NFL Wildcard Weekend Preview 1/14/22

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Can you guys hear me? SorrydOn, I couldn't understand the world that
saying of the NFL covered the nameand the hurricane Hurricane. This is Next

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Fan Up. We're live bro.Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Next Fan
Up. It is wild Card weekend. We are finally here at this point
of the season. The regular seasonis done, the fourteen teams start with
a clean slate. Anything can happen, but we pretty much you know how

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this is all going to play out, hopefully not the way gets played out
last year. I am James,your Eagles super fan, joined here by
a cavalcade of rowdy individual starting withsome of my longtime cohorts, Neil I
Washington super fan. How are youdoing, sir? All right, good
evening, James said, gentlemen andlisteners, A little thing for you here,

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guys, say, there's fourteen quarterbacksobviously starting in these playoffs. How
many do you think we're drafted outof those fourteen? Ten? Yeah,
you've read the post already. Ofcourse I've read the post already. Ten
quarterbacks were drafted, three were tradedfor, and one was a free agent.
Of course that was Brady. Sothere you go. The draft is

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the way forward to be a quarterback? James. Absolutely. Let's just hope
that somebody's teams hold onto their quarterbacks. I'm speaking to you, Philadelphia.
There's no reason to upgrade. He'sfine. He's perfectly fine. You know
that's some other teams in the leaguethat might be looking forward, QB.
You know, don't don't don't saythat since he's already jumped the line.

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We have mj Our Atlanta superfan years. How are you doing him? J
oh oh. I'm just looking forwardto the offseason to see what moved my
dirty birds mate. And I'm alsolooking forward to some good football this weekend.
Since I've got no dog eighty fight, It's gonna be a great weekend
regardless, all right. Our otherlongtime cored up to the usual Shenanigans,

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Kevin our Dallas super fan, howare you sir? Hello everyone, I'm
pretty good. Just finished the gameat Madden Online. It got called called
dirty names by seventeen year old toldme I was getting no ass, and
here we are. I've got nothingto follow that up with. And Jared,

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our Giant super fan, how areyou, sir? After this long
timoteous week that the hammer finally droppedon your franchise. We'll get to that
shortly. I'm doing good. I'mactually I'm happy. Lots of picks in
the top eighty new GM coming inHope Springs. Eternal Giants are going to
the playoffs next year, all right. I don't even know what to say

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that that one, folks. Iwill let you all know as a bit
of housekeeping, you can't reach outto us on Facebook and Twitter at next
Fan Up, or you can emailus at next Fan Up at gmail dot
com. And before we get intothe news of the week, Um,
first I have to issue an apology. And rather she listened to this or

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not, I promised her I woulddo this. I have to apologize to
my mom. Um, Mom,I'm sorry. Last offseason I told you
the Steelers were going to fall offa cliff and they would finish probably nine
and eight and they would miss outon the playoffs. I was wrong.
The Steelers are nine seven and one, and somehow they find themselves playing this
weekend. Um, I don't knowhow they poured it off, bubble gum,

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duct tape, smoking mirrors. I'msorry. I was wrong. They
made the playoffs. Tomlin will neverhave a losing season. You have a
you have a mother. I thought, Neil, this is why your team

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is always in the news for allthe wrong reasons. Well, at least
we're consistent, that's true. Ohmy gosh. As for the news of
the week, there are officially sevenhead coaching vacancies. The Miami Dolphins,
Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears, JacksonvilleJaguars, Denver Broncos, New York Giants,

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and as of earlier today two pmCentral Time to be exact, the
Houston Texans the Las Vegas Raiders,who are in the playoffs. I guess
we assume the interim tag is notgoing to stick around and that staff will
probably be let go. We don'tknow yet. We'll see what happens after
this postseason. And there is rumorsof the Seattle Seahawks maybe maybe not making

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a coaching change. Jared, sincewe do have you here and your coach
was basically fired a day before werecorded this, though, we don't know
what took the Giant so long tomake the decision. Please, the floor
is yours about the retiring GM andyour coach being fired. Yeah, I
don't know why they let him retire. I guess just because of his long
tenure. And he did some goodthings, but for every good thing he

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did for the Giants, he kindof did like an almost not not equally.
He's bad, but he also dida bad thing. But GM's gone,
which I'm happy, happy for.I don't really care that he get
retired. He's gone, that's allthat matters. The GM positions actually a
really sweet gig, and I hopethat we'd get a good person for it.
So far, the Giants have interviewedfor people for the job, which

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includes meant people from the Bills,the Chiefs, and the Cardinals. Tomorrow
they're going to be interviewing Titans,and Saturday, which is two days from
now, they're gonna be interviewing theRavens Hortise, and then next week they
interview the Niners. So someone fromone of those front offices is getting the

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GM job, one of those ninepeople, and I hope it's a Joe.
I don't know if I can seea stan Craft as it shown or
showing from the Bills. I thinkit's showing showing UM and so he's guy.
I hope Um gets hired. Andso far, from what we've heard
from the Giants is he had anexceptionally good interview, so I expect him
to be one of the callbacks forthe in person interviews UM in a week

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and a half, two weeks.That's some good outlook Candle calendar management there,
Jared, Yes, making sure Iwant to get my points to the
lineup so I didn't miss one ofthe GM potentials. Head coach is totally
up in the air, and they'regonna wait until after they hired the GM
to deal with that. So we'renot going to know until the Super Bowl

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probably for the for the head coachis what I would say. All right,
Neil, Um, We we've basicallygone through this cycle the last several
years. M Jared. You alsobrought it up in our slack channel.
There's currently now, after all thesefirings, three minorities as head coach currently
NFL Tomlin, Sala and Um andRivera. Tomlin is the only African American,

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uh, Neil? Do you thinkanything changes this hiring cycle? Do
you think Eric b Enemy gets thecall? Do you think either the coordinators
Byron Left, which of Todd Bowlsof the Buccaneers get an opportunity? Well,
they'll I'll certainly get into views.Of course, I hope James that
well. I'd like to think positivelyand think that this the reason that Flores

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Collie, you know, I havebeen removed from post has nothing to do
with the color of the skin.But of course we know that it probably
and it's going to stund really terrible. It's probably feels easier for owners to
get rid of coaches who are ofcolor, and that's that's terrible to say,
but I think it's probably a realitythat we all can have. N

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is lucky under the surface there interms of left which I think he's got
a really good chance of getting gettinga gig somewhere, quite possibly up there
with the Jags with his history there. In terms of the others, Bows
has had what one shot as ahead coach, Yeah, only one.
I think it only lasts like threeyears. In that log he is a

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good Jets team, though it wasgood Jets team. He is a brilliant
defensive coordinator. And I do thinkthere are some guys out there who are
brilliant Hall of Fame level coordinators andthey're just they're just not head coaches because
there's a completely different job. Ofcourse, being a head coach to being
a coordinator, and I think,let's hope so, James. I do
think the one guy that, oh, I was so angry with the Dolphins

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that they go rid of Flores.I thought, yeah, that was probably
the shocker of the coaching cycle thistime around, is that he got the
axe. Absolutely shocker. And Ihope he. I mean he being an
ex Patriots guy, maybe in Lyne, in Houston, I don't know.
Yeah, his name has been thrownaround Chicago. Kevin. I'm watching you
right now, Kevin, can youconcentrate please, I've got my camera and

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you haven't even said, wow,what a great looking scratch. Oh damn,
I'm sorry you don't have my camera. Okay, Kevin, I do
want to throw it to you.We mentioned the Dolphins and Flora's being fired
was pretty much the head scratcher.Do you think any of these other fire
rings was a bit of a headscratcher? Where all of the fire rings
pretty much we saw this coming amile away. David Culley, Yeah,

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well, LATONI was saying, Iwasn't really paying attention, but um yeah,
David Culley, Yeah, I meanthat that wasn't gonna last very long.
He seemed like, you know,just a sacrificial lamb when he was
hired. Um, but yeah,Flores was very shocking. I'm surprised.
I mean, he put up agood fight with the Dolphins this year and
last year, two winning records ina row. I believe. I know

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our former super fan, Finn's Dolphinssuper fan Andy was is very displeased over
this news and he h haven't spokento him in a few days. I
think he's still trying into to graspwhat happened. But yeah, I think
Flores wanted Watson very badly, andI think there was just that caused some

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bad blood in the line. Idon't really know, but yeah, it
was very shocking. Shouldn't have beenfired. I know Bears fans want him.
I've been seeing a lot of tweetsthat Bears fans want him for some
reason. Bears fans are all upin my Twitter timeline. Um, but
yeah, very shocking. No,no good reason for Flores to be fired.
Um but the rest of the coachesMcCully is at his name. I

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don't know, but yeah, hedid. He deserve to be fired.
Probably not that that roster was adumpster fire. Probably should have given him
another year, But I'm not surprisedin the least bit. Um who else
got fired? Judge, Yeah,he definitely shouldn't have been fired. He's
really bringing Daniel Jones along um easywins every year. Wow, the way

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he's developed to I Clay over thelast couple of years, and and the
works he elevated Daglides game May andat all, I mean it was just
brilliant. He should have gotten extensionand it was like a pull bullet Pro
Bowl or some I mean, heshould have definitely gotten that. Okay,
before you guys go completely off theRUSS, I want to get mj in
here because mjum Kevin's current defensive coordinator, your former head coach, Dan Quinn.

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His name is already popped up formultiple interview assignments the Chicago Bears,
the Denver Broncos, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Miami Dolphins all have you
know, interviews set up with danQuinn. Having gone through that experiment for
what dan quinns should coach five forsix years there in Atlanta, What do

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you think these franchises can expect withhim as the head coach if he should
get the job if he gets thejob. I don't know. One of
the things though that obviously I wasn'tinside the locker room, but all the
press conferences I would see and thereports I would see, is he kind
of ran the locker room almost likehe was a frat boy, but an

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older frat boy. And I'm honestlynot certain if that's the kind of attitude
that you can have when you're ahead coach. I don't think he has
had enough time to kind of processwhat he did wrong in Atlanta before going
off to be somebody else's head coach. If he leaves this defensive coordinator position

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in Dallas and goes to another teamas a head coach, I don't know
that I think he'll have much success. Depending on the talent he has on
the field, he'll probably have moresuccess than he did with the Falcons,
But honestly, the way my teamhas been playing the last few years,
that's not really saying much. Sopersonally, I think he needs to stay
in that position of a defensive coordinatorfor a few more years before making a

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transition to head coach again. Anddon't get me wrong, if we want
to see him get another shot atbeing a head coach. I'm just not
sure that one year removed from theFalcons, is you know the time for
him to make that move, allright, guys, So I'm gonna open
it up here. Of the currentvacancies right now, we're not going to

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talk about Vegas and Seattle as ofyet because officially they're not open positions.
But of the seven vacancies right now, if you are a candidate, what
do you think is the most appealinglocation to go to as far as the
head coach, Like, which teamdo you think is set up for the
most success right now and not justto make the playoffs, but at least
have a winning record next year?Neil Well, First of all, if

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Jared says the Giants, we haveto mute him, okay a second without
saying yeah. Second, for me, it's the Jackson Jacksonville. For any
new head coach coming in, theone thing that every one of them wants
is a franchise quarterback, because ifthey don't have that, they're struggling from
day one. No matter who theyhave on the roster, it's going to

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be a struggle because if you don'thave that franchise quarterback, you are too
you're basically just waiting for the cloakto Ron Addington and before you're sank.
So it's going to be Jacksonville becausethey're a basic quarterback situation. Kevin,
I'm not sure Jacksonville is a goodquarterback situation now. Not really a believer
in Trevor Lawrence. But let's seehere, let's see here. I hate

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the Jacksonville job, to be honest, that they're going nowhere real quick.
Maybe they'll get four wins next year. I like the Dolphins job honestly.
They have a solid defensive corps.Not really a big fan of twoah though,
but they've two winning records in arow, so I mean, expectations
probably will be a little lofty therecompared to the other destinations. But don't

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really like the Bears job. Youknow it. Give me the Vikings job.
That team, I know, Iknow, I know, I know,
Jared, I mean, I mean, James, you don't like Kirk
Cousins, but that offense has thepotential to win ten plus games every year.
Um and Mike Zimmer did a horriblejob with that defense the last few

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years. So well, they didn'tget the defensive like all the big name
veterans and promoted a lot of draftedyoung talent two starting roles, maybe a
year or two earlier than they shouldhave been. Yeah, but yeah,
that's true. But give me,give me the Vikings. I think that
I think, I think, Ithink, you know, with that offense,

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they give you a good chance towin. The defense just needs to
to become respectable. Um and theyhave some pieces on defense, but they
I think they just need a culturechange there. And getting Mike zim Er
out with it was right. Heprobably still watches VHS. Remember remember though,
that Kirk Cousins has got one yearleft on his deal, so you're
already facing that question. So they'redrafting quarterback this year, J MJ.

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Which franchise looks best to you?Honestly, for me, it's kind of
a toss up between Miami and Jacksonvillebecause both teams, in my opinion,
have good young quarterbacks to build around. Plus both teams have over seventy million

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in cap space, so you've gota lot of money to attract some really
good free agents during the off season. So yeah, for me, it's
a toss up between Miami and Jacksonville. I would only go to Jacksonville if
I don't know, because I thinkJacksonville is probably the worst run franchise in

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the league, so we have tohave some serious discussions about ownership trying to
overstep boundaries between the head coach andthe GM. But barring any foolishness like
that, between Jacksonville and Miami,I'm leaning more towards Jacksonville because Trevor Lawrence

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did not have a good mentor.He had a horrible first season in the
league, and I think he islooking for someone to kind of come in
and help him truly make that transitionfrom college to NFL. So, yeah,
sitting here saying it out loud.Jacksonville first draft too, I'm sorry,
what was that first pick in thedraft as well? Absolutely, and

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and and they've got ten draft picksthis year, which I think of the
head coat of the of the teamswe're talking about, I think they've got
the most picks in the draft,So there's another factor in that decision.
But yeah, definitely I'm sticking withJacksonville. So well, am j and
I are really saying James is reallyKevin? Could you be more wrong?

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Before we get to Kevin's rebuttal,Jared most attractive location not your New York
Giants. Well, it would bethe Giants just because easy division out of
all the divisions. I'm sorry,wait stop, And they have five picks
in the top eighty picks, includingtwo picks in the top ten. And

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the roster was the most injured inthe NFL this year by a wide margin
over Neil's team, And Neil's teamwas the most injured like any given year,
we would have been the most injuredfor like the past like forty years.
So the Giants had like a historicallybad season of that. So I
see a good bounce back from that. But if I'd choose a team that
wasn't the Giants, I'd probably choosethe Bears because I still believe in fields,

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even though Kevin's going to disagree withme that he thinks field sucks.
I love I love him as aduet, I love him as a dual
threat quarterback. He was my favoritequarterback in that draft class. The Bears
don't have a lot of draft capitalbecause all their draft capital is now the
Giants draft capital, but they alsoare in a weak division. The Lions

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are terrible. The Vikings are gonnabe terrible. They don't have a quarterback
after next year, like Neil pointedout, And and Aaron Rodgers is volatile.
I mean like Rogers could be therenext year, he might not be
in. And I think that that'swhere I put my hat on. I
ain't going to Denver because I'm notplaying against Mahomes and Herbert for ten plus
years. Like that's insane. Imean Mahomes, Herbert and Car Yeah Car,

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oh bad? All right, Sowe're gonna put a button on all
the coaching carouselize of this nine untilyou saying something. Come on, what
what else you got? Neil?What's your choice? My choice? Guy?
Oh god? Do I have to? Yeah? Interested in your opinion.

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We know he's gonna say the Giants. That's he's trying to scrit around.
No, there's no way I saythe Giant. I'm sorry, I'm
not going to pick a franchise outallowed his head coach to walk around with
his chest puffed out for the lasttwo seasons when he was completely inept at
his job. No, I'm sorry, I can't. I can't ride with
an organization like that. That's notgonna hold a guy accountable. Um,

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I would love to say Denver,because they do have the talent currently on
roster. I mean you can makea debate that maybe an upgrade at quarterbacks
needed. I love what Teddy twoGloves did this year. Um, they
have a young core that that canbe built around receivers, backs. Both
lines are pretty solid. Um.But again, as mentioned that division,

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Herbert and Mahomes would be in yourway for the for minimum the next five
years plus. UM. But Ido think the Bears are an attractive location.
Um. They need a lot ofwork. Though they need a lot
like their stars don't stay healthy.That's my biggest issue with the Bears outside

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of that top to bottom of theroster. I take that just for everything
that was mentioned earlier with the division, the Lions are pretty much going to
be the Lions from here to KingdomCome. There's only one year left on
Cousins contract, and we don't knowwhat Aaron Rodgers going to do. I
take my chances that at minimum youcan make the playoffs as a wild card
your first year out. So andthe Dolphins. The only knock against the

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Dolphins is you're in the division withthe Bills and the Patriots. I guess
the one team that nobody's mentioned.Really is the one team who have a
kind of winning record and are lookingfor a coach, and that's the Raiders.
He said, let me exclude theRaiders. Neil pay attention. Yeah,
we're not counting the Raiders yet becausetheir season's not over and they haven't
officially let go of Besagia. SoI can't. I can't really hear James

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for the cloud to smoke that waftingout into this room from the set,
Gentle, ignore Kevin, okay,just to ignore Kevin. Moving on from
the coaching carousel into wild Card Weekend, we have six games this weekend,
two Saturday, three Sunday, oneon Monday. I should let you all
know that last year's wild Card weekendsaw four road teams win games, only

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the two seeds escaped with victory.UM expect road teams to win this year
as well. With that being said, we will start with Saturday, four
thirty five pm. When Fillion starthere, Kevin getting do you do your
picks and the pick sheet? Willyou? He can hurry up and knock

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that out. I mean. TheLas Vegas Raiders travel to the Cincinnati Bengals
at four thirty five on Saturday onNBC. The Raiders move up from twenty
one to twelve, and our Powerrankings the Bengals move up from twenty six

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to nine. We're pretty much allover the place. Actually, We're not
all over the place. It seemsthat I'm the crazy one picking the Raiders
to win this game. There aresome U did you know? Nuggets from
from this game. First, thisis the first wildcard matchup with both quarterbacks
making their playoff debuts since twenty seventeen, which had Buffalo's Tyrod Taylor versus Jacksonville's

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Blake Bortles. The home QB haswon eight of the last nine matchups.
The Raiders are also the first teamssince at least nineteen forty with ten plus
wins and a differential of minus fiftyor worst in the same season. The
Bengals are won in eight all timein the wildcard round. They've lost seventh
straight. Only Detroit at oh ninehas a worst record in the wildcard games,

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and the Raiders are four knowing gamesthis season when Derek Carr has one
hundred plus passer rating six and sevenwith sub one hundred ratings. So,
with that said, Monty, ourRaiders fan has sent us this rather Oh
gosh, Los Angeles Raiders, LasVegas Raiders, excuse me, and the
legend of Bo Jackson. Cincinnati isfavored by five and five and a half

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at home. They have one ofthe best young qbs in the league,
the front runner for Rookie of theYear, and a great running back and
the best d N that you've neverheard of, who was fifth in sacks
this year. They just beat theRaiders at the Death Star in Week eleven
by nineteen points, and the weatherin Cincinnati this weekend is expected to be
below freezing with the winner storm movingin that night. Most of the money

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will be picking the Bengals to winand probably to cover. Similar to Chargers
Ken last week, one of ourone time super fans Signmon from the UK
is overflowing with confidence, but orderup Adam and Eve win a raft wreckham,
a cup of mug and an upsetspecial. Last week you saw Joe
Burrow smoking a cigar and dancing inthe locker room, celebrating like they accomplished

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their goals. After the Raiders knockedanother good young QB out of the playoffs
last week, their post game wasall about going to work because the job's
not done yet. Top three reasonsthe Raiders are going to start the tournament
with an upset are these The Bengalsare ten and seven and not as good
as they think they are. Theyhave losses this year against the Bears,
the Jets, and they were sweptby the Browns. I understand that they

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beat Kansas City and are capable ofcompeting with anyone, but they're also capable
of losing to anyone. Second.Their old line, which gave up fifty
five sacks this year, including afew versus the Raiders, and they're even
more banged up this time around.Expects some sacks on sacks on sacks on
Saturday. The last time they playedit, it was closer than the final

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score. It was sixteen thirteen halfwaythrough the fourth quarter before the wheels fell
off. This game is going tobe ugly and slow, not a shootout.
Finally, pull up a chair andlet me tell you a chapter of
Poe Jackson. Back with Kevin wasbut a mere twinkle in his father's eye,
and a couple of months after another, young Kevin McAlister in this epic

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battle with the wet pandits all right, I'm back going any further with that,
Monty. Um, anyone here disagreewith Monty's assessment that the Vegas Raiders
can go well? Actually, no, I guess you're all picking the Cincinnati
Bengals. So Kevin, I'm gonnastart with you. Since you were name
dropped here, you're picking the Bengalsas well. Yeah, I'm picking the

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Bengals. Um. I really wantthe Raiders to win though, just because
you know, I really don't likeall this Joe Burrow love. I know
he's good, but man, peopleneed to stop sucking him off. Um
wow, But yeah, give methe Bengals. They they're offense. I

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mean, Joe Burrow has been onfire the last three weeks. Jamar Chase
is really good offensive player, offensiverookie players of the Year and whatever.
I'm stumbling over my words. Wonderwhy, um and uh, their offensive
line is not good. I knowthis, And then the Raiders have a
pretty good pass rush. They havea very good uh pressure pressure percentage and

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a good pass rush win rate.But with that said, I just think
that the Bengals are slightly more talentedon the offensive side of the ball.
Um, it would be a littledifferent to me, but I don't really
what is darn. I know DarrenWaller has been hurt a lot this season,
but what has he done recently?He was back for the last game

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against the Chargers. Um, Icould be could be missing something here,
but he doesn't. I don't thinkhe's gonna be much of a factor here.
Um. And as as Monty knows, I really don't like Josh Jacobs
very much. I think he Ithink he's a He's a plotter, a
plotter extraordinaire. Um. And Uh, the Bengals defense is actually pretty good.

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They're a solid defense. Um.They do have some lapses sometimes,
but I just overall thing, theBengals are a better team. They're playing
at home, and this offense iswill just be a little bit too much
for the Raiders to handle. Jared, I was going to say the Bengals,

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but on the Pot a few weeksago, I did say that the
Raiders are gonna win out and beatKansas City in the playoffs, and the
only way they can do that isif they get through the Bengals first.
So to keep that going alive,I'm saying the Raiders pull this one out.
I think it'll be a close game. I think that the Bengals offense
is light years ahead of where theOakland's offense is, but Opland has that

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d rush. The Bengals have oneof the worst offensive lines I've ever seen
in any year of football, andunfortunately, the Giants o line is actually
worse than there's this year. Ohmy god, no one cares to bring
it back the Giants there for asecond. No, not the rest of
the show, but so so theBengals offensive line's horrible. Max is gonna

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eat for the Raiders. I justthink that the Raiders pressure gets to Burrow.
He's injury prone. He's been hita lot this year. The Raiders
are gonna bang him up good.And I just think that he's not gonna
go to weather the storm. Ijust think he's he's just gonna have it.
He's gonna have issues. It's gonnabe in his head all day.
And I think that Chase will gethis but I don't think it'll be enough.
So give me Raiders by like fivepoints. Mj Um. The one

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thing I want to well, No, a couple things. Yes, Um,
Burl's been on fire the last coupleof weeks. Um. Going back
to Monte's review. I guess we'llsay um. When he talks about the
records, the one thing he leavesout is the previous game between the Bengals
and the Raiders. Does anybody rememberwhat the score was and who wont Bengals?

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And I don't see the Raiders havingenough to change the outcome this week
either, But like he said,it was sixteen thirteen halfway through the fourth
quarter before you know, the ambroke. So it was a close game
with probably about absolutely But what's thefinal score one? If it plays out

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the same way, anything could happen. Yeah, I'm still thinking with Cincinnati
Neil Well James. I was remindedwhen I was reading the New York Times
this morning. I can't help ifI'm cultured anyway. I was reminded when

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I was reading the New York Timesthis morning that Joe Mixon plays in this
game, and Joe Mixon I thinkmight be the difference here in the sense
that ay, he will take someof that heat off of Joe Burrow.
I also think that Mixon will bequite good against that's very vulnerable Raiders secondary.
They tendant plays his own defense theRaiders, as you guys will know,

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and I think Mixon underneath me mayexploit that that very vulnerable zone defense
that Raiders play. Raiders won thelast four games to get into the playoffs,
James, but they were all onescore games. You know, it
was all tight. They were abit like I mean, Monty, if
you're listening, I would say theRaiders are very much the AFC version of

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last year's Washington team, and thatthat that that's the sort of you know
that you can't get a higher ratingthan that. They they're they're they're they're
fun to watch. At the endof the day, we know they're pretty
bad, but they kind of holdyou in there long enough to to break
your heart. So that's kind ofhow it's going to be a thing.
The Raiders are going to get spankedin this game because they're just they're just

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that sort of tier below teams likelike the Bengals. One of you guys
mentioned the offense really being light yearsahead of the Raiders offense, and I
think I think that's correct. Burrowsthrow on what three hundred plus yards and
three of the last four games,Okay, they gave up fifty five sacks
on offense, But yeah, Ijust see they'll have too much for them

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on offense and at home as well. I can see the Bengals winning their
first playoff game since shoot, Idon't remember the last time the Bengals won
a playoff game. Jeez Us,I have no idea. I was hoping
one of you guys knew the answer. I was just asking the question,

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as you know, Kevin, inlife that sometimes questions are more important than
the answers. Gus and James.Can I just say that at some point
in this in this preview tonight,we break off and just a tail the
Seahawks apart for five minutes, justto annoy justin No, we're not discussing
the Seahawks anymore in this show.No more Seahawks talk, No more Giants

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talk. Report for this game.For the Cincinnati Bengals, they have designated
all the intake wide receiver to returnfrom into reserve. Stanley Morgan, another
wide receiver with a hamshim injury,is questionable. Back Jaylen Davis is questionable
with an ankle injury, and JoshTupo, with a knee injury, is

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doubtful for the game. For theRaiders, Jonathan Hankins is questionable with a
back injury. They did put DariusFilling on injury reserve and Nicholas Morrow has
been designated to return from injury reserve. The next game on Saturday eight fifteen
on CBS, has the New EnglandPatriots, who moved up from seventeen to
ten in our power rankings, takingon the Buffalo Bills, who fall from

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three to seven in the Power rankings. And we do have right ups from
both Rob and pat starting with Rob, who says this is the first time
the Bills and Pats have played eachother in the postseason. This is also
the third match of the year betweentwo division rivals. In the first game,
the Patriots won the game on aBuffalo that was ultimately decided about forty

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five mile prior of wins as thePats only through the ball three times.
But we're able to run the ballat will against the Bills, who could
not overcome the Pat's defense and anew game plan due to the win.
A couple of weeks later, theBills went the Foxboro and won thirty three
to twenty one in a game thatfelt like a bigger whooping than the score
indicated. So here we are.The Patriots is set to do set to

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shuffle on the Buffalo and face thereigning defending AFC East champions, the Buffalo
Bills. For the Bills on offense, they have sneakally become a more balanced
offense without using the legs of JoshAllen per Se. Devons Singletary has been
the bell cow and has played well. This coincides with the Patriots team that
has given up nine hundred and sixtyfour rushing yards in the last six games

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and the words of Boston sports guyTom Mazzarotti, not good. The win
will only be a minor to turnat ten to fifteen miles pour at least
that is the current forecast, evenwith Cole Beasley back for the back in
the fold, I expect this tobe a game that Isaiah McKenzie gets more
run than a little in the slot. In the last game, McKinsey exploited

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the pat slot coverage for eleven catchesin one hundred and twenty five yards and
a touchdown. They had a lotof problems dealing with the speed in the
slot. All that said, Ido expect the plots to have the Pats
to have some new wrinkles incorporated intheir defense. To give the Bills problems.
I did not see them moving theball like they did the last game
Bills and not playing at all inthat game. On defense, it is

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going to come down to the Billsstopping the Pats run game. It did
well in both games, even rushingfor over one fifty on the ground in
the most recent one. The Xfactor is going to be Matt Jones playing
in the code. It's not It'sjust still this is still robbed. Hey
hey, hey, hey, heyhey. They took the time to write

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in. I'm going to read it. He's not been good in the code.
Who will not have to play wellin the code against a good defense
on the road. I just don'tsee it. The Bills defensive line has
been on the rise in the lastfew weeks, notch eight sacks last week
against the Jets. I know it'sthe Jets, but it's still a lot
of sacks. If the Bills canjump ahead, it will be very tough
for this one to dig out ofa hole. With this being a Belichick

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team, anything can happen, andthe Patriots can definitely gain planned the way
to a victory. All that said, the Bills are the better team and
win this game eight out of tentimes. I think the game is mildly
close, but Josh Allen and thesurgeon Buffalo Bills get the win, possibly
ahead to Casey for another game withthe Chiefs, Pat's ten Bills twenty three,

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and then pat hold on, holdon. So to sum up rope
saying, the team that's going toscore the most is going to win.
Pat Our Patriots superfans says teams theone before the bye week and the one
after it. Before the bye week, the Patriots were developing a rookie QB

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behind a solid offensive line, withthe run game that was really second to
none and suffocating defense. After thebye week, the Patriots are putting every
thing they had on the rookies shoulders, as the old line failed to shambles
and the running game got hobbled bya hamstringer two. Also, the d
went vanilla and really didn't do anythingto slow down the opposition. So which
Patriots team is going to show upon offense? I think the Patriots will

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be able to hang with the Bills, not match the Bills offense score for
score necessarily, but do it enoughto keep things close. They're proven they
can't impose their will on the Billsd once before. They will need to
do that again when defense, Whenit comes down to the secondary, who's
playing and who isn't. The oneguy we know who won't be is Jonathan

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Jones, probably the best slot cornerin the league and a key member in
the secondary that can help shut downthe fastest receiver on the other side.
His absence made a thin secondary eventhinner. Jailen Mills is placed on the
COVID list. I would assume he'llbe taken off it in time for the
game, But Eagles James will tellyou Jailey Mills can't cover in man to
man scheme. Jailey Mills can't coverin any scheme. The Vanilla d mentioned

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earlier, it's very zone base andthe Bills rifted apart in the second meeting.
Not good. Next is Miles Bryant, who missed the last game of
the year versus the Dolphins. Tosay, our secondary hopes lie on a
five foot nine corner that no onehas ever heard of except Patriots fans who
like how he played in the preseasonis telling and a stretch. In the

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end, we weren't even supposed tobe here. I think the Bills have
this game circled. Let's let's knockoff the bully who's bosses around for two
decades. The Pats are going torely too much on a patchwork secondary and
the rookie QB, and that's arecipe for a loss. Bills win thirty
one twenty eight. Like I said, the Patriots will stay close, but

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just not enough to get over toHump without some sort of holy crap play
towards the end of the game.All Right, those were freaking novels.
You're welcome, which means we don'thave to say much. Neil, wake
up, Neil, Yeah, Neil, wake up. As noted in both
of these write ups, these twodivision opponents did split the previous matchups,

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the road team winning each game.We know the circumstances of what happened in
them, but here's some notes onthese. On this matchup, Bill Belichick
is three and seven. Oh yeah, I've got more. I've got more.
He's three and seven as head coachin the postseason versus teams that beat

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him that season, losing five straight. The Bills are two and no on
home playoff games under Sean McDermott,all and three on the road. Rookie
qbs are two and eight as startersin the postseason since twenty ten. Both
rookie wins were against other rookie startingqbs, and Josh Allen is the third

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player in NFL history with thirty pluspassing touchdowns in seven hundred or more rushing
yards in a season. Lamar Jacksonaround the Cunningham by the others. Both
Jackson Cunningham lost their first playoff gameseason. The Patriots have trailed by double
digits at halftime in three of theirlast four games, once in its first

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thirteen. So does anybody have anythingelse to add before we move on to
Sunday? Yeah? I do?Oh god? What Neal? Well,
unlike the rest of you, Ihave prepared for this. What do you
mean you have to pay for this? I know he's prepared, prepared,
prepared for this, prepared. Sorryand try and listen. Yeah, So,

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I would say, first of all, this is everybody likes the third
installment of the Great Fights. Weall know these ones in history. Sadly,
this is not a great fight andI don't really care about this third
installment. So the quicker it's over, the better. These are the These
are Buffalo and New England two arethe most disappointing teams this season, though
overall, we all I think weall had such high hopes for Buffalo and

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they have kind of they kind offood their pants along the way in terms
of the big question for me,James, but you haven't touched the pone.
And then do you remember the guywho used to do this podcast.
I can't remember his name, whoever, he just go, Yeah, he
used to always tell us about theweather. So come on, what's the
weather going to be in this game? Uh, it's in Buffalo, so
I'm expecting wins, uh, winsupwards, attend to fifteen miles an hour.

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Yeah, it's gonna be uh yeah, four degrees. Yeah, there's
a hypothermia warning for the area aswell for Saturday, so it's gonna be
very miserable for the James. Wellyou could do, James, go to
the game and read out those twopreviews because there's there's enough hot air there

(41:36):
too, had to warm the stadiumfor I'm pretty sure Patt and Rob would
love to hear you say that.The injury report for this game the Buffalo
Bills no new injuries when the reportpretty much everyone was afore go at practice
this week. The New England Patriots, with their shady injury report, has

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Jacobe Myers, Cole Dugger, JamieCollins, Damien Harris, Adrian Phillips,
Brandon King, Lawrence Guy, CodyDavis, and David Andrews all listen as
questionable. Sean Wade is on theCOVID list as well as Jalen Mills currently
on the COVID list at the timeof this recording. Both may be cleared

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to play on Saturday, Keith aneye out for that. Moving on to
Sunday one pm on Fox, thePhiladelphia Eagles, who are thirteenth in our
Power rankings, taken on the TampaBay Buccaneers, who are second in the
rankings. Um. Look, Idon't have a lot to say about this

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game. I'm just happy my teamis here. Um, I've been perfectly
artist. Look, I'm glad theteam played better down the stretch, winning
seven of the last nine. Aboutthe say what you will about the game
against Dallas. Um, it wasmostly backups and it was a close game
at halftime. So if anything,when we get to Dallas, I will

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talk about how shameful their offense shouldbe. For only putting up that many
points in the first half. We'renot there yet. We're not there yet,
but I'll bring it up again later. Honestly, look from the Eagles
perspective, my biggest concern is theplay calling on both offense and defense.

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And while the score was twenty eighttwenty two, the first time these two
teams played that was back in Weekthree on a short Thursday night. That
game was nowhere near as close asthat score would indicate. The Eagles score
like what fourteen points in the fourthquarter to make it look respectable. Play
calling got away from them. Theydidn't stick with the run game. And

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I don't mean read option. Imean like actually turning around and handing the
ball off to the backs and letthis offensive line play bully ball up front.
James, excuse me, just toJames, a few moments ago,
you said you didn't have very muchto say about this game. This is
all I've got right now, andon the flip side, league, let
me finish. I'll be done inlike ten seconds, thank you. So

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one bullyball on offense, stick withthe run game, and two defense,
don't play zone this time. TomBrady picked it apart for like over three
hundred yards and eighty five percent completionpercentage. So with that floor is open
for all of you who are pickingthe Buccaneers neo, go ahead. I
think for me, James very quickly, the key matchup here is gonna be

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the Philadelphia running game against the TampaBay run defense. Obviously, you guys
number one in the league one hundredand fifty nine point seven yards a game,
and Tampa Bay only give up ninetytwo point five. They were the
best against the runs. So that'sgoing to be the key element for this
game for me anybody else. Eaglesare gonna get absolutely demolished here. Like

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gee, thanks, appreciate that theBucks run defense is the has historically been
the best. They were number onelast year. I believe that pretty sure,
they're the number one before that.They have They have a really,
really terrible defensive lineman called Vita Veawho's not a Hall of Famer, and
he just got a new contract therehe's gonna dumpster the Eagles O line and
Eagles Z O line, in myopinion, is pretty good. James knows,

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I love a lot of the playersthey draft because I wanted the Giants
to take him and so it's nota it's not a week O line,
but the Bucks D line is sogood, and the Bucks just reactivated one
of their best players, um oneof their middle linebackers, and they're just
gonna go to town. I thinkthat front seven for the Bucks is just
no joking, it's playoff mode forthem. Like I honestly think that Brady's
gonna not even be finishing the game. I think he'll probably be sitting in

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the third quarter. All right,enough out of Jared, No no,
no, no, no, MJ. Anything to add, I got nothing
to add. Nope, Kevin,before we get to your game. Oh
you know, I'm just looking forwardto Jalen Hurst getting back. They're throwing
some nice dimes and you know,having twenty past attempts in less than a

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hundred yards at one point, itshould be fun to watch. It's an
exciting James dude. You know,you have a franchise with a very exciting
young quarterback who slings the ball aroundand makes plays. I mean minho.
Moving on. So in this game, we have the number one rush defensive,
number one rushing offense in Philadelphia goingup against the number one passing offense

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in the Buccaneers. Other notes tomention quarterbacks twenty five a younger are two
eleven versus Tom Brady in his playoffcareer, Sanchez and Flacco are the only
qbs to defeat him. Tom Bradyhas played in forty five playoff games.
The Eagles have had forty six totalenfranchise history. Brady has thirty four wins

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in those forty five games, theEagles have only won twenty three. The
Eagles are owing six this season versusteams that have made the playoffs, nine
and two versus all other teams.Philly defeated one team with the winning record
that ended up being the Saints.You're welcome. MJ. Brady won the
Super Bowl when Jalen Hurts was agesthree, five, six, sixteen,

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eighteen, twenty and twenty two.This is the fifth meeting in NFL history
between passing yard leader and the QBrushing yards leader from the regular season.
The QB who had led the leaguein rushing who was the rushing yards leader
won all four of the previous matchups, so that's something to look forward to.
Tampa Bay is only the fourth teamin the Super Bowl era to make

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the playoffs after passing on sixty sixplus percent of their plays in the regular
season. The twenty eleven Detroit Lions, the ninety one Houston Texans excuse me,
Houston Oilers, and the ninety alsoHouston Oilers also did the same thing.
The injury report for this game.Everybody from the Eagles much who came

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off the COVID list last week,is questionable this week. That includes Jos
Swett, Nate Herbert, Andre Dillard, Lane Johnson, Marvin Wilson, Miles
Sanders hand injury was questionable. BrettToth was placed on injury reserve along with
tight and Tyree Jackson, and forTampa Bay Shack Barrett, Sean, Murphy
Bunting, Justin Watson, Burchard Perriman. They're all listened as questionable. Cyril

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Grayson is doubtful along with Ronald Jones. Anthony Nelson Ryan Jensen are also listened
as questionable. Lavonte David has beendesignated to return from injury reserve, as
well as Giovanni Bernard. Leonard Fournettealso desgnated to return from injury reserve as
well. Sherman. Richard Sherman wasplaced on IR after Sunday's game against the

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Panthers. The next game, JayJames, just if you're if you're watching
this game, the guy always worthwatching is the is the Bucks, says
a center Ryan Jensen. He mentionedthem there and the injury report. That
guy, he is the He isthe king of shipthousery. He is always
fighting. He's always fighting with somebody. Absolutely fabsolutely yes. He is all

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love that guy, absolutely love him. Always absolutely fighting with someone for no
reason whatsoever. He is in themiddle of something. You're absolutely right,
Neil uh the next game here onthe schedule. Did you guys driving me
nuts right now? Before you go? Fuck? I mean, do you
think do you think Pete Carroll needsto run the ball? More? Or

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thirty PM on CBS, the SanFrancisco forty nine has traveled to the Dallas
Cowboys. The Niners are eleventh inour power rankings, up from twelve.
The Cowboys are fourth in our powerrankings. Four. Oh it's a jump.
H yeah, that's a crazy highjump. I'm pretty sure I didn't

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rank them that high, which meanssomebody probably ranked them number one in the
power rankings. On VIN filled outlike a six or Cowboys first. Not
me, to be honest, Ihaven't done a power ranking since like week
three. Oh gosh, well itshows. Oh as, this is your
Dallas Cowboys. The floor is yours, sir. Oh boy, let's see.

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I'm trying to make every day untilSunday lasts as long as possible,
just because I'm fearful for the outcomeof this game. Forty nine ers are
not necessarily a very good matchup forthe Cowboys. They're very good at running
the ball. Cowboys are mediocre atbest at stopping the run. Pretty sure,
they were ranked twenty third in yardsper carry against not good healthy Elijah

(50:45):
Mitchell, Deebo. Samuel'll probably getlike eight carries at running back, so
he'll probably get like ninety five yardson those carries. But let's be real.
Let's be real. The cow Boys, in theory have the better team.
On paper, they have the betterteam, but as I mentioned,

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they're a bad matchup. The fortynine ers are very good at yards after
the catch. Cowboys are very badat allowing yards after the catch. I
believe they're thirty second or thirty firstranked and one of them, either them
or the Ravens, are last rankedin yards after the catch, So that's
not good. With Deebo Samuel andGeorge Gittle and Brandon Ayuk who's come on

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strong at the second half of theseason, and the forty nine are surprisingly
finished the season number one in yardsper play at six point one. Who
would ever thought that. But TrentWilliams is injured, but I heard yesterday
that he does plan to play,which would be not good for the Cowboys

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considering he's an absolute stud and thatmeans Randy Gregory will have himself a very
hard time. But thankfully Michael Parsonswill be on the other side of the
edge and he will be wreaking havocper usual. Um, hopefully Treyvon Diggs
doesn't get burned. But uh,you know, the bottom line is the
Cowboys have to stop the run gameand if they do that and they forced

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Jimmy Garroupload to beat them, thenthen then that's good for the Cowboys.
But really, really, really,this game all depends on Prescott the band.
In my existence, Um, really, you don't want Dak. I
know at least twenty teams that wouldwant him. Yep, Dak needs to

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be more confident in his reads.He hesitates too much second half of the
season. He's thrown behind receivers,throwing high. I mean, honestly,
the only good games he's had inthe second half of the season, or
against y'all scrubs teams. UM nooffense. But yeah, and you guys

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were supposed to blow them out early. The guy the forty nine ers are
no, no word. The Cowboysoffense dominated that games. Actually four touchdowns
in the first half. UM.Forty nine ers are very good at stopping
the run. Second in success rateon run plays on defense, second in

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rush EPA on defense, and theCowboys rush offense has absolutely been nowhere to
be seen for the last eight weeks. Zeke Elliot's a bum. Tony Pollard
is Tony Pollard is way better.I hope he gets more carries in the
game. They need to call moreoutside runs instead of running it literally right
up the gut for three yards everysingle play. UM. They need to

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utilize play action more. They needto take deep shots against this forty nine
ers secondary. They're vulnerable against deepplays. Secondary is not that good.
I know their pass rush is verygood. But if if we can get
give Dak just the slightest amount oftime, I do have a little bit
of confidence we can we can dissectthis secondary U Amari Cooper and Ceedee Lamb

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needs to show up to play.Ceedee Lamb has struggled the last few weeks
with drops and and all that nonsense. U Cedric Wilson is a guy to
keep an eye on. Dak loveshim for some reason. He targets him
more than any other any other receiver. Dalton Schultz needs to step up.
Had a very good season. TyrnSmith is back probably for three plays before

(54:28):
he gets hurt again. Um.But yeah, this this offensive line needs
to contain Nick Bosa. Eric Armssaid, very talented defensive front. I'm
very worried about that. But Ithink it will be a close game.
They give Dallas the slight edge becausethey're playing at home, and uh yeah,

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that's all I have to say.Give me the Cowboys by four hundred.
Anybody want to keep up for theforty nine is here? Yeah?
I think so? I think whynot? I think although they might not
win the game, I think it'llbe close. I wonder, Kevin,
you mentioned Parsons wreaking havoc and Diggsgetting his plays in the back end and

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maybe getting burned. I wonder ifthey'll be involved in this game very much.
I think the fourteen Enners will willtry and use their there they're very
short, quick passing game in theirin their creative running game to keep to
keep Garoppolo clean at the back.But as I also don't think the Fourteeners
will throw the ball deep very much. I think they'll do a lot of

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underneath running stuff and we might notsee Dig's name called because he won't be
challenged the whole game. Fifteen andNo. Nineteen seventeen and one. The
Cowboys lead this series overall and thenthe playoffs. The Cowboys have won five
of the seven playoff games between thesetwo teams. And I've got to say
this is this is great. Takesme back to the nineties when the Cowboys

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and the and the fourteen Enners werewere two of the great French I just
say, in the league and makingtheir Super Bowl runs year and year out
before Kevin was before, before beforeKevin was born place. And I forgot
to mention DeMarcus Lawrence and needs toabsolutely step up and play huge. Needs

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to be able to set the edge, needs to stop the run, he
needs to do everything and be playlike he's paid to play. I'm very
nervous though, I'm very nervous.I really don't want the day to come.
You've got it through the ball andsecondary. Yeah, that's what I'm
saying. If we have time,we should be able to If we have
time, we should be able todo work on this secondary. They've given

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up a lot of big plays onthe season they get I was watching the
Colts game. I know this isway back and like week week six,
but the forty nine ers got calledfor like what seemed like four hundred pass
in reference calls. They could notplay the ball in the air at all.
I'm sure they've improved slightly, butyeah, Neil, you're correct.
That's the way to win this game. Gotta beat them to the past.

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Jared MJ anything to add I wouldsee, Yeah, MJ, you go
first. I just don't think thatthe Cowboys can stop the forty nine ers
run game. And I think that'sthe difference in the forty nine Ers winning.
What I what I don't want.I'm gonna be so nauseated if we
get like a Jimmy Garoppolo win whenhe throws for like six of nine for

(57:20):
seventy three yards, and I killingmyself, Jared. So one of the
things that we've all seen through thehistory of Tom Brady is he has one
thing that stops him, and that'susually an NFC East team in the playoffs.
I don't think the Eagles can getit done. So I'm picking in

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the Cowboys to win this because Ihope that Dallas can stop Tom Brady from
adding another ring. Just Tom Bradyhas an issue with beating NFC East teams
in big games, so that's theonly reason I'm picking Dallas. And also
I want to reverse Jinks Dallas,so let's go Dallas. Well, unfortunately

(58:05):
it sound like I'm beating up onKevin here, but yeah, I might
have to agree with MJ. Andit's the run game for the Niners.
For me, that's going to bethe difference in this game, and mainly
because it's not a traditional run game. It's the way they run the football,
it's the plays they call it.It's nothing is very straightforward. Yeah,

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they could run it up the middle, but it's not a simple dive
play. It's sometimes a reverse pitchin a dive up the middle, or
you know the jet sweeps in theend of rounds. You see Deepo Samuel
in the backfield, I'd be terrifiedbecause I have no idea what's going to
happen there. And I think whenDeebo Samuel lines up at running back,

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that's where the Cowboys probably will behad because it's definitely going to be something
they haven't seen before. How quicklythey adjusted those situations will be key,
because let's be real, Kevin,you know, like everybody else knows,
the Niners are not going to tryto put this game in the hands of
Jimmy Garoppolo. They're gonna try toThis is why the Cowboys need to start

(59:08):
off real hot, get up tolike a ten zero lead. Yeah,
the forty Niners will try to uglythis game up as best as possible,
take you all out of whatever itis that you want to do on both
sides of the ball, because theydo have two strong lines offensively and defensively,
so they have the ability to makethis game ugly early to where general
ois can be disinterested except for thefamais of these two teams. So good

(59:31):
luck, but not really. Imean it's Dallas, so you know,
I don't really like saying anything niceabout your squad. Oh, I'm sort
of rooting for your squad because it'sthe Cowboys win, then we get to
play you. Oh well, there'sthat. The last four times the Niners
and the Cowboys have met in theplayoffs, the winner went on to win

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the Super Bowl ninety four, ninetythree, ninety two, and eighty one.
Jimmy Garoppolo and nine wins. Theseason has completed seventy percent the passes
for eleven touchdowns three picks for oneh eight point five passer rating. In
the six losses, only sixty sixpercent of his passes were completed nine touchdowns,
nine picks for eighty six and ahalf passer rating. Both these teams

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were four and run in the lastfive games of the season, the Niners
scoring twenty eight excuse me, twentyfour point eight points a game will only
giving up seventeen, the Cowboys scoringthirty five a game while only giving up
eighteen. The Niners have won sevenof their last nine games after starting the
season three and five, and theCowboys are the third team since nineteen sixty

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to lead the NFL in total offense, scoring, offense, and takeaways in
the same season. The last teamto do that last teams you had the
last two teams to do that,with the seventy five Bills and seventy one
Dallas Cowboys. I just have Jaredapologize to me for not believing in the
Cowboys will be the number one offensein the league. Injury report Dallas is

(01:01:00):
j Ron Curse as questionable with ahamstring. He's also on the COVID list.
Joining him. Currently on the COVIDlist are Francis Bernard and Kean O'Neil,
uh Sean McKinnon, Israel Makamu,and Tyron Smith. All this of
this questionable, Smith was activated fromthe COVID list. So again, as

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Kevin said earlier, he should play. The forty nine ers have uh Jaikiski
Tart, Marcel Harris, Dre Greenlaw, Aziz al Shire, Elijah Mitchell,
and Jimmy Garoppolo with his thumb TrentWilliams all showing up. Ask questions silence
that Neil, what is this cannonthey're running back? Was Destiny to return

(01:01:45):
from the injury reserve with his concussion, So keep an eye out for their
availability as well. The Sunday nightgame, was it? Ja? Was
that? Was that? Pete Carolon the phone? Oh Man The Sunday

(01:02:07):
night game has the Pittsburgh Steelers travelingto the Kansas City Chiefs eight fifteen on
NBC. The Steelers are fifteen inthe Power rankings, the Chiefs are three,
and smug Nick, our Chiefs fansends us the Chiefs going to the
first round of the playoffs favored bytheir biggest point spread of the year.

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You read that right. The lineis the Chiefs minus twelve and a half
against the Giants. Wait, itwas ten and a half against Washington Team
Football six and a half, sothis seems mighty rich. But the line
was ten against Pittsburgh in Week sixteen, when the Chiefs were with out tight
end Travis Kelsey, pro bowlworthy NickBolton as well as both of their kickers,

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and Tarik Hill was just back fromCOVID and only had two catches.
Those guys are probably collectively worth atleast two and a half points, but
Pittsburgh pass rushing phen phenom t J. Watt is also healthier than three weeks
ago. All that said, I'mnot sure i'd take Casey with the points
in this one, even though theywon the last meeting by twenty six.

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I won't necessarily pencil them into whenthe turnover battle three oh automatically like last
time, and for all their flaws, I do think Pittsburgh will be able
to learn from their division mate Cincinnatiand it's win over the Chiefs. The
following week, the Bengals beat theChiefs by trusting their outside weapons against the

(01:03:35):
Chiefs corners. When left one onone with most of the case defense,
attention generally paid towards creating pressure andconcealing looks in the middle. To copy
this, Big Ben is going tohave to throw outside the numbers with consistency
or it'll be his last game.I'm not sure he still has the arm
to succeed at this, but heat least has the mind to try.
On the casey side, they wouldbe wise to commit to the run once

(01:03:59):
again. They ran a thirty threetimes against Pittsburgh in Week sixteen. Granted
half that game was garbage time.This will avoid Pittsburgh's defensive strengths while also
hopefully providing a bit of a shellfor Mahomes, who we hope will avoid
too much contact this early in thepostseason. Prediction the Chiefs wave Wave bye
bye to Pittsburgh See Is twenty sevenseventeen. MJ. I'm gonna start with

(01:04:24):
you. Anything to add or counter. Kansas City takes this game, It's
it's Pittsburgh and Wafflisburger Again. I'venot had any faith in Wafflisberger this entire
season. It's not gonna start nowKansas takes the game, Neil, I

(01:04:45):
think that I think I foresee tJ. Watts crushing Mahomes and as he
lies there on the stadium, toughblood spoozing from every poor Wow, that
will be the end of it,and the Steelers we'll have a show up
victory. Oh my gosh, Jared, you're saying James is coming in?
Oh gosh, gross Uh. Thisis one of the Pittsburgh Seelers is one

(01:05:10):
of the worst playoff teams I've everseen in my entire life. And it
reminds me of like those Texan teamsI like backed into the playoffs with no
offense at all, and it wasjust basically the JJ watch show. And
now it's the TJ Watch show.This Pittsburgh team had no business being in
the playoffs. Like, there's somuch worse than their record indicates that I'll

(01:05:34):
be shocked if they get scored morethan twenty points. The only way I'll
say this, the only way theyscore more than twenty points is if their
defense is putting some of those pointson the on the board for them.
Big Ben is just not good atall anymore. The O line sucks.
Uh Nagi. Harris has been verygood, but he's so beat up at
this point. He was injured lastweek. They had to brace his arm.

(01:05:57):
That was a nasty hyper extension ofhis arm that he took against the
Baltimore Ravens. Yeah, so Idon't know if I'll be catching the ball
at all, So they won't bedoing those third and ten two yard flat
throws to him at all. Sothat's one of the biggest game plan moves.
So yeah, this that I justthink it's just gonna be a route
like this is one of the mostlike, disgustingly lopsided games that I think

(01:06:20):
any of us have ever seen inthe playoffs. Kevin, Yeah, I'm
not even gonna watch this game,to be honest, because you'll be heartbroken
after the Niners and Cowboys. Ohwell that too, but because I cannot,
I cannot believe this game is onSunday night. You just grotesque,
grotesque it's gonna be an absolute obliteration, like twenty points, Jared, they're

(01:06:45):
not even gonna score thirteen. Hisoffense is putrid, and on third and
twenty seven they throw one yard freakingflat to Pat Fryarmouth or Naja Harris.
Yeah that's the offense. Okay,So I don't think that's the play calling.
I think that's Ben's in aptitude toget the ball downfield anymore. I

(01:07:05):
mean, granted, yes, theyshouldn't be they shouldn't be placed in any
twenty yard plus to go situations onthird down. But you gotta get I
mean, you gotta do better thanjust the dump off to the back in
the flat or the tight end,like you said, running the one yard
out route with no one on himand expecting to pick up twenty plus yards
the Probably it's James. Every timeRoethlisberger throws the ball, it looks like

(01:07:30):
a defender could could jump the rightto any point. Oh yeah, there
will be at least three picks inthis game. Oh gosh. Um.
The last time these two teams playedwas less than a month ago, December
twenty fifth, to be exact,and Casey pretty much obliterated to stealers thirty
six to ten. Here's some notesfrom from history. Ben Roethlisberger has four

(01:07:51):
hundred and fifty plus passing yards andfour plus tds in each of his last
two playoff games. They lost bothof those. Pat Mahomes is six and
oh in the postseason versus QB's notnamed Tom Brady. He's owing two versus
Brady. Roethlisberger is three and fourin the wildcard round, tied with Hall
of famers Peyton Manning and and AndyDalton for the most such losses in NFL

(01:08:16):
history. That not Dalton's not aHall of Famer. Peyton Manning is the
Chiefs have allowed ten points or fewerand fasts longest street team history. Yeah.
I had to qualify that because itdid just say h O F and
then listened to both quarterbacks names.Dalton is not a Hall of Famer.
We're not saying that. Yeah.So look, I don't expect I don't

(01:08:46):
expect the twenty six point beating likelast time. I mean, granted,
they are returning to the scene ofthe last crime in Kansas City. I
have to believe that Pittsburgh puts upmore than ten points. Thirteen is more
than ten, by the way,So I'll leave it at that. And
UM, I'm not going to bashthe Steelers anymore for fear than my mom
may actually listen to this show.I've already apologized once. I don't want

(01:09:09):
to have to do it again.The injury, the injury report. Your
mom's a Steelers fan. My momis a diehard Steelers fan. How did
you become an Eggles fan? Igrew up in Washington, DC, and
I hated Washington And um, yeah, Randall Cunningham was the first African American
one of the two first African Americanquarterbacks I saw play, the other being

(01:09:30):
Warren Moon. Players love Randall,cunning him frontime Randall cunning Him on my
mud team serves me well. TheChief's injury report has running backs Darryl Williams
and Clyde Edwards, Hilaire toe andshowed a respectively. Tyreek Hill is questionable
with the heel injury. The Steelersum apparently Juju Smith Schuster has been seen

(01:09:56):
at practice. UH doesn't say he'shere. He's been desitate to return from
injury reserve, but he has beenseen at practice this week. Buddy Johnson,
their linebacker, is out As ofthis moment, he is on the
COVID list. Guard Trade Turner runningback Naji Harris are both listed as questionable.
Harris we already mentioned his elbow.The other guard, Kevin Dotson,

(01:10:17):
has an ankle injury and the twentyone day window for his return from injury
reserve is expiring this week. AndArthur Mullet, the cornerback, is questionable.
He is in concussion protocol. Thefinal game of wild What can I
just say that Juju Smith Schuster hasa better career future in esports than the

(01:10:41):
NFL. He's damn good, TikToker. Moving on to Monday nights Wild Card
game the on ABC and ESPN ateight fifteen, The Arizona Cardinals, who
are eighth and up power rankings,travel to the La Rams, who are
six in our power rankings, andonly a handful of us are taking weight.

(01:11:05):
How many of us want to?Oh, we're split split three and
three Cardinals and Rams. So um, let's start with Neil when this one,
because I mean you're taking first,Yeah you can't? Oh fine,
did Jared? Since you're taking theCardinals? I just like Stafford is my

(01:11:29):
boy. I've always said he's thetop ten quarterback. I love him.
He's just paper the Detroit Lions.And even though I've been watching him play
this year and there's something wrong withStafford, I don't really now you realized
with something wrong with Stafford. I'msorry, Like he's normally injured and we
know about it, but this year, like he's not injured and there's just
something off. But then part ofme is it is it? Is it

(01:11:54):
mcveigh's issue, Like is it likea really complicated offensive scheme and like Stafford
is not like maybe the brightest quarterbackand he can't like handle it. And
the same thing happened with Golf,Like I just don't understand, Like,
like I know, Goff's terrible,so that explains why he couldn't do the
system. But Stafford has the talentto do this, to do the system,
but maybe he just doesn't have likethe football IQ. I don't.
I don't know what the disconnect isthere. So I am even though the

(01:12:16):
Rams have the much better team onpaper, I am choosing the Cardinals because
I think Cardinals will win the turnoverbattle, and I think this is one
of those games where whoever wins theturnover battle is gonna win the game.
And even though Donald's gonna play lightsout Rams, he's gonna shut down their
best offensive player. I think thatthat the Cardinals are gonna be able to

(01:12:36):
run a little bit around and makeenough plays, and Stafford's gonna make a
really stupid interception in the end zoneand that's going to cost him the game.
M J. H Matt Staffords neverwon a playoff game in his life.
It's not gonna start this week,Arizon, Kevin. Since you're picking

(01:13:00):
the rush, he can't help butto throw interceptions, and he's gonna throw
at least two. One is probablygonna be a pick six. The second
is going to set up a veryeasy touchdown for the Cardinals. Yeah,
that's a great point, MJ.As you as you knew MJ that Stafford

(01:13:21):
ties the league with seventeen interceptions,and you do have to ask yourself,
is that really what the Rhymes tradedall those picks for the guy who leads
the league and interceptions. It's crazy. They could have kept Jared Golf all
all those Picksie through Big exactly andhe also led the league and pick sixes.

(01:13:41):
Kevin Um, I don't like theCardinals. I don't think they're very
good. Um they have is DeAndreHopkins playing? I don't know. He's
not clear to play this week.But they did beat Dallas a couple of
weeks ago. Anybody remember that?Yeah? Yeah, or frauds, So
that doesn't say anything. Um,they wasn't there Wasn't there some sort of

(01:14:06):
stat behind Cala Murray beating the Cowboys. Yeah, he's beat them twice,
he's lost. He's also never lostin Texas Stadium. Six of those wins
are in high school. If helost the high school game, he should
be a disgrace. Go ahead,Kevin, I'm sorry. We're only doing

(01:14:30):
it because you're the Dallas man.Um. And I might add one of
those wins against the Cowboys against AndyDolon, But anyways, we move on.
Um. Isn't he a halfame quarterback? Though? Yeah? I don't
like the Cardinals. I think they'reoverrated. I knew they were overrated even

(01:14:50):
when they started the season eight andoh. They lost a lot of bad
games in the latter half of theseason. They lost the Lions for Pete
say. They lost to the Ramsjust a few weeks ago in what was
not a particularly close game. Despitethe final score. I think Ampty Carrol's
Seahawks. Don't forget that. Yeah, and talk about the Seahawks. Basically,

(01:15:15):
Kyler Murray's gonna have to play likeSuperman to win. Um, don't
think it happens. Christian Kirk isnot going to be able to get the
job done. AJ Green's not gonnabe able to get the job done.
Zach Ertz is not gonna be ableto get the job done. James Connor
and he's all right. I don'tcare that he scored so many touchdowns.
He's just a block player. MChase Edmonds is better than him. Um,

(01:15:42):
what else I have to say aboutthe Cardinals US other players who are
not gonna get the job done?Thank you now? Um, the Cardinals
rush defense can be had. Theirsecondaries not particularly either. They have a
lot of suspect names back there.Yeah, Cups definitely gonna eat Um.

(01:16:10):
Maybe ob j can get a touchdownthat'd be fun to see. No,
I think it will. Um.But what else? Yeah, Aaron Donald's
going to destroy that line. LikeJared said, I think it will be
a close game just because the Rams, you know, they don't seem to
blow anyone out. Um, butyeah, I think they're just a better

(01:16:32):
team than the Cardinals, better coachteam, better players, and uh,
they're playing at home, and Idon't like the Cardinals for some reason.
They rubbed me the wrong way.I don't like them. Yeah, look,
I get that part. Um.They only rubbed me the wrong way
because the way they went out andlaid an egg to last week of the

(01:16:55):
season. It was right there infront of them. The Niners did them
a favor because the Niners had towin to get into the playoffs, and
they beat the Rams, and thenthe Cardinals pretty much lay an egg against
the Seahawks and they could have wona division. The Cardinals could be hosting
a game right now against the Ninersby saying thank you, and the Rams
should be on the road against Kevin'sCowboys, in which he might feel a
little bit better about his team winningthis week. But here we are.

(01:17:19):
Look, yeah, this game prettymuch falls Kyler Murray and not just passing.
He has to get it done runningas well, just to loosen up
that Rams defense and keep them honest. They have to be threatened by his
legs early and be worried about itfor the rest of the game. And
they also need to lean on theirrun game, because honestly, look,

(01:17:41):
ever since they shut down Hopkins,the way they're running their pass offense is
like Hopkins is still out there,and you know, Kyler could get in
trouble and throw it up in hopkinsvicinity and let him go get the ball
or draw some type of passing deference. But Kirk and aj Green aren't those
white receivers. They're not going tofight for the ball and they're not going
to beat their man unless their manis not paying attention to their assignment Dallas,

(01:18:08):
So it doesn't help them for thisgame. So I mean, look,
these games, both the what wasit the role teams won both these
matchups. The Cardinals won thirty seventwenty back in like Week four, the
Monday night matchup that was later inthe season in Arizona. The Rams one
thirty twenty three. So, um, look, I'm not saying both these

(01:18:34):
offenses can't put up points, butone of these defenses is going to have
to step up. And there areways to beat the Rams defense. You
can win by not throwing wherever.Um, why am I drawing a blank
on a cornerback? Ramsey? Thankyou? You can you can throw away
from Ramsey and still win the game. But you have to control Aaron or

(01:18:55):
I shouldn't say control limit Aaron Donaldupfront. Um, No, you have
anything else to add, only thatthe Cardinals you can always expect plenty of
your yards through penalties, James.They've had at least six penalties in each
of the last five games, whichleads the league. I would say,

(01:19:16):
JJ, what's going to be backfor this game? And I don't know
what impact he can make, butbut maybe something on that defensive front for
the for the Cardinals. And Iguess for me, the big thing is
there's no Hopkins, and I thinkhe's the guy who who really brings that
offense together and opens up so muchfor the rest of the offense. Oh,
tough division, no match up here, James. But even though I'm

(01:19:41):
like like MJ, I'm not aI'm not a I'm not a Stafford fan,
I do think the Rams might justedge this one. But I can't
agree with you guys that neither ofthese two teams really inspires me to to
think they can have a long runin the playoffs. All right, of
some random facts here for this game. This is the fifth playoff game on

(01:20:03):
a Monday in the Super Bowl Erathree to the four previous games featured the
Rams. The Cardinals this season havescored twenty six point four points per game,
the Rams twenty seven point one havea forty five point two percent third
percentage sixty percent in the red zonefor the Cardinals, the Rams forty three

(01:20:27):
point nine percent on third down andsixty percent in the red zone, so
very similar stats here. Matthew Staffordis seven and sixty three in his career,
including the playoffs against teams that winten plus games that season two and
five. This season, the Cardinalsare the eighth team in NFL history to
make the playoffs, despite losing fourgames in December January of that season.

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Stafford is also the fourth QB inthe last ten seasons to make the playoffs
in the season with seventeen plus interception, only Hall of Famer Peyton Manning won
a playoff game that season, andover the last eight seasons, there have
been six matchups between the division opponentsand the wild card round. The lower
seated team the non division winner thatis, are five and one in those

(01:21:14):
matchups, so something for the Cardinalsfans out there to hang their hats on
the injuries for this game. JJWatt was very limited in practice, though
he is still listened as being oninjury reserve. Whether he's been designated to
return or not still up in theair. Max Williams is still all I
was activated from the reserve COVID lists, but he is back on injury reserve.

(01:21:39):
Running back to Jonathan Ward, ChaseEdmonds, and James Conner are all
on the injury report as questionable knee, ribs and heel, respectively. Cornerback
Marco Wilson, defensive in Jordan Phillips, receiver Roddell Moore, and tight end
Demetrius Harris all listened is questionable.For the Rams, Jordan Fuller, their
safety, was placed on injury reservewith his that is why they went out

(01:22:00):
and signed former Rams Eric Weddle tofill that role. Uh who knows how
much of the playbook he remembers.He has not been in the league for
two years now. Taylor Rapp alsoshows up as questionable. Matthew stafford U
injured his toe during in the gameagainst the forty nine Ers. He has
listed as questionable as well. Longquarterback Darius Williams, who's been evaluated for

(01:22:26):
a shoulder injury. Um. Sincethe regular season is over and we're getting
to the wildcard round, something elsewe can look forward to aside from coaching
changes. Here's the draft, andin case you didn't know, the Jacksonville
Jaguars half the number one pick,followed by the Detroit Lions, Houston Texas,
New York Jets, and New YorkGiants rounding out the top five.
Your high I believe was it BryceYoung who won the Heisman this year?

(01:22:49):
Is that correct? I don't knowit was. It was it was Bamba's
quarterback. I don't remember what hisname is. Yeah, and your right,
Famish and Neil, you're one aboutdraft nicks here. What do you
mean you don't know what? WhatI didn't say? I didn't know,

(01:23:10):
Okay, I can also tell you. I can also give you some breaking
news that Evan Neil, the lefttackle for Alabama, will be the number
one overall pick. That'd make mesad, but I would understand why.
Well, I mean, your youroffensive line is nothing to write home about,
So I mean, yeah, ofcourse any lineman drafted before you all

(01:23:33):
pick would be sad. I thinkif you want to say something positive of
Seattle on this podcast, James saythat you'd have to say that having such
a bad season, they've got areally high pick in the first round.
They they have Jamal Adams and heis the best box safety in the league.

(01:23:55):
That that guy, that guy canstop the run. Wow, see
how you still have a couple morepicks, and that in the street they
can put it together. They canget some sort of sixth rounder seven.
Hey, hey, Neil, Neil, while we have you here, you
are one of our draft nicks whoare some of the best prospects coming out
in the draft this year that wecan look forward to from the college ranks.

(01:24:16):
Well, I think if you're lookingat obviously we'd have mentioned that Evan
Neil there, the offensive tackle,left tackle who Jared probably wants for his
Giants team, and that would bea great selection. That would help keep
Daniel Jones upright to throw more interceptions. Yea, and as lines up right,
that's all I care about. Yea. Then you're you're looking really at
quite a few defensive backs here,James. You've got Kyle Hamilton, who's

(01:24:40):
who's going to be an overrated bustsafety who comes out from from Notre Dame.
You got Derek Stingley, who've beenwaiting to come out. He mean
he was reading for the NFL welltwo years ago. Yeah, very very
good player. I came on Tipadeauat Oregon, the pass rusher. He's

(01:25:00):
he's certainly somebody who could could couldboaster any defensive front. Maybe a little
bit light to James to play defensiveend, but as an outside linebacker.
He very very athletic player. Andthen Aiden Hutchinson, the the defensive end
from from Michigan, who some peoplewould rate as the number one player coming
out, certainly a very I sawa Jay a TJ Watch sort of style

(01:25:26):
guy, you know, very intense, high motor, high energy pass rusher.
Well at the other edge over therefrom Michigan. Yeah, you've got
a devinau Javill, who, ofcourse is it's from here in Aberdeen in
Scotland, so that is obviously finallywe get some real proper athletes into the
NFL from from the great country ofScotland, which is good news. And

(01:25:50):
then if you look for a widereceiver James, maybe a Garrett Wilson who
you can watch from Ohio State,and Olave of course is the other highest
date guy. I don't really likehim very much, to be fair.
And then quarterbacks, James, well, you might haven't heard much about quarterbacks
that bad, James, you mighteven get drafted. Wow. So so

(01:26:16):
no quarterbacks worthy of first round gradesas of yeah, we gotta wait till
the combine. There's a couple.Yeah, definitely pick Picket's gonna go in
the first, and um Quarl's gonnago in the first, and then the
yes, the other guy. Ithink the SINC quarterback might also go in
the first two. But none ofthem are like, none of them are
like, oh, that guy isreally good. He's a franchise quarterback.
They're all kind of like, well, I mean, there's no one else

(01:26:40):
to choose, so we might aswell take him. I quite I quite
like hey, for the modern NFLgame, Malik will Malik willis who I
think has that a real good athleticrunning ability to add to his to his
passing. I think he will probably. I mean I think at the end
of the James, you know whatit's like, you start off for this
time of the year, like canlike Jared's saying, where there's two or

(01:27:04):
three you think, yeah, maybego middle to the late first round.
You end up with four guys,four to five guys going into first round,
and some of them in the toptop ten fifteen. So it's it's
a low ramp up as the draftprocess goals. But right now, Washington
pick I think number eleven. I'dbe very disappunted if you choose a quarterback
at number eleven. And you havethe Steelers who will be picking late in

(01:27:29):
the round and they'll probably take aquarterback. And then you have the Seahawks
who could trade up into the endof the first to take a quarterback and
trade Russell Wilson to the Giants,which would be awesome, right way to
get two for one there. Jared, all right, we're gonna wrap this
up and shut this down. Ithink we've we've said more than enough about
a little bit of everything here,and I'm pretty sure we don't need to

(01:27:53):
be bashing the Seahawks any further thanwe already had. So that said,
final thoughts on this weekend's wild cardgames. M j Um, I'm looking
forward to some good football, andI'm looking really forward to saying Matthew Stafford
lose you get another playoff game.Kevin, I'm very much looking forward to

(01:28:15):
to this weekend. You know,this is what it all comes down to.
Hopefully I'll be on awesome hallucogenics,um. But who knows, really,
I don't know what the future holdsfor me. Um. Jared,
I am, I am along.I'm rooting with every team in the playoffs

(01:28:39):
right now. Every AFC team ishoping and praying that the Steelers win.
That would be an insane upset,and every NFC team is hoping the Eagles
win. I would love to seesome upsets. I don't think they're gonna
happen, but that that would makefor some fun football. One pick one
team to win this weekend. Soif you already picked Arizona, I'm going

(01:29:00):
to pick the forty nine Ers.Oh your lock of the week, ye
oh my god, Kevin nice one. M Well, it's obviously the Cheese.
And if it's not the Chiefs,the Bills are gonna absolutely scrape the
Patriots with a scrub ass quarterback thatthey got out there, Jared, I

(01:29:23):
mean, if I can't choose KansasCity, give me the Raiders home Wow.
Lock of the week, nice one? And Neil other than the Chiefs.
Oh the Chiefs aw go Kansas Yeah, I don't know, James.
I think I kind of quite likethe idea of of the readers. Yeah,

(01:29:47):
the Raiders are probably the everybody theromantic pick, An't they really the
Raiders? Possibly? Yeah? Doit for Monty. Let's put it this
away. When the Chiefs and excuseme, when the Bengals and the Raiders
do kick off this weekend, Iwill have a nice coal wood in my
hand for Monty. So with thatbeing said, for Kevin, for MJ,

(01:30:11):
for Neil and Crazy Jared, Iam James signing off for this wild
card weekend. We'll see you nextweek to preview the divisional rounds and keep
you up to date if any ofthese coaching vacancies get filled and we are
done here trying to do the challengeof finding the mysterious pond? Is this

(01:30:32):
somebody else here now? Though?Jesus, nice dude, let's go get
out of my face. I'm runningout of breath and also out of energy.
I'm going to see you later.By James, I'm watching him,
certainly, I can't see his hands. I'm a little bit worried. Oh
justin please edit this out, please,

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