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Steelers DEFEAT Ravens to clinch AFC North & No. 4 seed in NFL Playoffs · 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: John Middlecoff Three and Out podcast, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: my friends at Zone Pouches and brought to you by
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Speaker 1: the AFC North champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers. What a night,
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Speaker 1: What an incredible ending of that game. That was as
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Speaker 1: wild of a fourth quarter as you will ever see.
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Speaker 1: That that was That was entertainment, that was theater. That
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Speaker 1: was fun. So we'll dive into the game obviously, all
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Speaker 1: the different aspects. Tomlin Rogers lamar, the ending, the play calls,
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Speaker 1: the miss timeouts, the it was bananas, the missed defensive assignments.
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Speaker 1: Not exactly a defensive clinic on on that fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: But we got new you got the Falcons fire and everybody.
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Speaker 1: You got Philip Rivers a coaching candidate. You got the
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Speaker 1: Raiders with the number one overall pick. You got the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs drafting in the top ten. We know the order
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Speaker 1: of the games next weekend. So let's uh, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: yourself on that too, and dive into what we just witnessed.
2:10
Speaker 1: Now Sunday Night Football is the number one show in America.
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Speaker 1: Now it's all relative. Obviously football is really popular. Television
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Speaker 1: shows are not nearly as popular as they were. Like
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid in the nineties, when forty
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Speaker 1: fifty million people would watch main episodes all together around
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Speaker 1: the country, Cable tv wasn't as big, streaming didn't exist.
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Speaker 1: Obviously a lot has changed. That being said, Sunday Night
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Speaker 1: Football still absolutely crushes. It would have been a big
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Speaker 1: deal thirty years ago with the amount of people that
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Speaker 1: watch it. So I said last week and I'll take
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Speaker 1: the l I have no problem. I'm wrong all the time.
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Speaker 1: Tell my wife, Honey, I was wrong. Say it to
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Speaker 1: you guys, I was wrong. I'm not afraid to admit
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Speaker 1: that I can be an idiot. I can have bad takes.
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Speaker 1: And I thought it was insane that the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: in the Baltimore Ravens got Theseday night game in Seattle
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Speaker 1: and San Francisco, who were playing for the number one seed,
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Speaker 1: got Saturday night. But that was the right decision. And
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Speaker 1: midway through I was like, this game is badass, And
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Speaker 1: you guys know where I stand. Love violence, love physicality.
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Speaker 1: I love any sort of rivalry where there's like a
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Speaker 1: true hatred. It's why I gravitate so much to college football,
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Speaker 1: the SEC, Ohio State, Michigan. I've always loved, like Duke
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Speaker 1: North Carolina, the hatred between like Kentucky and Louisville when
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Speaker 1: coach cal and Patino were there. Like I love true
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Speaker 1: passionate hatred towards someone else. I love it when I
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Speaker 1: read stories in business about two people competing and they
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Speaker 1: hate each other and there's like a legit rivalry, Like
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Speaker 1: I just I don't know something about it. Really does
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Speaker 1: something to me inside that it's like makes me feel something.
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Speaker 1: It creates emotion in me, which you know as you
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Speaker 1: get older it's harder to emote. And watching that game
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Speaker 1: when I first got in the league, that was that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't a rivalry, that that was a you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like criminal activity on the field. It was. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't safe, you know, back in its heyday in the
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Speaker 1: late two thousands and early twenty tens, and that game
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Speaker 1: the night had a feel to it that you just
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Speaker 1: don't feel that often in Pittsburgh. You have this legendary
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Speaker 1: guy that you know might be going out. He's got
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Speaker 1: a broken hand against this other player that you know,
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Speaker 1: he's a multiple time MVP. People are talking about trading him.
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Speaker 1: The game's kind of weird. And the second half, just
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter alone. Now, if Nick Saban or Belichick
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Speaker 1: or some defensive guru was here, they were probably puking
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Speaker 1: in their mouth watching the blown coverages and situational football
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Speaker 1: not being executed correctly. But if you're just on your
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Speaker 1: couch and listen, I was a Steeler fan tonight midway
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Speaker 1: through the season. I put one hundred dollars bet and
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Speaker 1: I parlayed it the New England Patriots, the Denver Broncos,
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, and the Pittsburgh Steelers to win their divisions.
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Speaker 1: That one hundred dollars just paid me seven thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: beside a Bryson d Chambeau US Open and some like
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Speaker 1: crazy touchdown parlay. That's easily the greatest return I've ever
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Speaker 1: got in a parlay. I was on the edge of
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Speaker 1: my seat. I was screaming at the TV at the
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Speaker 1: end of the first half when I felt like they
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Speaker 1: fucked it up with that stupid play that of course
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Speaker 1: they go right to Jason Garrett and he goes. I
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Speaker 1: love the play. It's like, Jason, you cannot go laterally
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Speaker 1: in a situation like that, especially against a team Hellodi
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Speaker 1: Notod is not in there putting Hayward, putting the other Hayward.
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Speaker 1: I know it had been stuffed early and just shove
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Speaker 1: it right down their throat. What did they do later
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Speaker 1: in the game They did that and it worked. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: that was a disaster. I thought it was screwed. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I think tonight was a pretty awesome Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers performance. When you factor in the DK Metcalf, who
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Speaker 1: the hell knows he was the night watching this game.
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Speaker 1: I saw someone Matt Williamson, who I think scouted a
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Speaker 1: long time ago in the NFL, lives in Pittsburgh. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he would consider covers the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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Speaker 1: but is just still involved in the media, is dialed
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Speaker 1: in on the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I saw something on
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Speaker 1: Twitter over the last couple of days and he said, listen,
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf obviously isn't the best wide receiver in the league,
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Speaker 1: but you could make the argument, given the team and
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Speaker 1: the way it's constructed, he's the most important wide receiver
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Speaker 1: in the league to his team because if you watch
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Speaker 1: the All twenty two and you see the way he plays,
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Speaker 1: how much you have to focus on him. Obviously they
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Speaker 1: have no body type like that, and they definitely have
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Speaker 1: no speed like that. And obviously DK, when he's playing well,
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Speaker 1: can be a big time impact player. When you remove him.
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Speaker 1: It's Adam Feelin who's like as old as me, Scotty
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Speaker 1: Miller Fryarmouth who's a good player, uh mva who how
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Speaker 1: long's he even bet on the Pittsburgh Steelers, And Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers just found a way and listen, there was that
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Speaker 1: stretch in the second half where like, I'm doing this
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Speaker 1: right after the game, so I'm not gonna see the
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Speaker 1: press conference. I'm sure he's gonna be asked about the
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Speaker 1: timeout situation, whether the headset went out or whatever. But
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Speaker 1: there were like when you are trying to fuck with
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Speaker 1: the opponent, which in my lifetime, no one obviously is
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Speaker 1: better than Aaron Rodgers at the line of scrimmage saying
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Speaker 1: blue via blue VIDIA and then the gould jump off sides.
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Speaker 1: He messes them with the clock, he runs it down
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Speaker 1: knowing that they'll jump whatever was not working, and he
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Speaker 1: blew two timeouts. And I'm thinking to myself, if this
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Speaker 1: was any other quarterback, Hell, if this was just Lamar
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Speaker 1: Jackson doing it, he would get eviscerated. Aaron's looking at
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Speaker 1: the sideline screaming at his helmets. Like Aaron, the helmet
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Speaker 1: goes dark even if it's not working at fifteen seconds,
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Speaker 1: You're screaming at them at like three seconds. This is
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Speaker 1: kind of on you. I thought that was gonna come
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Speaker 1: back to bite him. In the ass end of the game,
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Speaker 1: they get the ball back with a couple of minutes,
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Speaker 1: they don't have any timeouts, he still drives them right
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Speaker 1: down the field. Now we'll get into both, you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was pure fireworks at the end of
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Speaker 1: the game. Right it was ten to three at a
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Speaker 1: half time, it felt like seventeen points might win the game.
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Speaker 1: Coming out half, it's like, I think seventeen points could
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Speaker 1: win this game. You know, the Steelers have always corralled
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Speaker 1: Lamar pretty well in terms of scrambling around for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's you know, stuck. He's always thought he's a big,
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Speaker 1: raven guy that there's a comfort level they have playing
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Speaker 1: him where a lot of people. You know, his record
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Speaker 1: against the NFC is incredible because it's an uncommon opponent.
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Speaker 1: You don't see him, you're not used to his speed.
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Speaker 1: There's no one in the league like him that can
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Speaker 1: run like that, who when he's on passing the ball
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Speaker 1: is so accurate and has the touch, his feel for
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Speaker 1: the pocket. He's just I mean, he's one of the
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Speaker 1: most unique players in NFL history. But they're pretty comfortable
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Speaker 1: doing it. And you know, Aaron's scoring these touchdowns and
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Speaker 1: you're like, okay, and he did it multiple times in
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Speaker 1: the second half and then boom, Jalen Ramsey, who's one
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Speaker 1: of the great defensive players of his generation. It sure
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Speaker 1: looks at me on the second touchdown where Jay Flowers
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Speaker 1: is opened by the I don't know the size of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: No one's even remotely close to him. That that was
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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey biting on the run or biting on the playfake,
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Speaker 1: and obviously no one's behind him, and Lamar just lays
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Speaker 1: it up. But on the previous touchdown where he hit
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Speaker 1: Zay Flowers when he's on Patrick Queen in a one
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Speaker 1: on one situation, which obviously is not conducive to good
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Speaker 1: defense and not advantageous to the Pittsburgh Steelers, that is
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Speaker 1: advantage Ravens. That's one of the greatest plays Lamar has
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Speaker 1: ever made. And the crazy part is is I watched
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Speaker 1: that replay so many times. Is high Smith, who is
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Speaker 1: a really good player, plays it well. You know a
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Speaker 1: lot lot of times when you have running lanes on Lamar,
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Speaker 1: guys run up right on any mobile quarterback. It's they lose,
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Speaker 1: as coaches say, gap integrity and they're just flying fucking
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Speaker 1: around and quarterbacks just have to move up. How Guys
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Speaker 1: like Sam Dartled and Brock purty take advantage of it.
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Speaker 1: Let alone guys like him. He broke down, he broke
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Speaker 1: he stopped his feet, and he was gonna wrap him up.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna like slam him to the ground.
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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, Lamar emerges and it's like
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Speaker 1: the irony of this game, and Tomlin's pumping his chest
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Speaker 1: and Rogers hugging everyone that is And I was a Steeler.
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Speaker 1: I was a diehard Steeler fan tonight. That's one of
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Speaker 1: the luckiest wins I've ever seen in my entire life.
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Speaker 1: Their defense blew two coverages. Obviously, the field goal kicker
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Speaker 1: missed the kick. They blew an all time easy sack
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Speaker 1: on one of the great mobile players of all time,
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Speaker 1: where they literally had him wrapped around by two guys
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Speaker 1: who were not like coming out of control. One of
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Speaker 1: them was stopped and is a high end edge rusher.
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Speaker 1: The last play that looked like ended the game on
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Speaker 1: the pass too Likely, which was a beautiful kind of
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Speaker 1: just dying by Lamar. Great play by Likely to high
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Speaker 1: point that thing. I mean, it's beautiful. That's pro football
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Speaker 1: at the highest level. Like again, Jalen Ramsey step too
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Speaker 1: slow and it felt like the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were
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Speaker 1: getting this throwback performance out of Aaron Rodgers, who's just
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Speaker 1: conducting himself down the field like he's Peyton Manning or
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Speaker 1: Tom fucking Brady in terms of his mental acuity. But
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Speaker 1: he still has this arm. They got a couple running backs,
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Speaker 1: they got no firepower. He's just making it happen. It's
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Speaker 1: like the Steelers defense gonna lose him the game. The
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Speaker 1: Steelers defense is going to hand the Ravens this game,
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Speaker 1: and lamar Zayflowers and likely are just gonna steal it
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Speaker 1: from because you guys who are this defensive organization, who
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Speaker 1: you know, have been desperate for just a functional quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and you're getting this quarterback play, I get your arch rivals,
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Speaker 1: and the defense is gonna blow it for you. And
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Speaker 1: the guy missed the kick, and it's one of those
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Speaker 1: hits situations where I think we underrate and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: I do sitting on my couch. I mean, Boswell's I
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Speaker 1: think would widely be considered the best one. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's so many good kickers. The Jags kicker is incredible,
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Speaker 1: so there are a lot of good kickers, but clearly
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Speaker 1: one of the best kickers in the league. When he
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Speaker 1: misses the extra point, clearly the wins. Pumping gets in
12:19
Speaker 1: your head again. I think with kicking, you can use golf,
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Speaker 1: you get on a T box, there's a bunch of win.
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Speaker 1: It messes with you. I don't care if you're Scotti Scheffler,
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Speaker 1: if it's me or you, I think it's no different
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Speaker 1: For a kicker, you kind of overthink it. And I
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Speaker 1: don't care who you are. A rookie in that environment
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Speaker 1: with what's on the line, clearly fucking blew it. I
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Speaker 1: mean there's no way around it. He blew the game
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Speaker 1: because the Ravens took advantage of every screw up the
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Speaker 1: Steelers had. Lamar Hitton's say twice, they obviously made an
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Speaker 1: incredible play when he hit likely to win the game,
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Speaker 1: and it came down to that and it didn't happen,
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Speaker 1: and the Steelers come outctorious. Now, I think if you're
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Speaker 1: a Steeler fan, you go. Rogers is really digging deep
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Speaker 1: right now, and how embarrassing the previous week was because
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Speaker 1: it was that that loss to the Browns is that
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Speaker 1: would have been remembered for a long time if they
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Speaker 1: lost tonight, because this whole situation could have been avoidable,
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Speaker 1: but winning this game makes you forget all about that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, they say the you know, the victors
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Speaker 1: usually are the people write in history, and you can
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Speaker 1: scrub that thing a little bit. It's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: a point where you talk about much. And the irony, too,
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Speaker 1: is the Steelers being this defensive franchise, kind of like
13:39
Speaker 1: the Bears, who again are good at defense anymore either,
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Speaker 1: but that's the identity of the organization. It blew it
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Speaker 1: for him, It really did. I mean, the secondary was
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Speaker 1: just what is going on? What is up with these
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Speaker 1: defensive calls? And it didn't matter. And that's the crazy
13:58
Speaker 1: part about sports is sometimes you can do the stupidest
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Speaker 1: shit and you could have this legendary person in Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers make these great plays and you can still lose,
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Speaker 1: or vice versa. You can screw up and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you're looking up and you get lucky. And
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Speaker 1: that's the way the cookie crumbles. Even my wife when
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Speaker 1: he missed the field goal, he's like, she looks at
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Speaker 1: me and goes the NFL scriptwriter. NFL scriptwriters did that.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, I push back against that conspiracy theory
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Speaker 1: that everything is pre planned. But if you wanted to
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Speaker 1: convince me that thing was like pre planned in a
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Speaker 1: writer's room sometimes last night, if that was possible, I
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Speaker 1: would believe you, because that would be something to keep
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Speaker 1: people on the edge of your seats Sunday Night football.
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Speaker 1: Those two brands one of the greatest players of all
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Speaker 1: time in Aaron Rodgers, this multiple time MVP that's still
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Speaker 1: in his twenties. That was awesome, and I do think
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers they validated a little bit, not that it
15:08
Speaker 1: was the wrong move. They didn't have any other options,
15:11
Speaker 1: but like, let's face it, signing him getting to the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: winning that game with him? What was he night thirty
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Speaker 1: one to forty seven. Obviously had the game winning touchdown
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Speaker 1: pass which the dude slipped on, but he had so
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Speaker 1: many big passes, passes to Friarmuth, passed the MBS behind him,
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Speaker 1: just some clearly great conducting at the line of scrimmage,
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Speaker 1: changing plays. I thought Jalen Warren the night was his
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Speaker 1: stat line does not reflected fourteen carries for sixty six yards.
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Speaker 1: That guy was running his ass off. He also he
15:43
Speaker 1: also had five catches for thirty three yards, so he
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Speaker 1: basically had twenty touches, Gainwell, made some plays, Calvin Austen, Friarmuth.
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Speaker 1: It just it was kind of the ultimate team effort
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Speaker 1: with the guy conducting it and I listen, I had Steelers.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the Houston Texans in that game. But
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Speaker 1: that was a really cool moment, really cool quarter, just
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Speaker 1: just thrilling and obviously Aaron Rodgers, which I would guess
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Speaker 1: next week, you know, if they lose, will be the
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Speaker 1: last game of his career. I know there have been
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Speaker 1: some reports about him coming back. Hard time seeing that,
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Speaker 1: but you know who knows the Steelers love doing kind
16:23
Speaker 1: of the same thing over and over. You know, it
16:26
Speaker 1: felt like when he was lining up to kick the
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Speaker 1: field goal, is that gonna be it for Mike? Like?
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Speaker 1: Is that it for Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh losing that
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Speaker 1: game the way they would have lost it on defense
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Speaker 1: when you know, at the end of the day, he's
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Speaker 1: a defensive guy. Hell he goes back, he's a secondary coach,
16:46
Speaker 1: and it just felt like, you know, Florio reported before
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Speaker 1: the game that TV could be in his future. I
16:53
Speaker 1: have a hard time seeing that. I think teams you're
16:55
Speaker 1: gonna go work like a studio show, go call a
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Speaker 1: game for Amazon. The New York Times paid fifteen million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year, Tennessee Tidans paid fifteen million dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: There would be teams lined up to hire Mike Tomlin.
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Speaker 1: So I have a hard time seeing him take a
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Speaker 1: TV gig. Maybe maybe that would have happened, but it
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Speaker 1: just felt like, this is how he's gonna go out
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Speaker 1: against this team. And now it kind of flips around,
17:18
Speaker 1: you know, I think you started asking the questions like,
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Speaker 1: is there a chance in the next couple of days
17:22
Speaker 1: we read a story that you know, John Harbaugh and
17:25
Speaker 1: the Ravens are gonna have a long closed door meeting.
17:27
Speaker 1: Because I know one thing this story that has just
17:31
Speaker 1: not gone away about this Lamar Jackson. They even kind
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Speaker 1: of alluded to it on the broadcast some fraction. Something's
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Speaker 1: a little off. I listen. I have no inside information,
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Speaker 1: but clearly something's a little off. I know this. I've
17:46
Speaker 1: been a sports fan well before I ever worked in
17:49
Speaker 1: pro sports or college sports, well before I ever got
17:52
Speaker 1: paid to talk about them. You do not get a
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Speaker 1: rid of Lamar Jackson before you get rid of a
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Speaker 1: lot of other people. And you would have to be
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Speaker 1: high on drugs to get rid of Lamar Jackson before
18:05
Speaker 1: you got rid of the coaching staff. That's not the
18:08
Speaker 1: way sports work. And you saw to night glimpse of
18:11
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson when he made that play and broke out
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Speaker 1: of those two guys that were gonna sack him for
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Speaker 1: a big loss. What a flip momentum. And honestly, it
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Speaker 1: would have been the Ravens would have been in shambles
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Speaker 1: if that sack would have that place would have been
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Speaker 1: gone nuts. And when he scrambled around and throws a
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Speaker 1: fucking dime and Zay walks in the end zone, I went,
18:31
Speaker 1: we've honestly had discussions that this guy would be on
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Speaker 1: the trade block. Are what are we talking about? That
18:38
Speaker 1: conversation is done if you're Steve Bushatti, if you're part
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Speaker 1: of the ownership group. Other people go cut other players,
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Speaker 1: get rid of coaches. But I'm sorry, at least for
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Speaker 1: the time being, Lamar Jackson would be a pret sacred
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Speaker 1: cow in the organization because those guys with his ability,
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Speaker 1: like sometimes with runners, you see guys that just lack
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Speaker 1: other qualities, whether they're not accurate, they don't have any touch.
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Speaker 1: You know, some of these fastball throwers they can't throw
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Speaker 1: a change up. I think the thing that makes Lamar
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Speaker 1: pretty special now he does some plays that the play
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Speaker 1: to Hopkins when he was scrambling, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: he thought Hopkins was gonna keep running. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if he just brain farted that. That was a bizarre play.
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Speaker 1: But he has stuff in the bag that I've been
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Speaker 1: watching football forty years old for you know, well over
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Speaker 1: thirty years, but thirty years that I can remember, I
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Speaker 1: don't ever remember what he has in the bag, seeing
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Speaker 1: very often, if ever at all. And the ability to
19:40
Speaker 1: go toe to toe with the best teams in the
19:42
Speaker 1: league and the biggest spots on the road. Again, you
19:45
Speaker 1: fire coaches before you trade star players. That's the way
19:50
Speaker 1: it goes. So the conversation to me, if I'm operating
19:54
Speaker 1: around the Ravens, starts with Harbaugh before it starts with
19:58
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. If there's a I'm not comparing Lamar Jackson
20:02
Speaker 1: to John Elway, right, John Elway had been to multiple
20:07
Speaker 1: Super Bowls early on in his career. But I will
20:10
Speaker 1: say this the best move Pat Bowlan ever made. There
20:15
Speaker 1: was a fraction, and I'm not saying that John Harbaugh
20:17
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson are at odds where they literally hate
20:20
Speaker 1: each other. If you've watched the John Elway documentary, Dan
20:24
Speaker 1: Reeves and John Elway had a closed door meeting because
20:27
Speaker 1: Mike Shanahan, who was the offensive coordinator, told both we
20:31
Speaker 1: need to have a talk and you guys should tell
20:33
Speaker 1: each other how you feel. And they both told each
20:36
Speaker 1: other again, this is the head coach and John Elway,
20:38
Speaker 1: the star quarterback. I hate you. And it never recovered.
20:43
Speaker 1: And then Pat Bowlan realized, I mean Dan Reeves gonna
20:47
Speaker 1: trade John Elway, and Pat Bowlan fired Dan Reeves, who,
20:51
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good coach, I mean, took teams of
20:53
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, took the Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl like this
20:55
Speaker 1: wasn't We're not talking about Brandon Staley here. We're talking
20:58
Speaker 1: about a very very accomplished coach, hard headed, stubborn. Kind
21:01
Speaker 1: of reminds me of a hardball and you know, you
21:04
Speaker 1: watch Harborden and listen, I would throw Tomlin in this too.
21:06
Speaker 1: They're not perfect, they got some flaws. You know, they're
21:10
Speaker 1: pretty dependent on their coordinators. Both these teams, you know,
21:14
Speaker 1: are not nearly as talented as they used to be.
21:17
Speaker 1: I mean, the Ravens once Kyle Hamilton goes out. Who knows,
21:21
Speaker 1: I mean, do the Steelers win this game? Kyle Hamilton
21:22
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt again as tonight. A Pittsburgh Steeler fan,
21:26
Speaker 1: I would have to admit probably not. But he goes out.
21:31
Speaker 1: Never root for injuries. But wasn't mad because that was
21:35
Speaker 1: their only shot. But he's also by four. It felt
21:38
Speaker 1: like their most impactful defensive player. You know, Roke one
21:42
Speaker 1: Smith's good, got good player, Wiggins Starks, the young DB's
21:46
Speaker 1: good players. But they used to have these defensive lines.
21:49
Speaker 1: Now I get and Bouquet's been, you know, on injury
21:52
Speaker 1: reserve all season long. They used to have Hellodi Noda,
21:54
Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs, they used to have so many elite gys
21:56
Speaker 1: up front. That's just not the case. I mean, you
21:58
Speaker 1: got Jalen Warren breaking tackles like they're the Arizona Cardinals,
22:03
Speaker 1: not not the Baltimore Ravens. So that that was as
22:07
Speaker 1: great and a thrilling and a lucky when that was
22:10
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers, you could argue it's one of
22:13
Speaker 1: the all time kicking the dick losses you'll ever see
22:16
Speaker 1: when you factor it's on the road against a rival
22:19
Speaker 1: to go to the playoffs and you have, I don't
22:22
Speaker 1: want to call it quite a chip shot, but a
22:25
Speaker 1: extremely easy field goal to make. A field goal so
22:29
Speaker 1: easy to make you had no problem just taking a
22:32
Speaker 1: knee with like fifteen seconds left, and you weren't trying
22:34
Speaker 1: to get any closer because we all realized you were
22:37
Speaker 1: close enough. Guy was gonna make it until he didn't.
22:41
Speaker 1: And the other crazy part is, you know, the Ravens
22:46
Speaker 1: a huge part of the Lamar Jackson era and definitely
22:48
Speaker 1: a huge part of the John Harbaugh era is they
22:52
Speaker 1: were defined by one of the greatest kickers we've ever seen,
22:57
Speaker 1: you know, in his heyday. If Justin Tucker came out there,
23:00
Speaker 1: there wouldn't have been one soul in that building. They
23:03
Speaker 1: wouldn't have started packing their shit to leave heading to
23:06
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23:11
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23:15
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia. Today was an embarrassment today.
25:24
Speaker 1: I don't watch that much NBA anymore, if at all,
25:27
Speaker 1: to be honestly, I just don't really have time. And
25:31
Speaker 1: I do listen to a decent amount of like NBA content,
25:35
Speaker 1: just I like the drama of the league. Clearly, one
25:39
Speaker 1: issue they've had for a long time is tanking. And
25:41
Speaker 1: you have so many games the season so long, baseball
25:44
Speaker 1: has this two where none of the games matter and
25:46
Speaker 1: you just have teams that don't try. One thing that
25:49
Speaker 1: really resonated with me today. The NFL is extremely lucky
25:54
Speaker 1: that just the nature of the sport that you know players,
25:59
Speaker 1: I mean Max Crosby was on record a couple weeks ago, like,
26:01
Speaker 1: no one cares about draft picks. That not that NBA
26:04
Speaker 1: players do either, but you can really manipulate it a
26:07
Speaker 1: lot easier that Today felt like an NBA slate in
26:11
Speaker 1: the middle of March, when twelve teams aren't trying and
26:14
Speaker 1: they're all playing each other, and it's just an unwatchable product.
26:18
Speaker 1: Because that's what the NFL was today, an unwatchable product.
26:21
Speaker 1: And this is someone who loves football, who's dedicated my
26:24
Speaker 1: life to either working in it or talking about it,
26:27
Speaker 1: who loves watching it. This morning was embarrassing. And I
26:31
Speaker 1: had a buddy who covers the league pretty closely for
26:34
Speaker 1: a team, and he said, you know what's crazy. The
26:38
Speaker 1: morning slate as the season goes can be really, really bad.
26:43
Speaker 1: It sometimes gets, i would say, overshadowed by some cool
26:49
Speaker 1: late moments in the Witching Hour with Scott Hansen. But
26:53
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bad football being played because they've
26:55
Speaker 1: emphasized these primetime games so much rightfully, SOBS and Fox
27:02
Speaker 1: put so much into the matchups in the afternoon that
27:06
Speaker 1: look this season, how many bad teams there have been.
27:09
Speaker 1: I mean the amount of teams that won three, four,
27:12
Speaker 1: five games, it's pretty crazy. There was a lot of
27:15
Speaker 1: slop in the league, and today a lot of these
27:19
Speaker 1: teams just went full NBA. They just tanked, which I
27:22
Speaker 1: don't blame them for doing, like I would have done
27:24
Speaker 1: the same thing if I was in their shoes. No different,
27:27
Speaker 1: if I was on a bad NBA team, I would
27:28
Speaker 1: tank too to try to get Cooper Flack. I don't
27:30
Speaker 1: blame anyone for doing it, but I'm not in their shoes.
27:33
Speaker 1: I'm in the consumer shoes. I just like sitting on
27:36
Speaker 1: my couch and watching football like millions of people. And
27:39
Speaker 1: I tried this morning and I was like falling asleep.
27:41
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is thank god this is just once
27:44
Speaker 1: a year, because I'd argue if that was a couple
27:46
Speaker 1: times a year, we'd have a serious problem on our hands.
27:49
Speaker 1: And that's where I think tonight was so big. It
27:52
Speaker 1: kind of wiped that stink away, because that stink was bad.
27:56
Speaker 1: That that was something that I just I would not
27:59
Speaker 1: have been able to forget for a while if it
28:01
Speaker 1: wasn't for Rogers, Lamar, the Steelers, the Ravens, the drama
28:06
Speaker 1: of that game. It's where if you were a conspiracy theorist,
28:10
Speaker 1: you could be like, someone's controlling something. I don't think
28:14
Speaker 1: it's happening, but I you know, I dabble enough, a
28:17
Speaker 1: little tinfoil in my head, I could be convinced. You know,
28:20
Speaker 1: I would never discount anything. I listen, you guys want
28:22
Speaker 1: to have a meeting, shoot me a zoom link. But
28:26
Speaker 1: Man Steelers are in the playoffs, Tomlin survives, Aaron Rodgers
28:31
Speaker 1: gets another sixty minutes of football. I don't know if
28:34
Speaker 1: we're on John Harball Watch, but it's definitely it's typically
28:38
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on his you know, rap
28:40
Speaker 1: sheet and Adam Schefter's Twitter machines see if you know
28:43
Speaker 1: there's something going on, because I think it's about to
28:46
Speaker 1: get weird. Because once Lamar made that play, I don't
28:50
Speaker 1: know how the owner could even entertain any ideas if
28:53
Speaker 1: like Lamar or excuse me, Eric Tacosta and John Harball
28:56
Speaker 1: like knocked on his door and say, hey, we got
28:58
Speaker 1: an idea. You know all the Raiders, you know, number
29:01
Speaker 1: one overall, pick Max Crosby in like two two's he'd
29:04
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I'm just gonna keep Lamar Jackson. That's
29:08
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do here, so you guys can go
29:12
Speaker 1: find another team that might be entertained do dumb ideas,
29:15
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna do that here. And I'm not
29:16
Speaker 1: even saying they want to do that, but there's just
29:19
Speaker 1: been enough. This isn't just like from one Reddit stream.
29:22
Speaker 1: It just got weird and I thought Lamar answered the
29:26
Speaker 1: bell down the stretch obviously big time. So does A Flowers,
29:28
Speaker 1: so did likely those plays were I mean, you're like
29:31
Speaker 1: fell off your couch, like is this really happening unless
29:35
Speaker 1: you're rooting for the Steelers and you just want to go, like,
29:37
Speaker 1: where is the defender? What are we doing? Let's bang
29:43
Speaker 1: out some other topics before we get out of here.
29:46
Speaker 1: Big news today, at least the first of the uh
29:51
Speaker 1: the gate opening on what is considered Black Monday tomorrow,
29:54
Speaker 1: though sometimes it kind of materializes over the course of
29:58
Speaker 1: the week. Arthur Blank, who's oldest shit, put himself in
30:03
Speaker 1: his own Hall of Fame last year, which is an
30:05
Speaker 1: all time move. I actually read an Instagram thread on
30:09
Speaker 1: him and how him and his partner started at home
30:11
Speaker 1: Depot pretty incredible, Like he's I don't think we talk
30:16
Speaker 1: enough about his business story, you know, how he started
30:21
Speaker 1: from scratch and what he created after being fired from
30:24
Speaker 1: another company with a buddy. It's it's a pretty awesome story,
30:29
Speaker 1: but as an owner, it does feel like they're pretty
30:32
Speaker 1: lost and over the last five years with Arthur Smith
30:35
Speaker 1: and Raheem Morris, it doesn't feel like any team is
30:38
Speaker 1: underachieved more and this team like the reason Raheem Morris
30:44
Speaker 1: got fired and I saw listen. I've known Mike Silver,
30:46
Speaker 1: who wrote for SI and now writes for Athletic for
30:49
Speaker 1: a long time covering the NFL forever. He loves Rahee
30:51
Speaker 1: Moors just like everyone loves Roheel Moors. And he was
30:54
Speaker 1: on the X channels, as my mom calls it, defending
30:57
Speaker 1: saying this is crazy. He only got two years. He
30:59
Speaker 1: won last four games when Raheem Morris and Terry faunt
31:05
Speaker 1: Now made the decision in a month span to give
31:08
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins four years, one hundred and eighty million dollars
31:11
Speaker 1: and one hundred million dollars guaranteed of Arthur Blank's money,
31:14
Speaker 1: and then a month later draft to quarterback number eight overall,
31:17
Speaker 1: which I'm not acting like I didn't like him. I did,
31:20
Speaker 1: but the NFL did not. He was off a ton
31:22
Speaker 1: of draft boards. He had major injury concerns, and a
31:26
Speaker 1: lot of people just questioned his overall talent. Like most
31:30
Speaker 1: people I knew if they did have him on the
31:32
Speaker 1: draft board, did not have him in the first round.
31:34
Speaker 1: They took him eight overall. That move or those two
31:38
Speaker 1: moves didn't blow up in their face. It was like
31:41
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb in the organization and it has been
31:45
Speaker 1: a disaster. Michael Pennix, now two years later, is has
31:48
Speaker 1: a torn acl that's the third time he's torn it.
31:51
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, who by far, once he started playing, was
31:55
Speaker 1: better than he was last year and was better than Pennix.
31:58
Speaker 1: But they're not gonna bring Cousins back because he makes
32:00
Speaker 1: like forty plus million dollars a year. So they're kind
32:04
Speaker 1: of in quarterback no man's land, and it's like, okay, yeah,
32:07
Speaker 1: they tied for first in the division. The division was
32:10
Speaker 1: eight and fucking nine. That is an embarrassment. In most divisions,
32:14
Speaker 1: you would have been four or five six games behind
32:17
Speaker 1: the number one team in your division. You wouldn't have
32:20
Speaker 1: sniffed second. So going eight to nine is not an accomplishment. Actually,
32:26
Speaker 1: when you watch them against the Rams, when you watch
32:27
Speaker 1: them against the Bills. It's kind of an embarrassment. So
32:32
Speaker 1: I have no qualms or issues with those two guys
32:35
Speaker 1: getting fired, because any any human in life, when you
32:39
Speaker 1: are in a situation, especially a pressure pack situation, and
32:43
Speaker 1: you make a massive decision. We all make a lot
32:46
Speaker 1: of decisions in life. Some of them be you know,
32:50
Speaker 1: the results of those decisions have little to no impact
32:55
Speaker 1: on our professional situation, and some of them will make
32:58
Speaker 1: or break us. And their quarterback decisions two years ago
33:03
Speaker 1: broke them. That's the way it works. Just like I
33:07
Speaker 1: saw with the forty niners. If Brock Purdy would not
33:11
Speaker 1: have been drafted in the seventh round, the forty nine
33:13
Speaker 1: ers would have been screwed. They would have had a major,
33:17
Speaker 1: major problem. But the football gods threw them a bone.
33:20
Speaker 1: The football gods did not throw these guys a bone.
33:23
Speaker 1: Right when Michael Pennix got thrust in there, he just
33:25
Speaker 1: couldn't really play, and when Cousins you know, had to play.
33:28
Speaker 1: Last year wasn't any good. And then this year they
33:31
Speaker 1: just started losing too bad teams. They had one of
33:34
Speaker 1: the worst special teams we've ever seen. And yeah, they
33:37
Speaker 1: started playing better at the end of the season. Too little,
33:40
Speaker 1: too late. You ever get into a fight, a really
33:42
Speaker 1: bad fight, and then try to apologize and she won't
33:44
Speaker 1: listen to you. Yeah, you can try to apologize after
33:48
Speaker 1: the fact. It's not good enough. So I understand them
33:51
Speaker 1: firing them. I would fully expect Matt Ryan to be
33:55
Speaker 1: some sort of made up role where he is between
33:58
Speaker 1: the GM, between the coach and Arthur Blank. That would
34:02
Speaker 1: be the expectation moving forward. I saw a report from
34:05
Speaker 1: rap Sheet today that Philip Rivers will essentially garner interest
34:11
Speaker 1: to be a head coach in the NFL. Let me
34:15
Speaker 1: say this, I do think Philip Rivers could immediately start
34:18
Speaker 1: tomorrow and be a good head coach in the NFL.
34:21
Speaker 1: He understands players. He understands personnel just from evaluating them
34:26
Speaker 1: on a game plan for twenty plus years. He's now
34:30
Speaker 1: been a coach. I get at a high school level,
34:32
Speaker 1: but he understands just like the feeling of standing on
34:34
Speaker 1: the sideline with a headset I would have. I would
34:38
Speaker 1: bet on Philip Rivers working. But if I was Philip Rivers,
34:41
Speaker 1: because calling the plays on game day, I'm sure he'd
34:44
Speaker 1: be good at it. I'm sure working with the quarterback
34:47
Speaker 1: and the offensive skill guys would be come very naturally
34:52
Speaker 1: to him. But you know what being a head coach is.
34:56
Speaker 1: On Monday afternoon, you get a call you're starting defensive tackle.
35:02
Speaker 1: Just had a family member claim that he he blasted
35:08
Speaker 1: her in the face with his fist because she turned
35:12
Speaker 1: down the air conditioning from seventy to sixty eight degrees.
35:15
Speaker 1: A wide receiver just had a chef sue him for
35:19
Speaker 1: sexually assaulting him. You're starting safety just wrapped his car
35:25
Speaker 1: around a telephone pole and got a dui. Your offensive
35:29
Speaker 1: line coach, his wife just left him and mentally he's
35:33
Speaker 1: in shambles. Your GM is just in an awful mood
35:38
Speaker 1: and you gotta deal with them like that is big
35:41
Speaker 1: a head coach. Oh and you have a billionaire family
35:46
Speaker 1: who again, a billionaire family who literally everything they do
35:50
Speaker 1: in life is free. I remember one time heard someone describe
35:54
Speaker 1: what it's like to be a billionaire and they're like,
35:56
Speaker 1: imagine everything in life is free. Like that's a great
35:58
Speaker 1: way to sum it up, and what a way to live.
36:01
Speaker 1: You know, you just no matter what room you go into,
36:04
Speaker 1: if you want to buy that, I can't afford that.
36:06
Speaker 1: That's who you work for a family where literally everything
36:10
Speaker 1: in the world to them is free, and most of them,
36:14
Speaker 1: even if they are nice people, whatever, he lose a
36:18
Speaker 1: little touch of reality and it is not easy. In
36:21
Speaker 1: what world would Philip Rivers want to deal with that?
36:24
Speaker 1: He's made hundreds of millions of dollars, he has ten
36:28
Speaker 1: freaking kids. He has a son who's going to be
36:30
Speaker 1: a senior, who by all accounts, is going to be
36:32
Speaker 1: a high end recruit. He's got another son who's a
36:35
Speaker 1: ninth grader who I would bet on probably eventually becoming
36:38
Speaker 1: a high end recruit. Why does he need that stress?
36:41
Speaker 1: You know why? Mike Tomlin or John Harbar or a
36:44
Speaker 1: lot of those guys do it. That's how they've made
36:46
Speaker 1: their money. That's where they make their millions of dollars.
36:49
Speaker 1: Phillip's already made the millions. Now if he did want
36:53
Speaker 1: that headache, because it's unavoidable, I would respect the shit
36:57
Speaker 1: out of him. Tom Brady, you know, bought into it
37:00
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be really hands on. Hands on dude's
37:02
Speaker 1: like playing golf in Florida. Again, I don't blame him
37:05
Speaker 1: at all. I'd be doing exactly what Tom is doing.
37:08
Speaker 1: I'd be playing golf, I'd be hanging out with Alex Earl.
37:11
Speaker 1: I'd be living life as well. But Tom Brady doesn't
37:14
Speaker 1: want to act like John Elway did ten years ago.
37:16
Speaker 1: Every day in the office, every day, dealing with all
37:18
Speaker 1: the shit. Deal with your scouts, deal with your GM,
37:21
Speaker 1: deal with your coaches, dealing with the college draft, deal
37:25
Speaker 1: with free agency, deal with your own team, dealing with
37:27
Speaker 1: the agents, dealing with the owners. It's a pain in
37:30
Speaker 1: the fucking ass. Pays well. You get a lot of
37:34
Speaker 1: praise when things go well, but most of the days
37:38
Speaker 1: are not just game day after winning the locker room
37:40
Speaker 1: high five and everybody. Most of the days are long,
37:43
Speaker 1: no one's paying attention, and shit is hitting the fan
37:45
Speaker 1: left and right. So this is one of those things.
37:48
Speaker 1: Awesome headline kind of interesting because I think we both
37:51
Speaker 1: all agree Philip Rivers could be a head coach in
37:53
Speaker 1: the NFL if he wanted to do it. There is
37:55
Speaker 1: no doubt in anyone's mind. And if there is a
37:57
Speaker 1: doubt in your mind, then you probably don't know what
37:58
Speaker 1: you're talking about. No offense, I mean, might be a
38:00
Speaker 1: good human, but you just don't understand football. But I
38:03
Speaker 1: just don't see at this point in time why he'd
38:06
Speaker 1: want that on his plate. Speaking of rivers, the Colts
38:23
Speaker 1: announced about a couple of nights ago, I couldn't sleep
38:27
Speaker 1: and I got up. It was like three in the morning,
38:30
Speaker 1: and I just started scrolling the Athletic and there was
38:33
Speaker 1: this long article about Ersa's daughter, Carly, who owns runs
38:37
Speaker 1: the team now, and there were a lot of quotes
38:40
Speaker 1: in there from Shane Syke and Chris Ballard, and it
38:42
Speaker 1: was clear that they all like each other a lot.
38:45
Speaker 1: So when I saw the news today that they're coming back,
38:48
Speaker 1: Chris Balard's never won the division in nine years. Obviously,
38:51
Speaker 1: Shane Siken hasn't made the playoffs this year. They started
38:54
Speaker 1: eating two. They don't have first round picks. I don't
38:57
Speaker 1: even think they've won a game after that. Pretty sure
38:59
Speaker 1: they yeah today, so they won eight nine disastrous season again.
39:03
Speaker 1: The Jets have their first round pick. I don't know
39:05
Speaker 1: if you saw the stat at halftime on Sunday Night
39:08
Speaker 1: Football of quarterbacks against the Jets, thirty six touchdowns, no interceptions,
39:13
Speaker 1: fourteen and three like seventy percent completion percentage. That's that's
39:18
Speaker 1: really bad. I mean, that's I got nothing like I'm
39:22
Speaker 1: not anti Aaron Glenn. I was rooting for him. Always
39:24
Speaker 1: really liked him on the lines. I thought he did
39:25
Speaker 1: a great job. I think it's hard to argue that's
39:28
Speaker 1: one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of
39:30
Speaker 1: the league. No interceptions. You inherited a team with Sauce Gardner,
39:36
Speaker 1: with pass rushers, no interceptions. That is a record, you know,
39:42
Speaker 1: like a record that will stand forever, Like Joe DiMaggio's
39:44
Speaker 1: fifty six game hitting streak, Cal Ripkins, you know whatever,
39:48
Speaker 1: ten thousand straight games or whatever it was, Wilt Chamberlain's
39:52
Speaker 1: one hundred points, and we go on on like some
39:53
Speaker 1: of these probably gonna stand forever. I saw some of
39:56
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice's records. Nobody, and I promise you nobody is
40:01
Speaker 1: ever ever breaking the Jets record. No one will ever
40:04
Speaker 1: match that. You couldn't break it, but you could match it.
40:07
Speaker 1: It will never be matched. I promise you that. What
40:13
Speaker 1: was I guess didn't have to be matched is the
40:16
Speaker 1: Vegas Las Vegas Raiders. We knew going into the game
40:20
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys today who Yank Dak went full tank again.
40:24
Speaker 1: I don't even blame them for doing it. I would
40:26
Speaker 1: have done it too. Once the Giants win that game,
40:29
Speaker 1: who also, I think went from two to five or six.
40:32
Speaker 1: I forget exactly where they're drafting, but obviously, you know,
40:35
Speaker 1: not ideal now Jackson dark, Brian Burns, some of those
40:38
Speaker 1: guys care about a draft pick. The Raiders have the
40:41
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. We're gonna watch, you know, Pete Carroll.
40:44
Speaker 1: Most people assume that within the next twenty four to
40:46
Speaker 1: forty eight hours, Pete Carroll will either be forced into
40:49
Speaker 1: retirement or be fired, and Fernando Mendoza will be there
40:54
Speaker 1: be their quarterback. Because it was announced tonight that Kurt
40:57
Speaker 1: Signetti and Indiana had signed. I think TCU whose quarterback Hoover,
41:02
Speaker 1: and he will replace Fernando Mendoza, who's going to the draft,
41:06
Speaker 1: who will be the number one overall pick and will
41:09
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback for the Vegas Raiders in twenty
41:11
Speaker 1: twenty six. The only question is who's going to be
41:14
Speaker 1: their coach. Some rumors about Brian Flores and day Ball.
41:18
Speaker 1: I think they will want an offensive head coach. If
41:21
Speaker 1: Stefanski got fired, would they be interested. We'll have to
41:24
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. And the Chiefs, who went
41:26
Speaker 1: to five Super Bowls in six years, had one of
41:29
Speaker 1: the worst seasons of all time for them. But they
41:33
Speaker 1: have the ninth pick in the draft, and I think
41:35
Speaker 1: what's scary about that is this is going to be
41:38
Speaker 1: a chance for them to a catalyst for them to
41:42
Speaker 1: continue the dynasty. If you tell me that the Chiefs
41:45
Speaker 1: are going to continue to be really, really good in
41:47
Speaker 1: a high end team, this draft will change the franchise.
41:51
Speaker 1: And I think they can do this two ways. You
41:53
Speaker 1: can go from nine to like four pretty easily. If
41:56
Speaker 1: you're them, you could just hey, we'll give you next
41:58
Speaker 1: year's first round pick, and just a team that, you know,
42:01
Speaker 1: like the Giants, that needs to accumulate assets come back,
42:04
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, if a couple quarterbacks go high,
42:07
Speaker 1: we end up with potentially the best pass rusher, best
42:10
Speaker 1: offensive lineman in the draft, a guy that we couldn't
42:13
Speaker 1: have dreamed of acquiring. For the last fifteen years, we've
42:18
Speaker 1: never ever the best player in the you know, arguably
42:22
Speaker 1: in the league. In one of the great draft picks
42:24
Speaker 1: in franchise history, we drafted Patrick Mahomes ten and we
42:29
Speaker 1: had to come up from the twenties. Now we're at nine.
42:32
Speaker 1: We can go up, we can get in, we can
42:33
Speaker 1: get an all timer. Or can we go from like
42:36
Speaker 1: nine to fourteen, still draft way higher than we ever envisioned.
42:40
Speaker 1: We'd be drafting, accumulate another second round pick, and start
42:44
Speaker 1: nailing some high end guys that are cheap. So now
42:47
Speaker 1: we got a first round er, we got a couple
42:49
Speaker 1: second rounders, and we can maneuver. But I think the
42:53
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a lot of the usual suspects high a
42:56
Speaker 1: lot of crappy franchises. But the Chiefs to me, are
42:59
Speaker 1: by far the most fascinating team drafting in the top ten.
43:02
Speaker 1: And you know, whenever I text my buddies on their staff,
43:05
Speaker 1: you know, we just bs about players. They're always just
43:08
Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, hypothetically, like, yeah, we really
43:11
Speaker 1: like that guy, but obviously we were never gonna draft him.
43:13
Speaker 1: Now beside three or four players, they have to really
43:17
Speaker 1: evaluate all you know, Caleb Downs, Baine, I mean all
43:22
Speaker 1: the guys that yeah they ride up and they put
43:25
Speaker 1: on the board. They're never drafting those players. Now. It's
43:28
Speaker 1: like they're a real conversation, which to me adds an intrigue, Like,
43:32
Speaker 1: of course the Titans are drafting high. They suck, you know,
43:35
Speaker 1: they always suck. And I think that job, I think
43:38
Speaker 1: that franchise. You know, a lot of franchises get picked on,
43:42
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Raiders. I don't think we pick on
43:44
Speaker 1: the Titans enough. They are just an abomination of an operation.
43:49
Speaker 1: And there's gonna be a lot of pressure on Borganzi.
43:52
Speaker 1: That clearly got a bunch more juice over the weekend
43:55
Speaker 1: in some power struggle with the Chad Brinker guy. And
43:57
Speaker 1: now he answers the owner. He doesn't answer that who
44:00
Speaker 1: claimed they were friends. But anytime this happens, it always
44:03
Speaker 1: gets weird when you lose whoever their next head coach is.
44:06
Speaker 1: Cam Ward got hurt today. Just weird situation and I
44:11
Speaker 1: guess we will end on this. There was no bigger lock,
44:14
Speaker 1: and I stand by what I said. If you go
44:16
Speaker 1: under five hundred and win a division, you should not
44:19
Speaker 1: host a playoff game. It's very simple. I had people
44:22
Speaker 1: tweeting at me, like, you're just jealous the forty nine
44:25
Speaker 1: ers have to This has nothing to do about anyone.
44:28
Speaker 1: I don't care who has to go on the road
44:29
Speaker 1: or plays a home game. You should not be able
44:32
Speaker 1: to host a playoff game if you go under five hundred.
44:36
Speaker 1: That reflects your division, because winning the division is a
44:39
Speaker 1: big deal. It's hard to win the division. Why because
44:42
Speaker 1: usually there are multiple double digit win teams in the division.
44:45
Speaker 1: Seattle won a division with the fifth and the sixth seed.
44:49
Speaker 1: Right last year, the Philadelphia Eagles won a division against
44:52
Speaker 1: with another team that ends up they played in the
44:54
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. The Denver Broncos won the division. Like
44:58
Speaker 1: the Chargers were nipping up heels all season long. And
45:02
Speaker 1: I just think when you have another division where all
45:04
Speaker 1: the other teams are under five hundred as well, like
45:06
Speaker 1: that's a joke division. It just is now. I don't
45:11
Speaker 1: think this is gonna change anytime soon, but I did.
45:14
Speaker 1: I wasn't an idiot that once the Panthers made it
45:17
Speaker 1: Today they were playing that first game in the afternoon
45:21
Speaker 1: on Saturday, which is historically the worst game on paper
45:24
Speaker 1: of the weekend, and there's already I think, like a
45:27
Speaker 1: ten plus point spread for the Rams. That was a
45:30
Speaker 1: no brainer. I did think the Bears Packers and the
45:33
Speaker 1: Niners Eagles would be Fox and Sunday Night, but clearly Amazon.
45:40
Speaker 1: I think there's a decent chance either Fox or Amazon
45:42
Speaker 1: had the number one overall pick and they picked Bears
45:45
Speaker 1: Packers at night because that is just that environment in
45:49
Speaker 1: Chicago at night, freezing cold, the pressure on the floor
45:53
Speaker 1: trying to get a contract extension. He wins this game,
45:57
Speaker 1: it would shut a lot of people up. The Bear
46:00
Speaker 1: I listen, anytime you get a home game, you want
46:02
Speaker 1: to win. They've already had a pretty incredible season. Obviously,
46:07
Speaker 1: to beat the Packers would be the icing on the cake.
46:10
Speaker 1: You win this game, it would just be I mean,
46:14
Speaker 1: an all time first year for Ben Johnson. You beat
46:17
Speaker 1: the Packers twice once in the playoffs at a home game,
46:21
Speaker 1: it'd be pretty cool. I do think the Eagles I
46:24
Speaker 1: saw Sirianni was asked about it. It's hard because they're
46:27
Speaker 1: benching a bunch of guys. They're playing a bunch of backups.
46:30
Speaker 1: He had to look up there and see the Bears
46:32
Speaker 1: are down sixty to nothing in going there is a
46:34
Speaker 1: big difference between the two and the three seed having
46:37
Speaker 1: two home games or only having one. To me, that's
46:40
Speaker 1: a game changer. Now. You could argue, well, the Bears
46:43
Speaker 1: could lose what they could or they could just win
46:45
Speaker 1: and then you win, and then you've got to go there.
46:47
Speaker 1: So I I was honestly stunned, and I get it.
46:51
Speaker 1: You're playing a backup quarterback who I thought Tanner McKee
46:55
Speaker 1: was a little better. He didn't play that well today.
46:56
Speaker 1: Whenever I would kind of peak at the game, I
46:59
Speaker 1: just assume they would win, even with their backups. And
47:01
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it's like twenty four to seventeen.
47:02
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is going on? But obviously the you know,
47:06
Speaker 1: the Eagles play the forty nine Ers in the in
47:08
Speaker 1: the day game on Sunday. I think it's is it?
47:13
Speaker 1: I have to look now, I'm confused. I'm like thinking
47:15
Speaker 1: out loud, what's the NFL schedule? And a lot on
47:21
Speaker 1: my mind right now. It's like Blincoln, So we got
47:24
Speaker 1: Buffalo Jacksonville. I thought they would give Josh Allen a
47:27
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. Little surprised, I get Jacksonville is not
47:31
Speaker 1: the sexiest quote unquote you know name market. I think
47:36
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is a fun team to watch. They have been
47:38
Speaker 1: kicking ass and taking names. I was if you would
47:42
Speaker 1: have told me these three games would have been on Sunday,
47:44
Speaker 1: Buffalo Jacksonville, Niners, Philly, Los Angeles, New England, I think
47:48
Speaker 1: I would have guessed the Chargers in New England would
47:51
Speaker 1: have been the morning game, and they would have put
47:53
Speaker 1: Josh Allen at night and I would have guessed that
47:56
Speaker 1: Fox and Tom Brady just would have taken Philly and
47:59
Speaker 1: the Niners in the afternoon game. So I am a
48:02
Speaker 1: little surprised. And I get it's, you know, Drake May,
48:05
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel, Jim Harbaugh not saying that there's not star
48:08
Speaker 1: power in the LA New England game. But I thought
48:12
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen's almost like, I don't know, like Lebron,
48:17
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, you know, Showhay, just like a transcendent name
48:21
Speaker 1: in this sport that is just such a TV rating
48:25
Speaker 1: magnet that he would have trumped those two guys, but
48:29
Speaker 1: clearly he didn't. And then obviously the Monday night game
48:32
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh at Houston. My initial thought is just I like
48:36
Speaker 1: Houston a lot. In this game, I think that I
48:39
Speaker 1: think Houston's a very live dog to be a major,
48:42
Speaker 1: major problem in the AFC. I haven't thought that much
48:45
Speaker 1: about all these matchups. I do think the Niners it's
48:48
Speaker 1: gonna be really, really difficult. I think Jacksonville is just
48:53
Speaker 1: having an incredible that they are so good, but to
48:56
Speaker 1: get Josh Allen and I get it, the Bills have
48:58
Speaker 1: looked weird. I'm not even out in today, but just
49:01
Speaker 1: it is. It's been a weird season. The Keon Coleman situation.
49:05
Speaker 1: You know, you draft this guy high, he gets it.
49:07
Speaker 1: He's in active all the time. Their defense just looks
49:10
Speaker 1: shitty so often. Their weapons aren't great beside Cook, but
49:15
Speaker 1: I just have a hard time betting against an all
49:17
Speaker 1: time great quarterback, especially who's gonna be well rested. JAG's
49:21
Speaker 1: defense is good. I think that game that's that's an
49:23
Speaker 1: excellent morning game. That that really is. And I think
49:28
Speaker 1: Green Bay Chicago is just great theater. I would say
49:32
Speaker 1: the Steeler. If I had to rank some of the
49:35
Speaker 1: great games of the year regular season, just off the
49:37
Speaker 1: top of my head, I would say that Bears Packers
49:40
Speaker 1: game where they came back at the end was just
49:43
Speaker 1: I was on the edge of my seat and it
49:44
Speaker 1: wasn't even the greatest game, but it was just the atmosphere.
49:47
Speaker 1: It was just so cool. Saturday Night, Niners Bears Pittsburgh st. Ravens.
49:54
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had the Seattle Ram game. We've had
49:57
Speaker 1: some great primetime games, And to me, what makes a
50:00
Speaker 1: primetime game is like the venue really comes into play.
50:04
Speaker 1: It's a huge point of difference for college football. Right
50:07
Speaker 1: when you get some of these primetime night games like
50:10
Speaker 1: LSU at LSU right at you know, at some of
50:14
Speaker 1: these venues that are just really really cool. It's kind
50:16
Speaker 1: of where the SEC thrives because their home games are
50:18
Speaker 1: just so badass when the lights are on. And I
50:22
Speaker 1: think we got you know, the New England. That's a
50:24
Speaker 1: place that they've hosted a lot of night playoff games.
50:27
Speaker 1: You know, your Chicago has not, but that's just an
50:29
Speaker 1: incredible venue. And obviously Pittsburgh will be rocking. So we'll
50:32
Speaker 1: talk a lot about these games as the week goes on. Obviously,
50:35
Speaker 1: as people get you know, fired, and rumors fly, we
50:39
Speaker 1: will have you covered and I will formulate opinions and
50:43
Speaker 1: thoughts on anything that comes across the NFL wire. So
50:47
Speaker 1: have a great night. Hopefully everyone had a enjoyable twenty
50:52
Speaker 1: twenty five regular season. Probably not if you're like a
50:56
Speaker 1: Titan Cardinal Giant fan, Jets fan, definitely not Rader fan,
51:00
Speaker 1: and no chance Chiefs fan. Probably not really either. But
51:04
Speaker 1: you know, if you're like a Patriot fan, it was
51:06
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You know, if you're a Bears fan, it
51:08
Speaker 1: was a pretty badass. So it's all about perspective, you know.
51:11
Speaker 1: Whoever you are We will talk tomorrow. Have a good night,
51:15
Speaker 1: see you. The volume