Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. Here's a three time offseason champion.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansas. I come to you from a
Speaker 1: room that just filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Wrestling,
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosa Thal. What is up? Boys? Hey Dan? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's all been leading to this moment. Last preview in
Speaker 1: the studio before we head to Miami. Hey, Rick, Miami.
Speaker 1: I noticed the intro music cut out a little earlier
Speaker 1: than usual. Yeah, well, I was just gonna fix it.
Speaker 1: Nobody would notice. But now it's just, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's part of the show. Now. Yeah, that's in my
Speaker 1: head now. I can't stop thinking. How cut out about
Speaker 1: three seconds? Yeah? You know, um, sometimes you know, when
Speaker 1: you're doing a live production, you got a role with
Speaker 1: what you got, and I grabbed an old money drop
Speaker 1: because nothing else was loading. And turns out, whoever the
Speaker 1: last producer was, I don't know who it was. It
Speaker 1: was just someone before me, and they cut off the
Speaker 1: money drop. That's a spicy meatball. A body just flung
Speaker 1: under a bus. Kind of a misdirection play after the
Speaker 1: second old money drop of the week. But like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's been a second old money drop of the week.
Speaker 1: Thank you. How are you doing a lot better? We
Speaker 1: were concerned about you had an eye injury. I had
Speaker 1: one of those things that I can't explain, but maybe
Speaker 1: anyone watching this hazard has not had it. You get
Speaker 1: like a thing underneath your eyelid, and it's like every
Speaker 1: time your eye moves, you're feeling like it's been scratched
Speaker 1: out by a piece of was hoping for the eye patch?
Speaker 1: Ye not. I know. This is like the third or
Speaker 1: fourth person that's mentioned this is wonder you old jeezus,
Speaker 1: I don't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't walk around with a
Speaker 1: Really you're that I seem like an eye patch. I know.
Speaker 1: I feel like if anyone's got a live the iyepatch,
Speaker 1: it's not not not good feelings like concept you can see.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot would need to happen between now
Speaker 1: in that moment. All right, Well, it's good to have
Speaker 1: you back, buddy. Thank you, And you're on Kevin's the
Speaker 1: Fancy's radar as well, the head coach. I wasn't planning
Speaker 1: for that. How are you feeling about that results? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's truly I think you know,
Speaker 1: he probably just didn't need anything else thrown on his
Speaker 1: plate that day, And I did a disservice through And
Speaker 1: maybe he will remember because it wasn't you in person,
Speaker 1: he didn't see your face. Maybe Mark Sessler, Kevin, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry who you're gonna get away like that? I was
Speaker 1: as a kid as well? Put up on Twitter yesterday
Speaker 1: a beard did George Clooney say that you bear or resemblance?
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever called you Clooney? Not until just this moment?
Speaker 1: And how do you feel about that? I got enough
Speaker 1: on my plate right now to worry about trying to
Speaker 1: get these Browns back to where we want to be.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna compare myself to any uh actors, Peter
Speaker 1: John I think I need to be. I need to
Speaker 1: get a list of guys and then make sure that
Speaker 1: we're okay with the same with that, look at that
Speaker 1: one of the resident Browns fans. And two things, Ceciliana.
Speaker 1: Not only does he try to throw you under the
Speaker 1: bus at the end he backs the bus up and
Speaker 1: runs you over, but at the beginning of the segment
Speaker 1: he defines himself as a Browns fan when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, which is also malarkey. Cecilian is still into
Speaker 1: the Browns very much, from what I From what I understand,
Speaker 1: I thought that, you know, I was in the v
Speaker 1: O booth. I was the next thing on network when
Speaker 1: that happened, and I was watching him saying Andrew, Andrew,
Speaker 1: we might have to address this with Andrew. Actually, now
Speaker 1: we've got to be very cooling up in the clearing.
Speaker 1: We have the incredibly real nfil K Networks DNS. So
Speaker 1: oh he scanned it away. All right, that was good anyway,
Speaker 1: it was good. It was good that it showed that
Speaker 1: our show is growing, that Stefanski is plugged in on that.
Speaker 1: But maybe we gotta get we gotta get Andrew on
Speaker 1: the horn. I don't know if I want to antagonize Andrew.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's getting my name mentioned on NFL network.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna allow it to be anyway. Anyway that happens,
Speaker 1: We'll get Andrew. We should get him. It's been a while.
Speaker 1: Why are you the two of you trying to why
Speaker 1: dostaje anything this side of the desk attempts to do
Speaker 1: in life that has never been am How about we
Speaker 1: don't need you to get Andrew? What is west? After?
Speaker 1: What is West? After need you to get we need
Speaker 1: we need you to get Andrew. I don't think, well
Speaker 1: we need is to have a little call to Peter uh,
Speaker 1: what's his whatever want and just start setting the groundwork
Speaker 1: to have Kevin's the fancy on at the owner's meetings.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. It's you know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: time to heal. Yeah, and we need to get that
Speaker 1: done at the ord. It went well when we spoke
Speaker 1: to a Browns coach last year, it was a nice talk.
Speaker 1: All right. Mark Brady, shadowy league figure behind the glass,
Speaker 1: says he is on it, so we're putting our faith
Speaker 1: in him. This is Conference Championship Sunday preview on the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. We're going to dig into both
Speaker 1: games Packers at Niners, Titans at Chiefs, and then we'll
Speaker 1: do a little halftime hitting some news. A shocking retirement, UM,
Speaker 1: A rest warrant is out there for one of the
Speaker 1: most famous players in the league as of this taping.
Speaker 1: A lot to get to UM. But let's not um
Speaker 1: dance around it anymore. Let's get right into the games
Speaker 1: and let's start. I would say the game, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pick what game is more. People are
Speaker 1: more excited about compelling. What's more compelling? They both These
Speaker 1: are two great games. Titans Chiefs is more compelling. Okay,
Speaker 1: I I could see that Packers at Niners is such
Speaker 1: a great game too. Let's start there, actually, West, get
Speaker 1: get excited, Titans the Chiefs. In the back end of
Speaker 1: the show. We're gonna build toward it. The undercard right here, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's excited, heard it. So what we'll do here, we'll
Speaker 1: go through the games. Also, we thought we'd thrown a
Speaker 1: fun little wrinkle a segment that we're calling banged in
Speaker 1: a big spot comma, how not to be So we're
Speaker 1: going to put out what would it be kind of
Speaker 1: like just something this something that, uh, if this happens
Speaker 1: to that team, they're gonna get banged in a big spot.
Speaker 1: I like to think of the title. Maybe maybe take
Speaker 1: out the comma and it's more like a nineties R
Speaker 1: and B song where it's in parentheses at the end,
Speaker 1: involved not to be sweat? What about all lowercase letters?
Speaker 1: I liked when that was. Got to bring back that
Speaker 1: all right, Packers up to fourteen and three they're the
Speaker 1: two seed, the Niners. Of course, fourteen and three they
Speaker 1: are the one seed, so the game will be playing
Speaker 1: at the big bow bottom. And why don't we start here,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, since you are healthy and ready to really
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're you're doing some tape dog in
Speaker 1: yourself and you in your family as a forty Niners family,
Speaker 1: they are they are very much So You're rooting interest
Speaker 1: is very clear here. I would imagine you want the
Speaker 1: family to be happy. But here's the thing. If you're
Speaker 1: a Packers van, you're talking yourself into a big win.
Speaker 1: But what about that Week twelve blowout loss that the
Speaker 1: Packers suffered thirty seven to eight, and that's almost two
Speaker 1: kind that score. If you remember how ugly that game was.
Speaker 1: How much do you think that game plays into this
Speaker 1: game or is it too ancient at this point? Even
Speaker 1: matter it's not ancient. I definitely hear people over and
Speaker 1: over discounting that game almost entirely, and this during this
Speaker 1: week's analysis, that it it's so long ago it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I would just say, from a team function standpoints, two
Speaker 1: of the bigger nose shows that the Packers had this
Speaker 1: season were that Niners game eight to thirty seven that
Speaker 1: lost and weeks prior when they went to the West
Speaker 1: Coast eight that they got they went to that's another
Speaker 1: way to say it. That's another way to say it.
Speaker 1: I mean they went and got totally ripped apart by
Speaker 1: the Chargers to eleven to total no shows. So I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't. I don't put too much into
Speaker 1: the travel to the West Coast thing, except that seems
Speaker 1: to be the Latin the two times that that the
Speaker 1: Packers have not shown up, and that that concerns me
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think for me, if we want
Speaker 1: to talk about, let's get it kicked off, how you know,
Speaker 1: banged in a big spot, how comma or in parentheses,
Speaker 1: how not to be The last time this they went
Speaker 1: into San Francisco and both teams relatively healthy, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: got ransacked five sacks that the Niners defensive line contrite
Speaker 1: completely controlled that matchup. They didn't. It was. It was
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers essentially in many statistical metrics, his worst game
Speaker 1: by far. They just they were completely taken control of
Speaker 1: up on the line. I don't know how much is
Speaker 1: gonna change now that you have Kwan Alexander back who
Speaker 1: made a big difference last week that he helps Steve
Speaker 1: four be so much more involved and active, and the
Speaker 1: two of them completely flipped the switch on this defense.
Speaker 1: Minnesota him in and we were all a glow about
Speaker 1: the Vikings in their ground game and what they could
Speaker 1: do with their big plays, with feeling back and stuff,
Speaker 1: and instead they were completely neutralized. If you want to
Speaker 1: have any shot in this game, don't get banged in
Speaker 1: this big spot by having Aaron Rodgers running for his
Speaker 1: life like he was last time. Where you are every
Speaker 1: receiver not named Davante Adams pulls a no show, and
Speaker 1: you've got the same sort of situation you do with
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook where at halftime he has. If you look
Speaker 1: at someone like Aaron Jones, he's not gotten unhooked at all,
Speaker 1: and they are getting there a one dimensional offense when
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur wants to be a ground based attack. I mean,
Speaker 1: I believe the Packers are dealing with some injury issues
Speaker 1: on the line for that game. There was an illness involved.
Speaker 1: I believe also that week Blago was replaced by Alex Light.
Speaker 1: David back Try, who is their all pro left tackle,
Speaker 1: is coming off of an injury. Although he did he
Speaker 1: did play in that game, Light did hurt them. You
Speaker 1: just have to play better. I mean, I I agree
Speaker 1: you shouldn't throw it all out. I think it's a
Speaker 1: sign that the forty Niners have been the better team
Speaker 1: all year. Are they are obviously the more talented team.
Speaker 1: I think they're the better coach team. The Packers have
Speaker 1: been blown out three times all three of their losses.
Speaker 1: They weren't that competitive that that ever happened to the
Speaker 1: fort That said, it's one game in in an entire season,
Speaker 1: and it's the NFL where I still think the margins
Speaker 1: are relatively small, and I wouldn't expect anything like that
Speaker 1: this time because I think the Packers are actually match
Speaker 1: up okay in terms of their offensive line has a shot.
Speaker 1: You know, if Bulaga is out there, They've got as
Speaker 1: good a tackle pairing as there is in the league.
Speaker 1: They have as much continuity as any offensive line in
Speaker 1: the league. They've got a very good center. If there
Speaker 1: is a line that can do something against San Francisco,
Speaker 1: this is it. And people say you can't be uh
Speaker 1: San Francisco without a mobile quarter wreck. I think Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers can be a more mobile quarterback when he wants
Speaker 1: to be. He's not He's not older and Rodgers. But
Speaker 1: he's also not Kirk Cousins back there. You know you do,
Speaker 1: you do have a guy who can make some plays
Speaker 1: out of structure Rodgers. That's coaching one oh one to
Speaker 1: say that previous result blowout doesn't matter. But teams losing
Speaker 1: by twenty or more points and then meeting the same
Speaker 1: team again in the postseason, they have lost thirteen in
Speaker 1: a row. That's a pretty big trend. That's not a
Speaker 1: small sample size. And the same defense that gave Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers the lowest yards per attempt of his career in
Speaker 1: this previous matchup showed up last week against Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: and the Vikings, And after rewatching that game, I don't
Speaker 1: even blame Kirk Cousins. There was He didn't leave any
Speaker 1: plays on the field. There was nothing there to be done.
Speaker 1: This defense was swarming. They erased, bullied, and took Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook's lunch money. They kept everything in front of the
Speaker 1: sticks and swarmed the pocket like reminded me the Cowboys
Speaker 1: front seven down the stretch last year. Everything is in
Speaker 1: front of the sticks. They suffercate you like a cobra,
Speaker 1: and there is nothing to do against this defense unless
Speaker 1: you're running misdirection trick plays they've got. The Packers have
Speaker 1: to get somebody besides Davante Adams to show up. I
Speaker 1: mean Aaron Jones would be that guy. They are very
Speaker 1: tough team to get to the outside. I do of
Speaker 1: and I think you hit on it's sort of how
Speaker 1: swarming they are. I feel like Fred Warner and Dre
Speaker 1: Greenlaw are there on the two most underrated guys on
Speaker 1: this team, and they're just such a great tackling team.
Speaker 1: And that's what reminds you of the old Seahawks team
Speaker 1: which Robert Salo was you know, came from. Is they
Speaker 1: they tackle Nick. Bosa hits you, Jimmy Ward hits you,
Speaker 1: Warner hits you. I mean, Kwan Alexander came back last week.
Speaker 1: They couldn't really play him that much because he wasn't
Speaker 1: nearly as good as the other two linebackers. And he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be healthier this week. Drey. You know, de
Speaker 1: Ford comes back last week and you have the luxury
Speaker 1: to kind of use him for snaps. When they put
Speaker 1: that for defensive line grouping in where it's armstead Ford,
Speaker 1: Buckner and Bosa, I mean, that's the scariest night. It's
Speaker 1: the scariest lineup you got and you don't have to
Speaker 1: blitz and you do these you know stunts which the
Speaker 1: Packers have struggled with a little bit, and you have
Speaker 1: to communicate. I mean, that'll test you. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think the Packers of a top five offensive line.
Speaker 1: So if if if any in back tri especially is
Speaker 1: playing a lot better than he was back then, So
Speaker 1: if any team's gonna be it up to slow him down,
Speaker 1: and I think it's one with a Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: quarterback and a good offensive I don't see a blow
Speaker 1: up because I think we also started to see Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers last game especially start to do some things that
Speaker 1: you know, have our entire newsroom on fire when they
Speaker 1: watched the way he threw the ball late in that game.
Speaker 1: I just I feel like this is the last team
Speaker 1: the Packers left with out of playmaking tight end. You
Speaker 1: have Jimmy Graham who was essentially fading into the distance
Speaker 1: paired with Mercedes Lewis. That was a nice that was
Speaker 1: that went well for them this season. Like, I just
Speaker 1: want to see someone show light about Sternberger. No, I
Speaker 1: just think someone's got to show up on this offense
Speaker 1: because it can't just be this time around. You've got
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, will see a lot of Davante Adams. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna probably be the whole game, but you you
Speaker 1: would take if you erase him or remove him too
Speaker 1: half his productivity. Like who else is stepping up in
Speaker 1: this attack? How not to get banged if you're the Niners.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Niners are the team I'm most
Speaker 1: confident about this weekend, so I did have to think
Speaker 1: about it. The only thing that really jumps out of
Speaker 1: me a little and I don't want to be that guy,
Speaker 1: but I will be a little bit is Jimmy g
Speaker 1: is always he's good for one or two bad throws
Speaker 1: a game, and usually one kind of pick that's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a head scratcher um last week uh, and we
Speaker 1: saw it last weekend. And I don't want to put
Speaker 1: too much on how the offensive game plan shifted in
Speaker 1: last week's game, because they were running the ball really well.
Speaker 1: The Niners were against the Vikings and their defense was
Speaker 1: swallowing up uh Kirk Cousins and companies, so it made
Speaker 1: sense to just keep hammering them with the run. But
Speaker 1: after that bad pick, Garoppolo through it, Seema, Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: maybe went to the run more and that kept working
Speaker 1: in Garoppolo finished with nineteen pass attempts UH for the
Speaker 1: whole game and thirty one yards. You look at like
Speaker 1: how the Ravens lost last week with UM falling behind,
Speaker 1: having to get away from their glorious ability to run
Speaker 1: the ball with a healthy mark Ingram Jackson shredding you
Speaker 1: with his ability on the ground, and then the past
Speaker 1: kind of finishing teams off if you have to put
Speaker 1: the if you can get ahead of the Niners, get
Speaker 1: off to a fast start like the Packers did last week,
Speaker 1: and then put it on Jimmy g does he make
Speaker 1: the type of mistakes that could lead to a pick
Speaker 1: six or huge play going the other way? And remember
Speaker 1: that the the Packers have a very good pass rush
Speaker 1: as well, and we know he has Darius Smith, Preston Smith,
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark. According to next Gen's stats UH pass pass
Speaker 1: rushers pressure rate, Zadarius Smith is first in the NFL
Speaker 1: at nearly, Preston Smith is eighth, Kenny Clark is twenty three.
Speaker 1: These are guys are gonna be getting after it. Kenny
Speaker 1: Clark has basically been Aaron Donald for the past two
Speaker 1: months in terms terms of Saxon hurries. His rate of
Speaker 1: Saxon hurries is where Aaron Donald has been all year,
Speaker 1: So that twenty three is probably more like a top ten,
Speaker 1: top five number in the last ten weeks. And he's
Speaker 1: going against a backup center, Ben Garland. Kyle Shanahan has said,
Speaker 1: the center position in my offense is more important, way
Speaker 1: more important than it is in most offenses. Ben Garland
Speaker 1: is in the spotlight this week, and the last time
Speaker 1: we saw him, he was yelling at Mark Sessler at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Mark Sister's my hero. What is the
Speaker 1: context there? Well, we went on that trip together, the
Speaker 1: same ones with all these other y I actually texted
Speaker 1: back and forth him a little bit, and I feel
Speaker 1: I just feel like he's very confident. So it's a
Speaker 1: mismatch that put a bowl on it. But he had
Speaker 1: all put Jimmy G on the spot to have to
Speaker 1: make plays and then send that great pass rush after
Speaker 1: Jimmy G and things can go sideways for that. I
Speaker 1: do think that's I think that's the recipe for them.
Speaker 1: Because the forty Niners pass blocking win rate, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a new a new uh fangled stat ESPN
Speaker 1: has been rolling with is twenty six in the NFL
Speaker 1: and I and a lot of that is because they
Speaker 1: were missing their tackles for you know, part of the
Speaker 1: year and they're back now. But it's kind of typical
Speaker 1: of their whole team. They're better at run blocking. They
Speaker 1: are the perfect Kyle Shanahan, you know, old Denver Broncos
Speaker 1: run blocking attack. Mike McGlinchey is maybe the perfect example.
Speaker 1: He's probably an all pro when it comes to run bucking.
Speaker 1: He's okay pass blocking. I mean, if it's if it's
Speaker 1: an areas Smith versus him one on one, that's a
Speaker 1: win for Smith. And I think you saw even in
Speaker 1: the first matchup, even though it didn't go very well,
Speaker 1: they did throw a few blitzes at Jimmy G which
Speaker 1: confused him. I do not think this is a game
Speaker 1: um that Mike Patton's gonna be able to sit back there.
Speaker 1: They're not a team that does a lot in terms
Speaker 1: of blitz is. They're just kind of back. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to mix it up quite a bit,
Speaker 1: not just rely on the guys up front, try to
Speaker 1: confuse Jimmy G. And to your point, Dan make Jimmy
Speaker 1: g b. I mean, that's gotta be the plan that
Speaker 1: beat beat us in the passing game. They do show
Speaker 1: that when certain metrics, when you when Jimmy G makes mistakes,
Speaker 1: and he's made a share of him this season. That
Speaker 1: a lot of times just to do with an intermediary
Speaker 1: level linebacker athletically diagnosing where what Jimmy G is gonna
Speaker 1: do with it, and Jimmy G not seeing that on
Speaker 1: his own. But that helps when you have Michael Kendricks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Packers have now, they might
Speaker 1: have the opposite Michael Kendricks was a huge difference in
Speaker 1: that last game, which is a total weakness in Blake Martinez.
Speaker 1: I mean Blake Martinez got got embarrassed a little bit
Speaker 1: when they first played Kyle Sanahan. If he's if he
Speaker 1: reminds me of anyone, it's a little bit like McDaniels sometimes,
Speaker 1: where if he sees whatever your weakness is, he'll just
Speaker 1: he'll just go after over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. And Blake Martinez is that guy. Maybe Kevin
Speaker 1: King is that guy. And you have so many different guys.
Speaker 1: If you're the forty nine ers, you can throw at
Speaker 1: them I mean it's kid all over the middle. It's
Speaker 1: coleman Or or Mostard as a as a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: it's Deebo, it's Samuel. I mean their whole team is
Speaker 1: in the middle, and that is that is a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and since week eleven or since week seven, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the nine or the Packers have given up the fourth
Speaker 1: most yardage too tight ends. So I feel a big
Speaker 1: George Kittle game coming because I think you just made
Speaker 1: you force feed the ball to Kiddle no matter what,
Speaker 1: on the biggest possible stage You've been here, been in
Speaker 1: all year, and they couldn't stop him the first time
Speaker 1: these two teams met. He's practicing fully on Thursday. The
Speaker 1: ankle doesn't seem to be a huge issue. It's funny
Speaker 1: to me the way games end really influence how we
Speaker 1: see them in the next week. Midway through the third
Speaker 1: quarter last week, the Packers were enjoying a much bigger
Speaker 1: blowout than the forty niners were. They were destroying the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and the way they allowed Russell Wilson to come back,
Speaker 1: now we think a little bit less of the Packers,
Speaker 1: But that game could have easily gone a different way
Speaker 1: because well because partly because it's their m O. Forty.
Speaker 1: Niners have these games where they squeeze the life out
Speaker 1: of opponents and so that sticks with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did it to the Rams, they certainly did it
Speaker 1: last week. They did it to the pack They've had
Speaker 1: those games, whereas the Packers they don't blow on anyone
Speaker 1: almost they always make it except for the Vikings. I mean,
Speaker 1: similarly in Week sixteen, they squeeze the life out of
Speaker 1: banged up Vikings team, right, but they they tend to
Speaker 1: make it interesting. I think I don't think that's the
Speaker 1: worst thing for this Packers team because if there's anything
Speaker 1: that you get listening to him, and there's only so
Speaker 1: much value that. I do think they're comfortable in these
Speaker 1: close games. They've been then so many of them over
Speaker 1: and over. And I liked what Aaron Rodgers said this
Speaker 1: week at the podium. He thought the biggest change they've
Speaker 1: had is in practice kind of cutting down the mental errors.
Speaker 1: That's he thought the last six weeks where they're not
Speaker 1: making as many big time mistakes. He thinks they've kind
Speaker 1: of grown up in this system a little bit after
Speaker 1: a year, and you can kind of see that on
Speaker 1: the field. Do you think that playing quarterback for Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan has replaced being quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys as
Speaker 1: one of the best jobs in America. I feel like
Speaker 1: he makes Jimmy G's job so easy, and I I
Speaker 1: like Jimmy G. But Roger's best is much better than
Speaker 1: Jimmy G's best. Speak on it, and that's why this
Speaker 1: is such a fun game. I just love Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: back in the spot, this huge stage, Championship Sunday stage,
Speaker 1: and it makes the Packers for me. Even though Keith
Speaker 1: Hansas disagrees. I don't like his face. Um I I
Speaker 1: just love certain guys. Like another guy me and Keith
Speaker 1: Hansas disagree with on is Lebron Jay games in the
Speaker 1: n b A. I love Lebron James and big spots,
Speaker 1: and I love when the everyone's, the whole world's watching
Speaker 1: him in a big game because there's always a chance
Speaker 1: for something very special to happen because he's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time and that's what Aaron Rodgers is.
Speaker 1: That said, however, um I love the forty Niners in
Speaker 1: this game, and I have to say that the Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: I just brought up the banging possibility of Jimmy g
Speaker 1: but it's also possible in this game with um Garoppola.
Speaker 1: We've seen games this year where he's looked like Joe
Speaker 1: Montana and it's like it's almost unfair when he's humming
Speaker 1: and you have all these other things, uh that they
Speaker 1: do so well, the Niners, they're just the best team
Speaker 1: in the league when that happens, and at home, feeling good,
Speaker 1: feeling confident. Would I be totally stunned if they're just
Speaker 1: rolling up and down the field on the Packers, um,
Speaker 1: I would not. And I know that you're up on
Speaker 1: me in two games, two games in this head to
Speaker 1: head matchup, and I don't know if you're planning to
Speaker 1: lock up the Niners. I'm not even gonna mess with it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the nine Ers. Look at that,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to just say, let us roll to Miami.
Speaker 1: I am also locking up the forty NINERSMI. Thank you.
Speaker 1: And when I said this game is not as compelling
Speaker 1: as Titans Chiefs, there's one big reason what this game
Speaker 1: is missing is two thousand thirteen Jimmy Graham or two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen Jordy Nelson. They need a playmaker other than
Speaker 1: Davante Adams in the passing game, and they don't really
Speaker 1: have one. How about two thousand sixteen Jeff Janice just
Speaker 1: someone randomly steps up Lazard. They need some have the firepower,
Speaker 1: They need an MVS to magically become a guy. They
Speaker 1: need Grontimo Allison, your boy Greg Allen Lazards to have
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty yards Is this possible? Yes, this
Speaker 1: stuff happens all the time in sports. But they kind
Speaker 1: of need somebody to have some type of effort that
Speaker 1: you did not see coming. I've got someone for you.
Speaker 1: How about two thousand eleven Aaron Rodgers. I mean he
Speaker 1: can make any of those people around him look better?
Speaker 1: Still mad at you were saying that Patrick Mahomes is better?
Speaker 1: Well right, fair about how about two Aaron Rodgers. I'll
Speaker 1: take my point, and I admit it's it's heavily influenced
Speaker 1: by wishful thinking because I want this to be a close,
Speaker 1: great game, and I think, like you, it could be
Speaker 1: very one sided. And I do enjoy watching Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: like you that his career Aaron Rodgers, and you can
Speaker 1: even see it when you hear him talk, and he
Speaker 1: always seems to be like searching for balance, like in
Speaker 1: life and on the football field. I know, but he
Speaker 1: really seems into it and and for him, I think
Speaker 1: it's the balance between making plays inside the structure of
Speaker 1: the offense and making plays on his own. And sometimes
Speaker 1: that balance gets really out of whack whether he holds
Speaker 1: the ball how long you know he holds the ball,
Speaker 1: or not to make a play. I thought last week
Speaker 1: he seemed very much in bald that he held it
Speaker 1: when he needed to, He made some plays on his
Speaker 1: own when he needed to, And uh, there is just
Speaker 1: part of the Aaron Rodgers mystique that I like to
Speaker 1: think when he picked up that fourteen yard run last week,
Speaker 1: that was a sign that he's going to use his
Speaker 1: legs where he had a little bit of that that
Speaker 1: old that old Now I'm not doing that old wrestling
Speaker 1: belt move. You know that he's just feeling it and
Speaker 1: that there's a chance we see that all time great
Speaker 1: in the toughest spot possible against the really tough defense,
Speaker 1: play lights out and put on a show and make
Speaker 1: it a lot of fun. You know what I learnt it,
Speaker 1: But that's what I think already brought up lebron Jack
Speaker 1: Nicholas at the six Masters. That old. I think that
Speaker 1: guy's That guy was forty six. I think that guy's gone,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to see him back. He's away. That's
Speaker 1: five year younger than Tom Brady was when he threw
Speaker 1: for about five hundred yards in this good bodies are
Speaker 1: in completely different places too, and I've well, I've learned
Speaker 1: anything that Greg gets super excited and hot four by
Speaker 1: like mid Thursday, just think the opposite, because it is
Speaker 1: he's too caught up in his feelings and telling us
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers needs to find more balance in life.
Speaker 1: You have no idea what's happening inside of the mind
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers. And I hear you with some of us.
Speaker 1: I hear you with some of this stuff. But I mean,
Speaker 1: we're asking for Aaron Rodgers from half a decade to
Speaker 1: show up. My issue is that there's just not enough
Speaker 1: around him too. It part, it is part of what
Speaker 1: what's around him. And could I see Alan Lazard having
Speaker 1: an eighty eight yard touchdown in this thing to tie
Speaker 1: it up in the fourth quarter? Yes? Is it predictive?
Speaker 1: Is it the thing that we can look at what
Speaker 1: they've done and say this is over? And well that's
Speaker 1: not true. That's true, but I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I know what I got into that was a
Speaker 1: year ago, and that's because they were a boring team
Speaker 1: that needed to get out of our way. They're not
Speaker 1: a boring team this year. They're They have done a
Speaker 1: lot with a little on offense, especially, But I just
Speaker 1: don't need to like wish cast or hero worship Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers based on where he was six years ago. I
Speaker 1: want to we're talking about Aaron Rodgers. I'm down on him.
Speaker 1: But it was like two years ago that he made
Speaker 1: that throw to Jared Cook and Dispatch Boys, and it
Speaker 1: was one of the best throws we've ever seen. He
Speaker 1: played a perfect game last and he's had games like
Speaker 1: that this year, right, he basedicly that game last week.
Speaker 1: He needs to be even better. But he was on
Speaker 1: the field with Russell Wilson and they went toe to
Speaker 1: toe and they were equals. And if he's that far
Speaker 1: ahead of if he's that far ahead of his opposition,
Speaker 1: Jimmy g this week, they got a shot. He's got
Speaker 1: to be better than I mean, they they scored, they
Speaker 1: didn't score another point after early in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: That was an incredible two and a half quarters by Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to deliver truly vintage like boat
Speaker 1: level Rodgers to win this. I believe in greatness, and
Speaker 1: I do think the forty Niners defensive line is is great,
Speaker 1: but they've they've got to beat someone who's been in
Speaker 1: this situation a lot more. Too. Took the Packers to
Speaker 1: cover and I took the forty Niners to win by four.
Speaker 1: They're they're better every logical thing. What about Aaron rod
Speaker 1: the balance that he's seeking, What if he's what if
Speaker 1: he achieves that balance on a Sunday in Santa Clara,
Speaker 1: I will enjoy it. I will enjoy it. What was
Speaker 1: that Dan's been touching me? Erica asked me to touch
Speaker 1: him again? Was that on Mike or is that just
Speaker 1: in my ear? And that was for you? He was like,
Speaker 1: you know, for those that aren't watching our YouTube video show,
Speaker 1: that's on you. But Dan was pointing and touching Gregg,
Speaker 1: and Gregg was just moving away, making these little faces
Speaker 1: Erica typically and whispering sweet nothings in my ears through
Speaker 1: every podcast we ever did. Yeah, I didn't realize the
Speaker 1: game mark uh Niners over a very close Packers team
Speaker 1: and over after all that it's an overtime. Also, Mark,
Speaker 1: you're getting killed by Packers. Fans told us that, and
Speaker 1: now you're you're backing off and you're getting on you
Speaker 1: get on the fence. That would be one of them.
Speaker 1: You don't believe in this Packers two. If you kindly
Speaker 1: shut up, it is so ponderous day, so ponderous to
Speaker 1: listen to you too. I've got forty Niners, thirty three Packers. Okay,
Speaker 1: everyone's got it competitive. Uh, that's only because I believe
Speaker 1: in Aaron Rodgers. I really think it's going to be
Speaker 1: more like thirty Niners. Yeah, I got thirty to twenty
Speaker 1: six Niners. Nice offensive game, all right, let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: hit halftime, halftime, half time to do something some news?
Speaker 1: What's that, Erica? Why don't you explain with that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a news drop which the audio version contained
Speaker 1: no information. Well, actually it did because we had marshmallows.
Speaker 1: Can I did the Chubby Bunny contest this morning and
Speaker 1: it's on our Instagram, the A T and podcast where
Speaker 1: we were shoving as many marshmallows that we could in
Speaker 1: our mouth and saying players that we're playing in championship weekend.
Speaker 1: What is the Chubby Bunny party with you cowboys? It's
Speaker 1: one marshmallow at a time, and then you pull a
Speaker 1: name out of a cup and try to read it.
Speaker 1: And it's easy with one, but then Erica nearly threw
Speaker 1: up upon the fourth marshmallow. White throw up Like this
Speaker 1: is like our other podcast we do together, the jsin
Speaker 1: Lick and Rosenthal Vanity Project area. Every week she suggests
Speaker 1: us do we do a viral you know, sensation video?
Speaker 1: And never once is that idea passed? Now you stuck
Speaker 1: it into this one. Yeah, well, wait, one way to
Speaker 1: pitch at Greg, Greg, You're so fun to be around.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the news. Let's start. We
Speaker 1: have a Tiffany Blackland, I believe, joining us in a
Speaker 1: little bit um to talk about this huge story, the
Speaker 1: coming out of Charlotte Panthers linebacker Luke Keigley is retiring
Speaker 1: after eight seasons. Uh. He announced it uh in a
Speaker 1: very way via a video message posted online. He had
Speaker 1: this to say, It's never the right time to step away,
Speaker 1: but now it's the right time for me. It's a
Speaker 1: tough decision. I've thought about it a lot um and
Speaker 1: he went on to say Um, there's only one way
Speaker 1: to play this game since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1: It's to play fast, play physical, and play strong. And
Speaker 1: at this point, I don't know if I am able
Speaker 1: to do that anymore, and that's the part that makes
Speaker 1: it the most difficult. Keikle's twenty eight years old. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is a seven time Pro bowler, five time first
Speaker 1: team All Pro in and was just a second year
Speaker 1: in the league. He won Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: And this was a stunner. Greg Um. We know he's
Speaker 1: had concussion issues in the past, and there was that
Speaker 1: one especially kind of chilling incident in a primetime game
Speaker 1: where he was getting carded off after a head injury
Speaker 1: against the Saints, I believe, and he had tears streaming
Speaker 1: down his face. But this past season, he played all
Speaker 1: sixteen games for Caroline h had a hundred forty four
Speaker 1: tackles and two picks. UH. So he didn't have any
Speaker 1: injury that costs him time, and yet he decides now
Speaker 1: to walk away. What were your initial feelings that pound
Speaker 1: for pound, I think he's the best inside linebacker of
Speaker 1: the last two decades that I've seen get drafted and
Speaker 1: started their career basically in the lot, Yeah, since I
Speaker 1: started since the yeah, the last two decades. He was
Speaker 1: from the nineties, But I mean I would say I
Speaker 1: would take him over Bobby Wagner, take him over Patrick Willis.
Speaker 1: And it's a shame that I think probably the two
Speaker 1: guys right near the top of their list, him and Willis,
Speaker 1: didn't make it to their age thirty season, and that
Speaker 1: keik Lely had everything that you could want out of
Speaker 1: the position, you know, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year, and that for someone who obviously loves
Speaker 1: the game as much as he does, it must have
Speaker 1: taken like a lot of courage and a lot um
Speaker 1: of difficulty to make a decision like this. And all
Speaker 1: you can do is kind of a plot him for
Speaker 1: doing that, because I think it had to be so tough,
Speaker 1: and no one really knows the entire story behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he would be doing this unless
Speaker 1: he felt like it was really necessary. Yeah, he reminds
Speaker 1: me so much of Patrick Willis, both of whom I
Speaker 1: think are definite Hall of famers. They were the best
Speaker 1: at their position for almost a decade. And I would
Speaker 1: throw Brian or Locker in that mix as guys from
Speaker 1: this century who were great middle linebackers. When I think
Speaker 1: of Keikle, I think back to our first year of
Speaker 1: the podcast, when we had the team of a t
Speaker 1: L and the reason why we did it was because
Speaker 1: Greg and I would watched the Panthers and come away
Speaker 1: raving about Luke Keickley and Thomas Davis and the ground
Speaker 1: they were covering, the range they had. And then you
Speaker 1: watched Keekley for the next six seven years and just
Speaker 1: astonished that he knows what the play is before the
Speaker 1: snap more than any linebacker I've ever seen. He reads
Speaker 1: the offense's intentions, and his instincts were on point. I
Speaker 1: think for me, it's just that we call it a
Speaker 1: stunning announcement in a stunning turn of events. But maybe
Speaker 1: it's just because we've heard every type of NFL news
Speaker 1: story at this point. I don't think that retirements at
Speaker 1: this age and need should be viewed as stunning. We've
Speaker 1: we've gotten We've gotten so many more of them from
Speaker 1: not fringe players but star players at this point that
Speaker 1: the long the days of the fifteen year NFL career
Speaker 1: are probably largely over for players that could have played
Speaker 1: a much longer than they did. I think that you're
Speaker 1: when it was a stunner when Jim Brown retired still
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers, and Luke Kickley is
Speaker 1: right there too. And it's not a money thing. He's
Speaker 1: got it. He's walking away from a ton of cash
Speaker 1: if you look at his cap hit that it's a
Speaker 1: life decision, and playing into your mid thirties as a
Speaker 1: defensive player taking multiple injuries is not viewed as a
Speaker 1: smart choice by anyone at this point. By these players
Speaker 1: doing it, I'm just saying, it's not stunning when when
Speaker 1: we're gonna get five more of these and the and
Speaker 1: someone who very publicly struggled with concussions that looked severe.
Speaker 1: And I know they didn't announce any concussions this year,
Speaker 1: and the league does it better of helping out players
Speaker 1: that get concussions. But I think if you listen to players,
Speaker 1: I think it's obvious that they suffer far, far more concussions,
Speaker 1: especially the ones that are prone to it than we
Speaker 1: know about or or there's a middle ground between concussion
Speaker 1: and whatever struggles he's dealing with on a weekly basis
Speaker 1: and in a life basis, and this is a life choice.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's because he you know,
Speaker 1: his fingers weren't hurt. It's he's worried about his long
Speaker 1: term future. I think, yeah, I think we need to
Speaker 1: look at Hall of Famers differently. If you're gonna get
Speaker 1: more and more players walking away from an extra three
Speaker 1: or four years on their career. Well, Willis, I think
Speaker 1: is already eligible and he haven't even made the finalist list,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to me. Keek Lely, I think would
Speaker 1: be a slight tear above uh Willis. But you could
Speaker 1: certainly argue the other way, and you know, I understand that.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he made first team All Pro
Speaker 1: five time, I made a d p O, which is
Speaker 1: I hate the idea that these guys that get to
Speaker 1: All pros in their career and there's a decent amount
Speaker 1: of him in the Hall of Fame, but stick around
Speaker 1: for fourteen years are everything immediate. It's they're not everything.
Speaker 1: Bad luck to be at the same position as another
Speaker 1: great player at the same time, and just because you
Speaker 1: I mean some positions, you're right there with the first guy.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's kind of like the Jimmie
Speaker 1: Johnson and Bill Kauer were two couches that just got in.
Speaker 1: Give me the Jimmie Johnson, give me the one who
Speaker 1: changed the game that that anyone watching could say keek
Speaker 1: Lee was at the very top of the game when
Speaker 1: he was in it. All right, here's some reckless speculation.
Speaker 1: I'm throughout there. Mark, you made the point he's walking
Speaker 1: away from a ton of cashs. You made the point
Speaker 1: that he's an expert at diagnosing plays in real time.
Speaker 1: I will add that he's photogenic, kind of looks like Superman.
Speaker 1: This is the time with his reports circulating that certain
Speaker 1: networks are uh looking for talent to be being become
Speaker 1: a color analysts for a game. I just don't be
Speaker 1: stunned if he gets connected to this somehow. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's even a path he wants to walk down.
Speaker 1: But we just heard that the report that we talked
Speaker 1: about on Tuesday show that Tony Romo might be moving
Speaker 1: to ESPN. I wonder if keek Ley and part of
Speaker 1: the decision. Maybe because you can make a ton of money,
Speaker 1: as we know, from doing broadcasting, so you're not gonna
Speaker 1: lose a lot of money. Ultimately, it's just a side
Speaker 1: thing somewhat. Be Lee Prugg and Greg Olsen who I
Speaker 1: think has done an awesome job when he's been on broadcast. Ye,
Speaker 1: Tiffany Blackman spoke about on the network, and you know,
Speaker 1: she pointed out how he's not on social media, how
Speaker 1: he he's the nicest guy behind the scenes, but really
Speaker 1: stays away from the limelight, and it really sounded like
Speaker 1: he wanted to stay involved in football in some way,
Speaker 1: and I think broadcasting feels like that wouldn't be the
Speaker 1: type of thing that a guy who is always trying
Speaker 1: to avoid a microphone and and being in the spotlight
Speaker 1: is down on your theory, Dan, from what I hear,
Speaker 1: I there are some talk about like which is maybe
Speaker 1: he would he would be a coach. Can't make as
Speaker 1: much money as a coach as you can in the
Speaker 1: CBS chair. Just reckless speculation. As I said, I like it.
Speaker 1: Great great player, great career. Luke Keigley walks away at
Speaker 1: age West. Let me read this quote from Thomas Davis
Speaker 1: to Tiffany black Man, because this is about as as
Speaker 1: effusive as teammate praise gets. He was the best teammate
Speaker 1: that I've ever had on any level, easily, the nicest
Speaker 1: guy off the field you'll ever meet, and the most
Speaker 1: fierce competitor you'll ever meet. The game is truly going
Speaker 1: to miss Luke. That's a great player talking about another
Speaker 1: great player. And the Panthers is a team we already know.
Speaker 1: They have the new head coach and Matt ruled Cam
Speaker 1: Newton up in the air. Now, Luke Keigley, the face
Speaker 1: of that defense is gone. It is a whole new era.
Speaker 1: UH in Charlotte UH. In other news, New Orleans Police
Speaker 1: on Thursday issued a an arrest warrant for Brown's wide
Speaker 1: receiver Odell Beckham on a complaint of simple battery. UH.
Speaker 1: Odell made his presence known at the UM National Championship Game,
Speaker 1: the college game between l s U and Clemson. L
Speaker 1: s U is where Beckham went to college. UH. There
Speaker 1: was the much reported on UM element of the night
Speaker 1: where Beckham was handing out money to l s U
Speaker 1: players after the game, but that is not has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with what this warrant is about. Video surfaced
Speaker 1: showing becking Beckham slapping the buttocks of a Superdome security
Speaker 1: guard UH in the L s U locker room after
Speaker 1: the game. The New Orleans Police Department Public Affairs UM
Speaker 1: confirmed that they you know, they have issued an arrest warrant.
Speaker 1: So Beckham has got himself in a little bit of
Speaker 1: a mess. And uh, if you watch the video, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's just typical Beckham stupidity. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that's so. I think the security guard
Speaker 1: put that guy in jail for wasting our time and
Speaker 1: money and not use in a modicum of common sense
Speaker 1: throughout the whole situation. I mean, just please, a little
Speaker 1: common sensing your police work or your security guard work.
Speaker 1: Put that guy in jail for wasting our time. That's terrible.
Speaker 1: Take what what what is he? What is he got
Speaker 1: touched on the butt? By the way, what does that
Speaker 1: have to do with your just feeling on what he
Speaker 1: did as a security guard? Have to do with Beckham
Speaker 1: in an animated fashion reaching back and slapping a guy
Speaker 1: in the ass and embarrassing him. It's just it's very disrespectful.
Speaker 1: But that guy doesn't need to be in there trying
Speaker 1: to shut down controlled that's what security guards do. I mean,
Speaker 1: But is it a crime? I get your charge with
Speaker 1: the crime? Is it something that no? No, and nor
Speaker 1: should the security guard be in they're doing that in
Speaker 1: the first place, you know, that's the security guards do.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows, that's what security guards do. They make themselves
Speaker 1: useful and they're take into account common sense that people
Speaker 1: work their whole lives for this moment and they want
Speaker 1: to enjoy it with a cigar, And is that you
Speaker 1: blow it out of proportion like this, give me a break. Well,
Speaker 1: a second security guard came in, from what I read,
Speaker 1: and allowed the players then start smoking cigars. So the
Speaker 1: rules are shaky, And I mean, if you're Beckham, what
Speaker 1: do you need to insert yourself into the situation this
Speaker 1: way and be, you know, part of the news cycle.
Speaker 1: I would prefer that did not happen to him, But
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't I don't think being a crime.
Speaker 1: He just was a bad look. No, it's not about
Speaker 1: it to me, it's just like treat people respect. And
Speaker 1: I think that goes for the security guard and the
Speaker 1: security guard what was kind of doing more than he
Speaker 1: should have. I agree with that, But he also he
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to He wasn't actively trying to put hands
Speaker 1: behind people's backs. He was just being ignored by the players,
Speaker 1: which I understood why they did that. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to come after a security guard. That
Speaker 1: to me is just wrongheaded because to me, the real
Speaker 1: Cooper you got slapped on the butt. You know, calm down,
Speaker 1: get get out of the feelings. Yeah, whatever happened to
Speaker 1: Gary Cooper, I mean fine, Beckham was fine for doing that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I honestly don't have a hot I get,
Speaker 1: I get, just doesn't seem like something. Again, I'm just
Speaker 1: surprised that it's a legal thing based on what we saw.
Speaker 1: Also reminds me of this is what this is, what
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham is is best at once. By the time
Speaker 1: I thought it would be as like a superstar wide
Speaker 1: receiver that's winning championships, He's more about look get the
Speaker 1: camera on me. I want to be the star of
Speaker 1: whatever viral sensation this is. This guy used to be
Speaker 1: a really promising all time potential and maybe he still
Speaker 1: can be that guy. But I am so sick of
Speaker 1: this guy. I don't think his potential is harmed by
Speaker 1: touching a security guard. When's the last time this guy
Speaker 1: made a big play in a game that mattered. I'd
Speaker 1: love to know that answer, because he used to blame
Speaker 1: on Eli Manning. I mean yeah, but he's been on
Speaker 1: like five or six teams in a row that simply
Speaker 1: didn't matter. So that's you know, what did we blame
Speaker 1: on Eli Manning? The fact that Adell battle Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: was one of the most productive WI blames the game
Speaker 1: has ever seen. We were saying he was being held
Speaker 1: back by Eli. Uh Erica DoD you have a take
Speaker 1: on this. I just I think it's disrespectful and he's
Speaker 1: handing out money, which is putting people in jeopardy. I think,
Speaker 1: just the whole spectacle. I agree with you Dan, like
Speaker 1: it's just why, But also what if what if that
Speaker 1: security car was a woman though, and the entire narrative
Speaker 1: I know, but if it was right, But if it
Speaker 1: was just touching someone else in a security job who's
Speaker 1: like doing their minimum wage job, just doing what they're told, like,
Speaker 1: it's I don't think it's a it's a crime. Through
Speaker 1: that out a long time ago common sense. But if
Speaker 1: I'm going around slapping people on the asid that are
Speaker 1: trying to tell me to do something, it's not a
Speaker 1: good look on me. So I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: good I mean, what if it was what if it
Speaker 1: was your your brother, your uncle that's getting slapped It
Speaker 1: would be a common sense No, that's you're you're conflating
Speaker 1: the two issues. He he was, but they're charging him
Speaker 1: with a crime. But that that wouldn't happened. That's the
Speaker 1: only reason it's a story. If this guy policed better,
Speaker 1: then we wouldn't be talking about it. He's not a policeman.
Speaker 1: He's if he's secured better, that's what he was trying
Speaker 1: to do. No, he wasn't using common sense. No one
Speaker 1: says you have to act like Barney Fife in a
Speaker 1: small town. When you're a security guard, you can use
Speaker 1: common sense. I just could not disagree more. Alright, anything
Speaker 1: else in the news for having six stacks. That's the
Speaker 1: final bit of news. Good timing too, this commercial stack.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's the only news I have for you.
Speaker 1: That it's been back. Why does it went away for
Speaker 1: the holidays? And it's back. And it turns out everyone
Speaker 1: who thought, oh, the champ isn't here, actually the champ
Speaker 1: was lying in the weeds while you were getting fat
Speaker 1: and happy during your holiday season, and now the champ
Speaker 1: is here. See. I cannot tell if you too, actually
Speaker 1: at this point even care for that song other than
Speaker 1: the fact that you do annoy it. You know that
Speaker 1: Wes and I are annoyed by it. I don't think
Speaker 1: that you actually liked the song. I think you're onto something.
Speaker 1: But it sticks. It sticks in your head. I mean
Speaker 1: it does naturally. I naturally you know, was slapping the
Speaker 1: desk for months just because it sticks in your head
Speaker 1: and and it was working. That wasn't to annoy you.
Speaker 1: But it was a nice bonus. It's the bonus was achieved.
Speaker 1: But there's a reason the league brought it back because
Speaker 1: there's like when we got a hit, bring the hit back.
Speaker 1: It's like the Peloton ad with a Scared lady. With
Speaker 1: the scared lady, they made that commercial go away, like
Speaker 1: this is not working, and we make the Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: commercials go away in in place of this one. At
Speaker 1: least that's got to be coming to a close. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on halftime over what a spirited halftime.
Speaker 1: It was a lot, a lot for j Lo and
Speaker 1: Shakira to try to live up to here bloated half
Speaker 1: as many fireworks as ours. All right, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: The Titans, Oh, the Titans eleven and seven. You add
Speaker 1: their two playoff wins to how they closed their season
Speaker 1: five in a row. I'll go even further back than that.
Speaker 1: Nine out of eleven. That's pretty good. They're one of
Speaker 1: the best teams in the league. Now everything is different now,
Speaker 1: but guess what they go to Casey and West. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs just reminded everybody of what they are capable of
Speaker 1: when they get hot and they are hosting and they,
Speaker 1: I imagine, feel like, if we could do what we
Speaker 1: did to Houston, we could do the same thing to
Speaker 1: another a f C South team. Absolutely, this this team
Speaker 1: has blue chip players out their ears. Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, Chris Jones when he's healthy. We don't know
Speaker 1: Honey Badger the way he's played the last two months.
Speaker 1: All blue chip players. In an n tightened side, You've
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry, maybe Kevin Bayer, Darrell Casey, Jeffrey Simmons.
Speaker 1: But I think those guys are more red chipped than
Speaker 1: blue chip. Jack Conklin maybe right tackle Taylor l On
Speaker 1: red chip guys, I think the talent edge goes to
Speaker 1: Kansas City. But the reason why they could get banged
Speaker 1: in a big spot. Oh, this is three years in
Speaker 1: the making for the Titans. They had visions, they had dreams.
Speaker 1: They had an analytics driven attack plan to get big
Speaker 1: and push small teams around. And this is, as Greg
Speaker 1: would say, styles make fights power versus speed as much
Speaker 1: as it could be Titans power. We're talking Henry an
Speaker 1: offensive line that is mauling people, Darrell Casey and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Simmons shutting down short yardage, Rashaun Evans becoming a star
Speaker 1: at linebacker, and Ryan Tannehill running over people at the
Speaker 1: sticks and at the gold line. You cannot forget his
Speaker 1: power when we talk about this. This to me their identity.
Speaker 1: This is the Titans identity that they've developed over the
Speaker 1: three years. They are a Belichick team. They are every
Speaker 1: They could have drafted McCole Hardman's speed. They wanted A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown's physicality. They could have drafted Evan Ingram's speed. They
Speaker 1: wanted John hu Smith's physicality. They could have drafted a
Speaker 1: wide receiver like d J. Moore, Calvin Ridley. They wanted
Speaker 1: Rashaun Evans for his physicality in the middle of the defense.
Speaker 1: They have all these Belichick Patriots connections. Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: three and four in his career, including the playoffs against
Speaker 1: the Belichick coaching tree and twenty three and four in
Speaker 1: all other games. Wow. I think this comes down to
Speaker 1: Henry versus Honey Henry versus Honey Badger, one on one
Speaker 1: in the red zone with the game on the line,
Speaker 1: who wins and and I think it's Derrick Henry mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And Honey Badger getting a lot of love this week
Speaker 1: for playing an excellent game last week, including a one
Speaker 1: play where he made have like a triple read. Uh
Speaker 1: made every right guest on the primary receiver, the second
Speaker 1: day receiver covered them both and then chased the quarterback
Speaker 1: out of bound. So that is peak Honey Badger right there.
Speaker 1: I think the Titans probably look at Honey Badger, who's
Speaker 1: maybe the key guy in their defense with Chris Jones
Speaker 1: missing practice again which is a a massive loss for
Speaker 1: them if he doesn't play, and it's trending that way
Speaker 1: that he's well by the way, Henry ran all over
Speaker 1: Chris Jones in the Chiefs. They ran pretty well against
Speaker 1: them before um, but it makes it so that they
Speaker 1: can attack the Chief's weakness, which is certainly run defense
Speaker 1: all season. And I think where Honey Badger comes into
Speaker 1: play is a little bit um like Garl Thomas came
Speaker 1: into play last week. Girl. Thomas played a really good
Speaker 1: game overall, made a bunch of plays, was all over
Speaker 1: the field, but he was victimized on that Calif Raymond
Speaker 1: touchdown where he came forward for the play action. He
Speaker 1: bit pretty hard. He got totally out of position to
Speaker 1: the point where you didn't even see him on that
Speaker 1: play on the TV copy. But his aggressiveness, his playing
Speaker 1: his hunches, which is what Honey Badger does exceedingly well,
Speaker 1: knowing what the defense and the offense is gonna do
Speaker 1: before they do it. I think the Titans have the
Speaker 1: most dangerous play action game in the NFL, and they
Speaker 1: just haven't had to use it in the playoffs much.
Speaker 1: And I think they'll use it, and I think they
Speaker 1: could victim victimized not only Honey Badger but Sorenson. And
Speaker 1: I think you'll see more of it this week because
Speaker 1: I think Mike Vrabel, like Bill Belichick, knows, yes, styles
Speaker 1: make fights, but you got to adapt to the game
Speaker 1: you're in. And I don't think he's gonna be thinking
Speaker 1: his defense can stop the Chiefs. He certainly didn't think
Speaker 1: that back in Week ten, and he was right, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean this team to put your point that this
Speaker 1: this has been three years into making that. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: just that easy. Sweet who's the champ in this case
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs like that. I want to play
Speaker 1: it again. I didn't order that hit for the no
Speaker 1: that didn't know and less for me to do it
Speaker 1: is good. The drums jade a kiss, I mean, he
Speaker 1: haven't heard him in a while. He gets a lot
Speaker 1: of money off that go ahead mark, So I just
Speaker 1: think it's encouraging that like Taylor Lawan and Jack Conklin
Speaker 1: are essentially like the metrics wise in the number one
Speaker 1: and two road grading tackles at this point that they're
Speaker 1: just there. This is what they wanted to be for
Speaker 1: so long, and it never clicked with Mariota and it's
Speaker 1: clicked with Tannehill. And it's not statistically base. I know
Speaker 1: that he's got all these numbers that jump off the page,
Speaker 1: but Derrick Henry is having They're the most lovable a
Speaker 1: f C title game underdog that I can really ever remember,
Speaker 1: because of the way that they beat people up, the
Speaker 1: way they don't really care what oh yes, next to
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But Derrick Henry is doing something that I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's emerged as the most fascinating important NFL
Speaker 1: figure around right now. And I'm including quarterbacks because without him,
Speaker 1: they don't exist at all on this map where they are.
Speaker 1: And I get it that we talked about Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes left and right. But
Speaker 1: what Derrick Henry is doing in two thousand and twenty
Speaker 1: when everyone else wanted to be something else coming into
Speaker 1: this season, it's impossible for me not to sort of
Speaker 1: psychically just root for them to go in and and
Speaker 1: and win this game, even though I don't think that
Speaker 1: will happen. I all the points you're making it right,
Speaker 1: And on some level, Henry's un guardable, unstoppable because for
Speaker 1: the most part, even last week, the Ravens had a
Speaker 1: pretty good plan against him. You know, probably thirty of
Speaker 1: his runs went for about a hundred yards and then
Speaker 1: three of them popped. Three of them popped huge, and
Speaker 1: one of them was a sixty six yard run where
Speaker 1: Matthew do Jude on a two hundred and sixty pound
Speaker 1: man was about to be paid, you know, forty million
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. It has Denrick Derrick Henry dead. Two rights
Speaker 1: in in the hole one on one, and he hits
Speaker 1: him as hard as he can with no one touched him.
Speaker 1: No blockers even touched him, and he just bounced off
Speaker 1: him like a little kid. And then Henry not only
Speaker 1: bounces off of him and goes he knows what to
Speaker 1: do at the second level. I think that's what's different
Speaker 1: between him and and other really good powerbacks who bounce
Speaker 1: off that tackle. Then he has the vision where he
Speaker 1: sees where the safety is coming from and he gets
Speaker 1: away from the defensive and that's special. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: why he's putting up a run that we really haven't seen,
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna be able to do it again.
Speaker 1: It's just a question if that if that's enough had
Speaker 1: a yards on him last time they met. I realized
Speaker 1: these games that happened more than four weeks ago no
Speaker 1: one cares about. I think that game tells us a
Speaker 1: little something though, a little bit in that, like I
Speaker 1: think the Titans are banged. I feel like there's been
Speaker 1: an uptick in the Sessler tone when you do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, because I think it's like this hot. It's
Speaker 1: sort of like we've everyone's their eight hundred people attacking
Speaker 1: this game from like a take and a point thing.
Speaker 1: So it's like jump on the that game just doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: This is a totally different Packers team. It's like there's
Speaker 1: a reason it's going to matter. There is some connective DNA.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the whole thing is the same, but
Speaker 1: that's fair. It's it's we're talking two months ago in
Speaker 1: Earth's history. This isn't like pre Mesozoic like clash between
Speaker 1: two forces happened like a month and a half. I
Speaker 1: think I think the Titans Chief game does tell us
Speaker 1: some things too, And I think the Titans are going
Speaker 1: to get banged if they roll out the same type
Speaker 1: of defensive game plan that they had last time. It
Speaker 1: was pretty obvious what Mike Rabel thought going into that game,
Speaker 1: which is just we can't match up with these guys.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go out of what we normally do, which
Speaker 1: is the most one of the most predominant man coverage
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, and we're gonna play a lot
Speaker 1: of zone and we're gonna see if Patrick Mahomes can
Speaker 1: slowly and steadily move the ball up and down the
Speaker 1: field against us and beat us. And I would say
Speaker 1: Mahomes didn't even play his best game, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they still put up five plus yards, They still put
Speaker 1: up thirty two points. They in the first half of
Speaker 1: that game, they were the Derrick Henry type team, forty
Speaker 1: eight plays to nine team. Really for the whole game,
Speaker 1: they dominated, And yes, the Titans did find a way
Speaker 1: to win with some big time plays one on the
Speaker 1: you know, some big place from Tannehill, Andy Reid and
Speaker 1: Mahomes a little bit really struggling in game management, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's the route to do it. I don't think so, though.
Speaker 1: I think when you're going up against one of the best,
Speaker 1: most talented quarterbacks that you've ever seen, and you're counting
Speaker 1: on them making mistakes for you to win in the game,
Speaker 1: that that is trouble because there's matchup problems everywhere and
Speaker 1: you have Mahomes at the absolute peak of his powers.
Speaker 1: That was his first game back. He missed some big
Speaker 1: time throws in that game, even though he had big numbers.
Speaker 1: And he's got Hardman, he's got Watkins, he's got Damian
Speaker 1: Williams who now takes every snap, and I think that's
Speaker 1: an upgrade. He can test you horizontally and vertically, and
Speaker 1: they don't have answers. You have a team that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a pass rush going up against the best passing
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. And that's why I'm locking up
Speaker 1: the old Chiefs this week. Not because I I think
Speaker 1: the Titans are a better team than the Packers. I
Speaker 1: think the Titans would be a fun team to root
Speaker 1: for in the Super Bowl. I've enjoyed them, and I
Speaker 1: think they could give the Chiefs all they can hand them.
Speaker 1: I just think the Chiefs are the best team in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I think Patrick Williams is the best
Speaker 1: player in the NFL. And and so I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: take them. Well, you are forcing me to lock up
Speaker 1: the Titans. Yes, you gotta be happy about it. I
Speaker 1: know you didn't want to lock up. This is a
Speaker 1: this is a a long shot. To even attempt to
Speaker 1: tie you, which I find to be would be rather
Speaker 1: dull into the whole thing anyway, So probably I'll just
Speaker 1: get swept out. But if I ever won a lock
Speaker 1: off of the Titans in this game, I would just
Speaker 1: simply I'll just take everything that I own and just
Speaker 1: throw it in the streets and just walk home. Just
Speaker 1: so everyone knows in the standings market and I trailed
Speaker 1: by two games behind Greg. So Gregg just has to
Speaker 1: win pick one winner either this weekend or a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty four, and he's got the belt, He's got
Speaker 1: the strap. The Titans, their identity right now is to
Speaker 1: punch the bully in the face. They're not afraid, as
Speaker 1: their coach said of the Patriots pin stripes, They're not
Speaker 1: afraid of the ghost of Ray Lewis, and they're not
Speaker 1: afraid of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. And I think
Speaker 1: right now the best coach team in the NFL is
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. I think they have an advantage on
Speaker 1: Dandy Reid. I think Rabel he has every player on
Speaker 1: this team with a rule. You see guys like Calif Raymond,
Speaker 1: Anthony Ferser Blossom game, Darius Jennings had a chance for
Speaker 1: a TV last week, even even Marcus Mariota. Every player
Speaker 1: on this team has a rule. He empowers his coordinators
Speaker 1: to go for kill shots when it's when it's needed.
Speaker 1: His management has been on on fire. And I love
Speaker 1: the attitude this team plays, with their chemistry, uh the
Speaker 1: confidence they expect to win every single game right now,
Speaker 1: and let me. Let me start a little statement called
Speaker 1: let's get real with research. New segs and the boys.
Speaker 1: They give us girls voluminous information and girls, yes, but
Speaker 1: it's up to us to give context. And why do
Speaker 1: all the Chiefs defensive stats start with since week eleven?
Speaker 1: Because they played the Titans in Week ten and they
Speaker 1: dropped thirty five points on them and Derrick Henry ran
Speaker 1: all over them, and they haven't played a good offense since.
Speaker 1: And now they play an explosive, efficient offense for the
Speaker 1: first time in two months. And I think it's a
Speaker 1: different without Chris Jones. Maybe I think this is a
Speaker 1: different Titans team. Both teams are better than when they
Speaker 1: played in Week ten. I think they played a good
Speaker 1: offense last week, not as good as the Titans, and
Speaker 1: they didn't impress me. The Chiefs defense, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: it's a concern. And I'm with you on Vrabel. I
Speaker 1: think what he has and their staff has is a
Speaker 1: good sense of the game that they're in, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like when they hit Raymond for that
Speaker 1: play action pass. It wasn't like they dominated the Ravens,
Speaker 1: but they called all the right plays at the right time.
Speaker 1: He knew what his defense was capable of, I think
Speaker 1: last week, and he was right to trust them to
Speaker 1: play to it. I just think he knows he's not
Speaker 1: going to be in one of those games again because
Speaker 1: you went through all these reasons and it's all true,
Speaker 1: but I just don't see the players on defense. It's
Speaker 1: not a good it's not a good defense. It's fine.
Speaker 1: It's there, Yeah, it's fine, and they Rashaan Evans is
Speaker 1: playing great, Kenny Vaccaro is playing the best football of
Speaker 1: his career. Their cornerbacks, which are a liability in in December,
Speaker 1: are now an asset in January. Tye Smith and Lashawn
Speaker 1: Sims don't even see the field anymore. So it's a
Speaker 1: different secondary. I agree they're about an average defense, but
Speaker 1: I think they're every bit as good as the Chief's
Speaker 1: defense and those, Yeah, I think they're better. It's kind
Speaker 1: of defenses can go on special runs to where it's
Speaker 1: not because you have two or three stars. And if anything,
Speaker 1: it was a week ago trying to rack your brain
Speaker 1: to figure out how even with Derrick Henry, you could
Speaker 1: play keep away from the Ravens offense. And they forced
Speaker 1: the they made the Ravens super uncomfortable. I think they paid.
Speaker 1: They made New England's offense very uncomfortable, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be a problem to do some of
Speaker 1: that in this game. My thing is you can't play
Speaker 1: keep away from Patrick Mahomes. Even the Texans fell into
Speaker 1: the best possible beginning to a game you could ever imagine,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't nearly enough. It felt like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: had a hundred and twenty minutes to work with to
Speaker 1: overcome that twenty four nothing deficit because they score in
Speaker 1: two seconds. You can't just have seven minute drives that
Speaker 1: result in field goals and hope you're gonna get it
Speaker 1: done against Kansas. The game script could not have gone better,
Speaker 1: obviously for the Titans last week, which is get ahead
Speaker 1: with two quick touchdowns, take the Ravens out of their game,
Speaker 1: and then you get to use you have the best
Speaker 1: closer in the league. I mean, you have Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: who could then just ram the all. Now, can they
Speaker 1: do the same jumping ahead? That would be great, But
Speaker 1: can they do the same thing they've done the past
Speaker 1: two weeks in their playoff wins, which is give Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry the ball thirty to thirty five times and then
Speaker 1: ask Ryan Tannehill to make about fifteen passes, hit on
Speaker 1: eight to ten of them with a touchdown or two,
Speaker 1: or do you need a much bigger after than that,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if anything will ever. No, there
Speaker 1: was nothing flukey about the Titans beating the Ravens last week.
Speaker 1: But that also was a perfect storm the way it
Speaker 1: developed for them, and that's what allowed them to really
Speaker 1: close out that game, uh in a really impressive way.
Speaker 1: I don't see playing out that way now. I need
Speaker 1: more from Tannehill, and he's capable of it, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in capable of it. It's been a few
Speaker 1: weeks now since we've seen that, but that that, to me,
Speaker 1: is the big difference between this week and last week.
Speaker 1: I don't think they could expect to have another carbon
Speaker 1: copy of what happened in Baltimore. I think too many
Speaker 1: people are underestimating tan Hill. The way he's played this
Speaker 1: year is the way we want quarterback to be played.
Speaker 1: He's been exceptionally accurate. He's thrown into tight windows. He
Speaker 1: has a strong arm, he's aggressive downfield, has athleticism to
Speaker 1: escape pressure and pick up first downs. His legs have
Speaker 1: been key in fourth quarter comebacks. He's shown great situal
Speaker 1: situational awareness. I just think he's been even in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: he's played really well. And people are sleeping because they're
Speaker 1: looking at box score. I'm I'm totally with you. I
Speaker 1: never said he didn't play well. Right now, I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at box now. He's gonna need you no more.
Speaker 1: I think that's just gonna have to ball out. It
Speaker 1: can't be just Derrick Henry take us hold. I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I like the Chiefs because I
Speaker 1: think they do take the Titans a little bit out
Speaker 1: of their own game, certainly on defense, where they're a
Speaker 1: man team and if you just play zone, you know,
Speaker 1: ma Homes is gonna just eat you up um, And
Speaker 1: that's not what the Titans do best. They play man.
Speaker 1: They like to blitz. And that's so dangerous because I
Speaker 1: think Mahomes is getting to the point where he's so
Speaker 1: advanced mentally. It's just such a like combination of he'll
Speaker 1: either kill you with the play call Andy Reid, or
Speaker 1: they'll kill you with Patrick Mahomes making something up, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's so dangerous. I just think he he
Speaker 1: makes an opponent a d offense like fear everything because
Speaker 1: the second that you think you have a locked in,
Speaker 1: they'll probably do some sweep to McCole, Hardman or it's
Speaker 1: a kick return by Hardman or or Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: that goes for seventy yards. It's like they just have
Speaker 1: so many ways to beat you. I thought that hardened
Speaker 1: kick return kind of got underrated as a moment the
Speaker 1: game turned around, Dan, pick to click, they needed at
Speaker 1: the pick to click? Uh, what is it? Game view viewcaster? Alright,
Speaker 1: two of your technology, that true of technology. Check it
Speaker 1: out on Twitter video breaking down our favorite plays from
Speaker 1: the previous week. All Right, Mark picked the game. Well,
Speaker 1: I locked up the Titans, So I'm gonna pick two
Speaker 1: to win thirty five to thirty two. Oh what a
Speaker 1: ball game? Wes Well, I know my analysis been all Titans,
Speaker 1: but I really do think that the Chiefs trio of Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, and Kelsey is unstoppable. Um, but I really
Speaker 1: think that Derrick Henry is also unstoppable against a soft
Speaker 1: run defense like the Chiefs have. I'm going Titans win. Uh.
Speaker 1: This feels like a potential classic. Is there also a
Speaker 1: scenario where the Chiefs boat race the Titans. They scored
Speaker 1: seven straight touchdowns last week. I will go Chiefs. Laboring
Speaker 1: over it. It's a great one, but I go. I'll
Speaker 1: go Chiefs. I got the Chiefs winning by by ten.
Speaker 1: I'm worried in a close game what happens with Andy
Speaker 1: Reid versus Mike Rable. I think there's a chance that
Speaker 1: they do get up a couple of scores and that
Speaker 1: they win convincingly. Am I choosing that because that's what
Speaker 1: I wanted to happen. You're damn right. We can't say that.
Speaker 1: West told me I'm not allowed to say that anymore. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're rolling. The Titans played. Here's a little underrated one,
Speaker 1: last little nugget. But I do think it could be
Speaker 1: a fact. The Titans defense played ninety two snaps last week.
Speaker 1: That was the most by any team in any game
Speaker 1: in the entire two thousand and nineteen season, including any overtime.
Speaker 1: They've been playing playoff football for a while. You want
Speaker 1: to be the forty Niners who played about forty five
Speaker 1: snaps on defense last week coming off of bye. The
Speaker 1: Titans are coming off three tough games, and they played
Speaker 1: nine two snaps, and they're about to go against the
Speaker 1: best offense in the NFL. You're begging. It's tough. It's
Speaker 1: a tough spot. Snap, Come on, don't you want to
Speaker 1: see Andy big Red on the riser? That's what I well,
Speaker 1: that is what I want. I wanted it all along.
Speaker 1: And even Pat Mahomes I love that. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got plenty time to do it. But
Speaker 1: big Red, this is his moment. I said on this
Speaker 1: show that Chiefs aren't having another loss all season after
Speaker 1: their last loss, and and we're almost there, We're almost there.
Speaker 1: What do you get? I don't know. More the more
Speaker 1: Greg answer, Greg would say, if we said that, you
Speaker 1: go like, and that's why they did it. They did
Speaker 1: it because you motivated them. Yeah, I did it. I did.
Speaker 1: We'll get Ryan Bartlett there are resident produced their Chiefs
Speaker 1: fan to dig up that, to dig up that clip,
Speaker 1: and we'll play it on next season playoffs around the
Speaker 1: NFL show. That's what we'll do. That's a little sideway
Speaker 1: shot at Cessler. I believe, Um, it was not a
Speaker 1: shot at it. I feel nothing. There's a reference point.
Speaker 1: Bartlett pulled me aside privately. Can we get a camera
Speaker 1: Barlett for this? Um pulled me aside privately, and said,
Speaker 1: if the chiefs win on Sunday, I will strip nude
Speaker 1: and run down Washington Boulevard, run of NFL network headquarters,
Speaker 1: but naked the whole thing. Whatever it takes, I will do.
Speaker 1: Who's shooting the social video Erica? Now I think that's
Speaker 1: against policy. Yeah, I'll be busy, but Eric will be
Speaker 1: right behind you. You have to go behind you. You
Speaker 1: have to go past the line that's outside the gun
Speaker 1: store a couple of blocks away. By the gun store,
Speaker 1: there's like there's like a line there on Sunday mornings
Speaker 1: that pop guns are that there's okay. These are the
Speaker 1: things you have to run pass across the street from us,
Speaker 1: the really sad old age home where the ambulance is
Speaker 1: always outside. You need to go to the past the
Speaker 1: gun shop, past the mosque, past the seven eleven, past
Speaker 1: the second seven eleven, and then when you get to
Speaker 1: the d m V, turn around and come back. That's
Speaker 1: quite a god. I will I'll have on an a
Speaker 1: f C champions hat though, because I'll have to have
Speaker 1: somewhere to put the go pro. You will quickly be
Speaker 1: hauled in by the cops. Come back to us seven eleven,
Speaker 1: by the way to to seven elevens in a three
Speaker 1: block radius. We'll call that a flex. It's outrageous. They're
Speaker 1: both jam packs. When you go in the Greg maybe
Speaker 1: invest in the Banana hammock anybody wants. We're doing the
Speaker 1: real deal holy Field. All right, So we will be
Speaker 1: back Sunday night. Yes, it is that time when next
Speaker 1: time you hear from us, we're gonna know all of us,
Speaker 1: The world will know who was playing at super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty four, and we're gonna talk all about it, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be grand. I love it, Ricky, who's your
Speaker 1: pick for the Super Bowl? I don't know. I kinda
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's gonna be taking all
Speaker 1: the info that you were able to glean from this
Speaker 1: last hour in eight minutes, or reject it entirely. I
Speaker 1: really just don't want Chiefs Packers, so I feel like
Speaker 1: it will be chief Sporting Niners. Okay, but you know
Speaker 1: who won't be in the game, The Patriots or the
Speaker 1: Jet Well, I'm used to that. It's nice. It's I
Speaker 1: can relax. I'm going to Miami, and the stress about
Speaker 1: the Patriots, I mean, come on, this is great. There
Speaker 1: was something about last year, in particular the Patriots, Sins,
Speaker 1: and they rolled in for the weekend. Just the level
Speaker 1: of entitlement, the idea that this is our event, this
Speaker 1: is our weekend, this we build this now into our budget. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was no excitement. It's just like that, we're here,
Speaker 1: it's our time to be here. Nothing short of obnoxious.
Speaker 1: And you look at the four teams left now. I
Speaker 1: couldn't have been more excited. I said, that was my
Speaker 1: Superol super Bowl victory I've seen live. And four years
Speaker 1: ago you said you don't care if to pay ever
Speaker 1: win another I said, they didn't need to. But look
Speaker 1: at the Packers and Niners. Those are two storied franchises
Speaker 1: that have been to the Super Bowl somewhat recently. However,
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Chiefs. One of those teams is
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl. And that's a fan base
Speaker 1: that's gonna be on fire, which means we're gonna have
Speaker 1: so much fun at our live show Thursday before Super Bowls. Right,
Speaker 1: well done. So if you're coming into Miami, if those
Speaker 1: if one of those four teams is your team, she
Speaker 1: get your tickets. Name man, Chiefs. Fans will show up
Speaker 1: like crazy, and either the forty Niners or Packers fans.
Speaker 1: They both will be Mobby you kid me, you got
Speaker 1: you got Kyle Shanahan like almost a direct descendant of
Speaker 1: Bill Walls bringing them back to the Bowl. I mean,
Speaker 1: Mike Shanahan makes his name under Bill Washson. Here's his
Speaker 1: son returning to Gloria. If if it's all on fan
Speaker 1: base and who will have the city the most hype
Speaker 1: the weekend? Give me Chiefs Packers. No, I think Chiefs
Speaker 1: is the best. Super Bowl One rematch Tis forty Niners
Speaker 1: is the best football game. It's it's the two best
Speaker 1: teams left traveling fan bases. I kind of think Chiefs
Speaker 1: Packers is the one. That's what I'm talking ab, not
Speaker 1: the game, just like the fans and how ampt and yeah,
Speaker 1: but West, you know how they are. You know in
Speaker 1: the in the northwest. You know, Nashville might be coming
Speaker 1: down to Miami. They travel in droves. Look at the
Speaker 1: map in the middle of the country. All right, that's it,
Speaker 1: let's go. Dan hands is signing off for a quiet
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