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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hanzas and I'm joined my room
Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosa.
Speaker 1: What's up buys, hey, Dan? Wild Card preview show. Oh
Speaker 1: a lot of heat in this room today, a lot
Speaker 1: of fire. I've finished with my meltdown. Boys. West had
Speaker 1: a Chris Burnman moment before the show today during our
Speaker 1: video segments. I assume TD behind the Glass will somehow
Speaker 1: when West is wealthy and famous, that will show up
Speaker 1: somewhere on YouTube. Right definitely already put it out right now. Actually,
Speaker 1: don't put. Don't put I don't even care, but don't
Speaker 1: put baby in a corner. Don't put a wire on West.
Speaker 1: It doesn't like the wires. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: am feeling chipper. We have the four games to get
Speaker 1: to on Saturday and Sunday, two games each day of
Speaker 1: the weekend, which is awesome. But I'm excited to I
Speaker 1: I got myself a sandwich this morning. By the way,
Speaker 1: with Mr Rosenthal, the boss, I laid out. I trapped
Speaker 1: him in my web, my m v P web. We
Speaker 1: did a organic email chain which you could read on
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash around the NFL, in which we
Speaker 1: all of us, including Connor or talked about or debated
Speaker 1: who the m v P would be. Uh we you know?
Speaker 1: J J. Watt, Aaron Rodgers fifty votes for the m
Speaker 1: v P. I think we all agree Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: gonna win. Actually Greg thinks, uh, what could steal it?
Speaker 1: Wait a second, didn't you say you think what could
Speaker 1: steal it? No, I don't think you have any chance
Speaker 1: to win. I like the idea, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he has any chance. So I said, I think J. J.
Speaker 1: Wat gets eight out of the fifty votes. Greg was confident,
Speaker 1: said no way. So there's a sandwich involved here that
Speaker 1: will super Bowl weekends even more exciting that wracking that sandwich.
Speaker 1: But has been monitoring this vote getting for years. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get, hard to get double digits and votes.
Speaker 1: I don't think people really take what too seriously. I
Speaker 1: actually I won't put a sandwich on it. But I
Speaker 1: think Romo will get more votes than what In the end,
Speaker 1: it would be like four and three. I thought. The
Speaker 1: most interesting take on this whole thing was Ryan Riddle
Speaker 1: calling you out for basically pulling up whoever voted for
Speaker 1: Ralph Nader in the election. You've been stumping for Wattle
Speaker 1: along and now you're kind of I don't have a vote.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what I think. I'm just saying he isn't.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm not saying I think that's right or wrong,
Speaker 1: but I think he has very little chance to win anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's some of the excitement on New Year's Eve
Speaker 1: in the newsroom, Mark, you're wearing big Blue, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite shirts of yours, and I'm happy to see,
Speaker 1: despite you getting new wardrobe, that some of the classics
Speaker 1: remain in the mix. I thought, because I leave my
Speaker 1: house today, specifically at around five in the morning, and
Speaker 1: you know you're I'm in my room and it's pitch
Speaker 1: dark because you got the wife asleep, and so I
Speaker 1: thought I had taken a white shirt out and this shirt,
Speaker 1: so I don't know, It's fine, let's at Mark. He
Speaker 1: always dresses in the dark. People can Big Blue two
Speaker 1: if they check out our videos on NFL now that
Speaker 1: we just take how about that and you will you
Speaker 1: will not see West's meltdown. But t D promises wait
Speaker 1: for the right time, wait till West is a monica
Speaker 1: like a higher level of fame, and then drop it
Speaker 1: on the public and will end up on all the
Speaker 1: different sites. That's going to happen. Okay with that? Alright? Good? Alright?
Speaker 1: So we got four games to get to. I guess
Speaker 1: what we could do, uh, you know, just to keep
Speaker 1: it neat. We'll go through Saturday's games, then we'll go
Speaker 1: through Sunday's games, and uh, I guess, let's get started.
Speaker 1: There's nothing else to do. What's what's let's the vote?
Speaker 1: A lot of time to these games, and we'll start
Speaker 1: in Charlotte where the Carolina Panthers, the first but back
Speaker 1: to back winner of the NFC South seven eight and
Speaker 1: one got it done this year. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna say, the first official team of around the NF
Speaker 1: they work. Back then, they were they were the first
Speaker 1: team of a t L and they've done us proud
Speaker 1: with the nice late season surge to get back to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And they're gonna host the playoff game. And
Speaker 1: who do they have? They have the Arizona Cardinals, who
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, we're in position to be
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC. Of course, car
Speaker 1: Carson bomb Palmer blows out his knee, Drew Stanton comes in,
Speaker 1: Drew Stanton hurts his knee, so now he's out. Now
Speaker 1: we got Ryan Linley, Logan Thomas uh poop poop latter,
Speaker 1: and I think what we're gonna see here is Ryan
Speaker 1: Linley going into Charlotte trying to win a road playoff game.
Speaker 1: We'll start with us. Is there any chance that the
Speaker 1: Cardinals go in there and shock the world? I don't
Speaker 1: think so that I feel more confident about this game
Speaker 1: than any other. These are two teams that are materially
Speaker 1: different than they were six weeks ago. The Panthers are
Speaker 1: literally a different team as and they have ten or
Speaker 1: eleven different starters now than they did entering November. Three.
Speaker 1: New offensive lineman, the cohesive cohesive unit now Jonathan Stewart
Speaker 1: starting instead of D'Angelo Williams over the last five weeks.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Stewart's second in the NFL and rushing over the
Speaker 1: last five weeks, he and Cam Newton have more rushing
Speaker 1: yards than at quarterback and running back duo. Philly Brown
Speaker 1: new number three receiver. They used him for a couple
Speaker 1: of trick plays a game because Jason Navant got cut.
Speaker 1: That's five new guys on offense. Their secondary. Three new
Speaker 1: starters Trey Boston at safety, Josh Norman at cornerback, and
Speaker 1: Ben a how do we pronounce his? Ben? Ben Wickery?
Speaker 1: And these guys are all making plays their defenses as
Speaker 1: fast as it was last year. They had a guy
Speaker 1: named a Darius Ganton playing linebacker in the last two
Speaker 1: weeks who looks like Thomas Davis when you watch him,
Speaker 1: he's flying to the ball. Charles Johnson's fifty seven hurries
Speaker 1: this year second only to J. J. Watt, and eally
Speaker 1: second round draft pick a sack in each of the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. This is an entirely different team than
Speaker 1: they were. I think last week's performance was easily the
Speaker 1: most impressive of their last four because it was against
Speaker 1: a team that we think of Atlanta as a terrible
Speaker 1: offensive line. They had given up among few sacks in
Speaker 1: the league, especially recently, so so for them to completely
Speaker 1: dominate the game up front to the point where Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan had no chance to show this group rushing the
Speaker 1: pastor was on fire. Yeah, and it's uh, you can say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: they also shut down Julio Jones for the most part
Speaker 1: last week. And they've done it four weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: They're allowing ten points a game and you're running into
Speaker 1: an offense in Arizona that you know what, four touchdowns
Speaker 1: over twenty seven quarters. They've completely bottomed out and and honestly,
Speaker 1: this should have been I think if we had done
Speaker 1: it right from the start of the year. Just my opinion,
Speaker 1: a matchup of this year's team of a t L
Speaker 1: and last year's I mean, this is Arizona. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hate on Arizona here because Bruce arians has
Speaker 1: done the best coaching job around. A lot of other
Speaker 1: teams would have gone in the tank the minute the
Speaker 1: Palmer was lost. I mean, he's believed in these other quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: But Linley is just he is not able to get
Speaker 1: it done. The offense has stopped. Yeah, and the truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is as nice as a story Arizona
Speaker 1: was this year. Uh that when they beat St. Louis
Speaker 1: on that Thursday night, that was the worst thing that
Speaker 1: could have happened for this weekend of playoff football. We
Speaker 1: don't want the Cardinals in the mix here. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: surprise us because you know what, here's the other way
Speaker 1: to look at it. If you want to try to
Speaker 1: get excited about the Cardinals doing this, they have. They've been.
Speaker 1: They were the masters of stealing games all season. Uh
Speaker 1: they were counted out. Yeah, when they're counted out, they
Speaker 1: have the whole nobody believes in a angle working for
Speaker 1: them right now. And this is the Panthers, who are, yes,
Speaker 1: playing better, and they're much different team than they were
Speaker 1: six weeks ago. Still, this is a seven eight and
Speaker 1: one team. This is not a great football team. It's
Speaker 1: not like they're they're playing a juggernaut. That Cardinals are
Speaker 1: beatable team. They've beaten one winning team all year, the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and that was in Week two, so as good as
Speaker 1: well as they are playing lately, and I give them credit,
Speaker 1: although they didn't need to come back at home against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: it's not like they're an unbeatable team. Now, they've beaten
Speaker 1: losing teams. This would be the first winning team they
Speaker 1: played since. But the Cardinals are not I mean they're not,
Speaker 1: are I agree? Let me let me give an example
Speaker 1: to uh the Rams who just brought up a team
Speaker 1: that we got sucked in on a few weeks, act
Speaker 1: that we're doing a lot of damage against bad teams.
Speaker 1: They played some good teams and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they didn't look so good anymore. So maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: Panthers once they face a team that has a little
Speaker 1: hard and knows how to win some games, something changes.
Speaker 1: What I think the Panthers are entering the playoffs is
Speaker 1: a better team than they were entering the playoffs last year. Wow,
Speaker 1: that that seems a little crazy to me, only because
Speaker 1: their defense showed last year through sixteen seasons that they
Speaker 1: were one of the best defense in the league. I
Speaker 1: would say a strong number two to Seattle, whereas this
Speaker 1: time we're seeing a smaller sample size over a month.
Speaker 1: On paper, I don't think they have the talent. If
Speaker 1: you watch their secondary, they're way more athletic this year.
Speaker 1: They're faster. There are no windows to throw the ball
Speaker 1: right now. What doesn't matter when Linley is the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's that's the main thing is Linley. The difference between
Speaker 1: Linley and Stanton to me is much bigger than the
Speaker 1: difference between Stanton and Palmer, because Stanton is an NFL
Speaker 1: quarterback and you have a chance to win a game.
Speaker 1: Linley is gonna be on the short list of the
Speaker 1: worst quarterbacks of all time to ever start an NFL
Speaker 1: playoff game, worse than t J. That was the only
Speaker 1: one I could think of. I tried to think of
Speaker 1: something off the top of my head. T J. Yates
Speaker 1: was the only one that. I mean, he's just a
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. He's we feel like we're picking on
Speaker 1: him here. All he is that every third string quarterback
Speaker 1: is almost fourth. One thing, if Ron Rivera really wants
Speaker 1: to botch this, it would be suddenly turning that backfield
Speaker 1: because they go to Angelo Williams back in the mix
Speaker 1: and getting back to this committee thing. Jonathan Steward we
Speaker 1: all know we've talked about a week after week he's
Speaker 1: been hot. One thing that with Arizona's defense, which has
Speaker 1: been their strength at other points in the year two hundred,
Speaker 1: they've given a two hundred plus yards two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. That was against Seattle in San Francisco, so
Speaker 1: that they're but they're they're falling apart at the wrong time.
Speaker 1: Caroline is running the ball. Well, that's a matchup that
Speaker 1: I'm looking at right there, and I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: practice report for today. Dan Williams, who has been really
Speaker 1: good for them all year as their key run stuffer,
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced all week with a foot injury. So that's
Speaker 1: one more injury on top of everything for Arizona that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to deal with. Do you think it
Speaker 1: would be fair for me to argue away that the
Speaker 1: Cardinals can with sure? Why not? We got we got time.
Speaker 1: If you watch Bruce Arians last week, he has promised
Speaker 1: not to get shy, not to take aways aggressiveness, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. He came out and scripted
Speaker 1: a great first drive, mixed the run in the past,
Speaker 1: and they scored on a flea flicker. They had a
Speaker 1: couple of more plays that they used to play action.
Speaker 1: And as long as they can keep the game close
Speaker 1: and mix in the run, Arians will keep taking shots
Speaker 1: down the field. And Linley has plenty of arm to
Speaker 1: do that. He's not accurate, but he can throw the
Speaker 1: ball deep and maybe they'll take the cheese. In terms
Speaker 1: of I think Arizona will do whatever they can to
Speaker 1: shorten this game that they wouldn't mind Carolina running like crazy.
Speaker 1: And Ron Rivera you mentioned him, could he get in
Speaker 1: his own way? He wants to keep a running game
Speaker 1: and low scoring. It's not like he's gonna try to
Speaker 1: blow them out of the water and be super aggressive.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even play the Angela Williams in this game.
Speaker 1: Neither would I. He's you know, because it's mesill. I'm
Speaker 1: figured out how to operate the backfield. It will tempt
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera into playing him man, which is a bad idea.
Speaker 1: All right, so we all picked the Panthers in this game,
Speaker 1: so we go four across there. Let's move on to
Speaker 1: the second Saturday game on the schedule. It is the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens a tenant six, heading to Pittsburgh to face
Speaker 1: the Steelers, the a f C North champions Steelers, who,
Speaker 1: of course uh uh one in their week seventeen game,
Speaker 1: but lost levy On Bell to a hyper extended knee.
Speaker 1: Bell came out on Wednesday and said that he's not
Speaker 1: he's not limping, and he feels great. So there is
Speaker 1: as of taping right now, it seems like there's at
Speaker 1: least a chance that Bell plays but we're probably not
Speaker 1: gonna have the Levy on Bell that's dominated the NFL
Speaker 1: for stretches this year. Here we go the Ravens start
Speaker 1: with you mark not playing that well down the stretch,
Speaker 1: but they are the Ravens last time there in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They want on a run for Super Bowl. Uh. Is
Speaker 1: there a chance that this Ravens team has the ability
Speaker 1: to beat the Steelers in an upset? Well? I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, we talked about it in our NFL Now
Speaker 1: hit as a group that if if Bell is not
Speaker 1: if you can't play for some reason, this isn't the
Speaker 1: worst matchup. Maybe for Bell not to be in there,
Speaker 1: if the Pittsburgh and Big and Big Ben want to
Speaker 1: throw the ball on what is uh injury ravage secondary
Speaker 1: to some degree. At the same time, the Ravens haven't
Speaker 1: given up more than two d yards passing in four
Speaker 1: straight weeks, so it's you know, they haven't They're not
Speaker 1: collapsing on that in that aspect. But if you take
Speaker 1: the best because I haven't played a real quarterback, if
Speaker 1: you take one of the best players a bunch of
Speaker 1: slappy's basically all right. But still, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the NFL, you know, They're not at the four straight
Speaker 1: games where they've allowed about eight hundred passing yards total.
Speaker 1: It's not what some of the teams are doing in
Speaker 1: the playoffs at this point. I think if Bell is
Speaker 1: not able able to go, they've got nothing. They've got
Speaker 1: no run game behind them. Gonna put Dree Archer out there,
Speaker 1: Ben Tate, who's been with the team for four days.
Speaker 1: I just think that that would be a devastating setback
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh. Even with Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant and the rest,
Speaker 1: would be tough team to run on. Anyways, I Helotiadas
Speaker 1: returning Brandon Williams. This has been a really good run defense.
Speaker 1: Their defensive line is great. But that's that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I like Pittsburgh's chances. It's just I
Speaker 1: think they can protect Roethlisberger and be a rare team.
Speaker 1: Baltimore is won down the stretch with pass rush and
Speaker 1: just getting by with just enough offense, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll have the pass rush this week. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the Steelers should be favored that what are they
Speaker 1: six and one against winning winning teams and the Ravens
Speaker 1: are one and six against winning teams. The Greg's make
Speaker 1: this point before both Ravens offensive tackles will be out.
Speaker 1: The Steelers pass up pass rush has really picked up
Speaker 1: with James Harris and Cameron Heyward, Jason Worlds and Lawrence
Speaker 1: Timmins over the past month. I just think it's a
Speaker 1: better matchup for the Steelers. M Oh, just defend your
Speaker 1: hero alright, I will, handsome, Hank. I'm taking the Ravens. Wow.
Speaker 1: Just a few minutes ago, I thought you were taking this.
Speaker 1: Switched in a few minutes ago thinking about it, there's
Speaker 1: somebody's gonn somebody's gonna lose at home in in the
Speaker 1: first round here, and I was not comfortable picking for
Speaker 1: home teams. And the more I thought about it, I
Speaker 1: like the Ravens in the playoffs. When's the last time
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco went one and done in the playoffs? By
Speaker 1: the way, and he's been it there are five times now,
Speaker 1: four times never. He's never lost the first round of playoffs.
Speaker 1: He won at least one playoff game every year and
Speaker 1: then went on a Super Bowl run. So this is
Speaker 1: a team that always comes to play in January. I
Speaker 1: know they have been playing great. And here's the other
Speaker 1: side of it. The bell issue is real. And the
Speaker 1: second part of it is I still don't trust the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I think they got one more stinker in them. They've
Speaker 1: shocked us with stinkers all season, every three or four
Speaker 1: weeks and it's like, WHOA, what where did this come from?
Speaker 1: I think they got one more and this one ends
Speaker 1: their seasons and the Ravens. The Ravens move on. They
Speaker 1: did add one against New Orleans, but then they won
Speaker 1: four straight there, eight and two down this stretch. So
Speaker 1: I think if you're looking at the last ten games
Speaker 1: to the Bucks, to the Jets, to the Saints, three
Speaker 1: terrible teams, so it's in their d N A and
Speaker 1: and win against win again. Good to And you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: With their defense right now, with Timmins and Cameron, Hayward
Speaker 1: and Harrison, it's a different defense. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it took so long for this defense to come together,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely an NFL quality, at least average defense
Speaker 1: right now. And it wasn't like Taylor's off the field.
Speaker 1: That's one that's one that nobody can pick on him
Speaker 1: right now. Antoine Blake has played pretty well as a
Speaker 1: cornerback in his place, and they didn't have Harrison earlier
Speaker 1: in the year. He's been their best defensive player at
Speaker 1: age thirty seven or whatever. That's the one thing that
Speaker 1: would worry me as a Steelers fans. I think the
Speaker 1: Ravens at their best can beat anyone, and we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen that in a little while. But Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: had five or six games this year. I find Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco really fun to watch, Like even in that Browns game,
Speaker 1: did very little for two or three quarters, didn't do
Speaker 1: anything bad, but he had three or four throws in
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter that other other quarterbacks aren't making those things.
Speaker 1: Ten to three with ten minutes to go in that game,
Speaker 1: and they won twenty to ten. They got hyper, they
Speaker 1: got super hot, and and he's always aggressive, so sometimes
Speaker 1: he just gets it, gets it going. He's had five
Speaker 1: or six games this year. I think it's been a
Speaker 1: really good Joe Flacco year. And I know they got
Speaker 1: not a back. And I also one thing, this is
Speaker 1: a much different team now than the two thousand and
Speaker 1: twelve team. There's been a lot of turnover. But you
Speaker 1: gotta imagine John Harbow is a very good coach that
Speaker 1: is a great kind of motivational to a great way
Speaker 1: to to get your team confident, letting letting them know
Speaker 1: last time we were here, what we did. This is
Speaker 1: our season. Now, this team is gonna be ready to play.
Speaker 1: They are not going to be flat. And every time
Speaker 1: these two teams played the last few years in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: it's a close game. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a field goal game, and I think the Ravens can win.
Speaker 1: They got they got trashed. What if you're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the Ravens as a team that can go
Speaker 1: out and beat anyone when they're playing, Well, doesn't that
Speaker 1: apply even more to Pittsburgh? Sure? But I my I've
Speaker 1: already made my point that I got a bit of
Speaker 1: a sessler that they have one more stinker in him.
Speaker 1: All right, well, you're not the only one picking games here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who do you got? I have Pittsburgh. They're gonna win
Speaker 1: this thing without a problem. Though you already major pick
Speaker 1: hold on all this. And he's not even the best
Speaker 1: quarterback on the field for Brothlisberger this year joins Tom
Speaker 1: Brady two thousand twelve, the only quarterbacks in history was
Speaker 1: six d plus passion pass attempts and single digit interceptions.
Speaker 1: He's an All Pro this year. This is the year.
Speaker 1: This is the season that big Bend supporters at which
Speaker 1: I would consider myself. I'm always saying he's underrated. Heck,
Speaker 1: he was my m V peep picked last year, and
Speaker 1: I got made fun of a lot for that. This
Speaker 1: is kind of the season that we all that thought
Speaker 1: he was a great QB, thought he could have if
Speaker 1: he had the right offensive line, he had the weapons,
Speaker 1: and he went out and he did it. And he's
Speaker 1: playing his best in December. Everyone on this team seems
Speaker 1: like they're playing their best in December. And if you
Speaker 1: had to draw up an opponent to have Levan Bell
Speaker 1: set out a game, it would be the Ravens. They haven't.
Speaker 1: They're the only team not to allow one hundred yard
Speaker 1: rusher this year, and their secondary can be beaten. This
Speaker 1: game brings up kind of an existential as will that
Speaker 1: comes up every year that I thought about this week
Speaker 1: when I was picking these games. When you're picking these games,
Speaker 1: do you look at the body of work for the
Speaker 1: whole season. We've watched these teams for sixteen weeks. We've
Speaker 1: learned a lot about these players. Do we look at
Speaker 1: that whole body of work and think of what their
Speaker 1: potential is and think of what they've done, or do
Speaker 1: we just kind of look at December because the tendency,
Speaker 1: and I do it every year, is to just kind
Speaker 1: of base it on December. What the but usually December
Speaker 1: is not a good indicator at all, going the whole
Speaker 1: idea of going in September, right, But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: do we overrate December. I'm assuming the Steelers are gonna
Speaker 1: walk through this one, whereas early in the season, I
Speaker 1: thought the Ravens were a better team all year. I
Speaker 1: think West just talked about a Panthers team that is
Speaker 1: completely revamped from what they were three months ago. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: seems to have gotten over its skittishness to some degree.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you just talk about December, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at where the team has been over
Speaker 1: the last four six weeks, because that the teams that
Speaker 1: get hot, the two thousand and ten Packers, you know,
Speaker 1: the Flacco led Super Bowl team, those are perfect examples.
Speaker 1: Those teams stunk in the right gular season towards the
Speaker 1: end that well point Flacco and that they had a
Speaker 1: tough December. You're right about who's staying hot right now?
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about what happened, and you can't know
Speaker 1: you're saying you' you're gonna look at what happened in
Speaker 1: September in early October. I just mean, I just mean
Speaker 1: everything that you've seen, because I think a point I've
Speaker 1: made a lot is I think this raven team is
Speaker 1: really balanced. They can run the ball, they can throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Kubi X done a great job. There are
Speaker 1: the pieces in place that we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I mean that that performance in Houston really scared me
Speaker 1: because they just got like past. I don't put too
Speaker 1: much stock in how they're playing in December in this matchup,
Speaker 1: I do in the Cardinals and Panthers because those are
Speaker 1: two different teams. Now, these teams are the same teams.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are missing a couple offensive linemen, so that's
Speaker 1: an issue. The Steelers are missing the running back. But
Speaker 1: I think these are pretty much the same teams they've
Speaker 1: been all year, and Ravens Steelers really history. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're just every game is going to be this way.
Speaker 1: I think this is this is close to a toss up.
Speaker 1: I think it's close to any game this weekend. But
Speaker 1: you're taking the Steelers. I am taking the Steelers because
Speaker 1: they're the better team, all right. So that is Saturday's action.
Speaker 1: Let's now move to Sunday and we start in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: where the eleven and five Colts, the a f C
Speaker 1: South champions face the Cincinnati Bengals ten, five and one
Speaker 1: of that tie, it's so grows enough to get them
Speaker 1: a wild card, the five seed. We know the history.
Speaker 1: This is West's favorite day of the year. They kind
Speaker 1: of robbed us a little bit. They didn't give him
Speaker 1: the Saturday game, which West loves. Bengals Elimination Saturday, it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be potentially elimination Sunday. Uh. We'll start
Speaker 1: with Greg because this is this is also when West
Speaker 1: really digs in the talents on the Cincinnati football club.
Speaker 1: So we'll let the simmer a little bit. Like he's
Speaker 1: already rocking in his chair. He's getting excited. So we'll
Speaker 1: start with the Boss, Greg Rosthal. Uh, tell me your
Speaker 1: thoughts the first takeaways at this game when you look
Speaker 1: at the matchup, I have a hard time picking against
Speaker 1: the Bengals, even though it's Andy Dalton going against Andrew Luck,
Speaker 1: which is is crazy to me because I just don't
Speaker 1: think this Colts team has much going on. I think
Speaker 1: all it has is Andrew Luck and T Hilton. And
Speaker 1: I think Andrew Luck is playing like a guy who's
Speaker 1: been hit all season. He's not playing his best in
Speaker 1: December at all. He's playing like a guy who's has
Speaker 1: no offensive line, that has no running game, that has
Speaker 1: to carry his team. This team has no pass rush.
Speaker 1: I have to kind of erase the memory of this
Speaker 1: game early in the season when they played, because it
Speaker 1: was one of the best performances by any team all
Speaker 1: season when Indianapolis took them out. But I think Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: a legitimately good team. They just have a lousy quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think it's another example though, of that early at
Speaker 1: twenty seven and nothing lost for Cincinnati. That's not the
Speaker 1: Bengals are a different team today in many ways too.
Speaker 1: They couldn't figure out who the running back was back then.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Hill has emerged into a true featured back. I
Speaker 1: think at this point that watching what he did in
Speaker 1: the Denver game, that that had to set up for
Speaker 1: the Bengals to go out and get squashed that night
Speaker 1: and Hill wield them back into that game. I thought
Speaker 1: with his running ability and I like I like hilling
Speaker 1: this game has Greg has learned nothing from the last
Speaker 1: few years, especially last year when you guys picked three
Speaker 1: a class three across on the Bengals over the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Did we yes, I want to go? Last year you
Speaker 1: all three of you picked the Bengals at home where
Speaker 1: they were defeated against the IoT in this game, right, so, okay,
Speaker 1: right now? All right? West looks like it looks like
Speaker 1: Greg might have a hero cooking here. Mark said he
Speaker 1: was taking the Bengals downstairs. Maybe you were, Oh, we
Speaker 1: gotta make a decision. At some point Mark, the podcast
Speaker 1: are still in this segment. Changed it if A J.
Speaker 1: Green I want to hear I could tell you what's
Speaker 1: his point of the Cincinnati will never win a playoff
Speaker 1: game until the end of the world. What if they
Speaker 1: were a good team and the worst team in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Here we go. The floor is Chris Westley, do you
Speaker 1: have to drop from damnaek is the most wonderful time
Speaker 1: of the year because it's the west wonderful time of
Speaker 1: the year. One of my Twitter followers, powder Monkey, and
Speaker 1: thank you for this. It's West of Us this week
Speaker 1: game the Bengals are gonna do what they do every
Speaker 1: year and losing the first round the playoffs. They're not
Speaker 1: a good team. They do one thing right now. Hand
Speaker 1: the ball off to Jeremy Hill and let him do
Speaker 1: his work. That's all they do well. Carlos Donne last
Speaker 1: playing great, they are the best in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: sacks the Cults. The Cults offensive line couldn't protect Luck
Speaker 1: against Tennessee last week. They protected him against the Bengals
Speaker 1: last time when it was twenty seven to nothing, and
Speaker 1: the Bengals are worse since then. Sure the Colts are too,
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Look Andy Dalton, we know what he's done
Speaker 1: in the postseason. We know what Marvin Lewis has done.
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis oh and five in his career to start
Speaker 1: in the postseason, the only coach worse in history. T
Speaker 1: D give me some Jim Mora playoffs. Don't talk about playoffs.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. Playoffs. I just thought we can win
Speaker 1: a game. That's his, that's his company, he's keeping Marvin Lewis.
Speaker 1: This team has never won a playoff game on the
Speaker 1: road in almost fifty years of their existence. They haven't
Speaker 1: won a playoff game since nine. Andy Dalton's a blow
Speaker 1: average quarterback. He's third team for thirty two throw into
Speaker 1: A J. Green with euro touchdowns and four interceptions in
Speaker 1: the postseason. We don't even know if A J. Green'
Speaker 1: is gonna play. If he does, if he doesn't play, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I probably changed. If he does play, Davis erases him
Speaker 1: because Vonte Davis is an All Pro cornerback and he's
Speaker 1: erased everybody all years. But it does Bryant. He destroyed him,
Speaker 1: did he? In The Colts got absolutely destroyed in that game.
Speaker 1: That was the last halfway decent team that they played,
Speaker 1: and it was a very good team they played, and
Speaker 1: they weren't competitive and they were trailing in Cleveland. And
Speaker 1: I think Colts were also shorthanded, sure, very shorthanded. Devil's
Speaker 1: advocate I Wes, I'm on your side of this. I
Speaker 1: think the Colts take care of business. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Bengals. I know Dalton didn't play great last Sunday
Speaker 1: Night against the Steelers, but A J. Green doesn't fumble
Speaker 1: that ball near the twenty's they are in that game.
Speaker 1: They came very close to stealing that game. In the division,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of if though, if Levian Bell doesn't
Speaker 1: say that the air doesn't go out of the building.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that is yes, and the injuries that's
Speaker 1: part of the But that was a playoff type setting
Speaker 1: in prime time on Sunday night, and they didn't They
Speaker 1: didn't have their tail between their legs against a team
Speaker 1: that you and many other people think is a really
Speaker 1: a wild card contender to win this whole thing. That's
Speaker 1: what we're reaching for. They didn't have their tail between
Speaker 1: their legs. Well, no, it's a start, you know, they
Speaker 1: I am, And again I'm falling victim too. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at December, the fact that they have a nice quality
Speaker 1: win against Denver that they showed me they're capable of
Speaker 1: that that in a common opponent, a December common opponent.
Speaker 1: The Bengals wax the Browns thirty to nothing, and the
Speaker 1: Colts struggled all game. And I can't figure out what's
Speaker 1: wrong with with the offense exactly. Maybe it's just the
Speaker 1: offensive line and that's it. That they have no running
Speaker 1: game and the team, that's what's wrong with their offense.
Speaker 1: They have no running game. T Y Hilton has been
Speaker 1: sidelined for two weeks. Reggie Wayne's a shell of himself. Well,
Speaker 1: Nix is making a couple of plays. Dwayne Allen's been out,
Speaker 1: So that's why I think it's I do think it's
Speaker 1: a toss up because it's in Indianapolis and because Andrew
Speaker 1: lucks better. It's not like I feel really strong about that.
Speaker 1: But the Houston game is another one. It's like Indianapolis
Speaker 1: has done that for a while now. They've looked like
Speaker 1: this pretty lame team, and after a while I kind
Speaker 1: of believe it. The way they took care of the
Speaker 1: Bengals when they wiped them out back in Week seven
Speaker 1: was there was no a j green in that game.
Speaker 1: And it's concerning because all they did was stacked the
Speaker 1: box the whole time, take away the running game and
Speaker 1: was Mohammed Sanu against Vonte Davis and a bunch of
Speaker 1: trash and nothing happened for Cincinnati, And so that you
Speaker 1: have to not put this in Dalton's hands. But West,
Speaker 1: would you agree that this Bengals team in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks down the stretch here is a little
Speaker 1: bit different than I am with you that the Bengals
Speaker 1: teams we've seen under Marvin Lewis that go onto the
Speaker 1: playoffs have been milk toast dead on arrival. It's all
Speaker 1: about when they're gonna make the mistake they play. They
Speaker 1: play safe the whole way. This team feels a little
Speaker 1: edgier to me. They can run the ball. I think
Speaker 1: they're a little bit different. I don't see them that way.
Speaker 1: I think this team isn't half as good as the
Speaker 1: team that entered the postseason last year as they I
Speaker 1: don't agree with the heavy favorite to beat the Chargers.
Speaker 1: No one thought they were gonna beat the Chargers last year.
Speaker 1: They had not lost a home game all year. Last
Speaker 1: year they were eight. No, they had a lot of blowouts.
Speaker 1: They were a much stronger team last year. I believe
Speaker 1: the Colts another if you're a Bengals and he wants
Speaker 1: some confidence. The Cults have not looked good against winning
Speaker 1: teams this year. Cowboys game would scare me if I
Speaker 1: was a Colts fan. Every time they they faced a
Speaker 1: good team, they seemed to get whipped. The other thing,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Hill leads the league in rushing since Week nine.
Speaker 1: So if you can guy have a guy that can
Speaker 1: control the line of scrimmage and run the clock, I
Speaker 1: think this has potentially been a closer game than than
Speaker 1: West thinks, but I think the cults of the team.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a blowout, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the Colts are a substantially better team, but one of
Speaker 1: these teams is haunted. They also lost their starting tackle.
Speaker 1: We just learned as we're taping this for the season,
Speaker 1: guys are chairless, although I don't really know. He's been
Speaker 1: out for weeks. Mark, have you decided I'm gonna go Bengals?
Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, Look at that a little split. Our first split,
Speaker 1: which takes us to the final game of the wild
Speaker 1: card round, the Detroit Lions. They head to Big D
Speaker 1: to jeral World to face the NFC East champion Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So at twelve and four against an eleven five team,
Speaker 1: The Lions put up a nice fight in Lambeau for
Speaker 1: a good portion of that game, but lost, so they
Speaker 1: get the wild card. That Cowboys are ride and high
Speaker 1: first time back in the playoffs. It's two thousand eight, Mark,
Speaker 1: We'll start with you on this one. Uh, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I would think are that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna pick the Cowboys is the heavy favorite, but maybe
Speaker 1: we're also getting a little excited that. You know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys know how to blow things, and I know there's
Speaker 1: been a nice season for them, But I don't think
Speaker 1: people should get too excited about the Cowboys in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: should they. I don't think this is a Cowboys heavy
Speaker 1: favorite situation because you know, they're finally coming up against
Speaker 1: the team the number one rushing defense in the league,
Speaker 1: and it's not a fluke on any level. That offensive
Speaker 1: line is gonna struggle to do what they've done all
Speaker 1: season long. And if you can take out Dallas and
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray on the ground, that changes. With that all
Speaker 1: this strength strength though, I could see Dallas winning that car.
Speaker 1: I mean Dallas in reg you know, wants to ignore
Speaker 1: the month of December, but Dallas in the month of December, well, now,
Speaker 1: if they've been averaging forty plus points and then explosive
Speaker 1: on off, it's been awesome. I mean, really, you come
Speaker 1: down and we said this on the NFL Now thing too,
Speaker 1: that only the two thousands pays to seven Patriots last
Speaker 1: year's Broncos. In the two thousand, Rams have averaged more
Speaker 1: in one month Dallas. Dallas is not just a run
Speaker 1: the ball and nothing else. Happens. Here's another way to
Speaker 1: look at it. They have forty points in three of
Speaker 1: their last four games, matching as many forty point games
Speaker 1: as they've had in their previous one three games. Wow.
Speaker 1: I I posed this question to us, and I think
Speaker 1: it's legitimate. Are the Dallas Cowboys the best offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL? No? I think you can. I think he
Speaker 1: can make make the case. I think it's them or
Speaker 1: the Packers that we don't think of them that way
Speaker 1: because they don't score as much because there's fewer possessions
Speaker 1: and they run, but they're brutally efficient and no one's
Speaker 1: really been able to stop them. Well, in this case,
Speaker 1: I am looking at December because just watching the game
Speaker 1: field Debarco Murray isn't a tackle breaker right now. He
Speaker 1: was an explosive tackle breaker earlier in the year. He's
Speaker 1: not that guy right now. He's not running at the
Speaker 1: same level. But this is when we can talk about
Speaker 1: Tony Romo, who's not gonna win m v P. But
Speaker 1: he's certainly in other years could have been in the running.
Speaker 1: He's had an amazing statistical season. Uh, he's really a
Speaker 1: lot of doubters. He kinda he kind of stuck it
Speaker 1: to them with a great December. So even though you
Speaker 1: don't have murdered a percent, maybe or not playing at
Speaker 1: the same level. Romo has never been better in his career.
Speaker 1: And Dez Bryant, I don't know if people have noticed,
Speaker 1: is playing out of his mind right now. I feel
Speaker 1: like he has two touchdowns a game. Uh. Jason Witten
Speaker 1: has been better the last couple of weeks. This offense
Speaker 1: is really Terrence Williams made some place. This offense is
Speaker 1: pretty good, man. This is this is this. They have
Speaker 1: the ability to end the Lions's making some big catches.
Speaker 1: I'm there. The Lions are a bad playoff team historically.
Speaker 1: Want to talk about demons. I could easily see this
Speaker 1: thing turning into too. I would not be stunned of Stafford, Laiden,
Speaker 1: Egg and Romo in nuts and Away we go. Well Detroit,
Speaker 1: I mean I think West You're you're a little higher
Speaker 1: on Detroit than than some of us. But there is
Speaker 1: a scenario where they're gonna have to really completely shut
Speaker 1: down Dallas offensively to stay in this game because of
Speaker 1: their own offense over the past decade. When a top
Speaker 1: two rushing offense faces the top two rushing defense. Six
Speaker 1: out of the eight times the rushing defense has come
Speaker 1: out on top, and I think, especially with the way
Speaker 1: Murray's running, the Lions have a big edge there. They
Speaker 1: have probably the five best defensive players on the field
Speaker 1: in this game. Let's talk about that. Yeah, let's first
Speaker 1: of all, you wrote west Rude a nice piece on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: you know, basically illustrating that the talent cap is not
Speaker 1: as as as vast as some people might assume with
Speaker 1: the lines of the Cowboys and uh so, first get
Speaker 1: into that. I also want to hear a little bit
Speaker 1: when you talk about DeMarco Murray not being the same guy.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing on tape? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: the talent cap, I think the Lions are actually a
Speaker 1: more talented team. It could be because maybe we don't
Speaker 1: consider the interior linemen like the Cowboys offensive line quite
Speaker 1: as talented as the skilled position players who maybe I'm
Speaker 1: not really crediting them as much, but I think the
Speaker 1: Lions have You've got and Dominicans Sue Ziggy ansa Andre Levy,
Speaker 1: who are all Pro Bowled level this year, and then
Speaker 1: two of the best one of the best safety tantems
Speaker 1: in the league and James ahead of Bill and Glover,
Speaker 1: Quinn a couple of good cornerbacks. I think they have
Speaker 1: at least the five best defensive players on the field
Speaker 1: in this game. And then the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: Calvin and Johnson and Dez Bryan are awash. Probably Golden
Speaker 1: Tate and and Jason Witten are probably a wash. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but you know the Rob Stafford is not a wash,
Speaker 1: and that was more talented. Romo is better. But if
Speaker 1: you're talking pure talented, Stafford's talented. Talked about you like
Speaker 1: to cite the Lombardi line about how the quarterback tilts
Speaker 1: of Scales, and I mean, Romo is playing as better
Speaker 1: as Betst as he ever was, and Stafford's a middling
Speaker 1: guy at this point. I absolutely agree. I would take
Speaker 1: the lines if the quarterbacks were even anyway, but I
Speaker 1: would I would be very confident about the lines if
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks were even in this game. That I assume
Speaker 1: that's a hero, isn't it. I am taking down unless
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick goes crazy and picks his team. We haven't
Speaker 1: seen his picks. A lot of think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's and West already defended this heero, but we still
Speaker 1: need to hear a handsome Hank defend your hero Kevin
Speaker 1: Patch was one of those lines fans where he just
Speaker 1: he rages out in the gym, listens to Mega Death,
Speaker 1: maybe some Mustane solo work, and just assumes his team
Speaker 1: is gonna fail. I would be pretty confident he's going
Speaker 1: to choose the Cowboys. I agree, I can sounds like
Speaker 1: a very bleak existence for our our writer around in Chicago.
Speaker 1: By the way, I can see the path to doing
Speaker 1: it too for Detroit, because I think they'll try to
Speaker 1: shorten the game against Dallas, which is something that Jason
Speaker 1: get a lot of people shorten in the game this week, right,
Speaker 1: that loves to do. I mean, I think joyke But
Speaker 1: who else is shortened in the game, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've we've discussed that a number of times.
Speaker 1: You're thinking of the NFL now, Bruce arians remember about
Speaker 1: Rob both shorten in the game, and I think Dallas
Speaker 1: will welcome that and Dallas's defense, I still don't buy
Speaker 1: into at all. You you mentioned on our video Anthony
Speaker 1: Hitchens is out in this game, Dallas loses Henry Melton.
Speaker 1: I think Joke Bell is running really well. I mean
Speaker 1: he's not. Reggie Bush is running better than he has
Speaker 1: all season. Reggie Bush looks healthy. I think the Lions
Speaker 1: they were able to run the ball against the Packers
Speaker 1: last week. If if Stafford could just hit open throw,
Speaker 1: the Lions are right in this. And I can't say
Speaker 1: what surprised me if Stafford caught fire. You know he
Speaker 1: has the talent. He certainly has the wide receivers to
Speaker 1: do it. He's someone though I've watched. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've watched more Stafford this year than any quarterback in league,
Speaker 1: just because it's you remember it, because it's so frustrating
Speaker 1: to watch him, because every every game is the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's this just missing open receivers all the time, with
Speaker 1: one nice throw. Time for me to cut through all
Speaker 1: the garbage and hoist in the air. The two thousand
Speaker 1: fourteen season wild Card research notes, Look at that West
Speaker 1: gleaming in the in the lights. Here it comes, here,
Speaker 1: it comes again. Ready did you find the Matthew Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford note in there? Nope, we get ready, get ready.
Speaker 1: West Glover Quinn led the NFL seven I N T s,
Speaker 1: becoming the first line to leave the felt interception since
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Lombardi nine seven. We figured it out
Speaker 1: the lines win. Let me tell you a better stat
Speaker 1: from there. That was a joke. By the way, I
Speaker 1: didn't actually think that was a relevant stat. Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: put me over with that one, guys, Matthew the Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford led Lions. Since Stafford has been there, owens seventeen
Speaker 1: on the road against opponents that finished with a winning record. Wow.
Speaker 1: Part of me is I'm thinking beyond this week, and
Speaker 1: do I want to see an interesting Dallas Cowboys team
Speaker 1: go where they're gonna go? Or do I want to
Speaker 1: see the Detroit Lions If they sneak out this game,
Speaker 1: go and get air bombed by someone, I don't want
Speaker 1: to see it. They can't. They would only go to Seattle.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Detroit. Instead, both games were
Speaker 1: I mean one game the lines wax the Packers and
Speaker 1: the other game was closed. I'd love to see Dallas
Speaker 1: Green Bay. That would be a fun game. And I
Speaker 1: know we're winding down here, but I've got a little
Speaker 1: bit of breaking news. Do we have any breaking news
Speaker 1: sound there? Anything like that? Yeah, that works, that'll do it.
Speaker 1: Reports out there and I'm sure they'll be confirmed by
Speaker 1: the time you guys listen to it that Doug Maron
Speaker 1: has opted out of his contract Buffalo's Bills coach. And
Speaker 1: that means I think I gotta go leave and and
Speaker 1: go work on this article. Yeah, well we're getting out
Speaker 1: of here anyway. But Jets are pretty nice Atlantic s
Speaker 1: about for Doug Bron, I don't I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with It's official from the Buffalo Bills. They said
Speaker 1: they disappointed that he's gonna be no longer part of
Speaker 1: the organization. They thank him for his hard work. And
Speaker 1: it just reminds me of Mike Malarkey, another Bill's coach
Speaker 1: who walked away from the team. He quit and now
Speaker 1: here comes Buffalo Bills. I mean, we knew that he
Speaker 1: did not get along in theory with general manager Doug Waley.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of reports about that. Wow. Yeah
Speaker 1: that It says two things. One, his agent has been
Speaker 1: talking to people in his confident that he gets another
Speaker 1: head coaching job. And it says also that there's been
Speaker 1: discord between Maron and, like you said, Waley, and there's
Speaker 1: another guy in the front office. The discord between him
Speaker 1: and Maroon goes back if if bon Jovi was involved
Speaker 1: with this would never happen. Number one be the Jets
Speaker 1: make some sense. He's an offensive minded coach. He's coming
Speaker 1: off a year or some successful. His stock is high.
Speaker 1: He's a New York guy. I think the Jets are
Speaker 1: gonna be interested in Doug Moron. You go from E. J.
Speaker 1: Manual to Geno Smith. I think you're gonna pull it.
Speaker 1: If you pull Kyle Orton out of retirement again. Well
Speaker 1: that is maybe that's that's an upgrade. I will say
Speaker 1: that about you. Well he was. So the assumption, though,
Speaker 1: we have to assume that, you know, even by the
Speaker 1: time people are listening to this, there's gotta be a
Speaker 1: strong report that someone is heat seeking Maron without any question.
Speaker 1: Somebody wouldn't do this. Otherwise, why would you walk away?
Speaker 1: I mean unless unless the environment that you're in is
Speaker 1: so toxic we're gonna find out about that. There's only
Speaker 1: thirty two jobs. You do not leave one, especially a
Speaker 1: guy with this little track record, unless he has something
Speaker 1: else lined up. So I would think this is gonna
Speaker 1: move pretty quickly. NFL media is Mike Silver said yesterday.
Speaker 1: He tweeted that to tweets, Doug Maron is very very
Speaker 1: and he said very at least three or four times,
Speaker 1: highly regarded in NFL Circle, which I took to me
Speaker 1: in read between the lines. He's got a job lined
Speaker 1: up if he wants. Okay, So that's it. That is
Speaker 1: our wild Card preview with a little breaking news. Let's
Speaker 1: hear that again, a little breaking news mixed in the
Speaker 1: back and like that. Alright, alright, exactly, Matthew. We will
Speaker 1: be back on Sunday evening where we will go over
Speaker 1: all four of these big wild Card games and and
Speaker 1: realize for the first time that we we were all right,
Speaker 1: every one of us on every prediction. We had everything connected.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's physically possible to happen, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna make it so. Uh So make sure you
Speaker 1: tune in for that or download that, you know, however
Speaker 1: you get your content. Uh and and West, is everything
Speaker 1: okay with you now? I'm fine? Are you when you
Speaker 1: go when you go through this class? Are you? And
Speaker 1: t D are gonna be cool? T D? I like
Speaker 1: t D. It was a little bust up like how
Speaker 1: Romo and uh t O used to have back in
Speaker 1: the day. By the end of the day, he might
Speaker 1: have scared the people run the television segment right out
Speaker 1: of the Crown. But yeah, hell, that is the end
Speaker 1: of the year obviously, so happy New Year to you all.
Speaker 1: Same to you, sir. Yes it's happy in New Year's
Speaker 1: to all the all the listeners from around the world.
Speaker 1: We can actually say that, who are so great and
Speaker 1: so supportive of the show. We will be uh, continue
Speaker 1: to do the hammer drops every every week with this
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Speaker 1: one playoff game in twentysomething years. If they win, all right,
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