FOX Football Sunday with Andy Furman and Brian Noe: 01/12/2020

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The Fox Sports it's all about to run. We'll get
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Oh you sounded so good. Yes, he's probably nohm Andy Furman.
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the brains of the outfit, and of course he is.
I don't know how he does it, the hardest working
man in show business today, the one the only Many
people have tried to emulate him, but I can't. My guy,

(00:44):
Brian No. Hello, Hello, I'm doing great, Andy Furman, very
happy to be here with you. Happy divisional round of
the playoffs on a Sunday morning. Here, and I broke
out the top shelf breakfast. You know it's an Apple cinema,
A rain bar sent him a type morning. You have
to do that for the divisional round of the playoffs,
you know, yeah, I know, and I still know you

(01:07):
creater of that stuff. And one day. I'll surprise you
one day. I just maybe at this rate because I
did send initially I sent that I sent the wrong materials. Yeah,
you sent Paul mcgranted, so I don't even know. I
don't know. I'm not I'm not an expert tise. I'm
not a chef on this stuff. Okay, I'm not an
expert on it. You are. You're the guy that he's

(01:28):
to flaky stuff. I don't, but I'll find it. I'll
eventually get it. You've gone to the store and bought
certain flavors of food, right, I don't got out much,
but that's like that. That's the standard thing is, Hey
do you have peanut butter and jelly? Are you peanut
butter and jelly guy? And no, I'm not. What's something
you eat that has the hamburger guy? I'm a beer guy.

(01:50):
I'm a pizza guy. That's there you go. Beer. So
what type of beer do you like? I like Rolling Rock?
I like Blue Moon? Okay, there you go. You can
stay with that. If you say, hey, no, can you
hook me up with some rolling Rock or some Blue Moon?
And I'm like, yeah, I got you, and I sent
you a case of slits. I got the wrong stuff. Okay,

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you gotta go with the right thank you, thank you,
as you know, you air it on you apart, but
you know the jest, it was fine, it was good.
That's where you and I part way. So I'm like,
you got the wrong freaking thing, fermin. You would have
been nice and cordial. I'm a jerk sometimes, but I
think I have a right to be a jerk in
this instance. That's all right, Okay, I'll tell you what
I gotta talk about the game last night, the late game,

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the Titans over the Ravens, And let me tell you
here's my take on the whole situation. I'm not gonna
get into the particular game, not go to about Derrick Henry.
I'll let you do that because you're the genius in
the group. I I liken this game to someone who
has to take a fine exam, and that exam will
give him, like the ability to maybe get into medical school,

(02:54):
get into law school. And you flunk the exam, everything
up to that point means nothing, means nothing if you
if you fail that exam. And that's just happened last
night with the Ravens. Everything they accomplished up to yesterday,
to that Bowl game actually goes down the toilet and
means said nothing. Lamar Jackson's great season, the wins that
haven't lost the game in a hundred and four days,

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it means nothing because they lost yesterday and they coughed
it up. And I don't want to hear these announcers
telling me that it was rust Give me a break,
it was hadn't played in twenty days, it was Russia.
Lamar Jackson, give Tennessee some credit. Please. I'm with you
on the last point. You gotta give Tennessee some credit,
but I don't agree with you on the first point.

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This absolutely diminishes Lamar jackson season. And he was brilliant
throughout the year. He was absolutely dynamic, well deserved m
v P. He eventually will be crowned. But I was
talking about this before the game, and there was a
lot of pushback because I said, if they lose to
the Titans, and especially if Lamar doesn't play particularly well,

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it will absolutely diminish his season. And it was met with, oh, no,
you can't say that. What he did, it's not gonna
take away from it. I'm like, hello, look at the
nature of sports. How many times have we seen this
where a player has a great regular season, falters in
the playoffs and deservedly gets hammered for it. Look at

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durk Navitsky years ago winning m v P and they
got bounced in the first round by the Warriors and
he got crushed for it. Or a rod or eight
manning for all those years he was unbelievable regular season
and faltered in the playoffs. That's how it goes. So
to act like, oh no, his you can't say anything

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takes away now, absolutely and it's unfortunate, but it took
away and diminished what he was able to accomplish this
year to some degree. Doesn't know ify everything, but it
absolutely diminishes it your ten thousand percent. And you know
what John Harbor the code. You know what he said
after the game. I'm still scratching my take a list
of what he said about his team. And he thought

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he was the best team. Listen to this. I felt
like this team was the best football team that it
could be this year, you know, with with the with
the group that we had, I thought we made the
most of of us becoming the best football team it
could be. We just weren't that today. And that's the
disappointing thing. Okay, okay, he corrected that at the end
of not Today, and I agree. You know, when you

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have fourth and one and you're faulted not once but twice,
I mean, wow, I mean give Tennessee some credit. That
was unreal. And you know what, I looked at Lamar
and the second one going for the fourth and one.
He had no idea what he was doing. He really didn't.
I mean he was just out of sync. But still
give Tennessee some credit. Gotta give Tennessee credit. Look at
Derrick Henry a hundred and ninety five yards rushing. It

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looks like something from the nineteen seventies with Hyan Tannehill's
stat line. He was seven for fourteen. He threw the
ball fourteen times. So you gotta take your hat off
to Derrick Henry. He was absolutely marvelous. It was something
that Lamar said after the game. He said, oh, we
just beat ourselves. What that's crazy. You have to give

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credit to Tennessee because they played good defense. Like you said, Andy,
the fourth and one. Uh the two of those instances
on fourth and one, stuffing Lamar with that weird quarterback sneak,
and that's partially on Lamar but the other time, earlier
in the game, Ravens are at their own forty five,
stuffed on fourth and one. They played good defense in

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short yardage situations. Derrick Henry was an absolute monster, and
they capitalized on Lamar Jackson's mistakes, a couple of picks,
a fumble, a weird quarterback sneak. So it wasn't just
the Ravens shooting themselves in the foot. Certainly that contributed.
But you gotta give the Titans some credit. It's not
as if they only capitalized on unforced theyrors by the

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Ravens and that's why they won to twelve. Goodness, they
smacked them around, Andy, they sure did. I'll tell you
what a couple of things, certainly a lot of misques
on the part of Baltimore, uh drop passes, things like that.
And I will tell you this much. If you look
at the box score on this game and you saw
a Tannehill's line of seven for four eight yards and
Lamar Jackson thorty one for fifty nine, you would have

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to think that maybe Baltimore won this game. But I
said this going into the segment in the playoffs, it's
all about the running game. You gotta run the football.
You don't run the football in the playoffs, you're going home.
That's basically what it's all about. You know, New England
couldn't run the football last week they lost. You gotta
run the football and that's where it's at. And believe me,
I couldn't be happy if for Derrick Henry. I'll tell

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you why. During the season he was like a ghost.
Yeah he had the stats, he led the league in rushing,
but he no one knew about it. He didn't get
any pub he really didn't. Now he's on a big stage,
everybody knows about Derrick Henry. Now it is pretty crazy
that you could be a rushing champ and be as
under publicized as Derrick Henry was. But you know what
stands out Andy is Derrick kenn At a monstrous game.

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But if you look at the rushing totals, it's not
like Tennessee out rushed the Ravens like crazy. The Ravens
had a hundred and eighty five yards rushing to Lamar
had a hundred and forty three on the ground. So
it's not like what would it be, uh thirty two
yards difference. That's all that Tennessee out rushed Baltimore by

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thirty two measly yards. This was about converting on fourth down.
This was about, Look, you've got to maximize your opportunities.
Our guy Chris who's with us here, and by the way,
the only time he went to Vegas he stayed at
a La Quinta. We gotta circle back to that at
some point, Andy, But business first. He was telling me
when we were chatting before the show started, there was

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this stat about every yard line that the Ravens drives
ended on without points, and it was it's just like
they had the ball in the those numbers deal position
over and over and over again, and they weren't. He's
got the numbers. He's got the numbers. So this is
from Will Brinson, by the way, So the Ravens had

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drives that ended on the on the Titans. These are
all the Titans side of the field. The thirty, six,
thirty one, the four, the eighteen, the thirty one, the fifteen,
the sixteen, twenty one, and they finished with twelve points
for the game. Well, you know, I tell you it
may have been somewhat of a turning point. Maybe I'm
mistaken it, but helped me out here both you guys
when they we're going for the first time when I

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have fourth and one and they failed, if they would
have gone for the field goal at that point in
time rather the first one, they were in their own territory, Andy,
we're talking about one second, Okay, I think I would
have changed things a little bit just to give them
some momentum. I mean, you don't know how deflated you
might be when you go fourth and one twice and fail.
That's a big momentum swing, not only for the negative

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momentum situation on the offense, but as far as the
momentum on the defense. Sure, if they kicked the field goal,
the one you're talking about, it would have been fourteen
to nine if Justin Tucker made it, and he probably
would have because he's freaking nights. I shot you can.
I understand what you're saying, Andy, for sure, But before that,

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before we have access to the result, right, I trust
the Ravens, and that's been their m oh you always say,
dance with who brung you. That's what John Harbaugh has
done all year is gamble, go for it, swagger, you know,
and on til last night, Yeah, they were eight no
on fourth and one throughout the regular season, and then

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they got stuffed twice last night, and you got you
have to at some point give the Titans credit. That
wasn't just Lamar on the weird quarterback sneak where he
ran over to the right side and was like, let
me reverse course and head right back into the teeth
of the defense. You can't do that, man, That's like
throwing late over the middle. You can't reverse course on

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a quarterback sneak on fourth and one. You're gonna get
stuffed all day. But there's a weird decision. But you
got to give the Titans credit. Man. There's a reason
why he reversed course. He didn't think he was gonna
get it going to the right initially, and why because
the Titans were there. You know, it's funny that you
and I criticizing Lamar, and rightfully so, and certainly you
know some of the stardom is gonna be tarnished, but
he had something to say about that. He's not concerned

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what you will meet or anybody else has to say.
Take a list of Lamar. I don't really care about
what they say. You know, this is my second in
the league. Many people don't be able to make it
to the playoffs. I got a great team with me.
Don't you really here about what the people saying? We're
just gonna keep going? Was crying? He should absolutely be like,
there's no crying in football. Was he crying? Well, no,

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but let's just call it like it is. Andy, It's
kind of sound like a bunch of white broadcasters are
waking up and it's Christmas morning, and it was like, yes,
this is the president. I was absolutely hoping for it.
You're gonna hear some glee in the voices of some
of these white broadcasters. And here's the thing, man, it
might be very misleading because I take no joy out

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of this. It's not like I'm excited that Lamar faltered.
I'm just calling it like it is. You can't be
the m v P turn in a performance like that
and not go criticized for it. You have to get
criticized to some degree. To not criticize that performance would
be a disservice to Lamar. So criticizing him as long

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as it's you know, it's justifieding legitimate, you're not taking
it way too far and saying he stinks as a quarterback.
Because of this. If you're just saying that performance wasn't
good enough, there's nothing wrong with that at all, that's accurate.
I want to know who's taking Glee and his performance,
because if you are, you're an idiot. Really, But there,
you know, Andy, there are a lot of people that

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didn't think Lamar was going to be this special of
a talent, and they're absolutely you know this. That's the
drill if you and he's proving you wrong. A lot
of those people come out of the woodwork and say,
I never bought it. I know it, I'd ever bought in.
So you're gonna get a steady die of that. Well,
you know what, if they are, we want to hear

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from them. How on Twitter at the No Show you
have some guts, have a pair, all right, let's see
if you have some If you have glee and what
Lamar Jackson did you this thing? I want to hear
from you because I'll shop you down a little bit.
And someone my partner Brian no at the No Show
and we show at Andy Ferman FSR Or eight seven
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was on the day. Will explain that in just about
a minute. He's Brian no Ma. Andy Ferman went live
and the guy called Fox Sports Radio Studios and be
a said said note. In the world of music, which
is right up your right up your alley, this week
the world's greatest drama, Rock's greatest drama passed the greatest
drummer in rock history. It's debatable, Andy, I hear that

(14:11):
all over the place. It was a great drummer, great,
no doubt. And look, it's sad that he passed away,
no matter where you have him ranked. Big Field. Yeah,
he's got loved ones and you know, family members and
all that, So shout out hate that he passed away.
But at sixty seven, what much too young? Yes, I

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heard from our guy Chris that you asked if Russia's
metal I think it's borderline metal. No, it's not even
remotely close metal light No, no, not even call it then?
What would you Yeah, it's progressive rocks, progressive weird rock.

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I'd go weird rock like a weird rock Okay, yeah?
Are you a Rush fan? Vne? I like a few
of their songs, but I'm not like huge into them.
I appreciate them for what they did for you know,
experimental and progressive rock. But overall, I'm with you on that.
You know. I don't live and die for them, but
you know, I I appreciated what they've done in the
world of music. I don't I hate Rush. I hate

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to say it now, but Rush, Limbaugh, Rush and Rush.
I respect those dudes as musicians, but their music. No,
I'm not a fan, and I think it's mainly Getty
lee Ed. I hate that guy's voice. I can't get
over it. Man, I can't do it. You can't throw
it like my singletary, I can't throw it. Do you

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hate my voice too? No? No, your voice is pleasant, andy, Okay? No. No,
All of a sudden, I'm getting like words from the
vin a ejecutive, But he's always watching out for me.
I appreciate that. Don't bad mouth Rush Limbaugh. He's a
premier network guy. I didn't band mouth them. I heard
the word Rush. When I hear Rush, the number one
Rush in my mind really is Rush Limbaugh. Now, if

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you have the What's that Family Feud show on TV
and you have to match certain certain things, if they
had the term Rush up there, believe me to be
more Rush Limbaughs than the band Rush, I promise. I
don't know that you're right about that. Andy. I'm not
sure about that because no hand, Rush is insanely popular,
very popular, so I'm in the minority here. I just

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didn't care for Getty Lee's voice. He sounds like a
weed whacker. You know, if you're you're weed whacking stuff,
it's like loo loo, loo loo. That's how Getty Lee sounds.
I can't get over that, all right. I just think that,
you know, there's one Rushed that's the most of the
most popular Rush in the world. But I'll tell you what,
I think you're wrong about that. I think you're wrong.
I don't we'll see anyway. I'm gonna think that do

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you think that Rush Limbaugh is huge in China? The
big wide Rush Limbaugh is nothing compared to the band Rush.
I don't know about that, but that's that's not for
me to decide. But I do want to go to
Twitter because P flow too. What's P flow too? I
don't even know what that is, but P flow too
to it. This says, I hope LJ, meaning Lamar Jackson,

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doesn't become one of the guys who's a better regular
season player and then disappears in the playoffs. We won't
know that. Only history will tell that answer. But I
don't think that's gonna happen, you know, I I don't
think so. Time will tell. But that's who he is
right now. Goodness, you go back to last season against
the Chargers. His passer rating was zero in the first half.

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Like he's getting booed by the home crowd. The home
crowd was channing we want Flacco. Just think about that
for a second. That's how bad Lamar was in the
first three quarters. But the party of workers not there
yet to prove that. But you know, he's no Clayton
Kershaw because when it comes to Kershaw and the playoffs,
forget it. That's basically he's he's to post a child

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for faltering in the playoffs. Two years in, that's exactly
who he is. That's where we're at with Lamar. And
look again, I have to state this, there's a difference
between stating it like it is and then taking joy
in it. And it's gonna sound like a bunch of
broadcasters are taking joy in this and they might just

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be calling it like it is two seasons in. Lamar
Jackson's career is much like Clayton Kershaws. Now, we've only
had two years of this from Lamar and we've had gosh,
almost a decade of it with Clayton Kershaw being a
stud in the regular season and then wetting himself largely
in the playoffs. So he hasn't done this over a

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decade span like Clayton has, but two years in, that's
who his career rivals at this stage. You're exactly right.
An RS pilot on Twitter says, it does amaze me
that the media can slim Kurt Cousins. And it's perfectly okay.
If the media is going to slim Laar Jackson, I'll
being on with two big games. That's not warranted. It's
only his second year, but longevity in the NFL is

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short and he's off to a bad start, well said,
Well said, he's owing to he's off to a bad start,
and he's got to change that. No one else could
change it, you can. It changed the narrative. That's basically
what it is. He had two playoff games and as
you said, he went the bed. What are you gonna do?
And I'm not rooting for or against him, that's fact.
That's just the way it is. And I feel bad
for the guy. Had a tremendous season, tremendous and it

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goes down the cropper if it goes what happened yesterday. Well,
and that's the point, and he is goodness to the
the Tweeter's point, Kirk Cousins, just start naming some of
these quarterbacks. Carson Wentz. You know, think about Tony Romo
and how much flak he caught, and a lot of
it is deservedly so with these guys. But a lot

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of these qbs who leaves something to be desired, especially
on the playoff stage, they get hammered for it. And
Lamar Jackson's no different. If you have a performance like
that too, Costly interceptions, a fumble, a weird quarterback sneak
when you were far and away the m v P.
He was brilliant this season. That's the way it works.
The more you do, the more we expect. And he

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is brilliant of a season as he has he had.
The expectations were raised deservedly so, and he didn't come
close to meeting that standard in the playoffs. And that's
the stage that matters most. So for anybody saying, oh, no,
free pass, no no, no no, like let's sweep this under
the rug, no no, no no, this is the thing
that matters most, and you have to state that accurately,

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that's all. You're exactly right. I'm Gladie Brot kirk Cousins
who was nine years today for a hundred and seventy
two yards only one big play, that touchdown pass the
Stefon Diggs as the Vikings go down. And I don't
think anybody was surprised. I really don't, because the forty
niners not only were a better team, they proved to
the world yesterday that this team is serious. They're a

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Super Bowl contenduer. They're gonna play either Green Bag or Seattle,
depending upon who wins that game this afternoon. But the
forty nine is to me could have beat the Vikings
by more than that. That they were tremorous and they
were a better team. They I mean, the Vikings have
nothing to cry about. They just lost to a better team, right.
And look, if we're gonna be critical of quarterbacks, look

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at Kirk Cousins where it was a terrible interception to
Richard Sherman, and he just doesn't handle pressure well. Not
meaning the big stage, the playoff stage. Certainly you can
make that argument, but I mean pressure in his face
a pass rush. He is just not good when he
faces a good pass rush. He was six sacked six
times yesterday. And I think that it isn't just a

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Kirk Cousins thing. I think the offense was horrible as
a whole. The office couldn't get it done. They couldn't
run it at all. Dalvin Cook, who had ninety yards
and two touchdowns against the Saints and was big in
that game, he had eighteen yards rushing on nine carries,
so they they couldn't do anything. They couldn't stop the
forty niners running game. So I think that was a

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collective breakdown on the Vikings part, and certainly Kirk Cousins
has a lot to do with that. He's the eighty
four million dollar man and you need more from him,
but you need more from the team as a whole,
as well as how we talked about in the first
segment with with the Ravens, you to run the football
in the playoffs where you're going home, and you talk
about Dalvin Cook eighteen yards on nine carries. First of all,

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I don't know why the didn't give him the ball more,
but he didn't prove anything. But he had the ball
eighteen yards. That's ridiculous. It's not gonna work. And then
you got that coach Mike Zimmer talking about the season,
what we should take home we learned about that. Listen
to the coach. It's hard to discuss the whole entirety
of the season. You know, there's so many ups and
downs for out of it, throughout the course of it.
And uh, I know that I'm proud of this football

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team the way they competed and worked and did all
the things that they had to do throughout the course
of this year. It's unfortunately we didn't play better today.
So you know, I don't know, you know, it's it's
not a good day to reminisce. Why is he talking
about the season. We want to talk about the game,
yesterday's game. You know, forget about the season. You got
into the playoffs. Don't give me the broad picture, narrow

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I want narrow narrow casting. Tell me what happened yesterday
and why why couldn't Dalvin Cook run the football? Tell me, Mike,
what kind of an answer was that? There's nothing wrong
with that? You turned into grumpy firm in here on
that one. He's of course he's going to be looking
at the season. Their season is over, so I completely
appreciate what he's talking about. Where they had a lot

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of highlights, they had a lot of low lights. So
as high as the high as were last week against
the Saints, winning and overtimes, as low as the low
as are, I don't have a problem with him looking
at it from a season standpoint. That don't think that's
the way he's gonna be looking at it their seasons.
I don't know what the question was. I don't know
who the media person was to ask that question, but
I don't think that was the answer they were looking for.

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They don't care what they were looking for. I have
no problem what he was saying right there. I'll just
say this, Andy, the Forts, they that game yesterday was
like a Mayweather fight. You ever watch Floyd Mayweather fight.
His fights are boring, but he's incredibly effective. That's the
way the Niners were. And you don't have to be sexy.
You can just turn it around and hand the ball

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off and hand it off and hand it off and
play good defense. That was not a sexy style of football,
but about sexy. It's about effective. And they were incredibly
effective against the Vikings. And you gotta say that they
got a real strong shot to win it all. The
way they played yesterday tremendous, tremendous. They really are. All right,
he's Brian No, I'm Andy Ferman. You want to get
to us. We're here, We're here for the asking really

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eight seven seven ninety on Foxes phone number eight seven
seven sixty nine. Oh what Betty yet at the n
O E show, at the no show at Andy Firm
and FSR. And of course all of a sudden we're
talking super Bowl. This team is a super Bowl choice.
But first to our super bowler himself, he's super Brian
Fenley for the latest, Thank you so much. Hey, I

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know the Bengals are not the Super Bowl choice. Lamar Jackson,
starring in the regular season and barthing in the playoffs.
Let's coming Jackson firing intercepted, the Titans get their takeaway
up the night Mike Keith on the Titans radio network,

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Jackson he turnovers as the Ravens nosedive to the Titans
to twelve. Jackson now oh and two in the postseason.
He has nineteen and thirteen of the regular season. And
this Tennessee miraculous run continues, and they will wait intently
the winner of Sunday's game between the Chiefs and the Texans.
Earlier on Saturday, in the NFC Divisional Round, the forty

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Niners defense manipulates and man handles the Vikings seven to tend.
San Francisco sacked Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins six times, and
after the game, Minnesota head coach Mike Zimmer with his
trademark raspy voice, hailing the Niners d it's a cliche,
but I think, you know, they played very well. I

(25:43):
thought they got off blocks well. I thought they did
a nice shop of disrupting the passing game as well,
and so um, you know, I think that that all
those entered into it. San Francisco will host the winner
of Sunday's Seahawks Packers game in the NBA Milwauk, claiming
the best record in the league thirty five and six

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listening to Zimmer. Mike Zimmer, the coach of Minnesota, the Vikings.

(27:08):
He's kind of like the exact the opposite of ed
Orgeron of l s U as far as his voice
is concerned. You know, Ason is at the wrestler and
Zimmer right, I mean they could do ends of the
spectrum over there? Is that correct? Probably accurate? Zim sounds like,
you know, he's got to clear his voice. I guess
a little bit. I don't know what it is. And

(27:29):
oh yeah, he's uh, you know very much from the
yeah you're you're right voices sound a lot different. Yes,
there you go. All right. Now, we got the Texans
today at the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't know what
the weather forecast is. I know they had some snow
in Kansas City several days ago. Chiefs of twelve and four,
Texans eleven and five. And some may say that this

(27:50):
game is somewhat of a rematch because they met back
in week six, also on Kansas City. The Texans in
fact won that game. However, how its a big however
here the Chiefs were missing five starters and Patrick Mahomes,
the Chief's quarterback, still had those ankle problems. So I
would say this it's a different ball game today. Yeah,

(28:11):
it's definitely a different ball game today. But it's not
all benefiting the Chiefs, as you well know, want one
thorn Hill their safety towards a c L in week seventeen.
So he's out, and he was having a very good
rookie season, was second round rookie out of Virginia, And
so they've got a mask that deficiency and we'll see

(28:33):
if they can do that. This is a really interesting
matchup Andy, because the Texans are so utterly goofy. When
they're on, they can take down anybody in the NFL,
and when they're off, they can practically lose to anybody
in the NFL. So which Titans team shows up today,
we'll have to wait and see. And that that groin

(28:54):
injury with Will Fuller and he wasn't able to play
last week against the Bills. He's a big part of
the offense to Shaun Watson's passer rating skyrockets by about
fifteen points when will Fuller is on the field compared
to win will Fuller isn't. So if he can go
and if he can be the normal weapon that he
he is, that's gonna be big for the Texans today.

(29:17):
You know all you have to know about the Texans.
So you look at the list. Several weeks of the schedule,
they play Tennessee two out of the three. Last weeks
in between that there was a Tampa Bay game. They
won at Tennessee by three. Then they go at home
and they lose. They get blown out after Ryan, I
understand it, but again, this is an up and down team.

(29:37):
You just don't know what you're gonna get. But as
far as the chiefs of concern over their list six games,
they have allowed just eleven point five points per game.
That's a Brian knows stat. And the key I guess
they claim now is their new defensive coordinates, Dee Spagnola,
because now he's got a different scheme and the secondary play.
We'll see what happens over there. But you mentioned and
that's the key losing. Uh, that guy with the torn

(29:59):
was it Thornhill with the c L So that's a
big loss, it really is. Yeah, And if you look
at the Chiefs down the stretch, their defense was much
much better. But you look at some of the teams
that they played, like the Bears, the Raiders, Chargers, I
don't know the Patriots who faltered down the stretch. So

(30:23):
I mean they played better. But this is a tougher
test against a Texans offense, and mixed with Thornhill being
down for the season, We'll just see how it goes.
But you point out the Texans look at some of
their duds this year. They got clobbered at home against
the Carolina Panthers early in the season. They got blown
out by the Ravens forty one to seven. They were

(30:45):
losing to the Broncos in December thirty eight to three
at home. Right, So it's just this weird race. They
beat the Patriots and then they beat the Patriots too,
So you don't you know what you're gonna get on
any given day with this team. Really, it's crazy. The
chief Store they haven't lost since the tenth of November.
And I want to hear now if the announcers are

(31:06):
gonna talk about if the Chiefs play sloppy today, is
it gonna be rust because that was the excuse they
gave with both twenty games off. It doesn't please I
don't know what you've heard last night, Andy, but I'm
listening to Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts at the end
of the game, and Iron Eagles like ys team. They
didn't play their main guys in week seventeen and they
were off last week. And it's that rust you know,

(31:29):
versus rest argument, and he was like, he didn't blow
it out of proportion. I think they handled it fine.
They weren't like the rusty team. Shame on John Arba
should have played his guys in week seventeen. That it
wasn't anything like though, you're exactly. I gonna tell you what.
I want to get some cools because I I really
like Iron Eagle, I really do. Growing up as a
kid in New York City, he did sports updates on

(31:50):
w CBS Radio eight eight am. Okay, And not only that,
he's a calming influence. He doesn't get too high, he
doesn't get too low. He gives you what you need
to get. That's it gives either facts, doesn't go crazy.
Some of these guys. You know, you break into a
sweat listing to these guys with the yelling and the screaming.
He was great, you know, he's almost like good background noise,

(32:10):
you know what I'm saying. I really like Iron Eagle.
He's good calming. He tells you what you need to know,
and he gets excitable too. It's not like he's but
he doesn't go through the roof. It's not it's not
crazy like some of these guys. I have no problem
with crazy yelling broadcasters, though, when you're calling a game,
I think it's awesome. So I love Gus Johnson. You
anti guess, no, I think there's a point in time

(32:31):
when you got everything is not through the roof, you know.
I mean. Look, I like basketball. I watch basketball on
TV and Bill Raf the three to me is my favorite.
He doesn't go crazy, but he's entertaining. There's a difference
between going crazy for the sake of yelling and screaming
or being entertaining. Bill Raf Theree is entertaining and educational
at the same time. He's tell me, you don't want
to hear your broadcaster go nuts like Bill O'Brien did.

(32:55):
The Texans head coach on the fan that said you suck.
Did you hear that where he's dropping F bombs, M
F bombs and all. You don't want your broadcaster to
sound like Bill O'Brien At times. There's a place and
and a time for it, but not on every play
every place? Is not that the end? All right? And
by the way, we have a weather forecast here in

(33:16):
Kansas City. Uh, and let me see is that is
that from U from our guy? Maybe some snow today
corning to National Weather Service, a chance of snow between
noon and two that's I guess the eastern time than
a slight chance of drizzle after two pm, partly sunny
with a high near thirty seven southeast wind six to
eleven chance to participation precipitation. So it's gonna be cold.

(33:42):
But that's way detailed right there. Well, that's that's what
will we roll here, you know what I'm saying. But uh,
I don't think it will affect things too badly, really,
I mean, the running game will be okay, in the
passing games should be too effective. Is the wind coming
from the southwest or the northeast. Let's say as VN
A he would know VN A, I think it's a
southeast to southeast southeast wind. That's big because if it

(34:03):
was northwest, that changes everything. It does absolutely, Are you
kidding me? Yeah? Huge? It depends what side of the
field when we're gonna be fine, alright, Okay, get up,
It's gonna be all right, right. I mean, weather won't
be a fat cold, but that's okay. I don't think
it'll affect gonna be a blood moon whatever. Remember that
last year there was yes, something going on that's not

(34:28):
this year, right, And I'm looking at the Vegas odds.
In this game, Houston, the Texans are getting nine and
a half. That's tempting. Fluctuates up to ten, that's tempting.
Are you tempted with that? I would take the Titans
with the points. They're goofy enough, that's the weird thing
to feel great either way, because they're goofy enough to
get blown out. They're goofy enough to hang around and

(34:51):
challenge for the wind. So I think ten points is
a lot, right, a lot of points. One, I know
you would. Are you going to do that in a nose?
It's okay, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going. We'll
move along with the end of the show, I'll either
make it official or go with three other bets. All right,
and I can't wait nothing. There was a blood moon yesterday?

(35:14):
Did you know that? Today? Are you kidding me? I
was just goofing around. There was a you know what, Look,
if you want something and any aspect of life, education, agriculture, weather, science, mathematics,
we have it here. Vina is demand really he's like
the antswer man and he said there was a blood
moon yesterday. How do you like that? Hats off? But

(35:39):
I don't want to give him too many kudos and
credits because someone's gonna hear him and before you know what,
he'll be out of here. He'll say the way it goes, Yeah,
I know, I know. What did you do? Brian know?
Andy Furman? And you call it the Bronx, we call
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(36:02):
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(36:49):
call Bronx Talk Radio, posted by the Great Crispi. But
we already got one freaking Judge in town. Now it's
time for another. This is Bronx Talk Radio welcoming Joe
Judge to the to the New York Freaking Giants. Joe
Freaking Judge, What do you think I said? It's not
a rough name. He says. He wants to make the

(37:11):
team blue collar. He says, it's for the people in
North Jersey and South Jersey to come to our games.
The players all the same attitude when they wake up
in the morning and go to work. What do you
think about that? Of course, he wants that every coach
wants something like that. He didn't say anything that nobody else,
You know, everybody else, that's the same freaking thing. Over
of course, they're gonna want a hard working, tough minded

(37:31):
team over there. Doesn't matter what it says blue collars.
The color of the football Giants is blue. That's true.
He was coaching green base and a green collar, right
or green teeth or whatever. Right, But I'm telling you,
they pluck a dude who's never been a coordinator. He's
been a special teams guy and a wide receiver coach

(37:51):
over there. What if this guy falters, the Giant's gonna
look like a bunch of dummies at the job. Is
because he coached for Bill Belichick, and that's why he was.
If he was coaching Cincinnati, he could be the equipment
man for the Giants. Listen to you, it's always Cincinnati
with you. Of course they stink. News eleven. Speaking of

(38:12):
stinking blue collar and other scams, let's go to the
New York Knicks. So the Knicks gave away a thousand
dollars for us I talk a half court shots. I'll
talk about half court shots here. Brian no So over
in Los Angeles got the Los Angeles Lakers give away
a hundred thousand dollars for a guy who it's a
half court shot. The Knicks give away a thousand dollars

(38:34):
in lottery scratches. That is weak in lottery scratches, Brian, No,
you're the gamblood. Do you like this? That is trash
over there? You kid, you're a professional organization act like
what a thousand bucks and scratch off tickets for it
and a half court shot? I don't know. I think
you know that's how stupid that they would be better
of giving the guy a thousand dollar check for groceries

(38:56):
at a at a store. That so he's like the worst.
Here's my real question. You Fox Sports and not a
Bronx guy, Jonas Knox, degenerate freaking gambler. Do you think
he would want the lottery scratches? Oh? Yeah, I know
that he hooks you guys up around Christie. I got
about like ten dollars over Christmas from those things. Yeah,
gets his coworkers scratch off tickets, which I think is

(39:17):
a nice touch. But that's good for Jonas Knocks. He's
not the New York freaking Nicks. He's he's not He's
not Jimmy Dolan who owns the lottery really owns owns
madest owes everything. Yeah, he wants to for him too. Well,
let's go over a little little stay in the NBA here,
let's go over to Cleveland Cavaliers. We just talked about

(39:38):
him last week. But John Bee lines in trouble. He
said he came out calls to players thugs. He says, no,
I actually said it was slugs because the slow Do
you believe him? Full of it? Full of it? He says,
he's full of it. I actually believe him. Here you
the context. If he was meaning to disrespect him that way,
I think it's a slip of the tongue. And I

(40:00):
can't believe how big this story got. Good Lord all
over the freaking place. Yeah, yeah, it is a big story.
He was trying to compliment them and say we were
sluggish earlier, and he screwed it up. Of all things
to screw up, that's pretty much at the top of
the Okay, be over and under this to the end
of the season. Yeah, he makes it there, but they

(40:20):
don't make him over the real quick, real quick, thirty seconds.
I need to get to this story from Las Vegas.
This is a New York story in a way. This
guy definitely came fromm calling right now. This guy came
from the Genovese family retired it out. Ninety three year
old man shoots his apartment manager in both kneecaps. The
guy survives and walks it off. But why do you
shoot him in both kneecaps because he wouldn't repair water damage?

(40:43):
Who was freaking apartment? This is the right way to
resolve in an argument with your landlord. Don't you think
freaking nuts these days? What is wrong with them? You
don't shoot people because of the water. Yeah, you left
out the best part of the story. Didn't want to
get fixed? Fox Sports? You were you surprised? Well that's
coming right up. But right now it's time to say

(41:05):
wake up America. Whoa what is it with our two? Still?
I don't know what that was, but that should get
you up. Really, he's probably no I meany Furman will
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Andy Furman. I don't know what is up with our

(41:48):
our cockadoodle do sound effect in our two. I don't
know what's going on with Chris over there. Something I
don't know what that is, saber tooth, what is that?
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what he's doing
over there? What's going on? M I don't know. I
don't know either. Not good enough for a divisional Sunday
divisional playoffs over here? The cockadoodle do to get everybody up,

(42:11):
you know. And honestly, the question I had coming into
this said, were you surprised? I don't. I don't think
anybody was surprised with that forty nine to win over
the Vikings. But certainly forty nine were a better team.
But the way the Titans basically rolled the Ravens and
the Ravens was stimy, really, I mean, the running game
was basically non existent, uh and everything Lamar Jackson did

(42:31):
during the season, Sandy goodness. They rushed for a hundred
and eighty five yards, but it didn't do a non
existent running game. But it didn't do anything. That's what
I'm saying. It didn't get them in the end zone.
I mean they were they were just blooded. Look when
you have fourth and one twice and not make it,
their running game was stopped. That to me, stopped their
running game. You could run all day long. You can look,

(42:52):
those are a couple of huge plays. Fourth and one
short yardage type, tremendous play. Yeah, but that doesn't mean
the running game wasn't working all evening. If it was working,
they would have won. I mean, you want to throw
stats at me, Yeah, sure, ran You said they didn't
have a running game. I told you they rushed for
a hundred and eighty five yards. Yeah, you're throwing stab
What then do they ran between? What? If I say?

(43:15):
If I say, man, the Titans passing game was unbelievable
last night, how would you combat that? You would say,
Ryan tannehild through for eight and seven. He was seven
from fourteen eighty eight yards right exactly, and and I'd
be like, your stats over here. Really, that's the way
you would combat an argument that isn't true. Okay, all right,

(43:37):
you got me, all right, I give up. My hands
are up. You can you beat me. But I'm just
saying that the way you just beat me is the
way the Titans beat the Ravens yesterday. It really was.
And I think people were shocked. I mean, I don't
know what the line was coming into that game. I
hadn't noticed prior to me. Do you know how many?
That's a lot. That's a lot of points, it really is.
And to twelve points, I mean that's weak. It really is.

(43:59):
I just and the game was in Baltimore, and really,
if you watched that game, it was really a pleasure
to watch on TV because you didn't hear the craziness
of the fans in the stands. They were silenced. It
was like going to a library. He was like a morgue.
It really was. Well, it was just a bad performance
by the Ravens. And I said it last night, and

(44:20):
this was around the fourth quarter. Um, and there's still
plenty of time left. I said, this is one of
the most disappointing playoff performances ever by the Ravens. And
that's not hyperbole. Andy this is a team that won
twelve games in a row. They were crushing people. Remember
that game against the Rams they won forty five to six,

(44:42):
and the Rams were a borderline playoff team. They were
crushing teams. So and Lamar Jackson was unbelievable throughout the
entire season until the playoffs rolled around. But they were
going up against a Titans team that was a sixth
seed that barely got into the playoffs. Andy that they
were in going into Week seventeen, there was a chance
that they weren't going to be a playoff team, and

(45:04):
they not only beat the Ravens, they smacked them around.
Derrick Henry was unbelievable last night. So I give the
Titans credit certainly, but I also look at the Ravens
and say that was one of the most disappointing playoff
efforts ever. And that's not taking it too far, going
way over the top. That's the truth. That was one

(45:24):
of the worst we've ever seen. Well, we'll tell you
this much. I mean, you know, there are a lot
of people and you said, they're gonna say that basically
we're picking on Lamar Jackson or making too much of
a deal of it. Let me say this that the
top seed team, say that, you kid me, he's the
m v P leavable this year. And now it's turning into, hey,
you guys a little overly critical. No, he didn't get

(45:45):
it done. He didn't get it done, especially for a team.
They were the top seeded team entering the playoffs, the
best team in the NFL. They went fourteen in two,
beating most of the top teams in the league this year.
And look, they just didn't get it done. Yesterday, and
you mentioned Derrick Henry, and I was impressed, obviously with
what he did on the on the field with yards rushing,

(46:06):
but more so with a touchdown pass. I jump passed
and he threw. Take a listen to this Titans in
the pistol Mariota. Now he goes in motion, correct snap,
Herrick Henry throws it jump pass in the end zone,
touch staff Titans Henry to Corey Davis. Oh my goodness,

(46:28):
that play is from the eighteen hundreds. That's unbelievable. You
know you have a play like that. It was a
jump passed by Henry to Corey Davis. And look, he
completed three throws and four attempts in his entire career.
That to me, and courtesy obviously of w g F
X one or four point five the Titans radio network,
that to me is I throwing a pie in their face.

(46:49):
That's like really rubbing it in when you get those
trick plays and Rabel. I mean, that's like taking out
of the Bill Belichick book. It really is. Well, it
was a great play, calls execution Tebow esque, right play
out like Tebow with the jump pass at Florida. That
wasn't on the scouting report coming in. I was not

(47:10):
expecting that one, but gif Derrick Henry some credit, not
only rushing for a hundred and ninety five yards but
throwing a touchdown pass as well. Crazy. You know, I'm
trying to figure it out, and I don't know where
this burst of power or energy a great play has
come from on Tennessee, but it certainly has come at

(47:30):
the right time. And again, I can't figure out what's
during the regular season. To me, they were like in
the second tier of NFL teams. They really were. Of course,
they're nine and seventeen. They got their running game cranked up.
They've just been feeding and feeding and feeding Derrick Henry.

(47:50):
He's been magnificent. You also have to give a lot
of credit to that offensive line because the Ravens oftentimes
had eight men in the box to slow down the
running game and they couldn't. So the Titans old lines
is blowing him off the line of scrimmage. Derrick Henry
doing his thing running downhill. He's tough to bring down.
And that's a that's a winning formula. If you play

(48:11):
good enough defense, get timely stops like they did on
two fourth and one occasions, and you're able to eat
with Derrick Henry. Yeah, you're gonna give a lot of
teams fits. And they've done that two games into the
playoffs so far for them. Okay, So now they're gonna
play the winner of Kansas City Houston, and I gotta
believe in my heart of hearts, probably gonna be Kansas City.
You know, Houston. You just don't. You don't have confidence

(48:33):
in that team. You just don't. But they waited to
Arrowhead and one earlier this year. Week. I wouldn't be
stunned at all if they win. They're a goofy team.
If they play well, if they play like they're capable
of playing, they could beat anybody. And you look at
the Chiefs. They've lost seven of their past eight home
playoff games, and you could say, okay, but how many

(48:54):
of those losses came with rosters that aren't even close
to this one? True? But they lost last season in
the playoffs like that matters. It's been a house of
horrors in their own crib over there in Arrowhead. Some
of the losses. Andy, it's crazy. If you would have
seen it in a movie, you'd be like that. It's
a little far fetched. And it's happened to the Chiefs

(49:15):
with Mariona completing a past to himself. Remember that when
the Titans went in there and beat the Chiefs, Mariot
to throw a ball got bad and he caught it
and ran it in for a touchdown. Weird stuff has
happened to the Chiefs, particularly at home in the playoffs. Well.
James Palmer on Twitter tells us that not only will
de Shaun Watson of Whide receive it, will fuller He'll
be back today with that Groynning injuries also been told

(49:36):
that Titan Darren Fells with a hip and wide receive it.
Kenny Steals with his knee will also be activated for
the Texas today, which is a big plus for them. Yeah,
of course it is. Well, we'll see. I look, I
I just I don't have a lot of confidence in
the Texas. I really don't. But we'll see what happens there.
But you know, going back to the first game, the
forty Niners and the Vikings, again, no real big surprises.

(49:59):
But I will say this, I'm enjoying the playoffs and
the playoffs ball games a lot better this year than
last year because of the different faces in the league.
What do I mean by that? Derrick Henry. Again I
mentioned this earlier during the regular season. This guy led
the league in rushing. He's like a no name, no one.
No one saw him on TV. Tennessee's never on really

(50:19):
national TV much, no one. They're off Broadway, the Tennessee Titans. Now,
all of a sudden, he's on a big stage that
people can see him. And I'm kind of happy with
new faces and new teams in the playoffs this year.
Well that's fine, hey man, I I've harped on this
for a long time. If you look at parody in
the NFL, we're getting a steady dose of that in

(50:41):
the playoffs thus far. Who thought that the Vikings were
gonna head in and beat the Saints. Not many, and
it happened. How many people thought that the Titans were
gonna waltz in to Baltimore and smack them around like that?
Not many, but it happened. I think that is exciting.
I think that's entertaining. When you turn on a ball

(51:02):
game in the NFL playoffs and you're like, I gotta
watch this because I don't know who's gonna win, and
that's what you have, and I don't know why there
are a lot of people that take it the other
way and say, oh, no, dominance is where it's at
domin when you just have a dominant team that Goliath. Oh,
it's so much more interesting when you know what's gonna
happen before you watch it. How is that exciting? The

(51:24):
NFL playoffs all day over Goliath, who's just towering over
everybody else's gonna smack them around. That's not fun. It's
not interesting. I don't think it was exciting in the
NBA when you knew basically when the season started in
November it was probably gonna be Golden State in Cleveland
come June. That's not exciting to me. Know what's exciting.
Is everybody who penciled in the Ravens and the Saints.

(51:49):
I'm sure there are a lot of people that had
that as their Super Bowl matchup and they both were
one and done. Get out of here, you adios muccaco.
You know some people have the Patriots too, and they're gone.
I don't know who had the Patriots think so, I
think that I think the handwriting was on the wall
with them. But to this point, Andy, there weren't a

(52:09):
lot of people that had them losing at home to
the Titans, and they did. So there's been a lot
of surprises in the playoffs thus far. That and I think,
I think and the Titans win yesterday basically kind of
puts another layer on the credibility factor because people can think, well,
they beat the Patriots. Patriots are old Breddy's finished. No,

(52:30):
this is a pretty good team. It gives him a
little more credibility now, Yeah, absolutely, it's a good point.
It's a little bit like, uh, you're gonna make fun
of me here because it's a notre dame. Would never
do that to you. Okay, well, thank you, Andy, that's nice.
It's kind hearted of you follow me on this one.
It's like Notre Dame. Last season in the College Football Playoff,

(52:51):
Clemson smacked them around and it was like, oh, this's
Notre Dame, tam they didn't belong there, they stake they're awful.
And then Clemson go and smacks around Alabama by even
more and it was like, oh, interesting how that worked out.
Maybe Clems is just freaking good over here. Right, So
it's like that with the Titans. You're right with them
smacking around well, beating the Patriots. There were many that

(53:14):
were like, oh, Patriots are garbage there, trash. Well, after
they the Titans backed around the Ravens, I think you
got to reevaluate that to some degree about them beating
the Patriots. Right, you're exactly right. And I'll tell you
what though, if anybody doesn't agree with us, and that's fine.
I could live with it and you could live with it.
But we have a forum here we could have a discussion.

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gotta ask you a favor. I gotta ask you a favor.
Did you see it? Send you some apple cinnamon neutral
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read this tweet from Justin Buchanan that we just got
because I'm gonna stick my hand down my throat or
stick up pencil joke. I like this joke, he says
Andy and Briant. I was gonna tweet the show today

(55:01):
with some truly compelling content, but I'm taking the day
off due to load management. I'm sick of that term.
I'm sick of the term as a joke. Over there,
all right, given a plus, were being creative, but the
point there's just that load management garbage is joining sports.
And may he rest in peace, David Stern. But believe me,

(55:24):
if he was commissioner, they wouldn't have load management in
the NBA. Now, it would never be a problem to
this extent. I know it started with the Spurs and
he was still around when that happened. But guess what
he find the Spurs more than they find the NFL
find the Patriots for the flight gate, right? I think
the Spurs were find half a mill and the Patriots

(55:45):
were fined by the league two hundred and fifty thousand.
Now Belichick got fined five hundred thousand. But think about that, Andy,
David Stern find the Spurs more for their load management
of their old dudes. Remember when Duncan and company. They
were Stay in San Antonio when they played the game
in Miami. The entire with starting five Stay in San Antonio.
I remember Stern find them more than the NFL find

(56:08):
the Patriots for the flate gate. So like, sure it
started with David Stern, but there's zero chance it would
have developed into the problem it is for the NBA
under his watch. No chance. I'm with you right there
by the way. You know, the second game today the
Seahawks twelve and five at the Green Bay Packers thirteen

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and three, and I'm sure there's snow. Then I say,
the game without you're supposed to be because outdoors cold snow.
I love that. But the pack is off the public
twelve bucks an hour to shovel the snow at Lambeau.
Question I have right now, forget the game for a second.
Would you bundle up with gloves and a show? Did they?
Did they provide the shovel? I would imagine they do.

(56:52):
I don't think it's like b y O s, you know,
like maybe they're I don't know, but I would imagine
that they provide it. But yeah, Andy, heck, yeah, we're
getting ready for the divisional round of the playoffs. If
I lived in that area, or I was gonna be
there for the weekend to you know, watch the game
or even cover the game as a media guy, I

(57:14):
would absolutely get out there and shovel some snow at Lambeau.
You kidding me. I don't think I'd be out there
for like five hours straight, but yeah, give me a shovel.
I'm good for an hour or two twelve bucks. A
twelve bucks that they don't give you a ticket for
the game, obviously they just took twelve bucks for an hour.
Would have shovel and then go home and say, thank
you very much? Is at it? They can't jack it

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up like eighteen bucks an hour? Why can't the team?
I don't get it. Tweld bucks And now that that's
peanuts for for a professional football teat to clear the stands. Um, well,
you got a lot of people. Think about that, and
do you think how many people to clear an entire stadium?
That's a lot. You know that can add up pretty quickly.
So twelve bucks an honest wage for shoveling some snow.

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I would absolutely sign up for that about it? Have
you ever been to Lambo? Because that's not my bucket list? Yeah,
my mom and I went there. It was a handful
of years ago. It was on my birthday actually, November
four And it's funny, Andy, because it turned out to
be um it was. It was supposed to be Jake Cutler.

(58:18):
It was a Bears Packers games. Supposed to be Jake
Cutler against Aaron Rodgers. Cutler was already out, so it
was Josh McCown and it was the game that Aaron
Rodgers got knocked out in. So it turned out to
be Josh McCown v. Seneca Wallace and we were there
for that one. But it was great, man, I absolutely
loved it. And then the next day we went back

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there and we toured the stadium and that's really cool too.
If you're a big time NFL fan, I highly suggest
you do the Lambo tour. They take you all throughout
the stadium. They have their little Hall of Fame. You
can go right there where the Lambo leap is, take
pictures all that stuff. It was really really cool, man.
But i'd bleaches seating. There's no basically chairback seats that yeah,

(59:01):
but I don't gosh, I can't remember in the NFL
game I went to that head well, I guess there
are a lot that have chairback seats. Not Yeah, it's
like old school bleachers. May it's just because I'm used
to it. With Notre Dame Stadium, it was just benches
over there in stadium. Yeah. Yeah, so some people bring
those chair back things to sit on, but basically it's
a bleacher thing, the entire thing. It's unbelievable really. So

(59:23):
today's six Eastern time on Fox. You'll see the snow
covered field. We think the Seahawks basically they had the
number four rushing attack in the league, but they lose basically, well,
the rushing guys. Chris Carson's out, he's gone. He's a
big lust, but I'm a thousand yard rusher. Against the
Eagles last week, Marshawn Lynch and Travis Homer their replacements
combined seventeen carries ninety one rushing guys. And again, I'll

(59:46):
go back to what I said early on. If you
can't run the football in the playoffs, you're going home.
I think you're taking it too far. Andy. We know
it's important to run the football, but to make it
sound like hey, unless you're running game is really on point,
you have no chance whatsoever. I don't think that's the case.
You know, some of these teams, they're running for a

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boatload of yardage. If you look at the Titans, Yeah,
Derrick Henry goes off. There hasn't been one running back
in NFL history that's rushed for at least a hundred
and seventy five yards in two separate games. Derrick Henry
is the only guy on that list and the history
of the NFL. So he's doing something that's completely unprecedented.

(01:00:30):
So I'm just saying this, Andy, we know it's important
to run the football, but I don't think we should
make it sound like unless you run it effectively. Look
at you look at the perfect example you mentioned it
the Seahawks. They did nothing on the ground last week,
completely and utterly shut down, and they ended up beating
the Eagles, And that's why they're playing today. Who was playing,

(01:00:50):
I mean, Carson Wentz was gone, he was out of
the game, Okay, but it still remains where you had
Travis Homer and Marshawn Lynch. They combined for nineteen yards
on twenty seven carries. They did nothing on the ground
last week, and yet they still won. But I still
think Seattle needs a little more of a balance on
their on their offensive side of the football to beat

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green Bay because green Bay hasn't with Rogers and Aaron Jones.
Aaron Jones has been tremendous this year. And I'm looking
at the Las Vegas odds on this game, Seattle is
getting four. And you know what, I might take that for.
I might take that for although the game is in
green Bay. But still in all I I just I
have a lot of confidence in Seattle, I really do.

(01:01:32):
And uh I think green Bay top to Bannam maybe
stronger and healthier for sure, and they got Aaron Rodgers.
But Seattle with four, that's not bad. Maybe it's to
me it's two goofy teams. If you look at the Packers,
they had a tough time closing out the Redskins at Lambeau.
They got completely blown out of the water on the

(01:01:55):
road against the Chargers. Remember that game. They could do
nothing in that game against the Chargers. So you have
that end of the spectrum for the Packers. But they
still they want thirteen games. We want a lot of games.
And the combination of Aaron Rodgers and Aaron Jones, like
you pointed out and sa Darius Smith looked like Reggie
White a couple of weeks ago against the Vikings on

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the road, three and a half sacks by himself. So
which Packers team shows up? And then also by the
same token, look at the Seahawks. They're goofy too. They
have a wide range of good play, which is an
eleven win team, almost won the division, came within a
whisker of beating the Niners. They beat the Niners on
the road. We know how talented they are, but yet

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they lost at home. The Seahawks did to the Arizona Cardinals,
you know, So it's this weird range. So both teams
are completely goofy. There's always a blemish on on a
team schedule and say you scratch your head, like how
did this happen? And you look at the Packers shure,
thirteen games, that's a hell of a year. It really is.
But they got blown out when they played at San Francisco.

(01:02:58):
That game was ugly, real ugly. But that wasn't indicative.
I don't think of the Green Bay Packers, but look
at those andy it's you always say the styles make
fights in boxing, Yeah, what's different about the Niners? They
can really get after the passer they can get after
the QB. The Seahawks don't. They don't. They're one of
the worst teams in terms of sack totals this season.

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So they're not the Niners in terms of what got
after Aaron Rodgers and what completely disrupted that offense. That's
not what the Seahawks do exactly about the way the
Seahawks I think only it's like sacks. While year long,
only one team recorded less sacks than them, your team,
the Dolphins. The Dolphins had less sacks than the Seattle Seahawks,

(01:03:44):
which is an amazing statistic for a team that's been
sowhat successful. Oh, they've had a very good year, the
Seahawks have, So it's a weird deal. Um, And they
got after the Eagles last week. They had what six
total sacks right around there. But that's a lot of well,

(01:04:05):
I don't know. I just it's good to be this
would be a good game because you just don't know
going in and each one each team could win. Like
I watched that Minnesota game yesterday. I didn't think Minnesota
had a chance. You know, Kirk Cousins is not gonna
come back two weeks in a row and I have
a great game, He's not going on the big stage.
And I just think that basically the fourting on is
worth fact man to man a better team than the

(01:04:26):
Minnesota Vikings. Right now, I can't figure out what's gonna
happen with Seattle and green Bay again. When I take
the four points, I think if I had to push
comes to shove, I would, But the game is in
green Bay, and I think that's a little bit of
an edge. I think the Packers may take him, and
remember Seattle plays at home in the dome. They may
not be accustomed to that weather out there. Maybe maybe
a big fact many they're out in the open. Well,

(01:04:47):
it's kind of a you know, there's no they gotta
have a roof to be a is there a roof
that they opened the roof all the time? I don't
know what. I'm kind of thinking about this too, because
I was there a year ago and it was early
in the season when they beat the Cowboys, and uh,
I'm just thinking I was sitting there, and I believe
it was in the in the Hawk's nest, right. I

(01:05:10):
think it was like a bleacher seat. So now I'm
thinking about the NFL stadiums I've been to. I'm curious
which ones have bleacher seating like Lambeau. At least I
was in it was a bleacher seat as far as
I remember. I think that the dog Pound must be
bleacher seating. In Cleveland, I think it is. I don't know, man,

(01:05:30):
I don't know. It might be sections. I thought they
were like the seatbacks. I thought they were. I think
about those Baker Mayfield commercials where they're sitting there some
of the stadium most of it, if not all, is seatback.
And those lunatics in Oakland where they where they go
dress up like like crazy people like uh, I don't
know that that may be seatbacks. I don't know. I
don't know. Maybe someone could tell us that I never

(01:05:54):
did a study on seatbacks as opposed to bleacher seating,
but he told us it was a blood moon. Maybe
he can tell us us as well. Yeah, yeah, Brian no,
Andy Ferman Fox Football Sunday. They're both at the top
of their games, and so is Brian Finley the latest
he's next. Well, thank you so much, Andy, And you
were talking about dog pounds as my being my father,

(01:06:15):
I feel like you adopted me from a dog pound.
The the Titans spook the a f C number one
see the raven twelve. On Saturday in the a f
C Divisional Round, Tennessee baited the Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson
into turning it over three times and Ravens said coach

(01:06:36):
John Harball after the game was asked if the team
sluggish play stemmed from the extra time between games, like,
It's unanswerable. I thought our guys practiced really hard and
did the best they could. But we didn't play a
shark football game for sure. What's attribute that too? I
guess you can theorize a lot of different times. The
Titans will play the winner of Sunday's matchup between the
Texans and the Chiefs, and according to NFL Network, you

(01:06:59):
will have a Will Fuller wide receiver for Houston playing
along with tight end Darren Fell's wide receiver Kenny Stills,
all dealing with injuries, they are all active for this game.
NFC Divisional Round from Saturday. The forty Niners defense strangles
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(01:07:20):
The Niners had six sacks, held the Vikes to one
forty seven yards of offense. San Francisco's defensive back Richard
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people keep disrespecting us. At the end of the day,
all you can do is just go out and execute.
Jimmy Garoppolo, the forty Niners quarterback, lauding his team's defensive

(01:07:40):
play that was here. Yeah, I didn't actually get to
see it made the play. It's a complimentary football that
I've said it before up here, but that one, I
mean coming off the special teams one with her team
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(01:09:05):
from our good friend Brian Finley, the John Harbaugh quote.
It's a good friend to mention that in public. Really
it's it's embarrassing, it really is, but it's okay, uh,
John Harbor. And it's very difficult for me to criticize
a sounder here because I don't know that the entire
context of what he was asked, but he didn't give

(01:09:25):
any credit whatsoever to Tennessee and that listen, that's okay,
that's okay. And in the same token, I remember what
happened yesterday and Roy Williams, the coach of North Carolina basketball,
after losing to Clemson and overtime, breaking a zero fifty
nine record Clemson and not beating them in fifty nine
straight games, Roy Williams comes to the podium and says
to the A D. Bubba Cunningham, he might as well

(01:09:47):
fire me because it was my fault. That was on me.
I love that. I love that, and I don't want
to see Roy Williams get fired. And I like Roy Williams,
but at least own it, own it, you know what, John,
You know, that's that's just my thing. I understand what
you're saying. We're going back to. Here's another example. Remember
when Ohio State lost to Clemson in the college football

(01:10:10):
semifinal and you and I were on the same page.
We're in the same fox hole over there on that
one Andy where you heard Ryan Day, you heard the
a d. Gene Smith, and it was oh, the calls
didn't go our way, and the calls, the calls, the calls.
There wasn't anything about, Hey, take your hat off to Clemson.
They came back from a sixteen nothing deficit, so it

(01:10:32):
made enough plays to win the game. At some point,
you gotta give your opponent credit. The thing with John Harbon,
I didn't hear his entire press conference. I'd be shocked
if he didn't give the titaness. That's why I prefaced
up by saying, look, it was just a one sound
bite and I don't know the entire context of it,
and he probably did most coaches do. Ryan Day was
sour grapes and I was ugly because Clemson was going.

(01:10:53):
I get it, you're upset. It's a spurred a moment,
the heat there. I get all that. But you gotta
have some sort of self control and be a better
person to take the high road. You gotta take the
high roads sometimes. I just think when it comes to
questioning officiating in particular and getting the hot tub time
machine just for a second here to make the point

(01:11:15):
is when you go back to that semifinal game when
Ohio State lost to Clemson and there was a clear fumble,
clear recovery by Ohio State and a clear touchdown and
the call was reversed, which was insane to me. But
if you're going to point that out, if you're the
head coach Ryan Day, if you're the A. D. Jean Smith, whoever,
you need to follow that up every time with. But

(01:11:38):
take your head off to Clemson. They did a lot
of things right to earn this victory. It wasn't just
the officiating. I think it's in particular when you're calling
out the officiating, it sounds like you aren't giving the
other team any credit whatsoever if you don't point them
out while you're crabbing about the officiating. You know, I'm
with you that we're in the same foxhole again and

(01:11:58):
you know want them. I don't like it. I don't
like you. You should like it because I got at
apple cinnamon, neutral grain bars and I'm not opposed to
sharing those things, you know, But with John Harball say
this real fast, Andy, is when John Harbaugh, I thought
that was an interesting bite played by your son Brian
Finley where he was like, hey, we basically rested our

(01:12:19):
main guns in week seventeen. Is it partially a reason
why we looked rusty after the bye week last week's
we have essentially we've been playing three weeks. Did it
attribute to us not being incredibly sharp? And he was like, maybe,
I don't know, but it's possible. I thought that was
an understandable answer. But you know what, I'll go back

(01:12:40):
to this statement and I'll say this, according to that
moronic logic, you know, then teams should not do well
in the NFL until the second throd of the fourth
week of the season because preseason and never played the
regular guys. Think about that, right, preseason, You've got four
games four weeks. They didn't have a play. Regulars play well,
maybe a quarter if it most in the fourth sason game.

(01:13:01):
They never play. There are some teams that don't hit
the ground running, they aren't executing very well. It's the
same concept when it comes to the Ravens. He just said, maybe, Look,
we've been firing on all cylinders all season long, and
then we come out against the Titans and we can't

(01:13:22):
get out of our own way for a large portion
of the game. So if somebody says maybe there's a
rust factor there, it's possible. Certainly it makes some sense
that it could have attributed to the Ravens performance last night.
But I think at the same time, you got to
take your hat off to the Titans. They played very
good defense, especially on fourth than one, getting two key stops.

(01:13:42):
But the rust factor, yeah, there could have been something
to it. Now, if you take that a step further, Andy,
do you want to play Lamar Jackson in week seventeen?
People are gonna be saying if he gets hurt, right,
what are you doing? It's a meaningless game. Look and
go one step further. The rush factor is a fact,
You're right. Iron Eagle mentioned it. It didn't dwell on it,

(01:14:06):
but I mentioned because you saw timing was off. You
saw a lot of drops, a lot of drops yesterday,
and then maybe that's timing. Maybe it's Tennessee pressure. Well,
maybe it's just timing. I just don't see these guys,
well you have fourth and one twice and don't convert that.
I also think this, Andy, I think that it's the Ravens.
They're not used to playing from behind like that, right,

(01:14:28):
So it's not just a rust factor is and it's
not Look, it's not to say that Lamar Jackson is
incapable leading his team back from a deficit. That's not
what I'm saying at all, but it's uncharted territory for
most of this season for the Ravens. I look at
Super Bowl forty two, remember that between the Patriots and
the Giants. The Giants played in close games, one after

(01:14:50):
another after another after another. That season. The Patriots didn't.
They had a couple of close games. Mostly they're blowing
teams out of the water. So when it came time
for another close game, the Giants were more comfortable, they
were more familiar with that type of game, and so
for the Ravens, they are unfamiliar playing from behind that way.
And I think it showed Bengal you're a thousand percent

(01:15:11):
crow and you know what, the one a team is
used to rolling over opponents and not playing from behind.
They get that tight butt and you could see it.
It was like there's pressure and you so Lamarch Jackson
and even I and Eagle were saying this. He was
trying to do too much, trying to do a little
bit too much. Yeah, I think so too. I think
that you start pressing. Look, you see this with teams

(01:15:34):
over the course of a season where they have high expectations,
the Browns, the Chargers, high expectations. They lose a few games,
they start pressing, pressing. It just gets worse and worse
and worse. And you saw that in a single game
last night with the Ravens, certainly, And you know what,
you have to excuse me because I'm not used to
that because I never see my home team play from

(01:15:55):
a head. They're always playing from behind in the Bengals,
so I wouldn't know what that's all about. The leave me,
So I'm glad you would enlighten me with that. I
want to thank Joe Strecker on Twitter. Joe said that
John harborck congratulated Tennessee in the very first minute of
the press conference. I'm sure you would. I would. I
guess I would be shocked if he didn't give any credit.
Thank you, thank you, and I appreciate that big us

(01:16:16):
look again, and I preface that by saying I would
think he would have. And that's why it's almost not
fair because we chop up these sound bites and we
just take what we want and we use them, and
that's okay, but you know, sometimes you gotta look at
the big picture. And he did that. Look by the way,
bread Bulk bread Bulk on Twitter, the dog Pound is
bleaches seating, but the rest of First Energy Stadium is

(01:16:38):
set back. And that's why because they're afraid those people
in the dog Pound will probably take the seats home
with them. No, No, there's good, hard working people over
their passionate a little crazy. They're eating dog biscuits over there.
But yeah, okay, great, good to know I knew it
was seat back for most of the stadium. Good to
know that the dog Pound is uh as believed by

(01:16:59):
Brett to be just. And I want to give kudos
once again to our guy ven A. Listen to this.
He's telling me he can't find the list of which
teams have bleaches seating. God bless him even trying. God
bless him who tried to find a freaking list of
teams that have bleaches seating. But I gotta go back
to what you said about eating the dog biscuits and
the dog Pound. Have you tried that, Bigos. The neutral

(01:17:21):
grain bars that you have to me were in the
same league. They're in the same family. Oh wait a bit, wait,
you're selling them short Andy. Those neutral grain bars are amazing.
But no, I have not tried a dog biscuit. That's
one of the stadiums I have yet to go to.
I've been to twenty five different NFL stadiums. I still
have seven to go to obviously, um and the dog Pound.

(01:17:42):
Going to a Cleveland game is one of those stadiums.
If I go there, I a guy next to me
has some dog biscuits. Heck yet, Okay, quick question, the seven,
the seven. You haven't been to Cleveland. You haven't been
to I'm sure you haven't been to Cincinnati. I've been there.
Actually got sick at the Cincinnati game. Yeah, I'll tell
you that story at the top of the next hour.
And a lot of people get sick and since then
any game, so you're not alone. That's I got a

(01:18:04):
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We're all doing great. There's pleasant trees being exchanged, and

(01:19:13):
now we got bad news. Well would you rather have
the bad news and then the pleasant trees? So we
got the bad news out here. Andy wins last week.
Now wait time out for a second. Rather than say, Brian,
why can't you come out and say Andy, I got
good news for you. Why can't you keep it up? Beef? No,
it's always Brian this because this destroys the normal order

(01:19:35):
of things. It's been three months since you had a
win in Bottom. It's been a while, it's been all right,
and he went three into Brian one and four. Got
a couple of minutes here. We'll get right to this
week's picks. Deshaun Watson. He's going up against the Chiefs
over under of two hundred and ninety five and a
half yards. What do you think? What is that includes

(01:19:55):
passing and rush passing yards? I'm sorry passing hands? Okay,
beat specific here on the chap. I want to correct.
I actually under. That's a tough line. I'm going over.
I think the Shawn special today. Will Folder's back give
me the over all? Right? Speaking of Texans wide receivers,
Kenny Stills over under a number of catches three and
a half. What do you guys think I'm going over?

(01:20:20):
I'm going onto. I think he's not gonna play the
whole game. I think he's gonna get hurt. All right,
we move on to the other side of the ball.
The Chiefs running back Lashawn McCoy over under a thirty
five and a half rushing yards totally against the Texans.
That's a tough one. I go under. He's been in
the doghouse, you know, I don't know how many carries

(01:20:41):
he's gonna get. I'm taking the under, really alright? Moving on?
How many sacks are how many times are the Packers
going to get to Russell Wilson? How many sacks setting
over under a two and a half two and a half. Um, yeah,
I'm gonna take the over. Their old line is very iffy.

(01:21:04):
You know, we don't know about Dwayne Brown, George Fan.
You might have Chad Wheeler in there. I'm gonna take
the over. There you go, there, you go. All right,
we're gonna bring back one from last week. Marshawn Lynch
rushing yards against the Packers over under of twenty eight
and a half. That's a good one. He's got to
be going over that today. Give me the over. I

(01:21:24):
take the under. I'm taking the under, all right? Can
we got a bonus one? We're six this week? DK
Metcalf total receiving yards over under sixty five and a
half overall day. You're kidding me. D K was a
monster last week. It doesn't stop this week, and I
go under. I'm going under. You're gonna be wrong about

(01:21:45):
that one. We'll see, we'll see you lost last week.
There we go, by the way, that was a great coach,
great one. There you go. How fund can they go?
Brian Nolan, Andy from and have the answer where Fox
Football Sunday coming up right here next door listening No
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(01:22:05):
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(01:22:46):
only Brian. Oh, hello, b what's going on? Andy? Happy?
Divisional round of the playoffs here on a Sunday as
we get set for another double header and tracing back
to what Chris was playing right there are with the Dogs.
It it plants this question in my mind. Will the
dogs be barking today? Baby? Huh? What do you think

(01:23:09):
Texans today, little Seahawks today? Will the dogs be barking?
Andy Ferman, what do you say about that? Well? They
may very well, babe, But you know right now, if
you have to ask me, I'm taking Green Bay and
I'm taking Kansas City. You're taking both favorites to cover. Yes,
I am ok. We'll see when you have it knows
pics at the at the end of the hour, the
end of the show in this hour. But you promised

(01:23:31):
me a story that you are seven seventh stadius shy
of me seeing thirty two in the NFL and you
got sick and Cincinnati. I'd like to hear that story,
and also the other stadium that you have not visited yet. Okay,
all right, well, um, yes, I've been to twenty five
of the thirty two NFL stadiums. And this goes back.

(01:23:52):
I'll keep it short, but it goes back. I think
it was still the nineties, maybe two thousands something around there,
but I was still in college. I was at All
State University, and so my mom and I we were
gonna go to a Bengals game because Cincinnati isn't that
far away from Muncie, Indiana, And so I woke up
that morning we were gonna go to the game, and

(01:24:12):
I was just really sick, Andy. I mean, I'm tossing cookies.
It's just not good, not food poisoning. And my mom
was like, you want to give it a go, you
want to go to the game. I was like, let's
try it, so we go there. I'm just miserable. We
go to the game. Doug Flutie was still the quarterback
of the Bills. It was Bills at the Bengals, and

(01:24:33):
I must have just looked like death because at halftime,
my mom was like, you want to go? You know me, Andy,
I'm an NFL junkie, and I was like, yeah, let's
get out of here. I felt horrible, and as I
was walking down the stairs, I got sick and I
grabbed a cup and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, people eating

(01:24:53):
breakfast are going to church. Sorry to be graphic here,
but I got to tell it so you understand what's
going on here. The funny part was it look like
a father and his young son, and the father is
just shielding his son away from me. Like, get away
from this drunk wine over here. I was just sick.
I had food boysoning for about twenty four hours. Wow,

(01:25:14):
that was that? That was that Paul Brown Stadium? Was
that Riverfront I don't recall. Now, I don't. I don't
even know. Back then, I'm not sure, but I've been
to both. I went to a a Dolphins Bengals game
not that long ago. It was I believe a Thursday
night game within the last couple of years. So I've
been back. But back then, I'm not sure what it

(01:25:34):
was way back when. Now I need to find out
the list of seventh stadium that you have not visited yet. Yeah, okay,
well let's see there. Yes, I would say that MetLife
in New York. No, I've been to both. I've seen
Jets and Giants there. H Gillette, I've been there. Yeah,
I've been to to a Patriots game. It's I haven't

(01:25:56):
been to a Ravens game. No Browns um Philly. Haven't
been to an Eagles game. That's three, yeah, three. I
don't know if I'm gonna come up with the rest.
I have a list of it, but I went there.
I went to a San Diego game when they were
still there. I've even been to a l A Chargers
game with that weird you know, phill In Stadium. Seattle,

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You've been to Yeah, Ben in Seattle. Here it is,
here's the list. Here you go Andy, Tennessee. I haven't
been to Denver, never been at Denver. I haven't been
to Jacksonville or Tampa and Houston. Those are the seven. Wow. Yeah,
so I got some to do. It's impressive, you know.
I I really envy those people who really go on

(01:26:42):
trips to visit stadiums around the country. I have a
buddy who lives in Florida, and I hadn't seen him
in years. I really mus got a summit camp together.
That's how far back we go. And he called me
last year. He's gonna be in Cincinnati and July having
a bus tour and he's going from Wrigley Field and
he's gonna end up in Cincinnati for a Redge game.
Would you like to meet? Yeah, I'd love to, but

(01:27:03):
I you know, and I applaud him for doing that
because he's a tremendous baseball fan. He goes to various
places all over every summer, takes a tour like that
and a lot of people on that bus, because I
went on the bus to meet him in front of
the ballpark and it was full. I mean, people live
to do that. God bless him. I mean it's something
that people like to do. I just don't know the
thrill of it. But there's a lot of people that

(01:27:25):
are into it, and there's a lot of people make
good money doing these tours as well. It's fun to
go see a game at a different stadium. Man, get
out there. You don't have to have season tickets every
single year. People always complain about the price of games,
but if you just go to a different stadium and
maybe that's the only time you've gone, I don't think

(01:27:45):
you whine about the cost as much when you get
a new experience, something that you haven't seen before. I
encourage people to get out there and do that. But
I've got a theory for you here, and based on
what we saw last night in the the Ravens game.
After the game, Taj Sharp, he's a wide receiver for
the Titans. He was introducing Derrick Henry. I'm sure you

(01:28:07):
caught this, and he was I don't know, like making
making light of what mark Ingram did earlier. In the
year the Ravens running back, mark Ingram introduced Lamar Jackson
as the m v P front runner, and this is
what TJ. Sharp did. He was basically alluding to what
mark Ingram had said earlier in the season. But we

(01:28:30):
get started, do you want to introduce y'all got the
NFL Russian leader? If anybody got a palm with that,
you come see me. We bout that big trust who
King Henry in the flesh, whoa, whoa. So they're like,
it's just we're just kidding around here. We're not, you

(01:28:51):
know what, it's kidding around. It's a joke. But that's
the stuff that maybe I'm alone them is It really
rubs me the wrong way. You don't like that? That
turns me off on splay a game sportsmanship? Yeah it is.
It really is play the game, and that's why I
like to see them get their teeth knocked in in
the next game they play. Really, I understand where you're coming.
Don't think I'm alone. I really don't think I'm alone

(01:29:12):
on this, And really I would really appreciate a phone
call or Twitter handled kind of a comment to see
if I am alone. I don't think I am play
the game, be a pro walk away, have your head
up high because you don't know what's gonna happen next week.
You may lose, you may get hurt. Something can happen.
I understand where you're coming from on that, Andy, it's
maybe the audio version of Baker Mayfield planning the flag

(01:29:35):
at midfield, right. Remember that it gets to the Ohio
state where, yeah, when you start to do some of
this stuff, celebrating after word, yeah, I understand where you're
coming from. It is definitely a get off my lawn
take no, wait a minute, vn A saying get up, no,
wait a minute, come back to me. I want to
ask vn A here are you there? Vn are I love?

(01:29:57):
I thought to get off my and takers that directed
to me like, yeah, I'm an old farm right now,
these I don't think you guys are having a good
time and they're there. It's called it's a callback. We
do them all the time in radio. They're just doing
a call back to something that they thought was probably
fun for them and they were like, oh, yeah, we're

(01:30:18):
gonna do this too. You know, if they had done
it in a loss, then that's where I would have
a problem. With it because you know, you just around.
I think they're just having a good time, having a
good time at the good times happen all the time.
I've seen good times and good and celebrations in locker
rooms after games all the time. I love it. That's great.

(01:30:39):
I love when the cameras in the locker room after
the game but have a good time by making fun
of the team you beat. That to me is bad.
I understand where you're coming from. Andy, I get it.
I totally appreciate, and I'll tell you something else and
to kind of comprehend and go one step above. When
you talked about various stadiums to visit, it's a great thing.

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People tell me all the time of the stadium experience.
You know what, Take the stadium experience and shove it, okay,
because to me, yeah, let me give me two seconds,
let me this take of yours. That's what I'm saying. Okay,
I'll tell you why. Number One, the stadium experience, I
can't see the postgame locker room and the stadium I
see it on TV. Number two, report the game you

(01:31:20):
can see I'm not gonna see it again. And the
stadium experiences getting stuck in traffic an hour and a
half before the game and going, you know what the
story out of it? You never say I was there,
like Chris Berman. When you're watching the game on your couch,
who can you never say, oh yeah for this, uh
this big upset by the Titans against the Ravens. I

(01:31:40):
was there on my couch right here. No, you have
no story when you're watching it at home. Do you
get the game? You get a story every time you
go to the game. You you could tell your neighbors
and friends, I was there. Here's my ticket stuff. Look,
who cares if you were there. I don't tell everybody
I was at disc Gamer that gaber. But every now
and then it will come up and it's some sense

(01:32:01):
of I don't know what it is, like prime or something.
It's just cool, like say the Bush Push game, were
USC beat Notre Dame. I was there. I can't to
say that if I was at home on my couch.
You know, it's cool. I think that's like people go
on Facebook. That's people who go on Facebook and say, hey,
I'm a Starbucks. Now, who cares? I don't care more,

(01:32:25):
Get off my lawn, guy here you take it? You know,
on the plot and you handed it to yourself. You
ran the third and fourth legs of the four by one. Here,
you know what you give me my couch. I don't
want to go to a bathroom at a ballpark and
see a guy youurinating in a sink. Okay, that's not
the stadium. Like the experiences I I remember going to

(01:32:47):
a game. I got a point to make. I gotta
shove your get off my longdeness to the side. I
got a point to make here. The reason I bring
up this Taj Sharp introduction with his teammate Derrick Henry,
who was a stud last night, is because I think
it shows something. Some teams aren't good enough to be
marked teams. If you look at the Ravens, they were

(01:33:10):
a marked team. They had the best record in the
NFL fourteen and two m v P soon to be
in Lamar Jackson. They were a marked team, and last
night showed that they weren't good enough to be a
marked team. If you look at the Vikings, and this
is gonna sound crazy, but Richard Sherman when he picked
off Kirk Cousins, he was saying, I like that. I

(01:33:33):
like that, which was a call back again to what
happened last week after the Vikings beat the Saints. They
were celebrating in the locker room and Kirk Cousins said,
I got three words for you. You You like that. The
Vikings were a marked team also, And so I'm not
sitting here saying you can't have fun. You can't be
like mark Ingram and introduce your teammate Lamar Jackson or
anything like that. You can have fun, that's great, But

(01:33:56):
some teams aren't good enough to be marked teams. At
the Super Bowl Shuffle Bears they called their shot. They
were a marked team. They were good enough to back
it up. The Ravens and the Vikings not good enough
to back it up. Look, I've never seen the Patriots
do stuff like that. That's all I'm saying, all right,
even if they're playing a marked team or not a

(01:34:16):
marked team, I just say, look, have a great time.
I love it. I've seen guys in the locker room
on TV after the game, and I love it. But
not as someone else's expense. That to me is just
a cheap shot. That's what it is. Talking about the
Titans and the call back with the Ravens. But to
your point about the Patriots, Andy it's true, and not
everybody has to do it exactly like the Patriots. That's

(01:34:37):
that's not what we're saying. But the Patriots, they would
never get excited the same way some of these other
teams do. And I think that's a compliment to them.
There's no way, like ten weeks in the season or
whatever it is, someone's introducing Tom Brady as the m
v P front runner and all that type of stuff.

(01:34:57):
It's like, that's such small potato. That's all I say.
The Patriots can't have fun and have a good time. Goodness,
they had Gronk there for for over a decade. He
had a really good time, trust me. But they would
never get that giddy over a couple of regular season
wins or like Kirk Cousins last week. They're not getting
as giddy about a wild card weekend win. I don't

(01:35:20):
think the forty nine has got that giddy. And I'll
tell you what they got a guy in the forty
nine is he was like Gronk light and George Kittle.
I like him. He's got a personality. Yes, So so
there are certain teams that I think they take the
they take the personality of that coach. I Look, I'm
not saying don't celebrate. I believe when Vane says good
if you lant, I'm not that kind of guy. Believe me.

(01:35:41):
I could be as wild as crazy as anybody else.
All I want to do is just throw it out
there and now. And I'm not really begging, but I'd
like to throw it out there as there's somewhat of
a beg to call or tweet us to see if
I'm wrong on this. Really, I just want to say that,
and the stadium experienced situation too. I want to hear
about that. You want to up funny because I'm looking.
I just looked it up. I looked up get off

(01:36:05):
my lawn and there is a picture and it looks
exactly like you. It's a striking Okay, I'm gonna leave
aout the Twitter handle. We'll see at Andy Ferman f
s R. At Brian no at the No Show, at
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Brian Nolan knows picks at the end of this hour,

(01:36:27):
So stay with us. But they called this the Patriot Way.
That's next. Don't listening Fox Sports, who are these guys. Anyway,
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(01:36:47):
from the guy called Fox Sports Radio Studios and getting
back to the conversation we were having about the basic
I guess stadium experience and more than that, they will
be going with this like after football all season. Let's
circle back to this in February. Goodness, listen to you.
And also i'd like for you to read that tweet
from Chris bounton No, I'm not reading anything. I'm saying

(01:37:10):
you're acting like a grouch. Now get off my lawn. Brian, No,
lighten up, getting the give the candy bar at something
you you read away firm and you read it. I'm not.
Chris Bounting on Twitter says, I'm with Andy on this
being a professional take to w like you've been there before.
That's all I'm saying. And you were with me and

(01:37:31):
that you were to some extent. I understand what you're saying.
I get it. Um. I think they're just having a
little bit of fun. But to your point, they're having
fun at the Ravens expense where Taj Sharp, the Titans
wide receiver, he introduces Derrick Henry just like Mark Ingram
introduced Lamar Jackson earlier in the season. I don't think
it was that big of a deal. But listen, I

(01:37:51):
don't think the raven saw that and we're like, it's hilarious,
well done, well played. I don't think they got a
chuckle out of that one. I'm with you now. Austin
and Cincinnati says going to games these days. Going to
games these days really sucks the in game the in
home disea says, the in home experience is way too good.

(01:38:11):
I'd rather be protesting in Iran than watch a Bengals
game of Paul Brown Stadium. Complete. Well, I mean it's
his opinion. I'm not gonna argue. Yeah, what about do
you want to read Bobby Tyler's tweet? No, I'm against it.
I told you before, I'm not reading anything. You read
them throw with you. Look, they're coming in hot and
heavy enough. Bobby Tyler says, right about both topics. Don't

(01:38:33):
mock the team you just beat, and only leaves room
for you to look like a bigger ask if you
lose the following week. I agree. Also, I see more
stuff and ultra h D watching these games in the
comfort of my home, no drunks and no waiting to pee.
How do you like that? You know what? That's what
it's all about. Not the money factor is a factor
by itself, the tickets and whatever and the parking, but

(01:38:56):
the in game experience. I I get what you're saying. Fine,
here's the thing, though, Andy, are there drawbacks going to
a game? Sure? Is it nothing but drawbacks? No, not
at all. And that's what drives me crazy when these
dorks make it sound like it's only but negatives. Well,
I will say this. I'm not gonna make a list
of the negatives and positive but certainly you know you

(01:39:18):
get your car smashed in in the parking lot to
part negatives from you eight dollars. Well, look, I'm not
a negative guy. I'll give you facts. These are facts
where one positive I'm waiting for one. Still special negatives
and you're gone through a litany of negatives with no positives.

(01:39:39):
Here's the positive. If you have a kid going with
your son, great bonding. It's great bonding. There's one okay,
bake on Twitter the things on which we spend money,
the things which we find funny. These are things that
indicate our values. The disagreement is one of the what's valuable,
and we judge others based on that difference. I have
no idea that is right there. He's gonna be an educator. Really,

(01:40:04):
he's you know, he's he's a PhD. That's what I'm saying.
I played pool with Bake in the Portland area. He's
a good you know, you know Bay, Yeah, I know, Bag.
I take it back. I thought he was a schmuck,
but no, no, he's not at all. He's good. Okay,
he's a good guy. I want to talk about maybe
the little bit the Patriot way if I can. Because
Patriots coach Bill Belichick he refused refused to allow his

(01:40:24):
offensive coordinator Judge McDaniels to move up as scheduled interviews
with teams interested in him as a head coach starting
of the week. He also puts for Joe Judge for
the Giants coaching vacancy. Belichick. This is this is how
smart he is. He knew the Giants couldn't hire both
Judge McDaniels, so he pushed Judge out of there. Basically

(01:40:44):
knew Judge was. He didn't do anything anyway. He wasn't
a coordinator, he wasn't assistant coach. He got rid of Judge.
Who the hell is this guy? Judge? This guy's gonna
coach in the in the country's largest media market, and
no one knows who he is. It's a joke. It's
embarrassing the giants this guy. Hey, listen, there's a couple
of things. Andy, there's a few layers. I think what's
a joke is that Eric B. Enemy is still looking

(01:41:08):
for a gig. He's had all the success as an
offensive coordinator with the Chiefs and all this stuff, and
he's his name has been circulated. He's been rumored to
get an NFL head coaching job, and the other good Yeah,
and Joe Judge, who hasn't even been a coordinator, who
is a special teams guy, was also wide receiver's coach.

(01:41:29):
He gets the gig. And it's been well publicized about
the Rooney rule and the lack of black head coaches.
We've got three of them in the NFL. That's it. Three,
and a guy like Eric B. Enemy gets passed over. Meanwhile,
a wide receiver slash special teams coach who has never
been a coordinator, and Joe over because the enemy who's

(01:41:49):
never been a coach. I'll tell you let's got passed over?
Who was a coach? Leslie Frasier. Leslie Frasier should be
a head coach. Look, I just won't know what happened
to the Rooney rule and an elite that's six African
American How could there be only three head African American coaches.
It doesn't make any sense. Well, it doesn't make any
sense the Rooney rule. It's doing what it's designed to do.

(01:42:10):
A minority core candidate has to be interviewed for a vacancy,
but it's with the hope that some of these interviews
turned into well jobs, right, you actually getting the head
coaching jobs. So it's designed to open the door for that,
but it hasn't been designed to certainly do that, you
know what I mean. So it is doing what it's

(01:42:32):
designed to do, just not to its fullest extent. But
I also say this, Andy is when you look at
Joe Judge, I think he has something very much in
common with now his quarterback and Daniel Jones. Remember when
he was taking sixth overall and people freaked like, who
is this guy? What are they doing? Why? Because he
was off the radar, it doesn't mean that he's destined

(01:42:52):
to fail. It doesn't mean Daniel Jones is destined to fail,
doesn't mean that Joe Judge is destined to fail. But
it's certainly a gamble, ab So Lulie, it's a gamble,
major gamble, Right, I'd rather go with a guy who's
had its been. Look, we don't know why Eric bi
enemy and I remember Eric b Any when he played
for the sit Standy Bengo. He's a good guy. I
think he finished third in the Heisman voting when he
played football at Colorado. The hell of a player. Good

(01:43:15):
coach has learned a lot on the Andy Reid in
Kansas City. But we don't know why he hasn't gotten
a job, not that he doesn't deserve it. Maybe he
Read doesn't want to let him go. Maybe Read's gonna
elevate into associate head coach. I don't know, but I
gotta believe everybody in the heart of hearts wants to
be a head coach one day. Yeah, I don't think
it's anything like that. And also, look at all of

(01:43:36):
the Andy Reid disciples that have gone on and had
success as head coaches. Doug Peterson just won a Super
Bowl a couple of years ago head coach of the Eagles,
so it's another reason to give him a gig. And
he keeps getting passed over, passed over. I just look.
I read Jay Glazer. He had a it was like
a mail bag on the Athletic and he made a

(01:43:58):
great point. I'll give him credit for the this one.
He talked about Joe Judge and he was saying that
he thinks that special teams coordinators they should get head
coaching jobs or looks at head coaching jobs allah John Harbaugh,
because what they're doing, they're taking the like the bottom
third of the roster and making it work. You're not

(01:44:20):
throwing starters out there on the kickoff team and the
return unit. It's a lot of these guys that maybe
it's the fourth fifth receiver, it's the sixth dB, and
you gotta make it work. So if you're able to
get value while working with that, well, you should be
able to get value when you're working with much better
talent as a head coach. It makes sense to me.

(01:44:42):
It makes a lot of sense. I'll tell you why
you talked about the and d read coaching tree. Let's
go to the other extreme, look at the Bill Belichick
coaching tree. That what has happened there? No one, There
hasn't been any success story on the Bill Belichick coaching tree.
Think about that. Well, Nick Saban's done pretty good. I
think you could mention him that a little bit. Okay,
NFL guys have not had much to write home about that,

(01:45:05):
none of them Romeo. I mean, really, what has he
done as a head coach? Brian Brian go to the
Detroit Lions. What have they done? Right? I mean Josh
McDaniels with Denver. So yeah, there's a lot left to
be desired with the Belichick protegees. And I'm sure that
this guy Judge, who was with any other team in

(01:45:28):
the same position wouldn't get a sniff. He wouldn't get
a sniff. But Belichick pushed him out the door. I
gotta believe he did. I don't know about that, he
shoved him out there. I just want to know what
happened to go a head coaching job with the New
York Giants. What's crazy is Mike Leach just took over
at Missssissippi State. Joe Judge was a leading candidate for

(01:45:49):
Mississippi State and he gets up as the head coach
of the Giants. That's amazing. I'm shocked, and you know,
not only getting a head coaching job, but in that
market had a head coach. Be a head coach in Tennessee,
where you're not on Broadway, it's off Broadway, it's not
as big. He's gonna be scrutinized by the media for
everything he does, from brushing his teeth to take in
the shower to practice this, to the car he tries.

(01:46:11):
But I agree with you on that one. If you
compare it to John Harbaugh, who obviously was a special
teams coach, getting that head coaching job with the Ravens
the New York media market, that's not a job that
you can ease into the success like slowly, alright, we're
six and cent, alright, we're seven and nine, we're getting better.
It's a whole thing if you're not having success right away.

(01:46:36):
So it is a different deal. It's a whole different
animal over there. Well, look, I'll give an example. We
have a first year coach and he got the job
here because of what he did in l A Zach
Taylor and Cincinnati, and he was it was terrible. It
was a bad year. You know, can't you don't Cincinnati, No, No,
But the point there's that Cincinnati basically is flyover his
own It really is, and no one cares if he
had that same situation in New York. Can't have the

(01:46:58):
package banks in the middle of night and leave the
good point. I will allow it as long as you
trace it back to non Cincinnati type things. It's right.
I'm just saying he happens to coach here, which is
not a good large media market. You get so defensive
when I just jokingly rail against that, says, get off
my lawn. I'm gonna get off my lawn. Guy, you are,

(01:47:19):
that's what you've been this getting a T shirt, you
gotta your car is gonna get smashed. You can't go
to the toilet when you got to and get it.
Just stakes horrible experience. One call and who cares about that?
It's all negative? Yeah, one phone call to agree with me. Please,
I'll pay you for the call. I'll pay for pre
view in the divisional round of the playoffs and the

(01:47:41):
stadium pots. We talked about that in February Brian no
Andy Ferman Fox Football Sunday. Yes, today is Sunday. How
do you like that? If you had to choose, which
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Brian Finley, my guy, my son for the latest is
going on Dad a f C in their number one.

(01:48:02):
See the Baltimore Ravens keeling over in a twelve loss
to the Titans and Saturday's Divisional round Baltimore Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson throwing two picks, fumbling once and after the game,
Tennessee defensive back Logan Ryan described the game plan on
stopping Jackson. He said, quote, we wanted to give him
loaded boxes all night to get him out of the

(01:48:24):
run game. We were playing with a loaded box and
man to man, you play Madden and running Gaye eight
all day, it's hard to run the ball. We pretty
much did that. We gotta lead and once we got
to lead, they had to go to the passing game.
And that is our strength with our dbs that we have.
The Ravens head coach John Harbaugh trying to soften the

(01:48:45):
pain of this loss. This game is going to be
the one that will remember because it's the last one,
I told him. And then there's only one team that
gets to be the one true champion, uh and that's
not gonna be us this year. So that's where we're at.
The Titans will play the winner of to day's game
between the Chiefs and Texans, and according to NFL Network,
Houston's wide receivers and Will Fuller and Kenny Stills, along

(01:49:07):
with tight end Darren Fells, all dealing with injuries, are
all going to be active for this game. Going back
to Saturday, in the NFC Divisional Round, the forty Niners
blanket the Vikings seven to ten. San Francisco's defense and
that pass rush demoralize Minnesota. They force six sacks do
San France defense, allowing only seven first downs. Niners defensive

(01:49:32):
back Richard Sherman had an interception. After the game, he
took another opportunity like he always does, to call out
his critics, and Sherman said, quote he is tired of
hearing excuses of why he's great in the playoffs, he says,
in big games, he just shows up. The Niners will
host either the Seahawks or the Packers, and those two

(01:49:52):
will get it on later today and one score. In
the NBA. The Lakers, playing with that Lebron James and
Anthony Davis win an eighth straight game as they devour
the Thunder one one ten. As we sent it back
to my daddy, Andy Furman and my godfather, Brian No.
Brian Fenley, you sound different than normal? How so? I

(01:50:15):
don't know. I don't know. Does it sound different to you?
He's your son. Andy. Doesn't sound a little different this morning,
Like I'm just different, like I'm plugged up. You sound
a little subdued this morning, a little subdued. Really, he's fine,
He's fine, he's doing well. He really is. All right.
You make the choice that's coming right up. He's Brian No.
I mean, by the way, welcome back everybody to the

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I have something on my mind here, which is kind

(01:50:59):
of like crazy because there's not that much on there
in my mind. But here's the deal L s U Clems.
We haven't touched on this. Tomorrow the College football Playoff
L s U Clemson tomorrow in New Orleans. The best
move in this game that's happened since the game was
put on paper is the fact that the president of
ls you said no classes tomorrow on Tuesday at l

(01:51:20):
s U. Because there was a little pushback on that initially,
and then all of a sudden, I guess the pressure
built to such an extent that he had a call
off classes Monday and Tuesday, which is a great move.
It really is. Because the game is in New Orleans,
which is right down the road from Baton Rouge. Enormous game, obviously,
this is all the freaking marbles over here. And I

(01:51:40):
can't wait to see how Clemson stacks up because they
had a UCF like schedule this season. They played nobody
throughout most of the season, and then they beat Ohio
State and now they're in the championship game against l
s U. And I just wonder if their defense can
hold up. And I don't expect them to shut down
Joe Burrow and company, but just hold up enough because

(01:52:03):
they lost three defensive linemen in the first seventeen NFL
picks in last year's draft. They lost a Trayvon Mullen
who was the second rounder. Austin Bryant was a fourth
round rounder. They lost all of this talent, and you're
trying to go up against Joe Burrow in that powerful offense.
I just don't know if they're gonna be able to
hold them in check enough where Trevor Lawrence in that

(01:52:26):
offense can outscore LSU. You know, it's funny you look
at the they talk about Alabama, Alabama on the sidelines
and Nick Saban. However, quietly, if that little Sweeney wins,
if Clemson wins, who left coach now by third national
championship team in four years, that's that's tremendous. So don't
look now. But uh, he's got someone of a mini

(01:52:46):
dynasty coming up, Derrick Clemson. I think they lose, Andy,
I hear you. If he wins three out of four,
you're you're cooking big time. But I think they lose.
You got them losing, Yeah, I do. I I got
l s U putting up a lot of points, maybe
close to half a century up there, maybe close to fifty.
I really do, because I think, yeah, it could be

(01:53:07):
the high scoring game. I say L s UVE something
like that. Total is sixty nine and a half, which
is a high total for a typical college football game,
especially a national championship game. But man, the betting public,
this is what makes me nervous. Andy, the betting public
is just absolutely hammering L s U. They're going to

(01:53:30):
the window, give me L s U, give me L
s U all my money on L s U. We
haven't seen more one sided action on an event since
the Super Bowl when Seattle beat Denver. Remember that when
Seattle crushed Denver eight, everybody was betting on Denver. Everybody's
lining up, give me Peyton Manning all this offense. Unbelievable. Yeah,

(01:53:51):
they lost forty three to eight. So that makes me.
It worries me a little bit when everybody seems to
be on ls I think they're betting a lot with
their heart, not with their head when they're betting on LSU,
because they're they're like the fairy tale, the Cinderella story
of how is it not some head? Though? Goodness, look
at their offense, look at what they've done this year,
look at the look at who they've beaten. I'm with you,

(01:54:13):
on that. But here's a question I have just just
for a few minutes. It's an interesting question, and I
think we need to touch on it. If in fact
the NFL Playoffs or even the super Bowl was played
the same time on the same day as l s
U Clemson, what do you watch which sport has more passion? Uh?
Because to me, the NFL regular season is just a

(01:54:33):
resume for the playoffs. College one loss, you finish, Gonzo goodbye,
there's more emotion, It means more. And it's a very
difficult question if in fact they were going head to head.
It's the super Bowl, by miles, you think, look at
the ratings, Andy, look at how many people watch the

(01:54:53):
at that time. What's going on Monday night? What else
they are you gonna watch the Bucks instead? Were just
saying the only comparison you could have is the ratings
between the super Bowl and the game tomorrow night, which
in a sense will not be that fair because it's
ESPN against put the National Championship game on ABC. It

(01:55:15):
gets smoked by the NFL. And the biggest reason why
is familiarity. You know these players diehard college football fan.
How many players can you mention right now from Clemson
and l s U. Everybody you might be able to
the average fan might be able to get to six
seven players maybe maybe right. And those are the teams

(01:55:38):
in the National Championship. The teams in the Super Bowl,
you can mention a lot more players. And even if
you don't, it's this phenomenon where the non football fan
they go out of their way to watch it. It's
an event. It's the commercials, it's all the build up,
you have your party. It's just part of Americana. It's
not even my logic. And I'll tell you why. I

(01:56:01):
say that. The the familiarity of the players on the
NFL level simply because of fantasy football. And you've got people,
maybe in the states of Montana, Wyoming that are just
big NFL fans still that the course of fantasy football,
and they don't have a team anywhere near them. Now.
When I lived in New York City grow up as
a kid, never followed college football. Why there's no college

(01:56:24):
football in New York City? There really isn't. You got
West Point, which is on the outskirts of New York City,
and upstate New York got Syracuse. That's basically it. It's
a pro town. That's all I root for is pro teams.
So you're right. I mean, as big as the College
Football Championship is, it's still pales compared to NFL divisional
games and the super Bowl. They're not even drawing half

(01:56:47):
of the super Bowl audience, not even close. They'd be
likely to get a quarter of it even if they
went head to today with the divisional games. I still
watch the NFL today against the division in the divisional playoffs. Yeah, today,
the higher ratings than the National Championship game for sure. Yeah. No,
you're exactly right. And I'll tell you what. I'm looking

(01:57:08):
at this game, and there's a lot of good storylines
on there because Trevor Lawrence, who basically started a little
slow this year, has come on strong. He really has.
During this last day games, he's completely like O. Seventy
of his passes from twenty two touchdowns, no I n
t s attempted the school record two two consecutive passes
without an interception. She got Trevor Lawrence probably the number

(01:57:29):
one pick in the one draft against Joe Burrow, probably
the number one pick in the draft. Yeah, and I
want to see how much they run Trevor Lawrence because
his running ability was a big deal against Ohio State.
He might have to crank up the running game as
well against l s U because you're gonna have to
gain yards, score points however you possibly can. Because that

(01:57:52):
l s U offense it was just so dynamic. I
think we're overrating them a little bit, just a little bit.
I know they've had a lot of success throughout the
regular city reason, but just because they blew the doors
off of Oklahoma and that's the last game you saw.
Let's not forget they beat Auburn at LSU three to twenty.
So as good as this offense has been, it's not

(01:58:13):
as if their bullet proof. That's all I'm saying, right Vine,
I mean this, you know, I'm gonna give him like
a gold star. I mean, he's our executive producer and
he just he goes above and he couldn't find them,
but he goes above and beyond. But we don't even
have to ask. He's like right there. Twenty seven point
four million people watched the championship game on ESPN last

(01:58:33):
year and nineties seven point five million two into the
Super Bowl last You I understand there's a difference in
fact because ESPN is a cable situation, is supposed to network,
but it wouldn't make that much of a difference. Believe
it would not. So once again, my hats off to
vin A. Well, what a job he's done. To research Man,
Well you take him out for breakfast after the show? Really,

(01:58:56):
are you cutting in the nose picks, Let's get on
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(02:00:02):
you in desperate need of gambling insights for Brian is
here now? The good Lord, Andy Ferman, I got twenty
seconds to get to these picks. You're very previous segment.
It's okay. I with two in one last week two
in one d K with the over in receptions. The

(02:00:24):
Seahawks covered the one another winning weekend. We're trying to
duplicate that. I got three picks for you, Andy Ferman.
I'm looking first and foremost the early game. Texans plus
nine and a half. I'm taking them against the Chiefs.
They're goofy. You know in which Texans team is gonna
show up? I think they can keep it close enough here.
I'm gonna take them plus the nine and a half.

(02:00:45):
I like it. You got agreement? Yeah, okay, good night.
I like that. I'm gonna look at this Seahawks Packers game.
I'm taking the under forty five and a half. I'm
going under there. I think it's gonna be more of
a slug fest, so give me the under in that one.
And also I'm tempted to take the over with Russell
Wilson's rushing yardage at thirty and a half, but I'm

(02:01:07):
gonna ride the train of d K metcalf baby over
sixty four and a half receiving yards. Those are your
three picks. What do you say, Andy? Uh? I think
the game will be closed. You've got the under for
total points, yep, under and a half total points? Yeah, under?
I like that. I like that. Okay, I'm with you.

(02:01:27):
All right, it's time to go your own way. Andy,
You've got ten seconds. Make it fast. I'll go on
my own way. Electronics sign at the side of a
Kentucky captured the attention of drivers, which an unusually quest
in Kentucky on the sign that said send nudes send
nudes to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet confirmed the sign at the
sign of the Kentucky Route ninety two it was hacked

(02:01:48):
Thursday by someone who changed a message to send nudes.
How do you like that? I love it? Why would
you change it to that message? I don't send nudes.
Send a better way to say it, right, I think?
Could you spell anything else maybe all right? So I
had audio of Richard Sherman, I don't have enough time
to play it. I had audio of Bill O'Brien. There's

(02:02:09):
not enough time to play it. Um, So I'm just
gonna speed past that. Andy very late getting to this segment.
That's all right, I'm just kidding around. I have time.
I just wanted to give you a hard time. How
about this before the National Championship game, Odell Beckham Jr.
Gifting every player on L s u S team Beats headphones.
They retail around three hundred and fifty bucks. Very generous.

(02:02:32):
I thought that was a violation though, No, we'll check
into that. All right. With that, our time is up.
Thank you for you as we'll see you this week
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