Latest / Football Junkies podcast / Ep.64: Buffalo wing boat
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- 0:00So here we are folks
- 0:02preparing for the Super Bowl
- 0:04once again
- 0:06Chiefs and Eagles
- 0:07round two
- 0:09Yes, I know I didn't want to see it. You probably didn't want to see it. That's perfectly fine
- 0:16But we have to talk about the two games that led up to this point
- 0:20Okay, I finally was able to get to it and this is the episode to do it. All right
- 0:25Chiefs and bills commanders and Eagles art Rooney gives his thoughts on the vision of the Steelers
- 0:34Okay, Mike McCarthy takes a break
- 0:36Why haven't the Saints hired a new head coach yet and the Reese's senior Bowl?
- 0:43Recap, okay
- 0:44You might want to listen and stay tuned for that because you you might hear some people that you may be interested in that you may
- 0:50Want to watch their you know their film and their highlights at okay all of this and more on the 64th episode of football junkies
- 0:58Podcasts, okay? I am your host with the most okay
- 1:01I am your chief bad road domus when it comes to anything and everything related to the bag
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- 1:25Okay, but guess what I am all these things and more but most importantly
- 1:30I am your host kale. You already know how these things are about to go
- 1:34So guess what on three one two three. Let's lock in. Oh
- 1:48Oh
- 2:03Right folks, let's just get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going on in the league right now
- 2:09So we are finally talking about the chiefs and bills game as well as the commanders and Eagles game
- 2:16Okay, we are finally getting into it. Unfortunately. This is painful for Buffalo fans and commanders fans
- 2:21But it's okay because guess what there is room for you on the Buffalo wing boat
- 2:27Okay, because we got about maybe what 29 spaces left. I think is it 29? No
- 2:35Don't don't worry about that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Just don't worry about that
- 2:39But there's room for you on the Buffalo wing boat. Okay, better yet
- 2:43I think that's gonna be the episode Buffalo wing boat actually like that, but let's get into this game. All right, so chiefs in
- 2:50bills
- 2:50Okay, Josh Allen 22 for 34 237 passing yards to touchdowns
- 2:56Seven yards per attempt in a 64.7 completion percentage James Cook 13 attempts for 85 rush yards
- 3:046.5 rush yards per carry two touchdowns in one rush of 10 plus yards or more
- 3:08Mack Hollins for targets for three receptions 73 receiving yards one touchdown in
- 3:1424.3 receiving yards per reception Patrick Mahomes 18 for 26
- 3:19245 passing yards one touchdown
- 3:219.4 yards per attempt in a 69.2 completion percentage
- 3:25Kareem Hunt 17 attempts for 64 rushing yards
- 3:293.8 rushing yards per carry one touchdown in two rushes of 10 plus yards or more
- 3:34Xavier worthy seven targets for six receptions 85 receiving yards one touchdown in
- 3:4014.2 receiving yards per reception now
- 3:41This is what I will say after finally been able to watch the game again
- 3:46Once again, the bills could have won this game and I know Bill's fans are probably saying no we could no we couldn't yes
- 3:53You guys could have
- 3:54Once again, the lights got too bright for Josh Allen and he folded
- 3:59The first drive he almost threw two interceptions two interceptions back to back
- 4:06I understand
- 4:08That there's a lot of people
- 4:10Especially in the media that you know, they may have the reservations for certain quarterbacks
- 4:15And they may have the reservations for you know, people like Lamar Jackson one night and that's perfectly fine
- 4:21I have no problem with that
- 4:22but
- 4:23We also need to have the same conversation for Josh Allen
- 4:26Because he continues to crumble when he goes up against the chiefs in the playoffs and granted
- 4:32I understand that playing in Kansas City in the AFC championship is a lot of pressure on your shoulders
- 4:38But bro, you cannot give them an inch of fear because I'm telling you they're gonna be like sharks in the water
- 4:46Okay, once they smell blood
- 4:48They're going in okay, and that's exactly what they did
- 4:52They put all the pressure on Josh Allen when it should have been the other way around in granted again
- 4:58I under since a tall task to play at arrowhead. I get it
- 5:04But the fact of the matter is you could have easily won this game had you guys not
- 5:10Continue to make these dumb decisions from trying to go point conversion
- 5:15To running out of bounds instead of just staying in bounds so you can let the clock just go down
- 5:19Multiple mistakes were made in this game that shouldn't have happened
- 5:25Okay, because at the end of the day you need to put all the pressure on patch my homes
- 5:30You need to give him the least amount of time
- 5:34To work with because if you don't guess what's gonna happen patch do patch my home's things
- 5:39He's gonna find Travis Kelsey
- 5:41They're gonna could connect on two big plays and then the rest is history and that's exactly what happened in this game
- 5:48Even the last play of the game you knew that spags was going to probably do a zero blitz
- 5:54You knew that he was going to send everybody that he can towards you
- 5:59You rolled out the wrong way because guess what if you would have just looked to your left
- 6:04And you would have just thrown it to the running back. That's a first down because why nobody was over there
- 6:10So again
- 6:11We have to stop giving Josh Allen all of these get out of jail free cards when we don't do it for people like a Lamar Jackson
- 6:19Like a Jalen Hertz or anybody else because if this was anybody else
- 6:23Oh, everybody would be throwing them under the bus and saying oh, he's a bum. You got to get rid of them
- 6:30He's no good all those crazy things and more but because it's Josh Allen. We have to give him grace
- 6:35We have to give him understanding. We have to show compassion with him
- 6:39No, the fact of the matter is you fold it the only two
- 6:43Quarterbacks that have been able to beat patch from the homes in the playoffs has been Joe Burrow and Tom Brady
- 6:51Those the only two
- 6:53That is not good folks and granted I understand that the chiefs are difficult. I understand that they are magicians
- 7:01I understand craziest things when they need to make a play. I get all that but come on, man
- 7:08Come on. You have to do better
- 7:12Everybody knows that when you are going up against the cheese you have to control the clock
- 7:17You have to make sure that you keep patching my homes out of rhythm because if you do that
- 7:23You have a better chance at winning the game compared to
- 7:26Trying to get you know to the end zone as fast as you can. No, you don't want that you want that team to be out of rhythm
- 7:34while at the same time leave
- 7:36The least amount of time that you can on the clock for have you know for them to work on
- 7:41Because then guess what that puts all the pressure on them and that means all you have to do is just hold up for three plays
- 7:49That's it. If you hold up for three plays
- 7:52You won the game
- 7:54but
- 7:55Because once again you kept on trying to go forward on to you kept on trying to go and play a game
- 8:02The plane and you're thinking that you're the chiefs and you're trying to their competition and you cannot do that
- 8:09And I understand there are people that are probably saying, you know, oh there's next year and you know all those different things
- 8:15But it's hard to get back to the AFC championship
- 8:18The AFC is a very loaded division. Okay, some of the best quarterbacks are in the AFC
- 8:25It's hard to get back there. I don't know what's it gonna take but at this point
- 8:29This is another instance of Josh Allen failing to win the big game
- 8:36You cannot continue to do this
- 8:38Even even the last time that they was in the AFC championship and they faced the cheese
- 8:43They gave you never do that, bro. That is a cardinal rule. You never do that, but it's not my team's I don't really care
- 8:52They'll be you know riding on a buffalo wing boat somewhere in Cancun right now
- 8:56Drinking peanut coladas and margaritas and whatever but let's get into this commanders and Eagles game. Okay, so
- 9:03Jaden Daniels 29 for 48
- 9:05255 passing yards one touchdown one pick 5.3 yards per attempt in a 60.4
- 9:10completion percentage Jaden Daniels again
- 9:13Six attempts for 48 rushing yards eight rushing yards per carry one touchdown in two rushes of 10 plus yards or more
- 9:20Zach earth 16 targets for 11 receptions 104 receiving yards 9.5 receiving yards per reception
- 9:27Jalen Hertz 20 for 28
- 9:29246 passing yards one touchdown 8.8 yards per attempt in a 71.4 completion percentage
- 9:35Say Kwan Barkley 15 attempts for a hundred and 18 rushing yards
- 9:407.9 rushing yards per carry three touchdown in three rushes of 10 plus yards or more eight targets for six receptions
- 9:4696 receiving yards one touchdown in 16 receiving yards per recession now when we look at this game, you know the bus
- 9:54infilling, okay, I
- 9:56Understand that this will be a mixed season for the commanders a
- 9:59Season that you know will definitely go down in the history books
- 10:03Especially here in in the DMV but at some point this party was going to end and it ended infilling now granted
- 10:11You know at first the commanders were trying to put up a fight
- 10:14But you know the Eagles decided hey, I'm gonna sit up in a chair a little bit
- 10:19I'm gonna get a little bit serious and they got serious and that's exactly what happened for all the commanders fans that you know
- 10:25Maybe doom and gloom I wouldn't be because why you defied the odds this season
- 10:31Nobody would have expected this team to make it this far. You guys were literally one game away from Super Bowl
- 10:39You defeated the Lions the number one seed in NFC you went to Detroit and you beat them
- 10:48To face your division rival again in the NFC championship that right there is
- 10:53Monumental that is something that you can carry into next when you look at this roster
- 11:00From top to bottom offense to defense special teams, whatever
- 11:05Nobody would have expected them to get this far
- 11:07But it proves that when you have the right coaching the right quarterback
- 11:13Guess what anything can happen and that's exactly what it was now for the Eagles though
- 11:19The Eagles showed hey
- 11:22We're still those guys we're dominant
- 11:24They got hot at the right moment because that first half of the season it was looking real rocky
- 11:31Okay, you just you saw a lot of you know
- 11:35Conflicts on the sidelines then you have reports coming out that you know
- 11:39Siriani and Jaylen Hertz on on the same page and it was just a whole bunch of stuff and then whatever happened
- 11:46after that by week
- 11:48From that point to now
- 11:50They have been locked in zeroed in ready to go and so
- 11:56The payoff is guess what they're back in the Super Bowl again in this time
- 12:01This might be the best chance for them to actually win a Super Bowl
- 12:06So I say all that to say this, you know the Eagles you guys have a taller task of hand for you
- 12:12Now granted I understand there are people that are saying well the Eagles have a better defense than the Chiefs
- 12:18That may be true by some people but by my standards guess what the bus stops in Kansas City
- 12:25So unless you have a master plan that nobody knows about guess what it's gonna be a fight from the first quarter
- 12:32To the last quarter it's going to be a fight. So be prepared. You have faced these guys Super Bowl before
- 12:40Okay, you know tell all your corners when the two-minute warning happens
- 12:45Guess what don't hold on the corners
- 12:48Don't hold on the corners if you don't hold on to the corners. Guess what you'd be perfectly fine
- 12:53But if you do guess what's gonna happen
- 12:56Patch my home's gonna hold up another little party
- 12:58just
- 12:59Same but we have to talk about some stealer stuff unfortunately
- 13:04And that is because our Rooney had his end of the year press conference with a select few of journalists and
- 13:12Man, oh man
- 13:14this is
- 13:16It's a headscratcher folks. I don't know how to feel about it, but uh
- 13:20We're about to get into it. So uh
- 13:23Buckle up. Here we go. So and I quote when you talk about change last year
- 13:28We made significant changes on the offensive side of the ball brought in a new coordinator
- 13:33Brought in some new position coaches on the offensive side. So I would say it's not as though we haven't made any changes
- 13:39I'm looking forward to the second year under Arthur Smith in terms of the offense
- 13:44Preferably with one of the two quarterbacks we had on the roster this year so we can continue to develop that way
- 13:49I understand their frustration with how we finished 2024
- 13:53It just wasn't good enough not what we expected and everybody in this building knows that we have work to do
- 14:00And we've got to be better than that
- 14:02We've got some big decisions to make and we're going to be rolling up our sleeves and doing the best we can to make
- 14:07Sure, we're better next year
- 14:09We had a three game stretch where we play three of the best teams in the league two of whom are in the Super Bowl
- 14:16And we kind of saw where we are versus where they are and we know we've got work to do to take that next step
- 14:22This is not something that happens very often
- 14:24But the bottom line is you don't win as many games in this league as Mike Tomlin has. He's a good coach
- 14:31He's as frustrated as anybody in terms of not making that next step and knows what we need to do
- 14:38End quote now. He also has two quotes about
- 14:41George Pickens and TJ one as well, so we're gonna get into those right now
- 14:45So this is what he says about George Pickens and I quote George Pickens has room to grow and that will impact our thoughts on
- 14:52How we go for with him in quote. He also has a quote I'm getting to right now, which is and I quote
- 14:58I'd have to put in in the unlikely category. He's talking about as far as TJ. What being traded. Okay?
- 15:04He goes on to say he's certainly been one of the real solid pieces. We have on that defense
- 15:10I think he's the kind of guy we want to have in a locker room going forward in quote
- 15:14Now when we look at all these things that he has said and there's a few other things that he also said as well
- 15:19I wasn't able to find them, but he acknowledges the frustrations that Steelers fans are having
- 15:26When it comes to you know the the playoff success, right?
- 15:31And I understand, you know, everybody feels some type of way because we all want our teams to be in the playoffs, right?
- 15:37Nobody wants to end their season, you know with everybody else
- 15:41Everybody wants to keep on playing and try to compete for a title
- 15:44But the fact of the matter is that five game stretch proved everything that we needed to know which is we're not there
- 15:51We're not there by a mile. Okay when we compare ourselves to teams like the Ravens like the chiefs
- 15:59Like the Eagles the difference with all three of them is for one
- 16:04They make changes. Okay, especially when it comes to their coaches the Ravens just got Chuck Pogano
- 16:12Out of retirement to come and work with him
- 16:16Think about that for a second here folks the Ravens did that. Okay, that is a major step in the right direction
- 16:23Okay, when we look at the Eagles
- 16:25Then getting Vic van Gio and then getting Kevin Moore was a breath of fresh air because now guess what they're back in a Super Bowl and
- 16:34This might be the year where they actually win it all. Okay, the Steelers continue to fall on their own sword
- 16:41Okay, and the reason why I say that is because
- 16:44When you don't hit on your on your first round draft picks
- 16:48When you don't pull the trigger on making certain major moves for the betterment of your team
- 16:53Guess what happens? You're put in this situation like what the Steelers are
- 16:58The Steelers can only blame themselves
- 17:01For their past failures. They cannot blame anybody else
- 17:06They have to look in the mirror and admit that listen
- 17:09We have an organizational problem and what is that problem? We are not drafting well
- 17:14We are not coaching well
- 17:16We are not making proper adjustments and we are not trying to expand ourselves and add more people to this coaching
- 17:23Staff so we can be a better team
- 17:27Instead we want to continue to run the same
- 17:30System that we've been running for the longest time and people have caught on to it any time you have Julian Ellman
- 17:37Going his podcast and basically talk about how we were running the same system back then that we are now that definitely says a lot man
- 17:45We all saw how this defense was when we have Brian Flores for one year
- 17:51I understand I am continuing to be the dead horse, but listen. This is a fact
- 17:57When we made that one move for that one year you saw more production
- 18:03Out of a lot of players that we haven't seen you know a whole lot of production from
- 18:09Just because we added Brian Flores
- 18:11Just because we added somebody from the outside to give us an outside perspective
- 18:15Or what we can do to take this team to the next so why in the world haven't we done that now?
- 18:22We have to continue to stay
- 18:26Fresh we have to continue to keep things going you have people like Antonio Pierce
- 18:32Gerard Mayo
- 18:34Mike McCarthy you have different people
- 18:37Pep Hamilton Byron left which that you can bring in and that can help you with this team to take this team
- 18:46Into another stratosphere, but because you live in your fears
- 18:50But because you stick to traditions that at this point have not done anything for you
- 18:56All it's done for you is just basically say hey, we're gonna live in the past
- 19:01We're gonna rely on the six championships that we have and forget about trying to win in the playoffs
- 19:07Forget about us trying to add another Lombardi
- 19:10Forget about us trying to do right for people like TJ Y and Cameron Hayward who are Pittsburgh Steelers through and through forget about all of that
- 19:18Instead we're gonna stay in our own fears and this is exactly why we will never win another championship because you know why we will not make the
- 19:26Necessary changes we will not rip off the band-aid that continues to stay on halfway
- 19:33That's what it is. It's not because
- 19:36Oh, we don't have this player that player you can have all of the top players in the world
- 19:42You can have Aaron Donald Chris Jones
- 19:47Jalen Ramsey Fred Warner Rokwan Smith Kyle Hamilton
- 19:51You can have all those guys on your team, but guess what if you do not have
- 19:56Adequate coaching guess what you will never win the big game
- 20:01You will always lose and that's exactly why we continue to get crushed and crumble
- 20:07Against teams like the Eagles like the Chiefs because you know why they adjust
- 20:13We don't that's my little rant for the Steelers on to some other stuff that we have to talk about and that is what is going on in
- 20:21New Orleans because it's a little bit weird to me that they don't have a head coach by now and granted understand
- 20:28They're supposed to be waiting for Kellen Moore because of course
- 20:31He's the offense corner with the Eagles and they're in the Super Bowl and whatnot
- 20:34But I mean you had Mike McCarthy that you interviewed you had a whole bunch of people that you interview
- 20:39And you mean to tell me you wasn't interested in none of those guys really
- 20:44Something is going on here folks, and I don't think nobody is really talking about it now granted. I understand
- 20:52That the Saints job is a little bit weird
- 20:54I wouldn't take it personally, but some people want to take on that challenge
- 20:59But I don't think this is a challenge that nobody should take and the reason why I say that is because you have little to work with
- 21:07You don't have any cap space and what I mean you don't you don't have any cap space at all
- 21:12You don't know what you're going to do with quarterback
- 21:15There's so many question marks on this roster that it's ridiculous. Okay, you would have thought that you're playing guess who that's how
- 21:22Many question marks is on this team. Okay now if I'm killing more
- 21:27Listen, you better have you a good bottle of scotch or rum or something by your desk
- 21:34Because I'm telling you you're gonna be drinking some of those nights because man. Oh man, you have little to work with my friend
- 21:42Okay, now with most head coaches, you know
- 21:45You'll be in a situation where you have a few pieces that you can you know lean on you may have a little bit of you know
- 21:50Cat flexibility you may have a good draft pick and whatnot
- 21:54They got the draft pick, but they don't got the cap space
- 21:58That's not really good, but we're gonna go more in depth about that when we talk about that division
- 22:05We talk about the Saints. Okay, stay tuned for that that will be coming soon probably after the
- 22:11The Super Bowl and the season is officially over with but I have to talk about the senior Bowl
- 22:17Okay, have to talk about it because I've been watching it all week long and these are my takeaways so far
- 22:25There are a lot of hidden gems at corner
- 22:29Detackle running back and receiver. Okay
- 22:33There are some people that are not getting a whole lot of media attention
- 22:38But I'm telling you if you put them in the right situation
- 22:42They could definitely hit. Okay
- 22:46So notable names that caught my attention Ty Filton and Neas Pebbles
- 22:50Tess Johnson grade Zabel Quincy Riley Darius
- 22:55Alexander as your Thomas. Okay, just to name a few
- 23:00These guys
- 23:02They're definitely gonna be some difference makers in the league. Okay, Tess Johnson
- 23:08cooking from the first day to the last day cooking hot grease every
- 23:13Every single day
- 23:16Cooking it one-on-ones. Okay
- 23:18Ezra Thomas he was doing his thing and Neas Pebbles
- 23:22I gotta start watching more film with you sir because man. Oh man. Are you a wrecking ball?
- 23:26Same thing with Jordan Philip Phillips as well
- 23:30Gray's able I was unfamiliar with your game Quincy Riley. I was unfamiliar with your game Darius Alexander
- 23:37I definitely was unfamiliar with your game my friend my green. He's like that. I
- 23:42Don't care what anyone says in my mind my green is past rusher one for me. That this is just me
- 23:48There's just my opinion. I could be wrong. You can argue with me. I don't really care
- 23:52But my green is that guy he has a lot of upside to his game
- 23:56I'm not saying he's gonna be an instant, you know hit
- 24:00But I will say this he does have the skill set to definitely be a
- 24:06Really good past rusher in the league
- 24:08He got the size he got the skill and he has the speed
- 24:13He is going to be a problem. You heard it here first on the football junkies podcast episode 64
- 24:20Buffalo wing boat. Okay, and the last thing is the quarterbacks were definitely struggling
- 24:26Now I know for some people you probably don't care about that
- 24:29but for others I would probably take he to it because a lot of these quarterbacks were just out of it and I think this
- 24:38Opens up some somewhat of a of a deeper conversation that definitely needs to be had
- 24:43I've been putting it off for the longest time, but I definitely need to say it and that is I think the number one problem
- 24:50With a lot of these court quarterbacks nowadays is
- 24:53They're not taught to play under center and been been Rothesberger said this on on his podcast like when he was in college
- 25:02They taught him
- 25:04Basically almost every single practice to play under center and once he transitioned to the league
- 25:09He was able to do it with little to no problems
- 25:12but nowadays what you're seeing is a lot of these quarterbacks are either playing in
- 25:18Some variation of a pistol formation or some variation of a shotgun formation. I'm sorry. That just doesn't work
- 25:25They have to be able to know and to be comfortable with playing
- 25:30Under center you're gonna have to do it at some point in the game
- 25:35Because that's what a lot of the offense coordinators and coaches do in the league
- 25:40So you have to start doing that in college
- 25:43Otherwise, that's gonna be a major learning curve for a lot of these young quarterbacks, but out of all of these quarterbacks
- 25:50I think Jaylen Milrow
- 25:52Definitely has a lot of upside to his game
- 25:55I think he is somebody that is gonna have to be put in a situation where he can sit and learn and probably
- 26:02Be shown how to be a better passer because physically. I'm not really worried about that. I know he could run
- 26:08I know he can you know do a whole bunch of crazy things
- 26:12But it's the passing that I'm concerned about because there is a lot of
- 26:17Inconsistencies with his past game that I think if it gets cleaned up
- 26:21He's gonna be a problem, but I'm gonna end this episode here if you guys like what you're listening
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