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Bad for fly Okay, run Ken. Here we go. I
promised you Divisional weekend would be better than wild Card weekend.
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Wild Card weekend was lackluster. Let's be honest. Even the
staunchest NFL fan would admit that. But Divisional Round weekend
four games, four outstanding games. A couple were off the chain.
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Let's go back to the start. The scheduling was perfect
for us Aussies. No early mornings. We just had to
shuffle the family to the side, just pushed them to
the beach or the swimming pool or out to the shop,
whatever the case may be. Find a way to move
him along. And I did that for the most part.
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And it was Sunday morning, a nice little sleep in
courtesy of the fam, and we're up in Adam, Kansas City.
Everything goes through Arrowhead, it always does. With Andy Reid
wearing his big red art smock, and Patrick Mahomes and
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that Kermit the Frog voice, Travis Kelcey and his global
megastar girlfriend. Everything goes through Arrowhead and Houston came. They
had a crack and they were dispatched twenty three to fourteen.
This game was about the defense. The Chiefs defense came
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up massive and it has in big moments. During this
two to three to four to five year run. C. J.
Stroud was sacked eight times, eight times, eight times by
the Chiefs defense, a phenomenal effort from them. Carloftus had
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three sacks of his own, and then there were singles
to Connor and many who Chris Jones, of course, Fau
had a sack. Wharton had to sack eight sacks by
the Kansas City defense twenty three to fourteen. Patrick Mahomes
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didn't need to do much in this contest, only one
hundred and seventy seven passing yards and a touchdown. Kareem
Hunt played his part, and Big Old Travis Kelsey. Remember
when they said Big Travis was overweight and he was
done and he was too busy chasing Tate to worry
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about scoring tds. Well, Tata was in the house, but
Travis was all about business. One hundred and fifteen yards
and this bad boy my home steps up, throws and
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he got it touchdown. Kelsey, of course it is Travis Kelcey.
He found the soft spot in the defense, turned sat waited,
Mahomes made a magical play and it was twenty to
twelve to Kansas City. They'd never look back, and now
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they move on. Now they move forward, step closer to
NFL history, one step closer to the three peat. Later
in the day on the Sunday, I think this game
kicked off around noon. It was Washington stunning the world Detroit.
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They'd earned the first round by they'd earned home field,
they'd earned the number one seed. But they got lit up.
They got lit up. They had thirty one points put
on them in the first half, twenty eight of those
in the second quarter alone, and then when they needed
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it the most, to make sure the lines wouldn't rally,
they scored two touchdowns in the last quarter just to
seal the deal. And this rookie, I've been saying it
for weeks, that bad, bad rookie in number five, the
boy who played for those mighty Bayu Bengals, the Fighting Tigers.
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Jaden Daniels, oh Lord. Two hundred and ninety nine yards,
two touchdowns, another fifty one yards on the ground. He
was sensational, absolutely sensational. And when he gets assistance from
his receivers like he got from scary Terry McLaurin, bad
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things are gonna happen. I get enough with McLaurin quit true.
Terry mclurin the race the clan. I've got alone touchdown
Washington where we Daniels. Terry mclaurin's playing big. Some of
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these no name receivers are just coming out of the woodwork.
The Army Brown again, ninety eight yards on six catches.
Ozzi Eklo the scatback forty one yards receiving, forty seven
yards rushing. Brian Robinson punched in a couple of touchdowns
on seventy seven yards rushing. Zach Ertz with a key touchdown,
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five key catches. It's all happening for Washington. Twelve and five.
Washington beats fifteen and two Detroit, and they're moving on
for Detroit. Hard to escape this one. Jared Goff three picks,
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a lost fumble. Hard to escape this one. Jamia Gibbs
was sensational. One hundred and five yards on the ground,
two touchdowns, rushing, another seventy receiving yards. He was sent insational,
But in the end it is all about Washington. There's
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enough blame to go around. In Detroit. Jared Goff will
get his Maybe even offensive coordinator Ben Johnson can get
his dialing up a double pass to which Jamison Williams
threw a pick, a bad pick at a bad moment.
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So Detroit season ends in misery. Washington's continues on. They
are through. Believe it or not. They are through to
the NFC Championship game. Monday morning. This morning again, no
need to get up too early. Seven am, you beauty,
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seven am. It was beautiful. I was up long, black
in hand. Kids are getting ready for school, and the
Eagles and Rams were throwing down. And tell you what,
speaking of coming down, the snow arrived and did not snop,
did not stop, And in the end, Philly got the
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job done, twenty eight to twenty two. And this was
about one man. I'll give a couple of others some love.
But Saquon Barkley ripping off two mammoth touchdown runs, a
seventy eight yard touchdown run and a sixty two yard
touchdown run to go north of two hundred yards. Again,
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you've all heard the audio, but Saquon is a different animal.
I opens to it and there goes into the floor
through the snow run. That's not Oh it did, Mike Tarico.
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It did twenty eight to twenty two on the back
of that that's all she wrote, Saquon to the house.
So in two games this year, in two matches this year,
Saquon Barkley has absolutely eviscerated the Rams. Two hundred and
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fifty five yards and two touchdowns in the first meeting,
two hundred and five yards and two more touchdowns in
this one in the snow. It was absolutely incredible. Jalen
Hurts got a little dinged up. He's a worry back there.
I sit in here each and every week and tell
you he is a worry back there. One hundred and
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twenty eight passing yards, no passing touchdowns. He was sacked
seven times. Luckily he had Saquon. Luckily he had Saquon Barkley.
If they fall behind in a game next week against Washington,
even though the game's in Philly, if they fall behind
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by a couple of scores in the second half, I
don't think there's a world where Jalen Hurts can throw
this team back to victory. It's a worry they get
the job done. Hurts his sore left knee, left ankle,
high ankle sprain, whatever the case may be. Thank goodness,
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Thank goodness. They made a mockery of the Giants picked
up Saquon in free agency. Nineteen games later, the man
has two thousand and three hundred yards on the season.
Goodness gracious, the Rams are honest, They're admirable, They're talented
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on defense, They've got some playmakers on offense. Not sure
how many more runs Matthew Stafford's got in him, maybe one,
maybe none. But they had a great season and they
weren't that far away from pinching this one. Stafford had
three hundred and twenty four passing yards and two touchdowns
in the snow. Karen Williams a key fumble, but he
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carried the ball for north of one hundred yards. Pooka
Nkua almost one hundred yards. But in the end three
key fumbles, two from Stafford, one from Karen Williams. That's
the difference in the ballgame. Plus that and the fact
one team has saque and one team does not. And
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then finally it was the heavyweight clash, the bout we
were all waiting for. The prize on the line was
a trip to Kansas City to face Mahomes and the Chiefs,
And in the end it was surprising to some, not
to me. The home team, Buffalo Bills did the job.
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They skipped to a twenty one to ten lead at halftime,
but in the third quarter it was all about Baltimore
and their ability to run the rock. So coming out
in the third term down twenty one to ten, they
get an early field goal from Justin Tucker, and field
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goals weren't gimmes and weren't given in those conditions either.
Then laid in the quarter, they run the ball all
the way down the field. They just completely take over,
being able to run the rock down the throat of Buffalo.
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They bring this thing all the way back. The Bills
get two field goals to take it to twenty seven
nineteen up eight, and then Lamar Jackson takes his Ravens
ninety six yards. He finds Isaiah Likely on a twenty
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four yard touchdown pass. They need a two point conversion
to tie it up, to give them chance themselves, a
chance to force over time. And then lo and behold,
this happens. A roll roll flip. It got it all
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the power shops. He had the two point conversion in
his hands. No he didn't know. He didn't. Mark Andrews
wide open in the front corner of the end zone
Lamar Jackson lays it on him. It's not the best
pass you've ever seen. It's a real, tiny, tiny bit low.
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But Mark Andrews catches that ball four hundred and ninety
nine times out of five hundred. It's not nine out
of ten, it's not ninety nine out of one hundred.
He catches that ball four hundred and ninety nine times
out of five hundred, and in the end, that's the difference.
That's the ball game. One team made mistakes and one
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team didn't really make any. Buffalo were pretty well flawless
in terms of their game plan and their execution. Josh
Allen didn't light it up, only one hundred and twenty
seven passing yards, only twenty yards rushing. He did punch
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in two touchdowns. He didn't have a prolific day on offense.
The Bills, but they forced mistakes from the Ravens Lamar
through a terrible interception to which target. I'm not sure
Lamar put one on the ground. Inexplicably, Mark Andrews the
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same three giveaways. The Bills don't give the ball away once,
and they win the game twenty seven, twenty five, And
they move right along to face Mahomes. They get the
rematch Allen versus Mahomes. I can't wait for it. I
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can't wait for it. You're within inteffair. So the matchups
are set as to other times. It's Championship Sunday aka
prelim final weekend in our part of the world. Washington
at Philadelphia seven am Monday morning, and then we roll
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straight into Buffalo at Kansas City at half past ten.
Philly are five and a half point favorites, which is
a big, big number. Totals forty seven and a half.
And in the Chiefs Buffalo game, the Chiefs are two
point favorites and the total there is forty eight and
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a half, which feels very very high as well. So
Washington at Philly, Buffalo at Kansas City were locked and loaded.
Championship Sunday or Championship Monday for US is coming at US.
You're within indiffe. Because of the enormity of those who
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follow and those who cover the NFL, there are so
many stats, there are so many facts and figures that
drop from these playoff games, and I'm going to read
a few out NFL on ESPN via x Andy Reid
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three hundred career wins I reckon he wants three hundred
and two before the season is over. I mentioned the
Chiefs defense, so these are their numbers via Pro Football Focus.
Eight sacks, twenty three pressures, a blocked field goal, and
only allowed one touchdown. They were on point. Kansas City,
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via bleacher Report, have hosted six of the past seven
AFC Championship games aka the Kansas City Invitational. Travis Kelcey
Travis Kelcey has more career playoff games with one hundred
receiving yards. He has nine than any two tight ends
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in NFL history combined. Those numbers Thanks to Hambo on Twitter,
what about this one? I'm not sure who do a
credit or who to credit this one. Two Mahomes or
Brady Tom Brady have been in the AFC Championship for
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the last fourteen straight years. Unbelievable. Unbelievable one here on
the Commanders talk about the Lions or some of these
other teams been good on fourth down. Washington have converted
eighty one percent of their fourth downs this season, fourteen
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percent better than Philadelphia and more than the rest of
the NFL. Eighty one percent of the time they succeed
on fourth down. Phenomenal. V nominal and with the Commanders
win and them advancing to the NFC Championship Game. Every
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single team in the NFC, except for Dallas, will have
played in a conference championship game going back to nineteen
ninety six. The Cowboys last made an NFC championship game
in nineteen ninety five. That's from at Adam Schefter. You
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may know him. What about my homes? What about my homes?
When you see it on paper, I read it out before.
This is what Mahomes has done since becoming the starting
quarterback twenty eighteen, AFC Championship, twenty nineteen, AFC Championship, twenty twenty,
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AFC Championship twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four.
You get the picture. From New Heights to podcast by
Jason kelce and Travis Kelcey on x NFL players to
rush for two hundred plus yards against the same team
in the regular season and the postseason. Saquon Barkley. That's it.
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That's the whole list. Incredible stuff. It was a massive weekend.
It was gigantic, it was huge. It was everything I
hoped it would be. I was keen to see the
lines get through. I was with the Bills. I'm with
Kansas City. Spoiler alert, I'm with Kansas City all the way.
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I don't care who they play, where they play, how
they'll face them, as long as fifteen's at quarterback, the
big man in red is calling the plays, and eighty
seven is catching the ball. On with Kansas City, I'm
looking forward to that these games this weekend, I might
try and circle back and preview them a little bit
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more in detail later in the week. Washington at Philly,
Buffalo at Kansas City. One has the upstart trying to
come into the rival's house and pinch a spot in
the Super Bowl. The other is a return to the
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scene of the crime. The Buffalo Bills at Arrowhead Alan
versus Mahomes. The best quarterback in football versus the second
best quarterback in football. You can have them in whichever
audi you like. Can't wait, Commanders at Eagles, Bills at Chiefs.
Thanks for listening. Hopefully I'll be back later in the week. Otherwise,
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enjoy the conference championship Monday morning. My name's JJ. Thanks
for listening.