December 18, 2024 • 31 mins
Richard Sherman weighs in on the ongoing debate about how much San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy should make on the contract he’ll sign this coming NFL offseason. Sherm pits Purdy’s numbers up against quarterbacks making north of $50 million like Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys, Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers, Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Tua Tagovailoa of the Miami Dolphins and contends that Purdy has done more than enough to make the same amount of money as them. Also, he reacts to John Lynch and the Niners suspending De’Vondre Campbell for the rest of the season after walking off the field during their loss to the Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald saying he’s “optimistic” about Geno Smith suiting up for the upcoming matchup against the Minnesota Vikings, Sam Darnold leading the Vikings past Caleb Williams’ Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football, the Detroit Lions adding running back David Montgomery to their long list of injuries this season, Emmanuel Acho’s criticism of Dan Campbell, and University of Colorado star Travis Hunter winning the Heisman Trophy over Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast, presented by our
friends and partners over at Brightling. Got me shining right,
Got me shining bright. A lot of things to talk
about today, but we're gonna start it off with the
San Francisco forty nine ers in Brock Parties contract. It's
been a lot of debate. Should he get sixty million?
Deck got sixty million? You know there's other quarterbacks right
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now with fifty five million. Trevor Lawrence got fifty five,
Jordan Love, Joe Burrow, all that fifty five million to
a tongue of billo at fifty three. What does Brock
Party deserve? They did a poll in the Bay Area.
Thirty eight percent say he deserves twenty to thirty million,
twenty nine percent say he deserves between thirty one and
forty million, nineteen percent say he deserves between forty one
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million and fifty million, and fourteen percent say he deserves
between fifty one and sixty million. Let me tell you,
some people, I hear you. I'm with you, but this
is the National Football League. You guys are speaking like
fans and businesses don't quite work that way. I'm sure
you know you're not happy with his performance right now.
But I can name one, two, three, four, five quarterbacks
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on that list making over fifty million that have not
even sniffed a Super Bowl, have not even sniffed the
second round of the playoffs, and haven't come close to
winning anything. And this guy's been to an NFC championship
in a super Bowl. I understand it's not going great
this season. That's fine. You know, not every season is
going to be go how you want it. You're not
going to go to the super Bowl every single season.
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But he's been had a lot of success in the postseason.
He's played incredibly well in the postseason, better than most
of these quarterbacks on this list outside of Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, you can talk about Dak Prescott and his
playoff walls. You could talk about Jordan Love and his
playoff walls, and they ended the season last year on
an interception off his arm and a two minute drill.
Maybe that narrative changes this year, but Trevor Lawrence has
one playoff win and no playoffs since has been I
think he's fifteen over his last seventeen games or something
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like that, to a tongue of Bailoa has had the
concussion issues.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So when you're.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Negotiating with a team, unless you're willing to move on
from brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They're going to be paying him fifty plus million.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now, how they maneuver that money, how they dish it out,
how much guaranteed, how much upfront money, how much is
injury guaranteed, et cetera, et cetera. That'll be up for debate,
but it'll be within the fifty to fifty five million
dollar ranges. I don't think it'll go to sixty. The
salary cap has jumped and it'll jump again. And quarterbacks always,
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especially top quarterbacks, there are always a certain amount of
certain percentage of the cap. It's been getting really excessive
lately because they're closing in on like twenty four to
twenty five percent of the cap, but it's usually around
seventeen to twenty one percent of the cap it used
to be. Now that's kind of ballooned a little bit,
but I think he's gonna be around fifty to fifty
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five million dollars. H Prague and John Lynch are gonna
figure out how to spread it out again. I'm sure
there are gonna be some some salary cap casualties this year.
I don't know who those guys will be. But that's
why you have to draft. Well, that's why you have
to to replenish your team through the draft and have
a lot of depth and have young guys ready to
step up because in order to be successful and sustainable
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for a long time, that's the way you've got to
build your team. You're gonna pay guys you have good players,
you either let them walk or pay him. And you
could hear with the Dallas Cowboys now you hear them
talking Stephan Jones talking about they may not pay my
caparsons I said that this offseason they hadn't paid him yet.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So it doesn't look like they're gonna pay him.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
They're gonna see if they can get a first round
or two for them and if somebody else wants to
pay him. And that's that's the unfortunate part in It's
like if they wanted to pay him, they would already
pay him, and the price is only going up. You know,
he's a great player. So I'd guess his demand is
thirty six thirty seven million dollars now, when before the
season it probably would have been thirty four to thirty five.
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So I again think brock Perty's gonna get his money.
I think he's done a great job over you know,
a lot of his career, the majority of his career. Unfortunately,
this is a down year for him, This is an
off year. If we talk about stats and passer ratings,
he's still amongst the best in the National Football League.
And I think that's the part that's gonna help him.
I mean his passer rating compared to all the guys
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we named, he's the top of all of them, one
hundred and six point three passer rating over his career.
That's fantastic football. He needs some offensive line help, he
needs a healthy roster. That's why you're paying all these
guys if you need him on the field in order
for your team to function the way they need to function.
And that's been a problem this year. And you can
say what you want about it, but that's how the
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National Football League goes, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Now we can keep to the Devondre Campbell fallout, John
Lynch officially announces that he'll be suspended for the rest
of the season, three games without pay. There are people
out there saying this is unfair, that this is not
how the world works. You shouldn't be able to stop him.
The NFLPA will likely appeal to this. To highly doubt it.
It's unprecedented territory, and when you're in unprecedented territory, you
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get unprecedented punishment. And that's what's happening right now to
Devondre Campbell. He's not going to be rewarded for quitting
on his team because imagine the president that that sets
for other teams. Hey, you want to get out of here,
you want to go try to get on a playoff
team right before the season ends. Just walk out, Just
walk out the game on your team. You'll get cut,
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somebody else will pick you up. You'll be playing in
the playoffs before you know it, and you might get
a ring.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't think the NFL wants that. I don't think
the NFLPA wants that. I don't think players want that.
They don't want guys quitting on their teams like this,
especially to get on to another team.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Now, you don't usually.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Have as much shatter as you have heard from the
San Francisco forty nine ers, but you can just tell
how much it hurt because this wasn't a blowout, This
wasn't a game that was out of hand. This is
what was a game that he could have impacted in
a positive way, and he chose to walk out in
a game he would have played a whole half of football.
He would have started for the second half, and he
would likely have started for the rest of the season.
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But it is what it is. San Francisco forty nine
ers got to figure some things out. They're gonna likely
be playing for pride at this point and trust in
this team. You got to play for the guys that
are next to you, play for your spot next year,
show the coaches that you deserve to be on this
team the next season, and that your guy that regards
the circumstances will go out there and do his job
at a high level. Now I'll switch hats because we'll
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talk about the Seattle Seahawks and Geno Smith. Mike McDonald
told reporters they're optimistic that he will be ready to
go against the Minnesota Vikings and that is great news
for the Seattle Seahawks, because I just don't think that
you want to see the other quarterbacks start another game.
I'm sorry. I know you're like, oh, he didn't have
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the whole week. We saw enough. Gino Smith needs to
play against this Flores coach defense. His defense has played
well all season. They're going to bring a lot of
exotic looks, They're going to bring pressure. Geno handles it well.
Usually he's trying to stay in the pocket. He's delivering
the ball on time if he can, and if he's playing,
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it gives the Seattle Seahawks the best chance to win.
And I'm happy to hear that. It's a lot better
than people thought. Then I thought because if the way
he walked off and not able to come back into
the game, it was really concerning because usually that means
it's a longer term injury. So, thank goodness, Gino's gonna
be okay. Right now, they're tied with the Rams at
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the top of the NFC West, but the Rams hold
the tiebreaker obviously if they play at the end of
the season, and if the Seahawks can win a couple
and the Rams win a couple and they're both. Even
then their last game will be for all the marbles.
More than likely, we'll see how that goes. The Rams
play the Jets, Cardinals, and Seahawks. Those aren't considered tough
tasks for the Rams. Seahawks play Vikings, Bears, and then
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Rams again. This Vikings game is the toughest of all
those games, so we'll see. They played really well tonight
against the Bears. Started off slow, Sam Darnold battled his
way through that game. They ran the ball, Aaron Jones
ran the ball really well. That defense made some plays,
pressure Caleb Williams into an early turnover early in that game,
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came up with a crucial staying late deep into their
red zone to hold the Vikings to three. They're playing
good football and it's gonna be a really tough task
for the Seattle Seahawks to go in there and then
get a victory. But if they can, that keeps their
playoff hopes alive in a big way. A loss of
the Vikings really puts a damper on their playoff chances.
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Unless the Rams stumble through one of those two games
between the Jets and the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That'll probably be it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So this Vikings game pretty much for all the marbles
for the Seattle Seahawks. They got to bind a way
to get this win, and if they do, then they'll
have a chance to be playing in the postseason, and
likely if they get back into the postseason, they'll likely
have another another chance to play that same Packers team
that it looked like they kind of figured it out
in that second half, So we'll see how that goes
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so they continue their great seat. He's in there twelve
and two now. The Chicago Bears four and ten continue
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to struggle. Obviously, all the prayers and all the thoughts
go out to Randy Mallis and everything that he's going through.
A great Hall of famer, a great person, a guy
that played the game the right way, that lived the
game the right way, and we hope that he finds
himself in good health and he beats this and wins
this battle that he's going through. He was an idol
of mind growing up when I play receiver, So thoughts
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and prayers. I hope it all goes great Randy. The
Vikings played in his honor today. We saw Chris Carter
and Jake Reid come out with his jersey pre game.
He saw all the players represent But this was a
good win for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's a great season.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't think anybody saw the Minnesota Vikings going twelve
and two at this point in the season, especially losing
Kirk Cousins the way.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They did Flores.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You know, this defense doesn't have a ton of big names,
but they got a lot of guys playing really good football,
and probably their best football. Jonathan Grenard and Jallas Turner
both had a sack in the game. Sam Darnold twenty
four or forty one touchdown, one interception, two hundred and
thirty one yards. Aaron Jones eighteen carries eighty six yards
in a touchdown. Justin Jefferson seven catches seventy three yards
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in a touchdown. Caleb Williams a solid game eighteen for
thirty one one hundred and ninety one yards, one touchdown,
but he was you know, he got sacked a few times.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Again.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's just a struggle of a season for the Chicago Bears.
They they've lost eight in a row on one seven
on the road. Obviously, they got a number of things
they need to fix. They've already fired their coach. Pete
Carroll is a name that I've heard that is at
least interested in getting the Chicago I'm sure Chicago job.
I think there will be a number of coaches that'll
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be interested in that job. They have a really talented
receiving core, they have a talented defense, a lot of
great pieces that you can build around, a lot of
great pieces you're gonna you can win with. And I'm
looking forward to seeing who they pick as their coordinator. Obviously,
Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn of the Detroit Lions will
be names that come up in that discussion. We'll see
how they go. We'll see where they go with that.
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But another good game for the Vikings again, we just
talked about them. They played the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle
again next week. I'm looking forward to that game. I
can't wait. The Bears host the Lions. Might be their
ninth loss in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Unfortunately, though, the Detroit Lions are now gonna be without
David Montgomery for the rest of the season, and he's
sprained his MCL.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You know, Sonic and Knuckles have been a really great
combination all season long, and I was looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
How they pan out in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know, that's when you need to run the football,
That's when you need to lean on your run game. Obviously,
a lot of the weight is gonna fall on Jamior
gibbs shoulders.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Now he's gonna have to carry a heavier load.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's gonna have to do more for this offense, and
he's already been doing a ton for this They also
lost another defensive player, detackle Allan McNeil torn his ACL
out for the season. Carlton Davis is out indefinitely with
a fractor jaw Khalil Dorsey out for the year with
an ankle injury. The Lions already have thirteen different defensive
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players on IR heading into.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The Bills game.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Nobody Dan Campbell says nobody cares. Nobody's gonna give us
a pass or an asterisk next to their record and
He's right, nobody cares. But that's a lot of injuries
on the defensive side of the football. That's a lot
of injuries on a team to put on ir but
that's a lot of injuries on defense. We'll see if
they can continue to overcome that. Obviously they weren't able
to in the Buffalo Bills game. They battled in that
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game when they lost by seven points. Their offense scores
forty two points in that game. But what I really
want to talk about if all of these Dan Campbell
haters coming out of their woodworks, it's like, now everybody's
like saying, you have to play mentally sound football, and
you have to. You can't go for it on fourth
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you can't do things that are unexpected. That's not super
Bowl winning. That's not gonna win you super Bowls. I
don't know about that, especially coming from Acho a Cho's
watched the Philadelphia Eagles and Doug Peterson in a game
against the New England Patriots. Doug Peterson and the Philadelphia
Eagles that year went for and on fourth down as
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much as anyone. They were second in the league, and
they went forward and went forward and went for it.
They were going forward on fourth down all the time
and just living by the edge of their seats, because
why not if you have the momentum, everybody else loses
to There are people that do it exactly as you should. Hey,
we're gonna kick it on fourth and three from the three.
We're gonna kick it every fourth down. Hey, we're just
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gonna kick it. We're gonna kick field goals. We're gonna
punt the ball and they go home. It's not like
that's a strategy that guarantees you success.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It doesn't. This strategy doesn't guarantee you failure.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's just like when the when the Warriors start shooting
threes and they start shooting a boatload of threes, a
boatload of threes, and everybody's like, this is gonna work
in the playoffs. It never works in the playoffs. Every oh,
this is gonna this is gonna stop. They're gonna get
beat by a team that just dominates them in the paint.
And then the Warriors had a dynasty, and now everybody's
shooting threes, and now people forget that you used to
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play from the post. You used to Oh, it used
to be mid range. You have to drive the basketball.
You couldn't just live on Live and die by threes.
It's changed, literally changed the way basketball is played on
a lot of levels, for better or for worse. It's
changed it. But before it was unthinkable that this strategy
would work. And so Doug Peterson in that Super Bowl.
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Everybody remembers the Philly Special in that crazy play right
before the half.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They were up fifteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It was fourth down, about twenty seven or so seconds
to go in the half, fourth down from the one.
They run a Philly Special on fourth down and get it,
score a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Now they're in.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Instead of being up six points, they're up ten points,
and they win the super Bowl that year. That's risk, Oh,
that's unnecessary risk. They shouldn't have done that. They should
have kicked it. They won the super Bowl. We could
talk about last year's Wildcard round when the Lions went
for it on fourth and one in the second quarter.
Sam Laporter scored a touchdown, and that on that play
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they could have kicked the field goal. They won that
game by one point. So again, when you sit here
and say all this craziness, are you saying you don't
want teams to go for it on fourth down? Because
you think that strategy is unsustainable. Perhaps, but not going
going forward on fourth down has lost people games too,
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So there are two sides of the coin. There are
times teams go for it and get it and it
propels them to the next round. And there are times
that they don't go for it and they kicked the
field goal and they take the points and they go
home anyway, because they played it by the book, And
all people can say is they played it by the book.
They did what they should have done, but maybe they
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should have gone for it, Like hindsight is always twenty twenty.
But was the on side kick unnecessary? Yes, because the
strategy isn't what it used to be. But when Sean
Payton kicked an on side kick against Peyton Manning and
the Super Bowl and it works and the Saints going
to win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, it's
a legendary play because he was a risk taker. And
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now that's how legends are born, that's how tides changed.
If the Lions win the Super Bowl playing it this way,
it's going to change the way a lot of teams play,
because what do you have to lose? Everybody's done it
the same way for so long. Eventually things have to adapt,
things have to change, things have to evolve, and maybe
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this is the next evolution and iteration of the NFL.
Maybe this is what the three point shot was in
the NBA. And you sit there and say every team
has four downs and you got to live with it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You're gonna live with it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
If not, then you're going home anyway, Like, there are
a lot of bad teams out there that are doing
everything by the book. Hey, we kick it when we're
supposed to, where we punting when we're supposed to. We
don't go for it, we don't take unnecessary risks. And
guess what they've they've got four wins on the season.
So let's not go there with that because I don't
think that's the right way to see it. But we're
gonna keep moving forward and move on to the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Matt Ryan says they should sit Mahomes. I'm
not totally against that, but you gotta win this next one.
You gotta win this next one to clinch and if
they win the next one and they clinch the number
one seed, then then you can sit him. But if
he's able to play, I think you have to play
him unless you feel comfortable putting Carson Wentz in there
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and letting him go. I think you have to play him,
but you know I'm not the coach. Andy Reid has
usually played in. Patrick Mahomes has been injured before in
the playoffs or right before the playoffs, he's usually played,
so I would guess he's gonna play. They play Houston, Pittsburgh,
and the Broncos. The Broncos are a scary team and
you don't want to lose those three games. It's not
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like you've lived in blown teams out this season and
played some world beater football. There have been nail biders
throughout this season, throughout every single week, whether the team
is good or not good by record standards, they've usually
struggled and it's come down to the end. And you
don't want Patrick mahone sitting on the sideline with a
sweatsuit on when those moments come, especially against teams that
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you could potentially see in the playoffs. The problems that
you're gonna have again are your offensive line. You're left
and right tackle, and you're talking about two of the
premier pass rushers in the National Football League in Houston,
so again I see why he wants to send him.
Having these Kansas City Chiefs tackles deal with Will Anderson
and Daniel Hunter. Do you really want a banged up
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Patrick Mahomes trying to evade those guys.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But also do you want Carson Wentz out there dealing
with that and potentially you lose this game, you lose
the next game against the Pittsburgh Steelers team. Now they
may be without TJ. Watt, that's still up in the air.
But the next three games, the Chiefs play against some
of the premier pass rushers in the National Football League.
Bendo for the Broncos, the second in the league in
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sacks with eleven and a half they got I think
they got five guys with at least five sacks for
the Broncos, you talk about Alex high Smith, Cam Hayward,
Preston Smith. Now with the Steelers, there's not gonna get
any breaks. So if you rest them, you don't rest them.
These are gonna be really, really tough games to win
if those tackles can't stand up.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But what about the league.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
The league is doing a great, great job of scheduling
these games. The Steelers, Chiefs Texans Ravens all have to
play three games in eleven days, and they're all meaningful games.
If they lose win, there could be a lot of
movement in terms of seeding. The Steelers can go from
you know, leading the North to fighting for a playoff spot.
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If they lose a number of these games. The Ravens
could be from go from five to six seed to
three seed, two seed, depending on how these games shake out.
That's why you love the National Football League. Obviously, Buffalo
is gonna have a great, great chance, easier schedule right now,
and if they win their games, they'll likely be the
one or two seed. The Chiefs have probably stay the
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one seed if they can win one of these last
three games.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'm excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's the most wonderful time of the year, not only
because it's Christmas, but because the schedule is so phenomenal.
We're gonna get a lot of answers here soon. Now
stim to move on to some college football. Obviously, there's
a lot of discussion about Trav Hunter winning your Heisman.
Deserve special talent, generational talent, never seen it before. Receiver,
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you know, in ninety two catches over a thousand yard
fourteen touchdowns at corner have been up for the Thorpe
you know, won all the worst defensive player of the year,
Offensive player of the year in Heisman. I think it's
gonna be a really long time before we ever see
anything like that again. So congratulations to him. Now I'm
hearing CJ. Stroud wants Derek Stingley to play receiver because
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of his elite ball tracking ability.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love it. Give him a shot. He's a heck
of an athlete.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Obviously, they've had some injuries that fin Diggs's out for
the season, Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Was out for a while. Give him a shot.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I'm always happy to see a corner play both sides
and make an impact. I mean, Travis Hunter winning the Heisman.
Maybe that's inspiring people to say, let's break these football
rules and put guys out there and give him a
chance to make plays on both sides of the football.
The more the merrier. I'm happy for it. But again,
this transfer portal stuff is insane. Penn State's Bowl prabula
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enters the transfer portal less than a week before they
play the college Football playoff game versus SMU. Why I
don't get that because it's not like you're leaving for
the draft or you're saying, hey, I don't want to
get injured going into the NFL. I could kind of
respect that, But you've battled all season long to get
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to the playoffs. You got a chance to win a
national championship or at least compete for one, and you're
leaving like that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's a bad look. There's no way you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Could justify that and say that's a good look wherever
you're transferring to whatever team you're playing going to play for.
I think Penn State had him in the game plan
against SMU. When you leave, you leave your teammates. You
quit on your teammates to go somewhere else. I mean,
I feel like NFL teams have to take that into
consideration when talking about drafting these kids. And thinking about
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drafting these kids, it's got to be some kind of
competitive makeup where I'm like, hey, I'm gonna come finish
these playoffs and I'm gonna get what I earned because
I battled all this time my teammates, And if I
want to leave, I'm gonna leave after we get eliminated,
not before.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I'm not gonna leave before I do.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All this work and then be like, all right, fellas,
we did everything, We did what we said we would do.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
We made the playoffs. But y'all, good luck, Mike. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I never thought i'd be the guy saying this generation,
but what's wrong with these dudes?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Man? What the heck is wrong with these dudes? I
don't get that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But now it's time for our Thursday night football preview
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La Chargers. The Denver Broncos are playing great football defensively. Offensively,
bow Knicks had a really really grind of a game
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They found a way for their defense to step up
and make plays again. Nick Bonito has a pick six
in a game, is second this season along with his
eleven and a half sacks. If you knew the name,
we'd be talking about an All Pro season for the kid.
But I think he's going to be a couple of
years away because people just don't know enough about him
and the Denver Broncos. Obviously, him and Cooper have been
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playing really outstanding on the edges for the Broncos. Broncos
have a four game winning streak. The Chargers have dropped
two in the row. But this is gonna be a
game with a lot of ramifications for the end of
this season, for this division, for the playoff seeding, etc.
Both of these teams have really really good defenses, have
pretty average sporadic offenses, but I love a great defensive game.
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Hopefully we get to see Patrick certain get into this
ball game. Obviously he's questionable with an injury. The Chargers
defense has been playing really good football, with some really
unsung heroes out at the edges and at the cornerback position,
some fifth round picks that are playing at a really
high level. I think it's gonna come down to the
pass rushers getting home. Justin Herbert on a bum leg
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He's on a bum ankle, He's battling through, showing a
lot of toughness. I'm looking forward to this game and
seeing who can step up when it matters the most.
This is where champions are made, this is when legends
are made. December football. Usually it's not in a dome,
but hey, so far is a beautiful stadium. I can't wait.
But that was this week's Thursday Night Football preview. Presented
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by Prime Video, and be sure to watch the Broncos
take on the Chargers this Thursday. I'll be there. It'll
be entertaining, for sure. It'll be an entertaining game and
an entertaining show by the best crew in football. Of
course I'm biased. Now it's time for my power rankings.
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Oh it's gonna be a really tough call because Mitchell
is Detroit Honolulu Blue. Detroit Lions have been on a tear.
They take a bad loss, I mean not an awful loss,
because Buffalo bill are a really good team and they're
up there in the power rankings too, but I gotta
move them down. They now have two losses on the season.
I'm gonna move the Kansas City Chiefs up, even though
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again they've hadwhelming wins, but they still only have one
loss on the season. There's a bunch of two loss teams.
The Philadelphia Eagles are gonna be two. They're playing some
really great football and impressive win versus the Pittsburgh Steelers
puts them there. I gotta put Buffalo at three win
against the number one team in our power rankings, but
they're still they still have three losses on the season.
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Then I'm gonna then it's gonna be tough, but I'm
gonna have to put the Minnesota Vikings in there.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
At four, they're twelve and two.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Again, that Flores coach defense, Sam Darnold doing enough, Kevin
O'Connell drawing it up, justin, Jefferson continuing to make plays,
Jordan Addison flourishing. You gotta appreciate what they're doing out there,
and then we gotta have the Detroit Lions backing it up.
At five, that defense has just struggled so much and
they're getting more and more banged up every single week.
Hopefully they're able to turn it around and figure out
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a way. Aaron Glenn is doing everything he can to
duct tape and and hold this defense together with band
aids and bubblegum. But if they can find a to
get healthy going into these playoffs, they are gonna be
a tough team to beat. And I'm sure they'll move up,
but we have to bump them down with a loss
where they give up that many points they gave up
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was it forty eight points in that game?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That's tough. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Obviously, Buffalo's offense is a really impressive offense. And Detroit's
offense was able to score forty two points. Jared golf
through for almost five hundred yards. We give them credit
for that, but you got to find a way to
win these games. You gotta find a way to hold
the scores down. I'm sure Detroit will finish this season
off strong, hopefully continue to go move towards that number
one seed, and they will move closer to the number
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one rankings in.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
These power rankings. Yeah, I know how it is.
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Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast, presented by our
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Got me shining bright. A lot of things to talk
about today, but we're gonna start it off with the
San Francisco forty nine ers in Brock Parties contract. It's
been a lot of debate. Should he get sixty million?
Deck got sixty million? You know there's other quarterbacks right
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now with fifty five million. Trevor Lawrence got fifty five,
Jordan Love, Joe Burrow, all that fifty five million to
a tongue of billo at fifty three. What does Brock
Party deserve? They did a poll in the Bay Area.
Thirty eight percent say he deserves twenty to thirty million,
twenty nine percent say he deserves between thirty one and
forty million, nineteen percent say he deserves between forty one
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million and fifty million, and fourteen percent say he deserves
between fifty one and sixty million. Let me tell you,
some people, I hear you. I'm with you, but this
is the National Football League. You guys are speaking like
fans and businesses don't quite work that way. I'm sure
you know you're not happy with his performance right now.
But I can name one, two, three, four, five quarterbacks
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on that list making over fifty million that have not
even sniffed a Super Bowl, have not even sniffed the
second round of the playoffs, and haven't come close to
winning anything. And this guy's been to an NFC championship
in a super Bowl. I understand it's not going great
this season. That's fine. You know, not every season is
going to be go how you want it. You're not
going to go to the super Bowl every single season.
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But he's been had a lot of success in the postseason.
He's played incredibly well in the postseason, better than most
of these quarterbacks on this list outside of Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I mean, you can talk about Dak Prescott and his
playoff walls. You could talk about Jordan Love and his
playoff walls, and they ended the season last year on
an interception off his arm and a two minute drill.
Maybe that narrative changes this year, but Trevor Lawrence has
one playoff win and no playoffs since has been I
think he's fifteen over his last seventeen games or something
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like that, to a tongue of Bailoa has had the
concussion issues.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So when you're.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Negotiating with a team, unless you're willing to move on
from brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They're going to be paying him fifty plus million.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Now, how they maneuver that money, how they dish it out,
how much guaranteed, how much upfront money, how much is
injury guaranteed, et cetera, et cetera. That'll be up for debate,
but it'll be within the fifty to fifty five million
dollar ranges. I don't think it'll go to sixty. The
salary cap has jumped and it'll jump again. And quarterbacks always,
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especially top quarterbacks, there are always a certain amount of
certain percentage of the cap. It's been getting really excessive
lately because they're closing in on like twenty four to
twenty five percent of the cap, but it's usually around
seventeen to twenty one percent of the cap it used
to be. Now that's kind of ballooned a little bit,
but I think he's gonna be around fifty to fifty
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five million dollars. H Prague and John Lynch are gonna
figure out how to spread it out again. I'm sure
there are gonna be some some salary cap casualties this year.
I don't know who those guys will be. But that's
why you have to draft. Well, that's why you have
to to replenish your team through the draft and have
a lot of depth and have young guys ready to
step up because in order to be successful and sustainable
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for a long time, that's the way you've got to
build your team. You're gonna pay guys you have good players,
you either let them walk or pay him. And you
could hear with the Dallas Cowboys now you hear them
talking Stephan Jones talking about they may not pay my
caparsons I said that this offseason they hadn't paid him yet.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So it doesn't look like they're gonna pay him.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
They're gonna see if they can get a first round
or two for them and if somebody else wants to
pay him. And that's that's the unfortunate part in It's
like if they wanted to pay him, they would already
pay him, and the price is only going up. You know,
he's a great player. So I'd guess his demand is
thirty six thirty seven million dollars now, when before the
season it probably would have been thirty four to thirty five.
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So I again think brock Perty's gonna get his money.
I think he's done a great job over you know,
a lot of his career, the majority of his career. Unfortunately,
this is a down year for him, This is an
off year. If we talk about stats and passer ratings,
he's still amongst the best in the National Football League.
And I think that's the part that's gonna help him.
I mean his passer rating compared to all the guys
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we named, he's the top of all of them, one
hundred and six point three passer rating over his career.
That's fantastic football. He needs some offensive line help, he
needs a healthy roster. That's why you're paying all these
guys if you need him on the field in order
for your team to function the way they need to function.
And that's been a problem this year. And you can
say what you want about it, but that's how the
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National Football League goes, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Now we can keep to the Devondre Campbell fallout, John
Lynch officially announces that he'll be suspended for the rest
of the season, three games without pay. There are people
out there saying this is unfair, that this is not
how the world works. You shouldn't be able to stop him.
The NFLPA will likely appeal to this. To highly doubt it.
It's unprecedented territory, and when you're in unprecedented territory, you
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get unprecedented punishment. And that's what's happening right now to
Devondre Campbell. He's not going to be rewarded for quitting
on his team because imagine the president that that sets
for other teams. Hey, you want to get out of here,
you want to go try to get on a playoff
team right before the season ends. Just walk out, Just
walk out the game on your team. You'll get cut,
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somebody else will pick you up. You'll be playing in
the playoffs before you know it, and you might get
a ring.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I don't think the NFL wants that. I don't think
the NFLPA wants that. I don't think players want that.
They don't want guys quitting on their teams like this,
especially to get on to another team.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Now, you don't usually.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Have as much shatter as you have heard from the
San Francisco forty nine ers, but you can just tell
how much it hurt because this wasn't a blowout, This
wasn't a game that was out of hand. This is
what was a game that he could have impacted in
a positive way, and he chose to walk out in
a game he would have played a whole half of football.
He would have started for the second half, and he
would likely have started for the rest of the season.
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But it is what it is. San Francisco forty nine
ers got to figure some things out. They're gonna likely
be playing for pride at this point and trust in
this team. You got to play for the guys that
are next to you, play for your spot next year,
show the coaches that you deserve to be on this
team the next season, and that your guy that regards
the circumstances will go out there and do his job
at a high level. Now I'll switch hats because we'll
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talk about the Seattle Seahawks and Geno Smith. Mike McDonald
told reporters they're optimistic that he will be ready to
go against the Minnesota Vikings and that is great news
for the Seattle Seahawks, because I just don't think that
you want to see the other quarterbacks start another game.
I'm sorry. I know you're like, oh, he didn't have
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the whole week. We saw enough. Gino Smith needs to
play against this Flores coach defense. His defense has played
well all season. They're going to bring a lot of
exotic looks, They're going to bring pressure. Geno handles it well.
Usually he's trying to stay in the pocket. He's delivering
the ball on time if he can, and if he's playing,
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it gives the Seattle Seahawks the best chance to win.
And I'm happy to hear that. It's a lot better
than people thought. Then I thought because if the way
he walked off and not able to come back into
the game, it was really concerning because usually that means
it's a longer term injury. So, thank goodness, Gino's gonna
be okay. Right now, they're tied with the Rams at
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the top of the NFC West, but the Rams hold
the tiebreaker obviously if they play at the end of
the season, and if the Seahawks can win a couple
and the Rams win a couple and they're both. Even
then their last game will be for all the marbles.
More than likely, we'll see how that goes. The Rams
play the Jets, Cardinals, and Seahawks. Those aren't considered tough
tasks for the Rams. Seahawks play Vikings, Bears, and then
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Rams again. This Vikings game is the toughest of all
those games, so we'll see. They played really well tonight
against the Bears. Started off slow, Sam Darnold battled his
way through that game. They ran the ball, Aaron Jones
ran the ball really well. That defense made some plays,
pressure Caleb Williams into an early turnover early in that game,
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came up with a crucial staying late deep into their
red zone to hold the Vikings to three. They're playing
good football and it's gonna be a really tough task
for the Seattle Seahawks to go in there and then
get a victory. But if they can, that keeps their
playoff hopes alive in a big way. A loss of
the Vikings really puts a damper on their playoff chances.
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Unless the Rams stumble through one of those two games
between the Jets and the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That'll probably be it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
So this Vikings game pretty much for all the marbles
for the Seattle Seahawks. They got to bind a way
to get this win, and if they do, then they'll
have a chance to be playing in the postseason, and
likely if they get back into the postseason, they'll likely
have another another chance to play that same Packers team
that it looked like they kind of figured it out
in that second half, So we'll see how that goes
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so they continue their great seat. He's in there twelve
and two now. The Chicago Bears four and ten continue
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to struggle. Obviously, all the prayers and all the thoughts
go out to Randy Mallis and everything that he's going through.
A great Hall of famer, a great person, a guy
that played the game the right way, that lived the
game the right way, and we hope that he finds
himself in good health and he beats this and wins
this battle that he's going through. He was an idol
of mind growing up when I play receiver, So thoughts
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and prayers. I hope it all goes great Randy. The
Vikings played in his honor today. We saw Chris Carter
and Jake Reid come out with his jersey pre game.
He saw all the players represent But this was a
good win for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's a great season.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I don't think anybody saw the Minnesota Vikings going twelve
and two at this point in the season, especially losing
Kirk Cousins the way.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They did Flores.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You know, this defense doesn't have a ton of big names,
but they got a lot of guys playing really good football,
and probably their best football. Jonathan Grenard and Jallas Turner
both had a sack in the game. Sam Darnold twenty
four or forty one touchdown, one interception, two hundred and
thirty one yards. Aaron Jones eighteen carries eighty six yards
in a touchdown. Justin Jefferson seven catches seventy three yards
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in a touchdown. Caleb Williams a solid game eighteen for
thirty one one hundred and ninety one yards, one touchdown,
but he was you know, he got sacked a few times.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Again.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's just a struggle of a season for the Chicago Bears.
They they've lost eight in a row on one seven
on the road. Obviously, they got a number of things
they need to fix. They've already fired their coach. Pete
Carroll is a name that I've heard that is at
least interested in getting the Chicago I'm sure Chicago job.
I think there will be a number of coaches that'll
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be interested in that job. They have a really talented
receiving core, they have a talented defense, a lot of
great pieces that you can build around, a lot of
great pieces you're gonna you can win with. And I'm
looking forward to seeing who they pick as their coordinator. Obviously,
Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn of the Detroit Lions will
be names that come up in that discussion. We'll see
how they go. We'll see where they go with that.
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But another good game for the Vikings again, we just
talked about them. They played the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle
again next week. I'm looking forward to that game. I
can't wait. The Bears host the Lions. Might be their
ninth loss in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Unfortunately, though, the Detroit Lions are now gonna be without
David Montgomery for the rest of the season, and he's
sprained his MCL.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You know, Sonic and Knuckles have been a really great
combination all season long, and I was looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
How they pan out in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You know, that's when you need to run the football,
That's when you need to lean on your run game. Obviously,
a lot of the weight is gonna fall on Jamior
gibbs shoulders.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Now he's gonna have to carry a heavier load.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's gonna have to do more for this offense, and
he's already been doing a ton for this They also
lost another defensive player, detackle Allan McNeil torn his ACL
out for the season. Carlton Davis is out indefinitely with
a fractor jaw Khalil Dorsey out for the year with
an ankle injury. The Lions already have thirteen different defensive
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players on IR heading into.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The Bills game.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Nobody Dan Campbell says nobody cares. Nobody's gonna give us
a pass or an asterisk next to their record and
He's right, nobody cares. But that's a lot of injuries
on the defensive side of the football. That's a lot
of injuries on a team to put on ir but
that's a lot of injuries on defense. We'll see if
they can continue to overcome that. Obviously they weren't able
to in the Buffalo Bills game. They battled in that
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game when they lost by seven points. Their offense scores
forty two points in that game. But what I really
want to talk about if all of these Dan Campbell
haters coming out of their woodworks, it's like, now everybody's
like saying, you have to play mentally sound football, and
you have to. You can't go for it on fourth
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you can't do things that are unexpected. That's not super
Bowl winning. That's not gonna win you super Bowls. I
don't know about that, especially coming from Acho a Cho's
watched the Philadelphia Eagles and Doug Peterson in a game
against the New England Patriots. Doug Peterson and the Philadelphia
Eagles that year went for and on fourth down as
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much as anyone. They were second in the league, and
they went forward and went forward and went for it.
They were going forward on fourth down all the time
and just living by the edge of their seats, because
why not if you have the momentum, everybody else loses
to There are people that do it exactly as you should. Hey,
we're gonna kick it on fourth and three from the three.
We're gonna kick it every fourth down. Hey, we're just
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gonna kick it. We're gonna kick field goals. We're gonna
punt the ball and they go home. It's not like
that's a strategy that guarantees you success.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It doesn't. This strategy doesn't guarantee you failure.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's just like when the when the Warriors start shooting
threes and they start shooting a boatload of threes, a
boatload of threes, and everybody's like, this is gonna work
in the playoffs. It never works in the playoffs. Every oh,
this is gonna this is gonna stop. They're gonna get
beat by a team that just dominates them in the paint.
And then the Warriors had a dynasty, and now everybody's
shooting threes, and now people forget that you used to
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play from the post. You used to Oh, it used
to be mid range. You have to drive the basketball.
You couldn't just live on Live and die by threes.
It's changed, literally changed the way basketball is played on
a lot of levels, for better or for worse. It's
changed it. But before it was unthinkable that this strategy
would work. And so Doug Peterson in that Super Bowl.
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Everybody remembers the Philly Special in that crazy play right
before the half.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They were up fifteen to twelve.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
It was fourth down, about twenty seven or so seconds
to go in the half, fourth down from the one.
They run a Philly Special on fourth down and get it,
score a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Now they're in.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Instead of being up six points, they're up ten points,
and they win the super Bowl that year. That's risk, Oh,
that's unnecessary risk. They shouldn't have done that. They should
have kicked it. They won the super Bowl. We could
talk about last year's Wildcard round when the Lions went
for it on fourth and one in the second quarter.
Sam Laporter scored a touchdown, and that on that play
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they could have kicked the field goal. They won that
game by one point. So again, when you sit here
and say all this craziness, are you saying you don't
want teams to go for it on fourth down? Because
you think that strategy is unsustainable. Perhaps, but not going
going forward on fourth down has lost people games too,
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So there are two sides of the coin. There are
times teams go for it and get it and it
propels them to the next round. And there are times
that they don't go for it and they kicked the
field goal and they take the points and they go
home anyway, because they played it by the book, And
all people can say is they played it by the book.
They did what they should have done, but maybe they
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should have gone for it, Like hindsight is always twenty twenty.
But was the on side kick unnecessary? Yes, because the
strategy isn't what it used to be. But when Sean
Payton kicked an on side kick against Peyton Manning and
the Super Bowl and it works and the Saints going
to win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, it's
a legendary play because he was a risk taker. And
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now that's how legends are born, that's how tides changed.
If the Lions win the Super Bowl playing it this way,
it's going to change the way a lot of teams play,
because what do you have to lose? Everybody's done it
the same way for so long. Eventually things have to adapt,
things have to change, things have to evolve, and maybe
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this is the next evolution and iteration of the NFL.
Maybe this is what the three point shot was in
the NBA. And you sit there and say every team
has four downs and you got to live with it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You're gonna live with it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
If not, then you're going home anyway, Like, there are
a lot of bad teams out there that are doing
everything by the book. Hey, we kick it when we're
supposed to, where we punting when we're supposed to. We
don't go for it, we don't take unnecessary risks. And
guess what they've they've got four wins on the season.
So let's not go there with that because I don't
think that's the right way to see it. But we're
gonna keep moving forward and move on to the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Matt Ryan says they should sit Mahomes. I'm
not totally against that, but you gotta win this next one.
You gotta win this next one to clinch and if
they win the next one and they clinch the number
one seed, then then you can sit him. But if
he's able to play, I think you have to play
him unless you feel comfortable putting Carson Wentz in there
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and letting him go. I think you have to play him,
but you know I'm not the coach. Andy Reid has
usually played in. Patrick Mahomes has been injured before in
the playoffs or right before the playoffs, he's usually played,
so I would guess he's gonna play. They play Houston, Pittsburgh,
and the Broncos. The Broncos are a scary team and
you don't want to lose those three games. It's not
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like you've lived in blown teams out this season and
played some world beater football. There have been nail biders
throughout this season, throughout every single week, whether the team
is good or not good by record standards, they've usually
struggled and it's come down to the end. And you
don't want Patrick mahone sitting on the sideline with a
sweatsuit on when those moments come, especially against teams that
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you could potentially see in the playoffs. The problems that
you're gonna have again are your offensive line. You're left
and right tackle, and you're talking about two of the
premier pass rushers in the National Football League in Houston,
so again I see why he wants to send him.
Having these Kansas City Chiefs tackles deal with Will Anderson
and Daniel Hunter. Do you really want a banged up
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Patrick Mahomes trying to evade those guys.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
But also do you want Carson Wentz out there dealing
with that and potentially you lose this game, you lose
the next game against the Pittsburgh Steelers team. Now they
may be without TJ. Watt, that's still up in the air.
But the next three games, the Chiefs play against some
of the premier pass rushers in the National Football League.
Bendo for the Broncos, the second in the league in
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sacks with eleven and a half they got I think
they got five guys with at least five sacks for
the Broncos, you talk about Alex high Smith, Cam Hayward,
Preston Smith. Now with the Steelers, there's not gonna get
any breaks. So if you rest them, you don't rest them.
These are gonna be really, really tough games to win
if those tackles can't stand up.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But what about the league.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
The league is doing a great, great job of scheduling
these games. The Steelers, Chiefs Texans Ravens all have to
play three games in eleven days, and they're all meaningful games.
If they lose win, there could be a lot of
movement in terms of seeding. The Steelers can go from
you know, leading the North to fighting for a playoff spot.
(23:00):
If they lose a number of these games. The Ravens
could be from go from five to six seed to
three seed, two seed, depending on how these games shake out.
That's why you love the National Football League. Obviously, Buffalo
is gonna have a great, great chance, easier schedule right now,
and if they win their games, they'll likely be the
one or two seed. The Chiefs have probably stay the
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one seed if they can win one of these last
three games.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'm excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's the most wonderful time of the year, not only
because it's Christmas, but because the schedule is so phenomenal.
We're gonna get a lot of answers here soon. Now
stim to move on to some college football. Obviously, there's
a lot of discussion about Trav Hunter winning your Heisman.
Deserve special talent, generational talent, never seen it before. Receiver,
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you know, in ninety two catches over a thousand yard
fourteen touchdowns at corner have been up for the Thorpe
you know, won all the worst defensive player of the year,
Offensive player of the year in Heisman. I think it's
gonna be a really long time before we ever see
anything like that again. So congratulations to him. Now I'm
hearing CJ. Stroud wants Derek Stingley to play receiver because
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of his elite ball tracking ability.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love it. Give him a shot. He's a heck
of an athlete.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Obviously, they've had some injuries that fin Diggs's out for
the season, Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Was out for a while. Give him a shot.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I'm always happy to see a corner play both sides
and make an impact. I mean, Travis Hunter winning the Heisman.
Maybe that's inspiring people to say, let's break these football
rules and put guys out there and give him a
chance to make plays on both sides of the football.
The more the merrier. I'm happy for it. But again,
this transfer portal stuff is insane. Penn State's Bowl prabula
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enters the transfer portal less than a week before they
play the college Football playoff game versus SMU. Why I
don't get that because it's not like you're leaving for
the draft or you're saying, hey, I don't want to
get injured going into the NFL. I could kind of
respect that, But you've battled all season long to get
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to the playoffs. You got a chance to win a
national championship or at least compete for one, and you're
leaving like that.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's a bad look. There's no way you.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Could justify that and say that's a good look wherever
you're transferring to whatever team you're playing going to play for.
I think Penn State had him in the game plan
against SMU. When you leave, you leave your teammates. You
quit on your teammates to go somewhere else. I mean,
I feel like NFL teams have to take that into
consideration when talking about drafting these kids. And thinking about
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drafting these kids, it's got to be some kind of
competitive makeup where I'm like, hey, I'm gonna come finish
these playoffs and I'm gonna get what I earned because
I battled all this time my teammates, And if I
want to leave, I'm gonna leave after we get eliminated,
not before.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I'm not gonna leave before I do.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
All this work and then be like, all right, fellas,
we did everything, We did what we said we would do.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
We made the playoffs. But y'all, good luck, Mike. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I never thought i'd be the guy saying this generation,
but what's wrong with these dudes?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Man? What the heck is wrong with these dudes? I
don't get that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But now it's time for our Thursday night football preview
presented by Prime Video. The Denver Broncos are playing the
La Chargers. The Denver Broncos are playing great football defensively. Offensively,
bow Knicks had a really really grind of a game
through three interceptions, but again they found a way to win.
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They found a way for their defense to step up
and make plays again. Nick Bonito has a pick six
in a game, is second this season along with his
eleven and a half sacks. If you knew the name,
we'd be talking about an All Pro season for the kid.
But I think he's going to be a couple of
years away because people just don't know enough about him
and the Denver Broncos. Obviously, him and Cooper have been
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playing really outstanding on the edges for the Broncos. Broncos
have a four game winning streak. The Chargers have dropped
two in the row. But this is gonna be a
game with a lot of ramifications for the end of
this season, for this division, for the playoff seeding, etc.
Both of these teams have really really good defenses, have
pretty average sporadic offenses, but I love a great defensive game.
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Hopefully we get to see Patrick certain get into this
ball game. Obviously he's questionable with an injury. The Chargers
defense has been playing really good football, with some really
unsung heroes out at the edges and at the cornerback position,
some fifth round picks that are playing at a really
high level. I think it's gonna come down to the
pass rushers getting home. Justin Herbert on a bum leg
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He's on a bum ankle, He's battling through, showing a
lot of toughness. I'm looking forward to this game and
seeing who can step up when it matters the most.
This is where champions are made, this is when legends
are made. December football. Usually it's not in a dome,
but hey, so far is a beautiful stadium. I can't wait.
But that was this week's Thursday Night Football preview. Presented
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by Prime Video, and be sure to watch the Broncos
take on the Chargers this Thursday. I'll be there. It'll
be entertaining, for sure. It'll be an entertaining game and
an entertaining show by the best crew in football. Of
course I'm biased. Now it's time for my power rankings.
(28:37):
Oh it's gonna be a really tough call because Mitchell
is Detroit Honolulu Blue. Detroit Lions have been on a tear.
They take a bad loss, I mean not an awful loss,
because Buffalo bill are a really good team and they're
up there in the power rankings too, but I gotta
move them down. They now have two losses on the season.
I'm gonna move the Kansas City Chiefs up, even though
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again they've hadwhelming wins, but they still only have one
loss on the season. There's a bunch of two loss teams.
The Philadelphia Eagles are gonna be two. They're playing some
really great football and impressive win versus the Pittsburgh Steelers
puts them there. I gotta put Buffalo at three win
against the number one team in our power rankings, but
they're still they still have three losses on the season.
(29:21):
Then I'm gonna then it's gonna be tough, but I'm
gonna have to put the Minnesota Vikings in there.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
At four, they're twelve and two.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Again, that Flores coach defense, Sam Darnold doing enough, Kevin
O'Connell drawing it up, justin, Jefferson continuing to make plays,
Jordan Addison flourishing. You gotta appreciate what they're doing out there,
and then we gotta have the Detroit Lions backing it up.
At five, that defense has just struggled so much and
they're getting more and more banged up every single week.
Hopefully they're able to turn it around and figure out
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a way. Aaron Glenn is doing everything he can to
duct tape and and hold this defense together with band
aids and bubblegum. But if they can find a to
get healthy going into these playoffs, they are gonna be
a tough team to beat. And I'm sure they'll move up,
but we have to bump them down with a loss
where they give up that many points they gave up
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was it forty eight points in that game?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
That's tough. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Obviously, Buffalo's offense is a really impressive offense. And Detroit's
offense was able to score forty two points. Jared golf
through for almost five hundred yards. We give them credit
for that, but you got to find a way to
win these games. You gotta find a way to hold
the scores down. I'm sure Detroit will finish this season
off strong, hopefully continue to go move towards that number
one seed, and they will move closer to the number
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one rankings in.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
These power rankings. Yeah, I know how it is.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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