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Chris Landry recaps NFL Quarterfinals and Looks towards a big weekend · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio, and of course you can find them at Landry
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  Football on x also Landry football dot com talking NFL and college Chris, welcome
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  in. How's it going? Kick them doing well? How about yourself?
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  Oh, we're doing good. Just kind of recapping the weekend, looking ahead
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  and getting everybody kind of gauging the pulse of the room, so to speak,
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  on who everybody kind of favors and likes with these two matchups coming up
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  this weekend. Before we do that, some biggest takeaways for you over the
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  weekend. Let's let's start with Saturday. The two to one Seeds will playing
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  obviously Baltimore. It took them a little while to get going, then they
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  finally got to roll against Houston. I think Houston's future is extremely bright.
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  You look at the forty nine ers on Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, the
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  game against Green Bay looked like the Packers had them on the ropes there,
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  and then of course San Francisco was able to kind of recalibrate and bounce back.
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  Your thoughts on Saturday's action. You know a couple of things to keep
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  in mind on divisional round, It's where kind of Cinderella just goes asleep.
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  You know. The first round is where you have some surprise, and then
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  that second round is where kind of the cream usually rises to the top and
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  rarely does that Cinderella make noise. Now there's something else that I've noticed that's
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  taken place over the years is if you got to buy, usually there's a
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  slow start and you know, just the layoff and the rhythm and it,
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  you know, maybe being a little tidy at home for whatever. Different teams,
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  in different situations, you know, react differently. I think we saw
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  some of that. But what I saw in Baltimore was a team that basically
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  dominated the game. They gave up a punt return for a touchdown or this
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  game's thirty four to three. You know, Houston didn't get inside Baltimore's territory
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  with their offense. So this is a dominant defensive performance. And we got
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  to kind of remind everybody now that it was ten to ten because of the
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  slow start. Offensively, I thought they made some really good adjustments Todd Munkin
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  then on offense and just obviously blew them away. I thought Green Bay missed
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  a real opportunity. I thought Jordan Love played well for the most part.
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  I thought this team played with a lot of emotion. I thought San Francisco
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  played very floppy on offense. I didn't think brock Perdy played well at all
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  to the end. I thought he was great at the end, and you
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  know, he did what they needed to do. But I thought, I
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  thought there were three interceptions first through that were dropped, that were bad throats
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  that could have would be talking maybe a different story. I thought Green Bay
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  missed an opportunity. Yes, they've got a good future to the youngest team
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  in the league, and they've got their future quarterbacks, so it's it's great,
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  just like we see Jay Scroud you mentioned the future is good. But
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  I think they're going to look at that and say, well, we missed
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  an opportunity because I thought the Niners could have been They could They were right
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  for the taken on Saturday night, the way they were playing, and I'm
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  curious to see how they play it this week going forward. But uh,
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  those are my thoughts on Saturday, and then you know Sunday, you know,
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  listen, I tell you I thought the Lions the Bucks played them well.
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  I thought, I you know, I felt like Detroit much like when
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  they played the Rams in the wildcard round that you know, okay, they
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  they they managed to re respond to each team, but boy, they had
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  a hard time putting them away. And I thought the Bucks were were kept
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  alive there, and I thought I thought the brit of the Lions, I
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  thought all of that child Well, I think golfers played well when they need
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  him to make a play. But you know that this, I got to
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  give the Bucks a lot of credit. I didn't give anybody in the NFC
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  South any chance of doing anything. And it just goes to show you get
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  in the playoffs, you never know. So the the the not the literal
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  Wald part, but the Cinderella Bucks packers, they played pretty well and and
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  they didn't get it done. But that was pretty good in pretty good effort
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  last night. Look, I thought going in that because of Buffalo's injuries on
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  defense, that Kansas City was not only better but appreciably better. I just
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  didn't think Buffalo would be. You know, the whole narrative was weather in
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  Buffalo. It's gonna change. Now it's different, And I'm like, you're
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  watching this defense. The linebackers were depleted, they had injuries on the in
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  the secondary, and I thought the defensive line needed to step up, and
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  boy, they didn't do anything. They couldn't get off blocks. Kansas City
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  ran it down their throat and I thought, I mean not for the fumble
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  out out of the end zone before Holderman there there, this game is over
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  then and they and it's a decisive win. I thought Josh Allen was outstanding.
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  Yeah, they were like any game. I think they're a couple of
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  throws that could have been better, and maybe a decision it could have been
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  better. But the reality is I thought he played outstanding and I thought he
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  gave them a chance to win in a game that I didn't give him of
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  a much hope too. So that's my thought and I just can't wait.
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  I think we got Baltimore that's been the best team in the AFC, probably
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  more well rounded, but with this Kansas City offense, I just put a
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  piece up on lanbry football dot Com about how this offense has gotten so much
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  better. I wouldn't count out Kansas City. I'll say this, I like
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  the winner of the AFC. I think those the two best teams. I
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  want to see more out of San Francisco, and I'm gonna need to see
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  more and I think the weather in Purdy being uncomfortable, he's gonna need to
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  play a lot better for them to beat Detroit, and more importantly, if
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  they get by Detroit, to beat what I think is a better AFC team
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  in both options. So that's kind of how I saw the weekend's actions and
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  evaluating the teams. But I do like the fact that we've got, in
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  my view, the best teams at least how they've played out towards the end
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  of the year. Chris Landry talking NFL Weekend. Of course, we've got
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  the AFC NFC Championships coming up this weekend, Monday edition of the program on
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  Exit at Landry Football Landry football dot com. Chris, do you see a
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  path when you look at Detroit for them to get to the Super Bowl,
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  and not only that, for them to win this thing? They've got a
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  shot. But I think San Francisco is better. I just I just think
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  that the San Francisco we saw against Green Bay is not going to cut it.
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  That that's not going to beat Detroit probably, but I think they're gonna
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  play better. I think that that perty will play better. You know,
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  I think we'll see the weather forecast is better but well, we'll see how
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  that that plays out. I mean, everybody laughs, and we talk about
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  you know, hands eize all the time. That's why we talk about it
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  when you have small hands and we're talking about a late round draft pick and
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  party's just out over his skis in terms of what he's accomplished us for.
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  But you have some of those issues when the ball is wet, and I
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  think if it's a if it's a cleaner weather, then I think you'll play
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  better. But I didn't think they played their best on either side of the
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  ball. They're going to have to play better and I suspect that they will,
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  and I expect them to beat Detroit. I think this is kind of
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  where it ends for Detroit. But I'll say this, I know what I'm
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  going to get out of Detroit. I know that they're good. I know
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  they've got a lower ceiling than San Francisco, but I want to see more
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  consistency out of San Francisco and they're going to need to play better than last
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  week if they're going to beat them.