Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is a room full of
Speaker 1: bozoh Dare you welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast presented by Head and Shoulders. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis and I am joined by a
Speaker 1: room that's filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler on my left,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthalt on my right. What is up? Boys? Hey,
Speaker 1: a little bit to talk about. We're just recovering right now.
Speaker 1: I think I'm an incredible day of action. Yeah, first
Speaker 1: day of the Australian Open isn't exciting really in every
Speaker 1: sports fans life, what a time you always knew, like
Speaker 1: exactly where you were in your life when you first
Speaker 1: became exposed to the Australian Open. For me, it was
Speaker 1: today in the newsroom when Gregg said it was something
Speaker 1: that exists. Yeah, and for me seconds after you were
Speaker 1: first exposed to it. But I would say it's unbridled
Speaker 1: passion and joy around the event. The other thing going
Speaker 1: on in this sporting world is Divisional Round weekend and uh.
Speaker 1: In our last show, um I I offered the the
Speaker 1: viewpoint which I think is shared by many, that Divisional
Speaker 1: Round football is the best football weekend of the year
Speaker 1: because you've got eight teams. In most cases, almost all
Speaker 1: of them are qualified to be there. Now, that wasn't
Speaker 1: quite the case this year, and we we did with
Speaker 1: Shepherd out some of the riff raff as we head
Speaker 1: towards championship weekend. But what we did get was I
Speaker 1: would say, one good game, one terrible game, one great game,
Speaker 1: and one absolute stone cold classic. Is that fair? Greg?
Speaker 1: In that order? I think that that's all fair. Although
Speaker 1: the Steelers Jaguars game, which I assume is your the
Speaker 1: third one you mentioned there, I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a classic game on its own right, and that's a
Speaker 1: lead story. That's a so much happened in that game
Speaker 1: that that would be the story of the weekend in
Speaker 1: almost any other situation. And it certainly felt like the
Speaker 1: story of the weekend when it's seventeen nothing Vikings and
Speaker 1: they're going on a seven minute drive to start the
Speaker 1: second half and half the newsrooms falling a slip leap.
Speaker 1: But the Saints and the Vikings had a little something
Speaker 1: extra for us. Well, we were talking about that Saints
Speaker 1: Vikings game is a halftime. If you're one of these
Speaker 1: guys at the sports bar, right you're get in your
Speaker 1: car and you go home because you know, you win
Speaker 1: a little bit, you get to sleep a little bit.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the game was putting people to sleep. Nothing
Speaker 1: nothing could have been farther from the truth. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it was. Uh, and we're gonna get to all
Speaker 1: four games. I need to rewatch it every so do I.
Speaker 1: It feels like I've we just dealt with a tidal
Speaker 1: wave of um of events and details. So we're kind
Speaker 1: we're yeah, we're trying to process at all. Even Case
Speaker 1: Keenum himself, the winning quarterback for the Vikings. Uh, when
Speaker 1: he was interviewed immediately after the game was tru I
Speaker 1: was having trouble even processing the questions and and understanding
Speaker 1: what exactly had just transpired. It was that type of
Speaker 1: game between the Vikings and Saints. Uh. So yeah, we're
Speaker 1: we're all set for the final four in the NFL. Uh,
Speaker 1: But this is how we got there. And yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: we like to go in order chronological order. But one
Speaker 1: of the best game tames in NFL history caps the weekend.
Speaker 1: That is where we start in Minnesota. Let's go falltime.
Speaker 1: Case on a deep Throp steps up in the pocket,
Speaker 1: He'll fire to the right side. Come my Gigs stay. Oh,
Speaker 1: oh my god, don't tame are you doing miracle in
Speaker 1: the media. Listen, it's all step On Digs on the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. It's a sixty one mediac this miracle
Speaker 1: point algal pot stand up your thanks stadium or replacing
Speaker 1: each other. You're trying to climb into the box box
Speaker 1: to hug us. All yell, he can find step On Gigs.
Speaker 1: He ran into the tunnel. There you go, and Lindsay,
Speaker 1: just hit me up in our instant messaging client. I
Speaker 1: could trim this down if you want. No, I couldna
Speaker 1: listen to another twenty minutes of that, because that was
Speaker 1: one of the more memorable players you'll ever see. Case Keenum.
Speaker 1: With seconds to play, Uh completed completed a past the
Speaker 1: Stephen Diggs who got away from Marcus Williams, who took
Speaker 1: in in unforgivable, at least for Saints fans. Angle on
Speaker 1: the play the safety, Uh and Diggs took it to
Speaker 1: the house untouched for sixty one yard touchdown as time expired,
Speaker 1: giving the Vikings a twenty nine four win over the
Speaker 1: Saints that sends the Vikings back to the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: Game for the first time. Since Brett Farve took him
Speaker 1: there in the two thousand nine season. And this was
Speaker 1: Greg one of the great games ever. As we said,
Speaker 1: especially I mean at least the playoffs, but when you
Speaker 1: get to the crucible, uh, everything goes up. And notch
Speaker 1: a game Greg where there were four lead changes in
Speaker 1: the last three minutes in one second, but it is
Speaker 1: that last play to Digs that everyone will remember. It's
Speaker 1: almost like people have too much of a bias against
Speaker 1: recency bias. I tweeted something very you know, banal, saying
Speaker 1: There's never ever been a finish like ever, and I've
Speaker 1: got a ton of responses of like, oh, you forget
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you forget that. No, this was totally different. Literally,
Speaker 1: There's never been a walkoff touchdown to end a game
Speaker 1: in regulation in playoff history, much less a walkoff touchdown
Speaker 1: for sixty one yards after the best defense in the
Speaker 1: league gave up a seventeen point lead and two scoring
Speaker 1: drives in the final three minutes. There's never been a
Speaker 1: game where there's four lead changes in the final three
Speaker 1: oh one where the both fans are just going wild,
Speaker 1: but especially the Vikings fans who have been so tortured
Speaker 1: over their history to watch this happen in their stadium
Speaker 1: with ten seconds left and at that point believe there's
Speaker 1: almost no hope, and to have a play like that
Speaker 1: happy been where even within the play you thought a
Speaker 1: bunch of different things. Is he gonna get tackled in bounds?
Speaker 1: Did he step out of bounds? Like? What are they
Speaker 1: gonna kick a field goal? No, there's never been a
Speaker 1: game like that. We don't need history to to wait
Speaker 1: and find out it's a It's an unbelievable instant classic.
Speaker 1: This was the game where we we lost a bunch
Speaker 1: of teams this week and the week before, and it's
Speaker 1: a long season that is suddenly over for the loser.
Speaker 1: But I was watching the Vikings the last couple of
Speaker 1: minutes thinking, what are we ever gonna see a Vikings
Speaker 1: team like this get back to this place where this
Speaker 1: team seems so impenetrable, so balanced, And the first half
Speaker 1: had you thinking they're gonna ride right into the super
Speaker 1: Bowl and they're gonna play in their home stadium. And
Speaker 1: then suddenly it looked like every other Vikings playoff story,
Speaker 1: the snake bitten, charmless destructions to narrative, which I honestly
Speaker 1: you have a great friend, Dan who's a Vikings fan.
Speaker 1: I have one Eric Says, who loves listening to this show,
Speaker 1: and I just thought of these guys, thinking this is
Speaker 1: the ugliest, cruelest fate and for it to end the
Speaker 1: way it did. Saints fans are wonderful, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: be happier for this Vikings fan base. It was the
Speaker 1: most improbable, strange, beautiful ending to a football game I've
Speaker 1: ever watched. You just you hope now, because I think
Speaker 1: the Vikings for a lot of people are kind of
Speaker 1: a sentimental favorite now as we head towards for the
Speaker 1: final four. In fact, we have three great stories now
Speaker 1: heading into the last weekend before the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and if you give me any of these
Speaker 1: other three stories, three teams that have have they won
Speaker 1: Super Bowls? Any They have three teams my blanking right now,
Speaker 1: not Minnesota, not the Jaguars, not the Eagles, not the Eagles.
Speaker 1: And then you have the Patriots, who have won five
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and been almost the better story that they
Speaker 1: are the foil. They are the great as long as
Speaker 1: they it's the perfect foil. You have your perfect foil.
Speaker 1: It's a great setup. You're right, and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Pats get by Blake Bortles at
Speaker 1: home next weekend. But we'll see how it all plays out.
Speaker 1: But you really would love to see one of these
Speaker 1: snake bitten organizations get over the hump. And if it's
Speaker 1: getting over the hump at the Patriots expense, now that's
Speaker 1: great drama. Um, but this game had it all and
Speaker 1: yeah it was seventeen nothing correct at the half, and uh,
Speaker 1: you get the feeling that when Kai four bath lines
Speaker 1: up for a fifty three yard field goal, uh, Kai's Kai.
Speaker 1: Let's you know, that's one thing we know. That's one
Speaker 1: thing we learned today, without a doubt. A lot of
Speaker 1: people seem to Uh, you got a lot of feedback
Speaker 1: on that. I got easily over a hundred mentions that
Speaker 1: Kai's Kai, and then I sent it to my wife,
Speaker 1: um who, as the story goes, uh, we were at
Speaker 1: the hospital before my first son was born, and this
Speaker 1: nurse had a connection to Kai. And she said to me,
Speaker 1: after I sent her a screen grab of all my
Speaker 1: mentions my wife, she said, can you even imagine if
Speaker 1: the nurse saw this like it would be? Would blower mind?
Speaker 1: Like I told you this offhanded story and now all
Speaker 1: these tweets, but Kai drills a fifty three yard or
Speaker 1: onions and the game's not even close to over at
Speaker 1: that point. Left. At that point, it's just amazing how
Speaker 1: the game twisted and turned and it just looked like
Speaker 1: the Saints weren't even going to compete, and then the
Speaker 1: game it was like two totally different games. Well, let's
Speaker 1: let's start and move our way backwards. Marcus Williams had
Speaker 1: a great rookie season for the Saints. Practically played every
Speaker 1: snap at a position where you can be exposed and
Speaker 1: make a lot of mistakes, often as the deep safety
Speaker 1: on the play. Was a big part of why they
Speaker 1: had such a rookie class. If ever, there's kind of
Speaker 1: a snapshot of sports, as you like to say, Dan,
Speaker 1: just like Sparks, it's it's this Marcus Williams game. Game.
Speaker 1: He started this comeback. He was the guy who made
Speaker 1: a leaping interception to pick to take case Keenum's flutterball
Speaker 1: away when it was sevent to seven at that point,
Speaker 1: and that was the first moment everyone in Minnesota and
Speaker 1: everyone in New Orleans thought, oh my god, maybe this
Speaker 1: can happen. This rookie safety it just me a play.
Speaker 1: Maybe he would have been an afterthought, but in his
Speaker 1: mind that would have been one of the most amazing
Speaker 1: moments in a young man's career. And then you get
Speaker 1: to a situation where, I don't know, the theory is
Speaker 1: that he was trying to avoid a penalty on the plate.
Speaker 1: That makes that makes a lot of sense. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's totally gonna explain that or not. I
Speaker 1: also noticed, you know, he was trying to tackle, in
Speaker 1: theory Stefon Diggs in a way that would keep him
Speaker 1: in bound and right. Maybe that just in the game
Speaker 1: is partly how he missed it. It was it was
Speaker 1: sort of just it's just in an inexplicable moment, and
Speaker 1: now that's gonna be with him for the rest of
Speaker 1: his life no matter what else. His earlier heroics are lost.
Speaker 1: And so was a second half by Drew Brees that
Speaker 1: would have gone down as one of the performances of
Speaker 1: the ages. Marcus Williams who um on NFL Network, Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: who I'll give it to Dion for keep it real,
Speaker 1: not sugarcoating it. But I thought that, uh, he made
Speaker 1: a point about Marcus Williams, which is in the in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, this is where they separate the dogs and
Speaker 1: the cats, and Marcus Williams he basically exposed himself as
Speaker 1: a cat because with the game on the line, you
Speaker 1: have to be aggressive to succeed in this sport. You
Speaker 1: have to approach that play in a non passive way,
Speaker 1: and that is they'll be. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: the teaching tool for people how to not play that situation.
Speaker 1: And made me think of Raheem More in Denver five
Speaker 1: or six years ago on the Joe Flacco to Jacoby
Speaker 1: Jones touchdown. It was crushing and you said Drew brees Mark, like,
Speaker 1: let's not lose how well he played in this game
Speaker 1: in the second half and seeing him walk off the field,
Speaker 1: he's thirty nine. Now does he ever get this close?
Speaker 1: And we spend all our time talking about the age
Speaker 1: attached to Tom Brady. This is someone who's months younger
Speaker 1: than Tom Brady and is playing at an incredibly high
Speaker 1: level and his contract is running out. What happens to
Speaker 1: this team? I mean, there's a lot of moving pieces
Speaker 1: for the Saints would be back. I think he would be,
Speaker 1: But if he wasn't as much as losing the Vikings
Speaker 1: this in a cruel way. Today. You feel the same
Speaker 1: way for the Saints because they've been one of the
Speaker 1: most exciting teams to watch. They've been the most transformative
Speaker 1: team in the entire end of CE. To go from
Speaker 1: a team no one believed in and Eate and Nate
Speaker 1: has been to what they accomplished this season, this was
Speaker 1: a cruel way to go. I mean, if you think
Speaker 1: about what had just happened in the final three minutes,
Speaker 1: Breeze with a gorgeous past two Kimara to to take
Speaker 1: the lead at twenty one twenty. I mean, just like
Speaker 1: the the young, exciting Saints players stepping up, Kimara, Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas had big moments. The fourth and ten passed from
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, which is just one of the most ice
Speaker 1: cold throws you ever could have to Willie Sneed on
Speaker 1: the sideline. I mean, that's a play that Minnesota thought
Speaker 1: that they were going to be seen in their dreams.
Speaker 1: And then you think from a Saints perspective of just
Speaker 1: the little things that could have been different. You choose
Speaker 1: to run the ball on third and one, It's hard
Speaker 1: to second guess that. I'm sure Sean Payton will think
Speaker 1: about it. Should I have decided to let Drew Brees
Speaker 1: maybe throw the ball on that play and really just
Speaker 1: the third and one play twenty nine seconds left, they
Speaker 1: decided to run the ball up the middle with but
Speaker 1: just the percentage play. You're trying to get the first down.
Speaker 1: But worst case scenario, you force the Vikings to take
Speaker 1: a time out. But the Saints are such a go
Speaker 1: for broke team all the time. I thought they might
Speaker 1: go play action there so that they can keep the ball,
Speaker 1: not leave any time left, and get a little closer
Speaker 1: for that field goal. That doesn't happen. They get great
Speaker 1: pass rush pressure on the Vikings drive. But on that
Speaker 1: last play the Vikings offensive line, which really was struggling
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Saints pass rush was better
Speaker 1: than the Vikings pass rush. They held up on that
Speaker 1: last play for Keenum gave him plenty of time, great protection,
Speaker 1: and he made to talk about a lost moment. The
Speaker 1: Willie Sneed option passed to Aldri Kamara, where had it
Speaker 1: been a maybe a little about a yard and a
Speaker 1: half two yards closer, it would have been an absolute
Speaker 1: zip line touchdown. I think he would have scored. There
Speaker 1: was a safety hanging back there but that's a lost opportunity.
Speaker 1: And you know this time didn't come into this game
Speaker 1: at the end the way that in nestily would have.
Speaker 1: But Sean Payton had some bizarre challenges in this I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing they have to review, how they
Speaker 1: decided to challenge to plays. The game's over like after
Speaker 1: all that, after some bad challenge, I don't like the kickoff.
Speaker 1: I think you've got to hit the kickoffs and all
Speaker 1: that I know, and I and you could talk abo
Speaker 1: unless you think your kicker can't cough in corner it
Speaker 1: like that, and you don't want to kick that a
Speaker 1: bounce because that's a disaster. But after all that, this
Speaker 1: game should be over. And nine times out of a
Speaker 1: hundred it probably is the football God's kind of intervened.
Speaker 1: And one guy, case Keenum that we cannot give enough
Speaker 1: credit to that he is now in the um final
Speaker 1: four of the NFL and uh and he threw the past.
Speaker 1: He wasn't perfect this game. You threw that that duck
Speaker 1: that was picked up, but once again made big throws
Speaker 1: and has a historic play in Vikings history. Here's what
Speaker 1: he had to say after the game. Tell me about
Speaker 1: the last play desperation time to win. Yeah, I'm manimous
Speaker 1: a kind of explain it, man, I mean we were
Speaker 1: definitely a dense person mode started to give him guy
Speaker 1: Sarnce and Digson rather had of the play had a
Speaker 1: lot of places today. You gotta give our guys credit. Man.
Speaker 1: We fought to the very end, and uh that's special man,
Speaker 1: That's that's one of the most crucial especial times in
Speaker 1: my life. You had to be thinking just maybe a
Speaker 1: penalty and give me a chance at a field goal
Speaker 1: here at that situation, right, I mean you were down
Speaker 1: to your last out. Yeah, we missed a few of
Speaker 1: the earlier we know the chunk and then uh can
Speaker 1: try to get into the film o range. But uh,
Speaker 1: I mean with last player, I mean, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what just happened. Man, it's crazy. He has ever
Speaker 1: been in this place. Is going crazy and it's a
Speaker 1: special Martin. Uh yeah, he he was kind of in
Speaker 1: another world and you get it. Well, you're let list
Speaker 1: case Keenum. Who I mean, I think a lot of people,
Speaker 1: if you're watching the games, your perception of case Keenum
Speaker 1: has changed this entire season. But a guy that is
Speaker 1: just a simply a backup a career backup until this season.
Speaker 1: This moment changed his life forever, and it changed Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings fandom. No matter how you think of Keenum, like
Speaker 1: this game kind of confirmed or whatever you thought about him,
Speaker 1: positively or negatively, Like you could think he got a
Speaker 1: little lucky with some of these throws, but you could
Speaker 1: think when push came to shove, I was even more
Speaker 1: impressed by the field goal drive proceeding this, you know,
Speaker 1: miracle touchdown when Keenum, on I think it was third
Speaker 1: and long, maybe it was second and long, did a
Speaker 1: crazy side step maneuver that he didn't need to make,
Speaker 1: just throws the ball in a in a wild almost
Speaker 1: fi play, which is kind of his trademark rainbow, and
Speaker 1: when he throws it, you're thinking, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And it just falls in beautifully. And that was the
Speaker 1: key play that set up the go ahead field goal.
Speaker 1: That was the play that really ended the drive. When
Speaker 1: the drive that drive started, everyone was like, Okay, now
Speaker 1: we find out is case Keenum for real? Like? Is
Speaker 1: he twice? And you find out twice? We heard the
Speaker 1: call from Paul Allen and Pete Burst of kf x N,
Speaker 1: and that is obviously Lindsay we should cut that for
Speaker 1: the top ten calls. I don't know if they made
Speaker 1: the list, but and maybe this is just shodn Freud
Speaker 1: shot Fred. But let's hear the Saints call uh of
Speaker 1: the same play. Here's Keen dropping looking drawing near sideline
Speaker 1: and then it's caught by Stefon Diggs and who's gonna
Speaker 1: take it? Inside the fifty ten it's punched down on
Speaker 1: the final pro published dad, are you kidding me? A sportsman?
Speaker 1: One thing that both called induced McAllister WWL. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be there in a couple of weeks, and we have
Speaker 1: been to some loud Super Bowl stadiums. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be different. Well, they gotta win. It would not say
Speaker 1: I don't care who's there, that the noise in that
Speaker 1: stadium is insane. It would be how it would be
Speaker 1: anti climactic if they lose to the Eagles. After that,
Speaker 1: fure they'll always have this moment, it still would be
Speaker 1: anti climactic. The last thing I'll say on this game,
Speaker 1: I think there was in the fans of these teams
Speaker 1: could tell me it's crazy. It's it's obviously the biggest game.
Speaker 1: It's a divisional round game. Every but I feel like
Speaker 1: there's even a little bit extra knowing Nick Foles in
Speaker 1: the Eagles are on the other side of this game,
Speaker 1: that if you're a Saints fan or you're a Vikings fan,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, when we win this game, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia and win. It's not the normal situation, which
Speaker 1: it makes it that much tougher for the Saints. It's wow.
Speaker 1: So there you go. One of the great games ever,
Speaker 1: probably the best game in the Around the NFL podcast history.
Speaker 1: There's some Super Bowls that I think, so let's not
Speaker 1: forget this was our team of around fell last time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the come back in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl by Brady is it definitely in the mix. Well,
Speaker 1: it's still Dan your interest aside, I'd have to agree
Speaker 1: that was. We've seen some classic Super Bowls, but this,
Speaker 1: for the fan base attached to it, I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: This could be a freak Like I like the Giant
Speaker 1: Patriots super Bowls. I put those in the Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: those are real barn Bird all right, So there you go.
Speaker 1: Let's move now onto Hines Field. The early game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we go to the middlefield, light open for the touchdown
Speaker 1: Tommy Bohannon touchdown Jacksonville. They faked it. They spoke the
Speaker 1: full back out that the touchdown for the Jaguar. Oh My,
Speaker 1: Frankie Frangie and Tony Boselli of w j x L
Speaker 1: with the call. Leonard Fournette ran for a hundred and
Speaker 1: nine yards and three touchdowns. Blake Bortles, Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: him added two fourteen yards of the air two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I don't think you had a turnover. Look at you, Blake. Uh.
Speaker 1: And one of those touchdowns was a monster hook up
Speaker 1: to Jets legend to Tommy Bohannon and the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers forty to forty two in Hines Field.
Speaker 1: As I said, mark a game, uh, in which the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers every most of the football gotten a centy
Speaker 1: just getting ready for Steelers Patriots too. But then the
Speaker 1: game started and the Jaguars started whipping some ace. We
Speaker 1: were watching this and I think within the first five
Speaker 1: or six minutes we could tell are gonna get last
Speaker 1: week's Jacksonville team. Are you're gonna get the one that
Speaker 1: pasted Pittsburgh in Week five? You're gonna get the second
Speaker 1: because Pittsburgh could not handle their business on defense. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: came out of the gate with an eight play sixties
Speaker 1: six yard drive in which Doug Marone went forward on
Speaker 1: fourth and one total, fourth and goal from the one,
Speaker 1: when you could have kicked a field goal and send
Speaker 1: it's Leonard Fournett diving into the end zone saying, you
Speaker 1: gotta come after us, Pittsburgh. We're not gonna come in
Speaker 1: here and let down. That was a huge playing very
Speaker 1: similar to similar to Doug Peterson and the Eagles going
Speaker 1: for fourth and goal at the one. And I think
Speaker 1: those moments set the tone. It changes, It set the tone,
Speaker 1: and I really think that I underlie we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: But the one thing is everyone saying bemoaning that we're
Speaker 1: not getting Olers New England. Pittsburgh had two chances this
Speaker 1: season to beat Jacksonville. Had they done it either time,
Speaker 1: they would have had her home field advantage in their
Speaker 1: home stadium. You gotta take care of business for us
Speaker 1: to buy into you as a Super Bowl team. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is a strange operation. They are very weird, but they
Speaker 1: are fun to watch and they earned this victory. That's
Speaker 1: what makes me so scared of next week is someone
Speaker 1: that A hates the Patriots and BE loves competitively. They're
Speaker 1: not my favorite dealing but uh and Be loves competitive football,
Speaker 1: especially in the Crucible. Once you get the championship weekend,
Speaker 1: which Jags team is gonna show up next weekend? Because
Speaker 1: we got the really good one this week. But if
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills team that won the last week week, well,
Speaker 1: I'm saying if that team shows up, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be good enough in New England. But but for today's game, Greg,
Speaker 1: it was because every time Pittsburgh started to creep back
Speaker 1: into it, Jack's always had an answer, Well, it's funny
Speaker 1: what you're saying about the Jags. Which team is going
Speaker 1: to show up in their their best? They are so
Speaker 1: great that the numbers supported football outsiders has almost not
Speaker 1: known what to do with the Jaguars all year. They
Speaker 1: have the biggest variants of any team just about ever
Speaker 1: because they're great. Games are so great that they that
Speaker 1: they really but like the numbers say that they're a
Speaker 1: super Bowl team. They were one of the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: favorites because teams that have great games that great, they're
Speaker 1: gonna win in the playoffs. But they're down games truly
Speaker 1: are that down. I think we're gonna see a great
Speaker 1: Jaguars team because at this point, being able to come
Speaker 1: through like this on the road with your offense, that
Speaker 1: was the story. And the defense made big plays and
Speaker 1: that can't be ignored the turnovers that they forced. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that they had a terrible
Speaker 1: day because they gave up five forty yards. It wasn't
Speaker 1: their best day and they certainly would have liked to
Speaker 1: handle that to seven lead a little better. But the
Speaker 1: fact that it was the offense in the end, especially
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, responding great play calls by Nathaniel
Speaker 1: Hackey Bordles doing what he needed to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: just look at the people who are catching passes here.
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole one catch, one huge catch, yelled and led
Speaker 1: the team in receiving. Koyak one huge catch, O'Shaughnessy one
Speaker 1: huge catch, bo Hanon one huge catch. It was just
Speaker 1: like a little bit of this enough running some bigger
Speaker 1: plays on defense, and I think they got to go
Speaker 1: into New England just feeling great. And they're a talented team.
Speaker 1: They win is because they have talent. They got crazy swagger. Also,
Speaker 1: they really and they love and they loved when they win.
Speaker 1: They celebrate a win like nobody else in the league.
Speaker 1: And Blake Bortles, I feel good for Blake. I'm happy
Speaker 1: for Blake Bortles. Never met the man, uh. I think
Speaker 1: I met him at one of those pre draftings and
Speaker 1: he looked thirty seven then. But that's beside the point.
Speaker 1: But for him to come out after all the trash
Speaker 1: talk on him and deliver a really solid game. Even
Speaker 1: after as the Steelers were charging back and it felt
Speaker 1: like they were gonna take over the game, Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: kept on making throws and and I was speaking to
Speaker 1: the swagger and to the Blake Borders criticism. Here is
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson. You're gonna hear colaias Campbell first and then
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson coming in later in the locker locker room.
Speaker 1: The credit here to Elyssa Lang, the First Coast First
Speaker 1: Coast News Swagger. He's a great ud. You know, he
Speaker 1: loves the game. He makes everybody prepared and every time
Speaker 1: he's going there, he's a true competitor. You know, he
Speaker 1: has a lot of heart and on people can down
Speaker 1: them one they want to, but we know what he
Speaker 1: can do, and he proved it today. He's a dog.
Speaker 1: I wanna know what Drill Casey has to say about
Speaker 1: him choking in big moments while you sto at home
Speaker 1: and watch us next week. It's fair who would have
Speaker 1: thought that the Titans, the Titans Jagguars rivalry is heating
Speaker 1: up going into a championship, giving New England a waltz
Speaker 1: to the a f C suth to get to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I mean, the one thing is, last time
Speaker 1: they played Big Ben, they forced him to fifty seven
Speaker 1: passes in five picks. This time around, we got a
Speaker 1: completely different Ben roths for a couple of big mistakes
Speaker 1: early on a bad interception, the strip sack that that
Speaker 1: was to that changed this game. But he threw four
Speaker 1: of the prettiest touchdown passes you will see all season
Speaker 1: five on the day, four hundred and sixty nine yards,
Speaker 1: that one killer pick. But I mean I felt over
Speaker 1: and over watching this with you guys. I kept thinking
Speaker 1: at least five or six times. So you're Stittzburgh is
Speaker 1: gonna win this game? There? Well, if he said, you
Speaker 1: said game over at one point when the when the
Speaker 1: Steelers were down seven and didn't have the ball you're like,
Speaker 1: give us the couple before that too. This was this
Speaker 1: was Mark super ball, to give a little peek behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. You were living and dying, and it's not
Speaker 1: like the Patriots. I do not like the Steelers as
Speaker 1: a Browns fan, and I lost any sense of you know,
Speaker 1: I wrote the game up and I hope a professional manner,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think at one point I whipped
Speaker 1: a pillow across the news room. I think it was
Speaker 1: like a peek behind the curtain, about a peak behind
Speaker 1: the blinds. We sit in the corner of the newsroom.
Speaker 1: And after I think was the fumble return for a touch, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was to make seven. Mark has a cute little
Speaker 1: pillow that he sits on to keep his hiding nice
Speaker 1: and warm. Well, there's there's I had a blood issue
Speaker 1: last year and I was supposed to keep a leg
Speaker 1: elevated and for some reason, I've just kept it on
Speaker 1: my seat. So Mark's little heiny pillow. He picked it up, right,
Speaker 1: heiny pillow. He threw it against the blinds and if
Speaker 1: anybody's sitting here, so it probably would have been like
Speaker 1: a head turn. But there was a management figure who
Speaker 1: popped his head out of an office. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: so that Mark was hyper invested in this game. The
Speaker 1: good thing though, this is the only thing you get
Speaker 1: because I know you do liking it. To my hatred
Speaker 1: of the Patriots, the Steelers end up losing a lot
Speaker 1: like the Patriot there in their seventh straight a f
Speaker 1: C title game. For all the talk about this quote
Speaker 1: unquote Steelers Patriots rivalry in the past seven years, the
Speaker 1: Steelers have only made it that far once, and and
Speaker 1: and a lot more to unpack with the Jacks. But
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, where do they go from here after
Speaker 1: a loss like this where their defense laid one of
Speaker 1: the biggest eggs you can imagine. I know Ryan Shay's
Speaker 1: ears not there, but what an egg to lay when
Speaker 1: the offense was time and time again saying hey, guys,
Speaker 1: let us take care of this game and steal this
Speaker 1: one and get to New England. But the defense just
Speaker 1: wasn't up to the tech. Lesson for me is that
Speaker 1: we keep and it. Greg. I always kill you for this,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just because we don't know how
Speaker 1: these seasons. Today shows you how weird these seasons could be.
Speaker 1: But the idea that we're equating certain teams to be
Speaker 1: on New England's level or have it. There really is
Speaker 1: only one Patriots and the Steelers are a deep second place,
Speaker 1: and they and they, there is a fatal flaw that
Speaker 1: seems to creep up with with with Pittsburgh every year,
Speaker 1: to the point where with Dave damnit check crows about
Speaker 1: how the Steelers have had such a tough time, and
Speaker 1: you're like, whatever, I'd love to be a Steelers. We
Speaker 1: still have Glitter by the way, on our floor here
Speaker 1: because Shaq had Glitter dumped on him for predicting thirteen
Speaker 1: and three things. But in the end he has a
Speaker 1: point because their seasons always end in these awful ways
Speaker 1: outside of a couple of Super Bowls here and there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's but that's what happens to every team essentially. I
Speaker 1: mean that that's what happens to the Packers over the
Speaker 1: last seven or eight years. And you're right, the Steelers
Speaker 1: haven't always been their different AFC teams have taken turns.
Speaker 1: It's been the Colts, it's been the Broncos, the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you're right, Dan, the
Speaker 1: numbers look great for Pittsburgh, but the two turnovers from
Speaker 1: Ben Rock. This burger were absolutely crucial and early in
Speaker 1: this game, and the two failed fourth downs that they
Speaker 1: went for, which whether it's on the coaching or it's
Speaker 1: on the players, I guess, especially the last one where
Speaker 1: they end up throwing the ball when Levy on Bell
Speaker 1: is having a very good game and they throw the
Speaker 1: ball on fourth and a half a yard like those
Speaker 1: are essentially offensive turnovers. So it to me it's a
Speaker 1: team loss, and they have they had no pass rush,
Speaker 1: and that really stood out. And that's why I kind
Speaker 1: of buy into what Tony Romo was selling Saturday night,
Speaker 1: not when well, not when he told us repeatedly, because
Speaker 1: I watched this, um you know, disclaimer on the plane home.
Speaker 1: I was covering the game in Philadelphia, didn't watch the
Speaker 1: game at all, so I watched it on game pass
Speaker 1: on the plane home. He sold for the first quarter
Speaker 1: and a half or so, Oh, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great game. I'm telling you, people don't know what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. There's no way the Titans are not
Speaker 1: going to stay in this game because they are not physical.
Speaker 1: And then and then of course it just went away.
Speaker 1: But he also really made the case that he thought
Speaker 1: the Jaguars not only would beat the Steelers, but that
Speaker 1: they were the team that could give the Patriots problems
Speaker 1: because of their unique matchup. And when you look at
Speaker 1: this Steelers defense the way it finished the season without Shazire,
Speaker 1: I kind of buy into that because it's just hard
Speaker 1: for me to see this Steelers defense getting enough stops,
Speaker 1: whereas the Jaguars I think they could. So you're saying
Speaker 1: Tony Romans right about fifty of the time like the
Speaker 1: rest of us. YEA. Ultimately, it wasn't right about the Titans.
Speaker 1: That was really go hard on because it was really
Speaker 1: driving me crazy when I was watching that game. But
Speaker 1: big Ben, um, well, it looked like you you make
Speaker 1: a good point that um the two fourth down calls
Speaker 1: where it's hit, whether it's Haley or Tomlin or Big Ben.
Speaker 1: Big Ben's six five to sixty and one play, they
Speaker 1: pitch it to the right for a three yard loss
Speaker 1: and then they try deep cross that doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: But still one of my favorite Big Bend games ever
Speaker 1: because it was just so chaotic and wild. I never
Speaker 1: Joe Namath. He just not moved though from the Big
Speaker 1: Ben of old could scamper so many crazy throws the
Speaker 1: fact that he threw the ball forty three yards on
Speaker 1: fourth and five when he could have just run four
Speaker 1: and the game was gonna be over, and Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: makes that play. I mean, this is a class It's
Speaker 1: kind of it really is. I'm sorry to step on
Speaker 1: your point, but just one quick thing is like it
Speaker 1: is kind of a classic Antonio Brown Ben Roethlisberger game
Speaker 1: in the sense that you understood all of their individual
Speaker 1: brilliance and Levi on Bells too, but ultimately the team
Speaker 1: kind of made enough bonehead of plays that it wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: And here's by the way, Big ben Um is gonna
Speaker 1: be back next season. He virtually or more or less
Speaker 1: confirmed it after the game. Here's what he had to say,
Speaker 1: because as you remember last year, around this time, he
Speaker 1: didn't know if he was going to continue in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I definitely a desire to play football. I love this game.
Speaker 1: I love these guys. Um. Like I said, um Um,
Speaker 1: you hate to lose it. You hate to lose it home. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel bad because I feel like I'll let the
Speaker 1: fan down, my teammates down. Um. And you know the fans,
Speaker 1: we gave them so much to enjoint cheer for this year,
Speaker 1: but to lose this at home. UM, I know that
Speaker 1: a lot of them, not a lot. There'll be some
Speaker 1: that say, so, you know, we had a great season,
Speaker 1: thanks for the for the ride, but a lot of
Speaker 1: them are disappointed like we are. It wasn't enough. I
Speaker 1: have sandwiches on Big Ben retiring, so I'd like to
Speaker 1: have I'd like to ask him to reconsider this line
Speaker 1: of thinking for more than one reason. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean the sandwich is being highly Number one, the fact
Speaker 1: that he'd be out of the a f C North
Speaker 1: a deep. He's thirty five years old and all these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are kind of rewriting what's the end of your career,
Speaker 1: But you also don't know how many chances and to
Speaker 1: your point, what's going to happen here? Levy on Bell
Speaker 1: is threatening retirement unless he gets a long term contract.
Speaker 1: Don't really buy that. Todd Haley is reportedly going to
Speaker 1: be on his way out the offensive coordinator. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's good or bad. Apparently didn't really get
Speaker 1: along with Ben Roethlisberger, but they were awfully productive under
Speaker 1: Todd Haley. Considering how unpopular Todd Haley apparently was with
Speaker 1: a lot of fans and here, So you're right. I
Speaker 1: think bars in the area not totally popular at least
Speaker 1: one one last aspect of the game, there's more to
Speaker 1: that story. I still haven't heard. It's fine. One more
Speaker 1: aspect of the story of the game we should touch
Speaker 1: on was the decision because he was criticized for it,
Speaker 1: Mike Thimland opting to onside kick it with two minutes
Speaker 1: and about twenty seconds to play and two time outs
Speaker 1: in in his pocket. I think some people said kick
Speaker 1: it deep there he opts to on side kick it,
Speaker 1: and it goes worst case scenario because Chris Boswell, who
Speaker 1: wants upon at a time, tried that. What's that call
Speaker 1: when you try to kick behind your leg in soccer
Speaker 1: of Vendatta or vendetta with Robano Robano Robano, I think
Speaker 1: got there? Maybe he got there. Uh this time he
Speaker 1: kicks at five yards into his own player and uh
Speaker 1: that puts him at the forty five with the penalty
Speaker 1: for not going ten yards. Then it's at the forty
Speaker 1: and then the defense gives up nine and a half
Speaker 1: yards to set up the Lombo field goal. That ice
Speaker 1: is the game. That's Tomlin, after saying after the game.
Speaker 1: We hadn't stopped him all day. Yeah, we don't think
Speaker 1: that just marched down and they gave up nine and
Speaker 1: a half. You know, they're lucky that they that they
Speaker 1: were able to force Jacksonville to make a field goal
Speaker 1: essentially to win the game there because it very well
Speaker 1: could have been a first down and that was a reminder.
Speaker 1: And the Jaguars, you know, we should give them. Their
Speaker 1: fans are loved, they have great fans and this is
Speaker 1: their first a f C Championship game since when and
Speaker 1: and their offensive line, who I was taking shots at
Speaker 1: early and they had an incredible game for net came
Speaker 1: out really strong and for the defensive even though they
Speaker 1: gave up a lot of places, they also made a
Speaker 1: lot of plays. So there you go. That's the big
Speaker 1: game uh at Hines Field. And one more note as
Speaker 1: we spin forward, Greg Tom Colin, He's going to do
Speaker 1: a little bit more Tom Brady Legacy record this this
Speaker 1: narrative break out the wrecking Ball because Tommy Coughlin's coming
Speaker 1: up to Foxborough. Yeah. I'm not that upset about when
Speaker 1: they got it. They got a defense, laid an egg
Speaker 1: the way they did. I was bummed because I think
Speaker 1: It would have been fun to see that rematch, but
Speaker 1: they played so poorly. Talent wins out, and that is
Speaker 1: the most talented defense we've seen. It's not about their scheme,
Speaker 1: it's not about some hot shot coordinator coming up with
Speaker 1: crazy blitz is. It's just like they are just great
Speaker 1: at every position. And I am I'm already sick. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of this. Coughlin. You know you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal with it. Here's the only reason why he's the
Speaker 1: guy that's above the general manager. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: having a huge impact. He's not the one pick. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying he didn't have an impact
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars organization this year. I don't think whatever
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin does in the next week is really something
Speaker 1: that's going to impact this game. How about this. Do
Speaker 1: you got to go through the Swiss Cheese a f
Speaker 1: C East and now you're gonna get to home games
Speaker 1: against the a f C South to get to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? You could eat a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: I think this is just a little bit of Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin hype. Sure I can I can eat that. They're
Speaker 1: playing one otherwise you're pretty blessed this postseason. No, they're
Speaker 1: playing one of the great defenses that we've seen and
Speaker 1: they're playing the second best. It's a week here, it's
Speaker 1: in theory, it's a week here in the a f C. Overall,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely agree to that, But they're the second best
Speaker 1: team in the a f C. Who can really argue
Speaker 1: with All I'd say though, is you the New England's
Speaker 1: experience does come in to play. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that too, because Jacksonville they've never been here, not these players,
Speaker 1: not these coaches. So we'll get to all that in
Speaker 1: the upcoming week. Let's now move on to the Saturday games.
Speaker 1: The game that kicked it off another surprise for many people.
Speaker 1: The game good royd On Ryan Left, Ryan Rolves, Ryan pumps,
Speaker 1: Ryan is throwing it up in the air and come Plaine, Hey,
Speaker 1: come platelet tell um, don't come plat the Eagles take
Speaker 1: overall found but circums what Merril Reese w I p
Speaker 1: with the Hall. Yes, the Eagles delivered a last minute
Speaker 1: goal line stand, thwarting a final Falcons play they knew
Speaker 1: was coming, and it's to ten win that advances the
Speaker 1: Eagles to their first NFC title games since Stanovan McNabb
Speaker 1: was in town back in the two thousand eight season.
Speaker 1: For the Falcons, there will be no atonement for last
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl collapse, only questions about what happened to
Speaker 1: their offense this season. Getting shut out in the second
Speaker 1: half in the Crucible My god, Greg. The Eagles were
Speaker 1: counted out by the football after losing Carson Wentz. But
Speaker 1: their defense and the everlasting power of home field advantage,
Speaker 1: which I think was huge in this game, humbled the doubters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think home field was massive, and there are so
Speaker 1: many different ways you can slice up this game because
Speaker 1: I think they were ultimately too evenly matched teams where
Speaker 1: a lot of weird stuff happened. I mean, the Eagles
Speaker 1: fumbled four times. There was a fake hail Mary, there
Speaker 1: was a ball off of a knee at um that
Speaker 1: falls through that should have been intercepted that and ended
Speaker 1: up being caught, and then then the Eagles score three
Speaker 1: points off of that. There was a blocked punt in
Speaker 1: this game. I mean, it was it was a strange,
Speaker 1: cold weather, windy game, but ultimately it was down to
Speaker 1: one play and it was It's very rare that going
Speaker 1: into that play everyone knew it was that play, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles even took a time out, and I wrote
Speaker 1: about how my Malcolm Jenkins, that the safety, you know,
Speaker 1: gathered the team together to make sure they understood, like,
Speaker 1: this is the season, this is what we've been doing
Speaker 1: everything since April four. And then when they line up
Speaker 1: for the play, both Jenkins and Rodney McCloud knew what
Speaker 1: was coming, that it was gonna be a sprint right
Speaker 1: where Matt Ryan looked for Julio Jones. They said they
Speaker 1: practiced it three or four times on Thursday, they practiced
Speaker 1: it again at the walkthrough, but you still got to
Speaker 1: execute it. And that came down to Jalen Mills on
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Matt Ryan. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: kicking himself for the first down throat to Julio Jones
Speaker 1: with kind of got overlooked where Julio had a one
Speaker 1: on one situation and a better throw there maybe gets
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And then the fourth down play where Julio
Speaker 1: Jones ultimately slips it gets physical, it doesn't happen, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's hard to read too much
Speaker 1: into it when it's all down to play and I
Speaker 1: don't want to pile on Steve starkeising because he's gotten
Speaker 1: plenty of it this year, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: a terrible final series by him. I thought, all right,
Speaker 1: first down, that's fine. Uh, that was a good play
Speaker 1: call and a bad throw by Ryan. And I haven't
Speaker 1: heard seen anyone even mentioned that because it was one
Speaker 1: on one whatever. I don't know what happened on on
Speaker 1: that little shovel or whatever the hell. That was terrible.
Speaker 1: That Ryan we've been talking about in this playoffs. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last year during his MVP season. He
Speaker 1: is one of the best in the league at surveying
Speaker 1: the field looking through his progressions. They basically and they
Speaker 1: mentioned the Eagles talked about this. They cut half the
Speaker 1: field off put him on the run, which is really
Speaker 1: not playing to ryan strengths, and then made it Julio
Speaker 1: Jones or death and Julio Jones He's going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, but it's not been one of their
Speaker 1: better red zone end zone guys, So like you kind
Speaker 1: of made it Julio or bus there. And I thought
Speaker 1: that Sarkasian had a bad year, The Falcons had a
Speaker 1: bad year on offense, and that was kind of symbolic
Speaker 1: for me. And on the flip side, I thought Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson saved the team in the second half with an
Speaker 1: excellent series of game calls in Nick Foles. Was the
Speaker 1: concern around Nick Foles started right away in this game,
Speaker 1: but they say he was finding the second half in
Speaker 1: terms of you're playing around him in general, but too
Speaker 1: clock chewing drives that both field goal drives that I
Speaker 1: thought changed this game. And you look at the box
Speaker 1: score and it doesn't look like Philly got anything done
Speaker 1: on the ground, But in those two drives where they
Speaker 1: they were a couple key runs where they kept they
Speaker 1: kept moving the sticks and their offense you saw little
Speaker 1: hints of that ground game that was dominant in other stages.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't for the full game. But give it
Speaker 1: to Philly for using their strengths to get out of
Speaker 1: this one that I couldn't agree more with everything you said.
Speaker 1: They're starting with Peterson having a real a good game
Speaker 1: play calling, started, the offensive line having an incredible game.
Speaker 1: I think that was probably the number one key for
Speaker 1: the Eagles that falls had no one near him, and
Speaker 1: if you're an NFL quarterback and no one's near you,
Speaker 1: the whole game. And you've got a good play caller
Speaker 1: and a team that's trying to prevent the run, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make those throws. And Foals missed some throws in
Speaker 1: the first half, but Peterson got him into open receivers
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what coaching is supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's Fulls did his job. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of plays that he made where he stepped up
Speaker 1: in the pocket and made a nice third down throw.
Speaker 1: I remember on one of the field goal drives and
Speaker 1: the play at the end of the first half, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the Eagles in the locker room talked
Speaker 1: about that. They really felt like that was one of
Speaker 1: the big plays of the game where Foals hits outside
Speaker 1: Jeffrey on what was a high level throw, probably his
Speaker 1: best throw of the day to hit Jeffrey on about
Speaker 1: a seventeen yard out into the sideline and they hit
Speaker 1: the field goal going into halftime, and that like Foals
Speaker 1: did his job. He did not make any big mistakes.
Speaker 1: Even the near interception was on a play where he
Speaker 1: got hit very quickly in the leg and like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna kill him from making that throw. How about
Speaker 1: Nick Falls. I mean, if Chris Wesley was here, he
Speaker 1: would bury Falls. And I get that he was he was.
Speaker 1: I mean he started very he was. He was like
Speaker 1: the ten threes and they won. But he did his job.
Speaker 1: But he absolutely did his job. And I think you
Speaker 1: guys nailed it with Doug Peterson that they realized what's
Speaker 1: gonna work. How do we make this work with Nick Foles?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it works next week against
Speaker 1: the Vikings, but in this case where they were able
Speaker 1: to do this run pass option r p O, Now
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna start saying like they they're insiders in the league.
Speaker 1: But it was good to learn. And I'll start using
Speaker 1: him as well a lot of r p O and
Speaker 1: don't make them think. Just give him with somebody to
Speaker 1: throw to and hit the throws. It worked this week.
Speaker 1: And and the Falcons. We spent a whole week talking
Speaker 1: up their defense. They were fine. They played points, fifteen points,
Speaker 1: they gave up. You need your offense to go in
Speaker 1: there and get the job done, and they just could
Speaker 1: not do it. It's crazy that Falls he threw the
Speaker 1: ball thirty times and had only seven incompletions, and yet
Speaker 1: I remember heated disasters from him, but it was that
Speaker 1: second half of those two field goals drives ate up
Speaker 1: nearly fourteen minutes right well. And there was even the
Speaker 1: first play of the game like that was the perfect
Speaker 1: way for it to start where falls throws it up
Speaker 1: in the air and it was very windy, and I
Speaker 1: do think the win was a huge factor in the game.
Speaker 1: And the ball live looked like it got blown backwards
Speaker 1: and to the side, but they end up getting a
Speaker 1: fourt yard play on it. Then they fumbled the next one.
Speaker 1: But there were there were a lot of those sort
Speaker 1: of moments where things could have gone wrong for foals uh,
Speaker 1: and they didn't. But when you have a great line
Speaker 1: like that can cover up a lot of ills. And
Speaker 1: and I just wonder, like there are there are a
Speaker 1: few moments in this game where I just wonder what
Speaker 1: would have happened if, if, if different decisions were made,
Speaker 1: the first one being Doug Peterson wanted to go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth and one late in the game, before
Speaker 1: they kicked the field goal to go up fifteen ten,
Speaker 1: he called the running play. The players in the locker
Speaker 1: room confirmed that was gonna be a run to the
Speaker 1: Garrett blund but he took so long making up his
Speaker 1: mind to do it that they ran out of time,
Speaker 1: had to take a time out. And then once he
Speaker 1: had all that time, he got in decisive again, still
Speaker 1: couldn't decide, and then decided to go for the field goal.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they would have picked up the first
Speaker 1: down and maybe they would have won anyways, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like those There were so many of
Speaker 1: those little moments back and forth that could have changed.
Speaker 1: I remember on Thursday, I correctly, by the way, called
Speaker 1: it a coin flip game. At least and West both
Speaker 1: picked the Eagles. I believe we did, I mean, although
Speaker 1: with no exceeding confidence, but he did more than Oh
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Forget Oh, I mean I had
Speaker 1: during this show, not during yesterday. Actually, I found myself
Speaker 1: and this is how this outside of the four of us.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure any humans truly care about this lock
Speaker 1: it up, but I found myself like rooting hard, racking
Speaker 1: on Twitter by the way, people care about it, No,
Speaker 1: they do. I was rooting hard for the Eagles because
Speaker 1: of the lock it Up contest. So I did not
Speaker 1: forget yesterday, but I forgot during the show. But come on, lindsay, oh,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was a fortunate for Dan. He's very important.
Speaker 1: We got a trophy hypothetically on the line here. We
Speaker 1: do have a trophy on the line here. Um, I
Speaker 1: have a great I've lost six in a row. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna embrace that chaos and I'm gonna I will
Speaker 1: know spoilers, but I got a I got somebody one
Speaker 1: team in mind that the old Zeuster is gonna throw
Speaker 1: his lock behind in the championship weekend. I feel like
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick the Patriots that you think you can't put.
Speaker 1: You can't ask me to do a lock off again.
Speaker 1: And at first I want to say, you're gonna pick
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, but then I thought about it. No, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use this evil for good to defeat evil. Before
Speaker 1: I let me just say, I meant to say because
Speaker 1: I wish West was here. He's not able to make
Speaker 1: the show. But he did a great right up and
Speaker 1: he had something that really, um, I thought was spot
Speaker 1: on by calling this like a victory out of the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties Bill Parcels game script, which is what it was,
Speaker 1: which was, don't the quarterback is not going to be
Speaker 1: him high flyer. It's not gonna be Dan Marino in
Speaker 1: eight eight. You're gonna have a more Phil Simms Jeff
Speaker 1: Hostetler type attack, danco dunk, take what the defense gives you,
Speaker 1: and then win the game in the trenches, win the
Speaker 1: game on special teams, win the game in time of possession.
Speaker 1: And that's how the Eagles won. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Eagles necessarily, all due respect to the Eagles fans were
Speaker 1: the better team ultimately with Nick Foles involve but I
Speaker 1: think the home field advantage and the fact that they
Speaker 1: coached a better game I think was enough to take
Speaker 1: it home. It's a huge win for a coaching staff
Speaker 1: that was dismissed out of hand by some before the season,
Speaker 1: and Jim Schwartz is a big part of that too.
Speaker 1: Nigel Bradham after the game, I was talking about one
Speaker 1: of his sacks, how it was a play they didn't
Speaker 1: it was a blitz they didn't practice all week, hadn't
Speaker 1: done all season, and usually like those are parts of
Speaker 1: their packages. But Schwartz saw something and literally just explained
Speaker 1: it to him during during the game, said hey, I
Speaker 1: want you to do this ends up in a big
Speaker 1: time sack, A very similar really well timed sack by
Speaker 1: the safety McLeod in that game. I think Schwartz had
Speaker 1: a really good game, because I agree, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were necessarily the better team. And in one
Speaker 1: final thing, just in case we're moving on, I watched
Speaker 1: this game after I got back to the hotel, had
Speaker 1: a drink um, you know, with a good friend Matt Casey,
Speaker 1: look at that football night in America, producer, big shot,
Speaker 1: and then I was back. I couldn't fall safe started
Speaker 1: watching this game, and You're right. The run pass option
Speaker 1: stuff was going crazy, and that's why I was like,
Speaker 1: why is this all over my timeline? But that that's why.
Speaker 1: But I gotta say to the shadowy league figures, Oh
Speaker 1: here we go, there we go. Do you start talking
Speaker 1: about drugs again? No, I work for the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell talks about protecting the shield and it was
Speaker 1: probably I think it was three thirty four in the
Speaker 1: morning when I'm watching this, because I don't remember to
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. You gotta look at who you're
Speaker 1: allowing to provide advertisements on some of these NFL network games.
Speaker 1: They're replaying the game. I'm enjoying the telecast Collinsworth all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and I was hit with some pretty risky material,
Speaker 1: very risk ay. I mean, I don't even want to
Speaker 1: say what was going on, but it was. I would
Speaker 1: love to It was crazy about a hint in this climate,
Speaker 1: I don't even want to do well. I think you're
Speaker 1: it's an unorthodox move by you. There's a one number
Speaker 1: I'll say all. I think you've said enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: NFL network is a family Uh, it's family broadcastings. Please
Speaker 1: remember that, so had the phone calls go anyway, there
Speaker 1: you go. The Eagles move on, and congrats to Connie Fox,
Speaker 1: who um who I texted during the game and she
Speaker 1: was a nervous wreck. That must have been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I've never really spent time in Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: people keep on saying broad Street all the time. So
Speaker 1: I'll just say probably a big party on Broad Street.
Speaker 1: Philly was rocking. I mean people, it was. It was
Speaker 1: can then you know, I got in very late the
Speaker 1: night before, um, you know, because they tried not to
Speaker 1: be the worst father ever. Leaving for Philadelphia and my
Speaker 1: son's third birthday stretched it out like half they got,
Speaker 1: They're very got, They're very late. Is Daddy ever coming back?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was when I arrived there, I mean
Speaker 1: it was I think it was one in the morning.
Speaker 1: I mean the whole the city was on fire, on fire,
Speaker 1: and the way I take me on fire. Next weekend,
Speaker 1: I texted John Gonzales along with Colleen as as you did.
Speaker 1: But like Gonzo's future prediction for the Eagles next week,
Speaker 1: not so sunny, but it's always And how about the
Speaker 1: Shadowy speaking the Shadowy League figures, get Colleen wolf a
Speaker 1: credential here. She couldn't even get into the game. She's
Speaker 1: hosting two of your national programs on the weekend. How
Speaker 1: about you take some of that I saw some of
Speaker 1: that riff raff numbers and get Connie in the Actually
Speaker 1: it's not even it doesn't cost him any money. Just
Speaker 1: pick up the phone, don't call the one eight hundred number.
Speaker 1: Call Howie Roseman's assist, Like, hey, just a common courtesy
Speaker 1: to someone laboring on like seven or eight shows for
Speaker 1: the network. How about it? Um? All right, she couldn't
Speaker 1: get in, just been jet lagged into oblivion for the shield.
Speaker 1: All right, let's count down and we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: talk about the last game, which was actually the second
Speaker 1: game and was also the worst game. Second and goal
Speaker 1: to go in Fronkowski, the insight slot receiver left. It's
Speaker 1: a shovel pass to want motion of the It's gonna
Speaker 1: sprint the pilot touchdown, Patriots, that's easiest touchdown past. I
Speaker 1: was that you were doing that voice. I was thinking
Speaker 1: of jumping in, going like too easy. It's too easy
Speaker 1: every touchdown from Zo, Like, hey, that ain't even make
Speaker 1: it it easy? All right? It's like that seen in
Speaker 1: uh Billy Madison where the o'doyle is like o'doyle rules,
Speaker 1: and then Billy Madison one day after o'doyle puts all
Speaker 1: the manure in the locker. Finally Billy Madison turns to
Speaker 1: the bully and goes o'doyle. I gotta feeling something really
Speaker 1: bad is going to happen to you. That's how I
Speaker 1: feel about Scott Zolak, Freaking Scott Zolak and the rest
Speaker 1: of the Patriot nation. Anyway, that that can wait, because
Speaker 1: now we have to give you credit. Greiga scored two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He is a touchdown machine in the Crucible, and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady through three thirty seven yards and three touchdowns as
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots rolled over the overmatch Tennessee tight
Speaker 1: tunes atteen on Saturday night. Yes, we're up to seven
Speaker 1: consecutive I don't care. Come after me on Twitter, Tight
Speaker 1: Tuons fans all sour. We're up to seven consecutive a
Speaker 1: f C Championship game appearances. On the throne of ease.
Speaker 1: Believe for them all. Thirty five of those Patriots points,
Speaker 1: by the way, came unanswered after the Titans exit at
Speaker 1: the first quarter somehow with a seven zero lead. Uh.
Speaker 1: Great pass from Mariotta to Corey Davis. Tony Romo was
Speaker 1: feeling himself at that point, as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: But Tennessee's offense was a non factor of the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. Matt Patricia's defense. Matt Patricia, soon to
Speaker 1: be the Lions head coach, kept Mariota in the pocket
Speaker 1: to predictably mundane results, and in true throne of bees
Speaker 1: uh fashion, Mariota suffered a quad injury in the first
Speaker 1: quarter that apparently limited him and made them change their
Speaker 1: game plan in the game's final three quarters. But in
Speaker 1: any event, Oh right tackle Jack Conklin, who's a star,
Speaker 1: also blew out his knee. I'm sure that, um it
Speaker 1: was a bummer for the Titans, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, the better team won and uh no one,
Speaker 1: no one could be surprised because this was on This
Speaker 1: was not a fair fight, mark No. And it's we
Speaker 1: pointed to New England's weakness of lacking a pass rush
Speaker 1: and they have eight sacks and you know, their defense
Speaker 1: lets up massive amount they let they let up seven
Speaker 1: points all day and at what I do I mean
Speaker 1: New England. The reason that I looked up from you know, writing,
Speaker 1: uh my column or whatever, and saw some Cessler's subtweet
Speaker 1: about that, like oh wow, yeah, like subtweet, because I
Speaker 1: I hope they openly disagree with the idea that they're
Speaker 1: that the defense, like is this big mess they've let
Speaker 1: let up any team in the league. You said that
Speaker 1: all year and you're being proven right. I truly believe
Speaker 1: they're getting better, but getting better. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: the way that they shape shift on offense, and it's
Speaker 1: they've they've dealt with a lot of injuries on offense
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. I don't mean this in a
Speaker 1: in a condescending way to the Patriots, but it's like
Speaker 1: whoever is out, they find someone else to fill in.
Speaker 1: Danny Amndola, a guy that has been lucky to make
Speaker 1: this team, having to take pay cuts year after year,
Speaker 1: leads the lead leads give him a pay raise. Eleven catches.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought that White looked like the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl version of James White. Brandon Cooks had his plays,
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski was incredible, Dion Lewis was an utter star
Speaker 1: last night. They just have so many weapons that if
Speaker 1: we talk about Jacksonville, they're big. They dealt with it. Today.
Speaker 1: They gave up forty two points to a team with
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. They're gonna face another one with
Speaker 1: just as many next week. Yeah, they they're gonna put
Speaker 1: as much pressure in terms of defending as any team
Speaker 1: can on that Jagguars defense. And we'll get into that
Speaker 1: during the week. But the presence of White and Hogan
Speaker 1: sort of slipped under the radar going into the game,
Speaker 1: and they actually weren't overly productive. White got the two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but between the two of them, you know yards, But
Speaker 1: the difference is that's two more guys who know the system,
Speaker 1: who know exactly what Tom Brady is thinking, who defenses
Speaker 1: have to account for, and it just creates more problems
Speaker 1: in terms of covering Dion Lewis and Amon Dolan and
Speaker 1: the And it takes the guys off the field like
Speaker 1: Philip Dorset or Kenny Britt who is heavily involved late
Speaker 1: in the season. Uh and some of the backup tight ends.
Speaker 1: It takes those guys off the field, and it puts
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl champions who know this offense. And that's
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big deal. Like it's a big difference.
Speaker 1: And they got a great matchup with the Titans. I
Speaker 1: think if he played this game ten times, the Patriots
Speaker 1: are probably gonna win all ten. And that's where I
Speaker 1: buy into that. They definitely were fortunate, but they in
Speaker 1: those breaks by winning those regular season games despite the injuries,
Speaker 1: by winning games like they did in Pittsburgh, by by
Speaker 1: finding a way to get that one seed, and that
Speaker 1: that's how you get your brown. The Steelers getting robbed
Speaker 1: on that, Yeah, we'll not forget that. That was that.
Speaker 1: I feel like Steeler should have won the game, and yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but my point is they never got to play again,
Speaker 1: obviously because the Steelers blew it today, But that still
Speaker 1: did have a huge effect because today could have been
Speaker 1: totally different with the Jaguars delivering the performance that we
Speaker 1: saw today up in Foxboro and this and the Steelers
Speaker 1: and I'm not even gonna entertain. It's like, oh, well
Speaker 1: the Steelers were you know, they could have getten beat
Speaker 1: by anybody. Know. The Titans did not belong in this
Speaker 1: round in the playoffs, and maybe they will down the line,
Speaker 1: although like we said last week, they might have got
Speaker 1: to get caught in a catch twenty two year now.
Speaker 1: And now as we're hearing reports that Mike Mularkey is
Speaker 1: going to get an extension, is that really the best
Speaker 1: thing to be happening for this organization going forward? Everyone
Speaker 1: has an opinion, but they just were not. This is
Speaker 1: not a stage of the Titans mark where anywhere close
Speaker 1: to be ready for you. No, last week's win over
Speaker 1: the Chiefs was something to build on, and I think
Speaker 1: that they kind of overshot by suddenly celebrating the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and making all these pronouncements which wait a week
Speaker 1: because this was the acid test and it shows you
Speaker 1: how far they have to go. But it also is
Speaker 1: like the type of game that the like. It's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Patriots are lucky. They play the Titans. But it's
Speaker 1: because they never never the Chiefs. They are never the
Speaker 1: team that gives up the twenty one three lead to
Speaker 1: a bad team. So it's like they it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you kind of can't have it both ways,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, they beat up on the bad teams, Like
Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to. I know a problem with
Speaker 1: New England taking out They can't just stay. It's not
Speaker 1: their fault. They had to play the Titans. They took
Speaker 1: care of business. They don't they don't stumble. They also,
Speaker 1: the Patriots don't tweet like Levi on Bell before the
Speaker 1: game guaranteeing that they're gonna beat Team X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: They're very different organizations out to the Jaguars Twitter handle,
Speaker 1: by the way, when they caught wind of a player
Speaker 1: on the Steelers talking about what a war it's gonna
Speaker 1: be with the pay treo, it's how it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where the game is played, it's gonna be crazy. And
Speaker 1: then the Jaguars tweeted something along on the long lines
Speaker 1: of you could play the Patriots all season, all off
Speaker 1: season on maddened it's like airplay. Good job they never
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry going the way they did last week.
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty eight yards of twelve Patriots were committed
Speaker 1: to stop him, and that was there just for all
Speaker 1: the options that New England has for tom Brady. This
Speaker 1: is an offense in Tennessee that has a long way
Speaker 1: to go in terms of adding weapons and making them
Speaker 1: looking more multiple going into next season. They can't do
Speaker 1: this again and they make their their banks. Romo was
Speaker 1: really strong talking about the difference between a Tom Brady
Speaker 1: audible and basically almost any other audible system in the
Speaker 1: league that no no other quarterback is at the point
Speaker 1: it's like having Belichick be a great quarterback. First of all,
Speaker 1: tom Brady made a lot of great throws in this
Speaker 1: game and was one of his best games of the year,
Speaker 1: So the worry about him falling off forget that. You
Speaker 1: definitely feel better are watching this. He made some great throws,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it's just mental where he's motioning
Speaker 1: guys in a no huddle offense and audibly and doing
Speaker 1: so many sort of next level changes where he changes
Speaker 1: everything about the play because he sees something. It's like
Speaker 1: that Sean McVeigh story where everyone's excited that he's changing
Speaker 1: the play when he sees it with twenty seconds. Well,
Speaker 1: except Brady is the guy who is the quarterback and
Speaker 1: he's changing so many different things and they're kind of
Speaker 1: next level. And Romo pointed this out in the sense
Speaker 1: that they went Noel early and it didn't totally work
Speaker 1: right off the back because they know the Titans only
Speaker 1: have four defensive linement and as the course of the
Speaker 1: game goes on, the Titans get tired, and those are
Speaker 1: the types of things other coaching staffs and other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: as aren't doing. This was Yeah, Brady looked great, very
Speaker 1: soft landing getting the Titan. Absolutely, I would like to
Speaker 1: see what Brady is looking like. Uh, if the Jags
Speaker 1: defense comes to play and he has to move in
Speaker 1: the pocket and takes a couple of shots, it will
Speaker 1: be That's that's the up shot. Like for me that
Speaker 1: it if the Jaguars could be on their third string
Speaker 1: right tackle, Little Adrian Waddle got hurt in this game
Speaker 1: and he already was their backup sets. But this was
Speaker 1: perfect and the Patriots they did earn it. They did, yes,
Speaker 1: get lucky with the Steelers and and and winning that game,
Speaker 1: but ultimately everything is set up in a way to
Speaker 1: get the first seed to end up to get a
Speaker 1: position where you get the buy and then get a
Speaker 1: home game, and then if some things work out in
Speaker 1: your favor, as they often seem to do, you got
Speaker 1: the Titans. So now you got the Jaguars in your building.
Speaker 1: And we'll say if they go back to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl first, it's a good setup for him. There's no
Speaker 1: way around it. For shame Mike Malarkey of crying about
Speaker 1: the Eric Decker pass interference. I I was. I was
Speaker 1: vaguely aware of what was going on in this game,
Speaker 1: and I thought this, you know, I was gonna rewatch it,
Speaker 1: and it was gonna be some like Titanic call, which
Speaker 1: like swung the balance of the game. It was seven
Speaker 1: seven in the first quarter and they're on their own
Speaker 1: thirty yard line and it was a touch foul that
Speaker 1: they probably got wrong. But it happens all the time.
Speaker 1: There was a million other calls this weekend that were
Speaker 1: worse than that call. Because everyone hates the Patriots so much,
Speaker 1: they make a bigger deal. That's very true, and some
Speaker 1: of the officiating was terrible, all again going to the
Speaker 1: Patriots way, and that gets people annoyed because people are
Speaker 1: sick of the Patriots get it, But watching the game
Speaker 1: at real time is how you watched it. I will
Speaker 1: say that, so if you're in the moment watching that
Speaker 1: record play, it felt bigger because it was like it
Speaker 1: seemed like if they could if they started moving and
Speaker 1: had a positive drive coming off that Patriots touchdown, they
Speaker 1: were gonna be maybe okay. But then once that that
Speaker 1: went the other direction, they wouldn't have. At one point
Speaker 1: the Patriots four first downs like than the than the type.
Speaker 1: It was a blowout for the of of blowouts, because
Speaker 1: it really when you get to the divisional round playoffs
Speaker 1: and by the start of the fourth quarter, like it's
Speaker 1: hard to keep your TV on, you know that a
Speaker 1: game has been dominated. I have to one, it's very
Speaker 1: similar to the Tebow game, and then the a f
Speaker 1: C Championship against the Colts had some right. If you're
Speaker 1: Mike Malarkey, the the the command is self reflection, critiquing
Speaker 1: the officials going into the Yeah, I agree with you
Speaker 1: A real question. I don't think you're the right person
Speaker 1: to ask, really, Greg, But I'm wondering if, like, if
Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan and say you're years old years old,
Speaker 1: you were born like nineteen. I'm in this range, all right,
Speaker 1: it's a good one for me. You really, do you
Speaker 1: get anything out of these games at this point? These
Speaker 1: type of playoff games. Do you get any rush from
Speaker 1: watching or is it kind of the same as watching
Speaker 1: some game in November. No, you definitely get it, because
Speaker 1: if you don't sense it in that building, I can
Speaker 1: tell you that I think you definitely do because, if anything,
Speaker 1: the playoffs are almost that's all that matters on some levels.
Speaker 1: Just don't get the rest of many regular points. So
Speaker 1: it's only now that you get it though, because it's
Speaker 1: not like in weekends. I get that this game was
Speaker 1: easy and everyone assumed it was gonna be easy, so
Speaker 1: it's maybe, yeah, it's a little different, but I think
Speaker 1: you you get something. I mean, you were a Yankees
Speaker 1: fan throughout a pretty dominance and you know what, there
Speaker 1: was never lasted this long. But I can say, like
Speaker 1: as a Yankee fan when they were in their Turn
Speaker 1: of the Millennium Dynasty era, some of the playoff victories
Speaker 1: and like the lower levels tears, there was less reward
Speaker 1: to it. As a Patriots fans are so Patriots fans
Speaker 1: are greedy though, like if they if no I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're right where I don't think I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: But but like if they lose next week, it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be like the sky is absolutely falling on them
Speaker 1: in then. Yet and yet they're in such uncharged The
Speaker 1: thing is they real it really is on Chartered tears.
Speaker 1: It is They've made seven conference championships since the last
Speaker 1: time any one of these other three teams that are
Speaker 1: left were in the conference championship. There's never been like
Speaker 1: an eight teen year run like this. They made twelve
Speaker 1: out of seventeen. That to me is just as crazy
Speaker 1: as seventh straight. They made twelve out of seventeen. It
Speaker 1: is incredible. Remember how they turned on the team in
Speaker 1: Week one when they were getting crushed by the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I mean, all will take is and this fan base
Speaker 1: will go nuts on their own. Hey Dan, I cut
Speaker 1: another call from this game just for you, because I
Speaker 1: know that the radio calls at this point the season
Speaker 1: are few and far between. The team's dwindled down, so
Speaker 1: Fulton's getting a tamposey on here. This is a great
Speaker 1: call and it was actually the drive before the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Are you hitting me with Morrizolac? Oh? Yeah, All right,
Speaker 1: give me where classic kind of screen ripe for downs
Speaker 1: fixture attack on the twenty five twenty to pick chuck
Speaker 1: down from me? Hard happened, he's gone too fat? Can
Speaker 1: he run the lights Tony for a touchdown and save
Speaker 1: up on the floy asked today, We've seen this before
Speaker 1: with Dion Lewis. Down. He's down, He's down, he's down.
Speaker 1: Come on, No, we get excited for nothing. It's like
Speaker 1: I can get excited for nothing. It's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like making up just a guy that's drunk in the bleachers,
Speaker 1: like a old fox. Like. It's basically, what if we
Speaker 1: took a guy that was in the parking lot uh
Speaker 1: drinking for years and then made him the color guy
Speaker 1: for the most successful NFL franchise in modern history. Totally
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Speaker 1: That is the divisional round wrap up. What oh what
Speaker 1: a weekend of games. Only three more games. It's been
Speaker 1: a great playoffs, unbelievable divisional round. It's a good wild
Speaker 1: card round and we have three really upstart underdogs. You
Speaker 1: can really get excited about. Weirdest a f C NFC combination,
Speaker 1: Uh of games that I can ever remember. Give it
Speaker 1: to me, Give me weird, give me some weird. This
Speaker 1: is weird. Yeah, I think so well, the people are
Speaker 1: gonna be so I'm I'm already tired of hearing like
Speaker 1: the Keenum, Bordles, Foals and Brady, which one sticks out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But three of them have does? Three of them have
Speaker 1: top five defenses? I mean, the best defensive teams made
Speaker 1: it into the conference championships ultimately. And the Patriots you'd
Speaker 1: like to spend the Patriots is underdogs almost every week.
Speaker 1: Are you're gonna spend this favorite? Right now? They are
Speaker 1: absolutely favorites. I think the Jaguars are as talented a
Speaker 1: defense and the whole book on how to beat Brady.
Speaker 1: They are that book. Man to man, physical coverage, pressure
Speaker 1: up the middle, being able to get guys get pass
Speaker 1: rush pressure with four especially on the interior. Like that's
Speaker 1: describing the Jaguars is the old Giants motto is the
Speaker 1: model is the way that everyone believes that you beat
Speaker 1: him the way that the Broncos beat him. So I
Speaker 1: think it's I'm excited for that game, and it's not
Speaker 1: as nothing like Tennessee New England. It's completely there's such
Speaker 1: a weird there. They are such a crazy team that
Speaker 1: any game the Jaguars are in this season, to me,
Speaker 1: has been compared. They don't have the special experience and
Speaker 1: they don't care like they have a total attitude. Like
Speaker 1: I do. Think there's a little bit of a Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin effect there. They were saying that he was going
Speaker 1: absolutely nuts up in the booth the entire time, absolutely
Speaker 1: beside himself, even he was next to the reporters. In
Speaker 1: some stadiums they put the personnel in the press box,
Speaker 1: which probably drives Tom Coughlin crazy. But our old friend
Speaker 1: Jeff Darlington was tweeting about that Coughlin was banging out
Speaker 1: expletives while the Jaguars were up twenty one nothing, just
Speaker 1: burying the Jaguars guy forgotten by the Giants. He's back.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to make my lock pick this week.
Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Dan Hands signing off for
Speaker 1: or not locking you off on that one. The old
Speaker 1: boss behind the Glass. Tuesday se