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Goal Line: Detroit Rock City
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Seth and Jordan review all the fallout from all six Wild Card games and preview the upcoming Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs.
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Introduction and Wildcard Weekend Review
00:00:15
Speaker
What is up goal line listeners? We are putting the finishing touches on wildcard weekend and we are back with your first playoff edition of the goal line. Jordan, what's going on, man? Oh, uh, just cracked a beer and, uh, time to reflect on here. Time to reflect on what was a pretty uneventful wildcard weekend. And I am, uh, I'm definitely ready to talk about it and just kinda, kinda pick apart the weekend that was.
00:00:42
Speaker
I thought it was a relatively entertaining weekend of football, especially considering we didn't have any, any instant classics. You know, I know we'll get into all the games, but yeah, you're right. We didn't have a whole lot of late game drama for the most part. Uh, we're
Eagles' Downfall and Speculations
00:00:56
Speaker
recording live. There's seven minutes left to go in the fourth quarter right now. Bucks winning 25, nine. What is your been your thoughts of the, uh, the Monday night game so far?
00:01:04
Speaker
man, this is going to go down as one of the biggest collapses in football in a while. The Eagles just do they were 11 and one and they're going to go out round one to a not even very good bucks team. Like I
00:01:21
Speaker
The whole vibe is just off too, man. Like, dude, somebody, somebody's got to get canned out of this. Like, I don't, he might be in trouble, man. It looks like on Siri on, he knows the problem. I don't either. They brought in Matt Patricia in week 15 to be the defensive coordinator. And now they're going to end up going one and four since that point. Like,
00:01:41
Speaker
that was not a good move i just i don't know man the eagles are like they're usually the franchise well in the last 20 years at least they're usually the franchise that you're like uh we know they're gonna make the right move but
00:01:54
Speaker
man, dude, this season has been bad for them overall. Like it's just as a whole, I mean, what a wasted season. I mean, they got so much talent on that team and who knows what it'll look like next year. Cause I mean, who knows if Kelsey comes back. I mean, you lose him. That's, that's one of your biggest leaders on the team. So I don't know, man, I think this team's going to look really different next year. Think about how they looked after they beat the bills, you know, back in, I want to say maybe week 11, they looked like,
00:02:23
Speaker
They were damn near a lock, man. I mean, it seemed like the 49ers broke something with this team. I mean, it's all been... Let me go back and look at their schedule. It's all been bad. So they got beat by the Niners, and the next week they got pasted by the Cowboys, and then they lost that Monday night heartbreaker to Seattle, beat the Giants, lost to the Cardinals, and lost to the Giants. And now they're going to lose to the Bucks.
00:02:52
Speaker
That's about as pissed, poor of a finish as you can have. Like, dude, yeah, they had the hardest schedule in the league and they were 11 and one at one point, but man, it just all broke down at the end of the season. Jalen Hertz started making some really questionable plays and started just turning the ball over at an alarming rate. The safety he took in the third quarter tonight was one of the most bizarre plays I've ever seen.
00:03:17
Speaker
he had a clean pocket, could have stepped him through the ball, then runs backwards for six yards and then throw barely even gets it out of the end zone. So it's intentional grounding in the end zone. Like, I dunno, AJ Brown not playing tonight is not a good look at all either. Like dude, unless you have like something torn in your knee, which doesn't sound like he does. Cause he sounds like he was going to play next week. So not a good look for him either. Um,
00:03:41
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know, man. I don't know where this team goes. They're going to be searching for answers at this point. And for a team that drafted as well as they have the last five years, this is going to be a pretty bad end to a season.
Nebraska Weather Impact
00:03:54
Speaker
Yeah. Hard to think of another collapse we've had that has been this freaking ugly, man. We'll get into the rest of the weekend in football, but real quick, man, how much has this cyclone bomb weather been affected you guys there in Nebraska?
00:04:08
Speaker
Dude this has been This has been one of the worst weeks for weather that I can remember honestly So we got
00:04:18
Speaker
was that Monday into Tuesday, we got like six inches of snow. And then Thursday into Friday, we got another 10 to 12. So I mean, just last week alone, we had almost a foot and a half of snow. And then this weekend, it didn't hit zero once it was below zero the entire weekend. Wind chills on, wind chills on Saturday were like 45 below or something. Like the high was negative seven. I mean, it was just, I honestly don't really even know what to think of this. It's just been,
00:04:47
Speaker
I just don't remember a time where we didn't go outside for basically a week. It was brutal. Is Zoe out of school all this week? So she's got school tomorrow. She's got a two hour late start, but they didn't have school last Monday or Tuesday. Went back on Wednesday. I think they went Thursday and then they were off Friday and then today was MLK day and then tomorrow's a
00:05:10
Speaker
late starts. It's just fucking weird, man. I'm sure schools are all closed in Tennessee now for the rest of the week. I was going to say, you're going to be ashamed of us, man. We got about four inches of snow. I don't know, maybe a little bit more. They said four inches on the news. I'm pretty sure you're here in Oakland. I think we were just catching some of those snow belts, man. Because if you saw some of the pictures I posted on social media, we had some serious deep snow in the back of our alley. We had a hell of a football game this morning back there. But they went in and closed schools for the whole week, man.
00:05:38
Speaker
Like they already said, we'll try again on Monday.
00:05:42
Speaker
Well, dude, that's the thing is I was reading to like Nashville got hit pretty good. It looks like it looks like they got like six to six, seven inches somewhere in there. And I mean, it sounds like they hadn't had like a decent snowfall in like 10 years is what I was reading. So yeah, dude, it snowed hard for 18 straight hours here, man. Like it was coming down. It started yesterday afternoon and it didn't stop until until early this afternoon. It probably took a while for it to start sticking to the street, though, because of how warm it usually is there, didn't it?
00:06:11
Speaker
Uh, I don't know. See, I know here in our neighborhood, man, it's stuck pretty quick, man. I don't know how the highways did. I don't know if they put down any salt earlier or not, but either way, I know most of the, most of the country's dealing with it right now. So we want to let you guys know how the, uh, how me and Jordan were fair. And, uh, you ready to get into the rest of wildcard weekend and beyond?
Texans' Success and Browns' Struggles
00:06:31
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Yeah, let's do it.
00:06:40
Speaker
All right, let's start with, we're going to go through all the games, obviously, since there was only six, but let's start with the Texans and Browns on Saturday. Good God, the Browns just completely fell apart. I mean, I knew the Texans were good, but good Lord, man, that was just a pasting of a game.
00:07:03
Speaker
Yeah, the brown, at first I thought it was going to kind of be that kitchen sink game, like we talked about. There's usually one every playoffs where it's just a ton of points and crazy ass plays. It was looking like that. And then, you know, midway through the third quarter, you know, Flacco kind of turned into that pumpkin and saw the turnovers, man, that pick six was just brutal. And the Browns had no answer. It was like an avalanche. Once, once the Texans got rolling, there was absolutely nothing the Browns could do to stop them. I still think
00:07:30
Speaker
Hell of a season for the Browns, man, to even make it as far as they did with all the injuries they had. Um, but yeah, I, I was impressed with the Texans, man. They got a tall test in front of them this week, but just what, what is first season there for, for CJ Stroud and D'Amico Ryan's down in Houston. Yeah. I just, dude, if you would have told me that
00:07:51
Speaker
CJ Stratton, D'Amico Ryan's would not only make the playoffs in their first season, but win their first playoff game. I told you you're nuts. Um, but I mean, dude, we, I, I, I sold hard for them after week three. I said they went on, they got their coats, they got their quarterback and they got to rush in that can, um, cause havoc. I mean, dude, they went all in and one off season and they hit on all three of them. So I mean, that's a.
00:08:20
Speaker
They did it right. They, I mean, they, since they got rid of Deshaun a couple of years back, they just kind of been stockpiling young talent and they did it right. Lovey kind of screwed them a little bit, but I mean, not too bad. They still ended up with Stroud, which was the best for them. So yeah, just
00:08:40
Speaker
incredible season, no matter how it ends. But yeah, we got to give love to the Browns. Cause dude, they kind of mailed it in when Deshaun Watson went down and they started to ended up starting four quarterbacks this year with DTR, um, PJ Walker, Flacco and Deshaun Watson. And they made it all the way to the playoffs with it and looked like a really good team going into the playoffs. I don't know if them not playing starters week 18 was a bad decision by them, but
00:09:10
Speaker
Defense did not look like they were into it at all. They missed a lot of tackles and Stroud just had an hour to throw the ball, which I did not see coming. I thought the Browns would get after him early and often in that game. And they didn't, man. He just sat back there and through the wall and they ran it really well. And yeah, it was, I thought the Browns defense would be the, the X factor in this game and they were the X factor for the wrong reason.
00:09:36
Speaker
Quick, quick change of subject, man. I know you said you turned the game off because it had gotten so ugly. We just had a 25 yard Baker Mayfield touchdown pass to Chris Godwin to just stick a knife in the Eagles, man. Eagles went suicide blitz and Baker off his back foot, just chucked it up to the end zone. And Chris Godwin made the catch, man. So it's now, it's now 32 to nine with
00:10:01
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with Tampa winning, man. So yeah, what a freaking, what a stunning turn of events for Philly. And it's officially over. Tampa Bay can go ahead and start game planning for Detroit next week up in the Motor City.
00:10:14
Speaker
Yeah. Going back to Houston, man, I got to say, dude, yeah, like what an off season they had, like you mentioned, man, if you're like a casual just getting into the NFL this year, it's hard not to think that the Texans might not be like the number one draft pick for like teams to adopt as you're like ride or die, right? Yeah. I mean, it's really hard not to look at what they've done and not be just completely impressed with it. Yeah.
00:10:42
Speaker
Absolutely incredible rebuilding as quick as it happened. I mean, and this is without tank Dell, who is arguably their best player for half the season. Like what they're doing is not normal. Like this season from the Texans, I hope it doesn't end up going unappreciated because I'm guessing it ends on Saturday. I mean, I just, I do not think that they beat the Ravens, but even if it ends Saturday, even if it ends badly, like this season needs to go down in history. Like,
00:11:10
Speaker
one of the better rookie seasons for a head coach and a rookie quarterback that we'll ever see in the history of football.
Dolphins' Cold Weather Challenges
00:11:17
Speaker
Yeah. They're playing with house money right now for sure. And dude, you mentioned tank Dale going down. Shout out to Nico Collins, man. What a glow up for him the last few weeks. Like he's kind of, you know, he started the season as one of those guys who like, you know, if you grabbed him off the waiver wire for your like wide receiver three and fantasy, you were, you were kind of happy with it. You felt content. He'd get you at least a few points and he's been the best wide receiver in football over the last couple of weeks. Yeah. He's been, he's had a really good season. I mean,
00:11:43
Speaker
1300 yards and eight touchdowns is not to sneeze at as a wide receiver who before this year had really done nothing. So yeah, I mean, yeah, absolutely incredible. But yeah, I really, I do hope that everybody can just kind of take this in. And even if they get smoked by Baltimore, like dude, which I don't think they will. I'm just saying like, even if they do, I hope everybody, it's a win no matter what appreciates this season by them.
00:12:08
Speaker
It was a win the moment they beat the Colts week 18, man. Like the season was already a smash. Or really even kind of just making it to that game was a smash success. And it's all gravy from here for the Texans. Absolutely. All right. Let's go into the night game on Saturday night on Peacock. Good God. Chiefs and dolphins. Rough night for Miami. Dude, they cannot win a game under 40 degrees. Like when they busted that stat out, I was like,
00:12:38
Speaker
them blowing home field advantage in the playoffs was that was the biggest blow for any team they had down home field. They're already a warm weather team, like just based off their geographic location, obviously, and then their style of play like leans even more into it. You know what I mean? Like they're a warm weather team playing a warm weather style of football.
00:12:58
Speaker
And their quarterback is a warm weather quarterback. Like, yeah, there's no reason in Hawaii. No reason to sugar. Yeah. And then plays in Miami, like, dude, there's no reason to sugarcoat it. Two is not good when it gets cold outside. Like it's okay to say that, man. Like there's a lot of players that weren't, that were a dome player and got outside and just never really could get it done when the weather went shit. So yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
00:13:23
Speaker
Um, yeah, obviously pure disaster from the dolphins. I want to ask you something. Were you a little bit surprised that they never went back to that Tyreek Hill deep shot after the first one worked so well?
00:13:38
Speaker
I mean, I felt like the first one was all Tyreek, dude. Like if you look, that was a badly, badly under thrown ball by Tua. They kind of ended up working out, man. I think, I don't know, I think they just didn't trust Tua to even chuck it, you know, downfield again after that, man. I did think they should have had him more, just find a way to force the ball to him, dude, because it seemed like Tyreek Hill was the only guy that came to play. He was, you know, obviously his first time back in Arrowhead, won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs, they traded him away.
00:14:07
Speaker
And yeah, they just, it was a flat performance, man. It seemed like they did not want to be out there. I would have found a way to just get it to him by any means necessary. Double coverage, triple coverage, like two or just chuck the ball to Tyreek. Well, it's funny that you just say what you've said about Tyreek looking like the only one that wanted to play because outside of that 53 yard touchdown catch, he had four catches for nine yards.
00:14:31
Speaker
I mean, he didn't do much at all, but I'm just, I was just talking just, you know, from like the swagger, right? Like the, the energy and stuff. It just like, like you could tell he was fired up off that touchdown and I just felt like they should have made more of an effort to just force the ball to him. I guess that was my point more than anything is like, dude, even
00:14:49
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, it was a badly thrown ball. But dude, isn't that what you pay Terry kill for is just throw it up and let him go get it. Like, just let him make the fucking play. I just I think these coaches outsmart themselves so much like McDaniel is a great coach. I really do think he is a fantastic coach. I just
00:15:08
Speaker
You have to change the game when the weather is like that, man. You can't just keep trying the same thing over and over. A-chan clearly did not want to be out there in that game. He looked like he didn't even want to suit up. And they kept going back to him. I just, I don't know, man, the Dolphins game plan was so fucking weird to me. I just, I really didn't understand what they were doing in that game. I mean, outside of that Tyreek Hill deep ball, their offense just looked like
00:15:34
Speaker
Yeah, none of those guys wanted to be out there at all. So not a whole lot on the dolphin side. What do you do before we move to the Chiefs, man? I think the biggest thing question for the dolphins now, what do you do with Tua, man? He's coming up on the last year of his rookie deal now with that fifth year extension. Typically, we see guys get the contract extension in that off season between years four and five, if not earlier.
00:15:59
Speaker
You know Justin Hebert from here Justin Herbert from his draft God you in this Hebert shit Yeah, he I did always go back to Billy Joe Hebert for the freakin Saints back in the day man I don't know why that name just sticks in my head But you know, he already got his extension. I just wonder what do you do with? With to a man if you're Miami Do you the just kick it kick the can for more year and let him play out that last year of his contract and?
00:16:29
Speaker
and roll the dice that you can resign him if he does, you know, take a step up and have an MVP year or do you trade, man? You know, Kirk Cousins, as of right now, Kirk Cousins would be a free agent this offseason. Do you sign Kirk Cousins? I just, this team's, they're definitely, you know, it ended badly this year. I think the injuries really had, the injuries and just having that awful weather in Kansas City is really what did them in. I think they're a little bit better team than they showed over the last couple of weeks. They just had a hard fade down the stretch.
00:16:58
Speaker
But I wonder if you make the upgrade at QB or do you wait on to a man? I feel like two is kind of writing that no man's land almost like Jared Goff was with the Rams, right? Like two is not a bad quarterback. All right. Let's get that out of the way. He, he can play quarterback, but I think he's definitely not a great quarterback, right? I think he's like good to possibly very good if the circumstances, right? I don't think he's a great QB. I just wonder what your thoughts are. If your dolphins GM, what are you doing at the quarterback position heading into next season?
00:17:27
Speaker
Um, their biggest problem to me is how much they're over the cap already. I think they're like 45 million over the cap or something I saw. Um, that's going to be a huge issue for them. Maybe just ride with two or one more year and just hope for improvement. I'll be honest, man. What I saw Saturday night.
Chiefs vs. Dolphins Analysis
00:17:45
Speaker
Doesn't give me hope for the future for him. I'm not saying he's a bad quarterback, but dude. Not bad, but what's the ceiling with him, you know? I think we already saw it. That's the problem. I think we already saw a ceiling. This season was his ceiling. I just, dude, if you're completely inept in that kind of weather, I just don't know how you can count on a guy like that. Because, dude, eventually you're going to have to win a game in that weather. And I just don't think you can, man.
00:18:14
Speaker
I just, I think he's played in warm weather his whole life and he got into that game. And I mean, you can see it, dude. You can see it on his face. He was freezing. Like he, the rest of those guys looked like they were adapting to it. Well, not the rest of them. I mean, some of Miami's guys look like they were adapting to it. The chiefs were completely fine with it.
00:18:32
Speaker
Um, but yeah, the dolphins just look like, Hey man, we're outside. This is not where we want to be at all. So to answer your question, I, I'd let to a play out this year, kind of just see what he does, but there's no way I'm signing them to an extension after that.
00:18:47
Speaker
Yeah, I just I don't know how you can do it. Honestly, I think you could win a Super Bowl with Tua, but it's going to have to be like every every break goes your way, right? Like, I don't think you're going to have to have that like that perfect path through the playoffs to make it happen, man. He's just, you know, he's just a good quarterback and there's nothing wrong with that. But if your team on the Dolphins has got this awesome loaded roster, you know, those windows close quick in the NFL, man, they close so quick and
00:19:15
Speaker
You know, you figure they probably got two, maybe three years where they're going to be at this level. And you just wonder if you made a switch from two to somebody else, if that'd be enough to get them over the hump. Yeah, I think they're going to have to get home field advantage through the playoffs and they're going to need to hope that it's like 95 degrees in Miami or something. All playoffs long. So everybody else succumbs to the heat. I just, I don't know how else they're going to win, dude. I just, I don't think two is good enough to win you a Super Bowl, honestly.
00:19:42
Speaker
Chiefs look tough, man. Moving to the other side, I thought the Chiefs looked really good. It looks definitely looks different from what we've seen from them in the past with the explosive offense. But, you know, they played, I know I'm talking to probably the biggest Kansas City Chiefs hater in the biz, man. I felt like that was a hater proof performance on Saturday night, man. I thought they played a good game of football. And I'm really looking forward to this showdown with Buffalo on Saturday night.
00:20:07
Speaker
I don't know if it was hater proof, like let's, let's comment down a little bit. Like mom's barely completed over 50% of his passes. Let's comment down a little bit. I know, but look at those runs he was making. I mean, dude, the chiefs were playing in that weather too, man. Like they, it was not conducive to the chiefs passing the ball either. I thought that they just, I thought they played tough. I thought they dominated the dolphins from the opening kickoff.
00:20:27
Speaker
And yeah, dude, I'm, I'm not excited at all if I'm Buffalo about playing them again, not saying that Buffalo should be intimidated, but it's, I think we're set up for a huge showdown on Saturday night. Now, one thing I did not understand from this game is why the hell did the dolphins not take Jalen Ramsey off the right side of the field and have him shadow or she rice. That was the only dude on the chiefs that was doing anything as far as passing game goes. Like Kelsey had a couple of decent catches also had three drops, which
00:20:56
Speaker
bad, some wicked drops. I don't understand what's going on. I mean, we know what's going on with this guy, but like, dude, this is not Travis Kelsey at all. Like the guy that's in drops and took points off the board. Yeah. The guy that's playing football right now is not Travis Kelsey. Like there's, there's no way you can convince me that that's Travis Kelsey. Like somebody else like overtook his body. It's like space jam or something.
00:21:17
Speaker
Did you get Pacheco though, man? Pacheco straight-up beast. I know you have Pacheco, dude. He carried you to a freaking fantasy championship. That dude runs so hard, man. He runs hard. The thing I did not like is, so he busted off a couple of big runs and it was always like a stretch play when he would bust it off. There was not a whole lot up the middle. And then for some reason, the second half, they started running the ball up the center's ass and he was getting stopped for two yards, one yard. I mean,
00:21:46
Speaker
Dude, his average on his carries was 3.7 yards. And at one point, I think he was averaging like 7.8. Yeah, I think he finished with something like 20 carries for 89 yards, man. Not the gaudiest stat line, but it seemed like he was just bruising them, dude. And the Dolphins wanted no part of tackling that guy.
00:22:02
Speaker
I'll tell you what though, dude, there is one thing to be said. The Dolphins were missing six starters and they only give them 26 points. Dolphins D hung tough, man. All things considered, the Dolphins D played a good game, dude. They held a bunch of field goals and stuff, man, and they were on the field damn near the whole game, man. Their offense did them no favor. So yeah, salute. That's a very good point, man. Salute to the Dolphins defense because they hung tough as hell. Yeah, they played a good game.
00:22:30
Speaker
We'll, we'll keep going. We'll, we'll talk about next week's teams after. Yeah, we'll save those for the pigs. I don't even know what we can say about this game.
Cowboys' Unexpected Defeat and Future
00:22:39
Speaker
The Packers just obliterated the Cowboys. Like that was almost like a franchise altering loss to me for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones said he'd never seen nothing like it, man. He said that was one of the most, you know, I think I can't remember exactly where he said like the most stunned he'd ever been after a playoff game. The, I, I felt like McCarthy, his head rolls off of this man. What do you think?
00:23:01
Speaker
I want to say yes, but dude, Jerry Jones is the ultimate... I mean, he let Jason Garrett stay around two years too long. He likes the status quo, that's for sure. No, his biggest problem is, dude, he wants somebody that is a puppet for it. Yes, man. Yeah. Dude, Mike McCarthy is not going to be like, oh no, Jerry, I don't think we should do this.
00:23:21
Speaker
And I was kind of pitching the Belichick thing to you yesterday. I was listening to some people this morning. It was like, oh, I watched first take this morning just because I wanted to hear Stephen A just go in on the Cowboys because it does make me laugh when he does his whole Cowboys stick. And it's all directed at Skip Bayless, just so we're all clear. It's all directed at him.
00:23:43
Speaker
Um, but they had like Ryan Clark and all those guys on this morning and they're like, there's zero chance Bill check could coach the Cowboys. Cause Jerry Jones will never give up the power to make that happen. And it's like.
00:23:55
Speaker
part of me agrees with that, but part of me is like, okay, at what point does Jerry Jones look in the mirror and realize, Hey dude, 1990 or 1995 was the last time we went to a championship game. We haven't been one to one sense. I've been running the team since then. Like at some point you got to have a hard look at yourself and realize, Hey man, maybe your hands are in it way too much and you're
00:24:17
Speaker
You're holding the team or altering what they could be doing as instead of helping him i mean i'm not saying he's a bad gm it's just when you have no one to check you until you know which i think was a lot of the problem with bill bill check at the end of the patriots run as yet no one there to check him and say no like.
00:24:35
Speaker
Robert Kraft was not telling Bill Belichick no to anything like their, their, whatever Bill Belichick brought up, they could be, he could say, Hey man, we're trading our next 37 first round picks for Patrick Mahomes and Kraft would have been like, all right, man, cool.
00:24:49
Speaker
It's just, I think you have to have someone that checks you. And I think that's Jerry Jones. His biggest problem is he has no one that checks him. He brought his son in, which that day I'm sure ain't helping it. Cause you ain't going to question your dad. So, I mean, dude, I think it's game day coaching, man. I mean, as far as Jerry Jones and his son, Steven Jones go running GM, bro, the talent's there, man. Like if I'm playing Madden, dude, like I'm excited. If I get the Cowboys on like random pick
00:25:15
Speaker
Okay. Okay. But hold on. You say that, but what is the one constant they've had over the last 27 years? You're right. You're right, man. There's got to be some point where you're like, okay, some of this blame has to go back on Jerry Jones because I don't feel like it ever does, dude. Everybody's always like, Oh, they got a shitty coach.
00:25:33
Speaker
Well, the problem is, is the reason they got these shitty coaches is because he can only hire a certain type of coach. The entire coaching tree is not open to Bill or to Jerry Jones because he can't hire some of these coaches because he doesn't want someone telling him, no, you can't do this. No, you can't do that. I'm not saying the talent's not there. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying there's been one constant since 1995 and it's him.
00:25:58
Speaker
No, I feel that for sure. They had Parcells there back in the early 2000s for like four seasons and it seemed like for the most part, they got along pretty good, man. Parcells had that. He had them built up to a pretty good level by the time he left. Yeah, I agree with you though, man. I don't think Belichick's right for this. I want to see Belichick go to the Falcons if he's staying in the NFL. I told you my pick, dude. I want Belichick to go coach the Naval Academy.
00:26:21
Speaker
his dad coached there. I think he can max out what, you know, the unique style play that they play with their limitations on the type of recruits they can get.
00:26:30
Speaker
but it sounds like he's staying in the NFL. I'd rather see him go to the Falcons and do something funky with that collection of talent they got, man, in the running game that they could potentially have with that O-line and Bijon. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I feel like it's got to come up with going McCarthy though. The team just wasn't ready, dude. Like the team, it seemed like they thought they were going to show up and the Packers were just going to roll over for him. That's why I think if I'm Jerry Jones, I am fired McCarthy and getting somebody else in there, man. I don't know who the right answer is for the Cowboys. Like maybe you can get Harbaugh, dude. I feel like Harbaugh would do good.
00:26:59
Speaker
Same thing. He's got on the level of belly. Yeah. He would challenge Jerry Jones way too much though, dude. There's just no way. Yeah. He's about, he actually may be more intense than Belichick. You know, Belichick's gotta at least be a little bit mellowed out at his old age. Um, but I, I feel like in a perfect world, man, I feel like Harbaugh taking over that roster could really do some things. I mean, Harbaugh was fucking awesome in the NFL. I feel like it gets, it's gotten lost over time.
00:27:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, he's four years, dude. And he made it to the NFC championship three times with freaking Colin Kaepernick as his quarterback. I think Harbaugh ends up taking the Chargers job just because he can have full, full control over what they do football wise. And honestly, to me, that would be the best thing ever for the Chargers. They need someone just to take full control of that franchise because
00:27:50
Speaker
clearly the owner has no idea what he's doing. So dude, just let someone else do it and let him make all the decisions. Cause it worked in San Francisco, man. Like Harbaugh run the show worked there and that's a historic franchise. Like dude, there's nowhere but up to go for the chargers at this point, but we're not going to talk about teams that are in the playoffs. Um, so we'll get into the green bay portion of it right after this. Do you think, cause now they got to pay Dak. I mean,
00:28:21
Speaker
He's had more failures than he's had success. Do you feel comfortable paying Dak Prescott $50 million a year right now? I'm not excited about it, right? I'm not running to the bank to fill out the paperwork and stuff to set that money aside for a man. But I feel like you have to. It's a similar situation to Tua. I'd probably put Dak
00:28:44
Speaker
a, you know, a step or two above to write like decks. I mean, he's been doing it since 2016 eight years as a starter had really his best season. I mean, just last week we were talking about how he should have got more love for MVP, but just some really, really flat performances in the playoffs. And it's not even like the Romo thing, you know, Romo had some
00:29:04
Speaker
Romo would typically play good in the playoffs. He just would have the penchant for making the back breaking mistake down the stretch. Dak just has some straight up stinkers come playoff time, man. I don't know if it's something he does that when the defenses crank up, the intensity on the game planning and everything, they're finding something to shut him down. But yeah, he's been absolutely awful in the playoffs.
00:29:26
Speaker
I don't think this game goes on. Well, I shouldn't say that because the majority of his stats came in junk time. So yeah, a lot of this does go on him too. Dude, I just think it's funny. Everybody's just like glazing over the fact that Dan Quinn's defense just got absolutely smoked in a big game again. He was a hot candidate to get another head coaching job last week. And dude, I don't know how you roll him out to your fan base after that. That was horrible. He got four head coaching interviews today, dude.
00:29:53
Speaker
There was four teams that reached out immediately. Carolinas, Seattle. I like DQ, man. But yeah, dude, that was brutal. Dude, how do you not change anything in either half? And also, dude.
00:30:08
Speaker
two guys on the Cowboys defense that I expected to just have monster games against the Packers. Uh, DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons. Good God, dude. Outside of those invisible, you can, you can find them outside of those two holds on Michael Parsons right away. How many times did Dan Quinn drop him into coverage to like, what the fuck are you doing, dude? Like I just, at what point are you just outsmarting yourself? Like,
00:30:36
Speaker
Again, I don't know how anyone could look at Dan Quinn right now and be like, Oh yeah, this is who I want leading my franchise. Especially after that yesterday. I'm not saying green base, a bad team. They're the youngest team, fourth young, or they're the youngest team, the NFL and the fourth youngest team to ever make the playoffs. And they went into the Cowboys house who mind you had not lost a home game in two years.
00:30:56
Speaker
They had won 16 consecutive home games and they got absolutely blasted on their home field. They were down 27 to zero before anybody even blinked. I just, I don't know how, I don't know how you just kind of salt this one over and just be like, Oh man, it was just another game. It wasn't dude. The Packers took that to them.
00:31:16
Speaker
took it to him from play one to play whatever it was the last play they ran. It's just Aaron Jones ran the ball down their throat. Jordan Love did whatever he wanted throwing the ball. And also we gave Jordan Love some flowers the last two weeks.
00:31:31
Speaker
Dude, that dude yesterday made some throws that I think only a handful of quarterbacks can make. There was one time he threw, I think it was his last touchdown pass. There was three guys standing in the end zone. He threaded the ball between the three defenders right into Dobbs. And that was like the point where I just looked at Ari. I was like, holy shit, they fell into another probably incredible quarterback for the next 20 years. I just... Yeah, it makes me sick in my stomach.
00:32:00
Speaker
I just they, yeah, I mean, he's right there with Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson for hottest quarterback in the league right now. And like you said, Green Bay's got a talented roster man, came in on a hot street, but still dude, like if you stack up there, you know, the Cowboys 53 to the Packers 53.
00:32:17
Speaker
it's not close on the talent level. And when something like this happens, when the talent levels are off like that, I just look at the coaching man and I just don't know how you could try Mike McCarthy back out there another season. I wasn't a huge fan of his before, you know, before what happened yesterday. And to me, dude, he's just
00:32:33
Speaker
at best he's a non-factor as your coach. I feel like he may actually actively like hold, you know, hold his players back. I mean, how did they, with all those loaded Packers teams, all those years, how did they only win one Superbowl with Aaron Rodgers up in green, green Bay while he was there? You know, I kind of started hitting the fraud alert meter again for the Cowboys when they won that Detroit game. Cause literally every single thing had to go their way for them to win that game. And I just,
00:33:00
Speaker
Dude, they beat up on bad teams and they play like shit against good ones. That's just kinda what it's come down to in the last five years. They do not play well against good teams. Packers were hot as shit and they went down there and Jordan Love just absolutely obliterated him. I mean, he was making throws off his back foot. That touchdown passed Musgraves or whatever it was where he was throwing off his back foot and they were blitzing and you could not find a Cowboys defender on the screen.
00:33:28
Speaker
That was an old Falcons play, man. Whenever the Kyle Shanahan, Matt LaFleur days, they used to run that to Austin Hooper, man. I was telling Sheena, dude, I've seen that play so many times, dude, where the tight end runs that wheel route to the opposite sideline from where all the rest of the action of the play is going, man. I was having flashbacks to the Falcons glory days.
00:33:48
Speaker
And the funniest thing about that play is Jordan Love ran into Aaron Jones because Aaron Jones went the wrong way on the fake, almost fell over. And then he just chucks it off his back foot into the air. And dude, it was almost like somebody said today was almost like a punt return. Like, there's just nobody in the shot. Waiting on it. It's just sitting there waiting on the ball to drop into his lap. And I'm like thinking, Oh man, he's going to get smoked.
00:34:12
Speaker
then he catches the ball and starts running I'm like holy fuck dude did the Cowboys just run off the field or something and then he got down to the five and there was finally somebody there I just I don't know man I'm not gonna dance on the Cowboys grave because they did have a really good year but holy shit man as a fan that's like
00:34:32
Speaker
I mean, don't get me wrong, dude, the Packers did this exact same thing to the Falcons 10 years ago, and it made me sick to my stomach. And I just, I don't know, man, there's not a whole lot to say when a game goes that bad. But when you've got that much talent and you underachieve that badly again, it just
00:34:52
Speaker
Yeah, you're right. It probably does all going coaching, but the problem is, is again, who are they going to get that Jerry Jones is going to be okay with? That's the problem. I just, I don't know where they go, man. It's just, it would suck to be a Cowboys fan. That's, that's what I'll leave you with. Cause I just, I don't know where they go. I really don't. I mean, the Falcons are absolute dog shit. Don't get me wrong.
00:35:16
Speaker
It's pretty disheartening when your team is that good and they just get blown out at home. Like somebody today is like, Oh, it wasn't that bad. They only lost by 16. No, no, no. They lost by like 40 dude. The Cowboys scored 20 junk points. Like they got blown out. Like there, there's no way to sugar coat that game. And even if they lost by 16, they were fair by seven dude.
00:35:38
Speaker
And they gave up 48, man. Yeah. And the only reason they didn't give them a 50 burger is because the Packers ended up taking Jordan Love and the starting offense out and then had to bring them back after the defense was trying to give the game away. So yeah, I don't know, man. I just, I don't know where you go as a Cowboys fan, staff, anything at this point, because that was all time bad. I mean, that's, that's about as bad as you can get beat.
00:36:04
Speaker
Um, let's go to what was by far the game of the weekend. Um, this is what I said was going to be game of the weekend. And it was, I mean, it wasn't hard to pick. You knew the atmosphere was going to be absolutely insane.
Rams vs. Lions Playoff Analysis
00:36:17
Speaker
Uh, lions rammed. And I think this was a classic game, honestly. Good game, really good game. The second half was a little ugly. There wasn't a whole lot of points in the second half, but I thought both teams adjusted really well in the second half. That's the best adjustments I've seen from the lions defense in the second half.
00:36:33
Speaker
of any game this season. I really felt like they adjusted at halftime and they kind of took away what the Rams were doing, even though the Rams went away from what was working and it seemed like it was there the whole second half for them. They just stopped using it. Dude, puka nakua.
00:36:49
Speaker
Dog, bro. You can occur is a dog. You talk about like best rookie seasons ever. Like, dude, we might have just seen two of the greatest rookie seasons ever, respectively between him and CJ Stroud. Like, who can a coup is an absolute monster and a dog, bro. Just kill it. He's getting rocked, getting back up, smiling at the defense, man, like making contested catches that that was an all timer of a playoff performance from a wide receiver, dude.
00:37:17
Speaker
And the funniest thing is, is like everybody kind of laughed at McVeigh when he wanted to draft him. I saw like some stuff back from the draft. Like they're like, this guy's too slow to play wide receiver in the NFL. A bunch of people retweeted like tweets that were, I don't know what the hell the Rams are thinking. This dude is no more than a possession receiver. And it's just like,
00:37:38
Speaker
Dude, when are people going to stop doubting Sean McVeigh? That dude is a fucking genius. Like, yeah, they lost last night or yeah, last night. But I mean, dude, Stafford.
00:37:51
Speaker
for being hurt that entire game and you could tell he was hurt that game like some of the throws he was making it looked like it just hurt him to make. They lost by one point in one of like the loudest atmospheres I think I've ever seen. There is nothing for the Rams to hang their head about like that was just that was a classic game.
00:38:14
Speaker
I'm happy for the Lions, man. That is sad. They kept showing that old guy who had been a season ticket holder for like 65 years. And I'm just like, said he was there the last time they won the NFL championship, you know, or something like that. He was in the stadium. I guess it was for he had season tickets. Maybe he was in the stadium when they won the NFC championship or the NFL championship back before the Super Bowl even started. But yeah, just a cool moment for them. First home win in the playoffs in 31 or 32 years, whatever it was.
00:38:43
Speaker
And they weren't even playing in Detroit at that time. They were playing in Pontiac at the Pontiac Silverdome. So yeah, it's a pretty special game for them. Jared Goff just went out there and absolutely balled last. That's probably the best game I think I've ever seen him play. If I'm going to be totally honest, like he just played mistake free football and just, I mean, he was slinging it, man. He was, he made some really good throws in that game.
00:39:07
Speaker
Are you not going to mention that I accurately predicted that it was going to be a one point win for the Lions on the podcast? That is pretty incredible. He did say one point like I. It was awesome seeing the Lions win, man. Like you said, you know, it seemed like Dan Campbell was fighting back the tears on the sidelines. There were people crying in the stands. It looked like when freaking CM Punk returned to wrestling back in 2021. It was just, yeah, awesome.
00:39:34
Speaker
awesome atmosphere. Like he said, dude, I still feel like the Rams gave that game away, man. It seemed like they were just very much a lot down the stretch. They were like the Rams were playing like the fourth quarter was 25 minutes long. Um, I didn't like putting it from that fourth and 14 on their side of the field.
00:39:50
Speaker
I feel like dude just chuck it man like it seems like in the NFL nowadays you got like a 30% chance of getting a penalty on a passing play anyways man you know who knows what could happen you still had your time out so you really just losing field possession because if the Lions got two first downs the games over anyways whether they start at their 20 or they're starting at the 40.
00:40:10
Speaker
And dude, the other thing, man, that really freaking burnt me, it burnt me up when it happened. And then as they got down the stretch, dude, it made it even worse. Like, dude, if I'm an NFL coach, I'm like putting out a mandate, dude. Like do not, especially in the second half, do not call a timeout to avoid a five yard delay game penalty, man.
00:40:31
Speaker
Like those timeouts are so valuable in a close game and the Rams burned one. It was like a third and 11, um, early on in the third quarter and they burned a timeout to avoid a delay a game. It's like, dude, how much more valuable is that time out than five freaking yards?
00:40:46
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I get it in regular season, like regular season, it doesn't bother me as much. But dude, playoffs, your timeouts and your challenges are the most valuable things you have as a coach. Because yeah, I mean, when they got down the stretch, they had one timeout left, like, dude, it just, it can't happen. And the Rams outplayed them in the second half to like, if you look at the stats,
00:41:12
Speaker
They ended up with time of possession by 10 seconds. They won the time of possession. They had 100 more yards than the Lions did. They controlled the second half. And the fact that they only came away with six points in the second half, it's pretty disheartening for them. But I mean, dude, in the end. Can I give a shout out to the Lions Red Zone defense, man? The Lions Red Zone defense, along with Jared Goff, just playing a mistake for you, they won them that game, man. Yeah.
00:41:39
Speaker
Yeah, it was, it was an impressive game. I honestly thought this was all setting up for the Lions just to have the most like heartbreaking loss at the end of that game. Like I was just waiting for the, the bad thing to happen. I felt like it was in and on a walk off field goal to send everybody home upset. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so I was, I was really glad for them. There's just, yeah, outside of that, I mean, there's really not a whole lot to take away from that game. I didn't think, I mean,
00:42:06
Speaker
the Lions season for the Rams, just like we were saying for the Texans, man, good season for the Rams. This was still supposed to be another rebuilding year. They were supposed to get a top five pick this year, dude. That's what it was saying is Rams are going to be picking in the top five. I think he got maybe, you know, you could do some tinkering at a few pieces here or there. I think he got maybe one more year Stafford though, dude, where the Rams could be a contender with him at quarterback dudes. He's still getting it done, but he's definitely got, you know, a lot more in his rear view than he does in his windshield at this point.
00:42:37
Speaker
Dude, let's talk about this real quick. I want to touch on this because I heard it today. The Rams have not had a first round pick since 2016. Yeah, their GM says, fuck them picks, man. Try them, dude. Dude, you know how crazy that is, though? That never works for anyone. That shit does not work. Their last number one pick was Jared Goff.
00:43:04
Speaker
just absolutely insane that they've traded that many first round picks in a row. I mean, seriously, that 2016 eight years ago was their last first round pick and they have built, they have kept that team together and
00:43:18
Speaker
Yeah, no matter what, like, yeah, last night was disappointing for them, but dude, still a major success. They want a Superbowl two years ago. There's no way any Rams fan right now is mad. Like, yeah, the Falcons could trade their next 100 first round picks. And you told me they're one of the Superbowl next year. Like I'm dead serious. They'd be like, all right, we're just going to get a superstar roster, win the championship next year and not have a first round pick until 30 25. And I'd be like, deal.
00:43:45
Speaker
I don't know about 3025, but the Super Bowl definitely gives that you got like a 10 year grace period off of that man Whatever whatever you had to do selling your soul to the devil you get that Super Bowl win. It makes it all worth it. Yeah today This is the only thing I wanted to say like I've never seen as many uncompetitive games as we saw this weekend in a playoff weekend just
00:44:11
Speaker
one game that was really competitive and the rest were just not good at all. I mean, the bills at best you had the losers kind of hanging around for a little bit, but it never felt like the bills were in any real danger today. No, we'll go over that real quick. Bill Steelers. Um, there's not a whole lot to take out of this game. Josh Allen played an absolutely perfect game. That was really the
00:44:32
Speaker
take away from today. If he plays like that, they ain't losing, man. I'm just saying it right now. If he, if he can keep his emotions in check and not turn the ball over and not do the dumb ass throw down field just to chuck it, they can win the Superbowl pretty easily with, with what I saw today. And their offense was without Gabe Davis too, which was even more impressive to me. Um, cause they lean on him quite a bit in a lot of games. So
00:44:58
Speaker
Yeah. Um, great season from the Steelers again. I couldn't believe it was people shitting on them today. I'm like, dude, they won three straight games with Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback. Like, you know, there's questions about Tomlin's future there, man. He got in his, in his post game, a press conference, a reporter asked about, you know, his job security and he just walked off. He didn't even address the question. He just left the press conference.
00:45:21
Speaker
Well, because he's got, I mean, he has one year left on his contract and typically you don't see NFL coaches go into a season as, you know, as a lame duck with just one year. It's just kind of, it's just a common business practice. NFL teams just do not do that.
00:45:35
Speaker
Dude, if you seriously fire Mike Tomlin, who has had 17 consecutive winning seasons, I mean, you better be setting the fucking world on fire with your next hour. And it cannot be Bill Belichick, just so we're clear because the Steelers don't take on three or four year head coaches. Yeah, I think the Falcons should go all in on Belichick just because even if it's only a four year coaching job, it's still the best coach they're ever going to have. And he might be able to write that organization.
00:46:04
Speaker
Um, but the Steelers can't hire someone like that, dude. The Steelers have to hire like the next big coach. Um, dude, I think you stick with Tomlin, dude. I mean, consistency has been the foundation of the Steelers success over the last, you know, basically the entire Superbowl era, man, 60 years old to Bill Cower, to Mike Tomlin. And there's a reason why the Steelers never bought them out, dude. Like they're always in the mix, man. Like,
00:46:31
Speaker
There's just the definition of a spoiled franchise if they get rid of Mike Tomlin. I 100% agree. There's no way you can fire Mike Tomlin. Any franchise would be extremely lucky to have them as their head coach. He's a great coach. Players love playing for him. I mean, this is basically everything I said about Mike Vrable, except Mike Tomlin has done nothing but win. I mean, dude, I don't really get
00:46:58
Speaker
If they fire him, I think that'd be a gigantic mistake by them. Cause I just, I don't think you can get a better head coach than Tom one right now, unless you're getting Andy Reed or somebody like that. And the thing is, dude, like he, he's strictly the head coach. I'm sure he's got a little bit of say on the front office moves, but he's not the GM or anything, man. He's the head coach.
00:47:16
Speaker
Dude, they waited way too long to replace Ben Roethlisberger, and then they have not found his replacement yet.
Steelers and Eagles Coaching Concerns
00:47:22
Speaker
I mean, can he pick it? He's a fine little quarterback, dude, right? I think he's probably going to end up being a solid career backup type guy. You try Mason Rudolph, horrible. Bring in Mitch Trubisky. Come on, dude. We've seen enough of him at this point, man. They've done him no favors at the most important position over the last five, six years.
00:47:46
Speaker
Why the fuck did they not do the exact same thing that the Packers didn't draft a quarterback five years ago to sit and learn under Roethlisberger? I hate the guy as a person, but like, dude, as far as like an NFL quarterback, there's no person to learn under better than Roethlisberger and Tom. I'm like, the dude would have been set up for the rest of his life if you draft a quarterback at that point. I just, I don't understand drafting a quarterback the year Roethlisberger leaves, like,
00:48:14
Speaker
Fuck it. That was, yeah, that's definitely malpractice on the front office part. Like they, they definitely fucked that up. Do you even want to talk about the night game? We kind of went over it. I don't think we talked about it enough. Just all time. So I think we probably see new coordinators brought in. I think Syrian keeps his job though, man. I think it'd be a mistake to fire Syrian. They can't fire him yet, dude. He hasn't lost that locker room. Um, yeah.
00:48:40
Speaker
Don't be surprised if they trade AJ Brown. I'm just, I'm calling it now. I just, I have a feeling. I just have a feeling dude. I feel you dude. He's definitely seems like he's got that, like, you know, the, the, the TO like malcontent type thing going. I wouldn't be surprised if both of those receivers got traded him and DK, both old missed receivers got traded this off season. Like I think the Seahawks,
00:49:04
Speaker
dude, getting rid of Pete Carroll kind of signifies to me that they think it might be time to rebuild a little bit. Cause I just don't think you're going to go right back into winning right away. Uh, maybe they will, but they don't have their quarterback set for the future. They got a decent defensive roster, but I mean, dude, lock it's getting older. Like
00:49:24
Speaker
Trade DK when he still has value. I just I think at some point you just kind of have to realize like hey we're not Super Bowl contenders and they're not I think that's this is the point you realize it get whatever you can for DK and I Don't know. I just I think Back to the Eagles. I just think they're in a really weird spot. I think firing Nick Sirianni would be stupid right now. I
00:49:47
Speaker
He's done a lot for that organization. He stabilized it, got him to a Super Bowl. He lost both of his coordinators, lost a ton of defensive players. I don't think people made a big enough deal about that at the beginning of the season. Me and you talked about it, but I just think people just glaze it over. They're like, that's the Eagles. They'll just find two more coordinators.
00:50:09
Speaker
Not only did they lose two coordinators, but both of those coordinators did pretty fucking well as their first year as head coaches, and they learned a lot of that shit from Sirianni. So to me, that tells you all you need to know about Sirianni. Yeah, I'll tell you, man, it would just be a mistake, man. I feel like the Eagles can totally just retool and come back reloaded for next season without replacing the head coach.
00:50:32
Speaker
Yeah. All right. We got anything else? Are we ready to get into picks? Um, hold on. There was one note I made other than, uh, I was just really talking about the Cowboys and what they do in the off season, but I, we kind of already hit on that. So yeah, we can move on. I know it kind of, uh, I know it kind of just happened because of the weather. I kind of like spreading it out to games across all three days, man. It was nice. The only problem is, is like,
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah, it worked because today was Martin Luther King Day and a lot of people had the day off work. I don't think you could do that on just like a normal Monday, though. I need to be a holiday Monday. Yeah, it worked this year. It was really cool. I agree with you. And it kind of worked out because you got all AFC on Saturday, all NFC on Sunday and then an AFC and an NFC game on Monday. I thought that was kind of cool. Yeah, that works. Little symmetry. Yeah, I kind of like the way that worked.
00:51:25
Speaker
Do you want to let's just talk about the the times and days of games next weekend because Saturday we've got the first game is Ravens and Texans, right? Yeah, well, I was going to talk about when we go through the picks. OK, yeah, go ahead, move on. All right, let's get into it.
00:51:53
Speaker
Bridge out the trouble. Perfect timing on that pop top, bro. Absolutely perfection. Right on the beat, man. So we got four really, really good games. Look for a team, man. Divisional weekend. It's pretty much the best weekend of football you're going to get in the NFL, dude. You've trimmed the fat from wildcard weekend.
00:52:11
Speaker
You know all killer no filler really excited for these man. All four games are going to be pretty entertaining in their own ways And the schedule worked out beautifully to man with this the Saturday night primetime Chiefs bills in Buffalo or no Chiefs bills Sunday night and Saturday night We got the the Packers and Niners due to classic
00:52:30
Speaker
Classic playoff rivalry, man. Then we got some nice, nice little appetizers on each day as well. We'll get into one of those first man. We got the opening game, a divisional weekend, CJ Stroud and the upstart Texans heading into Baltimore to face the number one seed Ravens. Dude, I would love to see the Texans keep rolling with this season and see CJ Stroud play for a AFC championship in his first year.
00:52:57
Speaker
The last four games we've watched the Ravens at full strength, I just don't know how anybody in the FC can beat them at this point. If they play their game, it's just, dude, they're tough to beat, man. They're so fast on defense.
00:53:12
Speaker
feels like the buck stops here. It's to the point where it feels like it'd be a win if the Texans can just hang around and make this competitive, man. They could totally have CJ Stroud living in hell from the opening quarter in this one, man.
00:53:29
Speaker
Yeah, I think the Ravens win by at least two scores. Yeah, dude, I just the Ravens defense with their linebackers with how much like ground they cover that shit that happened against the Browns on Sunday or Saturday, whatever that shit ain't happening against the Ravens. Do their defenses too fast? It just they have all pros at every level of that defense that that ain't happening against them. All right, so we both in agreement Ravens roll pretty easily. Yeah.
00:53:59
Speaker
All right, Saturday night interesting game and I think similar vibes though to Baltimore Houston. We got the Packers and the Niners in San Francisco. Um, I just don't, I mean, outside of pretty just playing an absolutely God awful game. I just, I don't see a scenario where green Bay wins. I just, they played about as well as you could this week, but
00:54:24
Speaker
49ers are different than the Cowboys, man. That's a, that's a different monster. Like the only team that we really saw that like made the 49ers like submit and look horrible was the Ravens. Who I personally think going into the playoffs was the best team in the NFL. So yeah, green Bay is not that.
00:54:42
Speaker
Yeah, Niners are a machine man. They had that three game losing streak where they're a little bit banged up towards the first half of the season. And then Ravens just had a hell of a night on Christmas night against them and put it away early.
00:54:56
Speaker
It's always tempting to fall in love with these wild card teams, right? Cause they look so good on a wild card weekend, but you forget that these teams, they got to buy, they got to buy for a reason, man. And I think the Niners end up kicking their ass, man. I actually think this one could, could get a little bit ugly. Shanahan has had LeFlore's number, you know, they knocked him out of the playoffs twice over the last four seasons. And I think this is the best team Shanahan has ever had. So yeah, I think this is another one, man. I think Saturday, both games could get a little ugly.
00:55:23
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. There's a reason both of them are double digit point spreads. So yeah, not really surprising. All right, Sunday, man. Bucks, dude, they looked freaking awesome tonight, man. It could just be the Eagles being such a freaking toilet bowl team right now, man. But the Bucks looked awesome. Heading into Detroit to face the Lions.
00:55:47
Speaker
It's Baker Mayfield and Jared Joff. Like, am I getting excited about either one of these guys? No. I just, I think the Lions are better, man. I think that's what it comes down to is the better teams going to win this game. I just think the Lions are a better overall team. Like the Bucks had a decent season, but you got to remember, dude, at one point the Bucks were four and seven and there's a reason they were four and seven. So yeah, I just, I don't think the Bucks have enough to beat the Lions.
00:56:14
Speaker
Yeah, I think tonight's performance said way more about the Eagles than it did the Bucks. The Bucks were horrible down the stretch in the regular season. I mean, they got absolutely smoked by the Saints. And then they barely beat the Panthers in week 18 to punch their ticket to the postseason. It's crazy as it's the same, man. I think the Lions are going to the freaking conference championship. I actually think this is going to be, you know, if I'm them, the only thing I'm worried about is that on paper and like mentally,
00:56:39
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I feel like this looks like it's going to be a much easier game than Los Angeles was coming into town for that wildcard game. So you just worry about letting up any man. But as long as they keep the pedal to the metal, I think the Lions win this one as well. And the freaking Detroit Lions, man, going to be one game away from the Super Bowl.
00:56:55
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I got to correct you a little bit on the on the Bucks thing you just said they went five and one in the last six games and don't forget the week before Christmas they went into Green Bay and slaughtered the Packers dude they beat them 34 to 20 in Lambo so I guess I'm just looking at those last two man they lost to the Saints what like 26 to not there in twenty six seven so 23 to 13 they lost to the Saints in week seven and then what was the score gets a panther nine zero
00:57:20
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Yes, maybe it wasn't the whole last stretch. Maybe it was just those last couple of weeks, man, that I was judging the book. But I mean, the Bucks also did have a stretch where they lost six to 20 to the Detroit Lions, 13, 16 to the Falcons, 18 to 24 to Buffalo and 37, 39 to Houston. So it wasn't like they were losing to horrible teams, but they had a stretch where like they show that their offense is not near as good as a couple of weeks they've been playing this season.
00:57:45
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That game against Detroit, that was in Tampa, right? I just got off of it. Yep, it was in Tampa. Yeah. Yeah, I think Lions rolled, man. I did too. And then the highlight of the weekend, dude, Sunday night, man, a game that feels like we're kind of in a lot of ways we've been building to all season. Chiefs and Bills, once again, this is the third time in the last four years these guys are meeting in the playoffs. This time it's going to be in Buffalo, though.
00:58:13
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I think it's a coin flip game, man. This could totally go either way. I think it's going to come down to a balance of the ball here or there, or hopefully it comes down to a balance of the ball here or there and not an awful call by a referee or something, man. I think home field advantage is enough for the Bills to get it done in an absolute down to the wire classic game.
00:58:34
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don't really want to pick the same thing as you for every game but dude I cannot pick the Chiefs I just I want the Bills to win this game so bad for them for Josh Allen and just basically all of the Bills fans and stuff I just
00:58:50
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Do I think they could possibly lose? Like you just said, yeah, it's a coin flip game. And if Josh Allen has one of those games where he just has brain forts the entire game, I think that's possible. But I also think I liked what I heard out of Josh Allen after the game tonight when they interviewed him. It's kind of a confident composed. Yeah. He's like, we finally get them at our place. Like, yeah, I think that's what screwed him the last two years is like,
00:59:15
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Dude, playing at Arrowhead, I mean, if you've never been there, it is an intimidating place. It's one of the best home field advantages, yeah. It's an intimidating place to play football, dude. And when shit starts going wrong, it becomes a snowball effect. And those fans get so fucking loud. And it's just, it's an intimidating place to play. So I think them getting, if this was at Kansas City, I'd pick Kansas City in a heartbeat. I just, I think that now that they get home field advantage,
00:59:43
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It just all sets up for them to win. Yeah, coin flip game, but yeah, in Buffalo is enough of a difference, man. I'm really, really excited for this one. If you're a football fan, you got to be looking at your chops to watch this game because it's going to be outstanding. Mahomes is basically taking over for Brady as the Jason Voorhees of the NFL playoffs.
01:00:01
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You're not going to think he's gone until he's killed and you got to chop off his head and set him on fire, dude. It's hard to ever envision him and Andy Reid losing until it actually happens. But yeah, man, I haven't flinched off at all season, man. I think the Bills are going to win the Super Bowl. I think they beat KC and then I'll give a spoiler on my picks next week, man. I think they're going to go into Baltimore and beat the Ravens and take it all the way this year.
01:00:29
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They're definitely in a good spot. Hold on, I just wanted to check something real quick because I thought I'd heard this today. Yeah, so this is the first time the Chiefs have played a road playoff game in four years. That's insane, man. What a freaking... What a stat. Yeah, I think the AFC Championship has been an arrowhead since Patrick Mahomes just took over. Yeah.
01:00:54
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Cause they beat, they beat the bills in 2020. That was at home. They beat the bills in 2021 or that was the division. They beat the bank. Go back further, bro. 2018 they lost to the Patriots. 2019 they beat 2019 or 2018 they, they got beat by the Colts at home or no, no, they beat the Colts. You're right. Yep. 2018 was the year they lost to the Patriots. 2019, 2019 Titans. Yep.
01:01:21
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2020, they lost, no, 2020, 2020, they beat the Bills. And then 2021, they lost to the Bengals. In 2022, they beat the Bengals. Yeah, man, this would be the first time in freaking, yeah. And unless, you know, they win and the Texans pull off the impossible, yeah, it'd be the first time since 2018 that the AFC championship hasn't been an arrowhead. That's insane, man. I don't even think the Patriots ever even pulled that off. They had a, they would have to go on the road a couple of times during their run for the conference championship.
01:01:49
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Yeah, it's going to be a wild weekend and you just kind of wonder if we just talked about them getting home field. You kind of wonder if like that would be the difference of whether or not this is where Kansas City's kind of dynasty ends a little bit because they have to go on the road. I'm just going to say, man, if there's ever a time to catch the Chiefs, it's right now. Like I know you said that.
01:02:12
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you thought that that game on Saturday scared you a little bit more for this weekend. I don't do it. I still think they're still not the chiefs. No, they're not. They're not even close. They're beatable. You just got to, you got to put up some points and your defense can slow them down now. The, uh, dude, if I'm, if I'm Bill's mafia, I'm rallying, I'm hitting social media, I'm putting the peer pressure out there. Like, dude, let's not let, you know, let Taylor Swift be the only fucking chief's fan that gets in that stadium.
01:02:40
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I'm not even letting her bitch ass in the stadium. Fuck that. If you're Bill's mafia, you're hitting the fucking deadly death drop on Taylor Swift on the way into the stadium. There ain't no fucking way I'm letting her in that fucking stadium. I'll burn the fucking sweets down before I'll let her in the fucking stadium. No way. I think she's the X Factor, bro. The entire last year, dude, Taylor Swift has dominated the news cycle. She's been everywhere, man.
01:03:04
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it just feels like it would be fate, man, for her to be, you know, live and in person at the Superbowl dating one of the freaking players competing in the game. Uh, I don't know. I'm rooting for the bills, man. But yeah, you got, you got to worry about the, uh, the Swifty effect on this one. Plus NFL had to be licking their chops at that, man, that it get even more people watching the Superbowl than already do.
01:03:23
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I mean, you could also say the Swifty effect is the reason the chiefs aren't playing as well as they usually do. So there's seven and three when she's in the building, dude, seven and three when she's there. Well, the only thing I'm going by is watching Travis Kelsey play football. And he has not looked like he's wanted to play football since they started dating. So that's what I'm going. I think he did make the play of the season that the ref screwed him on, man, that nobody, no, it's a various Tony screwed him on. The refs didn't screw anybody.
01:03:50
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Play like I told you dude I at the time I agreed man, but looking back on it I feel like they should have just let us have that and honestly dude if that play And that play ends up counting dude how much different of the season the bills might not even be in the playoffs right now man that may have been like the backbreaker for the bills and They definitely wouldn't be hosting Kansas City, man. What a I mean, seriously, dude, like that's good That couldn't if the bills end up do one in the Super Bowl this year, man That could end up going down as one of like the most monumental penalties of all time
01:04:19
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What do they say, man? Football is a game of inches. Alright, let's get into million dollar bets.
01:04:38
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All right, big dog, please spare no detail as you tell us how the bets went this past weekend, man. Take your time. Feel free to really dig in on this one, man. Let the listeners know how we did.
01:04:53
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Dude, I couldn't have possibly done any worse. Steelers plus 10, not even close to covering for 50,000. And then I did the touchdown parlay with Jameer Gibbs, Josh Allen, and Kyron Williams. Only one of those guys scored a touchdown, so I lost 25k on that one. So down 75k on the week, I am 19 and 19 on the season, plus 125k.
01:05:15
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Seth with the two genius bets of the weekend Packers plus seven and a half for 50K and Chiefs minus four for 100K. That brings Seth to 23 and 15 and plus 550K. Jeez, man, I really should start taking up this gambling thing full time.
01:05:33
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Famous last words. Yeah, let me know how that works out for you. It's always easy when you're playing with fake money. Yeah, it's a lot easier just rolling the dice. Speaking of which, man, I'm going to just ride the hot hand. I'm going heavy. Both my games this week, man, keeping it simple. I'm taking both the Saturday favorites, man. I'm taking both the one seeds. Typically, I would stay away from a spread, anything bigger than a touchdown, because it's the NFL. These teams are really so much more like
01:06:00
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They're much tighter in talent than we really think. But I think for these two games, I just think the favorites are going to roll, dude. So I'll take the Niners minus 10 for 100K, and I'll take the Ravens minus nine and a half for 100K.
01:06:24
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Well, we're going to have one of the same, um, my first bet. I'm just going all in, dude. If I, if I fucking, I mean, if this is where the season ends and I have negative Soviet, I'm going a Ravens minus nine and a half for 300 K. Okay. Um, and then I'm also going to take, I'm going to take the overs on.
01:06:49
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I'm gonna take overs on Packers and Niners over 50 for 150K. All right, man. I like it. Yeah. I'm much more confident in the Ravens than I am the Packers. Just because the Packers have been so hot, I feel like they could end up just putting up some points. I don't love 49ers, my S10. I do think they win. I just... Dude.
01:07:11
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They are like you just said, the hot wildcard team is always really tough to beat. So I mean, I think the Niners do win. I just tens a lot, man. The Niners got, they're like, you know, we, we like to say stuff like the poor man's version or something. I feel like the Niners are kind of like the rich man's version of the dolphins and that the dolphins are the kind of team that it seems like
01:07:33
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If one thing goes wrong, they can have trouble bouncing back from that. And I feel like the Niners got a little bit of that also, right? They definitely, they're a good team, man. They're a legit good team. They're not any kind of fraud, but they're definitely something, if I had one critique of them, they're a little bit of front runners, right? Like when things start going good, they can go really, really fucking great. But sometimes if things get going bad, they have a hard time turning it around.
Listener Mail and Coaching Changes
01:07:56
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Yeah, I agree. I even compared them to the Warriors of like 2016. Like when they're ahead, they're basically impossible to beat. But if they get behind, not good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's a really good comparison, man. You ready to get into some listener mail? Let's do it. All right. So first off, we will start with my good friend James Maudsley, good friend of mine from the Navy. He's a diehard Tampa Bay Bucks fan. I do want to point out he sent me this text
01:08:24
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five minutes before kickoff. He said, when the Eagles lose to Tampa Bay, what changes need to be made in Philly? So we kind of already answered that question, but I just didn't want to give him some props that, you know, he wasn't talking shit in the fourth quarter and it was a wrap, dude. He fired that off, you know, five minutes before kickoff.
01:08:41
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Hey, uh, James also sent us a question last week that I completely flubbed and didn't see until after we'd already recorded. He said, Jordan, question for you. What head coaches are the best options for teams that just fired their head coaches. Also the Tampa Bay bucks have won the NFC South championship three times in a row. Fuck off for that one, but we'll answer the other one.
01:09:03
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I mean, for one season, I'm probably going to Harbaugh. I think our bods could, he could take a talented roster and have them knocking on the door at the Superbowl. I think he could take a, you know, a bottom feeder and have them, you know, knocking, knocking on the door, getting in the playoffs within one season. He asked, he asked what head coaches are the best options for teams that just fired their head coach. So like, I think Harbaugh is the best option for the Chargers.
01:09:30
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Yeah, Harbaugh to the Chargers. I think Belichick to the Falcons, man. And, dude, from there, I feel like he kind of just get into, like, the mix and match coordinators, man. Vrable's got to get a fucking job, right? I don't know, dude. I mean, I feel like Vrable might sit out of here, dude. Maybe... I mean, where does it make sense for him to go right now, dude? Like, if... I haven't heard... Has he interviewed anywhere? I haven't really been hearing a lot of chatter on Vrable. He's interviewing for the Seahawks, I think. But here's the only thing.
01:09:56
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We didn't even talk about this. Dude, what the fuck were the Patriots doing? They literally hired Gerard Mayo two days after they fired Belichick. They didn't even do a coaching search. They just hired an in-house guy. Was that a little unexpected to you?
01:10:14
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Little bit, but we you know we talked about it man. It feels like a doomsday proposition for whoever's following Bella check man like I feel like Maybe you just roll the maybe you know the whoever's making the decisions there if it's Robert crash whoever he's got in his inner circle and
01:10:30
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Maybe they knew that the pressure is just going to be insurmountable for whoever's going in there. So maybe just roll the dice with a low stakes higher, like Gerard Mayo. And if he works out great, if you got a shit cannon in two years, that's fine. And then you can really start the rebuilding process. Now, Robert Kraft's an old guy. I'm not sure if I want to just punt on two years, but I don't know. I mean, Mayo's been there for a long time as a player and a coach. Maybe they saw enough to know that this is the guy that we need to take us into the next era. Yeah, I agree.
01:11:00
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All right, let's get into our questions from Facebook.
Michigan Football Triumphs
01:11:03
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So Brett Sharrow says, how about them Lions? Not a huge fan of football, but in Michigan, it's been pretty exciting with a recent Lions performance. Yeah. A lot to be happy about, man. I mean, really the most, this is the most you guys have been had to be excited about in since the Berry Sanders days. Yeah. That was a pretty impressive week for Michigan football.
01:11:22
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University of Michigan wins the national championship and Detroit wins their first playoff game in 30 years. What a week. All it took, all it took was, uh, you know, sacrificing the Detroit Pistons to the sports gods. Hey, they won today. True, but they're still on pace to have end up with possibly the worst season in NBA history. They're fucking bad. They're really bad.
01:11:44
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Robert genio says I'm sure you guys will touch on this but give us your MVP Defensive player of the year coast to the etc and also discuss in detail the obliteration of the Cowboys He says take as long as you like so yeah, we went in on the Cowboys already To answer your question, man We're gonna kind of we've already penciled in that week between the Super Bowl and the conference championships that bye week There is when we're gonna do our end of year Awards and they're still gonna be heavily weighted off regular season, but we'll factor in a little bit of postseason performance
01:12:13
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performance as well on those awards. So yeah, thanks for writing in, Rob. And you can look forward to all of the goalies,
End of Year Awards and NFL Predictions
01:12:20
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I guess. Should we call them the goalies, man? I try to make that stick for our listeners' nickname, and Jordan just shit on it. What do you think of the goalies for the name of our end of year awards?
01:12:34
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Alright, we'll come up with something dude. If you guys got a suggestion for what we should call the end of your awards, let us know. We'll take it on board. But yeah, Rob, look at a couple weeks. We'll do our end of your awards. Sam Rosenthal says you're Jerry Jones. What do you need?
01:12:47
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to get another Superbowl win. Finally, everyone says fire McCarthy or replace a deck, but I don't think it's that instant or they only fix. I mean, yeah, you heard Jordan talk. He thinks they need a whole philosophy shift. Um, kind of changed the way the organizations ran. I feel like that roster is still pretty loaded. Maybe I'm just way, way overestimating what they got there. I think a different head coach could do the trick in one year.
01:13:12
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Yeah, I think they got big problems. I just, I don't, I don't know, man. They just keep having the same postseason letdown every year. So I don't really know what the solution is. I just think Jerry Jones has got to give up some of that power.
01:13:26
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Yeah, you, you pretty much set your watch by the Cowboys breaking the heart of their fans every January. Uh, Jordan's lovely wife, Ari says, have you changed your Superbowl winner prediction jet? I'm sticking with the bills all the way, man. Nothing. I, you know, I feel probably more confident than I have all season after that game today. How about you, Jordan? Uh, I said the bills before the season, but I think a couple of weeks ago when we talked about this, I said the Ravens, I mean, I still think it could be either one of those two teams. So I'm not going to change anything though.
01:13:56
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Brian Vermeer says, we haven't had real playable football figures ever. The new starting lineups seem to be the closest things we'll ever get. If they ever did decide to make more starting lineups, give me the first wave of NFL and NCAA players to get made. Each wave is four players of which three are active and one is retired and graduated. So yeah, if we got some like, some straight up like elite level, you know, similar to like the WWE elite line of football players, man, not like the
01:14:22
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Not like the starting lineup. So even like the McFarland figures, which were really kind of just glorified statues. Maybe you can move the arms a little bit. Um, we'll, we'll go back and forth, man. Who are you taking first for NFL player? Um, I think you got to go my homes first. I just, I don't know how you pick someone else. Honestly, he's a face in the league right now. So I would definitely go my homes.
01:14:42
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Yeah, 73 active. I'll probably go Tyree Kale, man. I just feel like you could make a sick dolphins figure. I feel like the colors would pop off the shelf and he's definitely the best wide receiver in the league right now. I'm glad you're going for a retired NFL pick. Brady, a hundred percent. I just think that's going to be the sell. I just,
01:15:02
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There's so many Patriots fans and so many fans of Brady in general. I just feel like that's the sell. That's, that's the first selling point. I mean, you can argue with whoever you want, but I think that's the greatest football player we'll ever see in our lifetimes.
01:15:15
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I agree 100%. I'll close out the current guys in the first series since it might be the last chance we get to get a figure of him in the two-tone blue before he moves on to greener pastures. Give me a Derek Henry in the Houston Oilers throwback uniforms. Nice. All right, let's go college, man. You go first, dude. Who do you want active for college?
01:15:37
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Um, if we're going for a based off this year, I, you gotta go, let's go college.
College Football Legends and Debates
01:15:43
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Let's go all time, dude. I feel like, I feel like you got to get, I feel like an NCAA series. You got to go all timers, man. Well, we're going Tommy Frazier first and foremost, baby. I don't, I don't like it. Like dude, if
01:15:54
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I know like a lot of younger kids just think Nebraska has been like terrible our entire lives, dude. No, they were monsters. Go back and watch the highlights of Tommy Frazier against Florida and the orange bull or fiesta bull, whichever one it was. I can't remember. It's been a long time to go back and watch the highlights. He broke like 17 tackles on one play. It's like a 70 yard touchdown run. That dude was an animal in college, just absolutely unreal.
01:16:19
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Yeah, for those for those that don't know yet back in the you know, the 80s and 90s, dude, Nebraska ran the triple option offense. They would get some of the most badass athletes in the nation at quarterback and running back, and then they'd get some of the biggest cornbread lineman possible and just pump them to the fucking gills full of HGH and steroids. They don't tell them what all they were gassed up on, man. There was no testing back in college in those days, dude, and they were just they straight up plow people, man. I remember that that I want to say it was
01:16:46
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either the 95 or 96 season, the year they beat Florida in the national championship and like, they look like an NFL team going up against a bunch of fucking teenagers out there, man. Like they just straight up ran it down their throats. And that Florida team, which coached by Steve Spurrier and they were really good. They had a ton of firsts. They were fucking awesome, dude. Yeah. They were like the high flying, you know, like the, they were like the 99 Rams of college football, dude. And just got, I mean, steam rolled ain't even a word, dude. They were fucking roadkill after that one, man. January 2nd, 1996.
01:17:15
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Both teams were undefeated going into that game final score the brassicas 62 Florida 24 One I think would be an awesome hot seller to give me Dion Sanders on Florida State man that number two Jersey I'm assuming these guys are gonna be able to take their helmets off So you could have to do rag underneath man, maybe give him some gold chains accessories, dude I just I feel like that'd be a hot seller man Dion, you know, honestly, he's as relevant as he's ever been in the sports world nowadays I think that'd be a big one man. So I'll go Dion for my pick man. He got next
01:17:46
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Um, I feel like you gotta go, um, somebody from that Oh one Miami team. That's arguably the best college football team ever. I'm going to go Ed Reed off that team. Okay. I just seeing him or, or Willis McGee. Yeah, dude. Ed Reed was just such a monster in college. He's just another guy. Like if you didn't watch him play in college, go back and watch him play in college. It was just, he, he covered the entire field. He was unreal.
01:18:15
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I know Alabama's had some awesome teams during the Saban years, dude, but for my money, man, that the 2001 and then the 2002 Miami Hurricanes, that's the closest we've ever had a college football team to be on the level of like a crappy NFL team.
01:18:31
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I think the 19 or 18, whatever it was, LSU team is pretty close to dude. They, that team had so much first round talent. Justin Jefferson, Andrew Marches on the same team with Joe burrow, throwing them the ball, like
01:18:47
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It's pretty unbeatable. I don't even know why. I was randomly thinking about that team today. Dude, do you think the LSU boosters just loaded up and just bought a team for a season? Yes. They came out of nowhere. Then all of a sudden, they're like the greatest college football team
01:19:05
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Anybody's ever seen like see if you look at some of the numbers man, like they're they're really kind of Incomparable over history and then they just completely fade into oblivion do they have you know two straight mediocre seasons? Ed Orgoron's gone after that And they've been decent with Brian Kelly back there But that year just seems like it came out of nowhere and you just have this month one monster season and then it's nothing afterwards That's weird, right? You want to know one of the craziest things about that too?
01:19:32
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So Justin Jefferson was a three-star receiver coming out of high school. The only school that offered him was LSU and Orzeron kept his scholarship open just for him. Nobody else even offered him out of high school. That was his only offer. And he turned into the player he is today. So just saying. Yeah. So who you going, who you said you're going, Justin Jefferson, or you going Joe Burrow? No, I went Ed Reed. It's your turn now.
01:20:02
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Oh, I thought you, oh yeah. We were just talking about teams getting close to NFL. Sorry, dude. I'm a few beers deep, man. All right. So who we got in our first series. So we got Ed Reed, you got Deion Sanders and Tommy Frazier. I'll go with somebody a little bit more recent, man.
01:20:19
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I feel like we got to go. We got to get some SEC love in there, dude. I'm going to pay Manny in that Tennessee orange. I think that'd be a sick freakin, uh, a sick figure. Also, man, like, give me 1998 Peyton Manny. Maybe they could like have the highlights of him getting Molly Wapp by Nebraska on the back of it in his last game.
01:20:38
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Yeah. And then the sad thing is dude, it's, you know, it's almost Peyton Manning in a nutshell, you know, he did get two Superbowl rings, but it felt like the, there was way more post-season failures and successes. I mean, he's there with loaded Tennessee teams all four years and just keeps coming short. And then T Martin goes undefeated and wins the national championship with them.
01:20:58
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the very next season, man. Um, I wanted to go Alabama, dude, but I was, you know, with this run they had in the saving years, but I feel like there's not really been like that one iconic player for them. You know what I mean? I feel like when you think Alabama, you're always thinking saving before you think of any of their, their great players they've had over the years and they've had Heisman trophy winners and everything. Yeah. It's a, it's crazy to think about.
01:21:21
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Maybe you make a Nick Saban build a figure in that first college set. Or Bear Bryant, Tom Osborne. That would be awesome, dude. Yeah, Bear Bryant. Bring back coaches in suits on the sideline. Hell yeah.
01:21:33
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All right, great question, Brian. That actually got me kind of fired up, especially for the college line, dude. I feel like that would be pretty dang sweet. Brian also asked, with rumors of Sirianni and McCarthy being on the hot seat, what do you think a coach is being on the hot seat when their teams easily made the playoffs? Dude, I think it's all about expectation management, man. If the expectations are this team, we put the money and the effort into building a Super Bowl contender, and you have an embarrassing showing in the first playoff game,
01:21:59
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I think the questions about job security are welcome there, man. There's only 32 of these jobs in the entire world, so I think it's totally fair, man. If a team owner has built that kind of squad and you come up short, yeah, dude, you're going to be on the hot seat.
01:22:15
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Also, the Eagles went to the Super Bowl last year, arguably should have won. So yeah, of course their expectations were sky high for the season. And the Cowboys do, they're the Cowboys, they think every year is their year. All right, last question. Mike Rivera says, die-hard, die-hard Dolphins fan here. I love two and Mike McDaniel, but one or both of them are the problem and I can't figure it out. I honestly think it's two. He looks scared every time he has the ball for more than two seconds.
01:22:41
Speaker
Honestly, I wouldn't be upset if one or both were replaced. What do you guys think? I think, you know, Tua we already talked about. I think it'd be a huge mistake if they got rid of Daniel. I think he probably needs to make some tweaks, man, to that scheme. Maybe make it a little bit less high flying because it seems like, or I don't know, dude, maybe get rid of the training staff. Something's going on there while they've limped into the playoffs the last few years. I think the injuries, even more than Tua's lackluster play, because if Tua would have been better, you know, if they would have been for the injuries, I think they probably would have won
01:23:09
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you know, one more game down the stretch and could have had home field in the playoffs manner, at least for that first playoff game. I think it's more to a, I don't put much of this at all in McDaniel. McDaniel's an absolutely great coach. Still needs to make some tweaks, right? He's not, you know, he's not infallible, but I think it'd be a huge mistake if they can McDaniel.
01:23:28
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There's one thing I'll say about Mike McDaniel. I think when you lose a game, like you lost this weekend, all the jokey shit that he does and kind of like treating it a little bit like too much of a game. You know, I think some of that shit rubs the fans the wrong way, but I think that would be an absolute mistake if they fired him. I think that would be the stupidest thing ever. If they fired him, he's a great coach.
01:23:53
Speaker
Yeah, and you're right. He does get that demeanor, the laid back, at ease demeanor and stuff that can make you think that. But if you look at any of his history in the league, man, dudes are workaholic. Kyle Shanahan talked that they used to have to send that guy home from work and stuff because he would just grind nonstop while he was there on the Niner staff.
01:24:11
Speaker
Yeah. If he, I still think, you know, all things considered, I think your best bet if your Miami is rolling it back with both these guys again next season and just see what happens with Tula. But out of the two of them, I think McDaniel is definitely the keeper of long-term. I a hundred percent agree.
01:24:26
Speaker
All right, man, we are down to seven freaking football games left. Uh, can't wait to get into this next weekend, a football man. And even more importantly, talk it with you again, uh, next week, Jordan, it's been great so far. Leave us with some closing thoughts, man, as we head into the divisional round, the tears are already flowing down my cheeks, just with the thoughts of seven more football games to watch on the year. But also let's hope Bill Belichick is the Falcons head coach next time we record.
01:25:11
Speaker
Dots of them rock, books, shots, stops, signs. Chris Pacman, a rack, can a catch, shot, line. Pipes ain't bristle, but they're pretty loud though. Round here the sun goes down slow, but there it is. On Bitch, that's a party spot at the Ballmarsh. Second Bitch in the parking lot at the Ballmarsh. Sweet cherry pie slice in the boondocks. Skillets and the engines and the women stay hot.
01:26:01
Speaker
We might drink late tonight