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Chris Landry breaks down the AFC and NFC Championships · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio Monday's four to four thirty Landry Football dot Com.
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  Also on x at Landry Football Chris, Happy Monday, Sir, how are
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  you? I'm doing good? Jake? How are you doing this Monday?
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  Doing good? You know, I don't think yesterday disappointed and the Super Bowl's
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  got, you know, a lot to live up to to beat yesterday's drama.
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  And let's jump off into that. I do have some college I want
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  to ask you about a couple of coaches, but NBAF, I mean NFL,
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  excuse me, center stage. As of yesterday. Let's go with the
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  first game. Were you surprised at what you saw? Of course, Lamar
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  Jackson taking some heat again for you know, not playing the best in the
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  biggest moments, But your thoughts on that ball game yesterday with the Chiefs and
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  the Baltimore Ravens. I'm not surprised that the Chiefs played well. I'm not
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  surprised that they won. I was surprised of the offensive game plan for Baltimore,
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  completely perplexing. I think I just you know, Todd Monkin, who's
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  done a really nice job there. Obviously former Georgia of Finch coordinators completely outmatching
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  this game, and he had no answers. And this is what I worry
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  a little bit about at times. You know, experience in pro ball and
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  coaching. In the NFL, it's different than in college. You win in
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  college in December and February. In recruiting, I mean, you can you
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  know, there's there are things you can do to augment and help you.
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  But in the NFL, when you get playoff level, you can you can
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  get out coached and out school. And I just they ran the football six
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  times. This is a team that's built around the running game. They didn't
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  attempt to run and it wasn't like they were out of the game. It
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  wasn't like the Chiefs scored thirty points. So they had no quick game.
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  They had no running game. And Steve Specknola, who's phenomenal and one of
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  the great defensive coordinators of our time in big games, and he's the guy
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  that, remember that basically put the game plan together to beat the unbeaten Patriots
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  and Tom Brady in that magical run that they had And I saw that firsthand
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  in Arizona. He did it. Fantastic job. They played a lot of
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  nickel, They played small they played fast, and you know they they got
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  they got away from the running game, and they didn't have any quick pass
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  game. They were in deep drops. That's not what Lamar Jackson springs.
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  It was almost like, we're gonna show you that we can throw it from
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  the pocket and beat you that way instead of well, we're gonna win and
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  do what we do best. And I just thought it was awful, and
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  h I thought they really did a disservice to that offense because I thought the
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  defense hung in there pretty well. Kansas City is so well coached, they've
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  got the best quarterback around. And you know they didn't again, they didn't
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  score a ton of points, didn't need to. That's a perfect example of
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  adjustments. I go back to Kansas City on Christmas Day getting deep by the
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  Raiders and they had no answers and it was awful. They were dropping balls
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  left and right. And you saw the game against Buffalo and how they had
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  made the mistake to the end. But they've regrouped. We're gonna run the
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  football, we're gonna rely on our defense, and we're gonna play off of
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  that, and then that's gonna open up and let the passing game breathe,
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  and here they are in the Super Bowl in a year where it was,
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  well, what a he's gonna do? That was the question I got asked
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  all year long, is well, what they can't catch the football, the
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  tackles can't protect. Here's what we're gonna do. This is coaching coaching one
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  oh one. We can run the football well and play defense. That's what
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  we're gonna do. And we're gonna slow down people's pass rush because they're gonna
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  have to defend the run first, and then that will allow us to kind
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  of build on that and get the passing game going. And then guys like
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  Kelsey and uh even uh uh Marquezaldez Scanling making a couple of big players raceid
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  Rice picking up. It's just, you know, whereas the Ravens have been
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  consistent all year long, but then they get to the biggest games and they
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  don't. They're ill equipped in a game plan that quite frankly, you know,
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  gave them. They gave them very little chance to win, and they
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  still had opportunities. I thought they were undisciplined. I thought they got frustrated.
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  Thought they made way too many mistakes. They had three turnovers, but
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  they didn't play well from a sideline standpoint and on the field standpoint, and
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  the Chiefs Experience Show, then coaching Show Chris Landry on your radio. Make
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  sure to find him on Exit Landry Football. Check out the website Landry football
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  dot com. Always the great stuff NFL college, inside the lines, outside
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  lines, everything at Landry football dot com. All right, so Chris,
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  you're sitting there and you're watching Detroit would look like they're just gonna run away
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  with this thing. And then everybody's going to circle the fourth down call by
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  Dan Campbell and there's a lot of criticism to that. Are you in that
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  camp or I'll be honest with you, when I was in real time,
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  I said, this is the call, Like you go ahead and you try
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  to put this thing away or was that ultimately the wrong call? Well,
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  with things you know, and I've learned this in the league for a long
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  time, and you know, coaching in college for a while. As I
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  mentioned, it's it's different when you get in the NFL. You got to
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  do two things in playoff football. You got to coach your team and you
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  got to coach the game. And I think people missed the coaching the game
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  part. Yeah, I thought Dan did what he felt he needed to do
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  because that's how his team is built, and that's fine, it's what's got
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  him to this point. But I thought after dominating in the first half,
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  and by the way, it could have been worse. It could have been
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  twenty eight, maybe even thirty four or thirty five. I mean it was,
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  but they had an almost flawless first half. You get into the second
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  half. You if people say, well, you shouldn't coach different with the
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  league, oh, you absolutely have to coach different with the league. You
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  have to. It's it's a game of football with a clock, and you
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  don't sit on the vault. But you have to be smart and you have
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  to be really proven with your decisions. I thought it was a little risky
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  for me at fourteen with a chance to go up seventeen. It's not the
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  three points because look, you could have missed the field goal, just like
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  they missed the fourth down conversion. When you miss a field goal and you
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  miss converting on a fourth down, that's the same thing as a turnover.
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  That's the same thing as a fumble. It's the same thing as an interception.
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  I know field position may factor a little bit into where those things occur,
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  but it's a turnover in any way you look at it. I think
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  if you go up and go up seventeen excuse me, you go up another
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  possession, then you're in a position to where you eliminate any form of momentum
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  boost from San Francisco. And that's where I think they were fighting now by
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  going far, no question they convert it, they go down, eat some
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  more clock, even though it's early, get a field goal later, or
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  get a touchdown. It's probably out of reach for San Francisco. And that's
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  what he was trying to do, is going for the knockoff punch. So
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  I get that, I understand it, but I also think you have to
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  look at his team. His team was not able to defend the pass,
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  and I think the only thing was the high pressure in San Francisco not really
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  getting in sync offensively helped their cause a little bit, but I think they
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  felt like he couldn't trust his defense enough as well as they had played to
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  that point. He wanted to put them away with his offense, which that
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  was the strength of Detroit's team, and they dominated San Francisco offensive front in
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  the first half. So I understand his move. I'm not overly critical of
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  it, but I would have done it differently. I would have kicked the
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  field goal to add another three, and because at that point it's not like
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  San Francisco. At that point JACA was making its run. Take a field
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  goal, we get the field go back, you give me. I mean,
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  it's it's a big momentum shift that I think that he missed. That's
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  what he missed because in his mind, that's what he's doing. It's that's
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  what God is here, That's what we do. By God. I'll put
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  it in the I get all that, nothing wrong with that. But if
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  it doesn't work, then you open yourself up to the fact that was that
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  the smartest thing you do. Would you do it again? Dan? Well,
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  he probably do it again. At some point. He's got of realized
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  that coaching playoff football games in the NFL is different, and you got to
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  protect that lead, and you got up when you got a team down.
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  Yes, you could put them away with that fourth down call, but you
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  also could put another three on the board and put another nail in the call
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  and then make it more difficult for them to punch out. I just think
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  that that's the part that I see more than just the three points. Is
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  stop the momentum from you know, or eliminating any possibility of a momentum ship,
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  which was all Detroit in that era. And then look there's other things.
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  You you you got an interception, uh that that just dropped, hits
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  the face mask and I made a great play. Then you come back and
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  fumble, And when that started to happen, it was it was you felt
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  that on sought at that point. It was like a snowball going downhill and
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  it wasn't going to be stopped, but it could have been stopped earlier.
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  And in my view,