Knox and Quinn: 01/07/2018

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I want to start off with, um, first of all,
how are you. I'm doing okay, a little bit under
the weather, kind of planning, hurt, a little bit banged up,
but uh, hanging in there. But outside of that, I
gotta tell you, it was a pretty entertaining NFL game
that just just conclude. Yeah, And I think we gotta

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give the NFL credit because we've been very vocal about
our criticisms of some of the games and the quality
of play just a little bit. I mean, you know,
by the way, let's not let the officiating off the hooks.
Officiating has been off. It has been a ful but
I will say this, every wild Card game this weekend
I enjoyed. I enjoyed every single one of Now, there

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was a period during Kansas City Tennessee where I was like,
good God, I think I even texted you and said
this game stinks and then hold on, hold on, hold on.
Earlier today, I would have taken Kana City, Tennessee over
what we saw between Jacksonville and Buffalo a week. See.
Here's the thing, though, I like that Bill's Jaguars game.
That reminded me of watching NFC Central Football growing up,

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Like the I I was into that, man like to
where terrible quarterbacked come on like that? That that's Chicago
Bear Football going all the way back to the fifties.
Are you kidding me? Like, that's that's what I grew up.
I was raised on that. You know. It's like there's
some people out there who think, God, how could you
eat a miracle whip and cheese whiz in a sandwich?

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And then you go, man, when you're broke and your
feeling doesn't have a lot of money, like you grow
up on it, you kind of develop a taste for it.
So I developed my taste for nf SEE Central Football
growing up, and so I was used to bad quarterback
play Here's what my my biggest question to you, coming
on the heels of a game that went down to
the wire in which the Saints now advanced to the

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next round, the divisional round of the playoffs, if do
they knock off the Carolina Panthers? Um, what the hell
was Sean Payton doing going forward on fourth and two
at midfield with two minutes left and a five point lead.
Explain that to me? Which and a ball that was
intercepted by a member of the Carolina Panthers when he
probably should have just batted it down and would have

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gotten Yeah, they would have gotten better field position. Can
you explain that to me? No, there were a lot
of inexplicable things that took place, that being one of them.
Like when they came out and they tried to draw
Carolina off sides. I thought to myself, a couple of things.
You have one, you called a time out with ten
seconds left on the clock on the play clock. They

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really could have tried it for another ten seconds. Maybe
they could have shifted. Which sometimes when you're in that
place play call scenario, you actually have a play called,
you have a quarterback sneak called. Sometimes fourth and two
is a little long for that, or you might have
another play called that you potentially could run if you
get the right look. Now, obviously that look didn't present

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itself either way. Though you had ten seconds left, maybe
the one of the Carolina Panthers defensive lineman does something
stupid and jumps off sides. Why not exhaust the play
clock or at least run it down to one or
two seconds before you call it time out. And then
I guess once they call call the time out, I
thought to myself, Man, maybe they're gonna go for this,
because at that point on the field it was too

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long of a fuel goal, but you could have taken
a five yard delay a game penalty and moved back
for the punter. So once they didn't take the penalty
but they came back out for it, I kind of thought, man,
they're actually gonna go for this, And I just don't
understand the logic behind that, only because you're giving them
a short field, which you know your defense had played
pretty well throughout the course of the game, but not

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as well in the second half as they did in
the first half. And I don't know why you'd want
to make it any easier on the Carolina Panthers team
that's not really built to drive the field at the
end of the game and make it plays with the
dropback passing game. That's just not their thing. Uh. That
could have easily come back to bite them if if
there wasn't a intentional grounding call made, which I don't

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know if you thought that was controversial. I thought he
was in the pocket, and I thought it clearly was
intentional grounding, So at the end of the day, it
didn't end up mattering, but just awful decision. Intentional grounding
is kind of a weird one for me because how
do you do I know it's I know what the
rule states is you know that he's if he's inside
the pocket and he throws the ball away and it's

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not near a receiver, then they look at it and go, Okay,
that's intentional grounding, And I get that. But if he's
if he's deliberately trying to make a throw and he's
throwing it straight up into the stands, like like, what
is the rule as a quarterback? Like how how close
to the receiver do you have to get the football
before or is it just it has to be within
five yards? As five yards and and it has to

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obviously pass. Yeah, it was. It was intentional crowning. There
was no doubt about some thing though. Mike Adams, He's
played a lot of football. I play with Mike, Mike
Pops Adams as they call him. That's the other thing
is that's like the one time where when you get
an interception, you'd rather just drop it because now you're
not helping out your offense. Like he's played way too long.

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And I'm gonna be honest with you, if they call
that an interception, I have no idea what it catches.
I thought he dropped it. I thought he dropped it
two And I don't know how that one didn't get reviewed,
only because if you're Carolina, you would have liked it.
You would have got what sixteen additional yards to try
to come back. But but even then, it's the fact that,
like the call in the field is I believe it

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was within two minutes and you're kind of watching it
thinking there's no way he caught the football and then
maintain possession and got a couple of feet down. Uh
and and and you know, you know, continue control the
football before losing. It's crazy, like all season long, we've
been seeing these guys get these receivers get screwed over guys,
the guys that have been working and developing their catching

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skills their entire life and getting screwed over on catches.
And then a defender who's not even trying to maybe
intercept the ball fumbles it after catching it out of bounds,
and they still call that a catch, Like, I don't
understand it. It's bizarre, and and it's like for all
the gifts that um, you know, we're not given to
some of the wide receivers out there who are trying
to make ridiculous catches, it's like they it's like Zach

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Miller is lying on a bed somewhere with his leg
in four pieces, going, hey man, can I get that officiated?
Cause when I'm up walking now? Okay, but it's okay,
But it sounds better for radio if you make it
seem like his leg moves in sections. Okay, Like if
you make it seem like he doesn't have a leg anymore.
He's got Lincoln logs, like the toy used to play

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with when you were younger, It makes it, It makes
it sound better for the radio audience. Are we say
he has extra joints like he's got an extra join
between his hip and his knee. Listen, you know he's
he's a flexible guy, all right. And and that that
injury did occur in the Superdome. Okay, So I'm just
saying that he's watching that game, going, hey, can I
get a little bit of help here? Mike Adam gets
an interception on the ball, he clearly fumbles, my leg

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folds in half and almost falls off my torso, and
I don't get credit for a touchdown. Man, I guess
if we're gonna talk over injuries, let's just do what
Tony Romo did earlier today when Tyrod Taylor gets almost
decapitated and he just talks. They're motionless on the field. Gosh,
here we go. Yeah, you know what? Can we just
get this out of the way as well? Too? There's

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there's a lot to get to here, and and and
the show doesn't really take on it on shape until
a couple of segments in, so we're just kind of
shooting from the hip here. Tony Romo stinks. He stinks
as a broadcaster. You don't have to say a single thing, Brady.
That's fine. I will wear this from the Tony Romo
ball washers out there who for some reason, I think
he's God's gift to broadcast. He stinks and he's only

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getting worse. And stop sucking up to the guy just
because you think he's gonna get you a free cowboy
hat or admission to the Jerry Dome. Tickets are four bucks.
They put boxing events on there all the time. You
really went into that stadium. Pay twenty two dollars for
a tour. Stop kissing up to Tony Romo. He stinks
as a broadcaster. I think he's been he's been putting
a tough spot this year because he's in that role

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where everyone's gonna nitpick at what he does wrong. But
there's some fundamental things that have to bother you. And
the fact that one he made up a rule where
apparently team's gonna free bet ten second run off but
they don't have to do it. But I'm listening to him,
and here's how this works. So when you do broadcasting,
sometimes when you don't necessarily know, you'll get hit up

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in your headset and they'll kind of explain to you, Hey,
this is what's happened, this is what's going to happen.
Or this is like the actual rule. I can guarantee
you the second. He's like, well, you know that they
can you know, get one freebe here, or they won't
have to take a ten second run off. You're sitting
there thinking, going what why would that be the case?
And all of a sudden he says, we uh, we
were talking earlier about them, Like no, no, Tony, you

(09:09):
were You can own up to that one, buddy, Jim,
nance was not a part of that conversation. That was
only you. Um, but you know some of that stuff.
He's he's gonna get exposed a little bit. But at
the end of the day, I just think whenever there's
an injury like that, especially one where the players motionless,
like give up on whatever happened to play before first

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make sure the guys okay. It's like, hey, you know, Jim,
can we go back to that lateral from the second
quarter with eight minutes left to go? I kinda you know,
I gotta be honest with you, Like, hold on a second,
this guy is motionless on the ground in a dangerous game,
and he's bearing him for not hitting a guy, which
I gotta be honest with you. When I went back
and watched it. I'm like, well, he's kind of shorter
in the pocket, so I don't think he could see

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the guy. He didn't have a throwing lane to him,
which is why he then went to scramble. But he's
like trying to bury him for not hitting what he
thought was an open Bills wide receiver ready and he
was open, but still like, wait till the guy is
to leave off the field at some point that not
only did they kind of breeze over that play and
whether he was okay, but all of a sudden they
were rushing to get shots of Nathan Peterman to make

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sure like he was ready to go in. Yeah, he
stinks here. I mean, that's just that's just the way
it's gotta be. It's gotta be told that way. Nobody
else is gonna be honest with you. I'll be honest
with you. And if you like to get me on
Twitter if you like, if you have a complaint about
what I just said about Tony Romo, you can get
me on Twitter at Brady Quinn is where you can
find me. I will respond to your tweets there. All right,

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So all right, this is gonna be fun. Shun can
already talk. I'm fired up. I haven't even had a
sip of my coffee yet, and that's basically like cranking
a glass. That's all I can say. We are fired
up to not have to talk about bad football teams
for a week. This is gonna be really fun, Okay,
Brady Quinn Jonas knocks here, Fox Sports Radio Company Alive
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Up next, they're uh,

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I don't want to overreact to something, but we're gonna
need Brady's help with this because I noticed something about
an NFL quarterback and I think it's bad news, really
bad news. Find out what we're talking about. Next on
fs are thanks to a Steve Disager for providing us
the music for the program tonight. Nice work, Steve. I
know you were thrilled to get done with the holiday

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music so you could put in, uh some of your
bumping grind material. Steve Disager's iPod is DJing this. Uh
uh Hi, Steve iPod? What I don't know? Do I know? All? Right?
Jonas knocks Brady Quinn here, Fox Sports Radio, Um, coming

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to you live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
I'm gonna talk with Brady about a quarterback in the
NFL that I would have some serious concerns about if
I was the fan base of that quarterback and if
I was the franchise at that quarterback. So we're gonna
get to that here in just a couple of minutes,
but we do need to to call out a head
coach who threw his quarterback onto the bus um. We
discussed Sean Payton Brady Quinn going for it on fourth

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and two. I believe it was from midfield with with
about two minutes left to go in the game and
a ball that was intercepted by the Carolina Panthers. They
probably should have batted it down. Very surprising why they
would go for it. Carolina hadn't been able to convert
many touchdowns during the game, a lot of field goals
by Graham Gano. So with a five point lead, very

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questionable decision making by Sean Payton there So, Sean Payton
spoke with the media just a few minutes ago and
he basically he threw his quarterback under the bus. Listen
for yourself, went with a little hard count, called the
time out, and uh, gonna win the game. You're gonna
win the game, talking and Drew really about we can
punt there and play with a little longer field position,

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no time outs for them, and and yet you know,
we felt we had a call, tried to get Mike Thomas.
They did a good job in coverage and they made
a play. Fortunately, you know, ended up being and intercepted.
But that, uh, as part of it. You know, we
were gonna We're gonna try to win the game on
that play around up applause for Sean Payton. They're just

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just sort of slightly throwing Drew Brees under the bus. Yeah,
I was talking with Drew, and you know we just
kind of signed of decided that, uh, what do you
think of aren't wouldn't every single player in that situation
if your coach gave you the option, would you say, yeah,
let's go for it. Of course, So basically the bus,
that's two things. Why they Why would they able to
have be tipped off that. Maybe they're trying to work

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the ball to Michael Thomas. I don't know, maybe because
he had a hundred thirty yards receiving tonight. Um, maybe
you want to figure out something a little more creative.
You got two pretty good running backs in the backfield.
We thought for Sean Marquis Colston was coming out of retirement. Yeah,
I wasn't sure who was gonna get the football. Um,
and then how many times you're gonna hear a head
coach say, fortunately the ball was intercepted. He Now, that

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might be one of the only times, the only scenario
you'll ever hear a head coach say that in at
a press conference. Um. But it did definitely play to
the benefit of the Panthers, especially when you think about
how deep they got into the New Orleans Saints territory,
So they did end up playing a pretty big factor. UM.
My thing is always this. I think when you've got

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a head coach and a quarterback who one have experienced success,
they want a Super Bowl together, but they've been together
a long time, I think they can speak more openly
and freely about one another and be kind of critical
because they know that the other person is not going
to take it to heart. You know what I'm saying.
I think if you don't have that close of a relationship,

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then all of a sudden, you're kind of like giving
that guy the side eye. Next time you're walking through
the locker room, thinking why is this guy kind of
airing his grievances about me publicly instead of just you know,
addressing me directly about it or telling me you know
exactly what you know I should be doing better or
what I did wrong. I think I would have more
of an issue with it if that was the case.
You've talked about in the past, that there are some

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interceptions in your career year where you can go back
on and go first of all, that was not my fault. Okay,
let me let me just let me just say that
that was not my fault. And and you've talked about
I think one of one was with Braylon Edwards to
where he either ran the wrong route or the ball
got tipped or something like that. Um, is this one
of those things where Drew Brees goes to Sean Payton
afterwards and said, Hey, bro, I was twenty three of

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thirty two for three seventy six, two touchdowns and no picks.
After that decision, I'm twenty three for thirty three, three
seventy six, two touchdowns and a pick. That pisces me off.
The hardest thing is on any fourth down play, especially
in I mean in this scenario, you'd like to throw
it up and give your team a chance because you
know if you're gonna go for it on fourth down.

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As a head coach, you know that that's a potential
outcome because it's fourth down. You're not gonna throw it away.
You don't want to waste it down. It's much like
a two point conversion. You want to try to take
a chance. So you're going to throw it up and
you're gonna give your wide receivers or tight ends whoever
it may be an opportunity to catch the football. Now.
Obviously in that case, so it was a team meeting. Uh,

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Mike Adams was able to come down with the football
or what seemed to be I guess come down with
the football. Either way. I think that's kind of calculated
in the potential of what could happen, because again, you'd
actually rather have an interception in that case, so at
least you gain additional yard. It's almost like a punt, Yeah,
like um U punt off the side of the foot. Yeah,
like a shank punt in this case. Um but it's

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it's better than you know, get giving the Carolina Panthers
the football around midfield as opposed to one on the
thirty yard line or whatever. It ended up being. And
now New Orleans is going to play Minnesota next which
is the team in the NFC. I think that people
would want to avoid. And I know we're gonna get
into what happened in l A between the Rams and
the Falcons. Um. I know there weren't many people at

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the game, so we will explain it for you in
full detail and then you can kind of figure it
out on your own. But um, but this, how does
New Orleans match up with Minnesota? Because we could look
at it and say, well, you know, Minnesota is starting
a backup quarterback, but that dude ain't playing like a
backup quarterback. You know, Case Keenum is playing really well.
You're seeing reports and him and Pat Shermer may, um,

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you know, get together next year. If if Case Keenum
has not resigned in Minnesota and Pat Sherman gets a
head coaching gig, which a lot of people expect, maybe
Arizona has been floated around, how do you see New
Orleans matching up with Minnesota next weekend? I think they
matched up pretty favorably my one concert. As the offensive
line for the Saints, they've gotten pretty thin and and

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they lost Pete tonight um and I know they had
their backup came in, um and and but he got
He even got banged up towards the end of that
game too, So they're thin on the offensive line, which
concerns me because you've gotta be able to protect Drew
Brees as good as he is, Uh, he's not quite
that mobile. And you know, if you do what the
Panthers can do to their running game, where you essentially

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shut down Ingram and Camara all of a sudden, it
really kind of limits them. I mean, it puts a
lot of pressure on Michael Thomas and Ted Ginn Jr.
To step up and their deep sense can't play quite
the same because I think their defense relies on the
fact that the Saints are gonna put up a bunch
of points. So I think they match up favorably because

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of the issues that you have to deal with in
Ingram and camera out of the backfield. Um. But you know,
you're talking about having to play in a very very
tough environment going up to Minnesota. That place is loud,
and you know the other part of it is their defense. Um.
You know, how are they going to be able to
kind of go up against the Minnesota Vikings offense that
it's it's as you noticed. I mean, case Cheme has

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been good. I mean, I think he's been much better
than people thought this year. I think their offensive line
play is really improved. Um They've got some weapons that
wide receiver, and the running game has been pretty solid
even with the injury to Dalvin Cook earlier this year.
So I think it's gonna be a great game. I
can't wait to see this. I'm just I'm curious to
a couple of things. We saw it with the l A. Rams.

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They sat their starters week seventeen, and it took them
about almost a half of football to get things back
into gear for the for the league's number one scoring
off it in the regular season in the Rams, you know,
are the Minnesota Vikings gonna have a little bit of
an issue? Uh you know, you know taking you know,
having a week off to take a bye. Even though
you get healthy and all that and will rest, sometimes
you get out of rhythm. And I think that was

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a little bit apparent between the Falcons um and and
the Rams. So I'm kind of curious on that. And
then also case Keendom. You know, people make a lot
about experience in the playoffs, but it matters. I mean, look,
for example, that the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Buffalo Bills
and Tyrod Taylor and Blake Bortles, both of those guys

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hadn't had experience in the postseason, and watching them at
the beginning of that game, they each seemed a little
bit anxious. They each seemed like they weren't necessarily on
their game right from the get go. And it's a different,
you know, feeling and experience. You're gonna see some new
things and new wrinkles, the game is gonna be faster,
and I think Drew Brees has that experience, um, whereas
Case Kingdom doesn't. So that's one thing that I'd be

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concerned for if I was a Vikings fan, or I
guess a couple of things if you consider too, maybe
a little bit of rust coming off the factor to
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seeing the beginning of the end with this, so we
are going to get to that. Plus we're expecting to
catch up with a member of the New Orleans Saints
coming off their big victory just a short time ago
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We'll start with the details on the New Orleans victory

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eliminating Carolina from the NFL playoffs. Thirty one six New
Orleans eight and one at home, by the way, and
the number one ranked offense in the NFC over three
ninety yards per game today over four hundred yards and
a victory. Cam Newton in the loss three hundred forty
nine yards passing a couple of fourth quarter touchdowns. He
was sacked four times. The Saints led twenty one to

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six just before halftime. Michael Thomas of New Orleans finished
with eight receptions a hundred thirty one yards. At Jacksonville,
it was a ten three final Jaguars over Buffalo. It
was three three late in the third quarter, than Jacksonville
capped a fifteen play nearly nine minute drive with a
one yard TD pass. There were a combined seventeen punts
in this game. Quarterback Blake Bortles of Jacksonville ten carries

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eighty eight yards rushing only eighty seven yards passing. In
the Divisional round on Saturday afternoon, it'll be Atlanta, the
favorite team, playing at Philadelphia. Then Saturday night Tennessee at
New England. Next Sunday, one pm Eastern time, Jacksonville at
Pittsburgh Steelers. Wide receiver Antonio Brown will return from his
calf injury, and then on Fox TV New Orleans at
Minnesota four thirty pm Eastern time. Next Sunday. College Football's

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National Championship game is Tomorrow night. In college basketball, number one,
Michigan State falls at Ohio State eight to sixty four,
which to stay with a win. Miami and Cincinnati victors
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So let me um. I'm trying not to be overreaction
Guy to to NFL playoff games, because I usually we
mock guys like that on this show. That's kind of

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what the show is. But I didn't notice something, and
it seems very apparent Cam Newton looks beat up man,
and I don't know if it's just this season, but
one of the things, and we were talking about this
earlier that was surprising to me because you know it,
but you don't really take it all in until somebody
says it t out loud. He's been in the league
seven years? Doesn't that guy seem like he's been in

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the league a lot longer than that? And doesn't he
sort of have the doesn't he show and appear to
have looked like he's been in the league a lot
longer than I know. It's the style of play, But
would you be concerned with his health moving forward? Well,
I think I'm not so much concerned with his health
more his longevity playing the way he plays. I mean,

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I think when you look at his career over the
past what seven years, he's only missed, you know, four games.
I want to say he's basically three games. Yeah, I
mean when when you when you look at it, he's
he's he's technically hasn't started four. Um, but yeah he played,
he played or came back into one or something like that.

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But um, long story short, it's the way he plays, right,
It's how many carries he gets. You know, they involved
him in the quarterback running game. All those things to me, uh,
would would concern me moving forward as far as how
much of a beating can he take, because I think
we both agree he's best when he's a part of
the running game, but he gets into the flow of

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the game better and is able to get a better
fuel for the rhythm of the game. And I think
he throws better after he's involved a little bit in
the running game. So I think all those things to
me just telling me that I would be concerned moveing
forward as far as how many more years he can
play playing in in this style, playing in this way,
I think he's really got to try to improve himself

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passing from the pocket. I mean, if you look at
him over the course of his career, He's only been uh,
you know, above six one time one time in his
career as far as his completion percentage. So I think
in order for him to be an effective you know,
if you're talking about a guy is gonna be with
Carolina for the rest of his career, he's got to
improve there if he's not gonna make or you know,
have as many carries in the running game, you know.

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And I don't know if I was over there, and
this may be just a really stupid question, but did
you ever feel comfortable with with certain throws to certain
parts of the field but not comfortable with others? Did
you ever go through that as a quarterback? Um, because
I've heard stories Rick Meyer when Rick Meyer Notre Dame
former Notre Dame quarterback as well too. When he came

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out of the draft, he was rated very high and
then all of a sudden, Um, they got him to
either the not the combine. Maybe it was in rookie minicamp,
and they realized, is, oh god, he can't throw to
his left like like he's got it, like it just
he's unable to figure out how to how to throw
that way. But it had always been sort of covered up.
You see it in baseball, John Lester couldn't. He can't

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throw over the first base like, he can't do it,
and he's just sort of had to navigate around that
because he's just not comfortable with it. Like as a quarterback,
are there certain parts of the field where you go
to through you're just not comfortable. Because it feels like
Cam Newton is not real comfortable throwing down the sidelines.
He's not real comfortable trusting receivers, like when they're having
their most success, it's Greg Olsen, or it's Christian McCaffrey

(25:37):
or one of these underneath receivers making a play up
the seam. Doesn't feel like he's comfortable throwing outside. Well,
he throws a flatter ball. I think when you look
at the shots, when he throws deep downfield, it's a
much flatter ball. When you throw with more trajectory, you
give yourself a little bit more room for air um,
and then you allow your wide receivers to potentially adjust
to the football um. So that's kind of part of it.

(25:58):
I mean, I think when you look at him over
his course of his career, I mean leading up until
two thousand fifteen, when he was the m v P
of the league that year. He was getting better and
better and better UM and and your completion percentage doesn't
always reflect that UM. But you can see it in yards.
You could see it in touchdown interception ratios, those sorts
of things. I think you could see the incremental improvement.

(26:19):
It wasn't so last year. Excuse me. It wasn' until
last year when you really saw him kind of take
a step back and you thought to yourself, Okay, what's
this gonna look like moving forward? Not now? This year,
their team has been improved. His passing game hasn't that much,
But to your point, Greg Olsen hasn't been a part
of it. And I think you've taken away that weapon.
You know, they traded away Kelvin Benjamin. I think that

(26:41):
hurt him a little bit. That was the guy who
was always their number one read. So you know you're
always gonna have limitations as a quarterback and and how
much you can really grow once you enter the NFL.
It's kind of tough because everyone's in a win now mode.
You know, they don't think about Cam Newton and his
development as their first priority. It's how do we win
a football game? How do we win a Super Bowl?

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So all that stuff comes into play in the off season,
and I think it's tough when when you're as banged
up as he is. I mean, now as we go
into the off season, there's a lot of things that
have to be figured out for the Carolina Panthers. But
for Cam Newton, it's his health. You know, how is
the shoulder doing. There's some other things that looks like
he's been kind of battling through um and he's not

(27:25):
always as vocal about that and what he goes through.
But he's got a lot of injuries they're gonna have
to check out. And let's not forget to this team's
for sale. They're gonna have a new general manager. Uh,
their defensive coordinator might might be moving on, Steve Wilkes.
So there's a lot of change coming in Carolina. And
I also wonder this because like at some point, you
kind of just are who you are, you know, like

(27:45):
if you if you're dating someone for four or five
years and you're going through the same fights and same issues.
Not that I'm speaking from personal experience, Like I don't
want you to think that I'm speaking and like airing
dirty laundry out, you know, because certain people might be listening,
and I hope they are. But um, when you when
you are with somebody long enough, sooner or later, you
just have to accept that's what they are. At what

(28:05):
point in your career as a quarterback, did you just realize, like,
I'm not I'm not able to learn anymore, Like I
am what I am. It's better to play to my
strengths and try and figure out what else I can
I can do to change my game. At what point
of the Panthers look at him and go, this is
kind of who he is? Or did they already do that?
Because when they're going out and they're making you know,

(28:25):
getting Christian McCaffrey, Um, you know, like they put more
of a focus on on finding a receiver who could
catch the ball out of the backfield, and they did
his number one wide out when they traded him to Buffalo.
Have they already started to see that and if they
already started to make adjustments because of that? I think
they started to make adjustments a little bit this year. Um.
I think they started to get him involved more in
the running game and it hit about I want to say,

(28:47):
at the halfway point of the season where you started
to see that being more the case, and and with
that you started to see more success not only of
their team, but I think their offense as far as
moving the ball. So I think at this point they've
they've kind of basically realized that that's where you're at.
Um and look for every quarterback, it's different. You know,

(29:07):
I never felt like in my career I had enough
a stability. It's always focus on what I wanted to
work on mechanically or fundamentally, because I was always learning
a new offense and I was always trying to develop
chemistry with new receivers. Are you trying to say that
the Cleveland Browns didn't provide stability to the quarterback position?

(29:29):
Is that what you're alluding to here, Brady Quinn, I
don't know if I'm alluding to it. I'd say I'm
saying that, but um, I think it's a little different
in his case, although he's he's had some new pieces
this year. Um, But I mean, like the bottom line is,
I think they know that their most effective with him
playing the way is And I gotta be honest with you, Jonas,
I don't know many other quarterbacks that could do what

(29:51):
he's doing because of his size combined with his athleticism.
He might be the only quarterback in the league who's
six six two or sixty pounds and run like he does,
take the beating like he does, but still throw the
football accurately. I mean the ball he threw Kalen Clay
in the end zone that Clay dropped, I mean, that's
an absolute time. I mean, it's it's on the money,

(30:11):
and unfortunately he wasn't able to catch it. But there's
not many guys who can do everything that Cam Newton
can do in the NFL, and they're also there was
a throw in the end zone at the end of
the game. Was it Funches who looked like he just
misread it. He just completely whipped on the ball either
he got got caught in the lights or whatever happened.
So yeah, there were there were plays out there to
be made by some of that. But here's the other thing, man,

(30:33):
I'm really really disappointed in Christian McCaffrey that he sat
out that Bowl game last year. It's really damaged his
growth as an NFL player. I'm not quite sure he's
gonna be able to play in the NFL like Oh
my man, he is good. He's so good. Man like
that division has got two players in Kamara and Christian
McCaffrey who are going to be dynamite in those offenses

(30:54):
for years to come. It's gonna be fun to watch.
I mean it really is. And we'll see, you know,
how things change age depending on how long Drew breezes
there and all that. But um, they are, they are
extremely fun to watch. I just think it's it's crazy
too when you look at both of them, Jonas, how
many receptions they have. That's gonna be the normman. I mean,
these are running backs that you can't just carry the football.
You have to be able to catch the football too.

(31:15):
I mean, the college game is slowly finding its way
into the NFL, and these running backs have to be
so much more versatle than what they've been in the past.
Brady Quinn Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio Company Alive
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Um, coming up
next year, we Brady and I have got to discuss
something because I'm going to uh to give a warning
to Brady Quinn here. Um, something was done by a

(31:38):
Super Bowl champion. Earlier on Sunday that I am totally
embarrassed by and I don't want to ever see Brady
Quinn act this way on a television anywhere, I mean nowhere.
We'll talk about that next year on fs are Brady Quinn,
Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio Company Alive from the
Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, um SO talking NFL play

(32:00):
offs here, wild Card weekend and a fun wild Card weekend.
It has been uh. The game that just wrapped up
a short time ago was the New Orleans Saints beating
the Carolina Panthers thirty one to twenty six. The Saints
advanced to the Divisional round. They'll be playing Minnesota next week.
And joining us now is the man who cinched the
game for the New Orleans Saints, a sack of Cam
Newton at the end. Vaughan Bell of the Saints is

(32:22):
with us now here on Fox Sports Radio. Vaughan Jonas Stocks,
Brady Quinn, thanks for popping on with us. We appreciate it.
Thank you for having me, Thank you for having me.
Um So described for people that have never been there,
described the Superdome in a playoff game with two minutes left,
game on the line, and you guys trying to close
out and advanced man's an electric environment. May hear yourself. Thanks,

(32:44):
We could barely get the calls in, so uh there's
a place to be at at that time and moment.
Uh it's what as a sleetest moment because how I
let you find these fans are and this uh, this
whole city is behind us. So moment, like I said,
Von Socks, is a little about the game plan and
trying to stop Cam Newton and a guy like Christian
McCaffrey out of the backfield. Obviously, those guys are tough

(33:06):
to prepare for. What was your guys game plan going
into this matchup? We had to stop we have started
point two and seventeen and just make Cam a pocket
pass or uh that's what we did towards the end
of the game. And uh the defense that up to
the plate we said, or before the before the offense
went forward, we said, we're about to win this game
like we did before. And that's what we did. We

(33:27):
set up to the plate and hit a home run. Uh.
Saint Safety Von Bell with us here on Fox Sports Radio,
Jonas knocks Brady quinn, Um, did you guys when you're
on the sidelines and you see that the offense stays
out and they go for it on fourth and two.
How surprised were you by the decision. We're not surprised
at all. We know we've gotta aggressive coach and staff.
They want to go win the game, so we just said,

(33:48):
let's go get some more achieve talent for the defense.
So that's what we did VN. Obviously, you guys want
to enjoy this victory, but you gotta rematch coming up
next week. You guys played the Vikings week one. Now
a lot of things have changed since then. Sam Bradford's
not the quarterback, they don't have Dalvin Cook. But just
give us some of your initial thoughts of having to
go up north to take on the Vikings. All I

(34:09):
remember is we love and h we'll go go up
there and trying to get to win, and we'll go fair,
we'll go get right and uh, we'll get a body right,
we'll get preparations down, we'll go onto the Sam, we'll
go try to win the game. That's all I remember.
How much different is preparation like getting ready for a
playoff game when you guys are meeting together, when you're
practicing all week when you're getting getting set to to

(34:30):
play in a playoff game, how much different is preparation
like than than during than during the regular season. And
it seems to me like it's are you more focused?
Like like take us inside the locker room, what is
it like they're in New Orleans when you guys are
getting set up for another playoff game? And I can say, man,
around here, they didn't took our pain phone table and
our games don't win up. So that's what we did,

(34:55):
uh with each other within the locker room with the guys. Uh.
We we texted the group and say we've got getting
the sam. We gotta we gotta really step up, really
detail our alignment, really detail our our assignments and just
be on top of everything, our keys and just everybody
on one page. So it's want to go home. So
that's the difference between regular season and the postseason. So

(35:18):
and uh, and some guys who played for in the
locker room never been the postseason. So and they played
like eight plus years. So we're playing for the guys
next to us, So it's that much biggest difference and
that much intensive they need to pick up throughout the week.
Vaughan when you look at this team over the past
few years, you guys were a seven and nine team
for three consecutive years, and in my mind, the difference

(35:38):
has been the defense. What's been the biggest difference between
last year's defense and how you guys are playing right now.
Um Man, there's the nine of their difference. I've been
on both sides, really making plays on the ball. We're
getting to the quarterback, we're getting in and said that,
we're getting take away, we're getting off on third down,
and uh, we're just out there having fun. Man, it's
really just playing for each other. Uh that I can

(36:00):
say that the drouters over, it's a whole new the
whole new page of the sat TV's and the backing
in with the linebackers and that defensive front too. So
like I've said, man, as a change from night and day. Um,
I'm proud to be a part of it. The blessing
and the opportunity that we have a lot before. Uh
so von bell with us the New Orleans Saints. So
before I let you go, I'm noticing something when I'm

(36:22):
looking at the New Orleans Saints. So I see yourself,
Ted Gain, Michael Thomas, Uh you guys are very well
represented Ohio state there with the New Orleans Saints. Is
there a lot of trash talk amongst you guys to too,
maybe other alum of the organization and other teammates there
about how much success you guys have had year in
and year out. Oh, for sure, we got them you Uh,

(36:45):
we got the best. You guys in the locker room,
they got five, we got four now. So it's definitely
trash talk between that. But it's always buck out south
down here. I think when need to get another I
always tell them the scout person that wouldn't going to
get another does get a Buckeyes the only way to win.
But uh, you know, there's a lot of as off,
but it's all funny games and being a part of

(37:06):
a big organization, I said's huge significant And I just
had that brotherhood that we have here. It's always like
a brother from another mother. So we always there for
each other and uh, any given time to football and
steer life. So I want you in a bucket family,
always in the family. Oh well, Van, we appreciate a
few minutes of your time. Von Bells Saints safety with

(37:26):
us here Fox Sports Radio. Brady Quinn Jonas knocks Vaughan.
Thanks so much, man, good luck next week in Minnesota,
and uh and we hope to catch up with you
again soon. Hell man's like to happen. Jonas knocks Brady
Quinny or Fox Sports Trading. There's a lot of Ohio
State buck guys there, man, like, just a lot of
SMU guys. I was just counting there's actually six he
said five, But they actually have six now, whether or

(37:49):
not you count their long snapper Zach Wood and their punter,
which you know, Thomas Moore said, most people include those guys. Um,
But yeah, they've got a lot of Ohio steak has,
but a lot of you guys. It happened to me again.
By the way, I should have actually asked von Bell this.
I hate this, like the fact that I thought of
this after the interview. This bothers me. I should have
asked him this. It happened to me again. I got

(38:11):
I got confused again. I'm watching the Saints game, and
I'm like, when did they get Cole Beasley Willie Sneed? No,
it was Willie Sneed And uh. If you've ever seen
them too without their helmets off, you can you can
clearly say They are nothing alike. They are not related,
not even close. But when you see the ponytail on
the back of the blonde hair, I got caught up

(38:32):
again and said, oh, Cole Beasley, remember the Saints. I
had no idea will happened again? I got sneed. How
how are you going to work that into the conversation
of von Bell. That's a good point, um, Yeah, you
never you never know how that conversation would have said.
Which actually he had a nice little catch and run,

(38:53):
so the turf monster got him. He sat back white
wide receivers about ten Come on, that's racist. That's so racist, Brady.
That's what happens when you all of a sudden get
a white wide receiver in open space and he and
he falls on his own account. Everyone says, up, can't
draft those guys that they got to be called free agents. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just a terrible, terrible thing to go through, Brady.

(39:14):
Quinn Jonas knocks here h Fox Sports Radio. We do
have great news. There's a quick way. You could say
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on car insurance. I wanted to talk about this with you.
I teased this going in and then Von Bell was
nice enough to us spend a few minutes with us
here on Fox Sports Radio. By the way, what do
you think New Orleans is like after a playoff win

(39:39):
Bourbon Street? Oh? Man, Like I I don't even know
where I'd wake up, Like I don't even know where
I would wake up. And he fell into that situation
one time. Yeah, was was it? He woke up? Was it?
The the the Brian Williams from NBC who said he
saw a corpse floating across his in the front of
his hotel. Remember that whole line. He woke up in

(40:00):
like a storage shed about eight miles from from Bourbon Streets.
I've done that before too. It's called a brothel. Okay,
So let's uh all right, but let me let me
get to this because we noticed something before. It only
took a forty five minutes for the show went out
with the rails. We noticed something Bill Bill Coward jumping
through a table on National TV while I think making

(40:21):
his picks before the Bill's Jaguars game. This is not
a threat, okay, this is a promise. If you, if
you and Joe Davis are doing a game for Fox
and you throw yourself through a table. I'm never talking
to you again. I'm never doing it. Man. And by
the way, that thing wasn't pre cutting. Of course, of
course happens to cut perfectly like it like it broke

(40:42):
as he was coming towards it. Unbelievable. More sports talk. Alright,
so we gotta have some honest conversations about something here.
It is it has to happen. Um. It is in
regards to a quarterback in the NFL, and unfortunately it's
the same old story. We'll get to that here coming
up in just a couple of minutes. He's Brady and
I'm Jonas Knox. This is Fox Sports Radio. We come

(41:02):
to you live here from the Getico Fox Sports Radio Studios,
where fifteen minutes could save you fifteen or center one
car insurance. Visit geico dot com for a free rate chart,
free rate quote. Blake, Brady Quinn, I want to ask
you this, all right, I'm only gonna pose two words
to you, and I'm just gonna let you take it,
all right. Are you ready for this? Yeah, Blake Bortles, Um,

(41:29):
this conversation could go so many different ways. Um, you
and I have talked about this before. You tell me
you answer this question. All right, I'll answer your question
where if you can even count that as a question
with a question, at what point did Blake Bortle's career
go downhill? I'm not doing this. You're getting at again.

(41:54):
I know what you're getting at, and I'm not doing this.
And f you for doing that to me. Okay, because
that's what I should be doing you and I didn't
because I'm a better teammate than you. Okay, I will not.
We're not gonna. We're not going to say what has
not been seen with Blake Bortles since Draft night. We're
not gonna. We're not We're not talking about that. We
are not going there, Brady Quinn. Um, Okay, let me

(42:17):
just say this though about the Jaguars one, I was shocked.
I was shocked that they couldn't score more points versus
this Bills defense. I really was. Now, credit the Bills
and Sean McDermott for come out with a good game plan.
But the game plan was pretty simple, right, stop the run,
make Blake Bortles beat you. He was bad. He was

(42:39):
he was terrible. Um and that's not sugarcoating it. Um.
I could probably be be meaner about it, but I'm
not going to. I mean, he was throwing arrant screen passes.
Like if you're a quarterback and you walk out in
the field and you don't have any confidence, they're gonna
call some screens for you. They're gonna give you some
easy completions so you can get some of that confidence back.

(43:02):
You can start feeling good about yourself. Right. I don't
know how many balls I saw actually thrown over five
yards downfield. I mean, in all seriousness, it was. It
was just a poor, poor performance. And I know people
want to give him credit for running the football, which
is odd, right because like you look at the Titans
and offensively they didn't do a whole heck of a lot,

(43:24):
and everyone was talking about Marcus Mariota and how well,
what a you know, great game he brought his team
back and all that stuff. I'm kind of like it
looked like a pretty epic collapse from Kansas City. Like
it wasn't like Marcus Mariota did too much. And it's
the same thing with Blake Bortles. I mean, honestly, like
I don't even know if the touchdown passed you through
to Ben Quayak was a touchdown pass based on the
catch rule this year. Um, I just I don't know

(43:46):
how you give them much of a chance going up
to Pittsburgh. I think they just round up when when
it's Bordles throwing the ball that that looks like it's
to drop. I think they just round up and give
him the benefit of the doubt, like, well, you know
it's it's one point six, let's just call it to
you know what I mean, Like they just round up
what would present it's the Steelers, and they're like, not
as good of a matchup next week. Let's just go
ahead and give this one of the jack. By the way,

(44:08):
what was the final score? Ten three? That the final score? Yeah,
I believe they hit the over bol game. I believe
they did hit the over folks, So congratulations. UM now
you mentioned Blake Bortles and him struggling. Um. I did
get a kick out of this because it's not often
that a uh, it's not often that you were able

(44:28):
to take out two birds with one stone. Boomer Siason
of CBS when they went to halftime during the game,
he took out two quarterbacks with one breakdown of a
first half. Here's out sounded on CBS and of course
Phil Boom. Guys, gotta tell you it's hard to watch.

(44:49):
Blake Portles has just absolutely been awful. And I know
that Tony were almost trying to be nice and trying
to be as nice as possibly. Kenny's doing a game.
He's there, he met with him last night. I was going,
right now, let Fournet doesn't help matters right there dropping
a ball, But look at the inaccuracy, look at the
nervousness at the feet. He's trying to aim the ball.
He's gun shy. Now at the end of the first
half he decided to run that, aren't guys opened Uh,

(45:10):
he is missing guys, he's missing screen passes. I mean
it is brutal. And even like he takes off the grade,
he makes a nice one because you can do that.
He had a guy down the right hand sideline that
he could have been brown the ball to and which
you should have done. That's what you get paid to do.
Six or fifteen thirty three thirty five total yards eighty
four total yards on offense. Last night, Alex met that
a great first half, not a good second half, and

(45:31):
portals needs to turn it around here in the second half,
that was Boomer sizzon Okay, that's why, that's why you
gotta love Boomer though. Man, he doesn't hold back well.
And here's the thing, so he calls out Romo for
being Romo wants to be too nice. And my my biggest,
my biggest takeaway from that was if that's what boomers
Sison went on the air with, what do you think

(45:53):
he was saying in the other room while they were
watching the game just by themselves, Like when they're all
sitting around talking to themselves. Because you've done this before
to where you go on air and it's like, okay,
like like we have a little bit of freedom here.
We can have some fun and we can you know,
an occasional crank joke and things like that, and and
and we've still have been dropped one for this year
and we will get to that eventually, I'm sure. But

(46:14):
like we can have some fun and bus balls and
tease each other and all that, and it's a little
bit more of elusive an atmosphere. But when you're doing TV,
like how how common is that to where something is
said off air and then it's really cleaned up and
dumbed down once you get on air. It happens all
the time. I mean, that's that's to your point. That's
probably a dumb down version of what was being said

(46:36):
off their And I can only imagine the comments, um,
you know, after certain plays or after a certain series
of how it's probably that you're not being critical enough
of how Blake Bortles was playing and really leading up
to that game, he played battle past couple of weeks, um, so,
so that really should have been more of a storyline, right,
I mean, it wasn't. Like even though Blake Bortles and

(46:57):
you heard it in the open like Tony Robosti about
how Blake Bortles was having one of his better statistical years,
like for him, he kind of kept alluding to It's
like just just get out there and say it, man,
this guy is not playing good enough football for this
team to make a run in the playoffs. Like let's
just be honest. They're driven by their defense and by
their offense and the number one rushing offense and they've
got one of the top defenses. That's why the teams

(47:18):
in the playoffs right now. And I mean there was
the discussion of you know, the win there in the game.
And I remember hearing Brett Farve talk about this, and you've,
being a former quarterback, would know better than anybody. Brett
Farve said he didn't mind playing in the snow. He
didn't so much mind playing in the rain. It wasn't
ideal he could deal with. He didn't so much mind

(47:38):
playing in cold weather. But it was wind that really
gave him the biggest difficulty. That's the one element that
sort of caused the most disruption in the passing game.
Is that a reasonable enough excuse to to justify what
we watched earlier in Jacksonville between those two offenses. If
the win was that bad. Look, when the wind is

(48:00):
to the point where it really I mean, I'm talking
about dramatically affects the game in particular, like every single
ball you're gonna throw, which again we are talking about
balls that were not thrown past five yards downfield. The
majority of the footballs were thrown five yards to the
line of scrimmager behind today for Blake Bortles, and he

(48:22):
was struggling to complete those in that short amount of
space and time for the ball to be in the air.
The wind's not going to affect the ball that much
unless you're talking about consistent to thirty mile winds. That
was not the case. If that was the case, you'll
be able to see like the little hand towels on
the side of the wide receivers or running backs or

(48:44):
dbs blowing like it would be so pronounced you could
see it down the field. That was not the case.
So you know, they people can use wind as being
a reason why you know, he struggled or whatever other
excuse you want to come up with. Um at that
point in time, like it's sixty five degrees uh in

(49:04):
what Jacksonville, or maybe was sixty whatever. It ended up being, Like,
let's not act like this was all of a sudden
some terrible weather game. Uh that that didn't play a
big as big of a factor. I think the fact
that Botles doesn't throw that side of a spiral is
probably as much of a factor as anything. And I
gotta be honest with you. What affects a spiral. What
affects you know, accuracy in the wind is when it's

(49:25):
cold and windy, because when you can't fill your fingers,
that's when it makes it harder to feel the ball
coming off. Your hand. It wasn't. It wasn't that Colton Jacksonville.
So that wasn't a part of it either. And there
just wasn't enough wind, in my opinion, for it to
be a factor. Um and and and I remember Warren
Sap saying this Jonah knocks Brady QUINNI or Fox Sports
Brady Warren Sap years ago when he was a member
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. UM he talked about and

(49:48):
the quote was something along the lines of if we
had if we had a fifteenth ranked offense, we'd be
undefeated because the defense is so good and they always
seemed to carry the offense. And so that was always
the issue in Tampa Bay. They finally, you know, Jon
Gruden got there and Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl.
That was always the issue. Shaun King, other quarterbacks have
been through there. Uh you know, Trent Dilfer, I believe

(50:10):
was one of them. To where they do. They couldn't
figure out something at quarterback. They couldn't figure out consistency offensively.
And so that's rare that you hear a defense call
out an offense or vice versa. Have you ever been
I mean, what are those conversations like to where say,
your your team is really successful offensively, but your defense

(50:32):
can't stop anybody. You as a quarterback. Where there ever
conversations in the offensive meeting room like man, these guys stink,
like like they are brutal, and we've got to carry
the load. Like is there a division in that locker room?
You think there's never a division like in the locker room,
per se. It usually happens on the sidelines, like in
the course of a game, um, because you know each
week it can be different. You don't necessarily know, and

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it usually happens once you get through, you know, the
end of the season, either things are going really well
or things are going bad, and it us really um
reveals itself when things are going bad. UM, and you don't.
But you don't see it quite as much in the
locker maybe at halftime something like that, but that that's
just not really that's not as as realistic until the
game actually starts. And then once it starts, yeah, you

(51:15):
get frustrated, especially when they're gonna have to face one
of the best offenses in the NFL in Pittsburgh next week,
Like you better believe in that defense is doing their
part and the Jaguars are going three and out punt,
you know, three and out punt. You know, a couple
of plays interception like they're gonna be chirping in Blake
Bortle's ere a little bit. Now, Um, that the only

(51:37):
the only way that doesn't end up taking places if
you've got you know, a head coach and Doug Moron,
or you've got leaders on that team that don't let
it happen. I mean guys who just say, you know what,
we gotta pick up our level of play to take
care of the offense. And kind of meaning that true team,
that storybook team that you hear about every once in
a while, that does exist, that does take that does

(51:59):
take place sometimes. Um, but you know, I don't know.
I've never been in the Jackson Jaguars locker room. You know,
I know some of their long time vet's a guy
like Paul puzz Lesti. You know that's gonna be more
his mindset. You know, he's not gonna complain, he's not
gonna say anything. Um, he's gonna say, we need to
step up our play, we need to be the ones
that score. Then you know that's his mindset. But you
know for for you know, the rest those younger guys.

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Sometimes those younger guys don't necessarily know any better, and
those tend to be the guys that get more emotional
and show more frustration. I'd love to find out how
many times Jalen Ramsey has picked off Blake Bordles in practice.
I'd love to do. Do you think he's picked him
off more than he has Nate Peterman just as far
as a per past attempt average. By the way, did

(52:41):
were you surprised they ruled that that was an interception,
that that was a catch? Uh No, because I thought
when he you know, when he started to like when
he went to the ground and he kind of started
to roll, it looked like he had his arm underneath
the football. Like to me, I didn't. I didn't think
there was enough evidence that, you know, it would overturn
the call on the field. And that's really what replay
should be about. It shouldn't be too necessarily you know,

(53:04):
make the call. It should be to confirm or overturn um.
I wasn't surprised, but I was shocked that he actually
threw it at Jen m like it's your first pass attempt.
Romo talking about etching your name in the history books
or whatever. The hell, man, don't don't even get me started.
Oh man, By the way, a guy tweeted in and said,
thank you for calling it out. Romo is awful about that?

(53:26):
How about that? And I'll only I'll only focus on
that and not the other ones that were sent in
ripping me for ripping Romo. So listen, it's all about
how you look at his perspective. Everybody, all right, that's enough,
all right, Brady Quinn Jonas knocks her Fox Sports Radio
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Up next, there
was something that was being said about an NFL team

(53:47):
and an NFL coach that I believe to be a
full fledged lie. I think it's a lie. I will
get Brady Quinn's thoughts on that, and we'll have some
fun with this story. That's next year on Fox Sports Radio.
It's a Sunday. It's Fox Sports Radio, Little Maryland matching
for you and your kids. Unbelievable. Bobo, all right, Jonahs

(54:09):
socks Brady Quinn. Here, Fox Sports Radio Company Alive from
the Getico Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh, there's a uh,
there's some stuff, some drama surrounding an NFL head coach.
We've got to get to here in just a minute.
I do have a question, though, and um, anybody can
feel free to answer buzz in at any moment. What

(54:31):
the hell are the Golden Globes? Like, I know it's
an award show, but what are they are honoring? Is it?
Is it music? Is it TV? Like? Like, what are
the Golden Globes? Let's go live to our Golden Globes
insider Steve to Seger, Steve, this is voted on by
the Hollywood Foreign Press Associates, So all the foreign writers
that are in l A a hundred people only voting

(54:52):
on the best of movies and the best of So
this is not the Academy Awards, where people in the
industry are voting for their cowork So this is like,
this is like, this is basically the this is the
Pro Bowl, This is the this is the Pro Bowl?
Alternates is what this is? Well, it starts awards season.
This is hardly the only award show, but it does

(55:12):
sometimes be an indicator of the oscars. Hollywood is never
afraid the path themselves in the back. Is it fair
to say that, Steve, this is all separate from the
actual the Union's award. There's a SAG Awards ceremony as well,
where the union members talk about voting for your coworkers,
honor each other. I remember being in acting classes and uh,

(55:33):
they'd give you a script and they tell you, all right,
so go practice this outside and then you come in
and you do. This is years ago, and so I
go outside and practice it and just kinda wait around
for our turn. And then you'd have these other nerds, okay,
and these are nerds who are trying to get into
the role, you know, their method actors. And so they're
outside psyching themselves up and you know, trying to twitching

(55:55):
while they talk to themselves because they've got to play
a psycho paths when they get in there, and they've
really got to get into And I'm thinking to myself,
hey man, it's even in the morning on a Sunday
in Sherman Oaks. The acting coach doesn't even want to
be here. Neither do any of us. We're just going
through the motions. Knock it off. Okay, enough with the crap,
enough with the over dramatics. Let's just get in there,
do your role and go home. That's it. That's always weird.

(56:18):
I didn't think it was that intense in the porn industry.
I never knew it was like that big of a
deal in enacting. Take it pretty seriously, huh. And again,
I mean, we're trying to do a professional broadcast here
and Brady's got to bring us down into the gutter
and talk about porn. Well, I thought we were talking
about your past acting. I just I mean, I I

(56:38):
didn't need my background exposed like that. I thought everybody
is a fun way to get it in and listen
and that I was totally misquoted there, completely misquoted, And
I don't want to sit here and talk about porn
on sports radio. Like maybe you think that's cool, but
there's families listening to fill the center gap, and you
know what this is, Okay, totally out of context. I
was referring to a car. Okay, there was something in

(57:01):
the middle of a seat cushion in a car, and
I was referring to that. So you're paying me twenty
million dollars a year, you can rip my ass. Okay, Now,
I get that. Don't mean that literally. That is not
a literal statement. That was That was in reference to
um something else. This is the beauty. It's almost like
we had this whole thing teed up. I'm ready to

(57:23):
go at some point. By the way, you can light
me on. Fine, Okay, that's no hope. That is enough,
all right, because now people are gonna thank my god,
I thought this guy was a professional broadcaster insteadies the
gimp from pulp fiction. I don't need this on my resume.
I don't. That's enough, you bastards. That was a well done,

(57:48):
unplanned bit here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, I say,
can we get back to football here? Please? Yeah? Is
that what we're talking about? Yes? Um, Mike Malarkey, the
head coach of the Tennessee Titans who won a big game.
Give him credit. The Tennessee Titans won a playoff game
on the road at Kansas City. Good for them. Here's

(58:09):
the part that I was that I found a little
comical afterwards, because it went from before the game there
was discussions about Mike Malarkey and if the Tennessee Titans
lose that game, he was going to be out of
a job. So now because they won that game, he
gets to keep his job. What about that game? Screamed

(58:31):
We've got to keep Mike Malarkey. That was one of
the crazier games I've ever seen. There were so many
fluke occurrences and bad officiating and and and a quarterback
throwing a touchdown pass to himself, Like so many random
things had to happen. But why is all of a
sudden that mean that Mike Malarkey's job save. I don't
get it. I don't think that one game, that one

(58:52):
outcome had anything to do with his job security. I
really don't. If it does, that's bad ownership, Like I mean,
that's ad front office leadership, bad ownership, whatever you want
to call it. Because no decision that's that monumental, okay,
should be made based on one game. And and people
may say otherwise, but this team has gotten, you know,

(59:14):
a step in the right direction since he's taken over.
Like let's not let's not include the first year when
he was interim head coach. I don't think it's fair
to any head coach because you know a lot of
the things that you would kind of built as your
foundation of your of your organization or of your team
or a band aid at that point. Yeah, and and
and you're you're playing with with someone else's kind of culture,

(59:37):
maybe even their offense to some degree, even though he
was their offensive coordinator. But he's made changes since then.
I mean, Terry ribiski Is is taken over as their
offensive coordinator. Now, um and you look at the past
two years there, nine and seven. Last year, even though
they didn't make it to the playoffs. This year, they
make it to the playoffs and they win, you know,
in the wild card round. Now how they won that game?
Oh man? Question le officiating so bad? Jeff Triplett now

(01:00:01):
was just gonna retire, you know what, guyss like You
know what it's like. It's like when you're so busted
that you don't even apologize anymore. You just start packing
your stuff up and moving out like you're right, I've
got no excuse, I've got nothing. I'm just gonna get
out of here. All right, let's let's part ways. This
doesn't need to work anymore. Well, I mean, I don't

(01:00:22):
even know what's a call. The sack fumble that they
set his forward progress was stopped like that whole the
whole entire game. The way it was official, it was
just awful, awful. Um And and look that has nothing
to do with Mike Mlarkey, to be quite honest, it
does with the outcome of the game. And that's why
it shouldn't have any any factor on Mike Malarkey's job

(01:00:45):
security because and then there's a number of questionable calls
that could have said that game. So so let's let's
exclude the one game. Right. The bottom line is, do
you feel like this team is gonna be able to
develop Marcus Mariota and get him to a super Bowl?
If that's if that's how you feel about him, and
if they feel like Mike Malarkey can do that, which

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they obviously did in the first place, if you think
about it, right, they moved on from what Ken Wizzen
hunt and then they and then they elevated Mike Malarkey
to that position. So if if that's how you felt
about him, then what's changed? Because you've gotten better each
season and here, here, and and so it just people
are assuming, Okay, well, he gets a playoff when it
means his job stay. But like that's why I don't
understand how you can look at that game and just

(01:01:27):
assume that everything's everything's peachy moving forward. Like that game
we mentioned poorly officiated. It was a come from behind
when the uh the Kansas City Chiefs were a banged
up team. Travis Kelsey looked like a prize fighter or
a Muhai fighter. After taking a flying knee in that game,
he was out called. The offense completely changed then, um

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and I think, as you mentioned it, it's about sort
of what can you do with Marcus Mariota, because it
felt like Mariota got better when he wasn't so much
relying on the scheme and it was all right, just
make plays, man like similar to Bordles. We talked about Bortles.
He just had to start of run the ball and
just make plays, and it seemed like it worked out better.
If that's the case, that's not a credit to Malarkey.
That's more credit to Mario, it isn't it to some degree.

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I think also that that's a little bit by design
right as far as what they do. But you know,
either way, I think they've got an entire offseason to
kind of grow and develop. I mean, think about this.
You know Decker, Eric Decker got there before training camp
and what a bad reality show that is? Who He's
got a reality show with his wife. It comes on
after Total Divas, which I watch and DVR. Okay, Eric

(01:02:34):
Decker and his wife have one of the worst shows
I've ever seen in my life. I know you're friends
with them. Tell him, I said that. Actually, don't tell him.
I said that. I just I can't believe you would
stiff to watch something that you dislike that much. Al Right,
I dv R it, Okay, is that is that what
you wanted to hear? The I DVR that too, alright,
I figured why not, it's a two hour block. I
got nothing better to do. Um But anyway, they bring

(01:02:58):
him on late, you know, didn't seemed like he was
necessarily fitting in. He had a couple of drops in
that game, big touchdown catch, but you know that's gonna
take some time. Corey Davis, he was really raw coming
out of Western Michigan, and I think anyone who who
watched him knew he was gonna be a little bit
of a developmental player the first couple of years in
the league. Tremendous upside, but it's gonna take some time.

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So even though it looked like they addressed the wide
receiver position around Mariota, I don't necessarily know that that
was the case. And and their offense try to kind
of become this more balanced offense instead of being a
run first team. And it didn't necessarily work out that
well this year, and you saw Marcus Mariota struggle on
the road in particular. Now in this in this you
know game, he he just made enough plays to help

(01:03:41):
their team win. Um. But I think another offseason continuity, stability.
I think that's what's best for him and his growth.
And then after next year, if you feel like this
team takes a step back and he takes a step back,
then maybe you make the decision to move on. But
at this point in time, I do not think that
would be a good decision for the to see Titans
or Marcus Mariota. Brady Quinn Jonas knocks here. What does

(01:04:03):
it mean when Geygo says just fifteen minutes could save
you fifteen or center more on car insurance? I mean
you probably should have gone to Guigo dot com fifteen
minutes ago. Um. Up next, you're gonna hear comments from
a head coach that you've never really heard this before
from an NFL hiad coach, especially after a big game
that's coming up next here. But for all the latest
from around the world of sports is Steve to say.
NFL playoff set for the Divisional round now Saturday afternoon.

(01:04:27):
It'll be Atlanta at Philadelphia. Atlanta is favored on the
road temperature and Philly will be in the forties rain
on Friday, but not on Saturday at the moment as
the forecast. Saturday night, it will be Tennessee at New
England temperature in the thirties rain Saturday morning but not
Saturday night for the game is the forecast Next Sunday
at one pm Eastern time. Jacksonville at Pittsburgh and Steelers

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wide receiver and Tonio Brown will return from his caffe injury.
Twenty degrees and overcast. The Pittsburgh forecast for next Sunday
and then on Fox TV. New Orleans at Minnesota indoors
next Sunday, four thirty pm Eastern Time. New Orleans advanced
by going now three and oh against the Panthers this
seed Big Carolina thirty one twenty six, Drew Brees three
hundred seventy six yards passing couple of first half touchdowns.

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Ted Gin four receptions a hundred fifteen yards, including an
early eighty yard t d Jacksonville's win was ten three
over Buffalo, a combined seventeen punts in the game. It
was three three late in the third quarter. College Football's
national championship game is tomorrow night, Alabama against Georgia in Atlanta.
College hoops Ohio State beat number one Michigan State eighty

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to sixty four. The Buckeyes with a twelve oh run
to and the first half, and currently Arizona State, ranked
fourth in the country, has taken now a fifty to
forty four lead at Utah about thirteen minutes to go. Earlier,
college hoops wins for Wichita State, Miami and Cincinnati. NBA
win for Miami over Utah one oh three, one oh
two on a late LAAF Back to you, thanks Steve

(01:05:54):
Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn Here Fox Sports Radio Company Alive
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, where It's easy
to say fifty and sent a more on car intermce
with Geico Go to Get Dot Comic Call Seminato. The
only hard part figuring out which way is easier. So um,
we were talking about the situation in Tennessee with Mike
Mlarkey and the Tennessee Titans felt the need to come

(01:06:15):
out and defend Mike Malarkey or give him a vote
of confidence. So the Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk
and a quote earlier today said, quote, just to eliminate
any distractions moving forward, Mike Malarkey is our head coach
and will be our head coach moving forward. Okay, So,
and you're wondering, well, you just want a playoff game, Um,

(01:06:37):
a road playoff game. You've got the New England Patriots
to prepare for next week. Wouldn't you be more focused
on the playoff game and not so much the coaching conversation,
especially after a win? His job safe, right, I mean
that's what we're hearing from everybody. Well, the reason they
felt the need to comment on it is because Mike
Malarkey um talked about the rumors of his demid is

(01:07:00):
in Tennessee after last night's win. You know, I don't
think it's fair to my family, um so as an
effect of my family has effect on me. So yeah,
I'd say it had a big effect on me no
matter what happened. No, I No, I haven't had any
support to say that. I was so um No, I

(01:07:21):
just assumed, you know, the worst, it just calls out
the organization. Yea, I haven't gotten any support. I wouldn't know,
Yeah I have, I have no idea, but but it's
the truth. I mean, it's a straight shooter. I love
the fact that he's essentially calling out the ownership and
saying there's been other owners who have stood up in
support of their head coaches. I mean, heck, think about

(01:07:44):
the Cleveland Browns. Think about Jimmy Haslum. They didn't win
a game this year, They've won one game in two years,
and he stood up before the end of the season
and said Hugh Jackson was saved. And this was before
I believe it was after the guy to Sasha Brown.
They hadn't hired their general manager yet, and it's just
Hugh Jackson kind of sitting alone up there, and he

(01:08:06):
defended him. Then not taking intocas into account what a
general manager or how the season would end would would
impact that, I mean, still defending his head coach. That's
what you'd like to see if you're a head coach,
is having some sort of of backing by ownership, especially
when you're talking about a team that's now going to
the playoffs. You know what you know, it's funny about

(01:08:27):
this too, now that I think about it. He almost
paints him into a corner because he called him out
post game after a win and then so much so
and and it was so uncomfortable, and you never hear
a coach really talk like that that they felt the
need the following day as they're trying to figure out
who they're playing, you know, in the playoffs next week,
and the owner has to come out and give support

(01:08:50):
to Mike Malarkey. It's almost like he's painting him into
this corner to where now, if they do fire him,
which is still a very very a very real possibility,
if they do fire him after of the season, whenever
this season does end, especially if it's after this weekend,
that organization and ownership looks awful, like they look terrible
if that's the case, and if it's Josh McDaniels getting

(01:09:11):
the job, the fact that they probably interviewed McDaniels while
malarkey was getting prepared to play Josh McDaniels in the Patriots,
that makes him look even worse. So he's almost painted
him into a corner there. I almost wondered too, if
the ownership didn't come out and defend him earlier, because
maybe they're busy talk you never think about they're like,
oh yeah, we we would have defended you. But uh yeah,

(01:09:34):
hold on, sorry, Josh, Yeah, we're gonna have to call
you back. We've got to do go to a press
conference right now. Excuse me, um, whoever the Titans owner
is what was your name? Amy Adams Strong? Excuse me,
Mrs Strong? Coach Malarkey's on the phone. Yeah, okay, well listen,
pat Um, Look is it Schermer is it sc h
And I just want to make sure when we're putting

(01:09:55):
out your paid hold on one second, when we're giving
your paycheck, like what it needs to do? Okay, patrim through,
Like yeah, maybe they're having a conversation this entire time,
just assuming yeah, we're moving forward to this. But I
do like the idea of Malarkey calling him out like
that where they've got to address it. It's the day
after they won a playoff game on the road. It's
a brilliant strategy for the reasons that you pointed out.
I mean, one, it puts them in a position where

(01:10:18):
they have to come out and say something and they
look bad if they move back, if they move away
from him, they look bad considering what he's been able
to do. Now, we've seen other owners, you know, move
on from coaches. You know, allah um what Dean Spanos
and and I'll get the yeah, moving on from Marty
Schotenheimer after what and two lost home playoff game, So

(01:10:44):
we've seen worse, I'll put it that way. But still
it puts them in a bad position. And I gotta
be honest with you. Some people feel like there's not
a lot of good candidates out there. Others feel like
there are. I think if you look at Mike Malarkey,
what he's in the past two years, he's got head
coaching experience. There might be some other teams organizations that say, hey,
let's bring him in. Maybe he's a guy we really

(01:11:06):
like what he was able to do and we feel
like he'd be successful for us. So I think there's
gonna be opportunities for him if for whatever reason they
want to pull the rug from out underneath, well that's it.
And that's why it's brilliant what he did because you
could look at it and go because this is his
second stint as a head coach. Right, Okay, So usually
if if you flame out in two tries as a
head coach, it's over. Rex. Ryan's a perfect example. We

(01:11:28):
all acknowledge John Fox has probably done and he got
three tries as a head coach. Like if if you're
a Malarkey, you just want a playoff game now, all
of a sudden, all the onus is on. Man, God,
that guy want a playoff game and they fired him.
We don't want Tom already shottenheimer him, do we? Like?
I think he deserves another opportunity, Like it's actually like,
I mean, I think, actually think it was smart what

(01:11:49):
he did. And and you're right if they end up
firing him next weekend or whatever, after they come out
and and give him a vote of confidence after winning
a playoff game, they look awful, absolutely awful. And here's
the thing is, I think you have to look a
little bit deeper into Mike Malarkey's career and the fact
that he only got one year in Jacksonville. Okay, only
one year and that was two thousand twelve. They go

(01:12:10):
to AND four team, which, like, to be quite honest,
that's not really that much different from the norm, right,
I mean, you can go over since Gus Bradley took
over or since Blake Bortles got there in I mean,
they were a three win, five win, you know team
more or less, and up until this year were they
really kind of taken off. So even the way he

(01:12:32):
was hired and fired in Jacksonville, Uh, in my opinion
wasn't necessarily the best way that thing worked out. But
you're right. I mean, typically two shots as a head
coach is most likely all you get. But I think
he's done well enough where he would have another opportunity.
And you know, again, him positioning himself in this way
is pretty smart and uh, it's it's funny to be

(01:12:52):
When I was talking about this on my highly rated
overnight show on Fox Sports Radio, a drunk and I'm
gonna assume they were drunk because this is the reasoning
behind it. Said that the reason that Mike Malarkley deserved
to go as head coach there in Tennessee, regardless of
what happened in this game against Kansas City, is because
his last name means crap, Like that's a That's an

(01:13:13):
actual tweet I got from somebody and I wanted to
reply back. I don't even know, and I wanted to
reply back with my last name is Knox. What is
that rhyme with? You know what I mean? Like like,
if we're gonna base it, we're gonna judge people on names.
You know what I'm talking about. This is where it
goes back into your acting days and that's why it

(01:13:34):
was an easy transition for you into the porn industry.
Absolutely absolutely, man. But that's uh listen, Old Larry light
switch over here. That's uh, that's the way it works.
You know. Not to one, not to brag or anything.
You know, old Old. There's a Jonas Knocks starring in
my eleventh toe, you know, Brady Quentn Jonas Knocks here,

(01:13:59):
Fox Sports Radio Comany Alive from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio Studios. Um Up next year on Fox Sports Radio.
We're gonna have fun with one of the great overblown
and embellish stories in recent NFL history. This is going
to be so much fun. I've been looking forward to this,
the entire show that's next year on Fox Sports Radio.
Janice is my training name. Brady Quinn Jonas Knox here,

(01:14:21):
Fox Sports Radio Company Alive from the Getico Fox Sports
Radio Studios. Just catching you up on the NFL Playoffs
Wild Card weekend continued on Sunday where it was the
New Orleans Saints advancing after a win over the Carolina Panthers.
That was the nightcapper, and then earlier on you had
the shootout in Jacksonville where the Jaguars won ten three

(01:14:45):
uh ten to three over the um Buffalo Bills. By
the way, is it me or did when Nathan Peterman
came in, I really was hoping they were going to
make a comeback in that game, like something about it
just would have been so right about Nathan Petermen doing it.
And then all of a sudden, Tony Romo was rooting
for him, and I said, no, I don't think I
want that anymore. Well, and it just reminded me of

(01:15:07):
one thing, um Sean McDermott bench Tyrod Taylor, And you
can't let you know because every single interview I watched,
And this is why I really appreciated what Mike Malarkey
said his press conference in regards to like not getting
any support and all that, Like, I appreciate that because
it's real, man, it's the truth. He's pissed, like he

(01:15:30):
wished that they gave him more support given what he's
been able to do with this team, um, and and
they're not. And then you listen to Sean McDermott and
the way he talks about the decision of bench Tyrod Taylor,
and you're sitting there saying, okay, dude, just just say
it's one of two things. Either ownership came to you
and they said, look, Tyrod Taylor is not getting it done.

(01:15:52):
We want to see what we have in Nathan Peterman,
so he needs to start. He needs to play at
this point, which that definitely wasn't the case. It was
more their defense or you were like, you know what,
our defense is playing awful the past two weeks. Um,
that's an issue for us, But we need to find
a you know, an offense that can score more points.
So I want to put a Nathan Peterman. See our
rookies got or it was that. Either way though, either

(01:16:12):
way it falls on you. And he says the whole time,
do I regret the decision? No, but I regret the result. Well,
of course, of course you're gonna regret the result when
you had to put in your starter originally at halftime
because the guy went into through five interceptions, Like, I
can't get over it because it was one of the
worst decisions that's been made by a coach that had

(01:16:35):
to sit there and watch another team win in order
for them to get in the playoffs. Like, as cool
as that was, as dramatic as it was, it's awesome
that the Bills fans were are donating to Andy Dalton's charity.
It probably didn't need to be the case if you
would have had a better chance of winning in l
a versus the charges with Tyra Taylor quarterback and not
starting the game with Peterman's only. We had a Bills

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fan on the show here who actually was at that
game to watch the Nathan petermanicks perment. Oh hey, what's up, Eric,
I didn't see you there. Unbelievable. It was just as
bad as in person as it was on TV. I
can imagine. I mean, how do you justify it? I mean, honestly, um, yeah,
I think the ridings on the Wall, I think it's
one of the I think it's a Tyrod's not their
guy kind of thing where I mean they've slowly worked

(01:17:18):
their way away from you know, everybody that was there.
With the dug Way, they restructured his contract when he
got there, Like they could have easily just kind of
released them and said no, we're not going to pay
you that big amount of money, Like they restructured it
to keep him there for another year. They didn't have
to do that. I think it's a band aid. Dude.
I don't think they have faith in him. I don't
think that's that's been apparent. They don't have the faith.

(01:17:39):
They also fired their GM after the draft was over. Yeah,
I think that. I don't think they wanted to. They
were trying to avoid the tank kind of term being
tossed around, and I think Tyrod is just a band aid, like, oh, yeah,
we're trying, We're trying when it's I really don't think
they it's they have any kind of plant that keep
the position, the fact that they made playoffs despite that,

(01:18:01):
the fact they made the playoffs despite that, good for them, man,
get me good for them. And by the way, did
didn't it feel like there were more Bills fans than
Jags fans at that game, like Bill's mom based on
based on the noise they're allouder on, dude, there's there
are Bills fans everywhere. Like I loved hearing Jim Nancy
Bills when the whitest version of Bill's mafia I've ever

(01:18:23):
heard of my life. There's Bills fans on at so
many road games. There's tons of Bills fan They just
never have anything to cheer for. They had a film today.
You know, they got into the playoffs. That's something they celebrate. Hey,
they're there. I'm sure you have seen the videos there was.
There's a lot of celebrating going on the game itself,
not too much, but the pregame was fun. Okay, speaking
of celebrations, is this coming from a Salty Charges fan?

(01:18:45):
By the way, who's that? I'm just see it's it's
it's weird. Go ahead, Well, I'm saying speaking of celebrations.
Um you Mr Brown's alum, your thoughts on the O
N sixteen parade thrown by Cleveland fans? Uh? Look, it's
uh stuff to do stuff to not win a game.

(01:19:06):
Um what about some of the some of the Bills
players are upset about it, and one of them was
I forget who it was said that, Uh that that
are Brown's players. I mean, God, I can't even keep
trade anymore. I've been drinking all show. What do you
want from me? Um? The fact that one of the
Browns players said that. Uh, he's like, yeah, this is
gonna deter free agents from wanting to sign here. I

(01:19:27):
don't know. Maybe it's the whole, Maybe it's the whole
you know, city and windless football team thing that might
deter players from signing there. Yeah, I'd say the weather,
and I'll say one thing that everyone will overlook, the parade,
the weather, anything else. You want to say money, and
they've got plenty of money. So I don't think if
they hand out some big old contracts that's gonna deter

(01:19:50):
any free agent from wanting to come to Cleveland. Um
My thoughts are this. I think when you don't win
a game, all of a sudden, your opinion about what
the fans want to do doesn't matter anymore. Right, Um,
you know you may be hurt by it, but you
had your opportunity sixteen times this past year to try
to make a case for you to not to join

(01:20:10):
the Detroit Lions and be you know that oh for
team and historically be as as bad as it was
this year. So you know, my opinion is as much
as they want to be frustrated, I don't know that
they should be directing their frustration at fans because those
are the people that pay the tickets come watch you.
So when you don't win a game, you don't have
any say in a team being able or excuse me,

(01:20:31):
and fans being able to go out and throw a
parade for your lack of success. That's what comes along
with the territory. You're being paid a lot of money
to play a professional sport. I think you'd have thicker skin,
and why don't you work harder to next year make
getting some wins and not allowing that to happen again.
I'm a little bothered though, that that the parade was
thrown and we weren't invited. I assume that you, Brady Quinn,
would have more pole within the city than that, because

(01:20:53):
I would have loved to have sit sat on a
float with you on that parade and uh and done
a show. I think it would have been a fun show,
you and I on the on one of the parade
floats celebrating the windless Browns this year. How about that.
I don't think it was a very long parade. It
was pretty short. Any time with you is long enough
for me, babe, anytime whatever the hell that means. Oh man,

(01:21:16):
Just a huge, huge turn of events in the world
of sports. Absolutely stunning, stunning game. I mean, I'm having
a hard time just catching my breath. Uh, just just
craziness on a big NFL weekend. Of course, let's open
up with the Lakers Hawks from a half empty Stable
Center to start out the hour. Brady your thoughts, I'm

(01:21:38):
gonna go ahead and pass man. The Lakers are bad,
They're so bad. Well, they may be bad, but all
that really matters is LaVar Ball now thinks that no
one's playing for Luke Walton, then we should talk about
whatever LaVar LaVar Ball thinks. You know what, though, why
does he just pull his son? Why doesn't he take
a Lonzo taking the Lithuania he can play professional basketball.

(01:21:59):
There could be with this, there's um and and then
they can all be one happy family in Lithuania. Listen,
there's nothing wrong with playing overseas. I had a brother
who played semi pro football in Denmark and in Italy.
Not that they pay for your housing they did. That
was semi pro. And that's the thing I'm not trying
to knock it. I'm saying, if you don't like Luke

(01:22:19):
Wold or the Lakers or the NBA, go elsewhere. Man,
But like that's not I mean, he could criticize the
only wants. But you know, at the end of the day,
you've got options. You can take your son elsewhere. You
already did with two of your other sons. All right,
And I think that will cover our NBA conversation for
the entire year. Right there, folks have had a minute
and a half of NBA talk, round of applause for

(01:22:40):
US live studio audience. Here we have we have we
have playcated our NBA audience. There you go. That is
an NBA breakdown. That is a professional breakdown of NBA
basketball here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, we had our
quota man, ninety seconds of NBA talk in January. You're
lucky you got that much, all right, Okay, So I
want to get to this because they're you know, playoff

(01:23:02):
stuff from you know, the Saints winning, the Jaguars winning.
So New Orleans will play at Minnesota coming up next week. Uh,
the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to Pittsburgh. And then in
the Saturday games, it was the l A Rams falling
to the Atlanta Falcons. So Atlanta goes at Philadelphia. And
then you've got the Tennessee Titans upsetting the Kansas City Chiefs.

(01:23:23):
So Tennessee goes at New England. The reason I bring
up the Tennessee New England game last is because this week,
and most notably Friday, there was a report that came
out on ESPN dot com Seth Wickersham, who wrote a
column and did an investigative report on the Seattle seah
I don't even know if that's the right term investigative report.
He wrote a store whatever, who cares everybody? Anybody just

(01:23:46):
between you and I, anybody listening, anybody listening right now
might be half in the bag? Okay, just between you
and I. But Seth Wickersham writes this column about the
Seattle Seahawks, and then he writes this new latest one
that is out on Friday about the New England Patriots,
and so it causes this outpouring of concern and critiquing

(01:24:08):
and the end is near and Belichick wants out, and
Brady's falling apart, and how could they trade Garoppolo and
Craft and Brady and Belichick aren't seeing eyed eye and
Craft prefers Tom Brady and Belichick is upset about like
it was this big seven page well written column about
what is happening with the New England Patriots. Your overall

(01:24:30):
consensus from reading the story was what Brady Quinn that
here's what I'd do. I would take it and i'd
i'd go print it off. Uh, and my little printer,
I haven't figured out how to connect it wirelessly. It's
it's unbelievable. And my wife figured out on her laptop.
She hasn't helped me with mine, so I would have

(01:24:52):
to plug it into my computer. I'd print it out.
I'd then walk over. I would crumble it up a
little bit and now and then I would I'd bring it,
you know, pull it back apart, and I crumbled up again,
and I pull it back apart. I'd probably do that
about five six more times, and and then i'd go
in and uh, I'd wipe my butt with it. Because
that's that's what I pretty much thought of the whole report. Um. Hey,

(01:25:15):
by the way, I just get I think a cat's
tongue would be more comfortable than than seven sheets of
paper crumbled up. That's why you crumble it up, and
then you keep going back and forth so it softens
it up. Okay, that's why you're doing it. I mean,
you can always just go one ply. If you go
to the ninety cent store, you get that one ply
toilet paper. That's basically like just using your hand, do
you mean ninety nine cent store. A lot of hotels

(01:25:36):
now are cheap and out and having one ply. It's
terrible enough to know. To man, there's a lot of
those four star, five star hotels that are not spending
the big dollars on the toilet paper. I mean, so
that's why you've just gotta I mean, why even risk
it just wearing diaper? You know, like like at this point,
why even risk it? But anyways, like let's get back
to the matter and hand you off into the toiletree

(01:25:58):
department of the program. That's how I feel about the
report because here's the thing. Okay, let's just stop for
a moment. So the sky is falling. That's essentially what
this piece amounts to, by which he's a talented writer, right,
it's a very um entertaining um. But okay, so who's
the number one Cedatriots? Okay? Did they win the a

(01:26:20):
f C East this year? They did? They also won
thirteen games, Okay, so the thirteen and three and then
Tom Brady was here for the m v P Okay,
So what the hell does it matter, dude? Like, even
if everything even if everything in that was true, Okay,
what does it matter? Because right now this team has
the opportunity to win another super Bowl based on w

(01:26:43):
the position this year's playoffs, and it doesn't necessarily feel
like Tom Brady slowing down anytime soon. Maybe the future
will tell us different. And look as far as Jimmy
Garoppolo goes, and however you want to make whatever you
want to make of that, the fact is DONNYE represents
both Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo, and I have a
I have a really hard time believing that that was

(01:27:04):
such a fractured relationship as what he portrays it to be.
And the whole training situation with Alex Guerrero. You and
I've talked before, I've met Alex. Alex has worked on me.
He's fantastic at what he does. Now to say that
that doesn't um upset maybe some of the athletic trainers
with the team. That's always the case. Man, I was
in Denver's the same thing there, all right. There's a

(01:27:25):
lot of very reputable guys who work with the team
and players work with them outside of it um and
they're only allowed so far so many days in the
training room. But at the end of the day, does
Alex Garreros still work on Tom Brady in the facility? Yes?
Does he work on other players? Know they stopped that,
but they can still go see him at their location
and Patriot Place right across the way, so that hasn't

(01:27:46):
even changed. Like, this is the biggest fluff piece ever
for a network that needs the clicks and and need
something to talk about. What's what's funny about it? Dude?
This is my favorite part of the article. So they
so they talk about how trading Garoppolo just devastated Bill Belichick.
I mean he was devastated by it, and that team

(01:28:06):
was so torn apart over the trade of their backup
quarterback that they went on to lose one game the
rest of the entire season. Like that's that's how devastated
they were trading Jimmy Garoppolo for a second round pick.
But here's my favorite part of the article. That's like,
and I even texted you about this because I love
this part. So they talked about how Jimmy Garoppolo after

(01:28:27):
he heard his shoulder last year while Tom Brady was
out of deflate Gate, that Jimmy Garoppolo went to make
an appointment with TB twelve and when he went to
go knock on the door, nobody answered the door, and
then he had to go back and have to set
up another appointment with team trainers afterwards. You know, like
like Brady was so concerned over Jimmy Garoppolo that he
shut him out from work from getting worked on at

(01:28:47):
TB twelve. Hold on a second, like so now, so now,
the way they make it seem is that Jimmy Garoppolo
all of a sudden went from backup quarterback who needs
to be treated by a professional to the neighbor's kid
who's ding dong ditched the other house too many times
and they're tired of having to put out a bag
of dog crap on fire on the front porch. So

(01:29:08):
they're just not gonna answer the door when he comes
to the door now, like they don't want to deal
with anymore. You know, last time this Jimmy Garoppolo kid
came here, there was a to go box with dog
crap inside of it and it was on fire, and
we put it out with our feet and we gotta
crap all over our shoes, like come on, man, like
what are we really talking about here? Like the and
then the other one was, well, you know, people around

(01:29:29):
the Patriots they think that Tom Brady is a TV
twelve feels like it's a cult. Did it ever occur
to you that maybe the teammates are busting his balls
a little bit? Like, Hey, Tom, how's the cult going?
Like that? Like that would be You've been in NFL
locker rooms when you had your sponsors or you had
what was it that was it e A S? Or
what was your your sponsor? At? Yes? Like how many times?

(01:29:51):
How many times did a teammate go, hey Brady, now
I'm done? Like was that was that a personal shot
at you? Not at all. The thing is, anytime you're
in a position where you're gonna be making money on
things off the field, and this is obviously something for that.
For Tom Brady, it's something he believes in. Guys are
gonna give you a hard time about it, Okay, they are.

(01:30:13):
That's just how a locker room works. That's why when
people talk about a locker room, the things that are
said and the things that go on there um a
lot of times you don't want it to get out
because guys are brutal, They are harsh on one another
in a locker room, and things that are said typically
that are accepted are okay. They wouldn't be accepted in
modern society. And that's that's why it's a locker room.

(01:30:35):
That's why it's okay. Like to sit there and try
to make a locker room politically correct, like I'm sorry,
Like that's not like, that's not what a locker room
is there for. People get frustrated, people say things, Things
happen that you know only should be said and left there,
you know, And that's just how it is. But to me,
like the whole thing about this was, you know, this

(01:30:55):
fracture which within the relationship and all that, Like Bill
Belichick is gonna move on then coach for the Giants
or he's so frustrated by this. He's sixty five right now,
how much longer is he gonna coach? And and here's
the one to be Dick lebo and coach to he's eighty.
And here's the other thing too, like everyone's talking about,
you know, Bill Belichick is getting his coordinators ready for

(01:31:17):
other head coaching jobs. He hasn't always done that in
the past. If Bill Belichick was leaving, don't you think
he'd clewe in that Patricia or Josh McDaniels and say, hey,
by the way, this is my last year, I want
you to take over, Like, like, wouldn't they consider that
the job they'd want as opposed to interviewing for the
Bears or the Lions, you know what I mean? Like
like so much of this is it Like it's almost

(01:31:41):
like part of like maybe thirty or forty of it
is true, and the other stuff is just kind of overblown,
like it's over dramatized. Like is it that far fetched
that after almost twenty years you kind of, you know,
start to butt heads a little bit, you know, like
you kind of start to, you know, maybe not agree
on some things. Like does that mean that all of
a sudden it's over I just I thought it was
totally overblown. Total, the entire thing is overblown. And and

(01:32:03):
to your point of course, like head coach quarterback, you
don't think you're gonna get in some heated debates on
the sidelines. I mean, you don't think him and Josh
McDaniels don't get into it from time to time like
this is the NFL, man, that this is the highest
level football as it gets. And of course the coach
is gonna get on you, and you're gonna get on
the coach. Like it's a back and forth thing. And
I think, to be quite honest, the longer you work

(01:32:26):
with someone, the longer you play for them and all that,
it only gets more heated because you feel that much closer.
You know, it's much like a relationship. The longer you're
with someone. Man, you guys, can you can say some
bad things towards one another, but that's what happens because
you feel more comfortable that you know at the end
of the day you're gonna find resolve and you're gonna
kind of work through it together because you feel that close.

(01:32:47):
Like that's what happens. So I honestly didn't take much
from that at all. I just think it was something
that a certain network needed to talk about. Um, I mean,
and even the Seattle Seahawks deal and all that, like
people want to talk about that locker room and things
being fractured, blah blah blah, Like you know what, you
know what hurt that team this year? Injuries nothing in

(01:33:07):
regards to the locker room that hurt the Seattle Seahawks.
If they weren't so banged up between their secondary and
their offensive line and even the running back position, they
have a hard time trying to find that that's what's
kept that team back, not whatever disgruntlement or whatever you
know you want to write about it talk about in
their locker room, Like these are all pieces to try
to get clicks and to try to make more and
sensationalized stuff that just doesn't exist. Jimmy Garantholo knocked on

(01:33:31):
TV twelve and nobody answered, and he was perplexed it
why that? What? Like, can I first off, another thing
that bothers me about this is the unnamed sources, Like
did you see one source? Hey, hey, Tom, Jimmy's at
the front door now he tped the front of the
yard last week. F that guy don't answer, Like, oh, Mike,

(01:33:52):
come on, man, can I actually realistically play out how
that probably worked? He probably tried to get oh late,
well after he got done doing whatever he was doing,
and it was probably closed where someone didn't stay whatever else,
Like it's not that hard man. Quarterbacks stay in the
locker room a lot longer than everyone else. I got
news for you. When you go to seven eleven and

(01:34:12):
you go to buy beer at two oh three am
and the refrigerator is locked, that's not a personal attack
on you because the guy work in the counter thinks
you're going to take his job. That just means that
they're closed. Okay, Like come on, like, let's let's think
about this logically. By the way, you ever tried to
do that, like open up the frigie two oh three
at seven eleven and have them tell you sorry, it's

(01:34:34):
too late. You ever done that before? No, But there's
a U d F you'n a dairy farmers. I actually
witnessed one time. Someone, Oh man, they try to dairy farmer?
What the hell is that? It's it's it's the same thing.
It's kind of like a s like a wrestling organization.
They know the differences. They actually serve ice cream there,
so think about it. You go in there for whatever

(01:34:54):
you need from like the convenience store part. They also
serve ice cream milkshakes. It's actually pretty legit. But the
person went up there. I was literally getting a milkshake
and the person went in there put up a twelve
pack and they're like, we need to see your I
d walk outside, come back in and I kind of
wait on say anything. It's like two minutes later, three
minutes later, it's after midnight. And at that point they

(01:35:15):
couldn't buy alcohol. So this person's going I rate because
they're like, I've had it up here before and now
you're not letting me buy it. This is horsecrap. Blah
blah blah. I was terrible, ser That's why the moral
of that story is steal. You know, just walk out.
I'm not gonna Okay, well they maybe just do it
with a forty ouncet next time. All right, let's let's

(01:35:36):
not let's not give any bad advice here on Fox
Sports Radier, that's not all we want to do. He's
Brady Quent, I'm Jonas Knocks. This is Fox Sport Trade.
There's been a fun show. We have touched on all
sorts of weird things on this show. Um coming up
next though, there's a an NFL fan base that is
trying to have a positive outlook on things right now,
and maybe they shouldn't. We'll tell you who that is
next year. On Fox Sports Radio. Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox

(01:35:58):
here Fox Sports Radio. We do have a story out
of the NFL in regards to a fan base that
maybe this might be wishful thinking. So we will get
to that here coming up in just a couple of minutes.
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(01:36:21):
Sager brought this to my attention a little while ago. Now,
there's a report on Sporting News UM that a member
of the Jacksonville Jaguars is claiming that Richie Incognito made
some racial remarks during the game during their playoff game.
I mean, you know it would be a bad look

(01:36:44):
for him, Yeah, I mean beyond beyond the obvious, just
because he's tried to kind of rehab his image. Um.
But the other thing is, I think we're more likely
to say, oh, yeah, that that that guy. We've we've
seen him say racist stuff before. He's definitely doing it again. Right,
It's like an alcoholic who's you know in rehab. All

(01:37:05):
of a sudden Oh no, no, they could definitely be
drunk because they could relapse at any point. It's kind
of unfair, like, unless there's documented proof, you'd like to
believe he's innocent until proven guilty, even with his history. Um,
but you know, again, incredibly sad if that was the
kid yannicking way is the defensive end for the Jaguars.

(01:37:25):
You sent a tweet out, not calling Richie incognito by name,
but saying sixty four. Um, you know, I mean, but
if we we don't have any there's no there's no
proof of it. I mean, it'll be a big talking
point because I guess just you know, talking about the
games and things like that is not fun for a
lot of people anymore. And maybe this will generate some
you know, some conversation. But again, we don't have any
proof of it, but it is out there. So there

(01:37:47):
we addressed it and we move on. How's that you
give her that until we have proof? And by the way,
isn't everybody miked up for a playoff game virtually anyway?
So wouldn't somebody have caught it on Mike? I don't
think everyone's miked up. There's enough people where you'd think
you'd be able to, but that's also I mean, it
takes a while to be able to get through all
that audio since to be able to then determine that. Um. Alright,

(01:38:08):
So I do want to get your opinion on this,
because so I want to I want to just take
you a little trip down memory lane. Right, So, because
I was watching the Rams lose to the Atlanta Falcons
and sort of the conversation afterwards was, well, you know,
the future is bright for the Rams, and so it
got me thinking about something. I remember, like a few

(01:38:28):
years back, there was this team, you know, they were
a four win team. They fired their you know, longtime
head coach and they brought in this new head coach
and he was like this offensive innovator. And his first
year with this team that had won four years that
the year before four games, the year before they won
a division title. Uh, they hosted a wild card game.

(01:38:50):
They got unbelievable quarterback play out of this guy that
nobody expected that sort of quarterback play from. I mean,
he was an offensive innovator. Everybody was talking about what
a job job this head coach had done. And they
hosted this playoff game and they lost but the conversation
afterwards was, yeah, but the future is bright, similar to
like it was on Saturday night after the Rams lost.

(01:39:13):
That guy was Chip Kelly and that team was the
Philadelphia Eagles. And I don't know if maybe Rams fans
just aren't used to seeing the NFL and they're not
used to this, But I look at that game and
that and that environment and that opportunity against the Atlanta
Falcons as a totally blown opportunity for the l A Rams. Uh.

(01:39:35):
Twelve teams made the playoffs last year, eight of them.
Eight of those teams missed the playoffs this year. You
can't guarantee you're going to be back in that same
spot again. I think they totally blew it. The Rams did.
I'm not gonna say they totally blew it. I think
at the end of the day, the Atlanta Falcons are
a better team. I'm comfortable saying that because we're now

(01:39:57):
in the playoffs. What you did in the regular season
does don't matter. If you look at that Atlanta Falcons
roster and you compare it to the l A Rams,
I would hope you'd say that the Falcons have a
better roster. If you if you're if you're not gonna
say that, then you probably shouldn't be a part of
this conversation because you're nuts. Um, but they have they
have more talent, Like bottom line, get the hell out

(01:40:19):
of here. In all seriousness, Like, if you don't agree
with that, then I just just turned the channel, man,
because the Falcons have a ton more talent. They haven't
played that way this year, but I think you started
to see a glimpse of that versus l A. Rams
on the road in the playoffs, and you know, you
started to see things pick up for them, so you know,
we're accustomed to seeing that. I think the Rams had

(01:40:40):
an amazing year, but they need to be one of
those teams that can sustain it, and they're gonna have
to do so in a division that the Seattle Setaks
will be better next year. They're not gonna be the
team that we saw this year. Um, you know, I'm
not sure what to make of the Arizona Cardinals. We'll
have to Sea Hannock as you know how they come
around and at the man, they haven't lost here with

(01:41:02):
Jimmy Garoppolo as the starting quarterback. So to your point, like,
it's not easy to make it into the playoffs, but
it's not easy to do what they did this year.
Like I think Rams fans, if they didn't pay attention,
it might be pretty unfortunate for them, because I don't
know that we're gonna see this offense explode like it did,
uh this past year. I mean, you just you don't
see a team go from worse to first like the

(01:41:24):
Rams did and then be able to maintain that, like
the Core Nations are too good teams adjust, you have injuries,
all sorts of things kind of impact that. So it
was a phenomenal year, but you're right, like I think
it's gonna be tough for them, uh to to be
able to replicate what they're able to do this year.
Do you think that Sean McVeigh will be fired? This
is a serious question. Oh, I didn't know. We're on

(01:41:46):
the aird like like it's like at some point in
his career, like listen, and that's like I'm not and
it's not to to pile on the Rams because he's
done it. I like Sean mcbeigh a lot, I think,
and he seems like a good guy and he's he
doesn't throw anybody under the bus, and so I like
him a lot, and I like the job that he's
done there. But I just think that, like, if you've
watched enough NFL, like the most difficult thing to do

(01:42:09):
is to win consistently, Like you can't just assume you're
going to be back. That's why you know, I didn't
buy into Atlanta before the year. I just thought, Man,
you lose a game like that, you lose a Super
Bowl like that, that is devastating. Most teams would just
fold up and walk in Atlanta if anything, that team's
got balls, man, they like they have been through the grind,

(01:42:31):
they have struggled all throughout the season, and here they are,
and they're gonna be in the Divisional round of the
playoffs on the road a three point favorite over the
Philadelphia Eagles because Philly is starting a backup quarterback. Atlanta,
with that win, may have locked up a spot in
the NFC Title Game a year after losing one of
the most devastating Super Bowls in the history of the league.

(01:42:53):
And it's pretty remarkable. Yeah, I mean when when you
think about like one mentally overcoming that, but to being
able to make it back and then make it back
to the NFC Championship Game and and and I don't
want to say that Philly doesn't have a shot. I mean, look,
Atlanta has got to go on the road. They're gonna
be outside. The conditions are not gonna be what I
think the Falcons are used to planked in in a
in a dome. Um, but you'd have to give them

(01:43:15):
benefit of the doubt. They're the first team, I believe,
in the Super Bowl era to ever be favored versus
a number one seed in the playoffs. I mean, think
about that is historical when you look at that. I'm
sure Eagle fans are gonna be handling that well all
week long. I'm sure, I'm sure they're not gonna be
outraged by that at all. Anthony Gargano a Fox Sports
radio host here and a really good dude. He is
a Philly native and does a local show in Philadelphia.

(01:43:38):
I I really want to tune in just to hear
him comment on the idea of Philadelphia being the first
number one seed to be an underdog hosting their first
game in the playoffs. But but back to the conversation
about McVeagh, I mean, if you look at them, you know,
messing up their shot or their opportunity, right, you're you're
kind of in a catch twenty two. Like if if

(01:43:58):
you didn't sit your layers in weeks seventeen and someone
got injured, it'd be unforgivable, right, because now that hurts
your chances once you get to that first playoff game
in the wild card round. But then if you do,
you run the risk of being rusty, which it looked
like they were. Um, maybe we should give the Atlanta
Falcons more credit defensively for how they played in the
first half, but it seemed like things were a little

(01:44:19):
bit off for golf and for that offense. So um,
you know, I think he went the safer route, to
be quite honest with you. Um, and I think this
team is gonna have the opportunity to be back there again. Um,
it will largely depend on, you know, how how the
guys play next year and how they can put it
all back together in their health. To be quite honest,
did Gurley seem worn out to you at the end
of that game? He seemed tired, And I know he's

(01:44:41):
he's got a heavy work one. I think he's third
in the NFL and touches this season, behind laby On
Bell and Melvin Gordon. If I'm not mistaken, or there
might have been somebody else at number two, But he
seemed kind of worn out, you know, like like almost
almost like the season had taken his toll. And I
know that they were off for Week seventeen, But to
your point, like if they would have played and gotten injured,

(01:45:03):
you know, maybe there is something to why Philadelphia played
their starters, why the Minnesota Vikings made sure that they
were playing their starters in Week seventeen. But it did
feel like Girly was a little worn out. Yeah, I mean, look,
he only had fourteen touches in the game, So I
can't I can't necessarily speak to that, um, because I
didn't see the exact same. I just I think, honestly,

(01:45:25):
what I witnessed was a very very fast Atlanta defense.
Like people underestimate how fast that team is and how
much team speed they have on the defensive side of
the ball, and it makes everyone else look slow. I
mean it really does. Um, That was more what I
kind of took away from it. If you would have
said he would have carried the ball twenty five times
something like that, maybe it would have been a different story.

(01:45:45):
But I just I don't I don't think he touched
the football enough, and he had plenty of time to
to recuperate and rest and be fresh for this game.
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It is the return. It is another year for me
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(01:46:06):
championship belt here, Okay, to take over and a little
something on the show we call over unders like I've
you've never heard it before, Do not go anywhere. It
is my chance to get back what belongs to me
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Steve to say good evening. Once again. You mentioned Philly
and underdog at home against Atlanta. That'll start the Divisional
Round on Saturday afternoon. The Philly offense the last two

(01:46:29):
games just nineteen points total, drives, only twenty four first
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(01:46:50):
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(01:47:11):
before halftime. Eventually drew Brees with three seventy six yards
passing and two first half touchdowns. The New Orleans Saints
have now won six straight in the postseason at home.
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(01:47:54):
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(01:48:17):
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to give you credit man, like being able to do
this in entire show and not be too distracted by
watching the Golden Globes at the same time. Really impressed

(01:48:39):
by your work. It's uh, it's it's one of my
favorite shows. There's no doubt. What's what for? I don't
even have no it's the TV or a movie thing?
I couldn't. I have no idea. I have no idea.
Oka the last time I watched a movie sober was
I don't know. It's too hammered to remember when it was.
But I have no idea. I don't even know what

(01:49:00):
any of these movies are. I don't even know. It's
just all over Twitter. People are watching this. First of all,
the fact that you're watching The Golden Gloves and not
listening to this show. Screw you, Okay, screw you. I mean,
let's be honest. What was the last good movie that
came out? I mean, let's be honest, like, there hasn't
been a good movie and when did that come out?

(01:49:22):
I mean, I haven't even been able to get all
the way through it, even let alone do my research
to see what it was made. Why have you not
been able to get all the way through at a
roller girl? Man? Like, what do you want for me? Like?
Can get past the freezer part? All right? Um? You
turn it off after that? There's no point afterwards, what else, Like,

(01:49:46):
come on, all right, uh, here we go. It is
time for a little something we do on the show
here called this time to put your money where your
mouth is. You know, I am like game, it's over under.
This is a fun little game that we have put together.
I've been dominating this game since its inception months and

(01:50:09):
months ago. And for that, we will turn it over
to Eric Roberts, our executive producer, who's got the latest.
In the degenerate portion of the program, we call overunders. Yeah, guys,
just before we get over there, I was scrolling through
some of the Golden Globes nominations right there. I'm right
there with you. I haven't I recognized one one, tite.
I don't even know. Yeah, it's nothing. We should just

(01:50:29):
create our own awards show the sports talk radio did
they have that? I did see? Uh yeah, the Quinnox Awards.
Remember we did that last season. Yeah, and and then
we stopped doing it because we realized that kind of sucked. Yeah,
the name wasn't good either. We need to come up
with something else. The name sounded like a generic erectile
dysfunction pill. You know, It's like it's kind of like

(01:50:52):
a like a third tier gas company that you see
on like a back road somewhere. Yeah, it's like you
go to Walgreens and you look for like tailand all
uh you know, or Thailand all flu and they have
the generic brand, or like the Nike will and they
have the generic brand. It's like instead of c Alice,
they've got Quinnox. Like that, we're the generic brand. I
don't even work as good. Alright, guys. So um, looking

(01:51:14):
at last week's before we get into this week's edition
of over Under, Um, Jonas, he went four and one,
Brady went five, and oh wow, Jonas, what that's an
impressive performance? Jonas, Okay, hold on, that's a bunch of craft.
First of all, that is I'm saying that is a
four and one is an outstanding week. Okay, that is
an outstanding week. That's the best week I've ever had

(01:51:35):
in my life. And that's the same week you go
five and oh that's ps man. You're you're you're paying,
you're paying Roberts on the side. Here. The best part
is Eric opening for one. I must have two. Yeah,
you guys only differed on one. It was the interceptions
thrown by Blake Bortles. We set the over under at
one and a half and he um didn't throw any today.
Should have should have thrown a couple, yeah, um, but

(01:51:58):
he wisely chose to because apparently the wind. He was
running with the wind instead of throwing into it. But hey,
Tom Brady got brought up in that conversation. So that
was a good point by Tony Romo. So crap um, Okay,
guys going looking up to this week's edition of over unders. Okay,
we're gonna set the over under at two and a
half for the number of wins by wild card winners. Okay,

(01:52:23):
So it's gonna be Titans at Patriots. They're not gonna
win that game, and Malarchy'll get fired. And then it's
gonna be Jags and Steelers. They're not gonna win that
game because Blake Bortles stinks. Um, and then it's gonna
be those are the two I think you would probably
I'm gonna take under, okay, and it's over under two
two and a half under under. Yeah, so you guys

(01:52:46):
think Falcons are gonna pull one outur Saints are gonna
pull one out. One of those two said two and
a half. Yeah, I'm just curious I'm just curious what
you're just trying to get you, guys, the thoughts on, Well,
I think the NFC is more likely to occur, like
you're more likely to have something happened in the NFC. Um,
but I don't see. I think I think the a
f C has charged No, I'm with you. I think
if you look at the matchups in the NFC, both

(01:53:08):
wild card teams or teams who played in the wild
card round have better quarterbacks than the teams they're playing, right,
I mean, I think we'd agreed Drew Brees is better
than case Keenum and Matt Ryan's better than Nick Foles.
So yeah, they've got a chance. Now what about that
that happens with Waite? And see? Okay, guys, so I'm
looking at the Jacksonville by the way, and I don't
mean started interrupt, but um, what are the what are

(01:53:31):
the odds that Todd Haley is at the Tequila Cowboy
after that game next week? Why could you wait till
the next segments of Bran Okay, all right, we'll dump that.
It's it no longer came through the air. We dumped that,
we had the dump and it's gone. All right, Okay,
Pittsburgh Jacksonville guys over under three and a half sacks
for Saxonville. For Saxonville. I mean you know the Steelers

(01:53:55):
actually led the leading sacks right. Um, yeah, but they
don't have Saxonville. Yeah, it's called Saxburg. Sounds way better, Okay.
I I don't think I prefer leaving the the last
half of the of the name off. I just prefer
I'll get your minds out of the gutter. I'm not

(01:54:17):
talking man like. I can't even just I can't even
just talk football. You guys have got to turn it
into some I agree. Um, you know what, I'll take
the over. I'll take the over. How's that I'll take
the over. I'm gonna take the under. He said three
and a half, right, I think they get three. They're
not getting more than that. Okay, guys. Uh Titans Patriots

(01:54:40):
over under two and a half t ds for Tom
Brady over over motivated Brady. Oh you think we don't
get along. In fact, not only will he throw more
than that too and a half touchdowns, he'll throw four
touchdowns and him and Belichick will do one of those
jump up in the air and and collide. Yeah, what

(01:55:02):
is that? What it's called? What is it called? Oh?
I thought you were going like the movie any but no,
I like the little TV celebration. Yeah, where they jump
up in the air and they like, yeah, like that
thing you see Belichick and Brady doing that. Uh, probably
not the potential for dostown passes. Okay, guys looking at
Saints Vikings now, number of tds thrown by Drew Brees

(01:55:24):
and case keenum over under three and a half over over. Yeah, yeah,
they're gonna let him run it. And I could say
that much. He's easy. Okay, Okay, Final one, Final one.
There is a college football game tomorrow night, National Championship game,
Bama Georgia. Margin of victory over under ten and a
half under. I'll take the under. I think Alpama was

(01:55:45):
gonna pound them. I'll take the over. What about the
game and in the game over? That sounded really inappropriate?
That's again even again we ask you a question to
my partner here without somebody calling me out on it's unbelievable,

(01:56:09):
like everything want to twisted and oh my gosh. Okay,
that's enough, all right, Okay, So that is That is
this week's edition of over unders. Is I look to
take back my crown that I let you borrow for
for a couple of weeks, just a couple of you
ever win? Did you win? Like one week? Not even one?
I'm the Browns, So I'll be throwing a sella a parade.

(01:56:31):
We should have a parade, Yeah, parade out outside common mistake.
As I'm looking at him right now, he's right across.
Oh that's Arnie span street light. We're lighting there, Okay.
Jonah Stocks Brady Quinn, Fox Sports Radio Company, live from
the getic Fox Sports Radio Studios, up next to one
of the great stories in recent NFL history. Plus something

(01:56:55):
that will piss a lot of people off who watch football,
that's next year on FS. Are you know how to
find me? Homie as bees Right, here's l O. L.
Brady Quinn Jonas Knocks here Fox Sports Radio. One of
the great stories in recent NFL history. And it happened,
I believe, I believe either while we were on the
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(01:57:16):
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(01:57:38):
all right, Todd Haley Tequila Cowboy broken or shattered pelvis?
Is the report? Now? Did you play for Todd Haley
in Kansas City? Was he your coach? Was not there? Yeah?
I knew, Yeah, I knew that. I was just seeing him.
You knew that that was me testing story? UM, are

(01:58:02):
you surprised? I'm not gonna ask you. I'm not gonna
ask you what you know about Todd Haley. I'll simply
ask if you are surprised, if you are surprised at
any of this story whatsoever? UM, because I am not.
I am absolutely not. I don't I don't know it
Todd Haley. UM from knowing coaches like coaches will go

(01:58:25):
and drink anywhere, So the fact that this all occurred
at a tequila Cowboy doesn't surprise me. It sounds like
it was initiator started though by his his wife. Yeah,
like there was some sort of squab or fight inside
and then things went outside and that's when his fall

(01:58:47):
occurity hurt his hip. Yes, Um, I have been to
the Tequila Cowboy. I think I have been to the
Tequila cow Yes, because okay, because when I was out
um with Fox was doing the US Open at Oakmont, PA,
was about twenty to thirty minutes away from downtown Pittsburgh.
We stayed at the hotel literally, I mean walking like

(01:59:10):
a you know, two hundred yards from where this happened.
This incident occurred at the Tequila Cowboy. It's not far
from Hines Field. It's next to p m C. Park.
It's right there sort of where all that stuff is,
and um, they get after it a little bit. Man
like that is you've got a couple of places there
that are that We're right next to the hotel, and
even on sort of what would be perceived as quiet nights,

(01:59:32):
they get after it a little bit there. If you
know that, and you know it's it's New Year's Eve
and it's right around the corner from the stadium, which
means people have probably been drinking for a long, long
time all day watching NFL and then celebrating that you
didn't weren't the team that that gave up the Browns
only win that season. Why the hell would you even
risk it and go there? Isn't there a classier joint

(01:59:52):
you'd want to go to. No offense to the tequila Cowboy.
It's my type of place. But I'm just saying, wouldn't
it make sense to go somewhere else? It probably would?
Um And here's the thing is, I don't even know
that Todd Haylo was hurt. I know from the initial
report it talked about him getting hurt, but then when
more facts started coming out, it's not like he was
okay and that it was just his wife that got
in in the scuffle. Just just to kind of set

(02:00:14):
it straight. But can we get some background history on
on his wife, because this is also the same woman
who filed a lawsuit against McDonald's if you go back
look at their history, Apparently she found a dead rat
and her salad and filed a lawsuit end up settling
out of core for a confidential amount, But the initial
lawsuit filed was for one point five million. Back when

(02:00:36):
they're in South Lake, Texas, um, while he was on
the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff, Which, how do you not
notice there's a dead rat? Something like? Like what kind
of sound were talked about here? Is this just a
regular iceberg lettus type sound? Are we talking about it? Yeah? Yeah,
cop silet something like that, because like if it's just
regular iceberg lattis, like, wouldn't a dead rodent stick out?

(02:00:57):
And it was just the color alone, like wouldn't match up?
You know what I mean? Well, when I think of
a rat, I think of like an actually pretty big
you know, little' I like, like a mouse like something smaller,
like maybe it gets caught under you know, besides like
a bib of lettuce or something like a rat's pretty big.
Not sure, I'm not sure you can confuse a rat
for a cruzon. The only thing I ever had happened
was I found a ladybug in my salad one time.

(02:01:21):
That's good luck. Yeah, yeah, I found is that? Is that?
What that is? I think? So because that and I
didn't go to well, I'll be or that night specifically,
and that didn't end to well, uh, you know, and
usually end all into very well. From from what I
hear from you, apparently after a couple of drinks. Don't
say the wrong thing to the wrong people. That's all

(02:01:41):
I say. Um, that's the moral to the story. That
is that is the moral of the story. I gotta
get your pick. What is the How does the National
Championship Game turn out your thoughts? Alabama beats Georgia pretty handily.
You ready for a bold pick? Yeah, I guarantee the
SEC is gonna win that game.

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