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Will The NFL Playoffs End In A Historic 3x Consecutive Super Bowl Win For The Kansas City Chiefs? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Pisa, Texas legend, a Hall of Fame broadcaster, the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Texas Longhorns, and your host of The Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 2: Hereing us now, Craigway, all right, welcome back to The
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  Speaker 2: Craigway Show.
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  Speaker 3: All right, freak flag, feel good, fake it t you
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  Speaker 3: make it Football Friday edition of The Craigway Show. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad Craigway allowed me the opportunity to sit in
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  Speaker 3: with you guys talk a little football today.
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  Speaker 2: We won't talk to some Texas football, of course, we'll.
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  Speaker 3: Talk NFL football, break down the divisional games in great detail,
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  Speaker 3: all of them, including the Houston Texans is the one
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  Speaker 3: here closest to home.
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  Speaker 2: We'll dive into all of those subjects here.
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  Speaker 3: We'll also talk a little bit about the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five roster for Texas because now we do have another
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  Speaker 3: reported transfer a portal entry for the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that makes it ten total.
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  Speaker 3: Entries for the long Horns and the transfer a portal,
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  Speaker 3: which is still these days. That's pretty damn good. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: that's really good these days. So overall, I believe I'm
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  Speaker 3: Ny Black is the latest the tight end that the
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  Speaker 3: Longhorns had just for one season who transferred in from Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: He is the latest Longhorn.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe the last of the Longhorns that reportedly
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  Speaker 3: will enter the transfer portal. That would make ten total
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  Speaker 3: in this transfer a portal window of transfer port departures uh.
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  Speaker 3: The names are John Tay Cook a wide receiver, Jerry
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  Speaker 3: bled So on the D line, Darien Gallett and linebacker
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  Speaker 3: along with I don't want to disrespect the men's name
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  Speaker 3: Conna the linebacker, Aaron Bryant on the D line along
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  Speaker 3: with Tia Savellah on the D line, Jpan Cole at cornerback,
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  Speaker 3: Justice Finkley at the edge position, Sider Mitchell on the
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  Speaker 3: D line.
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  Speaker 2: And the tight end. Of course, I'm right now Black
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  Speaker 2: who is the latest?
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  Speaker 3: Here's the most important stat because these days you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have attrition.
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  Speaker 2: It's natural, you're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Have a matter of fact, you can almost you can
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  Speaker 3: argue it's healthy. Now, a healthy amount of attrition. The
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  Speaker 3: guys who are just gonna be leaving your roster so
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  Speaker 3: you can churn out, continuously churn out the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: your roster and upgrade with more talent so you can
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  Speaker 3: make your argument it's healthy attrition. You shouldn't get sad
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  Speaker 3: about guys leaving, and it's healthy attrition when you look
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  Speaker 3: at the contributions of the players who left.
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  Speaker 2: All right, shout out to my man, c J.
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  Speaker 3: Voge will do a good job with this over all
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  Speaker 3: in Texas football at CJ. Vogel underscore OTF career starts
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  Speaker 3: for the the ten players who left. Zero zero combined
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  Speaker 3: career starts for the guys who left, doesn't mean they're
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  Speaker 3: terrible players. Doesn't mean you know that guy's a bomb,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean that they're a bus doesn't mean any of that.
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  Speaker 3: Just running the right fit, running the right situation. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen plenty of stories across the country. Now God's transfer
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  Speaker 3: have great careers, okay, just doesn't mean they weren't the
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  Speaker 3: right fit at the right time at Texas. But zero
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  Speaker 3: career starts just means none of them actually were able
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  Speaker 3: to penetrate your rotation or your your starting lineup and
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  Speaker 3: your depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: None of them.
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  Speaker 3: They just it wasn't the right time for them, or
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  Speaker 3: you had so much talent stacked in front of them,
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  Speaker 3: they did not see a path to play. That's healthy attrition.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys need to go and it's what the transfer
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  Speaker 3: portal is for. They need to go somewhere else so
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  Speaker 3: they can find a path to play. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: mind that kind of attrition. You're going to have attrition
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  Speaker 3: these days when you have an attrition of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys who were, you know, contributors and guys who
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  Speaker 3: were starters for you. Not that that hasn't happened in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Texas had guys who were starter get starts or debuilt
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  Speaker 3: lead before. That happens as well, but it's not a
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  Speaker 3: disruptive type of attrition when you're leaving guys, well, guys
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  Speaker 3: are leaving. It's just for Texas, and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: the guys they had coming in, but you know they're
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  Speaker 3: dressing needs in the portal. And there's still another spring
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  Speaker 3: portal that'll be coming up as well. But zero career
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  Speaker 3: starts for the ten players that are leaving, and based
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  Speaker 3: on the current numbers, because these numbers are fluid sometimes guys,
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  Speaker 3: as we just learning more now Black that just happened today,
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  Speaker 3: and you may have some other ones happening around the
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  Speaker 3: country and especially in sec country. Right now, Texas has
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  Speaker 3: the fewest amount of transfer portal departures of any team
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  Speaker 3: in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: That's a win. That's a win.
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  Speaker 3: These days, that's these days, you know, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: people celebrate the recruiting class. Of course, great Texas has
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  Speaker 3: the number one recruiting class in the country.
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  Speaker 2: That is great. But these days that's not in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: and it's good.
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  Speaker 3: You should celebrate. You celebrate the big victories and the
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  Speaker 3: small So I'm not telling you not to celebrate it.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not the same as it was when Rod
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  Speaker 3: b was being recruited nineteen ninety nine by Mac Brown
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  Speaker 3: in his second year, and we had the number one
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  Speaker 3: recruiting class in the country because you could count on
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  Speaker 3: a fair amount and a large amount usually of that
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  Speaker 3: recruiting class being intact for a couple of years to
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  Speaker 3: help you build the program. These days, not so much.
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  Speaker 3: Get that number on recruiting class. Man, the dude can
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  Speaker 3: be going next year. So in addition to recruiting, now, retention,
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  Speaker 3: all right, is the big thing. So I was talking
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  Speaker 3: to Bobby Burton about this over do on Texas football,
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  Speaker 3: and by we said, people don't realize the expansive amount
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  Speaker 3: of due diligence and thorough work and analysis that must
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  Speaker 3: be done during the retention period that when he's transfer
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  Speaker 3: portal windows open up. All your guys are being recruited. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it is against the NCAA rules. They're not supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be to recruit your guys, all right, they're not supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be do that, but they do. That's just they
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  Speaker 3: called it tampering. Tampering is like speeding. Everybody, you probably
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  Speaker 3: spared today. You're listening right now. You probably spared today.
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  Speaker 3: You went over the speed limit, maybe five miles, maybe
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  Speaker 3: ten miles. You spared today. You broke the law, all right,
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  Speaker 3: the law, but it's one of those laws where it's
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  Speaker 3: probably the most violated broken law on the books. Right,
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  Speaker 3: everybody speeds. Everybody violates that law at one point or another,
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're not agregious with it, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you're not endangering the public safety. And yes, you still
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  Speaker 3: can get pulled over for it. But they even we
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  Speaker 3: even say that if you're only going five miles old
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  Speaker 3: the speed limit, a cop will let you go.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's considered one.
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  Speaker 3: Of the may just be that may just be folklore,
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  Speaker 3: it may be something that's not true at all, but
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  Speaker 3: that's what they tell you. That's what they say, right,
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  Speaker 3: because it's such a violated law on the books.
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  Speaker 2: That's what tampering is.
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  Speaker 3: Tampering says you cannot talk to a player on somebody
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  Speaker 3: else's roster. Everybody tampers. It's like peeing in the shower.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody talks about it though.
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  Speaker 2: It's so everybody's tampering, right, So everybody's going after your guys,
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  Speaker 2: every transfer pot into it.
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  Speaker 3: That guy, even their starter, even if it was a
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  Speaker 3: guy like Jay Barren or an Xavier Worth and every
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  Speaker 3: of those womb those rumors about.
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  Speaker 2: His every worthy in his transfer board. Oh may i
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  Speaker 2: transfer portal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is their way of guy's way of renegotiating
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  Speaker 3: these days, I want to renegotiate my contract. I need
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  Speaker 3: to see what my market value is. How do you
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  Speaker 3: determine your market value? I got to hit the market.
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  Speaker 3: That's the transfer portal that will determine my value. If
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  Speaker 3: somebody's willing to pay me half a million dollars, that's
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  Speaker 3: my value. Doesn't really mean what you think my value is.
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  Speaker 3: If somebody's gonna pay me half a million dollars to
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  Speaker 3: do this job, that's my value. If somebody's gonna pay
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  Speaker 3: queen you was eight million dollars to be to transfer
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  Speaker 3: for one year in that nil resources, nil revenue for
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  Speaker 3: him to be their quarterback for one season, that's his worth.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get what you deserve. Will get what you
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  Speaker 3: can negotiate, and they're trying to negotiate. So the retention
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  Speaker 3: with Texas having to talk to every player on the
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  Speaker 3: roster and having to negotiate with every player on the
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  Speaker 3: roster to make sure everybody's good, that is a that's the.
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  Speaker 2: New era of college football.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll give Sark and his coaches a ton of
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  Speaker 3: credit because they didn't have much. It was a healthy
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  Speaker 3: amount of attrition. It was not toxic or unhealthy, disruptive attrition.
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  Speaker 3: The ten guys they are losing, and that is a
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  Speaker 3: challenge these days because everybody wants your guys, and I
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  Speaker 3: think it's healthy when you know they you know they
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  Speaker 3: they have these studies about people on social media and
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  Speaker 3: they say that a lot of folks on social media,
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  Speaker 3: Laura a good a good percentage of folks social media
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  Speaker 3: they cyber. I don't even say cyrus stark, that's the
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  Speaker 3: wrong term. They often check up on their exes. Here,
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  Speaker 3: go tell me this's okay. It's not a big deal, right,
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  Speaker 3: they're just look at it, not doing anything malicious. You're
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  Speaker 3: not you know, you're not doing anything harmful. You just
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  Speaker 3: typing in your excess name and just saying what they're
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  Speaker 3: doing on social media, whether they be on the ground, baseballok, toya.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to see what they're doing, see you know,
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  Speaker 3: if they're posting stuff about their life and and I
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  Speaker 3: think it's just healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Some people want to check on it.
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully you are happy when they're doing well. Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: it's like, oh man, my ex is doing well, they're
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  Speaker 3: married with kids, they look really happy, and I'm happy
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  Speaker 3: for them because it reflects well on you. Says that
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  Speaker 3: you had good taste, said that you have high standards
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  Speaker 3: that you actually do have, you know, a good criteria,
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  Speaker 3: a checklist when it comes to choosing a mate.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not nothing wrong with it. It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit healthy.
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  Speaker 3: I feel the same way about the transfer portal when
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  Speaker 3: your players are coveted by other schools. When you look
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  Speaker 3: up your guys who went to the transfer portal out
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  Speaker 3: of your program and they end up transferring immediately to
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  Speaker 3: other powerfied programs, said they were coveted.
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  Speaker 2: It says that to me.
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  Speaker 3: When you were building your roster, you built it in
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  Speaker 3: such a way, stacked it with so much talent that
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  Speaker 3: even guys who can't necessarily see the field in your program,
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  Speaker 3: they can go start and they can go be significant
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  Speaker 3: contributors for other programs. So so out of your ten
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  Speaker 3: guys that left, John Tate Cook went to Washington, but
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  Speaker 3: already he's out.
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  Speaker 2: But he went to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: Sidey Mitchell went to LSU Joy Bloodsoe, Mississippi State, Darien
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  Speaker 3: to Let, Mississippi State, Aconna BYU, Aaron Bryant, Vanderbilt, Tia
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  Speaker 3: Surveyor back to Arizona. Justice Finkley went to Kansas. So
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  Speaker 3: eight out of the ten coveted by our other powerfore programs.
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  Speaker 3: That's healthy attrition. That means you steal. You had good taste.
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  Speaker 3: That means I'm happy what my exes are doing well.
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  Speaker 3: I need them to be doing well. They're doing well.
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  Speaker 3: It says, you know what, I had good taste from
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  Speaker 3: the story. I saw their potential. I knew they were
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  Speaker 3: capable of greatness. Maybe not with me, but they found
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  Speaker 3: it at one point. And that's a win. That's a win.
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  Speaker 3: We count the wins today. We count the wins. All Right,
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  Speaker 3: we come back. We'll talk some Texas football, but I
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  Speaker 3: want to get into some NFL discussion. Roger Goodell made
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  Speaker 3: a statement today that honestly shocked no one. I've been
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  Speaker 3: saying this was coming for a while. I think we
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  Speaker 3: all knew. We'll get into that. We'll also break down
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  Speaker 3: on the playoffs, the divisional round right here on the
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  Speaker 3: Craigway Show here on AM thirteen hundred zone. All Right,
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  Speaker 3: welcome back to the Craigway Show Lifetime. About one Rod
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  Speaker 3: Babers sitting in for Craig Way. I appreciate Craig Way
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  Speaker 3: give me the opportunity to sit in for him this week.
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  Speaker 2: He's on the road.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Craigway is a busy man, but I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: him giving me the time. All Right, I want to
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  Speaker 3: get to some NFL discussion.
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  Speaker 2: But I did. I forgot one of the players.
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  Speaker 3: I originally said it was eight of the ten players
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  Speaker 3: in the transfer portal that had already committed to other
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  Speaker 3: power programs.
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  Speaker 2: And it was nine.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I forgot about Jay Young Cole parent Jay Young
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  Speaker 3: Cole committed to Arizona, So it was Jave Young Cole
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  Speaker 3: committed to Arizona, Justice Finkley, Kansas Tsava Arizona, Aaron Bryant
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  Speaker 3: Van Vanderbilt, Akana BYU Gallet, Missippi State, Dre Bledsoe Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 3: sit in Mitchell LSU. And you did have John T.
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  Speaker 3: Cook that was committed to Washington, so it was not Marty.
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  Speaker 3: Now Black's the only guy that hadn't at least committed
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  Speaker 3: to another power program and he probably will. So Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you'll be ten out of ten. That's a
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  Speaker 3: that's a good sign in terms of the healthy attrition
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  Speaker 3: for the program.
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  Speaker 2: Man. The Obama guys don't work out for Sark.
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  Speaker 3: Not really right, I mean a Mardy Nay Black's one
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  Speaker 3: of those Bama guys. You had your little Billingsley initially,
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  Speaker 3: remember the Aja Hall thing, Mary Ny Black. Isaiah Bond
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  Speaker 3: was on that too, Remember Kendrick Black share the linebacker.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's something about the Obama guys he
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  Speaker 3: brings in. I think is Bond, of course, has been
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  Speaker 3: the best. Isaiah Bond will be drafted pretty high. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if he's going to be drafted in the
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  Speaker 3: first round like the initial projections had before the season started,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe still can't work his way to being there.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that was a lot of Lowland fans
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  Speaker 3: had higher expectations for Isaiah Bond, and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if they met those expectations either. So it's all about
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  Speaker 3: the UH the Alabama guys they're bringing in here too, Bill,
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  Speaker 3: But I'll give this half a ton of credit.
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  Speaker 2: Though a lot of the guys that.
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  Speaker 3: Were rumored only rumored to be entertaining hitting the transfer
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  Speaker 3: a portal. UH Texas kept, you know, all the guys
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  Speaker 3: who were either significant contributors or guys who were starters
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  Speaker 3: for them. The only guys who left with the guys
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  Speaker 3: who were the guys who only guys who left were
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  Speaker 3: either significant contributors to starters were the guys who declared
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  Speaker 3: for the NFL Draft.
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  Speaker 2: The ore the rest of the attrition. And that's Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that that's what you want. You want. You want guys
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  Speaker 2: to claire for the draft.
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  Speaker 3: They claire in the draft, or they think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to the draft or the draft, of go. That means
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  Speaker 3: you've done a good job developing and it means you
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of talent. And that's just other recruits
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  Speaker 3: and other players around the country are going to see
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  Speaker 3: that Texas is a football factory, in NFL factory, and
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna want to go to Texas too. So that's
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  Speaker 3: a good thing. That's that's the best attrition you can have. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: guys going to get drafted into the NFL. But other
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  Speaker 3: than that, you know, they didn't lose significant contributors or starters,
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  Speaker 3: and that's a credit to the staff and their ability
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  Speaker 3: to retain the talent they have.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's it, it ain't. It's never easy to go
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  Speaker 2: pull a down piece.
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  Speaker 4: You can.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I pulled a dying piece of two in
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  Speaker 3: my life. It ain't easy to pull a down piece,
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  Speaker 3: but it's way harder to keep a don piece you pull.
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  Speaker 2: You can pull a down piece.
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  Speaker 3: You can just be You can be on your game
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  Speaker 3: out there downtown on Sixth Street one night, right, amount
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  Speaker 3: of liquor and confidence whatever, you get out there and
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  Speaker 3: start spending game bom who knows once in lifetime pull
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  Speaker 3: yourself a don piece, all right?
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  Speaker 2: For me, it was easier at times, just.
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  Speaker 3: Saying as a Texas football player and as a guy
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  Speaker 3: who played in the league, easier to pull down pieces.
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  Speaker 3: I had a better story then we'll just say it
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  Speaker 3: can have it to anybody, all right, but I've had
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  Speaker 3: a few dying pieces in Texas. That's what these blue
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  Speaker 3: chips are, the recruited on the ross, right, they're don pieces,
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  Speaker 3: recruiting the four and a five star recruit that everybody
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  Speaker 3: around the country recruited. And they won't steal even the
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  Speaker 3: guys that when they're on your roster and they're tampering
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  Speaker 3: with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, except it's it ain't easy. But you can pull
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  Speaker 2: a down piece, but keeping a down piece and keeping
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  Speaker 2: them happy, that's that's a tall task. That's a herculean task.
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  Speaker 2: That's where retention is.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: That's my comparison to the retention trying to retain the
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  Speaker 3: roster that you have in college football in the new
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  Speaker 3: landscape of the nil era and transfer portal and teams
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  Speaker 3: poaching and tampering with your players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you pulled the din piece.
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  Speaker 3: The can you keep her candy keeper without a getting bored?
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  Speaker 3: What are what are being dissatisfied? Without her getting annoyed
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  Speaker 3: by it?
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  Speaker 2: Can you keep her? That's what Texas and all these
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  Speaker 2: little power programs are trying to do. Keep the dyning piece.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk a little NFL.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into promise the last two hours and the show,
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  Speaker 3: we're breaking down the division rounds all right, games and
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  Speaker 3: in too much detail, actually without the research I did.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll get into it.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw this little nugget from Roger Goodell and
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  Speaker 3: knew it was coming. We we live in and supersize me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a supersized me world. Everything gets bigger. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everything is on a more a grander scale.
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  Speaker 2: If you will.
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  Speaker 3: To increase profits, right, to increase increase the revenue. That's
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  Speaker 3: the old point of it. And when the NFL went
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  Speaker 3: to seventeen games, I remember saying, okay, well, so they're
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: gonna have eighteen games in two preseason games, like just
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: it's inevitable. I had enough still contacts in the league.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: And that's what the NFL was trying to push. They
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: want more games.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: More games means more money, period, More games, more regular
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: season games, more money.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: That's what the NFL wants. More playoff games, more money.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: They expand their playoffs too, didn't they More games, more money.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Let's say the same thing about college football. Everybody was like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: oh man, the gog football playoff twelve teams. That's like, oh,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: it's going to sixteen. They just are fourteen. They're gonna
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: expand it. Whenever they get the chance to expand it,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: they will expand it. Because expanding needs more money, more revenue,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: bigger the pie, more straight cash homie, all right, cream
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: cash news everything around me. And I remember saying, I said, man,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: that was years ago, and they renegotiate the CBA, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: they started opening the door for seventeen games, and they
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: got their seventeen games. So we all knew that was
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: gonna happen because NFL has the weakest players union of
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: all the major American team sports. The listen Lord Roger
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Goodell had to say today to Bloomberg News, he said,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: the logical step is for the NFL to expand.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: To an eighteen game regular season schedule.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: We went to sixteen and four, now seventeen and three,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: so eighteen and two is a logical step. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a logical step. Yeah, well, yeah, it's common. I knew
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: it was gonna happen. I don't know if it's a
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: logical step. I think it's a step that everybody knew
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: was inevitable. Inevitable step was probably a better term, but
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: that probably would have gotta be in trouble but it's yeah, logical.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I guess it's another way to the turn of phrase
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: there and flip it. But yeah, they were gonna get
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: the eighteen games. The owners want more games because more
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: games mean more money, and they're gonna get eighteen. And
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: whether he started at eighteen, at one point, you just
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: have twenty regular season games.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, they just they gonna keep adding to it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Guess they're gonna keep you know, they keep expanding things.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: We love that.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Roger Cadell, Roger Gille, his his goal or his goal
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: has always been to make the NFL a twenty billion
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: dollar a year league.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: That just go. I don't know where they are now.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I think they're creeping closer.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: They're probably between fifteen maybe between like fifteen billion or
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I think he's trying to get it to twenty billion
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a year. Like that's yeah, uh that, I mean literally,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: that's what he told the owners.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Like that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: He told the owners like when he and I think
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: he just renegotiated to get an extension. I believe that's
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: what Roger Goodell told him, like that, Hey, that's what
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I want to get the league too, by any means necessary,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: whatever we got to do.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I want to get it to be a twenty billion dollarly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: He has a mass he had a master plan for it,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: is what he told the owners. And you know, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: think he's you know, expanding the regular season more games.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: We'll get him close to that, I said, I think
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: right now they're probably probably at fifteen billion. I mean,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: it's it's a lot of rough estimates because you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: the NFL's you know, private, you know, they're private companies.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: The Green Bay Package is kind of where they get
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of their public information from because they're owned.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: They're publicly owned and the rest of them are pretty
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: much owned by billionaires majority and minority ownership. But that's said,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: that's that's why you're going to expand the regular season.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: They'll say it's for other stuff, but that's ultimately what
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: they want to do. And it's the number one TV
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: show and the number one it's the number one TV
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: show in America and even close there's not even any
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: actually real competition here.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: So that's gonna happen. Just keep an eye for it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It won't happen soon, but that's just him planning to
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: seed just so people don't get shocked by it. Because
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I believe within the CBA they can do it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: They open the door.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: They need to vote on it, and that I think
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: they need three forced owners approval on it, and they
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: need the players Union to agree to it as well.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: But the players Union, it is run by guys who
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: want more money, and all they have to do is
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: promise to if they promise to raise the minimum salary
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: in the league, which is for the Jags, the guys
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: like Rod b you know, guys who play the average
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: which is three and a half year, three to four years,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: they promised to raise the average minimum salary.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: That's what I need. I need to make.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I need to make a million plus dollars for the
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: three and a half years I'm in the NFL so
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: that I can be set. And so I don't really
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: care about as much about the guaranteed salaries and the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: lifetime healthcare. Probably should, but you got to make your
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: money while you're in the league, and that's what they do.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: They do a lot of class warfare separate the have
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: and the have nots in the league, and they're way
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: more have nots in the NFL than there are halves.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: It's not the case in the NBA. Are major LYE
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Baseball because it's guaranteed contracts, guaranteed salaries.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: You sign it, you get it. That's not the case
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. There's no guaranteed contracts. Only what you
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: get in the signing bonus, and only what they guarantee
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: in the contracts, the guaranteed straight cash.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Homie the k Ish, All right, we come back.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Well, uh oh, Craig Way actually has a little titbit
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: for us. It's got a nice interview with Rodney Terry.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: They're going to play again. You guys are ready for
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: some Texas basketball. So before we start previewing the Division
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: round games coming up in the NFL, we'll talk a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: little Texas basketball on either side. And here from Craig Way,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the voice of the Long Launch and the head coach
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: of the Jexas basketball team, Rdneyierry, right here on the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Greigway Show on AM thirteen hundred Zone. All right, coming
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: up next segment, we'll dive into the Cowboys coaching search.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I've already been on the record saying, hey, just hired
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: d On, All right, just hired at this one. You're
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: gonna think about hiring Jason Whitten. You know, I like
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Kellen Moore. I was actually a Kellen Moore fan and
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: a Kellen Moore polo. Just I get the killing more
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: thing because it works world with deck. I don't think
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Kellen Moore is ready to be a head coach in
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the NFL, but I get it if it's killing more.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: But I at this point, I don't look.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I don't look to the Cowboys for functional organizational leadership.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: And I don't look to the Cowboys right now for
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: to be for them to have consistent championship caliber, uh competition,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: like I don't look for them for stability.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I don't look for the Cowboys for you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Know, for their great organizational leadership like That's not why
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I look for the Cowboys.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I look to the Cowboys for entertainment.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And damn it, if they hired Dionne to be the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: head coach, I'll be thoroughly entertained. I won't be able
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to take my eyes off the Cowboys. I won't be
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: to stop watching. How bad they are doesn't matter. I
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: don't think they don't know they will be bad either.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know if the experiment will work or not.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: A lot of the you know, unless you maybe they're
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: gonna hire be Billbili Chick. Bill Belichick says he's good. Though,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: by the way, Dell bill Chick says he's good. Mike Lombardi,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: who's on his staff, says that they are locked in
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: and they are committed to North Carolina. Even though we've
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: seen Bill Belichick, we've seen him reverse course before. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: his girlfriend, the one who's like twenty something whatever she is,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: however she is, she's decades younger than he is. She
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: is also put out on social media that they're committed,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: like she's committed with him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: That is such a strange story.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I'm happy for Bill belichicking that maybe that's why he's
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: going back to college.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe she wants to get back on campus.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: All right, let's hear from Craiga or at Craig Way,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the voice of the Logano Woarings. Of course, he is
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: on the road calling a lot of Texas basketball game.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, he is going to call
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: the game Saturday. The Long one men's basketball team will
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: be taken on Florida on Saturday. And actually you can
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: hear that game right here on AM thirteen hundreds Zone Saturday.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: It'll be at two thirty. That'll be live from Gainesville.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: But Rodney Terry, he was on with Craig yesterday during
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the Coaches Show and they were a lot of at
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Pluckers and he spoke to Rodney Terry about their upcoming opponent,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: the Florida Gators. And here's what coach Rodney Terry had
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: to say about the upcoming matchup.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: We welcome you back to Longgordon Weekly with head coach
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Rodney Terry from here at Pluckers the West Campus location
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: here in Austin. Only because we can say, hey, we
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: are on Liveingkday right now. Texas women are up twenty
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: at the half at Auburn forty three twenty three, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I know you and Vic commiserate about trying to keep
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: your programs on a roll.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And it's a good start for VIX team.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: No, Vic's got a really good team.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of continuity from last year and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: one of the top teams in the country.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And anytime you go in the road is never easy,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and they're doing a great job. The night sounds like, all.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Right, let's get into a couple of other things as well,
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: and that's to talk about life in the sec Like
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: we said, whether you're at home or on the road,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: it can be difficult. Florida found that out at home
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: against Missouri. Well, by the way, guess who's the next two? Sorry,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Florida and Missouri on the road at Florida and then
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: missoo at home. Let's let's first of all talk about
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Florida and what you see from the Gators.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: We the Gators.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: You know, it's got some connuity from last year. They've
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: got Clayton back the starting point guard. He's a guy
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that can really score the basketball. You talk about Richard
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: being back, another guy that was a starter a year
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: ago that could score the basketball.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Connons.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They got some inside guys that really rebound the basketball
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: at a high Cliff Condon.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: It's really good. Big Ruben in their strong you know.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, you had a guy like
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Elijah Morten who played at FAU and played in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Final four. You know, and you got a good nucleus
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of guys that they're the top you know, Uh, offensive
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: rebounding team in our league and physical team, good shooting team. Uh.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: They want to play fast and get the ball up
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and down the floor as well, and they can really score.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: It's interesting I hear you talk about all those the
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: superlatives about Florida, and they're all very accurate and true.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: And I sit there and think, you just got through
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: playing the number two team in the country Auburn that
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: can rebound with the best of them and can be
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: beastly the number one team in the country at the time,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Tennessee who can score with the best in the country.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Go on the road to Oklahoma, which start at thirteen, Oh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: can get up and down the floor? You played A
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: and M who can get up in that No, how
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: you got Florida. It's kind of like what we've been
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: saying on the beat, goes on night in night out right,
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: it does.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: And this team can play really fast in transition and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: shoot the ball really quick, and they've got great shooters
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: at every spot, and you know their top five for
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a reason, and you know they're well coached. They do
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a great job of.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Really putting a lot of pressure on your defense.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: And then from the frying pan to the fire, the
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: team that just beat them in Gainesville, the Missouri Tigers,
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: the next opponent for you back at home at Moody
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: next Tuesday, and we'll talk about some special incentives and
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: want fans to come out for that. But how about
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: your impressions of the Tigers.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Dennis has got his team playing out a very high
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: level right now. You know, he he has a very
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: physical team as well. You know, he's got some guards
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that are playing really well, guys they picked up in
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the portal or playing really good for him as well.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: And uh, they're a team that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Could throw a lot of different looks at you offensively, defensively,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and they're playing.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Really well together.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Is it important uh for you as a coach and
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: for your staff to continue to emphasize the fact that
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: to the guys about you have to keep grinding because
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: in this league, more so than what we saw on
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: the Big twelve, that they're going to see a really
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: good team almost every time they go out on the floor,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: and even the ones whose record might not reflect it
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: still are good enough to pull a surprise if you're
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: not on your game.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Well, we've got a number of teams in our lead
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that will have a chance compete to be a Final
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: four participant this year, and Flood is one of those
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: teams that has a chance to be a Final four
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: type team. And uh, that that good, and uh, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: but the opportunities, you know, ones again that you should
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: be excited about. You know, we're getting better and uh
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in our journey, uh as well. And I thought we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: got better even in losses, you know, over the over
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the course of last week. Uh, so you know you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: welcome those opportunities and you're excited about those, you know.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Uh, coaches have no control, believe it or not, over
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: conference scheduling, non conference I know it's gonna be a
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: challenge trying to get to your teams at you have
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: no control over conference schedule. But I am curious to
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: get your thoughts on what's the first thing you went
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: through your mind when you saw how this conference schedule
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: was going to open with going to College Station, then
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: playing auburnon Tennessee back to back, and then after that
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: going up to Norman and then going to Florida.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Well, we knew was gonna be a gunlet you know
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: what I mean. And I think for us, we try
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: to take it one game at a time and deal
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: with the game that you have in front of you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: But but uh, you know again that's what this leads
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: built on.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I mean that we we had an historic run in
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: conference play of any conference in.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: All the basketball and college basketball.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: History, you know, with the winning percentage, so you knew
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: going in every team was gonna it's gonna be really
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a tough challenge for you, whether you're at home or
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: whether you're on the road.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: And but that's what makes ILL lead the best league
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: in the country. Yeah, you know, and you should be
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: excited about competing in the.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Best league and getting a chance to play against.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: The best teams every night. And that's what we're getting
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a chance to do, I would imagine.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: Also, it gives you the opportunity, even if you take
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: some hits, like early on in conference play, because of
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: the strength and the quality of this league number one
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: in all the net and computer rankings, that sort of thing,
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: that if you stay the course and you know, collect
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: some wins, you'll have a chance to be an NC
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: tournament regardless of how you ultimately finish up.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Again, I think you have to work the season, you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and just stay the course.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, just put everything you have into the game
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that you're preparing for, and then you'll you'll worry about
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the next challenge after that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: But everything has to go into that game, whether it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: a quick turnaround or not.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, we get in last night and you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: two in the morning, right, and uh, you know, we
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: got a quick turn.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: We gotta we got a top five team that we
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: got to get.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Prepared for, and you got a one day prep, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and we'll have to spend a lot of our time
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: tomorrow trying to get ready for these guys and travel
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: across over the Gainsville and play.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: A uh you know again a top level t all right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And that was Craig Way sitting down with Rodney Terry
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: on the Coaching Show yesterday live from Pluckers And yet
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: no doubt, I mean, we thought that Rodney Terry would
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: get somewhat of some relief going from the Big Twelve
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: to the SEC. The Big Twelve at the time was
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: considered the most competitive college basketball.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Conference in America, and now it seems like that's the SEC.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So I thought that would be the competitive level would
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: drop off a little bit. Not the case.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: But Rodney Terry and the Texas basketball team hopeful up
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: to the challenge versus Florida tomorrow as you will hear
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: that game right here on AM thirteen hundred Zone and
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Craig Way, of course will be on the call.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: All right, we come back.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: We'll get into some other NFL discussions, NFL news notes,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: and that we'll talk about the Dallas Cowboys and their
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: head coaching vacancy.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about give you the latest.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: With the Cowboys coaching vacancy, all of that and more
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: right here on the Craigway Show.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: They am thirteen hundred Zone. I went back to the
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Craigway Show.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I'm live to talk about Horn Rode Baby sitting in
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: for Craig Way, the voice of the Lonehorns, who is
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: of course on the road doing I was doing great
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: work calling Texas football, Texas basketball games, and Craig Way
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: will be back next week, but I've been sitting in
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: for him for a couple of days this week. So
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I'm really grateful Craig for giving me the opportunity. All right,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: let's get to Dallas Cowboys head coaching vacancy. Let's get
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: to the news related to it and the latest report.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: So there's a couple of reports here that I want
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: to discuss. The first one is from Diana Russini from
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: The Athletic.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And her episode of Scoop City on her podcast.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: She said basically, or at least hinted that the Cowboys
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: were a little surprised that Mike McCarthy didn't jump at
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the offer that they threw out there, whatever offer it was,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the basically, they were surprised that Mike McCarthy had options.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Here's the quote. There's definitely a camp that I'm talking
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: to that's like, this is not real. This is not real,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: they talk. This is all flirting, this is all Jerry
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: was not expecting Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys to go
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: separate ways.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: The plan was to bring them back. They did not
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: have a plan in place here, so a lot of
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: this was scrambling from what I can gather of just
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I need to figure out how to fix this quickly.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: And so now we're seeing the coaches get called in.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: That's surprising because I think a lot of people saw
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: this coming. He was a lame duck coach. He wasn't
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: on a contract like he.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know what Jerry was saying to Mike McCarthy,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: but you know, like my wife always tells me, it's
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: not about it's not it's not about what you say,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: it's about what you do right, actions speak loud and words.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: This kind of thing man, your actions were telling me
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: you didn't really you didn't want Mike McCarthy. If you
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: wanted make MacArthur, you just offered him a contract extension,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: and you'd have been fine. But you didn't offer him
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: a contract extension. So everybody assumed, oh, lame duck coach,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: he's probably gonna be available at the end of the season.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I would say more than half Cowboys fans assume, Oh,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's gone at the end of this year. So
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: he's surprised by it. Man, that's on.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: That's that's kind of delusional, and that's that's on Jerry
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Jones there, or maybe Jerry Jones just assumed that he
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have options. But now it looks like, you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the Bears were interested, the Saints are interested. It's like
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: he's gonna get a head coaching job somewhere. And so
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys may have miscalculated on that one. And there
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: was also Adam Schefter. He touched on the same overall
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: idea when he was on the depart might take a show,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: and he said when they said no, when the Cowboys
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: basically said no to Mike McCarthy, or initially.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: To an interview Remember they said no to him interviewing.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I believe it was with the Bears, but they said
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: no to an interview request, and everybody assumed, Okay, maybe
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: they're said no because Mike McCarthy's gonna be their guy.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: They just want to negotiate it with him without him
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: going to interview with their teams. He said, quote when
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: they said it's Adam Schefter. When they said no, they
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: didn't You didn't know whether they meant they were going
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: to try to get something done or whether they were
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: just kind of dot dot being Dallas, just being Dallas,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: just being overly dramatic. You were gonna sign CD anyway
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: to a certain number, but you want to drag it out,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: say anything with Dak, you know what I mean? Like
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: you just liked the drama. You like T and T,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you love the drama. And for I think the Cowboys
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: maybe they miscalculated in this one that they thought, oh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: we'll get some headlines out of it, but ultimately we'll
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: get Mike mc he's got nowhere else to go. Well
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: broke about that, and so now we're at either Kellen Moore,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: who just interviewed Dion, is a realistic option. No, people
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: think it's not.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: We know he really really likes Jason Witten. They interviewed
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Robert Salah because they're scrambling.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: And there's such a very unique situation because of the
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: very unconventional chain of command with the Cowboys. I don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: know if you're just gonna I mean, you could try
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: to get Ben Johnson. I mean, I would love for
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: you to get the top coaching candidate, maybe Aaron Glenn,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: who's also another one of those top coaching candidates. But
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: when these guys have their pick of multiple jobs, they
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: don't always.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Go to the Cowboys. Because the Cowboys you're not gonna get.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: You don't get all the credit, and you don't necessarily
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: get to make all you don't get enough of the
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: decision making. You don't get enough of the decision making
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: ability with those particular situations like the Cowboys, because Jerry
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Jones is running the show.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Also, I was saying about d On though. I was
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: talking to Coach Brewster. Coach Tim Brewster who recruited me,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and he worked with.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Coach Prime when he was at Jackson State and when
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: he went to Colorado, and he says that the mistake
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: that people make about Dion, and I'm a huge d
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: young fan, have been since I was in high school.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I wanted to be Dion. I wore number two in
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: high school because of Dion. Want to wear number two
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: in high in college because of Dion. He weren't between
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: college for those who know, and but I ended up
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: wen't number twenty one still because of Dion. So love
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: me some, don love me some prime time, he said.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: The mistake that people make about Dan is they assume
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: that his success.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Is you know, some type of it's.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Something of It's not a mistake, but they assume that
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: it's some type of coincidence because he's just great at football,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: that he's also you know, a success now coaching.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: But it's not.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: He's like very detailed oriented, meticulous about a lot of things,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: and he values relationships.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: And his old coach at.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Coach Mickey Andrews at Florida State, he once said Dian
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: was not only just the best player of a coach
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: because the arguing with the greatest athletes ever played defensive back,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: but he said he was also the hardest worker.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: God just worked like his tail off, like he was
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: obsessed with, you know, being the not only the best
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: at hes position, but also being the guy that put
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in the most work and the was the most committed
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to his craft, into cultivating his craft. And that's the
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: side of DEEA. And you don't see because all you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: see is Prime who.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Loves a big stage and knows how to promote as
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: well as anybody shame self promoter.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: But he also shines the light on this kids a lot.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: The students that are student athletes are in his program too,
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: and you got to have a certain kind.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Of DNA to deal with that big spotlight. All right,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: we come back, We'll get into the division round games,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: will break them all down and get into the x's
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: and o's and preview all of the matchups coming up
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: this weekend, all of that more right here on The
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Greigway Show on AM thirteen hundred of All Right, welcome
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: back to The Craigway Show.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: A freak flag, feel good, fake it to your make
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: it ric flair Whoo Football Friday edition of The Craigway Show.
• 38:33
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• 38:38
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• 38:43
  Speaker 3: get to some NFL discussion, and we'll talk about the
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: divisional game, start to break those down a little bit.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: There's also, of course Texas football discussion to get to
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: the transfer portal of actually transfer portal news.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: There was another player for the Longhorns that hit the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: transfer portal. I'm not black. That makes ten in this
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: transfer a portal window. We talked about it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: We'll get into it a little bit later on and
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: tell you why that's a healthy attrition for Texas losing
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: just ten guys via the transfer a portal, And then
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: we'll talk about the retention, which is a success story
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: for the lone Ones of keeping so many of their
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: key guys and key contributors and starters for this twenty
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: twenty five roster. All right, So we'll get to that
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: coming up a little bit later on. Also, Craig Way
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: spoke with Rodney Terry during the Coaches Show. We played
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: some audio of him previewing their upcoming opponent, the Florida Gators.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Will do that coming up a little bit later on
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: in the show too. So we'll go behind the burnt
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Orange current and talk some Texas sports. But let's get
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: to the NFL Divisional round games to start to break
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: those down. Of course, right here close to home, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Texans will have the herculean task ahead of them of
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: trying to take down the Kansas City Chiefs on a
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: dynastic run, trying to do something that nobody's ever done before.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: That's something that's ever been done in the history of
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: the NFL, which is three peatd The NFL is not
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: built that way for teams to win three in a row.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: It's just not really, not in the modern age, not
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl era. The NFL isn't built that way.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Not the way they do their draft, not their CBA,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: not with the salary cap.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Everything is promoting parody. They won't parody.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: They want everybody's fan base to feel like they have
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: hope every year. And the more fan bases have hope
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: all throughout the season, that's why they expand This part
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: of the reason they expanded the playoffs. The more you
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: invest in your team emotionally but also financially right your
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: team being your team's not in it, you lose interest.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: You're like a losing some most most people do. I don't.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: I'm a football team, So all pay attention ill damn't
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: watch anybody playing football but the Kansas City Chiefs, Right,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: they're trying to do something that has never been done,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: because it does really, I mean, it really kind of
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: flies in the face of everything that the NFL is
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: built on of it for a team to go in
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: this kind of dynastic run and the Chiefs and this
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: is how rare it is for a team to three
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: peat in the NFL and win three in a row.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Not only has it never happened, but no team has
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: really even been close. No team that's repeated has even
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: made it back to the super Bowl. Like they ain't
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: even made it back to the super Bowl. They don't
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: even make it back there. Because naturally, there's a natural,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: you know process of you know, attrition that happens. Guys
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: leave your team, the salary cap, you know, older players
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: that are in players are more expensive, so you're gonna
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: pay players, so your roster sources degrade. You lose coaches.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That's a big part of it too. You lose your
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: best coaches. Right when once teams around the league it's
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: a copycat league. See you have success, they start trying
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: to steal your coaches. So it's hard to keep the
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: nucleus of your team in place long enough for you
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: to go on that kind of a run. And that's
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: what the Cancachefs are trying to do. And they've kept
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: the nucleus right. They got the best coach in the
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: NFL and Andy Reid I always talk about the holy trinity,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: the coach, who's your coach, who's your GM, who's your quarterback?
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: And where are they ranked among their peers. Well, the
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: GM for the Kansaity Chiefs is bread Veitch top three
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: to best GM in the league. He's in that conversation,
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Andy Reid, He's in the conversation to be one of
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: the greatest coaches of all time. So he got the
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: best coach in the NFL right now. And Patrick Mahomes
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: is the best quarterback in the league, so they have
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: the best They have the best holy trinity in the league.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: To me, that's why the Canta Chiefs are tough to
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: be period because that nucleus is hard to be and
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: then you branch out from that and you go, well,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Chris Jones might be the best interior d lineman in
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: the league, and then Travis Kelcey is the best tight
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: end in the league, and he and you know, Patrick
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Mahomes have the best connection of any quarterback active receiver
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: in the league, so they have other things to build it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: I like, I like Trent McDuffie. Actually, I'm a big
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: fan of Fam the cornerback for Kansas City as well.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: But they that's why Kansas City can have this longevity
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: and it's sustained excellence for as long as they have
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: is because man, they got the best of the best
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: when it comes to that. You know that though those
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: key elements to building a franchise, now here's the tech,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and the Texans are trying to build that too, right,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Just what.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: You know, Debiko runs and you got c J. Stroud.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fami Nick Cassario, you got your Holy
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Treney is pretty good and you know who you gotta be.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: You gotta take down Kansas City, right if you want
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: to in the AFC, if you want to ascend in advance,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Kansas City is a team that's gonna be in your
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: way and this is the time to do it. And
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I think that the Texans they do have, they do
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: have the necessary elements to neutralize Kansas City's offense, and
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I think they'll do a pretty good job of because
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Demiico Ryans. Listen, guys, when he comes over with a
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: game plan for a high level quarterback, Now, Patrick Mahomes
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: a different beach star together, and they did just play
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, and you know the game plan wasn't that effective.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I believe the Kansas City Chiefs had twenty
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: five first downs in that game. That was a season
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: high allowed for the Texans defense. That's what when you're
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: going up against the best play caller, play designer and
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: the best quarterback in the league, you know thems to breaks.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: But against Justin Herbert, he had his worst game of
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: the season and that was just last week. Jared Goff,
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: when you played the Texans, he had his worst game
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: of the season, arguably of his career. Same thing with
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, worst game of the season, arguably of his
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: career career when he played the Texas defense. Same thing
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: with Jared Goff. Five interceptions for him, four interceptions for
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Justin Herbert. Josh Allen, he had arguably the worst game
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: of his career and his worst.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Of the season when he played the Texans.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, these are elite quarterbacks, these guys are I
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: mean Josh Allen's in the MVP discussion. Jared Goff is
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: leading what looks like a juggernaut there with the Detroit Lions,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: and they have the most explosive offense in the league
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: right now. And you know, Justin Herbert is one of
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: the better young quarterbacks in all of the NFL.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: And yet when they faced this Texans defense, with.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: The game planning and the strategy of Demiko Ryans, they
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: had their worst games of the season, arguably the worst
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: games of their careers versus the Texans d The Josh
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Allen staff that I love is that his thirty percent
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: completion rate was a career low, and it was the
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: lowest percentage in a game with at least thirty attempts
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: in the past thirty seasons.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: It's easy to remember because of the thirties. So and
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Tua had a bad game.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: I think Tua had three picks and two is not
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: in the upper echelon of quarterbacks like those other guys,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: but Jordan Love had two interceptions. They turn you over
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: and their sound in coverage, and I think that'll give
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: them a shot. They actually can win in coverage versus
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Kansas City's receivers. Not every down, but they can win
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: their fair share, and that's good enough to start, because
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: you need dbs that can win on the outside because
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have to, I think, devote and allocate resources
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: to stop Travis kelce and limit that connection between him
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: and Patrick Mahomes. And you're probably gonna do it by
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: bracketing him. You can't just put a linebacker on them.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: You got safeties that I think can cover Travis Kelcey,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: but Travis Kelcey doesn't. I've told you this all the
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: time when mexic caann't see achieved so tough. Now said,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: he doesn't run the routes, Gus. There's no hard angles,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: there's no real right angles in this.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: He's just getting open.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Go look at his Go look at the Travis Kelcey
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: route tree. Every now and then, like throughout the game,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: they do it. On next year they track it. He's
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: just running around getting open. It looks like dude playing
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: on the playground. He's just running around getting open because
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: he knows that the offense at times his gear just
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: to create space for him. All right, They're just the
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: wide receivers just running routes just to create space for
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Kelsey and Patrich Mahans is buying time for Kelsey and
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: that's that makes that connection tough to stop.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: And then the what makes.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes tough to stop is I told you guys
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: last year he was second in the NFL in scrambling
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: yards behind Lamar Jackson. He scrambles a lot in the
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: playoffs and a lot more than you like him too.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: And the Texans, unfortunately they allow the most rushing yard
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: seven point eight on quarterback runs and scrambles.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: That's not necessarily a good thing, but I do think.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: They need to be a lock up on the outside
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: with the wide receivers potentially into one on one situations
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: because they're gonna need to allocate resources extra resources for
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Kelsey to limit him and potentially to spy Patrick Mahomes
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: at times because he can scramble and he scrambles really well.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: And you got to defend three plays in one. You
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: got to defend the initial play, whatever that is. And
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: if it's a run play, great, you just make the tackle.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: If it's a pass play, you got to defend the
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: initial pass play. Then when he extends to play and
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: get outside the pocket, if you can't contain him, and
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: it's hard to contain him. You do have the edges
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: to do it, though. You got the best edge duo
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs in the NFL, Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: the only edge duo that is both guys in the
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: top ten in sacks. So you can keep him in
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: the pockets holding the football because you got hiss his
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: weapons covered up. And that's when you get inefficient, very chaotic,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: almost a risky style of football from Patrick Mahomes because
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: when he when he lost the Buffalo and that only
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: lost the season, he held the ball for three point
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: three seconds and it wasn't him scrambling, it was him
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: in the pocket. He played Houston the first time. Two
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: point five seconds was his average time to throw.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: That's way too quick. That that means he's going to
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: his first read.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: You gotta take away his first rd, force him to
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: hold on to the ball a little bit so you
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: can collapse the pocket on top of him. And you
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: don't want him outside the pocket cause then he's extending
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: to play. And then you got to defend number two,
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: the scrambled drill. And then if you defend the scrambled
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: drill successfully between him and Kelsey and Kelsey Rich run
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: around making up routes to get open. Then you got
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: to defend the scramble of the quarterback who actually tucks
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: it and is a really good athlete out in space.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: It's a it's hell on wheels. So that is gonna
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: be the conundrum for the Texans and we come back,
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you how I think they The Texans have
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: a shot. It's a narrow path to victory. But I'll
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: tell you what the shot the Texans may have in
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: this matchup versus Kansas City. But man taking to beat
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: the man, you gotta beat the man. Taking down the man,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be It's gonna be tough for the Texans.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: We'll get into it. We'll talk about that on the
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: other side right here on The craigway Show, right here
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: on AM thirteen hundred some. All right, welcome back to
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: the The Craigways Show. I'm not Craig Wabe, but I'm
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: sitting in for Craig Waye. So I appreciate Craig giving
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: me the opportunity to sit in for him today. I
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: was in just a couple of days this week, and
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Craig will be back next week for you. But I
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: want to get into the NFL playoffs, will we got
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: some time to continue talking about the Texans and the
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: tall task ahead of the Texans trying to take down
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Chiefs would be you know,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: they would be making history if they can get back
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: to the super Bowl. Even to make it back to
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: the super Bowl to try to win a third one,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: as I brought up earlier, that has never happened. I mean,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: no team is, like I said, trying to get to
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: their get to three in a row has having gotten
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: close to nineteen ninety forty nine Ers came closest, but
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I believe they lost to Bill Parcels and the Giants
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: in the NFC title game. So talking about the KANSASA Chiefs,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: and one thing that's gonna be interesting here is they
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: have twenty four days of rest. At least they will
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: have twenty four days of rest when they play the Texans.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: And the rust versus rest thing has come up a lot,
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: and it very well. Maybe this team knows how to
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: flip a switch, right. They got championship pedigree, They've won
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: super Bowls, they know, I mean, they had seven walk
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: off wins this year.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Seven of their wins will walk off wins. That is
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: that's unbelievable.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're talking about you know them, the half
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: of your wins were just a walk off style because
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: they they know how to be clutch, and they have
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: the clutch team.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: They're not always good.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: They haven't actually played that well this year, but they've
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: been really clutched this year. And actually they've been really
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: clutch for the last sixteen games because they've had sixteen straight.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Games decided about one score.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: That's an NFL record eleven and zer in close games
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: seven and zerine game when you drive opportunities. They haven't
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: blown the fourth quarter lead, so if they get a
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter lead, that might be all.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: She wrote, So you want to make sure you gotta
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: lead going into the fourth quarter.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: But the rest, the actually rust and the rest arguments
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: may help the Texans here, even the mighty Kansas City
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Chiefs may have to deal with Russ because that twenty
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: four days of rest, three weeks, almost a month of
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: rest before your you know, playoff game before the playoff
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: game is a long time.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: So I went back and.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Looked at it, and this is from two thousand and
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: two to twenty twenty three, all right, So in that
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: time span, there were eighty teams who had a first
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: round by keep in mind twenty twenty when the NFL
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: switched to only one by per conference at that time.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: So out of these eighty teams, if you break them
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: down into the ones that had no rest that played
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: immediately just played the next week, and then the one
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: who had semi rest meaning they just had the bye week,
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: the one bye, and then there's the embracing what they
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: call the double bye. And the reason the Kansae Chiefs
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: have had twenty four days rest is because they didn't
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: play their starters in the last game of the season.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: So they get that week of rest because they didn't
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: play the starters and they didn't they didn't play because
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: they had to buy week. And then of course they
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: get this week getting ready for their opponent. That's three
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: weeks basically that they're gonna get a rest because they
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: embrace what they call the double bye.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Get the double by, all right, that's for rest. And
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: they're men teams throughout, you know, the last couple of decades,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: they they embraced the double buy they'll use, they'll use
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: if they got their place already solidified in the playoffs,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: and they don't have to worry about their seeding.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: They'll just rest everybody in the last game. But some
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: coaches were about the rust and rest situation, so they decide,
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: now I'm gonna play my guys for a quarter, plan
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: for a half. That's not what Kansas City did. They
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: rested their guys for that entire final week of the season.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: So going back and looking at those eighty teams, here's
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: how they performed in the playoffs with the with no
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: rest semi just that one week of rest, and then
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: the double by rest that we're talking about. If you
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: go to look at their playoff record, the double by
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: rest fifty percentage.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: And their playoff record overall but Super Bowl wins, only
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: one team as won of the Super Bowl on that
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: in that timespan, on that double by for rest, which
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: is not good. There have been more teams on no
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: rest at all. They have just gotten hot that have
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: won it in that timespan with not a lot of rest.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: If you go look at the.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Amount of teams who their division record in terms of
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: winning in the UH their division record, the teams who
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: embrace the double by seven and four sixty percentage, but
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: they don't cover very very often in terms of the
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: spread against the spread. The teams with the double rest
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: are three, are three and eight covering the spread of
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: the time they cover the spread, so don't cover the spread,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: which that to me makes sense that there so there
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: is some letdown basically what these numbers tent, there is
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: some let down.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: They may not necessarily lose, but.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe there is a slow start, maybe there is some
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: working out the kinks, maybe there's some rusts, there some
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: inconsistency with the With the Chiefs, I'm not sure we'll see.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, they have some new pieces.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Remember they brought in DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown came back
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: off the injury DJ Humphries their left tackle. I mean
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: he's only played a few snaps as they're starting left tackle,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: so he could use more work to get cohesion and
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: continuity with the offensive line. They're getting back their starting
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: corner with that extra rest. So I don't know if
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: the rust or the rest thing will affect the canc Chiefs,
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: but historically, at least recent history will suggest it will.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: That will be more advantageous to the Texans. The fact
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: that the Kansa Chios haven't played in so long, but
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: the Texans did a good job, A great job, actually
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: a pressuring justin Herbert last week in the playoffs, he
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: was under pressure on more than half his dropbacks and
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: fifty eight percent of the pressures were under two and
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: a half seconds. That is that's important because Patrick Mahomes
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: the last time he played the Texans, his average time
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: to throw was two and a half seconds.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: It was his fastest off the season at the time.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: They got to get to him quickly.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: They got to get to him quickly and collapse the
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: pocket quickly, and they need to take away the quick read,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: the first read for Patrick Mahomes, which means the corners
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: need to be aggressive, and they got the corners in
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: the dvs to be aggressive.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Derek Stingley Junior was playing at a really high level.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: I mean right now, and I said last year, before
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: this season, I said Derek Stingley should be playing at
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: all pro level. Since eight he has allowed a twenty
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: seven passer rating when targeted on sixty attempts. Yeah, no,
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: he's bothering, he really is. He's playing like an all pro.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's gonna get oh Pro, but
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: he's playing like it right now. They need him to
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: be kind of a shut down corner in this situation.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: On his side of the field, Kamara Lasser is playing
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: really well, Kaylyn Bullock, Eric Murray, Miles Brynt, even the
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: youngster play world. Their secondary is playing like the best
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: secondary right now in the playoffs.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I love the chief secondary too.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: They'll get back Jalen Watson, but their secondary is playing
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: well enough where you're gonna.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Need them to win against the receivers.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: So you can devote resources to stop the Travis Kelcey
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: connection and to stop Mahomes to scramble because you allow
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: more rushing yards per quarterback or per rush on quarterback
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: run scrambles included than any team in the league. And
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you he's gonna be He's gonna scramble, and
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: then when all that is said and done, you still
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: gotta go win the fourth quarter.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: INSTIs dude, He's clutch. He's The last time the Texans
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: played the can't see the Chiefs, and I'll exist I'll
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: get the exact stats.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: And the numbers because they were kind of mind blowing.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: But the last time they played them in the playoffs
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, sorry, last time they played the Kansaity
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: Chiefs in the playoffs, the Texans were up by twenty
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: four points. I remember predicting before the game the Texans
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: were going to beat the Chiefs. This is before they
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: have become the Chiefs on this dynastic run, all right,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: But I do remember celebrating that they were twenty four points,
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: This game is gonna be over. And then I watched
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes put the cape on and bring his team
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: all the way back got they were. The Texans were
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: up by twenty four points in the first half, and
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs had come back and.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Releading by halftime. That leaves some scars on you.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: I know it ain't the same guys there, but that
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: leaves the s car and I went back and looked
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: at it, and that's when I started tracking it. And
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: there's nobody in the history we have the NFL guys
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: in the history of the league that is better win
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: down double digits in a game than Patrick Mahomes.
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't looked at all.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: The greatest quarterbacks of all time, Tom Brady, he has
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: a losing record, went down double digits in the playoffs
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: five and eight, Aaron Rodgers two and six. Drew Brees
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: was one in eight, Joe Montana was two and six,
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Brett fav was one and seven, Peyton Manny was two
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: and seven. You're not supposed to have a winning record
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: against good teams. When you're down double digits in the playoffs,
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: they know how to finish you off. Patrick Mahomes down
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: double digits in the playoffs because he's five and two.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson is one and four, down double just in
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. He's got a winning record, and three of
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: those have been in the Super Bowl. The man's been
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: down double digit. I wouldn't watch it.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Actually.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Last year I went to the Super Bowl in Las
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Vegas and watching the forty nine Ers get up on
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, it still couldn't finish him off.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: He's got there.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Nobody's got a more more of a clutch gene than
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: Patrick Maholmes. I think it's better than tom Brady's too.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: I think he's got more of the clutch gin and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: Tom Brady. Tom Brady the most clutch we've ever seen.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: All Right, we come back, We'll get into more of
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: the NFL playoffs, We'll dive into the other AFC matchup
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: between the Bills, and we'll get into that that Bill's
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: Ravens matchup, and will also jump to the NFC side things.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: All that and more right here on the Preigway Show,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: right here on AM thirteen hundred some. All right, welcome
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: back to the Craigway Show. Craig Way is out because
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: Craigway is on the road calling games with Cam Parker,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: so we appreciate I appreciate them letting me sit in
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: for them this week. They'll be back next week though,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: so don't worry about that. Speaking of craig Way, we'll
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: actually hear from Craigway coming up next next hour. He
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: spoke with Rodney Terry during the Coaching Show yesterday at
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: Pluckers and got a little snippet from Rodney Terry and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: Craig Way talking about the upcoming opponent for the Texas
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: men's basketball team, the Florida Gators. We'll get to that
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: sound coming up in just a few a few segments,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: actually in a couple of segments, will get to that
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: coming up next hour. But let's get back to previewing
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: the divisional round games. On the AFC side of things,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: we talked a lot about the Texans and the Chiefs.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: I'm picking the Chiefs. I'm a Texans fan. I love
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: the Texans. I think they're great. It's really really tough
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: to obviously for the Texans this season.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: I think to match up with the Chiefs.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: I do think there may be a season away from
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: being able to take down the Chiefs. But maybe I'm
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: just I'm not a true believer, but I do think
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: the Textans are like a season away.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Next year, I think they meet the Chiefs in the playoffs.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: I think they may have a better shot at it.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: They've had some injuries in key spots. Who hasn't at
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: this point of the year. But I do think CJ.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Stroud They're gonna need him to go out there and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: make some extraordinary, miraculous plays, which he is capable of doing.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: By the way. He's got that dog get them and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: he's got the cape ability, if you will, to put
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: the cape on.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: I just hadn't seen it enough this year. It's really
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: the old line too, It's a big part of it.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Watch Chris Jones. Chris Jones is Chris Jones season man.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Chris Jones always plays like the best defensive player in football.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: During the playoffs. That's when he makes his best plays.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Most impactful plays.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can make the argument right behind Batch Mahomes,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: the reason that they have made these Super Bowl runs
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: is Chris Jones in the place that he's made in
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: the clutch.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the Ravens and the Bills.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: This is a this is a juggernaut matchup. I mean,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: both of these teams are I think capable of, you know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: potentially upsetting the Kansas City Chiefs. And that's what we're
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: talking about here, which one of these teams has a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: chance of knocking off the Chiefs. Earlier this season, though,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: the Ravens proved they might just be a bad matchup
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: for the Bills. Ravens won by what the twenty five
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: points versus the Buffalo Bills on Sunday Night Football.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen basically that was one of his worst losses
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: of his career. And in that loss, I mean, Derrick
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Henry just went off and the win for Baltimore I
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: should say, one hundred and ninety nine rushing yards. Yet
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: that eighty seven yeard touchdown run on like the first
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: play from scrimmage, and they didn't even need Lamara Jackson
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: to showcase his skill set. He had a modest game.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: I think two hundred total yards passing and rushing, you know,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns. I say modest game. But they he was
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: only thirteen of eighteen, so they didn't really need the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: passing attack because they were so dominant on the ground.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: That is the question.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: Can the Bills stop the you know that really dominated
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: the rushing attack with Lamara Jackson and Derrick Henry. I'm
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: leaning Ravens in this one. I'm not sure they can't.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: They won't have Zay the the Ravens won't have Zay Flowers.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: It's gonna hurt their offense a little bit. But they
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: went a lot of heavy sets versus the Steelers just
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: be hey, that's an AFC North matchup and they wanted
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: to kind of play bully ball with them. So maybe
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: that was just a matchup specific thing, but it may
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: be the route they're going in the playoffs to wear
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: teams down with Derrick Henry.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: We know Derrick Henry. That's when he really imposes his
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: wiel's late in.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: The season, when teams are worn down and players are hurt,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: battling injuries, the weather it gets cold, and then you
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: got this two hundred and whatever, forty thirty forty pounds
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: beast running downhill on you. So I think that's what
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: they're trying to do. And in that game versus Pittsburgh,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: they had eighty nine percent of their offensive snaps they
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: used either two running backs on the field or two
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: tight ends.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: That's heavy personnel.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: One back, eleven personnel, one back, one tight end. The
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: first number indicates how many running backs on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Second number indicate how many tight ends on the field.
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  Speaker 3: So they win a lot of twelve personnel won back
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  Speaker 3: two tight ends, and we're a lot of twenty one
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  Speaker 3: personnel two backs, one tight end, or twenty personnel two
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  Speaker 3: backs on the field at one time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that is interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I said, to go heavy like that and the Bills,
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  Speaker 3: the Bills didn't get. The Bills don't get in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of base base personnel being only four defensive backs
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: on the field, uh, and mostly either three or four linebackers,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: you know, terms of front seven, front seven defenders seven
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: guys on the field for your front seven. So I
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: wonder how they'll match up if the Ravens go that
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  Speaker 3: route again and try to play bully ball with them,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: and the Bills are in base. Like I said, just
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: four dv's on the field, the lowest rate in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: They don't match up like that. They're actually in dying
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: They're even dying like sixteen percent of the time, which
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: is six dv's on the field that is. So that's
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: a matchup that I'm watching. The Bills are one of
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  Speaker 2: the best teams in the league, though, when they go
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: with an extra offensive lineman, they put a sixth offensive
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: line on the field and they just they just go
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: with a where's the beef personnel grouping and they just
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: run downhill on teams.
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  Speaker 3: And that old line was great in the Wild Cord
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  Speaker 3: Round versus Denver. Denver led the NFL in pressures per
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  Speaker 3: game and.
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  Speaker 2: Sacks per game.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, they were at three point seven sacks per game
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: and over almost seventeen pressures per game, and they allowed
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: the Bills office wide allowed just nine pressures and one sack.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good numbers versus that Denver defense in the playoffs.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: So that old line now is starting to come into
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  Speaker 3: their own and they in that first matchup is a
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: great way to break tendency. Always say the win big games,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: you gotta find a way to break tendency. The Bills,
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  Speaker 3: I think are the one of the best teams, if
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: not the best team running the football out of a.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Six tozer line package.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: They didn't use it a lot in the first matchup
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: because the game got blown wide open too early. Derrick
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: Henry from the jump first play from Scrimminch he runs
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: for an eighty seven yard touchdown. Game got blown wide
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: open and they were just playing catch up. They were
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: chasing the rest of the game. They never had a
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: chance to dictate the turn tempo or dictate the terms
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: of the matchup, so they may have a chance this time.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: They only had two rush attempts with that six to
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: zero line package and that first matchup versus the Ravens,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: So in this matchup, I think you'll see that six
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: ole line package early on where they know they can
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: still try to dictate the tempo and dictate the game.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: But I've said scrambling is gonna be a big part.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Both of these quarterbacks operating off schedule, improvising extending plays.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately that could be the determining factor.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's just because you have two of the
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  Speaker 3: best scrambling quarterbacks and most i will say the most
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: highest scrambled rate for quarterbacks in the NFL, and two
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: of those guys facing off in this matchup, they will
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: be accounted for, but still in the open field, Lamark
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: Jackson and Joshaw on the open field, I don't give it, damn.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: If you do have a spy on, it's still really
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: really tough. A that's a tough task in the open
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: field to take those guys down.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: So we'll come back.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: We'll get into some more tidbits about this particular matchup
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: on the AFC side of things with the Bills in
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: the Ravens. But I'm gonna pick Ravens. I'm gonna tell
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: your I think I'm picking Ravens. But I think this
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  Speaker 3: is This is as close as you're gonna get in
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: terms of matchup in the playoffs. But it may be
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: a bad matchup for the Bills, but we shall see.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: We come back, we'll talk more about that, and we'll
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: also get to some other divisional round games on the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: NFC side when we come back as well. All of
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: that and more right here on The craig Way Show
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: thirteen hundred Zone. All right, welcome back to the Craigway
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Show here on AM thirteen hundred zone.
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  Speaker 2: I want to continue breaking down the AFC side of
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: the playoff bracket.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: On the divisional round, we're talking Bills and Ravens. I've
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: already said picking the Ravens. I'm also picking the Chiefs,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: even though over my textans it hurts my heart to
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: do so. But I did make the client that I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: wouldn't pick against Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs anymore. I
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: think I did it a couple of times, and it
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: just it's just not a smart thing to do. Just
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: take the young to take the young goat and the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: young prodigy every time, and you'll be on the winning time,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: winning side more often times than not. But I'm hoping
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: that Texans put off the upset.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: That would be great. We'll talk about that. I was
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: just talking about that, you know, the first or the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: first time.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: But the last time the Texans played the Chiefs in
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and they were up by twenty four points.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: At what point in that game? And if you look
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: at all of the and they lost the game.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Of course, if we look at all the comeback wins
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: by teams who were down by at least twenty four
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: points or more, a deficit of at least twenty four points,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: out of all the comebacks in the history of the
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: NFL of teams who were playing from a deficit of
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: at least twenty four points or more, the Chiefs versus
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: the Texans, that was the only team to come back
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: from down at least twenty four and lead at halftime.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: The rest of the teams were done. They were down
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: by twenty four. If you're down by twenty four yearsually,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: you already down at halftime. I mean, I don't think
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: there's ever been an example of that. They're not down,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: you know, they're not down in the first half at
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: one point, They're all of the rest of them had
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: a halftime deficit of some kind. The only team that
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: didn't have a halftime deficit. But we're down by at
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: least twenty four points. Talking about NFL history here and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: come back to win. Can City the Chiefs versus the Texans, Yeah,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: that would hurt anyway. Getting back to the Ravens and
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: the Ravens actually whipped up on the Texans last year
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. But getting back to the Ravens and the Bills,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: one thing to watch is twenty eight, twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: You know, to me, that's the number you want to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: watch for the Ravens, that's one of their I think
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: it's to me for the Ravens, it's that point where
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: they're playing like their style of football or they're being
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: forced to play somebody else's style of football.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: That's the breaking point.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: They're thirteen to her when they score at least twenty
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: eight points that they're zer and five when they don't.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: So if they're not, because this is an offense that's prolific,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: it's meant to score a lot of points. They're meant
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: to be an explosive offense because you got to devote
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: so many resources to stopp being the running attack of
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: Derrick Henry and his sheer size and mass, and then
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson and his running ability and the fact that
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: he's an elite passer.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: They they stress you in so many ways. They're gonna
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: pop a few big explosive plays, and those big exposive
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: plays are gonna lead to them getting into the red zone.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: And these, by the way, this is a matchup of
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: the two best red zone offenses in the NFL, and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: it's easy to see why. Right this is Honestly, I'm
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: not gonna start talking Texas football here Texas has had
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: red zone issues since. You know, I call it the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: post Bijon Rojo era. It's really I call it the
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: bech On Rojo hangover effect.
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  Speaker 3: And SARK has not figured out red zone offense since
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Bjon and Rojo left the forty Acres because it was
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: easy when Bjon and Rojo were here. Put some Bjon
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: on it with the side of Rojo solves all your problems.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: Don't matter what you call in the red zone. Just
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: give it to Bjon, give it to Rojo.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: You're good, all right, those go through.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Those guys were very skilled that being able to score
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: in the red zone. Just had a nose for the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: end zone. And they could be physical, they could be twitchy,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: they could get to the edge, you know, if they
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: needed to, you.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Know, beat guys one on one, they could. They just
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: they had it all.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: You had two of those guys, and you were top
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: five in Sark's first year in the red zone offense
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: and touchdown percent in the red zone. And you were
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: nineteenth in red zone offense in twenty twenty two and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: sixty fifth in touchdown percent in the red zone.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: And since then, both of those numbers have.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Cratered one hundred and twentieth and ninetieth in red zone
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: offense and touch down percent in the zone in twenty
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: twenty three, fifty fourth and first in touch down percent
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: in the red zone in twenty twenty four. My theory
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: is that you won't have red zone issues with arch
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: Manning because he can run. It changes up the math.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: It gives you the plus one of the running game.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: They'll have to account for that. They'll keep the backside
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: edges conservative, all right, they won't be able to crash
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: down as much. That plus one the running game will
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: also help the traditional running game. So your goal line
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: issues which you had versus Ohio State, which you've had
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: versus Oklahoma, I think those will improve too because having
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: we've seen arch Manning in short yardage, he always gets
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: way more than he needs, usually every time, but usually
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: he gets way more than he needs. These two yards,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Dud's picking up eight yards right Think about the agis.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: I think they needed two yards there. He goes in
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: and scores a touchdown. He's big, he think he can run,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: and they'll use that no situations. Because running quarterbacks that
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: dual threat ability. It solves a lot of the problems
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: that the red zone creates by the with the restricted space,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: you create more space, you add another man, had another
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: man for them to have to defend. And so getting
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: back to it, that's why these are the two best
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: red zone offense in the league. They got quarterbacks that
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: can run, they can move, So it might come down
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: to who has the best red zone defense. And I
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: believe Baltimore is a better red zone defense. They've allowed
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: a fewer red zone points and have a better touchdown
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: touchdown percentage defense in the red zone as well. That's
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: why I'll take Baltimore there. I think they have both
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: teams really good in the red zone. Take the better
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: red zone defense, that's Baltimore. And also I think the
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: Bills might have trouble stopping the Baltimore running attack the best.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: It's the best running attack in the league, and i've.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Seen the Bills.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: Now. The Bills did stomp Detroit, and Detroit is a
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: really good rushing attack. I think they held Detroit to
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: less than fifty yards rushing, so that was good, But
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: I seen the Jets run for a lot of yards
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: on them. The Jets ran for like one thirty nine
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: and one they allowed sorry, they allowed one to twenty
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: one and one twelve. Excuse me to the j E
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: T S Jets. Jets Jets that are a m e
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: ss mess mess mess. They allowed one to thirty nine
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: and one forty nine to the Dolphins. Dolphins have a
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: pretty good rushing attack, so I think Baltimore will be
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: able to run the ball on So think Baltimore can
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: run the ball on them. I think Baltimore's red zone
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: defense can you know, win them a down or a
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: series or two there.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: And I think that balt that Baltimore is gonna go
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: heavy at times like they did last week eighty nine
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: percent of their snap two backs, two tight ends, and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: Buffalo is uncomfortable going with bass personnel. I won't say
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: they are getting their linebackers back. Terrell Bernard, he wasn't
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: available in the first matchup. He's gonna play. Matt Mulano
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: wasn't available in the first matchup. He's gonna play. So
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: maybe they'll go base with their linebackers. So they like
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: the linebacker.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: They're also getting to run Johnson back to Nickel who
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: wasn't available in their Week four matchup, and it got
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: a Maury Cooper. But I haven't heard much from Marik Cooper,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: he's been relatively quiet. Maybe this is a game where
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: you know, Marty Cooper makes a big plays because he's
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: got a playoff experience as well. So I'm gonna I'm
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: gonna lean Ravens in this matchup, but I could see
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen taking over the game because both of these
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks have that ability to be the great equalizer take
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: over the game. And it doesn't matter what your projections are, predictions,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: or matchups were.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: Josh Allen just went off and he did it when
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: he beat the Chiefs that time.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: Right, But I'm gonna say, Lamar Jackson is the one
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: putting the cape on and he's got better personnel and
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: better weapons around him to do so.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: All right, we come back.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the transfer A portal window on the
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: forty acres is efficiently closed. There is one name that
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: entered the transfer a portal, Amari ny Black. I'll tell
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: you why there's healthy attrition happening on the forty acres,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: and I'll tell you why the retention is something to
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: celebrate for long run fans. All of that, and we'll
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: get back to some conversations about the NFL playoffs. All
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: that more, right, Hill the craig Ways Show on a
• 1:16:54
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  Speaker 2: Hundreds his own. I welcome back to The craig Ways Show.
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• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: till you make it, Rick Flair whooa Football Friday edition
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: of The Craigway Show. I'm not talking about when the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: rod Berber sitting in for craig Way. One more hour
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: in the show. Got a few things that I want
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: to get into. We'll talk about Texas and the transfer portal.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: We'll also hear from Craigway spoke with Rodney Terry earlier
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: this week about his upcoming matchup this weekend with Florida,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: and we'll dive into that audio coming up later on
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: in this hour. We'll also get to the NFC side
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: of the divisional round playoff games. So we got a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: lot to cover in a short amount of time to
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: do it, So let's get right to it.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: So, I was looking at the transfer portal departures, the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: final list, if you will, for the Longe wrns in
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: the transfer portal entries, and it looks like now because
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: of the latest Mari Nay Black news, looks like we
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: have officially the number at ten. So You've got ten
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: players from Texas who entered the transfer portal. And the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: reason that I view this as healthy attrition long one
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: fans like, this is a this is a this.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Is a win, and hopefully it's a win win.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: Hopefully it's a win for these young men too to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: go on somewhere else and then they can have a
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: path to play because ultimately, what you celebrate here and
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: you got John Tay Cook and we all remember John
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: Tay Cook. You got dre Bledsoe D lineman John Tay
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: Cook to wide receiver Darien Gallett, the linebacker a Kanna,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: the linebacker Aaron Bryant, the D lineman, Tia Savea, the
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: D lineman, cornerback jvng Cole, the edge rusher Justice Finkley,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: and another D lineman, Sir De Mitchell. And you got
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: them right now. But now there is concern about the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: D lineman you're using because you're losing a lot of
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: D lineman, losing Aaron Bryant, Tia Savella, and Mitchell.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: You know that's that's a lot of depth you're losing
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: on the defensive line.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: And in addition to departures for guys who are exalted
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 3: to eligibility, and guys who are going to the NFL
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: as well, like Alfred Collins and Vernon Broughton. And that's
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: attrition too. That's the best kind of attrition. Guys who
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: are leaving because they're not only because they've exhausted eligibility,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: but they are draftable prospects who exhausted elgibility, or guys
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: who have declared early for the NFL Draft, and we'll
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: talk about that too, the actually underclassmen who have declared
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: for the NFL Draft for Texas, those are all that's
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: the best kind of attrition that you can have. This
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: is still, in my opinion, positive attrition because you're gonna
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 3: have attrition with the transfer portal being what it is,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: and you want to churn out the bottom of your
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: roster to continue to upgrade the talent.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: You want to have a way to do that. It
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: means to do that.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: The transfer porter does give you a way to do that. Now,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: the reason this is positive attrition for Texas is because
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: it's the career starts for the ten players who are
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 3: leaving are combined Z zero combined courier starts for the
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: players they are leaving, So none of these guys that
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: are leaving were able to penetrate your starting rotations of
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: players or were able to be a significant enough contributor
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: So to me, that's the that's a.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: Quality like you know, transfer poor experience for Texas that
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: they didn't lose any significant contributors or starters because the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: attrition is something you cannot help at Texas. At any
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: power program, you're gonna have guys that are just gonna
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: leave the program. And that's natural, that's organic, which you
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: don't want to have are significant contributors and key cogs
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: and starters that are leaving your program to go elsewhere
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: because the grass is greener. Are literally there is more green, right,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: that's straight cash, homie. And yes, I know that teams
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: are not supposed to tamper and coach I've talked to
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: enough coaches, guys and recruiters bond the scenes tampering, even
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 3: though there's a rule on the books against tampering. For
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: the NTAA, it is treated like speeding. It is treated
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: just as speeding is. Did you speed today when you drove?
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: Do you observe speeding every day? Do you speed every
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: day you go over the speed limit? Most people speed
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: every day. They may not get called, they may not
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: get a ticket. They speed every day. That's tampering. Everybody's
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: doing it. That's basically looking at somebody else's roster and
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: communicating with them.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: Now, it may not be directly. It may be indirectly.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: It may be through a coach, through a high school coach,
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: it may be through a family member. It may be
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: just slide into a DM via some representative of whatever,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: close friend, shady uncle.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: It may not be direct. Most of the time it
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: is indirect. But tampering is.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: Happening, and it's rampant. So that's how the guys know, Hey,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: I want to go see who my market value is.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: Or you got to hit the open market to see
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: what your market value is. You got to hit the
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: transfer portal. And if somebody's willing to pay you half
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: a million dollars in nil money for you to transfer there,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: well you're worth half a million dollars.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: It's just that simple.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: And so if Texas can't avoid that, because that's what
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: everybody's dealing with it, not just Texas.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: And if you can avoid that, guys.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: Leaving who have been significant contributors, or if that doesn't
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: hurt you, And I think The whole point is you
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: want to avoid that and keep those guys because it
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: also says that, hey, we're willing to pay our players.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying Texas has never lost players like that.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: They've lost players like that, but a lot of times
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: when Texas has lost players of that, it's almost they haven't.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: They don't mind losing those guys that.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 3: In this new era where you have a front office
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: at the college level, you have a GM, you have
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: to make decisions about whether a player is worth the cost,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: the nil cost because you're INIL is basically your salary camp.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: That's how much you got to work with, and you
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: don't want to be you won't players.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: Ultimately, the NFL, they always any you won't play to
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: outperform their contracts. That's how you know you're getting value.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: You're getting value when a guy outperforms this contract. That's
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: why you like rookie talent, their cheap deals, and you
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: guys to outperform their contracts. If you're paying somebody one
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars years hard for one hundred million dollar contract,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: excuse me, and you're paying them twenty thirty million a year,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: it's hard to outperform that guys, say Patrick Mahomes can
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: do it right.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: But ultimately that's where your value is.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: When guys are more of a that you're getting more
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: of a bang for your buck, more of a return
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: on that investment. And the same thing is true now
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 3: at the college level, at the nil Now, what hurts
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 3: about college is you don't get to you don't get
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: stability when you recruit players right, you go out of
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: your you know you are bringing this up often. You
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: talk about we're talking about retention now, and some of
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: these guys you don't necessarily want to retain because you're
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 3: thinking about upgrading and churning out the talent on your roster.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: And that's why having guys lead, which is with zero stars,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: and I'm hoping I think you take it even further.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: I would take it even further and say it's healthy
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 3: attrition to me when I see them coveted by other
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 3: power schools, power programs, because then it tells me that I,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: as you know, the personnel department at Texas, that I
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: have good taste, that I actually did have good projections
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: on this player.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: They do have a really high ceiling.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm nothing wrong with a player you know, dropping
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: down a a level in play in a classification in
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: terms of their you know, them being play at the
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: FCS level or them playing at the group of level
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: instead of the power level.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: But to me, when you have you have ten guys leaving,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: and nine of the ten have been committed to already
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: another power program. John T.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: Cook Washington, Mississippi State, dre Bledsoe, me State.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: And Darian Gled.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: Both of those guys went to Mississippi State, Akana BYU,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: Aaron Bryan Vanderbilt, Tisavan and jav And Cole Arizona, Justin Finkley,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: Kansas and Saedir Mitchell Lsu Mary Now Black will get
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: picked up somewhere, so you'll probably go ten for ten. Now,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: I know Jhonay Cook is already out of the Washington program,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: but you get my point. He was coveted has nothing
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: to do with his skill set or his upside or
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: his ceiling as a player. And what you want to
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: know is, hey, man, did I mis evaluate this player?
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Did I over recruit this player? Did I you know
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: what I mean? Did I miss something in the evaluation?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: And having another school come right behind you and not
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: only have that player commit, but a lot of times
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: them go there and become significant contributors and become starters.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: It just said you had a lot of talent stacked
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: to head that player. It's not really an indictment on
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: the player, but just saying that you got a lot
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: of talent stacked ahead of them. And that's how you've
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: been building this roster, stacking talent, talented class on top
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: of talented class.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: And that's just no pack to play for these guys.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: And then when you see them with other schools doing well,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: to me, it's more of a confirmation that your evaluations
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: are on point as a program.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: And that's that's not always that's how That's how I
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: look at it, so I would there.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: You know, there's these surveys to talk about, you know,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: social media and how many people actually look at their
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 3: excess profiles on social media, and I think most people
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: are doing it. It's harmless and they're just doing it
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: to check on their excess to make sure they're doing okay,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: and hopefully they get some type of gratification from their
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: exes doing well that they were a part of that
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: and that hey I have I had a good taste.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: In the end, I knew they were going to be
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: a success, whether in business or with a family, or
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: as a mother or a wife.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: Because I got good taste. I know how to pick them,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: I know how to evaluate them. That's how I will
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: look at it anyway. And so I look at the
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: same thing when these guys are in the portal going elsewhere,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: and I think the retention listen. I said this earlier
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: in my lifetime. I've been looking at it. I've I've
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: pulled a couple of dying pieces in my time. It
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: ain't hard necessarily to pull.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: A down piece. You can do it. It can be
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: done right.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: I had NFL to help me and play in that
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: Texas to help me as my as my my pickup.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: Story if you will. But you can do it. If
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: you're on now.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: You got right mix of liquor, everything going right that night,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: you know, boom, the jokes are are working all that.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: You can pull a dime. It's it's it's easier to
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: pull it down than this. To keep a don piece.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: Gotta keep them satisfied. I gotta keep them happy, gotta
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: keep them interested. And that's the thing about retention. You
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: got these four of these five star recruits that Texas
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: has all these blue chips, Hey, getting the down piece
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: and recruiting them to campus and getting them to commit. Yeah,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 3: that's not that's not that's not easy, but it ain't
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: as hard as keeping them. Now, you got to do
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 3: that every year because everybody's trying to poach your talent.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: That's how that's how it goes. So in the new
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: era of n I L and transfer a portal, that's
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: what Texas deal with. And I think they did a
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: really good job this transfer a portal window of a lot,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: having a lot of positive of attrition and retaining all
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: of your top talent. The only guys that left with
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: guys who have NFL aspirations that were significant contributors, the
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: starters for you.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: That's healthy attrition for Texas in my opinion.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: All Right, we come back, we'll get into the NFL
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: Divisional round of the games. On the NFC side, we'll
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: talk about that, and we'll also hear from Craig Wait
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: coming up a little bit, leter On and Rodney Terry
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: talking about their upcoming Texas upcoming matchup, Texas men's basketball
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: upcoming matchup with the Florida Gators. All that and more
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: right here on the Craigway Show on AM thirteen hundred Zone.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to the Craig Way Show here
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: on AM thirteen hundred Zone. I want to get to
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: the NFC side of things, start to preview the divisional
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: round games. On the NFC side, the Detroit Lions and
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: the Washington Commanders. The reason, I mean, there are a
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: lot of great numbers about this matchup, and I'll just
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: take you straight up. I'm taking Detroit because they're the
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: you know, obviously they're the favorite in his matchup, and
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: Detroit does look like a juggernaut. But man, Washington is
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: a fun team to follow right now because of Jayde
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: Dams and how really just how transcendent he's been as
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: a rookie quarterback. I mean, it's the greatest rookie season
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: ever for a quarterback in the NFL. That's I mean,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: you can, sure you can debate it from a statistical
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: standboyn if you want to, But he's passing the eye
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: test and he's definitely got a lot of achievements under
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: his belt already. One of my favorite stats that's coming
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: out about this matchup is the zero punt, zero turnover
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: stat I'm sure by now maybe you've heard it so
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: since night. So if you go look at overall, it's
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: got to give you perspective of context on this stat
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: there since nineteen fifty actually, there have been forty two
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: zero punt, zero turnover games in the NFL. This comes
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: from Pro Football Talk. But this season it's happened. It's
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: been more prep then there's been in other seasons. The
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: Commanders did it three times, including they just did it
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs against the Bucks, which is freaky to
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: have a game with a rookie quarterback on the road
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: with zero punts and zero turnovers, I believe, Yeah, that's
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: just mind blowing. And also the Detroit Lions did it
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: three times, so the Commanders and the Lions have did
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 3: it three times. I saw Joe Burrow and the Bengals
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: did it once and Tua did it ones. So basically,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: out of all the games in the history of the
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: NFL where a team has had zero punts and zero turnovers,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: Judd Goff and Jane Daniels are basically responsible for seventeen
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: percent of the no turnover, no punt games in NFL history.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: And they're gonna face off, by the way, that has
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: not happened to have a because it's never happened before
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: to have a team with three zero punt, zero turnovers
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: three games, I should say, with zero punts, zero turnovers,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: and have those two teams meet in the playoffs like
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 3: we've just never seen it before. Matter of fact, the
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks who have engineered an.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: Offense on the road in the playoffs with zero punts
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: and zero turnovers the only quarterbacks who have done it.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: Jade Daiels and Peyton Manning are the only two quarterbacks
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 3: who have engineered a zero punt, zero turnover offensive performance
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: on the road in the playoffs.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: It's really rare. Point is, both of these teams are
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: very capable of that.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: Anyway, getting to getting back to the actual matchup, I
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: think a lot of this game is gonna be determined
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: on third down. Lions are the best third down defense
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: in the NFL in terms of third down conversion rate
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: allowed at thirty two. They actually are the number two
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 3: fourth down defense in the NFL, so they're elite.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: On third and fourth down money downs, if you will.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: Washington is top five, number six actually third down conversion
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: rate offensively forty damn near forty six percent.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: But how about this. Their fourth down conversion rate is
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: the highest in forty years.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: The Commanders they were three or five versus the Bucks
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: on fourth down, and if you go look at it,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: they're eighty two percent conversion rate on fourth down and
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: they scored fourteen points excuse me, after fourth down conversions
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: versus Tampa Bay.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: They've scored I believe now one hundred and twenty nine
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: points on the season following a fourth down conversion. So
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: they played four down football.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: But the Lions, their defense is the best money down
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: defense arguably in the league. That is something to watch,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: no doubt. The magic number here is twenty six Washington
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: eleven to zero. When allowing fewer than twenty six points.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: Detroit some of the best offense in the league. So
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: they they swore more than twenty eight points.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: That's usually out of the realm of you know, that's
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: the what the offense is capable of, or what the Washington.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: Commander's offense is capable. It's usually out of their range.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: But Jane Daniels, I would not doubt the young man.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: He like I said, he is extraordinary in a lot
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: of ways.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: Detroit also plays a ton of man coverage. They play
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: more man coverage than anybody in the NFL.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: So do the Washington Commanders have somebody that can beat
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: Manda man coverage? They do. They got Terry McLaurin. Now
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: this is the key.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: They're gonna play a lot of manned man on Terry.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: They're probably gonna double Terry road coverage to and bracket them.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: Scary Terry, uh will force you to do that. But
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: if they don't, he could cause trouble. He has the
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: most yards on go routes in the NFL, and he
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: has the He has the second most yards gained on
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: go routes and corner routes in the NFL. So go
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: rout and corner routes, nobody's better at running and producing
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: on those routes, and he's been like that his entire
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: career through even twenty twenty one and twenty twenty really
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: high success rates running go routes. The Lions have allowed
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: the second most receiving yards per target on go routes
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 3: this season.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: Only the Cleveland Browns are worse. So if they gonna
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: go a man the man, which they.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: Do more than anybody in the league, they better have
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: a plan for Scary Terry because they don't scary Terry Gone,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: he's gonna torch him a couple of times, and that
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: those big plays that can end up, you know, really
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: changing the momentum in the game. Also, how does his
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: young rookie quarterback handle the blitz? Now he's handled everything
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: all right, just stupendously so far this year. But this
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 3: is a The Detroit Lions are an elite team, and
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: they blitz in terms of sitting five or more pass
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: rushers at an opposing quarterback. They blitted the fifth hast
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: rate in the league, So they blitz a lot. And
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 3: Dang's versus the blitz below sixty percent completion rate, eight
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: point four yards per attempt, five touchdowns, zero interceptions, and
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: a one to ten passer rating. It's actually pretty good. Yeah,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: he's okay versus the blitz. Nationally versus man coverage, he's
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: pretty good too, nine touchdowns, one reception, ninety eight point
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: seven passer rating versus the blitz. And what you really
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: gotta watch out is him scrambling quarterback scrambles. Detroit has
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: allowed four hundred and forty nine rushing yards on QB
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: runs and scrambles, almost seven yards per rush allowed to
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks on scrambles that is second worst, only behind the Texans.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: I know, trust me. So the Texans are the worst
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: team arguably at defending quarterback runs and scrambles.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: Detroit Lions are pretty bad too. So the two things
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: that come back that could come back to Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 3: in this matchup. They play a lot of man coverage,
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  Speaker 3: ton of man coverage. Scary Terry could break off a
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  Speaker 3: couple of bombs on them, and they got to defend
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  Speaker 3: Jane Daniels in the scrambled drill because he's great at scrambling,
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  Speaker 3: and they got to stop the quarterback run game. Those
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  Speaker 3: are kind of the narrow pass to victory for Washington.
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  Speaker 3: I think Detroit o brise to the occasion. But like
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  Speaker 3: I said, the when a quarterback starts scrambling, when the
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  Speaker 3: play breaks down and they started improvising, they're really they're
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  Speaker 3: they're the great equalized guys. It really could change the
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  Speaker 3: whole entire complexion of a matchup. And that's why Washington's
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  Speaker 3: been so successful this year. It's because of James Daniels,
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  Speaker 3: but Detroit scoring differential on the season for Detroit plus
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  Speaker 3: two twenty two. That is eleventh highest scoring differential in
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  Speaker 3: the super Bowl era since the nineteen seventy merger, seven
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: of seven of the previous ten teams who were obviously
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  Speaker 3: better or had they higher scored scoring differential than Detroit
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  Speaker 3: went to the Super Bowl and five of them won it.
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  Speaker 3: So they basically That'stad would say, they got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl, and they got a seventy
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  Speaker 3: percent chance to make it to the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: I think they will.
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  Speaker 3: I was a former Detroit line myself. I kind of
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  Speaker 3: celebrate with them. I played for Lions long, and I
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: played for any team. I didn't play for any I
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: didn't play long in the league anyway. But the little
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: time I was there, I spent most of it with
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  Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions. Happy to see Detroit Lions actually turning
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: some things around. And that right now is like the
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  Speaker 3: hottest ticket I believe of all the tickets in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs right now, I believe it is the most expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Ticket, just because I mean Detroit. It's not used to this.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: Ye, how about this? This comes from tick pick. The
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: average ticket price is nine hundred and ninety one dollars. Apparently,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 3: the cheapest you can get for an actual seat is
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 3: five hundred and ninety seven dollars for that Lion's Commander's game.
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  Speaker 3: The most expensive NFL game outside of the super Bowl.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: They're saying outside of Super Bowls. They're saying, this is
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: the most expensive average ticket price. Yeah, it's a hot ticket.
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  Speaker 3: We will see that the Detroit Lions will rise to
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  Speaker 3: the occasion. I think the Lions win. I don't know
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: the number is on the note if they cover, but
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  Speaker 3: I do think the Detroit Lions end up winning and advancing.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the other side of the the NFC bracket.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 3: We'll get into that, and also we'll hear from Craigway.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk Phillies and the Rams.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: Speaking of Craigway, the Rams, that's his team, so who'll
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: link it to. We'll talk.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 3: We'll hear from Craigway talking to Rodney Terry about the
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: upcoming matchup for the Texas men's basketball team versus the
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: Florida Gators. And we'll also break down his Rams versus
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Eagles and then playoffs all that more right
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: here on the Craigways Show here on a thirteen hundred zone.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: All right, Speaking of Craigway, we sat down with Rodney Terry,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 3: head coach of the men's basketball team before their matchup
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  Speaker 3: with the Florida Gators coming up on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: You'll hear it right here on a thirteen hundred zone.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 3: By the way, just a quick update and also last segment,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: we'll get to previewing the Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: and then we'll wrap things up. But he's throwing it
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: out there. Adam Schefter is saying this. Most recently, he
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: went on to Pat McAfee's show and said, I don't
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: expect Ben Johnson to be in playing Dallas.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: He said, I think Jerry has other ideas.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: I think Ben Johnson has other ideas, And then don't
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: think he's a logical leading candidate there right now, told
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: you Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Johnson can have it. He has options.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: So he's not gonna take the unorthodox, very unconventional hierarchy
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: and chain of command of the Cowboys. No, go to
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: WORL where they will give him more power and they
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 3: have more stability and it's not as much dysfunction. So
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: if I'm the Cowboys, just go and make go all in.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: You you want to be more of a TV show
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: than a football team, just make d under head coach
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 3: and I hus it might work. There's a coin toss.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: He's basically a coin flip. It may end up working
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: on kaik Wait on the Coaches Show therek Plucker spoke
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: to Rodney Terry about their upcoming matchup for the men's
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: basketball team versus the Florida Gators. That game will take
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: place on Saturday, and Craig Way, of course we'll be
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: on the call and you can hear it right here
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: on AM thirteenth Zone. That coverage will start at two
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: point thirty live from Gainesville tomorrow afternoon. So thanks to
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 3: Craig Way once again hooking us up with that audio.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: We'll come back and we'll get into the NFL's division
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: round games a little bit more. Of course, we haven't
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: gotten into the Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles matchup, so
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: we'll start to preview that one, then our review, give
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: you all of my picks for the divisional round games,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: and then we'll wrap things up and put them in
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  Speaker 3: the oven right here on the Craig Way Show, right
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  Speaker 3: here on AM thirteen hundred Zone. All right, welcome back
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: to the Craig Way Show here on the Zone. Craig,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: we will be back next week. But I appreciate Craig,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 3: let me sit in for a couple of days here
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 3: this week talk some football with.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: You, considering actually we're talking football. Let's get back to
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: talking football and we'll give you I'll give you my
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: predictions on who I think is gonna win the division
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: round games as well. But let's get to the Rams
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: talking about football, and we're on the Craigway Show.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 3: He'd probably be talking about his rounds right now. So
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  Speaker 3: it's appropriate Philly versus the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Rams.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Listen, I like this Rams team. I don't necessarily
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: think that Philly is a good matchup for him. We
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: started in week twelve, all right, Saint Khon Barcoley ran
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: wild on the Rams two hundred and fifty five yards
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: and if you take away the too long tds, he
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 3: had his game in that game, his too longest tds.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: He still went for twenty four for one thirteen. He
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 3: would have went for twenty four for one thirteen. So it's, man,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder can they contain sat Quan Brough to someone?
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: Because I do think you know, they have a good
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: shot and being able to get to Jalen Hurts because
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: that pass rush is pretty ferocious. How they got nine
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 3: sacks last week on Sam Darnold. I like their pass rush,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 3: but can they earn the right to rush the passer?
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, can you stop the run and forced Phil
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: into predictable passing situations where they got to throw the football? Now,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: that ain't easy either because then you got to stop
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 3: aj Brown and Devonte's mienco Either way, I mean, it's
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: a pick your poorson scenario. But I just think for
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: that Rams defense, if they can you know, neutralize the
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: run a little bit, they got a shot. I don't
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: see them being able to do that. He's not gonna
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: run for twenty a fifty five yards on them, But
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: I do think he'll get over one hundred. I think
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: he's been Saeque's been held under a hundred and with
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: five times this year. I do think he'll get over
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: one hundred yards. I mean, you go look at he's
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 3: got two thousand, one hundred and twenty four rush yards,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: thirteen hundred of those of coming in second half, so
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: over sixty one percent of them coming in second half
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: of games. That's when he starts wearing now, because he's man,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: he's a load, and he's a punishing runner.
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  Speaker 2: He really is.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, he can make you missing the phone booth,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 3: but he's also a punishing loads you have to deal with.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: And he's got in the fourth quarter alone, basically thirty
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: percent of his yards coming the fourth quarter. I had
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 3: twenty really starts to impose his will. And that's when
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: I think that running attack of Philadelphia's is gonna separate
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 3: too from the Rams. I think they'll have a good
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: game plan because Shamanva is one of the best coaches
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: out there. That they out coached Minnesota, I mean that
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: was a coach masterclass. They they broke tendency. Always say
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: you got to break tendency to win big games. The Rams, notoriously,
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: at least this season, have been a heavy zone team.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: They have made Their man coverage rate is twenty seventh
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: in the league. They doubled their man coverag rate versus Minnesota,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: So they broke tendency at the right time. What I
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: worry about with the Rams is can they win on
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: money downs? On third down? The Rams are twenty fourth
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: in third down conversion rate, and there if you go
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: look at Matt Stafford on third downs, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like his on third downs.
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  Speaker 3: He's completing fifty five per cient Hiss passes for five
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  Speaker 3: point seven yards per attempt on third down, and Philly
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: has the best third down pass defense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: You can make that argument.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: Rams struggle on money downs third down and he struggling
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: in the red zone. Their twenty fifth in red zone offense,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 3: Philly's top five in red zone offense and third down defense.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bad matchup. That's a bad matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Stafford tied this season high in sacks when he played
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: Philly last time too, he had five. He was sacked
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  Speaker 3: five times. I don't like that trend. And Sean McVay
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 3: in road since twenty nine, since twenty eighteen, in road
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: games versus teams that one of least thirteen games, we're
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: talking about elite teams in road games versus teams that
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: are one of least thirteen games, thirteen to one wins.
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  Speaker 2: He's two and nine since twenty eighteen. This Eagles team
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: is a good team, and at home they're great. They're
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: thirteen and one at home in the playoffs since twenty Yeah,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: thirteen to one at home. If you gonna look at
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: thirteen to zero this season when Hirts and aj Brown
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: start and finish the game.
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  Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty two. So that's man, that's that's a
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: that's amazing form to be that good there so that
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: good at home and when they're fully healthy, they're also
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: really really tough to be. Another thing that I think
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: is worth tracking in this matchup too. If you're just
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 3: looking at.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, he didn't play great last week. He wasn't great.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: They still, you know, rolled, because Philly's just that good.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: They weren't great.
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  Speaker 3: If Jalen Hurst struggles a little bit, that's something to
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 3: watch because that'll make things a little close. They will
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: make things closer just because they'll be one dimensional. And
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: if he's struggling, Jalleen Hurst usually turns the football over
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 3: when he's struggling, so that'll be something to watch as well.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 3: But I'll take Philly. I think Philis is a better
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: team and I think it might be a bad matchup for.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: The Rams too. Overall.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 3: U so to recap, even though it's gonna hurt me,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna takes the city over my Texans because I'm
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: a Texans fan.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: I'm from age town, so it hurts me. I think
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: the Texas are a year away from being able to
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: challenge Kansas City. Kansas City is just so damn clutch.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: Gota gave me one more clutch stat about Kansas City.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. He's the most clutch player in the NFL history.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: Went down double digits, especially double digits in the playoffs.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: Nobody's got a better winning percentage, went down double digits.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: But how about this that I just found about Mahomes
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter. The last time the Chiefs trailed
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter was back in the week fourteen
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: versus the Chargers.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 2: They won that game out right, nineteen seventeen.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 3: Mahomes right now twenty six and twenty six straight up
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 3: in his career when trailing at any point in the
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter. That is the best mark for any quarterback
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: in NFL history. He's basically he's got a coin flip
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: of a chance fifty to fifty shot to win when
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 3: he's down at any point in the fourth quarter, because
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: he won't be down by more than one score. That's
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: the thing, very rare, and he's gonna be down by
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: more than one score, which gives him a shot. So
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: with Patrick Mahomes and you always got a chance. And
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 3: they also thrive when trailing at half. So if you're
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 3: the Texans and you manage to get a fourth quarter
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 3: lead on them, and you manage to get up double digits,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 3: or you managed to get up by halftime, the chief
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty twenty one to twelve, when trailing at half,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 3: no other team in the NFL has a win percentage
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 3: over forty percent. They're at sixty three percent when trilling
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: at half. The rest of the NFL wins about twenty
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 3: three percent of their games outright when they're trailing at half.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: The Chiefs is just a different beast star together. So
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 2: I'll take the Chiefs. I'll also take the Ravens over
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: the Bills. So I'll take Chiefs Ravens in the AFC
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: title game. And I'll take the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: Over the Rams, and give me Detroit to keep the
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 3: thing going, to keep their this miracle story alive and
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: this Senderella story alive. So I'll take Detroit in Philly
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 3: in the NFC title game. All right, thanks to Ronald
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 3: behind the scenes doing a great job. Thank you to
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 3: Craig Way Andfa camp Parkner for letting me sit in.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 3: Thank you to all you guys out there, for listening
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: and for watching. I really appreciate it. Everybody, have a
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: great weekend. Everybody, enjoy all the football and until next time.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: Hopefully there is a next time.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: Hook them horns and peace.