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Ep.61: Commanding lie · Football Junkies podcast

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This is exactly why you have to listen to the football junkies podcast
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Because I knew one of the games that I predicted last week
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It was going to happen and it was the game that I least expected that it was actually going to happen
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And what was that game the commanders in the Lions?
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Man, oh man, if the commanders make it to the Super Bowl, I
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Won't have a leg to stand on in my own household. I can't talk trash to me to none of my parents or anybody else
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I know they're commander's fans
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Hopefully that doesn't happen though, but let's get into the things we do need to talk about which is
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Ben Johnson is now the head coach for the Chicago Bears. Okay Lou and a rumo joins the cults
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Okay, Texans versus chiefs. We got to talk about that game because there's a lot of controversy behind that
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Okay commanders and Detroit Lions the lion was slayed in Detroit
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Rams and Eagles and
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Ravens and Bill okay all of this and more on the 61st episode of the football junkies podcast
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I am your host with the most okay. I'm your GM who currently is not on a team right now
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But don't you worry about it? Okay. I am all these things and more. Okay. I am your chief
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Bagro Domus. I am your chief head of the table chief meteorologist with everything that is related to the bag in
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The draft in the offseason hot takes in more okay
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But most importantly the most important title that you must remember is I am your host kale
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You already know what I'm doing right say this is going to be a very
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Controversial episode and may ruffle some feathers, but it's okay because guess what you're gonna love me at the end
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Once I say it on three you already know how we do this thing on three one two three. Let's lock in
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Oh
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Right folks, let's get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going on in the league right now
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I know I just sound like a rapper. That's crazy. But who cares about that. So Ben Johnson going to the Bayer's
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Okay, so let's just get into this thing now on one hand. I do understand this decision
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You know, you want to pivot you want to you know make a different decision with
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Drafting Kayla Williams and one night and Kayla Williams
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I said publicly that he wants an offensive minded head coach, which is perfectly fine
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But I would have thought the Bears would have taken a route and decided to go with a more veteran approach
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When it comes to head coach simply because for one, this is still a fairly young team and two you want somebody
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Who has experience being a head coach and who has experience dealing with multiple types of personalities, right?
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You may have somebody that is a drama king. You may have someone that's super emotional
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You may have someone that's a crash out
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You may have someone that you know, you have to push a little bit just to get certain responses and whatnot
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That's when you have a veteran head coach who knows how to deal with all those things compared to somebody who this is their first time
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Being a head coach like it's different being a coordinator when you just have to focus on
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Your side of the ball compared to being a head coach because now anything and everything that happens is now brought to your plate
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if
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Somebody you know gets into a car accident at two o'clock in the morning and they find out that they were drunk driving
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guess what you're getting that phone call if
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Somebody gets robbed and their house gets broken into most likely you're gonna get that phone call all of those different scenarios
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And more are gonna be brought to your plate and you're gonna have to deal with that granted
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His choice for defensive coordinator is actually a really good hire because why he has experience being a head coach
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And he has enough experience in the game that he can show him how to maneuver in certain
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Situations with certain different types of personalities on this team
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Me personally I would have thought the Bears would have tried to go after Mike McCarthy because Mike McCarthy knows
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For one the entire division, but he knows how to deal with quarterbacks who are sort of like Kayla Williams
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Now I will say this the Bears did keep their word and said that they was going to cast out a wide net when it comes to
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Their next head coaching hire
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Let's just read off some of these names that they brought in for you know for a head coaching job Arthur Smith Brian Flores Joe Brady
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Top Munkin Mike McCarthy Thomas Brown Ron Rivera
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Aaron Glenn Ben Johnson Mike Kafka Pete Carroll Anthony Weaver Drew Petzing Eddie George. Yes, the Eddie George Mike Vrable
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They even called about Mike Tomlin to see if the Steelers will be willing to trade for him in the Steelers
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You know redirected that to Mike Tomlin and Mike Tomlin said no and even then Mike Tomlin has no trade clause in his contract
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So he has the final say in that anyway, so they did their job now
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It's time to see how things are going to go moving forward because again
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This team has a lot of talent on both sides of the ball
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And if you bring in the right coaching staff this team could be competitive against
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The Packers and the Vikings and the Lions within their division they can do it is just they need the right coaching staff to really
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Bring out the best of this team now. Do I think Ben Johnson can do it?
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I don't know only time will tell but when we look at you know his track record with the Lions when he came to the offense
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It does speak for itself. I mean, let's let's just look at this for a second here
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Okay, according to next gen stats shout out to them. All right
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So in 2022 the Lions offense was eighth in passing and 11th in rushing in 2023
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second in passing fifth in rushing in 2024 second in passing
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sixth in rushing I
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Mean it's only three seasons, but I mean they was doing a lot in those three seasons. They were ultra competitive
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They were putting points on people's heads and they were doing a lot of crazy play calling and it was working
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Is that going to translate with the Bears? I don't know
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This is a you know a situation where only time will tell
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Before we start to you know make our assumptions and predictions and I heard it from this person that person
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We have to give this thing time. That is the only way we will know if this was a good hire if this was a bad hire
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Or this was a hire they never should have done or never even should have
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Entertain but we do have to talk about another hiring
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But this one isn't the head coach. This is a defensive coordinator
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So former Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anna rumo is now joining the cults. Okay
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Now this is somewhat of an interesting hire simply because
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The cults defense is actually pretty good. All right, you got Julius Brent. You got Kenny Moore
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You got the force Buckner. You got Quitty pay you got Grover Stewart. You got Zaire Franklin
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They got some pieces on that defense and I think somebody like Lou Anna rumo is actually a really good hire now granted
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I understand Bengals fans. You're probably saying something a little bit different
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But the fact of the matter is you have a veteran defensive coordinator who did have a little bit of success
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Just a little bit and I'm saying a whole lot, but just a little bit. We're gonna get into the rankings
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Just in a moment
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He did have some success and so I think being in a more stable situation
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With a team that does have a variety of you know, great defensive pieces
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I think he can do something with this compared to being with the Bengals who
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Outside of their sumo year. They basically lost a majority their players to either free agency or trades
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But let's get into these rankings. Okay, so in 2019 the Bengals defense ranked
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21st and passing defense and 32nd and run defense
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2020 19th and past defense 29th and run defense
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2021 26th and past defense fifth and run defense 2022 the Super Bowl year
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23rd and past defense 7th and run defense 2023
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28th and past defense and 26th and run defense 2024 21st and past defense and 19th and run defense
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He was trying to do the best that he could do with little to no talent
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Outside of Trey Hendricks and Mike Hilton and Sam Hubbard
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Who else could you really say was really doing a whole lot even genome stone?
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You know, you know, he he was doing this thing every once in a while
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But compared to those years were when they had Jesse Bates and they had DJ reader and Larry Ogunjobi
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And you know, they just had a really good defense and they lost it because why a lot of those people were only there for maybe
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One to three years at best. So again
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some of this falls on his lap because
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You know, you are supposed to do a little bit better with what you have
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But at the same time he can only do so much when the team hasn't been hitting on their draft picks
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Especially on their defensive draft picks. They've allowed certain players to just walk and not even try to at least try to put up a fight
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We're trying to keep them like a lot of this stuff was out of his control
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but ultimately he was the scapegoat because
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Since the Super Bowl year this defense has just nose died to the ground
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Sometimes you do have to be the scapegoat and he was but at the same time this could be a blessing and disguise for him because now
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He's put into a more stable situation with better pieces
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They have more upside with their game. So only time will tell with this situation
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Now we'll say this this does make things very interesting for that division because now
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That you have someone like him with the Colts
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I don't know it may make things a little bit difficult for the Texans and everybody else who know
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I don't know just saying let's just get into these games though the first one the most controversial one
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Texans and Chiefs
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so CJ Stroud 19 for 28
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245 passing yards 8.8 yards per attempt in a 67.9 completion percentage
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Joe Mixon 18 attempts for 88 rushing yards
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4.9 rushing yards per attempt one touchdown and two rushes of 10 plus yards and more
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Nico Collins 8 targets for five receptions
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81 receiving yards and 16.2 receiving yards per reception Patrick Mahomes 16 for 25
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177 passing yards 7.1 yards per attempt in a 64 completion percentage
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Kareem Hunt 8 attempts for 44 rushing yards
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5.5 rushing yards per attempt one touchdown and two rushes of 10 plus yards and more Travis Kelsey
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8 targets for seven receptions
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117 receiving yards one touchdown and 16.7 receiving yards per reception. This is what I will say about this game
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Lowkey, this was a very
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interesting game
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For starters the Texan special teams was just not there. Okay. They failed them horribly
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I get it. There was some wind
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But come on man. That was just egregious when it comes to the special teams. Okay, not to mention
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The Texans offensive line was not helping CJ Stroud out at all. Okay, George Colostus was doing his thing
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Chris Jones was doing their thing. They were getting through. I know this a little bit too early to talk about it, but
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Most likely the number one priority for the Texans will be
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the offensive line for sure 100% especially after this game because
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The chief's defensive line just came in and they created constant pressure on CJ Stroud to the point where he really wasn't as effective
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As what he probably should have been
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We also have to talk about
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the refs
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Okay, and I understand, you know, some people gonna say well refs only trying to do their job
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You know, it's a very hard job. I understand that I get all of that
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But at the same time
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We need to implement replay assist at this point because this is bad. Well, Anderson
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That was not a late hit. So I don't understand. Why are you guys calling it?
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And then you have Patrick my homes who basically flopped to get the other call
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What are we doing here folks? Even Troy Eggman said it and Troy Eggman usually is aligned with the quarterbacks, but
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I had to side with him. This was egregious
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This was a bad
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Referring type of game, but these are the type of games
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That nobody really likes to watch because why?
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Everybody knows they're always going to side with the chiefs every single time
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And that is something that needs to be talked about a little bit more because
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You need to implement replay assist, especially for for both of those plays
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Especially for that second one because when you look at the replay, neither one of those players
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Created contact with Patrick my homes. They actually ran into each other. They didn't even run into Patrick my homes
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They ran into each other. So why are you calling the flag?
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And then when they asked him about it
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Their explanation was even worse
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But all in all
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We can all say that we definitely expected the chiefs to make it today FC championship as usual because why?
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The chiefs are the cash cow and you got to keep the cash cow going because if you don't
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No one's going to be interested in watching the playoffs. So
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That's that and I want to get into it because if I do I'll just go on an entire
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You know 30 minute rant about the refs and the chiefs and whatnot. It's not worth it
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So let's just get into another game that was definitely interesting and that is the commanders in lions game
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Now if you would have told me the commanders would have won the way that they would have won
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I would have called you alive
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But before we go any further, let's just get into these stats. Okay, because I know this is going to be a pretty long
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Well, actually not even really it's going to be pretty short with with this one though
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Jayden Daniels 22 to 31
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299 passing yards two touchdowns 9.6 yards per attempt in a 71
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completion percentage, okay, brian rovinson 15 attempts for 77 rushing yards 5.1 rushing yards per attempt
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10 2 touchdowns and 3 rushes of 10 plus yards or more jerry golf
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23 for 40 313 passing yards 1 touchdown
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7.8 yards per attempt in a 57.5 completion percentage jimera gibbs 14 attempts for 105 rushing yards
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7.5 rushing yards per attempt in two touchdowns and five rushes of 10 plus yards or more
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Amon Ross a brown 10 targets for eight receptions
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137 receiving yards and 17.1 receiving yards per reception. Now. This is what I will say about this game
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I'm just gonna be completely honest here
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I don't think jerry golf should have continued to play
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Because you could see jerry golf was definitely affected after that hit from frankie louvue
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You can definitely tell that he was seeing stars
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Stars and rubber ducks and whatever else that they used to show in the old cartoons because man. Oh man
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He was gone after that hit, but the commanders came in
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And they basically said listen
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We know that everybody is saying that you guys are gonna beat us wipe the floor with us and everything
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Well, we're gonna put up a fight
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And we're gonna punch you in the mouth and there's nothing that you can do about it
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And that's exactly what they did jaden daniels from the first drive to the last drive came in guns blazing
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Okay, I don't know if we are really talking about jaden daniels as high as we probably should
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because for him to go into detroit
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against
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the best
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or supposedly the best nfc team
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And put 45 points on this team
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And do it in such a way that just looks like it was so effortless like he was just in a zone
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Oh, man. Oh man. He is going to be a problem. Which is actually, you know what side note
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I do have to talk about this especially for the cowboys fans. It's just weird to me
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How jaden daniels has done more in his first year than what dag prescott has ever done in his entire career
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Just saying moving forward back to the game though
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But all jokes aside
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You can definitely tell that the commanders came in on a mission. Okay
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They were trying to prove people wrong that listen. We are that team. This is our year
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We are going to fight tooth and nail with the best of we don't care who you have
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We don't care what stats you've done. We don't care how many points you put on all those other teams
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You guys are going to go against us and that is what carry them to victory. Okay, but when we look at it from the lion's standpoint
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especially on the defense
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They were struggling
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They were struggling and granted
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The commanders were doing their thing, but it's just
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They could not
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Get home when it came to trying to sack jaden daniels when it came to you know trying to throw jaden daniels off
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They could not do it jaden daniels kept his composure and was just throwing lasers
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Every single time laser laser laser laser laser
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But from the lion side though, you have to be disappointed because
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You worked so hard to get the number one C
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You overcame multiple, you know season ending injuries from your top players. You made a big trade for you know
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Zadarias you're thinking okay. We still have a chance. We can still piece things together
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If we can make it to the Super Bowl, we'll be fine and
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You didn't and that's another failed year. And so now it's going to be harder next year
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Especially now that the bears hired ben johnson and we don't even know what moves
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The bears are going to make in the off season and the Vikings and everybody else. So
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Again, this was probably their best chance of actually making it to the Super Bowl
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Because now everybody else in the NFC is about to retool. Let's be real here folks
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The NFC is starting to get a little bit more competitive in certain spots
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Not saying every single team, but there are certain teams that are starting to
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You know, they're starting to get their act together. So
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If you're the lions, you now have to figure out what you're going to do moving forward
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Not to mention Dan Campbell now has to figure out
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Who is going to be his next offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator now me personally?
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Do I think they're going to hire somebody?
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You know from from outside of the organization? No, I think they're probably just going to promote people
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Internally and just the ball rolling they may add in maybe one or two more people, you know as like
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You know assistants or whatever, but I don't think they're going to make like a
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A big time, you know hire both offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator, but
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I am a little bit curious to see
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Will jeregov still have the same success that he has had
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With a new, you know, offensive coordinator with a new system. I am curious about that same thing with the defense too
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There's a lot of question marks with this team, but let's get into this rams and eagles game
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All right, so Matthew Stafford 26 for 44
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324 passing yards two touchdowns
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7.4 yards per attempt in a 59.1 completion percentage
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Kyren Williams 19 attempts for 106 rushing yards
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5.6 rushing yards per attempt in two rushes of 10 plus yards more
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Pukka Nakua 14 attempts for six receptions 97 receiving yards and 16.2 receiving yards per reception
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Jaylen Hertz 15 for 20 128 passing yards
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6.4 yards per attempt in a 75 completion percentage
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Seyquan Barkley 26 attempts for 205 rushing yards 7.9 rushing yards per attempt
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Two touchdowns and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more Dallas Goddard
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4 targets for four receptions 56 receiving yards and 14 receiving yards per reception
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This game was really good. Okay on top of it being somewhat of a snow game too. It was actually really good
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I'm not gonna lie
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I was low key rooting for the rams to win because
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Eagles fans you guys are a little bit too cocky for me personally, but that's another story for another day, but
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this was one of those games where
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The Rams could have won, but they made a mistake at the wrong time
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Kyren Williams fumbled at the wrong time
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And before you know it the Eagles are starting to gain some momentum
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The crowd is getting a little bit loud and then Jaylen Carter makes, you know, the game ceiling sack and the rest is history
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But I will say this for all the Rams fans that think, you know, this was a bust of a season
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No, you actually overcame your own struggles because in the beginning of the season
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I wasn't of the impression that okay, this is going to be a down year
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They're most likely going to you know, offload some of their veterans and probably, you know, get a high pick and really, you know
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Continue to build this team, but no they persevere
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They fought tooth and nail towards the end of the regular season
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Got into the playoffs kept on winning and then went up against the Eagles and they were holding their own against the Eagles for a while
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But as time progressed and as you know, the mistakes started to pile up and them not converting on, you know
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Third downs and whatnot. It just made things even worse
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And so ultimately I think
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They exceeded their expectations
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This definitely shows that there is a lot of upside with this team
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And I do think that is something that the Rams can, you know, hang their hat on
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Because again, this is a fairly young team outside of Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford
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Everybody is still fairly young. Everybody has is either, you know, in their prime or about to hit their prime
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And so this is a good sign for the Rams now for all the other NFC teams
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This is actually bad for them because why if the Rams can make it
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This far with this team and face the hold their own against the Eagles. What makes you think they can do it against you?
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Just saying
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But for the Eagles though
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They played mistake free football
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They realized that listen, we are not going to turn this ball over. We are going to run the ball
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We're going to play great defense and we are going to fight tooth and nail
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Because right now the Rams are going to give us a problem and they did that defensive line for the Rams
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Was giving the Eagles some problems at first
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But then the Eagles started to find a rhythm and before you know it say, Kwame Barkley was doing his thing
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And the rest was history
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But if you are the Eagles
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There is a level of concern that you have to have because why instead of you going up against the Lions
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You're going to begin to your division rival and they know you better than what the Lions would know you
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And last time I checked if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong
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The commanders came back and they beat the Eagles
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That last matchup because I think that was a woman Jalen Hurts
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Had the concussion he was ruled out and then Kenny Piggy came in and you know, he basically just choked the lead away and
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Up just checked it. I was right. They definitely choked that came away
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So again all jokes aside here that game that is a game that
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I think everyone is going to need to watch because I'm telling you
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If the commanders make it to the Super Bowl
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Cowboys fans is sick
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Everybody else at NFC. You're going to be sick. Okay sick. I tell you because
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This team this is a special team. I don't know what it is
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But Jaden Daniels every single game when they need him to make a play. He makes the play
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I don't know how he does it, but he is a magician when he is on the field
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And granted I understand that the Eagles defense is really good
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But I won't keep putting my money on Jaden Daniels. I'm just saying I'm just saying I would not be surprised
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If we have another DMV miracle like how he did against the Bears. I would not be surprised
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Let me tell you something if the commanders make it to the Super Bowl. I will get a Jaden Daniels jersey
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Okay, I will be the first one in line to wear a Jaden Daniels jersey
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Okay for all of my fellow football junkies. I would do that. Okay
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Shoot, I would even try to see if I could get an autograph or better yet an interview with him on this podcast
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Talking about those games if they make it to the Super Bowl, but I have to save the best game for last
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Yes
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All of you Ravens fans that was talking all of that smack especially Roquon Smith
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Well, guess what guess where you are you're with us. You're on the you're on the couch. Yeah, get comfortable, buddy
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Get your popcorn get your drink get you a nice chair get comfortable because guess what we're all going to be watching this Super Bowl together
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Okay, so let's get into this game with Marjaxon 18 for 25
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254 passing yards two touchdowns
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10.2 yards per attempt in a 72 percent completion percentage Derek Henry 16 attempts for 84 rushing yards
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5.3 rushing yards per attempt one touchdown and four rushes of 10 plus yards or more
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Rashad Bateman five targets for four receptions
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66 receiving yards one touchdown and 16.5 receiving yards per reception Josh Allen 16 for 22
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127 passing yards 5.8 yards per attempt in 72.7 completion percentage
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James Cook
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17 attempts for 67 rushing yards 3.9 rushing yards per attempt and one rush of 10 plus yards or more
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Khalil Shakir seven targets for six receptions
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67 receiving yards and 11.2 receiving yards per reception. This was a game
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That the Ravens definitely should have won. Okay, and the reason why I say that is because
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They in my mind had the advantage
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over the bills
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I thought personally that they were going to do the same recipe that they did against us in the wildcard
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run the ball with Derek Henry and
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Granite, you know Derek Henry had the stats that he had but I feel like they could have ran the ball with him more
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personally because
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This is his type of weather. This is in type of
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uh environment
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This is the type of weather where you need someone like a Derek Henry who can bruise and beat up this defense
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To the point where the passing game is more open and it's more effective
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But clearly that was not the case and clearly the bills came in with the mindset of
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Don't turn the ball over run the ball effectively as well as pass the ball effectively and it worked
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now granite
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I do have to give a little bit of criticism. You know
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to Lamar because
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the
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Fumbles and then the interception it wasn't good. Okay, and the reason why I say that is because
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You know, you're in a playoff game
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You know that this bill's defense
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Is looking for you to make one mistake and you're going to pay for that mistake every single time
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And remember remember what I said leading up to this game the two things
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That would mess up the ravens were
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injuries
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And self-inflicted mistakes and what happened self-inflicted mistakes, especially at the wrong time because
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Every single time that they turn the ball over they were building momentum every single time
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And guess what happened they lost that momentum. They would build it. They will lose it
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They would build it. They will lose it. They will build it. They will lose it
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They will build it and they will lose it and then ultimately
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Once the game, you know started to to wind down. Okay, you're moving you're moving and then you score the touchdown great
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You go for the two-point conversion ultimately mark. Andrews drops the ball. Now. This is what I will say
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I understand people are upset. I understand that people are in their feelings, but let's be real here folks
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It happens
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Okay, if I am, you know a ravens play caller, I maybe I probably wouldn't have put mark andrews in
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I probably would have put isaia likely in I probably would have put richard babin in
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I probably would have chose somebody else other than mark andrews
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And it's no slight to mark andrews at all, but I just would have done something different
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because
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This was the same play that they ran against us against the Steelers
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I think two or three years ago if i'm not mistaken and it failed
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So again, they
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Didn't have to get to that point
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Have they just you know kick a field goal when they needed to kick a field goal instead of going forward on fourth down and
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You know just trying
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To make sure that they play mistake-free football because in the playoffs is when you have to play mistake-free football
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Case and point when we look at the stats for a lot of the the teams that won especially the quarterbacks
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They didn't throw for a whole lot. The only person that did was jaden daniels
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outside of that
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Jaylen Hertz 128 passing yards
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josh allen 127 passing yards
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They didn't pass for a whole lot because why they were making sure that they were playing mistake-free football
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They were relying more on the run game
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And they were relying on the defense and ultimately those
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Three factors mix it in together and guess what you got a w
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You move to the next round and you are one step closer to making it to the Super Bowl now for the Ravens
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You know, this is very frustrating because for two years in a row
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You should be in the Super Bowl and you're not
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And granted I understand everyone says, you know, there's always next year. I'm sorry in this afc
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There is no next year you
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Have to hit
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When you have the opportunity to do it because if you don't guess what's going to happen the chiefs are going to reload
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every other afc
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Contending team are going to reload and when they do it may make things a little bit harder for you
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To make it to the Super Bowl last year the Ravens should have easily made it to the Super Bowl
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Okay, and then this year they definitely should have made it
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But again those self-inflicted wounds at the wrong time
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essentially costed them
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The games and ultimately costed them a chance of making it to the Super Bowl
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But I'm going to end this episode here if you guys like what you are listening
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blue sky social, okay
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But I'll probably fix it
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People's mock drafts and all those different things. So just you know, find me on on all my socials and everywhere that I have football
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Junkies uh content on all right. So as always, I hope I gave you guys the fix that you guys need
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I love you guys. I appreciate you guys so much. I will say this
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There's a good chance we may try to get into the offseason just a little bit if enough people
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Comment on this episode. I can probably start working on you know, a small little topic
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For the offseason for certain teams because I want to save the bigger
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The bigger stuff for the offseason once the season is completely over and we can go by
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Vision and you know, we can talk about teams and the cap space and their draft needs and free agency needs and you know
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They're free agents and all those variety of different things. Okay, so that's probably going to be a series
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Because then that can tie us into free agency. Then you know once once
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That's when the episode start cranking and then then you got you know training camp and the draft
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Who knows it's a lot of stuff coming. So just just work with me. All right, so as always
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I love you guys. I appreciate you guys so much. This is your gm who currently is not on the team right now
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But don't you worry about it. Don't you worry about it?
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kale
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Signing out peace and love. I'm out