December 11, 2024 • 48 mins
Richard Sherman reacts to Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals beating the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football and Patrick Mahomes leading a game-winning drive against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday Night Football to vault the Kansas City Chiefs to 12-1 on the NFL season. After, Sherm breaks down why Tedy Bruschi and Colin Cowherd are way off with their criticisms of the Detroit Lions and Dan Campbell's play calling, reacts to the Philadelphia Eagles drama sparked by Brandon Graham's comments about Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown's dynamic, gives his take on San Francisco 49ers WR Deebo Samuel's tweets about not getting the ball enough, and answers whether or not the New York Jets should move on from Aaron Rodgers after securing their 14th straight season without reaching the NFL Playoff.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know you don't doot Bowl championship.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
That should always be the expectation. All right, man, at
you go ahead. Welcome to the Richard Sherman Podcast, presented
by our friends and partners over at Brightling Metro. I
got to San Francisco forty nine ers, Brightling on. I'm
going to get my Seattle Seahawks Brightling in the am.
I can't wait to see it and try it on,
and I'm gonna wear it in that last week, last
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Thursday night game against the Chicago Bears, Mitchell, when we
have the Seattle Seahawks, that's gonna be a fun game.
But Joe Burrow, if it wasn't for them being five
and eight thirty three touchdowns against six interceptions in about
right thirty five hundred or so yards leading the NFL,
you'd say MVP, MVP, but you can't say it because
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a defense stick.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
They only allow twenty points today. But you're absolutely right.
Joe Burrow looks absolutely lethal and me, he even said it.
I guess they asked him pregame, do you feel like
you played better in your career? So this is the
best I've played in my career, and he looked at
he looks mobile, he looks ILOSEI ab out there. His
eyes are always downfield and he's getting his playmakers involved.
Jamar Chase with another career day. I mean, this guy
is going to be setting records here pretty soon. And
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you gotta love to see Chase. Chase Brown, a guy
I called early in the year, is a fantasy sleeper.
Rich doing his thing and then carrying some teams as
we enter fantasy football playoffs. But Richard, the Cowboys take
another big loss, Like, it doesn't get much worse here
for Dallas. I mean, obviously their season is over, but
how much lower can it go for them?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Mitchell, It's not the Conglo line, but Mitchell, it can
go low. It can go really low. And if they
lose to their division foals, if they find a way
to lose out But you look up and you're like,
what are you playing for? They're playing a retooled offensive line,
some young offensive lineman, so they're going to give them
an opportunity. Ceed Lamb was productive today both on the
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ground and through the air. Six sketches for ninety three
yards and a touchdown. You know, had a really cool
play on the reverse where it didn't look like he
had anything, and he got loose LEAFU at the second
and a half, So you're getting some production there. I
didn't see a lot. Obviously, their double team in Micah
Parsons the entire game. Ric o'dowdell has a really good game.
Eighteen carries for one hundred and thirty one yards. Cooper
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rush about about what you expect from Cooper Rush sixteen
thirty one, one hundred and eighty three yards, two touchdowns,
a one interception. But I don't know where you go
from here. But I'm not really that concerned. I'm more
concerned about what they do going forward. Obviously, Jerry has
said all the right things about Mike McCarthy, but what
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exactly is he going to do with them going forward?
You keep saying you support him, you keep saying he's
our coach going forward. You keep saying everything that you
would want to hear, I guess or not want to
hear if you're your Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't. I
don't know how they exactly feel about McCarthy, but they
keep telling me a super Bowl or bust, and they
haven't come anywhere close to a super Bowl and its tenure,
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so it sounds like they've been they've been busted, and
they're not even gonna make the playoffs this season. They'll
probably end up last in their division. So I mean,
the only place you can go from here is up.
You know, they have a game against Carolina, who's been
playing better. Uh, I don't know, I don't know. You
gotta you gotta have some answers. You got to draft better,
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you got to develop better. What do you do with
the head coach? I mean, we joked around about Prime
going there. Prime says he's staying at Colorado. They're playing
in the Alamo Bowl. I don't know, I don't know.
I'm sure Jerry will be at that game. Just some
something tells me Jerry's going to be at the Alamo
Bowl for some reason. Not Menchell, just don't don't quote
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me on this, don't bet on it. But I got
it feeling Jerry's going to be at the Alamo Bowl.
Say he's just there to see Shdor Sanders and Shilo
Sanders and Travis Hunter and all the great draft prospects there.
But something tells me he's going to see his good
old friend Dion on the flip side. Cincinnati five and
eight you know, still an outside chance to make the
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playoffs in that AFC, maybe still in that seventh seed.
And again, not many teams would sign up to play
against Joe Burrow, but they'd sign up to play against
Joe Burrow's defense. And so again, like I said on
Thursday Night Football, I think, you know, if it wasn't
for his defense, I think Joe Burrow would be he'd
be the front runner, and it wouldn't be that particularly
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close because he's just played his best football. He's played
like the best quarterback in National Football League this year.
And I'm sorry, nobody wants to listen to me. Everybody's gonna,
oh god, Josh Allen. You just see what he did
six touchdowns. I saw it. And then they tell me
I'm a Josh Allen hater. And oh another thing, Mitchell,
I gotta I gotta apologize because because I said Aj
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McCarthy out to torn acl, he does not have a
torn acl. It's a bad meniscus and it's a certain
part of the mendiscus that's the long term version, and
not the six weeks that you can shave off. It's lateral.
I think it's lateral is the long one medials the
four to six week one. But clear that up. You know, sorry,
Minnesota Vikings fans, I got that wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You've been reading the comments section, Richard mitchell.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I read the comment section, and I get I get
it right. I'm coachable, mitchell I can I can come
in and get things corrected. But I think again, Joe
Burrows playing at the quarterback position best this year. And
if you argue with that, then you're not watching the tape,
and you know his team isn't winning. They're scoring a
lot of points. They scored twenty seven a day. They
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usually score thirty plus, and when they score thirty plus,
he somehow still loses the game. But thirty three of
forty four, three hundred and sixty nine yards, three touchdowns
and interception. What more can you say? It's gonna be
fun to watch and go down the stretch, especially with
Jamar Chase. He fed Jamar Chase eighteen targets, fourteen catches,
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one hundred and seventy seven yards, two touchdowns. He's having
a remarkable season. It's crazy because I'd be really really
really really really really really really really surprised if Joe
Burrow is in the first team All Pro and he
won't be the MVP. So it'll be an odd year
because if you give it to Josh Allen, which is
what it sounds like everybody thinks is gonna happen, could
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he be first Team All Pro when the numbers don't
line him. Now, Now, I understand that you know team
stats matter an MVP, but they do not matter in
All Pro. And so when they go and look at
the side by side and Buffalo Bills fans, I challenge
you to look at the side by side Joe Burrow
versus Josh Allen, and I understand you would say circumstance,
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you'd say Joe Burrow has Jamar Chase and T Higgins.
I got you, he one hundred percent. And Josh Allen
has been doing phenomenal things with what he has just had.
Mari Cooper, Mari Cooper had a pretty good game this
last game. Matt Collins isn't a household name, but does
a great job for them. Khalil Shakir does a good
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job for them. Cook does a good job for him.
Dalton Kin kid when he's in that lineup, does a
really good job for him. But I think they're going
to have a hard time not giving first team All
Pro quarterback to Joe Burrow. If they don't, good old
Crazy Sherm is still good old crazy Sherman. I got
him roll. But the numbers are going to say that.
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The numbers are there. Thirty three touchdowns right now, six interceptions,
thirty five hundred yards on his way to a likely
five thousand yard season or so, Mitchell sounds pretty good
to me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, Richard, I know you're a stats guy, and you're
absolutely right. I'm Joe Burrow statistically is the best quarterback
in the NFL this year. But the big stat that
the team is missing is in the win column. And
they had their opportunity. They're gonna be kicking themselves all season.
I mean, they blew a game late, up ten in
the fourth quarter against the Baltimore Ravens, end up losing
in overtime, They lose on a game ending field goal
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against the Kansas City Chiefs, and they open up at
home against the New England Patriots and they lose that game.
I mean, all easily get games that they could have
won and flip this to eight and five. So I
think the story for the Cincinnati Bengals is You're absolutely right.
They're wasting an MVP caliber season from Joe Burrow because
they're unable to stop teams from scoring thirty plus points.
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I mean, they were able to stop Dallas and kudos
they got to win today, but you gotta wonder how
they're going to enter next season because they got to
fill a lot of holes defensively, richil Let's talk about
the game, you know on Sunday night that had a
lot more implications and it's Kansas City again. I mean,
this team's finding ways to win. I mean we were
joking about it off air, but well, how they gonna
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win next by a walkoff safety?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What is going on here with this Kansas City Chiefs.
They're twelve and one and they could easily have five
losses on the season.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What gives with the Kansas City Chiefs here, Rich Mitchell.
They're just winners. They're just winners. At this point. You
got to give them credit for being winners. You got
to give them credit for finding ways no matter what,
no matter what the circumstances are, they find ways to win.
And if they weren't back to back Super Bowl champs,
then sure you'd have a lot of concerns. You have
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a lot of questions, but with their resume and their
track record, it's different. It's different. They get the benefit
of the doubt, and with the benefit of the doubt,
how they win, the margin of victory, the spread, whatever
case may be, doesn't matter. They're twelve and one and
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they're cruising to the one seed with the game coming
up against the Browns and jamis I think they played
Pittsburgh again. They play Pittsburgh down stretch, that'll be a
tough game for him. But they've given themselves some breathing
room and Buffalo is also giving them some breathing room,
and they're gonna be a tough, tough, tough out And
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like I said before, they could be a team that
goes out in the second round in a divisional or
they can go all the way to the super Bowl,
and neither result would leave you incredibly surprised, because if
they went out in the divisional, you'd be like they
were living on the house money all year. You know,
they were living on the edge of the edge of
a knife all year. And if they go all the
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way to the super Bowl and win it and it's
a close game, you're like, they've done this all year
and they've survived and they found ways to win. They
found ways. They have found ways found ways. So if
they find ways three more times in the playoffs, what
a year it's It's gonna have people scratching their heads.
They're they're the great known but unknown, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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But as long as you got Patrick Mahomes, you got
Andy Reid, you got spags in this defense, you're gonna
feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They've won their ninth straight AFC West title. That's two
shot of the too shy of the NFL record. The
New England Patriots have eleven with Tom Brady and this
is their fifteenth straight win in a one score game
over the last two seasons. I mean, that's just wild
stat and it goes to Patrick Mahomes. Statistically, he hasn't
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had anywhere close to his best season, but they're still
finding a way to get it done. And you gotta wonder,
I mean, the way Andy Reid has been playing with
this team, and we're so used to the Kansas City
Chiefs being this explosive team, you know, throwing the ball
down the field, all over the field, Tyreek Hill, you know,
Travis Kelcey, all these guys, these home run hitters, and
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they don't have those weapons anymore. It's almost like they're
a time of possession controlling team and they're finding ways
to win down the stretch, and maybe that's why they're
in so many tight games. Do you view them as
the favorite out of the AFC right now?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
One back to back Super Bowl champions and the fact
that you're asking me if I view them as favorites,
it's silly to me, But I know why you're asking.
They definitely understand why you're asking. Yes, they're the favorites.
They're the favorites there. I expect them. They're gonna be
the favorites in every game they play, and if they're not,
then then Vegas is trying to take your money because
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they have done nothing to show you they shouldn't be
the favorites. Close games that you win does not mean
does not count the same as a loss. Guys, it's
not the same as a loss. It may seem like, ooh,
they got lucky. They keep getting lucky very consistently. You
said fifteen times and fifteen wins in one score games.
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That's something, and that's something other than luck. Now, I
was at one of the games, I literally watched the
Raiders bumble the ball, snap the ball to the quarterback
in a situation where all they have to do is
line up, throw the ball into the ground one time, bring,
bring out the kicker, and the game's over. Guess what,
Sometimes better to be lucky to go and if your
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luck don't run out, then at the first time. Three
peating champions in NFL history. But we'll see, we'll see,
but they're the favorites for now.
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Speaker 3 (15:53):
Let's talk a little bit about the Detroit Lions. The
national media has been talking about them a ton. They're
the most streamed NFL regular season game in history seventeen
point twenty nine million views. Are the Lions the biggest
straw in the league right now?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, they got to be there, must see TV.
You know. It's just such a great team. They're winning,
They're a great fan base, a lot of energy a
lot of characters on this team, a lot of talent
on this team, and a lot of likable guys, a
lot of storylines that you really just want to see.
On defense, you got, you know, their best defensive player
getting hurt and a bunch of guys off the street
and whatever. It takes. A really good, blackable defensive coordinator
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and Aaron Glenn, two really good safeties and Brian Branch
and Kirby Joseph probably the best safety tandem in the
NFL or right amongst them. And what more can you
say about Dan Campbell And he's going for it on
fourth You know, people are tired of this old, you know,
prehistoric NFL. It's just like the forty yard dash. It's
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like it's archaic. Like at some point you gotta challenge
the norms if you want to if you want to
be different, if you want to do something that's never
been done, you gotta do things that have never been done.
And that's what Dan Campbell is doing. He's not just saying, hey,
fourth down, I'm gonna I'm I just will just punt,
I will kick a field gold. I know that's the
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right thing to do. I know that's what they're expecting.
I know, that's what the rule books said. What rule
book it just says win. And and that's why, you know,
we we we see this thing that Teddy Bruski says.
And I got a lot of respect for Teddy Bruski.
Played the game right, played that game at a high
level one super bowls. Just just stop, Teddy, just stop,
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because because I wouldn't want you on my sideline thinking
like that, Oh whoa, whoa you you you people, I mean,
you gotta you gotta you gotta act like winners. Act
like winners. They're twelve and one, like you gotta start
start stop playing like you're your bite knee kept if
that's their culture, and that's what they built, and they
feel like underdogs and they play well, and they got
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a bunch of guys who believe in it. What doesn't
matter to you? What does it matter to you? How
they get it done? Now, it's how you win. Hey,
So if he would have just kicked the field goal
on on fourth and one and then Green Bay drove
down the field and scored a touchdown, you would have
been like, well, they lost the right way. You know,
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they made the right decision, even though they lost. No,
he's playing winning football and his team loves it, and
he loves it like I have a problem when people
have a problem with something that isn't a problem, like
when somebody's getting that rouled up about somebody else's culture
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because it's different and that this this applies to a
lot of things in life, and I'm sorry, guys, that's
just how I was raised. Different to me. It's fine.
I don't care what. You can wear your pajamas inside out,
you can wear you can you can dance to this
kind of music, be off beat, on beat. You can
be red, green, purple, yellow, orange. You could believe in this,
you could believe in in a cloud as your savior.
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It's fine. It's fine. Look run your race. I'm gonna
run mine even if I don't agree with it. Even
if I don't, I'm not gonna be taken aback by
this culture. Well that Dan Campbell has built I'm impressed by,
and I think a lot of coaches are taking notes,
and a lot of his coaches, Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn
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when they go get hit up coaching opportunities, they're going
to take parts of this culture and spread them throughout
the league. That's what happens when you win. People want
what Dan Campbell has so Teddy Bruski said in New
England and played the game one way and had one
way of seeing it. That's enough. That's enough. Like start
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playing like it, Stop playing like you're on top? What
does that even mean? The only team that's on top,
the only team that's really been winning over the last
three or four years is the Kansassee Chiefs. They one
Matthew Stafford and the Rams won one. Tom Brady won one.
What is their culture? Are they doing things acting like
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they're on top and playing like it? Like no, like
get out of here, like I just that just irks me,
Like there can be no evolution in this game, there
can be no change, supposed to just say the same. Hey,
just vanilla routine. I should be able to predict what
they're gonna do, right, How about being unpredictable is a
different style and it's working.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
They're twelve and one, Richard. This is exactly who and
what Detroit needed. This team was stuck in a perpetual
hamster wheel of horrendousness. You know, for thirty forty fifty years,
this team has struggled to be even remotely decent, let
alone win a playoff game. And you're absolutely right. I mean,
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what Detroit is and what Dan Campbell is their market destructors,
their industry destructors. Richard, you played in San Francis, go
the Bay Area, home to Silicon Valley. You know the
startup set make it that VCS invest in are the
ones that are the best destructors in a set market.
The Detroit Lions and Dan Campbell are just that. And
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if they were a startup I guarantee you there'd be
a shit ton of vcs investing in the way they
approached this game. And we saw it too. With friend
of the Volume Colin Coward called out the Detroit Lions.
He complemented the Detroit Lions as well, but he also
called him out with them being too aggressive. He said,
you don't see this from the Kansas City Chiefs. You
don't see this from the San Francisco forty nine, you
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don't see this from the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like you said, Richard, it is there's.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Only one team out of those three that's won a
Super Bowl in the last twenty years. But on top
of that, Richard, you know how de moralizing it is
when you're going up against a team that is already
better than you, and you hold them on third down
and it's fourth and one, fourth and two. All right,
we're gonna get him off the field, and then their
offense comes back on and picks up another first down.
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I mean, Detroit's gonna be criticized for going out for
it on with forty three seconds left, but they were
four and five through the game on four thouns. Again,
this team, Richard, they're built for success. They're hungry, and
they look to just trample teams and take the soul
right out of them, and that's what they've been doing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I just don't like when people comment on things that work,
but because it's out of the norm, it's something that
you're not used to, Like he's too aggressive. They get
out of here when it stops working, or when teams
get put out doing it exactly like you say, dude,
and they put in the situations they kick in the
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situation you're like, oh, man, they probably should have went
for it there because it didn't work. Like are they
You're like, hey, that's a great job because it worked.
Like you're just a critic. So at the end of
the day, you're gonna be right either way. Hey, hey,
eventually it's gonna come to by you in the butt.
And if they win the Super Bowl, you're gonna turn around,
Colin and you're gonna say, well, it's a good thing
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they were aggressive. That's what won them to Super Bowl.
Every team should be aggressive. Like that's what I hate
about it because it's these are the same guys that
will say a guy is terrible one day, and then
after the guy has consecutive three hundred yard game they'll
tell you, I told you how Grady was. It's like,
what are we talking about, Like, get out of here.
He's too aggressive. He's too aggressive. It's too aggressive. When
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it does not work, then you criticize. Hey, if they
get stopped and lose, you say, might be a hair aggressive,
Like maybe you need to tweak that, Like maybe it
doesn't work in the playoffs, But right now it's working,
and it's worked all season long, and it's worked last season.
So he's trying to get his team somewhere they have
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never been. So they're doing things that have never been done.
Maybe this is their way of skinning the cat, this
is their way getting to a championship and winning a
Super Bowl and if they get it done like that,
at the end of the day, you could still criticize
them and say, I don't like this style. That's okay,
you're not coaching it. You don't got to sit there
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and coach, and I hope you never get a team
because y'all will get sent home every year because you're
soft and not aggressive, and football is an aggressive sport.
You have to make hard choices. If you go by
the book and go by the standard and go by oh,
what's predictable, then you lose. You talk to Andy Reid
in Patrick Mahomes, they do go for it on fourth
down quite a bit, quite a bit. They go for
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two random situations like don't sit there and act like
the Kansas City Chiefs have done this without being aggressive
on fourth down. They have, they have many times. And
we can talk about the Philadelphia Eagles and the push push.
They're another winning team that goes forward on fourth down
and what they're tending two, Like, there's a lot of
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teams that punt in these situations that don't go forward
on fourth down. That's what they're going to be. Picking
it in the top five at the National Football League's Draft,
So congratulations you're doing it the way Colin wants it done.
See how that's working out, Richard.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Let's talk about some drama in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You know today.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't know what it is, man, I don't know
what it is about Monday in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But let's start with debo.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
San Francisco forty nine ers fresh off a win against
this the Chicago Bears, looking to turn things around, and
we see Deebo tweet out today not struggling at all,
just not getting the ball.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Do you view this as a big deal in San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
No, No, I do don't. I don't view it as
a big deal because he's telling the truth. Because you know,
you try to address the drama, you try to address
the rumors and all this nonsense. And that's what he did.
That's why these social media platforms can be a gift
and a curse because you know, it's always up for interpretation.
What he's saying is he's not getting the ball, but
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he's not upset, he's not frustrating, he's not struggling, saying
if he got the ball and more or he'd be
able to make more of an impact. He had two
catches for twenty two yards. He had three targets on
the day. That's that's you know, that's the truth. Would
anybody be frustrated? Yeah, I mean you saw aj Brown
and Devonte Smith get frustrated in the game they were
winning because they weren't getting targeted and weren't getting the ball,
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and the quarterback was literally looking at him watching them
be wide open and not throwing on the ball. And
I told Eagles fans, don't get me started. Don't get
me started, Eagles fans, because you guys, again, I read
the comments, and you guys get into a place where
you're you know, you're you're saying I'm not respecting you,
and I'm not. I don't see how great you're doing
in Philly, and I do. It's a talented team. What
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I said is your very sat Quan reliant. If Saquon
has a bad game at the wrong time, you guys,
you guys do not have a way to overcome that.
Not because you don't have an immensely talented team on
both sides of the football. You do. But Jalen hurts
for some reason. I do not know why he's not
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seeing the field like he has in the past. He's
not seeing it, and unless he does see it, it's
gonna it's gonna be tough. But no, I don't think
this is a big dig deal about the Deepo saying
that he's frustrated he hasn't gotten a lot of targets.
He hasn't gotten a lot of stuff to go his
way right now. And if he got you know, if
he makes an impact this Thursday and has one hundred
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and forty yards receiving and you know, runs the ball
for a touchdown or two, I'm sure this will all
go away and everybody will be like, yeah, yeah, you know,
it is what it is. But it's just one of
those seasons. They're having an off year. They're having a
bit of a down year. There's what five and seven
now are six and seven, and people need something to
talk about, and this is what they're gonna talk about.
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You know, is just the last season, Debo's last season
with the forty nine ers. I doubt it. I doubt it,
But what do I know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I just find it weird, man.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean, here they go, they pray, they pay Brandon
I who call this money in the offseason, and obviously
they got Debo in house, who's by all accounts an
absolute stud and a menace with the ball in his hands.
The Yak King I believe if you want to call
him that now. But Richard, even when Brandon Ayuk was healthy,
he wasn't getting the huge amount of targets, and neither
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is Deebo. This is going to our guy third in Juwan,
Juwan Jennings. I mean, Juwan Jennings is rising to the occasion.
What do you think it is though about brock Purty
not you think it's scheme or do you think it's
just he likes a bigger receiver.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
To throw to. Well, I mean he just got a
great rapport with Juwan, and Juwan's a great separator. You know,
if you're a receiver that's consistent on third down, it's
because you can separate, and you can separate in a
really great way. And Juwan could get open in the
phone booth. You know, Brandon is more of a deep threat,
and he had a good one hundred and forty yard
game before he got injured. It's just a weird year,
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you know, That's the only way to put it. I
don't think they trust offensive line to hold up, especially
what Trent injured right now, teams have packed the inside
and that's a lot of where Deebo has gotten done.
Most of his damage is taking slint routes to the house,
taking the screens and getting out of there. I think
a lot of times they're starting to snip out the screens,
snip out the runs, the jet sweeps that they've given
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a debo. Even when he's in the backfield and they
try to give him little zone reads. It's not working
out because they're just they just understand it. You know,
they're putting him in a position that it's becoming a
bit predictable and people are making plays. And so I
don't think it's a big deal. I think Kyle's going
to get it figured out. And I think if it
was a big deal, Kyle would have came out and
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said something about it. He hasn't, So it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Let's let's talk a little bit more about the Philadelphia Eagles,
because I mean, we read the comments. Section already addressed
the issue between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. And for
those that don't know, this all started with Brandon Graham.
I guess he was on a local sports talk radio
station and he started Aaron some dirty laundry, and from
the locker room, he goes, I know paraphrasing here, but
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I know Hurts is trying and aj Brown could be
better with how a response to things. They were friends,
but things have changed. He later backtrapped and said, I
just assumed I had it all wrong. And how people
are going to run with? What with that part? What
do you make of it? As a you know, if
one of your teammates went on air and it sounds
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like Brandon Graham didn't mean to do this, But what
do you make of it when a teammate goes out
and airs dirty laundry, especially when you're a two lost
team competing for the one seed.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, I don't think he was trying to say it
like that. I think that's what's tough about doing live
TV or live radio or live anything. You can't say, hey,
cut that out. No, no, no, I misspoke right there,
because it is what it is. You know, you're you're
you're speaking, you're talking fast. We do it every week now,
so you get used to it. Your brain functions really quick.
You know the consequences if you if you slip up,
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if you have a misstep, if you misspeak, so you
try to quickly correct it. You try to say, hey,
my bad, my bad, my bad. I meant to say
A B and C. And Brandon, I don't think he
meant to air the dirty laundry. He's a veteran player,
he's been in this league alone time, he's played for
a long time. He's done a lot of interviews, so
you know that was probably him just trying to be honest,
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show a bit of transparency. But I mean, you don't
need Brandon Graham to say what you can see. Everybody
saw AJ Brown's interview, and he didn't take direct shots
at Jalen Hurts, but he was frustrated. Not everybody remembers
last year at the end of the season when Aj
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Brown got hurt, and you know, there were rumors that
he could have came back, maybe he could have came back,
maybe he could have played one more game and came
back for the playoffs, and he didn't and he just
ended the season. And then you know, there were rumors
that he was frustrated about his contract and he got
a new contract. And after he got the new contract,
he's come back and everything all is healed, all is well.
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Nobody remembers that he was pretty much done. You know,
people were wondering if he was even going to come
back to Philly after at the end of last season
and how it went. And now we're getting to the
second half of the season again and Jalen Hurts is
kind of looking a little bit different than he did
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in the first half of the season. You see, you know,
the people are making cutups of the routes that Davante
and aj are running where they're open and they're not
getting the ball. There's even plays where he's open and
Jaylen's looking at him and he's not letting the ball go.
I don't know if he's gun shy. I don't know
if he's just you know, trying to make sure he
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doesn't mess it up, or he just knows, Hey, we
can lean on a run game. I don't want to
throw interceptions. I don't want to put the ball on
harm's way, so I'm gonna be safe whatever it is.
They're winning games, so it's working, but your star receiver
is getting frustrated. Going into the playoffs isn't a great thing.
And when they're talking about they need to improve the
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past game, and you know, things need to be seen better,
and everybody's going to say the right things. But when
they're saying these things this frustrated after a win, it
just seems like if somehow they would have lost that game,
or somehow they lose this next game against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
I'd want to hear that interview after that game. I'd
want to hear what's said, because that would tell me
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a lot about what's going on now. Brandon Graham may
not know anything, you know, he may be friends or
both of them. He may not even talk to either
on of them. I don't know what their locker room
looks like. But he backtracked and said, you know, he doesn't.
You know, maybe he just was assuming. That's fine, but
eventually the truth is going to come to light.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
The New York Jets, I mean, Richard, they've got the
longest active streak in North American sports without a playoff
berth right now, at fourteen seasons. It's wild to think
that this team is a bottom dweller of the league
right now, especially everything they've put into these last couple
of years, bringing an Aaron Rights, bringing in all of
his buddies from the Green Bay Packers, including DeVonta Adams,
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and now we're starting to see, you know, the frustration,
and you gotta love the classiness of Garrett Wilson and
the candor. But he basically said that the Jets are
stuck with this losing gene, that they just can't pull
off wins, you know, late in the fourth quarter in
a game that they very easily could have won against
the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
What do you make of this, Richard?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Is it time for the Jets to move on and
close the chapter on Aaron Rodgers after the season.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't know. He threw for three hundred this week,
his first time since twenty twenty one. Is a really
good game for him, just to get and get the
ball end zone at the end. I guess it depends.
It depends on what they feel about the draft. It
depends on what they think they can get, what he
feels like. I'm pretty sure he has guaranteed money. What
that looks like? Do you give him one more chance?
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Draft his heir apparent and allow him to learn behind
him and try it again with a better, you know,
cast of characters, another year under your belt. I'm sure
he's gonna come to OTA's and mini camp and all
that this year, because if he doesn't this year, I mean, god,
that'd be tough. So no, I don't know what else
it is, but it does seem like what Garrett Wilson said,
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they do have a losing problem, like it's a gene. Yeah,
I mean, you just can't win and it doesn't even
feel like you believe you're gonna win at the end
of the games. And that's what it looks like. They
don't think they're gonna win. And that's the hard part
to when watching the Jets, it's like they're just waiting
for something to happen, something bad to happen. It's like
they're fighting, they're playing hard, but they just know something
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bad's gonna happen. So I don't know. I think they'll
running back with Aaron if he wants to run him back.
If not, they'll have to draft a quarterback and move
up and try to find their franchise quarterback. And when
they do that, they'll be finding their head coach again,
you know, whether they give Brick another shot or you know,
try to entice a name like Pete Carroll who's very
interested in coaching still, just like Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
We'll see Richel. Let's move on the buy or sell.
I'm gonna make a couple of statements here. You let
me know whether you're gonna buy or sell it. Let's
start in Pittsburgh, and I'm just gonna paint a scenario here.
The Pittsburgh Steelers should bring back Russell Wilson on a
deal similar to the one that Kirk Cousins signed with
the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I'm sure Russell would what signed that deal one hundred
times out of one hundred and I do mean one
hundred million dollars in his bank account. Yeah, true, they'll
bring him back. I buy that they'll bring him back
on some kind of deal that makes sense for both sides.
With the way he's played, I see no reason why
they wouldn't. It seems like a match a hand in
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glove fit. They understand him, he understands them, doesn't put
the ball in harm's way, plays the game like Mike
Tomlin what it played, gives the ball to his playmakers
and allows them to eat. George Pickens has is having
a really productive year with him. I think I think
I buy.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
That let's go to the college football ranks. I know
you like his play a lot, Travis Hunter will win
the Heisman by yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I want to buy it because he's been so dynamic.
And there was somebody who said there has been no
Heisman winner to play an Alamo Bowl, so he's not
winning it. And then this is a good thing about
Twitter now or x or whatever it is, is that
they have these little little boxes that you can correct
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things that are wrong. Yeah, you can fact check. And
they said in two thousand and eleven, I believe it
was RG three won the Heisman over my guy Andrew Luckep.
I'm not mistaken, and then played Nalamo Bowl. I think
he'd liked eleven days or nineteen days later. So it
has happened, and it would probably happen again because gent
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has had a special season. But Melvin Jorden had a
special season and they didn't. I don't think he gave
it to him. I don't think they gave him the
Heisman that year. And Travis Hunter is just doing something
on both sides of the ball that hasn't been done.
If he gets to Maxwell and I mean, he's not
up for the Thwart, but he's up for the Rodney Lot.
You know, he's up for so many dang awards. If
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he gets to Heisman, I think it'll all fall into place,
and I think he's gonna get it. So bye.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I'm gonna stick in college football. I'm gonna go off
script a little bit here. Buy or so the college
football landscape finally got it right with this college football
twelve team playoff.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Bye, I'll buy that. If they would have put Alabama
or another SEC team in, I would have been very frustrated.
And I and I hear Lane Kiffin talking about, you
know how tough it is to play in SEC, et cetera,
et cetera. I get it. I get it. But coach
somewhere else. Then you know, at the end of the day,
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every conference has this opponents coaching a Big ten, coaching
a Big twelve, and have your success there. But don't
take three losses and then say, hey, teams that they
played softer schedules or they played this, or they played
that when the SEC plays cupcake schedule outside of conference
because they have a really tough conference. Got it, I
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got that, But that's the conference you're in. So you
play the conference you're in. It's twelve teams. You can't
make it in the top twelve. That's on you. And
they start SEC team so high, so it's not like
they don't give them the benefit of doubt. They'll start
with what four or five team SEC teams in the
top ten, and then as they beat each other, they're
they're pushing each other up and not allowing each other
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fall too far in the rankings because now the number
sixteen just lost their number one team, and then the
number two teams just beat the number eight team, or
you know, and vice versa. So it's benefits and it's
there's trouble. But you got Arizona State getting a bye.
That's different. I mean Arizona State with in the PAC twelve,
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I don't think they ever came close to a playoff
game or came close to being this highly ranked. It's
good for the game. I see more PAC twelve teams in.
There are x PAC twelve teams. You see big team teams.
You see SMU making it in, you see boys he
State making it in. So it is good to just
see other teams outside these power for conferences have a
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chance to win it. So yeah, I think they got
it right.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
All right, let's go to Bill Belichick. Richard, there's rumors
circling that he's interested in the UNC job. Buy or sell.
Bill Belichick would thrive as a college football coach.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Sale. So Bill Belichick is gonna be pissed if he look,
Bill Belichick got Tom Brady did not take max money.
You think he's gonna walk into some kids living room
or be on the phone with some kid that's telling him, Hey,
some seventeen year old that's like, no, Ohio State is
off of me ten million. It's what you're gonna do
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for me. I just can't imagine that conversation going well.
I don't have a ton of conversations with Bill. And
then on top of that, forget all that the kid
that you promised at ten million is in training company,
he's not playing well, and now he's like, what you're
gonna do? You're paying me ten million dollars a year. Like,
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it's just a different dynamic. They said there's kids in
college that if they don't get their check, like their
weekly check or their check doesn't clear, they don't practice.
Could you imagine a kid come into Bill Belichick's practice
and say, Coach, my check didn't make it today. Good
luck today, I'll have a good one. It's too different
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of a landscape than the National Football League, the National
Football League. You're under contract, you can find them. You
can you can say you gotta be here on this time.
You gotta do this, you got to do that. You
can try to run the most disciplined program in the world,
but in order to win in college football, you need talent.
In order to get talent, now you got to pay them.
And then when you pay them, you are empowering these
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kids in a different way that you haven't felt because
you empower NFL players to a point, but they're still
constrained by the rules. What are you gonna do to
these kids? Find them, they'll transfer like, discipline them, coach them,
they'll they'll leave. They won't show up. It's too That's
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why I couldn't coach. I couldn't coach college football. This
generation of kids is too much to it's too much.
They got too many open theyve got too many outs.
Hey I'm coaching a kid, tough. Hey you did this
play wrong. You got to be better than that. But
I gotta be better. I'm gonna go this other coach
says he's gonna pay me a lot of money, and
he won't coach me like that. What. I don't think
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Bill Belichick wants to deal with that. So I sell sales, sell, sell, sell, sell.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
You're buying or selling.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
The Cowboys will keep Mike McCarthy as head coach next So.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
If they bring him back Dallas Cowboys fans are gonna
be selling they tickets.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Maybe Bill Belichick would be a better fit there. And then, finally, finally,
rich I know you were a track and field star.
An Olympic track and field team of all NFL players
would win at least one gold medal, buy or sell.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
At least one. I mean some of these big boys
maybe shot put or throwing a hammer. Uh, I'd buy that.
They'd find it. They're putting flag football on it, So yeah,
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I buy that. I buy it. They'd find a way
to get one.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
They'd certainly win the flag football gold medal. There's no
question about that. Or Richard, it's time for our TNF preview,
presented by our friends and partners at Prime Video. You
get to stay close to home and go back to
a familiar home of yours in San Francisco. The Rams
traveled to San Francisco fresh off a huge win over
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the Buffalo Bills. Both teams are in desperate need of
a win to keep keep pace with the Seattle Seahawks.
Vegas is the San Francisco forty nine ers at two
and a half point favorite heading into this game.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Rich How excited are you to head to San Francisco
to be a part of this game.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I'm really excited. This is gonna be a really good game.
Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan. It will be some great offensive
play call and hooking Nicols on a tear. Matt Stafford
is playing some of his best football. San Francisco's defense
looked really good last week. Obviously, this aguin's Caleb Williams
in this Chicago Bears offense that struggled, but their offense
bro Party looked really good. Three hundred in I think
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it was three hundred and twenty or so yards this
last game, twenty to twenty five. It's gonna be a
fun game. Obviously, the Rams won the last matchup, and
it was it was close, but that was even without
Pooka Nikola and Cooper Cup, which was crazy. Niners were
leading twenty four to fourteen with six minutes and thirty
seconds left. Let them come back. I think San Francisco
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finds a way to win this game. You got to
see what injury report looks like. If they're gonna have
I don't think they're gonna have Nick Bosa back. I
doubt they're gonna bring Trent Williams back. But they found
some pass rush in gross Matos this last game. Leonard
Ford also had Leonard Floyd also had two sacks. It's
gonna be a fun game. It's gonna be a fun game.
Divisional games as always a toss up. Can brock Perty
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continue to have the kind of games he's had? Can
this Rams defense stop to step up and stop brock
Perty and Juwan Jennings and Deebo Samuel, who I'm guessing
is gonna touch the ball more than three times this game.
I'm excited to be there. I'm excited to be a
part of it. That's why I got my San Francisco
forty nine ers brightling on. I can't wait to get
out there. Obviously, hope my San Francisco forty nine is
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get to win their favorite in the game. Be there.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Or b Square or watch it on Prime watch it
on Prime Video. That's WoT do it exactly, Richard. I
will be at home tuning in on Prime For you
guys staying at home, you can tune in at seven
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San Francisco. That's this week's TNF preview, brought to you
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by Prime Video. It is that important time of the podcast,
my favorite time, the Richard Sherman Power Rankings.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Richard, has anything changed for you this week?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yes, yes, things have changed. Hmm. It's tougher than it
looks Mitchell. It's tough because they said they haven't gotten
needle up and and and the Buffalo Bills are making
an exit out of my top five. So that's the start. Detroit, Minnesota,
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Sam Donald, Philadelphia. I didn't want to do it. Mm
hm m m, Kansas City, Pittsburgh. Okay, that's what I'm
going with. I feel good about that. I didn't feel
good about Philly big, but that's it. They've been.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
They've been asking for some respect. I hope they I
hope they showed, you know. And Richard, by the way,
they almost lost to Carolina.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Do you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Did you hear about the guy that got three point
one million dollars on the Philadelphia Eagles to win straight up.
Could you imagine being that guy, Richard, when Xavier Legette
dropped the ball heading into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I don't know if he tried it.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I don't know either, rich I don't know. I don't know, Richard.
I will leave you with that.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
I will allow you to sign us off as we
conclude Week fourteen.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
That's it for Week fourteen on the rich Sherman Podcast.
Thank you for joining us. I know you don't always
agree with me. Thank you guys for your help correcting
me on the JJ McCarthy deal. That's my mistake. I
accepted my mistakes. You know I'm accountable. I can say
I messed that one up and then I could get
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know you don't doot Bowl championship.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
That should always be the expectation. All right, man, at
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by our friends and partners over at Brightling Metro. I
got to San Francisco forty nine ers, Brightling on. I'm
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I can't wait to see it and try it on,
and I'm gonna wear it in that last week, last
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Thursday night game against the Chicago Bears, Mitchell, when we
have the Seattle Seahawks, that's gonna be a fun game.
But Joe Burrow, if it wasn't for them being five
and eight thirty three touchdowns against six interceptions in about
right thirty five hundred or so yards leading the NFL,
you'd say MVP, MVP, but you can't say it because
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a defense stick.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
They only allow twenty points today. But you're absolutely right.
Joe Burrow looks absolutely lethal and me, he even said it.
I guess they asked him pregame, do you feel like
you played better in your career? So this is the
best I've played in my career, and he looked at
he looks mobile, he looks ILOSEI ab out there. His
eyes are always downfield and he's getting his playmakers involved.
Jamar Chase with another career day. I mean, this guy
is going to be setting records here pretty soon. And
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you gotta love to see Chase. Chase Brown, a guy
I called early in the year, is a fantasy sleeper.
Rich doing his thing and then carrying some teams as
we enter fantasy football playoffs. But Richard, the Cowboys take
another big loss, Like, it doesn't get much worse here
for Dallas. I mean, obviously their season is over, but
how much lower can it go for them?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Mitchell, It's not the Conglo line, but Mitchell, it can
go low. It can go really low. And if they
lose to their division foals, if they find a way
to lose out But you look up and you're like,
what are you playing for? They're playing a retooled offensive line,
some young offensive lineman, so they're going to give them
an opportunity. Ceed Lamb was productive today both on the
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ground and through the air. Six sketches for ninety three
yards and a touchdown. You know, had a really cool
play on the reverse where it didn't look like he
had anything, and he got loose LEAFU at the second
and a half, So you're getting some production there. I
didn't see a lot. Obviously, their double team in Micah
Parsons the entire game. Ric o'dowdell has a really good game.
Eighteen carries for one hundred and thirty one yards. Cooper
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rush about about what you expect from Cooper Rush sixteen
thirty one, one hundred and eighty three yards, two touchdowns,
a one interception. But I don't know where you go
from here. But I'm not really that concerned. I'm more
concerned about what they do going forward. Obviously, Jerry has
said all the right things about Mike McCarthy, but what
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exactly is he going to do with them going forward?
You keep saying you support him, you keep saying he's
our coach going forward. You keep saying everything that you
would want to hear, I guess or not want to
hear if you're your Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't. I
don't know how they exactly feel about McCarthy, but they
keep telling me a super Bowl or bust, and they
haven't come anywhere close to a super Bowl and its tenure,
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so it sounds like they've been they've been busted, and
they're not even gonna make the playoffs this season. They'll
probably end up last in their division. So I mean,
the only place you can go from here is up.
You know, they have a game against Carolina, who's been
playing better. Uh, I don't know, I don't know. You
gotta you gotta have some answers. You got to draft better,
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you got to develop better. What do you do with
the head coach? I mean, we joked around about Prime
going there. Prime says he's staying at Colorado. They're playing
in the Alamo Bowl. I don't know, I don't know.
I'm sure Jerry will be at that game. Just some
something tells me Jerry's going to be at the Alamo
Bowl for some reason. Not Menchell, just don't don't quote
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me on this, don't bet on it. But I got
it feeling Jerry's going to be at the Alamo Bowl.
Say he's just there to see Shdor Sanders and Shilo
Sanders and Travis Hunter and all the great draft prospects there.
But something tells me he's going to see his good
old friend Dion on the flip side. Cincinnati five and
eight you know, still an outside chance to make the
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playoffs in that AFC, maybe still in that seventh seed.
And again, not many teams would sign up to play
against Joe Burrow, but they'd sign up to play against
Joe Burrow's defense. And so again, like I said on
Thursday Night Football, I think, you know, if it wasn't
for his defense, I think Joe Burrow would be he'd
be the front runner, and it wouldn't be that particularly
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close because he's just played his best football. He's played
like the best quarterback in National Football League this year.
And I'm sorry, nobody wants to listen to me. Everybody's gonna,
oh god, Josh Allen. You just see what he did
six touchdowns. I saw it. And then they tell me
I'm a Josh Allen hater. And oh another thing, Mitchell,
I gotta I gotta apologize because because I said Aj
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McCarthy out to torn acl, he does not have a
torn acl. It's a bad meniscus and it's a certain
part of the mendiscus that's the long term version, and
not the six weeks that you can shave off. It's lateral.
I think it's lateral is the long one medials the
four to six week one. But clear that up. You know, sorry,
Minnesota Vikings fans, I got that wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You've been reading the comments section, Richard mitchell.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I read the comment section, and I get I get
it right. I'm coachable, mitchell I can I can come
in and get things corrected. But I think again, Joe
Burrows playing at the quarterback position best this year. And
if you argue with that, then you're not watching the tape,
and you know his team isn't winning. They're scoring a
lot of points. They scored twenty seven a day. They
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usually score thirty plus, and when they score thirty plus,
he somehow still loses the game. But thirty three of
forty four, three hundred and sixty nine yards, three touchdowns
and interception. What more can you say? It's gonna be
fun to watch and go down the stretch, especially with
Jamar Chase. He fed Jamar Chase eighteen targets, fourteen catches,
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one hundred and seventy seven yards, two touchdowns. He's having
a remarkable season. It's crazy because I'd be really really
really really really really really really really surprised if Joe
Burrow is in the first team All Pro and he
won't be the MVP. So it'll be an odd year
because if you give it to Josh Allen, which is
what it sounds like everybody thinks is gonna happen, could
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he be first Team All Pro when the numbers don't
line him. Now, Now, I understand that you know team
stats matter an MVP, but they do not matter in
All Pro. And so when they go and look at
the side by side and Buffalo Bills fans, I challenge
you to look at the side by side Joe Burrow
versus Josh Allen, and I understand you would say circumstance,
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you'd say Joe Burrow has Jamar Chase and T Higgins.
I got you, he one hundred percent. And Josh Allen
has been doing phenomenal things with what he has just had.
Mari Cooper, Mari Cooper had a pretty good game this
last game. Matt Collins isn't a household name, but does
a great job for them. Khalil Shakir does a good
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job for them. Cook does a good job for him.
Dalton Kin kid when he's in that lineup, does a
really good job for him. But I think they're going
to have a hard time not giving first team All
Pro quarterback to Joe Burrow. If they don't, good old
Crazy Sherm is still good old crazy Sherman. I got
him roll. But the numbers are going to say that.
(07:35):
The numbers are there. Thirty three touchdowns right now, six interceptions,
thirty five hundred yards on his way to a likely
five thousand yard season or so, Mitchell sounds pretty good
to me.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, Richard, I know you're a stats guy, and you're
absolutely right. I'm Joe Burrow statistically is the best quarterback
in the NFL this year. But the big stat that
the team is missing is in the win column. And
they had their opportunity. They're gonna be kicking themselves all season.
I mean, they blew a game late, up ten in
the fourth quarter against the Baltimore Ravens, end up losing
in overtime, They lose on a game ending field goal
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against the Kansas City Chiefs, and they open up at
home against the New England Patriots and they lose that game.
I mean, all easily get games that they could have
won and flip this to eight and five. So I
think the story for the Cincinnati Bengals is You're absolutely right.
They're wasting an MVP caliber season from Joe Burrow because
they're unable to stop teams from scoring thirty plus points.
(08:33):
I mean, they were able to stop Dallas and kudos
they got to win today, but you gotta wonder how
they're going to enter next season because they got to
fill a lot of holes defensively, richil Let's talk about
the game, you know on Sunday night that had a
lot more implications and it's Kansas City again. I mean,
this team's finding ways to win. I mean we were
joking about it off air, but well, how they gonna
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win next by a walkoff safety?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What is going on here with this Kansas City Chiefs.
They're twelve and one and they could easily have five
losses on the season.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What gives with the Kansas City Chiefs here, Rich Mitchell.
They're just winners. They're just winners. At this point. You
got to give them credit for being winners. You got
to give them credit for finding ways no matter what,
no matter what the circumstances are, they find ways to win.
And if they weren't back to back Super Bowl champs,
then sure you'd have a lot of concerns. You have
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a lot of questions, but with their resume and their
track record, it's different. It's different. They get the benefit
of the doubt, and with the benefit of the doubt,
how they win, the margin of victory, the spread, whatever
case may be, doesn't matter. They're twelve and one and
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they're cruising to the one seed with the game coming
up against the Browns and jamis I think they played
Pittsburgh again. They play Pittsburgh down stretch, that'll be a
tough game for him. But they've given themselves some breathing
room and Buffalo is also giving them some breathing room,
and they're gonna be a tough, tough, tough out And
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like I said before, they could be a team that
goes out in the second round in a divisional or
they can go all the way to the super Bowl,
and neither result would leave you incredibly surprised, because if
they went out in the divisional, you'd be like they
were living on the house money all year. You know,
they were living on the edge of the edge of
a knife all year. And if they go all the
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way to the super Bowl and win it and it's
a close game, you're like, they've done this all year
and they've survived and they found ways to win. They
found ways. They have found ways found ways. So if
they find ways three more times in the playoffs, what
a year it's It's gonna have people scratching their heads.
They're they're the great known but unknown, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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But as long as you got Patrick Mahomes, you got
Andy Reid, you got spags in this defense, you're gonna
feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They've won their ninth straight AFC West title. That's two
shot of the too shy of the NFL record. The
New England Patriots have eleven with Tom Brady and this
is their fifteenth straight win in a one score game
over the last two seasons. I mean, that's just wild
stat and it goes to Patrick Mahomes. Statistically, he hasn't
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had anywhere close to his best season, but they're still
finding a way to get it done. And you gotta wonder,
I mean, the way Andy Reid has been playing with
this team, and we're so used to the Kansas City
Chiefs being this explosive team, you know, throwing the ball
down the field, all over the field, Tyreek Hill, you know,
Travis Kelcey, all these guys, these home run hitters, and
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they don't have those weapons anymore. It's almost like they're
a time of possession controlling team and they're finding ways
to win down the stretch, and maybe that's why they're
in so many tight games. Do you view them as
the favorite out of the AFC right now?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
One back to back Super Bowl champions and the fact
that you're asking me if I view them as favorites,
it's silly to me, But I know why you're asking.
They definitely understand why you're asking. Yes, they're the favorites.
They're the favorites there. I expect them. They're gonna be
the favorites in every game they play, and if they're not,
then then Vegas is trying to take your money because
(12:23):
they have done nothing to show you they shouldn't be
the favorites. Close games that you win does not mean
does not count the same as a loss. Guys, it's
not the same as a loss. It may seem like, ooh,
they got lucky. They keep getting lucky very consistently. You
said fifteen times and fifteen wins in one score games.
(12:43):
That's something, and that's something other than luck. Now, I
was at one of the games, I literally watched the
Raiders bumble the ball, snap the ball to the quarterback
in a situation where all they have to do is
line up, throw the ball into the ground one time, bring,
bring out the kicker, and the game's over. Guess what,
Sometimes better to be lucky to go and if your
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peating champions in NFL history. But we'll see, we'll see,
but they're the favorites for now.
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Speaker 3 (15:53):
Let's talk a little bit about the Detroit Lions. The
national media has been talking about them a ton. They're
the most streamed NFL regular season game in history seventeen
point twenty nine million views. Are the Lions the biggest
straw in the league right now?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I mean, they got to be there, must see TV.
You know. It's just such a great team. They're winning,
They're a great fan base, a lot of energy a
lot of characters on this team, a lot of talent
on this team, and a lot of likable guys, a
lot of storylines that you really just want to see.
On defense, you got, you know, their best defensive player
getting hurt and a bunch of guys off the street
and whatever. It takes. A really good, blackable defensive coordinator
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and Aaron Glenn, two really good safeties and Brian Branch
and Kirby Joseph probably the best safety tandem in the
NFL or right amongst them. And what more can you
say about Dan Campbell And he's going for it on
fourth You know, people are tired of this old, you know,
prehistoric NFL. It's just like the forty yard dash. It's
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like it's archaic. Like at some point you gotta challenge
the norms if you want to if you want to
be different, if you want to do something that's never
been done, you gotta do things that have never been done.
And that's what Dan Campbell is doing. He's not just saying, hey,
fourth down, I'm gonna I'm I just will just punt,
I will kick a field gold. I know that's the
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right thing to do. I know that's what they're expecting.
I know, that's what the rule books said. What rule
book it just says win. And and that's why, you know,
we we we see this thing that Teddy Bruski says.
And I got a lot of respect for Teddy Bruski.
Played the game right, played that game at a high
level one super bowls. Just just stop, Teddy, just stop,
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because because I wouldn't want you on my sideline thinking
like that, Oh whoa, whoa you you you people, I mean,
you gotta you gotta you gotta act like winners. Act
like winners. They're twelve and one, like you gotta start
start stop playing like you're your bite knee kept if
that's their culture, and that's what they built, and they
feel like underdogs and they play well, and they got
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a bunch of guys who believe in it. What doesn't
matter to you? What does it matter to you? How
they get it done? Now, it's how you win. Hey,
So if he would have just kicked the field goal
on on fourth and one and then Green Bay drove
down the field and scored a touchdown, you would have
been like, well, they lost the right way. You know,
(18:21):
they made the right decision, even though they lost. No,
he's playing winning football and his team loves it, and
he loves it like I have a problem when people
have a problem with something that isn't a problem, like
when somebody's getting that rouled up about somebody else's culture
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because it's different and that this this applies to a
lot of things in life, and I'm sorry, guys, that's
just how I was raised. Different to me. It's fine.
I don't care what. You can wear your pajamas inside out,
you can wear you can you can dance to this
kind of music, be off beat, on beat. You can
be red, green, purple, yellow, orange. You could believe in this,
you could believe in in a cloud as your savior.
(19:05):
It's fine. It's fine. Look run your race. I'm gonna
run mine even if I don't agree with it. Even
if I don't, I'm not gonna be taken aback by
this culture. Well that Dan Campbell has built I'm impressed by,
and I think a lot of coaches are taking notes,
and a lot of his coaches, Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn
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when they go get hit up coaching opportunities, they're going
to take parts of this culture and spread them throughout
the league. That's what happens when you win. People want
what Dan Campbell has so Teddy Bruski said in New
England and played the game one way and had one
way of seeing it. That's enough. That's enough. Like start
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playing like it, Stop playing like you're on top? What
does that even mean? The only team that's on top,
the only team that's really been winning over the last
three or four years is the Kansassee Chiefs. They one
Matthew Stafford and the Rams won one. Tom Brady won one.
What is their culture? Are they doing things acting like
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they're on top and playing like it? Like no, like
get out of here, like I just that just irks me,
Like there can be no evolution in this game, there
can be no change, supposed to just say the same. Hey,
just vanilla routine. I should be able to predict what
they're gonna do, right, How about being unpredictable is a
different style and it's working.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
They're twelve and one, Richard. This is exactly who and
what Detroit needed. This team was stuck in a perpetual
hamster wheel of horrendousness. You know, for thirty forty fifty years,
this team has struggled to be even remotely decent, let
alone win a playoff game. And you're absolutely right. I mean,
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what Detroit is and what Dan Campbell is their market destructors,
their industry destructors. Richard, you played in San Francis, go
the Bay Area, home to Silicon Valley. You know the
startup set make it that VCS invest in are the
ones that are the best destructors in a set market.
The Detroit Lions and Dan Campbell are just that. And
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if they were a startup I guarantee you there'd be
a shit ton of vcs investing in the way they
approached this game. And we saw it too. With friend
of the Volume Colin Coward called out the Detroit Lions.
He complemented the Detroit Lions as well, but he also
called him out with them being too aggressive. He said,
you don't see this from the Kansas City Chiefs. You
don't see this from the San Francisco forty nine, you
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don't see this from the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like you said, Richard, it is there's.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Only one team out of those three that's won a
Super Bowl in the last twenty years. But on top
of that, Richard, you know how de moralizing it is
when you're going up against a team that is already
better than you, and you hold them on third down
and it's fourth and one, fourth and two. All right,
we're gonna get him off the field, and then their
offense comes back on and picks up another first down.
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I mean, Detroit's gonna be criticized for going out for
it on with forty three seconds left, but they were
four and five through the game on four thouns. Again,
this team, Richard, they're built for success. They're hungry, and
they look to just trample teams and take the soul
right out of them, and that's what they've been doing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I just don't like when people comment on things that work,
but because it's out of the norm, it's something that
you're not used to, Like he's too aggressive. They get
out of here when it stops working, or when teams
get put out doing it exactly like you say, dude,
and they put in the situations they kick in the
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situation you're like, oh, man, they probably should have went
for it there because it didn't work. Like are they
You're like, hey, that's a great job because it worked.
Like you're just a critic. So at the end of
the day, you're gonna be right either way. Hey, hey,
eventually it's gonna come to by you in the butt.
And if they win the Super Bowl, you're gonna turn around,
Colin and you're gonna say, well, it's a good thing
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they were aggressive. That's what won them to Super Bowl.
Every team should be aggressive. Like that's what I hate
about it because it's these are the same guys that
will say a guy is terrible one day, and then
after the guy has consecutive three hundred yard game they'll
tell you, I told you how Grady was. It's like,
what are we talking about, Like, get out of here.
He's too aggressive. He's too aggressive. It's too aggressive. When
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it does not work, then you criticize. Hey, if they
get stopped and lose, you say, might be a hair aggressive,
Like maybe you need to tweak that, Like maybe it
doesn't work in the playoffs, But right now it's working,
and it's worked all season long, and it's worked last season.
So he's trying to get his team somewhere they have
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never been. So they're doing things that have never been done.
Maybe this is their way of skinning the cat, this
is their way getting to a championship and winning a
Super Bowl and if they get it done like that,
at the end of the day, you could still criticize
them and say, I don't like this style. That's okay,
you're not coaching it. You don't got to sit there
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and coach, and I hope you never get a team
because y'all will get sent home every year because you're
soft and not aggressive, and football is an aggressive sport.
You have to make hard choices. If you go by
the book and go by the standard and go by oh,
what's predictable, then you lose. You talk to Andy Reid
in Patrick Mahomes, they do go for it on fourth
down quite a bit, quite a bit. They go for
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two random situations like don't sit there and act like
the Kansas City Chiefs have done this without being aggressive
on fourth down. They have, they have many times. And
we can talk about the Philadelphia Eagles and the push push.
They're another winning team that goes forward on fourth down
and what they're tending two, Like, there's a lot of
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teams that punt in these situations that don't go forward
on fourth down. That's what they're going to be. Picking
it in the top five at the National Football League's Draft,
So congratulations you're doing it the way Colin wants it done.
See how that's working out, Richard.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Let's talk about some drama in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You know today.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't know what it is, man, I don't know
what it is about Monday in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But let's start with debo.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
San Francisco forty nine ers fresh off a win against
this the Chicago Bears, looking to turn things around, and
we see Deebo tweet out today not struggling at all,
just not getting the ball.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Do you view this as a big deal in San Francisco?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
No, No, I do don't. I don't view it as
a big deal because he's telling the truth. Because you know,
you try to address the drama, you try to address
the rumors and all this nonsense. And that's what he did.
That's why these social media platforms can be a gift
and a curse because you know, it's always up for interpretation.
What he's saying is he's not getting the ball, but
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he's not upset, he's not frustrating, he's not struggling, saying
if he got the ball and more or he'd be
able to make more of an impact. He had two
catches for twenty two yards. He had three targets on
the day. That's that's you know, that's the truth. Would
anybody be frustrated? Yeah, I mean you saw aj Brown
and Devonte Smith get frustrated in the game they were
winning because they weren't getting targeted and weren't getting the ball,
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and the quarterback was literally looking at him watching them
be wide open and not throwing on the ball. And
I told Eagles fans, don't get me started. Don't get
me started, Eagles fans, because you guys, again, I read
the comments, and you guys get into a place where
you're you know, you're you're saying I'm not respecting you,
and I'm not. I don't see how great you're doing
in Philly, and I do. It's a talented team. What
(26:41):
I said is your very sat Quan reliant. If Saquon
has a bad game at the wrong time, you guys,
you guys do not have a way to overcome that.
Not because you don't have an immensely talented team on
both sides of the football. You do. But Jalen hurts
for some reason. I do not know why he's not
(27:03):
seeing the field like he has in the past. He's
not seeing it, and unless he does see it, it's
gonna it's gonna be tough. But no, I don't think
this is a big dig deal about the Deepo saying
that he's frustrated he hasn't gotten a lot of targets.
He hasn't gotten a lot of stuff to go his
way right now. And if he got you know, if
he makes an impact this Thursday and has one hundred
(27:26):
and forty yards receiving and you know, runs the ball
for a touchdown or two, I'm sure this will all
go away and everybody will be like, yeah, yeah, you know,
it is what it is. But it's just one of
those seasons. They're having an off year. They're having a
bit of a down year. There's what five and seven
now are six and seven, and people need something to
talk about, and this is what they're gonna talk about.
(27:46):
You know, is just the last season, Debo's last season
with the forty nine ers. I doubt it. I doubt it,
But what do I know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I just find it weird, man.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean, here they go, they pray, they pay Brandon
I who call this money in the offseason, and obviously
they got Debo in house, who's by all accounts an
absolute stud and a menace with the ball in his hands.
The Yak King I believe if you want to call
him that now. But Richard, even when Brandon Ayuk was healthy,
he wasn't getting the huge amount of targets, and neither
(28:14):
is Deebo. This is going to our guy third in Juwan,
Juwan Jennings. I mean, Juwan Jennings is rising to the occasion.
What do you think it is though about brock Purty
not you think it's scheme or do you think it's
just he likes a bigger receiver.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
To throw to. Well, I mean he just got a
great rapport with Juwan, and Juwan's a great separator. You know,
if you're a receiver that's consistent on third down, it's
because you can separate, and you can separate in a
really great way. And Juwan could get open in the
phone booth. You know, Brandon is more of a deep threat,
and he had a good one hundred and forty yard
game before he got injured. It's just a weird year,
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you know, That's the only way to put it. I
don't think they trust offensive line to hold up, especially
what Trent injured right now, teams have packed the inside
and that's a lot of where Deebo has gotten done.
Most of his damage is taking slint routes to the house,
taking the screens and getting out of there. I think
a lot of times they're starting to snip out the screens,
snip out the runs, the jet sweeps that they've given
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a debo. Even when he's in the backfield and they
try to give him little zone reads. It's not working
out because they're just they just understand it. You know,
they're putting him in a position that it's becoming a
bit predictable and people are making plays. And so I
don't think it's a big deal. I think Kyle's going
to get it figured out. And I think if it
was a big deal, Kyle would have came out and
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said something about it. He hasn't, So it is what
it is.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Let's let's talk a little bit more about the Philadelphia Eagles,
because I mean, we read the comments. Section already addressed
the issue between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown. And for
those that don't know, this all started with Brandon Graham.
I guess he was on a local sports talk radio
station and he started Aaron some dirty laundry, and from
the locker room, he goes, I know paraphrasing here, but
(30:00):
I know Hurts is trying and aj Brown could be
better with how a response to things. They were friends,
but things have changed. He later backtrapped and said, I
just assumed I had it all wrong. And how people
are going to run with? What with that part? What
do you make of it? As a you know, if
one of your teammates went on air and it sounds
(30:20):
like Brandon Graham didn't mean to do this, But what
do you make of it when a teammate goes out
and airs dirty laundry, especially when you're a two lost
team competing for the one seed.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, I don't think he was trying to say it
like that. I think that's what's tough about doing live
TV or live radio or live anything. You can't say, hey,
cut that out. No, no, no, I misspoke right there,
because it is what it is. You know, you're you're
you're speaking, you're talking fast. We do it every week now,
so you get used to it. Your brain functions really quick.
You know the consequences if you if you slip up,
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if you have a misstep, if you misspeak, so you
try to quickly correct it. You try to say, hey,
my bad, my bad, my bad. I meant to say
A B and C. And Brandon, I don't think he
meant to air the dirty laundry. He's a veteran player,
he's been in this league alone time, he's played for
a long time. He's done a lot of interviews, so
you know that was probably him just trying to be honest,
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show a bit of transparency. But I mean, you don't
need Brandon Graham to say what you can see. Everybody
saw AJ Brown's interview, and he didn't take direct shots
at Jalen Hurts, but he was frustrated. Not everybody remembers
last year at the end of the season when Aj
(31:34):
Brown got hurt, and you know, there were rumors that
he could have came back, maybe he could have came back,
maybe he could have played one more game and came
back for the playoffs, and he didn't and he just
ended the season. And then you know, there were rumors
that he was frustrated about his contract and he got
a new contract. And after he got the new contract,
he's come back and everything all is healed, all is well.
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Nobody remembers that he was pretty much done. You know,
people were wondering if he was even going to come
back to Philly after at the end of last season
and how it went. And now we're getting to the
second half of the season again and Jalen Hurts is
kind of looking a little bit different than he did
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in the first half of the season. You see, you know,
the people are making cutups of the routes that Davante
and aj are running where they're open and they're not
getting the ball. There's even plays where he's open and
Jaylen's looking at him and he's not letting the ball go.
I don't know if he's gun shy. I don't know
if he's just you know, trying to make sure he
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doesn't mess it up, or he just knows, Hey, we
can lean on a run game. I don't want to
throw interceptions. I don't want to put the ball on
harm's way, so I'm gonna be safe whatever it is.
They're winning games, so it's working, but your star receiver
is getting frustrated. Going into the playoffs isn't a great thing.
And when they're talking about they need to improve the
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past game, and you know, things need to be seen better,
and everybody's going to say the right things. But when
they're saying these things this frustrated after a win, it
just seems like if somehow they would have lost that game,
or somehow they lose this next game against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
I'd want to hear that interview after that game. I'd
want to hear what's said, because that would tell me
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a lot about what's going on now. Brandon Graham may
not know anything, you know, he may be friends or
both of them. He may not even talk to either
on of them. I don't know what their locker room
looks like. But he backtracked and said, you know, he doesn't.
You know, maybe he just was assuming. That's fine, but
eventually the truth is going to come to light.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
The New York Jets, I mean, Richard, they've got the
longest active streak in North American sports without a playoff
berth right now, at fourteen seasons. It's wild to think
that this team is a bottom dweller of the league
right now, especially everything they've put into these last couple
of years, bringing an Aaron Rights, bringing in all of
his buddies from the Green Bay Packers, including DeVonta Adams,
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and now we're starting to see, you know, the frustration,
and you gotta love the classiness of Garrett Wilson and
the candor. But he basically said that the Jets are
stuck with this losing gene, that they just can't pull
off wins, you know, late in the fourth quarter in
a game that they very easily could have won against
the Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
What do you make of this, Richard?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Is it time for the Jets to move on and
close the chapter on Aaron Rodgers after the season.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I don't know. He threw for three hundred this week,
his first time since twenty twenty one. Is a really
good game for him, just to get and get the
ball end zone at the end. I guess it depends.
It depends on what they feel about the draft. It
depends on what they think they can get, what he
feels like. I'm pretty sure he has guaranteed money. What
that looks like? Do you give him one more chance?
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Draft his heir apparent and allow him to learn behind
him and try it again with a better, you know,
cast of characters, another year under your belt. I'm sure
he's gonna come to OTA's and mini camp and all
that this year, because if he doesn't this year, I mean, god,
that'd be tough. So no, I don't know what else
it is, but it does seem like what Garrett Wilson said,
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they do have a losing problem, like it's a gene. Yeah,
I mean, you just can't win and it doesn't even
feel like you believe you're gonna win at the end
of the games. And that's what it looks like. They
don't think they're gonna win. And that's the hard part
to when watching the Jets, it's like they're just waiting
for something to happen, something bad to happen. It's like
they're fighting, they're playing hard, but they just know something
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bad's gonna happen. So I don't know. I think they'll
running back with Aaron if he wants to run him back.
If not, they'll have to draft a quarterback and move
up and try to find their franchise quarterback. And when
they do that, they'll be finding their head coach again,
you know, whether they give Brick another shot or you know,
try to entice a name like Pete Carroll who's very
interested in coaching still, just like Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
We'll see Richel. Let's move on the buy or sell.
I'm gonna make a couple of statements here. You let
me know whether you're gonna buy or sell it. Let's
start in Pittsburgh, and I'm just gonna paint a scenario here.
The Pittsburgh Steelers should bring back Russell Wilson on a
deal similar to the one that Kirk Cousins signed with
the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I'm sure Russell would what signed that deal one hundred
times out of one hundred and I do mean one
hundred million dollars in his bank account. Yeah, true, they'll
bring him back. I buy that they'll bring him back
on some kind of deal that makes sense for both sides.
With the way he's played, I see no reason why
they wouldn't. It seems like a match a hand in
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glove fit. They understand him, he understands them, doesn't put
the ball in harm's way, plays the game like Mike
Tomlin what it played, gives the ball to his playmakers
and allows them to eat. George Pickens has is having
a really productive year with him. I think I think
I buy.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
That let's go to the college football ranks. I know
you like his play a lot, Travis Hunter will win
the Heisman by yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I want to buy it because he's been so dynamic.
And there was somebody who said there has been no
Heisman winner to play an Alamo Bowl, so he's not
winning it. And then this is a good thing about
Twitter now or x or whatever it is, is that
they have these little little boxes that you can correct
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things that are wrong. Yeah, you can fact check. And
they said in two thousand and eleven, I believe it
was RG three won the Heisman over my guy Andrew Luckep.
I'm not mistaken, and then played Nalamo Bowl. I think
he'd liked eleven days or nineteen days later. So it
has happened, and it would probably happen again because gent
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has had a special season. But Melvin Jorden had a
special season and they didn't. I don't think he gave
it to him. I don't think they gave him the
Heisman that year. And Travis Hunter is just doing something
on both sides of the ball that hasn't been done.
If he gets to Maxwell and I mean, he's not
up for the Thwart, but he's up for the Rodney Lot.
You know, he's up for so many dang awards. If
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he gets to Heisman, I think it'll all fall into place,
and I think he's gonna get it. So bye.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I'm gonna stick in college football. I'm gonna go off
script a little bit here. Buy or so the college
football landscape finally got it right with this college football
twelve team playoff.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Bye, I'll buy that. If they would have put Alabama
or another SEC team in, I would have been very frustrated.
And I and I hear Lane Kiffin talking about, you
know how tough it is to play in SEC, et cetera,
et cetera. I get it. I get it. But coach
somewhere else. Then you know, at the end of the day,
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every conference has this opponents coaching a Big ten, coaching
a Big twelve, and have your success there. But don't
take three losses and then say, hey, teams that they
played softer schedules or they played this, or they played
that when the SEC plays cupcake schedule outside of conference
because they have a really tough conference. Got it, I
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got that, But that's the conference you're in. So you
play the conference you're in. It's twelve teams. You can't
make it in the top twelve. That's on you. And
they start SEC team so high, so it's not like
they don't give them the benefit of doubt. They'll start
with what four or five team SEC teams in the
top ten, and then as they beat each other, they're
they're pushing each other up and not allowing each other
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fall too far in the rankings because now the number
sixteen just lost their number one team, and then the
number two teams just beat the number eight team, or
you know, and vice versa. So it's benefits and it's
there's trouble. But you got Arizona State getting a bye.
That's different. I mean Arizona State with in the PAC twelve,
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I don't think they ever came close to a playoff
game or came close to being this highly ranked. It's
good for the game. I see more PAC twelve teams in.
There are x PAC twelve teams. You see big team teams.
You see SMU making it in, you see boys he
State making it in. So it is good to just
see other teams outside these power for conferences have a
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chance to win it. So yeah, I think they got
it right.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
All right, let's go to Bill Belichick. Richard, there's rumors
circling that he's interested in the UNC job. Buy or sell.
Bill Belichick would thrive as a college football coach.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Sale. So Bill Belichick is gonna be pissed if he look,
Bill Belichick got Tom Brady did not take max money.
You think he's gonna walk into some kids living room
or be on the phone with some kid that's telling him, Hey,
some seventeen year old that's like, no, Ohio State is
off of me ten million. It's what you're gonna do
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for me. I just can't imagine that conversation going well.
I don't have a ton of conversations with Bill. And
then on top of that, forget all that the kid
that you promised at ten million is in training company,
he's not playing well, and now he's like, what you're
gonna do? You're paying me ten million dollars a year. Like,
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it's just a different dynamic. They said there's kids in
college that if they don't get their check, like their
weekly check or their check doesn't clear, they don't practice.
Could you imagine a kid come into Bill Belichick's practice
and say, Coach, my check didn't make it today. Good
luck today, I'll have a good one. It's too different
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of a landscape than the National Football League, the National
Football League. You're under contract, you can find them. You
can you can say you gotta be here on this time.
You gotta do this, you got to do that. You
can try to run the most disciplined program in the world,
but in order to win in college football, you need talent.
In order to get talent, now you got to pay them.
And then when you pay them, you are empowering these
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kids in a different way that you haven't felt because
you empower NFL players to a point, but they're still
constrained by the rules. What are you gonna do to
these kids? Find them, they'll transfer like, discipline them, coach them,
they'll they'll leave. They won't show up. It's too That's
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why I couldn't coach. I couldn't coach college football. This
generation of kids is too much to it's too much.
They got too many open theyve got too many outs.
Hey I'm coaching a kid, tough. Hey you did this
play wrong. You got to be better than that. But
I gotta be better. I'm gonna go this other coach
says he's gonna pay me a lot of money, and
he won't coach me like that. What. I don't think
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Bill Belichick wants to deal with that. So I sell sales, sell, sell, sell, sell.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
You're buying or selling.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
The Cowboys will keep Mike McCarthy as head coach next So.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
If they bring him back Dallas Cowboys fans are gonna
be selling they tickets.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Maybe Bill Belichick would be a better fit there. And then, finally, finally,
rich I know you were a track and field star.
An Olympic track and field team of all NFL players
would win at least one gold medal, buy or sell.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
At least one. I mean some of these big boys
maybe shot put or throwing a hammer. Uh, I'd buy that.
They'd find it. They're putting flag football on it, So yeah,
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I buy that. I buy it. They'd find a way
to get one.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
They'd certainly win the flag football gold medal. There's no
question about that. Or Richard, it's time for our TNF preview,
presented by our friends and partners at Prime Video. You
get to stay close to home and go back to
a familiar home of yours in San Francisco. The Rams
traveled to San Francisco fresh off a huge win over
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the Buffalo Bills. Both teams are in desperate need of
a win to keep keep pace with the Seattle Seahawks.
Vegas is the San Francisco forty nine ers at two
and a half point favorite heading into this game.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
What do you make of this?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Rich How excited are you to head to San Francisco
to be a part of this game.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I'm really excited. This is gonna be a really good game.
Sean McVay, Kyle Shanahan. It will be some great offensive
play call and hooking Nicols on a tear. Matt Stafford
is playing some of his best football. San Francisco's defense
looked really good last week. Obviously, this aguin's Caleb Williams
in this Chicago Bears offense that struggled, but their offense
bro Party looked really good. Three hundred in I think
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it was three hundred and twenty or so yards this
last game, twenty to twenty five. It's gonna be a
fun game. Obviously, the Rams won the last matchup, and
it was it was close, but that was even without
Pooka Nikola and Cooper Cup, which was crazy. Niners were
leading twenty four to fourteen with six minutes and thirty
seconds left. Let them come back. I think San Francisco
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finds a way to win this game. You got to
see what injury report looks like. If they're gonna have
I don't think they're gonna have Nick Bosa back. I
doubt they're gonna bring Trent Williams back. But they found
some pass rush in gross Matos this last game. Leonard
Ford also had Leonard Floyd also had two sacks. It's
gonna be a fun game. It's gonna be a fun game.
Divisional games as always a toss up. Can brock Perty
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continue to have the kind of games he's had? Can
this Rams defense stop to step up and stop brock
Perty and Juwan Jennings and Deebo Samuel, who I'm guessing
is gonna touch the ball more than three times this game.
I'm excited to be there. I'm excited to be a
part of it. That's why I got my San Francisco
forty nine ers brightling on. I can't wait to get
out there. Obviously, hope my San Francisco forty nine is
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get to win their favorite in the game. Be there.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Or b Square or watch it on Prime watch it
on Prime Video. That's WoT do it exactly, Richard. I
will be at home tuning in on Prime For you
guys staying at home, you can tune in at seven
o'clock Eastern time to catch Richard and the crew in
San Francisco. That's this week's TNF preview, brought to you
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by Prime Video. It is that important time of the podcast,
my favorite time, the Richard Sherman Power Rankings.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Richard, has anything changed for you this week?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yes, yes, things have changed. Hmm. It's tougher than it
looks Mitchell. It's tough because they said they haven't gotten
needle up and and and the Buffalo Bills are making
an exit out of my top five. So that's the start. Detroit, Minnesota,
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Sam Donald, Philadelphia. I didn't want to do it. Mm
hm m m, Kansas City, Pittsburgh. Okay, that's what I'm
going with. I feel good about that. I didn't feel
good about Philly big, but that's it. They've been.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
They've been asking for some respect. I hope they I
hope they showed, you know. And Richard, by the way,
they almost lost to Carolina.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
Do you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Did you hear about the guy that got three point
one million dollars on the Philadelphia Eagles to win straight up.
Could you imagine being that guy, Richard, when Xavier Legette
dropped the ball heading into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
I don't know if he tried it.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I don't know either, rich I don't know. I don't know, Richard.
I will leave you with that.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
I will allow you to sign us off as we
conclude Week fourteen.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
That's it for Week fourteen on the rich Sherman Podcast.
Thank you for joining us. I know you don't always
agree with me. Thank you guys for your help correcting
me on the JJ McCarthy deal. That's my mistake. I
accepted my mistakes. You know I'm accountable. I can say
I messed that one up and then I could get
it right. So I appreciate you guys joining us. I
appreciate you guys watching. I appreciate the corrections. You could
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