Summary
In this episode, the hosts discuss the upcoming Super Bowl, recap the AFC and NFC Championship games, analyze key plays and coaching decisions, and highlight standout performances from players. They also engage in trivia related to NFL teams, making for an entertaining and informative conversation. In this episode, the hosts engage in a lively discussion about NFL trivia, coaching changes, and the dynamics of various teams. They explore the historical context of teams with multiple Super Bowl appearances but no wins, delve into the recent coaching carousel, and analyze the implications of new hires on team performance. The conversation also touches on the Pro Bowl selections, highlighting controversies and surprising choices, particularly regarding underperforming players being recognized.
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Hey, shrewdness fans, welcome to the Shrewdness Podcast.
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This is Prue. I'm here with Dex and Chiz and
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bringing you another episode 1 of the final ones for the NFL
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season. Next week or week and 1/2 from
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now is the Super Bowl. Crazy.
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Wrapping things up this year with the Patriots and the
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Seattle Seahawks, Which? Is who everybody expected to be.
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Everybody thought. We all called it.
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We all called it, except none of us called it.
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Agenda. For the week jizz.
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Yeah, Jizz, tell us what's going on.
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So we got a this is going to be a fun show because we're going
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to talk about the 2 championship games.
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They were very different. We're going to recap those.
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Strikingly different close. They were close.
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Very, very different. And then we're going to talk
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about coaching updates. We're going to give some NFL
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team trivia. So this will be a little bit of
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fun different thing. We've got some fun trivia that
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I'm going to give to Dex and Prue.
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See if they can get the crazy answers.
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You guys can play along and then we're going to do a betting
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recap. We're going to talk about kind
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of where we stand for the year on our betting, what we did last
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week, all that. We're very transparent and we'll
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tell you how that went. So that's what shows up.
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But let's talk about championship games first.
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So we'll start with the AFCI. Want to get your fine gents take
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on what was slated to be a defensive battle.
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We were correct about the under not to not to jump too far
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ahead, but it was it was definitely a rock fight.
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It was a game that started out as a rock fight but devolved
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into a street rock fight when the snow started happening in
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the second-half. Gives a punt fest after that.
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But what are you guys initial take on this?
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Did the better team win? What were your takeaways?
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Dex start with you. All right, so I think three
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things stand out for this game. The weather, the defense and
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Drake May's legs. So I think that was the three
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kind of big parts of this game that decided everything.
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The weather between first half and second-half was striking.
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If you're watching the game, you know exactly what we're talking
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about. And if you just watched totally
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probably were watching ESPN or whatever, like is this the same
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game really showing back like a preview from last year, like the
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first half with green grass and sunshine to a snow covered field
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where he can't even see the yard markers.
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It's the difference of these game.
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And it was a huge deal if he got up early.
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That's I think it was what really happened.
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And when you look at how the game ended up playing out, oh
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boy, do they probably wish they would have taken that field goal
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early. Oh my goodness.
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The defense though, they deep. Denver only had one play on
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offense, one play to Marvin Mims.
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And I think is their second. Drive a 52 yard bomb.
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We got in there and that's what set up their their touchdown and
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that was it So they had one play and then they got a a what 5
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yard, 4 yard touchdown to Cortland Sutton.
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That was the scoring for Denver. And then when you look at May's
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legs, so Drake May was damn near the leading rusher.
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It ended up being Stevenson just because they kept feeding him in
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the Snowmageddon part of the game.
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Pretty. Close to 10 rushes, you're
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right. Yeah, 10 rushes, 25 four.
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I think 65 yards, Yeah, that's right.
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Yeah. So 10 for 65 for Drake May, and
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he sealed the game on it. He sealed the game, right.
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And you look at his passing line.
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So this is the other thing. Drake May doesn't sound very MVP
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esque. 10 for 2186 yards like. What?
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That's a good. Quarter.
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The positive is he didn't turn it over.
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No turnover to. Justin Fields.
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Numbers right there. Oh God.
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But then again, when you look at what the game was on the like
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for Jarrett Stidham, I don't think he played that bad.
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I thought he played actually better than what a lot of people
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thought. And 17 for 31.
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But again, the second-half when he had to throw a bunch was
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ugly. Nobody could do anything 133
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yards. And again, he got 52 of that on
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play. The interception was bad, The
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fumble was bad. Or pass back, I guess what
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they're calling it. But.
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The the, the fumble, the the fumble pass back was like
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definitely the one time when he showed like he had not been
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playing quarterback at all. That's that was like that's the
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waked and it was like you should have thrown it away.
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You should throw it. And then he was like 2 handed it
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and like shoved it away from him and like what you doing?
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Yeah, and Tony Romo, he and I were on the same page.
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Depending on which side you're rooting for I guess, like.
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That is absolutely a. Fumble and a touchdown, then
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they're trying to call. It a forward.
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Pass. And now I'm like, no, the ball
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is totally out. It's just right.
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Call it what you want to call it, but that is Patriots ball
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right there. So I think that was a big one.
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And then what was surprising to me is that the running game, I
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kind of thought it'd be better because it's a snow game.
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That's generally where you make one cut and defense falls over,
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but the offense knows where they're going.
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I kind of thought to be a big play like in the second-half,
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and there really weren't any. And Stevenson just kind of
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plotted away, 25 carries for 71 yards.
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And RJ Harvey, I don't know if he did anything to lock this job
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down for next year. I think JK Dobbins might come
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right back and be RB-1. It's kind of sad.
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I guess JK Dobbins was close. He was.
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Evidently, they thought he might actually suit up for a little
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bit. I didn't know he was even that
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close. I Remember Me either a month and
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a half ago, they said he might be ready if they make the Super
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Bowl. I'm like, yeah, he kind of
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messed up, bud. And I guess he just didn't quite
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make it through all the wickets. But that would have been
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interesting because, I mean, I think he's a far superior back
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to RJ Harvey. I mean, maybe not pass catching.
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I think RJ Harvey probably has him there, but from just a
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running the game and power knocking, JK Dobbins is pretty
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elite. But through what did what do you
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think about the game? What were the big plays you
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thought stood out and really altered it?
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I mean, it ended up being 10/7. It was a rock fight of rock
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fights, but. Is there anything?
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That stood out to you from watching the game?
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A lot of sacks by both teams are just looking 8 different sacks,
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which I mean, clearly offensive lines were both overmatched,
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struggling to, you know, give their quarterback anytime or
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whatever. I mean, it's it's even more of a
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defensive battle than we thought it would be.
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I thought there would be more than 17 points scored in the
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game. I thought Drake made an eclipse
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100 yards passing. Right, yeah, I didn't see
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Jarrett Stidham out out gaining May and yards, right.
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So I. Would have liked to bet that
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prop that would have been. That would have been a fun one.
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That's probably a 5 to one or something.
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So all unders hit on this except for the one over bet or one
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under bet. We did so Stefan Diggs, who
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hasn't had five catches in weeks and then didn't have.
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Three on the first try. Yeah, so hit in the 1st.
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Minute it fell, he had. Three and we had the under 4 1/2
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in this one. So it's kind of jumping into our
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our little 4 shouting, but whatever.
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So it's funny how every under hit except for Stefan Diggs
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receptions which he had. Of course. 5 Did he get so early
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and then didn't have anything in the entire second-half?
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The to show how much of A rock fight it is.
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Yards per pass for these teams. OK yards per pass under 5 for
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the for the Broncos, 3 point O yards per pass for the for the
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Patriots, 2.5 yards per pass. This this made Alex Smith smile.
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The check downs that were happening in this game like it
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was like like no one dared throw the ball down the field.
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Yeah, right. And except the one play.
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After that, yeah, that first half with the with different
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weather, that was a different story, yes.
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I mean, the weather did matter a lot.
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But here's the thing, and this is the, this is the part that
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that I got to say that I, I don't understand.
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We've talked about it on the show.
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We've texted about it during the games a lot.
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Coaches right now have an aversion to points.
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They're allergic. Sean.
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Payton to field goals. They won't take the 28 yard
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field goal. I understand the book, I
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understand the analytics and I get it like over a large period
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of time, like it makes more sense to go for it than to kick
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the field goal. But like sometimes there's just
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good old fashioned like play the numbers football and when you're
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in a rock fight, three points means a lot. 3 points is a lot
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when Jared Stidham is your quarterback.
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You're not. Going to get a plethora of
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scoring chances. So.
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Sean Payton not taking the three there.
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I, I was floored by, especially because you're in Denver.
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It's January. You're resting on your defense
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to win the game anyway. Get your points when you have a
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chance for points. As many little points as you can
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get if you can get one at a time.
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Get them like on that Chisholm and for it let me know.
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Do they not have weathermen in Colorado?
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Did you not know there's a massive freaking Blizzard
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coming? Maybe in the second-half?
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I feel like when there's a thunderstorm, take points early.
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Know that you probably aren't kicking a field goal the
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second-half. They had to know that was
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rolling in. Get up, get up, get.
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Whatever, if you got to the AFC championship game because of
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your defense. Oh, and by the way, your
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starting quarterback has gone out.
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Yeah, right. You need every point you can
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get. Yep.
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Yeah, I don't get it. It was your your text during the
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game, Chiz was spot on. I don't remember exactly what
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you said, but it was like these guys are ridiculous for passing
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out opportunities to score any points because they have Jarrett
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still as their as their quarterback.
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I mean, so here's the question, the follow up to that, besides
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the fact that was outrageous and and it lost some of the game.
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I know Sean Payton always thinks he's the smartest guy in the
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room, and most of the time he's not, even if he's the only
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person, but. He.
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He is a he is. I shouldn't say that he's a good
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coach, but like you outsmarted yourself there.
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So here's the question for you guys on this because we're
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talking to your Stidham. Does Bo Nicks win this game?
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That's the question I have right next SO.
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Weird. I here's where I think he could
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have made a difference. The confidence of the team
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knowing that he's done it all season and he scrambles for a
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lot of first downs, like instead of a double pump push pass to
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the side, maybe he runs away and gets a first down or actually
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throws it away because he generally that's not where his
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mistakes come. That's right.
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Hey, man, it's hard to tell though, because it's weather
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effed everybody. I mean, Drake May's been playing
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at an MVP level and he got 86 yards, but he also ran for 65
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and that's where Stidham did not.
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I mean, he had a couple good runs and he got himself a couple
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first downs. It's just it's going to be one
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of those what if for Denver fans, maybe, maybe he makes it,
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but then again, maybe forces one earlier and throws a pick six
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and then the game's totally over the different direction.
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And so it's just that's one's hard to tell, but you have to
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believe Bovniks would have definitely impacted the game,
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whether positively or negatively is the question for a secondary
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quarterback. I think we're both, yeah, I
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think maybe both coaches panicked a little bit when the
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weather did come in and it was like we got to flip the script
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and just now it's now it's a ground game, right?
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We're going to hand the ball off 25 times to Stevenson and and
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Drake. If it's not their run for it,
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like just keep it on the ground, keep it out of their hands,
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don't turn the ball over, don't make the big mistake.
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And we got a chance to win it because they have Jarrett
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Stidham. So I, if Knicks is in there and
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the scoring is up even a little bit more, I, I think the game
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plan is altered. Where?
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Yeah, we're we're New England's still gonna probably come out on
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top, but yeah, it would have changed.
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I know it doesn't because you're right, it does affect if Nick's
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in there and they score more than New England changes.
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Their response at the end the the second-half felt a lot like
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everybody collectively shot and Heimer puckered.
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It was like fuck, fuck, we're just going to run it to the line
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three times and putt and like hope that they screw it up.
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It's like no one was trying to win at that point.
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It was just don't. Lose.
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Don't make a mistake. Don't make the mistake, don't
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lose, and maybe something will happen on the other side.
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They just kept putting it back and forth to each other.
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It didn't make for a thrilling TV.
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Even though it's 6:50 and like, I love snow football and it kind
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of made me sad because I was thinking I was talking to my
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boys during it. Everybody's doing like the domes
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now. Like we're not going to have
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snow football in a while, you know, in a while, everything's
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going to be indoor zoned. And I, I like the elements.
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On the flip side of that, I did hear some commentary.
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I don't agree with this, but maybe you guys might.
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That said, these teams play all these games, and to have a
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championship game determined by whether seems unfair.
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Stop it like the entire come on. And I was like.
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Like a dude froze to death last year in Arrowhead.
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I know like, like I guess his, his thought was the game should
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be played in ideal neutral conditions so that you could see
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who the real real, uh, best team.
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Call that the Super Bowl. Get that it's.
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Not it's not football, though, to me.
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Yeah, like that's part of it, right?
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It is like the. Best team that adapt to all
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scenarios, right? You're only a Dome team if
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you're the greatest show on turf.
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Yeah, but you can get destroyed on grass in A1 rainy day.
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You're not the best football team.
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That's right. Best football team should be
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able to win in all conditions. I love the conditions.
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I agree. Differentiate people.
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I think it's more fun. As a man, it's more fun, Yeah,
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it's way more fun. It's more, it's less
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predictable, right, When you get for sure different weather
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conditions and other, other uncontrollable factors.
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Yeah, yeah. And I will take.
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One shout out to I do have to give a shout out to refumble
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Stevenson, who carried the vault 25 times and did not fumble.
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The ball. Just to stick it to US one more
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time, Yeah, Fumblade did not live up to his name.
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Even in the snow, he was like, Nope, I'm holding on to this.
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He did. He didn't actually run that far
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with the ball, but Yep. Almost 3 yards of carry he.
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Carried the ball, he didn't run the ball.
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Yeah, which is the equivalent of basically getting the ball blood
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of scrimmage and falling forward.
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I think when you're as big As for Fumblade, yeah, he basically
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fell forward 25 times. They didn't fumble, so I'll give
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them credit. Yeah, it is something else.
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I'm still, I'm still shockingly surprised by the lack of use of
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Trayvon Henderson. I, I really don't understand it.
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It feels to me, and I don't want to give the Super Bowl preview,
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but we'll talk about this next week.
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But it feels to me like if they're going to have any shot,
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they sure is hell better get the ball to somebody who could run
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fast. And he's like one of the few
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guys on the team that can run fast.
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I don't understand why they're never getting in the ball.
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Some some's weird there, but again, the.
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Pass protection or something else it just doesn't allow?
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Him because he's on the right. I can't imagine what's what's
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funny if it's not ball security. Rafumblay lost 7 fumbles this
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year I think. Pretty sure they said in the
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broadcast and maybe nothing in the last two weeks, right?
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You've got a loaf of bread in there for a dude that's lost
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that many Totally just a game. I'm like, is Trayvion that much
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worse? You don't trust.
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Him to hang. On and run into a pile.
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They gave him 3 carries and they didn't throw in the ball once.
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They didn't target him once out of the backfield, which I'm like
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just. Crazy.
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Crazy town to me. Like you get that guy in space,
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that's what you want to do. But Rabel's not known as an
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offensive coach, to be clear. So he he's definitely a
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fundamental. He also showed up New England in
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year one, took him to the Super Bowl.
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Got to give him props. That's awesome.
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Got to give him props. Well, anything else on this?
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Anything else on this one, boys? Or should we go to the Let's Go?
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To the fun game. Thrilling, fun game.
00:19:02
The NFC Championship, which happened later that night.
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So we were all coming off of a ho hum AFC Championship.
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It was close, but it was boring, you got to be honest.
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And we were super excited for a match up that has been really
00:19:14
good two previous times this year.
00:19:16
So two really good games, two really close games.
00:19:19
This was at Seattle. There was no, I mean, it was
00:19:23
typical Seattle, but it wasn't like actually super cold or
00:19:25
anything. It wasn't super Seattle.
00:19:27
It was, I guess, sunny. And nice in January, and having
00:19:31
lived there for a couple years, I don't remember ever seeing the
00:19:34
sun in day. It's never Yeah, specifically.
00:19:36
It was more than like a a light cloud instead of a dark cloud.
00:19:41
I mean, that was the difference of a sunny day and a cloudy.
00:19:44
We got a light cloud today. Exactly.
00:19:46
It was unseasonably nice weather and all the points were held for
00:19:52
this game evidently because we had a a score fest a lot of big
00:19:57
names in this game, a lot of stars.
00:19:59
And you had one side led by the MVP favorite Matt Stafford.
00:20:05
You had one side led by a guy who I keep waiting to pumpkin
00:20:10
but he hasn't not doing it Arnold.
00:20:13
And what do you guys think after watching this one?
00:20:17
What stuck out to you about this game?
00:20:19
Prove. I thought, I mean, both teams
00:20:23
were qualified to be there, right?
00:20:25
You could tell why they were in that position.
00:20:27
Really good teams, very well-rounded.
00:20:30
Both had good defenses. They did put up a lot of points.
00:20:32
But because both have good offensive minds, you know,
00:20:36
coaching them and calling plays and so forth.
00:20:38
And it was slugfest, you know, back and forth pretty much the
00:20:43
whole game. And LA got down for a while but
00:20:46
came roaring back and made a game out of it.
00:20:48
Yeah. It was fun.
00:20:50
In the three takeaways for this one, the stars came out like you
00:20:52
said, Chisholm, the quarterbacks in the whiteouts.
00:20:55
But once you've been studs all year, remain studs.
00:20:58
It was all defense in the fourth quarter.
00:21:00
So that again, the calling card for Seattle definitely did it.
00:21:03
They are what won the game. That defense at the end, I mean,
00:21:07
they gave up 27 points. Well, it didn't look very good.
00:21:10
Whatever, You know what I'm talking about to watch the game.
00:21:12
Scoreless fourth quarter. Yep.
00:21:14
And then the thing we talk about every times we talked about a
00:21:17
last game, take the points LA passed up that early field goal.
00:21:21
What would the difference of those last couple drives been?
00:21:24
If there's a one point game then like my wife is talking about
00:21:28
when you're down 11 and score a touchdown, why would you not go
00:21:31
for two there, right. Odd, I mean.
00:21:35
Yeah. I mean, yeah, if you miss it,
00:21:37
you're down 12. So what?
00:21:39
It's still 2 scores, right? But you had a chance to go 2 and
00:21:41
then make it a field goal and that would have changed things.
00:21:44
If you're only down 3 instead of four, they could have done
00:21:48
instead of like 4th down and what was it fourth in four on
00:21:52
the? Seattle 6. 5 minutes to go.
00:21:54
It's a wholly different game, totally different game,
00:21:56
different decisions, everything else.
00:21:58
So those are the three things that stood out.
00:21:59
But when you look at the lines Pukunakua 9 for 165 and a
00:22:04
touchdown and again I think he threw up almost 200 or did 200
00:22:08
last game. 225 last game. You think they're like, that's
00:22:10
not going to happen again. Just.
00:22:12
Kidding man, he got like 400 yards in two games against him
00:22:16
the last two games. That's insane.
00:22:17
That's. Crazy.
00:22:18
And then Jackson Smith and Jigba showed why he just coming out
00:22:23
party and then in the biggest game of his career, 10 catches,
00:22:27
153 and a touchdown and he's their only receiving threat.
00:22:31
It's only him. And the fact he still got that,
00:22:34
you know, they're funneling defense towards him.
00:22:36
And McVeigh does. He knows what he's doing.
00:22:38
Chris Shula knows what he's doing.
00:22:40
That was amazing to me. I mean, the other one that stood
00:22:42
out, it's kind of a sad part. Devante Adams, 4 for 89 with a
00:22:45
touchdown, no Super Bowl appearances.
00:22:49
I didn't know he wasn't on the Green Bay team that went.
00:22:51
Right. No, he's.
00:22:53
Been the four NFC Championship games and lost all of them.
00:22:56
You kind of like this may have been the last chance for that
00:23:00
guy to make a Super Bowl. And dude, dude is way too good
00:23:03
to have never made a Super Bowl. And Randy Moss only made one and
00:23:08
that was right, went to New England with Tom Brady and set
00:23:11
all the records that season in the perfect season except the
00:23:15
helmet catch to David Tyree. But I thought it was kind of a
00:23:19
sad thing, good for Cooper Cup on the other side, going against
00:23:22
your team that let you go because you couldn't stay
00:23:25
healthy. He got the kind of clinching
00:23:27
touchdown. SO4 catches, 36 yards and a
00:23:29
touchdown. That was huge.
00:23:31
So I think that was kind of the stuff that stood out.
00:23:33
He also had that key first down at the very end of the game.
00:23:36
Huge he did That was maybe it was a first down, maybe it
00:23:39
wasn't, but he he had enough effort in it to earn a first
00:23:43
down there. No.
00:23:44
Absolutely twisting, really impressive diving and whatever.
00:23:48
I was also with Kenneth Walker. I thought he had a couple runs
00:23:53
where he he looked like he had a little fresh spring in his step
00:23:56
and. He we did.
00:23:58
Didn't have his sidekick this game and won't have him next
00:24:02
next week either but right he carried carried the load for
00:24:05
sure. He definitely has a burst and
00:24:07
he's interesting, you know, the knock on him as he takes too
00:24:10
many negative yard runs, but he he's fun to watch for sure.
00:24:14
Yeah, Well, I look at it, two things that I saw the
00:24:18
quarterback play between both was outstanding at 67%
00:24:21
completion combined for both of them.
00:24:24
Darnell 25 for 36 and and Stafford 22 for 35.
00:24:28
They both threw for 350 yards and three touchdowns, no
00:24:33
interceptions. Great quarter.
00:24:34
I play and you talked about those right receivers like this
00:24:38
just shows there's only and it honestly, it might be 3 or 4
00:24:44
whiteouts in the NFL at any given time that are at this
00:24:47
level that you truly just can't cover.
00:24:51
Like, yeah, everyone knows everyone knew Smith Ejigwa was
00:24:55
the target. Everyone knows Pakua is is the
00:24:58
target and it doesn't matter Like I was watching and like you
00:25:02
can't cover them. They're so quick.
00:25:04
They're so good at their routes. They're so.
00:25:07
Put them in such. Good hands.
00:25:08
Unique situations so they come out the backfield a lot which.
00:25:11
Is, yeah. You mean they get to free reign?
00:25:14
A free run in Pukaupua does so many routes that go from the
00:25:18
backfield through the middle like a running back.
00:25:21
It's. Yeah, I saw I saw a clip on that
00:25:24
today actually. That was, you know, slow MO and
00:25:27
kind of break into play down and it was the Injigga touchdown
00:25:31
where he comes out of the backfield and they're like this
00:25:34
is this is the brilliant minds that are organizing and, you
00:25:38
know, dreaming up the offense in the NFL these days.
00:25:42
It's like anytime there's a player in the backfield, you
00:25:46
know, and this guy goes in motion, you see that the corner
00:25:49
is going to cover him. So you know he's you know, he's
00:25:52
going to layoff unless the receiver, like in this case it
00:25:55
was Cooper cup making contact just enough to like, you know,
00:26:01
kind of pull the the D back over with him to the corner, which
00:26:04
leaves room over the top for enigma to run up like a corner
00:26:07
route. I mean, it's a it's a brilliant
00:26:10
play design and with the pre snap motions and stuff that
00:26:14
every team does now they see what the safeties are doing.
00:26:17
Yeah, it's a science for sure. And and great offensive minds
00:26:22
can score 27 points against a #1 defense.
00:26:26
Yeah, that's Pruitt. That's a great point and it's so
00:26:29
true. And it's why guys like Andy Reid
00:26:31
do so well because they are so intent on studying the film and
00:26:36
the tendencies that they find that little stuff that gives
00:26:39
them the edge and they and they wait and they wait and they wait
00:26:42
and they're like, this is the time call the play.
00:26:44
This is the time I'm going to exploit it.
00:26:45
And sure enough, like they they get a touchdown when they need
00:26:48
it. And so, but when you have those
00:26:50
two guys, like, I don't know what you do.
00:26:53
I don't know what you do. I mean, it's rare you see guys
00:26:56
that are that elite, you know, and, and it won't be for long.
00:27:00
Like like there's very. Many that way that.
00:27:03
You get, you know, that that can do it for like 15 years, you
00:27:07
know that that's not usually you get like a 2-3 year window of
00:27:10
these receivers where they're just like uncoverable.
00:27:13
And then it's like, yeah, then they're pretty good, you know,
00:27:16
But like, like Devante Adams was uncoverable for a while.
00:27:20
Now he's pretty good, you know, so, but in Jigba, I kept saying
00:27:26
like, why are they not covering him?
00:27:29
And then I watch the replay. I'd be like, oh, they're trying.
00:27:31
Yeah, he was trying to cover him, but when you make one
00:27:34
handed catches on the sideline. When you.
00:27:37
Go across the middle and Cam curl knocks you out.
00:27:40
Would have been like targeting in college.
00:27:42
He comes up, just points the first down.
00:27:45
What do you do? He's.
00:27:46
Like, Dang, we did cover him, we did hit him.
00:27:48
We did all these things. We.
00:27:50
Had three people. On we're high and low, left and
00:27:52
right and on both these guys, they just, they stood out.
00:27:57
They stood out and showed why they are the game's premier wide
00:28:00
receivers. Just they did.
00:28:03
And again, when you know they're getting covered and they still
00:28:05
do it, it's just a big F you. I know you want to stop me, but
00:28:10
you can't. Right, you can't.
00:28:12
And both, like you said, just both quarterbacks exploited
00:28:15
that, right? They're like, there's my weapon,
00:28:18
I'm going to throw it to him 15 times or 12 times or whatever it
00:28:21
was. And yeah, so good.
00:28:23
More often than not, they're going to make the play get a
00:28:25
close. Together, they were 19 catches,
00:28:28
318 yards receiving and two touchdowns.
00:28:31
Yeah, yeah. Come on man, you can't get much
00:28:34
better than that. That's that's that's just fun
00:28:36
to. Watch it was super fun to watch.
00:28:38
Difference in the game was third down conversions.
00:28:41
Seattle was 7 of 13, so a little over 50%.
00:28:44
The Rams were one of eight. Oh, wow.
00:28:48
Which if you watch the game, you probably wouldn't have noticed
00:28:51
that. You're kind of like, I didn't, I
00:28:53
didn't think about that much. But they, they just really
00:28:56
struggled on 3rd down. Now they were getting first
00:29:00
downs on 2nd down a lot. So they had less, they had less
00:29:03
third downs. But you know, when they got on
00:29:05
those crucial situations, they couldn't find a way to convert
00:29:09
and that really ended up hurting them a lot.
00:29:12
They actually had more yards per play than the Seahawks.
00:29:16
Seahawks defense is their calling card.
00:29:19
They got a lot of points scored on them, but you're going
00:29:22
against Matthew Stafford. MVP.
00:29:25
Kukunakua. Devante Adams, Kyron Williams.
00:29:28
Kyron Williams, like these are not, these are, these are great
00:29:31
players you're going against. So like it's to be expected.
00:29:34
And Darnold, to his credit, stood up and he made the plays.
00:29:40
God, he made some throws, He made some throws, He made some
00:29:43
runs. That was actually what they were
00:29:44
highlighting in the the clip I saw or that I was mentioning
00:29:48
earlier. They were like, this is not a
00:29:50
play that Sam Darnold made two years ago.
00:29:53
No, even last year. No, Right?
00:29:56
Don't. Remind me, Pruitt.
00:29:57
I know. I fully recall.
00:30:00
What he looked like last year. But that's, that's what they
00:30:02
were saying well, all year. I mean, he looked fine for
00:30:05
Minnesota for most of the year, but they're like he's you can
00:30:07
just tell he's matured. He's seeing things like this.
00:30:11
And I I'm not sure if he changed the play on that inject with
00:30:14
touchdown, but they made a couple of examples where you
00:30:18
know, he got to the line, sees what the defense is doing.
00:30:20
He makes the adjustment like all quarterbacks do, but then he
00:30:24
makes the play, too, you know, he makes the throw and.
00:30:27
Well, it does go to show. He's a leader.
00:30:30
How, how difficult it is to evaluate quarterback talent in
00:30:35
the NFL because, I mean, The Jets kicked him to the curb, the
00:30:39
Vikings said thanks but no thanks.
00:30:42
And then he goes to the Seahawks.
00:30:45
And it if you get a it shows how important the system is #1.
00:30:50
Well, he had Carolina and San Francisco in the middle too, so
00:30:53
he had he did at Carolinas. Him and Baker both got booted to
00:30:57
not be good quarterbacks and both went on all Pros the next
00:31:00
season. He.
00:31:01
Goes. To.
00:31:03
Yeah, and then goes to the Niners and you get to sit behind
00:31:05
Shanahan, which we love. He's a great coach and he knows
00:31:08
what he's doing. Then you go to Kevin O'Connell,
00:31:10
Minnesota, he knows what he's doing.
00:31:13
So we've got fortunate places to be to learn from 2 phenomenal
00:31:18
coaches. I mean Shanahan, KOC really
00:31:21
good. So I think he given, I mean,
00:31:24
there's a lot of paths to get people where they need to be.
00:31:27
Totally. For him that God laid out for
00:31:29
him was like, Hey man, you're going to have some trials and
00:31:31
tribulations. This is going to be rough.
00:31:33
Here you're going to have a little.
00:31:34
Bit of rocky road, but you're going to take.
00:31:36
The 12 to the Super Bowl, that's right.
00:31:39
Here they are, man. It's kind of cool.
00:31:41
And now you got a chance for Sam Darnold, who was in the same
00:31:46
draft class as Baker Mayfield. God, there was a whole list of
00:31:51
them the other days of guys that that you would have thought
00:31:55
would have have made the Super Bowl at this point or had a much
00:32:00
better chance of making the Super Bowl.
00:32:03
And it was, oh, it was it was Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen.
00:32:07
Yeah. Lamar Jackson.
00:32:09
Yep. Is this all all in his draft
00:32:13
class and he's going to beat them all to the Super Bowl?
00:32:16
Like, who would have put money on that?
00:32:18
I mean, I know he was third overall.
00:32:20
Baker was first. It's crazy to me.
00:32:22
Josh Allen was 7th and Lamar Jackson was 30 effing second.
00:32:27
How did that happen? Because he couldn't throw the
00:32:30
ball. He was just he.
00:32:31
Couldn't throw the ball all of a sudden it's so.
00:32:33
He could only run 1100 hundred yards a season from the
00:32:36
quarterback position. But what a story.
00:32:39
He is the first of that class to start a Super Bowl, and he's
00:32:43
going to be the favorite. Well, he is the favorite.
00:32:45
He's 4 1/2 point favorite going into the game.
00:32:46
So yeah, what? What a game.
00:32:50
So I want to talk about a few other things that that that
00:32:52
plays that decided this game in this order is what I think.
00:32:57
So the muffed punt, that's horrible.
00:33:00
That was a killer that next. I mean that drive ended up being
00:33:03
on inside the 20. Then they got AI think it's the
00:33:06
Bobo touchdown to him that was a killer, the Rick Woolen.
00:33:11
So this one could have cost Seattle the game.
00:33:14
So #27 did the taunting penalty after stopping him on that was
00:33:18
so dumb. I think it's third and 12 and
00:33:20
he's like yapping at the other bench.
00:33:22
I'm like, this is one of those deals again.
00:33:24
The last time I said it was when that idiot from the Arizona
00:33:27
Cardinals dropped the ball. On this.
00:33:30
Half yard line going into the end zone, which is one of my
00:33:33
absolute pet peeves are instantly cut off my team.
00:33:35
You're getting away. Don't ever.
00:33:37
Don't even look at my building again.
00:33:39
This is kind of along those same lines You do a taunting in the
00:33:43
NFC Championship Game after we hold.
00:33:45
Them on to the bench. To the bench.
00:33:50
Right with the ref standing right in front of you.
00:33:53
Exactly. And then the the part I liked,
00:33:56
the karma part I loved about this right after he makes this
00:34:01
this stop, they go right out and throw a bomb to Puka, who makes
00:34:04
an incredible touchdown catch in the end zone.
00:34:08
Beautiful Mike. And where are you at now, Jappy?
00:34:10
Mr. 27, Mr. Chapping it all up with everybody telling you how
00:34:14
great you are and how you made one stop.
00:34:17
Now you just gave up the freaking lead.
00:34:19
This is one of those deals. Then the third one, so 4th and
00:34:22
four Seattle, 65 minutes to go and you've got Devante Adams,
00:34:28
Pukunakua, Kyron Williams, you're covering 3 tight ends,
00:34:31
you can all catch the ball and they stopped him four times.
00:34:35
That was, I mean Seattle defense, that was what they've
00:34:39
been, that's what they're here for.
00:34:40
That's what they needed to do and they made the play because
00:34:43
that would have changed everything obviously, right?
00:34:45
Hopefully they're down four and they're going for a touchdown
00:34:49
because they didn't take the field goal earlier so they
00:34:51
didn't have an option. So they had to go for it.
00:34:54
And when they when Seattle made that stop, that was obviously
00:34:57
the huge play of the game. But I think all three of those
00:35:00
together, those were huge momentum changes for this, for
00:35:04
this game. Yeah, yeah.
00:35:06
Well, it was it was Xavier Smith that muffed that that punt,
00:35:10
right And. Kyron came in the next punt.
00:35:14
If I. Remember, though, didn't, didn't
00:35:16
he, didn't Smith drop one earlier in the game as well?
00:35:20
There was a punt that was dropped earlier in the game.
00:35:22
He recovered it, yeah, but it was dropped.
00:35:25
And I think, I think it was him as well.
00:35:27
So he had, he'd had a couple issues.
00:35:29
The part about that that that second one, that was the really
00:35:33
costly, costly 1 is like he was falling backwards.
00:35:38
And peddling. What?
00:35:39
Don't get away when you start getting into that mode at all.
00:35:44
If you're starting to go backwards, like go sideways,
00:35:46
move down. East and West.
00:35:50
Do to get out of the way, but he was still trying to field that
00:35:53
ball. So he.
00:35:54
Took his hands up like this and I'm like, Oh my God, what are
00:35:57
you doing? No chance of success.
00:35:59
Slow. MO train wreck as it happened,
00:36:02
and it really was the difference in the game.
00:36:05
If you're a Rams fan, you're sick over that play.
00:36:08
Yeah. That definitely changed
00:36:10
everything as the game went. Either of these teams could have
00:36:13
been the Super Bowl representative pretty easily.
00:36:15
I don't think there was a hair's worth of difference really in
00:36:18
them. You know, they, they played
00:36:19
three times. It was 2 and one, I think.
00:36:22
So I feel like there's very, very little that separates them.
00:36:28
Actually. You may have seen the two best
00:36:30
teams play, folks. That may have been.
00:36:32
That was the Super Bowl. Right, that was it.
00:36:35
But all. Right.
00:36:36
We'll do a preview next week, though, so we're going to leave
00:36:38
you hanging in the little cliffhanger for next week.
00:36:41
We'll talk about that. But Chisel.
00:36:43
TuneIn next week for, that's right, next.
00:36:46
Super Bowl? Give us some.
00:36:48
You got some trivia or something for us, don't you?
00:36:50
Yeah, so I got some fun. This is going to be fun, fellas.
00:36:54
So I have I have one random fact about each NFL team.
00:36:59
So I'm going to I'm going to say the fact you guys are going to
00:37:02
try to guess the team. OK, now these are not normal
00:37:07
some now some of these are some of these you might know they're
00:37:09
statistical. Some of them are just a little
00:37:11
bizarre. I'm not going to do all of them.
00:37:13
I picked out the ones that I think are most interesting.
00:37:16
We'll start with some easier ones, I think, and we'll go
00:37:20
after that. OK, so here we go and let me
00:37:22
hear your stream of conscious thought as you're as you're
00:37:24
processing this. OK, he's got.
00:37:26
The first one, is it just both? Of us, we'll go.
00:37:29
Either of you could jump in, we'll just do either whatever.
00:37:30
This is the fun factor out. This is they're the youngest NFL
00:37:33
franchise, youngest NFL franchise.
00:37:36
Like the age on the players on the team, no.
00:37:38
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They've been around the shortest
00:37:42
period of time. Come on, guys, this is the easy
00:37:45
level. I'm giving you easy level stuff
00:37:47
right now. I.
00:37:48
Know I thought it was. Houston.
00:37:51
Yeah, Houston. Good job, Dex.
00:37:53
Good job. The Texans.
00:37:55
Yeah, the Texans. I thought you said it wasn't
00:37:56
Houston, No. No, no, you got Houston, you got
00:37:59
OK, OK. This team has had the most in
00:38:03
their history. They had the longest stretch of
00:38:05
consecutive winning seasons and it was 20, if that will help you
00:38:11
at all. Most consecutive winning seasons
00:38:14
with 20. I mean, didn't New England have
00:38:17
20 straight years feel like we just had no.
00:38:21
Pittsburgh is my guess because of Tom.
00:38:24
That was my guess. It is not Wow. 20 straight years
00:38:29
of winning, huh? Well.
00:38:30
We know it's not Kansas City. I know it's not that it's.
00:38:34
Not Kansas. City.
00:38:35
None of the NFC North teams. Dallas.
00:38:38
Had a couple of. Plunkers in there, Buffalo.
00:38:41
It is Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys had 20
00:38:45
consecutive seasons of winning football.
00:38:48
Crazy in the. 70s. Probably not.
00:38:51
I think it was. I think it was.
00:38:53
Over the 70s eighties, no. Way it was the 90s in the odds
00:38:57
because they had a couple lugs in there.
00:38:59
No, this team is undefeated in the Super Bowl.
00:39:02
Undefeated in the Super Bowl, so he couldn't have been to many
00:39:04
because not everybody wins everything, yeah.
00:39:07
I'll see. Here, the Giants seem to win
00:39:10
every time they go, but there's some early ones that they did
00:39:15
you. Forget that.
00:39:15
You forget the wide right. You forget the wide right game,
00:39:18
right? Oh no.
00:39:19
That. Was Bill's that was Bill's
00:39:20
Buffalo losing to the Yeah, they did that.
00:39:22
Yeah, that's right. That's the last.
00:39:25
Because Bill Sims won and then Eli won too, so they've won the
00:39:28
last three they've been to I feel like.
00:39:30
Yeah. Is it somebody like Miami?
00:39:33
I'll give. You a hint.
00:39:35
I'll give you a hint. Oh, Miami definitely lost one.
00:39:37
They lost to San Francisco. They've.
00:39:39
They've. Philly.
00:39:42
No, no, we beat Philly. Yeah, we beat him.
00:39:44
San Francisco's lost. The Green Bay.
00:39:48
Green Bay. No, Green Bay's lost a couple.
00:39:51
So sad, guys. The Buccaneers.
00:39:53
The Buccaneers are undefeated in the Super Bowl.
00:39:56
Are they won and O? Never lost a super.
00:39:58
Bowl 2 and O. Two and O OK this This team has
00:40:03
never had a quarterback throw for over 4000 yards in a season.
00:40:11
I saw. This no 4000 yard throwers.
00:40:14
I thought Chicago was one, but I think Caleb just did this.
00:40:16
Year Chicago Caleb was 64 yards short this year.
00:40:22
Oh, he didn't get hitting. 4000, Yes.
00:40:26
OK, that maybe that's what they were talking about.
00:40:27
Yeah, I remember hearing about it.
00:40:29
They really haven't. I thought, you know the funny
00:40:32
one. I thought Cutler did though.
00:40:34
Yeah, I would have thought Cutler would have.
00:40:36
He was a throwing quarterback. Yeah, he was.
00:40:38
Never did it. Crazy never did it.
00:40:41
This team is the only team to win NFL championships in three
00:40:48
cities. Three cities, huh?
00:40:51
NFL Championships. Well, just as championships.
00:40:55
Championships. Only team to win championships
00:40:58
in three cities. Trying to think so the
00:41:02
franchise. News.
00:41:03
So it had to be the Raiders, right?
00:41:06
Oakland. Not the Raiders, but we're warm.
00:41:10
Los Angeles. Chargers.
00:41:13
So maybe the Rams in Saint Louis and LA.
00:41:15
Rams. Yeah, it'd be the Rams.
00:41:17
The Rams The Rams are the only only team to win in three
00:41:21
different cities are the only team to play in an AFC and an
00:41:25
NFC Championship game. Someone switched leagues, it's
00:41:28
gotta be you. You this is from our childhood.
00:41:31
You should know this one because they used to be in the Chiefs
00:41:36
division. Seattle.
00:41:38
Seattle. Seattle is the only team.
00:41:41
They used to be in the AFC West when we were young last right.
00:41:44
And I had to go back to Techno Bowl real quick and Prove just
00:41:47
beat me to it. Right.
00:41:48
That's right. Because we we played all teams
00:41:50
in the same division back then, so we play Morehead to head
00:41:52
games. Totally, totally the only NFC
00:41:58
team with no Super Bowl appearances.
00:42:02
NFC team with no appearances. Oh, the no, Troy.
00:42:08
Detroit's never been there. Good job Detroit.
00:42:10
They have not. This team is the oldest team in
00:42:13
the NFLI. Was shocked by this one.
00:42:16
Like been around the lungs as a franchise?
00:42:18
Yes, oldest team. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:20
So it's either Bears or Packers, I thought.
00:42:22
Packers is my first thought but no on that it's.
00:42:26
Probably an East Coast team. They really started in the East
00:42:30
Coast. You're not going to get it.
00:42:31
The Giants. Baltimore Colts.
00:42:35
And then it turned into the Indianapolis Colts.
00:42:38
Cardinals What? The Cardinals started in
00:42:42
Chicago, and they have been around ever since.
00:42:46
They are the oldest team in the NFL.
00:42:50
The Card. Now they're down in your zone.
00:42:51
Worst run. Did they right?
00:42:54
Who'd they play his first few years?
00:42:57
Right. Who did they play those?
00:42:58
That's a great question. OK, here's the Here's a fun one.
00:43:02
This team has four Super Bowl appearances and no wins.
00:43:06
The. Vikings.
00:43:09
Buffalo went to four in a row and lost all four.
00:43:12
That's for the Vikings. That's for the Vikings.
00:43:14
Vikings 4 Super Bowl appearances, no wins.
00:43:17
What? Buffalo went Buffalo went to
00:43:19
four in a row. They went to more in a row, but
00:43:23
I think they've been to more in the past, so they've lost more
00:43:26
than and they've won one. Did they they win 1?
00:43:32
I don't know. But I take Buffalo.
00:43:34
Maybe it Buffalo. You know what?
00:43:36
Buffalo may be the same. It might be the same thing.
00:43:38
They may. Be read your question again.
00:43:40
Yeah, you're right. They were both right for 0
00:43:42
appearances. They might both be right,
00:43:44
actually. OK, they might both be right.
00:43:46
You wouldn't have the answers in front of.
00:43:48
Us. Yeah, I'm just.
00:43:49
Making it up for the questions. Just making it up.
00:43:52
You guys are buying all of it, so.
00:43:54
Far old. Oldest US professional team with
00:43:57
0 championship championships. The oldest US professional team
00:44:03
with 0 championship. Across all sports.
00:44:07
Across everything. Oldest with nothing.
00:44:09
Nothing. Did Cleveland Indians ever win?
00:44:11
Or is that just? I thought they did, finally.
00:44:15
They they did. They won.
00:44:17
That's where I was going to Dex. I was like Detroit Tigers,
00:44:20
Cleveland Indies. Remember, Remember, remember,
00:44:23
we're talking about NFL teams here, so that's one hand.
00:44:27
Well, I said about sports. Yeah.
00:44:29
Yes, yes, it's still across all sports, however we are talking
00:44:32
about. It OK, so it is an NFL team.
00:44:37
So the Indians is wrong. I'll go ahead and say the
00:44:41
Indians is wrong. So you said, so basically an NFL
00:44:44
team that has no championships, Yes, it's, isn't it, Cleveland?
00:44:49
No, they have been to one, Yeah, they've been, they've they've
00:44:53
been to, they've been to a couple that I can remember.
00:44:58
Arizona, I can't remember, Or the Cardinals, unless it's like
00:45:01
when they were the Chicago Cardinals.
00:45:03
I don't know if they've ever won.
00:45:05
The Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are the oldest
00:45:09
professional team with 0 championships.
00:45:12
Never won a championship. This team was the first NFL team
00:45:15
with a marching band. No idea.
00:45:18
Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, ladies and gentlemen,
00:45:21
really. They had a marching band that
00:45:24
used to come out at halftime, which is pimp if you're.
00:45:27
Kind of cool, I know. They definitely.
00:45:29
Bring that back for sure. This team invented the spike as
00:45:34
a celebration in the end zone. Spike, that sounds like a
00:45:38
Minnesota Vikings thing to me or something.
00:45:40
I like that, but it's wrong. No idea.
00:45:44
I don't even have a. Guess New York Giants.
00:45:45
The New York Football Giants invented the spike.
00:45:49
They also were the first to do the Gatorade pour over the head.
00:45:53
So really 2 fun facts about the New York Giants time it might
00:45:57
have been built built ourselves. This team invented the shotgun
00:46:01
formation. Houston, The Oilers.
00:46:06
No, that's a good guess, though it wasn't.
00:46:07
Warren Moon. Wasn't Warren moon it was pre
00:46:10
Warren moon. Invented this shotgun.
00:46:16
It's got to be like it's. Kind of got to.
00:46:18
Be a team kind. Of appropriate in their DNA.
00:46:21
If you if you look at the DNA of this team, like kind of what
00:46:25
they've been known for over history, it's kind of
00:46:29
appropriate. Looking throughout Team CV1
00:46:30
stands out. I thought it was the Oilers.
00:46:33
I felt pretty good about that until you just no.
00:46:35
That was a good guess. That was a good guess.
00:46:37
Poo pooed it. Now I got nothing.
00:46:39
I don't have another. Guess.
00:46:40
I'll say Colts. The San Francisco fighters
00:46:42
invented the shotgun formation. OK, West Coast.
00:46:46
Kind of good. So this team was named after a
00:46:50
soldier. Even after shoulder the Browns,
00:46:52
Paul Brown a the soldier. New England Patriots No.
00:46:57
Nope. I don't even.
00:47:00
The soldier's name? Buffalo Bills.
00:47:03
Stop. Sure.
00:47:04
Buffalo Bill Cody, Yeah, Buffalo Bill Cody.
00:47:07
That makes sense. This team was named after a
00:47:11
poem. The Baltimore Ravens.
00:47:15
Baltimore Ravens Both the Ravens nailed it.
00:47:18
Did you know Edgar Allan Poe is from Baltimore?
00:47:21
Therefore, and another fun fact, there mascot is named Poe.
00:47:25
So both the Chisholm. There you go, Ravens.
00:47:28
So this one, this couple more has the long couple more.
00:47:31
The longest field goal in Super Bowl history, this team has.
00:47:36
Oh, and Super Bowl history. Longest field goal in Super Bowl
00:47:39
history. Huh.
00:47:41
I mean the most memorable 1 wasn't vinitary.
00:47:44
The snow kick for the Patriots. I don't think it was necessarily
00:47:47
that long. That feel like it's like in the
00:47:48
40s honest in Super Bowl history Butker make the longest one like
00:47:54
58 or something. Kansas City Chiefs 57 yards,
00:47:57
Harrison Butker longest field goal in Super Bowl history.
00:48:01
I got a I got. We'll go, we'll go four more,
00:48:05
four more. OK, I'm going to get the top 4
00:48:08
left here. This team has had the longest
00:48:12
regular season winning streak. It's spanned multiple seasons,
00:48:16
just so you know. Regular season winning streak.
00:48:19
I mean, you almost have to think it's the Patriots because they
00:48:21
they won 16. 1. Year and then they started hot
00:48:25
the next year, which is not unbelievable or didn't lose much
00:48:28
the previous season. I feel like they were like 22
00:48:30
wins or something. I'd be willing to bet that I
00:48:34
could let you guys guess 20 teams and you won't get this.
00:48:39
All right, so you're saying it's not the Patriots?
00:48:43
And it's not the Chiefs. All right, say your question
00:48:46
again. Longest regular season regular
00:48:49
winning streak? Maybe my because they were only.
00:48:52
Three games. 23 games. So Miami had 14.
00:48:57
I could see how they could maybe go 9.
00:48:58
I was one of the most dominant teams of all time.
00:49:00
I'm going to go Miami if it's not New England.
00:49:03
I thought was New England for sure though.
00:49:05
Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Colts had the
00:49:09
longest regular season winning streak, 23 regular season
00:49:13
winnings in a row. Was that AI?
00:49:14
Think they went 15 and O to start one season.
00:49:17
They went 15 and one and then they must have won.
00:49:20
The last of the last year before.
00:49:22
Yeah, Yeah, that's right. This team does not retire jersey
00:49:25
numbers. Huh?
00:49:26
Got a guess? They are in the AFC West.
00:49:33
Those are retired jersey numbers.
00:49:35
It's got to be the the. Raiders, Raiders, Raiders.
00:49:38
You cannot have a retired jersey if you are with the Raiders.
00:49:41
They don't do it. The last two the longest active
00:49:47
playoff drought. Just making the playoffs.
00:49:51
Just making it. Let's see here.
00:49:55
Just a cup of coffee in the playoffs.
00:49:57
Let me just take a quick look. They would absolutely love to
00:50:01
just see the playoffs. Cleveland or The Jets?
00:50:05
I feel like The Jets haven't been there in a very long Jets.
00:50:08
The Jets, they're the longest and then the final.
00:50:11
One Cleveland was there a couple years ago because Stefanski won
00:50:14
the coach of the year like 3. Seasons Baker Mayfield Baker
00:50:17
Mayfield season so last one the most Super Bowl appearances.
00:50:22
He's New England, so they went to so damn many.
00:50:24
Appropriately, 11 and about to be 12.
00:50:28
Yeah, the New England Patriots. They're also tied for the most
00:50:31
Super Bowl wins and most Super Bowl losses.
00:50:34
Six wins and five losses. So they have most wins, most
00:50:38
losses, and most Super Bowl appearances.
00:50:40
So that is NFL trivia. Fun, fun fun you have.
00:50:44
A favorite there. Anyone any any favorite?
00:50:46
There are those factoids that you got.
00:50:48
They are all a little bit different they they definitely
00:50:50
aren't easily scoopable out of thin air for.
00:50:53
Those absolutely not. Some Jukers.
00:50:56
I forgot how dominant Peyton Manning's Colts were.
00:51:01
That was back in his run. Yeah, they were.
00:51:03
That was also. Edrin, James.
00:51:04
Yeah, Edrin, James and Marvin. Edrin, James, Marvin Harrison,
00:51:09
Peyton Wayne, They were freaking beasts back.
00:51:12
Then they were top seed. Right.
00:51:14
They couldn't beat the Pat. They couldn't beat the Pats.
00:51:16
That's the thing. That was the thing.
00:51:18
They only beat him once and he won it all that year.
00:51:20
That's right. And when he was with the Denver,
00:51:23
Peyton Manning beat Brady again to go win that championships.
00:51:28
That was also pretty cool. He had to go through Brady both
00:51:30
times to win his 2 championships.
00:51:32
That's right, forgotten about the Bills being named after
00:51:36
Buffalo Bill Cody or whatever? Buffalo Bill Cody.
00:51:39
I know you wonder where some of these teams get their names.
00:51:41
I had. I had no idea about the Ravens.
00:51:42
I was like. Yeah, I was.
00:51:44
That's yeah, random guess when you said poem I was that just
00:51:47
popped in my head but. Not one.
00:51:49
Well, the Browns is kind of one of the laziest ones ever.
00:51:52
Paul Brown. Well, that was that's funny.
00:51:55
That's their that's their. Fun fact.
00:51:57
The ones I didn't do were named after the first coach.
00:52:00
Paul Brown. Yeah.
00:52:01
Only team with an undefeated season.
00:52:03
Everybody knows that's the Dolphins only NFL stadium with a
00:52:06
pool, the Jaguars. That's pretty bad, but that's
00:52:09
your fact. It's pretty.
00:52:11
Brutal. Originally known as the Oilers,
00:52:17
the Titans, you know, and founded on All Saints Day, the
00:52:22
New Orleans Saints. And then of course, this team is
00:52:25
publicly owned. Green.
00:52:28
Bay. Green Bay, One interesting one I
00:52:30
didn't mention was the the owner that created the NFL draft, and
00:52:34
that was owner Bert Bell from the Eagles created the idea of
00:52:39
the NFL draft, which has changed.
00:52:41
It's got to be one of the best ideas ever.
00:52:44
Yeah. So props, props to Bert Bell.
00:52:48
What are we doing after him? Like what are they doing?
00:52:52
Like, I want that guy, but I want that game.
00:52:55
I'm going to just. Signed him first, I'm going.
00:52:56
To pay him this $63. Yeah.
00:53:01
That's awesome. I'll give you $74 a game.
00:53:04
And a cup of the whiskey finance right from the stills.
00:53:10
So. Let's talk.
00:53:11
Carousel, coaches, carousel. Let's do it.
00:53:14
What do we got this week? Who's who's landed where?
00:53:17
What are we surprised by? I got to say there's a couple
00:53:21
that are interesting. I'm going to start in the Steel
00:53:23
City. What do you guys think?
00:53:25
So McCarthy. That is the most.
00:53:29
Vanilla choice I think you can make if you're looking and I
00:53:33
guess it fits, right. Pittsburgh Steelers, you're not
00:53:36
going to be flashy. They've never been flashy.
00:53:38
They've had what, 3 coaches? And it sort of fits except Mike
00:53:43
McCarthy won't be there 20 years, he'd be mid 80s.
00:53:45
So I mean, you're kind of automatically bucking the trend
00:53:48
there. And it's not like who's he
00:53:51
developing? If Aaron Rodgers comes back,
00:53:53
you're not developing a 43 year old and they don't really have
00:53:58
anyone else. I mean, the Ohio State guy is
00:54:00
not ready. I don't know, maybe he is, but
00:54:03
that just seems. But here's.
00:54:05
What I didn't know, I guess I didn't know he is from
00:54:07
Pittsburgh. So he's going home and
00:54:09
apparently showed up to the interview wearing Pittsburgh
00:54:11
Steelers like a Pittsburgh Thai. He grew up in the Steel City.
00:54:15
Like it's, it's a pretty good pick when you think about that.
00:54:19
So I think it's you've locked yourself into at least ten and
00:54:24
seven, nine and eight, wherever you're at, right?
00:54:28
I think it's a good hire. That feels like he feels, feels
00:54:30
perfect for a nine and eight, Yeah, doesn't he?
00:54:33
He feels like, I mean, to be fair, he has won a Super Bowl.
00:54:38
Yeah, many, many moons. You.
00:54:39
Know he did win a Super Bowl. Yep.
00:54:42
And. In the in the Dallas.
00:54:45
Cowboys has some coach. Aaron Rodgers, Yep.
00:54:48
But the Dallas Cowboys team was pretty good when he was there.
00:54:51
So I think there might be a little more upside.
00:54:54
I don't know. I mean, Tomlin's not a bad
00:54:55
coach. The fact that he did as much as
00:54:57
he did with utter crap each and every year for two decades, and
00:55:01
he's been working with Mason Rudolph's, he's been working
00:55:04
with, and you pick it, you've been working with not a lot.
00:55:07
Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, the total twilight of career,
00:55:11
Aaron Rodgers and he takes all those teams to the playoffs.
00:55:16
So Tomlin really is an incredible coach when you get
00:55:19
down to it. And to be able to fire people up
00:55:22
for two decades, that's something.
00:55:24
So McCarthy, he's he's filling big shoes.
00:55:27
But I think almost it's a smart idea to bring someone with a
00:55:30
much tenure and kind of background that McCarthy has.
00:55:35
It's a pretty smart hire for Pittsburgh, I think.
00:55:37
How much you prove? What do you think?
00:55:40
It, it struck me as a little odd.
00:55:42
I didn't know the Pittsburgh story.
00:55:43
I hadn't read that much about it yet.
00:55:45
So I don't know, I guess it's fine.
00:55:47
I didn't feel like it was a yeah.
00:55:49
Now we can finally, you know, go go back to the Super.
00:55:53
Bowl. Right.
00:55:55
I don't know. I didn't get super excited about
00:55:57
it or anything when I heard the news, but it's fine.
00:56:00
He'll do fine. He does have a lot of experience
00:56:02
and he'll I mean he'll it'll be AI think if.
00:56:07
Appropriate the word was appropriate.
00:56:10
The ex vanilla yeah like yeah OK, so like it's not you're not
00:56:14
going to be like that's horrible.
00:56:17
You know, you're not going to be like, oh, it's phenomenal hire,
00:56:19
but it's kind. Of like, all right, I bet
00:56:22
Pittsburgh fans are kind of reacting like, actually, I don't
00:56:25
know if this is true. When the Chiefs got Andy Reid,
00:56:28
we were ecstatic. Like, Oh my God, we got a guy
00:56:31
who's gone to like, multiple championship games.
00:56:33
He's been to a Super Bowl, didn't when it got it, but this
00:56:37
guy knows what the hell he's doing.
00:56:39
This is going to be good. But we were going through some
00:56:41
train wrecks of coaches when we got that.
00:56:43
We didn't go from a 20 year Tomlin with no losing records.
00:56:47
We had, that's right, God, we had Todd Haley's and we had
00:56:50
just. Gunther Cunningham.
00:56:51
Romeo Cornell, Gunther Cunningham.
00:56:54
Yellow Glasses. So when you're going from that
00:56:57
to Andy Reid, that's a little bit different than going from
00:56:59
Mike Tomlin to Mike McCarthy. It's different.
00:57:02
But I feel like they're going to feel comfortable, like for like,
00:57:04
OK, we got someone that's in charge, knows what they're
00:57:06
doing. He hasn't been out of the game
00:57:08
forever, one season away from being the.
00:57:10
Head of the. Dallas Cowboys, the market's not
00:57:13
going to be too much. Games aren't going to be too
00:57:14
much, situations aren't going to be too much.
00:57:17
I think it's a smart hire. I like it.
00:57:19
What do you guys think about is Chris Shula and Brian Flores,
00:57:23
who I think would have been younger, more exciting coaches?
00:57:26
And seems to be what they usually do because they usually
00:57:28
hire a guy who's got more runway.
00:57:30
To your point, this is definitely a guy who's, you
00:57:32
know, I mean, maybe 3 or 4 years.
00:57:33
He's not going to be there super long time.
00:57:35
You wouldn't think at his age. But, you know.
00:57:38
So let's go to the poets, the Ravens.
00:57:41
Yeah, they made a hire Jesse Mentor.
00:57:44
What do you guys think about Jesse Mentor?
00:57:48
So defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Chargers, and they
00:57:52
were one of the top defenses in the league.
00:57:55
There's another one. Pass defense, right?
00:57:57
Yeah, the number one pass defense, and he built that
00:58:00
defense pretty darn fast because the Chargers defense was not
00:58:03
always really that good. It was decent, but they became
00:58:06
elite. And again, Jim Harbaugh, that's
00:58:08
what he's going to do, is find someone that knows how to build
00:58:11
him a great defense. And did I think he's a smart
00:58:14
hire? And I didn't.
00:58:15
I guess I forgot that he was with John Harbaugh on his staff
00:58:20
before he went to the Chargers. So he's really coming back home.
00:58:23
So I think it's not that surprising, like it might be off
00:58:27
the radar pick for some people, but when you think he's already
00:58:29
been in the Ravens, he's he knows what the Ravens game plan
00:58:33
is. He knows the Ravens style.
00:58:34
He knows the story, the franchise, He knows how to be a
00:58:38
Raven. He learned from John Harbaugh.
00:58:39
So I think that's a pretty good hire as well.
00:58:41
Peru, do you? Are you fine with that one, or
00:58:44
is it not big enough when you're filling up John Harbaugh's
00:58:46
replacement? All right, if you're John
00:58:48
Harbaugh, do you feel like that's a middle finger from the
00:58:51
Ravens organization to go higher, the guy you trained away
00:58:54
from another team to come back and.
00:58:56
So I, that's the first thought I had for it.
00:58:59
It did feel like, it's like they, they don't think what they
00:59:03
were doing is wrong. They just need like a new voice
00:59:07
because it's like, yeah, you know, it's like the system's
00:59:09
going to be the same because it's a guy who had the system
00:59:12
and they had great defenses under him.
00:59:14
So it's like it's, it's really literally like they just said,
00:59:18
we need to change like so it could it could be an F you.
00:59:21
I originally thought that too is like an F you, but it's almost
00:59:24
like a actually you're doing all right.
00:59:27
We just needed somebody to speak differently and like energize
00:59:31
the bass and like. I don't think it's intentional
00:59:34
from the Ravens toward John Harbaugh, but if I was Harbaugh,
00:59:37
I would feel a little bit miffed that the guy that worked for me,
00:59:41
that I trained and whatever that I got ousted for so they could
00:59:46
bring him back into the organization or whatever.
00:59:48
You got a dupe. You had the original, you got a
00:59:50
dupe. What's up with?
00:59:51
That yeah, like. Why would you?
00:59:54
Why would you want the dupe when you get up?
00:59:55
The real thing I. Don't get it.
00:59:56
That was one thought I had, but I I kind of agree with you
00:59:58
though. It's like he's been there long
01:00:00
enough. He's had his shot.
01:00:02
Maybe you take a guy that you know has been coached up
01:00:05
similarly that that can step. They like the philosophy.
01:00:09
That's exactly right. They don't want anyone to rock
01:00:11
the boat and come in and be like, I don't need you to do
01:00:13
anything too different, right? We still have Lamar Jackson,
01:00:17
multiple MVP winner. We don't need to do much.
01:00:21
The defense. We got better the second-half
01:00:23
because we were ripping on Yeah it.
01:00:25
Was way beginning. It was horrible.
01:00:27
The second-half they. Became a playoff team, which
01:00:29
weird they started winning when you start making stops and not
01:00:32
giving up 35 points a game. And when that came through, I
01:00:36
think they're thinking if they can start that way.
01:00:38
And I think the offensive coordinator hire, I don't know
01:00:41
if they I don't think they've done it yet.
01:00:43
But regardless, that's going to be a key position for this team
01:00:46
is how do you get the most out of Lamar and kind of help them
01:00:50
out and then better keep drafted lineman.
01:00:52
That's pretty darn important. But let's go to another team
01:00:56
though. I like one of these chairs.
01:00:58
I want to get your take on it. So Atlanta, this is one of the
01:01:02
ones the teams we thought had a lot of talent and we thought
01:01:04
they'd win their division this year and they had a legitimate
01:01:07
shot to go pretty deep with the talent they have.
01:01:09
They got Kevin Stefanski, who has got to be happy as all get
01:01:13
out to be leaving that Cleveland shish kabob show.
01:01:17
Even though he won coach of the year there once and the fact
01:01:19
that he survived that long, he probably should have won another
01:01:21
just by existing and. Making it.
01:01:23
Through all that junk, because that was a carousel and a half,
01:01:27
but going to Atlanta, a team that now we know has never won
01:01:30
an NFL championship, what do you think about that hire?
01:01:36
Yeah, I, I'll tell you what, Stefanski is a guy who is kind
01:01:40
of polarizing. People either say he's really
01:01:42
good or they say he's awful. It's funny.
01:01:44
You can read all kinds of takes on him.
01:01:46
Yeah, I I think it's a phenomenal hire.
01:01:49
I think the the only person who's going to be sad about this
01:01:51
is his psychiatrist to Cleveland who's losing the losing the
01:01:56
three times a week business that he's probably had to deal with.
01:01:59
Because if so, fans, he's got to be happy.
01:02:01
He's he's walking into a situation.
01:02:03
He's got a lot of talent. There, start with B, you know,
01:02:07
right off the bat. Like, I mean, you're going.
01:02:09
To be a lot of fun. Drake London, You got Drake
01:02:12
London, you got Bijon, you got Kyle Pitts.
01:02:14
Whether or not you know he's mercurial, Kyle is.
01:02:17
But. And then you're going to have
01:02:18
the decision to make a quarterback.
01:02:21
You need a little more help on defense, but hey, it's way
01:02:23
better than what you left. And and there's there's AI think
01:02:30
he's he's going in to where the expectations aren't phenomenal.
01:02:33
It's not it's not like they expect him to go and win the
01:02:35
division right out of the gate. So I love it.
01:02:37
I I think he's a guy who's dealt with chaos.
01:02:39
He's he's had to deal with the worst chaos you could deal with
01:02:43
and he builds good systems. I like it.
01:02:45
I think it's a good hire. What do you think Brew?
01:02:47
No, I I totally agree. I think he's, yeah, the
01:02:51
expectation might not be to win their division, but he's got a
01:02:54
shot at it. He's got a real shot.
01:02:57
Exactly. If you're going to the NFC
01:02:58
South, you're starting with a. A reasonable chance to.
01:03:02
Win. I mean, they tied for three
01:03:04
teams, tied for first. They all tied for first, 8-9.
01:03:08
Right. That's atrocious.
01:03:10
All you have to do is have a winning record and you win the
01:03:12
division. And they weren't, I mean, those
01:03:14
are not horrible teams, right? There's.
01:03:16
No. It's a competitive division.
01:03:19
It's not. There's no runaway.
01:03:21
Carolina showed they can play. Atlanta came out and won their
01:03:26
last four games or whatever to finish at 89.
01:03:28
And like, there's flashes of brilliance throughout there.
01:03:31
It's just getting some consistency and a guy that
01:03:35
coached a terrible team for a long time and and kind of kept
01:03:37
them afloat at least. Yeah, he's got a shot at winning
01:03:41
that he got. He got that Cleveland team to
01:03:43
the playoffs. Yeah.
01:03:45
I mean that is hard to do. Yes, I'd say it's something.
01:03:49
Let's say something. Let's it's not for nothing.
01:03:52
Well, what do you think about? OK, so another another
01:03:56
interesting controversial firing was in Buffalo.
01:04:00
Yep, they they interviewed Brian Dabel, which would have been
01:04:04
interesting. They interviewed Philip Rivers,
01:04:07
very intriguing idea, but then they landed on in house
01:04:12
offensive coordinator Joe Brady. So again, this is an interesting
01:04:17
one. Prue, as you mentioned before,
01:04:21
you know this guy's from the coaching staff.
01:04:24
It's already there. Yeah, you.
01:04:26
Fired the head coach. What do you guys think about
01:04:28
this one? That one's less of a slap to me
01:04:31
then mentor, you know, going to another team and then being
01:04:36
brought back to take over for your coach.
01:04:38
Like that one feels right. A little more stab in the back
01:04:41
ish to me than having somebody that's already in the system
01:04:45
already there. Yeah.
01:04:47
And you can make the argument the opposite way too, that the
01:04:49
guy that's already in in house has taken taken over.
01:04:54
That's a bit of a stabbing back too.
01:04:55
But I don't know, it just feels a little dirtier to me to bring
01:04:59
a guy back into the organization and have him replace the coach
01:05:04
that he worked for. This one loses the sexy meter
01:05:06
for me. So Joe Brady, he's funny.
01:05:09
His last year he was a very hot coaching.
01:05:12
Yeah, he was talent that was out there.
01:05:14
I mean. You had, have you been a Josh
01:05:15
before? No, not that tracking.
01:05:18
I don't remember that being a. Thing he was been the office of
01:05:20
the coordinator with the. Bills for a while, yeah, but he
01:05:23
knows that the offense isn't going to change.
01:05:25
I mean, I think it's safe to say that's the look, but the problem
01:05:28
is, is his cupboard is going to be more bare.
01:05:30
The problem with Buffalo is they keep getting less talented
01:05:33
across the board except for Josh Allen.
01:05:35
I mean, they're running out some retreads and they're they're
01:05:39
missing on draft picks and Keon Coleman is a flop and they
01:05:43
drafted him to be Stefan Diggs replacement.
01:05:47
He's not. You may not be on the team and
01:05:49
so you just don't have much there.
01:05:51
I mean, Khalil Shakur, it's not scary.
01:05:54
I mean, he's effective, don't get me wrong, but they don't
01:05:57
have a lot of scary people. It's James Cook and Josh Allen.
01:06:01
That's who you're afraid of. Is that enough?
01:06:04
I don't know. I mean, they're going to have to
01:06:05
fix the defense. They got a lot of holes on
01:06:07
offense and Joe Brady's like I think Sean McDermott did an
01:06:12
incredible job taking. I don't think they the cupboard
01:06:15
was as full as some of these other teams and.
01:06:17
He got, I don't. I don't know how their offense
01:06:21
scores points, to be honest. I don't either.
01:06:25
Half a wide receiver and James Cook is awesome.
01:06:28
Of course it's. It's very much, it's very much
01:06:31
Josh Allen willing points on the board.
01:06:33
It feels like most of the time, Yeah.
01:06:35
And I. Guess you gotta give Joe Brady
01:06:36
some credit as the offensive coordinator.
01:06:38
They squeezing water out of a rock each week.
01:06:41
And it's. Not all Josh Allen runs up the
01:06:43
middle, but he's got to make the play still, I think.
01:06:46
Well, you know, he had to have had to say Josh Allen had to
01:06:50
have damn near picked his coach. Oh, that's right.
01:06:53
You're going to let him have a say?
01:06:55
Well, his biggest, his biggest accomplishment was 20/19.
01:06:58
He was the OC for LSU Tigers and you might remember 1.
01:07:02
Joe Burrow was the quarterback, so he he really made his name in
01:07:07
college at LSU, his first. Job and Justin Jefferson, Joe
01:07:11
Burrow, he only had more talent, I guess.
01:07:13
Right, which it was. So that's the part that's what I
01:07:16
wanted to call out. That's what I want to call out
01:07:18
about Joe Brady. So that was his thing right?
01:07:21
Now, I'm not saying I could have coached that team offensively.
01:07:24
Throw it to that guy. But maybe.
01:07:27
But maybe I'm not. I'm not.
01:07:29
Saying I'm not, I'm not going to say.
01:07:34
So then he went to the Panthers. He was the OC for the Panthers
01:07:38
under Matt Rule. And then now he's got Buffalo
01:07:43
and he's been there was their quarterbacks coach and under Ken
01:07:48
Dorsey, who was the OC. And then in 2023, they fired
01:07:52
Dorsey and made him the guy. So he's been the guy there for
01:07:56
two years as the OC. He's only 36.
01:08:00
It feels a bit riskier to me than I would like.
01:08:04
That's interesting that he's he's been the survivor twice of
01:08:08
an internal like you're right, his his predecessor got fired
01:08:13
and he got promoted. Yeah, that's right.
01:08:16
Twice now they must think. I wouldn't want this.
01:08:19
I wouldn't want this dude working for me.
01:08:20
That's all I'm saying. I've got your back on.
01:08:24
I got you. We have to make her the head
01:08:26
coach because nobody else will come in and work for you, you
01:08:29
know, ahead of you. Totally.
01:08:31
This dude's the Grim Reaper, man.
01:08:33
He's he's working for you. You're gone.
01:08:35
I mean, that is, that is something else, but interesting.
01:08:39
The last one, the last one Dex wanted your thought on is Jeff
01:08:43
Haffley. Yeah.
01:08:46
So Miami. So this, you know, Mike
01:08:49
McDaniel, super sexy, trendy, offensive guru, offensive
01:08:55
genius, kind of fit Miami, and now Jeff Haffley.
01:09:01
What do we think about Jeff Haffley?
01:09:04
So Green Bay's defensive coordinator, and Green Bay did
01:09:07
have a very good defense this year, better with Michael
01:09:10
Parsons. And frankly, if they would have
01:09:12
had Michael Parsons, they might have continued to be playing
01:09:15
with the games they lost. There's a couple plays he didn't
01:09:17
make on defense. But that being said, what I find
01:09:21
interesting is that Miami was gone with a defensive mindset at
01:09:24
head coach, which is it's a fresh look for a Miami team
01:09:28
that's been all offense and all bells and whistles and the
01:09:31
fastest team in the league. It's not far fetched to think
01:09:34
this draft's going to look a little bit different.
01:09:36
Miami fans got a defensive head coach like I don't need a 433
01:09:40
guy anymore. I need a 44 linebacker that's
01:09:43
going to truck that 4 three guy. So I think you're going to see a
01:09:46
shift in philosophy and it can't be worse.
01:09:49
I mean, what's been working in Miami at least for one season?
01:09:54
They've didn't. Work this year.
01:09:56
Flipped back because it was Brian Flores.
01:09:58
Who's another? Yep, and they were successful.
01:10:00
Defensive coach and they went to McDaniel and now they're back to
01:10:04
a defensive minded coach. That's.
01:10:07
Right, bad hire. I don't think we know too much
01:10:09
about him, but as far as does he was one of those with a lot of
01:10:13
buzz about him. I don't know.
01:10:16
Would they have waited for Shula or Kubiak if they could have
01:10:19
waited? I don't know.
01:10:21
But they decided to pull the trigger and say I'm taking this
01:10:23
guy now. So it must have been something
01:10:25
they liked about him. Yeah, I think it's good.
01:10:27
Some of this not as sexy. I want to go to Tennessee and
01:10:29
get your take on this one. Chisholm is Robert Sala, so
01:10:32
former Jets head coach and then went to be the defensive
01:10:36
coordinator for San Francisco. Alec Counts did a great job
01:10:39
with, yes, just band aids and duct tape to keep that deep
01:10:43
rolling. And he still got them into the
01:10:45
second round of playoffs. What do you think about Robert
01:10:48
Sala going back to Tennessee? Dude, I love going to Tennessee.
01:10:52
I love it. I love Robert Sala.
01:10:55
I think he, I think he kind of got a raw deal in New York when
01:10:59
he was there. I feel like that wasn't really a
01:11:01
fair set up to have. Like there was just so much crap
01:11:05
going on when he was there. They were then he fielded
01:11:08
competitive teams then He's always had a really good
01:11:11
defensive mindset. I love the idea of a of building
01:11:15
that defense in Tennessee. Yeah, I think that's the way
01:11:19
they need to win there. And so I think it's a good hire.
01:11:24
And, and, and I was, and I'm shocked, you know, we were just
01:11:27
talking about before they brought in Brian Dabel as the
01:11:31
OC, which I love. So you got a guy whose whose
01:11:35
brain is defense and he's smart enough to realize he needs a guy
01:11:39
who's like, and I think he will, I think he'll hand offense over
01:11:42
to Dabel and be like. You do it offense, I'm going to
01:11:45
do defense and then have a coordinator that helps me put
01:11:47
that vision together. And I think, oh, and you guys
01:11:51
back me on this. But when you get that second
01:11:53
opportunity to be a head coach, oh.
01:11:55
Yeah, it. Almost always goes better
01:11:57
because especially if your first was in New York and that buzz
01:12:00
saw the media show and you get to go to now Nashville, you're
01:12:03
going to be going into a new stadium.
01:12:05
And Cam Ward talked about in the preview, we've got kids, work
01:12:09
ethic. He's got a lot of talent.
01:12:11
The White House he's going to be working with.
01:12:12
So AO Manor and the other dude I'm blanking on right this?
01:12:15
2nd. Yeah, They think they've got
01:12:17
some young talent that can do a lot of good things.
01:12:20
And so Dabo's going to, I think, a great fit.
01:12:24
Like he was the one that was in the running multiple of these
01:12:26
jobs. I think he interviewed for
01:12:29
Pittsburgh for sure. I don't know who else
01:12:31
officially, but I know he was one of the hot coaching ones out
01:12:34
there even though he didn't have the.
01:12:35
Best. In the Giants obviously, but he
01:12:38
was coach of the year 2 years ago with the playoffs with the
01:12:41
Daniel Jones. It wasn't that good and good
01:12:44
enough, I guess, but Dabel's going to be right.
01:12:46
He's going to like working with Cam Ward, I think.
01:12:49
I think so too. The combination of those two
01:12:51
guys, Sala and Dabel, that's a pretty firepower heavy, you
01:12:55
know, coaching staff. That's a great situation for a
01:12:59
young team that's that needs some direction.
01:13:03
Well, and they and they needed to because they have been a
01:13:05
dumpster fire with their decisions over the last five
01:13:08
years. So Mike Vrabel ends up being a
01:13:11
pretty decent coach since he's going back to the Super Bowl.
01:13:14
Like that might have been a guy they should have held on to, but
01:13:16
they decided he wasn't the guy. So now they've got another
01:13:19
defensive guy who who's coming in, which is probably, probably
01:13:23
a good thing. So that that leaves us with
01:13:25
three jobs that are open, not surprisingly, The three that are
01:13:29
open, maybe because no one wants them.
01:13:32
Yeah. The Arizona Cardinals, the
01:13:34
Cleveland Browns and the Las Vegas Raiders.
01:13:37
Yeah. Oh, dear God, what poor soul is
01:13:40
going to go to these? These are the names that are
01:13:42
being circulated right now. Arizona has interviewed Anthony
01:13:46
Campanile, who's the Jaguars defensive coordinator, Mike
01:13:50
Lafleur and Anthony Weaver. The Browns have interviewed Nate
01:13:55
Steelha, Steelhaus, Jim Schwartz and Todd Munkin.
01:14:02
And the Raiders. The Raiders have interviewed
01:14:06
Davis Webb. Is the Broncos OC.
01:14:09
Clint Kubiak, At least I've heard of him.
01:14:11
Vance Joseph, That's who I've heard of as well.
01:14:14
So that's who the Raiders have. Like who's going to I?
01:14:18
Mean those are of these three. Jobs Of these three jobs,
01:14:22
Cardinals, Browns, Raiders. Which one are you going for?
01:14:25
Crew. Cardinals, Browns, Raiders.
01:14:30
IT1 stands out to me. Would you rather?
01:14:32
It's got to be the rather. Stab yourself in the eye or kick
01:14:35
yourself in the nuts or like which put your hand.
01:14:39
I agree. It's got to be the Raiders,
01:14:41
right? It's got.
01:14:42
To be the Raiders, you get the 1st overall pick, you have Ash
01:14:45
and Gentie, you've got Brock Bowers.
01:14:47
You've got. Matt Crosby, you've got some
01:14:49
pieces. You're.
01:14:50
Stepping into a probably the most competitive division, but.
01:14:55
That's the problem. It is.
01:14:56
It's really tough. Your owner's kind of a nominals,
01:14:59
though. The Cardinals you really want to
01:15:00
go Seattle and Rams do. That.
01:15:04
I'm not going to go with no quarterback and jump into that
01:15:07
buzz saw. Zero chance.
01:15:09
And then Cleveland is Cleveland. It's just Cleveland.
01:15:14
What else do you need to even say about that circus of junk
01:15:18
and Oh my God. Speaking, I mean, I think, I
01:15:20
think I'm turning that job. Down I need you guys to Fact
01:15:22
Check this real quick. Was I heard on the radio today
01:15:27
that I can't I'm actually looking this up.
01:15:30
I cannot believe this is. True.
01:15:31
I'll look it up for you. Should doer Sanders his name to
01:15:34
the pro ball he was? Should doer Sanders name pro
01:15:37
ball replacement and. Replacement.
01:15:41
But that's Next up. Oh my God, I feel like I can go
01:15:44
like nearly every other quarterback in the AFC to go
01:15:49
ahead of them. You're joking.
01:15:51
No, I will. I don't understand how this
01:15:53
happened. I don't understand this at all.
01:15:57
How did this get so Drake Payne is not able to make it because
01:16:03
he's going to the Super Bowl so they needed a replacement?
01:16:05
Josh Allen probably turned him down.
01:16:07
Patrick's hurt. It says, it says it says May
01:16:12
Justin Herbert and Josh Allen were on the original AFC roster
01:16:15
when the selections were made. Herbert and Allen dealt with
01:16:18
injuries, then their seasons. Other AFC quarterbacks,
01:16:22
including Patrick Mahomes, Daniel Jones, Bo Nicks also
01:16:25
suffered season ending surgeries.
01:16:27
Yeah, Trevor Lawrence opted out of the event.
01:16:31
Yeah, so I think he was literally like the only.
01:16:36
He's the one that's like. I'll do it.
01:16:39
I'll do. It me, me, me, me, me.
01:16:44
Seriously though, Can't Ward. Can't Ward.
01:16:46
Should have had this guy. Yeah, I would have taken over
01:16:49
him. Come on.
01:16:50
Hell put Aaron put in there. Yeah, I mean, what in the?
01:16:55
World so much. Or Lamar.
01:16:58
What should doer Sanders, I mean, pull up his stand.
01:17:03
It's just atrocious. And the perhaps the name Pro
01:17:06
Bowl is like Pro Bowl rookie should do it, saying check it.
01:17:11
I don't know, man. That's hard for me to get
01:17:12
behind. Was Dion part of the committee
01:17:15
or? What it has had to have been
01:17:17
right His. His Really.
01:17:20
Bizarre his. QBR His You know what his QBR
01:17:23
was for the season? 70, I don't know, yeah.
01:17:26
That's where I'm going to go around 88 tops. 18.9. 18.
01:17:34
He threw seven. He threw 7 touchdowns and 10
01:17:39
interceptions, 56% completion and 1400 yards. 1400 yards is
01:17:51
what it takes to get a Pro Bowl. I like that is gosh.
01:17:55
That is, that's embarrassed. When everybody's hurt and
01:17:57
replaced, that's not good. 16 teams, like 12 quarterbacks are
01:18:03
hurt and one can't go. QBR 18.9 I would take that is.
01:18:09
Phillip Rivers before I would have taken Sanders.
01:18:12
Absolutely, absolutely. Or there's anybody, there's
01:18:17
other choices out there that didn't get an 18 QBR.
01:18:20
That's embarrassing. Yeah, I mean, CJ Stroud didn't
01:18:24
help his cause in the playoffs, but.
01:18:26
Yeah, I. Think Stroud over him though,
01:18:28
or. Davis Mills, there's there's
01:18:31
backups out there better than the.
01:18:33
Sanders, Houston and, I bet, Davis.
01:18:35
Milsen, he's, I bet he's got more.
01:18:37
I bet he's got better stats than right.
01:18:40
I'm thinking he does. Sanders.
01:18:42
What'd he go for? No.
01:18:43
Yeah. I mean.
01:18:45
That's crazy. I just wanted to hit on that.
01:18:47
I thought I was like. I thought, I thought.
01:18:49
I was getting pranked on the radio.
01:18:51
I was like, well, that'd be really weird to even say.
01:18:54
So I knew I wanted to check it out beforehand, but yeah, that's
01:18:57
crazy. All right, so that'll wrap up
01:19:00
for this show for this week, Shrewdness.
01:19:02
Next week, we'll be doing our Super Bowl preview.
01:19:05
We're going to do our awards preview.
01:19:07
So who we think's going to win all the awards?
01:19:09
And frankly, given some of the odds makers by Vegas, these
01:19:12
don't look like they're gonna be too shocking.
01:19:14
But we'll talk about that. If there's another higher with
01:19:16
our last predictions, right, we had predictions at the beginning
01:19:20
of the season. I thought we're gonna run over
01:19:21
those and how awesome we did on those.
01:19:24
We were close on it, almost. We're gonna hit up.
01:19:27
The rest of the carousel, So we'll see if anyone is brave
01:19:30
enough to touch Cleveland, Vegas or Arizona.
01:19:34
And maybe it's one of the Super Bowl coaches on the staff that
01:19:38
might take these. So they still might not have an
01:19:41
answer. But if one of those teams gets
01:19:42
their higher, we'll talk about that.
01:19:44
And if any of the other teams get some offensive defensive
01:19:47
coordinators, we'll hit up those as well.
01:19:49
But again, follow us on the socials.
01:19:51
We have one more island probably to go.
01:19:53
Oh my God, we didn't do betting jizz.
01:19:54
You want to hit that real fast, Just go through kind of.
01:19:57
Yeah, I'll do it real quick. I'll just say what what happened
01:20:00
this this week we went 2 for three in our game picks.
01:20:06
Yeah, so we did you right there, Denver, New England under what?
01:20:10
The rock fight was true. The Rams, Seattle over, we were
01:20:14
right on that. We missed on New England -5 1/2
01:20:17
because they just decided to not score any more points.
01:20:19
So well, they missed the field 2.
01:20:21
And they missed. The field a little wide right
01:20:23
that would have made it -6 and covered.
01:20:25
So that's got us at 52% overall for the year.
01:20:29
If you go over to our props, we had a mixed bag, but not bad.
01:20:33
Over the AFC Championship weekend, we had 50%, which puts
01:20:36
us at 52 1/2 percent on the overall hit rate, but more
01:20:40
importantly the parlay is hitting at 17%, which puts you
01:20:44
in the money significantly 5. Percent ahead of pace. 5.
01:20:48
Percent ahead of pace, so we will have more picks coming next
01:20:51
week for the for the Super Bowl. All right, that wraps us up for
01:20:56
the week. Thank you for listening.
01:20:58
Hope you had a good time with us.
01:20:59
We sure had a great time talking about this stuff.
01:21:02
So while you're going through the weekend, getting ready and
01:21:04
prepping up, just be good to yourself, be good to your family
01:21:08
and stay shrewd. Take care of y'all.