaknesses are obvious, and there are
mismatches here. You know, there are things that they are
bigger than us. They did blow us off the ball
last year, and there's a revenge factor. They don't defend
the run particularly well, even though we don't run particularly well,
and so there are there are obvious things here. I
(13:54):
think obvious match up points that uh that make for
an interesting game because who's who's gonna be the one
that gives Is it going to be their past defense
is going to be our past offense? And and so
there are there are a lot of questions as we
head into this thing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So is it.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wrong for me to look at this game through the
leands and the eyes of my my younger self when
I used to go watch those Rocky movies, like like,
is this.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
A game of cover laying versus Rocky? Or is it.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
That's the thing trying to decide the reason I pose
it that way because in those movies, even though we
know what happened at the end, it was always very
comatic and there was a lot of drama to it.
And it was two fighters in the center of the ring,
throwing bows, going head to head.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You're like, no pay, no pay. I can just see
Rocky saying that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And this is one of those historic moments for both
franchises when you think about it, Sean Payton is trying
to make NFL history being the first coach to ever
win a Super Bowl in two different places. Sean McDermott
is just trying to get there, win his job and
win the Super Bowl, do something that mar Levy had
(15:12):
never done in.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
His four years.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And Josh Allen he's trying to do the same thing.
He's like, Lamar Patrick, I'm an MVP two as well.
But now I'm a super Bowl champ, so all of
that is going into this Saturday, the weekends game, and
I can't be more excited to be the front center
to see it happens.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
The stamic eight count.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Right, you're just going in both knicks trading blows with
Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's gonna be insane and we get a chance to
see it.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I just got so pumped up.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
As long as we're a lot Tommy Gunner thunderlft simokay,
I think I can do any of the and the
other an of the other Rocky opponents.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
See now, no need. Now we need the Broncos to
come out and use this music and come out with
a training montage. How don't would that be right before
the kickoff?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Right?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And then they lose and everyone man's amen, man, you
blew my food. High man. We were coming into this
thing wrapping it up. Oh, we gott it a break.
We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Broncos versus the Bills cut off this weekend exclusively right
here on your official home that if for Broncos A
kwa oh. We want to take one final look back
at this past weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
NFL Wild Card weekend recap. It started off the Rams
hanging tough. I guess the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Out of the shotgun.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Stafford looking down the middle, launching to the right side.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Oh reach and grab it the pylon, park and set
the hole.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Set in, oh Man.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Toby Parkinson using all of that six foot.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Seven frame right at the fringe of the field to bring.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It in high four town of ten. Snap, too young,
He's back in five. He throws in his drop by horn.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
He reached down to his ankles, couldn't haul it in,
and the coverage from Quinton Lake to sink the Panthers.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
That called courtesy of Jason Bennetti with Westwood One and
as Matt Stafford put it, snatching the hearts of the
Carolina Panthers. Great game though it really was interesting game
plan by the Rams.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There's Coker had himself a day for the Panthers. Interesting
game plan for the Rams who have struggled against the
Carolina Panthers all year to get the three point win,
not covering, but who cares in the playoffs. He won
three hundred and four yards of stafford three passing touchdowns
as he probably will be the league MVP by the end.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Of the year. Probably he is the don League MVP.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But here's what I would say that there was a
lot of negativity about both of these quarterbacks, but probably
leaning Lords wars Bryce Young, but uh, he's Bryce. Lla's
gotta get his fifth year picked up. I felt as
though he played better. But this was a game that
Carolina felt as though they could actually win. They played
well against the Rams before Matthew Stafford turned the ball over,
(18:17):
which he did in this game, but they had enough
juice in to take.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
To pull out the win.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
People talking about Vans Joseph gets some head coaching runner
Jerald Verral is going to have to get some here soon.
The job that he's done there in Carolina turned the
defense around. By the way, in that game, you know,
the Rams had four hundred and eleven offensive yards. They
found the yardage, but Carolina Panthers were clutch on third down.
They held the Rams to twenty three point one percent
conversion on third down while they got forty two percent themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's the reason they stayed in that game.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Second game, man, this would look like it was gonna
be a blowout for the Packers. And then the Chicago
Bears came stormedback re.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Receivers out to the left side of the formation.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Williams gets the staff poor man rush pulps to his left,
rolls deep, cotting.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Out over it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's got it.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It's hucksdown, gushuchsdown.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Guys to shape for call up.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
William too strikes have The Bears have taken the lead.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
With one forty three to go, Love gets the shotguns
stab he dropped it back to pass.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Long in trouble, spits out to his left. No time
of the clock, poling right, steps up, Love looking still
looking He's gonna throw it up. The ends up, intercepting, No,
it's dropped. He does it better.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The game is over.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
HiT's all over. Let's Huttago Bears, for the first time.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Since two thy tens have one a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
That call courtesy of Ryan Ragkey.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
With Westwood one twenty five points from the Bears in
the fourth quarter, come back and beat their division rival.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
As Ben Johnson says, f M Packers, the Bears get
the win. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Headshake was the handshake after the game was the only
thing colder than the ambient temperature in the stadium. As
Ben Johnson's sort of like lightly brushed him as he
raced on by ahead to the locker room.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This is another game decided by third downs.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Fifty two point six percent third down complete a third
down percentage conversion percentage for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I know Ben Johnson got a lot of heat, but
Ben Johnson was like, hey man, I'm standing on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's cold as hare. Hey you said here they keep
it moving. Yeah, I will tell you Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
We decided at the meeting of the Bens just last week,
we're going to upgrade him the VIP status along with Affleck.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And some of those other guys. I think he deserves it.
When do you get your VPP stever.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
By the way, going back to the Packers beating the
Bears earlier this year, I think it was the game
that they won. It was Matt Lafleur who gave a
very quick handshake and moved right along to Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So I think that's where it was all stemming from
what he.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Also, I want to mention in his game, Michigan tight
end rookie tight end Coston Lovelin went off in his
game one hundred and thirty seven yards, So notably, I.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Don't believe in love, but I do believe in Loveland.
And by the way, on that call that you played,
I know you know in your head it's DJ Moore,
But when you hear him at amped up, how much
did you expect him to to drop a DJ khaled
in there be the best?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
And then he says more and.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You're like, oh, all right, Broncos are going to play
the Bills courtesy then beating the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty seven,
twenty four, first.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Out in ten at the fifteen yard line, motion from
Shakir out of the backfield, fakes the screen to him,
Alan will throw down the sideline on the run Dawson
Kincaid into the.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
End zone for a Buffalo touchdown. What does Trevor Lawrence
have left? Shotgun snap on first down?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Bills rush three over the middle, throws to Incepting.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Picked up by col Bishop on the deflex, and Buffalo
is gonna be able to walk out of Jacksonville with
a playoff win.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Beckall courtesy of Kevin Coogler with west Wood one and
the Bills win.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But Liam Cohen can still hold his head high.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He can and by the way, if the Broncos do lose,
I have been dared to have that exact same combat
as that lady had in Jacksonville, to Liam coh and
to Sean Payton, to somebody who dared me to sit
through the presser and say just keep your head up,
young man.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You gonna be dude, I got money to see that.
How fast do you think my credential gets yang? It's
definitely not back next to it.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yes, officers move the guy right in the middle, getting
the body here.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, out of no where. Ice is moving me out
of the country. Oh yeah, the Bills man found a way.
Jacksonville at points in this game looked like they could
be in control of it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
The Bills are a team.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I thought they made a tactical mistake there at the end,
not getting under center and kneeling down instead of going
for the touchdown on first down to eliminate any chance
of Jacksonville being able to come back and kick the
field goal to send it to overtime. It ultimately worked
out for them, but I thought that was a tactical
error on the Bills part.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well, you look at this game.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
The East team was matching point for point and the
only difference is is that kick right like your kicker
has been crushing in all season long, kicked like a
sixty three yard but he missed kind of what was
we can look at it being the chip shot.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Fifty four yarder I think for him, I mean that's,
you know, yeah, chip shot.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And going back to that Bears Packers game man Brandon
McManus might.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Randon mcmissed this. That was bad. It's so so. I
tweeted that out live during the game. That sounds just
like something you would do. That was I was just
sitting there while he left seven points by himself.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Friend of mans has seven points by himself on the field,
and they lost by four.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
They lost by four. That's got got wrenching when you
look at that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Forty nine Ers took all the Eagles in a classic
NFC struggle.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
First to the tad at the Philadelphia twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Now moving from left to right, the Caffrey in the
backfield and they are gonna fake it on a jet
sweep and throw it downfield, but Caffrey over the shoulder.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Crab tucks down. Think just the one who didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Fourth and eleven at the San Francisco twenty one Hurts
shut up. Two receivers left, Parkley to his left, two
receivers right. Brown goes in motion to the outside, takes
the step, Perks steps up, Hurts fires over the middle
into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
It's broken up. Forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Come up big I an eagle with Westwood one on
the call.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Forty nine Ers get to win, but lose.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
George Kittle he got a bottle tequila to ease his pains,
and Kevin Petullo fired as the Egos offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
A couple of different things here.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
First of all, Uh, the Niners are gonna have a
heavy fine at minimum for that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You are not allowed to have alcohol in the premises
like that. Well, well, who's counting? Literally the league downard
didn't carry did it himself? Fine, Yeah, that's of the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Most expensive bottle of tequila ever served. We're all said
and done that. When he gets the quarter million dollar five, that.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Dude, that's got your bet. He's not only he handed
it to you, he's willing to pay the freaking fine. Yeah.
The other thing, I wonder how much Shelby Harris was.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Was upset when Juwan Jennings because that touchdown passed.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That was that was who Shelby got into it with
earlier this year. At that point, you can't say anything
on the playoffs. By the way, John Jennings was a
quarterback back in the day.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
A matter of fact, when Jowan Jennings came out of
high school, he was rated as a better quarterback than
Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. He was a higher Rivals
rated quarterback than Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, Kyle shand ahead going head to head against the
defensive coordinator he tried to hire several times in Vic Fangio,
Kyle finally gets the better of him.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Twenty three to nineteen.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Party played a pretty good game outside the interceptions, and
that was a DeMarcus Robinson really was I think the
biggest factor for the Niners in that one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Who continue to hemorrhage bodies. And then you saw on the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Other side of that, the Eagles just can't do anything
between twenty They're nice when they get in the red zone.
They were nice when they got in the red zone.
Boy there, that offense was ugly.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They ran what was it twenty four hitches in that game.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You know, it's frustrating and I understand why Nick Sirianni
made the change with Kevin Batulo because it wasn't really working.
We've seen this offense stall in the second half. But
kudos to San Francisco forty nine is College Sanding and
Mike Sanahan.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And also how they're using Christan McCaffrey. They don't even
have to just hand it to him, They're throwing it
to him out of the backfield. Grcery.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
McCaffrey is what Cordell Stewart was back in the day.
The weapon right, just put the ball in his hands.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Weapon.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
By the way, you think one of the Eagles weapons
AJ Brown back next year. I do not.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That was Yeah, that was great, grand opening, grand closing.
I believe Draft Pick will be in his place next year.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
The Los Angeles Chargers, a lot of people kind of
wanted to see them back here.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I didn't took on the New England Patriots. They had
opportunities but couldn't get it done.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Henry coming in motions to the near side off the play,
fake May drops back to pass, Henley fell down, May
pros to his left. He's got Henry inside the five
came to the inside, just inside the left coming on touchdown. Patriots.
Off the Playpake Herbert drops back to pass. Herbert has hit.
Herbert is sacks. It's the sixth sack of the day.
(27:22):
Milt Williams wraps him up and slams him down at
the forty three yard line.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That is gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
That call courtesy of Tom McCarthy with Westwood One. Patriots
beat the Charger sixteen to three. I almost felt kind
of bad for Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
At the end of that game. He was getting demolished brutals, took.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Six sacks, a couple of fumbles, the fact that.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
The Chargers couldn't get any run game going.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And Omario at Hampton, although he dressed, got one carrier
for negative one yard, didn't look right and the instantly
pulled him, and that was part of the problem. You
could see that the Chargers could not get anything going
on short yardage situations. They got stuffed a couple of
times and it ultimately cost him. Despite the opportunities that
they had, they only had two hundred and seven total
yards of offenses, as the Patriots passed ran the ball
(28:06):
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Overall, neither team was good on third down.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
The Chargers completed only ten percent of their third downs
in that game ten percent. The Patriots skunk to them
at thirty six point four percent, and that's a bad number.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
The one thing that is glaring about this matchup is
when you look at both quarterbacks statistically, they were like
almost evenly matched, but Drake May had more passing yards,
because it proves that your quarterback in those tough moments
have to make plays.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
And there was a point in that game.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It was in the third quarter the square was like
six to three and I was like, what the heck
is going on in this particular game.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
This was what I say, this be the dog game
with the playoffs. But Drake May and the guys kind
of pulled it out.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, tough, gritty win for the New England Patriots and
they will, of course, me and Lie there'll be the
other home team scarts a right next weekend here. And
then we had the final matchup in the game we
thought was gonna be the dog game of the weekend,
and for one team.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It was for Houston Texans against Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Shotguns nap four man rush sets in the pocket, hit
them behind town, he goes, did he.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Lose the ball?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Rogers is down the ball picked up on the play
by Rakens. He'll run it down the middle from the
twenty to the ten to the five and a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
He was not chased.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
He sits in the pocket. There's a line drive down
the middle, intercepted at the fifty and picked off on
the play by Pullet. He's down the far side, thirty
far side, twenty down the far sideline.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Ten, five touchdown.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Rogers is throwing a pick six and what might be
the final pass of his career.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Kevin Harlan with Westwood one on the call. Texan beat
the Steelers thirty to six. You think this was the
last time we saw Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
What a way to go out, though, I mean, how
many guys can say they threw a touchdown for the
last pass And Mike Tomlin steps down as the steel
Head coach. I knew that was coming. He's got that
job at Fox if he wants it. I think he
may take a reset year here, kind of kind of
get himself recentered before re entering the coaching fray.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know what was interesting about this game.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
We knew how Holton the Texans defense was the pass
rush and ability to force and create turnovers. But their
offense had been struggled. They had not been able to
establish the run consistently. But what he marks one hundred
and twelve yards and then he also part of it.
Nico Collins went down with that concussion and Kristen Kirk,
(30:32):
the former Jacksonville Jaguar, he came alive.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It was almost like it was several years ago when
he's playing for the.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Arizona card He catches one hundred and forty four yards
and a touchdown on nine targets along a forty six
in that one, and the Texans looked like they were
rolely offense. If it had meant for CJ and all
the fumbles and everything else, five bumbles had been for
CJ in a fumbles this game, it might have had
a sixty burger out there. It was. It was that
dominant the Houston Texans and the most disrespectful defense I've
(30:59):
ever seen it in my life.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
They don't blitz, they don't disguise anything.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
They just run straight cover three and send their front
four and they are and they dare you to beat them.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And nobody does. You know what that's like wearing a
suit with no pocket square, right? I mean you you
just coming in playing charcoal fa Pinchtrice. Whould I go
double breast? No, none of it. Yeah, and they just
can see it win games.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I don't know if you guys watched when the
CD Shroud was fumbling the ball, Dimico Ryan's face.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Is almost like he was saying in this head man,
you bout to lose his game for me. You got
to lose his game.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
From Yeah, five fumbles, he lost two of them and
also had an interception in that. One can't play better
than that. Yeah, You're gonna have to figure that out.
And that's that's been It's been interesting bec see J.
Stroud's rookie year was phenomenal. It's been weird ever since then.
A lot of people blame the former coordinator, Bobby Slowy,
but it's been the same with me, whether Tam or
Nick Kayley Dunner.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
By the way, I hate to do this, but got
to give Ben his flowers.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But records for a wild card weekend Nick three and three,
Grant three and three and Ben five and one.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
You're welcome rocous Country tonight, meredate on that will be
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