The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk Indiana’s Dominance in the CFP Semifinals, NFL Playoff Picks, and MORE!

On a new episode of The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz, the guys go over Indiana's domination of Oregon in the Peach Bowl, and why Indiana's experience and age (average age of 23) was the main factor in the game. The guys discuss the open HC vacancies in the NFL, and give their NFL Wild Card predictions for the weekend. Big Brain Brad joins the show for all the best bets in the NFL Wild Card Round. 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:09):
Fox Sports Saturday fells live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And before we go any further, it's gonna be a
rough show, as uh I fell from my boy last night.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right from the jump, they just got ugly quick.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
As Indiana takes out Oregon the Jeff Schwartz Ducks. Uh
it was pretty ugly beat down Indiana flexed.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Good morning, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
How you did on Buddy, Yeah, man, it was uh,
it was a bummer, but uh yeah it's just good man.
Oh yeah, just just good and uh we ran into
a bus. You know, it's just so it's just so
interesting how now you know you you know you it's

(01:04):
a fan base. It's just like go crazy when it
comes to things like these losses like this. But I
mean Indiana was, uh, they're they're good men and they're
so well coached, which we do coming into this game.
I think we're finding out too in college football that
it used to be a game dominated by younger players

(01:26):
that were right five star kids and the last three
years the champions and Indiana is gonna win next week
or whenever they play on Monday, two Mondays from now
that you know, teams with with with older players who
can play, who are good by the way, who are
good that that is, that is the way to go.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
And Indiana is a team that they I mean, Avergator
is twenty three of their starters.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I was just talking about this with Davy Dean
our project and I l they're they're at you call it,
they're average ages twenty three. The deal with them too
is they're like an NFL light team and you know
college he's all about. You know, you look at Dantae
Moore was twenty years old. We talked about the possibility

(02:16):
of d'ante Moore making a mistake at some point, and look,
first play the game, you have to pick six.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's the difference between a team.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
With twenty three twenty four year olds at the big
spots and a twenty year old quarterback. Like that's kind
of where how it goes. Look at Mendoza and the
poise because listen, when you're twenty three years old, I
mean you just have that kind of poise.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, and it, uh, it really showed me. Doza was
so good, you know, he was funny. I saw two
before the game that nine percent of the money and
the number one played prop in this game was Mendoza
over his passing yards two hundred and eight I believe
it was. They scored fifty six points. I think fifty

(03:05):
five points. Seventy seven yards he was seventeen to twenty.
Is incredible, but like that's how the game went. Like
they were.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
To throw.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And yeah, I mean it was like a mercy he
didn't throw for that many yards. So look, I I
We've talked about Indiana a lot because they deserve the
attention for for what's happening there. But the fact is,
this is the greatest story in the history of college
sports as long as far as I know it. Right,

(03:39):
I'm not as old as you are. I don't have
the sense of history that maybe others do. But it
is incredible what they're doing. They are breaking every mold
of college football. They are doing it differently anyone else
that's ever done it, and they are going to be
a champion like anything we've seen the sport. The sport

(04:00):
has been one by teams that have the most high
level NFL players for twenty five years now, right, and
this group doesn't happen. They have been doses incredible obviously, Uh,
but this is not Indiana team that has a line,
a team that is just chalk for like Oregon will

(04:21):
have more guys drafted higher if they decide to leave
than in Indiana will. Like It's just that's always been
the way the sport has been won, and Indiana's breaking
all that mold. They're breaking with the coach.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Who you know, Oh, he's older, which is ironic, right,
the fact that he's a late bloomer and he's older,
and that's basically what the roster is. Yeah, you know Mendoza,
look at Menz mean, you know, late bloomer.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
So the the coding is interesting because obviously people are
gonna are gonna smash you know, Dan Landa is what
it is. But I've done a lot of research on
this and it it takes about six years for you
to win your first championship as a brand new head coach,

(05:10):
first time the first time head coach. So you looking
thinking about Ryan Day last year six years, Kirby Smart
six years. I think Dabbo was seven years. Urban Meyer
was in a sixth year of coaching. That I'm not
talking about at the place you're at. I'm talking about
as a head coach, right, because there was two years
of Bowling Green, and it takes time to learn how

(05:31):
to win these type of games and build the team
the way you want to do it. Signetti has seen
a lot of football, right, and he is coached. He's
his fifteen year I think it's fifteenth years a head coach.
He's coached a lot of football. I get it's not
Division one level, but that doesn't matter coaching coaching. Madame
Kaalin de Board was at n ai A like it.
Nick Saban started it. It was it Toledo like Toledo, right,

(05:54):
and the Kent State that's somewhere like that, like you
you know, we have urban Bowling Green, like you have
to start somewhere right, build up through that and understand
do that typically without the pressure of having to be
at an organ Ohio State or clubs it right like
you do it typically in the quietness and calmness of
Bowling Green right like so todet he has had the

(06:15):
opportunity to learn and grow as a head coach. He
found great coordination. I'm sure I'm shocked by the way
that the Indiana coordinators do not get head coaching jobs.
I don't know why no one talked to him. Maybe
you both. Yeah, I'm okay with h I'm I'm okay
with offense. But we'll see. I mean it's dan Land's defense.
I don't I don't know that. The coordinators only, but

(06:38):
I you know, it's it's remarkable with what they've done.
But coaching experience matters. Experience in games matter, you know,
you know it just it just does. Organ You know,
their quarterbacks in his first year as a starter, right,
they had a Mendoza's and what his sixth fifth year
in collegtable, fifth year as a starter, whatever it is

(06:59):
for Mendoza, he's so good. Raiders fans man you got
I think you guys are really good. Got a real
good one. So and look, I'm bummed. It stinks to
have your team keep blown out like that. I two
this last night, though, And I know it's people hard
to understand. You lose by want to lose by one hundred.
It's the same results, it's the same. It's still it's

(07:20):
a lost man, and people just can't get over that
type of idea. I know it's odd for people look
at it that way, but it just goes down as
a loss man like that's what it is. It's a loss,
and they're yeah, I think it'd be different, and in
a sense right because you get blown out, but the
end result is still the same, Right, you have a
loss and to figure out how to get better on that.

(07:41):
But again, Indiana is going, I think to throttle Miami
and it's gonna be a story that we've never seen before.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. I think I think
it's a mismatch. I mean, you know, we've seen them
blow out Alabama and now Oregon and they are they're
just impeccably coached, right, like you want you look at
at everything how they did. It's funny because when Oregon
answered to pick six by going up and down the field,

(08:11):
by going down the field and scoring right dot Timorton
like real nice drive and you go, wow, all right,
can they have that kind of success against the Indianda defense?
And then I mean the issue is you had the
O lineman knick the ball out of his hands and

(08:31):
turn the over it you got to run it.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Excuse me, the running.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Back at the at the four yard line and you
know then you're staring up it's twenty one seven and
you're starting to look up, and that's a team that
gets better as the game goes on. There. You saw
them do the same thing against Alabama.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
And uh, Indiana is a bowl constructor bad. They you
start breathing heavy, start, you start, you know, u panicking,
you start trying to get away, and they just they
just they just like they tie that grip on you.
And they did that to Organ last night. And look,

(09:12):
I mean that fu it's just the pick sicks. The
first play of the game was just sort of a
lazy throw and he read the wrong side of the
field again. But that is that's what it is. What
it is. You thought an interceptions when you come back,
he scored the seven points, I was like, oh, oh
okay right then, and then they score fourteen seven. We
get it. We eventually forced a punt, we get the
ball back and then you know, just you have a

(09:36):
true freshman running back who doesn't play a ton and
you know, get you fumble and just don't hell from
better man. I may coming back. So my I mean,
Miami's got to play a very very clean game to
b d D. And I don't think's I think Indiana
is gonna you know, when we look the starting field position.
Last night, Indiana averaged a fifty yard line.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wow. Yeah, I mean, you know dead the block punt,
the end tribute.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
To that and that's the block punt. Yeah, I mean yeah,
I think I think Look, I think we're getting the
thing about the youth man the transfer portal, n I L.
Guys are staying longer now, right that they have the
opportunity to stay longer. And that's the selling point. You know,
Oregon has with a lot of their players. But they
got six guys going the top fifty probably and I

(10:22):
think all but two are coming back. All before you
four four should come back too, are going to go.
And so you know, the old the youth. I mean,
it's crazy how the sport changed so fast, how the
youth changed so fast from it being a young a
younger sport with full of you know, four and five.
Would you still think you still those high level players.
I don't think Indiana is gonna change that, but it's

(10:45):
now moved into a sport where being able to uh
develop and keep players and just be sort of an
older group is gonna be very important.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Well, you know, here's the news flashy, you're better at
twenty three and twenty four than you are a twenty do.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Indiana on their offense has only one guy who's not
in his fourth year.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Well that's you know, experiencing football's everything. Listen, do you
have your Tony's and and uh Jeremiah Smith's of the
world that come in at a skill position, he'd be
really young.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, all right, but up and down your front.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Yeah, but Ohio State last year was a fifth year quarterback.
You know they Well that's the point. All the line
was in their fourth year.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
That's what that's the point I'm making. And that's why
it really when you look at them and again and
then you put in a signetti, who's that good of
a coach?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, you know.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
He's coach that he's still good of a coach at
Twitter like accuses him of cheating, like like they they
they must know the place, they must know the plays.
I'm like, no, they're just they're good. They're good, and
that that is what Indiana has become and they should.

(12:10):
You know, I have Indiana friends. They are just like
beyond belief that this is this is happening to them
this year and they deserve it.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Man.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
They they have won every big moment They've won every
big game. They continue to win these moments of big games,
and they're gonna win in a couple of Mondays, and
it's gonna be the greatest story and maybe the history
of sport. I mean, I mean, they were these they
were the losingest culture ball program until this season. They
were the losing cultural program until this season. And they're

(12:39):
gonna win a champion. Now, Look, can Miami win? I yeah,
you don't think they can win all?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't. I don't think.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I think it's I think it can be hard. Yeah,
I think it's gonna be hard for them to win
because their style of play. They that's it's just it's
just not yet correct. I think. I'm with you. Look,
it's just I think it's it's not the Miami is
sort of what Organ tried last night. Like they have
sort of a pickup ball offense where they just run
the football and try to keep back out of bad situations.

(13:14):
And that just feels like not a good spot to
be in if you're gonna be in Indiana. And look, again,
it's an incredible story. It came with the expensive of
my team and Organs have to take the heat for
this dude.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I mean, I think it's the role of getting knocked out,
like you're just a Tyson victim.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's it's uh, it's so funny, dude, Like Lanny can't
win the big game. I go, we move the goal
post on time he won last week, Like it's two
and two in the playoffs. As a thirty nine year old,
I think that's okay. You think Lanny can't win the
big game. Who's saying that?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
You guys stop reading that you gotta stop reading. And
I look, that's insured.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
I am very happy with the program. It happens. It's unfortunate.
It stinks to lose that way, but that that, you know,
that is sometimes life in the in the big leagues.
And uh, look, I just want I don't want to
take away from I don't want to make there's an
organ show because Indiana is what they did, what they've
done is just remarks.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, I mean for that, yeah, I mean they listen.
Indiana deserves every bit of it. I Joe Buck's a
good buddy of mine, and uh, you know last year
during their ascent, you know he was going bitatas and
then this year we've been going back and forth in
them all season with it, and he's been like loving it.
All those Indiana guys like that's the coolest thing in

(14:43):
the world. I mean, to come on the scene this
way is freaking awesome, man. And then to win it
just uttered dominance in a good way, you know what.
You know what another key play was so Oregon ties it.
Like we talked about seven to seven, you know, there

(15:03):
was on the first series of that next drive at
seven seven, it was third down and Mendoza throws a
back shoulder to Surat and it was just such a
great throw that, you know, all of a sudden, if

(15:26):
they don't convert their their punting and Oregon at seven
seven and Oregon's got.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
The ball and feeling good about itself.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
And it was just because that was the funt that
came to my mind, because how many time you see
a team start like, oh, seven nothing, you go, oh
my god, this give me a blowout.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
The other team goes down to.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
The score, and then all of a sudden, it's the
it goes the other way. But Mendoza and he he
has just mastered that back shoulder throw.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
It's just such a weapon.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
He's so good, he's so accurate that he made some
key conversions on third down.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I mean, those Bachelor of throws are just like impossible
to defend, to defend. I mean even Greg macawroy said
last night, like you just like your guys are like
on they're just they're there and can't and can't bring
it in. Look, Mendoza is you got to throw it right,

(16:24):
the perfect throw and the thing I go back to
and then look, this is not a slight at all.
It's actually I think makes it more impressive Indiana last night.
To get it in my head, did they complete one
pass inside the numbers last night? I don't think so.
Look they think now, I mean, you know, you complete

(16:48):
seventeen passes. I don't think one was between the hashmat
I don't think so. I'm sure they did, I just
I know were all outside. I don't think they. I
don't think they they They don't throw the ball in
the middle of the field like this is the one
the one thing about Mendoza that oh no excuse mean

(17:08):
the touchdown late when there in the back of the
end zone. They threw like to in the back of
the end zone on late in the down. On the touchdowns,
I think we're two were like in the back of
the end zone, but like like sort of like right
behind the offenseone is like they don't. They just don't
have a lot of offense and they just kick everyone's
But anyways, buddy, like it's it's it's, it's it's there's

(17:29):
nothing like it, man, I it's it's no way to
explain it.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's just there's no way to explain it. Well, tight
that they don't. They don't throw it tight end a lot, but.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
If they do, it's it's only on when you move
the pocket play. It's like when they when they move
in the pocket or they're late, Like they threw it
the tight end on a third down on like an
option route, but it was to the sideline early in
the game. It's just never it's never over the middle
of the field.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I mean, but you know there are big players are
down the field right like they go they take shots
down the field and between sir Out and Becker. I mean,
you know that's kind of that's kind of their offense.
But he's special, man, those is terrific.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
The kid's poised. He delivered such a great ball. He's
a te's just terrific. Hey, we have to quick t oh,
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(18:31):
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Welcome back Fellas and Jeff from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
So we had a I had a debate on on
this week during my show, and we throw.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
It at here.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
What's better those gonna sound sacrilgious. But what's better the
first four days of the tournament or the five days
of football?

Speaker 4 (20:08):
I mean, for me, it's the five days of football.
But look, I have this story about college basketball that
I I think I'm right on this, but obviously it's
gonna I think it's other people. I don't think we
watch college basketball because it's good. We watch it because
it's actually bad. We watch it because we want to
see the meltdowns, we want to see the upsets, we

(20:31):
want to see just like the it is a poorly
playing sport for a lot of the games, like just
watch on an average Thursday night, it's just it's a
lot of bad basketball. Watch a tournament like it's it's
not great basketball, It's just it's It's all we love
is the is a team just completely melting down the
final five minutes of a game. Right, That's what we

(20:53):
tweet bouts we watch is what we care about. It's
what we bet on. I completely disagree, but that's all right.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
What it's what I don't watch because of that. I
don't watch because of meltdowns.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
That's that's what.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
By the way, now basketball has the college basketball has changed,
But you know, you said it earlier that I was
older than yet when I was when I was growing.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Up, it's completely changed.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It was college basketball was elite, but it was great ball,
you know when you're you know, as a product of
the nineties, it was great basketball watching Duke and UNLV
in Michigan and Michigan status in.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Indiana because guys stayed there. Was the guys were there
for a while. You could build a relationship with what
exactly exactly do that anymore exactly? I think people I
think in the end, a majority, not you, a majority
of people end up watching college basketball and liking it.
Liking it because of the chaos, not because the game
has played very well. I think people are watching today

(22:01):
because it's the NFL. It's like, it's so funny, man,
Like you know the Miami Old Miss game, I said
tweet to college of people. How could someone like anything
else besides college football? Like did you watch the Raven Steelers?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Like I like, I like.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Trouble all the time in the NFL. It uh. I
think I just think the NFL is is is just
a better product, better problem we get, and then we
get college football on top of it. So I will
choose the football over the basketball, even though March Madis
obviously has a you know, has a purpose and it's
a lot of fun for those four days. H I

(22:38):
think just the football that we're going to see the
next three days and we've seen already is is just
really well. I mean, even Indiana a complete blowout. The
football was incredible from medienna.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hey, by the way, the fourth quarter between Miami and
All missed its great was unbelievable. So I was I
did that was my and I wasn't trying to be
mister hot Day because I'll blow doing that. But I
was so excited for the five days of football. This
is this was on Thursday morning that you know, I

(23:10):
was talking about the fact that I said, I gotta
tell you, I like it better. I like the five
days of football better than the tour. First four days
of the tournament. Dude I worked with was like, what
are you that's the tournament. You know, the guys are
getting vasectomies and all this other stuff. I go, give
me the football over the basket. I'm sorry, Like, I know,

(23:31):
it's less games, but it's it's the it's quowity, it's playoffs.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah. And and this year especially where it feels like
it's anyone's playoffs. I mean, you tell me any one
of these teams wins the playoffs, I would I would
believe you right. And that that makes this year, I
think even better, is that it's going to be a
wild NFL playoffs where I mean, I like, there's going

(23:57):
to be a team that has a performance that we
just don't see coming. There's gonna be a team that
has to performance where they upset someone else and it
ends up maybe not being a real upset. In the end,
you're like, oh, actually that made a lot of sense.
It's gonna be wild. The NFL playoffs this year are
gonna be absolutely wild, and I cannot wait to watch it.
We have four games within a field goal on the

(24:18):
points spread, and then obviously your game got seemed way out.
We have a game ten obviously between the Rams and
the Panthers that's a tempoint spread. But we got a
lot of games where it feels like it's anyone's game. Man.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, we'll get into all of them, but I'm just
talking about from a big picture between the college football
and the NFL.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
I'd rather like this or football guys, though.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I know I I gotta tell you too, the only
thing bad about the five days of football is on
the sixth day it's over.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Like basketball, then you know, it's a it's a yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
I know, I get wistful, man, I get I start
to get I love this, we this weekend. But like
when it's over, you start to do the math and
you go, oh, there's four games next week to the
following week. Oh yeah, we're getting draft the super Bowl,
I know, you know, it's like, uh and we're already

(25:17):
down at one more college football game, right, Like, there's
eight total games left in the football season. Like we
wait all year And this is nothing against the other sports.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Because I love I love all sports. They're like my kids.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
I don't have any favorites except football, right, but I
love them. I love the I love them in their
own way. And I'll get into you know, the tournament
and hoops college hoops, and I love baseball the whole thing.
But we wait all year long for football, man, and
it just flies by.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Part of it too, is listening to someone talk about
this the other day. Part of the two for college
football is that, like we we used to have an
offseason where you know, you could actually like talk about
we'll assuming there is no off season right where in
the NFL you have combine and draft like all these
things that you can like you can talk about in
the off season. College football their off seasons now because

(26:16):
the portal like it's happening right now coaching there's no
so college table sort of like abruptly ends where the NFL,
like we have coaching hirings to talk about, we have fires,
we have an entire combine and and and a pre
draft process, and then the draft or college football like
it just goes from zero to nothing, like there'll be
nothing really to talk about now for months, for months

(26:38):
because the ross set and there used there used to
be some sort of an off season. There's not is
there not that way anymore? And so it's a much
different feeling to just go from zero to nothing. Uh.
Then you know when we had a little bit of
a portal later in the year that and didn't it
didn't really this season didn't didn't take this long. I
mean like this is a long year. And I keep
telling people like this is a this is a such

(27:00):
a long year. It's such a long year. In college football.
You start in mid August and you go obviously into
you know, week zero, it's like the middle end of
August all the way till now. It's a long season,
and so there's no off season because it just happened
right now.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Right right.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
The only bad thing is once it goes, it goes
for good, like you gotta it goes to the hibernation,
which is why the man we talk about all the time.
But gee, you gotta, you gotta switch the rules up. Man,
you gotta, you gotta change the portal dates and you

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gotta come up with a schedule that works.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, I and this is what the coaches wanted. But
I think that you know, it's it uh not at
all or Organ lost, but you know they have two
coaches that are currently you know, trying to do Organ's
job but also coaching at Kentucky and cal right right,

(28:05):
they're trying to get the portal players in. Like there's
there's a lot happening right now. If you are like
one of these, you know, if you're a coach on
any of these championship caliber teams, and it's hard to
do both jobs at the same time. You know, Signetti
is an article out this week, like he's the personnel guy,
but he doesn't really call offensive defense. He's just like
a coach, which is great. I mean, that's a great

(28:25):
thing for him in Indiana. But it's easier for a
guy like that to manage this time of year than
it is for a lot of coaches that that also
call plays right, like you have. You know Will Stein,
who's Organs office cordinator is also Kentucky saying coach now
coach jobs at the same time. And I think that's
the reason why we lost last night. But I think
that it obviously makes it very difficult to do to

(28:45):
do your current job job to do Oh missus crazy.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, I like that was insane.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Imagine imagine if you're head coach for the playoffs, actually
concentrate on his defense because you know, ultimately why they
lost the game is they just got beat up defensively.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah. I mean, it's a shame, like the whole old
miss thing.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Man. Man, I tell you, who comes out looking the
worst is lame man.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
But that's what he wants though. He wants he wants this.
He wants this.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Hey, By the way, I brought this up earlier because
we talked about and and IL stuff and from n
AL and college down to youth sports. So we do
that before this show and Trinidad Shamblet's getting denied by
the NCAA is a joke. It's a flat out joke.

(29:51):
He's his first year, he red shirted. His second year
he was sick, but because he had a heart murmur,
it was a whole mess.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
And because he was at a Division two.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
School that didn't document it, right, he gets pedalized. The
kid gets pedalized basically because he's a late bloomer. And
it's not like he's twenty seven years old either.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
I think he's like twenty two, right, he's still young.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Three.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm yeah. Look, I actually took Chambluss
to go first overall. I mean, I feel dumb now
after Mendoza played, but I got seventy five to one.
I was like, look, he's almost denies of it. Who knows.
I Mendos are very clear it's going to one overall idea,
But that was something that I did look at because

(30:36):
Chamblus has played so well and he's he's a D
two kid man, He's gonna play better with more reps.
He hasn't played a lot exactly, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, how could you deny him? That's the thing, like,
how do you eye him eligibility? It's very clearly the.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
At suble A has like has no enforcement ever, and
when they find the sliver of ways they can have
some enforcement, they try to use it. And that this
is them trying to use the sliver enforcement they have
left because they have nothing else to do, right, uh,
and great.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Out of building all the time.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's like they're there because of the high profile nature
of it.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Right, But they're trying that, right, But there they're trying
to to to have against some some control back is
what they're trying. That's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
They need to go away and there needs to be
a new governing body there.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
There does, but you need a c BA, which is
a whole other discussion to have here. But yes, it
does feel like that. It's just them give it, you know,
trying their best to have again some sort of enforcement
in the sport because they have nothing else, right, you know,
even you know the nil contracts that are being you
know they're being done now, which had the story this

(31:52):
week of this washing quarterback and it's not it's for
it's just it's just contractual, Like there's there's nothing for
these guys to do. And NC double A is essentially
a tournament running business. They run the TMANDUS tournament, they
run all the posting tournaments. That's what they do now.
So if they have a tiny bit of enforcement left,
that's what that's what they use it, right. And Yeah,

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if Chamblis want to go to court, I'm sure he'd win.
I don't know if he has the time for that
and energy for that. I mean they will at this
point though, they have to. He's going to make so
much money, so much more money. He's going to make
six million to go back to Ole Miss. He might,
but he might also be the first pick of the
send me the second pick of the draft to So

(32:35):
I'm curious to.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Sundin, so I made all pride. I was talking to GMS.
They're talking to like he's a second third round.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Pick, even after the last couple of weeks. Yep. So
I'm very curious because Nils changed a lot of this,
like Dante Moore coming back, whoeveryone assumes the second pick
of the draft. I mean, there's a lot of things
he gonna work on. Like guys just are like coming.
I mean, you never would have thought a guy could
come back, you know, after you turning down the being
a top two pick. But it's a real thing, and that's.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
It's not ed remotely writing for the NFL. But but
you could turn down being the second pick on the draft,
that's a question.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
I wouldn't take him the second pick of the draft.
I think it's way too big of a risk. I
don't think so. Dude, I talked to I told the GM, uh, yes,
two days ago.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
I mean every draft quarterbacks has them too, like, well,
they're here, you know, I don't know what they bet
with they're worth?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Those box drafts.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
I mean I read a couple of them from people
that know. I don't read all of them. But I
feel like if I.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Talked to a GM, there's no way we were talking
about uh, these quarterbacks, because I I want to ask
him about Chadleis and what he thought.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Specifically, he says he's the second third round pick.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
I don't think is ready to be the NFL quarterback,
but I think he will be drafted high if he
decides to come out.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah I don't, I don't, I don't think so. But whatever,
I mean, it's best for the kid to go back,
that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Yeah, All right, lots to do.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let's switch it over to a little NFL wild Card weekend.
We got coaching searches to get to, so much to do,
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(35:14):
weekend and we're gonna go through all the games.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
But this is it.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
We got two games today, Rams Panthers, I guess talk
about this. The weather is it? That well the rain
blow out. Is it gonna be windy?

Speaker 4 (35:33):
I mean it's it's supposed to have sort of like
a summer storm feeling because it's it's a little warmer.
So they're saying, Wayne, this morning, thunderstorms, maybe this afternoon.
But thunder storms are very hit and miss, obviously, so
it seems like it's probably gonna be fine. Mean, look,
a lot of people I know are going today, and
I was like, I don't know if I'm not going.
If it's gonna rain, I think I think everyone's like,
I think it's gonna be fine. That might be so

(35:54):
much ful thinking because they want to go to the game,
But I think it's gonna be fine by kick off.
It's not until four thirty obviously, and should be a
fun crowd.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Let's talk about it. Just we're gonna dive deeper. But
just from a Carolina standpoint, they have any shot. I mean,
I know they beat him before, but you know, I mean.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Shot, he's a shot. I think that the Panthers is
not as good as the Rams. Can they can they win? Yeah,
of course they can win. I think it'd be a
They have to play a pretty perfect game to make
that happen. And the first game we up over three times.
They're not going to turn them over three times again
in this game. So, I mean it's a very tall
task for Carolina to win, and I would expect the

(36:41):
Rams to handle the business. Handle their business today, is
my is how I look at the game?

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, I mean when you when you stack it up, man,
I just don't know how they they You know, everything
went their way in that game, and it was a
regular season game, and you know better than any that
stuff happens in regular season that you just can't explain
that just because it's the nature of the sport, correct,
But in the playoffs, when everybody's you know, focused, heightened, Yes,

(37:12):
that's when you're bad. And that's why I look Devota
Adams is coming back. You know again, I don't see how.
I don't see this being the game. Do you see
the Rams even making it? I mean, do you see
Carolina covering.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Ten points a lot in the NFL in a playoff game?
But I would lean toward the Rams winning this game
before I lean to to winning and cover this game
before I would lean the other way.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it just feels like
a Rams and I know it's a ton of points
on the road, but I just don't.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't say when the Rams are rolling.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
The game I can't wait for is tonight because I
don't really have a feel for.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
And do this to me. Just tell me how the
Packers are favored.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Well because the Bears. I just you look at the Bears,
and I think you look at where they are defensively,
and I was, so they lead the NFL takeaways, right,
They're thirty three when they turn them the ball over,
so when they force two or more turnovers are nine
to zero. When when they don't, they've lost all their games.

(38:29):
So farthest down they're two and six. Here's the deal.
Their fourth all time and most points allowed by a
team that led the NFL and turn and takeaways right,
and turnover margin and takeaways. The three teams below them
missed the playoffs after them missed the playoffs. So the
top six teams allowed the most points while leading the

(38:53):
NFL in takeaways five six did not make the playoffs.
At the Bears the two seed. I think that's why
a lot of it comes down to that they just
have a lot of flaws defensively and they're hidden by
turnovers and that that is typically a recipe for disaster.
When you get in the playoffs, when teams are a
little more focused, there's less turnovers right now? Can they?

(39:14):
Can they force service today? Absolutely? Canbams also completes fifty
passes like this. It's not so those I think are why?
There are why that Packers the favorite.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
The only thing that I would say because I look
at it with Mica it makes sense to me. Without Micah,
I think the Bears, Like, I think the Bears win
the game and it has to do here, h you
got the Green Bay. But yeah, I look at Micah.

(39:48):
It's a huge loss, like just a monstrous loss to
their past rush and that defense.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Oh it's they passer has been pretty bad since he left. No,
I don't disagree with that, it's been pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
I guess that that's a big basis for me because
I think they lose a lot of teeth defensively, and
I think Chicago will be able to move the ball.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Look, I mean Chicago. Their offensive line has been fantastic
this year. The investment they made on that size is
really paid off. They run the ball well, their balance offense,
and the Packers defense since Michael Parsons has been out
has not been very good. And so I mean those
are all true, those are all true things. I'm just
fading the Bears sort of being here in the position
they are with a defense that's basically relying on turnovers only.

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Speaker 3 (41:21):
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those It just never disappoints on the field. We're all fit.
He's just a special kid, but it's a wild card weekend.

(41:45):
It's two days of the college football playoffs were spectacular.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
They were just fun.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Big get the whole thing, and now the stage shifts
to the NFL and wildcard weekend. You got Rams, Panthers, Bears,
Packers tomorrow a great one, Bills and Jags, Eagles.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
And Niners England.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
How about the Patriots and the Chargers and then the
Aaron Rodgers Last Sunday night was spectacular, one of the
great games ever against the Texans.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
That your weekend.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Now, will you be posting up the entire rest of
the weekend?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah, I mean I got my we got some some
sports today. But other than that, yeah, I'll be posting up.
I'll be taking a nap at some point. Geez. Yeah,
my daughter is basketball a nine o'clock this morning. Not
amas early, I mean, it is what it is, but
uh yeah at nine o'clock, lucky.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
What about your softball when you start that, like you
know these baseball tournams, man, I'm up there, I'm sometime.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
We don't do the travel. We don't do travel softball,
but we uh you know, so supple and start until
well tryout's mid February. We'll start practicing early March. Probably
we get to start earlier than you guys because the
weather's nicer. I'm when when I was coaching high school baseball.
I used coach high school baseball here at Formula High
School for six for five years. I think I coached

(43:15):
five years. When I was with the Panthers, we would
play a tournament every year, like spring Break tournament in
mid April in Myrtle Beach, and we faced teams that
were coming from the Northeast. They were just starting their
season and we were like in the end of our season.
Because of you know, it's warm, rare, we got to
start a little bit earlier. So we'll start that in

(43:36):
uh in March. But right now we have basketball, so
my daughter plays at nine, my son plays at three
today and that would be my day with probably people
over watch the Panthers game because it's, you know, the
thing to do in the town. Go watch the Panthers
play and we'll enjoy our day.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
I got baseball tonight eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I have basketball practice at practice ten thirty and then
I at baseball practice at eight. We we start in January.
We have an indoor facility, so we uh we.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Just have one pop up actually that it's pretty good
indoor facility where they you know, it's not like you
can't do full full field stuff, but it's a great
batting cage. I got like they got the professional machines,
which is awesome. You can hit your field in there. Yeah,
you can do some main fielding there. It's actually you
can rent a bay for thirty minutes for like thirty bucks.

(44:28):
It's not it's not. It's not a bad price for
that for that option. Now indoor, So I tell my
son there on on Wednesday night we went and we
went there to bedicated Wednesday night. So yeah, little sports,
I'll leave you and brain to get after the end
of the hour three so I can get to my
daughter's game. I made this appoint many times. Like my

(44:48):
favorite thing in life is watching my kids play sports man.
It's my favorite thing. And I appreciate you guys letting me,
let me bounce to make sure you get there in time.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (44:57):
First of all, you're told them to me, so no,
I figured you were cool with it.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
But first of all, like, oh, listen, like it's family,
do whatevery whatever whatever you need to do. Families first, always,
But when it comes to kids, sports man, you know,
I mean, I totally get it.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
And to be fairy, this is not going to be
the best played basketball game of all time that I'm
going to today. But uh, dude, my daughter is a
you know, when you have a kid's who's like a
boy that's tall, you'd be like, that's a large child.
That is a that's like, that is a that's a
big that's a big boy. And like with girls, I
don't even know my wife, so you can't call her big. Okay,

(45:36):
I'm like, I don't she's big. What to tell you?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
She's giorous, giant child, and so she'll be taller and
everyone else today.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
We'll see how she plays like it. But uh, it's uh,
you know ten ten you girls basketball, it's to hell
of a game, dude.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
It's the best man, watching your kids play and getting
involved in coaching and listen, if I told you I
had a game Tuesday night. It was our first game.
We were.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
One in one.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Right before the Christmas break, So this is our first
game after the Christmas break, and it was Tuesday night,
and we played a really good team and my kids
played so well. Like I was like I was so
proud of him. My wife was like, oh my god,

(46:29):
you're on cloud nine, like you know all the stuff
that got going on, and you're talking about this game
like you know. And I was because like, the kids
ran our zone and the coach funny, the opposing coach
came to me, goes, dude, he goes, the kids ran
your guy run a Temple zone.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
John Chane, God rest the soul.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
John Channey was a great coach and he was a
dear friend, like a mentor.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
While I was at Temple.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
I loved coach Chandy and so I run his zone
like you know whatever, it's kids, but it's fun. But
I run the zone and I actually teach it, and
the kids played it so well, and he's like I
felt like I was going into Mcgonica Hall in the
nineties and I was like, oh that's cool, man. So
I was so like juiced up over it. And I

(47:20):
get like that whenever it's football or baseball or any
of it. You know, I urge people if you have
kids to get involved because it's fun.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Man.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
It's a blest.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
I'm again, I'm gonna be the head coach with my
daughter football team this year. So that'll be Yeah, I'll
pump for it first for me to be the head coach.
I've already got like some ideas in my head about
what I want to do this year. I mean it's
a cosmetic stuff too. Like everyone else we play has
like walk up songs for their daughters, and the kids
have always asked me. I'm like, yeah, we're gonna make
that happen, like little stuff like that. It doesn't mean

(47:53):
you're a winner lose, but like that feels like that.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Ah, you make it fun for them, that's no goin.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
I'mna get I'm gonna get a boombox and we're gonna
we're gonna play or speak or whatever. We're gonna play
walk up songs for the girls, and we're gonna have
like we're gonna do things a little differently. I think
we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna professionalize a little bit
compared to where I think the program's at the moment.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
That's great, that's great.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Hey, all right, let's dive into I want to dive
into the coaching situation with you, all right, because of
all the vacancies.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Let's start.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
I want to start in Cleveland because shouldn't it be
a wake up call to the Browns that when they
let their coach go, there's an array of teams that
want to hire him.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yes, I mean, I'm a big Steffan.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Listen, he's, you know, from my town, and and he's
he's just a great, really bright guy. So I'm a
big fan of Stefanski. But beyond that, the interest, everybody's
got it open. He can't wait to talk to him.
And their first thing is, oh, well, it was Cleveland,

(49:11):
so it's impossible to win in Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
I actually think that it is possible winning Cleveland Becausetefanski
did it.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
He did. He won in Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
He won in Cleveland. That that is. That is the
number one thing that I think makes him a good
coach is that he took a losing franchise that has
been a loser for since they returned back to Cleveland,
and he made them a winner for multiple years. And

(49:44):
what I find so fascinated about his firing, too is
the gleefulness with Browns fans cheered for it, and there
is even a wife of a player who subtweeted coach,
which I think that I think that's not the place
of a spouse of an NFL player. But that that
is where sometimes with some of the you know, spouse
on social media as much as they are, you know,

(50:06):
So you have player's wife's uptweeting the coach. You have
this whole flock, and sure, dear Sanders fans like over joined,
I'm like, buddy, you realize that new coach is gonna
is not gonna want Sanders at all, Like I, at
least you had to coach at at least you know,
was part of a team that drafted him. And he'll
be hired immediately. He'll be good anywhere else he goes,
anywhere else he goes. And this is a year when
the coaching cannets are not great, right, I mean, look,

(50:26):
if you rank coaching candidates right now that are actually
available in the NFL, Stefanski's probably what one two. I mean,
Harball might be yeah, yeah, but Harbaugh at sixty four
man doesn't coach offensive defense. I think Harbo's done a
great job in Baltimore, but I don't know if he's
as much. I know he's a great job. I Actually

(50:48):
I'll be ages. If the Raiders were smart, they would
call Signetti and they would say how much money do
you need coach Mendoza in the Silver and Black. You're good,
but right, they should make that call. No, I'm talking
about just hard like Stefanski, the youth of Stefanski. I
think it's so. I'm not saying you can't hire a

(51:09):
non offensive head head coach, but the concern I have
with hiring someone who's non offense coach. Again, there's plenty
of examples of defense coaches that are really good, but
you have to find the o C who's not gonna leave.
Because what happens is you bring in this defensive coach
and then you bring in the job here too, like

(51:31):
you like Seattle, like like Kuback might get a job.
Now you've had this great year with Sam Darnold and
another offense coordinator in you know, Baker Mayfields like a
seventh o C in a row, and well that right,
but that's Sirianni's offensive guy. That really should be the case,
but they've had guys he can't call play.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
That's my biggest beef with Nick is that he's a
CEO coach who came from the offensive side of the ball.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
It's my I totally agree with you on that. At
and the best way to do it is to have
Rabel McDaniels wos not getting another job anywhere, like.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
You have to pay.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
They're a pair together. So that's my point. If you'll
hire Harball, let's say, and I don't know anywhere the giants, right,
and he gets to work with Jackson Dart and you
bring in a hot young oc who does really well
in year one, that coach is getting a job a
year two, a head coaching job. And so that's my
concern about hiring a non offensive coach. But se Fancy's
not that problem. He will call the offense again. He

(52:26):
didn't leave them this year, I think because just was
hoping to to spark something there. And so yeah, it's
not good when you fire your coach and everyone else
wants to hire him. And so there's some fascinating hires
coming up because it's not a great coaching pool man
like I appreciate Matt Naggi for the growth he has
tried to bring to himself. There's a story out there
that he went and saw that Laura Oakum who used

(52:48):
to be a silent reporter and she has run a
company now that gathers intel for future coaches they talked
to forty anonymous people. Now Matt nag he told, you know,
told Laura in her company about the forty people. He
wanted to participate in this, But they take anonymous quotes
from the people. You provide about your job as a
previous head coach, and now he had to listen to

(53:10):
everything people said about him and to try to make
him a better coach. But I love that he did that.
But no man even means to strikes like a hot
coaching candidate. But that's where it's where the support is
right now. So that's why Stefanski, Harbaugh and Michael McCarthy
Maeber are so sought after. It's not a great year,
in my opinion, to hire a coach, and it makes
this cycle so interesting to me.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
It is, it's it's fascinating. Let's go, let's kind of
go opening by opening. So if you're at Atlanta, where
are you looking like? To me, it's an obvious thing
that that's where I think Stefansk would be great at
Where in Atlanta?

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Uh? Yeah, with with that, with that group, and they
were sort of run that offense already, his offense sort
of already in Atlanta. Yeah, I mean you know the
openings right now, what do you rank number one as
well the Ravens because you have Lamar, well, you.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Have great you have great ownership. But you know, I
mean you got to ask yourself about the future of Lamar.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
I do twenty nine and.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
You know, look, look, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Sheeased to run.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
I'm not a I'm not a fan of the like
the quarterback wins discussion, right, like, oh, this quarterback has
more where but but John Harbaugh was more successful in
the NFL and the post is in with with Joe
Flacco like that that that's the actual thing, right, And
Lamar just hasn't been as good in some of those games. Now,
it's not all his fault, right that the fumble against

(54:47):
the Hollywood Brown fund was Hollyward Brown fumball, the Flowers
fumble whatever it was against against the you know, the
and the drops here and there. But like, it just
hasn't been as good as a postseason and you're to
your point, he's if he's gonna get beat up every year,
which has been a three the last four years has
been super beat up, the one year getting an MVP. Like,
good friend, he's incredible quarterback but there when when when
Harbut gets fired and the report is sort of out

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like the new coach has to like reinvigorate Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
And you're like, oh god, I don't want to hear that,
you know, Like Wells, by the way, did you see
the injurior report ch like he went it was knee,
it was ankle, it was back.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Did you notice that during this season with Lamar?

Speaker 3 (55:29):
I mean, you know, obviously there was there was a
beef fare and you know Harbor was getting frustrated with him,
and look, I'm a Lamar fan, so I like him.
I you know, the only thing if you're going to
go in there, you got to ask yourself is if

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he can't run, how how what does.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
That do to his game?

Speaker 4 (56:01):
It would be.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Like how much of a hit does it take?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
It changes? I mean there was talk about playing Tyler
Huntley over him because the run game was so But
now I think the new coach is going to come
in and design an offense that doesn't include Lamar's legs.
I think you have to eliminate that from the offensive design.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
I completely agree, And you gotta get another receiver.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Now you can still have it as a change up
like Josh Allen's gonna run a lot on Saturday. On Sunday,
he's gonna run a lot, right, But like, yeah, he
doesn't do that until the postseason.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
You can still be.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Part of the offense three or four times a game,
but the offense has to be built like a professional
offense and not an offense built around Lamar's legs. And
that's the more change in Baltimore that that has to happen.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Agreed.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
I like Baltimore is a job for his world's great ownership.
But shot, he's a great owner, so you got you
got good ownership. But they are a team in fucks right.
I mean I look talent wise, I mean I'm looking
at Atlanta. I got Bijon Drake London. I mean, look,

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Kyle Pitts had a had a nice year. I'm a Panics.
I like Panics. I think you get the right guy
in there. I think Panics could flourish, could flourish, Uh Giants.
I mean I think you know you know better anybody.
I like where they're at. I think Jackson Dart has
to stop running the way he does. But I like,

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you know, I like where they're at. I think you
know you got talent there, it's New York. I mean
I think that's an attractive job. Good ownership, I think so. Yes,
I think those are your kind of three plump jobs.
I think Harball makes it makes sense. Harble Stefanski in

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New York, Uh Stefanski in Atlanta, Blar is interesting.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
I'm not sure. Yeah, profiles there.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
So how attractive is the Raiders job if you know
you're getting Mendoza?

Speaker 3 (58:24):
The only problem, the only problems stinks. It's bad, man. Yeah,
you got to redo your whole line, like and it's great.
I got a quarterback. My old line is terrible, and then.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
Your best player is uh, you know, like Crows. Crosby
probably wants out unless I mean you could a new
coach might change.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
About reinvigorating him. But your your old line, it's awful.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Like what's that going to do for a young quy
Like I don't want Mendoza playing behind that line.

Speaker 4 (58:55):
Yeah, it will take two years to fix. This is
why dude, I was so firm and wanting them to
draft offensive liignment instead of drafting freaking genty.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Right, they don't want to listen to me. Well, you're right,
you know what good is? What good is action gent
when you don't have anybody to block?

Speaker 4 (59:17):
So here so here's so this is an interesting thing
about the draft. So I know, I know someone in
the Raiders' organization. I was talking to them a couple
of months ago about just guys for this class, but
but just the idea of like of what what the
why they draft the gent And he said that they
had him graded so high that the value of him

(59:39):
at six made a lost sense for them. And Okay,
I get the board right, like staying sick on the board.
I get that that philosophy. But I counter with like, look, man,
you need guys to block for them for him, Like,
what's the purpose of having Genty if you no one
to block for the guy you drafted? He's like, He's like,
that makes a lot of sense. But again, like our valu,

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you just was too high on Genty to let him drop.
And we looked at the rest of the running backs
and where the offensive line we're at, and we figured
that we can get away with with with doing that.
I think they regret that because very clearly they didn't
get away with it, right, Like you waste an entire
season of Ashton Genty, so you know what a block for.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Him, right right. I mean that's why it's backwards. We
talked about ass backwards, right, Like that's where that's where
that is with these teams and like and you saw
those mistakes years ago in the past, like you don't
usually see them now. You usually you know, teams are
are savvy enough to understand that most teams are that

(01:00:38):
You've got to get your you know, you got to
build your trenches, build inside out, and it's the only
way to build a team. It's it, you know, a
quarterback and the running backs and all of your skill
guys got to come last.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Or at least after the old line. You know, you
just do your quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Such a disservice, I agree, you know, all right, let's
say quick t o, we'll come back. Well, what would
you choe? I'm curious if you were a coach, where
would be your first sesssination? And if you were an owner,

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who would be here? How would you rank the candidates?
And then what's going on in Washington That's another place
that's got issues where the fellas right here?

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Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Now he's going deep, way deep.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Man, touches mad what.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Just hold tickers in stores? Route was on for the Hoosiers.
That was what a throw man that can't just.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Five touchdowns only has to throw for a buck seventy seven,
but throws five touch ups with.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
The performers so on target man, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
It was good man, yeah, buddy man.

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
Really one of the great performance you'll ever see.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
All right, let's put in bed. Let's let finish up
this discussion about the coaches. So first of all, you
look at these jobs Arizona, Cleveland Raiders like there's some
bad Now if the Jets decide to deal with they two. Two,

(01:03:30):
you're talking about the worst organizations in football. Now the
Raiders are a little different in that it's Vegas. Brad's
now a part of it, so it's it's a little
bit better. But this franchise has been getting killed. Which
team you said, Raiders?

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
The look the Raiders, and then Doozo will be a
great addition for them. He is a generations too much.
He's very accurate, right, and he's gonna be a great
addition for them. But the problem is is that the
roster is in a very bad place. And I know
it's by texts now second season and have to figure

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that part out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
But they're there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
What do you think two years away from being like
competitive for a wild card spot. I mean they're who
are like the the blue chip prospects on this team?
The answer is Max Crosby, who's old or right and
gent probably right. That's two brought brock powers.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
Three.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Yeah, you got a great h that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
Colton Miller is okay, but he's thirty at left tackle
and he's getting injured every year. JPJ might be a
building blocking the offensive line. That's it. So I'm very
curious what they do here with free agency and in
the draft, because are they going to go forward? Effingencies
add sort of you know, the players at a player

(01:05:00):
and then Mendoz, Look, Mendoz is good man. Again. The
only thing I worry about is the you know, the
whole full spectrum of throws gets to making the NFL
and you have to do to Indiana. But I don't.
I don't think that's because he can't do. I think
he can't. It's not what the Indian offense is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
So which of those jobs?

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Because you can, like Arizona, like when you have any
any interesting going to Arizona.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Cleveland, that's a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Arizona the no quarterback right now, Cleveland no quarterback. Also,
just like bad ownership, I mean that bat matters bad
ownership better. So it's all those you all those things,
all those things are important when we talk about, you know,
where where teams are at and how Tyler looked at
I don't think the money is that is that different all.
But it's not like college football, when the money might

(01:05:47):
be so much different in L S u versus a
mid major. It's it's just a spot where uh, you know,
the ownership and quarterback, quarterback. But this is one of
the Giants are so I think such a hot commodity
because Jackson Dart such a good football player. Right, It's
why I think Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Got the league neighbors. I think even you got to
you got some good talent on the D line. I mean,
I that's a good job, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
And I also think that the Titans we looked at
a little more favorably because of cam Mood being there,
and so all those things play a big role obviously
in how we look at at at these these these
job openings. You know, salary cap quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
So there's not enough coaches, premium coaches. Right, if you're
if you know, rank K your candidates, who Stefanski one,
Harball one one A. How do you want to do it?

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Probably mister fancy my number one candidate. Probably probably Stefani
we number one candidate. I think that's where I would
go with this because I think that when you win
the way he did that, it gives you an opportunity.

(01:07:19):
To me that that's where I think that his ability
to win in Cleveland will translate well elsewhere. Probably Harbaugh too,
there's gonna be like a coordinator that, you know, like
a mentor or a Koubiac that kind of comes out.

(01:07:39):
I know where I feel like that it's gonna be
It's gonna be a good coach, you know. The other
the other options are like a Brian Flores and Ryan
if it's Patrick if you've heard about talk about him
and not very glowing light. You know, I don't think
Kingsbury is a great option.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
What I like Kingsbury? Man, I don't know what happened
to watch him? First of all? Did gee?

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
I didn't get their whole direction here they have you know,
they look at Daniels and they go, all right, we
got the more rookie deal.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Let's go for it. But what their movies were horrible.
I remember talking to you about it. I don't like
what they did. They got old and they didn't get
very good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
My guess is they were they want a different set
of offense for Tradon Daniels. That that's my guess. It's
sort of the same idea of the Lamar like Lamar Jackson,
Like we talked about changing the offense for Lamar. I

(01:08:44):
wonder if that was part of it with they're like, look,
we can't have this offense where Daniels was running so much,
we had something and look Clift Kingsbury. Everywhere he has been,
they have gotten worse, like over the year. That's that's
the very thing. They start fast every year. Now, last year,
twenty twenty four was the only year of his career

(01:09:04):
essentially where the team did not get worse throughout the season.
And that's I don't think it mattered this season because
Daniel's was hurt. But I do think.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
That that Quinn looked at it and thought, look, we
played such a bad game that you know, it was
such a bad season this year, we just got to
start fresh.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
He fired as his DC, he fired as OC. It
felt like that that that was very much like we did.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
He's get an issue with the front office.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
Well I didn't see that. What was that, Well, there's up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
He'll everywhere, so whatever within that organization.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Yeah, So I think I was saying about this the
other day and this this that's really relate to Quinn
as much unless he's on the hot seat, but it
relates to Todd Bowles and actually your Eagles are the
example that people gave me. So I don't think you know,
firing both coordinators feels like desperation move, in my opinion,
a lot of times to start to save your job.

(01:10:02):
And we know that's happening in Tampa Bay where they
fired their OC and Boll's trying to save this job.
I put out to social media, Hey, like, tell me
when this has actually worked, and the answer was the
twenty twenty three Eagles, right or twenty four Eagles. They
fired both their coordinators and they brought in Kellen Moore.
They brought in Vic Fangio. So that's a great example
of it working. The Giants or Tom Cofflin did it
before their first Super Bowl. But there's a lot of

(01:10:24):
firing your coaches. You you're OCDC, man, that just signals
to me that you're in full panic mode and that
that is to me a sign that you're like sort
of on your way out as a head coach. I mean,
year two, dan Quinn is firing both coordinators right that,

(01:10:45):
I don't get a great feeling about his future there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
If that's what we're doing. Yeah, no, I I and
I feel you and listen. It failed for the Eagles
under Doug Peterson. He had to get rid of both coordinators.
Want a Super Bowl though, you know what happened. That's
why he wind up why they wound up firing him.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
And well he wouldn't he wouldn't do it right, That
was wooden fire fires coordinators. I feel like Doug Peterson
just sort of like gets forgot about him. He won
a Super Bowl, jeesus, and Philly fans hate him. He
brought you a super Bowl, Philly fans. Why the Philly
fans don't like Peterson?

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Do they know?

Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
They love Doug well, but social media is not a
great example. They no, they they did not.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Dougy loved Doug. No, Doug was Do you think special,
you know, like there was a statue of him.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Do you think that when Sirianni eventually gets fired that
Eagle fans will will kind of come around on him
or not at all?

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
He's interesting, man, He's an interesting dude because the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Record is unquestionable, right, Like he's ridiculous, like the winning
he wins at such a great clip, and he does
a lot of good things, like he's he really has
a good pulse of the room. He you know, he
understands you know, listen, he got them last year. They

(01:12:13):
they became one of the best tackling teams. He was
not a good they were not good tackling team, and
they started tackling more in practice. They started they changed
their physicality, you know, and they got better last year
on there that like he does things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
The issue with him is he's not like he's not.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
The bright McVeigh, Shanahan that guy, right, He's just not
that guy. He struggled as a play caller, gave it
up to Shane Steike and and then when Shane Stykeer
got a head job, it reverted back to him, like
he bought Brian Johnson. And that's what you're referring to.

(01:12:58):
When he fired Brian, Brian kind of failed and and
and Nick was with him and it just was a Mets.
So they had to bring Callum Moore in because Callen
there's out of call plays. And kind of the same
thing has happened this year in that they have a
dynamic offense, right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Like the Hurts, Barkley, A. J.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Brown, Devonte Schmid, Dallas got a tight end and even
though their line is banged up and not what it
was last year, it's still a decent line.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:31):
This offense, this offense should score way more points.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
It's it's should it should I mean the last time
they played, they didn't get it first down. They won
the game, but they didn't get a first down the
entire second half. Yeah, Dyalen hearts a completed a pass,
Like when's that? That happened twice this year. We went
the entire second half without completing a pass and they
didn't get a first down, right, Like that never happens.

(01:13:59):
But that's the state to this offense. And then they
leaned into this thing of well, we're not going to
turn the ball over. I I I believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
Not all interceptions are creating equal and it's okay to
throw some interceptions, right, it's okay to to do that,
and and to like take some chances offensively. And so
you got to take some chances offensively and that that
that is some turnovers that that that's fine, but you
have to try, Like if you don't try like that,
that's where you get into into issues. And and you know,
the idea of not trying the ball, yeah, it's great,

(01:14:33):
it's great in theory, but that means you're not really trying,
like you're not really trying to make putt on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
And we call the cowards draw you know, it's third
and twelve and it's like, you know, I'm gonna run
and punt, like what kind of plants that it's so good.
I guess you can do that sometimes, but I just
don't like and they've won a lot of rock fights.
Let's uh, let's take quick t o. We'll come back
and discuss it. Fell His hanging right here Fox.

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(01:16:03):
were asking about the Eagles, there's two school of thoughts
as they headed into their game against San Francisco, and
we're gonna dive into all of them coming up in
about ten minutes. But there's two schools of thought that
this offense has underperformed. They're now going against the Niners
defense that's completely depleted, that has no pass rush.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
So there's no excuse for the Eagles offense.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Oh yeah, they put up in the twenty es correct, yes, absolutely,
all right, And so if that doesn't happen, and this
is not a people are expecting to run right, Like,
all right, you're Defennie Champs. You got a pretty decent

(01:16:50):
like now, if Chicago wins, you go to Chicago, which is,
like you said, is a soft two seed. And if
the if the Green Bay wins, likely you get the
Rams Cup, but you get a home game, another home game.
So you're expecting a run from the defending champions.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
Yeah. Look, it's the Eagles. It's it's good verse good
right and bad verse bad. It's it's the Niners offense,
Eagles defense, and Eagles offense first, Niners defense. And if
the Eagles, the Eagles can knock anything going on offense,
it's got problems, man, because it's gonna be the boot
Bog's gonna be out fast. I mean, the Niners defense,
doesn't it cannot rush the past. It's it's just not good.

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
It's not your best pass rusher is Bryce Huff, who
is a failed free agent signing in Philadelphia. Correct, you know,
I mean so there's a lot of talk that if
this is a flame out early, that the o C

(01:17:54):
gets fired or replaced. And then you're talking about you know,
now you're active and having a discussion about Sirianne. Not
that they're gonna make a move, but he was as
close as you can get to being fired during the
bye week last year, that I know for a fact.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
And then they won fifteen games in a row, right,
they won.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
They won because of their defense and Vic Fangio, who
has his special you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Know, he's a cook like you.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Vic Fangio. He is, Oh nice, he does his special meatballs.
Oh sounds good.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Yeah, he's got his family, grandfather's grandparents passed down the recipe.

Speaker 4 (01:18:38):
Sounds delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Yeah, what's on the what's on your menu tonight?

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
I don't actually I was actually gonna talk to my
wife about that when she got like, we're gonna have
people over, probably for the panthers. I don't know what
I'm gonna do yet. You at your week of Asian
I did. Yeah, I'll probably if the weather's not bad,
we might do a little haibachi on the on the
blacktop tonight. We'll see. It's it's pretty pretty much a

(01:19:03):
favorite of everybody's.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Boy.

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
Yeah, yeah, beef and chicken, beef, chicken, noodles, rice, all
of it. Yeah, why not so hard? Well?

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Really? Yeah, that's that's impressive.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
Yeah, do it all?

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
All right? What's your favorite thing to make? Like you're
gonna go, I'm gonna go all out.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
I make this. I make this delicious, like uh pasta
with like shrimp and and I've throw some some uh
some squid in there as well. I could do it
with a spicy red sauce, and uh that's my u
I like and then I and then I do with
if I could find squitting pasta, there's a there's an

(01:19:47):
Italian market near the house that has it only sometimes
of the year. It's fresh, they make it fresh, they
make fresh pasta. It's incredible. And I get I get
fresh squitting pasta, and I make a pasta with a
spicy spicy red sauce. It's it's my favorite. It's but
probably the best thing I make.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Really, dude, we have to go ahead to head here.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
I must send you. I'm gonta send you a picture
that's not right obviously for like for radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
But uh.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
It's I do good work here, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:20:21):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:20:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
You know tonight is an Amazon game.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
Yeah, they're all yeah, we have like I think it's
like four different networks the next couple of days.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
Yeah, in a while, like you got you got the
well it looks delicious, buddy, that's good. Yeah, it looks
like at night. That's that looks good. I could see
you being a great host.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Oh yeah, I mean I well, my wife is a
fantastic host.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Party host. I'm the I'm the one in the kitchen. Yeah,
I'm the same way. Yeah, I just did to my
seven fish. Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
For Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
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in a morning that'd be happy?

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Wild Card Weekend Fox Football Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
It's on the Five Days of Football. Playoff. Football Day
three kicks off in Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Rams Panthers, Yes, and then in icy, frigid Chicago the
legendary teams of the Packers and Bears.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
I mean, this is NFL film stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
Jeff, it's a fantastic weekend of NFL football lined up
for us, and it starts with, you know, look the
the NFC South tippolize one South team is playing North
or South is playing in typically this first game of today.
And then, I mean, dude, tell you what, even I
don't think people talking about this game like Bill's Jaguars man,

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like that's gonna be a great He's all gonna be
fantastic games four of the six or within a field
goal of the points spread at the moment. Obviously your
game the Eagles and Ninos got steemed down a little
bit there, or the game today the first game is
a big points spread. But the NFL playoffs, and what
makes this year in my book, at least right now,
so unique is the fact that it does feel like

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it's sort of anyone's game. I like Jacksonville, I think,
and I think I like the Rams, but I don't
know if Denver or the Eagles or so. I mean,
I wouldn't surprise me if any of these teams made it.
Because it's such a wide open year in the NFL.
Is no Mahomes, no Tom Brady. I mean, these are
the guys that we have won the AFC essentially nine
percent of the AFC for the last twenty years, and

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then they're out of the postseason.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
E's in.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
This though, a very important time for the Bills because
there's no Mahomes, Like you said, there's no Lamar, there's
no Burrow, you know. I mean, I think Jacksonville is
good too. But if you're the Bills and you've been
waiting and this has been your you know, this is
your time. This is Josh Allen's time.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
They have the most pressure for any team in the playoffs.
This is the opportunity now without as you mentioned Patrick Mahomes,
there's no Joe Burrow, who also beats you a member
in the snow in Buffalo. No Lamar Jackson this is
the time. If you can't do it now, you're never
gonna do it. And I would argue that this might

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be their most flawed team they've had in quite a
few years because the defense is not very good, and
so that to me is very concerned. I think Jacksonvill
wins it game. I think that they win this game.
And we're talking about coaching earlier. I do do Sean
McDermott survive a loss to Jacksonville on Sunday because John

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Harbaugh waiting to coach Josh Allen. I mean, I think
that's a serious discussion. The Buffalo is gonna have. They
are gonna run this back again with the same result
year over year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Would would be interesting because you go back to the
same tree. Would they can do the same tree and
go from Sean to John. They're above from the Andy
Reid tree they coached together.

Speaker 8 (01:24:29):
The question, I don't know, I actually think about that. Yeah,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't go I would not fire Seewan.
I would either, but I'm trying a very good coach.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
I think people can ask the question.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Yeah, I mean, you know, listen, does it put them
on a hot seat? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
You know, I think you know, it would certainly put
them a hot seat. But I don't think you fire him.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
I don't. I mean, I wouldn't, you know. I came
to in the game. I like Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
I could see I think Jacksonville's playing really good football,
and you know, sun China has gotten it and they're
well coached.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
But can we talk about who they played?

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
I mean, listen, they're going to Denver and that was
a very impressive victory, right, like they put up thirty
four on that Broncos team. But it is fair to say, like,
you beat the Titans twice in the last seven weeks,
you beat jackson you beat Indianapolis, the Jets, you beat.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
The Colts twice.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Actually in that period of time, like the Titans, you
beat Arizona in overtime. You know, the most oppressive game
was you know, the Chargers. They crushed the Chargers. The
Chargers had just lost both tackles at the time, so
there is a little bit of a uh of a
caveat there, but it was a round. So I mean, like,

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I mean, they've been impressive, no doubt, but this is
a playoff, battle tested Buffalo team. I know that their
defense is vulnerable, especially against the run, but I mean
I would be I would be disappointed if Buffalo lost.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
So Jacksonville since Week eleven has the best point differential
in the NFL. Now, you mentioned part of it is
that you know, maybe that they're not playing the best
teams in the NFL. It's certainly fair to bring up,
but they've played much better football because Trevor Lawrence stopped
doing Trevor Lawrence stuff. Like there's not the players where
you're like, we're like what wait what what?

Speaker 7 (01:26:42):
What? What?

Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
Why are you doing that? That seems to have sort
of stopped, which is which is great for for Jacksonville.
He has one turnover in the last six weeks. He's
running the ball more in the last six weeks as well,
which has been impressive and important for for them as well.
So all these things are the reasons why they run

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defense more in the NFL. I mean, it's it's a
good football team, the question.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
And they added Myers. I like them.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Yeah, he's been in Washington, by the way, is really
picked up. You know, his production as well. Uh so
they're playing much better football to your point, like, is
it that I played the best teams? No, but your
jobs to obviously win the football game. I also think
Buffalo today, Jackson's gonna run the ball, like like tomorrow,

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they're going to run the ball. Other teams recently have
not been able to do that in buffal On. Buffalo
haven't tried. I think I think Jacksonville sticks to that.
And that's where Buffalo's Their run defense is thirty first
of the NFL. That that's that's the that's the big
deal in this game. And so if if Buffalo can't
stop the run and vice versa, Jacksonville stops run with
their run defense, which is really good. That's where you
get into the issue. So I'm concerned about Buffalo. I

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feel like Josh Allen as we know that you know
this time of year is very much kind of like
Yolo mode, which he has to be make all the
plays for this offense, which was concerneding because that's we're
get some mistakes.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
But this is the Bills.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
Have to win. This game is aggressive, but they got it.
You gotta be Jacksonville. I think you have to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
I agree, I think you gotta I think you gotta
be Listen. I think Jacksonville is good too, and the
whole thing great story, but again, you're the Bills.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
It's time like this is where you got to make
it a run.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
This AFC is fast, completely fascinating because when you go
through it right, look at something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
I don't know, I don't really see that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
I can't see the Chargers missing both tackles being able
to win this game. I just can't say it. I
just think they're not gonna be able to hold up
against the New England Front.

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
Well new England is their pass rush is very much
interior pass rush more than more than edge rush. That
that is something that point I'm kind of curious by
as well. But look, the thing is New England's have
the easiest schedule for a playoff team in twenty five
years since nineteen ninety nine, and they're one and two

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against teams with ay rinn a record. Right, It's a
team that just hasn't been tested the way they're going
to be tested. The Chargers defense is fabulous, a number
in the NFL that's passer rating, and we talk a
lot about Herbert getting pressured, which is so absolutely Lee's
NFL and pressures. You know who's second in pressure most often?

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Did Drake?

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
Drake may like same issue that they have for them
as well. So I just in the postseason, I do
think being battle tested matters, and New England is not
battle tested at all. They just they haven't been here
with this team, they haven't played anybody. The Chargers, you
could argue, are the best team they've played all season.

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Charger our Chargers better than Buffalo? What do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:30:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
Okay, so this is the second best team they played
all season in the playoffs, that he said about anyone else.

Speaker 4 (01:30:14):
No, everyone else is sort of at least played. I
mean the Bears have the Bears, who I don't think
are terribly good, have played the Packers twice, the Lions twice,
you know, like they've played the Niners, like they've they
played Niners. Right, they played like real teams all season.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Now, you're your point is right, I mean, look at
look at they beat Miami dead, Miami dead.

Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
But yet but they beat these teams too, with like
Brady Cook a quarterback, with Quen You as a quarterback.
They played Baltimore and Lamar got hurt during the game
they played, Listen, that was an impressive win. I know
Lamar got hurt throwing the game, but it was something
I football was at Baltimore. It was a must win
situation for them. You know, remember when I lost that game,

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they thought they were done. Oh yeah, no, it's true.
But I think that it's just the point is that
they just really haven't No I anyone.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
I think it's Listen. I think it's a fair point.
It is a fair point you bring up. I don't
know this Charger team is. And I love Herbert to death,
I do, but I just don't know how. I don't
know how they move the ball. It's a grindout game, man.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Yeah, you need a rock fight. Yeah, speaking of rock
fights Monday night. Another. First of all, we've had some
great football this week.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
The fourth quarter between the Old Miss and Miami was
fabulous and they dude, this Sunday night game was unbelievable.
That was just an incredible fourth quarter. Between Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

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Where are you at with the Steelers?

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Rogers.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
I've told you before how I'm very bulls from the
Texans to make a run, and I just don't. I
think it's a tough matchup for Pittsburgh that that Texas defense.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
I uh so, there's there's just a long line of
poor results for Dome teams going on the road to
play cold weather games, no matter what the what the
situation is, right, and you know, the Dome team going
on the road to play Pittsburgh and this voodoo the
Pittsburgh has, Man, we talk about a lot, Matt, I

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don't even know. It's just they just whenever they're count out,
whenever no one believes in them, they just win the game.
It's wild to me they continue to do this However,
I don't to your point, like, how does how does
Pittsburgh score in this game? They don't know how they
move the ball. They're not going to move the ball. Well,

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it's not gonna move the ball. It's it's gonna be
a tough go for them in my mind, so I would.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
Lean heavily to taking uh the Texans in this game,
even though, again, to be fair, likes a lot with
the AFC.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
It wouldn't surprise me if Pittsburgh won it, just it wouldn't.
It's possible. But I think Houston's much better. Right, how
do you reconcile that? Why is that only three? Well,
because it's in Pittsburgh, probably right, get Pittsburgh two points

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for for home field adantas two and a half. It's
about right. Yeah, Well, I think because well here's why.
Because Houston's offense is their offense line is not good,
and their run game is fine, but Wood he marks
its hurt every game. Fair, I don't think people trust
c J. Stroud and that passing game quite as.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
I like CJ. I think he's had I think he's
played better under the radar better this.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Season, I think played worse than last year. Okay, well
they and they really didn't protect him last year. But
I agree, I mean he didn't play well. Higgins had.
You know, he's got a nice connection. Nico's Nico, and
he has a nice connection with the Higgins. Higgins stepped up.
I think they got it sneaky. I think they have

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a sneaky passing game, but the defense is terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
To It's just it's to me, it's just not It's
not a good matchup for Pittsburgh at all. No, DK
being back certainly helps the passing, the passing game which
is basically non existent without it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
You know, without him, it's not like DK is a burner, right,
like I think you need.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
He at least gives them.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
The opportunity to throw the ball down the field, which
they don't have any opportunity to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Now, I agree with that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:59):
Do you you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
When you look at Eagles Niners? Do you give the number?
How do you look at the Niners offense? I think
Trent will Trent Williams is going to play. The big
thing is pearsall Now he has a practice. I don't
think he's gonna play. But he's such a huge loss
because he's important to that offense.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
He stretches the field.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Yeah, it's uh. The Niners, their offense the last month
has been really good to actually play a real defense
in Seattle, and that offense got shut down. The Eagles
defense is maybe the most under talked about group in
the postseason. It's a very very good defense. And even
with Trent Williams back, I don't I don't really think

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that there's gonna be this like great you know, just
just this this great game by the Nners offense. I
I worry about Yers this game. I think there's a
reason why this number has moved very heavily to the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
You know, you know it's interesting and you and brain
and brain will become a by later when when you
got to go with your daughter the idea that the
number goes in the opposite direction of the public money
like so in this game, like you know better than
I did when it comes to this. So the Eagles

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start off, I think it. Brain said it was two
and a half and it's now five and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
Yes, but like seventy seven percent of the money is
on San Francisco, Yes, So how does that work?

Speaker 4 (01:36:41):
That means that there's a lot of sharp money like
the like sixth figure, like like big, like sendicate money
on on the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Okay, typically that's the side you want to be on, right, Yes,
well that was.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
I mean there was a big sharp money in Organ
last night. Son't not always the way it is, yes,
really yeah, got or got steam big time? Yeah wow yeah,
well yeah, Organ's power raded really well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
I mean, I mean they just got their butts kicked.
But that yeah, we're that line finished at close it three. Yeah,
it wasn't like three and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
I remember three and a.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
Half all week and then they closed it three everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
That's a big number because the field goal number.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Yeah, it didn't matter obviously, so but it was you know,
my brother texted me it was like forty seven nothing
last night. He's like, what was the number on this game?
I go Oregon didn't cover. Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Of this of this wild card group. Yeah, let's rank
the contenders.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
Okay, all right, Number one who is again the one
seeds are out of it, right, So forget the one seeds.
Give me of this group. Give me your number one
Super Bowl contender, the Rams. Okay, I would agree. Number two.

Speaker 4 (01:38:19):
Of the team's playing this weekend I think Johnson's winning
the AFC, do you yeah, Man.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
You're high on them. I'm not ready to go there yet.

Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
So who's your number two? Houston?

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
Well? I love Houston, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
I've said that before, but I and this is not
a please believing, It's not a Homer type of pick,
But I think the Eagles are I think people are
sleeping on that team because I think they're going to
win someday. And then I think they you know, I

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think Chicago wins, but I know you think Green Bay wins.
I think they beat Chicago, and then you gotta just
you know, then it's up to the Eagles and whether
they play the Rams or the Seahawks in the championship game,
and if it's the Rams, the games at home.

Speaker 4 (01:39:12):
Yeah. So I think the Eagles would be next for me.
So they'd be like the fourth team for me.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
So third, right, you get them third, because I would
have Buffalo third. I would go Rams, Eagles, Bills.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
Rams, Jaguars, Eagles, Bills. Okay, I think that's I think
that's how it stacked them up. And then maybe Texans
after that, five Texans playing of all the teams playing this,
we five Texans. Yeah, that's about right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Yeah, I like, I do figure Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
I mean, the only thing I would worry about is
look at them, and I go, there's not a team
in the AFC that scores had like a really dynamic offense.
So I think the Texans defense making a rock fight
every time.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
Right, But let's say they just allow twenty four points.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
That's my thing.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
I don't think anyone in the AFC could score twenty
four on them in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:40:22):
But yeah, but what if what if, like last night
Oregon dropped the ball to two yard line for Indiana.
I mean, that could certainly happen in any game. Like,
what if if that happens for the Texans. If you
have a bad turnover game, or you have a one
bad turnover and do you end up allowing twenty four points?
It's offense gonna score twenty four points? Yeah, No, I mean,

(01:40:45):
I mean that's fair. That's why I just have a
hard time with teams that are very one dimensional in
the playoffs, because I think it's just very hard to
win that way for three or four games.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Yeah, but I it goes back to this is where
I think we fundamentally disagree in that I think did
I think they got sneaky.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I think they got a sneaky pass game.

Speaker 4 (01:41:08):
I think it's no. We only just ground that. I
think we disagree on that. I either think the offensive
line is going to hold them back and you don't.
You don't think that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Now they put up let me just le we go
here they put up Let me go back to October.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Forty four on Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
That was when Baltimore had no one of defense because
Chiefs twenty twenty six on San Francisco, thirty six on Jacksonville.
How many games strouded playing twenty three on on Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
In a win.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
Yeah, that was Davison Mills twenty on the Chiefs in
a win, and that defense is still decent. Forty on Arizona,
twenty on the Chargers in a win, you know, and
obviously the Colt Staple thirty eight. I mean they, I
mean they've held their own right, They've been fine. I

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don't think it's dynamic enough to win three road playoff games.
I mean they're the seventh seed, like right, that's it's
a pretty tough road. It's a seventh seed. Like you
like think about like what what takes the win is
a seven seed. I mean you're gonna win on the road. Yeah,
you're gonna have to win the whole thing on the road.
They're gonna have to play the games the road. Three

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cold weather games in the road for a dome warm
weather city team.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Yah, yeah, tough.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
The number show. It's very hard to do.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Yeah, you're right. Listen.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Good luck to your daughter, all right, Jordia and Jordia, Oops,
thank you. A big, big, big game. First game for
the old ten U squad here. All right, Well, she's
gonna do great, So we're rooting for we'll come back
fellas well. The brain will join us and we'll take

(01:43:08):
a look at these games from a betting standpoint as well.
The brain's a good sportsman. He could dissect this stuff
as we sit here right here on wild Card weekend,
Fox Sports Radio. The fellas don't listening to Fox Sports
Radio Radio. All right, Welcome back Fellas with Jeff Schwartzemanthony Gargano.

(01:43:43):
Jeff rolled to be with his daughter. She's got a game.
I know about that. I got practice coming up at
ten thirty eastern. Joining us every week at this time.
A great sportsman.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
We love him. It's my amen. We just know him
as the brain. Good morning, Brain.

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
Good morning. I say, would you think of the games?

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Well, I you know, let's let's go right into it,
because last night was one of the epic epic performances.
I mean, the they are so well coached. It's a
great story. Signetti is amazing. But it also shows you

(01:44:33):
about what experience does in college football. Right, So Indiana
has six four and five stars, right, yep, we're get
it's fifty five crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
The experience.

Speaker 3 (01:44:56):
Was all on Indiana side, and you saw it like
great off the bat Brain. You know, Dante Moore throws
to pick six and he makes the early mistake, like
that's a mistake of youth.

Speaker 5 (01:45:11):
They kind of remind me of twenty Indiana with all
the experts, like you want to have those like Olympic,
like those basketball teams, like those European teams are just
more experienced than me. With the team like years older.
I kind of feel like that's them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
Wow, that's a great analogy. And they play that way.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
They play smart, right, like even Signetti coaches his way.
Do you remember when they get the fumble, the running
back hits hits uh, Dante Moore's elbowed. He fumbles right,
So it's first a goal to four. Now what is

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what does Signetti do? He ran it three times from
under center. There was no being cute there. He's going
to throw it like he just ran the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Yeah, he has the heistand trophy winner. Who has playing
with me? But he still runs the ball and he
gets it done. It's it's interesting. I feel like for me,
I one of those games is really good and one
of those games is really bad. I got taken to
the cleaners on the Old Miss game that was horrific
for me. But yesterday's game was tremendous for me. So

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it kind of close to even doubt. But I was
extremely extremely impressed with Indiana. They are just they have everything.
I mean, they're just a really good team and it's
like the coach makes it that much better and they're
just an extremely impressive team.

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
I mean extremely yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
I mean, I mean look at their all. Let's go
offense first. So you mentioned Mendoza, I mean he's just
so accurate. One of the big plays that I thought
was under rage I'm not really talked about, was you
know they to pick six. Happens that Oregon drives down
the field all right, So they answer it's seven to seven.

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And on the on the their first series of that drive,
it's third down. He may throw a bath shoulder throw.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
Oh my god, that was the most amazing path I've
ever seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
Yeah, so what happens he doesn't make that throw.

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
Oregan's got the ball seven seven, feeling great about itself
because it answered to pick six.

Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
If they're gonna tell I always say to see you
all the time on your show. Is like so many times,
like we'll watch a game, right and it'll be a
third and five and you'll see a quarterback. The guy
could be forget forget that pass, which was ridiculous, but
a guy will be open and really like a quarterback
who's not consistent, is not great accuracy with that one
complete pass and we'll just see in the stats because

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it's not incomplete. It's not an inner exception would have
seen incompletion and like, okay, we'll move on, like whatever.
But round that's like a turnover because at the inaccurate pass,
because you would still have the ball, now you longer
have it. Watching him and Doza last night, I mean god,
the accuracy is just phenomenal. I mean I I was
crazy impressed with him. I really was, and again that

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you know, it's funny. Look, you never know. And I
heard Signing talking after the game, antheings like he goes,
we're really thin right now in a couple of spots.
I guess they had some injuries in the game that
they second were all nervous about. But you know, it
really seems like to me this team to beat them,
you're going to have to play your best game of

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the year, and it's going to be really really challenging
for Miami to do that. But I will say this,
Malchai Tony that catching Did you see the catch he
made that was ruled not a catch?

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:48:51):
And that was that was the most amazing athletics I did.
That was the most athletic play I've ever seen. Like
that was a crazy game as well, but it was
just h Yeah, I don't know, it's in the end,
team out. I'll be I'll be stunned if they lose.
But you know, obviously Miami has been a team that

(01:49:13):
I've been clearly under rating and they continue to perform.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Yeah, I felt the same thing Listen were killed Old
Miss was their defense and they just I mean, they
were gas they couldn't tackle.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Yeah, I didn't like.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
I didn't like a lot of the defensive calls, like
they were soft on third down Miami third third downs
because they were playing soft.

Speaker 5 (01:49:39):
I mean, look, it's funny that the quarterback played cofee
so well. Chamliss got him there and they when he
had to do it. In the second half, they scored
basically every possession. They were winning the game, and they
just couldn't get a stop. They had these third and
tens to stop. Miami win the champions they get to
the championship team. But I mean, they just couldn't. They

(01:49:59):
couldn't got to stop. But it's interesting is Miami's defense,
which first half was absolutely beyond phenomenal, couldn't stop well
Miss in the second half. So I'll be interesting what
happens in this game. But I again, I I line
is high, Anthony. I don't know if you've seen it.
The line is high. I mean, they are really getting
a lot of respect Indiana, but I think deservedly so.

(01:50:21):
I seven and a half to train and I cannot
step in front of I mean, it's just number. It's
a very big number for it. To think about it
like this, Then you say to yourself. Ohio State was laying.
I believe nine against uh Indiana team is clearly better

(01:50:42):
than Ohio State. Clearly that you can also like it's
it's it's very reasonable.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
So well, yeah, that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
I like, I don't think it's a good magic for
Miami because well, Miami can run. The only way you're
going to beat them is if your quarterback plays out
of your mind. And I still don't believe him back.
I know he played well against against all mess.

Speaker 5 (01:51:07):
Well, I'm not a big believer he played well because
again I'm looking at you're talking matchups again. If I'm
gonna if I'm gonna wrestle like brock Lesnar and I'm
gonna wrestle my son, it's gonna buy a little bit
better success against my son. Going into Mississippi defense, he's
going to look better than against Indiana defense. And I
already know that. And you know it was a good matchup.

(01:51:29):
Credit him. He played well in a very very good
matchup for him. Now he is a much tougher defense,
and I do not trust that guy even a little
bit against a good defense.

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
Yeah, I'm on, I'm in the same boat as you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
I just don't think. I I just don't think. I
think it's a bad matchup for Miami.

Speaker 5 (01:51:48):
I I do. There was a lot of much a big.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
Number, but I'd still take. I'd still take in the end.

Speaker 5 (01:51:53):
There was a lot of money. I was going against
a lot of team. There was a lot of money
coming out in Oregon yesterday, a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
Of money, A lot of said, a lot of people
were all over Oregon.

Speaker 5 (01:52:02):
Yeah, and I And it's funny, I usually don't like
I the more it came in, the more I'm like,
I'm like, I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna keep
betting more and more and more on the I took
the money line in this game, and I only lived
like minus one forty eight, which more of us. That's
so you could have had they opened it like minus
one ninety. And it was just I never had a

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sweat it. I mean, it just was. I mean, that's
very nice to get a game like that. And there
was great live betting game too. They kept favoring Oregon
throughout live betting, which was perplexing to me as well.
They favored Oregon basically the entire way. I'm like to
be watching a different game than I am.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Wow, that's wild All right, let's let's do this.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Let's take a quick too, so we come back and
then we could dissect wild Card weekend the Five Days
of Football.

Speaker 5 (01:52:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
Jeff was expectedly with us that at our hot tail
that the Five Days of Football is greater than the
NCAA tournament.

Speaker 5 (01:53:06):
Yeah, I mean, Anthony first true false question?

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
You're true?

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
All right?

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(01:54:35):
He heard him last segment. He's the greatest. He's not
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can see he doesn't have some eight hundred number days asking.
He's just a great sportsman. He's a dear friend, and
he's the brain. It doesn't get sharper than the brain.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
So brain.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Let's take a look at wild Card weekend today. Two games,
Rams ten and a half, big number against Carolina in
the early one.

Speaker 5 (01:55:05):
You know, Anthony, it's interesting the first time these teams played.
If you watched the game, just every possible break, which
is with in for your team's need, went the way
of the Panthers Stafford selling interceptions on tip balls inside
the three yard line, fort down conversions that go for
fifty yard touchdowns. Every potential break went Caroline's way, and

(01:55:29):
they won a game by a few points based off
that line. Open nine and a half, Anthony, at the
opening nine to nine and a half still lean Rams
even at ten and a half. To me, there is
a huge class difference here in these two teams. If
this is a clean game. No way do the Rams
lose it. I can't say they can't cover it if

(01:55:49):
it's not a clean game. But I to me, I
think the Rams there is a total mismatch in this game,
and I think the Rams do win the game by
fourteen plus.

Speaker 3 (01:55:57):
Yeah, you know, Caroline's a great story and you know,
they're fun and all the things. I just I mean,
it's a class situation here.

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
So I'm with him.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
I'm with you, and even I guess there's gonna be
uh maybe a little rain and some wind, but that's
not going to deter that out the Rams offense, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
Yeah, I'm with you, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
This the game to night fascinating, right, it's a fascinating game.
So Packers Bears, and I'm curious you're to take because
then I talked to Jason Levatt, the former NFL wide
receiver who has a real opinion on the Bears, and

(01:56:42):
I can't wait to share with you.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
But how do you see it? First?

Speaker 5 (01:56:47):
Yeah, I don't have a real opinion on the Bears.
I think this game again, this line shows you the
respect for the non respect the Bears are getting from
the professional community. And here's a team that kind of
like Eli Manning and the Super Bowl had so many
horseshoes up there, you know what, I just I'd never

(01:57:08):
say anything like it. And while they have a really
good coach, I respect Ben Johnson quite a bit. I
just think the Bears team is a house of cards
that is fake. I don't like anything about team. I
don't like the quarterback, I don't like the defense. I
don't like anything about the Bears. Actually, I really don't.
Now they're facing a team that just has their own issues.

(01:57:30):
As soon as Michael Parsons left, I got injured and
they left. This Packers defense is in trouble. Healthy is
Jacob said, is the healthies he's been in six weeks.
I expect the heavy dose to him. I will say
that I thought Fly should come in right around when
it's that at a round A pick NodD again, I'm
getting involved in I think it's going to be a

(01:57:50):
close game. All the Bears games seem to be close,
but they've lost these last two final close games. They
finally lost close game to Detroit and to San Francisco.
I'm not a believer in the Bears at all. I
think Green Bay finds a way to win a close game.
For the game, not a game, I'm betting.

Speaker 3 (01:58:07):
You know what's funny, I thought the same thing about Chicago, right,
like that, you know, good story.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
They're another ones good story.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
I like. I love Ben Johnson. I think what he's
done with Caleb has been amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Right, you're really good.

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
I thought the same thing with their defense, and defense
is okay, it's opportunistic.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
They get a lot of turnovers.

Speaker 5 (01:58:30):
Yeah, they've got they've got every break to go their way,
and these things even out over the course of time.

Speaker 2 (01:58:36):
I mean, yeah, I thought the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:58:39):
So then that Jason Avant is a form of wide
receiver who I love, right, and and he really knows
his stuff. Breaks like film study guy. But some guys,
some former players aren't film guys. Jason is a should
be a coach. I tell him all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:58:58):
But where do you go to college?

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
That's right to your alma mater, Michigan.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Yeah, so all smart people go to Michigan. I'm with
the Temple. So here's the thing. He loves Chicago. Loves Chicago,
he thinks to the most underrated team in the Conference.
Of fact, he said he would rather play the Rams

(01:59:28):
than the Bears, which got me if I because I
posted the question from an Eagle standpoint, who would you
rather play? And he goes, I'd rather play the Rams
than the Bears. He said, I think the Eagles match
up better against the Rams than they do the Bears.
That with the Bears do up front, it will give

(01:59:50):
the Eagles trouble and will give Green Bay trouble, he said.
I know those games have been closed, she goes, but
they're a brought up the fact that they're going to
be healthier receiver to get doing.

Speaker 5 (02:00:07):
Fevers are actually pretty decent. I do like that part
of the Bears. I like, yeah, and I like I
like the Burden from Missouri is my favorite receiver room draw.

Speaker 6 (02:00:17):
I like that.

Speaker 5 (02:00:18):
But but I think that's one of the most outlandish
takes I've heard of my life. I'd go that far
in terms of preferring to face the Bears over the Rams.
To me, that's like if you asked and I look,
all respect for Jason Leavant, all respect, but I think
if you asked one hundred people, let's say NFL scouts,
NFL coaches, respected media people like you, I would think

(02:00:42):
it would be ninety nine to one and he's the one.
He's on an island, and I don't mean fantasy islands.
He is on an island on that pay and I
can't get there.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
I feel you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:54):
I got forty seconds, man, we just we just lost
the whole segment. There's Jaggs. Bill's Jaggs who you like? Quickly?

Speaker 5 (02:01:03):
Great game? I think Jags are the better to.

Speaker 4 (02:01:05):
Think Jacks win, Eagles Niners.

Speaker 5 (02:01:09):
It's the current numbers. It's six and a half until
we go to seven Niners.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Wow, wow, six and a half. It's insane.

Speaker 5 (02:01:17):
Chargers Patriots ween Patriots, but not a game I'm betting.

Speaker 2 (02:01:23):
And then Texans Steelers Monday Night.

Speaker 5 (02:01:26):
Yeah, I bet that. I like the stealer of the Texans.
I like the Texans playing two and a half. I'm
gonna choke on that one.

Speaker 4 (02:01:31):
It is all.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
We are done. I have a great week and everybody
we love you sell us are out.