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NFL Wild Card Weekend Sunday Recap: BILLS, 49ERS, and PATRIOTS win! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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It has been a crazy, crazy weekend.
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There was a lot of rain. There was a little bit of snow,
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and now it's just plain old cold, which I like.
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But yesterday it was so very windy.
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I couldn't stand. I was talking to Jabba on the
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phone at like almost midnight here.
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It was freezing because the wind just picked up.
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I don't know where it was coming from, Antarctica or maybe
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Canada. But how are you, Jabba?
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I mean, you've been very, very busy over the last past month
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and a half getting ready for the new year, celebrating Christmas.
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Your son was home. How are we?
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Everything's good. Got Carter back on Friday and
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just, you know, kind of bittersweet, but it's, it's also
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really a fun time to see him get going and he's in such a good
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place now so we, we won't have any guest appearances from his
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friends, but we may, you never know, they might, they might
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stop in but no, just getting him back and kind of just getting
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back on a on a schedule, you know, 'cause the holidays.
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And as we all know, that's kind of everybody's all over the
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place and, and doing those things.
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But, you know, just kind of get on the back on the schedule and
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get everything going and, and bust out 2026.
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And there's a lot of cool things that that's happening on the
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forefront for all of us and just excited for the journey and, and
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what's in front of us. But yeah, it's a it was a little
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bittersweet for, for pops over here and, and watching your baby
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go back to school and, you know, getting to spend time with them
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and, and doing that. But I'm excited.
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They open up February 6th and I'll literally be coming back
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from New York and then we'll be headed down to, to Kansas to, to
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watch him open up. So I'm excited about that and
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just excited for him first and foremost, just because it's,
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it's going to be a full year of him getting after it.
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And then we'll we'll see where he goes from there.
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We got, we got some, some feet in the sand on, on some schools
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and we'll kind of see. But I told him at the end of the
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day, I go, it's all up to you, but you got to go out and
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perform and, and do you. So he's excited about it.
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And, you know, they had their first official practice today.
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I would think every, every school kind of jumped off as far
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as baseball goes now. And you know, it's it, it's a
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fun time of the year. I love this.
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I love this time of the year when we're getting getting
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playoffs, you're getting national championships, we're
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going to get into March Madness. We're going to get into the
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start of baseball. Like it's just such a really,
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it's a really cool time when it's like a transition from the
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holidays into everything that's happening.
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It's a lot of work. I I.
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I hate this, it's going to be a lot.
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We were treated to a great day of football on Sunday.
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It all started with a thrilling win from Josh Allen and the
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Buffalo Bills, who beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27 to 24 in
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the first game of three Sunday NFL playoff games on a
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game-winning rushing touchdown by Guess Who, Josh Allen.
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With one minute and four seconds to go, Allen was 28 for 35
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passing with 273 passing yards and 1 passing touchdown,
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touchdown and two rushing touchdowns.
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He became the first player in NFL history with an 80%
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completion percentage. And ladies and gentlemen, 250 or
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more passing yards and two rushing touchdowns in a playoff
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game. The Bills take on the Broncos in
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a divisional round. In the second game, the 49ers
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used some trickery to beat former champion the Philadelphia
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Eagles 23 to 19. A wild fourth quarter became
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began with Christian McCaffrey scoring on a wide receiver
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reverse pass by who Jawan Jennings while Saquon Barkley
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who had 106 yards and with with 20 carries helped the Eagles
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regain the lead on a field goal before Brock Purdy hit CMC for
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the game-winning touchdown with under 3 minutes to go.
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McCaffrey finished with 115 scrimmage yards and two
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touchdowns and DeMarcus Robertson was the unsung
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scrimmage unsung hero ladies and gentlemen with six catches, 111
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yards and a touchdown. A.J.
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Brown had a key third down drop on the Eagles last drive and got
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into it with Nick Siriani late the I'm sorry late in the first
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half. The 49ers faced the Seahawks
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next round in a late season rematch In the nightcap, which
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was probably the worst game of the weekend, the Patriots won a
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defensive duel with the charges 16 to three in a game where both
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quarterbacks were there were their team's leading rushers,
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and the two teams combined for 11 sacks.
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The Patriots defense hit and already hurt Justin Herbert all
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game, while his depleted offensive line couldn't give him
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any time. The Pats face tonight's winner
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between the Texans and the Steelers moving on to the
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divisional round. You know, I want to get into all
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the games. We're going to go from one game
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to another because it was a big weekend and a lot to get into.
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I thought all the games were fun to watch except really the
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Patriots game. I don't know if you're like a
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defensive game and you like what Mike Frabel did and or if you
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like what even Jim Harbaugh did and, and maybe his young
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defensive coordinator. And I might might be landing a
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job at the end of at the end of the season.
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Who knows? Maybe he goes to the Giants,
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maybe he goes to the Browns. I heard Mike McDaniel is going
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to be interviewing for the Browns tomorrow.
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Lot to get into with that after the season.
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But the Jaguars game was a game that a lot of New Yorkers wanted
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to watch. And why?
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Because the only New York team that's in the playoffs and some
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people say the only New York team in football was the Buffalo
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Bills. And Josh Allen to me is the best
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quarterback in the AFC as we speak.
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When you think of Patrick Mahomes, who's not in the
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playoffs, Lamar Jackson, that's not in the playoffs, Joe Burrow,
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that's not in the playoffs. When we look at the elite of
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elite, Josh Allen is around those type of guys, those type
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of players. And you look at guys like Bo
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Nicks, young player Drake May, young player CJ Strout, young
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player Trevor Lawrence, young player Justin Herbert moving on
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as a veteran player. These are guys that don't have
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the experience Josh Allen has. And that's, to me is so very
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important when you get into the playoffs, especially in
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football, when you look at obviously the coaching carousel
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that is going to open up many doors for the future of these
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NFL quarterbacks. You think of Josh Allen when he
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came to the NFL, he had Dabel and Brian Dabel, who a lot of
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people believe is the quarterback whisperer, helped
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Josh Allen transition his throwing motion and everything.
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Josh Allen within three years became the best of the best.
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And now as of last year, what won his first MVP of his career.
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But going into this game, Jacksonville, the Jaguars have
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had a sensational second-half the last four games of the
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season. I would say Trevor Lawrence has
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been one of the best quarterbacks in the league.
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And everybody talks about Cohen in in a transition of Trevor
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Lawrence maybe developing Trevor Lawrence, something that
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Peterson couldn't do. Doug Peterson, who won obviously
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a Super Bowl with the Eagles, beating the Patriots the way he
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did with a backup quarterback and falls.
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A lot of people thought Trevor Lawrence was in good hands.
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Well, he wasn't. His development got worse.
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And a lot of people thought after he got that $55 million
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contract a year and a half ago that the Jaguars overspent from
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a quarterback that looks like a hippie.
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But it it's transition, it's changed.
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In the second-half of the season, he started to understand
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the lingo. He understood what a quarterback
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should do in the NFL when you step into the pocket or move
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outside of the pocket or the pocket collapses to throw the
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ball away. And something that Trevor
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Lawrence couldn't and wouldn't do, it's really the first two or
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three years of his career in the NFL and that.
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Do you think, do you think Josh Allen is the standard right now
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like of of what quarterbacks are?
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I don't. I don't.
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Think, you know, he hasn't won and I know we've talked about
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that, but like from his, the way he handles A-Team, the way he
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handles himself, do you think he's like, is he the pinnacle
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right now of, of quarterbacks? I think there are three pinnacle
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quarterbacks right now in the NFL that a lot of people want to
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be like. And, and those are the guys and
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I I'm going to take this away from Lamar Jackson and I'm not
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going to attack Lamar Jackson because I think he's the best
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out of all of them. But the prototypical quarterback
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has to have a good arm, can be mobile when need be, and make
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every acrobatic throw that you need to make to secure a win.
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And those 3 quarterbacks are pretty simple.
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These guys that are veterans, late 20s is number one, I would
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say Patrick mahomes #2 Josh Allen and #3 Joe Burrow.
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These are the guys that are at the the pinnacle of their career
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where everybody thinks that they're they're the best of the
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best. These are the guys that you want
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to obviously translate to be in the NFL.
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And Josh Allen is that guy. And Josh Allen has proven to be
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that guy. And boy, oh boy, in some parts
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of this game on Sunday, it was all Josh Allen.
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I look at this team and everybody was talking about,
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hey, they the the Buffalo Bills are the best running team and
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the Jaguars are the best run stopping team in the NFL.
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And it went back and forth. But what made this game so
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interesting to watch was the way Josh Allen handled himself,
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understanding how and when to step into the pocket and make
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certain throws. He made mistakes, but when he
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needed to secure and make a throw, he did that.
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And at the end of the game, when the Jacksonville Jaguars were
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looking like they were going to run away with the game, Josh
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Allen had to make plays and he made every single play.
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And Trevor Lawrence at the tail end of the game, he forced the
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ball in a position as as a quarterback that doesn't have
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experience and doesn't obviously understand when you put the ball
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into places, especially where your number one wide receiver or
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do you have a number one wide receiver isn't you're going to
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put yourself in harm's way. And and again, I will say this
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about this Buffalo Bills team, Buffalo Bill, the Buffalo Bills
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are not the great Buffalo defense that we've seen over the
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years. They're good and they played
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well. They're especially they're one
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of the best pass rushing teams in the NFL.
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But throughout the season, they've been up and down.
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I've had them on all my fantasy leagues, practically in every
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single one of them. And they've been up and down.
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But and this team losing the players that they left and lost
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early in the season and, and players that really were
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detrimental to this defense, it hurt them.
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But again, Josh Allen can blind side you, blind side you and
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Josh Allen could blanket all the weaknesses that the Buffalo
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Bills have because of the ability that this kid can take
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over games, go in and and, and, and be the leader that the
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Buffalo Bills have needed ever since Jim Kelly.
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Go back and look at the Buffalo Bills ever since Jim Kelly
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retired. Go look at the quarterbacks they
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have had and quarterbacks veteran.
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I I mean, obviously franchise quarterbacks don't grow on
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trees. Go ask the New York Jets, go ask
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the Cleveland Browns, go ask almost every single NFL team
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that hasn't won a Super Bowl in 40 years.
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It does. It's not that easy.
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It isn't. Think about it.
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There are teams year in and year out drafting a quarterback in
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the first and second round and none of them, none of them come
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to anything. Think about it and you look at
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Josh Allen, he came from Wyoming, a farm.
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Nobody even knew this guy. Honestly, if you didn't know
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football, college football, nobody knew Josh Allen.
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And from all those quarterbacks that came out of that class and
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we talk about it all the time. We spoke about it last week,
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Baker Mayfield, who some people didn't think it was a first
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round talent but played well for Oklahoma and some people
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believes now has earned the right to be a first round.
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Maybe not the number one pick, but a first round talent.
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Sam Darnold. It took him how many years to
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develop as a quarterback? And then you have guys like Josh
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Rosen or Lamar Jackson. The two best quarterbacks in
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that class are the two quarterbacks a lot of people
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were questioning. 1. Lamar Jackson was drafted at the
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tail end of the first round. Mobile quarterback, Heisman
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Trophy winner, not very accurate, not good arm, but
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makes a lot of bad decisions. And then there's Josh Allen,
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unbelievable strong arm, one of the best arms they've ever seen,
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not accurate, has a weird throwing, a throwing motion and
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came out of the draft with a bad shoulder who had shoulder
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surgery. So a lot of people were
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questioning Buffalo on drafting him.
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And now we, we let's Fast forward it.
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What is it 8-9 years later? And there's nobody I want in
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this league right now in the playoffs that I want to start
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over Josh Allen. Josh Allen to me from the NFC
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and the AFC is by far the best quarterback still in the
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playoffs. And you could argue this.
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And the Jaguars felt it. The Jaguars saw it on Sunday.
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No matter how many times the Jaguars look like they were
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burying the Buffalo Bills. And I'm going to tell you this
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right now, congratulations. Great season for Cohen.
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Trevor Lawrence. I'm going to take back a lot of
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things I said about Trevor Lawrence.
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Trevor Lawrence to me was not, I believe, a franchise quarterback
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until Cohen came here and and showed you in the first year
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that you can develop a quarterback.
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If you put him in the right position with the right players
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around him, you can succeed. Keep the Gremlin on the
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sidelines. And how about ETN?
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ETN was a lot of people thought they were going to trade before
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the season started. They brought in, they drafted A1
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running back, they brought in a running back.
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And at the tail end of the preseason, or like ETN looks
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like he still has something. We're going to move this guy.
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We're going to move that guy. ETN is our guy.
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And boy oh boy what a slam dunk it was, bringing back Travis ETN
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because he had over 1200 yards and was as important as an
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offensive option, speedy as anybody on this team.
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Yeah. And ETN I think was somebody
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that the Bills I think tried to game plan for and I think that
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was a big difference when you look at we knew that the Jags
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versus Cook was going to be a strength on strength match up.
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But how the Bills will be able to stop BTN and be able to not
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have him run so consistently? He had some big runs.
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He definitely has a big runs. He had a few big catches as
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well. And he was able to get a lot of
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a second tier running ability, but was not overly consistent in
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that game. You mentioned Washington, he he
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was out most of that first half with the concussion and then he
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got it going in the third quarter when the Jags orders had
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their best offense. It was because he was be able to
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move the ball in the slot and the Gremlins injury was a big
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reason that he broke out in the second-half of the season and
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essentially became a #1 receiver for them.
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And then Jacoby Myers, they trade for the deadline, actually
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became their real number one. But he's more of a slot type,
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still limited. And the Bills, I think game plan
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for him more than anything else. So somebody else had to step up.
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Now, Trevor Lawrence, you mentioned he has shown flashes
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of a franchise quarterback in Layton Peterson's tenure in 22
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and 23. But I think after that injury,
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he really look rough and then it took him up until probably the
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middle of this season to really get going as what he would think
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of as a franchise quarterback. But however, some of those
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decision makings still came back in this game, which I think
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ultimately hurt the Jaguars. Now, I actually was bashing the
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Bills a little bit. I thought the Bills after they
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scored the touchdown or they should have wait a little longer
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to score the touchdown because I was worried they left
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Jacksonville with too much time on the clock, one O 4 to go.
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But Lawrence obviously had that, had interception after that, and
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those are the kinds of things he still can't get over.
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And you mentioned about Josh Allen for everyone, that's like
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playoff slandering Josh Allen because he hasn't won a
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championship. He's averaged 302 yards per game
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in the. Play.
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We go over this over and over and over again about
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quarterbacks not winning Super Bowls.
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Dan Marino win a Super Bowl. Jim Kelly win a Super Bowl.
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I could go on and on and on. A lot of great quarterbacks
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never won Super Bowls. It's not that easy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, go ahead. The Philadelphia Eagles, as
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everybody, including yours truly thought, no matter where they
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ended up with their defense, I thought the Eagles were going
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straight to the Super Bowl this year with the talent that they
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had. And boy, oh boy, the 49ers.
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And we'll get into that in just a few moments.
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Surprised and shocked, I believe the world because the Eagles
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were that much better in my book, especially with all the
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injuries and losing George Kittle the way they did early in
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the game. I thought the Eagles were flat
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outgoing to pulverize the 49ers. And I was wrong.
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I was wrong. But Jabba, I mean, obviously you
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watch the games. There was a lot of craziness in
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this Jaguar game and it's including even in the fourth
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quarter where there was a lot of questions with some of the play
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calling from the Buffalo Bills. They didn't run the ball very
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well. It was back and forth.
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They tried to do more than I think I the Buffalo Bills
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usually do in big games. They like to run out the clock
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and control the clock. They couldn't do that.
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As a matter of fact, I thought Jacksonville did it better than
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the Buffalo Bills in this game. What did you think of the game
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with the Buffalo Bills in the Jacksonville Jaguars?
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Yeah, there there were some the way the way the game kind of
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just fell into place. I think what really stood out
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too was that you saw the difference in the leader and
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Josh Allen obviously being, you know, that guy and Trevor, like
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Speedy said, seen flashes of being that franchise guy.
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But when you put Josh Allen in that situation, he's been there
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before. And I, I think that's one of
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those non quantified things that you can, you can put on a field
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that you don't really have anything to go by other than
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that he knows how to win. And so it's it, it's going to be
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different to see because obviously he's never never won,
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but he's got there. And I think he he showed in the
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fact of kind of, I think they went away from their offensive
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scheme a little bit just because they didn't run the ball very
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well. But Josh Allen being the leader
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that he is like being able to calm everybody down because when
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your leader is calm and doesn't like overreact or get to
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whatever. Like we can talk about his
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numbers, we can talk about all that.
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But when it comes down to it, it's like he, he has that
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leadership that calms everybody else down and be like, hey,
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we'll, we'll be all right. Like we'll we'll figure this out
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at some point. With a lot of no name wide
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receivers too, including what they just signed in Brandon
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Cooks who was like 12 years in the league.
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Right now, and I think just with with that hand in hand, I think
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is is why they're they're going to get to that point again.
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I don't know if they'll they'll reach it, but when you got a
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leader at the head like that, you you have a chance.
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And and he's shown that over and over again, showing a little
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pieces of it, but not not to Josh Allen standard.
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Leadership is very important, very important when it comes to
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the playoffs, especially the quarterback position.
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And Josh Allen stands for one of those guys that you can sit
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there. I've heard from many different
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players that we've interviewed that knows Josh Allen.
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This guy is so funny in the huddle.
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He calms everybody down. And if you go back and you think
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about Joe Montana, everybody thought he was like a lightning
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bolt. He was mean and disrespectful
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when he would speak to the media.
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But a lot of the players that played for the 49ers over the
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years that played with Joe Montana said he would find
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things outside side of the huddle that he can nitpick or
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point out to calm his players down.
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He was very, very good at that. And I would say that was Josh
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Allen and that is Josh Allen. Ever since he came into the
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league. I think he knows how to calm the
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players down. He makes anybody that has
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watched the Buffalo Bills play and understands the way the
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Buffalo Bills run their offense. Everything runs through Josh
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Allen. Everything.
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Speaking of teams and players that like to run their offense
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through certain players, that's the 49ers and, and CMC is
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probably one of the most dynamic players we've seen in the last
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20 years. We, we go and we go back before,
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before the game where everybody was talking about Saquon Barkley
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was drafted #2 and then you look at Christian McCaffrey was
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dropped, drafted in the top 10 by the Carolina Panthers.
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How they became friends after the draft, got to know each
24:53
other, still competitive against one another, playing video games
24:56
and things offset on their phones every single day.
25:00
These guys have been competitive against one another.
25:03
When you look at 2 running backs that you want to be like or want
25:07
to, you know, mimic as a player, if you want to be a running
25:11
back, it is CMC and Saquon Barkley.
25:13
And these two guys faced off face off on face off against one
25:17
another on Sunday at 4:30 in Philadelphia.
25:21
Where after George Kittle went down the way he did in early in
25:24
the game, you would have thought the advantage goes to
25:27
Philadelphia. The way the defense plays and
25:30
George Kittle, who's a pass blocker, a guy that really helps
25:34
in the huddle, helps you know all the different things they
25:37
like to run through CMC. George Kittle has a big part in
25:41
that offense and watch it. Watching George Kittle go down,
25:44
maybe his career, he could be over.
25:46
George Kittle might be done at the age of 31 because tearing
25:50
your Achilles, and this is not the quarterback position, you're
25:53
using your legs all game long. You're you're digging your
25:57
cleats into turf. That's a lot, a lot of pressure
26:01
on your Achilles, your knees, your ankles, everything.
26:04
I don't know if we're going to see George Kittle come back.
26:07
I don't even know if the 49ers want him to come back at the age
26:10
of 3334 as we've watched Travis Kelce ride off into the sunset,
26:14
I think after this season. But again, the 49ers, Brock
26:20
Purdy, since he's been back in the last three weeks, has been
26:23
the best quarterback in the NFL. He has been as efficient as any
26:27
quarterback and he didn't have one of his best games.
26:30
As a matter of fact, his quarterback rating was 80.3.
26:34
That, ladies and gentlemen, is not good.
26:37
It it just not. And his completion percentage
26:40
was 18 for 31262 yards, 2 passing touchdowns and two
26:45
interceptions. He made a lot of mistakes in
26:46
this game, mistakes that usually the Eagles capitalize on and
26:51
they just didn't. The Eagles problem all season
26:54
long was the offensive side of the ball and Saquon did have a
26:58
good game. I know everybody's going to say,
27:00
well, Saquon hasn't had a good season.
27:01
Saquon still ran the ball 26 * 106 yards.
27:05
He he still was efficient. He still did what they they
27:08
needed Saquon Barkley to do. He even caught the ball three
27:11
times for 25 yards. It's not like you can't blame
27:14
Saquon Barkley. It's guys like A.J.
27:17
Brown who might we might see that.
27:21
We might have seen the last time we've seen A.J.
27:23
Brown as a Philadelphia Eagle. He dropped three passes, too.
27:26
Yeah, he was horrible. He was horrible.
27:29
Devante Smith, who I love, wasn't great in this game.
27:33
A lot of the he was targeted. Devante Smith was targeted 11
27:36
times and only had eight receptions for 70 yards.
27:39
When you're when you're looking at the efficiency and and
27:42
understand the way this team runs their offense, you would
27:46
understand that this team all season long was trying to reach
27:50
offensively and losing more. When he went to the Saints in
27:53
the offseason, a lot of people like more.
27:56
Who cares about more? He's not a good coach.
27:58
He's interesting. We saw him with the we've seen
28:00
him many, many times. We saw him with the Chargers, we
28:03
saw him with the Cowboys. He's not good.
28:05
He's just not. The beef wanted to That's the
28:07
Cowboys next coach. But guess what, since Moore went
28:10
to the Saints, this offense has not been as efficient as the
28:14
Super Bowl champion Eagles was last year and again, the 49ers.
28:18
And yes, oh, and I know you're going to love this.
28:20
I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a shout out.
28:23
I am not a Kyle Shanahan fan, but I'm going to give Kyle
28:27
Shanahan a little bit of props in this game.
28:28
I'm going to give Kyle Shanahan a lot of props.
28:30
You know why? I'm going to give him props for
28:32
a hiring Robert Sala. That is the only reason why I'm
28:38
going to give him props. And Robert Sala to me has been
28:42
their savior. Think about it, Robert Sala lost
28:46
a ton of players early in the season, losers, one of the best.
28:50
They lost one of the best linebackers in the league as
28:53
early as they did. And Robert Sala had to really
28:56
like just like paste players on the field.
29:00
Think about it. They brought Kendricks in before
29:03
what, a week before the game? Kendricks and he was the guy
29:07
that was running the huddle. He was the run, the guy running
29:09
the defense. Robert Sala gave his defense to
29:14
a player that hasn't been on the team all season long, and Ryder
29:18
died with that. And by the way, Kendricks made
29:21
the final play of the game that won him the game.
29:24
Think about that. And that to me says a lot about
29:28
Robert Sala. I'm not going to take shots.
29:29
Bambi was not good as a head coach, but Bambi is good as a
29:33
defensive coordinator. We all know what The Jets were
29:35
ranked when he was there with the New York Jets.
29:37
They were in the top 10 every single season.
29:39
Robert Sala was there. Their defense was elite.
29:42
And look at their defense this year.
29:44
Obviously, you have Aaron Glenn taking over his defense and his
29:47
players. It hasn't worked out.
29:49
We'll see what Aaron Glenn really transitions this team in
29:52
the offseason. But I'm going to tell you this
29:54
right now. It and Jabba, you said it best.
29:57
The reason why they won this game was their defense.
30:00
It wasn't their offense. I'm sorry, it wasn't it was
30:03
great to watch players of, you know, of this magnitude, guys
30:08
like Robinson, I and I, this guy is, is not a DeMarcus Robinson
30:12
is not a great wide receiver. No, he's probably a #4 in every
30:15
other team. Nobody would think that this guy
30:18
was going to be the number one target for Brock Purdy all Game
30:22
6 or 7 to 111 yards and 11 touchdown.
30:26
And Christian McCaffrey didn't have one of those games where
30:29
you will you'll be like, Oh my God, this is very Christian
30:32
McCaffrey like where he has a 200 all-purpose yards.
30:37
He didn't have one of those games, guys, but he did enough
30:40
Christian McCaffrey, especially that Jawan Jennings, Hell, Mary,
30:44
whatever you trickery. I was the weirdest play call.
30:48
And that was the only thing that I could say that I'm going to
30:50
give Kyle Shanahan any credit for that trickery play that made
30:55
my mouth drop. And Jawan Jennings, who I've
30:57
seen do this before, this, this is a man that has thrown the
31:00
ball before, but a perfect spiral to Christian McCaffrey to
31:05
get it into the end zone. That was amazing.
31:08
But I congratulations to Robert Solo.
31:10
I, I, I got to give him a little bit of credit.
31:12
Robert Solo was the reason why the 49ers.
31:15
You saw his smirk, his little chicken leg face.
31:20
And I say chicken leg because that guy has no legs.
31:22
How was this guy? How was this guy a college
31:25
football player playing tight ends?
31:26
This guy's got the this guy's got the skinniest chicken legs
31:29
I've ever seen. This guy running up and down the
31:32
sidelines, laughing and giggling.
31:35
Kyle Shanahan hugs, making him, jumping on him.
31:38
I mean, there was the most ridiculous chant of dancing I've
31:42
ever seen coaches have or celebration I've seen coaches
31:45
have. OK, they didn't win the Super
31:48
Bowl, ladies and gentlemen. They're not even going to the
31:50
Super Bowl and they're sitting there dancing and prancing
31:53
around because they knocked off the Philadelphia Eagles that
31:56
haven't put it in the end zone since last season.
32:00
Yeah, I remember when he was The Jets head coach at the time, you
32:03
were criticizing of a lot of the stuff that he said.
32:05
And my main criticism was his refusal to evolve from his
32:09
scheme. And you finally saw it in this
32:11
game with Lane Johnson hurt for the Eagles.
32:13
The 49ers actually blitz more often than they usually do and
32:16
actually attack it. This was a team that had not
32:19
just Fred Warner out, they had three other starting linebackers
32:22
out. The guys replacing him, they
32:23
were on 5-6 and seven, including Kendricks, who was just signed
32:25
off the practice squad, who's old.
32:27
He was very good with the Vikings when he was at his peak,
32:29
but he's an older player. He wasn't great with the Cowboys
32:33
and they blitzed Jalen Hurts and confused him a lot of the time,
32:36
which was surprising. Robert Sala never did that with
32:38
The Jets. He wanted to be his four man
32:40
rush. Typical to cover 3 type guy and
32:42
that was a big difference in the game.
32:43
The other big difference in the game was the 49ers offensive
32:45
line holding their own too. I agree with you their offensive
32:48
scheme wasn't overly amazing, especially once Kittle went
32:50
down. It was hard for them to be able
32:52
to do that kind of thing. And I agree with you it's going
32:54
to be hard for Kittle to come back at a high level.
32:55
I was looking at the like the last 10 guys that tore their
32:58
Achilles and none of them have really come back the same
33:00
besides Daniel Jones this year before he unfortunately got hurt
33:03
again. And for somebody that plays a
33:05
very physical brand of football at the tight end.
33:07
And shout out to our friend Brian Snows in the comments
33:09
section. 2 big 49ers fans always was mentioning that about the
33:11
49ers old school style football and Kittle really exemplifies
33:15
it. But the offensive line which was
33:16
a question mark for the Niners at the beginning of the year has
33:18
played really well in the second-half of the season.
33:19
They held their own in this game.
33:21
I agree with on A.J. Brown and might be the beginning
33:23
of the end for him because it's the end because he's 100% the
33:27
end. The only reason, the only reason
33:29
his stats don't look as bad as they should this season was
33:31
because after he made those comments, he got force fed the
33:34
ball for about 3 or 4 games in a row.
33:36
But if you actually look like his raw route running, you
33:38
actually look at his raw receiving games this year, they
33:40
are not good. And I, Dallas Goddard has become
33:43
a good enough like second option with Smith this year to, I think
33:47
be able to just say, all right, we're going to pay that money
33:50
spread around 3 receivers or spread around offensive line
33:52
rather. Than just do that and I'm going
33:54
to say something. Nick Sirianni is going nowhere.
33:56
Not not this offseason. I know a lot of people are
33:59
jumping for him in the floor for the Packers to be gone and we
34:03
will get into that just to probably after, I guess.
34:06
But I want to say that Nick Siriani is going nowhere at
34:09
least for one more year. This guy won a Super Bowl last
34:12
year, OK. So there there's no way they're
34:15
firing him at the end of a season where they made the
34:18
playoffs and was one play away from possibly moving on to the
34:23
divisional series. So that's ridiculous.
34:25
So I don't know why everybody's attacking.
34:27
I know understand there's a problem going on in that locker
34:29
room. There's been a problem going on
34:31
in the locker room since he's gone there and he signed.
34:33
There. So relax guys, relax.
34:35
The main one that's going to go is the offensive coordinator
34:37
because the game planning was just bad.
34:38
You bet. You say quad Barkley had a good
34:40
game, but they still didn't really give him as much touches
34:42
as you would like. And I don't think they really
34:44
spread the ball around enough for Hertz to run like I thought
34:46
they should have exposed to that defense.
34:48
Yeah, it is. It was interesting that game.
34:51
It was, I think, a tale of like a season of what the Niners have
34:57
been because obviously they have gone down with injuries like we
35:01
talked about, But I think just the way that they have managed
35:07
and navigated through the injuries and how they've
35:11
adjusted, I think has made them a better team.
35:14
They didn't rely solely on like their dudes, like losing Fred
35:19
Warner, that's huge. I mean, he's the best linebacker
35:22
in coverage in the game, I think, personally.
35:27
And then you have a guy who's your heartbeat and George
35:30
Kittle, because I don't think Purdy's the heartbeat.
35:34
I think Kittle's the heartbeat and you he goes down, then
35:38
you're like, OK, we have to step up.
35:39
Obviously CMC he's going to beat him like he's going to do him
35:43
and then have everybody else step up.
35:46
And it's like it's the next guy in line and it's it's the
35:50
Wallypip Lou Gehrig, right? It's Lou Gehrig would have never
35:54
had that chance of Wallypip didn't get hurt.
35:56
And now these guys are getting a chance to do something special
36:01
and with names that we have no idea who the hell they are.
36:07
We don't even know who they are. And you know, hats off.
36:10
And and we've talked about this on this show where that's where
36:15
I think coaching comes in. And I'm glad Fish is on right
36:18
now because that that comes into play to where it's like, hey,
36:22
you get your chance. Like go do it.
36:23
Like take the opportunity, go out like, hey, you've got
36:27
nothing to lose. Go out and prove and this is
36:31
what you are and show how good you are.
36:33
And now some of these guys are going to change their families
36:37
lives because they're getting the opportunity because we don't
36:40
wish it injury on anybody, we don't.
36:43
But now you get the opportunity to take advantage of that.
36:47
I'll tell you who got taken advantage of.
36:48
It was Kevin Pitullo, the soon to be former offensive
36:52
coordinator of the Eagles. I would say all season it was a
36:56
problem that everybody knew about and they were just
36:58
pretending happening. This offense has been bad all
37:01
year. It's the same guys that was on
37:03
this great offense the year before with a different
37:06
offensive coordinator. What's the difference?
37:08
Bad offensive coordinator Now what can be so different?
37:11
They're probably running mostly the same offense, except now you
37:14
don't have the guy coaching him up on where the easy outs are.
37:18
If they do a blitz in a certain way, you know, you need to have
37:22
like the answers to the test as a quarterback in the NFL.
37:25
You need to know like, if they come out with like a cover 3,
37:28
like 5 man pressure, I'm going to go hit this guy on the hot
37:32
route on this type of a pattern. I have a feeling that there just
37:35
wasn't a lot of rhyme or reason to it.
37:37
And Jalen Hurts just didn't understand, really, what the
37:40
offensive coordinator wanted. And at the same time, what
37:44
happened to all those fake tush pushes we saw earlier this year?
37:48
What happened to all the trickeration?
37:50
What happened to all the bells and whistles that made them so
37:53
scary to deal with for last season?
37:57
They're gone. They were a bland, boring
38:00
offense that had a bunch of a bunch of Lamborghinis sitting
38:05
around driving 50 miles an hour. Fish, that's a great point.
38:09
There was a play in the third quarter when even even the
38:12
announcers were like I think it was like fourth and one in the
38:16
third quarter like why don't we tush push right here?
38:19
What happened is, was Hertz that injured that he couldn't do it,
38:23
then use him as a decoy and do one of the five different
38:26
unstoppable fakes you had off of it because you spent the last
38:30
three years putting the fear of God into every team in the
38:33
league with this goddamn tush push.
38:35
What an embarrassment to lose because you couldn't sack up and
38:39
do the play that made you famous in the first place.
38:41
I, I think, I also think, I also think that and I, I, I do root
38:46
for the Eagles. I also believe that they don't,
38:48
they don't care who the offensive coin aider or who the
38:51
defensive coin aider, that with the talent that they have on the
38:54
roster, they're going to be able to complete passes and and make
38:58
plays. Guess what?
38:59
Turns out they were wrong. They need they need a guy.
39:02
The guy just was below the standard is what it was.
39:05
You need to, I have a guy doesn't have to be the best
39:06
offensive coordinator in the world.
39:08
I don't think anyone thought Kellen Moore was the best
39:10
offensive coordinator in the world.
39:11
But was he solid? Sure, solid offensive
39:13
coordinator. Now he's trying to become a head
39:15
coach. I don't think many of us think
39:16
it's going to go that great for him over there.
39:18
He's done pretty well with. Chuck.
39:21
Chuck was impressive this year under him, you know, and I don't
39:25
think a lot of people saw that, but you know, a lot to be
39:28
determined with him over there in New Orleans.
39:30
But good for him on getting that job.
39:32
He was good enough to get that job.
39:34
Petula is not going to be doing anything going forward.
39:36
No, it was just boring. And you would see and like Tom
39:39
Brady was just like holding back as much as he could from
39:43
criticizing Jalen Hurts. He he could like there were
39:47
numerous times that their guys wide open and Hurts just threw
39:51
it to a guy who was covered. I mean that the the interception
39:53
at the end of the game covered, you know, same thing with Trevor
39:58
Lawrence, by the way, in that first game covered.
40:01
What what are we doing? Obviously, if he's double
40:04
covered, a different guy is open.
40:06
That's like football one O 1. And I think some of these guys,
40:09
they're frustrated with the offense or a guy like Trevor
40:12
Lawrence just gets speed up at the wrong times.
40:14
I think you know, and they make bad decisions at the absolute
40:19
worst times. And you got guys, you know, like
40:21
we'll talk about in a couple of games that just come through in
40:24
the clutch every time, man. Speaking of sloppy, that Patriot
40:27
game was just absolutely pathetic.
40:29
I don't know, you make out of all the games to pick prime time
40:35
Sunday Night Football, this is the game you picked the Patriots
40:40
and the Chargers. First of all, we all know what
40:43
happens to the Chargers in the playoffs, and Speedy says it
40:46
best. What do you call?
40:46
Clutch, Steven. Football.
40:48
East clutch team and football the charger and Jim Harbaugh has
40:52
done a sensational job. There was a lot of injuries
40:55
obviously to the offensive line losing Slater losing Well, could
40:58
you imagine what this offensive line is going to be next year
41:01
when they're 100% healthy? Do you know how good Justin
41:04
Herbert is going to look? I if you're a betting man, I'm
41:07
going to tell you betting woman and you're you're a guy that
41:10
likes to bet and make bets 100 a thousand 2000 or whatever.
41:15
One take Justin Herbert to be an MVP candidate next year.
41:20
Because with that offensive line at at his disposal and and the
41:25
ability that he's going to have to make the players that he
41:27
could make next year. This could be one of the best
41:30
years to watch Justin Herbert play as a starting quarterback
41:33
in the NFL. There's no question.
41:34
But this year this game pathetic.
41:37
And I will say this, Drake Mays had a great year.
41:40
He really has. But Drake May, if you look at
41:43
his numbers there, and by the way they were, Collinsworth was
41:47
praising Drake May. Did you watch that?
41:49
May? Did you see that, bro?
41:51
Did you see him move outside of the pocket?
41:53
I mean, come on, Collinsworth. I don't want to hear Chris
41:56
Collinsworth tell us about what he thinks about Drake May.
42:00
It was to me, Drake May did all right.
42:02
He was OK Mike Frable really was the, to me, the unsung hero of
42:07
the Patriots. His defensive play calling was
42:11
sensational against Jim Harbaugh.
42:13
That's the facts guys. Rabel outclassed and out coached
42:20
the one we call Jim Harbaugh. That's it.
42:23
You want to you want to put the icing on the cake, you want to
42:26
put the cherry on top, it was Mike Rabel.
42:29
And I'm going to say this for all you Jet fans, Mike Rabel
42:33
went in to to talk to the New York Jets at at one point, at
42:39
some point last year in the offseason.
42:41
I love Aaron Glenn, and I think Aaron Glenn still my guy.
42:45
But you got a chance to bring in Mike Rabel and you absolutely
42:49
swung and missed. He went to the Patriots.
42:52
If you wanted Mike Rabel, you watch what Mike Rabel can do to
42:55
your do for your team and call defensive plays.
42:58
And guys, I know he's not the defensive coordinator, but trust
43:01
me, trust me, Rabel had every point across the board on this
43:06
defense. This defense was explosive.
43:10
I mean, seriously, if you look at some of the guys that we
43:12
watched in this game, guys that were not his, his team, did
43:17
anybody watch bar more what he did in this game?
43:19
He caused so much. If you look at his numbers, they
43:22
didn't really stick out. He had three tackles.
43:24
He caused so much havoc up the middle that the yes, the
43:30
Chargers couldn't run the ball. They couldn't do anything in
43:32
this game because he was causing so much.
43:36
You know, you know, I don't even know what you call it.
43:39
It was just, it was horrible to watch the Chargers try to push
43:42
their offense and there was nothing.
43:44
Allen disappeared in this game. Johnson disappeared.
43:47
Johnston just disappeared in his game.
43:50
There was no offense to provide Justin Herbert.
43:53
Justin Herbert got killed. He got killed in this game over
43:57
and over and over again. It was pathetic, absolutely
44:00
pathetic. That's all I could say about
44:02
this game. It was Mike Frabel outclassing
44:05
Jim Harbaugh in in a in a wild card game that was absolutely
44:09
pathetic. And Rodger Goodell should be
44:11
ashamed of himself. The NFL should be ashamed of
44:13
himself because I thought the Buffalo Bills in the
44:16
Jacksonville Jaguars should have been the prime time game.
44:19
That's what I New York Allen is the biggest superstar is still
44:25
in this in this playoff and the Buffalo Bills have a chance to
44:28
go to the Super Bowl for the first time since I don't even
44:31
remember when. I mean seriously.
44:34
And this is their chance to maybe win their first Super Bowl
44:37
and is probably the easiest way to the Super Bowl because he
44:40
doesn't have to deal with Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow or
44:43
Lamar Jackson. And this is the game you picked
44:47
for primetime Justin Herbert versus Drake May Pathetic.
44:52
Absolutely pathetic. That's all I could say about
44:56
this game. Pathetic.
44:57
Yeah, in addition to the fact that the Chargers have the least
45:00
fans in the league, followed by the probably the second most
45:02
team that's playing tonight, even the Texans, they don't have
45:04
a lot either. But nevertheless, it was hard
45:06
for the Chargers without the offensive line.
45:07
I go to the offensive line more in my stat of the week.
45:10
Just how much? You can't blame Justin Herbert,
45:12
but the skill position players, they didn't get open either.
45:14
Quentin Johnson, not very good at route running and Lad
45:16
Mcconkey was shut down by the Patriots team and forever you
45:19
react to the Patriots offense. Yeah, I wouldn't work over react
45:22
to that because Drake made it's a very bad decision making in
45:24
that game. He had some crisp throws.
45:25
I'm not saying he played bad, but it wasn't like that MVP
45:27
performance you were expecting, just Chargers defense.
45:30
They kept him in the game, but that was really it.
45:31
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about with the Rangers, the Islanders, the Knicks, the Nets,
46:10
The Jets, the Rangers. I mean, I'm the Giants in the
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Buffalo Bills. So it'll be all posted up on
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that YouTube channel. But stay tuned.
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There's a lot of big things happening over the next couple
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of months. We'll be in tuned to let you
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guys know when it gets closer. So thank you, Jabba.
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Do you have anything to say before we go?
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No, appreciate everybody, appreciate you guys, all the
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fans. It's been fantastic. 2026 is
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going to be fun for all of us. So I'm excited for the journey
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and jump on board because it's it's going to be a fun one.
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Ball bag as our friend Nathan would always say.
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Anyways, we are done speeding who we have on on Thursday,
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Wednesday. Wednesday, I'm sorry, Wednesday
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it is 8:45. We got Laura Albanese, who is
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the Mets beat writer for Newsday.
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That's a cool one. That's a slam dunk.
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That'll be fun to to get into a conversation with.
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But the New York Mets, why not the laughing stock right now of
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New York? Or are they?
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It might be The Jets or the Giants or whoever else it seems.
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Like New York, it's The Jets or the Giants.
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They're the laughing stocks. New York sports.
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Anyways, that's it. We'll talk to you Wednesday.
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Goodnight. It is the worldwide Sports Radio
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network, Radio network. Radio Network.