January 28, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss which teams are going to make it to the Super Bowl after the Championship games this weekend. The guys also go over why Tom Brady is so salty right now.
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I mean, shouldn't we
be live from burrow Head? I mean, really that's the location, right,
I mean, that's the place to be this weekends borrow Head.
Who trademarked it? Yeah, someone had to file that by now. No,
I hope Mike Kilton didn't he said it. Oh wow,
wait a minute, this is gaining a lot of momentum.
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I've bet a trademark burrow Head because if that didn't,
he's a doe because that's a lot of money, particularly
if they win, and then obviously you just make it
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You know, there actually is a real Burrowhead in the world.
It's in Arrowhead. If you no, no, no, If you
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google burn just Burrowhead. The first thing, well, obviously the
first three things that come up is what was said
this weekend today. But Burrowhead holiday village in the United Kingdom,
in the UK of Isle of Whitorn. It's it's under
your ownership though. Yeah, very good and nice, peaceful, lovely place,
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friendly staff and people studying, scenery, cozy cabins, lovely friendly
hosts will be back, great views, good facilities, tasty food. Borrowhead, Burrowhead.
What are people calling? Hey? Can I get tickets to
the game? Hello? Well this is all yeah, but I
was told the game was in Burrowhead this weekend. I
want to get tickets. We don't have tickets to a game.
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The Wrexham game will beyond Sunday morning. You'll watch that one, Okay, goodbye.
I wanted something that they offer called soft play exactly.
The Headland Cafe complex open from the first of March
to the first of November. It's got a cafe, takeaway shop,
arcade and soft play. Soft Play is suitable for ages
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eight and under, whilst whilst the arcade has dance machines,
driving games, air hockey, pool tables and much more to
suit all ages. I like that it has the word
whilst in there. Yeah, it's just for that, and I
like soft play. The soft play sounds like oh when
your phone initially connects to your car and it starts
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playing like soft rockets of the seventies and eighties. Oh,
here comes Dan Vogelberg. I got soft play working in
my car, nicely done, such as the language of love,
and only appropriate to talk about it on a day
when many people were shut out of buying Cold Play tickets. Burrowhead,
you know this whole borrow Head story. Like, now there's
a couple of big things to make because we're getting set.
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It's gonna be a big night tonight, as we talked
for a long time about the a f C and
NFC title games, and you know, just to catch you
up on the drama of burrow Head. It was during
the end of last week's game where the Bengals were
beating the Bills, and they knew they were going on
to play in the NFC Championship Game. And they knew
they were going to Kansas City. They had figured out,
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okay with this game as a neutral site, No, we're here.
They knew they were going to play in Kansas City. Now,
the Bengals have had pretty good luck against Patrick Mahomes
in Kansas City and at home the last three times
have played him. Yeah, okay, we've beat in the last
three times. We're feeling pretty good. But then the Bengals,
Mike Hilton mugging for the camera on the sideline at
the end of the game against Buffalo, decided to welcome
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everybody to where they were going, and he said, and welcome.
We'll see you guys all in burrow Head. So now
burrowheads become this big thing all week long, burrow Head,
burrow and Burrowhead. Well it comes to a head today.
See Burrowhead comes to a head today where the Chiefs
Chris Jones walked off his press conference with this for
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reporters and the Bengals getting set for the game. See
all it burrow And he said burrowhead like three times
during his interview. I mean, Burrowhead has just taken over.
I don't know that I'm more excited about any story
this week than just hearing them all talk about Burrowhead
and just all the the amping up and and the
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and the flexing that each team is doing. Oh, you're
gonna call You're gonna call Arrowhead, Burrowhead and the Chiefs
and you're gonna do that, And and the Bengals are
walking around like, yeah, you guys are in a challenge
us Burrowhead Stadium. Right. You had Joe Burrow saying I'm him,
I'm him after he had a big touchdown against the Bills.
I mean, this is just fantastic theater. But man, I'll
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tell you, bur Throwhead is is a real fun thing. No,
you like that it takes on a life of its own,
and you got some of it his tongue in cheeks,
some of it is I'll see you on Sunday. And
then he got Eli Apple Chip, you know, being all
chappy and chirpy in his own world. And we know
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so many people want to go take their shots there,
so I mean, it's it's really going to be a festival,
and really I want to spend a lot of time
you know, looking at bold defenses. I've heard about my
homes and Borrow a lot. What do the defense do?
How do they get to the quarterback? Who gets to
the quarterback? How they would call it defense head if
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people care about that. But it's burrowheads, That's what people
call it. They may be calling it my home's head
after Sunday. Who knows that was that interesting they'd be
calling at the stadium after it. Now it'd be cool man,
It's it's it's just cool. It's it's got every every
little extra uiced to it. And once they start using
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your name like that, you've hit a whole other level.
You're Joe Cool and the cigars and whatever else. But
now it's all right, We're we're claiming ownership of your stadium.
Stop me. It's it's it's great theater. Now there's two
big things off of this. There's one point about Burrow
and then one that would be my only worry about
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the Bengals, right because we've already talked about the game
this week and the Bengals and and and and I
don't know how the Chiefs can do it with my
homes ding the chief So there, I know, you know,
you have you been riding that. This is a big
deal for you because you've been riding the Chiefs all
the way through the Yeah, well it's got nothing to
do with the Chargers. Documented I hate everybody. I mean,
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you can find you can find clips. I mean, yesterday
was the anniversary of the Bear Super Bowl win. Did
I shoehorn that into the show Man? Like I said,
I was asked just a fields and a number one
for Lamar Bear's g M. Warren Sap had this to
say when he was asked about No. But the thing
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about Burr right, The point about Burrow is he is
getting into a mythical place right now. Like Brady it
was in a mythical place. Mahomes is in a mythical place.
All these other quarterbacks. You've got great quarterbacks in league,
but Brady mythical, Mahomes mythical. Joe Burrow is becoming mythical.
He's mythical in the media with his teammates. I mean,
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come on, you don't sit here. I mean, I don't
think Brady's teammates will sit here and say, seeing Brady
head next week. But we're confidence saying see you when
Burrow head. That's that's their belief in him. You don't
see it. By this time next year, Joe Burrow may
vault everyone and be the biggest star in the league,
Bigger than Brady, bigger than Mahomes. He just has that
that it factor about him that very few people do.
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It's been a while, you know, Look, we've seen Mahomes
in the league for a while. He's unbelievable. He's an
otherworldly talent. But we've seen him now, So okay, let's see,
We've got somebody else coming up, and it's Joe Burrow
and it's winning playoff games and it's performing at a
high level. And he just has that about him. He
has that swagger that the senior year at l s U,
the cigar smoking after it's over, the lack of being
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humble and being very comfortable saying I'm great. I mean,
it's just it's some way that that's still endearing to people,
rather fact that it's polarizing people. He just has that
it factor, and we by this time next year, it
maybe hey Burrow is the most popular, the biggest star.
We talk about Joe Burrow all the time, and then
we talk about Brady and Mahomes and some of the
other guys. I mean, Burrow is at that level. He
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can make that big of a breakthrough this week and
in the super Bowl coming up. Yeah, I think it's
it's Brady until he's done. Because let's face it, when
we talk about a lightning rod, it's the would he
go away already? The people that are just tired of him.
When we've had this conversation for as long as we've
been on air, people were tired of them when we
started ten years ago. Jason right, would he just go away?
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He was thirty five, and he wondered that, like how
many other quarterbacks? One quarterback beyond the age of clinty five?
Before it's all done, Flacco, Ryan, keep on going. But
just the simple act, you know, you bring up Brady's name,
there's the faun reminiscing of Wow, what a hell of
a run, and look at the numbers and look at
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this and the super Bowls. Maybe you get a little
bit into the controversies, but all at all, he's just
known as the winner with Joe Burrow at this point,
he's he's that next guy up. But we've been joking
about it that it's a heavyweight title fight just like
you'd have on a pay per view for wrestling. Because
he's because he's three and oh against him head to head,
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he's a good interview. I'm not afraid to be a chapass.
Yet he hasn't gone over to the dark side to
where people hate him yet. It's a beautiful thing. Maybe
it's because he's in Cincinnati. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard
to suddenly hate Cincinnati. Boy. I felt bad for them
for like twenty years. Now, I can't really hate them yet.
I need them that Yeah, I can't. I can't hate
him yet. But the other part of it is this
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because that's that's Burt and they just think about that
rarefied air because hey, he's a great new quarterback, cuts
through the clutter. He's the guy. This is the only thing.
My only worry about Cincinnati is that their chip on
their shoulder that they've been running with this playoff from
the end of the regular season and oh we'll have
to Uh, we're we're the team that that because of
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what happened um on the Monday night game against the Bills,
We're gonna be the team that's got to lose playoff game,
that lose home playoff games. We're gonna have to go
on the road. We're not. We're the ones the NFL
is screwing with a coin flip. They have written that
chip on their shoulder thing awesomely right, And that's one
of those things that, hey, that can help push you
through a lot of things. But it's now evolved to
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they're confident into being really overconfident with this burrow Head
and on the road and and everything they have said
this week has come from a place of, Hey, we
proved you all wrong. This is how good we are.
We're the biggest, baddest guys on the block. And when
I can't tell you how many teams I have seen
go from hey, we're hungry, We're gonna prove you guys
wrong too. Oh yeah, now you see how good we are,
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and they wind up falling flat. You know, it happens
so often that you wind it with a flat outing
and here come the chiefs. Okay, you think burrow Heads here. Okay, Hey,
Joe Burrow you getting a little extra when we rushed
the pass and you try to make that take that
extra second to complete that pass. And and that's the
only thing that worries me is that this Bengals chip
on their shoulder. Confidence has gotten into supreme over confidence.
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And and and that's where I always see. Look, I
see the Jets getting in trouble all the time. Every
time the Jets say, oh see, not the same old Jets.
They lose five in a row. Oh see, it's not
the same old Jets. They lose that. Some teams can
handle adversity like that, and some teams can't handle success.
And this is a big success for the Bengals. And
now again all this week because Mahomes is dinged up,
the Bengals are the better team. Burrow is the better
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quarterback this weekend. Regardless Mahomes is hurt, Burrow is the
better quarterback. I don't see the worst quarterback winning in
a game. But this is the only thing that gives
me concern about the Bengals is, boy, they really feel like, hey,
we've had a sense of accomplishment. Now we're gonna dust
our way through the Chiefs and get to the super Bowl. Yeah.
I'm always a little bit leary when everybody's talking points
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are are really all one side and on a game,
and maybe that's how it comes out. But Patrick Mahomes
is gonna take the field. Andy Reid is still in
charge here, and you have a defense in the Chiefs
that had for as much as we're talking about what
the Eagles did, right historic, let's put them up there
with the eight five Bears and the Ravens and all
these teams. They had seventy sex, the Chiefs had fifty five.
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They can get after the quarterback. And you do have
three offensive linemen that we waited for the damn to
break last week it didn't. Who's to say it does, right?
Everybody keeps saying it about brock Pertie, So why can't
I say it about the damn Bengals offensive line. It's
gonna be this is the week Bertie is gonna be
exposed as a fraud. It's gonna happen. Okay, the Bengals
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three guys are that we're signed and and and forced
into prominent roles. Can happen off night too, Just kind
of throwing it out there, and Joe Burrow maybe on
his ass as much as mahomes. Wow, look at you Twitter,
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still fail to see a path for the Chiefs. But
that's the one thing I'm like, Oh, really, did did
we really have to keep going with this old bird?
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Did we really have to do this all week? Oh? Boy?
But hey, you know what fun for us? Fun? Now?
That's it right, It's a victory for us. The rest
of it whatever, As long as we're having a good
time within everybody else can beat it. Coming up next, Hey, now,
ex jets everywhere, we're getting new jobs in the NFL. Plus,
we'll tell you exactly why, exactly why Tom Brady has
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been so salty another big image of it today. Why
is he even so upset? We'll tell you it's all
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Burrow Hey, Hey, Burrowheads, a state of mind. Tire rack
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like that, But burrow Heads, we're all living in Borrowhead.
We're always should all all hope to I mean, to
walk around with that swag, the way he styles himself,
the way he conducts interviews, the way he looks down
and said, get those refunds, all of it. I mean,
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it's the perfect confluence of of circumstance and opportunity and
a man who is already wise beyond his years in
terms of playing the games. No, he's not giving you,
uh the wonderful world of uh the bull Durham cliches.
Not on the next level Borrowhead. It is a state
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I can't eight for this game. I mean, just realize
how lucky we are. We have four heavyweights playing on Sunday.
We have four fantastic quarterbacks, we have four fantastic offenses.
We have defenses that are either elite or close to elite.
I mean, this is some kind of heavyweight day we're getting.
There's no oh hey look at the little you know,
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there's no there's no giants to wreck this whole thing,
like like the Giants would have wrecked this if they
had one last week. Oh, the giants are in this game, Yes, giants,
forty Niners. Get the LT video out, Yes the fake punt, sure, yes,
give me the give me the Joe Montana getting sacked
by Leonard Marshall shures, shure. Now there's no team to
ruin this, like the Giants or the Vikings or anyway. No, no, no,
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we got we got the four we needed to get.
We got the four best teams. We're all this is
we are incredibly lucky. And it is one of those
days where, no matter what it's, you sit in front
of that television for seven hours and you get everything
you need because these games already you can tell they're
gonna be legendary. It is so much fun. Well, the
beauty of it is you, as you put it. You
don't have a giant I. You know, you could have
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gone with a no name, or you could have made
the joke from college basketball if you wanted to, or
I don't know, pick Michigan or whoever you want from
the college football plass. But the idea is that each
of these teams there are so it's the spider ing
effect of what do you get in terms of storylines
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wind loser draw. I mean, you can put it up
on the board and it's like a family tree going
back multiple generations. That's how many branches flow out of
this thing. As to what can still transpire in the
off season depending on the results of these games right
in San Francisco turnover in different parts for the for
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the rest of these squads of where they still need
to improve legend status for Mahomes and Borrow or brock
pretty that is all there. And your guy Jalen Hurts,
who some feel is still getting no respect in the process.
I beg to differ, but that's fine. We we all
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come at it from our own angles. So at the
coaching histories, etcetera. And borrow Head, Burrow he got seven
hours of fantastic football and lots of glorious food to
be consumed right that right now, the Eagles and the
and the and going. Boy, should we do something like
Burrowhead where we going to play at Jalenville where we
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go We'll see, We'll see it brock We'll see at Brocktown,
right like with that before Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.
Now I got all made from the Simpsons. It only
works if Hayman is doing the introduction for Brocktown. Okay,
that's true. That's true. That's true. We say, hey, we'll
see you in Brocktown on Siday. Brocktown. This is Philadelphia.
I think it's funner California where they had those commercials
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here with the Harris for with Rob Riggle or Jane Lynch.
Now Brocktown with Paul Hayman as the mayor. I'll see
in Brocktown. We'll see in Brockville, We'll see in brock Island.
We'll see you need you needed something like that. We'll
see in Burtieville on Sunday. Purdie Town. Yeah, they missed
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out on that. I think somebody should have. Hey, you know,
gonna give the a f C all that run with
with Burrowhead, not a let's get let's get to Bertie Town.
Burrow has nothing to like, you know what. Frostburg stop
bit my tongue there. You just I was like, what
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are you gonna say? You're Gonnattie again. I'll tide of
a barbecue in that place sucks. Frostburg's a f C
West Bitterness bird ends on a brisk and are delicious.
But that's about all I got. But maybe things will
be different than Burrowhead. Maybe be a new menu now. No,
trust me, Burrowhead sucks. That could be has always given
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it bad reviews that I don't know that it was
always the loudest, might ask come on, ye listen. When
Frostberg goes in producing the Chargers games, they come out
sometimes with an L, which is not the same thing
as a brisket, So I can see where he gets
always a W W brisket, but in l in Burrowhead. Uh.
So we'll have more on Burrowhead coming up in a
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few minutes. But another weird every day seems to be
weird for Tom Brady now every day because either you
get some player saying Tom Brady should retire, whether it's
one of his former teammates, whether it's in Pro Football
Hall of Famer like Tim Brown, and then you get
today's day where he is salt ty via text message
to former teammate Rob Nikovich. Now, they did this on
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on ESPN Radio earlier today, and you know Rob Nikovich,
who played one Super Bowls in New England with Brady,
was talking on the on on ESPN Radio about how, hey,
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Brady?
Is he going to play again? And he said I
sent Tom a tech saying, hey, great season, I hope
you're recovering. You finished well, you still got it. And
Tom Brady's responding was quote, not according to your hard
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hitting analysis, so barely Brady knows. Rob Nikovich must have
said Tom can't do it anymore. I don't no, no, no,
I don't pay attention. You're hard hitting analysis. Brady is
so chappy, he's so salty with everything. Now, there's a
lot to take away from this, just the fact this is,
this is what he's sending out. One thing is for sure,
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he still wants to play. You think this retirement thing.
He is only going to retire if it is foisted
upon him. And this is nobody wants him. This is
where Don Yee starts making his calls around the league,
and they're going, yeah, Tom, oh, Tom, Yeah, you know,
I'm gonna go out. I'm getting pedicure. Let me call
you back, let me let me crunch some numbers with
my team. I'll be out, like I said, that, pedicure
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lunch and I'll call you back. I'll let you know
what we think about Brady. So that's the only way
Brady retires if there's no interest, because he wouldn't be
this chappie, he wouldn't be this salty if he was
done playing, and it would be silent. He wouldn't be
picking fights, he wouldn't be doing all of this. But
you can tell that burning desire. He still wants to play,
and to think Tom Brady's done. Look, you saw the
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guy go through here with the very high profile divorce.
Physically he was not his best what he los twenty
five pounds over the course of the year, his gauntness.
I mean, like I always say, show me a guy
going through a divorce in sports, and I'll show you
a guy having his worst year, and that was Tom Brady.
So yeah, do I believe in the bounce back for Brady?
Of course I do. But you know he wants this
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is not gonna be I'm retiring unless he's made too,
because he's still salty, he still feels this. He doesn't
want to go out like this. There's no way he
wants this to be his last year. Where boy, remember
that last year for Brady with a divorce. He walked
away from the team for eleven days, and he came
back and he wasn't really good and the Bucks weren't
great and they got killed in the playoffs and it
was just And then there's pictures of Giselle all over
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with a trainer that people are saying they're not dating.
But here they are in Costa Rica, here there are
in Los Angeles. Does he really want this year to
be his last year, of course not. He wants to
play the only way he doesn't play as if he's
told no, but this whole I may retire. That's a
load of crap. He wants to play, Oh, there's no
question about it. And you know he's now just writing
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down the list of names he's going to semi on
the wall. Here's the the list of people that wrote
me off, discounted me, threw me away, whatever. While I'm
going through everything and we know only what's absolute in
terms of filed paperwork and such and the little glimpses.
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Otherwise it's all conjecture, speculation of acrimony and legal battles
and whatever else was going on behind the scenes. But
we did watch him physically, you know, have that emaciated
look which was emulated across sports and entertainment. I don't
know if you've seen this. I mean you can run
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through there's a lot of photos on red carpets of
folks that clearly hit the TV twelve method and beyond
uh with some of their looks. Either that or a
lot of folks got cheekbone implants this time around instead
of in their ass. But for Brady, Okay, Mike Harmon
apparently knows a thing or two about elective surgery. On
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let me write that down, okay, if I want to come,
if I want to surge demand, there's no implants here.
Give me give me your top three button implant doctors
right now. Go. Oh, you know what I gotta I
gotta call through the list. What I mean, it's right
in front of you. You're bringing up right now. I
think you're typing into your computer. I'm sure, but you
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play doctor. No. I I am watching the nightcap in
the NBA to see a Steph Curry throws another mouthpiece. Stop,
you have it saved on your browser. It is right there.
Just just just give me the on my long list
of things to do here. But second time out, Doctor
Cat plastic Surgeon is no one. By the way, Doctor Cat,
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doctor can clastic surgeon. Dr is the best Brazilian butt
lift around town. I think you'll wind up looking like
a cat if you go to doctor Cat. At the end. No,
I don't want to look like a catwoman. I want
a saucer of milk and I'll have everybody wants to
look at catwoman. No, no, no, no no. Remember that
that woman that had herself done up to where she
looked like to look like a cat, to actually look
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like like a cat. What was it like a half
away a woman? Yeah, Ali Berry, Michelle Peiffer, the catwoman
like and hit Julie Numar, Julie Newmar, My goodness, Yeah,
we got them all in. I think no, yeah, I
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think that's all the cat know. And then and what's
her name in the Zoe Zoe Kravitz, Yeah, that's it.
Get her? So that that gave us what seven good job? Like?
How about Alicia Silverstone? She was she was back girl.
Same thing. Na, there's what's a bat and one's a cat?
So it's too two different because she's bad girl that
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I walked right into that one. Anyway, Brady wants to play.
He's taken names, and he's all mad and like he'll
end up somewhere. You're telling me he's gonna end up
without a seat at the table, No chance. Well, look,
and that's the other reason why he's so salty is
because yes, he wants to play. But the other thing
is he's pissed because he has seen the narrative on
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him change from whoa Tom Brady could be available again too? Oh,
Tom's available again. Let me see, right, he doesn't. He
hates that narrative, and the media is powerful enough to
flip that narrative, and it's going to hurt him as
he's looking for work because the more people in the
NFL here ex players and and analysts, and you see, hey,
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Tom Brady looks washed looking at his tape. Here, he
was this, He was this, He was this. You already
are are are are. Whether you know it or not,
you subconsciously have the opinion that maybe Tom Brady is done.
He wants to. He doesn't want that narrative out there.
He wants a narrative of hey, Tom had a tough
year and he still has a lot of football left.
And when people are saying Tom's done, especially people that
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you think know him really well, like former teammate like
Rob Nankovich, Uh, yeah, that hurts him and that hurts
his image, and that hurts his chance to try to
come back and play next year. Now, you'd like to
think that teams are gonna go, We're gonna look at
the tape, We're gonna see town. No, but their opinion
is gonna be colored by exactly what uh they're here
about it was like, boy, we're gonna go out and
sign this guy. You were were already thinking that Tom's
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on the way down. People want him to retire. So yeah,
he wants to flip that narrative. So when people say
stuff like this, he gets doubly pissed because it hurts
him trying to turn from Tom Brady's an asset to yeah,
Tom Brady maybe done. You should all stay away, and
then he doesn't get to play anymore. Yeah, I think
that it's it's just gotten to be in vogue, strike
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a pose um to go through the Brady thing, and
it used to be people wishing for the demise, and
now it's because they're not in the NFC title game.
It's it's easy pickings. And did he miss throws, no
question about it. But it seems that we've gone out
of our way to excuse and discussed in a totality
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every team where somebody didn't have the same success as expected,
and we've excused it away while this receiver missed a
couple of games, the offensive line here or whatever, and
with with Brady, it's part of it's the wishing for
the demise again, going back to the people are tired
of talking about him after twenty years. So we we
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had that part of the process that kind of goes
through it. And so the little mistakes, the misses, the
interception in the end zone, right, that's the one that
stands out, was like he never does that. Look how
much she's slipped all right through a bad He didn't
get enough on a ball he was trying to throw
through the uprights and into the crowd. Right, That's really
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what it came. It's clear what he was intending to do.
And then he physically just didn't do it. And and
we's gonna be torn apart. And by no means am
I trying to claim he's the same guy, but to
suddenly proclaim that he's so much worse than all those
quarterbacks that people really want to shove up in the
back end of the elite conversation. Uh, they can give
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up on that, because now you're just doing an hot
take nonsense for hot take nonsense. Be sure to catch
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It is a party kind of night. Sometimes you can't
contain yourself. It's very early, but tysher, I'm gonna gonna
play those drops all I was gonna say. I'm gonna
play those drops all the time. Someone's deep in the
crates as they Yeah, yeah, I was waiting to I
think I was saying, I don't know, I don't know.
(30:34):
Suddenly I don't know you Now this is like a
murder mystery where you woke from all for me and
my friends to oh, I think you could all be
possible capable of killing someone. That's that's where that's where
you guys all I don't know, right, depend depending on circumstance.
Isn't every human potentially capable of that? No? Not everybody
is the only guy I trust? Is the saga? Right,
(30:56):
now only because he hasn't said anything in the last
thirty seconds. You going to him right now, Let's see
what he has to say. Say you end up in
a saw like scenario. Are you gonna take it out
on someone else or take the physical punishment yourself? How
am I going to end up in a sal Oh?
Now we need to make this happen. Is that he
goes into the What's going to happen? Right? He said,
(31:22):
I'm going into one, So I'm suddenly in a saut situation.
He's seen every Halloween known the man. There's no way
that guy's going into the forest not having it. Man,
I know certainly wears a giant bucket of garlic. Oh,
now that's now it's I can even doubly tell you
I will. I'm not worried about running into vampires, getting
away to everybody. Vampires, zombies, you name it? Oh, no, zombies,
(31:45):
maybe zombie you never know. I mean, you know, zombies,
but vampires, no vampires, were wolves. Now I'm good. I
don't I don't think we're gonna run it. Did you
raise the dead? Yes? What if you were hanging with blade?
Wesley snipes, Yeah, Wow, suddenly it's again. Aren't they making
a new one with him or trying to figure out
(32:06):
how to get him back into this? I think maybe
he owns the rights to the character. So it's like,
let's remake Blade. Yeah, we gotta put Wesley in it. Crap, really, man,
we went the Rocking Blade, all right? So black Adam
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too isn't getting made? You know? No, no, that is
that is not. That is not. They'll officially rename Arrowhead
Burrowhead on Monday with the mayor and everything before that happens.
Uh So from that game, from Borrowhead, we get to
the NFC title game. And one of the big narrative
surrounding brock Purty going into this week has been, hey,
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depending how the NFC Championship goes, he's playing for his job, right.
We've seen that from a few places, a few people
saying listen, Brock. Party has been great, but you gotta
get to this is it. You gotta get the super Bow.
If you get turned back into a pumpkin, forget it.
And and the forty Niners are gonna go elsewhere. Maybe
it's Tom Brady or somebody else next year. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Nothing, because the Niners already
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know what they're going to do. If brock Purdy has
a bad game, Okay, what's gonna happen next year? Brock
Purdy and Trey Lance will come in and battle it
out to be the starting quarterback with the forty Niners.
The Niners still want to see what they have in
Tray Lance. He has no trade value, so it's not like, boy,
we got Purty, we can trade trade Lance. If Brock
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Purty has a bad game, it would be his first
bad game. Suddenly everything else he did is out. You're
playing the best defense you've played. You just had a
pretty good game against a really good defense. You won
last week. Um, I don't see how suddenly he's playing
for his job. That is hot take nonsense. The Niners
have exactly set up how they want to set it up.
They have the two quarterbacks next year, and they feel
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like they're covered if they weren't going to have one,
and it was well, we we gotta make a decision.
It's a Jordan's love situation where we have to have
Trey Lance TWI million dollars or lose them or and
then I could say, okay, they're gonna but do you
do you really think the Niners could lose this game
and say, you know what, we're going to get Tom Brady,
brock Purty, good luck, go play somewhere else. A Trey Lance,
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good luck, go play somewhere else. They're not doing it.
He's job is not at stake. At the worst, he'll
battle Tray Lance for the number one job next preseason. No,
and look, they could go to the veteran option. There's
always the potential that the land ships and suddenly you've
got Brady back in San Matteo. I don't rule it
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out when I give it a snowball's chance, and hell,
at this point, sure, but that's still a chance. Still
saying there's a chance. As for tray Lance, I'd be
curious to go through all our talent evaluators to figure
out where he would rank amongst the quarterbacks coming out
this year. The hard part is that you only have
one year of football in what the last four, the
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last five, and so it's it's I don't think. I
don't think he's played it down since you and I
started the show nine years ago. That's how long it's
been for him. No, hey man, it's might have been
in another universe. But the idea that there would probably
be a pretty robust trade market for him based on
that dastardly p word potential and what he was. Because
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all the other stuff is some some cost. Pretty is
your guy. You're paying him nothing, man, And that's the
beauty of having both these guys. There's no money in
the quarterback position, which allows you to shop and everywhere else.
The worst it would be is he's got to fight
it out with Trey Lance. I mean that, that's it.
That's how it's gonna be. Brady's not coming no better.
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They've gotten to the NFC Championship the last years with Garoppolo,
Purty and Trey Lance. Still, I think they feel pretty
good about, Hey, we can make it work at quarterback.
I think they feel pretty good about that. Twitter and
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be live from burrow Head? I mean, really that's the location, right,
I mean, that's the place to be this weekends borrow Head.
Who trademarked it? Yeah, someone had to file that by now. No,
I hope Mike Kilton didn't he said it. Oh wow,
wait a minute, this is gaining a lot of momentum.
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if they win, and then obviously you just make it
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You know, there actually is a real Burrowhead in the world.
It's in Arrowhead. If you no, no, no, If you
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google burn just Burrowhead. The first thing, well, obviously the
first three things that come up is what was said
this weekend today. But Burrowhead holiday village in the United Kingdom,
in the UK of Isle of Whitorn. It's it's under
your ownership though. Yeah, very good and nice, peaceful, lovely place,
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friendly staff and people studying, scenery, cozy cabins, lovely friendly
hosts will be back, great views, good facilities, tasty food. Borrowhead, Burrowhead.
What are people calling? Hey? Can I get tickets to
the game? Hello? Well this is all yeah, but I
was told the game was in Burrowhead this weekend. I
want to get tickets. We don't have tickets to a game.
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The Wrexham game will beyond Sunday morning. You'll watch that one, Okay, goodbye.
I wanted something that they offer called soft play exactly.
The Headland Cafe complex open from the first of March
to the first of November. It's got a cafe, takeaway shop,
arcade and soft play. Soft Play is suitable for ages
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eight and under, whilst whilst the arcade has dance machines,
driving games, air hockey, pool tables and much more to
suit all ages. I like that it has the word
whilst in there. Yeah, it's just for that, and I
like soft play. The soft play sounds like oh when
your phone initially connects to your car and it starts
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playing like soft rockets of the seventies and eighties. Oh,
here comes Dan Vogelberg. I got soft play working in
my car, nicely done, such as the language of love,
and only appropriate to talk about it on a day
when many people were shut out of buying Cold Play tickets. Burrowhead,
you know this whole borrow Head story. Like, now there's
a couple of big things to make because we're getting set.
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It's gonna be a big night tonight, as we talked
for a long time about the a f C and
NFC title games, and you know, just to catch you
up on the drama of burrow Head. It was during
the end of last week's game where the Bengals were
beating the Bills, and they knew they were going on
to play in the NFC Championship Game. And they knew
they were going to Kansas City. They had figured out,
(03:34):
okay with this game as a neutral site, No, we're here.
They knew they were going to play in Kansas City. Now,
the Bengals have had pretty good luck against Patrick Mahomes
in Kansas City and at home the last three times
have played him. Yeah, okay, we've beat in the last
three times. We're feeling pretty good. But then the Bengals,
Mike Hilton mugging for the camera on the sideline at
the end of the game against Buffalo, decided to welcome
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everybody to where they were going, and he said, and welcome.
We'll see you guys all in burrow Head. So now
burrowheads become this big thing all week long, burrow Head,
burrow and Burrowhead. Well it comes to a head today.
See Burrowhead comes to a head today where the Chiefs
Chris Jones walked off his press conference with this for
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reporters and the Bengals getting set for the game. See
all it burrow And he said burrowhead like three times
during his interview. I mean, Burrowhead has just taken over.
I don't know that I'm more excited about any story
this week than just hearing them all talk about Burrowhead
and just all the the amping up and and the
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and the flexing that each team is doing. Oh, you're
gonna call You're gonna call Arrowhead, Burrowhead and the Chiefs
and you're gonna do that, And and the Bengals are
walking around like, yeah, you guys are in a challenge
us Burrowhead Stadium. Right. You had Joe Burrow saying I'm him,
I'm him after he had a big touchdown against the Bills.
I mean, this is just fantastic theater. But man, I'll
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tell you, bur Throwhead is is a real fun thing. No,
you like that it takes on a life of its own,
and you got some of it his tongue in cheeks,
some of it is I'll see you on Sunday. And
then he got Eli Apple Chip, you know, being all
chappy and chirpy in his own world. And we know
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so many people want to go take their shots there,
so I mean, it's it's really going to be a festival,
and really I want to spend a lot of time
you know, looking at bold defenses. I've heard about my
homes and Borrow a lot. What do the defense do?
How do they get to the quarterback? Who gets to
the quarterback? How they would call it defense head if
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people care about that. But it's burrowheads, That's what people
call it. They may be calling it my home's head
after Sunday. Who knows that was that interesting they'd be
calling at the stadium after it. Now it'd be cool man,
It's it's it's just cool. It's it's got every every
little extra uiced to it. And once they start using
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your name like that, you've hit a whole other level.
You're Joe Cool and the cigars and whatever else. But
now it's all right, We're we're claiming ownership of your stadium.
Stop me. It's it's it's great theater. Now there's two
big things off of this. There's one point about Burrow
and then one that would be my only worry about
(06:24):
the Bengals, right because we've already talked about the game
this week and the Bengals and and and and I
don't know how the Chiefs can do it with my
homes ding the chief So there, I know, you know,
you have you been riding that. This is a big
deal for you because you've been riding the Chiefs all
the way through the Yeah, well it's got nothing to
do with the Chargers. Documented I hate everybody. I mean,
(06:47):
you can find you can find clips. I mean, yesterday
was the anniversary of the Bear Super Bowl win. Did
I shoehorn that into the show Man? Like I said,
I was asked just a fields and a number one
for Lamar Bear's g M. Warren Sap had this to
say when he was asked about No. But the thing
(07:07):
about Burr right, The point about Burrow is he is
getting into a mythical place right now. Like Brady it
was in a mythical place. Mahomes is in a mythical place.
All these other quarterbacks. You've got great quarterbacks in league,
but Brady mythical, Mahomes mythical. Joe Burrow is becoming mythical.
He's mythical in the media with his teammates. I mean,
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come on, you don't sit here. I mean, I don't
think Brady's teammates will sit here and say, seeing Brady
head next week. But we're confidence saying see you when
Burrow head. That's that's their belief in him. You don't
see it. By this time next year, Joe Burrow may
vault everyone and be the biggest star in the league,
Bigger than Brady, bigger than Mahomes. He just has that
that it factor about him that very few people do.
(07:51):
It's been a while, you know, Look, we've seen Mahomes
in the league for a while. He's unbelievable. He's an
otherworldly talent. But we've seen him now, So okay, let's see,
We've got somebody else coming up, and it's Joe Burrow
and it's winning playoff games and it's performing at a
high level. And he just has that about him. He
has that swagger that the senior year at l s U,
the cigar smoking after it's over, the lack of being
(08:12):
humble and being very comfortable saying I'm great. I mean,
it's just it's some way that that's still endearing to people,
rather fact that it's polarizing people. He just has that
it factor, and we by this time next year, it
maybe hey Burrow is the most popular, the biggest star.
We talk about Joe Burrow all the time, and then
we talk about Brady and Mahomes and some of the
other guys. I mean, Burrow is at that level. He
(08:34):
can make that big of a breakthrough this week and
in the super Bowl coming up. Yeah, I think it's
it's Brady until he's done. Because let's face it, when
we talk about a lightning rod, it's the would he
go away already? The people that are just tired of him.
When we've had this conversation for as long as we've
been on air, people were tired of them when we
started ten years ago. Jason right, would he just go away?
(08:57):
He was thirty five, and he wondered that, like how
many other quarterbacks? One quarterback beyond the age of clinty five?
Before it's all done, Flacco, Ryan, keep on going. But
just the simple act, you know, you bring up Brady's name,
there's the faun reminiscing of Wow, what a hell of
a run, and look at the numbers and look at
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this and the super Bowls. Maybe you get a little
bit into the controversies, but all at all, he's just
known as the winner with Joe Burrow at this point,
he's he's that next guy up. But we've been joking
about it that it's a heavyweight title fight just like
you'd have on a pay per view for wrestling. Because
he's because he's three and oh against him head to head,
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he's a good interview. I'm not afraid to be a chapass.
Yet he hasn't gone over to the dark side to
where people hate him yet. It's a beautiful thing. Maybe
it's because he's in Cincinnati. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard
to suddenly hate Cincinnati. Boy. I felt bad for them
for like twenty years. Now, I can't really hate them yet.
I need them that Yeah, I can't. I can't hate
him yet. But the other part of it is this
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because that's that's Burt and they just think about that
rarefied air because hey, he's a great new quarterback, cuts
through the clutter. He's the guy. This is the only thing.
My only worry about Cincinnati is that their chip on
their shoulder that they've been running with this playoff from
the end of the regular season and oh we'll have
to Uh, we're we're the team that that because of
(10:27):
what happened um on the Monday night game against the Bills,
We're gonna be the team that's got to lose playoff game,
that lose home playoff games. We're gonna have to go
on the road. We're not. We're the ones the NFL
is screwing with a coin flip. They have written that
chip on their shoulder thing awesomely right, And that's one
of those things that, hey, that can help push you
through a lot of things. But it's now evolved to
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they're confident into being really overconfident with this burrow Head
and on the road and and everything they have said
this week has come from a place of, Hey, we
proved you all wrong. This is how good we are.
We're the biggest, baddest guys on the block. And when
I can't tell you how many teams I have seen
go from hey, we're hungry, We're gonna prove you guys
wrong too. Oh yeah, now you see how good we are,
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and they wind up falling flat. You know, it happens
so often that you wind it with a flat outing
and here come the chiefs. Okay, you think burrow Heads here. Okay, Hey,
Joe Burrow you getting a little extra when we rushed
the pass and you try to make that take that
extra second to complete that pass. And and that's the
only thing that worries me is that this Bengals chip
on their shoulder. Confidence has gotten into supreme over confidence.
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And and and that's where I always see. Look, I
see the Jets getting in trouble all the time. Every
time the Jets say, oh see, not the same old Jets.
They lose five in a row. Oh see, it's not
the same old Jets. They lose that. Some teams can
handle adversity like that, and some teams can't handle success.
And this is a big success for the Bengals. And
now again all this week because Mahomes is dinged up,
the Bengals are the better team. Burrow is the better
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quarterback this weekend. Regardless Mahomes is hurt, Burrow is the
better quarterback. I don't see the worst quarterback winning in
a game. But this is the only thing that gives
me concern about the Bengals is, boy, they really feel like, hey,
we've had a sense of accomplishment. Now we're gonna dust
our way through the Chiefs and get to the super Bowl. Yeah.
I'm always a little bit leary when everybody's talking points
(12:17):
are are really all one side and on a game,
and maybe that's how it comes out. But Patrick Mahomes
is gonna take the field. Andy Reid is still in
charge here, and you have a defense in the Chiefs
that had for as much as we're talking about what
the Eagles did, right historic, let's put them up there
with the eight five Bears and the Ravens and all
these teams. They had seventy sex, the Chiefs had fifty five.
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They can get after the quarterback. And you do have
three offensive linemen that we waited for the damn to
break last week it didn't. Who's to say it does, right?
Everybody keeps saying it about brock Pertie, So why can't
I say it about the damn Bengals offensive line. It's
gonna be this is the week Bertie is gonna be
exposed as a fraud. It's gonna happen. Okay, the Bengals
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three guys are that we're signed and and and forced
into prominent roles. Can happen off night too, Just kind
of throwing it out there, and Joe Burrow maybe on
his ass as much as mahomes. Wow, look at you Twitter,
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still fail to see a path for the Chiefs. But
that's the one thing I'm like, Oh, really, did did
we really have to keep going with this old bird?
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Did we really have to do this all week? Oh? Boy?
But hey, you know what fun for us? Fun? Now?
That's it right, It's a victory for us. The rest
of it whatever, As long as we're having a good
time within everybody else can beat it. Coming up next, Hey, now,
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Burrow Hey, Hey, Burrowheads, a state of mind. Tire rack
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like that, But burrow Heads, we're all living in Borrowhead.
We're always should all all hope to I mean, to
walk around with that swag, the way he styles himself,
the way he conducts interviews, the way he looks down
and said, get those refunds, all of it. I mean,
(15:15):
it's the perfect confluence of of circumstance and opportunity and
a man who is already wise beyond his years in
terms of playing the games. No, he's not giving you,
uh the wonderful world of uh the bull Durham cliches.
Not on the next level Borrowhead. It is a state
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(15:59):
I can't eight for this game. I mean, just realize
how lucky we are. We have four heavyweights playing on Sunday.
We have four fantastic quarterbacks, we have four fantastic offenses.
We have defenses that are either elite or close to elite.
I mean, this is some kind of heavyweight day we're getting.
There's no oh hey look at the little you know,
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there's no there's no giants to wreck this whole thing,
like like the Giants would have wrecked this if they
had one last week. Oh, the giants are in this game, Yes, giants,
forty Niners. Get the LT video out, Yes the fake punt, sure, yes,
give me the give me the Joe Montana getting sacked
by Leonard Marshall shures, shure. Now there's no team to
ruin this, like the Giants or the Vikings or anyway. No, no, no,
(16:43):
we got we got the four we needed to get.
We got the four best teams. We're all this is
we are incredibly lucky. And it is one of those
days where, no matter what it's, you sit in front
of that television for seven hours and you get everything
you need because these games already you can tell they're
gonna be legendary. It is so much fun. Well, the
beauty of it is you, as you put it. You
don't have a giant I. You know, you could have
(17:05):
gone with a no name, or you could have made
the joke from college basketball if you wanted to, or
I don't know, pick Michigan or whoever you want from
the college football plass. But the idea is that each
of these teams there are so it's the spider ing
effect of what do you get in terms of storylines
(17:25):
wind loser draw. I mean, you can put it up
on the board and it's like a family tree going
back multiple generations. That's how many branches flow out of
this thing. As to what can still transpire in the
off season depending on the results of these games right
in San Francisco turnover in different parts for the for
(17:47):
the rest of these squads of where they still need
to improve legend status for Mahomes and Borrow or brock
pretty that is all there. And your guy Jalen Hurts,
who some feel is still getting no respect in the process.
I beg to differ, but that's fine. We we all
(18:07):
come at it from our own angles. So at the
coaching histories, etcetera. And borrow Head, Burrow he got seven
hours of fantastic football and lots of glorious food to
be consumed right that right now, the Eagles and the
and the and going. Boy, should we do something like
Burrowhead where we going to play at Jalenville where we
(18:29):
go We'll see, We'll see it brock We'll see at Brocktown,
right like with that before Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.
Now I got all made from the Simpsons. It only
works if Hayman is doing the introduction for Brocktown. Okay,
that's true. That's true. That's true. We say, hey, we'll
see you in Brocktown on Siday. Brocktown. This is Philadelphia.
I think it's funner California where they had those commercials
(18:50):
here with the Harris for with Rob Riggle or Jane Lynch.
Now Brocktown with Paul Hayman as the mayor. I'll see
in Brocktown. We'll see in Brockville, We'll see in brock Island.
We'll see you need you needed something like that. We'll
see in Burtieville on Sunday. Purdie Town. Yeah, they missed
(19:11):
out on that. I think somebody should have. Hey, you know,
gonna give the a f C all that run with
with Burrowhead, not a let's get let's get to Bertie Town.
Burrow has nothing to like, you know what. Frostburg stop
bit my tongue there. You just I was like, what
(19:31):
are you gonna say? You're Gonnattie again. I'll tide of
a barbecue in that place sucks. Frostburg's a f C
West Bitterness bird ends on a brisk and are delicious.
But that's about all I got. But maybe things will
be different than Burrowhead. Maybe be a new menu now. No,
trust me, Burrowhead sucks. That could be has always given
(19:56):
it bad reviews that I don't know that it was
always the loudest, might ask come on, ye listen. When
Frostberg goes in producing the Chargers games, they come out
sometimes with an L, which is not the same thing
as a brisket, So I can see where he gets
always a W W brisket, but in l in Burrowhead. Uh.
So we'll have more on Burrowhead coming up in a
(20:17):
few minutes. But another weird every day seems to be
weird for Tom Brady now every day because either you
get some player saying Tom Brady should retire, whether it's
one of his former teammates, whether it's in Pro Football
Hall of Famer like Tim Brown, and then you get
today's day where he is salt ty via text message
to former teammate Rob Nikovich. Now, they did this on
(20:40):
on ESPN Radio earlier today, and you know Rob Nikovich,
who played one Super Bowls in New England with Brady,
was talking on the on on ESPN Radio about how, hey,
I'm trying to figure out what's going on with Brady?
Is he going to play again? And he said I
sent Tom a tech saying, hey, great season, I hope
you're recovering. You finished well, you still got it. And
Tom Brady's responding was quote, not according to your hard
(21:02):
hitting analysis, so barely Brady knows. Rob Nikovich must have
said Tom can't do it anymore. I don't no, no, no,
I don't pay attention. You're hard hitting analysis. Brady is
so chappy, he's so salty with everything. Now, there's a
lot to take away from this, just the fact this is,
this is what he's sending out. One thing is for sure,
(21:25):
he still wants to play. You think this retirement thing.
He is only going to retire if it is foisted
upon him. And this is nobody wants him. This is
where Don Yee starts making his calls around the league,
and they're going, yeah, Tom, oh, Tom, Yeah, you know,
I'm gonna go out. I'm getting pedicure. Let me call
you back, let me let me crunch some numbers with
my team. I'll be out, like I said, that, pedicure
(21:46):
lunch and I'll call you back. I'll let you know
what we think about Brady. So that's the only way
Brady retires if there's no interest, because he wouldn't be
this chappie, he wouldn't be this salty if he was
done playing, and it would be silent. He wouldn't be
picking fights, he wouldn't be doing all of this. But
you can tell that burning desire. He still wants to play,
and to think Tom Brady's done. Look, you saw the
(22:09):
guy go through here with the very high profile divorce.
Physically he was not his best what he los twenty
five pounds over the course of the year, his gauntness.
I mean, like I always say, show me a guy
going through a divorce in sports, and I'll show you
a guy having his worst year, and that was Tom Brady.
So yeah, do I believe in the bounce back for Brady?
Of course I do. But you know he wants this
(22:29):
is not gonna be I'm retiring unless he's made too,
because he's still salty, he still feels this. He doesn't
want to go out like this. There's no way he
wants this to be his last year. Where boy, remember
that last year for Brady with a divorce. He walked
away from the team for eleven days, and he came
back and he wasn't really good and the Bucks weren't
great and they got killed in the playoffs and it
was just And then there's pictures of Giselle all over
(22:50):
with a trainer that people are saying they're not dating.
But here they are in Costa Rica, here there are
in Los Angeles. Does he really want this year to
be his last year, of course not. He wants to
play the only way he doesn't play as if he's
told no, but this whole I may retire. That's a
load of crap. He wants to play, Oh, there's no
question about it. And you know he's now just writing
(23:10):
down the list of names he's going to semi on
the wall. Here's the the list of people that wrote
me off, discounted me, threw me away, whatever. While I'm
going through everything and we know only what's absolute in
terms of filed paperwork and such and the little glimpses.
(23:33):
Otherwise it's all conjecture, speculation of acrimony and legal battles
and whatever else was going on behind the scenes. But
we did watch him physically, you know, have that emaciated
look which was emulated across sports and entertainment. I don't
know if you've seen this. I mean you can run
(23:53):
through there's a lot of photos on red carpets of
folks that clearly hit the TV twelve method and beyond
uh with some of their looks. Either that or a
lot of folks got cheekbone implants this time around instead
of in their ass. But for Brady, Okay, Mike Harmon
apparently knows a thing or two about elective surgery. On
(24:15):
let me write that down, okay, if I want to come,
if I want to surge demand, there's no implants here.
Give me give me your top three button implant doctors
right now. Go. Oh, you know what I gotta I
gotta call through the list. What I mean, it's right
in front of you. You're bringing up right now. I
think you're typing into your computer. I'm sure, but you
(24:38):
play doctor. No. I I am watching the nightcap in
the NBA to see a Steph Curry throws another mouthpiece. Stop,
you have it saved on your browser. It is right there.
Just just just give me the on my long list
of things to do here. But second time out, Doctor
Cat plastic Surgeon is no one. By the way, Doctor Cat,
(25:03):
doctor can clastic surgeon. Dr is the best Brazilian butt
lift around town. I think you'll wind up looking like
a cat if you go to doctor Cat. At the end. No,
I don't want to look like a catwoman. I want
a saucer of milk and I'll have everybody wants to
look at catwoman. No, no, no, no no. Remember that
that woman that had herself done up to where she
looked like to look like a cat, to actually look
(25:24):
like like a cat. What was it like a half
away a woman? Yeah, Ali Berry, Michelle Peiffer, the catwoman
like and hit Julie Numar, Julie Newmar, My goodness, Yeah,
we got them all in. I think no, yeah, I
(25:45):
think that's all the cat know. And then and what's
her name in the Zoe Zoe Kravitz, Yeah, that's it.
Get her? So that that gave us what seven good job? Like?
How about Alicia Silverstone? She was she was back girl.
Same thing. Na, there's what's a bat and one's a cat?
So it's too two different because she's bad girl that
(26:12):
I walked right into that one. Anyway, Brady wants to play.
He's taken names, and he's all mad and like he'll
end up somewhere. You're telling me he's gonna end up
without a seat at the table, No chance. Well, look,
and that's the other reason why he's so salty is
because yes, he wants to play. But the other thing
is he's pissed because he has seen the narrative on
(26:34):
him change from whoa Tom Brady could be available again too? Oh,
Tom's available again. Let me see, right, he doesn't. He
hates that narrative, and the media is powerful enough to
flip that narrative, and it's going to hurt him as
he's looking for work because the more people in the
NFL here ex players and and analysts, and you see, hey,
(26:56):
Tom Brady looks washed looking at his tape. Here, he
was this, He was this, He was this. You already
are are are are. Whether you know it or not,
you subconsciously have the opinion that maybe Tom Brady is done.
He wants to. He doesn't want that narrative out there.
He wants a narrative of hey, Tom had a tough
year and he still has a lot of football left.
And when people are saying Tom's done, especially people that
(27:17):
you think know him really well, like former teammate like
Rob Nankovich, Uh, yeah, that hurts him and that hurts
his image, and that hurts his chance to try to
come back and play next year. Now, you'd like to
think that teams are gonna go, We're gonna look at
the tape, We're gonna see town. No, but their opinion
is gonna be colored by exactly what uh they're here
about it was like, boy, we're gonna go out and
sign this guy. You were were already thinking that Tom's
(27:39):
on the way down. People want him to retire. So yeah,
he wants to flip that narrative. So when people say
stuff like this, he gets doubly pissed because it hurts
him trying to turn from Tom Brady's an asset to yeah,
Tom Brady maybe done. You should all stay away, and
then he doesn't get to play anymore. Yeah, I think
that it's it's just gotten to be in vogue, strike
(28:00):
a pose um to go through the Brady thing, and
it used to be people wishing for the demise, and
now it's because they're not in the NFC title game.
It's it's easy pickings. And did he miss throws, no
question about it. But it seems that we've gone out
of our way to excuse and discussed in a totality
(28:24):
every team where somebody didn't have the same success as expected,
and we've excused it away while this receiver missed a
couple of games, the offensive line here or whatever, and
with with Brady, it's part of it's the wishing for
the demise again, going back to the people are tired
of talking about him after twenty years. So we we
(28:48):
had that part of the process that kind of goes
through it. And so the little mistakes, the misses, the
interception in the end zone, right, that's the one that
stands out, was like he never does that. Look how
much she's slipped all right through a bad He didn't
get enough on a ball he was trying to throw
through the uprights and into the crowd. Right, That's really
(29:08):
what it came. It's clear what he was intending to do.
And then he physically just didn't do it. And and
we's gonna be torn apart. And by no means am
I trying to claim he's the same guy, but to
suddenly proclaim that he's so much worse than all those
quarterbacks that people really want to shove up in the
back end of the elite conversation. Uh, they can give
(29:30):
up on that, because now you're just doing an hot
take nonsense for hot take nonsense. Be sure to catch
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(29:53):
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(30:14):
It is a party kind of night. Sometimes you can't
contain yourself. It's very early, but tysher, I'm gonna gonna
play those drops all I was gonna say. I'm gonna
play those drops all the time. Someone's deep in the
crates as they Yeah, yeah, I was waiting to I
think I was saying, I don't know, I don't know.
(30:34):
Suddenly I don't know you Now this is like a
murder mystery where you woke from all for me and
my friends to oh, I think you could all be
possible capable of killing someone. That's that's where that's where
you guys all I don't know, right, depend depending on circumstance.
Isn't every human potentially capable of that? No? Not everybody
is the only guy I trust? Is the saga? Right,
(30:56):
now only because he hasn't said anything in the last
thirty seconds. You going to him right now, Let's see
what he has to say. Say you end up in
a saw like scenario. Are you gonna take it out
on someone else or take the physical punishment yourself? How
am I going to end up in a sal Oh?
Now we need to make this happen. Is that he
goes into the What's going to happen? Right? He said,
(31:22):
I'm going into one, So I'm suddenly in a saut situation.
He's seen every Halloween known the man. There's no way
that guy's going into the forest not having it. Man,
I know certainly wears a giant bucket of garlic. Oh,
now that's now it's I can even doubly tell you
I will. I'm not worried about running into vampires, getting
away to everybody. Vampires, zombies, you name it? Oh, no, zombies,
(31:45):
maybe zombie you never know. I mean, you know, zombies,
but vampires, no vampires, were wolves. Now I'm good. I
don't I don't think we're gonna run it. Did you
raise the dead? Yes? What if you were hanging with blade?
Wesley snipes, Yeah, Wow, suddenly it's again. Aren't they making
a new one with him or trying to figure out
(32:06):
how to get him back into this? I think maybe
he owns the rights to the character. So it's like,
let's remake Blade. Yeah, we gotta put Wesley in it. Crap, really, man,
we went the Rocking Blade, all right? So black Adam
(32:26):
too isn't getting made? You know? No, no, that is
that is not. That is not. They'll officially rename Arrowhead
Burrowhead on Monday with the mayor and everything before that happens.
Uh So from that game, from Borrowhead, we get to
the NFC title game. And one of the big narrative
surrounding brock Purty going into this week has been, hey,
(32:48):
depending how the NFC Championship goes, he's playing for his job, right.
We've seen that from a few places, a few people
saying listen, Brock. Party has been great, but you gotta
get to this is it. You gotta get the super Bow.
If you get turned back into a pumpkin, forget it.
And and the forty Niners are gonna go elsewhere. Maybe
it's Tom Brady or somebody else next year. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Nothing, because the Niners already
(33:11):
know what they're going to do. If brock Purdy has
a bad game, Okay, what's gonna happen next year? Brock
Purdy and Trey Lance will come in and battle it
out to be the starting quarterback with the forty Niners.
The Niners still want to see what they have in
Tray Lance. He has no trade value, so it's not like, boy,
we got Purty, we can trade trade Lance. If Brock
(33:32):
Purty has a bad game, it would be his first
bad game. Suddenly everything else he did is out. You're
playing the best defense you've played. You just had a
pretty good game against a really good defense. You won
last week. Um, I don't see how suddenly he's playing
for his job. That is hot take nonsense. The Niners
have exactly set up how they want to set it up.
They have the two quarterbacks next year, and they feel
(33:52):
like they're covered if they weren't going to have one,
and it was well, we we gotta make a decision.
It's a Jordan's love situation where we have to have
Trey Lance TWI million dollars or lose them or and
then I could say, okay, they're gonna but do you
do you really think the Niners could lose this game
and say, you know what, we're going to get Tom Brady,
brock Purty, good luck, go play somewhere else. A Trey Lance,
(34:13):
good luck, go play somewhere else. They're not doing it.
He's job is not at stake. At the worst, he'll
battle Tray Lance for the number one job next preseason. No,
and look, they could go to the veteran option. There's
always the potential that the land ships and suddenly you've
got Brady back in San Matteo. I don't rule it
(34:35):
out when I give it a snowball's chance, and hell,
at this point, sure, but that's still a chance. Still
saying there's a chance. As for tray Lance, I'd be
curious to go through all our talent evaluators to figure
out where he would rank amongst the quarterbacks coming out
this year. The hard part is that you only have
one year of football in what the last four, the
(34:57):
last five, and so it's it's I don't think. I
don't think he's played it down since you and I
started the show nine years ago. That's how long it's
been for him. No, hey man, it's might have been
in another universe. But the idea that there would probably
be a pretty robust trade market for him based on
that dastardly p word potential and what he was. Because
(35:21):
all the other stuff is some some cost. Pretty is
your guy. You're paying him nothing, man, And that's the
beauty of having both these guys. There's no money in
the quarterback position, which allows you to shop and everywhere else.
The worst it would be is he's got to fight
it out with Trey Lance. I mean that, that's it.
That's how it's gonna be. Brady's not coming no better.
(35:42):
They've gotten to the NFC Championship the last years with Garoppolo,
Purty and Trey Lance. Still, I think they feel pretty
good about, Hey, we can make it work at quarterback.
I think they feel pretty good about that. Twitter and
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