Dan Beyer and George Wrighster talk NFL Conference Championships!

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Just a few moments ago, forty Niners quarterback Josh Johnson,
as you heard Monty say, replacing the injured brock Purty,
actually had to come out of the game because of
a concussion check. So what were the forty Niners to
do at quarterback? Well, brock Purty came into the game

(00:45):
on a third and fourteen and just handed the ball
off to Christian McCaffrey. This is George. I have never
seen a situation. We We've talked about backup quarterbacks and
Kay skeenam in a run with the Vikings, and I
think we had a you know, an easiest one to
three four. Talking about Jeff Hostetler and the run that

(01:06):
he did. But to be where the forty Niners are
in the biggest game of the year in their quarterback situation,
I don't I don't remember anything close to this ever happening.
Oh man, Dan frustrated. Yeah, you got a little inkst there.
What's the George be the guy I'm getting ready to

(01:30):
be right now. I don't want to be the guy
that I'm getting getting ready to be because, like I
said it on on Like if you go to the
Fox Sports Radio Twitter page Instagram, did you see what
I said this week? Is this about brock Purty? Yes, yes,
like the brock Purty hype, like like it was too much.

(01:53):
It was too much too It wouldn't matter if it
Like Josh Johnson equals Brock Party equals Jimmy g They're
the same guy. They're all the same person, yes, man,
Like like a Coyle, Shanahan's offense is so freaking good.
It is innovative, it is excellent, and it was it

(02:18):
like any quarterback with accuracy and can make decent decision.
You don't even have to make the best decisions, just
make decent decisions and you're gonna have a lot of success.
And and I'm not saying that Brock Party has no
chance to be a really, really good quarterback in the
league because he made but he was still in the
lensanity portion of his like of his game. And even

(02:44):
in the last game again against the Cowboys, he he
didn't do anything really and and today against Philadelphia, if
he would have been in the game the entire game,
he would have gotten wrecked. Today. He would have because
this Philadelphia Eagles, this was the first time that Kyle
Shanahan had run into a defense like like this. We're

(03:07):
talking about a team that had seventy secks. That means
you are going to be constantly under fire. And Brock
Party was going to melt in this situation situation. And
I don't blame him because I'm a brock Bertie fatan,
but I don't sound like it. No, no, no no, no,
I'm saying I don't like how he has been set

(03:28):
up in this situation, like like the propping up of
him so fast, comparing him to Tom Brady and all
this stuff. It was he couldn't live up to that.
It was it was just a way to tear him
back down. And that's what I didn't want, because I
want Brock party. I want him to have a chance
to be successful in the league. But but people were

(03:50):
acting like this dude was the second coming of Tom Brady,
like he was doing something that was like he was
playing well, but you're you're also the teams have the
book on you yet and all of that. And as
soon did they get the book on you, then that's
when you find out if you're a good quarterback or not.
A J. Brown just dropped a past for the Eagles
on second and seven. We'll get to him in a

(04:11):
little while. Um, But I I just I agree with
you that I thought that the brock Purtty hype and
what he would mean to the to uh the forty
n in their future, and brock Purtty is him. I
agree with you on that that that wasn't reality, But
I disagree with you in the fact of that today

(04:33):
proved that, because I think today is actually proving that
brock Purty does have extreme value to the San Francisco
forty Niners and maybe is a little bit more than
just Kyle Shanahan's system. Like I I agree with the
system and who you've put in there because I think
that there is history and showing where Nick Mullins had

(04:53):
had a nice, you know, a little run there. It
wasn't that long, but it was a couple of games.
I remember them thinking, you know, taking on the Raiders
on a Thursday night game. C. J. Bethard had value there,
Jimmy Garoppolo had value there. And now brock Purty has
has found value there. And I would I would disagree
to the point because Josh Johnson has not been at

(05:16):
and he has not come in in the forty Niners
haven't missed a beat like that is like like, but
but Josh Johnson in the situation too, he was put
in as a like like he's a career backup guy
and and he's playing against like like the the pass rush.
Had they been had they played against a different team

(05:40):
like just to get like if this were just a
playoff game and they were playing the who who was
one of the first teams out in the in the
in the playoffs in the didn't get out. Yes, if
if they had played the Sea Seahawks, Josh Josh Johnson
would have a good game in in this in the
situation that's it's just Philadelphia because they are so menacing

(06:03):
on the past us. They have three guys with eleven
or more sacks. And and also and the other thing
is if brock Purdy comes out here and throws passes
bigger Because there were people who were on my Twitter
who had the audacity to be upset with me because
I said that, uh that that Philip, Oh, that brock

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Purty has to try to play because you're adrenaline, it
will give you a boost. And if you can't play, okay,
fine then but just to go to college Shannon and said, oh,
I can't, I can't play, coach. It's not the mentality
that I want out of my future starting quarterback. Brock
Purdy is back into the game for San Francisco because
Josh Johnson has been taken to the locker room with it.

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But he didn't even try to go back in the game.
Was my was my problem? That was the issue. If
he goes Dan, if he comes back in here and
he throws passes and he can throw the ball, I
don't want to hear he that. That would signal to
me that heat, that that they got pressure early, he
got hit and he didn't want the smoke. I'm telling

(07:09):
you that right. I would completely go the other way
on Brock party. If he comes in here and he
throws the ball successfully, he didn't want the smoke. Well
that is that is a heavy accusation to love. It
is the player that they didn't want to and the
game wasn't out of hand at that point. Like the

(07:30):
only time that we've seen that was when Jay Cutler
injured his knee in the NFC Championship game against Green
Bay and people didn't like the way he reacted on
the sidelines. Just completely unfair too. I thought that there's
the injury that from the reports that we have gotten,
and now there's a doctor everywhere on Twitter. It's funny

(07:52):
because people go from gambling experts and then they become
doctors or they or they relate the injury to what
happened to them in a seventh grade middle school basketball
game and how they dealt with the injury. There seemed
to be a question elbow wrist. Then it was a nerve,
a nerve issue with the elbow. Purty is in right
now in the forty Niners are down fourteen. It's still

(08:15):
seven and they have the ball first and ten at
their own forty five yard line or early in the
third quarter. There's only four minutes gone by h Brock,
Purtty has thrown two passes. I just I don't George,
if there was even more feeling that he gained in
the arm throughout the first half. I think we have
to give him the benefit of the doubt than than

(08:35):
to to throw an accusation at a player to saying
that he didn't want to play in an NFC championship
game because he was scared like that doesn't know. I'm
I'm I'm saying that that, like when for you to
be an NFL starter, right, for for you to be
a franchise level quarterback, your teammates need to feel like
you would die to play like that, like that they

(08:59):
like that that you would risk life and limb to play.
That's what That's what they need to believe, and they
will they will not hold it against you if you
if you are hurt, not even a little bit so.
And and I do believe Rock Party is hurt, like
I do, right, I just believe that that that in

(09:24):
that you gotta find that that like you have to
come in and the trainers have to take you out.
That's what that's what And that because as a former
player and as that that's the way. Like, if your
guy can't play, you are okay with that, but you
need to believe that the trainers took him out and

(09:45):
not he took himself out. Like like remember when Carson
WENTZ when he took himself out of the game in
the playoff game, Well he was he was knocked out. No,
no, no no, no, I'm saying he took himself out though
it wasn't like the team stopped him from a plane
when he was hitting the head against the was it
was the Seahawks. Yeah, and like and that didn't go

(10:07):
over well with it with his teammates and and it's
not that hurt. I'm just telling it's not the right
men mentality. But I'm telling you that that's what goes
on in the locker room where you can call it right,
you can call it wrong, whatever you want to call
it that, but the reality is that's the way players
look at it. Right now. The forty Niners went three

(10:31):
and out. These were the three plays that they ran
with Brock Purty and that injured elbow, end around to
Diebo Samuel ended up losing four yards. Handoff to Christian
McCaffrey got him a yard on third and thirteen. Pretty
did throw the ball, ran a screen, but ended up
woefully short of the sticks because the Eagles aren't planning
for anything more than ten yards down the field, So

(10:53):
everybody is planning on something happening close to the line
of scrimmage. And now the Niners have punted it back.
And that's a point, dan is that is that when
party injured his elbow, Because we're talking about Josh Josh Johnson, right,
and Josh Johnson guy been in the league since two
thousand and eight, been on like thirty eight teams, and
you know there's only thirty two of them, and so

(11:16):
so you wanted as a player, you want your quarterback
to get back out on the field and to try
to throw a pass or something, or the quarterback or
the coaches called that sequence of plays and then the
coaches like and then he comes over, the coach taps
him on the hand. It's like, bro, you're sitting down
right now. That's that's what the optics of your teammates.

(11:39):
I'm not saying that this is right. I'm not saying
that this is positive culture or or anything. I'm just
telling you what goes on in the minds of players
in the locker room in moments like these, you want
your guy to get taken out and not take himself out,
I think at some point, and I'll try to use

(12:00):
it maybe a reference that we can all relate to.
If you have a wet washcloth and you ring it
first time out, you get a lot of water out
of that. Second time out, you actually, wow, there's a
lot more more in here than I thought. Third time around,
maybe a little less, and then at some point it's
just there's nothing you can get out of it. Still wet,

(12:20):
still there. That's what I think Kyle Shanahan has gotten
out of his quarterback situation. There's a lot more water
there with brock Purty. But now all of a sudden
you end up ringing it over and over and you
get down to Josh Johnson. And I saw somebody called
Josh Johnson a seasoned veteran, and listen, he's a veteran.
If you're a seasoned veteran, you've made some inroads, you've

(12:44):
had success. You're like, you're not bouncing from team to
team currently single season. Correct, There's there's a reason he's
been on so many teams that there's a reason he's
still in the league. You don't like Johns can count
on him. Josh is a guy that you bring in
if you run into this situation in a regular season game,

(13:04):
because he won't let the house burn down, you know
what I'm saying, Like, like he's a like he's an
adult in the room. He's not the you know, he's
not the guy. But but but he's a guy that
won't burn the house down at Like, like he's not
gonna come in and throw three or four picks, but
then he's not gonna come in and throw three three

(13:24):
touchdowns either. Like he's he's a guy who can just
get you from point A to point B until your
guy is ready. He's not the guy who should be
starting in the playoffs. He's he's just he's just not
And no, it's to his point and to the point
that I was gonna make was there are a lot
of reasons on why Josh Johnson, to your point, is

(13:45):
still in the league. And I think you you know,
laid it out, you know, in a spectacular fashion of
what you expect from Josh Johnson. But there's also a
reason why he's been on so many teams and for
what he did in the first half, Like I'm not
I'm not gonna blame him. He had a bad turnover
that ended up leading to Philadelphia scoring late in the
second half. That ultimately could be the the deficit that

(14:07):
the Fortys cannot get out of because it's a different
story if it's just a one score game. But you know,
in the end, Josh Johnson isn't there to win the
football game, to what you're saying. And that's where that's
you know what what's so difficult with with the forty
niners and how we look at Josh Johnson when I
just saw the season veteran, I'm like, no, he's a

(14:28):
veteran that was brought in mid season. At least Brock
Purty was there for training camps and other camps, and like,
there's there is a difference. It is just not just
all right now. Whoever is in is going to is
going to have success. And and it kind of goes
back to the point, I know, we gotta take a
time out here, but it goes back to the point
that we started George of of you know, Kyle Shanahan
does have such a great system, but that system is

(14:50):
that washcloth that at some point, you know what, there's
just can't there's nothing you can do. There's just nothing there.
So now it's on the forty Niners defense, and and
and the reason why brock Purdy is in the game
is that I think the forty Niners still think they
have a chance. And I don't think that they think
they have a chance to come back and make this
come back on the arm of Rock Purdy. I think
what they're saying is we got to keep it a

(15:12):
two score game. If our defense can do something of
our defense can force a turnover, if we can get
a fumbled snap or something and maybe make do their
make it a one score game. And who knows, but
that is their only path, like they there is no
I think the Fortyers. No, they go into the fourth quarter,
it's not going to be the air and out show.
You're gonna probably see a halfback pass at some point

(15:33):
because you're gonna have to get something downfield. But the
reason brock Purdy is in there handing the football off
is two reasons. They don't have another quarterback, but they
also think that they can still win the football game.
And if you're putting Christian mccaffree or Deebo Samuel at quarterback.
You're punting on the football game. It is not going
to happen. So that's that's where we are, and we'll
continue this because this is what we are talking about.

(15:54):
NFC Championship Game. Eagles still up on the forty one
to seven, six minutes left to go on the third order.
Brock Purdy had to leave in the first quarter with
an elbow injury. Didn't return until the second half only
because Josh Johnson, the backup the party, had to leave
because he's being examined for a concussion and was taking
into the forty niners. Who his day is gonna be done?

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Give me the hell. Yeah, Eagles are knocking on the door.
Welcome back. It is Fox Sports Red Zone Radio on
a Fox Football Sunday, and that door has just opened.
We'll tell you about it in the sec. He's George

(18:22):
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Twitter at Dan Buyer. On Fox, Jalen hurts a one
yard touchdown run as the Eagles got down near the
goal line and then just kept on running. Quarterbacks and

(18:44):
the way the Eagles got down in San Francisco Territory,
the Forts defense forced to punt. But this goes back
to the point that I made just before we took
our time out, George, was the Niners needed the d
defense to make a play, They needed special teams to
make a play, and they went to go block upon
they went for a pump block. Uh, it got a

(19:07):
roughing the kicker call that ended up giving the Eagles
a new set of downs, which honestly, I don't blame them.
They needed a play like that because they're not going
ninety yards with a quarterback. They can't throw the football
right now, and that's brock Perty who's in the game.
So I don't fault they're trying to figuring out anyway.
There's just no paths for that penalty. No, But they've

(19:29):
had a ton of penalties on defense today and they've
all been legitimate penalties, like they like, have you seen
any questionable penalties called? No? And that's the and that's
the unfortunate part is that the defense in their aggression,
had their worst, you know, like had some untimely penalties

(19:55):
and in a game like today, the defense needed to
be clean. They did. And the defense, I mean that
that touchdown right there, that just like the damn has broken.
It's over. This game is a burrito. It's wrapped up.
Unless you know they would they would need a fumble
six or a pick six which probably ain't happening so

(20:16):
or or a kickoff return, I mean and and and
then they would need to turn over after that. So no, no,
I was just gonna say, and please remember what you
were about to say, because the instance that you were
just talking about, the guys that I were talking during
the break, they were running quarterback sneaks from the two
and three yard line. The Eagles just were because because

(20:39):
you you weren't going to kick a field goal in
that situation, you didn't want to risk the turnover, as
you said, and if you don't get it on four downs,
which they ended up scoring, and now they have a
three score game. You're making the forty Niners go nine
nine yards with Brock Purty who can't throw the football,
like like that is a much better scenario than kicking
a field goal and having Ray Ray mcclauch. Yeah, Like

(21:03):
that's that's the Eagles knowing, like understanding. I'll give sometimes
Nick Srianni, I give the eye roll too, but they
are very in tune to what's going on. It's just
like they had the first in the first possession on
the Davante Smith the catch that wasn't a catch, that
was ruled to catch and ended up being a catch
because you had a hurry up offense. Davante Smith knew

(21:25):
that he probably didn't catch the football, but they ran up,
got the playoff on first down and it never was
reviewed and the lead to the Eagles first touchdown. The
Eagles are very aware and they just knew that, Yeah,
there's no way the Niners are going to be able
to We're not going to give them any chance to
have any light. I'm sorry, George. Continue. Yeah, man, this
this game is burrito dude. It just thinks because truthfully,

(21:50):
injuries have ruined the narrative of this game, right, I
think that the forty Niners, I think the game would
be if Party were we're in, I would say the
game would be I'm gonna go twenty four to ten.
And I think, yeah, I think that this was the

(22:11):
eventual ending because I thought that the Eagles were gonna
get way too much pressure on brock Party and that
that he was gonna have a turnover to he he
had a pick drop well, actually that that turned into
a fumble. But um, but I he had had some
in the Cowboys games. The Cowboys dropped what two picks

(22:33):
as well, so I thought that this was the eventual ending.
I just think that with the injury to Brock Party
and then to Josh Johnson, that it that it puts
a damper on the narrative of the game. I picked
the Eagles to win as well. I thought that they
were the better team. I thought they'd win by about ten.

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But everything went right for the Eagles in the first quarter.
Everything went right. They already got injured, they got the
turnover on the Party injury, they had the Davante Smith
call that actually went their way that led to points,
and there were only up seven. Nothing like, everything in
that first quarter went the Eagle's way. And so to me,

(23:15):
that defense everything went their their waves as well. Their
defense was pitching a shutout. I mean, like, aside from
that first drive, because you're not gonna hold the team scoreless.
But after that first drive where the Eagle score, they
were they were aces after that, and and that's why
I think Party makes a difference. I don't think he's

(23:37):
the next Joe Montana. I don't. And I think that
there is there is some lightning in a bottle sort
of thing to this. I think that you know, next year,
I think this is this will be a little different.
There have been reports over the last couple of weeks.
I know Mike Silver, longtime NFL reporters, said that they're
they're those in the forty niners offices know that this
is Brock Purty's team for um. So so there's we

(24:02):
would get more of an idea about who Brock Party
is as a quarterback next season. I think this year
was quite the run. But even in saying all of that,
in in a way saying that it isn't as much
about who Party is as it is of what the
forty Niners have going on. Now, this team would be different.
I mean, if he Josh Johnson, the Eagles didn't have
to worry about anything downfield, They didn't have to work

(24:26):
probably don't have to worry about third reads. But the
thing is Christian, it does not know. It didn't matter
because because they were going to get pressure even when Party,
if Party had been in, they were not going to
be calling deep drop back long passes because you don't
have that sort of time against this Philadelphia Eagles team.

(24:49):
You just you just don't. The offense was going to
look similar. The difference is now with brock Party's arm
and and he's not throwing the ball, so so and
what and what did I say? If he comes in
and he's slinging and he's slinging the ball around, I'm
going to judge him. But the fact that he's not okay,

(25:10):
I am? I am a okay with that because because
he did throw the little check down and all of that.
So if he had come in here throwing throwing it around,
there would have been a reason to to have some judgment.
But the but that he's not okay, Okay, Now now
we can have a different conversation. He's George Royster, I'm

(25:32):
Dan Buyer. I'm gonna make one more point and maybe
how Jimmy Garoppolos is the fault of all this? Okay,
this is this is this is not a hot take scenario.
This is not there. But there is a reason why
Jimmy g comes into play Eagles up on the Niners seven.

(25:53):
Uh as they play in Philadelphia. I want to jump
over to the news desk. I know we took Momsey's lead.
She was about to tell us that the Eagles one point.
I apologize, Monson is the only thing that we're talking about,
but just yeah, it's unfortunate because there was a lot
of hope for this game and that's coming right, Like
what a game. I can't believe this is what we're
talking about and this is how this game is going.

(26:14):
But it is official. Josh Johnson has been rolled out
for the rest of the game, so he's not coming back.
We've got brought the Purty handoff show. But you know,
former forty Niners quarterback Steve Young tweeted that he's warming
up in the parking lot, so he's ready. George's little
Hell no, you can't bring that old man in. That
man's well over fifty. But he's warming up though. I mean,

(26:37):
they didn't even have a I'm Steve Old now, George, Yes, exactly,
there we go. J They're they're getting better and better
as the months go by. They are. I agree with you.
Jalen Hurts for Philadelphia. He did rush for his fifteenth
touchdown in this game. He's stowing for a hundred new

(27:00):
one yards and yeah, it's been all Eagles. The forty
Niners have just had a lot of bad luck in
this game from the get go. They just started the
fourth quarter and they're up, like you said seven. But
in other NFL news, ESPN is reporting that leak sources
believe that the Green Bay Packers would prefer to move
on from quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and apparently he's aware of

(27:20):
the Packers feelings on the situation. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
has undergone surgery to repair a torn labor and his
left shoulder, but he's expected to be cleared for offseason activities.
And the Dolphins have a new defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio
that's right at three year deal with the fourth year
team option. This deal makes some the highest paid quarter
coordinator in the NFL, so good for him. And of course,

(27:43):
the Clippers announced that they're gonna play without Kawhi Leonard
and Paul George for their game today against the Calves.
Of course, nothing new there. Back to you guys, thank
you very much. On Twitter at Monty Blagos He's George
Rice Stir, I'm Dan Fier. We are alive from the
Tire dot Com studios. And again the Niners just running
an end around to Deebo Samuel on a first and

(28:03):
five carry. This is down down twenty one points early
in the fourth quarter. Brock Party cannot throw the ball.
Somebody's gonna have to throw pass. Whether it be Deebo Samuel,
Christie McCaffrey, or Brandon Auk. You have to at least
try to throw something downfield. That's where we are in
this Niners Eagles game. And the reason, the reason why
Jimmy Garoppolo and I'm not saying specifically George, but when

(28:26):
we look at the way that rosters are constructed in
the NFL, there are decisions that you have to make.
In the forty Niners did not put Jimmy Garoppolo on
injured reserve because they wanted Jimmy Garoppolo to possibly be
able to return return to action from that foot injury
if he was available, and I think they looked at

(28:47):
it as like, hey, we get to the super Bowl
because he was inactive today, he was inactive, he was
unavailable for the forty Niners. There were reports earlier this
week that said that if it got to the super Bowl,
he would maybe be back in a backup role in
that fashion. But if you've got Jimmy Garoppolo on your
roster and injured George and he's an inactive it takes

(29:09):
up a spot of another player. So the forty Niners
only have three quarterbacks on their roster their Brock Purty,
Josh Johnson, and Jimmy Garoppolo. So the point being is
maybe the NFL needs to look at a different way.
We made adjustments in our fantasy football seasons to be
like in the playoffs, Aright, if you get a guy hurt,

(29:31):
we don't want you to be without a quarterback in
the championship game. You figure this out. Major League Baseball
has expanded rosters, and I know you gotta set your
roster for the playoffs. But the point is is the
Niners have kept the window open for Jimmy Garoppolo to return.
And I'm not saying whoever would have been the backup
to Josh Johnson would have saved the day, but they

(29:52):
would have been in a better situation than having Brock
Purdy just handled probably quarterback. I mean he probably wouldn't
have been active anyway. Whoever, so, so the the third
quarterback would not have been active, so it wouldn't have
saved the situation anyway. I mean it's a it's a
it's kind of a moot point because it's not George.

(30:14):
The only reason I'm bringing up because Jimmy Garoppolo was
the quarterback that wasn't active, like and like if you
wanted to have the super security that that it is,
Jimmy Garoppolo is not ready to play. This isn't This
isn't theo. How is that a league problem as opposed
to a a problem like that's what Niners should have.

(30:39):
That's what I'm bringing something different with his with his
roster spot. Then that's what I'm telling you. That's what
I'm saying, and that that was the that was the
original point of the Oh I thought you were saying
that that the league should amend its rules. That that
was that was the that was you know, in a
way of moving it forward. But essentially, what I'm saying
is the forty Niners don't have a string quarterback today

(31:01):
because Jimmy Garoppolo is their third string quarterback and their
hope that Jimmy Garoppolo would come back at some point
the season and just serve as a backup. You're right,
The third quarterback nowadays in the National Football League usually
isn't active. So then that led me to my point
of being, like, maybe if you're the NFL and it's

(31:21):
a playoff situation, because this is not what the NFL wants.
The NFL does not want it's marquee game, you know,
and it's one of its top three markeee games of
the year to be run by backup quarterbacks, Like you
don't want it to be the third string quarterback either,
That's what I'm saying. It's the same situation if it were,

(31:44):
because most third string quarter quarterbacks are not the Like,
this isn't a forty Niner situation where you have trade Land,
Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock party. That's that's not typical. I
would say Brock already is better than of third third quarterbacks, right,

(32:07):
and so so I can't sit here and say that
there's anything uh significant about that, Like I I I
I understand where if the rules were different, there would
just be another body in there except for that guy
would be throwing picks instead of just handing the ball off.
You know what I'm saying. No, I understand. It's it's

(32:28):
so funny because this comes down to fantasy football, like
and and and That's why I actually feel so strongly
about it, is because there's a point in your fantasy
football league that if you're in the playoffs and if
your league doesn't allow pickups. And I'm really sorry for
the football die hards out there that I'm using fantasy
football to describe this. The point being is you need

(32:50):
to set up a plan for yourself to be like,
all right, I just have to make sure that I
can feel the team. That's what I need to do.
And you're you're correct and saying most teams have their
third quarterback inactive. That wasn't the case twenty years ago,
right like there was and there was an emergency quarterback.
There was an emergen when I was playing. No, no, no no, no.

(33:10):
Even when I was playing, we never had our third
quarterback active. But there there was the emergency quarterback rule
where if you had a third quarterback that would go
into the game, he could come into the game, and
then the other two guys could not like could not return. Correct,
And and so that's just the point that they should

(33:31):
have used their roster spot on a on on a
on a quarterback and then and then and then we
could have that argument, yes, but they agree with you,
but they couldn't because Jimmy Garoppolo was their third quarterback
and he was already unavailable for this game. So like
they chose to already use one of their inactive spots

(33:53):
on their fifty three man roster to go to Jimmy
Garoppolo just in case he was healthy enough to back
rock party up if they made it to the Super Bowl.
You're right, the fifth string quarterback of the Niners was
not rescuing them. But we are in the situation now
we are. We are seeing handoff Festree because the Niners

(34:13):
don't have anybody capable of throwing a downfield pass, and that,
by the way, awful for the NFL. He's George Rice Stir.
I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox Sports Red Zone Radio.
The latest from San Francisco, or excuse me, from Philadelphia.
Are the Egos leading San Francisco ten fifty two, and
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(34:33):
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They're all celebrating in the stands. The party is already
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(34:54):
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(35:17):
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(35:42):
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(36:03):
thirty eight and counting. The Eagles are actually on the
field ready to attempt a thirty one yard field goal
to extend the lead to thirty one to seven. He
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(36:25):
bring that up, George, is because Brady Quinn is thirty
three percent, thirty three point three percent of that show,
and he tweeted as we were talking, if the NFL
hadn't gotten rid of the third quarter back designation, we
wouldn't be having this problem. Apparently it wasn't worth it
to the NFL p A. That's what Brady had tweeted,
and it was something that we had just talked about

(36:47):
about with the forty Niners and allowing your third quarterback
to be that emergency quarterback, which was taken out of
the nfl uh Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Players Association
in twenty ten. The only problem is Jimmy Garoppolo was
the forty Niners third quarterback in this situation, maybe they

(37:09):
would have planned differently if if that if that third
quarterback or Garoppolo would have been healthy enough to play.
Maybe they end up making that different decision, but Garoppolo
was the third quarterback today, So even if they would
have had the emergency quarterback, he wouldn't have been available
because he's not available to the team. Do we have George?

(37:34):
We may have lost George, but anyway, hopefully that clears
up a little bit of the situation with the uh
the quarterback situation. Again, this is completely minor. This is
just a completely minor situation with what the forty Niners
are going through. It was a tall task to ask
Josh Johnson to lead this team to a super Bowl,
let alone whoever would have been the third string and

(37:56):
in essence, the forty Niners fifth string quarterback this season.
But it is a conversation that others are having on
social media, and Brady knows the NFL as good as anyone,
and just interesting to hear to, you know, hear his
take on it on social media, and I'm sure you're
gonna hear about it tomorrow morning again six o'clock Eastern time,
three o'clock Pacific. Heal of ar Arrington and Jonas knocks
here on Fox Sports Radio. But that field goal was good.

(38:19):
Eagles end up taking a thirty one to seven lead.
And this is no surprise. This is this party has
been going on in the stands. The party probably went
on on the stands since halftime when it was twenty
one to seven, and you didn't think that brock party
was gonna return. And when he actually did return, he
couldn't throw forward passes. But this is where we are
in the NFL. Is the Philadelphia Eagles make it to

(38:40):
Super Bowl fifty seven, at least five and a half
minutes away from doing so. There are some storylines that
will weave in. And I will say that never in
my lifetime that I think we would see, especially ten
years ago, that I think that we would see an
Eagles Bengals Super Bowl. And we might. We might. I'm
not sure he's gonna win the a f C Championship Game.
I have a prediction, but again those predictions can always

(39:02):
be wrong. I do think that it will be so
interesting to see an Eagles chief Super Bowl because not
only do you have the Kelsey brothers going head to head,
you'd have Travis against Jason. You also have what I
have dubbed the Andy Reid Bowl, and and and I
think that Andy Reid and the success in what he

(39:25):
had in Philadelphia, even though it didn't end up in
a super Bowl, there is still a lot of love
between Philadelphia and Andy Reid, and it's made it a
lot better that Andy Reid has gotten his super Bowl
and the Eagles have gotten There's five years ago. So
I I think that the Andy Reid storyline is probably
the best storyline that we could get. Not to say
that I don't want to Bengals Eagle Super Bowl. I

(39:46):
just never thought I would see those teams face off
in the Super Bowl. But to have it Andy Reid
themes super Bowl. To have a Super Bowl where you
have the Kelsey brothers, I think that Chiefs Eagles would
just provide the most storylines in Super Bowl fifty seven.
Oh yes, yes, that so many story storylines. And also

(40:07):
it's funny because this this next game which I hope
does not get ruined by injury as well, even even
though we we do have a potential major injury with
with Travis Kelsey, which would be a significant injury if
Travis can't can't play, But I just don't want like, well, there,

(40:29):
then there's the Joe Burrow versus Patrick Mahomes thing. Pretty
much everybody believes that Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback
in the league, but that might be up for the debate.
He's George Rice Stir, I'm Dan Buyer, Travis Kelsey active
for the Chiefs. We'll talk more about that game next
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And talking about the Eagles rushing record breaking a record
held by the Frankfort Yellow Jackets. What, Yes, the Frankfort
Yellow Jackets were the ones who had that record. Uh.
They actually were based in Philadelphia in the UH early
nineteen hundreds. The team stopped playing football in nineteen thirty one,

(41:34):
but it goes all the way back to then. It
is with the rushing mark for touchdowns broken by the
Philadelphia Eagles today as we are now under three minutes,
and Trent Williams body slammed an Eagle. He he got ousted. Um.
And that's a I'll tell you about. That's a theme
because Trent Williams likes to fight everybody when he loses

(41:56):
a playoff game. Yes he does. Listen, he is a
sore Loo was there. And you know what I don't.
I don't hate it like that. That doesn't bother me
at all. He bothers me is that he wants to
fight guys who are a hundred pounds less than him,
like he wants to fight Richard Sherman, like he did
after the Washington lost to the Seahawks in a wild

(42:17):
card game. And here and I you know, I caught
up in all of the the hubbub going on because
there was a bit of a a scrum, a brawl,
if you will, between the Niners and Eagles. And I
don't even see who Trent Williams actually Bonnie slammed and
and it was a little man. Yeah, tell you one thing.
It wasn't a sound Reddick and it wasn't in Dominican Sue,

(42:38):
wasn't Fletcher. Maybe he should have been trying to body
slam all day. This is so loose, and can we
and can we talk about Lane Johnson today and and
his hurt growing he gave he gave Nick Bose of
the Blues today. I mean, aside from that one play

(43:01):
when Nick Bosa was was unblocked and actually the two
plays when when he was unblocked on run plays and
he made the nice play on Hurts where it was
almost the safety, and then the other one on where
he stretched the run play out and it ended up
only like a one yard game. Aside aside from that,
what did Nick Bosa do today? Not much? But also

(43:27):
what I mean, I mean it's he almost had the
safety on Jail and Hurts, you know, That's what I'm
talking about on that on on that on on on
that play. But but on that play he was he
was unblocked. It was a really good, very athletic play.
So I'm giving him credit for that. And then on
the other play where he stretched out, why did didn't
make the tackle? But you know, limited a five yard

(43:49):
game to a one yard game because then uh, the
linebacker was able to Fred Warner was able to get
over there and put him out of bounds. So aside
from those two two plays, nick Bosa was was invisible today.
Now let's let's cool off the hot takes, George, because
the first hour was hot here. Let's be real, how

(44:11):
could Nick Bosa have have changed this type of game
like this is he almost had a safety. I am
not I'm not criticizing Nick Bosa at all. I'm praising
Lane Johnson for the job he did on the defensive
player of the year. Like it was less about like

(44:34):
like that wasn't take upon Nick Bosa. That was the
praise of Lane Johnson because because Nick in the beginning
of the game, he actually got some he actually collapsed
the pocket a couple of times without getting like true pressure.
And I was like, oh, we we could be up
for like a heavyweight fight today between these two. But

(44:56):
even in the run game, the Eagles did a good
job of scheming against him and and uh, Lane Johnson
did an excellent job of blocking him. So I'm not
saying that Nick Bosa is the reason why they lost.
I'm saying that Lane Johnson is one of the reasons
why the Philadelphia Eagles one. Yeah, well, they've got they've
got arguably the best offensive line in the National Football League,

(45:18):
and you know they are. They are really really good
one person without without it being a negative on the
other because Nick, yeah he didn't have a like he
didn't do anything today, but but it wasn't because of
he's a terrible player. He was dogging it. No, Lane,
Lane Johnson just won the battle today. I would also

(45:40):
say this. I just think that especially when Purdy came out,
because I think it changed what Philadelphia did. Philadelphia came
out firing. That's why they scored on their first possession,
even though they're they're fourth dound conversion shouldn't have counted.
They went down and scored, and your thought, okay, maybe
we're maybe we're in for one. But once pretty got hurt,
we didn't have a score until the Niners answered with

(46:04):
their own touchdown with Josh Johnson and and I think
the game changed. Like so not only did the forty
Niners change, I think the Eagles weren't pressing like like
they weren't saying like we're gonna put the ball in
Harm's way. I think they scaled back this actually see
actually I don't think that they scaled back. I think
that this was going to be the game the way

(46:24):
the game was right the whole game, because you have
the best two defenses in in the league, that this
was going to be a slobber knocker and and it
was going to be one on who could get who
could affect the quarterback the most. And I thought that
the Eagles defensive line, because they have all year seventies sacks,

(46:47):
which is unreal, right, an unreal amount of sex, I
thought that they would be able to impact Brock Party
as a rookie significantly more because because they can do
two things well. They can stop the run, which which
I thought would would necessitate Brock Purdy to be in

(47:10):
more third and long situations and have to make more
drop back plays, which then plays into the eagles favor
with their with their pass rush. So I thought that
I thought this would be a fourteen point victory and
not a hey, what was it? Twenty four point victory
it ends up being and it doesn't even feel like

(47:31):
it was that close considering considering what this game was
over when when uh, I mean like they at least
had some similance of a chance when when Josh Johnson
was in if they had to just drop back and
try to throw it, maybe you can make some plays
here and there, but when Josh Johnson hit his ahead,

(47:54):
it was that the game is a burrito. This is
like when you know old Princeton basket ball would have
an eight point lead, actually, and they just grind you
to death. And they and and then they they uh,
they hit a back cut for a layup with two

(48:14):
seconds to go on the shot clock every single time,
and you're just and you've been chasing them around the
whole time, and you're just like row. And then they
get every defensive rebound because they played well and you
had to shoot up with three contested three and then
miss and they here they go, lay up, lay up again,
shot clocked down to one. It's exhausting. The point that

(48:37):
I wanted to bring up and I know this isn't urgent,
but they're just They're gonna be a lot of long
term ramification storylines. I think we have to have a
Kyle Shanahan conversation. I don't know if it'll last, you know,
a little bit or a longer while, but I have
I have another another thing to bring up, because did

(48:58):
we're talking about Nick Bosa? Did see Joey Bosa before
the game? There there was a clip of him having
some words with Eagles fans, and Bosa was decked out
in Niners gear. Joey Bosa defensive end for the Los
Angeles Chargers. Supporting would be well, that's my question, Like,

(49:18):
I understand supporting your brother, but does it go as
far when you're on one team of wearing the other
teams one hundred percent Dan, one hundred percent dan if Okay,
So what team do I root for? In college football?

(49:38):
The Oregon Ducks? Okay, my son is being recruited by
colleges if he goes to Washington, right, which how do
I feel about the University of Washington. You can't stand
him exactly, but you know what will happen if if
if my son ends up going to Washington, go Dogs,

(50:01):
Go Dogs, bow down. I will have I will put
I will tweet purple Rain. But that's but that's your
son and that's his brother, Like I know, but he's
also in the league right now? Do it too? The
Kelseys do it too? Like if if you want to

(50:24):
wear your brother's blood is sticker than blood, is sticker
than this NFL, bro, you should be jacket. The NFL
is a business. Guess what the Nick Joey Bosa might
end up playing for the forty Niners one day. There
there is no loyalty. It is a business there. The
teams aren't loyal to you. You are. You have to

(50:46):
be loyal to that fam more than you have to
be loyal to that jersey. You are not a fan.
You are a fan of your brother. And and I
guarantee you that if Joey we're in, if it were
the same city situation, Joey would be charged out, no problem. Yeah,
Nick would be yes. Yeah, I just I say, go

(51:09):
to the game, sit in the booth where everybody there
is decked out in Niners gear. Heck, if you wanted
to wear a Bosa Ohio state jersey, totally get it.
You know for because because it is clear who he's
cheering for. He wanted his brother to go to the
super Bowl, and he would have been right there. Just
look at look at what Mark Kieff and Mark kief uh,

(51:32):
Marcus Morris do, same same thing. You know I and not.
You know that I should have known this. I should
have thought of this. Joey couldn't have worn a Nick
Bosa jersey because then it would have looked like he
was wearing his own jersey because they both wore so
I totally get him for not doing that and be like,
why do you wear his own college jersey? Know it
was my brother, I get that, but yeah, I just

(51:53):
would have ditched the jacket, or I would have worn
a red sweater maybe. You know, if I was spose,
I just wouldn't have gone. If I'm a member of
the Chargers, I wouldn't. I don't understand how that is
because you're cheering for your brother, You're you're cheering for
your brother, not the you're cheering for your brother's team.
I don't understand, Like, like, this is not oh Ohio

(52:16):
State in Michigan, this is this is the NFL. It
is nothing, and these two teams aren't even rivals, So
it doesn't even matter the ones in the a f C,
ones in the NFC. Bro, I'm wearing my brother's jersey,
I'm wearing this jersey I wears, I wear the other
teams jacket. It don't even matter. I'm doing it all. Okay.

(52:39):
So then then my final question and all of this,
if the scenario that you laid out is true, the
day after your son leaves the University of Washington for
the NFL uh graduation? Um, are you done being a
Dogs fan? That cash can back to the trash can.

(53:00):
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by Air. The Eagles are on their way to Super
Bowl fifty seven with a dominating win over the San
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brock Purty, but they played most of the game of
the ninjured brock Purty had to leave in the first quarter,
return in the second half, but could not throw a

(53:21):
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We are live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
He's the NFL VET George rice Stir. I'm Dan Buyer.
Find George on Twitter at George rice Stir. You can
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version that you aren't hearing on the podcast, but you
are if you're driving in your car, cruising around, maybe
listening on the app, listening on your local affiliate, uh
Seal Seal singing in Did I ever tell you one

(55:12):
of my favorites? Super Bowl memories, George, it involves Seal.
Did you ever hear this story? No? And and it
was completely random. It was after Super Bowl forty six
in Indianapolis, in the Giants winning locker room chaos, everybody
celebrating their second victory over the Patriots in a super Bowl,

(55:36):
and Eli Manning, the man of the hour, and Michael Strahan,
who won the Super Bowl the first time they played
in Super Bowl forty two, now retired, brought Seal into
the locker room and I'll never forget standing there is
where around Eli Mannings locker and Michael Strahan walking up
to Eli and being like congratulations man, giving him a hug,

(55:58):
and then being like, I want you to meet my
friends Seal. So this is like twenty minutes after the
Giants have just won the Super Bowl, and I have
a picture on my phone of Eli Manning and Seal
in the Giants locker room. I'm a huge Seal fan,
love his music. But that is my super Bowl memory
of the Super Bowl and Seal coming together. At least

(56:22):
at least somebody loves it. Uh that's Tim Tebow liked it.
I I will put the picture up from time, uh
now and again because it's just random. Look, if I
saw Lawrence Taylor in the locker room, I wouldn't have
thought anything different. Bill Parcel, Bill parselves this year. Wow.
But always to the see Seal and then I have

(56:43):
Eli Manning take a picture with Seal was just just amazing.
It was amazing, It was great. It's good times. Um,
hopefully this story is that story is uh not as
good as the one we're about to talk about Kyle Shanahan.
You don't think that there's a conversation about Kyle Shanahan
that needs to happen about him not winning big games

(57:04):
or something. Yes, absolutely not, absolutely not. The fact that
you knew exactly what I was talking about lets me
know that you know there's going to be a conversation. Yes,
And and it's tiring, like it's so so tired. It is.
It is exhausting, to be honest with you. It so.
Kyle Shanahan as the opposite coordinator lost the Super Bowl

(57:29):
with the against Tom Brady and the Patriots with the
Atlanta Falcons. Okay, now, what type of quarterback did he
have in the situation? Right? He also did? He did
deserve some blame there for some some play calls Matt
Ryan deserves some blame for some decision making. Both of

(57:52):
those things are true. Now, Jimmy Garoppolo when they played
against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, Oh, he called
a good game. He can't make Jimmy Garoppolo hit a
wide open wide receiver to win the game, right, huh
put him in position to win? Yes, he put in

(58:13):
in that. He put him in position to win that game.
Would you would you agree with that? Yes? Yeah, so
so and and since since then, the forty Niners have
been dealing with a quarterback uh, you know, revolving door.
Because Jimmy Garoppolo could not stay healthy, they draft Trade

(58:35):
Lands and then he gets hurt this year. I mean,
what more do you want to do to do to
get his team? The thirteen and four have the best
defensive football, one of the best run games, most creative things.
That way, you can play with Mr Irrelevant and make
him look and make people believe that that he is

(58:57):
a top tier quarterback. I mean, he it it with
Jimmy Garoppolo. People are like, oh my god, Jimmy garoppolos
one of the best in the league. You he did
it with Black Party. He did it. I mean people
were like, oh man C. J. Bethard could be a guy,
and uh and and who was the other quarterback? Nick Mullins, Yes,
Nick Nick. Nick Mullins is still eating because of Kyle

(59:18):
Shanahan eating in the NFL. So like, I don't know
what more you want to do to do. You can't
win the damn Super Bowl every single year. There's some luck,
there is health that matters. This is why he wants
tray Lands is because he can have a guy like
Jalen Hurts has done so many times, which is when

(59:39):
there's not something there, Oh wow, now all of a sudden,
my quarterback can go save the day with his legs.
I don't know if he wants tray Lands. That's part
of the problem he does want in San Francisco, wasn't it?
Isn't that the whole the whole Mac Jones tray Lance
discussion is that Kyle Shanahan wanted mac Jones. Yea and

(01:00:03):
and well, Chris Sims was very very strong with that
report around Chris Sims and to Nutting. Chris Simms say
they were teammates and roommates at Texas there there is
a strong relationship between the two, so there is there

(01:00:23):
is legitimacy to that. I also found it interesting when
Kyle Shanahan this year said that brock Purdy was the
most poised rookie that he had ever been around. And
on the surface, it's like, well, it's high praise for
brock Purty, but you also have to realize that it
was just a couple of years ago that Trey Lance
was a rookie. You know, we're talking two years ago,

(01:00:45):
had a season ago. Trey Lance is the rookie, and
Kyle Shanahan giving that praise to brock Purdy, I think
indirectly also showed some of the feelings about Trey Lance
and the conversation about Shanahan. Moving back to that point,
George fair or not, it's the conversation that is going

(01:01:07):
to exist. The game against the Falcons, they excuse me,
the game with the Falcons against the Patriots when he
was the offensive coordinator. Yeah, they did put up twenty
eight points, but it was what happened after that point
that was the question. You even said today that even
if brock Purty plays, you don't think that the forty

(01:01:27):
niners are gonna win that football game. No, and and now,
mind you if you put a more experienced quarterback or
a better quarterback in that situation, situation, I think that
you have a better chance to win, like if you

(01:01:47):
put like if you put Justin Herbert in that situation,
Joe Burrow or any any of the like. You you
don't even have to have the top quarter quarterbacks in
the league, but somebody who has had a little more
experience in the game then and has a little bit
more mobility against this great Philadelphia Eagles pass orts and

(01:02:11):
you I'm calling them great because that's seventy sacks. That
that makes you like, they almost broke the NFL all
time record. That makes you great. So and I thought
that that was going to be the difference in the game.
And there is a play that Kyle Shanahan probably would
wish that he had back, and that was the play
that that um Brock party got hurt on. He called

(01:02:34):
a half roll, and that gives a little bit more
time for your backside blocker, but he left Hassan record
Reddick and his sixteen and a half sacks and countless
quarterback pressures all by itself on a tight end. And
that's the play that ended up fumble arm arm hurt
and it's funny because when when it when it happened,

(01:02:55):
I was like, oh, man, that that might have hurt
his hurt his arm. But then he came back and
started throwing. And my thing was, and like I, like
I said, I wanted him to come back in the
game and have the coaches or the trainers take him out.
But after it was clear the dude couldn't couldn't play,
but he did come back in and play. I just

(01:03:16):
wanted that to happen on the front end as opposed
to the back end. But that that same thing where
the team where I where I said earlier that the
team would look at him or could potentially look at
him a little bit different because they wanted him to
come in and fight. He actually did that on the
back end, So there's not gonna be that happening with

(01:03:38):
the team. Kyle Shanahan's gotten a lot of praise during
his time in San Francisco and deserved the second straight
year of the forty nine admitutes in the NFC Championship game.
We were just talking about Andy read earlier. You know,
Andy Reid, great job with the Philadelphia Eagles, and then
they would lose in the NFC Championship game against the Buccaneers,

(01:03:59):
and they lose in the NFC Championship game to the Panthers,
and then they win an NFC Championship game, and then
they go and lose to the to the Patriots, and
and that sticks around, and you're right there there, they're
right in there, and it gets to the point, but
you can't tell me that Andy Reid didn't have that
reputation and it had started, It started with Kyle Shanahan.

(01:04:19):
This will only continue it because now you have to
figure out not that there's a book on Brock Party,
but how does Brock Party operate in a full season. Uh,
You've got a lot of pieces in place, but how
long are those pieces going to stay in place? This
this one is going to hurt like they all hurt.

(01:04:40):
But this conversation about Kyle Shanahan is not going to stop.
And and if it doesn't pick up, if it doesn't
pick up, then I think we're actually doing a disservice
because now we've seen time and time again of of
a guy falling short. And if we're gonna give Andy
Reid this treatment or other coaches this treatment, and Kyle Shanahan,
you know. I mean he's he's also young into his

(01:05:03):
career and he's consistently fielding quality teams. Now, I know
people want him to get a championship, but then after
he gets one and be like, oh, you can't do it,
do it again. But it's funny because I tweeted out
about Kyle Shanahan and then somebody replied, should have gotten
a better backup than Josh Johnson, and I was like,

(01:05:24):
how how how he was on the third quarterback Josh
john He he had already had Trey Lance as a starter.
Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock party, where are you going to
find another quarterback in the middle of the season, Like where?
Because you can't take anyone from any of the teams

(01:05:45):
that are out of the playoffs whose season is over with.
So so tell me where are you gonna find another backup? Please?
Of of better than Josh Johnson and tell him at
George Rice Stir on Twitter. I'd also like to know,
so tell me at Dan Buyer on Fox. Let's jump
to the news Deskin. George's in the hot seat for

(01:06:06):
all NFL questions today with a championship weekend theme. Monsey,
what you got We're all getting ready for the a
f C Championship Game. It's about to start between the
Bengals and the Chiefs. The Chiefs will have tight end
Travis Kelsey. But we know who's already headed to the
Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles. They are the NFC champions.
They defeated the San Francisco forty nine Ers thirty one

(01:06:27):
to seven. They're going to their fourth Super Bowl en
franchise history, and their first appearance since twenty eighteen. Now,
another big question with the forty Niners. You guys were
talking about quarterbacks and what they're gonna do it true,
but defensive coordinator Damco Ryan's is considered to be the
favorite for the Houston Texans head coaching job now that
the season is over. He's supposed to have his second
interview this week and it all goes well. According to

(01:06:49):
Ian Rappaport, he's expected to become the Texans new head coach.
So they may also be looking for a new defensive coordinator.
We'll see how that goes. Earlier today, it was reported
that Georgia Bulldogs National Championship winning quarterback Stetson Bennett. Maybe
it was still celebrating that victory because he was arrested
on public intoxication charges at about six am Central time

(01:07:11):
in Dallas, Texas. Apparently he was banging on people's doors
trying to get in stetson. Bennett still celebrating. I think
he realizes this is the high point, right, like, like
the NFL prospects aren't great and he's already in his
mid twenties. Anyway, he knows that this is gonna be
as good as it gets, So why not just live
it up as much as you can can? Can I

(01:07:34):
go a little bit of spicy spicy for your yes? Um?
He is Baker Mayfield. Oh, I mean like if Baker Mayfield,
if he had played in like a offense like Baker
Mayfield did, there would be the same poopline hype around
this dude. But but, I but I will tell you

(01:07:56):
he is one of the most unlikable dudes with a
great story that I've ever seen. It's true, he's he
has a great story. He's like the underdog went to Georgia,
went to jay Z because they told me wasn't good enough,
came back against all odds, and then he's like not
likable at all. It's the weirdest thing. Yeah, he and

(01:08:17):
I don't think this is helping him. This is definitely
not helping him. Somebody else that's probably celebrating in Australia
Novak Djokovic because he wants his tenth Australian Open and
record try and record tying excuse me, twenty second Grand
Slam title today. Good for you, Novack. Back to you guys,
Thank you very much. Mom, you don't go far because
George may need you. As a lifeline and easy as

(01:08:39):
one to three four as we are live from the
tirerac dot Com Studios National Anthem going on right now
in Kansas City, So kick off is just away. Let's
kick off the game right now as Monty Iowa, Sam
and our executive producer Boll Benson survey as the lifelines
and easy as one to three four. As George tries
to get a perfect score of ten, I give him
four questions. He doesn't have to give me all the

(01:09:00):
right answers, just some of them. The over under today
eight and a half, George, eight and a half. Trying
to hit the over perfect game is ideal, but at
least try to hit the over. The topic NFL Championship
Game themed, are you ready name one of two current
teams in the a f C that have never lost

(01:09:23):
an a f C championship game? There are two teams
in the a f C right now, and how it's
constructed of the sixteen teams that have never lost an
a f C championship game. Okay, Okay, this feels like
a trick question. I like the way you phrase this, Dad,

(01:09:47):
I like the way you phrase this. Okay, So I
know Dann Buyer very well, and this is absolutely a
trick question. So let me think about the teams that
have never even been to an a f C championship game.
So I am going to go with the Oh my gosh,
did the Houston Texans was that when they lost? I'm

(01:10:10):
gonna go with the Houston Texans, all right? Is that
your final answer? Yes? Show me the Texans? There it is?
Oh and oh yes, they're the only team currently in
the a f C that has never been to an
an f C championship game. I almost went Jack Jacksonville,

(01:10:30):
but then I forgot. They did against who was it
Ben Roethlisberger? I think Tom Tom Brady. Yeah, and they
went with Mark Brunell against Patriots in the mid nineties
and then ran into the Titans in the you know,
when the Titans went to the Super Bowl. Jackson was
actually oh and three in championship games. The other team

(01:10:51):
that's never lost the Cincinnati Bengals three and oh in
franchise history in a f C championship games. So Georgia
never and Dan, you like, how how I know you?
How I know you? Like that? Yes? I did, and
I had to be phrased as very carefully. Well I
had to be exact as well, because the Tampa Bay

(01:11:14):
Buccaneers did spend a year in the a f C
in nineteen six. Obviously didn't make the championship game that
year because I didn't win a game that year. Um,
but they technically have an O and O record, but
they're not the a f C anymore. So good job
George in in being in tune with that question. Number
two named two of the three teams other than the

(01:11:37):
Bengals that the Chiefs have hosted in the a f
C championship game. We know they're hosting Cincinnati today, but
who are the other three teams that the Chiefs have
hosted in an a f C championship Um? Okay, now
I know that we have had the Oh my gosh,

(01:12:01):
I know we've had the Buffalo Bills, right, which was
with Josh Allen a couple of years ago. All Right,
I need some help. I am going to go with Iowa. Sam. Alright, Sam,
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking of the Bills and the Patriots. Okay, Cools,

(01:12:29):
there we go. All right, show me the Buffalo Bills. Yes,
did so in season game was in one, show me
the Patriots. He asked that all the time Classic Kansas
City lost. This is the fifth straight a f C
Championship game hosted by the Chiefs. Prior to that, they

(01:12:51):
had never hosted a championship game, rolling in the a
f C Championship one time before when they lost on
the road in Buffalo. But the other team that was
was a vile blanswer, the Tennessee Titans. Tennessee Titans. Remember
Derrick Henry came to town after taking out the Baltimore
Ravens and going on that run. So the Titans were

(01:13:12):
the other team in twenty In the twenty nineteen season game, alright,
three for three for George Reichsner. The a f C
Championship is underway, just like we are an easy as
one to three four. He's George Rice Stir on Dan
Buyer live from the Tirac dot Com studios. Our game
continues next year on Fox Sports Radio. It's a Fox
Football Sunday, a Championship Sunday. If you will welcome into

(01:13:34):
Red Zone Radio. The Bengals aren't in the Red zone,
but they do have the football. I got the opening
kick facing a third down in nine and now Joe
Burrow has gone down, so the Chiefs are forcing a
punt on the first possession. It should be noted that
Chief's corner Lugarius Snead did have to leave the game
because of an injury. So I don't know the specifics

(01:13:55):
on snead status, but he had too on his first drive.
What's that, George? Play looked extremely scary to me because
as soon as he tackled him, I saw how it,
how it happened, and I was like, oh my gosh,
get up, get up, get up, please, And then he didn't,
and it was I was very concerned about a neck injury.

(01:14:15):
And then he finally moved and I was like, oh,
thank gosh. I mean, that was scary from the second
it that had happened to me just just as a player,
you recognize some of those injuries where they happened in
certain ways, and it was just one of those that
just stood out to me and it scared me. And
let's be honest, we're all more sensitive considering what happened

(01:14:35):
with the mar Hamlin, you know, just you know, earlier
this month. So it is it is definitely something where
we are always uh, you know, on the edge when
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three going four three more points in our next question
of easy as one to three four, You've got lifelines
in Monsey and bow Benson, Monter Bolanos at the news desk,
and our executive producer Bo Benson. So, George, our next
question in easy as one to three four, named three

(01:15:18):
of the four cities where the forty Niners have played
their Super Bowls. So and this doesn't have to be exact,
like if we were going to use l A, we
wouldn't say, you have to say Englewood metropolitan areas. This
question was a lot more relevant before the Niners were

(01:15:38):
knocked out of the So you thought that they were
gonna win it was? It was it's a championship themed
we have. We have all these themes in the in
the in the questions, and so they may have may
have touched all of the teams that are playing today.
This happened to be the forty Niners question. All right.
Cities where the forty Niners have played their Super Bowls?

(01:16:00):
All right? I am going to go with Wait, where
they have played them or where they won them? Where
they played them? All right, I am going to go
New Orleans. I am going to go I know they

(01:16:22):
played in like in the Bay Area one time. And
I'm gonna call Mr bow Benson, all right, both cities
where the Knighters have played their Super Bowls? New Orleans
for sure, because that was the lights going out of

(01:16:43):
the stadium. Yeah, I cannot, for the life of me
remember where they played the Chiefs. Ah oh over under
is eight and a half. So even if you get
one wrong, here, it's still have a chance to hit
the over. Let me call on, miss Mancy Belanos. That's hard.

(01:17:07):
I don't because of its neutral territory, hard to remember.
All right, Okay, I'm gonna take a shot in the
dark then, because I'm gonna go with the places where
they have been the most Super Bowls. So I know
the one that was in the Bay Area. Um, and
then there was the New Orleans. I'm gonna go with

(01:17:30):
Miami because they would have had to have played in
Miami at some point in time. Okay, show me the world.
Oh my gosh, I went to the Super Bowl in
my hit me with the Chiefs in the damn Oh
my god, show me New Orleans. I was in Miami,
Lord Mercy, show me Miami, yes, and showed me the

(01:17:51):
Bay Area. You got all three of them? How did I?
I was at the Super Bowl? H man? Uh, all right,
you got all three of them. Detroit was the other.
But they were in New Orleans twice, super Bowl in
Miami three times, spol everybody the Super Bowl when they

(01:18:13):
beat the Chargers and then fifty four when they lost
to the Chiefs. And yes, Detroit, Detroit's and the Bay Area.
The others. All right, final question, and you can use
any of the Lifelines named four or five of the
all time passing yardage leaders for the Philadelphia Eagles. Okay,
all right, I am going to go with Donovan McNab. Okay, um, okay,

(01:18:42):
um what's his name? Um? What? Oh? Ron Drawarski, jaws
all right, Um, I'm assuming Randall Cunningham, and now I
am going to go with I'm gonna try Iowa Sam.

(01:19:03):
You already used me. I was three for three with
You can use any of them, he can use. Yeah,
everybody's out. Monsey's available. If you're going with me available,
I would say Cunningham, Jeworski, McNabb and who else do
you need? You need one more? Yeah? One more. The
Lifelines just want to throw names out the right ahead

(01:19:24):
falls or wins. Norm van Brocklin No, absolutely not, Okay, cool,
I don't even know when norms play. But okay, show
me Donovan McNabb number one, show me Ron Jaworski, show
me Randall Cunningham and for the perfect game in the win,

(01:19:47):
show me norm Snead. Carson Wentz was the other. He
was fourth, norm Snead fifth on the list. He's George
Rice stir I'm Dan Buyer. The Chiefs facing a fourth down.
We will tell you how they fare next year on

(01:20:08):
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(01:20:31):
told you the Chiefs have jumped out to a three
nothing lead on the Bengals. Winner of this AFC Championship
game will face the Eagles in Super Bowl fifty seven
in two weeks in Glendale, Arizona, and George. We are
seven and a half minutes in. Joe Burrow has already
been sacked twice by the Kansas City Chiefs defense. Make
that three times, as they just sacked him on a
third and eighteen. So the Bengals now forced to punt

(01:20:53):
with their second possession, and Patrick Mahomes showing no ill
effects from that leg injury suffered a little more than
a week ago against Jacksonville. Well, you know how last
week the Bills weren't able to take advantage of the
Bengals tackles situation. Uh yeah, that's definitely not happening the

(01:21:17):
day they are eating needs dudes a live right now,
I mean they are. I mean, like, this is lunch
money situation so far in terms of how the tackles
are holding up against the chiefs ends. I mean, Chris,
Chris Jones literally just ran around this dude Gay ran
around him on the previous play. I don't know, well,

(01:21:40):
actually that was that was the guard that create Chris
Jones just ran around. And this was the problem at
the beginning of the season. Remember damn when they lost
to the Cowboys, and you know, it started out one
and three I think it was or and I was like, bro,
I don't know if this team is gonna make the
Super Bowl because they can't protect Burrow. And then they

(01:22:01):
switched it up. They started to do some shorter passes
and all of that stuff, and uh, but yeah, this
opposite line looks atrocious right now. Well, again, they lost
Lyle Collins. That was the first domino that fell. That
Alex Kappa, the guard ended up being injured. In that
regular season Finnhale, We're when you go back to it,

(01:22:25):
you know the Ravens held guys back j K Dobbinston
playing that game the Bengals did. The Bengals played guys
because if they don't win that game, then the home
field is up to a coin flip because of the NFL.
But Kappa gets hurt in that game, and then Jonah
Williams gets hurt two weeks ago against the Ravens on
Sunday Night where he dislocates his kneecap. So there's sixty

(01:22:47):
of their offensive line that they counted on that they
didn't have last week entering Buffalo. And George, I know
you weren't in the chair last week, but we talked
about that game being the conditions were with the Snow
It's so favored Cincinnati because not only do they have
a better run game, they didn't have to put that

(01:23:09):
pressure on those offensive linemen that were substituting for their
injured starters. That you could rely on Joe Mixon and
have him pound the ball and Joe Burrow was able
to get the ball out of his hands quick enough.
But it's also a different story. Chris Jones and Frank Clark,
and you mentioned, you know, gay on the sack as well.

(01:23:30):
When Buffalo didn't have Von Miller. You could you could
do that. You could you could run that sort of
thing against Kansas City. You're not going to get away
with it. In so far, in the first nine minutes,
it has shown that Cincinnati is um not in Buffalo anymore,
if you want to use it in that phrase. Yes,
you you are not in Buffalo anymore. You were swimming

(01:23:51):
in the deep end different kind of kind of like
the um kind of like the Cowboys in their first
round game versus the forty Niners. Yeah, now you're sweeping.
Now you're swimming in the deep end of the pond. Buddy,
Speaking speaking of the Cowboys, what did you think of that?
Monty mentioned in the top of the hour that Kellen

(01:24:11):
Moore and the Cowboys have agreed to part ways. So
the Cowboys, now looking for life, has come at Kellen
Moore environed left forage real fast, buddy, like like it's
and I'm not saying that they're bad at their job
right in any way. I'm saying that the that the
thought process surrounding them, maybe within the organization has completely

(01:24:38):
shifted and public perception has completely shifted. So I mean,
apparently they are blaming him for you know, Dak Prescott
not playing well in that game or something. I don't
know what the hell they're blaming him for, but uh, yeah,
it is a unique situation because coll More interviewed for

(01:25:00):
the Panther's head coaching job and ended up not getting
it because that went to Frank Reich. But now there
are connections and you brought up Iron Left, which of
maybe Kellen Moore going to Tampa, and you know, Jerry
Jones is very loyal to his to his head coaches.
But they're just felt like this need for the Cowboys

(01:25:21):
to make a change or to do something to get
them over the hump. And maybe maybe it just maybe
it just wasn't working, Maybe it just ran stale. Maybe
there was something a little bit more behind the scenes.
But they were within a score of beating a forty
Niners team last week and maybe advancing to the NFC

(01:25:43):
Championship game and playing a you know, a game of
that magnitude, uh, you know, tooth and nail with a
team that we felt was very capable of going to
the Super Bowl in San Francisco. I don't think it's
anything to hang your head on. And honestly, when you throw,
when you have the turnovers like the did, and you
have the two interceptions that dac ad and you have
the whole Brett mar thing hanging over the team, there

(01:26:08):
may be more to the story. I just don't think
for the Cowboys performance for what they did in the
NFC Divisional playoff game to be the reason why Kellen
Moore needed to lose his job. I think the emergence
of Tony Pollard was very a very positive effect this year.
If you figure out a way to put another wide
receiver with Ceedee Lamb and allow that to work out,

(01:26:31):
I think that things could be better in Dallas. I
just I don't know what's going on within the building,
but I just don't think on the surface of what
the Cowboys did offensively is all on the shoulders of
Kellen Moore's Kellen Moore the reason why Dak Prescott throw
it in the coverage in the red zone on a pass,
you know, I don't think so. I think that's that's
Kellen Moore's fault, or why Dak under threw a receiver

(01:26:52):
on an outright pattern on third data. That's a that's
a dack problem. And maybe because you can't fire the quarterback,
you fire the coach. But I think that Callen Moore
got a bit of a raw deal in Dallas for
what's going on. Jack Jack del Rio, my rookie year,
he said, two things happened in the NFL. Coaches get
fired and players get fired and and and he was like, Yo,

(01:27:17):
the coaches just got fired, so um so we're not
getting getting fired now. So the next thing that happens
is that the players get fired. So um. So it'll
be very very interesting to see how they handle this, right,
to see how the Cowboys do, because sometimes changes need

(01:27:40):
to be made right, and sometimes you're just making changes
for the sake of making changes, because you're being a tinkerer.
And and I would encourage the two Jerry Jones to
stop tinkering, because sometimes he tinkers too much. And so
I do not like the tinkering at all. I think

(01:28:01):
it is a bad, bad idea. The most important thing
that you have to do is is is to figure
out and identify whatever the problems are and then do
it and then make small choices, but but just wholesale
changes are a bad idea, and it's not the only

(01:28:21):
NFL story outside of the championship games that developed earlier today.
Just to let you know, second down loving for the Chiefs.
They are in Cincinnati territory already with that three nothing lead,
playing with two and a half minutes left to go
in the third quarter. But the Chiefs are in field
goal range, facing that second down and eleven at the
Bengals thirty five yard line. Aaron Rodgers in the news

(01:28:43):
and this wasn't surprising, but Adam Schefter of ESPN reporting
earlier today that the possibility of trading Rogers is there,
that Green Bay may want to move away from Aaron
Rodgers and would be willing to uh move and Rodgers
is aware of the team's willingness to want to move on.

(01:29:04):
And I just feel like this was a train that
you saw coming down the road for so you know,
this is this is how it always ends. This is
how it ended with Brett Farve, you know, like you
were Dan, if you were no, I'm sorry that go
go go ahead finished. No, It's just it's just funny
how history repeats itself. Because there was at some point

(01:29:26):
where Aaron Rodgers was going to wear on his welcome
and you could put up with all the bs when
you think you have a super Bowl caliber team or
if he's playing like an m v P. But once
that stuff goes by the wayside, Man does that room
get heavy? Man does that building get heavy? And Aaron
Rodgers was the reason yea like he was the reason
why it was stressful. I mean, it's just it's just funny.

(01:29:47):
And you know, it's like life comes at you fast.
You know, you accept all that stuff. Yeah, let's still
him stick around, Let's give him this money, and then
now nobody wants him around anymore. That seems to be
the messaging Green Bay. Okay, would you want him around anymore? No,
exactly exactly. It's it's a And then truthfully, if I'm
any other team, I'm not trading anything like significant for

(01:30:12):
for him. This isn't gonna be a two first round
pick deal. This is like a I'll give you a
first maybe, right if I if I think I'm a
potential championship team, Yeah, I will give you one first
and that's it. Because what I don't want I'm not
dealing with a dude who's not gonna show up to
the offseason program and then every other year. I don't

(01:30:35):
know if I want to play anything and my dream
And I'm not saying this in a way that that
because he has that right, he is that every player
has the right to determine how long did they want
to play, how long they want to play where they want,
you know, like they have that right, But at the
quarterback position in particular, you have to have people who

(01:30:57):
are who are in the situation right, who are who
are saying I am bought in. Now, if you're trading
for Aaron Rodgers, who like, how long are you gonna say?
How long does he want to play? As long as
he can get his hundred million dollars that's left on
his contract. And it's also why I don't think like
a first round pick is going to be the compensation

(01:31:19):
because you now have to absorb some of that contract.
And the Chiefs, by the way, thought that they had
a touchdown run from Isaiah Pacheco brought back on a
holding call uh Andrew Wiley their guard busted for holding,
so they take the touchdown off the board in Kansas City.
But there's the price of Rogers in his salary, and
I think that there may be there may be a

(01:31:41):
bleep youth season in Aaron Rodgers, But honestly, in some
of the the instances that we saw from him this year,
I would bet that his game isn't at that m
v P level, even though he had just won back
to back NFL m v P s. I would bet
on the ladder of him not performing to that level
than having that one more. I think he had m

(01:32:01):
v P bleep you years already. But yeah, but do
you know what the problem with that with that was
is that Aaron Rodgers said, Man, I'm I'm you like,
I still think I can play at an m v
P level, right, mm hmm. Does anybody care about that?
The MVP level play? And why? And that shows that

(01:32:25):
kind of what he is more concerned about. It feels
like than the actual championship. Like you're like, you're worried
about an m v P level? Who cares? Are you?
Are you? Are you playing at a championship level? Is
the question? And and and I know that we have
to take a time out because Adam capelan our insider,
was in Philadelphia filling us in on the latest from
the NFC Championship game. He'll join us in a second.

(01:32:47):
But it's also just the point of not adapting and
understanding like he like, there's there seems to be the
sense of, hey, if I play at an MVP level,
then we should be good. Instead of maybe adapting to
the team. There always just seems to be get the
team to go play at play at this level. He's
George rice Ster. I'm dan Buyer. The Chiefs unable to
cash in now facing a third down and goal from

(01:33:11):
there from the Bengals nineteen yard line, thirty two seconds
left in the first quarter in Kansas City, with the
football has a three nothing lead on Cincinnati. He's George
rice Ster. I'm Dan Buyer. Mike McCarthy, by the way,
expected to call play for the Cowboys now that Kellen
Moore is out. Coming up next, we'll ask about that
Kellen Moore move, plus get the latest of what life
is like in the City of Brotherly Love as the

(01:33:31):
Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl that's next year
on Fox Sports Radio. Chiefs up six nothing on the Bengals.
Just underway in the second quarter of the a f
C Championship. Harrison Butker, his second field goal of the game,
gave Cincinnati that six nothing lead. Welcome in as we're
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(01:33:53):
rice Ster. Get him on Twitter at George Riceter. I'm
Dan Buyer. Find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox.
We now had to the city of the NFC champions,
the great city of brotherly love and Philadelphia. As our
NFL insider who resides in the area, Adam Kaplan of
course on the Inside the Birds podcast and on Twitter

(01:34:14):
at Kaplan, NFL joins us here, and uh, this was
the NFC Championship game that we least expected, Adam. We
had tried to figure out, you know, when Jake Cutler
got hurt against the Packers for the Bears, Jeff Hoss
Stetler's run, but the quarterback in San Francisco situation in
San Francisco, when Brock Party went down and then had

(01:34:35):
to come back in unlike anything that either of us
could ever remember, anything comparable to this in your memory
of what we had in Philly to knows. Bizarre. First
of all, they only dressed quarterbacks guys, and so when
Josh Johnson went in maybe it was either going to
be Kyle check who was their emergency quarterback brock Purty
to go in and hand the ball off, or Christ

(01:34:56):
McCaffrey's walk quarterback. They had no choice. It's just and
by the way, they didn'tven have a quarterback in the
practice squad to even to even dress as a third quarterback.
So it's they're kind of in a tough way, and
it's a shame. Coshannahan made a bad mistake on on
on the play the party got hurt. Don't know if
you saw this, Tyler Croft was the guy was just
to block him and and and the sound radiquent right

(01:35:16):
through him and got his elbow. And that was it.
I mean that that really that was the game. I mean,
it's it's a shame. I thought this, like most people,
the game would be close, and I picked the Eagles
to win. But I thought it'd be a close game,
and it just changed the course of the game. And
you know, George knows is I'm sure if you go
when you play at that stadium and with those fans
they smell blood, it's over. Poor Josh Johnson. Thirteen teams

(01:35:40):
and uh, at least you get to championship game. A
guy did start a little bit earlier in this growth Tamba,
but it was not the game we expected, no question
about it. Yeah, and I looked at the Brock partyation situation.
I was trying to explain that players when he didn't
immediately come back in the game, that that even though

(01:36:00):
he did at the end, that players typically want to
see your quarterback come back in the game and then
have to get taken taken out as opposed to what
appeared that he took himself out. Can you kind of
talk about what you know about that from Yeah, I
mean I I've heard that from players over the years,
that was that's a tough deal. And yeah, he did
the right thing coming back, but he could throw I mean,

(01:36:22):
that's not it's not it's it's not right and it's
not the right mint mentality. But that and you saw
But George, you saw that the camera show them that
the show show the players getting in his ear. Come on, man,
we need you, we need you. And he did the
right thing by coming back. But quite frankly, they were shot.
It's just you kind of you feel for Kyle Shanahan

(01:36:44):
because they lost so many quarterbacks. Let me just give
you an idea of how ridiculous situation was. So I'm
there in mid August, Brock Party is the fourth quarterback.
Now I say that because they had not made a
decision with Jimmy Garoppolo. Garoppolo was not allowed to throw
because they're trying to trade him. So technically, yes, he
was fourth, but he was third on their depth chart
because Nate Sudfeld was the two. They paid him a

(01:37:07):
decent guaranteen money and Trey Lance was the starter. Okay,
let's let's move this forward. Here, they made a decision
not to trade Jimmy Garoppolo because they were not happy
with Nate Sudfeld. They cut Sudfeld. Garoppolo moves up to
the two Lances that is the one and Party who.
And another thing is they did not want to expose
Party to waivers. They thought about it and said, you

(01:37:28):
know what, we like him as potential potential backup for
the long term. Maybe no one else liked him, but
we liked him, and he's gonna be your third quarterback.
Lance breaks his ankle, and also, by the way, how
to follow up, he won't be ready to late spring.
Garoppolo breaks his left foot, and here we go. The
last man staying is Brock Purty. He was seven and oh,
by the way, as a starter. Adam Capolo our Fox
Sports Radio, NFL and Center joining us here after the

(01:37:51):
Eagles win the NFC Championship, and I'll get to the
Eagles point. But George and I talked about this back
to the point there they were kind of tight with
I R and they didn't put Jimmy g on I R. Yeah,
I don't know why they didn't do that, and and
that ended up. I think a fifth string quarterback, to
your point, is not going to go and save the day.
It's just not gonna happen. But if if Jimmy g

(01:38:14):
is not there, third quarterback who you know and was
not available, could have been a different situation than San
Francisco would the in fact that see, with the rules, guys,
I don't know with the rules now because unfortunately because
of COVID should have taken that. But since they had
what's called the veteran exception, now you have sixteen spots
and you can also could be veterans, which is when

(01:38:35):
George played, you didn't have that. You can never have
a veteran on a practice squad. So yeah, you're Dan.
You make a great point. They really should have done that.
And yes, let's preface this by saying that third quarterback,
it's unlikely they could have won the game with that
guy would have been a journeyman. I joked that Josh
McCann could have come out of retirement maybe like he
did with the Eagles. Remember when the Eagles let him
go home and coach during the week and then he

(01:38:55):
beat the team in the week. Rich is ridiculous, But no,
it's a shame. I hated for the Niners that their
season went down the tubes. I'm not saying they would
have won the game, but the fact of the matters.
It is what it is. They're out, Philly's in in
a very odd game, by the way, and the other
thing here, let's call the Niners out on this. Their
lack of composure was embarrassing. Cayle Shannon should be embarrassed

(01:39:15):
by the lack of composures players showed again and then
Trey Trey Drake Greenwall punching Eagles running back after the
play because that was absurd and I saw actually saw
a lot of Eagle a lot of forty Niners fans
upset about penalties today and I was like, are you

(01:39:36):
watching the game? They did it to themselves. So um,
now to the brock Party point, has he done enough
to fully establish himself as the starter for next year?
He'll be the starter for sure, George going into their
off season's Gropplo's contracts up and Lance can't. Lance won't
be ready. Uh and then now here, let's not forget

(01:39:59):
though the Niners gave up significant trade trade competition to
go go up and get him, to go up and
get Lance the kid there, he was the starter. They
made this decision they were moving off with Jimmy G.
Then certain things happened because Lance got hurt that Jimmy
G took the job back. But they can't just decide, Okay,
you know what, we don't have a competition. We're not
gonna Lance compete for Well, that's not gonna happen. They Yes,

(01:40:22):
Party will be the starter going the off season. There's
no question he earned that right. But also Lances hurt.
So this is going by the way. We'll getting more
into this, probably at the super Bowl. There's gonna be
a lot of movement a quarterback. This is a historic situation.
My count has ten teams needing quarterback right now, or
they don't know who the quarterback is going to be
in September, not in June, but September. Bengals, by the way,

(01:40:43):
first and ten at the Chiefs fifteen yard line, ten
minutes to go until halftime, down six. Move that just
happened within the last thirty minutes or so. Kellen Moore
not gonna be back with the Dallas Cowboys as their
offensive coordinator. What do you make about that move? In
Big D Yeah, you could see this coming when Mike
McCarthy declined to say that he would be the guy.

(01:41:04):
In fact, he he said that every he'll be valued
with everyone else. You knew he was out. In fact,
it's not a secret. People on the team have told
me for years. Mike wanted to call plays again. And
that's I believe that's going to happen. I mean, you
could just do these look like when when um, when
you really look at this situation and look like Jason
Garrett before when Jason Garrett before he got fired. He

(01:41:26):
the word around the team was he wanted to take
the play calling back when he was allowed by Jerry Jones,
and Jerry Jones really forced Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy.
Kellen Moore has not done a bad job. I just
Mike McCarthy never really seemed to support Kellen Moore for
whatever reason. By the way, the other one is Brian
schon Iber has been on that staff as a consultant
as a senior offensive assistant. That's been another thing that's

(01:41:47):
hovering over the team. It's it's always chaos with the Cowboys.
They can never get things clean. Yeah, yeah, it's it's been.
It's allay, absolute chaos. But as we look at I
guess the the Eagles right now, Jalen Jalen Hurts, he is,
he's been the starter. He he just finished his third season,

(01:42:10):
so he's eligible for a well he hadn't finished it yet,
but a contract extension. Do you think that they extend
him after this year? Yeah, Georgie, the Eagles never waited there.
In fact, they're the reason, George, when you were playing,
maybe when you first started, you cannot extend like for instance,
when Joe Banner, who was the former president, his big

(01:42:30):
thing was to the old role as you can extend
players after two years. So they had a series of
contracts that are extended and then Michael Lewis was a
safety for them for the Super Bowl team. He was
the one guy who refused to do it. He'sagn a
big deal with the Niners, and the Players Association got
so upset at the Eagles that they in the c
B A might I forget what year it was. Uh,

(01:42:51):
the players and the NFL agreed that you cannot extend
players until after three years because what they called it
the Joe Banner role, which kind of comical. So the Eagles,
knowing them as I do, they absolutely will try to
get Hurts his deal done. If I'm Nicole and his agent,
I don't do a deal for less than forty six billion,
I am not taking a deal. It starts. The floor
will be the Kyler Mury deal. I understand he was

(01:43:12):
the first pick overall. Hurts doesn't have a fifth year option.
But Jalen Hurts is also, by the way, an MVP candidate.
You could say what you want about the roster. I've
seen everything that's out there, but here's the thing about
Jalen Hurts. He executes and that's all that matters. He
I don't care how talented he is. He executes, and
that means a lot in Today's NFL Adam Kaplan joinnning
us here on Fox Sports Radio or NFL Inside or

(01:43:33):
get him on Twitter at Kaplan NFL and the Inside
the Birds podcast. You're gonna have a busy next couple
of weeks. Um. You just see the requests for interviews
like the last like half an hour. I'm kind of laughing,
Like where these people have been? No new friends, Adam,
No new friends? No? I know you know you got Dan.
I'll see you the super Bowl, correct, yes, yes? And
then how about you Georgie? Yes, awesome. Oh I cannot wait.

(01:43:55):
But see, here's the thing. I have to fly back. Um,
we'll see you guys in the week. You'll be there
doing week Okay, cool, Sure, look forward to seeing you guys.
It'll be fun, um, and there'll be a lot of talking,
a lot of topics, and Aaron Rodgers will be one.
I know you were probably focusing on the pregame, but
there was the Adam Schefter report that Green Bay would
not be unhappy if Aaron Rodgers was moved. This here's

(01:44:17):
the thing. Here's the thing, guys, And they're not the
only team he has to deal with this. Let's not
the big story here. They really like Jordan Love number one,
number two. He's got his fifthyear option doing May and
I know talking to the Eagles, they were blown away
with how well he played. I know it came off
the bench against them. There's no way they compare for him.
This kid's got all the ability in the world. He
made a major improvement talking to the Packers about him

(01:44:37):
this past offseason. Rogers kap numbers is super high. It's
thirty years old. It's like what I get. He's beat
He's beat up physically. I give the got credit. He
played through a bunch of injuries, like three different ones
plus the broken thumb. So yeah, that's it's it's it's
time to move on. And by the way, Tom Brady,
I'm other than the Raiders. I expect them to be

(01:44:58):
interested because of Josh m j Nils and they they
really wanted him three years ago until a couple of
things happen. But I don't know what Brady's market is
going to be if he wants to play at forty
six years old. Yeah, like him and the uh the
Aaron Rodgers situation. What compensation do you think teams are

(01:45:18):
gonna be willing to give up for question. I don't know,
it's swelling in January, have no idea, But don't forget
that Derek car One is the first one's got a
drop that expect the Jets to be interested. As I
understand it, that would be that Washington probably, Uh, that
one will drop. Remember there. They're gonna want to get
this done an agreement in principle. They can't actually do
the trade until mid March, but they could get agreement

(01:45:40):
in principle. Uh, they want to get that done by
the third day after the Super Bowl, so they only
have a couple of weeks to get this deal done
or there. I mean they could, they could, they could
keep him on the roster, but that thirty two million
will be fully guaranteed to have to go against their
cap and they're not gonna want to do that. He's
Adam Capitling, our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider. Find him
on Twitter at Capitl in NFL. Here I'm on the

(01:46:00):
Inside the Birds podcast, and those birds are the Philadelphia
Eagles who are headed to Super Bowl fifty seven. Appreciate it, Adam,
And uh, yeah, we'll catch up next week and seeing Phoenix.
How about that? Hey, guys, thank you. He's George Rice Stir.
I'm Dan Buyer. The Bengals are on the board. For
the latest on that, let's jump over to the news
desk Mont Belangos giving us the latest is what's happening
in the a f C Championship. Yes, it's true. The

(01:46:22):
Bengals are of visually on the scoreboard. They've cut their
deficit to just three thanks to field goal by Evan McPherson.
So about halfway through the second quarter, the Chiefs are
still beating the Bengals thow six to three. Patrick Mahomes
has completed nine of twelve passes for a hundred and
four yards. Joe Burrows started slow, but now he's completed
seven of eleven passes for seventy six yards, So sixty

(01:46:42):
three is the score. Whoever wins this is going to
face those Eagles that beat the forty Niners in the
NFC Championship game. Thirty one seven was the final score.
It really was all Eagles. Jalen Hurts rushed for his
fifteen touchdown in that game, though most by any quarterback
in NFL history in any season including the playoffs. He
also threw for a hundred and twenty one yards. You
guys were just talking about the Cowboys and offensive coordinator

(01:47:04):
Kellen Moore mutually agreeing to part ways will according to
the NFL Network, he's expected to speak with the Chargers
for their o C opening, So we could use that
as a Chargers fan. Let's yes, that just came out
in the NFL network. You guys talked about Aaron Rodgers.
It's true. League sources believe the Green Great the Green
Bay Packers would prefer to move on from Aaron Rodgers,

(01:47:25):
and apparently he knows about that. The Dolphins have agreed
to terms with a new defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio. It
is a three year deal with a fourth year team option.
This makes him the NFL's highest paid coordinator. We've got
a couple of NBA games going on right now. The Grizzlies,
who have lost their last five games, are losing to
the Pacers to fifty four nine minutes to go in

(01:47:46):
the third quarter. The Clippers, who are playing with nobody,
they're losing to the Cavaliers twenty to ten with ninety
seconds to go in the first quarter. Earlier today, the
Hornets came back from behind to beat the Heat one
twenty two to one seventeen George Rice stir Can I
call you Georgie? Yes, because I heard that and I
was like, oh, that's so some of my family didn't

(01:48:07):
stop calling me Georgie until I was a full fledged
grown up. Well, I mean like like, yes, um, but
uh but Georgie will be hitting you if if these
Clippers don't don't pick it up. Oh I saw it
last night. Yeah, the Lakers were robbed on that foul. Yeah,

(01:48:29):
totally mancy. And and and on my other show, my
at my other job after the other night guests who
after the Clippers and the Lakers plate who was on
the show Clipper Darrel, Oh my lord have mercy hashtag
number ten ten in a row. I laughed so hard

(01:48:54):
and I was like going to bed, and I was like,
I'm going to put this up on George Royster's Twitter
before I go to leave, since he likes to do
this to me. But I laughed out loud with your response,
So thank you. I think that's how bad that non
follow call was last night. So bad world was re united, Yes, yes,
I like, when does that happen? It was just so bad.

(01:49:18):
And then that picture of the ref literally a foot away.
It was like, dude, what are you looking at? It
looks like you're looking at the right spot and you
I couldn't believe you didn't call that. It reminded me,
and I know the stakes weren't, but it reminded me
of the past interference call between the Rams and Yes,
where it was so egregious and everybody can see it

(01:49:39):
and then they're like yeah, yeah, and then and then
you know, the NFL made the rule change only for
the year to review pass interference and really it was
only two weeks because it was such a joke. But
like I thought, like, does last night's play start a
rule change in the NBA? Something has to I think
there needs to be a change when you what is

(01:49:59):
it when when you challenge something not? It's not the
same when in the NBA? Is that a challenge right
when you challenge? Yeah? But the thing is is that
is that you can't challenge a non call, which is
which is the thing about it. So like if yeah,
so you can challenge out of bounds, yes, you're right,
it wouldn't have mattered if they still can't make a
foul where there was no foul call. But you can't

(01:50:21):
undo a foul. Yes, that's that's what it's even though
I still think that if you do challenge in the
NBA and you get it right, you should get another one. Yes,
you should, you should get another one. But you're right,
that was no call. So that was the whole problem.
You're right, you're right. When you're right, you're right, Georgie.
The Chiefs facing it, Thank you very much. Mon Yeah,
and the rest of the a f C Championship game.
To talk to you next week. In the Ron Twitter

(01:50:42):
at Moncy Belanos, the Chiefs on a third and one
had Mahomes dropped back to pass, confined anyone he got
back to the line of scrimmage. Decision. Time for Andy
Reid in Kansas City up six to three, four minutes
to go for a team that has settled for field goals.
Fourth and one on the angles fourteen yard line. Time

(01:51:03):
time to get a touchdown, buddy, Yes, they need it,
they really do, and in Kansas City is going for it.
They only have one time out left and now Andy
Reid is gonna use their final time out, that is
if the graphic is correct. So the Chiefs four minutes
left and a half and then have any time out

(01:51:24):
you can't take them with you. Hey, hey, if this
series is important enough that you need to get it right,
like if you get this first down and then you
go score, that time out was worth it. And and
and honestly, if if you are able to score here,
the reason why it's big. It's not that Joe Burrow

(01:51:46):
and the Bengals can't go down and score in four minutes.
They obviously can. But if you get to touchdown here
and it's only two minutes on the clock and you
get a stop, not only do you get the football
back with an opportunity to maybe score points at the
end of the half, George, you also get the opening
of the football in the opening of the second half
because Kansas City won the toss and deferred, so Cincinnati

(01:52:07):
had the ball first, So a lot could be on
the line here fourth and one. If you're the Chiefs,
you're absolutely right, Like a touchdown, you get this and
it's a long one. It is not a short one.
It is it really is a yard and a half
there at the fourteen and a half yard line. They
need to get to the thirteen and uh for Kansas City,

(01:52:27):
they go into the end zone, and of course just
take a while, just a wild guest, George. If Patrick
Mahomes was looking to throw the ball into the end zone,
who do you think he probably found for a touchdown?
Travis Kelsey. That is correct, and that is just what happened.
It's always the right one. It is Travis Kelsey scoring.

(01:52:48):
They score, They don't just get the first down, they
get the touchdown. So Kansas City, that you're right. First
half time outs, by the way, so different than how
you use second half time outs, which is why people
were so on Kyle Shanahan and the Niners knowing on
the Davante Smith play on fourth and three of being like,
if you don't get it, who cares. Granted, you don't

(01:53:10):
want to use a review on your first possession, but
sometimes you have to. And I think that's why people
were really on San Francisco. Here, Kansas City uses their
final time out and it ends up that was worth it.
That was worth it. Chiefs score extra point is good.
It's thirteen to three with three fifty three left to
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(01:53:32):
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(01:54:22):
That was really the play to extend the Eagles lead
to two scores. You knew they had the quarterback situation
that to deal with. That was the score at the
end of the half that basically told you it was
gonna be the Eagles day. Boston Scott getting into the
ends on. The only crazy thing is that it wasn't
against the Giants again, happening against the new team, and

(01:54:43):
he loves to feast on the Giants. But Boston Scott
Jalen hurts in those Philadelphia Eagles on their way to
Super Bowl fifty seven with that thirty one seven victory
over the San Francisco forty Niners, and Joe Burrow has
just thrown an interception. Uh, and it's it's funny in
the get back music that you heard. If you're listening live,

(01:55:04):
Bengals fans may want to reminisce on what happened last
year in the a f C Championship Game because they're
gonna need those good thoughts. Chiefs jumped out to a
three lead in that a f C Championship game last year,
only to have the Bengals come all the way back
and winning an overtime. But Joe Burrow was just picked off,
and the Chiefs now sitting in Cincinnati territory, Patrick Mahomes

(01:55:26):
and the Chiefs of first intent at the Bengals thirty
nine yard line, making a second intent after an incomplete
pass with to eight teen to go, with the ability
to add to the lead. George something that we were
just talking about when they were going forward on that
fourth and one. Yeah, man, that that was. This is
a major opportunity for the Chiefs. Major if you can

(01:55:50):
go up twenty to three at halftime that is. I
mean obviously that in no way, shape, form or fashion
ensures you the game. However, I would much rather be
up by seventeen and a halftime than down by seventeen. Yes,
and you get the ball, yes, and you get the
ball back to and anything that you add from there

(01:56:11):
is just like ye're just like the Well, the most
important thing that you can't do is just rest on
your laurels. Then you can't just say, oh, we're we're up.
Everything's fine. No, no, no, no, no, you have to
keep pressing on the on the gas, because that's how
teams lose huge leads, and that's how they lost then
FC Championship game last year. The Bengals scored before half

(01:56:33):
on the Soma J. P Ryan Uh, you know, big play,
and then the Bengals used that momentum and carried it
over in Kansas City. Really didn't do much in that
that second half, and obviously not in the overtime where
the Bengals ended up winning. So the Chiefs end up
going three and out after the Borough was picked off.
So now fourth and ten at the thirty nine yard

(01:56:54):
line in Kansas City, is I believe they're sending out
the punting unit. But Harrison Butker does have a leg. Yeah. Uh,
Tommy Townson's out there to get us too far because
if if you don't kick it, then they're gonna get
the ball at like the at like the forty five
forty seven yard line. And uh. And Patrick Mahomes just

(01:57:17):
he missed on that third day because he throws an
accurate pass right there. Then maybe a first now or
at least a area where they can go for it.
Cincinnati will have it first down and ten at the
four yard line after Townsend is able to pin him
deep coffin corner. You don't get that tons in the
NFL anymore, but a nice coffin corner kick. So Cincinnati
all three time outs, two or three left on the clock.

(01:57:39):
Interesting to see how Cincinnati what they do in this situation,
because time isn't going to be an issue. But again,
you don't want to punt. You don't want to not
get the first down and put it back to Kansas
City when they would have ideal field position. Curious to
see how Cincinnati navigates this is if you've got a
two minute warning coming after this first down play and
then three time outs. I will also say one thing, George,

(01:58:03):
and I think it's a lesson to NFL teams, like
there's there's one thing about being confident. And we talked
about these monikers and in the middle of a third quarter,
doesn't matter what you say on Tuesday or Wednesday doesn't matter. No,
it doesn't. But I do think that the Cincinnati Bengals
had a chip on their shoulder from not being thought

(01:58:23):
of as the favorite despite going to the Super Bowl
last year. We talked a lot about the Chiefs. We
talked a lot about the Bills. They felt slided by
the NFL with the playoff rules and having to deal
with the coin flip, and then they weren't playing a
neutral site game in Buffalo. But the Bills in Chiefs,
that was all like a chip on their shoulder, and
they were able to slay those demons. But now they

(01:58:43):
come in and they start calling it burrow Head and
going along with that, and you're no longer the underdog
when you're doing that. And I think it's caught up
a little bit with Cincinnati, at least as in the
first half, because Casey sure really feels like they've got
something to play for and that underdog role that Cincinnati
had seems to have gone out the window. Yeah, yes, yes, yes,

(01:59:05):
yes see. I think that that was more an outside
world narrative than they actually felt. I don't think that
they felt like they were underdogs. Well, we heard a
lot about Burrow Ahead, and the crazy thing was that
he only won one game in Kansas City the other
two words Cincinnati, So it wasn't like he set up
shots and nobody cares about regular season games like like

(01:59:26):
they're cute, but the but the playoff games that it
was that really matter. Chiefs up. Ten of the Eagles
are going to the Super Bowl. He's George Rice Stir.
I'm Dan Buyer. This is Fox Sports Red Zone Radio.
Keep it locked here on Fox to find out how
things play out in the a f C Championship Game.
And George and I will talk to you next week.
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