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Is Dak Prescott & Mike McCarthy on their way out? Plus NFL Wildcard Weekend Reactions and more! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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What's up, guys. Welcome to episode thirty of the So called Sports Analyst.
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It is me one of your hosts, Joshua Garcia, and I'm here
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with my other host, Alfonso Portillo. How you doing Okay, I'm not
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doing good at all, man, That's how he's feeling. I'm not doing
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good at all. Man. No, the Cowboys they do it again,
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man, They in verfils every single year. Man. I don't know why.
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I'm not used to this. It's tough, it's tough, but hey,
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but I'm feeling good. I'm feeling yeah. All right, yeah,
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at least you're feeling good, josh. But all right, before we start
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you share this to anybody who likes sports. But all right, let's just
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let's just go in and get straight in, straight into it. So we're
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gonna talk about this last game that just happened this Monday night, which it
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was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers versus the Philadelphia Eagles and the Buccaneers. They dominate
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this game entirely and they win thirty two to nine. Josh, what did
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you take away from this game? Here? Baker Mayfield is the real Oklahoma
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Sooner, the real Heisman Trophy winner. Jalen Hurch's dad, Jalen Hurch was
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just a fill in while Baker Mayfield left. So Baker Mayfield showed up,
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showed out twenty two thirty six, three thirty seven, three touchdowns, zero
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picks. He really spread the baller out all over the field. He spread
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the ball all over the field in this one to Caita and David Moore,
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Trey Palmer. Trey Palmer and David Moore out had more receiving yards than Mike
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Evans. That's how you know. He was spreading the ball out and it
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worked out like entirely, and especially this Buccaneers defense, they really showed up
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in this game. Stopped the touch push. They they set a tone and
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they did it. It kind of hurt being without Aj Brown for the Eagles,
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but Davonte Smith had a great day. But outside of that, no
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one had a great day. And me and you were watching this game together
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and we were just like this is an ass whooping. Yeah. No,
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it was an ass whooping the entire time, even when the score was nine
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to sixteen and it was even in the balance. Like you were saying,
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this defense three sacks, five tackle for losses, five pass deflection, six
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QB hits. They were just all over Jalen Hurts. And one thing we
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both saw is just offensive line. They just did not look like the same
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Philadelphia Eagles offensive line. I know they haven't looked like it, but you
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would think for a playoff game, big implications, you think, okay,
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well maybe they'll step step it up. But obviously that didn't happen. And
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now potentially Jason Kelce, from what he looked like after the game, it
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looks like he's going to retire. It looks like he's done. He was
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basically hugging his offensive line coach emotion. So that's gonna be a big loss
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right there. But the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were able to run the football here
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twenty nine carries, one hundred and nineteen yards four point one per carry.
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They were able to do what they wanted to do as far as in the
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trenches. Obviously, Baker he did his thing. This is a baker S
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game and what he's been doing all season. But Rashard White, if he's
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able to run the ball effectively, then this Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense is going
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to keep rolling. And there's plenty of questions now for Philadelphia. James Bradbury,
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he got that massive contract, Darius Slay, he's he's going to be
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a free agent. Aj Brown, we don't know what's gonna happen. DeVonta
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Smith, he needs to get paid. So Josh, what do you think
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they should do? Do you think they should revamp or do you think they
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should just just blow it up? Basically, their revamp would have to be
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just keeping all these veterans, But I don't see that happening. Like Fletcher
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Coxon, they and Brandon Graham I think were already on their way out,
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like they they stuck around, Jason Kelsey stuck around just I think. Honestly,
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I'm not gonna say they're gonna blow the whole thing up, because they
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do have some cornerstones, you know, with Devon Toa Smith, uh,
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Jalen Hurts, you know, Jordan Mayata, and then they brought in George
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Jalen Carter. But honestly, it's gonna be a whole different equals team.
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I feel like going into next season, I feel like the dB room's gonna
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look completely different. They're gonna have to find some real true linebackers because they
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were short ever since the Kobe Dean went down earlier in the year. They
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have no linebackers that can play in coverage, stop the run, really anything.
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Darius Leonard I, like I said, was a shell of himself and
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he's just not the same guy. Kevin Byer's on his way out. It's
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just this team has a lot of questions to answer, more than the answers
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already answered, you know. So it's like, yeah, uh, it's
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gonna be weird to see because there was already rumors about Nick Sirianni on Nick
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Sirianni on the way out. So because the when you're playing, when you're
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a coach in Philadelphia, you only have such little time to get something correct.
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And yeah, they I don't know if there's time on his side right
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now. Yeah, there's definitely not. Like you said, in Philly,
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there's so much expectation. So a year removed from Doug Peterson winning the Super
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Bowl, they fired him. So what makes you think Nick Sirianni he's gonna
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be safe after going to the Super Bowl, and so obviously Bill Belichick's He's
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a clear obvious one that they want. Outside of Bill Belichick, who do
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you think would be the best fit for Philadelphia as far as for a new
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head coach. I don't know why I'm gonna say Vrabel for a lot of
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teams. It's just because the attitude he brings. I feel like there's a
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certain attitude you have to have when coaching a Philadelphia eguals like market Yeah,
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and that's because he does not take no shit like he just he's girling you.
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He's he's gonna make sure he gets the best out of you, and
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if he does it, he's gonna sit your ass down, you know.
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So that's someone. But if I can't say Mike Rabel for every team,
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I guess I'm a big Mike Rabel believer. But I guess I'll have to
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go with Ooh. I feel like hmm, I feel like a b Enemy
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would be pretty pretty cool to see for this Eagles team because he's kind of
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the same mold of like not taking no shit. But he could also he
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also has the experience in the and the and the accolades and all that to
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be like a fine coach to bring in for this Eagles team. Yeah,
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yeah, No, he definitely would be. I would say I would say
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Jim Harball, Honestly, I would say Jim Harball because he's good as far
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as with getting the best out of mobile quarterbacks and just bringing a different culture
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there because it seemed like the culture there in Philadelphia. Yes, it worked
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for a couple of years under Nick Sirianni, but after that it just completely
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fell off. I really have no real explanation how they lost six of the
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last seven games, because there's too much talent on this team. I don't
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care. I don't care. At some point, your players they just need
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to play and they weren't playing for the coach at all. But anything else
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you want to take away from this game, Josh, before we moved to
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the other Monday game, Yeah, I feel like we just talk a little
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bit more about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because I think we're already Like I think
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a lot of narrative is like the Buccaneers weren't supposed to win this game,
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or they weren't supposed to be in these positions. Because how their division was.
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But we've seen many times this year where the Buccaneers have showed up and
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put teams away and they scored at will, and they did that against Eagles,
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and I think it's it's it's a good confidence booster going into playing the
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Detroit Lions, who also score a lot of points pretty quick. So I
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think I think it's it's gonna be a good matchup next week. I do
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see the Lions coming out on top. Sorry we're foreshadowing later on in the
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episode. But as for the Buck, the Buccaneers, like this is nothing
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to laugh at because even when they were Mike Evans only has three receipts,
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they still win the football game, so that by a considerable amount. So
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I think that's a big confidence booster going on for this Tampa Bay Buccaneers team
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into their next week. Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely is going
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to be a booster. And if Baker Mayfield he can play like this,
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I know those big plays after the catch, but if he could play like
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this throughout the entire game, then this could be a serious problem even for
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the Detroit Lions. I don't care. I know the Detroit Lions. Well,
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let's let's not get into that where well, yeah, let's let's not
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get into that. We'll get into that in a second. But anything else.
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I saw that Patrick Mahomes. I saw that Patrick Mahomes is the only
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person to beat Baker Mayfield in the playoffs. Wait, wait, wait wit
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oh yeah, I forgot Oh shoot, I completely forgot about that. You're
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right, the Bake Show. It's something different. But all right, we're
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gonna move on to this next game right here, in which it was the
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Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Buffalo Bills, in which the Bills they win thirty one
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to aventine. Josh, what did you take away from this one? This
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was the only game me and Fonso didn't watch together so far as playoffs.
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But the Bills handled business in this one. I don't think there was any
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question who was going to win this game by a lot of people. I
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mean, Mason Rudolph was the quarterback on the other side, and they can't
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figure out if they want to use Jalen Warren or Naji Harris. So I
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think, uh, the Bills they handled business in this game. Josh Allen
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didn't have to do too much, but he had a pretty good He had
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a pretty good day passing, didn't didn't turn the ball over, didn't didn't
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get too ahead of himself. He went twenty one for thirty on three touchdowns.
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There was a couple of big plays by some players, especially the one
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by Khalil Shakiir where he like caught the ball across the middle then he like
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bounced around and somehow ended up in the end zone and that was that was
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cool to see. And the honestly, I think the big the big game
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is gonna come next week. But the Bills James Cook continues to be on
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the rise. Ever since they fired Ken Dorsey. Am I saying the right
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one? Not Ken Dorsey is Ndorsey? Yeah, it's Kin Dorsey. Yeah.
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Ever since they fired Kin Dorsey, James Cook has gotten the rock quite
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a bit more in the rushing game and it's showing in these wins for the
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Buffalo Bills. And they're they're one of the hottest teams in the league right
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now. And we'll see how it carries over to next week. Yeah,
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yeah, we'll see. But I think the biggest thing is that they stuck
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to their identity, identity throughout this entire game, which has been resulting to
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wins, which is running the football thirty four carries one hundred and seventy nine
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yards five point three yards per carry, so you're doing what you have to
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do. And I think the biggest thing where it's set the tone off rip
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is that Josh Adams his first drive here with five or five fifty six yards
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and a touchdown. So you set the tone right there saying all right,
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we're gonna take care of business here. We're not playing around. Let's handle
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business. And the Steelers they did have a chance in this ballgame, so
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it was it was fourteen to zero at the point it was fourteen to zero,
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and the Steelers they were driving down the field and they were in the
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red zone and Mason Rudolph, I don't know if it was a miscommunication from
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the receiver. I believe it was Deontay Johnson. If he doesn't throw that
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pick there, it's fourteen to seven. And the Steelers kind of made a
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comeback in the second half, which it doesn't look like it on the box
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score because it says thirty one to seventeen, fourteen point lead. You think,
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oh, it wasn't that close. But it was close for a stretch.
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But then Josh Allen. He had that fifty two yard run which made
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it twenty one to zero. And I think the biggest thing is that it
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seems like Buffalo they have the superpower to beat anybody they do, but if
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they're disengaged and disinterested, they're gonna keep teams in the ballgame. Like Pittsburgh
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they hadn't. They should have had no chance being in this ballgame in the
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second half. So if a couple things don't go there, Hey, if
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Josh Allen gets stopped after those two toush pushes, then we're possibly talking about
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a different situation here. So I think that the Buffalo Bills they're capable of
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winning the Super Bowl if they are interested in the entire game. It seems
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like they could turn it on for a second and then it just turns off.
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And the other big thing right here is Josh Allen. If he plays
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like this the entire time, where he uses his leg and you make smart
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reads, then nobody should beat them. Nobody should. Baltimore shouldn't. San
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Francisco shouldn't. That's how good this team is. And as far as from
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the Steelers side, right here, so obviously you had Mason Rudolph and you
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kept him in over Kenny Pickett. You wanted to keep the hot hand.
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According to Mike Tomlin and how there's been George Pickens, he's been frustrated this
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entire time. Where do you think the Pittsburgh steel Doers go. I know
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Mike Thomlins never had a losing season, but do you do you think this
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is like the breaking point right here? Do you think do you think it's
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time to revamp? Because Mike Tomlin, he's on his final year of his
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contract, So what do you think they should do? Josh I saw something
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where Schefty Adam Schefter said today that Mike Tomlin might consider taking a year off
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like he might that he might that he might consider taking a year off and
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then regrouping them coming back. So I don't think there's I think it's hard
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to tell because I don't think the Steelers fire Mike Tomlin. I think he's
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two INTI grained into the city and too the team, into the culture that
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he is the Pittsburgh Steelers as of right now. I just also think like
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people are going to look and be like he's playing with can he Pickett,
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Mental Trubisky and Mason Rudolph this year. So it's also like, how can
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you harp how can you hate on on a coach when he's having to deal
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with that at talent at the most important position in football. So I'm not
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going to say get rid of Mike Tomlin, but you for sure need to
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figure out what direction you want to go as a fur Steelers team. If
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it's like, do we want to rebuild, do we want to load up?
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Do we trade up and draft the quarterback that is our real quarterback,
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not one that wears two gloves? And but Mike Tomlin, I don't know
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what it's I think the decision is on his shoulders more than those Pittsburgh Stellers
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shoulders. Yeah, so if Mike Tomlin, if he takes a year off,
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that's a big thing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I feel like this wouldn't
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be a nine to ten win team right here. I don't care with all
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the talent they have defensively and man, I don't know, I feel like
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it's just time to blow it up for the Steelers because these defensive players are
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only getting older. Maybe potentially you think about trading TJ. Watt. I
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know it sounds crazy. I know it sounds crazy, but he is injury
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prone, and yes he always has has great statistical years, but what has
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it led to If you could trade away TJ. Watt for I think you
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trade away for four or five first on so somebody who's who's an edge rusher
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away from winning, if you trade them someplace else like that, you could
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potentially get you a quarterback or just starting from scratch. Because Pittsburgh Steelers,
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if anything, they know how to build a defense. They've always known how
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to build a defense, So I think that should be a realistic possibility there.
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As far as with George Pickens potentially trading him too, I know he's
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been frustrated and you're gonna have to pay some other people in the offseason,
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so you have you have some questions here, and the biggest thing is a
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quarterback here? Do you do you try to trade up, You're not gonna
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get the top two. You're not gonna get Drake mayor Kleb Williams. It's
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gonna have to be a Michael Pennix, a Jayden Daniels, a bo Nicks,
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one of those guys. But I don't believe that elevates them over the
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top. So it's tough. You you can't really do nothing here. You're
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just in a tricky spot where you're too good to get a top pick,
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but you're too bad to be a legitimate Super Bowl threat. So is there
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anything else you want to take away take away from this game? Uh?
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No, sir? All right, Well let's move into the Sunday night game,
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in which it was Josh's beloved Lions versus the Los Angeles Rams and Woods.
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The Lions get their first playoff win since nineteen ninety one and win twenty
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four to twenty three. Josh, what did you take away from this game?
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Here? This game was really exciting to watch. It was just big
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play after big play. I mean really in the second half, both defenses
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really stepped up. There was only nine points in total in the second half
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and they were all field goals. But that with that first half. Both
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teams came out firing back and forth through like all this game is going to
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be super high scoring, and it kind of just stalled out. But it
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was just really big days from Pukunakua and Almenros Saint Brown. Jared Goff played
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a good game. He went twenty two for twenty seven on two seventy seven
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yards and a touchdown. That and then on the other side, Matthew Stafford
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went twenty five for thirty six three and sixty seven yards and two touchdowns.
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So it was just a good game all in all. In my in our
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it came down just to buy one point. That's how close this game was.
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The entire time, we saw Poka Nakula show why he is, in
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my opinion, the offensive rookie of the year, why he's a second team
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All Pro. He went nine for one in a touchdown. I don't know,
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there's not too much to hate on either team in this game. Both
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defenses played good, both offenses played good. It just a matter of the
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Lions coming out on top because I'm with golf now. I'm with golf now.
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Ever since you showed me that video that that freaking video is just stuck
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in my head the entire time. But we got your little brother to say
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it. Yeah, I know, he's still saying it. Even even when
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I got home. He was like, I'm with golf now. So stupid.
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But but the biggest thing here, you you're pretty much touched every point.
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But it was the Lions going three for three in the red zone compared
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to the Rams going zero for three in the red zone, and it was
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surprising. You would have thought they would have cashed in one which would have
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won you this game here and the Rams they were the fourth high or fourth
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best team as far as in the red zone, they were going at sixty
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three sixty four percent here, so you thought they would have at least hit
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one of the three. So it was just potentially overthinking, but also great
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defense by the Lions. They may not be the great or they may not
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be a great defense between the twenties, but when it matters the most,
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which you need to be a championship team, you stopped them from or you
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stop them in kick field goals and that that became the deciding factor here.
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And Jared Golf personally me, this is the best game I've seen him play
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all season. I know he's had five touchdowns, four hundred yards something like
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that, but in a critical spot where you needed Jared Golf to make those
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plays, he made those plays the entire time. And what really said at
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all here as far as with Ben Johnson trusting Jared Goff is to win the
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game, you throw it to Aman Ross Saint Brown, who was your best
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player or second best player tonight or that night, and you stealed the deal
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here. And I think that Dan Campbell and his staff out coached the Rams
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coaching staff. And I was very surprised by that because you have Sean McVay,
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Raheem Morris and then you have Aaron Glenn, Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell.
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You wouldn't expect that to happen. If anything, you thought the Rams
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would have the coaching edge here. I even said that last week. I
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said, well, the Rams have the coaching edge, so this is why
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they should win. And as far as the whole well, they're a young
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team. They don't know how to win, which I bought into. It
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doesn't look like that. It doesn't look like that. It looks like they're
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legit. They could play different styles of football if they want. If they
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need to run the in order to win the game, they will. If
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they need a lean on Jared Goff to win the game, they will.
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So as far as with the Rams right here, so this is not necessarily
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just an older team, but as far as your stars, they're older.
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Matt Stafford's older, Cooper Cup he's older, injury prone, Aaron Donald,
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he's older, and then Sean McVay, he was even talking about retiring.
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We talked about that the other day. So what do you think the Rams?
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So I know I keep asking that question here, but all of them
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they're in different spots here. What do you think the Rams should do?
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I mean, if the Rams decide to run it back and like grow these
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young guys with these older players, it'd be cool to see. I mean,
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Kyraen Williams is young, Kuku Naku is young, but you're talking about
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Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup, Sean McVay, and Aaron Donald, like those
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are your foundational pieces. And honestly, I feel like I don't know if
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I see Cooper Cup doing it going anywhere, but I do think Stafford.
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Stafford is in question, not based off retirement, but based off like how
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much longer do you want to ride this older quarterback? You know, yeah,
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he's played great every time he's been in the Rams uniform, but it's
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also to a point where I don't know, I feel like Maggie Stafford is
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like a set, like an eighty percent stay twenty percent. But Aaron Donald
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was super close to retiring this season. The only thing they brought him back
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is because they gave him that moolah and they just said that were then they
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made him believe that that they would get to the playoffs and they did,
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and then mcveigh's was already quit thinking about going into the broadcast booth last season.
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It took some convintion to even bring him back. So I don't know,
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this is. I think this will be a lot of I can't answer
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for this team either. It's just we'll see how it plays out because there's
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a lot of questions around the people that have the opportunities to leave. Yeah.
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No, there is plenty of questions. And what does help for the
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Rams though, is that they do have their draft picks back after going all
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in. This is I feel like this is a successful season for the Rams
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here because this was considered a rebuilding year and they still made it to the
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playoffs and took one of the best teams all year to the brink, and
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who knows what could have happened after that. So just the Rams, they
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had a good season here, they're in a tough spot. I still think
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they should run it back, just add some pieces here, maybe some veterans,
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because this defense at the end of the day. This is young defense.
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They they will get better. But maybe if like say, for example,
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Lageriasnee doesn't get paid somebody like that, then you could sign him somebody,
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just add a veteran to the defense other than Aaron Donald. But anything
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else you want to take away before we move on to the next game.
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If Aiden Hudgerson can continue playing the way he is and disrupt the quarterback,
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then the Lions are going to are going to continue to win football games.
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And it's gonna be good for them because there's the Lions team who who have
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always been doubted and they're finally finding their rhythm of being amongst those top teams.
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Yeah, I agree with you there, But all right, let's move
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on to this next game, sadly, in which it was the Green Bay
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Packers versus the Dallas Cowboys. And what's the Cowboys? They were favored by
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seven and a half points and the Packers went into a TE and T stadium
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where they're undefeated and stay undefeated, and went forty eight to thirty two.
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Josh, what did you take away from this one? The Cowboys forgot how
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to play defense and Ceedee Lamb forgot how to play football. That's what I
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for. That's what I saw in this game, and I saw Jordan Love
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and Aaron Jones is absolutely go crazy in this one. You know, we
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talked about it a lot. We harped on how they played men coverage the
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entire year, and the Cowboys decided playing the old coverage in this in this
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one, and Romeo Dobbs and Jordan Love just tore them apart with the same
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shallow cross every single play that they connected on. It was just, really
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it was just honestly freaking scheme out, scheming scheme, and it was the
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the Green Bay Packers going in there with a great game plan and allowing Jordan
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Love to play comfortable and free and sling the rock. And the Dallas Cowboys
24:33
is always on their toes and they weren't able to really do anything in this
24:37
game. They couldn't get a consistent run game going. Dak Prescott and Ceedee
24:41
Lamb were off. I think, really, if we look in this game,
24:45
the only real person that was really showing up was Michael Gallup. Seedee
24:49
Lambs came on a couple of big plays and really forcing the ball to him.
24:53
So I don't know this Green Bay Packers team showed up, They showed
24:56
out. Aaron Jones continues to be a Cowboy killer with twenty one carries,
25:00
one to eighteen and three touchdowns. If you get that play in the trenches
25:04
from your running back, then you're probably gonna win the game every single time.
25:08
Yeah. No. So, continuing on from the Aaron Jones comment,
25:12
so in his four games he's played the Cowboys in his career, he's had
25:17
nine total touchdowns. So he definitely is a Cowboy killer. And one thing
25:22
I just want to say here, Jordan love this dude. He is on
25:26
an absolute tear since Week ten. He's been playing at a top five level.
25:30
And he continues that he does not look like he's a rookie quarterback at
25:34
all. If anything, he just looks like another replica of Aaron Rodgers.
25:40
All the throws, the arm angles off the back foot, making it look
25:42
nonchalant. And even when there was pressure in his face the very few times
25:47
there was, he wasn't rattled at all. And him and Matt Lafleur,
25:51
they're just they're just in sync right now. They just are. There's nothing
25:56
stopping them. But I think what helps them is that Matt Lafleur, he
26:00
he has full control of this offense. Whenever you had Aaron Rodgers there,
26:04
you you weren't able to have full control. Because obviously Aaron Rodgers, a
26:10
veteran quarterback, already won Super Bowl MVPs. He's gonna want his style of
26:14
offense. So this is fully Matt Lafleur right here and what he's able to
26:18
do. And sixteen for twenty one, two hundred and seventy two yards and
26:23
then three touchdowns looks pretty damn good to me. And not to mention that
26:26
ninety nine point three QBR, which the most you can get is one hundred,
26:30
so that shows how damn good of football he's played. Not even to
26:34
mention they got Christian Watson back and he wasn't even a big factor in this
26:40
game. So this is a really scary team right now because they have nothing
26:45
to lose and their quarterback is just on fire right now. It shades of
26:48
what Aaron Rodgers did in twenty ten to twenty eleven. So it's looking scary
26:55
for whoever plays the Green Bay packtors which San Francisco is next and which will
27:00
get into But as far as from this Cowboys side, they it happens every
27:07
year. At this point, I was watching the game. Josh and I
27:10
were watching the game, and when it was when it was twenty to zero,
27:15
at this point, like I wasn't mad. I wasn't sad. I
27:19
was used to it. I was numb. I was numb to the filling
27:22
the Cowboys. I don't know what exactly it is. I don't know if
27:30
it's as far as them not being mentally tough. I don't want to go
27:33
there and question question them because obviously I don't know the players that are at
27:36
a personal level. But every time the lights get the brightest in pressure situations,
27:42
they do not show up. That goes for both the players and the
27:45
coaching staff. And the biggest thing right here is that dan Quinn. So
27:52
dan Quinn ever since the offensive coaches that went that he went to the Super
27:56
Bowl with it was Kyle Shanahan, Matt Leaf, and Mike McDaniel. Ever
28:02
since he's played those teams since the Super Bowl or the coaches he's owned six
28:08
So they have the formula to beat dan Quinn and the rigidness as far as
28:15
to stay in zone coverage the entire game. When you have been a mande
28:21
man team the entire time and you let your four rush just completely changes it
28:29
up. I don't know exactly why he did that, but it makes no
28:33
sense. And another stat that I want to pull out for you, Josh,
28:36
so, out of the fifty four snaps that were in on defense,
28:41
forty eight of those snaps they had six DB's in or more so, even
28:45
though they were being gashed with the run, dan Quinn stuck to his ways.
28:51
Instead of putting in a bigger personnel, maybe even a fifth lineman,
28:56
a defensive lineman or another linebacker, you keep your dbs in and you keep
29:00
getting gashed. And I think dan Quinn he he's gone. He's gonna be
29:06
gone, whether he gets a head coaching job or whether or whether we get
29:10
another new defensive coordinator. There's no way he's gonna come back. And as
29:14
far as from this offensive side, they just started clicking a little bit too
29:18
late. But even at that time it was garbage time, So I don't
29:23
know how much of it was the offense really clicking or the Packers they were
29:27
just playing zone defense. But again, yes, I know you'll run the
29:32
ball very effectively and advocated for Tony Pollard to have a big game, but
29:37
you leaned on the pass the entire year and early on in the game when
29:41
the game was in balance, you try to become a different team than what
29:45
you actually were, and that's not what you should do. You should stick
29:48
to what's been working the entire year, which has been Dak Prescott. And
29:53
it just felt, it felt if you're going like that where your scheme just
29:57
isn't working, then that's how it But you're not even going with your best
30:02
punch. So it makes it makes no sense to me. And so I
30:10
think that obviously dan Quinn's gone. What do you feel about as far as
30:15
Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott here, Josh, do you think they're gone or
30:18
do you think they should both get a chance back with one or the other.
30:22
I for the start, with Dak Prescott, there's no You're not gonna
30:26
find a better quarterback than Dak Prescott in the free agency, in the draft,
30:30
or if you do find if you do somehow trade him in draft quarterback
30:33
that's not a guarantee. There's bust all the time, and you know what
30:37
you have in Dak Prescott. Are you gonna Are you really gonna take the
30:41
risk and trading up because I doubt you're able to get the number one overall
30:44
pick unless you trade Dak Prescott on like two first maybe or like Dak Prescott
30:49
two seconds. I don't know what it would take, but there's still no
30:52
guarantee with Caleb Williams if he's gonna pan out in the NFL, so are
30:56
you. The thought of getting rid of Dak Prescott is a to me because
31:00
I think in free agency the best quarterback available is going to be either Baker
31:06
maybe or freaking Gardner, Minshew or Y and Kirk Cousins. But I think
31:11
he goes back to Minnesota. So I don't think you want any of those
31:15
players over Dak Prescott. And that's so, and he is His cap hit
31:18
next season is just way too big, so I doubt he leaves anywhere.
31:22
But as for as far as Mike McCarthy, I think it's it's really,
31:26
it's really. I think he's gone. I don't think he'll be back next
31:30
season, and if he is, he it's his last season. If he
31:33
doesn't get things together, if he doesn't even make the super Bowl, I
31:37
think it's super Bowl or bust next year for Mike McCarthy if he does stay.
31:41
But I think, honestly, he's gonna be gone. There's too many
31:44
top coaching candidates. I think this is the hottest it's been for coaching candidates
31:48
in quite a long time. And so yeah, we're I don't think he'll
31:52
be on on the Cowboys next season. Yeah, And as far as the
31:56
whole argument, as far as, oh, well, the cow Boys,
32:00
they're one of the few teams to win or in three seasons to win twelve
32:04
plus games each time. But they're also the only one that hasn't made a
32:07
Super Bowl or a conference championship game. So there's too much talent on this
32:12
team. And yes, the players, they definitely do get fault here,
32:15
but the coaching does matter here. Coaching does matter. That's what matters in
32:21
the playoffs, the minute details or even just scheme, situational lists or situations
32:27
where I'm I'm trying to stay calm here, but just just in certain situations,
32:36
your coach needs to be the calm, cool, collected one. And
32:38
it seems like Mike McCarthy heel was over his skis here. And I've said
32:44
this plenty of times already. Obviously, Bill Belichick he's a hot he's a
32:47
hot candidate. There's also Mike Raybell, like you were mentioning Jim Harball too,
32:52
But the one personally I'm interested in is Bobby Slovak from the Texans an
32:58
offensive coordinator, because he does come from that Shanahan tree. He's he's under
33:05
well, he's under Demko Ryan staff, but I consider that under Shanahan.
33:08
But yeah, he he would be able to get or scheme things open.
33:15
Unlike Micha McCarthy. Yes, he did have some scheme good scheme plays,
33:22
but not necessarily on the level of a Shanahan or the Shanahan system that has
33:29
worked. And I counted earlier there was about ten to twelve coaches that is
33:32
underneath the Shanahan system and none of them have really failed. So you're getting
33:38
not necessarily a guarantee at head coach, but almost damn near so. And
33:46
like you said, with Dak Prescott, it's gonna be hard for you to
33:51
really replace because at bare minimum, I think I said he was a he
33:57
was a second or third best quarterback going into the playoffs, and I still
34:00
think at worst he's a top ten quarterback. I think he's five as of
34:06
right now. I'm not trying to do rankings like five or six. So
34:09
yeah, it would be ridiculous. Like you said, Caleb Williams, he's
34:14
the only one in this draft where you'd want him, but you'd have to
34:16
give a Kings ransom. But anything else you want to take away from this
34:21
game, it's just no, there's really not. Just that Jordan Love has
34:30
been on a complete tear. He's like twenty one touch over his last half.
34:35
Since Week eleven, He's twenty one touchdowns to one interception. That's a
34:38
guy that really turned the season around. And if they continue to play like
34:42
this, they could scare the San Francisco fourty nine ers going forward. I
34:45
don't know. Yeah, it's gonna be a tough task, but if they
34:47
play like the way they did in this game, it's gonna be a good
34:51
game. Yeah, it definitely would. But all right, let's get into
34:54
this next game right here, on which it's your team, Josh, in
34:58
which the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins and one of the coldest games
35:04
in history and they win twenty six to seven. Josh, how you feeling
35:09
about your team? What'd you take away? I feel like my team played
35:15
great in this game, outside of a really lucky play, I feel like
35:20
to Tyreek Hill, I get he scored, but that was one catch fifty
35:22
three yards and a touchdown where it was underthrown and Tyreek just made a Tyreek
35:25
play outside. And for the rest of the game he had nine yards receiving
35:30
for four catches, so on four catches. So we really shut it down
35:34
this entire game. We shut down the run game, we shut down the
35:37
passing game. There was really nothing happening for this Miami Dolphins team outside of
35:40
that one play. And as far the Kents City Chiefs, you know,
35:46
Mahomes played good football. He didn't do too much. He looked comfortable out
35:51
there. We really got Rashee Rice and Travis Kelce involved a Rashi rise with
35:55
eight for one to thirty in a touchdown, which should have been two touchdowns.
35:59
But Travis else he had seven for seventy one, and then Pacheco just
36:01
dominate the ground like he's been doing for over the past couple of weeks,
36:06
twenty four for eighty nine in a touchdown. We really just took control of
36:08
this whole football game in general. Lugarious Need showed why he should have been
36:14
first team All Pro, which we'll get to in a minute, but and
36:17
Tru McDuffie showed why he was first team All Pro alongside with Chris Jones and
36:22
George Colaptes. Pressure in the quarterback. If the kids the Chiefs team can
36:25
do what they did in this game, maybe scoring one more touchdown, they're
36:30
gonna be hard to play against because this defense isn't gonna let up points.
36:34
They haven't all season. They held the Miami Dolphins, the number two offense
36:39
I think in the NFL behind the Dallas Cowboys, to what was it,
36:45
twenty four points and two hours of play. If we're really looking at it
36:49
this season, I think Tony I forgot how much they scored last time we
36:52
played them. They score point, so they really held them fourteen. So
36:55
they held them the twenty one points in two hours of football play the Miami
37:00
Dolphins. This Kansas City Chiefs defense is no joke. There not to be
37:05
taken lightly. And this is they just get the job done and our offense
37:08
and they can continue to do this. Like I said earlier in this season,
37:10
Alfonso, I remember me saying, as long as we score field goals
37:15
and limits mistakes, we're gonna win the football game. And we have done
37:17
that to end the season to in this game, we scored field goals,
37:21
We just put up points and we were able to win this game because that's
37:23
all you need to do when you have a defense like this. Yeah,
37:28
this defense has been how it's been all year. It's very consistent. Again,
37:32
other than Chris Jones, well now people that are gonna know true McDuffie,
37:37
but there's just a bunch of solid and great pieces around here. And
37:42
it's a It's one of the youngest defenses in the league. I remember you're
37:45
telling me that the other day. It's one of the youngest defenses in the
37:47
league. And it's one of the best, the youngest, oh, the
37:51
youngest defense in the league. And it it's just crazy what they're able to
37:57
do on a consistent basis and shut down every single offense that they face.
38:01
And yeah, if the Chiefs, if the Chiefs get twenty one to twenty
38:07
four points in the ballgame, it looks like they're gonna win. It's just
38:10
a nasty, rigid style of football that nobody really plays anymore. And the
38:15
Chiefs are able to do it because they have Patrick Mahomes. So Patrick Mahomes,
38:20
he can make those two to three plays in a ballgame where it could
38:23
flip the whole game around. And as far as from this Dolphins side right
38:28
here, it looked like Mike Mike McDaniels didn't trust Tua at all to throw
38:32
the ball or make any big time throws. And like you said, the
38:37
Tyreek touchdown, that was more Tyreek doing Tyreek things, which he's gonna do
38:40
on in every single game because he's just that damn good of a player.
38:45
But he didn't trust him at all. Everything was a pitch, a quick
38:49
screen, or a five to six yard route. So what does this really
38:53
show as far as Mike mc Mike McDaniels, as far as how far Tua
38:59
can lead him in the playoffs, And even at that Miami, they still
39:02
had plenty of chances in this game and they could have the game flipped.
39:07
So after the Tyreek touchdown, the Dolphins defense stopped them, and so you
39:13
got the ball at half. So before that, it was seven to thirteen
39:19
Miami, they were at the Kansas City forty four. It was third and
39:22
fourth, or it was you're only one yard away from getting a first down,
39:25
which means potentially field goal range or going in for a touchdown. So
39:30
on third and one, you throw a deep shot to Jalen Waddle I believe.
39:35
Then fourth and one to what he throws it to Tyreek Hill on which
39:39
it almost gets picked off, which great play by Krem McDuffie there for making
39:43
up for it. But that's two plays where it's very questionable where you could
39:49
have just round the ball and we could have a different boat or different discussion
39:53
here. As far as okay, well, even if the Dolphins just kick
39:57
a field goal it's ten to thirteen and the whole game flips. There's different
40:01
momentum the Dolphins that would have momentum in this game. Instead, you get
40:06
stoffed, you get stopped. Patrick Mahomes drives down the field, kicks a
40:08
field goal seven to sixteen. It's a whole different ball game now. And
40:14
so now as far as with Miami, obviously a bunch of people were injured,
40:20
but I feel like that's no excuse for this offense. And to what
40:22
he goes into his final year of his contract, do you pay him this
40:27
offseason or do you let him go into his fifth year of his contract without
40:30
signing him. I kind of feel like I'm not a big too of believers.
40:39
So I'm not going to sit here and say they should give him the
40:42
contract that he wants, but I think if they pay him now, they
40:45
won't have to pay him a lot because he hasn't really shown anything so far
40:49
in the NFL. I get he's had a couple of good moments he's had,
40:52
he's been a part, But in this game, there's a reason they
40:54
didn't sling the ball around like they usually do. Sure, he ended up
40:58
with thirty nine pass attempts but for them, but that was because they were
41:00
down and they had to make something happen for a majority of is I think
41:04
the first half he only threw it fifteen times because he was like it just
41:07
wasn't coming out of his hand good like he was, It was floating,
41:12
was it had no zip on the ball. He's just not that powerful of
41:15
a guy. And I think it's really up to the weather that he's playing
41:17
it because in these type of conditions, wet conditions, cold, icy,
41:22
snowy, he just doesn't have the arm strength to keep up with a quarterback
41:25
like Mahomes, who doesn't matter where he plays, and he's gonna be able
41:29
to throw the ball in any type of condition. And I just don't think
41:30
you get that from to it. He's not mobile, he doesn't have a
41:32
strong arm. Sure he's very accurate, but if he's not getting the ball
41:36
out in the first read, he's kind of done after that. And that's
41:38
what the Chiefs are really harping on in this game. So I feel like
41:42
you pay him now what you think he's worth instead of if he does have
41:45
a good season next year, he's not worth and you pay him more than
41:49
what you're supposed to. So I would say this, So this isn't necessarily
41:55
the Dak press Got situation here because Dak press At. I know he doesn't
42:00
have or he doesn't have playoff success, but he's at least been a good
42:06
quarterback in the regular season, and there's been moments in the playoffs where you're
42:09
like, Okay, well maybe Dak Prescott he could take us somewhere else,
42:15
which we're not trying to get into. But Tua hasn't shown that. I
42:17
know this was his first playoff appearance, but there's been playoff type games against
42:22
the Baltimore Ravens, against the Buffalo Bills, and now against the Kansas City
42:27
Chiefs, and two of those games the Ravens and Bills that was in good
42:31
conditions. So when it comes down to it, Tua can't be trusted.
42:37
He can't be I think he is a good quarterback. He's not on Dak
42:44
Prescott's level. I think he could be anywhere from that eight to fifteen range,
42:49
anywhere between there. He could be good or average around there. So
42:52
I say you let him go into his fifth year because you never know what
42:57
quarterback can pop up, and in a situation like this, because there's always
43:02
one quarterback that surprisingly always becomes available or in the draft. So I say
43:08
you just let your chips fall where they fall where they fall. And we've
43:13
seen a Shanahan system. We've seen with an average quarterback like a Jimmy Garoppolo
43:20
or a Nick Mullins be able to have success. So I think you don't
43:25
sign him this offseason, and you just let him and you just let him
43:30
see what he could do in his final year of his contract. Anything else
43:32
you want to take away from this one, Josh, No, all you
43:42
chieve haters score ya. Well, all right, we're gonna get into the
43:49
last wildcard playoff game right here, in which it was the Houston Texans versus
43:54
the Cleveland Browns in which the Texans they won forty five fourteen and a surprising
44:00
blowout. Josh, what did you take away from this one to me?
44:06
Out of all of the games. I understand the Packers weren't expected to beat
44:08
the Cowboys, but I feel like there's the people where there was a chance.
44:12
People still thought there was a chance that since the Packers were such a
44:14
high powered offense, that they were probably gonna be able to put up points,
44:16
you know, But in this game, I did not expect this at
44:20
all. Like I did not expect two pick sixes and this big of a
44:24
blowout win from the Houston Texans, and the Cleveland Browns just looked non existent
44:28
almost the entire game. I don't know. Joe Flacco came back down.
44:32
I mean, Joe Flacco played like how he's been playing pretty much. The
44:36
one pick six he had, he was trying to throw away, got his
44:37
arm hit, caught pick six the next literally next drive, next play,
44:42
pick six again, it was just another ass whooping. I feel like this
44:47
there was a lot of ass whoopings in this in this first round of playoffs,
44:51
and C. J. Stroud looked like a veteran in this one.
44:52
Sixteen for twenty one two seventy four and three touchdowns. That Devin Singletary had
44:57
a good day thirteen for sixty six average five point one yard for carrying a
45:00
touchdown. It was it was just a good game by the Easton Texans all
45:05
around. This defense showed up, this offense showed up. The Cleveland Browns
45:07
really had no answers at all. They tried getting some things going. It
45:13
looked like a couple of points in this game, especially in that in that
45:15
first half, we thought, oh, maybe this might be a high scoring
45:20
game. And then it just went away when that when it left from fourteen
45:24
to ten when the So it was just it was a ass whooping by the
45:30
Houston Texans that no one expected. Yeah, I wonder who could have saw
45:36
this coming. Maybe last week when somebody said this, you didn't see this,
45:39
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, yeah, no, I
45:44
definitely didn't expect this. I thought it would have been in the twenties type
45:47
of ball game where the Texans win. But I think this proved that they're
45:52
they're they're legit, they have the firepower and they could hang with anybody.
45:57
And so before the game I wrote some notes, so I put did Joe
46:02
Flacco throw multiple picks in this game? If so, they will lose.
46:07
Check. Did c J. Stroud play play like a rookie quarterback? No
46:12
he didn't. So what's been happening throughout this entire regular season continued on into
46:19
the postseason. And like I said, turnovers, it's fine in the regular
46:23
season, you could get away with that, it's normal. But in the
46:27
playoffs, where possessions are limited, it's gonna end up. It's gonna end
46:30
up costing you. And yes, it didn't end up costing you fourteen points
46:35
because those pick sixes, but it's part of it. It's eventually gonna happen.
46:39
He had the highest turnover rate. He was up there with Mac Jones,
46:44
Bailey Zampion, Sam Hell and that's not company you want to be with.
46:47
So so I think that this Texans team, they're they're just playing.
46:57
I feel like they're the packers of the AFC, just playing with nothing to
47:00
lose, a young coach and okay, if we win, great, but
47:05
if we lose, okay, whatever is. We weren't supposed to be in
47:07
the situation. So they're playing with house money, and I feel like this
47:12
team has more firepower, has more firepower than what the Packers do, so
47:19
because you have a better defense in my opinion, with Damico Ryans leading that
47:22
defense. So I think that, Okay, I'm not going to get into
47:30
it. I know it's the first game that we're going to talk about.
47:31
As far as when we're predicting, I'm not going to get into it.
47:36
But I think it's going to be real interesting between this Baltimore and Texans game.
47:39
But as far as from this Browns team right here, obviously you had
47:43
a bunch of injuries to this team, Deshaun Watson, Jack Conklin, Nick
47:47
Chubb, and then you have some key defenders go down. Do you think
47:52
Deshaun Watson he comes back as a starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Josh,
48:00
yeah, he is. The contract's way too big. I don't know
48:01
how they find out what team is gonna want him. Right now, the
48:06
Cleveland Browns look like they're losing that trade. They're losing getting rid of Baker
48:08
Mayfield right now, Deshaun Watson for the most part, Joe flacka look better
48:15
in this offense than Deshaun Watson ever did. It was just I don't know,
48:21
you're gonna have to roll with them because of how big the contract is.
48:23
You're not gonna find another trade partner. No one wants Deshaun Watson.
48:27
No one wants that distraction. No one wants what comes with Deshaun Watson.
48:30
So the Browns are gonna have to eat this when and live with it.
48:32
They continue to make bad decisions at the quarterback position in history. So it's
48:37
just something they're gonna have to live with. And yeah, Deshaun Watson will
48:39
be back next season as a starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah.
48:44
Well, see, I know there was plenty of injuries, but this team,
48:46
this whole team collectively there they were overachieving with these backups playing better than
48:52
what they actually were. And also another thing, just Bobby Slovak, he
48:57
was just in his bag the entire time. Is just what is kicking the
49:00
shit out of Jim Schwartz. So that's that's gonna be a stop trying to
49:06
convince him to come to Dallas. Dude, Hey, hey, hey,
49:08
hey, I'm doing I'm doing my best here. I'm doing my best here.
49:13
But anything else you want to take away before we move into this divisional
49:17
round predictions, No, that's it. Well, all right. So,
49:22
now that we got got done with the wild card weekend, we're gonna do
49:27
some predictions here as far as what do we think is gonna happen in this
49:30
divisional round in which the Saturday games we're gonna start off with. It's a
49:35
three thirty game. It's a Houston Texans versus the Baltimore Ravens who come off
49:38
of bye, and they're favored by nine points for any of the betters out
49:44
there, and then the over under it's forty five and a half, so
49:46
kind of a little bit low scoring. Josh, who do you think is
49:51
gonna win? And why I'm gonna have to go with the Baltimore Ravens in
49:54
this one. I understand the Houston Texans are a scary team. They're coming
49:59
off a big they have every right to be considered to win this game.
50:04
But I think the Baltimore Ravens have proven game in and game out that they
50:07
are probably the best team in the NFL. They've taken it to the forty
50:10
nine Ers, the Lions, the Seahawks, the Dolphins, don't matter.
50:14
They've they've beating all of them and beating them bad. And I don't I
50:16
don't think it's gonna change for these Texans. On they might have a little
50:21
RUSS where they rested too long for two weeks basically, that's something the monitor
50:25
there. They didn't play football for two whole weeks basically, But honestly,
50:30
they should come in with a good game plan. I don't think John Harball
50:32
is gonna come in here without a game plan. He's two experienced, He's
50:36
in this NF, in this league. Lamar Jackson, I think ro Kwan
50:38
Smith and the Boys won it bad. So I think the Baltimore Ravens are
50:42
going to come out on top of this one. But I think it's gonna
50:45
be a closer game than people then a lot of people may may admit.
50:47
So I think it's gonna be around like a twenty eight to twenty four win
50:52
for the Baltimore Ravens. But I think I think they can come out on
50:57
top of this one. Man, I'm torn right here. One of the
51:04
teams that I've been vouching for all year, the Baltimore Ravens, and then
51:07
C J. Stroud and what this offense has been doing. This Ravens defense,
51:15
Yes, I know they're great in every single category. I think they're
51:19
number one in every single category. If i'd I'm mistaken at Lamar Jackson.
51:22
He's just been playing at a different level. But I don't know why.
51:27
I just feel like the Houston Texans they're just they're just on a different They're
51:30
just on a different level right now, and they're just on some Cincinnati Bengals
51:35
stuff. What was it twenty twenty one. I believe when they went to
51:37
the Super Bowl. I just think this is going to continue right here.
51:42
I think with CJ. Stroud he's doing it's remarkable. And this is a
51:47
quarterback out of everybody in the AFC playoff picture that has been playing up to
51:52
the level of Lamar Jackson the entire year. So he could match firepower for
51:58
firepower. Maybe he doesn't have a whole offense or better offense collectively, but
52:02
they've been playing as it so, and like you said, the rest versus
52:07
Russ factor, I really do believe in that being off two and a half
52:09
weeks, and I think the biggest telltale sign here is going to be if
52:15
the Ravens they start off slow and the Texans they get up to an early
52:19
lead, maybe seven zero, seven to zero, ten, ten zero,
52:22
or potentially even fourteen zero. It's gonna be really hard for the Baltimore Ravens
52:28
to come back in this game if CJ. Stroud keeps doing what he's doing
52:31
and not turning the ball over. But the Ravens they should win. They
52:36
should, But I just feel like it's not gonna go their way. I
52:39
think the Texans they end up pulling off the upset here. I know this
52:44
would be the second time in Lamar Jackson's history where we're losing the lose as
52:50
the number one seed after winning MVP. But I think it's gonna happen.
52:53
I think this is gonna be a twenty seven, twenty seven to twenty four
52:58
ball game. So I guess we kind of have the same score. Man,
53:01
I didn't want to do it, but I just feel like it's gonna
53:05
happen. It's gonna happen. So as far as so with this game right
53:09
here, who do you think, so since you have the Ravens winning,
53:14
who do you think is gonna be the marquee player for the Ravens to win
53:16
this ball game? I think I think I want. It's easy to go
53:25
Lamar Jackson. It is, but I think I'm gonna do an outlier right
53:30
here. And I'm gonna sit here and say, Gus Edwards, it's gonna
53:32
be the reason why they win this football game because I think he's if they
53:37
want to do it, the run game is gonna be the way they do
53:39
it, just like how the Baltimore Ravens always win. It's gonna be Gus
53:42
Edwards rushing for two touchdowns in this game. And he's gonna he's he's gonna
53:46
set them, he's gonna start, he's gonna lit a spark in this team
53:49
that they do need. If not him, then I'm gonna say, Odell
53:52
Beckham Junior. You brought him here to to make plays, make big plays.
53:55
And what bigger time to make it than the playoffs? What you really
54:00
ford to put this team over the top. And if it's not Gus Edwards
54:02
rold Of Beckham Junior, then I don't know who it is. Yeah,
54:06
And so I think so since I picked the Texans a win, I think
54:09
the biggest thing right here is gonna be I guess I'm not giving a player
54:14
here, but it's gonna be Demico Demico Ryans versus Todd Todd Honkin, So
54:21
the DC versus the OC right here. I feel like this is where you're
54:23
really gonna determine who's gonna win this ball game, because the Texans defense has
54:29
been playing great as of late, and they just got that swagger to him
54:32
that that it's it could match with any defense in the league. So yeah,
54:37
that's gonna be the big matchup. And if I had to name a
54:39
player, I'll say Will Anderson here, so because he even though CJ.
54:44
Stroud's not playing like a rookie, Will Anderson he isn't either, He's playing
54:47
like a season vet. So all right, anything else you wanna take away
54:52
before we get into this next one? Nope? All right, So this
54:55
next one we have, it's the other Saturday game. It's the Green Bay
55:00
Packers versus the San Francisco forty nine ers, who are favored by ten points,
55:06
and it's a fifty and fifty and a half over under, so kind
55:10
of like the Ravens game a little bit more or no this kind of higher
55:14
scoring. So, Josh, who do you think is gonna win? And
55:16
why the Green Bay Packers are gonna win this football game? And I'm gonna
55:22
tell you why because Jordan Love don't care. You don't care. He's gonna
55:27
sling that thing across the rock. Don't matter, it don't matter where,
55:30
where, what is going on, He's gonna throw it no matter what.
55:34
And I think if this whole team, they they're gonna have so much confidence
55:37
riding into this game. They're gonna go into what is it Candlestick whatever they
55:40
call that San Francisco Stadium. I don't know. They're gonna be there and
55:44
they're gonna, oh, Levi Stadium, my bad, whatever, They're gonna
55:49
go crazy, and they're gonna go crazy in there, and I think I
55:52
think it's gonna be quite the same thing. They're gonna get the run game
55:54
going, and they're gonna they're gonna throw it when someone's open. I get
55:58
that's what there's a supposed to do, but that's what they're gonna do.
56:02
If this defense can play semi like, well, there's something to monitor.
56:06
Jay Year is gonna be completely healthy because he did leave this game early the
56:09
last gamers the Cowboys early. But I think they can come away with this
56:13
one. I don't think it's gonna be a shootout. I feel like if
56:15
they do come away with it, And as far as the San Francisco side,
56:20
I mean I'm not gonna knock them or anything because they have all the
56:22
weapons in the world. But I just want to see an upset I don't
56:25
I'm a I'm a big upset believer when it comes, when I feel it
56:30
in my gut, and I just feel this one. I just feel like
56:31
the Packers are gonna come away and make a run for this one, so
56:35
they have to see him. See. They have Devo, they have value,
56:37
they have Nick Bosa, Fred Warner. We can keep naming them,
56:39
but I don't know. I just I just think the Packers are gonna win
56:43
this one. I just feel it. I feel it, boys, I
56:45
feel it. The San Francisco forty nine ers, They're gonna win this ball
56:49
game. They're they're gonna win this ball game. As much as I wanted
56:52
to pick Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers, the prophecy, it would
56:57
be great, So I know, we talked about that. So the prophecy
57:00
basically Jordan Love winning the Super Bowl when Aaron Rodgers basically won it around the
57:06
same time. But it's not gonna happen. And I think the biggest reason
57:09
why is that Matt Lafleur. He comes from the Shanahan system. So it's
57:15
like it's kind of like the apprentice versus a master here, you know what
57:20
I mean. So Kyle Shanahan knows exactly what Matt Lafleur is trying to do,
57:23
so there's an advantage there, and Steve Wilkes. Ever since that Chase
57:28
Young trade, this defense has been playing lights out, and I just think
57:32
the biggest thing with them is as far as staying healthy. And you got
57:36
that first round by so they're gonna be completely healthy and they're gonna be clicking
57:39
on all cylinders here. And yes, I do think that they will be
57:44
rusty offensively to start off, but I think this defense won't be rusty.
57:49
If anything, this defense is going to be hyped and they're gonna be ready
57:52
here. So if they do. What's gonna be scary though, is if
57:58
kind of like with the Ravens, if the Packers they get out to an
58:01
early lead, they get out, they get out seven zero, ten zero,
58:05
Brock Purty's gonna have to throw the ball and make some big time throws,
58:08
and so far this season he hasn't exactly, he hasn't been making those
58:13
big time throws. So I think Brock Purty in this game, He's not
58:16
gonna have to make those big time throws, maybe maybe anywhere from three to
58:22
five big time throws, but it won't be pressured field situations here because they
58:28
have a running back like Christian McCaffrey who can do anything and carry this entire
58:32
offense, and I think he will. So I think that the San Francisco
58:37
forty nine Ers are gonna win this game, but it is gonna be a
58:40
close game. I see this game going into the fourth quarter maybe being a
58:45
one possession game, and they end up winning thirty one to twenty four here.
58:50
So it is a little bit high scoring, but I could see it
58:53
potentially being lower scoring, maybe like a a fourteen to twenty ball game here.
59:00
So yeah, it's it's gonna be a close game, whether it's low
59:04
scoring or high scoring here. So who do you think is gonna be your
59:07
impact player here? Josh? You know what, I'm gonna go over Sean
59:17
Garrety in this one. I think if he can pressure Brock Purty and get
59:22
in that face, is gonna and Luke van Netz, let's go the Packers
59:27
defensive line. Let's go with the Packers defensive if they can pressure Brock Purdy,
59:31
and they did a pretty good job against Dak Prescott. They were on
59:36
him, they were I get Dak Prescott some good rushing yards and all that,
59:39
but if they can pressure this Brock Purty and really rattle him, I
59:43
think this game is gonna swing the Packers way. Yeah. So I think
59:49
the game changer right here for the San Francisco forty nine Ers is gonna be
59:53
Drake Greenlaw and Fred Warner because the run game that the Green Bay Packers have
1:00:00
is very explosive and very manipulative, so even with the play action here,
1:00:04
so it's gonna really be testing the linebackers here. And I think Fred Warner
1:00:08
and Trey Greenlal they're gonna have to be on their a game in which I
1:00:12
do believe they will. So that's gonna those two guys are gonna be the
1:00:15
biggest reasons why, in my opinion, the San Francisco forty nine Ers end
1:00:20
up winning this ball game. But all right, let's get into this next
1:00:23
game right here, in which it'll be the Sunday games, which it'll be
1:00:27
The Bake Show versus the Detroit Lions, in which the Lions they open up
1:00:32
as a six and a half point favorite, and the over runners is forty
1:00:36
eight and a half points. Josh, who's winning this game? As much
1:00:43
as I love Baker Mayfield, I love the Lions more so I'm gonna go
1:00:45
with the Detroit Lions in this one. I just think there's just too much
1:00:51
to go around in this game. I feel like bare clicking on all cylinders
1:00:54
when they are like Aden Hudgerson had a big game last game. Alma's always
1:00:59
gonna have big game. Jamior Gifts is coming into his own and Sam Laporte
1:01:02
is always gonna be a factor. Jared Goff Jared Goff is playing great football
1:01:07
right now, and I it can the same can be said. On the
1:01:09
other side. The Buccaneers are playing great football. Also, Baker Mayfield's coming
1:01:14
off probably the biggest game of his career versus this Philadelphia Eagles team. Mike
1:01:19
Evans could get involved and go big and really take apart Cam Sutton and the
1:01:22
Boys. It's gonna be a good football game. I think much like we
1:01:25
thought the Rams and Lions game was, I think this is gonna be another
1:01:30
game quite like that where the Buccaneers and Lions just to wire to wire and
1:01:32
it's gonna be back and forth, back and forth. But I do think
1:01:35
the Lions come out on top because they can score at will better than pretty
1:01:38
much almost any team in the NFL. They can score whenever they want,
1:01:42
usually unless they're playing the Ravens, where they didn't score whenever they wanted.
1:01:46
But I think the Lions come out on top of this one. If you're
1:01:51
gonna ask me who I think is gonna be the impact player, it's always
1:01:54
to me, gonna feel like a Saint Brown. But in this one,
1:01:58
I'm gonna go Jared Goff because if Jared Goff can have another big day,
1:02:02
a big day he's and I'm not necessarily saying where he throws extreme amount of
1:02:07
yards, extreme amount of touchdowns, he doesn't have to, just a matter
1:02:10
of not turning the ball over. If he doesn't turn the ball over,
1:02:13
they win this football game. Yeah, so I also do agree with you
1:02:19
right here. I guess as the fresh one, we're going to agree with
1:02:21
the Detroit Lions are gonna win this football game. This is the one that
1:02:23
I'm most confident in because, yes, the Bucks, they've had a good
1:02:28
story, but this is the only time I feel like where you have the
1:02:34
clear cut QB advantage here and the coaching advantage, so they're gonna be able
1:02:40
to run the football at will here, and I think the Philadelphia Eagles they
1:02:45
kind of got away with that a little bit earlier than they should have.
1:02:47
They should have ran the ball a little bit more. On the Tampa Bay
1:02:51
Buccaneers and the Detroit Lions, they will they'll do whatever style they have to
1:02:54
do in order to win the ballgame. So I see this being a two
1:02:59
headed mon game between David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs. I can see this where
1:03:04
there's potentially two hundred yards rushing. But I think that I think that the
1:03:10
Bucks they can stay in this game, unlike they they did play earlier in
1:03:15
this season, which it was Week four, Week five, if I'm not
1:03:19
mistaken, and the Bucks they did get dominated. But I think in order
1:03:23
for the Bucks to stay in this game, they're gonna have to score some
1:03:25
points. So in order for the Bucks to have a chance, it's gonna
1:03:30
be like a thirty one to thirty seven type of ball game. But I
1:03:31
don't think the Lions are gonna give them that chance. I think they're gonna
1:03:36
really slow down this game time possession is gonna be in their hands anywhere from
1:03:39
thirty to thirty five minutes they have the time possession, So Baker's really not
1:03:44
gonna be on the field, and they're gonna they're gonna dominate this game.
1:03:47
I see this game being being a thirty one to seventeen type of ballgame here.
1:03:53
So this is the one where I see the one blowout. There's not
1:03:58
really many blowouts in the division round or any other rounds after this, but
1:04:02
this is the one where I feel very confident as far as a blow is
1:04:06
going to happen. And yeah, like I said, the Marquee players in
1:04:11
this matchup right here is David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs on how well they run
1:04:15
the football here, anything else you want to take away before getting to this
1:04:18
last one, I'm gonna go off now. I guess they're gonna keep saying
1:04:28
that till they lose. But this last one, which I know, I
1:04:32
know you're excited for, it's a Kansas City Chiefs versus the Buffalo Bills in
1:04:38
Buffalo. First time Kansas City is gonna go on the road throughout Patrick Mahomes's
1:04:42
entire career in which Buffalo they are favored by three and a half points over
1:04:45
unders forty six and a half. Josh, I don't know why I'm asking
1:04:49
this question, but who's gonna win and why the goddamn chase are gonna play?
1:04:59
Are gonna win this football game? And I'm gonna tell you it's gonna
1:05:01
be twenty eight to thirteen, twenty eight to seventeen, So are around there.
1:05:06
We're gonna win. We're gonna win this football game decisively. I'm gonna
1:05:10
put it out like it's not even it's this Buffalo Bills team could not do
1:05:15
nothing against our defense when they played them the first time. I understand that
1:05:19
they won the game, but we lost the game on offense. We did
1:05:24
we weren't getting the job done. But recently we haven't been turning the ball
1:05:28
over as much. We've been getting field goals. Like I said, if
1:05:30
we can score field goals and score two touchdowns, two touchdowns and field goals,
1:05:36
we win football games. And we're gonna do it in this one.
1:05:40
I don't think our defense changes who they are going into Buffalo. I think
1:05:44
it's going to be the same result that has been all season. I think
1:05:45
they're going to continue to dominate the only game we didn't really dominate it is
1:05:49
versus the Green Bay Packers, But every other game we were in control of
1:05:54
it. It's just a matter of our offense putting our defense in bad positions,
1:05:58
and I don't think our offense is going to do it this time.
1:06:00
I think Mahomes and Rashid Rice are developing that connection to Checkos getting his own
1:06:05
and Travis Kelce came alive. I'm sure he had a couple of drops in
1:06:08
this last game, but he was getting he was getting open, and I
1:06:11
think if we continue to do that, I don't think Buffalo Bills defense is
1:06:15
that much better than the Dolphins defense, even with all the injuries. So
1:06:18
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with this Kansas City Chiefs team. I
1:06:21
know I may sound biased, but I just don't truy. I don't believe
1:06:26
in that the Buffalo Bills can beat us in this game. Well, I
1:06:31
think the Buffalo Bills are gonna win this ball game. And it's gonna be
1:06:36
for a simple fact as far as as much as I do not trust him,
1:06:43
I expect him to have many turnovers. It's gonna be because of Josh
1:06:46
Allen. That's gonna be the impact player of the game if Josh Allen does
1:06:51
not have a turnover, just has a clean game. And they've had the
1:06:54
same game plan they've had the entire time as far as run the football with
1:06:58
James Cook and you're gonna get about anywhere from thirty to thirty five rushing attempts
1:07:03
in the game. They'll win because his defense. They may not be any
1:07:09
great names on this defense, but they are very solid defense. Obviously,
1:07:13
Kansas City they have the advantage there, but I think the biggest thing,
1:07:16
the biggest matchup is gonna be between the Bills offense and Chiefs defense. One
1:07:20
of them is gonna give. And as much as the Chiefs defense they have
1:07:25
been playing good, I think that they're gonna only hold up for so long
1:07:31
because this Kansas City offense is kind of overvalued after that Miami Dolphins game.
1:07:36
Because that Miami Dolphins team, they're banged up Jalen Phillips, Andrew van Geiko,
1:07:42
Xavier and Howard one of the other safeties, not even to mention Bradley
1:07:45
Chubb. He went out, so there was plenty of injuries. So Kansas
1:07:50
City they should have scored those points. Not saying it's easy, but they
1:07:55
should have scored those points. But I think this is gonna be the one
1:08:00
word to pick him game for me. So I did say say Buffalo is
1:08:03
gonna win, and I think it's gonna be. I honestly think it's gonna
1:08:08
be a twenty one and twenty Bowl game here. I think there's gonna be
1:08:12
the closest one the nel bider. I just think that I could see it
1:08:15
going late into the fourth quarter and the Bills they just have a late game
1:08:19
winning drive and they win twenty one and twenty. But all I didn't get
1:08:27
my impact player. Let me give my impact player, and it's gonna be
1:08:29
Willy Gay. Willy Gay is gonna be on the QB spy in this game.
1:08:32
He's gonna be following Josh Allen wherever he goes, and I think he's
1:08:36
gonna be the impact player of this game. That's that's what I'm taking right
1:08:40
there. As my impact player is Willy Gay. Yeah, well, he's
1:08:45
gonna need a step up, especially with with how the Bills they've been able
1:08:48
to run the football, So yeah, definitely gonna need him there. But
1:08:54
I'm I'm ready for that one. I feel like that one's gonna be to
1:08:58
watch these games together. So watch these games together. We're gonna dissect them.
1:09:04
Man, Well, I'm just letting you know. If the Chiefs say
1:09:08
lose, they lose at my house, well, I guess my house is
1:09:11
just bad luck for watching watching our teams in So I watched I watched the
1:09:15
Chiefs at your house and they want so just say, oh, okay,
1:09:20
well we'll see. Let's let's not get to ahead here. It it's the
1:09:25
Colvin Sions one at your house and the Lions one at your house. Hey,
1:09:29
it's a cowboy's household. So if they don't both get past the division
1:09:32
around then then we'll see why. We'll see. So anything else you gonna
1:09:38
take away before we move into this next topic. Okay, So you picked
1:09:43
niners, I picked Packers. You already. Okay, So we don't need
1:09:47
to do a tiebreaker right here because one of us is not going to be
1:09:51
yeah, because it's I'm really wrong here because I know I'm gonna win here.
1:09:56
Wait, why should we do a tiebreaker? Can there be a tie?
1:10:00
No, there can't be a tie because there's three there's three different Kays.
1:10:04
So yeah, yeah, okay, we'll be all right, we'll be
1:10:06
all right. Well, if you're talking about our tiebreaker that we had did
1:10:11
not work this week. Guys, CD and Amana both had one hundred and
1:10:15
ten receiving yards. I told him to take Puka and he didn't want to
1:10:17
do it. He was being stubborn. But uh so here we are.
1:10:20
We didn't have no one won last week. Yeah, I did win on
1:10:25
the season. Boys, I don't know if we did. I don't know
1:10:27
if we said that we did win the regular season. I did win the
1:10:29
regular season. So it was glory to God, the one truth above,
1:10:33
Jesus Christ and Nazareth. You know, just trust. He trusted in your
1:10:38
boy, and that's what happened. Hey, I think you're gonna be like
1:10:42
the Dallas Cowboys here. You may win the regular season, but I'm gonna
1:10:45
win the playoffs here. It it's gonna matter the most here. But I
1:10:49
don't know. I gave you, I gave you, I gave you a
1:10:51
freebie and you didn't even take it. So okay, okay. So out
1:10:57
of all out of all the chances, out of all all the odds,
1:11:00
Amro Saint Brown, and Ceedee Lamb, they finished with the exact same amount
1:11:03
of yards. And that last catch that al Monroe had, he couldn't get
1:11:08
one less yard. He still would have had the first down. Run to
1:11:11
the sticks, he couldn't get one more yard. Don't don't be selfish,
1:11:14
man, run to the sticks. You're costing your team the game here.
1:11:18
Well that game really won them the game for sure. So that play really
1:11:23
won them the game for sure. Yeah, the game. Yeah, No,
1:11:26
he won them the game. No, but he cost the game for
1:11:29
me, That's that's what it was. But he did. All right,
1:11:33
I guess I'm just gonna have to win this week. Whenever. Whenever the
1:11:36
Texans win, just know it's going to be over so because that's gonna be
1:11:40
the first one. So all right, okay, whenever the Ravens win that
1:11:45
one, we'll see. Yeah. No, I was so hoping, Okay,
1:11:49
it's totally we're probably gonna take a little bit, but I was so
1:11:53
hoping that the Stellers win and then they still play the Ravens. And then
1:11:59
so this Chiefs played Arrowhead again, beat the Texans, move on, and
1:12:01
the Stillers somehow miraculously also upset the Ravens, and then it's still an Arrowhead
1:12:05
Arrowhead Invitational, Like I was so hoping it was gonna happen. But you
1:12:10
know, we don't get what everything we asked for in life. So we're
1:12:13
we're playing on the road. My home's playing on the road for the first
1:12:15
time in his career. That's not a super Bowl Boys, So yeah,
1:12:20
we're in on chair on in on charted territory here. Yeah, I guess
1:12:26
we just don't get with we want like Cowboys getting out of the divisional row.
1:12:30
But all right, we're this isn't gonna be a sad episode here.
1:12:34
So all right, let's get into the next topic here, in which it
1:12:39
was the All Pro teams, first and second Team All Pro. They they
1:12:44
came out, what was it Saturday or Friday or Saturday somewhere around there.
1:12:47
But I guess we'll list We'll list the All Pro teams and we'll go from
1:12:55
there whoever got snubbed or whoever we thought should have made it. So I'll
1:12:59
let you listen the first Team All Pro. Go ahead, Josh, First
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Team All Pro quarterback Lamar Jackson. I don't think there's any arguments from either
1:13:08
of us right there. I think he's gonna win MVP. He's he's winning
1:13:13
MVP. This year. It's probably a given, so he deserves to be
1:13:15
there. Christian McCaffrey, no arguments, Uh, that's given, Kylas Choose
1:13:19
Tech. If it's not him or Patrick McCard, then who is it.
1:13:24
Anthony Sherman Maybe full back? First Team All Pro Wide receivers, Yeah,
1:13:30
wide receivers, Derek Watts, wide receivers, Tyreek Hill, City lamb Amal
1:13:36
Saint Brown. I think all of we can all agree on that list for
1:13:41
the top three receivers, Tyrek. There's no snubs in that, and there's
1:13:44
so far there's no snubs. Tighten. This is where it could get a
1:13:46
little a little debatable because the George Kittle will Sam Laporta. I think we'll
1:13:53
get to it in a minute. Who got snubbed, But we got George
1:13:56
Kittle here for first team tight en. Left tackle, Trent Williams, left
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guard, Joe Tony Siner, Jason Kelcey right guard, Zach Martin, right
1:14:04
tackle Pinay So I really don't think there's any wrong answer. On the offensive
1:14:08
line. I think those are exactly who you could see being there in the
1:14:13
first team All Pro edges Miles Garrett, t J. Watt. That's debatable
1:14:17
with the t J. Watt part Miles Garrett for sure should be there.
1:14:21
Interior Aaron Donald, Chris Jones. I mean it's just a given every single
1:14:26
year, year and year out. I understand if you want to put someone
1:14:28
else there, but they continue to do their thing and it's hard to argue
1:14:31
against that. Fred Warner, ro Quantment, That's what me and we Yeah,
1:14:35
well I had both Aaron Donald and Chris Jones, and me and you
1:14:39
both had Fred Warner roe Quan Smiths. So so far are we're looking like
1:14:42
geniuses right now? Yeah, it's like pretty accurate so far. Yeah.
1:14:45
Yeah, Quincy Williams linebacker, which is something I did not expect to be
1:14:50
in the first team All Pro, but he's here. There's Doron Bland and
1:14:56
Saus Gardner and as the two cornerbacks, I think Saw should not be in
1:15:01
this list. I think someone else should be, which we'll get to in
1:15:04
a minute. Also, but slot cornerback, no arguments for me. You
1:15:10
know, the boy try mcduffery, the but the best slot corner in the
1:15:14
NFL is much deserved right there. He's he's done it all. From the
1:15:18
slot corner position are then safeties Kyle Hamilton and Antoine Willfield Jr. The only
1:15:26
question is Willfield you not make the Pro I don't get that make the Pro
1:15:32
Bowl, but he makes the All Pro team. Uh, it makes no
1:15:35
sense to me. Then we got kicker Brandon Aubrey, no argument. Punter
1:15:40
aj Cole should be Tommy Townsend. Kick returner. Uh, Keyshawn Nixon from
1:15:45
Green Bay. He's a good returner punt returner for she shad head shout out
1:15:50
breckon special Uh, special teamer Miles killer Brew. I don't know much about
1:15:58
special teams. Or we should just throw in Joshua Williams or something from the
1:16:01
Chiefs. It would have made more sense to me. Long snappers should have
1:16:04
been James Winchester, but I guess it's Ross Mattist Mattist kick whatever. But
1:16:10
yeah, that's the first team All Pro. I think I'll take too long
1:16:12
on naming them, but you can name the second team. All right.
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Well, I'm gonna go a little bit quicker here for second team. So
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quarterback, we have the man well not so much to the legend in the
1:16:21
playoffs, but Dakota Rayne Prescott still had a great year. Running back,
1:16:27
we have Karen Williams, even though we missed a significant amount of the season
1:16:31
still earned it. Full Back Patrick required from Baltimore D's I can't talk right
1:16:36
now. Wide receivers we have a j Brown, Pooka Nakua and for the
1:16:41
first time I've seen it in a while, Brandon Nayuk and Mike Evins.
1:16:45
They made it. I guess they just couldn't decide between the two, so
1:16:47
they made it. Tight end we have Sam Laporta from Detroit. In the
1:16:51
offensive line, left tackle you have two Dallas Cowboys Tyron Smith, left guard
1:16:56
Tyler Smith. Then for the center you have Frank Ragnow from Detroit, right
1:17:00
guard Chris Linstoring from Atlanta right tackle Lane Johnson. Then for you have the
1:17:05
edge rushers, you have Michael Parsons, Max Crosby. We're not going to
1:17:09
get into that yet, but all right. Interior defensive line, Justin Mettobique
1:17:14
and Dexter Lawrence. The linebackers you have the Mario Davis, Bobby Wagner,
1:17:17
and Patrick Queen. Then for corners you have Jalen Johnson and Travarius Ward.
1:17:25
The slot cornerback you have Taron Johnson. Then safeties you have Jesse Bates the
1:17:29
third and Justin Simmons and as far as for special teams, Jake Elliott kicker,
1:17:33
Brian Anger, punter, Marvin Mems kick returner. Then you have partner
1:17:38
turn Darius Davis, special teamer Jalen Reeves Maybin and long snapper Andrew the Pola
1:17:45
So Josh. Who was the biggest snub on first Team All Pro? Oh,
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the biggest snub in general was Lugerious freaking snead. Dude didn't allow a
1:17:58
single touchdown all He's shut down every team's number one ride receiver. He shadowed
1:18:03
more than anybody in the NFL all season and did not get cooked one time.
1:18:08
The one time he did, he had six for sixty seven to Devonte
1:18:11
Adams and that was all in the first half. He didn't have nothing else
1:18:14
the rest of the game. How do you miss that? NFL? How
1:18:17
he had the fifth most votes. He was one vote off from being one
1:18:20
of the quarterbacks selected from to one of the All Pro teams. So it
1:18:25
was just I don't get it. He should be there. I understand that
1:18:29
these other guys had great seasons, Don't get me wrong. Don't get it
1:18:31
wrong. Deron Bland was on my first team All Pro. Should be there.
1:18:35
But Sauce is not first team this year. Shavaria's word is not first
1:18:39
team this year. They did not do what Lugarius did. I get Sauce
1:18:42
is locked down, but he does not leave his side of the field.
1:18:45
Ever. He does not follow, He does not shadow. He stays on
1:18:48
his side of the field. Jalen Johnson great football player, great, but
1:18:53
he did not shut down like Lagarious Need. Did. I understand Lalgarious scene
1:18:58
had a lot of penalties, but did they score touchdowns? Did he let
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up a point? He did not this entire season. And I think that's
1:19:04
the biggest snub of them all, is Lugerious Need. And so when we
1:19:09
went over our all team All Pro teams, I went over what he did
1:19:12
against number one receivers. Don't I can't find the notebook right now, but
1:19:15
if I need to go over it again and remind people what he did this
1:19:18
season, it's shut down, It's locked down. That's what he did this
1:19:21
season. Yeah. No, he's definitely been a lockdown cornerback and at bare
1:19:26
minimum he should have been at least on the second team All Pro. Get
1:19:29
some yeah, I would have Recoditionally, he didn't make it at all.
1:19:31
So this guy. He did make second team All Pro, but I think
1:19:34
Michaeh Parsons he should have been a first team All Pro by far. Yes,
1:19:39
I know, we're not talking playoffs. We're talking regular season here,
1:19:42
so I don't want to hear Cowboys fans saying, oh, well, he
1:19:44
didn't show up in the playoffs. Well, this is a regular season award
1:19:47
here. And Michaeh Parsons led the league with the most pressures fourteen sacks,
1:19:51
And yes, I know TJ. Watt he did have nineteen sacks on the
1:19:56
season, but he didn't also have a win rate as well as Michaeh Parsons,
1:20:00
a double team rate as Micah Parson as well as Michaeh Parsons, and
1:20:04
he also Micah Parsons. What he did. The last time he got a
1:20:09
holding call in the regular season was in October. It was against the Chargers
1:20:13
Monday night. So for about if let me get my math right, forty
1:20:17
three or forty four quarters, he didn't get a holding call at all,
1:20:23
and he was still that dominant, so if they would have actually called holdings,
1:20:28
he could have potentially ended up with anywhere around the TJ. Watt numbers
1:20:31
eighteen to nineteen maybe even twenty plus sacks, so he should have definitely made
1:20:36
it here. He is the focal point of that entire defense, especially with
1:20:40
Trevon Diggs he went down so and he's very versatile. He could play linebacker,
1:20:45
whatever you need him to do. He's just that damn good. But
1:20:48
also, another guy I just wanted to give a quick shout out to is
1:20:54
Justin Madebike from the Baltimore Ravens. He did have twelve sacks on the season,
1:20:59
if I'm not mistaken. He was the glue guy for the Baltimore Ravens
1:21:03
up the middle. And yes, I know Chris Johns and Aaron Donald they
1:21:06
are there, but as far as just getting somebody different there, somebody because
1:21:12
obviously those two guys are going to be there. But Justin Mattabik he had
1:21:15
a very damn good year and he deserves that recognition. So if so I
1:21:24
know that I know that these two or I know you had lugarious need.
1:21:30
He didn't make an All Pro team at all, who's one person or Pro
1:21:35
Bowl? So who's one other person you'd think should have been on one of
1:21:40
the All Pro teams. The thing is, like these lists were pretty accurate
1:21:49
to what both me and you had like for both like we both have Lamar
1:21:54
who both had CMC. I even had Kyrien Williams as my flex so he
1:21:59
made it Tyreek cd A. No arguments for me, aj Brown. The
1:22:03
only thing uh is maybe the tight end position. I think Hawkinson, in
1:22:10
my opinion, should have been over George Kittle. I could say Kelsey,
1:22:15
but Kelsey the way he ended this season just wasn't strong enough for me.
1:22:18
He fell out of my top two first and second team All Pro. But
1:22:24
I think Hawkinson has such a big year and with such an impact even without
1:22:28
Justin Jefferson playing and most of the season and kept his Vikings team in the
1:22:31
Hunt, I think he should have been considered her first team All Pro because
1:22:34
George Kittle, sure as good as he is, is still hit or missed.
1:22:38
He's like a won every three games, won every four games type of
1:22:42
player. T J. Hawkinson is game in and game out good football Like
1:22:45
he's always gonna get the rock, He's always going to score a touchdown.
1:22:48
He's always in the right spots. I think T. J. Hawkinson should
1:22:51
be a first or at least second team All Pro. Yeah, I was
1:22:56
kind of laying that way. But one person that I'll would say that didn't
1:23:00
that didn't make it is I would have to say either between CJ. Mosley
1:23:06
or I'm gonna have to go Javon Holland or even I could or you know
1:23:12
what I'm gonna go with raheem Mostered here. So raheem Mostered he was.
1:23:16
He was a focal point of that Dolphins offense and he would have had even
1:23:20
more touchdowns if he wasn't hurt for about three or four games of the season,
1:23:24
and not to mention, touches were getting away or given away with Devon
1:23:29
a Chen being on the rise. So he was a focal point as far
1:23:32
as far as that offense leed or tied as far as running backs. As
1:23:36
far as the touchdowns, he had twenty one, same as Christian McCaffrey.
1:23:40
So he had a very damn good year and he should get that recognition.
1:23:45
I would personally put him over Karen Williams because he played a little bit more
1:23:49
games. So but other than that, there's really no other disagreements I have
1:23:56
here. But all right, anything else you wanted to take away before moving
1:24:00
to this last topic, No, I would honestly put Harrison Bucker over Jake
1:24:09
Elliott. I understand that kickers maybe not be crazy, but Harrison Bucker was
1:24:14
pretty freaking dominant the entire season. He only missed like, I think,
1:24:16
one field goal the entire season, one extra point or phil goal the entire
1:24:20
season. He was pretty much automatic the whole way, and I think he
1:24:26
should have been second team at least. Yeah, well, I really can't
1:24:30
argue about kickers. I didn't look up kicker stats. I like kicker.
1:24:34
I'm a big Pat McAfee guy, so I'm always gonna look at kicker and
1:24:39
punter stats for some reason. Well, you keep doing that thing. But
1:24:43
all right, so this last topic, we decided to do something different here.
1:24:47
So out of all the teams in the divisional round, we decided to
1:24:51
make a list as far as what ten players or potentially coaches would add the
1:24:58
most to their legacy if they happen to win a Super Bowl. So,
1:25:01
Josh, did you want to list your ten or did you want to go
1:25:04
five and five or two and two? How do you want to do it?
1:25:08
Should we go? Should we go back and forth? Yeah? Yeah,
1:25:11
let's do that. Let's do that. Go ahead, all right,
1:25:14
let's start from ten or to one ten ten? All right, at number
1:25:18
ten, I have Baker Mayfield. Number ten. I have Baker. I'm
1:25:23
gonna give it to Baker because I think a lot of his career has been
1:25:26
written off, Like he has been written off for a majority of his career,
1:25:30
and I just think him winning this, winning a super Bowl for the
1:25:31
Tampa Bay Buccaneers in his first season where no one gave them a chance to
1:25:34
really do anything, would be monumental for his career. It would actually set
1:25:39
him up for contracts in future starting roles if it's not with the Buccaneers,
1:25:44
because they'd be like, oh, he can get it done when no one
1:25:46
believes in him. And that's pretty much been Baker Mayfield's whole aura, his
1:25:50
whole mindset, his whole what Baker Mayfield is known for is being doubted.
1:25:56
And if he can win a Super Bowl for the Tempa Bay Buccaneers in the
1:26:00
point where he was supposed to be the bridge player for the next guy that
1:26:02
they bring in or something like that would do a lot for his career.
1:26:06
Yeah. I have Baker Mayfield here too, And even if he wins a
1:26:12
Super Bowl, he's gonna get paid fifty sixty million dollars a year by the
1:26:15
time Bay Buccaneers, in which it was supposed to be a rebuilding year where
1:26:19
half of the cap it's just going to dead money. And if if you
1:26:25
would pull off this, this would be one of the greatest stories in NFL
1:26:28
history here, not not just in the past few years, NFL history,
1:26:31
So it would definitely be fun to watch. So who do you have as
1:26:35
number nine here, Josh, I'm gonna go with the Dimico Ryans. Demiko
1:26:42
Ryans doesn't have a lot of expectations. I know he doesn't, but I
1:26:45
think the probability of winning a Super Bowl in your first season as a head
1:26:48
coach, taking over a team who came from two wins the year before and
1:26:53
leading them to stardom and a hot start to your career would probably put you
1:26:59
in a different conversation because you were able to take that team and take them
1:27:02
to places they've never been before, and that would be like, this is
1:27:05
the guy, this is the new man up, this is the guy that
1:27:08
we're all looking for as he's the he is the model. He will he
1:27:12
would change a lot of mindsets for a lot of coaching hires, and he
1:27:15
would be known as the coach who did it in year one. That's what
1:27:19
it would do for Demiico Ryans, and it would say him into a different
1:27:21
tier of coaches. So for number nine, I have Jared Golf here and
1:27:28
Jared Golf. If he wins the Super Bowl, I feel like, whether
1:27:30
we like it or not, he will be discussed in top five quarterback conversations
1:27:35
because everywhere he's gone other than his first two years in the NFL, he
1:27:40
has won. That would be two super Bowl appearances, and that means he'd
1:27:44
win a super Bowl, potentially Super Bowl MVP. So he would definitely deserve
1:27:47
that, and especially with the young team like the Detroit Lions, he would
1:27:51
have to have a veteran leadership in which he's proven this year, and it
1:27:57
would definitely enhance his legacy and potentially potentially if they do good being being a
1:28:05
tier a tier below off a Hall of Fame quarterback. So who is number
1:28:12
eight on your list? Number eight for me is going to be Andy Reid.
1:28:16
I understand he already has his two super Bowls, but getting number three
1:28:20
would put him into I get he's already argued by some right now of being
1:28:25
like the offensive genius and like up there with the some people argue with the
1:28:29
Belichicks and the Bill Walshes and all those type of guys. But if he
1:28:33
gets number three, he puts them into a whole different category because there's not
1:28:35
many head coaches all time with three super Bowls, And he'll be in there
1:28:40
and he'll have never a losing season. He'll have three super Bowls to his
1:28:44
name, and he'll he'll it will do a lot for him going into his
1:28:48
Hall of Fame career and his resume. I understand That's why I'm so low,
1:28:51
because I don't think it does much, but it doesn't enough to put
1:28:56
him into a certain conversation. So for number I have Christian McCaffrey here,
1:29:01
Christian McCaffrey, if they happen to win the Super Bowl here, it will
1:29:08
say a lot for him and as far as potentially putting him up there,
1:29:11
as far as with one of the most dominant running backs and potentially dominant seasons
1:29:15
you've had, So it would put him as far as two thousand, twenty
1:29:20
three total yards, twenty one touchdowns. And if you win a super Bowl,
1:29:25
it pretty much caps off your entire career, makes it a done deal
1:29:29
that you're going to Can here. So I think this was pretty obvious.
1:29:31
So who do you have for number seven here, Josh, Number seven for
1:29:35
me is a package deal, and I'm gonna go with Dan Campbell and Jared
1:29:40
Goff. They're gonna be known as the guys who brought their first Super Bowl
1:29:44
to the Detroit Lions, and they're gonna be forever enshrined into that team.
1:29:47
And they're gonna have a statue the next year, much like Doug Peterson in
1:29:51
the and Nick Foles had a statue. So Dan Campbell and Jared Goff,
1:29:58
they came in with a plan if they if they win this Super Bowl.
1:30:01
I'm not saying this year, but if they do win a Super Bowl,
1:30:04
they're gonna be known as basically in the level of God for the Detroit Lions,
1:30:10
because they brought they brought the first one home. And for Dan Campbell,
1:30:15
it's gonna show you started from the bottom. You came from the bottom
1:30:17
with this team, you built it to where it's supposed to be. You
1:30:19
brought them to the top. You yourself turned this whole franchise around. And
1:30:25
it's for Jared Goff when they wrote you off, when they traded you to
1:30:27
Detroit, they said they didn't think you were the guy. You were supposed
1:30:30
to be, someone that they move on from in a couple of years.
1:30:31
No, you became the franchise guy. And I think that's what's gonna happen
1:30:34
when they win the Super Bowl. It's just gonna be a whole heartwarming see
1:30:39
whole heartwarming scene for us in every football fan, no matter what team you
1:30:43
root for, it it's hard to feel bad for the phil feel any ill
1:30:45
will towards the Detroit Lions that they win the Super Bowl. So for number
1:30:50
seven, I have Brock Purty. I know I had Christian McCaffrey eight,
1:30:54
but Brock party. If they happened to win a Super Bowl, it's gonna
1:30:58
prove all the doubt wrong. Even going back to the whole Cam Newton comment
1:31:01
as far as him being a game manager, at the end of the day,
1:31:05
it's hard for a game manager to win a Super Bowl, and it
1:31:09
would be hard to say that he is a game manager because he would prove
1:31:12
that he could win at the highest level. And at the end of the
1:31:14
day, winning it solves it all. And if you win a Super Bowl,
1:31:17
there's nothing you could say. He would become like you said with Jared
1:31:20
Goff, he would become that franchise quarterback. There would be no question.
1:31:25
So I think that if he wins the Super Bowl, he would be in
1:31:30
those top ten conversations as far as quarterbacks, whether we like it or not,
1:31:34
because he would be a winner. Who is number six on your list?
1:31:41
Yeah, see number six for me? I have brod pretty for a
1:31:43
lot of the same reasons. He just goes from mister relevant to superstart him
1:31:46
if he wins this Super Bowl, because though I don't believe in him,
1:31:50
I don't believe in his talent too much per se. If he does win
1:31:55
a ring, he has a ring. A lot of quarterbacks don't have a
1:31:57
ring. He'd be with Matt Stafford and Aaron Roddy and Patrick Mahomes is the
1:32:00
only players in the NFL to have a Super Bowl ring as quarterbacks, so
1:32:03
he would be in a whole different conversation alone. He would be boosted all
1:32:08
the way up to the top tier quarterbacks if he wins a Super Bowl ring
1:32:12
in his second year. And I think that's why he's number six for me,
1:32:14
because it would do a lot. He would get the big contract,
1:32:16
he would be the forefront of the San Francisco forty nine ers, and even
1:32:21
though I don't me personally, I'm not a rock pretty guy believer, but
1:32:26
that's where he would be if he wins the super Bowl. So for number
1:32:30
six, I would have Jordan aka finished the prophecy Love. So if Jordan
1:32:36
Love he does this, he will be a top five quarterback in my books.
1:32:41
I don't care if this would be his first year starting or whatever,
1:32:44
because this is a very young team that you have around you, and you
1:32:47
would have to go through San Francisco, the Bucks, or Detroit in which
1:32:53
you would be home or on the road the entire time, and make it
1:32:57
to the super Bowl and be one of those four teams which you probably wouldn't
1:33:00
be favored in maybe the Texans you will. But even at that, that's
1:33:03
a coin flip. If he does this, then it will put him on
1:33:09
a level I feel like higher than what Aaron Rodgers did in Green Bay.
1:33:13
I know he won the MVPs, but as far as from his first year
1:33:16
starting and winning the super Bowl, that is something that is unprecedented. So,
1:33:23
Josh, who is the fifth player that could gain most from your legacy
1:33:27
or legacy? I'm gonna go with Patrick Mahomes the number five because he already
1:33:31
has super Bowls been to three. He would I feel like if he loses,
1:33:36
it wouldn't people wouldn't blame him, only because what's been going on this
1:33:40
entire season with the receivers and all the stuff drama that he's had to deal
1:33:45
with with on the field issues and stuff like that. But if he does
1:33:47
win this third Super Bowl in five years, thirty five years, he would
1:33:54
be working his way towards that goat conversation because hear me out I said this
1:34:00
to you earlier today. If he doesn't need seven to be in the goat
1:34:05
conversation, because he's gonna get every statistical thing he wants if he doesn't retire
1:34:10
early, if he doesn't think he's done enough, because he's already per average
1:34:14
per game number one and everything. But if he wins the super Bowl,
1:34:18
that would be three and five years. He'll be a two time MVP,
1:34:23
two times Super Bowl MVP, and then he would be a three times Super
1:34:27
Bowl champion at the age of twenty eight years old, twenty seven, twenty
1:34:30
eight years old, whatever he is. That's unheard of and it wouldn't be
1:34:33
like where Brady Rode a defense. No, Mahomes changed that Chiefs organization,
1:34:39
and if he has three by the time at this age, it's going to
1:34:42
do a lot for his goat conversation. Dang, that was kind of a
1:34:46
sneak diss at Tom Brady. But for number five, I have Kyle Shanahan
1:34:53
here. Kyle Shanahan, he's never won Super Bowl. If he wins,
1:34:58
gets that elusive title and he becomes discussed as far as one of the great
1:35:02
head coaches. He's already is mentioned as one of the most innovative coaches in
1:35:08
the league and being up there as far as the best coach in the league.
1:35:12
But if you win a super Bowl, it just puts your It puts
1:35:15
you in history, and it shows that Mike the order, the Shanahan system
1:35:21
overall can win super Bowls because Mike Shanahan did win a Super Bowl or two,
1:35:28
but after that it's kind of been ify. They've been good in the
1:35:30
league, but they haven't won. So if they win this, it proves
1:35:34
the Shanahan system is legit and it works. And no matter what time period.
1:35:40
So, Josh, who's number four on your list? Number four for
1:35:44
me, you will be CJ. Stroud. He doesn't have to win a
1:35:45
ring this year for people to love him, because he's already loved. He's
1:35:47
already being put up there in the top seven, top five with some people
1:35:51
because of what he's done this season. But if he's a rookie quarterback becoming
1:35:55
the first rookie quarterback to ever play in the Super Bowl, let alone be
1:35:59
the first back to win a super Bowl, it would do wonders for his
1:36:02
career and what he's known as for the rest of his career because he'd be
1:36:06
the one guy that did it in his first year and turn the team around
1:36:09
most of the same reasons why Demiko Ryans for me would be the thing.
1:36:13
They would just turn around a whole franchise year one and set it off to
1:36:15
a whole new start in your curch. Sure the expectations will be high year
1:36:18
in and year out because you win it your first year, but he would
1:36:21
be the first to win it in his first year. So number four right
1:36:27
here, I would have Patrick Mahomes and kind of for the same reasons you
1:36:30
had, but I would say it would be it would be on the Brady
1:36:35
level, but on steroids. So Patrick Mahomes' first year didn't make the Super
1:36:44
Bowl, but one MVP and then made it to the super Bowl two years
1:36:48
in a row, had a year off, made the AFC Championship Game,
1:36:53
which is still one game away from the super Bowl. It would arguably be
1:36:57
the greatest five year window of a quarterback in NFL history. And when you
1:37:01
talk about peaks as far as the best quarterback ever to play, he would
1:37:08
have the best peak of all time if they win Super Bowl here and with
1:37:11
this supporting cast that he has, It's not that this is a bad supporting
1:37:16
cast, but this is the worst supporting cast he has had his entire career.
1:37:20
And if he wins, it's only going to prove how great Patrick Mahomes
1:37:25
really is. So now we're getting in the top three. Josh, who's
1:37:30
the third player that could gain most from winning the Super Bowl? Well,
1:37:34
for me, it's a coach, and it's gonna be Kyle Shanahan because y're
1:37:38
in and you're out, You're always Your team is loading up, they're bringing
1:37:41
in players, they're doing all this and that you have Christ McCaffrey, deebo
1:37:45
Brand. Now you Trent Williams, a Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, Chase
1:37:48
Young, Shaveria's Ward The list goes on and on. How many great players
1:37:54
you have on your team and you have yet to win a super Bowl.
1:37:57
You've gotten there, you didn't get the job done. You've gotten to the
1:38:00
championships, you haven't got the job done. If you win this ring,
1:38:04
it does a lot for your career because it takes the doubters away from you.
1:38:06
Because if you don't win this ring, who knows what happens after this
1:38:10
because they've given so much to you and you haven't done anything with it.
1:38:14
It'd be another much like the Dallas cowboy situation. You have all these expectations,
1:38:17
but you don't hand out I just it's the same thing. These teams
1:38:23
are all in the same boat. They have expectations every single year, but
1:38:25
they don't get the jobs done. And that's gonna be the thing with Kyle
1:38:29
Shanahan. Is he just another guy? Is he just another big brain that
1:38:31
doesn't get the job done? And so if he gets the Super Bowl done,
1:38:34
it will take a lot of pressure off of his shoulders. You're about
1:38:39
to make me pull at Jason Kelce with this. You're gonna make you leave
1:38:43
the pod and start another day for sneak diss and the Cowboys. But for
1:38:48
number three, I have I have c J. Stroud here, So c
1:38:53
J. Stroud. If he wins, it would be the greatest rookie season
1:38:58
of all time, and it would arguably just after one year if you retired,
1:39:02
if we were retired after one year, which obviously won't happen, he
1:39:06
could be argued to be going into kenin Ohio, whether whether we like it
1:39:12
or not, because, like you said, this turnaround from this team is
1:39:17
amazing. And it's not like he has I know he had Tank Dell but
1:39:21
he got hurt. You have Nico Collins, Noah Brown, Bevin Jordan,
1:39:26
Dalton Schultz, Devin Singletary, Damian Pierce. So it's not like you have
1:39:30
all these different weapons around you like a Joe Burrow where he had t Higgins,
1:39:34
Jamar Chase, Joe Mixon. This would be something on a different level.
1:39:39
And if he wins the Super Bowl, he'd be up there with Mahomes
1:39:44
and be argued blow for blow with Mahomes as far as being the best quarterback
1:39:47
in the league. So, Josh, who do you have for number two?
1:39:54
You don't like that statement right there, huh No, But hey,
1:40:00
number two, I have Lamar Jackson. And it's because mainly this he has.
1:40:03
He's gonna win a second MVP this year. Let's all, let's all
1:40:06
be honest, let's all do that. He's gonna win a second VP this
1:40:11
year. So that's just another accolade that he's gonna add to his career.
1:40:13
He's gonna win a super Bowl and fulfill his guarantee that he had on Draft
1:40:16
Night where he said, they're gonna get a super Bowl out of me.
1:40:18
And if he does that, he's the first ballot Hall of Famer as soon
1:40:21
as he retires, because he'll be the greatest dual threat in NFL history.
1:40:27
You can argue Michael vic Michael Vick never won two MVPs, he never won
1:40:30
a Super Bowl. Ye, much to his own doing, why he never
1:40:33
did those things. But for as far as Lamar Jackson, he would have
1:40:39
these things. He would have a super Bowl, two MVPs, and then
1:40:41
he would lead these he would lead the Ravens to that, and it would
1:40:45
do a lot for his career. It would put him up there with the
1:40:47
Mahomes in the Mahomes conversation, even though I don't think it's a real conversation,
1:40:53
but he would be up there. He would be argued by some people
1:40:56
at number And that's why he was number two for me, because he would
1:40:59
have a lot. He would Hey would have proved a lot in his short
1:41:02
career so far. So for number two, I have right here, it's
1:41:08
got to be Josh Allen. For me, Josh Allen. It has a
1:41:13
trajectory, or it puts him on a trajectory where he becomes a Hall of
1:41:18
Fame quarterback, where all these expectations we've had about Josh Allen over the years,
1:41:24
Oh, he's he's just good. He has arm telling the Mahomes Rogers,
1:41:29
he's up there with Brady. If he wins the super Bowl after starting
1:41:32
off bad, it would kind of be Aaron Rodgers esque run here that he
1:41:36
that he had starting off slow, get hot right before the playoffs and end
1:41:41
up winning the super Bowl. It would put him in a different category and
1:41:46
be argued up there with Mahomes. And like you said with Lamar that he
1:41:50
would be argued against against Mahomes, you will. So Josh, who's the
1:41:57
player with the most to gain if they win the Super Bowl? Number one
1:42:02
would be Josh Allen and much of the same reasons people put him up there
1:42:08
with the Mahomes. Even though he hasn't won an MVP, he hasn't won
1:42:13
Super Bowl. He and but when he wins the super Bowl, it would
1:42:15
it would skyrocket him too much more than he already is. He already is
1:42:19
put at a certain level by many for not achieving much. And if he
1:42:24
wins that Super Bowl, it would just do wonders for him because he would
1:42:29
already be considered a Hall of Famer. He would be considered up there as
1:42:31
maybe the best quarterback in the NFL, and he he wouldn't be looked down
1:42:38
upon by some because he would have had got the job done. And that's
1:42:42
that's where Josh Allen's at in his career. Is he going to be a
1:42:45
guy that is like a Philip Rivers who never wins the Super Bowl, who
1:42:47
has all the talent but doesn't win the Super Bowl? Is he going to
1:42:50
be? Is he gonna be one of those guys? Is he? Is
1:42:53
he gonna be? I guess Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees won a ring,
1:42:56
but outside of that they never went back. Is he gonna be one of
1:42:59
those guys who never made who never do more than what they could do?
1:43:02
Where people see their potential, but he never got up to that. He
1:43:06
never got to where he was supposed to be. And if he wins that
1:43:09
rink, he would have gotten to that point. So number one for me,
1:43:15
it's got to be Lamar Jackson. Like you said, two two almost
1:43:18
unanimous MVPs. The first one was this one. It looks like it's gonna
1:43:23
be a unanimous MVP and a super Bowl. It puts you on a different
1:43:27
category. You're already a Hall of Famer in my opinion. With two MVPs
1:43:30
and a super Bowl, it adds to that resume. You get into that
1:43:34
discussion as far as where do you rank all time, as far as quarterbacks
1:43:40
potentially being up there, I wouldn't say top five yet, but if you
1:43:45
continue to do what you do, you would be up there in the top
1:43:47
five. And if Lamar Jackson doesn't win a super Bowl this year, when
1:43:53
Joe Burrow's hurt, Aaron Rodgers is hurt, when Justin Herbert's hurt, and
1:43:57
you have the one seedon, it will have him be a better version of
1:44:02
Dak Prescott in the playoffs. It will he so he has the most to
1:44:08
gain here and it gains all all the trust there is plenty of pressure on
1:44:13
Lamar Jackson for him to win the Super Bowl because this will be his best
1:44:15
chance to win, So he should win the super Bowl. But it's gonna
1:44:20
We're gonna see in the playoffs. Obviously, I picked the Texan so I
1:44:25
don't think this is gonna happen, But if it does happen, it will
1:44:29
be just solely based off Lamar Jackson carrying this Baltimore Ravens team. So I
1:44:35
felt like we really had no disagreements here. It was kind of in the
1:44:39
same same area, just one one to two around here. So who do
1:44:45
you think has the most to lose out of the out of your players or
1:44:51
out of josh Adalys j Yeah, because this is just another year where people
1:45:00
put you at a pedestal which you have the potential to be, but you
1:45:04
just don't get there. And if you don't win the Super Bowl and you
1:45:09
started the season the way you did, it's just gonna have a lot of
1:45:11
doubters come out and be like, well, is he really who we think
1:45:14
he is? And that's gonna be Josh Allen's conversation. Well, yeah,
1:45:19
I list I basically told mine it was Lamar Jackson. So well it makes
1:45:25
sense. But all right, so we do have a couple of Q and
1:45:29
a's Josh. But before we do that, we're gonna list our so called
1:45:31
MVPs. Which MVP of the week we always do it every single week.
1:45:36
Who was the best performance of the week, Josh? Who is your so
1:45:40
called MVP? I mean, sorry, all finds up, but I don't
1:45:45
have to go with mister Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones showed up and showed out
1:45:48
in that game, three touchdowns, one to eighteen on the ground. He
1:45:53
set the focal point from the start of that game for the Green Bay Packers,
1:45:56
and they they followed his league pretty much the entire game. And that's
1:46:00
why he's my still called MVP of the week. He showed up when it
1:46:02
mattered the most and did his job. So I don't know if he could,
1:46:06
he's so well on camera, but I actually circled Aaron circled Aaron Jones
1:46:12
for being my so called MVP of the week. So uh yeah, I'm
1:46:18
I'm gonna pick Jordan Love here or you know what, No, that's two
1:46:21
packers. That's two packers. Take it. Do the packs man? Well
1:46:28
we go, Okay, honorable mention. Honorable mention is Jordan Love sixteen for
1:46:32
twenty one two seventy two yards, three touchdowns on one fifty seven point two
1:46:36
rating. But I'm gonna give it to c. J. Stroud here,
1:46:40
who now that I'm looking at it, they almost have the exact same stats.
1:46:45
C J. Stroud sixteen for twenty one, two hundred seventy four yards,
1:46:48
three touchdowns of one fifty seven point two passer Ray hed So the only
1:46:53
difference was two yards and they got the w the upset win over the Cleveland
1:46:58
Browns. But all right, let's go and get into Q and a's.
1:47:01
So the first question we have where would you like to see Bill Belichick go?
1:47:15
Where would I like to see Bill Bellich? You answer first? So
1:47:20
I know most people that would think, oh, well, you'd want him
1:47:24
to go to the Cowboys. No, honestly, I wouldn't want him to.
1:47:26
I already said who I'd want to be the head coach. I'd like
1:47:29
to see him go to the Chargers because it would be somewhere where they would
1:47:34
learn situational football and you would get the most out of Justin Herbert's talents.
1:47:41
Because Bill Belichick one thing he does not do is waste talent. So this
1:47:45
team would be making the playoffs consistently and potentially winning multiple playoff games. I
1:47:50
know there's cap hell as far as they have to figure it out, but
1:47:55
Bill Belichick, if anybody could figure it out, it would be Bill Belichick.
1:48:05
I don't. I think I'm gonna have to lean also towards the Chargers.
1:48:12
I think that would be the best fit for him because he would have
1:48:14
defensive stars like he like he usually has, yeah, and then he would
1:48:17
have Justin Herbert. It would be the best foundation for him, and he
1:48:20
would still have some of the weapons that they have there. So I do
1:48:24
see the Chargers as the most intriguing for him. So I'm gonna go with
1:48:27
that, And I think I was gonna say the Seahawks also, but I
1:48:30
don't know if they're gonna go from old coach to old coach, you know.
1:48:33
So that's why I don't think. I don't see it happening. But
1:48:36
I think the Chargers would be good for Bill Belichick, especially because like they
1:48:42
want to win now, and that's what Bill Belichick all he has. He
1:48:45
doesn't have time left to lose. He has time. His time is to
1:48:47
win now. Yeah, So this next question we have here, If the
1:48:55
Cowboys keep Mike McCarthy, where do you make them a better overall team?
1:49:00
And what's their biggest need on defense? So it's kind of a two part
1:49:02
question right here. Wait, repeat the question. The first part of the
1:49:12
question I heard the biggest need on defense. If the Cowboys keep Mike McCarthy,
1:49:16
where do you go to make them an overall better team? Running back
1:49:28
would be where you need to go to make them overall better. I understand
1:49:30
that Pollard was thought to be this next guy in place for Zeke, but
1:49:36
he's just not the number one running back. He's not a number one running
1:49:39
back in the NFL. He can't run between the tackles. He can't run
1:49:42
block very well. And that's where you miss Zeke. You miss having that
1:49:45
guy that does ground and pound. But as far on defense, if we're
1:49:47
really going to talk, it's for me, it's a linebacker or safety.
1:49:53
I get you have the corners. You have the corners you do. I
1:49:56
get they had bad a bad game in this one, but for most of
1:49:58
the season they were locked down. And you you get Trevon Diggs back,
1:50:00
So there's there's help coming. Yeah, within your own doors, but linebacker
1:50:04
is health There's no healthy linebacker on this team. They had to play safeties
1:50:09
in those positions, so I guess linebacker would be where you have to improve
1:50:13
because you still have Michael Parsons Osa. I don't know how long the law
1:50:15
is going to stay, but as far as the the linebacker position, you
1:50:19
need to be able to have those people that can play in the pass coverage
1:50:23
and stop the run and or someone that specializes in one or the other,
1:50:27
because you just need that. And if you don't have that those linebackers,
1:50:30
you're gonna get gassed apart in the middle of the field at all times,
1:50:33
and I think that's what the Cowboys are missing. So linebackers and safety it's
1:50:39
a big need, but I think the biggest need is defensive tackle, true
1:50:43
defensive tackle. I know we have Jonathan Hankins, but he is older MIZI
1:50:46
Smith. I don't know if he's gonna pan out. Maybe he does become
1:50:49
the answer there, But that was the biggest thing. Just open holes.
1:50:54
The entire time you're getting gashed, whether that was Arizona, San Francisco or
1:51:00
Miami or even this game right here. So there's been plenty of things but
1:51:03
if you keep Mike McCarthy the thing to make them an overall better team,
1:51:09
it would be it would be as far as a situational football and as far
1:51:15
as not having penalties and just knowing what to do during the situation, the
1:51:20
crunch time situations. That's why I'd say that would make them a better overall
1:51:25
team and they'd possibly have more wins and losses right now and be in the
1:51:29
playoffs all right. Next one we have is who is the best remaining quarterback
1:51:34
in the NFC. Wow, it's a tough okay, Oh for me,
1:51:49
it's between Jordan Love and Jared Goff. I think those are the two best
1:51:53
quarterbacks left. I get, I love Baker. I love Baker with all
1:51:56
my heart, but I don't think he's better than Jordan Lover or Jared Goff
1:52:00
this point, and I think I'm gonna have to lean towards, honestly,
1:52:03
Jordan Love. I think Jordan Loves the best quarterback left in letting left in
1:52:06
the conference right now, because I get Jared Goff is very good, but
1:52:14
he's limited. Jordan Love can at least bring you the mobility factor, and
1:52:17
we saw there was a play where he rolled out to the right stop to
1:52:21
flip his hips, set his feet and threw the ball while on the move.
1:52:25
Like he has all the talent to be a great quarterback. And he
1:52:29
is a good quarterback. He showed it. Twenty one touchdown to one interception
1:52:31
since week eleven. Is nothing to joke about. Like he is playing great
1:52:35
football right now. And I think right now he's the best quarterback. I
1:52:39
don't think Rock Perdy's on the level of those three guys. I don't think
1:52:42
he is better than Baker Mayfield, but I think I think, uh,
1:52:46
Jordan love Is is the best quarterback talent wise, when you put on the
1:52:51
tape, he's the best quarterback out there between the four. So I'm gonna
1:52:56
have to agree with you right here in Jordan love He and not even mentioned
1:53:00
as far as his arm strength, it's up there with with Mahomes, Josh
1:53:04
Allen and any other quarterback you want to put up there, not even to
1:53:09
mention that. And like you said, he's just been dyling. So he
1:53:12
has to be the best quarterback in the NFC, and he has the least
1:53:15
amount of experience and all right, next question we have is who has the
1:53:21
most to lose if they lose in the divisional round or this week. Who
1:53:28
has the most to lose The San Francisco forty nine ers. I really do
1:53:34
think that they have the most to lose because they have this god squad of
1:53:38
a team and they're not gonna get the job done again, especially against the
1:53:41
Green Bay Packers. If you lose to the Green Bay Packers, blow it
1:53:45
up like you gotta. There's just no more. You sold out. You
1:53:49
sold out for this team, and you're gonna lose to the Green Bay Packers.
1:53:54
I get the Green Bay Packers. I picked them to win, but
1:53:56
you shouldn't lose to the Green Bay Packers. I just do because I want
1:53:59
to see an upset, and I think an upset's gonna happen. But they
1:54:01
shouldn't lose to them. And if they do, there's a lot of questions
1:54:04
that need to be answered, because John Lynch is gonna be looked at like
1:54:08
are you making the right decisions? Kyle Shanahan's gonna look at are you really
1:54:12
the guy we think you are? And Rock Perty is gonna be like,
1:54:14
maybe we do need a good quarterback, Maybe we do need a real quarterback.
1:54:17
So I think they have the most to lose. So as much as
1:54:21
I said the Ravens here, I do think the Ravens they have the most
1:54:24
to lose. But I'm gonna go a different angle here. I'm gonna say
1:54:27
the Buffalo Bills because you're having a home playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs,
1:54:33
this where the Chiefs are at their weakest point. And then again,
1:54:38
Burrell's not healthy, Aaron Rodgers isn't healthy, Justin Herbert isn't healthy. So
1:54:42
this would be the time for Josh Allen to make the conference championship, potentially
1:54:47
Super Bowl, just at least get to the game, get to the conference
1:54:51
championship. So if if Lamar Jackson loses, not necessarily that it's expected,
1:54:58
but you've seen it before, so it's like, oh okay, with Josh
1:55:00
Allen, it's so up and down you don't know what you're gonna get.
1:55:04
So yeah, I'd say the Buffalo Bills they have the most to lose here.
1:55:09
And all right, last two questions, is Michael Parsons worth trading away
1:55:14
to get the back? No, because nothing is guaranteed to with generational talents
1:55:21
like sure, people have done it. They've done it with Tyrek Hill,
1:55:25
They've done it with Hersa Walker. They've done it with many other players like
1:55:29
in history, but the amount of times that draft picks pan out to don't
1:55:33
pan out. I don't think the percentage is worth trading away a generational talent
1:55:36
much like Michael Parsons is, who can do everything on defense, who can
1:55:41
run with anybody on defense, who pressures the quarterback, probably best the best,
1:55:45
if not with the best in the NFL. I don't think you trade
1:55:48
away your best defensive player. You're set your cornerstone of your defense away for
1:55:55
three first round picks when those guys might not even be nowhere near the player
1:55:59
that he is. So as great as it sounds, as far as trading
1:56:02
away Michaeh Parsons, and even though the Cowboys they've been for the most part,
1:56:08
damn good drafting in the first round because you would get multiple first round
1:56:11
picks down a couple of players whatever it is. But yeah, no,
1:56:16
Michael Parsons. He's that dude, and no matter where he is, he's
1:56:19
gonna dominate. No matter what this is, it's it's something that's obvious here.
1:56:25
In my opinion, Michaeh Parsons, he doesn't need to be traded and
1:56:30
you just surround somebody else around him. That's the only thing you could do.
1:56:36
You just can't trade away your cornerstone, guys. That's like Babe Ruth
1:56:41
being traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees. And so that's just something
1:56:46
you just don't do. And all right, this last question here, it's
1:56:50
just specifically for you. So why why is Jet Holmgren better than Wimby?
1:56:58
And I think you already knew who who made this question. He's freaking controlling
1:57:01
me right now. Man. No, Chet Holmgren is nowhere near on the
1:57:04
same planet as Victor Wiben Yama. Oh shoot, I would kind of want
1:57:13
to hear an explanation here. You're always off the air given detail explanation.
1:57:16
So, okay, I don't have my numbers on me right now, but
1:57:20
let's just just take their stats and where Wimby's leading every rookie in every statistical
1:57:25
category, he's doing it in twenty minutes, while Chet's playing freaking thirty two
1:57:30
minutes, thirty three minutes. And then, uh, freaking Chet isn't leading
1:57:33
the NBA in blocks, He doesn't average almost four blocks ago he does,
1:57:38
but he's not doing it night in and night out where he's probably getting six
1:57:41
blocks, five blocks, four blocks, three blocks, two blocks. It
1:57:44
don't matter. He gets blocks like Wimby is Wimby's defensive rating when he's on
1:57:48
the court, no one scores on him. Really, you have to like
1:57:51
get him jumping and you get lucky when you throw it over his head,
1:57:56
and then Wimby offensively creates his own and shot ninety percent of the time.
1:58:02
He's just not as big as Wimby a pause, but he's not as big
1:58:08
as Wimby's lean wise, there's just you can't watch basketball and tell me you
1:58:13
think Chad's better than Wimby, because you're not watching basketball. If you think
1:58:16
that the records are not is not an argument here, because you give Shade
1:58:20
a wim Bin Yama Wimby, I guarantee you as averaging freaking twenty seven ten
1:58:29
and freaking four blocks, and that's gonna be like your three numbers in year
1:58:33
one. And he's already basically doing that per thirty five because you're only playing
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twenty one to twenty three minutes right now, and if he were to play
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thirty five minutes a game, he'd be averaging thirty two points a game.
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He'd be averaging thirteen rebounds a game and like six blocks. So it's not
1:58:48
there's nowhere, They're nowhere near on the same planet. I think. I
1:58:50
think there's a reason why one guy was touted as the next Lebron and next
1:58:56
whatever, next generational talent, and other guy was drafted number two overall.
1:59:00
So yeah, yeah it's true. And yeah, if shake gilgis Alexander,
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he's arguably he's been playing right now as a top five player right now the
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way he's been playing. So if you put a top I want to see
1:59:14
check play. I want to see Check play on the Spurs and put Wimby
1:59:16
on the Thunder and we'll see who's the better players. That would be disgusting.
1:59:21
But that's that's all of it for Q and A is. Did you
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want to say anything else before we wrap up this episode. Nope, We'll
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just we'll just see what happens. We'll see what happens in the near future.
1:59:36
Hopefully you don't have to play Marvin's Room again. Yeah, we won't.
1:59:41
We won't play Marvin's Room again. We won't. All right, Well,
1:59:45
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