Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL podcast made it through New Horizon. Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll come back to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanson said, I've joined
Speaker 1: in the room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling
Speaker 1: and Greg Rose withal what is up? Boys? Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: it's Thursday, which is our Friday. And uh one. Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: he's got that itchy sometimes he gets a little itchy
Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon. He's looking to get out the door
Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Not a little mark. Not accurate.
Speaker 1: It just says when we send out these emails that
Speaker 1: say hey everyone, show starts at one pm, and then
Speaker 1: it drifts from one eighteen to one to one thirty one,
Speaker 1: it's suddenly one fifty eight and we're still We're still
Speaker 1: gossiping and talking. Start the show. It's one sixteen. Let
Speaker 1: the record. I mean, this is access. This is actually
Speaker 1: on the better end of what we normally deal with
Speaker 1: when it comes to start times. There might be some
Speaker 1: Sessler inflation going on, but this show, over seven episodes,
Speaker 1: has never not once started on time, thank you, not
Speaker 1: one time. I've been counting all these years. That's not true,
Speaker 1: because we actually bet a sandwich on it once that
Speaker 1: it would start on time. And that's what made it.
Speaker 1: We made it start on time to get it. That's
Speaker 1: what it's. Um, what joke. This is our wild Card
Speaker 1: Weekend podcast. Oh and it's a good one because not
Speaker 1: every year does wild Card Weekend look so hot. Um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you could have as many as two sometimes a third.
Speaker 1: You might get a Connor cook in there. You get
Speaker 1: a Connor cooking. Yeah, you get a you get a
Speaker 1: second string quarterback, you get a Titoons type team that
Speaker 1: just even if they survived the first weekend, they're just
Speaker 1: cannon fodder for whoever is waiting on Buy. That's all
Speaker 1: out there. Peterman appearance last year, if you remember, wasn't expected,
Speaker 1: but it came. We had a Peterman. But this year
Speaker 1: I'll just go through the quarterbacks. We'll start here, coming
Speaker 1: up this Saturday and Sunday. Andrew Luck. Oh he's back
Speaker 1: the Future v. The Shawn Watson, Russell Wilson v. Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: I mean he's done some things. Philip Rivers Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson since the reigning Rookie of the Month, Big
Speaker 1: Nick super Bowl MVP and Mitchell Trabisky on the most
Speaker 1: exciting quarterbacks to watch. That is a great slate of quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're standing by that Rabinsky is one of the most
Speaker 1: How long is your list if he's on it for
Speaker 1: most exciting to watch? Makes big plays down the field,
Speaker 1: and he scrambles as well in the quarterback what's your list?
Speaker 1: Though he's in the top what of most exciting to watch? Well,
Speaker 1: he's definitely ahead of Tom Brady right now on exciting
Speaker 1: to watch. I mean in the top ten for exciting
Speaker 1: to watch. Okay, Mark, you are not sold on the
Speaker 1: Mitch Drobiski. I think he's made. There's games where you
Speaker 1: see incredible progress. I don't. He wouldn't be on my
Speaker 1: list of most I like. I think he's playing much better,
Speaker 1: but he would not be on my top fifth. Ecly,
Speaker 1: it's highly subjective Westfield. If that's how he makes west quarterbacks, right,
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear the type
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks he was crowding out. That's that's exclusive. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the one who's afraid to take a hit and all
Speaker 1: he does is manage the game. He's out of my
Speaker 1: top exciting one. There's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of great on talking about Tom Brady. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: He's a game manager who won't take a hit. What
Speaker 1: more do you want from me? I want anything, that's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I've ever wanted to hear from you. Like
Speaker 1: talk like his private life. West loves to see men
Speaker 1: like in pain. He wants to see them hit like.
Speaker 1: That's what he gets. That's the theory. Most football quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in history, Greg, who were good at playing football, stood
Speaker 1: in the pocket and took the hit and still delivered
Speaker 1: the past. Sir, you are off to an interesting secon.
Speaker 1: Nowhere to go with that. So this is what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do today. Keep it simple. We're gonna go through
Speaker 1: each of the four games um uh in the wild
Speaker 1: card weekend to Saturday to Sunday. Of course, the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: the Patriots of Saints, and Rams all on BI so
Speaker 1: we'll get them next week for the divisional playoffs. And
Speaker 1: just a little fun component that will throw in there.
Speaker 1: This year, excuse me, Greg brought some burritos to UH
Speaker 1: to the office and we got pulled into an unexpected
Speaker 1: meeting by a shadowy league figure and um kind of
Speaker 1: cut into my burrito time, So I had to kind
Speaker 1: of scarve that one down. Shout out to Tacos, poor fevour.
Speaker 1: There's no meal I've eaten more in Los Angeles than
Speaker 1: the Outpa store from Tacos por fo four I think
Speaker 1: I've put down I approximated today at least a hundred
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred and fifty, not thirty forty a year
Speaker 1: for five years. Well, this circles back to the tweet
Speaker 1: that when I missed the Twitter show, it did not
Speaker 1: make the show for some reason, largely because I think
Speaker 1: I did not use the correct hashtag. But uh, that
Speaker 1: Greg was left out of a conversation some question by
Speaker 1: a viewer about some sort of Hey, you've got two
Speaker 1: foodies in the room, damn a Check and West. And
Speaker 1: it's like west is is a burgeoning chef, and I
Speaker 1: know that Damnischeck likes is fair, but like, give me
Speaker 1: a break. Greg is always discussing restaurants. He's always he
Speaker 1: was eating tongue two weeknds ago. He is a foodie
Speaker 1: if I've ever met one. I think Greg has been
Speaker 1: the more restaurants since he's moved to l A than
Speaker 1: I've been to in my life. Wow, are we now
Speaker 1: actively just trying not to start the podcast. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can be out of here at four one,
Speaker 1: you know PM in the afternoon. How about that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the games. Let's cut out the Malarkey. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But thank you for there. He
Speaker 1: got an interview. It was delicious. Mike Malarkey got an interview,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, God speed Mike Malarkey. And you
Speaker 1: know what, the idea of Mike Malarkey running an offense
Speaker 1: is a frightening thought. I mean, Mike Mularkey was in
Speaker 1: the divisional round last year. Remember that this is not
Speaker 1: a delayed tactic. I don't know what the man struggles
Speaker 1: with an offensive playbook and overall strategy, but this is
Speaker 1: not about Mike mclarkey. We're gonna start in the a
Speaker 1: f C with the six verses three. Oh, that's what
Speaker 1: I meant to say. For the first time. We haven't
Speaker 1: done this before. Mark, and you let me know in
Speaker 1: detail whether you like this or not. We're going to
Speaker 1: add a who do you trust component to the conversation today,
Speaker 1: um and we each will throw out one player, team, coach,
Speaker 1: what have you that we trust? Right, it's not in
Speaker 1: question for him like we've sometimes done. It's we're just
Speaker 1: telling you and don't forget your locks. All right? We
Speaker 1: all set, Now, let's do it. The Indianapolis Cults ten
Speaker 1: and six, the number six seed in the a f C,
Speaker 1: travel to Houston to face the a f C South
Speaker 1: champion Texans. Uh. The Texans held off the Cults. You
Speaker 1: charged hard down the stretch, as we know after that
Speaker 1: one in five start, they finished ten and six. You
Speaker 1: do the math. I don't have to. I don't need
Speaker 1: to go to math class anymore. But this is what
Speaker 1: we could say. Mark, you have a tremendous match up
Speaker 1: here between Andrew Luck, resurgent comeback player of the year
Speaker 1: favorite against the Texans, and let's soak us to start there.
Speaker 1: On that defensive line. J. J. Watt Jadavian Clowney. Very
Speaker 1: few tandems in football are more dangerous than those two men,
Speaker 1: and their battle against the Colts offensive line, much improved
Speaker 1: offensive line, will go a long way towards deciding this one,
Speaker 1: won't it. I mean, they're always a factor, Watton Clowney,
Speaker 1: But this is the best protected quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now, and Andrew Luck. And it charts back to
Speaker 1: who I trust in this game is Frank Reich. Because
Speaker 1: Frank Reich has found a way to do something that
Speaker 1: no other coach working with Andrew Luck in the previous
Speaker 1: years has done, and let's protect his quarterback so well
Speaker 1: over the last ten plus weeks. These two teams started
Speaker 1: a combined one in eight and what they've done since
Speaker 1: on both on both fronts is impressive. But for me,
Speaker 1: much more so with the Colts, who have not. I
Speaker 1: feel like the Texans, and we've discussed a little bit,
Speaker 1: think there was a sense to me that they peaked
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and when I saw it, went
Speaker 1: back and watched the Week fourteen game. The final score
Speaker 1: of that game was twenty one, but it never really
Speaker 1: looked that close to me. The Colts won that game
Speaker 1: and jumped out to an early seventeen seven lead, and
Speaker 1: what they did was they used t Y Hilton to
Speaker 1: flame Houston Secondary and I loved that late in that game,
Speaker 1: even as they were just trying to cling to a
Speaker 1: lead they barely. They essentially abandoned the ground game and
Speaker 1: kept aggressively even from deep in their own territory near
Speaker 1: the two minute warning, throwing the ball, throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and doing it again, and I trust Frank Reich to
Speaker 1: stay aggressive on the road and to use all of
Speaker 1: his resources to make Andrew Luck the centerpiece of this one.
Speaker 1: And I do believe that they're going to take out
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien in the Houston Texans. I want to I
Speaker 1: love to believe that, and I will end up picking
Speaker 1: the Colts. But my biggest takeaway from watching games and
Speaker 1: doing research this week is that we have been Who's
Speaker 1: behind the mad yet just from the Mask Singer from
Speaker 1: a bit park dealer where were said was okay. My
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway is that we've been underestimating the Texans and
Speaker 1: overestimating their injuries of late. Their offensive line isn't playing well.
Speaker 1: In this game. You have the most sacked quarterback versus
Speaker 1: the least you've been doing Super Bowl. But it was
Speaker 1: a sign it. I was glad to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. I had a good time today. Dan, you
Speaker 1: were very excited about the Mass Singer UH premiere, so
Speaker 1: you wanted to put it on the podcast. This has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. You haven't seen me touch
Speaker 1: on my laptop once. Yes, Antonio Brown was on the
Speaker 1: Mask Singer, but this is about the playoffs West UH you.
Speaker 1: I think I was at you have the most sacked
Speaker 1: quarterback versus the least sacked quarterback. So the offensive line
Speaker 1: isn't very good, but they're healthy. The secondary isn't very good,
Speaker 1: but they're healthy. The wide receivers aren't very deep, but
Speaker 1: they This team is healthier than they've been in a
Speaker 1: few weeks, and they're getting a lot of guys back.
Speaker 1: And I thought they played really well against the Jaguars, right,
Speaker 1: and they played well against the Eagle they were in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: That was his helmet more often, right, Mr Handsome? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I don't I don't know what's but go ahead, Greg.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, Why would Why would Greg want to
Speaker 1: fall into this trap again? I'll just I'm waiting to
Speaker 1: see what's going on. I want a stalemate. You got
Speaker 1: your stalemate. What I'm waiting. If you make your point,
Speaker 1: we can go ahead. My point being I didn't have
Speaker 1: a point. I wasn't talking. I have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with this. Andrew Luck versus Shaun Watson? What? What a showdown? J? J. Watton,
Speaker 1: Jadavian Clowney two guys on the edge. Um what had
Speaker 1: sixteen sacks Clowney nine? But they also combined to lead
Speaker 1: UH the league and tackles for loss as a duo
Speaker 1: to me, And that's how I set you up, Mark,
Speaker 1: I really do. There are games Zone West and you've
Speaker 1: seen this where what has gone quiet. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: maybe the all encompassing terror of his prime, but he's
Speaker 1: still is a guy that can take over games he can,
Speaker 1: and he had He developed an arm injury last week
Speaker 1: in which the reportions of the game where it looked
Speaker 1: like he couldn't even use his right arm for leverage
Speaker 1: or couldn't reach out and grab the quarterback with hanging
Speaker 1: limp at his arm as he walked into halftime. And
Speaker 1: yet he's still got a sack after that, Like he's
Speaker 1: obviously playing limited, but he's J. J. Watts. So you can.
Speaker 1: You can talk about the Colts offensive line all you want.
Speaker 1: They've given up eighteen sacks a year. Five of them
Speaker 1: are to Watton Clowney, so that that that's like almost
Speaker 1: a third of the sacks that they've given up are
Speaker 1: in this game going you know, trying to go up
Speaker 1: against Clowney right now. He's coming off a game a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago that was as good as any
Speaker 1: I think he's played in his entire career. I've seen
Speaker 1: him carry them in a playoff game before, like the
Speaker 1: two of them. When I you look at the Texans,
Speaker 1: you see four transcendent players that can just change the
Speaker 1: game by themselves, and maybe the Colts have have two
Speaker 1: or three and with t Y Hilton and Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard, but you have Deshaun Watson, who's playing at
Speaker 1: the top five quarterback level. I would say you have
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkin to to me, has been the most valuable
Speaker 1: receiver in football. And I don't think it's any mistake
Speaker 1: that they've started to run Deshaun Watson more over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks than they were early in the season.
Speaker 1: It's because now they see the finish line, he's healthy.
Speaker 1: They kind of did a more traditional dropback offense. They
Speaker 1: showed that they can do that. Now that they're in
Speaker 1: winning time, I think they're gonna use his legs more
Speaker 1: and I expect to see that. On Saturday when they
Speaker 1: played the first time, the more disruptive line was Indianapolis
Speaker 1: and it was Denico Autry and it was Darius Leonard.
Speaker 1: I mean they sack Deshaun Watson five times. I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's happened to Deshaun Watson in so many games
Speaker 1: at this point that I agree with you. They have
Speaker 1: to get him out of the pocket and happen. But
Speaker 1: he's in a lot of it's just scrambled. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was like Alvin Kamara on the goal line. He
Speaker 1: is such an unbelievable runner. And the degree of difficulty
Speaker 1: on some of the throws he's been completing lately is
Speaker 1: just awesome. I went back and tried to like figure
Speaker 1: out the grades for quarterbacks over there, like the last
Speaker 1: five weeks, and he's been a top five or six
Speaker 1: quarterback over that time. And Andrew Luck is too, And
Speaker 1: I think the difference is there's more easy plays for Luck.
Speaker 1: We we talked about how the Chiefs are kind of
Speaker 1: running out of easy plays that you don't see as
Speaker 1: many layups from Patrick Mahomes and the Colts, and Frank
Speaker 1: Crank managed to figure out a few every week where
Speaker 1: guys are just wide open, or they throw a bubble
Speaker 1: screen to t Y Hilton and he takes it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Frank Reig has done about It's good a
Speaker 1: job keeping ahead of opposing defense. Is anyone in the
Speaker 1: league you know the only other time that the most
Speaker 1: sacked and least sat quarterback ever met in the playoffs
Speaker 1: Randall Cunningham Versus Orleans Saints quarterback, Uh Bobby. I think
Speaker 1: that was the year that our producer was born. If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. This is Chris Ballard's what's your favorite
Speaker 1: type of frogs? Chris Ballard's you know season, He's get
Speaker 1: an Executive of the Year. We've been talking about Chris
Speaker 1: Ballard for multiple years. He went into last and he said,
Speaker 1: he said, here's what the Colts have wrong. We're not physical.
Speaker 1: We're a weak team. We're gonna make them physical. And
Speaker 1: he did it like everyone says that, but not many
Speaker 1: teams just do that. That they're the most physical team
Speaker 1: probably in the a f C South. Now, Mark, you
Speaker 1: have the Colts West. Who do you got in this game?
Speaker 1: I've got the Colts. But I'm putting a lot more
Speaker 1: respect on the Texans than I would have a week
Speaker 1: or two ago. I've really waffled on this one because
Speaker 1: I did think the Texans potentially it already peaked as
Speaker 1: a team. But I don't know that the Cults. They
Speaker 1: took care of business in Nashville. But I wasn't head
Speaker 1: over heels about their performance either in that game and
Speaker 1: the Texans at home. I'm gonna take Houston very very
Speaker 1: narrow win. Yeah, I'm taking the Texans. I would take
Speaker 1: either home team. I think this is a very even matchup.
Speaker 1: I think the Cults are a better team, but the
Speaker 1: Texans have better players, like better top level players. We've
Speaker 1: been waiting for this Jadevion, Clowney, J J. Watt to
Speaker 1: be healthy with the upball gods. I just feel like
Speaker 1: they have something special inside of them, and so does Watson,
Speaker 1: so does not nuke as a group. I don't know
Speaker 1: if this group is gonna bever be together again. Clowney
Speaker 1: might leave in free agency and too. To give them
Speaker 1: the home game, I give them a little bit of
Speaker 1: an edge that they just have that juice and get
Speaker 1: through it. Plus I'm rooting for its patriot get out
Speaker 1: the door. Without a franchise tag, they could franchise tag him.
Speaker 1: That is probably more likely for for this year, but
Speaker 1: I guess I'm also thinking, like, are him and what
Speaker 1: going to be healthy at the same time. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna paget Devy and Clowney a
Speaker 1: long term contract because he's gonna get something close to
Speaker 1: the top guys in the league, and can you have
Speaker 1: him and watch together. I don't know, you might have
Speaker 1: to make a choice. Keep him this year on the tag.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he gets that money. They're not
Speaker 1: healthy together right now, right, it's fair. J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: for Antonio Brown straight up, see you, bye bye, let
Speaker 1: us let us move on. The The Saturday night game
Speaker 1: UH kicks off at a fifteen eastern the Seattle Seahaw.
Speaker 1: The number five seed travel to Big d to face
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Two teams Chris Wesley love to run
Speaker 1: the football who struggle to protect their own quarterbacks, who
Speaker 1: seemed to be evenly matching a lot of ways in
Speaker 1: their ten and six records reflect that this is another
Speaker 1: game that's a tough one to pick. I agree, and
Speaker 1: I have a feeling I'm gonna be the only one
Speaker 1: picking the Cowboys. Uh, you're right. Two teams that struggled
Speaker 1: to protect the quarterback and two quarterbacks who struggled to
Speaker 1: protect themselves, but also two quarterbacks who are brilliant in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and Dak Prescott has more game winning
Speaker 1: drives since he entered the league than any other quarterback. UM,
Speaker 1: as far as who do you trust for me, this
Speaker 1: one's quite easy because I've been keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: these guys over the past two months, and it's the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive trio of DeMarcus Lawrence, Jalen Smith, and Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh They are phenomenal. They shut down the Saints
Speaker 1: and they can shut out they can shut down just
Speaker 1: about anyone. That's that's who I trust in this They
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a home field advantage to
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans always get a get a bit of a
Speaker 1: bad rap, actually totally fair rap. But this year they've
Speaker 1: they've they embraced this team, and I think they liked
Speaker 1: the defensive mindset that this team has, and they've kind
Speaker 1: of had a little bit of this year. I guess
Speaker 1: I kind of missed that a little bit. Well, it
Speaker 1: was actually it was not crowded. Traman would flame that
Speaker 1: crowd for not as a player, but when he was
Speaker 1: an announcer, for simply not showing. I think it makes
Speaker 1: like spoiled fan bases that have seen the the highest
Speaker 1: level of the sports have a hard time like getting
Speaker 1: really excited when you're like going for that eighth win.
Speaker 1: But that's not the Cowboys. We look at them that way,
Speaker 1: but they haven't even been to the super Bowl in
Speaker 1: twenty two years. They're treated that way, but they they
Speaker 1: have that traded. I mean, their fan base thinks that way.
Speaker 1: I don't you think. I'm probably the older I also
Speaker 1: think that this is a team like if you think
Speaker 1: when they played back in Week three, what we thought
Speaker 1: of them. We thought of the Cowboys as kind of
Speaker 1: this boring middle of the road team. We thought of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks is kind of dead in the water. Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall played a huge role in that game. Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: played a huge role in that game. Layton Vanderessh was
Speaker 1: a backup to Shaan Lee, who was the number one
Speaker 1: Cowboys receiver that week. Probably like Tavon Austin was back
Speaker 1: in the mix. They need to get Amari Cooper back
Speaker 1: back in the mix, though, And that is a bit
Speaker 1: of a concern for me that three straight games he
Speaker 1: has been very quiet, had a cost, had a drop
Speaker 1: last week. I don't It's not like a major problem,
Speaker 1: I don't think, but it's a little concerning that he's
Speaker 1: been so quiet. I think one thing that could carry
Speaker 1: over from that game from Week three that feels like
Speaker 1: a million years ago. Is that cow The Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: line is at best banged up. I mean, Zack Martin
Speaker 1: is taking a lot of practice rest. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he's a hundred percent healthy. Tyrone Smith has not been
Speaker 1: healthy this season. And they bullied Dallas and that first
Speaker 1: meet if they were up twenty four to six and
Speaker 1: sacked Dak Prescott five times and they leaned on they
Speaker 1: had nothing back then they had to lean on his
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott through the air. They had no wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They're a different offense now, but you do need to
Speaker 1: be able to find a way to protect Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: who played well last week. It looks like Connor Williams
Speaker 1: is going to start at guard for uh the guy's name,
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna try to say uh. And Connor
Speaker 1: Williams has basically been a disaster. That's who they took
Speaker 1: in the second round over. I mean, he's not been
Speaker 1: a disaster. He's been one of the lowest rated guards
Speaker 1: by PF in the league and he got but if
Speaker 1: you watch well he was last week. He was one
Speaker 1: of the reasons they scored thirty six points. A disaster
Speaker 1: would be like they couldn't even move the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you can have bad offensive line play and score
Speaker 1: thirty six points. Dak Prescott did it. I mean, you
Speaker 1: couldn't have played worse than Cam find I mean, they're
Speaker 1: left tackle didn't that game? Who just got abused over
Speaker 1: and over and over And Dac did a good job.
Speaker 1: And that was a good move for them to play
Speaker 1: him throughout that game because I hope that he's feeling
Speaker 1: a little mojo, because that was like kind of the
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott you wanted to see. Like these two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are very similar in some ways, and that they struggle
Speaker 1: with figuring out the balance of how long to hold
Speaker 1: the ball and you know, when to make a play,
Speaker 1: and they both take a lot of sacks that are
Speaker 1: their own fault. Russell Wilson has kind of mastered this
Speaker 1: game and is playing at a really high level. But
Speaker 1: I think if Dak Prescott is gonna be his best
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, it's gonna be very much like Russell Well.
Speaker 1: I would take Russell Wilson a hundred times. Of course,
Speaker 1: similar styles. Russell Wilson is at a much higher level,
Speaker 1: but I think that those throws on the move that
Speaker 1: you know that Dak had last week. That's what makes
Speaker 1: him special. And I know that game didn't really mean
Speaker 1: anything ultimately, but I agree that having him go into
Speaker 1: the wild Card coming off arguably his best game of
Speaker 1: the season where he was just hitting pass after pass.
Speaker 1: And yes, it was again a meaningless game, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't crunch time of a game that was going back
Speaker 1: and forth. I feel good about that. If I'm a
Speaker 1: cowboy fair, I mean, Jason Garrett took over the team
Speaker 1: midway through two thousand and ten, one playoff win since then.
Speaker 1: And if you if you go back to and they
Speaker 1: did win that super Bowl way back in nine in
Speaker 1: the winner of nineties six, if you told Jerry Jones,
Speaker 1: who was floating on clown a cloud back then, that
Speaker 1: he would not return anywhere close to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in the next twenties something years, I mean, they are
Speaker 1: treated like a team that wins it every three or
Speaker 1: four years, and they don't do anything close to that.
Speaker 1: And if you can't handle this game at home, what
Speaker 1: are you? You're a ten and six team. This is
Speaker 1: a very even matchup, don't I'm I'm taking the Seahawks West,
Speaker 1: But I don't think. I do think these two teams
Speaker 1: kind of beg for close games. I mean, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: just barely beat the Cardinals. They lost, they just lost
Speaker 1: to the forty Night I like the Seahawks in this
Speaker 1: game because I like the coach, I like the quarterback better.
Speaker 1: But it's not like it's some unstoppable defense that the
Speaker 1: Seahawks have right now. Yeah, I'm kind of in a
Speaker 1: tough spot because I said earlier this week on the
Speaker 1: Twitter Show that I'm almost certain that this is a
Speaker 1: three point game or less. It's gonna be very close
Speaker 1: game between two evenly match teams. But I also locked
Speaker 1: this game up oh yeah Thursday, And you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with him because I do think ultimately
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are built for this with Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. They know how to win games this time
Speaker 1: of year. And the Cowboys for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: To me, I don't know if they're I just don't
Speaker 1: know if they beat the Seahawks on this stage in
Speaker 1: this game, but I think it will come right down
Speaker 1: to the end of the fourth quarter. Mark. I remember
Speaker 1: weeks ago you were saying you couldn't wait to see
Speaker 1: the Seahawks on wild card weekend because they were going
Speaker 1: to drop a hammer on some unsuspecting team like the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I name the Cowboys, but I I kind of feel
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys, to West's point, their strengths, their defense
Speaker 1: are not gonna go away in this game, and so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be real tight. But I trust Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: My poem is I trust Pete Carroll and the coaching
Speaker 1: staff much more than I trust Dallas Is. Outside of
Speaker 1: Rod Mirornili, the Seahawks are different too, with kJ right
Speaker 1: on the field and he's been out there and to him,
Speaker 1: Puna Ford is playing unbelievable. Jarren Reid had has the
Speaker 1: quietest eleven sackt QB hits twenty six are e season
Speaker 1: of a defensive tackle I can think of like they're
Speaker 1: coming on and there are different offense with Doug Baldwin.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't feel too bad about this. I like
Speaker 1: the Seahawks as game. All right, you're gonna join me
Speaker 1: in the lock now. Cowboys offense is last in points, yards,
Speaker 1: and red zone percentage among the playoff teams. A lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on deck to get to twenty points. Here
Speaker 1: because they are nine and oh they're undefeated when they
Speaker 1: scored twenty and they are seven and one at home.
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Cowboys in a close one Saturday night,
Speaker 1: Joe Buck. We often watch those games together as a
Speaker 1: group or some form of a group. Will that be happening.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'll be in
Speaker 1: for it, but not my schedule. Let's move on to
Speaker 1: Sunday now, the number five seed Chargers travel to Baltimore
Speaker 1: to face the Ravens. Uh And here we are. The
Speaker 1: Chargers have one of their best seasons in years, going
Speaker 1: twelve and four. They have the bad luck of being
Speaker 1: in the same division as the Kansas City Chiefs. So
Speaker 1: in this case, twelve wins doesn't even get you to
Speaker 1: vision title would put you which put you on the road,
Speaker 1: and just so's luck would have it for a team
Speaker 1: and a franchise that hasn't had a lot of luck
Speaker 1: in its history, it has to go on the road
Speaker 1: to Baltimore, the same Ravens team that really, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the game was close, Greg, and you talked
Speaker 1: about it on Wednesday's show that or Tuesday that. Um,
Speaker 1: they were Chargers were hanging in that game, and they
Speaker 1: had a shot right down to the end until that
Speaker 1: big Antonio Gates turnover that led to the touchdown going
Speaker 1: back the other way. But that was as thorough a
Speaker 1: one sided affair as I remember, um uh when the
Speaker 1: score wasn't that far apart. So it's a twelve point game,
Speaker 1: but it felt like more than that. And I would
Speaker 1: think that this game for the Chargers is a worst
Speaker 1: case scenario for them after what an amazing season they had. Well,
Speaker 1: this got me thinking, like, and what matters more when
Speaker 1: you're looking at these matchups. We keep talking about last week?
Speaker 1: But what matters more last week, the two three weeks,
Speaker 1: let's say for the Chargers or the whole season. I'm
Speaker 1: asking as a as a legit question because I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what's more predictive. I'd
Speaker 1: like to think that the entire season matters the most.
Speaker 1: If you're healthy, and the Chargers are healthy, I mean
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's they're healthy ish, They're they're as healthy as
Speaker 1: they've been. They have Melvin Gordon playing, they have Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler playing, they have Keenan Allen playing. They're not missing
Speaker 1: significant players suddenly out of nowhere. Well, allow me allow
Speaker 1: me to retort, No, I'm actually asking. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe the last few weeks does matter Morelvin Gordon injured
Speaker 1: his ankle and left the game last week in a
Speaker 1: game in which he didn't look nearly as explosive as
Speaker 1: he did for the majority of the season. So that's
Speaker 1: an injury. That's a problem. Jitavis Brown linebacker out for
Speaker 1: the year. They have lost their three best linebackers this
Speaker 1: year and now they're playing the best running team of
Speaker 1: the last forty years. So I think injuries are a
Speaker 1: factor for the Chargers, and I think that those are
Speaker 1: the two big ones. Well, I think one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that it cannot get out of their own way
Speaker 1: down the stretch in that game because score wise it
Speaker 1: was close, and we always focus on the Ravens and
Speaker 1: their ability to run the ball, and they were able
Speaker 1: to do that in chunks. I thought Mark Andrews had
Speaker 1: and has has come on for Baltimore and made some
Speaker 1: big plays along with Lamar Jackson finding him. But they
Speaker 1: got two rivers big time down the stretch. They put
Speaker 1: a hurt on him and had a couple of big
Speaker 1: sacks that ended drives, and I think it comes down
Speaker 1: to the Chargers line. You cannot let that repeat itself
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Yeah, they they got man handles. I I
Speaker 1: do think that the brown showed a little something for
Speaker 1: the race. The Ravens aren't. The Ravens are a really
Speaker 1: good defense and they're really tough team to game planned for.
Speaker 1: They're not fast. I mean, I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: a slower safety duo in the league than Tony Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Eric Weddle. And I think the Browns kind of
Speaker 1: hit him on that. And you think of what are
Speaker 1: the what are the Chargers do well? They can run vertical,
Speaker 1: They have these receivers, Like can they give Rivers enough
Speaker 1: time to throw a few bombs? Because you would think
Speaker 1: you'd be able to throw it over the top of
Speaker 1: them a casion. I would say the one thing that
Speaker 1: they coming out of that game, when you find out
Speaker 1: how much that they blitzed Cleveland and what they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna try to do to Rivers as well. They blitzed
Speaker 1: them twenty two times, and and on those blitzes, force
Speaker 1: three picks and allowed a two point five passer rating,
Speaker 1: the lowest in the game since two and if why
Speaker 1: is the formula that different with Philip Rivers after what
Speaker 1: they did to him last time? Right, it was just
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, But I don't know. Don't you
Speaker 1: think if they played that game, and don't you think
Speaker 1: that they played that game a lot, it turns out
Speaker 1: different that first game. I agree, it was never right.
Speaker 1: He threw an interception literally on the first right away
Speaker 1: the game. The tone of the game was, it was
Speaker 1: it was messed up and there and I've been killing
Speaker 1: their their offensive line and that concerns me. Uh and
Speaker 1: and the Ravens front with Michael Pierce and Brandon Williams especially,
Speaker 1: just they're so hard to run against. And that's what's
Speaker 1: made the Charges kind of special this year is they
Speaker 1: keep you off balance like they you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think Rivers has been that different, but the running game
Speaker 1: has been different, and they've been able to be balanced.
Speaker 1: Then that is gonna be hard against the ray I admit,
Speaker 1: but I'm rooting for. But the Ravens are so different
Speaker 1: than all the other teams in the NFL, from their
Speaker 1: running percentage on offense to their defense, which Blitz is more,
Speaker 1: more and better than just about anyone. So I do
Speaker 1: think for the Chargers, like playing twice in three weeks,
Speaker 1: that has to be a huge advantage for them because
Speaker 1: they're seeing something so unique and they're seeing it a
Speaker 1: second time. Then again, it's just a terrible matchup for
Speaker 1: the Chargers, who aren't very good on offense right now.
Speaker 1: They're just not good. Their running backs aren't healthy and
Speaker 1: playing well, their offensive line is not playing well, and
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers has six interceptions over his last three games.
Speaker 1: It's not a good offense right now. It's a big
Speaker 1: game for Philip Rivers too, And and we all like
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers in here, but he doesn't have the greatest
Speaker 1: postseason resume. And how many more times was he thirty
Speaker 1: six years old? Thirty seven years old? And how many
Speaker 1: more times are you gonna have a chance to take
Speaker 1: a twelve win team like the Chargers, even if they
Speaker 1: are a little beat up right now, uh into the playoffs. So,
Speaker 1: while it would be understandable if the Ravens held court
Speaker 1: at home and took care of business, if Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: plays the way he did in Week sixteen and the
Speaker 1: Charges to go out quietly, what was this all about?
Speaker 1: What was all this hype? And and all the fun.
Speaker 1: It would be a huge downer. It would be a
Speaker 1: huge right, I guess I'm saying because we do hand
Speaker 1: out criticism to Eli and other quarterbacks when they falter.
Speaker 1: If Philip Rivers has a dud here, he deserves a
Speaker 1: lot of criticism for it, because you gotta figure out
Speaker 1: a way to win games, and when you have these opportunities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a five year gap from their last playoff game.
Speaker 1: What's to say they're gonna roll back into this situation
Speaker 1: ever again with him at quarter right? And what's what's
Speaker 1: not to say they're not going to roll right into
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. You know, you ask who we trusted.
Speaker 1: I trust Philip Rivers. I know the last three weeks
Speaker 1: have been ugly, but this is one of the great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of our lifetime who's coming off what had been
Speaker 1: one of the great seasons of his lifetime, and I'd
Speaker 1: like to think the season matters more and the players
Speaker 1: around him, especially the receivers, are really good, and that
Speaker 1: he's so he would say, God, what does he say?
Speaker 1: That gamm it that something like that. I mean, he
Speaker 1: refuses to swear, so he just says that gumming. He's
Speaker 1: one of the Dad Gammon, smartest quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: He can figure this. They can figure this secondary out.
Speaker 1: He can figure it out. He can do something heroic.
Speaker 1: I trust Philip Rivers's You've been like Mr Ravens for
Speaker 1: like the past six weeks. So this is the Well,
Speaker 1: they're fascinating now. They're fascinating to me, and this matchup
Speaker 1: is fascinating, and I in my head believe they're a
Speaker 1: better team, but my heart believes in Philip Rivers and
Speaker 1: and wants to see them when and it's life is
Speaker 1: too short not to just root for what you want
Speaker 1: the gumm it And that's why you're going to trust
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. Watch that game at one East, No, all
Speaker 1: four of us are locking up the Bears. What a
Speaker 1: boring Uh what a boring week? Oh good, but that
Speaker 1: I know that's right. We Uh well, I think that's
Speaker 1: what happened because unless marks locking weight, everybody's locking up
Speaker 1: the Bears. Yeah. We said we were last show changing chords.
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the Ravens. They were charging. Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: I was stunned that nobody was after you said that
Speaker 1: the Ravens are the best running team in forty years
Speaker 1: and there's a bunch of ups guys in the linebacking corps.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a lock that you were locking
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Some stunned that you weren't. No this. The
Speaker 1: more I studied this game, the more I like the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and the less the more I look at what the
Speaker 1: Charges have done recently. I just don't think their offense
Speaker 1: is very How about their defense that don't you think
Speaker 1: it'll be pretty tough. I think they're gonna get bowled over,
Speaker 1: but they didn't in the first game. Relatively, the Ravens
Speaker 1: actually ran for less against the Chargers than I think
Speaker 1: against any team over the last seven Rooks and the Charges.
Speaker 1: That's why they're didn't get bowled over, because the Ravens
Speaker 1: didn't play up to how good they are, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers defense isn't that good. There's strength Joey Bosa and
Speaker 1: Ingram coming off the edge against the quarterback where it
Speaker 1: coming off the edge doesn't really do much. I kind
Speaker 1: of ran right at Bosa last time too. He didn't
Speaker 1: not have a good game. I do not like the
Speaker 1: Chargers at all in this game. But like Greg with
Speaker 1: his heart rooting for Phil Rivers, I would I don't
Speaker 1: want to be rooting against the Chargers. Uh So that's
Speaker 1: kind of the main reason I stayed out of the
Speaker 1: mix on this game. We'll see how let's not be
Speaker 1: a prisoner at the moment either. This is a twelve
Speaker 1: and four team that Football Outsiders Efficiency has him as
Speaker 1: the third best team in the league over the course
Speaker 1: of the regular season. They're a talented bunchet that you
Speaker 1: said that Anthony Lynn hasn't even done that good a
Speaker 1: coaching job, because they should be twelve and four, So
Speaker 1: why not be able to flip a switch and play
Speaker 1: much better? Because because, like I said, Melvin Gordon to
Speaker 1: me was one of the three or four most impressive
Speaker 1: running backs all year, and I would put him right
Speaker 1: now about like the way he's running. He's just not
Speaker 1: Melvin able to need like two big Lamar Jackson mistakes
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Speaker 1: to our final game of wild Card Weekend, and it
Speaker 1: is a game being played at four forty Eastern. The
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, who on the strength of a three game
Speaker 1: winning streak and a little bit of help from the outside,
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to defend their championship in the playoffs
Speaker 1: at nine and seven as the six seed wild card.
Speaker 1: They have a tough battle here, Greg Rosenthal, because they
Speaker 1: get the Chicago Bears, the team of around the NFL
Speaker 1: team that went twelve and four, but in their division
Speaker 1: that was good enough for the title, uh, the NFC
Speaker 1: North title, which means they are home for this game.
Speaker 1: The Bears at home with that defense, it feels like
Speaker 1: it's their day. But the other side of the field
Speaker 1: has a quarterback that does special things in January. It
Speaker 1: does in earlier this you know he he does earlier
Speaker 1: this week. You know. West asked me on our Twitter
Speaker 1: show to be honest, who do I trust more, you know,
Speaker 1: Nick Foles or the Bears the defense? And you know what,
Speaker 1: he put me in a tough spot because I had
Speaker 1: just done this false thing. Of course, I don't trust
Speaker 1: Nick Foles as much as the Bears defense. I didn't
Speaker 1: even I didn't really have an you're you're stuck, and
Speaker 1: you stuck me in a bad spot. I don't do
Speaker 1: this anymore because it rankles you. But sometimes you say
Speaker 1: things I don't believe. No, that's not true. But full
Speaker 1: I was. We cannot lie on our shows. I would say,
Speaker 1: here's what I said. I said, fold what was um?
Speaker 1: I mean? You know what you are. You're so knee
Speaker 1: deep in these various narratives at this point, you lied
Speaker 1: on I think what did I say? It was our confidence?
Speaker 1: We have so many different Uh, we have so many
Speaker 1: different games. I had put one in seventy eight. But
Speaker 1: you could just ruined the whole the whole moment. How
Speaker 1: can you trust anything more than the Bears defense right
Speaker 1: now from what they've done for all sixteen weeks. So
Speaker 1: I apologize to the team of a t L because
Speaker 1: they are the most consistent team in the NFL. They
Speaker 1: are They're the same every week. And them shutting down
Speaker 1: the Vikings in a game that they didn't need to,
Speaker 1: blitzing like crazy on third and one and making Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins just look like a little kid out there was
Speaker 1: in a game they didn't need to win. With some
Speaker 1: of the most baller championships I've seen from any team
Speaker 1: in a long time, And it got me thinking that
Speaker 1: that this is the the unit that I trust in
Speaker 1: the most right now in the entire NFL. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm locking them up against the nice lock. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: is a chump bro. So maybe there's an idea, but
Speaker 1: you got sucked in by a Vikings team that was
Speaker 1: broken all season and Kirk Cousins, who was four and
Speaker 1: down six against plus five hundred teams is now because
Speaker 1: the Bears. The Bears are the same defense every week.
Speaker 1: They're the same eleven guys playing as one there, Eddie
Speaker 1: Goldman and Akiem Hicks being the best, maybe tough his
Speaker 1: team to run on, causing disruption. They won that game
Speaker 1: on offense too, with two long drives against a very
Speaker 1: good defense with Josh Bellamy, Kevin White and who is
Speaker 1: the other guy that you know, wh Whims was out
Speaker 1: there and they're going sixteen plays, you know, two times
Speaker 1: for touchdowns to the end the Viking season. That was
Speaker 1: some next level like wow, what does this team have
Speaker 1: in store for us? Next type stuff? They've only allowed
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in the past five games on defense. I'm
Speaker 1: locking this up to by the way, smart luck. It's
Speaker 1: I have not shown much love to the team of
Speaker 1: around the NFL, and that changes on this Sunday evening.
Speaker 1: So there's only one person in the room then that
Speaker 1: trust Nick Foles at this stage. No, I trust Nick
Speaker 1: Foles fine, but not more than the best. I think
Speaker 1: there are three things Nick Foles does better than Carson wins.
Speaker 1: Let's hear. The first one, he throws a better deep ball.
Speaker 1: He allows those receivers to make the play on the ball. UH. Second,
Speaker 1: of all the matchups he sees pre snap. I think
Speaker 1: he figures out what the defense is doing better than
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. And the third one is related to that.
Speaker 1: He's the best quarterback in the league against the Blitz. Statistically,
Speaker 1: he has a one thirty two rating, eighty one completion
Speaker 1: rate nine point two yards pertend, don't don't blitz Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why you saw straight completions, because
Speaker 1: he identifies the right guy to throw too, throws with
Speaker 1: touching accuracy in a short area, and gets out of
Speaker 1: his hands quickly against the Blitz. And that's why I
Speaker 1: trust Nick Foles more than anyone UH this week because
Speaker 1: of the track record we've seen both during this winning
Speaker 1: streak and when he was in the lineup UH in
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. I think again the house money
Speaker 1: angle of this, he's playing with a ton of confidence. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they thought they never thought they would be here,
Speaker 1: So the Bears. Meanwhile, it's been a while since the
Speaker 1: Bear has been in the spot. There's gonna be pressure
Speaker 1: on this Bears team. That stadium which is gonna be
Speaker 1: going nuts at kickoff. That place can get if the
Speaker 1: Bears starts slow. And you know who I don't trust
Speaker 1: at this stage. Mitchell Trobinsky. And he's still a young passer,
Speaker 1: and he and he's a dynamic young player, and he
Speaker 1: has a lot of potential. But am I gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say I know for sure that he's not
Speaker 1: gonna come out tight in his first career playoff game
Speaker 1: against the seasoned Eagles team that is not going to
Speaker 1: be scared off by the moment because they proved it
Speaker 1: last year. I just think the Folds Trabinsky matchup favors
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and that's the quarterback position. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that the Eagles definitely win this game, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying they are not going to get blown out.
Speaker 1: They are not going to go down like chumps like
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and the Minister. I totally agree with you,
Speaker 1: and I also think Fletcher, Cox and Phillies defensive line
Speaker 1: has been one of the more disruptive units in the
Speaker 1: entire league and could make things very tough when I
Speaker 1: locked this personally, on the one thing I thought of,
Speaker 1: I am and I West. I just differ with you
Speaker 1: on Trabinsky just in terms of how I feel about him.
Speaker 1: But I feel like I'm locking up the quarterback I
Speaker 1: trust the least in the of any quarterback in the
Speaker 1: entire playoff gallery right here. And so that's you know,
Speaker 1: the heat check for you, because usually that would be
Speaker 1: the last thing you do in this exercise. I think
Speaker 1: it's a safe lock because the Bears, I said for
Speaker 1: all along, they're gonna romp. They're gonna win their first
Speaker 1: playoff game and then lose their second. And how thin
Speaker 1: they are. If you think that's gonna happen, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're I think Drabinsky has played really well over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. He's really avoided mistakes or even
Speaker 1: close to making mistakes. He's he's gonna miss throws. I
Speaker 1: think that's just part of the package that he'll miss
Speaker 1: a few but he comes up with some good plays.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's the coaching or what
Speaker 1: it is, but he started to like eliminate the throws
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't make. And and you mentioned Foles, like
Speaker 1: I gets me thinking about Dana Jeremiah was talking about
Speaker 1: it earlier this week. He was in the draft room
Speaker 1: when they drafted Nick Foles. Doug Peterson was the guy
Speaker 1: who was stumping for Nick Foles. A lot of people
Speaker 1: did not want him. Their room was disheartened, was really
Speaker 1: depressed that Russell Wilson went a pick or two before
Speaker 1: Peterson brought him to Kansas City. He brings him to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: These two guys is have a like. He knows Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson's offense. There were some stats this week. No one
Speaker 1: throws the ball faster than Nick Foles. No one throws
Speaker 1: the ball shorter than Nick Foles. This is a quick game,
Speaker 1: get the ball out of your hand. We're gonna beat
Speaker 1: you with our play calls type of of and it
Speaker 1: works pretty well. And if you're gonna beat the Bears,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a good way to do it. I think.
Speaker 1: So I will admit that the other guy who knows
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's offense is Matt Neggie. Mean, this is an
Speaker 1: Andy Reid coaching tree game, and I think there's something
Speaker 1: to be said about how they're gonna have to adjust
Speaker 1: and read each other throughout. Mm hmm, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. Boys wild Card Weekend picked the score in
Speaker 1: this one. All right, Mark, I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a weird like Bears nineteen Eagles eighteen Bears thirty
Speaker 1: one Eagles. That's about what I was going. Thirty to twenty.
Speaker 1: I think they pull away. False. By the way, False
Speaker 1: has played really well. He I don't think he's played
Speaker 1: like he's not playing at the level he was playing
Speaker 1: at the end of last season. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: playing at it yet, much higher level than even Trabisky
Speaker 1: has over last few weeks. He's had a couple interceptions.
Speaker 1: He's playing as part of a really good team. Uh.
Speaker 1: If I say trust Nick Foles, I can't then pick
Speaker 1: against him. With all due respect to the team around
Speaker 1: the NFL, the magic continues twenty six to twenty three.
Speaker 1: The Eagles move on some disagreements. You're right, Yeah, Women's
Speaker 1: ESPN is telling me you're getting a you're getting a
Speaker 1: feeling in your woman body. Yeah, in my in my body,
Speaker 1: that's a woman. I just I know, maybe your womanly
Speaker 1: body should show more loyalty to the team of this podcast,
Speaker 1: or maybe you're just getting flashbacks to why the Eagles
Speaker 1: left you in a puddle of February. Well, think about it.
Speaker 1: You would go the other way with Erica. You would
Speaker 1: think she would be saying, oh, f that Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is going down, He's going up in flames. But the
Speaker 1: fact that her heart is still telling, I mean, she's
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to our audience. It's like something saying
Speaker 1: everything is just rip heating itself in the way that, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are hot last year for longer, but not
Speaker 1: like the Bears. You're right with mitratra Risk. It's just
Speaker 1: not gonna. I want it to happen. I want them out,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to Know what you're saying, time
Speaker 1: is a flat circle. You're locking it up, Tim, Tim Posey,
Speaker 1: I yeah, I am Wow. Time is a flat circle,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, it's a digital concept, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: when isn't the mass Singer coming back? What's the payoff?
Speaker 1: What do you mean we had the Mass Singer drops
Speaker 1: at the beginning. You know that you and Mark were
Speaker 1: cooking up together. I had literally I had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with that confirm. I don't even know what you
Speaker 1: guys are talking about. I'm just waiting for I did not.
Speaker 1: That was not something that I was part of. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Sunday night with Although it is interesting
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. I will say this about the Masks singer
Speaker 1: star Um. His song was my Prerogative, My Prerogative by
Speaker 1: Bobby Brown, which was for something that was pre taped ago.
Speaker 1: Well that's weeks or months. There was that clip where
Speaker 1: they're like, are you an NFL player? That they showed
Speaker 1: about two months ago, So yeah, it seems like that
Speaker 1: was pretty old. So the idea that that it would
Speaker 1: foretell what was going to happen, or maybe he knew
Speaker 1: that he was going to walk out on the Steelers
Speaker 1: to create hype around his television show, which I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it past the man. Well, I think there's another
Speaker 1: angle that probably Mike Tomlin was very much willing to
Speaker 1: go all out in his actions in this whole drama
Speaker 1: just to pretend that all this happened, and to have
Speaker 1: this long press conference simply to make the masked UH Singer,
Speaker 1: a bigger offering for Fox, which was a big ratings hit.
Speaker 1: West your thoughts on the masks singer breaking out winning
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Speaker 1: know what the mass singer is. I have no interest
Speaker 1: in knowing what the international we were talking about a players.
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Speaker 1: audience ever here is of the best singer. Someone us
Speaker 1: freaking out and it sounds like an exciting program. It's
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