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Seahawks DOMINATE 49ers, Broncos BEAT Bills in OT, Nix breaks his ankle · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing?
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Speaker 1: I'm John Middlecoff. This is the Three and Out Podcast,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by my friends at Zone Pouches. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: everyone's doing well. I'm doing pretty good. I've slept about
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Speaker 1: five hours in the last couple of nights, and I
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Speaker 1: have a son. Now. He's at home because we came
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Speaker 1: home today. He must be my son because we got discharged.
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Speaker 1: Well before kickoff of the Bill's Bronco game was turned
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Speaker 1: into an absolute bananas game. They went overtime, felt like
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Speaker 1: it was going to go to a couple overtimes, and
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Speaker 1: the Bills lost in devastating fashion. The Broncos lost their
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Speaker 1: quarterback to a broken ankle or broken bone in his ankle.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, I mean just he's out. I mean he's
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Speaker 1: getting surgery Tuesday, which was like, what when did that happen?
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Speaker 1: So the Broncos are hosting the AFC Championship game with
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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. The Bills were in tears because it
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Speaker 1: does feel like their coach might get fired. So we
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Speaker 1: will discuss that after just some crazy shit happening in
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Speaker 1: that game. They have a bunch of turnovers still make
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Speaker 1: it overtime, have a late lead in the fourth quarter, bananas,
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Speaker 1: and then Seattle just absolutely destroys the forty nine ers,
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Speaker 1: who are going to host the NFC Championship Game. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: it would be my pick to represent the NFC in
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl right now if their defense going to
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Speaker 1: look like that. They have absolutely destroyed the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks in a row, forty nine Ers played a
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Speaker 1: game in between Seattle did not. They won forty one
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Speaker 1: to six and thirteen to three, So that would be well,
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Speaker 1: the final score there would be fifty four to nine.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot too little, and it looked even worse
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Speaker 1: so to Seattle and Denver. Kind of Denver. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it sucks your backup quarterbacks now starting the AFC Championhip game.
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna save some stuff for Sunday, like John
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Speaker 1: Harbaugh signing for a lot of money to be the
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Speaker 1: New York Giants head coach. I will mention Kevin Stefanski
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Speaker 1: today because he got hired by the Atlanta Falcons. Don't
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Speaker 1: really have crazy take on that one, beside, eh, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I get it, Matt Ryan once is an offensive guy.
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Speaker 1: So let's just dive into what we just witnessed. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna start tonight with the Bills in the Bronco game.
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Speaker 1: I think the headline story today is the team that's
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Speaker 1: hosting the AFC Championship game. Their quarterback broke his ankle,
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Speaker 1: and listen, you don't have a choice as a coach
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Speaker 1: but to try to uplift your squad. He announced, We're
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Speaker 1: all in with Jared Stidham, he claimed at the podium.
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Speaker 1: From what I saw, Sean Payton gave his press conference
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Speaker 1: and then came back in the room to announce the information.
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Speaker 1: His own team didn't know the information. Just a massive
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Speaker 1: blow because clearly Bronco's a weird team. Probably should have
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Speaker 1: lost today. I mean, anytime you get multiple interceptions from
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, three fumbles, turned those into thirteen points, you
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Speaker 1: score on every fumble and a touchdown in two field
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Speaker 1: goals and still don't win the or still barely win
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Speaker 1: the game and go into overtime, not ideal. Bronco's a
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Speaker 1: weird team. Clearly, though, You're one hundred and twenty minutes
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Speaker 1: from hoisting the Lombardi Trophy and you lose bo Nicks.
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Speaker 1: I don't really know what to say following on social media.
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Speaker 1: The players found out on Twitter just a crazy loss
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Speaker 1: because the NFL even tweeted in Instagram the clip of
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Speaker 1: bo Knicks walking off the field after the game and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't even lipping. He was not limping, So that
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Speaker 1: was crazy to watch. Listen, he was gonna get destroyed
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Speaker 1: if they lost that game because in the second half
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Speaker 1: he was kind of all over the map. The Broncos
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Speaker 1: offense stumbled. But you got to give the kid his credit.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if his kid, he's like a forty
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Speaker 1: year old second year player. Let him right that right
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Speaker 1: down on a drive, which you know that the Bronco
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Speaker 1: or the Bills ended up getting the ball back with
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Speaker 1: fifty seconds that gotten the field goal range. But they
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Speaker 1: took the lead with you know, under a minute to
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Speaker 1: go because bow Knicks hit Suddon multiple times, made a
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Speaker 1: big play with his legs, throw a beautiful touchdown pass,
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Speaker 1: I mean a gorgeous touchdown pass. It was big time
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Speaker 1: stuff and at the end of the day, as a quarterback,
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Speaker 1: you know you're judged in the biggest moments. It's why
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Speaker 1: Caleb has gotten so much credit this year coming through
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Speaker 1: in the clutch and bow Knicks did in a huge way,
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Speaker 1: even on the final drive, which you could argue they
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Speaker 1: I thought some of the pi's were little Definitely the
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Speaker 1: one one that White freaked out and threw his helmet
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Speaker 1: on was TICKI tack for my liking, but he was
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Speaker 1: slinging it. Now. I think Sean Payton's usage of him,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of a moot pointed, you know, right
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Speaker 1: now because he's not gonna be playing in these next
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Speaker 1: game or potentially two, which big picture for the league
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Speaker 1: is a problem. Like ideally you don't want a team
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Speaker 1: to have their backup quarterback in the AFC Championship game
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Speaker 1: and definitely the Super Bowl. Even my mother in law,
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Speaker 1: who is with us helping us out, looked at me
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Speaker 1: during the middle of the Niners game as actually a
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Speaker 1: Seattle guy was on the ground Charbonne and was like,
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Speaker 1: were there this many injuries twenty years ago? And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: sure doesn't feel like it, not at the rate in
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Speaker 1: which it's going and the bow Knicks won. I would
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Speaker 1: say it felt I mean definitely, not a soul would
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Speaker 1: have noticed. To say it was innocuous feels like an overstatement.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you didn't notice it had on the kneel down.
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Speaker 1: The guy stepped on his ankle, clearly when you watch
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Speaker 1: the replay, but he didn't show any signs he walked
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Speaker 1: right off. It shows you the power of adrenaline. But
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Speaker 1: there's no way around it. It's just a devastating blow. Right.
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Speaker 1: You can nitpick them all you want, but they got
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Speaker 1: this far for a reason. The guy's made a lot
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Speaker 1: of big plays. I mean, this Denver Bronco defense is
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Speaker 1: no longer that good. They do not feel like a
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Speaker 1: potent unit right now. I mean the Bills were destroying
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Speaker 1: them in the run game, even some of the plays
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Speaker 1: that didn't count, like Josh Allen's hitting big play after
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Speaker 1: big play late in the game. I mean the one
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Speaker 1: on Cooks down the sideline. He was out of bounce
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Speaker 1: to hit Cooks on the other one, which my take
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Speaker 1: on that I understand the outcome because you're not claiming
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Speaker 1: that he caught the ball. And obviously when you roll
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Speaker 1: over on the player, the ball is never on the ground.
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Speaker 1: But if I catch the ball and I hit the ground,
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Speaker 1: this is always my issue. Aren't I down? And that's
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Speaker 1: always like, well, you didn't take two steps, you didn't
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Speaker 1: complete the catch, and clearly the defender when he rolls
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Speaker 1: over him. If it's not completed, has the ball technically
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Speaker 1: it's in his possession. I don't know. I kind of
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Speaker 1: understand where Sean mcdermot's coming from having an issue with
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Speaker 1: that play. I also understand by the letter of the
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Speaker 1: rule it's technically not a catch. But this gets back
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Speaker 1: to like in the history of playing football, if I
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Speaker 1: catch the ball and I hit the ground, that's a catch,
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Speaker 1: right then if you rip it from my hands as
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Speaker 1: we're rolling over, you would never have got the interception.
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Speaker 1: But now with this convoluted nature of the way we've
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Speaker 1: attacked these seven point bullet points of what you have
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Speaker 1: to do, and listen, I'm not trying to act like
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Speaker 1: I'm pissed off at that or I think that's the
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Speaker 1: end of the world on that call. I understand it,
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Speaker 1: but I also see the other side as well, and
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Speaker 1: I thought the referees by the end of the game,
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Speaker 1: we're getting very trigger happy with the yellow flag. But
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Speaker 1: the Broncos came out victorious. Now they don't have their quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and I think you saw tonight. Definitely Seattle Denver is
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Speaker 1: a great home field advantage. I mean, you saw the
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Speaker 1: two stadiums a night are places that have a collegiate
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Speaker 1: feel to them. I think they said that's the first
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Speaker 1: Denver home playoff win since Peyton Manning back the year
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Speaker 1: they won the super Bowl, So it would have been
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Speaker 1: what January of twenty seventeen, the twenty sixteen regular season.
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Speaker 1: That place was rocking. I had a cousin there today.
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Speaker 1: He's like, it was so loud, the place was going nuts.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't hear yourself think Seattle, like Brady said that
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Speaker 1: the moment shahe took that thing to the crib, it
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Speaker 1: felt like an earthquake. And then that's one of the
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Speaker 1: louder stadiums to begin with. But devastating blow because you
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Speaker 1: get to the AFC Championship, especially if you're hosting it,
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Speaker 1: you're thinking we can win the super Bowl. And I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: when your backup quarterback comes in at this point in
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Speaker 1: the season, fair or not, maybe he'll be better than
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Speaker 1: I think, but like I no longer think you can
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Speaker 1: came out and said Kurt Warners, our starter, and we're
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Speaker 1: It's you don't have much time, man, I mean you
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Speaker 1: got eight days your team. This is why you make fifteen,
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Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty million dollars or whatever the hell the
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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos paid him. This is gonna be a really
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Speaker 1: really big challenge because bo Nick's be a roller coaster ride,
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Speaker 1: there is no disputing that. But he's their starting quarterback
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Speaker 1: for a reason. He's the best quarterback on the roster,
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Speaker 1: and he's the guy that by far gives him the
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Speaker 1: best chance to win. Backups are in that spot also
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Speaker 1: for a reason. They're not as good as the starter.
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Speaker 1: And here's the other problem. It's January seventeenth, So what
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Speaker 1: day does that game kick off? January twenty fifth? You
12:22
Speaker 1: haven't played all season long. You don't even take reps
12:28
Speaker 1: in practice, so now to get ready for the AFC
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Speaker 1: Championship game. We'll see who wins tomorrow between the Patriots
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Speaker 1: in Houston. But if it's Houston who has an elite defense,
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Speaker 1: who I'm putting my money on I cat that's tough, man.
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Speaker 1: That is a really tough transition. So Sean Payton is
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Speaker 1: truly gonna have to work his magic, not just psychologically,
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Speaker 1: to keep guys kind of like dialed in and focused.
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Speaker 1: Now you could argue it's this late in the season,
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Speaker 1: you have a chance to go to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: You're not giving like new Rockney raw Ross speeches, and
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Speaker 1: that's true, but still there's an emotional come down after
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Speaker 1: something like that happens. So I feel for you Broncos
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Speaker 1: fans because you're in the AFC Championship Game and it
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Speaker 1: feels shitty and that cannot be fun. And out of
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Speaker 1: the Bills who just lose games in the most excruciating
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Speaker 1: way of all time. I mean, it's there just aren't
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Speaker 1: many franchises that have the heartache that they have. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was really young for the stretch they had when
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Speaker 1: they were going to Super Bowls and losing them. And
13:40
Speaker 1: obviously some super Bowls were blowout, some were lost on
13:45
Speaker 1: last second drives or missfield goal at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game. But this Josh Allen stretch of the way
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Speaker 1: they've lost games. I mean, today one I don't feel
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Speaker 1: that bad for them because cook Fu, they score a touchdown,
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Speaker 1: Josh fumbles twice, one leads to a field goal that
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Speaker 1: I think if you look at like the end of
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Speaker 1: the regulation portion of the game, that they would have
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Speaker 1: been driving to win the game with a field goal. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they were driving to tie the game with a field goal.
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Speaker 1: So like that play by Josh, it's twofold. You can't
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Speaker 1: be that willy nilly with the with the ball. And
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Speaker 1: we can dive into his overall performance. Obviously relative to
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Speaker 1: his standard, it wasn't a good game. You throw multiple
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Speaker 1: interceptions one I'm not putting the cook one on them,
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Speaker 1: but the fumble at the end of the half was
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Speaker 1: really really bad. But I think it also goes to
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Speaker 1: the head coach who everyone's calling for his job, and
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Speaker 1: everyone's gonna call first job, and who knows, over the
14:53
Speaker 1: next couple of days he might lose his job. But
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Speaker 1: if I was going to be critical about one thing,
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Speaker 1: that entire game on, Sean Dermott is in that spot.
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Speaker 1: And listen, Tom Brady's clearly passed Tony Romo. I know
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Speaker 1: Front Office Sports put out an article about CBS saying
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Speaker 1: there's some growing narrative which is like, guys, no one
15:13
Speaker 1: with a brain thinks Tony Romo's gonna get fired. Not
15:17
Speaker 1: a soul, right, Like that's people aren't claiming like fire Tony. Obviously,
15:22
Speaker 1: with his contract, he's not getting fired. But the one
15:25
Speaker 1: thing we can mostly agree upon in this country is
15:28
Speaker 1: we kind of all watch football and Nanton Romo do
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Speaker 1: games where like twenty five thirty forty million people watch
15:35
Speaker 1: as the season goes. I mean they do some of
15:36
Speaker 1: the biggest games of the year. I'm talking regular season.
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Speaker 1: Their playoff games are huge. So it kind of stands
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Speaker 1: out if Romo's not as good as he once was,
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Speaker 1: and it's kind of a weird listen, and Tom Brady's
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Speaker 1: become a pretty easy listen. He's pretty good now, He's solid,
15:52
Speaker 1: And I was I'm guilty. I was wrong. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was terrible at first, which he was, but I
15:57
Speaker 1: didn't give the benefit of doubt. Long runway ten year,
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Speaker 1: Uh takes time. We all need reps. But like Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady dramatically better than Tony Romo now. But the thing
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Speaker 1: is you're watching that game and Tony Romo made a
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Speaker 1: good point. He's like, you got no timeouts. You're in
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Speaker 1: this situation at the end of the half, just just
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Speaker 1: kneel it and get out of there. And instead he
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Speaker 1: call they don't have any you know, they have nowhere
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Speaker 1: to go. They don't have an explosive passing game really, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean Brandon Cooks by far as their most explosive
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Speaker 1: pass receiver down the field, and he just starts running
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Speaker 1: up the middle, carrying it like a loaf of bread,
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Speaker 1: fumbles the ball with a couple of seconds left, and
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Speaker 1: then they kick a field goal and they just get
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Speaker 1: a free ten points. And to me, like, that's on
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Speaker 1: the head coach that yeah, I get he's at the
16:46
Speaker 1: play caller, but you get on the headset and you go, Joe,
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Speaker 1: just we're getting out here, let's go to let's go
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Speaker 1: to halftime. That was atrocious. And to me, if you
16:55
Speaker 1: want to put that on Sean McDermott, I have no
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Speaker 1: problem with it because instead of it being seventeen to
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Speaker 1: ten at halftime, it's twenty to ten and they got
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Speaker 1: a bunch of momentum off that play. So listen, Sean
17:12
Speaker 1: mcdermots in major trouble. And I've known Sean since my
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Speaker 1: first year in Philly. He was our defensive coordinator and
17:20
Speaker 1: I've said this forever. I'm biased on this one. He's
17:22
Speaker 1: always been really cool to me. I say the same
17:24
Speaker 1: thing about Todd Bowles, like I like these guys personally.
17:26
Speaker 1: I just think they're I just enjoy both of them. Now,
17:30
Speaker 1: Todd obviously finished the season was a disaster. He kept
17:34
Speaker 1: his job. It was very much in question. Sean is
17:37
Speaker 1: in this position where you see these coaches of really
17:41
Speaker 1: good teams find themselves these guys that can't get over
17:45
Speaker 1: the hump. But it's clear, like I think you should
17:48
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl, or I think your team is
17:50
Speaker 1: good enough to win a super Bowl. Like today you're
17:53
Speaker 1: in overtime. Your quarterback had thrown an interception and you
17:57
Speaker 1: had three fumbles, so going into overtime you had four
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Speaker 1: turnovers and they only had one on a god awful
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Speaker 1: interception by Bo Nicks that threw it right to a
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle. But that show is like you should. It's
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Speaker 1: like historic in football, you lose the turnover battle, you
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Speaker 1: lose the game, and that's typically like a two to
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Speaker 1: nothing ratio or a two to one ratio. You have
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Speaker 1: four turnovers in regulation, like you got no business even
18:29
Speaker 1: being in that spot. So it's a reflection of like,
18:31
Speaker 1: team's not bad. Clearly have a really good pass defense,
18:34
Speaker 1: which Sean McDermott deserves credit for. He's a defensive guy.
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Speaker 1: And you have this great quarterback who was having, for
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Speaker 1: his standards, a very shitty game because you turn the
18:43
Speaker 1: ball over in the playoffs, Like, that's a shitty game.
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Speaker 1: You cannot turn the ball over possession, And like just
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Speaker 1: giving the other team free possessions is a death blow.
18:54
Speaker 1: This is not baseball, This is not basket. You don't
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Speaker 1: get another games. This is a one game situation with
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Speaker 1: another team. These aren't series. I think there's probably above
19:05
Speaker 1: a fifty percent chance he gets fired. And listen, there
19:08
Speaker 1: have been a lot of guys you know, uh, what
19:11
Speaker 1: was his name, Buck Showalter with the Yankees once upon
19:14
Speaker 1: a time got fired, Joe Torrey came in, they started winning.
19:17
Speaker 1: I lived in the Bay Area when Mark Jackson got fired.
19:20
Speaker 1: Steve Kirk came in and they started winning. Now, these
19:22
Speaker 1: aren't all apples to apples. If you watch the Lway documentary,
19:26
Speaker 1: it happened with Dan Reeves. He kept getting close and close,
19:29
Speaker 1: they were even making the Super Bowl, and then he
19:31
Speaker 1: got fired. They got Mike Shanahan. They ended up winning
19:33
Speaker 1: a couple, but on this one you go this long
19:38
Speaker 1: and this was finally the year where it's like you're
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Speaker 1: getting bo Nicks and you can't beat this team. Let's
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Speaker 1: face like, I don't think Denver's that good because part
19:47
Speaker 1: of what I thought Denver was gonna be really good
19:49
Speaker 1: when I bet on them to make the super Bowl
19:50
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, I thought they were
19:52
Speaker 1: gonna have a Houston like defense. Well, their defense no
19:54
Speaker 1: longer looks like that. It's fine, it's solid, but it's
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Speaker 1: not some dominant unit, and offensively it's just very hit
20:03
Speaker 1: or miss, and when it's good, it's really good. But
20:07
Speaker 1: also Sean calls plays with bow Knicks sometimes like he's
20:11
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. Like to me, one of bow Knick's great
20:14
Speaker 1: qualities is his mobility. Get him out moving, get him
20:19
Speaker 1: just let him be a playmaker. I say the same
20:22
Speaker 1: thing with Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams. But Sean Payton
20:26
Speaker 1: a lot like Ben Johnson. They desire a pocket quarterback.
20:32
Speaker 1: Their favorite plays are timing routes. Those guys just want
20:36
Speaker 1: a freelance and make plays because big arms. Obviously Caleb
20:40
Speaker 1: is a huge arm, but big athletes throw on the run.
20:44
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like Sean's that comfortable calling those plays.
20:47
Speaker 1: I mean today I would have ran like quarterback powers
20:49
Speaker 1: for bow Knicks. So you're watching John, they take the
20:53
Speaker 1: lead late, You're like, this is gonna be a great win,
20:56
Speaker 1: and then they go right down the field and they score.
21:00
Speaker 1: Obviously over time, it was bad. I mean it just
21:04
Speaker 1: really was. I mean there's no way around it. So
21:09
Speaker 1: if Sean McDermott goes, though, this couldnt be a New
21:11
Speaker 1: York Giant situation where Joe Shane survives. This could not
21:15
Speaker 1: be a Cleveland Brown situation where Andrew Berry survives or Arizona.
21:20
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, a lot of these gms survived and
21:21
Speaker 1: the coaches went, he's got to go. Like, did you
21:25
Speaker 1: watch Seattle to night? How good that roster is? We
21:31
Speaker 1: all agree if the forty nine ers are healthy, they
21:33
Speaker 1: have a fantastic team. They're just injured maybe because of
21:36
Speaker 1: the substation. Who knows. Only time will tell with that one.
21:39
Speaker 1: But I'm watching the Bills and going, is there a
21:43
Speaker 1: team that good? Now? Ultimately, the coach always goes first.
21:48
Speaker 1: But to me, if Sean McDermott goes, the GM has
21:50
Speaker 1: to go. It's got to be a package deal because
21:53
Speaker 1: that team, over the course of the last several years,
21:56
Speaker 1: you know their margin Ferrer if Josh little Off is
21:59
Speaker 1: not great, that they do not have some loaded roster,
22:04
Speaker 1: their personnel is not great. Now. I understand they've had injuries,
22:09
Speaker 1: but think about the big plays, what they came down
22:10
Speaker 1: to tonight, Tradavious White and Brandon Cooks. That's what their
22:15
Speaker 1: season came down to. So I think the Bills could
22:21
Speaker 1: just use a higher end general manager. I also think
22:25
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott is not a bad coach. I actually
22:29
Speaker 1: think he's a pretty good coach. He does individual things
22:33
Speaker 1: in individual situations that clearly make you scratch your head,
22:38
Speaker 1: but on the aggregate, like let's say he's fired on Monday,
22:43
Speaker 1: everyone to go, Mike Tomlin should pass up going to
22:47
Speaker 1: television and take this job. Is Mike Tomlin that much
22:52
Speaker 1: different Sean McDermott. You'd be like, well, yeah, when he
22:54
Speaker 1: had a really good quarterback, he was Look how many
22:58
Speaker 1: playoff games he's won the last like twelve years, even
23:01
Speaker 1: go back before twenty sixteen. I was watching something on
23:06
Speaker 1: like a highlight package on him. He had fight playoff
23:09
Speaker 1: wins in two in his first two years he hit
23:12
Speaker 1: the ground so hot. Now is a young Ben Roethlisberger.
23:14
Speaker 1: The team was loaded, and I'm pro by Tomlin, but
23:18
Speaker 1: I think we'd be acting like you just went from
23:19
Speaker 1: Jim Tom Sulea to Bill Walsh. I don't think that's
23:23
Speaker 1: necessarily the case. I think the bigger issue with this
23:25
Speaker 1: team is the personnel, now the coach. If the GM goes,
23:29
Speaker 1: the coach is gonna go as well. But I think
23:33
Speaker 1: they got bigger picture problems. And obviously you've got a
23:36
Speaker 1: player of this caliber, you just have to surround him
23:38
Speaker 1: with a better team because, simply put, their team just
23:42
Speaker 1: isn't that good. And when their quarterback doesn't play great,
23:45
Speaker 1: and he did not play great tonight, even in the
23:48
Speaker 1: end of regulation when they ended up hitting the game
23:51
Speaker 1: time field goal that took him to overtime. He had
23:55
Speaker 1: Kinkaid open and he missed him. He just it was
23:59
Speaker 1: a bad throw. Now, Romo said he thought he would
24:01
Speaker 1: have scored. Certan was probably tackles him. But what a
24:06
Speaker 1: a four yard line? Three yard line with twenty seconds left.
24:11
Speaker 1: Josh Allen hits that pass, even if he doesn't score
24:14
Speaker 1: a touchdown, they probably win the game right there. In regulation.
24:18
Speaker 1: So like I understand why Josh Allen was emotionally a
24:24
Speaker 1: wreck in the postgame press conference, I understand why the
24:28
Speaker 1: locker room was emotionally a wreck because they're going, we
24:31
Speaker 1: should have won that game. And the reality is you
24:34
Speaker 1: should have won that game. You should beat the Denver Broncos.
24:38
Speaker 1: The Bills should have won that game. And I'm not
24:42
Speaker 1: talking because of the Cooks thing like McDermott. I'm just
24:45
Speaker 1: saying on the whole, if you watch that game, I
24:47
Speaker 1: think the Bills should win that game. So that's why
24:50
Speaker 1: guys get fired is when you own a team, when
24:54
Speaker 1: the fans who have watched this team go, how do
24:57
Speaker 1: we lose this game? And I to me, the answer
25:00
Speaker 1: comes to obviously the coaching situation. The beginning of the
25:03
Speaker 1: or the end of the first half inexcusable. Can't happen.
25:08
Speaker 1: You can't just hand your opponent three points. But also
25:11
Speaker 1: your teams is not that good? What's up with this?
25:14
Speaker 1: You took key On Coleman really high in the draft,
25:16
Speaker 1: and I know he had a touchdown tonight, But like
25:18
Speaker 1: that situation, why can't you rely on them like you
25:22
Speaker 1: can rely on Cook and Kincaid. Cook's a really good player,
25:26
Speaker 1: it's an excellent draft pick, but where are some of
25:28
Speaker 1: the other impact guys? Like part of John Schneider's success,
25:32
Speaker 1: he's hit on not just first rounders, but subtle trades
25:37
Speaker 1: like how do you think he got Leonard Williams? What
25:40
Speaker 1: do you think that got? He just got Rahid Shaheed
25:43
Speaker 1: for like a fourth and a fifth round pick. Stuff
25:47
Speaker 1: on the margins is how you win when you're twelve, thirteen,
25:50
Speaker 1: fourteen win team, it's decided by a play here or
25:54
Speaker 1: play there, an impact play by random guys, not just
25:58
Speaker 1: your star players. So well, the Buffalo Bills, that was devastating,
26:04
Speaker 1: and I think it's safe to say that it would
26:08
Speaker 1: not shock me at all if in the next couple
26:10
Speaker 1: of days they fire everybody, because that's usually the way
26:14
Speaker 1: this thing works. And they've had a lot of stability there,
26:17
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of success. But when they went
26:20
Speaker 1: into this playoffs and then beat the Jags, who were
26:24
Speaker 1: the hottest team in the league. The Jags, like a
26:27
Speaker 1: month ago, beat the living piss out of the Denver
26:30
Speaker 1: Broncos to win that game. To come into this game,
26:34
Speaker 1: even with it the weird turnovers, to have the lead
26:37
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, that's bad, man. I just don't
26:42
Speaker 1: think that's something that you overcome. I mean, they had
26:45
Speaker 1: the lead, they were up twenty seven to twenty three
26:48
Speaker 1: with four minutes to go, twenty seven to they were
26:54
Speaker 1: up four points with four minutes to go, and you
26:57
Speaker 1: lose the game to bow Knicks, who kind of sliced
26:59
Speaker 1: and dice on that finals drive. They really did, and
27:02
Speaker 1: some of it was like you running the zone coverage
27:05
Speaker 1: and Sudden's just wide open, and obviously he made the
27:07
Speaker 1: great pass, you know, in the corner of the end zone.
27:10
Speaker 1: But and then even they go they have to punt
27:14
Speaker 1: in overtime. What's the chances if I tell you in
27:19
Speaker 1: the second round or the AFC Championship game or the
27:22
Speaker 1: Super Bowl a team punts in overtime that they win
27:25
Speaker 1: the game. Feels like it would be really, really slim.
27:29
Speaker 1: So that's one of those losses. There's a reason everyone
27:32
Speaker 1: was crying. There was a reason McDermott is saying, I'm
27:36
Speaker 1: sticking up for Buffalo. These guys aren't dumb. They understand
27:41
Speaker 1: the reality here. And I think the reality is is
27:44
Speaker 1: like this iteration, this ten year of their operation. Coach
27:49
Speaker 1: and GM feel like it kind of officially close tonight
27:53
Speaker 1: and you just lost to a team who probably is
27:57
Speaker 1: gonna lose next week because they don't have a starting quarterback,
27:59
Speaker 1: which is not really the team you played, but it
28:01
Speaker 1: is what it is. Let's hit on the night game,
28:09
Speaker 1: which was a massacre. The forty nine ers got shellacked.
28:15
Speaker 1: That was a beatdown, and it kind of was a
28:18
Speaker 1: beatdown from the moment the game was kicked off. I
28:20
Speaker 1: mean you looked up, and I mean Eddie Panero who
28:24
Speaker 1: tried to trip them, don't really blame him. I mean
28:27
Speaker 1: the guy was so fast, I didn't think the trip
28:29
Speaker 1: even got close. But you could argue, should you get
28:32
Speaker 1: kicked out for a trip like that, because what if
28:34
Speaker 1: you injured the guy, which I'm not opposed to. I'm
28:38
Speaker 1: kind of making fun of it though it is you
28:40
Speaker 1: can't tolerate it, and it shouldn't be tolerated. But no
28:43
Speaker 1: one was hurting. It was kind of a funny play.
28:47
Speaker 1: My main takeaway from that game is Seattle is the
28:51
Speaker 1: heavy favorite to be representing the NFC Super Bowl, and
28:55
Speaker 1: clearly they can win this thing when your defense is
28:58
Speaker 1: that good. I mean, at one point in time, I
29:01
Speaker 1: think they were up almost thirty points and they had
29:04
Speaker 1: like seventy two yards passing. Here's the thing, and I
29:07
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see this with Houston tomorrow afternoon. They
29:12
Speaker 1: don't need and listen one question mark coming into this
29:15
Speaker 1: game with Sam Darnold, what did he end with today?
29:17
Speaker 1: Twelve of seventeen? How many yards he threw? Four? They
29:22
Speaker 1: won forty one to six. Their starting quarterback completed twelve
29:26
Speaker 1: passes for one hundred and twenty yards. Think about that.
29:32
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers played in a game like that
29:34
Speaker 1: years ago against Green Bay in the NFC Championship Game.
29:39
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy had maybe it was six completions, so
29:43
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite that. But they can just run the
29:47
Speaker 1: ball and they can really play defense. I mean tonight
29:50
Speaker 1: they had one hundred and seventy five yards. I mean
29:52
Speaker 1: it wasn't even a fair fight. They sacked Purty multiple times.
29:55
Speaker 1: But it's not even just when they're sacking him, the
29:57
Speaker 1: amount they're hitting him, no one is open their team speed,
30:01
Speaker 1: the violence. I think they can win the Super Bowl.
30:08
Speaker 1: I really do, because they don't need their quarterback that
30:13
Speaker 1: much and he obviously he didn't look not healthy tonight.
30:17
Speaker 1: You know the oblique thing to me when that story
30:20
Speaker 1: broke a couple of days ago. I went, I've seen
30:23
Speaker 1: guys get this injury at quarterback and you can't throw
30:26
Speaker 1: because of the torque on your body. And then he
30:28
Speaker 1: wasn't at warm ups and then he comes out. His
30:30
Speaker 1: first pass was way off. I was like, I don't know,
30:34
Speaker 1: But then he made a couple when he was fine.
30:36
Speaker 1: He looked just like Sam Darmold, and if he could
30:40
Speaker 1: just play under control not turn the ball over. They
30:44
Speaker 1: have a Houston like defense. But I would say the
30:46
Speaker 1: difference of them in Houston, I feel like their offense
30:49
Speaker 1: is better, partly because they're running games better. We'll have
30:54
Speaker 1: to see what happened to Sharponna. I mean he got
30:55
Speaker 1: injured in the game. Kenneth Walkers just owned the forty
30:58
Speaker 1: nine Ers the last couple of weeks. I mean, Jackson
31:01
Speaker 1: Smith is so good, Cooper Cup clearly has momentum. But
31:05
Speaker 1: the other thing, whoever they end up playing next week,
31:07
Speaker 1: the home field advantage that Seattle has is outrageous. I
31:12
Speaker 1: mean that place is so fucking loud you feel it
31:16
Speaker 1: from just sitting on your couch. We were just talking
31:32
Speaker 1: about the Bills. Brandon Bean has done an awful job, right,
31:36
Speaker 1: You draft Josh Allen great, but then it's incumbent on
31:39
Speaker 1: you to make moves and have a team that is
31:43
Speaker 1: capable to overpower people. Right, you can't just depend on
31:47
Speaker 1: your quarterback to overpower people. You need your team to
31:50
Speaker 1: overpower people. But the one thing, you know, Cam Newton
31:53
Speaker 1: or Roethlisberger, these just physical freaks who were built unlike
31:58
Speaker 1: any other player in the NFL. Their team and GM
32:02
Speaker 1: in front office built teams around them that reflected their physicality.
32:07
Speaker 1: Like Cam Newton's defense in Carolina was incredible that they
32:13
Speaker 1: would knock your fucking head off. The teams in the
32:16
Speaker 1: prime of Roethlisberger, how good they were on defense. You're
32:19
Speaker 1: watching the Bills, You're like, where's their physicality. You're watching
32:23
Speaker 1: John Schneider build the defense. It feels like every guy
32:27
Speaker 1: is one of the hardest hitters in the league. All
32:30
Speaker 1: their defensive linemen feel like they're trying to knock you
32:33
Speaker 1: into the blue tent. All their DB's hit. And John
32:37
Speaker 1: Schneider does not get enough credit for how good of
32:40
Speaker 1: a job he's done rebuilding this team at this level,
32:45
Speaker 1: cause it's it's outrageous how physically gifted they are. The
32:50
Speaker 1: speed and physicality of their team is obviously the Niners
32:56
Speaker 1: just ran out of juice. I mean they had injuries
32:59
Speaker 1: in the game, but they have been completely mulled in
33:04
Speaker 1: back to back games against Seattle, like there's no way
33:06
Speaker 1: around they look now. Granted, some of their guys are
33:09
Speaker 1: JV guys, but they look like a JV team against Seattle.
33:13
Speaker 1: They just played the Eagles last week, who had one
33:15
Speaker 1: of the best defense in the league, have all this
33:17
Speaker 1: talent on both sides of the ball, and they look
33:19
Speaker 1: there equal physically, like it did not look like a
33:22
Speaker 1: physical overmatch. Yet tonight it looks like you're watching, you know,
33:29
Speaker 1: pick some top high school team right where I from
33:32
Speaker 1: in California, be like fulsome or modern day when they're
33:35
Speaker 1: playing one of their random opponents and you look, you
33:39
Speaker 1: know on Max Prep back in the day, I was
33:40
Speaker 1: gonna say the newspaper. No one's reading the newspaper anymore.
33:43
Speaker 1: And you see the score it's like seventy to three.
33:46
Speaker 1: You're like, God, damn. My high school where I went
33:48
Speaker 1: to high school, Davis High School. We are in Fulsom's league,
33:52
Speaker 1: who is one of the top probably fifteen teams in
33:55
Speaker 1: the country. They are a powerhouse. Last year the pro.
34:00
Speaker 1: My high school refused to play them. They just forfeited
34:03
Speaker 1: the game. They did not feel it was safe, which
34:07
Speaker 1: I had a buddy that coaches like the JV team.
34:08
Speaker 1: He's like, it wouldn't have been. They got guys going
34:12
Speaker 1: to Ole miss by USC, they would have murdered him.
34:15
Speaker 1: That's what this kind of felt like. And then the
34:18
Speaker 1: guys could go into the game who were kind of
34:20
Speaker 1: injured leave even more injured. It's just like, I mean,
34:24
Speaker 1: that was a massacre that there's no way around it.
34:27
Speaker 1: It's not even a fair fight. And John Schneider deserves
34:30
Speaker 1: a ton of credit. Mike McDaniel or Mike McDonald. I've
34:35
Speaker 1: been saying this for a long time. If he was
34:38
Speaker 1: a offensive head coach, we would speak about him like
34:43
Speaker 1: a goat. We talk about him the way we do
34:46
Speaker 1: about Kyle and McVeigh and Andy Reid for years. But
34:50
Speaker 1: he's a defensive guy. And it's nobody knows unless you're
34:55
Speaker 1: working football. And when I say work in football, like
34:57
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, when Tony Romod's like, yeah,
35:01
Speaker 1: they're running the robber or this, it's like nobody even
35:03
Speaker 1: knows what you're talking about, bro, No one understands that
35:06
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of fans don't know what cover two is,
35:09
Speaker 1: so like no one gets that defense is really really confusing.
35:15
Speaker 1: Even the average football fan can understand basically like a
35:20
Speaker 1: go route, a screen pass, like we have some concepts
35:23
Speaker 1: of offense, most people don't understand defense because it's really
35:26
Speaker 1: really complicated, right, and so Mike McDonald is running the
35:32
Speaker 1: more complicated side. Who in one thing is when you
35:35
Speaker 1: run defense, it's a reactionary right side of the ball
35:41
Speaker 1: because you don't know what's coming. You're reacting to what
35:44
Speaker 1: they're doing. Yet it feels like when he's played Kyle
35:48
Speaker 1: twice in the last three weeks, he's dictating the terms
35:52
Speaker 1: with all his whatever the hell he's doing, which clearly
35:55
Speaker 1: Kyle Shannon has no clue because we just saw him,
35:58
Speaker 1: like move the ball, trick play. They try on a
36:00
Speaker 1: trick play tonight. It was kind of like a I
36:04
Speaker 1: don't know, a cousin of what they ran last week.
36:07
Speaker 1: A couple different pitches and it was a fucking nightmare.
36:11
Speaker 1: Pretty I think had to throw it back to DeMarcus Robinson.
36:14
Speaker 1: It was like a screen. It got destroyed. It went
36:16
Speaker 1: for like one yard. They just eat you alive. So listen,
36:22
Speaker 1: if Sam Darnold is just gonna play in games where
36:24
Speaker 1: he's throwing under twenty pass attempts and he's obviously not
36:28
Speaker 1: that injured, they could win the super Bowl, and they're
36:32
Speaker 1: gonna be favored next week, which whoever they play in
36:34
Speaker 1: this game. Obviously they beat the Rams that final month
36:37
Speaker 1: of the season. They clearly are a more well built
36:41
Speaker 1: team than the Bears in terms of their balance of
36:43
Speaker 1: their team. But I would pick them right now to
36:48
Speaker 1: win whichever one of those teams they play. Also, when
36:51
Speaker 1: you factor in that game Sunday night, I mean some
36:55
Speaker 1: of these clips coming out of Chicago of ten degrees
36:59
Speaker 1: and the wind and the no it's like that game's
37:01
Speaker 1: got a chance to be brutal. I mean, these guys
37:05
Speaker 1: are whoever wins that game is gonna be gimping into
37:08
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday preparing for Seattle. And that's not the
37:12
Speaker 1: type team that you limp and gimp to go play
37:15
Speaker 1: because they got both chin straps buckled looking to knock
37:19
Speaker 1: your chintz or your mouthpiece on the ground. That happened
37:22
Speaker 1: to night. I forget who it was. A mouthpiece went
37:26
Speaker 1: flying might have been. The first was that the first
37:28
Speaker 1: play of the game, or that was actually in the
37:30
Speaker 1: Bills Bronco game, the first play of the game where
37:32
Speaker 1: I felt like both guys are gonna get stretched off
37:34
Speaker 1: the field, but props Seattle, props with John Schneider, props
37:38
Speaker 1: with Mike McDonald. Incredible turnaround, truly is and then me
37:43
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers like they just got to answer.
37:46
Speaker 1: One question moving forward is how do they fix his
37:49
Speaker 1: injury thing? How does this stop? And I don't pretend
37:53
Speaker 1: to like I got a couple of degrees that are meaningless,
37:56
Speaker 1: and I don't remember one thing that was ever taught
37:57
Speaker 1: to me in class past, like some basic math in
38:01
Speaker 1: writing and how to read, so I can't pretend to
38:04
Speaker 1: understand substations and power grids and shit like that. I
38:07
Speaker 1: don't know. But this story's gotten big enough where they're
38:11
Speaker 1: gonna have to put out some sort of statement like
38:14
Speaker 1: this is not true, This has no impact because this
38:18
Speaker 1: story's not going away. You have former players commenting on it.
38:23
Speaker 1: Players are on the team are gonna have to start
38:25
Speaker 1: answer asking some questions like the amount of injuries they
38:29
Speaker 1: consistently get is not normal. And as we head toward
38:34
Speaker 1: free agency, you just think some people are gonna have
38:36
Speaker 1: some questions. If I was a player on the team,
38:39
Speaker 1: my livelihood are my tendons and my muscles. So like, listen,
38:46
Speaker 1: I'm not asking every team to respond to every rumor
38:50
Speaker 1: out there, but this is something that like kind of
38:54
Speaker 1: out of left field that a lot of people are
38:56
Speaker 1: going like, what is there something there? Because let's face it,
38:59
Speaker 1: you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to go
39:02
Speaker 1: kind of makes some sense because what we've witnessed is
39:05
Speaker 1: not fucking normal. Even the day Jake Tongjas who at
39:09
Speaker 1: one point in time in the game he ended up
39:11
Speaker 1: leaving the team and receiving comes lipping off the field.
39:16
Speaker 1: It's like, how's this sustainable? And the answer is this
39:19
Speaker 1: not if it wasn't for your coaching staff, which is
39:23
Speaker 1: clearly pretty good. Beside when you play Mike McDonald, you
39:27
Speaker 1: would have no chance you put a random coach on
39:29
Speaker 1: this team. This team won like four games, so like
39:33
Speaker 1: part of the success of any team in the league
39:35
Speaker 1: is you gotta have your best players around when it
39:37
Speaker 1: matters most, and they're all injured. So the injuries of
39:41
Speaker 1: this team it's insane, and tonight clearly you're rolling up
39:46
Speaker 1: and out enough of these guys and you're not playing
39:48
Speaker 1: Kevin Patola and the Eagles in nept offense, you get
39:52
Speaker 1: beaten like a drum. But I do think it gets this.
39:55
Speaker 1: This question with the substation is just it's just gonna
39:58
Speaker 1: be a story that's not gonna go away. And I
40:00
Speaker 1: do think it's kind of incumbent on them at some
40:03
Speaker 1: point to almost come out and just say, hey, we've
40:09
Speaker 1: looked into this, We've paid for some dude from Stanford
40:16
Speaker 1: to run a study, or we've done our own studies.
40:19
Speaker 1: We don't believe this is true. But I just think
40:22
Speaker 1: saying stylent, I just don't believe the story is just
40:25
Speaker 1: gonna a lot of things go away in twenty twenty five,
40:29
Speaker 1: or I guess it's twenty six. With the pace in
40:31
Speaker 1: which our society goes, I don't think this thing's going
40:34
Speaker 1: away because as long as their injuries keep happening, people
40:37
Speaker 1: are gonna keep asking questions. And I just don't know
40:41
Speaker 1: what you do, like firing some strength and conditioning coach,
40:45
Speaker 1: Been there, done that, nothing changed. Your coach is clearly good, right,
40:50
Speaker 1: and we'll see if solid leaves or not, which is
40:52
Speaker 1: obviously a big blow if he does, because they'll need
40:57
Speaker 1: whatever their fourth defensive coordinator in four years. They had Tamiko,
41:01
Speaker 1: then they had Wilkes, then they had Sorenson, now they
41:04
Speaker 1: had solid It'd be their fifth defensive coordinator in five years,
41:08
Speaker 1: so it'd be a lot of turnover. But I think
41:11
Speaker 1: you just look. I mean, he's a pretty good chance
41:13
Speaker 1: that he probably gets an offer somewhere. You'd think, now,
41:17
Speaker 1: if that offers the Arizona Cardinals, who probably turn it down,
41:20
Speaker 1: would he take the Raider gig? Do the Raiders want him?
41:22
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess there's no guarantee he'll get a job,
41:24
Speaker 1: but ideally for the forty nine ers, he doesn't because
41:30
Speaker 1: he's clearly pretty good and they'd like him back. But
41:32
Speaker 1: to be good on defense, look at Seattle, you gotta
41:34
Speaker 1: have your fucking best players out there. That they can't
41:37
Speaker 1: be in the injury ted. They can't be on the sideline,
41:40
Speaker 1: you know, trying to come back. They can't be at
41:42
Speaker 1: home with a torn acl And I just think the
41:46
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, to me, the story of their season
41:50
Speaker 1: was the injuries, and even at the end of the season,
41:53
Speaker 1: tell towards the end of the game. I have a
41:56
Speaker 1: lot of respect for football players right that they the
42:00
Speaker 1: physicality of the game. You know, they don't take games off.
42:04
Speaker 1: This isn't basketball or baseball. There's no load managing. But
42:08
Speaker 1: like Trent Williams was in there late in the game,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is insane on they once they went
42:13
Speaker 1: up like thirty four to six, I would have taken
42:16
Speaker 1: him out of the game, Like you can't afford to
42:20
Speaker 1: have him at thirty six thirty, I guess he's thirty
42:22
Speaker 1: seven get injured, And I thought they waited too long
42:26
Speaker 1: to pull guys they're just asking for with the situation
42:31
Speaker 1: of their team and whatever the hell's going on, because
42:34
Speaker 1: something's going on, no one quite knows what, but it's
42:38
Speaker 1: not normal. Even in a league where a lot of
42:40
Speaker 1: guys get injured, it is not normal. And it feels
42:43
Speaker 1: like this year kind of jumped the shark, like there's
42:46
Speaker 1: like no ever looking at it the same and there's
42:49
Speaker 1: no trust that this is going to change at this point,
42:52
Speaker 1: which clearly also like this is not one of those things.
42:57
Speaker 1: Even back to the substation, Like I don't blame anyone
43:02
Speaker 1: involved in football, like Kyle John Lynch, they have nothing
43:05
Speaker 1: to do with this, but they got to look into this,
43:09
Speaker 1: like someone has to say something of like what is
43:12
Speaker 1: going on, because it can't be just simply we do
43:15
Speaker 1: too many front squats on Tuesdays. We do this one
43:20
Speaker 1: drill with our strength bullshit. At this point in time,
43:24
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. And the rules. Even if you
43:27
Speaker 1: say they practice a little more physical than other teams
43:30
Speaker 1: the same nineteen seventy eight. They're not wearing pads in
43:35
Speaker 1: practice like they used to. It's just not the same.
43:39
Speaker 1: So it's unlike anything I've ever seen. And it just
43:42
Speaker 1: got worse and worse and worse. It just never ended.
43:46
Speaker 1: That was the crazy part. It literally never ended. And
43:51
Speaker 1: they ran into this team that was a terrible matchup
43:55
Speaker 1: for him and just beat the living shit out of them,
43:57
Speaker 1: because that's what happened if you get beat in a
43:59
Speaker 1: play off game. Forty one to six. Forty one to six,
44:06
Speaker 1: Seattle had two hundred and eighty yards. And that was
44:10
Speaker 1: a crazy part. It's not like they even went for
44:13
Speaker 1: like five hundred yards offense. It was just a complete beatdown.
44:18
Speaker 1: Special teams played the defense. Prop Seattle enjoy the NFC
44:24
Speaker 1: Championship game, and I'm rooting for my guy John Schneider,
44:27
Speaker 1: who had on the podcast one time, call my guy
44:31
Speaker 1: to make the Zuer Bowl. We'll get out of here.
44:36
Speaker 1: On this the big news. I personally believe that Roger
44:41
Speaker 1: Goodell should make a rule. Remember when Alex Rodriguez he
44:45
Speaker 1: announced he was retiring or coming back or suspended. Something
44:49
Speaker 1: happened in the middle of the World Series. It's like,
44:52
Speaker 1: what are we doing? I also think that you should
44:54
Speaker 1: not be allowed to hire someone in the middle of
44:58
Speaker 1: a second round playoff game. Wait for Monday and Lessen.
45:01
Speaker 1: I'm biased, that's a great story on like a Tuesday.
45:05
Speaker 1: But Kevin Stefanski is hired by the Atlanta Falcons. He
45:08
Speaker 1: called him an iconic franchise. Didn't know the Falcons were
45:12
Speaker 1: an iconic franchise, but I do imagine, and Palasaro tweeted
45:17
Speaker 1: out that he had a long conversation with Matt Ryan.
45:19
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski has been involved with one of the more
45:23
Speaker 1: batshit places in all of sports. He has had a
45:26
Speaker 1: guy heavily involved with his team. That is a baseball
45:31
Speaker 1: executive that helped run the personnel department for the Cleveland
45:35
Speaker 1: Browns who didn't even live in Cleveland. He lived in
45:38
Speaker 1: San Diego. Obviously, the Deshaun Watson situation it's just been
45:42
Speaker 1: a debacle. Now this year offensively, did Kevin Sefanski bail
45:47
Speaker 1: it in? Because I think they had, like objectively, one
45:50
Speaker 1: of the worst offense in the history of the league.
45:53
Speaker 1: So like, hell, we just saw the forty nine ers
45:55
Speaker 1: with the million injuries still figure things out. Like, if
45:57
Speaker 1: you're a great offensive guy, you should figure something out.
46:00
Speaker 1: I also understand just being over a job. We've all
46:03
Speaker 1: had jobs where like this is gonna end. I'm over it,
46:07
Speaker 1: I can't even focus. Maybe there was a little bit
46:10
Speaker 1: of that, which ideally is not a coach thing. But listen,
46:13
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be the first or last, you know, successful
46:17
Speaker 1: coach who was quit on a team. Oh Sean Payton
46:19
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Now, not during the season,
46:21
Speaker 1: you know, during the season, a little bit different. But
46:24
Speaker 1: maybe he realized the writing was on the wall. They
46:25
Speaker 1: had no quarterback. People in the league really like him.
46:30
Speaker 1: I don't know. I met him one time in the combine.
46:32
Speaker 1: Seemed like a nice guy. Obviously, I think viewed as
46:34
Speaker 1: a pretty sharp offensive guy. But I think sometimes you
46:40
Speaker 1: get a reputation as like this dominant coach or dominant
46:44
Speaker 1: offensive coach that I don't know. I mean could the
46:47
Speaker 1: Falcons have done better? Probably not. Falcons were never gonna
46:51
Speaker 1: get John Harbaugh. You know the mic very well, Like
46:54
Speaker 1: people like that aren't signing up for their jobs. I mean,
46:56
Speaker 1: look at their last two hires. Raheem Morrise, great guy,
46:59
Speaker 1: clearly not good head coach, and Arthur Smith the first
47:02
Speaker 1: time head coach. Like that's kind of what they started doing.
47:05
Speaker 1: And even you go back to like dan Quinn Mike Smith,
47:07
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of their thing. They wanted a guy
47:10
Speaker 1: with some experience. They clearly wanted an offensive guy. I
47:13
Speaker 1: think they're trying to have him keep Jeff Olbrick, and
47:16
Speaker 1: if you're him, you just feel much more comfortable. Like
47:19
Speaker 1: we have no clue if Matt Ryan's gonna be good
47:21
Speaker 1: or bad at this job. But the one thing you
47:24
Speaker 1: would say about Matt Ryan's like he's just a football guy.
47:27
Speaker 1: Like he's just a football guy, and there has to
47:30
Speaker 1: be some sort of like I don't even know what
47:34
Speaker 1: the right adjective is to describe it, but maybe a
47:37
Speaker 1: calmness over Kevin Stefanskiv, Like I can just deal with
47:40
Speaker 1: a football guy. I don't have to deal with this
47:43
Speaker 1: guy who lives in San Diego with all these fucking
47:46
Speaker 1: crazy ideas that clearly aren't working. I have a GM
47:50
Speaker 1: who is let's facing an analytically driven Ivy League type guy.
47:55
Speaker 1: I have this owner who is just nuts in Jimmy
47:59
Speaker 1: Haslam and like Arthur Blank, put himself in his own
48:02
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, which listen, would you do the same? Maybe?
48:06
Speaker 1: But I think, by all accounts pretty good owner. People
48:09
Speaker 1: really think highly of the guy. So I think the
48:12
Speaker 1: number one question for Kevin Stefanski is who knows your quarterback?
48:16
Speaker 1: That's Michael who is your quarterback? Because Michael Pennix has
48:19
Speaker 1: a torn acl has shown nothing over the course of
48:23
Speaker 1: his playing career in college and now in the pros
48:26
Speaker 1: that he can stay healthy. The Cousin situation, who's Stefanski
48:29
Speaker 1: coached in Minnesota? Maybe it puts it on the table.
48:33
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins comes back at some sort of reduced number,
48:36
Speaker 1: which I would not look past that at all. I
48:39
Speaker 1: saw Kirkcussins was on the desk today at CBS. Maybe
48:42
Speaker 1: he goes listen, I'll either play for thirty five million,
48:45
Speaker 1: I'll just go work in television. I think Kirkcussins will
48:47
Speaker 1: be pretty good on TV. But I think the Kevin
48:50
Speaker 1: Stefanski thing is you're kind of hoping it was more
48:53
Speaker 1: of the Browns than him, because I know he won
48:56
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year a couple of times. Would Joe
48:58
Speaker 1: Flacco you get a lot of credit for that. The
49:00
Speaker 1: twenty twenty year with Baker Mayfield kind of a fugazi season.
49:05
Speaker 1: But I don't know. My question is I think a
49:08
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna be like, great, Hire, Yeah,
49:10
Speaker 1: it could be who's his quarterback? Uh Like, because if
49:14
Speaker 1: you've got no quarterback? I just saw him in Cleveland.
49:17
Speaker 1: It did not go well. So you bring back Kirk Cousins,
49:21
Speaker 1: who's a little bit older, who's not very mobile. The
49:24
Speaker 1: Pennix thing, you definitely can't bank on this at this point,
49:28
Speaker 1: especially the people that drafted him are now gone. So like,
49:31
Speaker 1: is Matt Ryan gonna believe in Penix? Did? Did Stefanski
49:35
Speaker 1: even like Pennix? I don't know who Stefanski likes a quarterback? Hell,
49:38
Speaker 1: he drafted Dylan Gabriel in the third round. A lot
49:42
Speaker 1: of people at Dylan Gabriel is like an undrafted free agent.
49:45
Speaker 1: Time will tell, But my reaction to it was like, Eh,
49:49
Speaker 1: we'll see, I get it. But I think a lot
49:51
Speaker 1: of people can be like great higher Maybe I mean,
49:55
Speaker 1: I think media loves a guy. I kind of see
49:59
Speaker 1: the fow cause just do what they've been doing. Audie, else,
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Speaker 1: have a great night. The volume mm hmm