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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, well here on the One Leg Up Network,
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett, and it was an intriguingly busy Championship Sunday,
- 0:09Speaker 1: was it? So this is my Sling TV Sunday recap,
- 0:12Speaker 1: only two games on. It was the two that would
- 0:15Speaker 1: clinch the AFC and NFC titles. Obviously in the first game,
- 0:20Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley in his very first run, taking it sixty
- 0:24Speaker 1: yards to the house, would add on a few more
- 0:26Speaker 1: touchdowns during the day, and the Eagles would route the
- 0:30Speaker 1: Commanders on their way to the Super Bowl. And then,
- 0:35Speaker 1: of course the nightcap, which I was much anticipating, as
- 0:38Speaker 1: was the entire country. Would it be the Astros and
- 0:42Speaker 1: Yankees parallel? Will it be another heartbreaking loss for the Bills? Well?
- 0:52Speaker 1: As Kevin Harlan's calls it perfectly, this is the moment
- 0:57Speaker 1: that answered that very question.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Allener's in mcgaune. He's got five wide, They're at their
- 1:13Speaker 2: own forty seven. Moving from right to left, he looks
- 1:17Speaker 2: into six defensive backs. It's fourth down and five.
- 1:21Speaker 1: They all want to move.
- 1:22Speaker 2: His receiver, Sekiir shotgun snap drifting back. Five. There comes
- 1:25Speaker 2: the blitz, he said, as he throws. There's a wild
- 1:28Speaker 2: pass down field, dropped it incomplete hath a thirty five
- 1:32Speaker 2: the dentade on a dive and complete the gentaid heth
- 1:36Speaker 2: a thirty five on a dive and the Chiefs will take.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Over that call courtesy of Westwood one Sports. And I
- 1:44Speaker 1: always love my internship there and even loved getting to
- 1:47Speaker 1: talk to Kevin Harlan prior to the Super Bowl when
- 1:50Speaker 1: it was here at MetLife Stadium. But that being said,
- 1:54Speaker 1: that being said, that was the moment that defined the game.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Now there were a couple of calls who could have
- 2:00Speaker 1: said either way, but that drop on fourth and five,
- 2:03Speaker 1: that going along that allan throwing. It is all and
- 2:07Speaker 1: then the drop is what will be you know, remembered
- 2:12Speaker 1: I think from this game. And here's my thoughts today
- 2:16Speaker 1: on Sling TV recap Power by Sling TV. Obviously, my
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- 2:39Speaker 1: the Big Game, I do make commission. But on this
- 2:43Speaker 1: Sling TV Sunday. My thought process is this are the
- 2:51Speaker 1: egos chiefs? Which is a rematch by the way, going
- 3:00Speaker 1: to be like a spoiler the twenty what eighteen Eagles
- 3:10Speaker 1: Super Bowl team twenty seventeen eighteen team gave us. Or
- 3:17Speaker 1: will it be even the two thousand and five kind
- 3:19Speaker 1: of performance when they were out maneuvered by the Patriots,
- 3:24Speaker 1: or will it be like that rematch again, like that
- 3:26Speaker 1: first matchup between these two? I think this matchup Jalen Hurts,
- 3:34Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, they're both runners, and then you add Sakwan
- 3:38Speaker 1: Barkley versus Pacheco into the mix. I mean, there's so
- 3:41Speaker 1: much to talk about in the weeks ahead. And by
- 3:45Speaker 1: the way, we'll be doing the One Leg Up on
- 3:48Speaker 1: the Super Bowl once again this year, thank god, and
- 3:52Speaker 1: we'll get some guests on here hopefully for you to
- 3:56Speaker 1: enjoy on the One Leg Up Network and hear from
- 3:59Speaker 1: maybe some Super bowlers. If I can pull that off,
- 4:02Speaker 1: we'll have to see. But what's it going to be?
- 4:06Speaker 1: I mean, this matchup is the entirely opposite matchup of
- 4:12Speaker 1: all of America. Warning because we want to see the
- 4:17Speaker 1: underdog's commanders and the underdog even though the Allen's had
- 4:22Speaker 1: an MVP year against the Chiefs, they're always sort of
- 4:25Speaker 1: the underdog, right, could they finally have cracked the Chiefs.
- 4:31Speaker 1: They didn't. They didn't. But I think this Jalen Hurts
- 4:39Speaker 1: Mahomes matchup we'll be fascinating to watch. And I'll tell
- 4:44Speaker 1: you why today's win against the Commanders was pretty cool
- 4:51Speaker 1: because I remember in the fourth quarter of a you know,
- 4:55Speaker 1: meaningless game for the Eagles Inon's last year as head
- 5:02Speaker 1: coach when he went four and twelve. Remember that with
- 5:05Speaker 1: the Eagles, he had a very young rookie and Jalen
- 5:08Speaker 1: Hurts on the sidelines ready to play that fourth quarter
- 5:12Speaker 1: against the then Redskins to possibly beat the Redskins, and yeah,
- 5:18Speaker 1: give the Giants away into the playoffs that year, and
- 5:24Speaker 1: he didn't play Jalen Hurts. So that move a few
- 5:33Speaker 1: years ago feels like a full circle moment now with
- 5:38Speaker 1: Hurts not only defeating the Commanders but defeating them in
- 5:45Speaker 1: the NFC title game to get to the Super Bowl.
- 5:51Speaker 1: And you know what, I cannot be mad at Sakwan
- 5:54Speaker 1: Barkley for doing his thing. Okay, I cannot be mad
- 5:58Speaker 1: at him. I think the Giants must be kicking themselves
- 6:03Speaker 1: that they didn't put all the resources into his career,
- 6:08Speaker 1: like a better front line and I don't want to
- 6:13Speaker 1: call it Danny Jones here, but a better QB possibly.
- 6:16Speaker 1: I mean, there was so much they could have done
- 6:19Speaker 1: with the Penn State alum and they just did not.
- 6:29Speaker 1: So I can't Saquon Barkley for feeling like it was
- 6:33Speaker 1: time to move on. I also can't fold the Giants
- 6:37Speaker 1: for moving on. But I know they're probably kicking themselves
- 6:40Speaker 1: right now because his first year out of the Big
- 6:43Speaker 1: Blue and into Philly Green, the Eagles make the Super
- 6:47Speaker 1: Bowl coincidence I think not. I think not, But I
- 6:55Speaker 1: will tell you what I told everybody on X tonight.
- 7:00Speaker 1: The only team in the NFC East I would not
- 7:04Speaker 1: root for in the Super Bowl is the Cowboys. So
- 7:12Speaker 1: this is going to be a very interesting, maybe game
- 7:15Speaker 1: time decision of who I actually don Will I don
- 7:19Speaker 1: the Philly Green too much the chagrene of everybody, or
- 7:25Speaker 1: will I cave and don Mahomes as I've done before.
- 7:30Speaker 1: The problem with donning the Chiefs is I just need
- 7:34Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air for a minute. I just
- 7:38Speaker 1: want to see a fairly called game and I want
- 7:45Speaker 1: to see a dynasty knocked off their horse for a minute.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Is that too much to ask? Because I respect the
- 7:58Speaker 1: hell out of Patrick Mahomes as an athlete. I've even
- 8:02Speaker 1: invited him on my podcast in the next couple of weeks.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Maybe he'll respond, maybe his team Mahmes will respond. But
- 8:11Speaker 1: sometimes you do feel like he gets the calls because
- 8:15Speaker 1: the NFL has some sort of aura for Patrick Mahomes
- 8:23Speaker 1: and maybe it's just athleticism. But then when you add
- 8:25Speaker 1: the calls going the Chiefs way almost every time, it
- 8:29Speaker 1: does get to be a little much, doesn't it. So
- 8:33Speaker 1: I just want to break up this monotony that we've
- 8:36Speaker 1: seen now for another straight year. And I'm sorry if
- 8:45Speaker 1: I end up doting Philly Greed on Super Bowl Sunday,
- 8:49Speaker 1: but I might for the Big Game because I personally
- 8:57Speaker 1: have no qualms with the organization the fan base. There
- 9:03Speaker 1: are some good ego fans out there, some nice ego fans.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Other fans like that guy who was so rude, I
- 9:12Speaker 1: mean incredibly rude to that uh Packer fan got himself
- 9:21Speaker 1: fired actually for being such an a hole. Those kind
- 9:25Speaker 1: of fans I could do without. But the organization when
- 9:34Speaker 1: Nick Foles and zach Ertz and Peterson won the Super
- 9:39Speaker 1: Bowl against the Patriots. I made the same argument. Then
- 9:44Speaker 1: I have no qualms with the organization. I've done to
- 9:48Speaker 1: the Eagles colors before the Egles jersey before there's photographic
- 9:52Speaker 1: evidence wearing a Donovan McNabb jersey. I'll go so far
- 9:58Speaker 1: to say I don't mind the fly Eagles fly unless
- 10:02Speaker 1: they're playing the Giants, in which I really want to
- 10:07Speaker 1: see the Giants defeat the damn Eagles because they never can.
- 10:14Speaker 1: But I digress. In this situation, some fresh blood and
- 10:20Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts finally making his first Super Bowl after a
- 10:25Speaker 1: year where Nick Sirianni was on the hot seat. I mean,
- 10:29Speaker 1: they had a very bad year last year, but that
- 10:34Speaker 1: acquisition of Saqum Barkley did more than just shake things up.
- 10:43Speaker 1: It might have shook up the culture for this Philly organization.
- 10:53Speaker 1: So I am no qualms that the Eagles are going
- 10:57Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I have a qualm with the
- 11:03Speaker 1: way the Bills possibly were screwed out of this AFC title.
- 11:09Speaker 1: That's my issue. If the Chiefs win these games fair
- 11:13Speaker 1: and square, then I'm like, Okay, great, it's a great
- 11:17Speaker 1: football game, and it was. It was a classic, and
- 11:22Speaker 1: that Kincaid drop was everything decided that game, as was
- 11:35Speaker 1: a couple of other moments, but that drop killed it.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And I just think the Bills are there. And I'm
- 11:51Speaker 1: going to make another controversial statement tonight. We talked about
- 11:57Speaker 1: it on Termino's take. Reiterated here for teams like the Bills,
- 12:06Speaker 1: like the Bengals, Yes, Burrow made the Super Bowl, but
- 12:10Speaker 1: he didn't win the Super Bowl, And like the Jaguars,
- 12:14Speaker 1: do we know I finally had a head coach and
- 12:17Speaker 1: I don't know they found a GM yet. Anyway, what
- 12:20Speaker 1: could take these quarterbacks to the next level? I mean
- 12:23Speaker 1: winning that Super Bowl. I've joked I would love to
- 12:29Speaker 1: see the NBA of the NFL, the Mahomes, Burrow, and
- 12:35Speaker 1: Allen Trio winning a Super Bowl each. That's my dream
- 12:40Speaker 1: for the NFL. But then that begs the question, what
- 12:45Speaker 1: do the Bills specifically have to do so that when
- 12:49Speaker 1: it comes to the playoffs? They beat the Chiefs in
- 12:53Speaker 1: the regular season, but what do they have to do
- 12:55Speaker 1: in the postseason? And it might be controversial, but we've
- 13:02Speaker 1: seen the McDermott alan duo work in the regular season,
- 13:07Speaker 1: but they haven't achieved that goal in the postseason. Now,
- 13:11Speaker 1: Alan would never call for the firing of Sean McDermott,
- 13:15Speaker 1: and I'd be crazy to call for his firing. But
- 13:21Speaker 1: something has to be shaken up. I think so that
- 13:24Speaker 1: there could be a difference in that Bill's weaponry, a
- 13:34Speaker 1: difference in that Bill's locker room to take them to
- 13:39Speaker 1: that level, not only just win, not even just winning
- 13:42Speaker 1: Super Bowl yet, but to take them to defeat the Chiefs.
- 13:49Speaker 1: There has to be a shake up this offseason. You
- 13:53Speaker 1: cannot look at this and say, well, they've lost three
- 13:57Speaker 1: times and that's that. There has to be an examination
- 14:08Speaker 1: of how you can beat the Chiefs when it matters
- 14:11Speaker 1: the most. And I would say that's across the board.
- 14:18Speaker 1: It's like they're not scoutable or something like. You cannot
- 14:25Speaker 1: scout that Mahomes Kelsey connection enough. You cannot scout his
- 14:36Speaker 1: ability to run left, run right, run up the middle,
- 14:43Speaker 1: to make those precise passes even on the run. You can't.
- 14:55Speaker 1: So the evaluation for all these other teams who have
- 14:59Speaker 1: gone by the wayside. Again to the Chiefs, it's about
- 15:10Speaker 1: scouting differently, maybe preparing a little differently, making different decisions
- 15:20Speaker 1: and just adapting find out from the burrow Bengals. How
- 15:28Speaker 1: they were able to beat the Chiefs at home in
- 15:31Speaker 1: the AFC title. That was remarkable that they did that.
- 15:35Speaker 1: They beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead in went to the
- 15:47Speaker 1: Super Bowl and did lose to the Rams and Matt Stafford.
- 15:55Speaker 1: But that being set, that being set here on the
- 16:01Speaker 1: Sling TV Sunday recap into Monday, something's got to give.
- 16:07Speaker 1: This team cannot be an inevitable Super Bowl perennial winner.
- 16:16Speaker 1: There has to be some kind of flaw that these
- 16:19Speaker 1: teams have not figured out. The Bills almost did tonight.
- 16:24Speaker 1: They capitalized on some turnovers. There was a possible turnover
- 16:29Speaker 1: at the three yard line which was a catch, and
- 16:32Speaker 1: that still is a very controversial blood. I mean, that
- 16:37Speaker 1: play alone sort of pushed the game a certain direction,
- 16:42Speaker 1: didn't it. So to the teams that have fallen by
- 16:52Speaker 1: the wayside of the Chiefs, what knowledge can you impart
- 16:57Speaker 1: to the Eagles? Firstly that they may not have been
- 17:05Speaker 1: aware of. I mean there were times this season I
- 17:11Speaker 1: thought the Chiefs and I'm eating crow today because sure
- 17:14Speaker 1: enough they're in the Serper Bowl again.
- 17:16Speaker 3: But they did not have steady wins, name me one
- 17:21Speaker 3: steady victory. The Chiefs had this year, I can't even
- 17:29Speaker 3: the Black Friday. If the Raiders don't fumble that football
- 17:33Speaker 3: and miss it and screw up the field ball attempt,
- 17:36Speaker 3: we're looking at that as a loss. If the Buccaneers
- 17:41Speaker 3: game goes a certain way, we're looking at that is
- 17:43Speaker 3: a loss. So this was not their best chiefs year
- 17:50Speaker 3: in the regular season. But once they sharpen those tools,
- 17:58Speaker 3: the other side has to be ten times sharper. And
- 18:07Speaker 3: on fourth and five with time remaining, was going along
- 18:14Speaker 3: truly the best option there. That'll be a question the
- 18:20Speaker 3: Bills will have to evaluate.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Because I applaud Alan forgiving his heart, for running it,
- 18:28Speaker 1: for doing what he could, but it's one of those
- 18:34Speaker 1: things again, in the waning moments, the play call could
- 18:42Speaker 1: be in question. And last year I kind of blamed Allan,
- 18:47Speaker 1: and I know people were on me for that. But
- 18:49Speaker 1: this year, I truly say, what's the coaching thinking your
- 18:55Speaker 1: fourth and five? The defensive backs are back six back,
- 19:00Speaker 1: as Kevin Harlan described, you fool them, you put them
- 19:05Speaker 1: on the ground, you do something different than do the
- 19:08Speaker 1: expected airing out. And I'm gonna end this podcast saying
- 19:13Speaker 1: one thing tonight, everybody's gonna now crucify Kincaid for dropping
- 19:20Speaker 1: that football everybody. But guess what you'll see in the
- 19:30Speaker 1: next few days. Bell's Mafia, much like they did with
- 19:38Speaker 1: the Ravens receiver who dropped that two point conversion, will
- 19:44Speaker 1: donate to a charity that Dalton Kincaid supports or represents.
- 19:53Speaker 1: That's what you'll see from Bell's Mafia. I guarantee it.
- 19:57Speaker 1: No matter how and tumble and rough, these losses can
- 20:05Speaker 1: be Kyle Bass last year missing those field goals, they
- 20:10Speaker 1: donated to a charity of his choice. They supported their kicker.
- 20:15Speaker 1: They're gonna do the same for Dalton Kincaid. So nationally,
- 20:18Speaker 1: talking heads will be talking about this drop. I'm talking
- 20:21Speaker 1: about this drop as oh my God, but I'm just
- 20:25Speaker 1: looking at that as the play of the game because
- 20:27Speaker 1: of the magnitude of it, and that boat was a
- 20:31Speaker 1: bit out of Kincaid's reach, but nonetheless it's the play
- 20:36Speaker 1: of the night. And I thought Harlan nailed it with
- 20:38Speaker 1: his call on west Wood Sports, and I think Bill's
- 20:46Speaker 1: Mafia will not stray from their Buffalo player. They will
- 20:55Speaker 1: embrace him and they will donate while everybody else in
- 21:01Speaker 1: the country plays literal Monday morning quarterback So my only
- 21:08Speaker 1: question is if they had to do it over, would
- 21:13Speaker 1: they go long again or would they go shorter, try
- 21:16Speaker 1: to get out of bounds, move the ball forward. And
- 21:22Speaker 1: the other thing is how will the NFL manage the
- 21:26Speaker 1: out the fallout of the possible refs giving the Chiefs
- 21:33Speaker 1: a chance to win the game narrative? How will they
- 21:40Speaker 1: manage that or will they everything? Well, there's one more.
- 21:50Speaker 1: There's a couple of games life. You got the Pro
- 21:51Speaker 1: Bowl in the Super Bowl, but we're not over yet.
- 21:54Speaker 1: The NFL is not over yet. And on Sling TV,
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- 22:34Speaker 1: On Championship Sunday into Monday, I'm Alex Garrett one leg
- 22:40Speaker 1: up on the Super Bowl. We'll have it for you
- 22:43Speaker 1: daily as we are closer to the big game. I'm
- 22:49Speaker 1: Alex Garrett,