Latest / NFL Now / Discussions on the NFC and AFC Playoff, Brock Purdy, & Cardinals - Patriots Preview

Transcript

Discussions on the NFC and AFC Playoff, Brock Purdy, & Cardinals - Patriots Preview · NFL Now

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. So the Eagles are in and
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: there are thirteen spots still remaining in the NFL playoffs.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome to a Monday edition here almost done with Group
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: fourteen of NFL Now on NFL Network. For our newsroom
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, I'm ANDREWS Ciciliano. Let's get to the
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Jets and the Bills, the rematch from Week nine. You
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: know by now the Jets gave Josh Allen of the
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Bills their worst offensive performance of the season in Week nine.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: This game was ugly early Dawson knocks flipping into the
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: end zone the late second quarter. Touched at this game
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: open Steve with ten combined ends. Yeah, that was That
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: was a crucial score right before halftime, because you get
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: it broke the monotony of what was going on offensively
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: with both team. Matt mullane almost broke. Mike White update
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: on him coming up shortly three sacks, he was able
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: to go home, Bills go home a winner, twelve knocked
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: off pretending three you know, find ways to win football games,
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: and um, that's not what you want to hear. But um,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: just playing complimentary smart football. Um, you know, not putting
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: ourselves in our defense in bad situations, and um, I'm
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: just trying to try and win football games no matter
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: how it happens. It doesn't look like an offense that
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: do not to win the SUPERB Ball right now. H
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: I think I speak for everyone and that we missed
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: a Now we're gonna see these guys again, so I
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: just think we are okay. May was that that one
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Okay? Yes, not not a great offensive game. Give
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: credit to Robert Sala's defense is still the one seed
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: in Robert Salas Jets right now are out of a
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: playoff spot. Mike, they are an eight seed. That Buffalo
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: defense beat up Mike White and did the job when
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: the offense didn't really have much going. Yeah, Andrew, I
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: thought one of the things to me that jumped out
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: from from basically the first nap of the game was
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: how relentless that Bill's defense was. And we heard it
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: from the Jets coming into the week, like we need
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: to be relentless because that's how you defend Josh Allen.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: You have to chase after him. But there was a
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: physicality to this game from the Bills. Their defensive line
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: and linebackers were all over the field yesterday, and uh,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: we gotta highlight Greg Russo right with Von Miller down.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Russo said, we're doing it for Vall. It's still part
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: of us. He's still phoning into the meetings. He's gonna
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: eventually come back to Buffalo to continue to tutor those guys,
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: and as you mentioned last week, Andrew to sort of
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: shadow Um Brandon Bean and perhaps be a GM someday.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: But Russau is the guy that they put a lot
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: of energy and effort in first round pick two sacks yesterday,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: forced to fumble, tip to pass, deflected another past. They
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: hurried Mike White and Joe Flacco twenty one times in
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: fifty one dropbacks. I think that's a pretty good number
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: and sort of shows you Steve what they're capable of
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: because they've invested a lot in those players on the edge,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: the young guys a JP and SSA, Boogie Basheman and Rousseau,
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: and now they're getting some serious production from when they
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: needed well. I mean, and I'm so glad you're highlighting
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: the defensive front because you talk about the pressures they
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: put on Mike White, that's because they denied the run game,
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: right they they they earned the right to rush the past.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: You look at the number of passing attempts that Mike
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: White and Joe Flacco had to have. I believe it
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: was right around forty seven. That is not a winning
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: formula for the Jets. But that's because they stifle the
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: run game. Look at the gap control that every gap
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: is filled on every single play, and the fact that
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: Mike White was able to show be his game as
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: he was and to be as tough as he was
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: to make the plays that he was to keep this
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: game interesting says a lot about the Jets opportunity and
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Robert Sale's optimism. They're gonna see Buffalo again. But the
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: way this front, if they continue to play this way,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: that is a headache. They've got Miami next week. They've
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: got a great opportunity to keep rolling the way that
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: they're rolling. On a short week for the Dolphins and
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: for both teams in Buffalo, that defensive front could really
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: dictate what happens to Buffalo moving forward. And the defensive
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: numbers the last two games against divisional opponents. Mike, you
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: were there for the Patriots game last week, twenty two
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: total points, allowed by the Bills in these two games,
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: both wins over the Patriots and the Jets, and they've
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: allowed only a hundred and thirty six total yards on
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: the ground in those two without Von Miller, Mike Yardy,
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: Steve Watch's thank you. Let's get an injury update now
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks, and we're gonna start with the guy
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: that we saw taking a beating. Tom Pelliser and Mike
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Garrell follow, and that would be Mike White. He was
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: sacked only three times, but like every time you looked up,
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: you're kind of win sing going man, uh Garret follow.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: That is one tough you know what that Mike White?
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: What's his status today? Yeah? Well a player said, uh
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: more obscene things in the locker room, not in a
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: bad way, but in support of Mike White. We can't
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: repeat that either here. But Mike White went to the
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: hospital after the game, the Jet saying it was more
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: precautionary than anything, and obviously checked out well enough to
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: be able to fly back home with the team. So
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: that is a great indication, as is the fact that
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: he returned to the game and won the respect of
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: his teammates despite not winning the game. Now, Robert Sala
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: set to step to the podium pretty much any minute
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: right now to give a day after evaluation. So I
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: guess Andrew keep an eye on Twitter and let him
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: let me know if he says anything while I'm talking
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: about this. But the Jets set to face the Detroit
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: Lions on Sunday at home, So no reason as of
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: right now to think that Mike White will not be available,
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: but we'll see about his status during the week. I meanwhile,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: Mike a quarterback who get delivered a big win yesterday.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy, in his first NFL start, did so while
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: battling what coach Kyle Shanahan of the forty Niners referred
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: to as an oblique injury. My understanding is pretty actually
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: suffered that injury on the second drive of the game.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Was the third down play where he was scrambling for
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: first he dove That's where it occurred to ended up
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: getting called back for holding call anyway, but Purdy was
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: able to gut it out continue to play at a
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: really high level. Not a lot of concern from what
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: I've heard going into the additional testing today, but certainly
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on here. So is
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Purdies just general soreness. Because remember a short week here
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: for the forty Niners. They've got the Seahawks in Seattle
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night and right and a little shine off
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: that game, but the Seahawks losing, but still a big
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: one to rematch. The Niners beat the Seahawks the first
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: time they faced each other in Santa Clara. You were
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: wincing on those Mike White hits. Tom, You're also wincing
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: on that big hit Russell Wilson took in the red
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: zone when he left the game with the big welt
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: on the side of his head. What's his update? And
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is in the concussion protocol. He was removed
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: from the game swiftly after hitting his head at the
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: end of that scramble, ending what might have been Russell
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: Wilson's best performance in and Broncos uniform as he attempted
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: to leave them back from a to nothing deficit. So
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: when you go into concussion protocol, there's a series of
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: steps that need to be passed, including and finally, had
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: being an independent neurologist clear you to return. So wilson
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: status will be worth monitoring through this week. If not,
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: you would anticipate it will be Brett Rippon, who took
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: over yesterday getting the start coming up this weekend. Same
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: thing in Pittsburgh, where can he? Pickett departed the game
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: after he ended up getting a concussion evaluation. Initially it
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: was announced the Picket had passed that evaluation, but then
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: he did not return to the game eventually was ruled out.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Mitch Drobiski took over, had some struggles to the course
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: that game gave away the football here. The Steelers will
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: have some choices to make in terms of what they
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: do if Picket is not clear. Remember, they also have
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph who has been inactive pretty much the entire
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: season as their number three quarterback right now, Mike and
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: the guy on the other side of that game, Tyler Huntley.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: Uh and now it was reported during the game that
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: he was putting the concussion protocol and was questionable to return.
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: You're not in the protocol unless you're officially diagnosed with
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: the concussion, which John Harville never really said. He was
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: ruled out eventually, So Hardball is going to speak to
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: the media later this afternoon. He to say after the
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: game that Huntley was reciting I believe it was the
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: the States backward or something backward, and he says, I'll
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: bet you you reporter, guy who who didn't stop personally
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: head injury was once of the year. The months of
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: the year, that's what it was. States backwards. Would be
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: incredibly impressive if he could do that in reverse, no
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: matter what's going on. But yeah, months of the year backwards.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: Uh So, John Harball seemed to indicate that Huntley was
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: doing pretty well after the game. Now, the other part
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: of this is what about Lamar Jackson's status. I do
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: know that they were at least holding out hope that
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: he would be available, and they got one less day
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: this week to prepare because they play the Browns on Saturday,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: a game that's on NFL Network, a game that I
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: will be covering. I'm getting both of those plugs in
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: wherever I can, um, so we'll see about jackson status.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: I would be very shocked if Hardball just like ruled
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: out Lamar Jackson today. So we're gonna have to monitor
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: him throughout the week. But I do know that they're
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: confident about Huntley. After yesterday's game, I was looking over
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: to White because he's going to be there to pack warmly.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: It might be snowing and Eland end in Buffalo is
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: part of our triple head are coming up on Saturday.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: It was Anthony Brown who came off the bench and
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: won that game for the Ravens. Pro Football Reference we
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: we use a lot to look up stats. Didn't even
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: have Anthony Brown in this system. Jeff Schwartzer, former Oregon
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: duck tweeted during the game, Anthony Brown's in the NFL. Yes, Um,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Anthony Brown is in the NFL and he played well.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: I gotta win off the bench well lead them to
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: win double Back to the forty niners here, tom Uh.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel seems to have avoided the worst, but it
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: is still gonna be a while. It certainly sounds that way.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Andrew Kyle Shanahan, speaking with reporters just a few minutes ago,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: said that he had no updates on Deebo Samuel or
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Brock Party because they're both right now getting additional imaging
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: on their injuries. But well, initially it looked like it
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: potentially could be a major type of an injury for
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel ends up being it certainly sounds like going
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: into this additional testing something less than that. But if
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: it is indeed what Kyle Shanahan said the initial reports were,
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: which is a high ankle sprain, that's still generally a
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: four to six week injury. We know Deebo Samuel is
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: really tough. He's willing to play through virtually anything, but
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: there are strength issues when you have that type of
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: an injury here. It's not something you can just tape
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: up like a low ankle sprain and go back into
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: the game. So we'll see what the additional tests reveal
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: for Deebo Samuel. But I would say it's fair to
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: say Andrew going into these tests some optimism that Debo
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: potentially could be available at some point here in the
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: postseason Sandwich at some point, but certainly not this coming Thursday,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Niners and the Seahawks. That is a game in Seattle
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: on t n F n f C West. So Brock
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Purdy was born three months before Tom Brady was drafted,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: and Brock Purtty outplayed Tom Brady yesterday. Granted, defenses have
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: a lot to do with it, but here's Purdy to
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey and the Niners are rolland twenty one to nothing.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Dad got a little emotional, I mean understandable. It's understandable.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Debo got emotional as well. Deebo Samuel, who Mike Garrelfolo
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: told you high ankle sprain could be back for the postseason,
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: went down here, got carded off, got his leg rolled
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: up on John Lynch watching Why the Niners always getting injured? Well,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: they've been able to fight through it with their now
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: third quarterback and he's dealing. Brandon I you could touch
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: down here. The Niners are dealing. They win big, they
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: beat the Bucks five seven. Here's George Kiddle with bridge
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: of Condon. With a lot of injuries today, it's stinks.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Football's top. It's really hard in your body. Uh, we're
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: definitely gonna have to shuffle some things around. You know,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: we played an early week Thursday night football, so we'll
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: figure it out. But losing Debo, he's a fantastic football player.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: But again we have we have really good roster and
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: guys are gonna step up. You just walked over here,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: kept saying, wow, Wow, what is the emotion. You have
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback, a lot of people don't even know
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: his name. Two weeks ago he comes in here and
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: beats Tom Brady. What are the emotions. Um, wow, our
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: defense is still really good. They're really good. While Brock Purty,
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: way to handle your business, way to be ready. First
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: play of the game, just fift yard explosive on his
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: own head. Thank you so much for that. And while
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: I met Tom Brady for the first time, a really
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: nice guy. Wow. Uh, let me some George kittle Bridge
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: of Condon. They're talking to George kittle Mark Ross with
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: me as well. In the update on Purty as oblique
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: injury played through it left the game. Obviously, it was
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: a blowout in the fourth quarter. Uh. Fingers crossed for
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: Thursday here on a short week, Bridget, But this is
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: a big game. The Niners are rolling and and now
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: they're going up to Seattle behind really good play from
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: their third quarterback Andrew Kyle. Shanahan just spoke to reporters
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: and said they hadn't had any new updates from those
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: m r s that are supposed to happen today, one
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: of those being Brock Purty and his oblique. So we
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: will keep you posted once we get information from Shanahan.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: But look, this is a team, Andrew. We were here
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: last week talking about what does this Forts team look
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: like without Jimmy Garoppolo. Are they still as good as
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: we thought they were? And they proved that they are
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: on Sunday with that huge win over the Bucks, keeping
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady to just seven points. So now they have
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: won six in a row. They have a chance to
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: clinch the division in Seattle Thursday night. But of course
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: another player goes down, a key player, Tebo Divo Samuel
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: in that second quarter. And I talked with Ray Ray
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: McLeod in the locker room after about that. He said
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: something interesting, he said after practice on Friday, Nick Bosa
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: pulled the teammates together and said, look, when a productive
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: player goes down, we all around him have to step
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: up and elevate the game, and nothing's going to change.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Of course, last week he was talking about Jimmy Garoppolo.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Now the same thing with Dievo Samuel and Ray Ray
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: McLeod is excited to step up into a bigger rold
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: with Samuel out there. But also Kyle Shanahan was asked,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: do you have to continue to remind your players what's
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: right in front of you with all these injuries, and
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: he said no, they believe in not just the guys
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: on the field, but all the death that they have
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: backing up those players, and he said, if I had
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: to convince them, then they wouldn't be believing in themselves.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: So this team, no matter who is out there, they
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: believe that they're contenders. Well, Bridget, you can believe in
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: that defense. And that's the number one thing that's keeping
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: his forty niners team together, That Demiko Ryan's led defense
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: where they're not just playing good, they're not playing great,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: they're just straight up shutting teams down. And if they
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: continue to do this, they can go as far as
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: whoever's on the offensive side of the ball, mix and match.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: They still got playmakers. But if this defense just keeps
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: shutting teams down, then that gives them the room to
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: operate and they'll keep winning games and no one will
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: want to play them. Look two super Bowl runs with
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: the Giants where our defense played unbelievably during the playoffs.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Stretch had flashes during the season, but then stepped it
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: up during the playoffs. These guys are playing at the
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: peak form right now and should only keep getting better.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: So as long as that d is playing at this level,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Rock Party making plays. Brock pretty made plays in college,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: and you just got overlooked for the measurables. But this
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: guy is a gamer. Hopefully Debo gets back. They've got
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: enough playmakers are on offense, but this defense is just
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: shutting people down and they'll go a long way with that.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Andrew and they almost had a shutout yesterday of ball
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: deflected in the red zone late. The Bucks got a
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: late touchdown just to put the seven on the board there.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: But the Niners defense last six games has given up
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: seventeen or fewer points. They have not had a run
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: like that since nineteen nine one, which before brock Pertie
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: was born. All right, thank you Bridge and thank you Mark.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: The Nighters has mentioned can wrap up the division Thursday
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: night by beating Gino Smith and the Seahawks, who struggled yesterday.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Gino's turned to the ball over a couple of turnovers
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: early here though it gets him back in the game
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: twenty to fourteen to the touchdend DK at the half.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: But in the fourth quarter it's Sam Donald and Raheem
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: black Shear putting the Seahawks away, winning it thirty to
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: twenty four. They ran for two hundred and twenty four
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: yards as a seed. The Vikings had a chance to
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: wrap up the NFC North yesterday, the boom box and
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: everything before the end didn't do it because Jared Goff
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: was playing sweet music. Look at that Jared Goff to
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Jamison Williams first career NFL touched out for the first round,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: taking the Lions lead seven to nothing. Lions would eventually
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: put this game away in the fourth quarter. Here's golf,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds. That's a touchdown. That's a Lions win, five
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: at a six. That deserves a speech. I'm talking about
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you guys being ready to go. You guys have been
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: ready to go up for six weeks. That's the way
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to come out and set the talk for the broad
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: yes at night. I guess what. It wasn't quite the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: clearest game either, but that's okay, man. We do what
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: we had to do and we took control that game.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: What you guys to enjoy this because we earned that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: We're in all of Martin and you're playing good football,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: all right. We gotta keep going. We're into the next
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: one and then Jets are coming up. We gotta be
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: ready to go. It's a physical freaking team. We're going
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: up to their play. Just stay hungry, Just suck you
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: on man, we're on fire right now. We gotta keep
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it all right. He feels different, right, it feels different.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: The work and the results speak to that. You keep
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: doing it. Reload this week, one more at a time,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: one more at a time, Stick together, family three. What
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: do you think? Say you know? That also feels different?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's energy feels different when this team is actually
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: winning and not giving games away like they did early
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: in the year. And now the Lions, who have won
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: five out of six. Their only loss in those six
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: was Josh Allen make a couple of plays on Thanksgiving
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and Tyler Bass kicking a game winning field goal. Will
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you were making turkey? So the Lions here are six
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and seven. They're right behind the Seahawks. Don't forget about
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the Panthers in this as well, because the Panthers are
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in the NFC South. I guess you have to include
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the Falcons in it. They get the Bucks week a
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: team Mark Ross, Steve White back with me. I mean
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Lions Jets looks fun this week. Oh that's a fantastic game. Yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that's a fantastic What do you think the bottom of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the NFC here as they fight for that last wild car?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna come down to the final week.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, just because nobody seems to really want to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: sink their teeth into this and take a position. The Giants,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: they seem to be free falling right now. Detroit they're escalating.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: They got a couple of games they have to win.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: You talk about that game against the Jets. The Jets
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: have got to win to stay in contention in the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a f C as well the NFC South. The way
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the Bucks are slipping right now, that is wide open.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see if maybe the Falcons a change, the Desmond
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Ritter can get that offense going a little bit, see
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: if they can get back into contention. But Mark, I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: just I just it's hard not to keep you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Washington and the way that they've played as a team
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that that can remain in the playoff hunt. The job
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: that Ron Rivera in that offense, Taylor Heineke has done
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: right there, and again the way Detroit is playing right now,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: those are the teams when we talk about December football
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: teams you don't want to play. Those are like two
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: teams right now you do not want to play at
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the back end of this roster. Whereas teams like the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Bucks and the Giants and the Packers. Right now, they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: should be more fearful of teams that I just mentioned.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Right you want to be playing your best football now
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and also have something to hang your hat on as
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a team, what do you do well? And Steve, as
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you said, come down to the last week. I think
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it will come out of the last week and then
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: all the tiebreakers scenarios, and I think there will be
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: some nine win teams and figure it all out who's
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: got the best division record. Unfortunately, I think it's gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: come down to that. But Washington Giants this week I
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: think is essentially a playing game, and I feel good
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: about where Washington is right now, coming off to buy
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: They can hang their hat on their defense. The Giants
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: are struggling mightily. They really don't do anything well right now.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And then when you look at Seattle, their offense has
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: kind of sputtered here and their defense has not played
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: well most of the season. So what do they hang
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: their hat on? But then you go with Detroit. As
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, these guys can score on anybody. This offense
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: with a bunch of different playmaker Jared Goffin is playing
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: at a high level. They can run the ball at
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: overcoming that D. So I gotta agree with you. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: gotta agree with the Washington holding on there with their D.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And then Detroit what the offense just surgery getting in
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: for those last two spots, and defense is an issue
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for both the Lions and the Seahawks, especially for Seattle
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: stopping the run, giving up to a game on the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: run or I'm sorry, a run a game on the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: last three weeks, Mark has basically said it that tie,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that tie. But the Washington the Giants is absolutely gonna factory. Absolutely.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I said it last week. It messes up the map
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as we come down the stretch. Alright, So here's the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: good news for the Titans. Yesterday they got Derrick Henry going.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He had been shut down the last couple of weeks.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: The bad news is Derrick Henry had some trouble hanging
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: onto the football. Now one of his fumbles, like on
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that low snap, I wouldn't call it his ball, but
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: here he just got blowed up by Shack Pardman and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: then Josh Allen got the bumble and then right before
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the hat, Trevor Lawrence made him pay. This was initially
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: cold out of bounds, but Za Jones, upon further review,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: got those feet down. We're inside of two minutes here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: That went to New York and that went to a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: touchdown and it went to a Jaguars victory. Yeah, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the Titans have now lost three games in a row.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence doing like the wave there, sorry, Dolphins, Chargers,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of playoff teams, a couple of quarterbacks taken
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: back to back in the NFL draft. Um, look at
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert make growth like a Mike Williams only his
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: second game since Week seven with the toe drag in
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, and Justin Herbert chose
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: emotion of the Chargers lead ten nil. Dolphins just didn't
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: run the ball enough. When they did, they had trouble
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: holding onto the football. But I mean this, this was,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you know, the crazy play of the year, the crazy
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: play of the year, Steve Whites, thank you. This is
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill picking it up and running it fifty seven
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. The Dolphins would be in the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: game because Tyree Hill picked up a loose football and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that he's the fastest guy on the field. But right
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: before the half, Austin Neckler punched it in Chargers go
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: on to win twenty seventeen. Justin Herbert, you're in the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: playoffs right now. At least we gotta keep going, you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: if we want to get to where we want to go. Um,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know, it starts tomorrow. It starts with watching the film,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fixing our our mistakes, UM, looking at what we did
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: well and correcting that. And UM, you know, I think
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: there is a lot of football left to be played. Um,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get some guys healthy and get some guys back. Um,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: so I just gotta keep rolling. I think this is
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: just another opportunity for us as a as a team, UM,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you know, to to face this and look at it
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: head on, um, and and learn from it. There's there's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: no other way that uh you can go around it. Um. Well,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we'll look at it straight and YEI and and see
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: what we can learn from this. And we we gotta
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: turn to page quick because we know we're playing a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: really good team next week as well. Yeah they are.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: The Dolphins are going to Buffalo. The Dolphins lose on
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: their California two games, swing to both the Niners and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the Chargers, and they're sitting there as the sixth seed
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: right now. L A is in as the seven seed man.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It is a battle in the a f C South.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It is a battle in the seven spot as well.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I say a battle in the South, I means still
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a two game lead for the Titans, but you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: here comes the Jaguars. What do you think of the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: seven spot there? Mark Ross, you know what I'm looking
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: at That that's really essentially that last spot there in
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the a f C. I think the Dolphins will wrap
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that up. They've got a couple of home games. They
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: got a brutal away games at the worst weathers you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: can get to. But they've got home games. They'll they'll
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: win those. And really that last spot between the Chargers
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the Jets, UH and New England and New England schedule
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the rest of the stretch. They may just win one
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: game out here, that win tonight, but the rest of
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: their stretch is tough. Uh. With with the Chargers, I'm
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: gonna hang my hat on Justin Herbert and his brilliance
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to pull out games down the stretch. The way the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: defense stepped up last night, that gives him side linds
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of hope and at least you get your playmakers back
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: on defense to fortify that there. Uh, the Jets their
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: quarterback situation week to week there, don't really trust any
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of those guys when they're in there. We know that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Dan is playing at the high level. So when I'm
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: looking at the big picture, I'm going to trust Justin
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Herbert and brilliance down the stretch, the defense stepping up
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: with the playmakers coming back. Steve, Yeah, Mark you and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: look at the schedule. I mean the charges remaining opponents
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: are eighteen thirty three and one. I mean, the Titans
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: are the only team with a winning record that's left
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and they're sliding. So, I mean it looks like on
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: paper they should get there. But what do the Chargers
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: do They charger. Now, we've got to we have got
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to get away from that bias. But they have got
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: some proving to do to make us do that. Because
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the one thing about the Jets, even though they've got
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a tougher schedule, we know what they are. I mean,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that's the dude. They may not win the fight, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you're gonna know that you have been in a fight
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: because you're gonna have a black eye and a bloody lip.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You don't know if you're gonna get that consistently out
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: of the Chargers. But if justin Herbert and that offense,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: having Mike Williams and keenandall and healthy, getting Joey Bosa
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and Derwin Derwin James back soon again, everything lines up
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers to get one of those final playoff spots.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: But that has happened for decades and they have found
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: ways to stop on the banana peal. I'm just saying
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: they should get there. But man, they've let us down before.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Answer to them for shutting down the Dolphins run game
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: like surprise Miami didn't you know, didn't run more of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a commitment. Yes, now they got Derrick Henry come into town.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Big playoff implications in that game. Do it now? Run
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: defense against Derrick Henry. One more game left for a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: week four team. Look at Kurt Warner's name up there
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in the Ring of honor. State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the home of Super Bowl fifty seven in a couple
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of months. Where tonight it's the Cardinals, it's the Patriots.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: We are live now in Glendale on NFL Now with
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: our Taylor bashot A talking about this new England offense.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: When last we saw them. Taylor on Thursday night, they
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: were scorn only ten points against the Bills the last
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: three weeks really not so much. How are the Cardinals
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: preparing for that Patriots offense? Cardinals defensive coordinator Advanced Joseph
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: didn't sugarcoat what he sees on film from this Patriots offense.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: He said, it's an offense that looks like it's being
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: run by a defensive coordinator. He described it as very conservative,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: lots of screens, not a lot of deep passes. Head
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: coach Bill Belichick said last week it's too late in
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the season for them to be making any drastic offensive changes.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They need to focus on execution. It's gonna be interesting
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to see what this offense looks like tonight after their
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: mini by I spoke to Patriots center David Andrews, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: he said December football is like the final three laps
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in a NASCAR race. It's where teams break off neither
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: get better, finishing stronger, or it's where they separate themselves
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: for the worst. He said, they've got the players, they've
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: got the talent. What they need to do is wait
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: for it quote, just do their jobs. I think we've
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: heard that before from Bill Belichick. We have do your job,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and I have to do it, especially today because there's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a lot on the line really for both teams, but
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: especially here the Patriots in their playoff push. Yeah. Well,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: yesterday's games really opened the door for the Patriots. With
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a win tonight, they are back in that wild card
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: playoff spot. They need this win. They dropped the last
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: two games. They're in a tight wild card race, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: their schedule ahead of them is going to be very,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: very tough. This Patriots offense has been criticized as of late,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: but a player that's been praised is running back Ramondre Stevenson,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: who leaves the Patriots offense as a running back with
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: fifty six receptions this season. Head coach Cliff Kingsbury called
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: him a tremendous player. Bill Belichick called his progression from
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: year one to year two similar to that of Tom
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Brady and Lawrence Taylor. Arguably the best offensive and defensive
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: player of all time. I spoke to Cardinals linebacker Isaiah
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Simmons and he told me that they've been focusing on
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the Patriots screen game this past week. They're trying to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: find ways to potentially neutralize Stevenson. But with Jacobe Myers
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Al and Damien Harris doubtful. You can expect to see
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of the second year running back tonight, a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: lot on his shoulders, a lot on the Patriot shoulders.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: They win tonight, they're back in that seven seed in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the a f C. For now, Taylor Brashatti, thank you.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Live there at a Monday night football to wrap up
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Week fourteen, the Patriots and the Cardinals eight fifteen Eastern Time.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: with my Heart Radio. For more podcast from my Heart Radio,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: visit the i Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.