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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bag for fy okay, why rough can.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Welcome to the end of wild Card weekend and and
I'm glad we're done with it. Frankly, wild Card weekend
delivered a lot. Didn't deliver March the old saying promised
an atlas. No promise the world, excuse me, promised the
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world delivered an atlas. That was kind of what we
got from wild Card weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
My name is JJ.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now let's get stuck into some news, because the big
news of the weekend off the football field was Dallas
Cowboys and their head coach, Mike McCarthy is now their
ex head coach.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He's gone.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He will not return as the Cowboys head coach next season.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You'd think he'll have some opportunities elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You'd think he'd have some opportunities to coach another team.
I know the Bears were keen to interview him, so
he might circle back there, but he's done. Jerry Jones
announced himself that McCarthy is done. So his contract had expired,
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and of course the team held those exclusive negotiating rights
with him, which prevented him from going and having interviews
with other teams. But he can do that now because
he is done a forty nine and thirty five record
as head coach of the Cowboys, but ultimately when they
made the playoffs, they just were unable to get it done.
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Seven and ten this year was never going to bode
well for him.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So he'll look.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
This is Jerry Jones. He'll look for his ninth head coach.
He's ninth head coach during the tenure of Jones as owners.
That was the big news of the weekend. Off the field,
they do say Jerry has already made some approaches to
Dion Sanders prime time, so we shall see what happens there.
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Just quickly, Mike Rable is the new head coach for
the New England Patriots. That was a dollar ten and
the dollar ten job salutes. So there you go a
couple of big coaching announcements across the NFL. On the field,
let's go way back when Sunday morning, I was keen
on the Chargers.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Now I had an.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Absolute stanker, a stanker trying to predict these games, and
it started badly. I was keen on the Chargers and
the Texans went bang thirty two to twelve. This was
a bad, bad performance from la Justin Herbert saved his
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worst performance of the season for this game, thirty two
to twelve. Herbert turned the ball over on four occasions.
He had those four picks.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
They got nothing happening on the ground. JK.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Dobbins only twenty six yards on nine carries, and it
was all about the Texans and mostly all about the defense.
The defense played lights out. They were sensational. They sacked
Herbert four times, they picked him off four times, and
they just made things happen. C. J. Stroud was solid,
one touchdown, one pick, two hundred and eighty two yards passing.
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Joe Mixon got going the longer. Sorry, I should say
that that game went twenty five carries for one zero
six in a score, and Nico Collins was really the
difference in the game. Seven catches on eight targets, won
twenty two in a score.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And you have a look at the.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Chargers receivers aside from Lad McConkie, who went bonkers with
one ninety seven and a score, you have a look
at the numbers for Quinton Johnson and they are Quinton Johnston,
I should say number one in white. He had zero
catches for zero yards on five targets. He just could
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not get it done. It was a bad day to
be a Chargers fan. But in the end, Houston thirty
two the Chargers twelve. Houston moved right along. The Chargers
are on vacate.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You're within Indiffe.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
The second game on Sunday, the AFC Wildcard clash between
the Ravens and the Steelers. This was one way traffic
as well, twenty eight to fourteen in favor of Baltimore,
and it was probably never this close. It was twenty
one zip at halftime, and in the end the Ravens
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were in cruise control from there on, with Lamar Jackson
basically a perfect performance sixteen of twenty one for one
seventy five and two scores, and Big Derrick Henry his
third playoff performance with one seventy five or more on
the ground. He carried the ball twenty six times for
one eighty six and two touchdowns, including.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A forty four yard rumble to the crib. It was.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Receiving by committee likely andrews Agalore. Rashod Bateman scored a touchdown,
Tylan Wallace Justice Hill scored the other touchdown, and Anthony
Miller sixteen receptions. No one had more than four for
the Steelers. Russell Wilson, You've got to imagine he won't
be back. He played okay, his numbers looked okay, but
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the damage was done. Nothing on the ground. Nigie Harris
had six carries for seventeen yards, and George Pickens came
to the party eighty seven on five catches and a touchdown.
But in the end, the Steelers are dansky. The Steelers
were turning three. They end the season ten and seven,
and they get Donkey lecked in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Baltimore move along, the Steelers can go home.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You're within Indefe.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Monday at Tripleheader. It all started at five am. Buffalo
thirty one, Denver seven. Denver just walked it down the
field and for a bomb on the first drive the
first series, and you thought, hello, Hello, what's going on here?
A forty three yard touchdown from bow Knicks to Troy Franklin.
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But as James Cook scored a touchdown from five yards
out early in the second quarter, the rest of the
game belonged to the Bills. So they were down seven nil.
They scored the next thirty one points. If you do
not mind, it was all about James Cook in this one.
Hundred and twenty yards on the ground plus the score.
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Josh Allen barely put a foot wrong twenty of twenty six,
two seventy two and two touchdowns. He also rushed for
another forty six yards. That was dominant from the Bills.
Disappointing from the Broncos. But they'll get better and better.
Their rookie returns next year a sophomore with his offensive
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guru of a head coach. And once the Broncos can
rid themselves some shed themselves of that Russell Wilson dead
cap money. They'll be in the ball game. But the
Bills way way, way.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Too good for Denver.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
You're within.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The hupast eight.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
The middle game was the Eagles and the Packers, and
once again the Packers disappointing down ten zerl at quarter
a time, scoreless at the half, and they.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Never really offered anything.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
They scored a late touchdown, but in the end twenty
two to ten to the Eagles. Jordan Love was so
disappointing through three interceptions, did not throw a passing touchdown.
Josh Jacobs tried hard eighty one yards in a score.
Every receiver for Green Bay seemingly went down with an injury.
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The Eagles didn't set the world on fire.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Hurts.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
His numbers look okay, one thirty one and two touchdowns.
Saquon Barkley was big as usual of two k sakorn
one nineteen on twenty five carries. It could have been
much more, but he decided to go down and play
the team game.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Late in the piece, it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Was Dallas got it and Jahan Dotson who scored the
two touchdowns through the air. Of course, aj Brown made
a particular novel or book quite famous. It went from
five hundredth five hundred thousandth most popular book to the
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first most popular book overnight.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But he didn't do much in the game.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But in the end the Eagles move along and the Packers,
well they just need to have a little bit of
a look in the mirror. You're The best game of
the weekend was on Sunday Night Football, And in the
end it was that rookie, that bad boy from them
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fighting Tigers lsu Jaden Daniels with the late game game
winning drive on the doink, the divisional doink for the win.
We were all nervous. We were all nervous. When the
kicker was playing with his hair, he didn't even have
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any hair.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But he walked out there with the game on.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
His boot, and despite how nervous, he made Commanders fans
all over the world.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He did this Washington.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's en, says Mike Tarrico, with the ruptured Achilles. You
could hear the doink from thirty seven yards. He looked nervous.
He was nervous. He kicked it into the upright, but
ultimately that bad boy ricocheted through and it was Washington
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twenty three to twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Daniels was a difference in the game.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He just was twenty four of thirty five for two
sixty eight and two passing touchdowns. He carried the ball
thirteen times. A couple of big performances from receivers. The
Army Brown ever heard of him? Do you have him
in your fantasy team? Eighty nine yards and a touchdown,
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and Terry mcclaurin was big. He also had eighty nine
and a touchdown. So the Commanders move along. They did
win two more games than Tampa Bay throughout the regular season,
and they proved they were the better team going to
Tampa and getting the job done. Baker Mayfield only threw
the ball eighteen times, they just didn't have the ball enough.
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One eighty five and two scores. Bucky Irving I thought
he'd go off, he was threatening, but ultimately held to
seventy seven yards on just seventeen carries, and Mike Evans
he tried his hardest as he always does, ninety two
yards and a touchdown and finally finally.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You're within indiffeir.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The Rams do la proud.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
They go to to Arizona and they get the job done.
But this game, unfortunately, was more about.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sam Donald than it was the Rams.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Twenty five or forty one touchdown, but he threw one pick,
he was sacked nine times, and he had a fumble
which was scooped up and taken to the crib. Donald
played terribly, His offensive line basically conceded and gave up
on him, and his head coach, Kevin O'Connell did not
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look pleased at all. It was back to back terrible
performances from Donald and it's going to hurt him. It's
going to hurt him come free agent period. Matthew Stafford
on the other side of things, he came out cooking,
ended up with two o nine and two touchdowns. Karen
Williams was complimentary seventy six yards on the ground, and
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then it was he Be with fifty eight, Nikure with
forty four. Cooper Cup made a big catch. Karen Williams
and Davis Allen scored the receiving touchdowns. So the Rams
move along and the Vikings have got some wounds to leak.
You're within, so she's all set up. I'll dive a
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little deeper later in the week, but the matchups are set.
So Sunday hop asst eight in the morning. Houston at
Kansas City. Kansas City currently seven and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The totals forty one and a half.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's a low number considering we've got a touchdown favorite.
Then at noon this will be a beauty. Don't worry
about the points, bread worry about the total. Fifty five
and a half. Washington at Detroit, that'll be a cracker.
The rook the boy from the Bayou, Jaden Daniels against
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Jared Goff and the Lions.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And then Monday morning, seven am.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So we don't have to get up super early, the
Rams at the Eagles. Now, the Rams have got some
work to do. They're not sure. They flew straight home
after their win. In Arizona. They're not sure whether they
can use their practice facility, not sure what is going
to happen for them in the early part of the week,
whether they just relocate early, whether they can stay in LA.
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They've got to figure some things out. But they are
going to Philadelphia to tackle the Eagles. And then it's
the Big One. It is the Big One. Halp aass
ten Monday morning, ring the Boss tell Amy a crook.
It's Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and the Baltimore Ravens in
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Western New York Orchard Park against Josh Allen, James Cook
and the Buffalo Bills. This will be a dead set beauty.
At the moment, Baltimore are one point favorites that'll flip
and flop, chop and change throughout the week. So they
are your matchups. Two games Sunday, two games Monday, the
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Texans at Kansas City, Washington at Detroit. Then Monday the
Rams in Philadelphia and Baltimore at Buffalo. Can't wait, cannot wait,
more than happy to turn the page on wild Card weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I had an absolute stinker. Did not know what day
it was.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
When it comes to trying to find a winner, pick
a winner and work out these games. Hopefully these four
divisional playoff games are a little easier, but what I
will do is touch base with you later in the week.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Until then, have a good one.