Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules - Aqib Talib on the 2015 AFC Championship | Patriots vs. Broncos

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Aqib Talib is in studio! The Super Bowl winning cornerback is with us to relive a classic edition of the storied Broncos vs. Patriots rivalry: the 2015 AFC Championship Game. We're talking his days on... the Patriots, his favorite receivers to battle with, and a whole lot more.  (00:00) We kick things off with Aqib Talib. (37:22) We go back to January 2015. (43:55) We get into the teams (1:07:31) We dive into the game. (1:36:10) We score the game. Support the show: https://hoo.be/dudesondudesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:55 to Games with Names. Let's go. Games with Names a production of IHeartRadio. Welcome to games with names. Today we are looking at the 2015 AFC championship between the Patriots and Broncos here with Akeeb freaking Tilibe.
Starting point is 00:03:15 Unchane. Akeep Taleb. Unchane. They don't know about that. They don't know about that. We'll get into that. We got our chains on today. But in one sentence, Akeb,
Starting point is 00:03:27 my guy, why this game? The funnest game of my life. Whoa. This was the funnest game of my life, bro. This was my Super Bowl. Why? I mean, Camdenham, that was a great game, but that wasn't no fucking Super Bowl. Like, we knew we was going to beat the shit out there.
Starting point is 00:03:47 We knew the win out of this game is going to win the Super Bowl, you know what I'm saying? So we prepared for this game like it was the Super Bowl. Camden ran like nine plays, bro. It was like, you feel you? We knew we were going to beat the shit. They wanted to line up and kind of just. Bullish out of key men No real shit
Starting point is 00:04:05 They wanted to line up And just bully you right I mean y'all won't go line up and bully us Brut like we knew nobody Won't go line up and bully us Now y'all Shit y'all come out too tight ends Y'all come out 21 personnel
Starting point is 00:04:16 Y'all could come out 11 Like we ain't know what kind of What offense we was going to face You know what I'm saying First we got to figure that out Then we're going against you We're going against the goat You feel me
Starting point is 00:04:25 It's Bill Grog We'll get into the game more We'll get into the game more Is this the greatest game of all time Ooh, greatest game of all the time. It's up there. It's definitely, I mean, it's some great games out there.
Starting point is 00:04:40 So I don't know if we can stamp it the greatest game of all time. But to you? To you. To me, this is the greatest game of all time. Yeah, it is. That's awesome, man. We always ask all our guests that because we want to see how important this game is to that person. Oh, this is the greatest game of all.
Starting point is 00:04:59 To me, for sure, greatest game of all time. Awesome. So what are we up to these days? Man, working, man. Same thing you're doing, man. A lot of mics in our face and shit, you know what I'm saying? We want the money that we made to just keep on making money. And then we want to pay our bills with all this shit right here.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Exactly. Same shit you're doing, you know. What were we working at? The arena gridiron, man. The arena gridiron. I'm watching. I just wanted to hear coming. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Hey, it's live. I'm saying it's the perfect vibe for leave. You know what I'm saying? I had some little Amazon action. I would have been buttoned up. Here we go. And like, you know, you feel me? I had Fox action.
Starting point is 00:05:42 This is the perfect vibe for lead, man. I love it. You kill it. And you do a great job. Thank you, brother. I mean, even when he's over here breaking down this game that we're not supposed to get into yet until we have to get into, he's talking personnel groups and shit. And he's talking about the nine plays that Cam played in.
Starting point is 00:06:00 You know what I mean? That's what I mean. Hey, man, that's all I know. That's what people don't realize. Akeep. That's all I know. The great corners. The great corners are fucking geniuses.
Starting point is 00:06:10 I ain't no ball for real. And he taught, he brought up those personnel groups because he's doing math in his head. With that personnel group, they have seven plays out of this. This guy runs these three, like, that's how fucking mathematician these fucking great corners are. That's real. Now, how is it fucking working with Skip Bayless arguing against this guy all day? I love Skip. You know, you have no idea.
Starting point is 00:06:33 All you know is what's on Twitter. You feel me? You get there, man. Skip show nothing but love, bro. He's the nicest dude in the world. Man, we do what we do on set, offset, man. Skip asks about your family. He asks about, he's just real genuine, man.
Starting point is 00:06:51 He's a pro. He's a pro, man. I love working with Skip. Yeah. I love it. It's nothing that I don't love about it. What's the craziest take, Skip has had? The craziest take Skip his head is probably his time and not being able to be an owner and work for Fox because he's getting this inside information.
Starting point is 00:07:18 It's a conflict of it. So much scheming. Skip really thinks that on. Yeah, Skip really think that though. Like, oh, he's getting the information and nobody's going to want to talk. to them because of the info and I'm like Skip it ain't I don't did these production meetings it ain't even that serious
Starting point is 00:07:35 No it's like how are you doing because they ain't going to say anything anyway And that's what I'm telling him like Skip We are programmed To not tell you shit anyway You know what I'm saying So hey it is what it is You feel me
Starting point is 00:07:48 Now how do you win an argument against Skip I win them all the time I'm striking Skip ass I win them all the time You know what I'm saying? Just come with your info, your insight, man. I'm saying. Whop the shit, I skip on the debates.
Starting point is 00:08:05 Now, how much football are you watching and how much homework are you doing for this show? Because when I watch, you're fucking, you're dialed with all your stats. It's a lot, man. You know, I got my setup. I got the theater screen with the main game. I got the four games going on the side. So I follow those. Really watch this one.
Starting point is 00:08:25 We get a nice little rundown. What we're going to cover? I make sure I go watch. those games, the condensed version, a 30-minute version. I go watch those games, man. I'm a football fan, man. I love watching ball anyway, you know what I'm saying? It's just giving me a reason to really lock in and do it.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Honestly, it's if you watch the game, you can talk. You just got to watch the game because you can pick up three or four things that people really won't see. Exactly. And all you got to do is watch the game. That's all you got to do is watching, bro. Now, you grew up in Cleveland until you were 12. Then you went to Dallas.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Which teams did you? follow as a kid for football, baseball. I was Cleveland in Trenton, New Jersey. My dad was in Triton, New Jersey, so I kind of school here, summer there. Then school here, summer there, all the way until I was 12. But we was Cowboys fans, man.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Big Bro had me locked in. He used to fucking test me. Hey, who is this? Nate Newton, Guard. Who is this? That's Darrell Johnson. He used to test me with these cowboy cars. That's where my love for the game came from.
Starting point is 00:09:26 Big bro, man. I'm telling you. He died hard. Cowboys fan. He was Emmett Smith. I was Irvin. Until Dion came, then I was Dion. We in the street with it, man. So Cowboys fans, man. Did you have those Dions that were like the zebras? I did. With the strapped, with the gold. White Christmas. One Christmas. Same. I'm telling you, I don't want nothing to know that. I just want the Dions. I just want the Dions. The Dions. Give me the Dions. He got the Dions and the Madden. Madden was icing on the cake. You didn't have the prime time CD. Time keeps on ticket. It's right back there. We're from the trenches. We used to listen to gangster shit.
Starting point is 00:10:02 We're listening to... It's Prime, though. DMX and Biggie and, you know what I'm saying? I want to listen to No Prime. I want to play like Prime. I didn't want to listen to his music. Now, should Prime get some looks as the head coach of Cleveland since it's still open or what? I mean...
Starting point is 00:10:18 Who'd you do? How can you not? You know, I think Prime will put together a great staff and the morale of the building to be all the way. up if he came in. But Prime I want to, man. He got his hands full. He likes the challenge that he got in front of him right now. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:10:36 I don't think he fulfilled that challenge yet. He got to get to the college football playoffs and compete. And then he'd be like, yeah, I told you. Like, Prime ain't going to fail in nothing. You know what I'm saying? At Colorado. At Colorado. You got a nephew there.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Yeah, I got a nephew there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little meal. Y'all mill to lead, man. I'm telling y'all, Edge, 6-2, long-ass arms, 245 he just he ain't even 21 yet
Starting point is 00:11:00 he's not even 21 he's 21 he's gonna he's gonna he gonna be able to what's he playing edge at 245 yeah that's what's that's that's their size now that's a regular edge but I'm telling you he's going when it's time for him to shoot his shot he's gonna hold that 255 258 easy he looked skinny he got those long long ass arms man they must run in the family I was gonna say bro playmaker brother he's a playmaker that was a key right there
Starting point is 00:11:26 long arms. Playmaker. Right at the line of scrimmage. Offhand jam. Quick app. Just got to watch his feet. If they're staggered, you got them going. But if they're regular, he's going to let you go.
Starting point is 00:11:40 He's going to be patient and let you shoot your shot. Sometimes I used to let smaller receivers, I'm going to let you all that. I'll back up, let you all that then show my quickness and shit. He was. I show my quickness. You got to have moves on that line, though. You can't come with the same shit. Every time.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Akeep got me to be such a better receiver because when he first got there to the Patriots, do you remember they used to make you do one-on-ones after practice against me? Hell yeah. To get you in shape or something? Hell yeah. I was a mid-season acquisition. So they really are just trying to see what all I can do. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:12:16 Can he play in the slot? Can he do this? So hell yeah. I remember one time, bro, they had me after practice catching passes from time. Yes. He was catching passes as well. No way. Through like 25 bars, I was dog tired.
Starting point is 00:12:28 I'm like, shit, I got to go, though. This is the opportunity of a lifetime. It must ain't go that well because I ain't never get no action. You're about to be like prime time going both ways. I thought it went well, though. I thought this shit was cool. Your first game in, right? We'll get into it, but your first game, pick six?
Starting point is 00:12:43 Yep. Get into Colts. Andrew Luck. You had him a few times. Andrew, I love him. I'm missing. You know what I'm saying? Come back to the game, Andrew.
Starting point is 00:12:51 He used to throw me pick sixes, man. I love him. I used, there's six to seven throws a game from Andrew Luck that he was just throwing in team meetings. Every time we play him, we were guaranteed you had a pit. We used to get him back two, three times a game. You know what I mean? Because this is a good quarterback, though, but, hey, man, confident. He's going to try to make them throw them.
Starting point is 00:13:13 He would, he would, that was his thing. He would sit back there and make those throws. Who are some receivers you love watching that you think you would love to just get your hands on nowadays? Like, we're playing right now? Jamar Chase, man. I think he is. He the best receiver in the lead to me, so I would love the old lead to get a chance to match up with Jamar Chase. I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:13:36 He did realest one doing it. He's the coldest one out there. I want to go against the cold, it's for sure. I think he's elite. He's just because he's got everything. He do. He's got that explosive quickness. Yep.
Starting point is 00:13:50 You can't give him a cushion because he can run past you. Yep. he's strong through the catch points he catches he plucks that thing and guys hit his arms and he just doesn't i mean he's a fucking he got the 50 50 ball oh i'm saying he got the balls back shoulder deep he can hit you on an in cut you can catch a screen and get out of there gone i'm saying like catching run then you got to you got to tackle him and he's fucking strong and he and he he's six feet he's not like a small no he got the size you i'm saying so he's the total package man for real And then George Pickens, man, we just have a nice little...
Starting point is 00:14:25 That's just you want to fight. Yeah, I just want to squabble with George all day. I'm a fan, George. Don't take that the wrong way. I love to play against you just because we're from that same cloth, you know what I'm saying? We're going to go all day, you know what I love to play against George, too. So you wouldn't gank his chain. No, that's a different, that's a different type of...
Starting point is 00:14:46 You know what I'm saying? That's a different type of rivalry right now. I know. It's like little bro, big bro. Like we're probably to say Me and crap That's a different type of rivalry What rivalries is that?
Starting point is 00:14:56 That's a Dallas thing You know what I'm saying We both from Dallas That's a That's been happening It ain't really been That's snowballed to that
Starting point is 00:15:05 It snowballed to that For sure Didn't I used to say shit to you You ain't gang in my chain Or something In the locker room Hey we used to say Oh I got this shit bro
Starting point is 00:15:15 I'd be walking by a key He would be in his locker And I just You ain't gagging this chain You can get by chain Who chain The story David The unchain
Starting point is 00:15:27 Do you know Un chain Why what was Unchain? Because I had one chain And it was a god name Two chains But I always had that one chain So you know
Starting point is 00:15:36 I appreciate the nickname Brother We had great times In that locker room Man They don't even know it People think it was No fun there
Starting point is 00:15:45 But it was fun Winning is fun It was very fun Who are some of the corners that you think are ballers right now? Pat for sure. Certain. Pat looked like his daddy was a cornerback and he grew up getting taught technique, you know what I'm saying? Which is really what happened. And he looked exactly like that. Stingley, a baller. His movement is crazy. He got great ball skills, man.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Got that Revis buddy. Yeah, he got that Revis body. It's where you're like in between a long guy, but you have long arms, but you're still a powerful guy. But when you see him in person, you're like, oh shit, it ain't as short as he really look. And on. TV. Good balance, too. Exactly, man. Who else, man? Them the top two, them the top dogs.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Gonzalez? Yeah. Christian Gonzalez is a player too. He's fat. He's just sticky. Straight sticky. He's like in that sauce world. They're going to have more strap games than pick games.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Yep. You know what I'm saying? Because you really, they big corners. They always in position, so you don't even really want to mess with it. You know what I'm saying? So, Denzel, Denzel, super athletic. great movement get that ball
Starting point is 00:16:53 you know what I'm saying who's the Lasseter on Houston Whistingly is another good corner He gets a lot of targets because of Stingley so that allowed him to make a lot of plays Now what do you think about Moss
Starting point is 00:17:08 White Boy out of Denver I like Mots man Moss see they'd be picking on them Patrick Sertan bro you play on the other side of Pat you're gonna get picked on just simple as that I don't care who you is
Starting point is 00:17:20 He makes plays. And he makes plays, bro. And he always in position. Always. He got very athletic, man, great size. You see him in person, he's probably bigger than me. Yeah. Like I'm telling you, man, he got great size, great speed.
Starting point is 00:17:32 He's like Seahorn. Sticky coverage, man. He really is, Seahorny. Shout out, Seahorn. Always in position, bro. Always in position. I like Riley, man. I love Riley as our number two corner.
Starting point is 00:17:42 Now, the game's changed, hadn't it? A lot, man. A lot, man. A lot. It's, you know, what's something you hate about the game? these days. I hate the illegal touching down. Like, come on, brother.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Like, we want points that bad that we can't even lay a finger on him. Can't. After five yards, like, bro. Then it's wishy-washy because you let some guys do it. And I was one of the guys they actually let play. You got to be consistent. Yeah, man. Like, you let guys do it.
Starting point is 00:18:12 And then at the end of a game, the third down, you just illegal touch and holding. Like, bro, that's the part of the game. You almost could call that on any play. Every play. You feel me? All you guys are just trying to cover your cheating up. Exactly. It's just the best guys are like the sneakiest guys that know how to get you low.
Starting point is 00:18:33 They be grabbing. That's what Akeep did. He hold you low. I'm going like a motherfucker. Period. Every play. Every play, bro. So I look at it, I used to look at it.
Starting point is 00:18:42 I tell my high school guys and I work with and stuff, like I look at it like this. We on a time crunch here. You feel? me, we only got about three and a half hour window to be on this TV, right? You're going to call holding every fucking play? Like, we only got time for that shit. I'm going to hold and hold and hold and keep on playing. And eventually he's going to be, all right, he's just playing like that.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Like, you can't call it every play, right? Yeah. I'm establishing how we plan out here, not the refs. You know what I'm saying? Simple as that. I mean, you might as well hold them because a hold calls better than a touchdown. Facts. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:19:17 And if you do it consistently, they can't call it every play. I can. The game would be five fucking hours. Describe your style of playing corner? My style of playing corner is get that fucking ball. That's what I'm trying to do, man. I'm trying to get the ball. I'm trying to tackle well.
Starting point is 00:19:45 I'm trying to take away deep balls. You know what I'm saying? That's my style right there, man. A smart ball hawk who can tackle good. And once you get your hands on and take it back, pick six, because how come you always had those? Hey, man, I'm really a wide out. You know what I'm really?
Starting point is 00:20:05 I'm really a wide out at heart. You used to say this shit in a locker every day. I'm telling you. If you look at high school. You're a bad practice. I'm really a wide out. I'm telling you, bro. If you look at high school all the way through Cannes,
Starting point is 00:20:17 It's like I got balls actually thrown to me in the game. I did work at receiver. That was your straight. Ball skills, guy. I had ball skills. Can't nobody guard me, bro. I used to be in the NFL like, bro, like, bro. Chris, bro, you can't guard me, bro.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Like, you know what I'm saying? If I was a receiver, Chris, bro, you can't guard me, bro. For real, I can mess with all my teammates. Like, bro, y'all really can't guard me, bro, for real. Did it ever happen at the end of practice? No, probably not. But, man, them dudes can guard me, man. I was nice.
Starting point is 00:20:45 My ball skills was, was nice. nice i know then i got twitch i got routes like i understand how to how to work leverage and you be in your little slant i remember you running those one-on-ones you hit that slant arms out here arms out here you feel me ha ha ha ha you don't know where i'm going with it you don't know i stutter you go where you guys working the safe route all right akkev you just read it running a slant or a fade because it was in the red area yeah the safe route wait jervras Does Bill to let you line up a little bit? I mean, I ain't never asked him.
Starting point is 00:21:20 Bill was, he was serious. I ain't going to play around about some other shit. I ain't going to play around about football. Like, Bill, let me play receivers. Bill, like, get the fuck. You get your ass out there and cover who I need you to cover. But, no, I ain't never asking. Me and Bill got a great relationship, too.
Starting point is 00:21:36 I still talk to him. But now, I ain't never asking, though, man. You get the, if you start corner in the league, bro, smoke gas and shit be too tired for that shit for real man I ain't I ain't really had a juice to go both ways for real
Starting point is 00:21:52 not in the NFL maybe in college and shit So you don't think What's his name could do it? Travis Travis? Travis don't smoke Don't drink he go to sleep He take care of his body
Starting point is 00:22:02 That's to see that's Travis Supercar But this is what happens When you try to play both ways Your body gets worn down And you get hurt See I don't think that's why he got hurt I don't think his body
Starting point is 00:22:12 got worn down and you got hurt, just got hurt. Just the same way anybody can get a guy who played one. Yeah, but when you're tired, the cuts and stuff that you subconsciously are making in your head are going a little slower or something maybe. It could be. It could be. But, I mean, if he did it in high school, he did it at a super high level in college almost to the point.
Starting point is 00:22:32 We ain't never seen nothing like this before. Yeah, but you're playing against not every guy's an NFL guy. I understand that. And your competitive level goes up a thousand times higher against a guy that's probably even 30% bigger, 30% faster. You know what I mean? So that's just a lot. Even just guarding one-on-ones, that's a lot. People don't realize that's hard to do daily when you do it in fucking your one-on-one drills every day.
Starting point is 00:23:03 That's like a lot of work for a guy's body, like the breaking down, the this or that, the competition, then you got to go run route. Like, that's hard. It is. I'm not saying it's not hard, but I'm saying if you, if a guy is going to do that, I don't think he can drink. No, you can't. No. That's fucking up your soft tissue.
Starting point is 00:23:22 All that shit. That's what he's, that's what he's a video game kid. That's what I'm saying. So I think if you are going to do that, you got to be a guy like Travis. And then I, that's how I would have did. I do it in situations, bro. I let him start corner. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:23:35 You're a great. You're a top corner, if you ask me. I'll let him start corner. and then I just let him... Third down. Third down red zone, bro. That's it. Like, my playbook could be smaller.
Starting point is 00:23:47 I'm saying? I don't got to know as much shit. I ain't going to enjoy much injury. And that's the most important plays. Most important times on the field. Third down red zone. But they don't even need them on offense right now. Not I don't.
Starting point is 00:23:57 Jacobi Myers. He opens up everything. Brian Thomas. They also have the other young kid. 11. Washington's really good. The office skyrocket, really. They start taking off once they ain't have to worry about getting Travis the ball
Starting point is 00:24:09 and doing all that. I'm saying? I have him at corner for sure. And then he's just a unicorn. So he'll definitely be in the mix on third down, red zone for me. Yeah, I like, I think he's a baller. We'll be right back after this quick break. This month, IHeart Radio is celebrating the stars of the 2026 Winter Games. Lake City, Minnesota produced Taylor Hisey the explosive new face of American hockey. After dominating the collegiate level and world championships, the dynamic forward makes her long-awaited Olympic debut in Milano Cortina, known for her blazing speed and lethal wrist shot. Heise adds a dangerous new weapon to an already stacked Team USA roster. She hits the ice ready to prove that the next generation of greatness has officially arrived. For more
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Starting point is 00:28:13 Listen to That's Messed Up on IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You got to play with some awesome corners. Ronde, Barber, Dorel, Revis. I didn't play with Revis. You didn't play with Reeve and Tampa? We, we, I left. He came, then New England saying I left he came.
Starting point is 00:28:45 So I ain't never played with me. What did you learn from Ronde? How to watch tape. Ronde really taught me how to set my notebook up and how to watch tape. Like, I won't watch it no motherfucking tape. How do you watch tape? I watch it first, second down, through personnel.
Starting point is 00:29:02 So I watch 21 personnel. I'm either going to be on the single receiver side or the tight end side. And single receiver side, I watch the tape, and if I keep seeing the route recur, reoccur, reoccur, I'm writing it down. So on the single receiver side, stop route, slant, fade. If I see it route one time, I ain't writing it down.
Starting point is 00:29:23 on the tight end on the tight end receiver side I'm gonna just write down what route keep on coming up and I had a top three routes 10 yard out anything anything else I'm just playing football but I'm gonna know okay they 21 personnel boom they break tight end on my side
Starting point is 00:29:39 slant fade hitch or whatever my three routes them are the three routes that I'm anticipating if you run something else then I'll be a cornerback I'd be a professional cornerback and I react to it but I just go through every formation like that, 21, then 12, then 11 on early downs. Then I go third down.
Starting point is 00:29:59 11, 12, then a bunch, if they're in bunch, they do these. Like, I just, it's a big test, bro. I just write down the routes in these formations. And then when y'all break the huddle, y'all come out in this formation, it's like I'm taking a test. If I can't think of shit, I just play my technique. But if I got an idea, oh, he can run this over route. Usually I'm right, because you know how offense is.
Starting point is 00:30:22 Y'all do, it's just like playing the game. Y'all gonna do what the fuck y'all do, right? We could turn the matting on right now. You're gonna run your shit. You've been running against everybody you ever been playing. You feel me? It's the same.
Starting point is 00:30:32 So it's a big test, man. You gotta put that time in and memorize this shit and be able to go to it as they break the huddle and shit. So that's how I watch tape. Ronde taught me how to organize my notebook. Listen, first second down,
Starting point is 00:30:47 10, 11, 12, 21. Third down is probably going to be 11 or 12. Red zone. Get your top concepts. Take them away. Besides that, be a pro. Play ball. How your premium looks.
Starting point is 00:30:59 These, they best plays. They run these plays every fucking week. If they run these plays, I'm picking it. Had them premium looks. Shit. Ronde put me on that. Man. Shout out Ronde.
Starting point is 00:31:11 Shout out Ronde. What kind of guy was Ronde? He was a straight pro guy? Ronde was a pro. He was a pro, man. Just never late. Never miss a day. Never sick.
Starting point is 00:31:20 Like, how the fuck you never sick? Like, you ain't got a cold or nothing about that. Like, God damn. He got a robin tossing. You feel me? Hey, he just, man. Just a pro's pro man. Got the woman who take care of his body put me on to her.
Starting point is 00:31:34 Like, just a real pros. You know, I caught him in later years as well. So just a real pro's pro, man. You ever meet Tiki? I probably met Tiki. I really got no stories on it or name. But I'm sure I did. I was around Ronde so many times.
Starting point is 00:31:48 You think they ever pulled a switcheroo? No. They look different, though, to me, so I could tell. If I'm like, what fucking, you ain't right. If they did try, I probably would have called it out. I'd have been able to tell. That's you, Tiki. I got you.
Starting point is 00:32:00 I know. You can't fool me, bro. The McCordy's, I could tell them apart. Yeah, I can tell them McCordy's apart, too. Jason's, like, got a little, something right here is a little darker. And they're just different. They just different. They look at their face, and it's like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:13 A little different. You're not deaf. I just know dead face so good. Dev's got like a six head. You know what I mean? They built the same. I think Jay's got better hairline. I think they face is different.
Starting point is 00:32:28 They're so funny. I love it. Yeah, that's funny. They're killing it on TV, too. They are, man. They are. They're on every. I got all four channels.
Starting point is 00:32:35 They're on everything, man. Now, who's your favorite quarterback to pick off? My favorite quarterback, just period, is probably Jason Campbell. He threw me three in the games. I let it do it. I love that dude. Oh, man. He threw me three picks in the game.
Starting point is 00:32:55 How can I not love him? Wait, was that when he was on Washington? Hey, you feel me? When he was on Washington? Yeah, we went to Washington. He threw me three picks. We still lost the game. Like, how did he get three picks you lose the game?
Starting point is 00:33:05 Oh, my gosh. Could have been four picks, man. I ran into my safety on one of them. But I love Jason Campbell, but probably Andrew Luck, though. Andrew Luck threw me, threw me like three, I think, and two to the crib. So, you know, something about Andrew Luck, man. And I score on his interceptions. So what goes through your mind when you get in the ball and you pick it?
Starting point is 00:33:26 It's crazy. House call. It's weird as shit, right? Because it goes so quiet. It just gets like extremely quiet. And you could just hear that. Then when you score, it's like, ah, ah, ha, ha. Like, where was the crowd at just now?
Starting point is 00:33:46 It's weird, bro. I'm telling you, it's so weird. This motherfucker used to do that when he was covering you, too. That's all you can hear. I got you, juke. How many action figures you play with when you were a kid? Oh, we used to play games. Like, all the dudes outside, right?
Starting point is 00:34:12 Like, all the gangsters, niggas outside. You feel like the real gangsters. We used to have a toy. All right, this Larval. this smooth this is car this a this a this a this a bens of 5.0
Starting point is 00:34:26 like me and my brother I used to like when my brother I used to be like and you were playing a game we started playing a game where we go get the toys and we act like with the guys outside
Starting point is 00:34:35 and or we act like we playing football like I used to play we used to have every set of turtles know how the turtles used to come out like it's the scuba turtles then you had to hit hot turtles
Starting point is 00:34:46 like the ninja turtles brus oh yeah You used to get the four pack of like the football turtles. They all have on football. The basketball turtles. Bro, we used to have like 12 sets of turtles. I love the turtles.
Starting point is 00:34:57 I love Batman. Who are you guys? Who are your guys? Who's your turtle? Oh, Michelangelo for sure. You know, he was the personality. Cahabunga? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:04 He was the personality. That was... Who you think was my guy? You probably was the Raphael. Yeah. That's my brother. I really, you're the Raphael. I got Raphael.
Starting point is 00:35:13 Serious. Nah. Asshole. I should stay with the action figures, bro. It made me real creative. of, man. Like, you feel me? I grew up playing with action figures. Yeah. I was the best.
Starting point is 00:35:24 That was our time. That was our time, bro. That was our time. Cartoon with action figures, man. To go back to your pick six, your pick six against Virginia Tech in the 2008 Orange Bowl, I think about like every week. I'm a big of a Virginia Tech guy, and I think about that so many fucking times. So just...
Starting point is 00:35:40 That was, that was a premium op before Ronde taught me what a premium op was. Like, we was like they throw these out rows. That probably was the only that and the double moves off the out routes and the out routes it was like they line up right here they line up right here as soon as they get at this split and at the top of these numbers they fin to run these speed outs motherfucker came on top of these numbers the first one i said they better not throw this shit over here they'd not throw this shit over here i'm sitting on i just told myself they throw it is gone and whoop tarrod taylor it was It was gone, man. It was like. Tyrault's still in the league, too.
Starting point is 00:36:21 That's crazy. Tariah's in the league, man. Hey. Shout out. Appreciate it, Tyra. Hey. It was a, it was a layup. It ain't getting no easier, bro.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Like, that's how college is, though, man. Hey, bro. I think back to college, it was like, man, it was so simple. Yeah. It was like so simple. What's I'm crazy? What are you thinking about college is easy? And they all reds.
Starting point is 00:36:47 So sick. It's so sick. It's crazy. now. It's pro football. It's semi-pro, man. Guys getting millions, guys. It's training teams, free agency. Hey, man, it's different. Like, a lot of these guys ain't going to have, like, I can go to Kansas and I'm the man. My name in the rafters, you feel me. I call the athletic director, get my, get me a room in the flight, and I get all set. Like, a lot of these guys ain't going to have that. You know what I'm saying? A lot of these guys don't realize, too, that you can't. You can't.
Starting point is 00:37:18 chase the little nut. You know, you need a little adversity. Yeah. You know, you can't just be transferring because if they could just wrap their mind around one thing, if they get a second contract in the National Football League, they're going to be worth a half a billion dollars now. So why would you mess around with, you know, a lot of these guys that are hitting it, quitting it, going to another school, getting paid, fucking, it's kind of weeding out the idiots. But a lot of this. It's weeding out, it's weeding out a lot of the thing, a lot of the idiots for the pros because now you're getting to see what a guy how he deals with money you're getting to see a guy how he deals with
Starting point is 00:37:54 adversity you can see if things don't go guys way he's going to transfer but let me tell you this though so to the players point because my nephew is going through it right now right sometimes it ain't even them who want to transfer he went to Oklahoma State out of high school Gundy them fired yeah well that's different the next guy like hey man you probably want to get in the portal I like my edge is six five and up and six four monsters 300
Starting point is 00:38:17 Like, now if you got to go into portal, he gets in the portal, go to UNC Charlotte. He balled. Do I want to stay at UNC Charlotte and show some Lord? Like, no, I ain't, this is not what I want. You get me? I want to be in the power for playing big time football. So he bawled one year. He there six months.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Prime called my phone. Boop. Now he had Colorado. So to his point, he's one of those, he had his third school, but he don't want to be at his third school. It just happened like that, you know what I'm saying? Now, hopefully he get to stay in Colorado for the rest, and that be his spot, but it's not just the players. You feel me?
Starting point is 00:38:54 A 1,000 percent. You can cut you. They're cutting guys. Yeah. You can get cut as a scholarship high school guy, a scholarship college guy. They can cut you? You can get cut. It's Wild War West, bro.
Starting point is 00:39:06 You feel me? So, hey, man, to their credit, it ain't all they fought, man. No. No, no. It ain't all they fault. Can we talk real quick, too, about the 2007. Kansas. Like, your season was incredible.
Starting point is 00:39:19 You guys came in, and then you ended with that border war matchup, number two, Kansas, number three, Missouri. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. That season was crazy because we felt like we was super talented. You know what I'm saying? We felt like, oh, we got action. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:39:33 We ain't know how much action, but we knew we could be good. Who was your quarterback? Todd Reese. Yeah, number five? Yep. Little dude. A little firecracker, bro.
Starting point is 00:39:44 He was beer pong master. Like, you feel Me? Never serious, but was a damn dog on that field. Like, keep the play alive, scramble to throw it. You know what I'm saying? He was a dog on that field. Shit, on our defense, we had four NFL guys on our defense. How?
Starting point is 00:40:07 What you mean? How did Kansas get four NFL guys? Shit, I don't know, bro. Yeah, McDonald's back. The group of guys we had, I mean, it was, shit, Daryl Stucky. He played with the charges, Pro Bowl, a few times. He played like 10 years with the Chargers. Chris Harris, me.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Shit. Mike Rivera, he played on the Patriots. I don't know if you remember him. I don't know if you remember him. You know, I remember Mike. You know, I remember Mike. Mike Rivera, look, I'm talking about Mike Rivera. I'm probably leaving somebody out, but that's four NFL guys right there on one of the people.
Starting point is 00:40:42 He had the widows peak. Yeah, yeah. You know what I looked like Eddie Munster. Hell, yeah. Man, Gino could recruit, bro. He was a hell of a recruiter, man. On offense, shit, we had some guys. Marcus Henry played in the league.
Starting point is 00:40:56 Anthony Collins was our left tackle playing in the league, man. So we had some guys, man. So it was just a group of guys who Manjino put together. And shit, you had the right group of guys who were going to inject that confidence into the team. We had that shit rolling, man. Best Manjino story. I didn't know him but His team meetings was crazy
Starting point is 00:41:20 Because he was kind of like Bill He gonna He gonna call your ass out You know what I'm saying He said one time He was talking to one of our running backs He's like we got a guy Who got a fucking hang now
Starting point is 00:41:34 He used to get on your ass He ain't like you being hurt man He used to call your ass out And he always had somewhere That he was going to send you I send you back to And it was specific to each person. So for me, it was I seen you back to that hole in the wall you climbed out of.
Starting point is 00:41:53 Like, damn. You feel you? Hey, I seen you back to that country town. You slid, you crawled. He had all kind of sayings, bro. I love this shit out man's, you know, because he was real, bro. He was dead-ass serious. He was real.
Starting point is 00:42:12 He got, if you was a six, he got. eight out of you, you know what I'm saying? He knew how to get it all out of the players. He made our off-season's like hella competitive. He split us up into like seven teams, red, yellow, blue, gold, split us up in like seven teams and everything was a competition. You miss class, you lose points. If your team got perfect attendance, this, the weights, the max, you know what I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:42:39 the weights, all that added up. We did an obstacle course at the end. He just made, he made that team. Super competitive, bro. And we had the pieces. I feel like he helped us get that competitive edge. And we had the right group of guys. Me, Todd, AC.
Starting point is 00:42:55 We just injected confidence into the team. And shit, man, next thing you know, we're playing in the Orange Bowl, bro. Crazy, man. Kansas football, baby. Kansas football, man. Kansas football. Had that shit moving. We needed some NIL back then.
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Starting point is 00:47:35 Let's go back to January 24th, 2016, and we like to go over some of the pop culture around when the game was, number one movie was The Revenant with... Fucking excellent movie. DiCaprio, that was his Oscar. That's right. Excellent movie. You liked it, all?
Starting point is 00:48:00 Loved it. That bear? Hell yeah. Keep your big movie Oh, I love movies Yeah, me too man I watch all the movies Daddy's home
Starting point is 00:48:08 The Big Short, Hateful 8 All in the box office You like those? Daddy's home They're more like the little comedies For kids and stuff Hateful 8
Starting point is 00:48:17 I probably watched all those I don't remember them too much though Yeah I didn't remember Any of those except The Big Short was good It's one of those Stock movies Whatever
Starting point is 00:48:26 Shake Shack You like Shake Shack You're a burger guy right Yeah yeah They love shake. We should have it at our house, right? Or at the Fat Fridays every once in a while. Shake Shack was, that's, they got chicken sounds.
Starting point is 00:48:40 They got a nice little variety. Yeah. I'm saying what they mean you. I love Shake Shack. Shake Shack or In and Out? You got to pick one. I'm going to end and out. Oh, come on.
Starting point is 00:48:48 I'm going to Shake Shack, not even close. You go to shake shack all day. Shake Shack is a, it's good. It's good, but. In and out is an experience. All right, all right. It's second to none. Oh, Wodeburger.
Starting point is 00:48:59 I've never had Waterburger. Do you like What a burger? I love Waterburger. What do you order at Waterburger? Are you like one of those chicken biscuit guys? No, hell no. I get the barbecue.
Starting point is 00:49:08 I get the barbecue burger. You know what I'm saying? Barbecue sauce? They give it with onion rings and barbecue and that shit fire. That's my go-to, but you can get whatever at Waterburger, man. They got a great menu. The little breakfast tiquitos, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:26 I don't know, man. At three in the morning after the club. Shit, man. Hey, I love Waterburger, man. They stay open like that? They stay open late like that? Yeah, they're 24 out. Yeah, they open late.
Starting point is 00:49:35 That's what, that's a plus. I got to get on that. This year, the Super Bowl champions were the Denver Broncos. MVP, Cam Newton, Ohio State took the Natty, and the Heisman Trophy winner, Derek Henry. Man, Cam. He was a beast this year. No, Cam, Cam was going crazy, man.
Starting point is 00:49:57 His game, he was, they game was crazy. They was a power run team. Cam was part of that power run game. Extra blocker. And then they'd keep all them guys in. Foop, take shots, big overrouts, big post, big corner routes. I'm saying? And Cam was dropping doms, man.
Starting point is 00:50:15 So they was doing their shit. I think they won. They only lost like one game that year. People don't realize when you have a guy like Cam, which is very similar with how Drake May is getting played, you get, you can manipulate coverage because everyone's scared that he'll take off and run. And so instead of bringing a thief or a robber in the middle of the field to cover, you got to bring that guy down.
Starting point is 00:50:36 To spy. And spy. Or you got to bring someone else to spy. So then he has more time, you get those downfield routes. And that's hard for a corner. Hell yeah. You know, when you're not getting any help and they're getting time in man coverage. I mean, that's cool and all.
Starting point is 00:50:50 But he had Jung Jeezy and Future on the sideline that season. Yeah. He's a Carolina guy. And they're Atlanta guys, man. Yeah, he had the motion. The culture. The culture was definitely on. on their side.
Starting point is 00:51:02 Cam was the man. I played with Cam. I played with Cam. Cam would come to work during COVID dressed up every day. Every day. Every day. With the hat. I'm like, how do you do this?
Starting point is 00:51:14 Cam? He goes, I do it before I go to bed. Put it together, man. Wake up and go. He would get up super early, get on the treadmill. Like every day is the first day in school. He'd like two miles or something. And come, I mean.
Starting point is 00:51:27 Not Cam a dog, man. He's a specimen. He a legend. He don't get enough love. He doesn't. He don't get enough love, man. He, an MVP, a Heisman trophy winner. He won the He won the Heism, right? Yeah. Yeah. He had arguably the best college football season in the history of He don't get enough love, man. He don't get enough love. I like him on the mic now, too. Cam's fucking hilarious. He don't give a fuck. I'll fuck with him, man. Now, that offense was very
Starting point is 00:51:51 simple, but I'll fuck with Cam. I fuck with Cam. We had a great plan. But if we're going to get into this game, let me tell you real quick. Now, we didn't. All right. What was life like for Akiv in, in 2016? 2016. Ooh, shit. That's a crazy year, bro.
Starting point is 00:52:09 That was a thole year. Won the chip, right? On the chip. February. Got married in March. Had a nice wedding. It was a great wedding, man. Take it the invitation.
Starting point is 00:52:22 Nice wedding. We had like three. It was maxed out. It was crazy. Probably not a good. good time either. Probably lost camail or something's sailing issues. You know, we was rivals. Yeah, rivals. Yeah, crazy rivals.
Starting point is 00:52:35 Wait, where was the wedding yet? It was in Dallas. It was in Dallas. My beautiful wife, Gypsy Tili, hey. Shut out. Listen, it was an amazing turnout, amazing night. Shit, we had in and out at the wedding. At the end of the wedding, I'm saying, you finish. Everybody thinks it's over, you go outside, in and out truck.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Wow. Get this to go. You know, we had that shit right. That's a wedding, that's how you do right. Money for that. Yeah, second chain. That was an in-and-out truck. We dropped that dollar on it. That's that double-double money.
Starting point is 00:53:02 But so February 2, March, uh, Mary, she had June, hit myself in the leg. Slum, crazy wild night out. Slime, I don't hit myself in the leg. You feel me? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I hit myself in the leg.
Starting point is 00:53:21 Yeah, yeah, that was a tough one. That was a tough one, man. See, we were rivals. I was sitting there like, damn a key. So look, the only thing I'm working. worried about like it's my ACL good. Like you feel this shit close to my knee. It's my ACL is
Starting point is 00:53:34 my attendance. You know what I'm saying? I pray a lot. You feel me? Bullet went in, foot straight down the calf, went out. No damage to no major ligaments, no bones, no nothing. Start the first game of the season. We're back.
Starting point is 00:53:48 I start the first game of the season against Camdenham. I feel it a little bit. You know what I'm saying? A little limp, but hey, I'm here. I ain't missing no game. So you feel me? start the first game of the season, and then 2016, the year after all that shit happened, that's my first team all pro that season.
Starting point is 00:54:07 First team all pro. Let's go, baby. Coming off all that. Man, what a year. What a whirlwind year. Crazy year. Let's jump into the game. It's time to get Jackie.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Should we run through these Patriots real quick? Shout out to these 2015 Patriots. Started off hot, baby. 10 and 0. Then week 12, go in to Denver, get their first loss of the year. at the hands of none other than Brock Osweiler. Braz. Crazy, bro.
Starting point is 00:54:33 Crazy. I was out. We got to, uh... We started falling apart. I know. You and Dola miss that game, bro. Had a lot of injuries. Yep, banged up.
Starting point is 00:54:41 Nate sold her out. You guys jumping to count on. Great. Got to talk about... Deon Lewis. Vine looking his chops. Speaking of signings, signed Stephen Jackson mid-season, December. Stephen Jackson.
Starting point is 00:54:52 Crazy. Blinking, you might have forgot he was on the Patriots. But Stephen Jackson was back there. Lost four of the last. six, but ultimately won the AFC East for the seventh straight year. I was walking behind Stephen Jackson, and you know old guy walk. You just don't see that. This was late Stephen Jackson.
Starting point is 00:55:13 We got him late. Patriot Stephen Jackson. I was sitting there like, we're going to ride this guy. You know when the legs kick weird? You know, talk about it because they're worn out. It's the low back. He fielded a low back when he walked. Because we all remember Stephen Jackson on the Madden cover.
Starting point is 00:55:37 Right. Man, this was a tough year. I had to tackle that motherfucker in the AFC chip. Yeah. You know he scored a touchdown. Yeah. He still could run. They blocked it up.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Straight forward. Left me and Stephen Jackson. I said, God damn. Slough! I was going to put your half. I fucking ran through me. What do you remember about this New England team? The same as all the other New England teams, man.
Starting point is 00:56:00 Just well put together. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying, tight ends, receivers, backs, backs who can catch the ball out the backfield, the goat under center, you know what I'm saying, good defense. I remember Logan Ryan asked you to, for some reason, not everybody got their guy, they play well again. Logan Ryan used to always fucking play good against D.T. He always had great coverage versus DT, you know what I'm saying? Dev was out there, Chung. Shit, Malk was out there, man.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Malk was strappy. Mout was strappy, man. And it was weird because they put Malk on E and Logan on DT, you know what I'm saying? They double them. Exactly. So good team, brother. It was a good team, man. Now, what was your feeling?
Starting point is 00:56:48 Like, how did you feel like we had you? You were with us. Yeah. We thought it was going to, we were going to win a soupy with you. Two AFC chip losses. Two. I got hurting both of them. Now, how did it feel?
Starting point is 00:57:02 Yeah, that's why we lost against in 13. Man, listen, I felt like the same against the Raven shit. I had Anquine Bowden. I got hurt. He started going fucking crazy. Crazy. I was really hurt. I was really hurt.
Starting point is 00:57:14 I heard my shit in practice. I heard my hamstring in practice that year. And then going up to the game, I was trying to get out of these special teams. I'm like, Bill, I don't, if you're good, you're going to play. I'm like, fuck. All right, fuck it. I'm playing. first punt of the game I'm blocking on punt return
Starting point is 00:57:34 my hamstring like fuck man tried to go back in that shit was out of there you know hamstrings you can't it's not like thugging through it at our position no not not when you're fast you feel it me it's like it's when that business it's in there it's it's done you know what I'm saying so yeah man
Starting point is 00:57:52 was that one they had that wasn't they had jewels in there playing running it playing DB no no that was the year before yeah that's why we got him That's probably We got me and Slater in the deep end. But me just coming from New England, man, I knew what type of team we was playing. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:58:10 I knew the makeup, the core. You know what I'm saying? I knew what Bill telling these boys in these meetings. So like I said, I knew this was the chip, man. If we can get through these guys, everything else would be cool. What's your best Bill's story? Bill,
Starting point is 00:58:27 probably probably the same one. of his team meetings, like, we probably thrashed the shit out of somebody. I don't know who it was. We probably beat the shit out of somebody, right? We come in, it's a lot of good energy in the team meeting and Bill just coming that bitch. Like, what the fuck is we happy for?
Starting point is 00:58:46 Like, we didn't do shit. Like, the seasons don't even start to after Thanksgiving. And y'all fucking kumbaya over a win against such and such? Like, I'm like, I was new there. I wasn't used to this shit. So I'm like, oh, my God. Like, yeah, I thought we did something.
Starting point is 00:59:01 You feel? He really got on our ass. You know what I'm saying? Get right on. He picked Tom out there. Let me get right on time. You know what I'm saying? So probably one of those stories, though, man.
Starting point is 00:59:11 What was the first interaction you had with him? My first interaction with Bill. I got there. I was, I couldn't go in the building until my suspension was done. I got traded while I was on while I was suspended. So I flew out there. They're like, man, we want you out here a couple days ahead. So right, boom, Monday morning or whatever.
Starting point is 00:59:31 every day. Monday morning, you could come right in that morning. So bam, I was out there for like, maybe like Saturday night. I was there for Sunday, Monday morning. Boom, I go in. I'm in a locker. They come give me. Hey, Bill, when you come talk to you from when I go in the office in my first conversation. Did Bears come get you? Yeah, probably Burrish. Probably came and got him. You know, birds going. That's what you know. Serious. Yeah. Birds come get you. Hey, Bill. Hey, Bill, want to meet with you. So he sat out. He's like, all right. So this is I think in my plan for you, man, I don't really do this, neither. I think you're going,
Starting point is 01:00:04 I think I'm going to match you up on number one receivers. How you feel about that? I fucking love that shit, Bill. I fucking love that. You know what I'm saying? Then he said, and I got to ask one favor. The reason I came and got you
Starting point is 01:00:18 is because I saw you live when we went to Tampa in practice, right? I saw you, I saw your competitive edge. I saw what kind of leader you was. I need you to bring that here. But the one thing that I did see in Tampa is how you was doing on special teams
Starting point is 01:00:35 as that punt returner you're blocking these gunners you know what I'm saying how you did Slater guys don't do Slater like that so that's my one favor I'm going to ask for you I need you to play punt return for me
Starting point is 01:00:49 because a punt return a special team's players is going to win us some of these big games I got you brother it ain't nothing that shit easy I'm saying And if you really think about it, like, y'all used to go crazy on this. Special teams used to win us so many fucking games.
Starting point is 01:01:06 But return, to be exact, used to win us fucking games in the Wingland. And I was a part of that shit. I used to be one of the corners. He was sticky on the vice. They could have used a keep on the race last week. That gave me some time. Physical as fuck on that vice. Take pride.
Starting point is 01:01:20 And just because Bill said he needed me to do that, shit, I'm going to do it. So that was that first meet with me and Bill. You know what? That's crazy. Look at that. See that right there, though? Akeep Talib was Akeep Talib
Starting point is 01:01:31 when he came to us. You know, he was a big time guy. First meeting, the ball coach says, hey, will you play special teams? Mm-hmm. I've been talking about them, L.A. Rams, bro.
Starting point is 01:01:45 It's going to win you or lose you a game. Get a couple more of them starting on there. Those demons that you have in your mind when you go to sleep on your team. Right. Those come to life in the playoffs. They do. And that's what happened, man.
Starting point is 01:02:00 I talk about it all the time. People don't, I always talk about, like, the special teams, like, that's a weapon. That's why it's called the special teams. Like, you know, they special. They're special, bro. I'm telling you, it wins and it loses you games, man. Simple as that. What was the first time you met Tom, like?
Starting point is 01:02:21 I don't even remember. I don't even remember for real, but, I mean, he probably just came up to my locker. He came up to my locker, introduced himself. I'm time Brady. I probably starstruck and shit. Yeah, I remember. That's time Brady and shit. Like, you know, probably called the family.
Starting point is 01:02:36 Hey, Tom came saying it's up to me, you see? Like, he didn't do it to nobody. The other can't say it was up to me. But he probably just came, man, as a real pro, introduced himself, man, told me that they're happy to have me, man, looking forward to it, man. Let's get this shit. Let's get this chip.
Starting point is 01:02:49 Yeah. Now, what made it so hard playing against him once you were a Bronco? Because Tom had the game played in his head already. You know what I'm saying? y'all do y'all short motions or whatever he knew exactly what we was in and he knew exactly where he was going with the ball nine times out of ten you know what I'm saying so he was so smart pre-snap man it's hard to play a guy like that because you can't fool him like we try to just all right any motions we're just going to bump him or he always has something to know exactly what we was in you know what I'm saying so our best bet was to really just try to get him with a four-man rushes and drop double the guys we need to double, try to take away the middle of the field and hope our edges can get there.
Starting point is 01:03:36 So I think that's what propelled us in this game, man. We had the advantage on the edge. Now let's talk about these Denver Broncos in that edge. Jackie, break them down. Before we get into a quick Denver Broncos, key, it's a got-to-have-it situation. Who would you rather cover, Jules or Dola? The easier cover for me?
Starting point is 01:03:53 Well, the easier cover from me, probably going to be Dola. Like, you know what I'm saying? Jules, he just got a Duel. quick now. I know. But Jewel's just like, Jew's got like this inside foot. He like cut off his, ah, it's like a double foot cut.
Starting point is 01:04:07 Like, you feel me? It's just different. His movement is different. No, I feel you. Dola really just like a, uh, straight stick guy. Jules is hop and boom. He had cut this way off this right foot. You know what I'm saying? So it's, it's just a little different. It's a tougher cover.
Starting point is 01:04:23 I feel you. We just had to throw that in there for the Dola heads out there. Dola, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's the truth, right? I learned out of right. He doesn't understand all those times that we went up against each other in the future.
Starting point is 01:04:36 I was just thinking I went and watched his fucking practice routes all the time. Honestly. Should we hit the Broncos here real quick? Oh man, what a year this was? 12 and 4. This was the first year the Gary Kubiak era. Got to believe that. This scene was Kerry.
Starting point is 01:04:54 Shout out, man. He's about to be a head coach probably, huh? Yeah, Clint. He deserved it. Yeah, man. That's a heck of a football family. John Fox out Kubiak in. This team was carried.
Starting point is 01:05:04 No shade of the offense, but carried by that defense. You know, the no-fly zone. You had a keep. You had Chris Harris. You had Roe. You had Ward. Was Harris a rookie this year? Nah.
Starting point is 01:05:13 Second year. Chris Harris? Yeah. Hell no. They got him in 13? 12. This was at least year four for him. Four?
Starting point is 01:05:23 It was four. They got him for. Three or four. It probably was year four. I would say four. He was, uh... My bad, Jack, no, you're good, you're good.
Starting point is 01:05:31 DT. This is fifth year. Oh, yeah, fifth year. Yeah, me being off with the ages. It's contagious. And then you can't forget about the dudes up front. You had, you had to Marcus where you had Von Miller. You had Beasley.
Starting point is 01:05:41 You guys led the league in sacks 52. Can't forget, keep had two pick sixes this season. I mean, led the league in total yards allowed, only 283 a game. Passing yards, just $199 a game. We said 52 sacks. QB hits, led the league, 123. Just punishing quarterback. And it was also Peyton Manning's final season.
Starting point is 01:06:01 Missed a chunk there in the middle. Osweiler came in in November and took over for six games. But Peyton came back in and took over. But got to talk about the offense too a little bit. They had weapons. You got Emmanuel Sanders. You got DT. RIP, Ronnie Hillman, Vernon Davis.
Starting point is 01:06:16 C.J. Anderson. Yeah. Crazy, bro. So, you know, what's the heck of us what? Wilson. What's his? Owen Daniels. Tied in, bro.
Starting point is 01:06:24 You might have played against him in Pop Warner. He's from Naperville. Yeah. The timing might have worked out. I think we played against each other in the Super Bowl when we were 12. Crazy work, bro. O.D. was like that, man. He was like that.
Starting point is 01:06:38 What do you remember about this Broncos team? Hey, this team right here, shit, we linked up in, and this was our second year there, all the guys. You know what I'm saying? Way first year there. And starting in April, like, we just. looked around, bro, like, bro, this could be the one right here, you know what I'm saying? If we, if we all believe it,
Starting point is 01:07:06 if we all, you know what I'm saying, do the right shit, take it seriously, this could be the one right here. We had no holes, zero holes in the defense. Like, they were fucking good. No holes, you see, the guys who don't even get a lot of the credit, Danny Trey, you know what I'm saying? And motherfucking Brandon Marshall,
Starting point is 01:07:24 then was two dog-ass inside linebackers, man. they covering, they hitting. They got the green dot, you feel me? Like, they was fucking running the show for real. They don't get a lot of love from this Super Bowl team. But telling you, they was major parts, bro. We had zero holes in our defense, and we felt like easily we can be the best defense in the league,
Starting point is 01:07:45 for sure. We know Wade going to dial up these blitzes, let us play. Man, last year, Jack Darryo had us doing the weirdest shit. Like, bro, you brought me here to play 10 yards off and, like, What are we doing? Like corner blitzing? I don't want a blitz.
Starting point is 01:08:00 I just want to strap. Like, you know what I'm saying? He had us doing some crazy shit. Wade came in, man. I feel like he put guys, he let T.J. do a lot of blitz and a lot of covering.
Starting point is 01:08:11 He let guys do what they was good at. You know what I'm saying? He put you in position to do what you good at. So we just felt like, man, we could be the best defense in the league. If we're the best defense in the league with Peyton, because my first year there, Peyton went crazy.
Starting point is 01:08:27 Yeah. Like with Peyton? Oh, shit. We could win a chip easily, bro. So we felt it in April, bro. We knew this team could be special. We'll be right back after this quick break. Who is your guys on the team that you hung out with?
Starting point is 01:08:51 No Fly Zone. Everyone, you guys were all. Vaughn House was Club 58. And Denver Nightlife ain't really like that. At any given moment, you know what I'm saying? It's the off day. a Tuesday. I wake up, the family
Starting point is 01:09:07 back at the crib, you know what I'm saying? I wake up, go give me a little breakfast somewhere slide to pull up over a vinehouse, right? It's eight, nine guys already there. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:09:18 It was a, it was a college style vibe on my team. It was a frat type of thing. I'm talking about, man, everything you need is there. You feel me? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:32 Everything you need is over there. I go to the gate. 21 21. Chris go to the gate, 25. We had our own code. We got to know who's coming in. That's so fire.
Starting point is 01:09:44 You got our own colds to the gates. You know what I'm saying? We get in the gates with your number. T.J. 43, 43. So it was. Did he have chickens there? Nah, his farm wasn't there.
Starting point is 01:09:56 His farm wasn't there. He had a big ass yard like he was fin to start the farm, but that's back in Texas. But it used to be the guys, man. T. T.J. Stu. Von, fucking D.T.
Starting point is 01:10:09 You used to stay over there. Love D.T. Like, all the way down to Goddamn Brandon McAderson, bro. Our kicker used to stay at the place. McManor. Let's go. I mean, Brandon McManornex. He used to stay at the crib.
Starting point is 01:10:26 Like, we had casino nights on Thursday. B. Mac there faithfully every Thursday. Let's go. You know what I'm saying? He was a part of the team. That's why. He was a team. Bro, that's probably.
Starting point is 01:10:35 And that Super Bowl run, 13 for 13 in the playoffs. Ain't miss shit. He was a beast. He was one of us, you know what I'm saying? Now, talk to me about Wade Phillips. What was so different than Del Rio?
Starting point is 01:10:47 Why was he so good? You just said it. You put you guys in positions. But what was like, I mean, he's a football legend. He was around. We played 20 different teams. And he got his system, right? If you fit his system,
Starting point is 01:10:59 if he got the guys to run his system, he run his system. If he don't got the guys to put it like, this. When I had him in LA for the Rams, shit, we turned to a cover three team because Marcus Peters ain't really like playing press man like that. He wanted to be off looking at the quarterback
Starting point is 01:11:17 and breaking on shit. And I could play off, look at the quarterback and break on shit. Fuck it, we're going to make this a cover three type team. So he put guys, that's just an example of how he put guys in position to do what they good at. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:11:31 So he was a legend, man. The shit that he used to cook up man he had a within his system he had a game playing specific for the afc championship game like we switched that up just a little bit you switched it up on in the super bowl and the rams in the super bowl not even with the rams in the super bowl against cam them yeah we ran straight cover four right cover four so if you want two you got whatever wall two or whatever but if your number two blocked as a max pro guy green dog that shit yeah you know i'm saying so we had cat no no blitz is all, but it looked like we blitzing everybody.
Starting point is 01:12:08 And if they're like, all right, they're blitzing, they're doing this. Number two release. And you play war, too. Yeah. So it was like, bro, it was genius, bro, because y'all want to do all this Max Pro. And y'all want to get us on first down to be in regular cover four, then Max Pro, two-man routers, right? Hell not. We don't green dog this shit.
Starting point is 01:12:26 You feel me? We're on Green Dogg. So it's like a hugger. It's like a hugger. It's like huggers. You know what I'm saying? We hugged every. Hugger, meaning the linebacker, if his guy that he's covering.
Starting point is 01:12:35 sits and protects, he automatically adds on in blitzes. Automatically comes right. Oh, okay. Okay. That makes sense. So it was, it was something that we ain't did all year. They were doing that with their defensive backs.
Starting point is 01:12:47 So, B, we were doing it with every line backers too. With Wade. Mm-hmm. They were blitzing if they weren't. So the corners, we're not necessarily going to have a max pro because we got the receivers, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:12:59 But let's just say, if you're in a nasty split or the, so the receiver is in, into the boundary is down and the corner's playing over here. The safety cover four is kind of low in the box, right? So if that tight end that he has to cover, they're basically covering the force, right? If he's sitting and blocking, he's automatically covering.
Starting point is 01:13:21 See, but not the safety. The linebacker is the one who got number two first. If number two try to run the over route and cover four, the linebacker is going walled too. He's not going to let him go across. So if that tight end or that number two stays in and motions in and max pro block, then instead of just him sitting there like,
Starting point is 01:13:38 oh, my dude ain't running route, he green dog, he blitz. And then the same thing on this side. So it was times we had six guys coming, but we still playing cover four on the back and we still doubling your two-man routes with the corner in the safe. It was fucking genius, bro.
Starting point is 01:13:51 It was like, we heard Wade put that in, and we like, oh shit, we're gonna fuck him up. Was this the best defense you played on? Easy. Easy from just the coordinating from Wade and the bodies we had in every position. easily the best defense. Is this one of the greatest defense of all time?
Starting point is 01:14:08 Of course. I mean, it got to be top five. Like, we won the Super Bowl. I'll rush more of greatest defenses. Let's hear it. I go, the bucks.
Starting point is 01:14:22 Sap. They won the chip. Brooks. Brooks never missed a snap in his career. Brooks had five touchdowns. How crazy is that? He never missed a snap. Iron man, bro.
Starting point is 01:14:32 Brooks scored five touchdowns. His self. That's like, he's a monster. They scored like eight, nine touchdowns on defense, one the ship on defense, had two touchdowns against Philly and the NSC. So, Bucks, Ravins. Which one? Raynham. The 2000 one.
Starting point is 01:14:51 The 2000 one. The early one. Every McAllister at corner. T. Sizzle. Sizzle on the edge. He was slightly late. Lodi Lottie Lottie. They were laid.
Starting point is 01:15:04 D-tackle. Reed wasn't on that or I don't think Ed Reed was on the first one. Tony Siragusa was. Tony Saragusa was. That was a different. I'm talking about the Lodi Nata one. Okay.
Starting point is 01:15:15 Ed Reed. Okay. Yeah, that one. They were good. You couldn't run the ball on them. We literally went in any time we played them, because we had to beat them in the playoffs. We played them.
Starting point is 01:15:25 Josh came into the room and says, we've been running the ball gray. He says we can't. If we run the ball, we will lose. Can't do it. We had to run. went naked. We went empty.
Starting point is 01:15:37 And then we had all those crazy formation things fucked with them. Okay, so we got Ravens. We got Bucks. Ravens, Bucks. Leisure. Leisure. Leisure in there.
Starting point is 01:15:49 I feel like if you won the chip. What about 85 bears? Well, you know, I ain't really get to watch them. Oh, so this is, okay. That's like a urban. That was also like 46 defense, bear defense. Like they had linebackers that were. 265 70 pounds
Starting point is 01:16:06 I didn't get to see that it's a different game yeah I'm saying it a different game back then so I just could go off what I got to see with my own eyes what about some of those 49er defenses back in the day were in those cowboy defenses with Charles Haley
Starting point is 01:16:22 Dionne Ken Norton but who's George Woodson and see some guys so the fourth one what that Legion of Boone Legion of Boom team did to that incredible offense with the Broncos in 2013. It was incredible.
Starting point is 01:16:39 First play the game. It was bad. In New York, man. You throw us in there? Yeah. So right there. So you got Tampa, Ravens. Boom.
Starting point is 01:16:49 Legion of Bulls. Seahawks. No fly zone. No fly zone. You got to have a good nickname to that. That takes out. You only get a good nickname if you like that, though. That's right.
Starting point is 01:16:59 That's the only way you get a nickname. That's the only way you get a nickname. Bro, back to that Derrick. Brooke's team. I heard this the other day, Gruden saying this. They didn't take a single snap in the gun all season. That championship team in Tampa, isn't that crazy? Is that Brad Johnson? Yeah, that'll never happen again.
Starting point is 01:17:13 Brad Johnson. Under center every play on offense. We got Gruden coming on soon. Drew, that's my guy. I like Grude. He's amazing on TV, too. He acts exactly how he act on TV is how he act as a coach. Yeah, that's why he's good because he's authentically him.
Starting point is 01:17:30 Y'all think he'll be back on a sideline soon? I don't know. I don't know either. He's got some. You suit leagues. Yeah, you suit the league, man. You get your hands for it. I'm not saying nothing.
Starting point is 01:17:41 Hey, I'm not saying the NFL. He's awesome on TV and podcast and his, yeah. He got good money from that lawsuit. Facts. You got something. All right, Jack, break the game. All right. Should we preview this thing real quick?
Starting point is 01:17:54 Yeah. The big story leading into this one, of course, it's a rematch from that week 12 game. The first loss of Patriots had, Osweiler, got him. And then, of course, pretty much everyone knew this would be the end of the Brady-Manning rivalry. This was the finale. 17th matchup. We also got to talk about this, the AFC championship game, of course. This is back when the ones and the two's got a buy.
Starting point is 01:18:17 So Denver beat Pittsburgh 2316 in the divisional round while New England beat Kansas City. Prima Holmes, of course, 2720. Both teams started with a buy meeting up in the AFC championship game for all the Marvels. a trip to the big one. Talking about the Brady-Maining rivalry real quick, regular season, Tom had the advantage nine to three. Post-season, split two-to-two.
Starting point is 01:18:42 So that brings us to our 17th matchup. And Peyton was on a heater. He had a two-game win streak over Brady and the AFC title games. So we're moving into the game, baby. And six Super Bowls to two. Well, of course. Now, was there, could you feel a little added?
Starting point is 01:18:58 Could you feel a little added something when it was the Peyton Manning versus the Brady thing like from the offense when they were practicing? I don't know if I felt like in practice but this was the Super Bowl you could feel it all over
Starting point is 01:19:17 the building man. It was intense. It was everybody was locked in. You know what I'm saying? It was, I'm telling you ain't nobody come out and say it like, hey, this is the Super Bowl, but the field around
Starting point is 01:19:31 the building was, hey, this is the one. We went. in this one, we'd be just fine in the chip no matter who we play. What was Peyton like in the locker room? Was he like giving reminders everything? Or was he to himself? Nah, Payton was like
Starting point is 01:19:47 more like the guy you see on TV now. He was like that in the locker room. Like he always had jokes. He going to come down to the DBs with some jokes. Like, bro, this dude, he just was like real witty. He was like, you know, Tom more like to his sub-square business in the locker room, right? Payton was more
Starting point is 01:20:03 like he bullshed around like he'd be in the training room bullshitting he's just a funny guy you know what I'm saying and it's no other place to be funny than in the locker room what was the funniest thing he said to you I don't even know man just just
Starting point is 01:20:18 I don't know it was so much bro I'm telling you it was it was it was daily so it wasn't like I can't remember one story because he he had jokes all day long he's one of the guys in the locker room did he ever text you like a paragraph off of anything? Because anytime he texts me
Starting point is 01:20:35 whenever we do something, he gives me fucking a book of like how we should do it. All the time. Every time you get a text from him, it's a book. It's at least this long. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, man, he... I remember one time he texts
Starting point is 01:20:50 like, hey, probably before this season. No, it was West was on the team, so it's my first season. Hey, we go into the casino, man. I know we're a team. Don't tell nobody else because if you ain't get this text message, you ain't invited. We only could have a certain amount of people there.
Starting point is 01:21:10 You know what I'm saying? So just keep this to yourself. You'll see who are there when you get there. You know what I'm saying? It was probably like 25 guys. You pay me 30 guys. But he just couldn't hack 70 guys there. He basically said no entourage.
Starting point is 01:21:27 He basically said, hey, man, everybody on the team ain't going to be invited. So don't be like, hey, you're going to pay your shit? me. Everybody can't go. You feel me? So that was funny to me. When we went to the casino, man, we had a fucking great time. Wes Walker, fucking probably won a half a million dollars in that bitch. He always won him money.
Starting point is 01:21:44 He's struggling. He's giving that out afterwards. What was he playing? Poker. He's playing poker? I think he's playing poker. And he made a half a million bucks. Blackjack or something. Blackjack? Whatever is playing. What do you play? Crazy. I don't really,
Starting point is 01:21:58 I don't really, I don't like the casino. I'm not either. I don't really a casino. Or the bones, don't the bones. Yeah, I bet, side bed on the dice. I don't want to roll the bids just myself. And then I play 21 at the casino. But I don't really like the guy.
Starting point is 01:22:13 I never really played a casino every one. You were your tonk guy? Buree. Buree. Yeah, yeah, Bure. I started off Tunk, though. Tunk, and when we was young, that's the young guy game. When you really get established in the league, you play that Buree.
Starting point is 01:22:27 Never who way. Now, how banged up was Peyton this year, though? Pain was fucked up. Pain was fucked up, man. It was crazy watching this. I watched this game and I was like, that ain't. His neck was bothering him, bro. I just had a neck surgery.
Starting point is 01:22:42 Did you? Because my arm went numb. And so if he had anything like that. His neck was bothering. His foot, he did something to his foot, bro. What a warrior. People forget about the foot too, yeah. Bro, the foot was crazy.
Starting point is 01:22:55 Like, I had treatment one day. Payton used to go in that bitch to get treatment before anybody and be in and out. Like, he didn't want to be, like, hovering over Brock. So he used to get his treatment earlier, go get his work in the indoor and kind of just be out the way. Let me let Brock feel like this. His show. I don't want to hover over him. Man, I went to treatment for early for whatever reason.
Starting point is 01:23:18 I seen his foot. It looked like a cartoon foot, bro. It was like the entire foot was purple and blue. Like, bro, I'm like paying, bro. He's like, yeah. Like, yeah. Like, he had something with it. I don't know what it was.
Starting point is 01:23:30 but his foot was fucked off. Man, like terribly bad, man. But he was a warrior, bro. He made plays, bro. He made plays. The anticipation he had to throw with. Shit, for us to get the number one seed, y'all slid up to Miami loss. I don't know why Patriots always go lose up there. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:23:52 But they were in the Miami lost. Humidity. Brock Oswaters started the game against the charges, right? This is the first place game. We win this. We're in the first place. Brock, dude, we had five turnovers in the first half. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:04 Brock through four picks and had a fumble. Like, bro, we like. Just tied up. It's tied up or something going in the halftime. Shit. Pay and cane, dust that helmet off. He came in that bitch game. I remember.
Starting point is 01:24:19 Start making plays, bro. Got us that first, got us to win, got us the first seed. Bro, that was huge. That was huge. There was no, there was no QB controversy ever? Nah, hell, nah. No, no. Brock won seven straight, but he was throwing for like 1.30. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:36 We was running for like 130. So we was running the ball and playing D-D. And then a couple of games, Brock came out, let it ride for like $200, $2.20 or something. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. He wasn't close to that. Rock got paid, though. He did get paid. He should have sent us a check.
Starting point is 01:24:56 Shut up. My God. For all my guys Before we get in the game You've got to talk to us about how How great it is to have the home field advantage at mile high What's so great? Why is that play so hard to play?
Starting point is 01:25:13 Man, first of all, it's louder than you think it is I think it's top three outdoor loudest stadium I'm telling you, it's louder than you think it is In Denver Kansas City and Seattle Or up there Kansas City, Seattle, Denver Denver
Starting point is 01:25:26 Easy and then that altitude is fucking real. You think it's real? You don't think so? I never really felt it. Bro, I remember our AFC championship game, we went up there to play Denver. Like usually in the warm-up,
Starting point is 01:25:41 our offense would break the huddle and I go through all my shit. All right, it's first down, boom, there I break the huddle. Oh, a rod receiver tight end? Oh, these rocks. I'm just going through what I just told you how I watched them.
Starting point is 01:25:52 I'm going through my test in my head. And I was playing, and that AFC, Chip, when we went up there, I played for New England. I couldn't even go through my shit in my head, bro. I was tired. It hits people differently. Bro, my lips was chapped in the bitch.
Starting point is 01:26:05 I'm like, fuck. Like, I couldn't think of nothing but the altitude pregame. I remember going to sit in my locker like, all right, bro, leave. Lock the fuck in, bro. Fuck this altitude, bro. You got it talking to myself like, this shit on me. It was on me. And this was the warm up.
Starting point is 01:26:21 You feel me? It hits people differently. To me, it's real, bro. It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. When I first signed there, I went and did, you know, I work out in big hoodies and sweats and shit, get a real sweat.
Starting point is 01:26:33 Bro, it was damn their neckie, bro. I took all that shit off. I got on compression shorts only to finish this workout. It's hot. It was hot, too. It's the altitude, though. It's fucking draining, bro. To me, I've seen so many receivers come up there and tap out.
Starting point is 01:26:47 By the fourth quarter, they don't even want to block no more. They just tapped out. I mean, now you're a goon. You probably don't feel it. Like Wolverine type shit, you know what I'm saying? I mean I just never thought I didn't want it to get in my head
Starting point is 01:26:59 So I just always Like you talk to yourself I was talking myself Like they ain't nothing fucking wrong with you Let's go I tried to do that But my mouth was so dry You did get dry
Starting point is 01:27:09 I'm like oh my God Because it's some Mountain air is different As I take a sip of water Like bro Bro I feel like they up the reminders Every year too It's like 5820
Starting point is 01:27:18 On the gold post on the helmets Everywhere Put them tag You put it all in the business Locker roll Yeah it's like all right You are at 520. Hey, nah, for real.
Starting point is 01:27:28 We'll be right back after this quick break. I'm Dylan Playfair. And I'm Tyler Smith. We're putting loneliness in the penalty box by talking to some of our favorite athletes about the importance of friendship. This is bromance. Bromance is brought to you by Charmed Diamond Centers,
Starting point is 01:27:47 proudly Canadian-owned and operator. Charm has been part of your love stories and bromances for over 50 years. And you can find Bromance on the IHart Radio Network or wherever you get your podcast. Segregation and the day integration at night. When segregation was the law, one mysterious black club owner had his own rules. We didn't worry about what went on outside.
Starting point is 01:28:14 It was like stepping on another world. Inside Charlie's place, black and white people danced together. But not everyone was happy about it. You saw the KKK? Yeah, they were dressed up in their uniform. The KKK set out to raid Charlie, take him away from here. Charlie was an example of power. They had to crush him.
Starting point is 01:28:42 From Atlas Obscura, Rococo Punch, and visit Myrtle Beach, comes Charlie's Place. A story that was nearly lost to time. Until now. Listen to Charlie's Place on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On June 11th, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing. It's an all-out manhunt for John A.J. Every search and rescue team in L.A. County has been called in to help. Within days, TIP started flooding into the Sheriff's Department.
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Starting point is 01:30:27 Each week we cover the crimes, analyze the plot holes, and insult the outfits. Benson goes to talk to Kelly to tell her the news, but is wearing a beret. Not the time for a silly hat, Benson. What are you doing? New episodes drop every Tuesday on the Exactly Right Network. Listen to That's Messed Up on IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
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Starting point is 01:32:00 Jackie, go out with the game. All right, let's start off with this one. We got to start off early. The defense was in time. Tom's lap, pressure in the heck out of him all over the place. Vaughn was getting after him. They were throwing all types of looks. Peyton and the Broncos got on the board first with that guy Owen Daniels.
Starting point is 01:32:16 We talked about him early. O.D., 21-yarder to go up 7-0. Trade some punch back and forth. Then a Ronnie Hillman Fumble opens a door for Tom, give him short field. Tom seizes on it. Scores a TD, but it'll come back to bite. Gaskowski missed extra point. As they always do.
Starting point is 01:32:35 Special team. As I always do. First one all season. First one since he was a rookie. Unbelievable kicker. First one since 06, bro. He hadn't missed one. I know.
Starting point is 01:32:44 He also played at the beginning, the early stage version of his on the two. This is true. This is true. Moving into the second quarter, that pressure becomes an issue. Tom picked off twice in the second quarter. Not great.
Starting point is 01:32:58 Von Miller, with one of them, sets up a quick Denver score. Another Peyton Manning to Owen Daniel's Strike's story of the day. going up 14 to 6. Pat's tack on a field goal, 14 to 9. Denver would respond to the field goal. 17, 9 going into the half. Crazy.
Starting point is 01:33:15 Down at the half. What are we thinking, Jules? Yeah, we got to find something. If you look at the box score, we had, you know, we're terrible on third down. We couldn't do anything on third down. I'm sitting there thinking about my goddamn lineman cleats that I'm wearing because I had a broken foot.
Starting point is 01:33:31 Remember I had the broken foot? We couldn't get anything going on offense. They had it strapped. on us. We put in a double Denver for the past count or for the, uh, for the, try to slow down their defensive linemen because two years ago, Vaughn Miller was in the
Starting point is 01:33:45 lap of Tom every play. So we put in this double Denver that wasn't working. We couldn't get anything going on offense. Yeah, I mean, looking at the drive chart here, it's punt, punt, punt, TD interception, field goal interception uh, on seven, seven first half possession. We were just outmanned.
Starting point is 01:34:03 We were trying and we, it was on a to foreshadow to the end of the game, it was crazy to us that we had a shot to get it to tie the game. Honestly. Because they were owning us. Two for 15 for third down. That's nuts. I mean, it was worse than that. Because a lot of the time, I mean, it was just bad.
Starting point is 01:34:25 We started having them injuries late too. You know what I'm saying? T.J. went down. Yeah. Then Stu went down. So that's our dime and our safety. And that's when Gron. started eating because you guys were doubling with guys other that like bro we had bush in there
Starting point is 01:34:40 and my guys they came in made plays but k o was in there bush was in there kweb was coming in playing the dime where kweb came and played the nick we had to move chris to the dime like we was just shuffling guys back there man with them two guys going down now what kubiak say at halftime hey it ain't over bro it ain't over we know who we plan just keep our foot on the guy Keep our foot on the gas. Man, moving into the third quarter here, it's a little bit of a punt fest. We got five punts and a Patriots field goal in the third.
Starting point is 01:35:15 That cuts the lead, 17 to 12, into the fourth. Denver opens it up with a field goal of their own, makes it 20 to 12. Then two straight Patriots drives, really going for six here, end and turnover on downs, going forward on fourth.
Starting point is 01:35:28 We thought it was over at that point. I was going to say, bro. We got it back. I know, bro. We thought it was over at that point, bro. You thought it was over. Yeah, because that second one was We only had two minutes left.
Starting point is 01:35:39 Yeah, 225 left. They had like 209. Yeah. Like we got the ball 209. We think, oh, it's over. It's a rap for these boys. They might get the ball back with 30 seconds. We got it back.
Starting point is 01:35:48 Quick. Like a minute and 30 seconds. A minute in 40, shit. And with great field position. So then that sets up the final drive. We take over it. There's a four down, though, where they try to bracket rob because they brought pressure.
Starting point is 01:36:02 I think was there pressure? Yep. No, it might not have been. But they just bracket them. It was like cover seven in the field. It probably was man, but we just doubled him and probably doubled you. And they, you know, a lot of times guys will get messed up because they think he's breaking. So he didn't break.
Starting point is 01:36:21 He just kept going. So he had, he split him. He split him, ran straight through. Tom did with Tom. Perfect. Drop the fucking die. Like, can't put it in. Because they were on them.
Starting point is 01:36:32 But Gronk, I mean, it's hard to cover Gronk. No matter what, he's not covered. Because he could run too, you know what I'm saying? That's what people forget. He was fast. So that pass set up the, his next pass was a touchdown. He ran a little corner route on Chris. They just threw it up.
Starting point is 01:36:49 How did he get his feet in? Like just grab Chris through him out the way. Like, ah, got his feet in. They're not going to call nothing at that point, especially not no offensive pass in the fair. Well, they already missed a call in the play before. Who? You know that fourth down
Starting point is 01:37:04 They got grown. No. That was me back there. Yeah, you got them. I got him out. You got him out. I didn't grab him. You were grabbing him.
Starting point is 01:37:12 I didn't get. You just said earlier in the interview. You love cheating and holding. No, no, no. I didn't hold him on that play, though. And you propelled him. That's what I did. See, that's...
Starting point is 01:37:22 I jumped early. And then by time he jumped, he just took me up a little bit higher. It was just well thought out. You can't slingshot. Hey, man. I'm just in the air trying to make a play. The ball in the ball in.
Starting point is 01:37:32 the air. I'm playing the ball in the air. That's perfectly legal for real. You ain't never seen that call in the history of the NFL. Let's take a look. Let's go to the tape. You ain't never seen this car, right? This is a great play right here. See, he even said he felt the slingshot. He felt the slingshot.
Starting point is 01:37:53 Of course he's talking about it, man. We got a replay. That ref right there, he was not cheating for me, but that ref was called so many pi. They're not going to show us? Hold on. Let's go back here. They didn't give you the good view
Starting point is 01:38:05 That don't even look at the end I don't look clean to me That looked clean to me That's clean, bro How do you even go about covering a dude like gronky? Shit Hey It's gonna be a dog fight man
Starting point is 01:38:20 Hey He better play this ball at his highest point Because you know where gronky is He's high He's high He's gonna be high And he's strong Like those guys
Starting point is 01:38:30 DBs they can use their strength sometimes and they can knock you off when they're going up for like you can't do that with Grong they know how to use their body Gron use his body man take us through the two point play two point play so really
Starting point is 01:38:47 on the motion you came in motion I was on you bam you came in motion we're supposed to switch it you see I almost went here that's why I stopped it yeah I almost went and then at the last minute Josh Bush or somebody said
Starting point is 01:39:05 Play it, play, play it. So I just stayed with Bang Bang. So I went, we going here? Played, play, play, play. Boop. And I stayed on it. Tom got flushed.
Starting point is 01:39:16 Then boom, I was able to give my hand on it. But Tom should have threw it to Gronk. He was open. Grot was only one-on-one with Josh Bois. But it was the play before. It was almost kind of the same play that he scored on. So he was thinking that you guys were probably going to give the eyes to them. And that's what I tried to do.
Starting point is 01:39:32 I tried to go here so I could come off and be outside and be on Gras. Can you walk us through your perspective for that play? So like what he was saying, I knew they were going to do that. I was expecting them to pass me off. So if you see, if I'm matched on that play, I got to take it across to open up the other shit. But I felt Akie being a smart player is, he played me and he looked at his guy to like he was going to pass it off. Probably even did like this. I'm telling you.
Starting point is 01:39:58 Yeah. And so I broke it off. and if Tom would have banged it right away, it would have been there, but then Akib stayed on me, and then Tom flushed. Is this it? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:40:11 Let's see. Talk over it, so YouTube doesn't get us. See, Chris right there. So I'm coming, I see all game they've been, see right there, he did it. I'm looking, and then I'm looking for the P-dropper, and then it was, you see the P-dropper, the big guy came out?
Starting point is 01:40:28 Mm-hmm. so E.C. L. C.L. Keep says it right here. Bush say, play, play it. Or lock it or lock it or whatever he said. See, we're fin to pass it off. I think I heard it too. Maybe Chris said it.
Starting point is 01:40:39 I should have just went. I should have just went. But when he stopped, I'm not going to keep going this way while he's going that way. And so once I see him flush, I got to kind of stop because there was a different one where we,
Starting point is 01:40:54 I saw it. But those are the cat, the cat mouse. Cat mouse, man. in there. Especially with communication. See, that's why a lot of coaches in the red area use motions because what's he have to do?
Starting point is 01:41:08 We got to talk. They got to talk. And these guys don't like to talk. They can get messed up so easily. If we're not thinking the exact same, you see right there, we really messed up. They really fucked up. Chris and Bush both going with the running back. One of y'all should have been, one of y'all is supposed to be back outside of Gromk,
Starting point is 01:41:26 K-O inside of Grom. Like, that's the guy we doubling. and we're not trying to double the running back. We got the running back, though. They mess it up. But the pressure coming from the inside. The pressure got it. The pressure got to it.
Starting point is 01:41:36 Pressure sped it up. It's kind of crazy, too, and he's got to have situations. Bats only went for it once on a two-point conversion trial all season. And we're 0 for one leading into this. After this game was what next year? Yeah, Falcons. 2016. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:41:52 Before that Super Bowl, because of this game in these situations, the last three years, like of our without winning the Super Bowl all ended on the last play. We installed seven two-point plays going into that Super Bowl. We ended up using three or four. Because of this play here.
Starting point is 01:42:10 Because of this was a huge part of it. How many were in? Because I remember before going into 2016, the first thing Bill showed us was this play. The first thing he showed us was the first, the last play of the Super Bowl. The year before that,
Starting point is 01:42:25 it came down to one play with us in Denver when Akeb was on our team. Like it always came down to the last play. So we wanted to make sure we had ammo. Ammo. How many two point conversion plays were in the playbook at this point? You probably only have
Starting point is 01:42:40 two. Right. Maybe three. Crazy, bro. And sometimes you could use a short yardage play depending or goal line play depending. But goal line, that's a one yard play. They may really go-toes though. Yeah. You got to, we call it. Got to have it. Gotta have it.
Starting point is 01:42:57 G-THA. You probably got two of them. Shout out Big V's barbecue sauce. That's right. Got to have it. That's right. Love Big V. So Broncos win.
Starting point is 01:43:06 2018. Going to the Super Bowl. Broncos win. Going to the Supi. Beat the dog shit out to Panthers. Beat the Panthers and Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara. Easy work. No.
Starting point is 01:43:15 2014. No. That's the Seahawks game. And we're going to be in San Francisco next week, too. There you go. Crazy work. Beat them down. Beat them down.
Starting point is 01:43:24 Peyton retires on top, rides off into the sunset after 18 illustrious seasons. Really, truly an unbelievable defense. So, Vaughn Miller, Super Bowl MVP? Vaughn Miller. Von went crazy. Von had this fucking techno. Every pregame, we play in like Future and shit. Yeah, Future was real hot then.
Starting point is 01:43:44 Super Bowl come. Vaughn got this interatlantic, intanglantic, Intang Atlantic, Intang Atlantic, Intang Atlantic. Blasting this shit, right? Man, you think somebody would like, bro, turn that. shit all in there. We were all in their vibes. We're going to be in the Lydie and thing. Get a lot. We're going to beat the door and shit out of these boys. They tried to fuck us up.
Starting point is 01:44:04 Merton Hanks, he do all the uniforms and shit. So it's the anniversary game, right? It's the gold game. He's basically got to check everyone. He got to check everybody. So he comes in a locker room. I got gold, underarmers, gold glove, my neck, tights on. Like, we cleaned in the bitch. He come in, hey, if anybody wear gold, we're going to remove you from the game, And we're just not even going to remove you from the game and you got to go.
Starting point is 01:44:28 Somebody was like, man, what the fuck? What the fuck, man? That's the damn anniversary. Y'all get us all this shit, shit. I heard that shit. Usually I would be one of vows because I'm all about my uniform, right? Hey, I said, hey, fuck that shit. Hey, fuck that shit.
Starting point is 01:44:41 They want this shit to be a motherfucking dog fight. I started taking this shit off. Rip the mock necker. You see me? I'm basically naked in the game. I haven't got no tights on. You took all that shit off. Hey, this is what kind of fucking game they want, bro?
Starting point is 01:44:53 Fuck it. Woo, woo, who, who, going about everybody like, yeah. Easy to save it, right. I had to save it because we just been to take our minds to some complaining shit somewhere we ain't want to be, you know what I'm saying? Nah, fuck that. This is what kind of game they want, bro? They don't want us to have no swag.
Starting point is 01:45:09 Hey, took everything off. Let you see, I'm completely, I don't got no nothing. Those orange clothes on, blue cleats, no tights, no nothing, bro. I'm like, all right, let's go. Let's do it like this then. That's how it don't matter. We're going to beat the dog. Shit out these boys today.
Starting point is 01:45:24 say the drama, hey, we got out there and got at them boys, man. How was the party? How was the Super Bowl party? It was cool. It was solid. It was, I expected a little bit more, but we was in San Fran, though. Like, you don't really want to be out like that in San Fran. You don't get too close to the bay and shit.
Starting point is 01:45:41 You get crazy. Hey, we're talking to you, man. We had a good time, though. We had a good time. If we had to been in like, like Atlanta, you all that one in Atlanta, we was ready to go crazy in that one of them. I'm talking about me, Aaron Donald, J.G, we all, like, hey, we win. We're spending $200 tonight.
Starting point is 01:46:01 Light work. We're spending it go crazy. We lost. Damn. But now, the Super Bowl parties was cool, though, man. It was cool. The one at the hotel was solid. You know, we got there doing our own thing.
Starting point is 01:46:12 Yeah. It was cool. You know, I'm from the trenches, brawn with me. I'd be looking around and shit. I can't enjoy myself all the way in environments. I get it. Yeah. I'm saying.
Starting point is 01:46:24 Did Peyton hang out or is he? No, I don't even think I seen Peyton after the game. I don't even think I seen Payton after the game, man. I didn't see a lot of people. We had the Vaughn, the court guys, we was DTE, we was all at that little party. Then we started, whoop, everybody started going to these other parties and shit. Man, I end up, I got somewhere, man, I'm looking around like, and I'm gone. I think Vaughn and all of them.
Starting point is 01:46:52 I think Vaughn and all them boys was in there. They stayed in there. I'm like, man. I'm gone, man. I'm out of here. Man. I went in chill. I had all my fam and stuff in town and shit. I was beat.
Starting point is 01:47:02 I was tired of shit. I believed it. I stayed out. I can't stay out late, bro. I stayed out to about 12, 31 o'clock. I'm in the room. Same. We sleep.
Starting point is 01:47:10 Sleeping. Out of there, man. Exhausted. Man. All right. What's the legacy of this game? Hey, it's, it's Payton's last rodeo, man. I'm glad I was a part of it.
Starting point is 01:47:22 And also, it's the cherry on top, man, for one of the best defenses to ever play football. You know what I'm saying? Dominated the game, scored a touchdown on defense. We gave one of the top offenses in the league. They averaged 30 this year. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We gave them 10 points, man.
Starting point is 01:47:43 And really embarrass them. So, I mean, I feel like it was the cherry on top for an amazing defensive season for us. And we got to send Peyton out like. that right there, man. Off to the sunset with his second Super Bowl. That's awesome. And lastly, before we grade this game, Akeeb, what does football mean to you? Football is everything to me, man. I'm telling you, like, we were talking before the cameras cut on. This shit really changed my life. And I don't, I remember when, but since I was born,
Starting point is 01:48:22 I could remember way back to the first memory, I just loved this game. You know what I'm saying? My brother loved this game. This game has changed my family dynamic completely, right? I got nephews who get scholarships. They're going to play college football. My kids play. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:48:42 And I tell them, like, when you start liking football, they're like, I don't know. Like, you just was born to do this shit. Like, you know what I brainwashed them. I'm like, bro, you was just born to do this shit, man. So I love the game, man. It means everything to me. It teaches you so much shit, man. Just family.
Starting point is 01:49:02 It teach you how to really have friends, how to be accountable. You know what I'm saying? You do shit because you know guys is depending on you. It teach you how to communicate, you know what I'm saying? It teach you so much shit, you know what I'm saying? Even if you don't go play pro, I would recommend all young guys do it because it teach you how to be a man. I'm saying you're going to use in the tech world and in the business world.
Starting point is 01:49:26 You're going to learn that shit from being in this locker room with all these guys. You know what I'm saying? So it means everything to me, man. I love it. That's why I still work in it. I talk about it now. I train my kids. I train kids and had 707 and stuff in Dallas, man.
Starting point is 01:49:44 So I love this game, man. It's a violent game. It's entertaining. And it ain't going nowhere. It ain't going nowhere. Facts. And what Akeve just said is how he played. And that's why you're probably going to be in the Hall of Fame, bro.
Starting point is 01:50:02 Let's go. I hope, you know, there's a lot of politics in it, but, you know, I put the work. You're a baller. You played like you love the game. Sure. All-time corner that tackled big plays and big games, soupy, associated one of the greatest of all-time defenses. I mean, it's
Starting point is 01:50:21 Fourth all time in pick sixes Fourth. Third, for real. Third? Tide for third. They got me in four, if I put him in fourth shit, put me third. Third all time. Third all time in pick six and there we go. How I'm for him and he's third. He's third. He's been, I said. All right. Let me get third, he's fourth. You bet, right, wrong.
Starting point is 01:50:41 You feel me? That should be the tie breakers. That should be the tiebreaker. We'll be right back after this quick break. I'm Dylan Playfair. And I'm Tyler Smith. We're putting loneliness in the penalty box by talking to some of our favorite athletes about the importance of friendship.
Starting point is 01:51:01 This is bromance. Bromance is brought to you by Charm Diamond Centers, proudly Canadian-owned and operator. Charm has been part of your love stories and bromances for over 50 years. And you can find Bromance on the IHeart Radio Network or wherever you get your podcast. Segregation and a day,
Starting point is 01:51:22 integration at night. When segregation was the law, one mysterious black club owner had his own rules. We didn't worry about what went on outside. It was like stepping on another world. Inside Charlie's place, black and white people danced together. But not everyone was happy about it. You saw the KKK? Yeah, they were dressed up in their uniform.
Starting point is 01:51:47 The KKK set out to raid Charlie, take him away from here. Charlie was an example of power. They had to crush you. From Atlas Obscura, Rococo Punch, and Visit Myrtle Beach, comes Charlie's Place. A story that was nearly lost to time. Until now. Listen to Charlie's Place on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On June 11, 1998, the deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing.
Starting point is 01:52:25 It's an all-out manhunt for John A.J. Every search and rescue team in L.A. County has been called in to help. Within days, TIP started flooding into the Sheriff's Department. The ruler around the drug scene was that a deputy was taken care of. Is this the story of a man who just got lost in the desert? Or of a cover-up inside the nation's largest sheriff's department? A homicide captain saying, detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent.
Starting point is 01:52:55 Who does that? Valley of Shadows, a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert. Do you have any advice for us while looking into this disappearance? I wouldn't do it alone. Listen to Valley of Shadows on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Lisa Trager.
Starting point is 01:53:21 And I'm Kara Clank, we're comedians and your favorite overly invested SVU watchers. And that's messed up, an SVU podcast. We recap iconic episodes, then talk to the stars who live them. Like the legendary Matthew Lillard,
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Starting point is 01:55:24 All right, let's name the game and score the game. Is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it. Remember to leave decimals or numbers. encouraged. These are some names we came up with. If you have a name for this specific game, you can use it. We came up with the Mile High Magic. No back to back. The Super Bowl. Yeah. Brady versus Manning, the final chapter. We beat the champs twice. I would go with number three, right? But I would insert the AFC Super Bowl.
Starting point is 01:56:01 Love it. The AFC Super Bowl. The AFC Super Bowl. Whoever won this thing was winning at all. Mm-hmm. Whoever won that, it's winning it all. They was the champs. That's happened a few times with Peyton and Brady matchups.
Starting point is 01:56:14 Let's score it. Let's score it. Stakes 0 to 10 decimals encourage the stakes of this AFC championship game. Hey, the stakes was high. It was the goat versus the goat. You know what I'm saying? It probably was Peyton last rodeo. He was broke up and he had much left.
Starting point is 01:56:31 So zero to 10, the stakes was a nine. Yeah, I think for us, the stakes were like a nine, five. We potential go back to back. You know, we didn't do that. There's a lot of legacy attached to this. There's just, I mean, this is Tom. And for us on defense, like, if we wanted to be a great fucking defense, if we don't win a Super Bowl, can't be a great defense.
Starting point is 01:57:00 You can't be a great defense. You know what I'm saying? So it was up there. I give it a nine. They got a 9-7. I'm with you guys. I had a 9-3. The star power of this game.
Starting point is 01:57:07 The star power was a 10. Star power was a 10, man. We had the goat quarterbacks. We had Gronk. We had motherfucker D.T. We had Akeet to Lee. We had the McCordy's involved. Ed Jules.
Starting point is 01:57:20 Like, bro, we had guys. It was to the coaches. Coaches. Bill and Cooke. Coobeah. Owen Daniels. Cubi. I mean, that's a legacy name.
Starting point is 01:57:30 Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. I got to go, for me, that's a high. 9.4. 9.4. 9.1. I'm right there with you guys. I had a 9-0.
Starting point is 01:57:44 I feel like just the star power of the quarterbacks. Yeah. It's hard. You can't get better than that. You can't. I feel like I went a low. God, Lee. There's a lot of Hall of Famers from this game, too.
Starting point is 01:57:53 Zach Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware. Like, golly. You feel me? I've never given a 9-4. The game player. of this game. What we mean by game play? It's a little bit like the back and forth,
Starting point is 01:58:06 how entertaining the game is, you know, watching it on. It's like it to none. It came down to a two-point conversion. Tom Brady game winning, a game tie and scoring drive. Then the two-point conversion, he needs this and he had tied up. Like, it came down to the very end. I go, I go nine-five. Like, it was back-and-forth.
Starting point is 01:58:28 Detentive game. It was. Two stars that are the quarterbacks. A little sloppy with special teams, but that can be fun to watch. I give it a nine flat. All right. I like offense. Yeah, I'm a defensive guy, so you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:58:40 We like sloppy. I'm going to eight flat. The name of the game, we got a grade the name of the game, the AFC Super Bowl. Ten, baby. Winner takes it all, baby. The name don't get no. For all the marvels. For all the marvels, baby.
Starting point is 01:58:56 You know, I'm on the other side of this, so I'll give it at 8.9. I went to seven. I'm a homer. I'm still butt hurt over the point one. Y'all don't like your name? I love it. I just hate this game. This is a high-ass game.
Starting point is 01:59:09 This is a high-ass game. This is an 8.92. That's our new, ooh, top 10. Wow. It's our new ninth game just behind the 1999 Women's World Cup. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 01:59:22 And just ahead of the four nations face off Canada versus USA. That needs to go down. You just bumped the Yankees. versus Red Sox World Series Remember when Poppy was down? They were down four or three and they came back. This list definitely needed more Patriots games in the top ten. That's right.
Starting point is 01:59:42 I know. So the Falcons Patriots, that was the number one game of all time? So far. So far. We haven't done some good games. How do you feel about that one? I mean, come back? It was amazing, bro.
Starting point is 01:59:52 And I tell you, you see all these, you see all these? I was the lowest scorer out of everyone on those. Yeah, this is a man of integrity. Jack. That's a man of integrity. Oh yeah, I'm a homeless. We get the average of all of our scores. It's nice to get a Patriots loss up higher, though, just to even it out. Yeah, you got to have a Patriots loss up there.
Starting point is 02:00:12 Integrity, baby. Well, we do. We have the, where's the... Super Bowl 53, which you were a part of. Yeah, there was a Super Bowl where we lost to Philly was a high one, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, with Devlin. The great one, too, shootout. Which one is that?
Starting point is 02:00:26 Where is that? Right there, 13. 13, yeah, 5, 5. 2 yards in a loss. Jesus, crime. We're shul's out there. We win that thing. We're super 53.
Starting point is 02:00:38 How much more offense could you need? You would put a cornerback 20 out of the time. You do 500 three touchdowns. You know what I mean? You got to get those one touchdowns. We just need it once in a lot. Yes. I know it was 500 yards for sure.
Starting point is 02:00:50 Geez. Crazy, bro. All right. All right, Akieb. We miss anything from this game? No, I think we hit it, man. I think we hit it, man. legendary what what's our
Starting point is 02:01:02 our podcast we're on right now the arena gridiron the arena grid iron I see it all the time it's yellow you guys got yellow and black labeling it's we're doing we're doing numbers it's killing that's right you got a great squad
Starting point is 02:01:16 everyone go check it out Akeb thanks for coming on bro hey appreciate it brother wow unbelievable what a guy I love it he's so fun he is
Starting point is 02:01:27 He's just Our chains are intact Oh yeah, I know We didn't get the chain I used to tell him all the time You didn't ganking my chain dog Me and Kiev I used to have to practice a bunch of it
Starting point is 02:01:38 Because Bill is seeing what he's about And I was still slap dick receivers So you made me run like Million routes against him Iron sharpens iron Man We didn't even get to talk about the Super Bowl I know
Starting point is 02:01:47 The Super Bowl week Jesus, crime any We'll have a full preview on dudes Yeah We'll record later Having too much fun talking about Mark Mark Mancino I know
Starting point is 02:01:56 Yeah. That's going to pop, dude. Mark Mangino. He's a bees, bro. That's for the heads. Legend. That's for the heads. Hey, what about, uh, since it is Super Bowl week, quick Super Bowl prediction, boys?
Starting point is 02:02:06 Quick Super Bowl prediction. Yeah, yeah, score prediction. My score prediction, 27, 24 Patriots. I like this. I like this a lot. I am going to go 31, 25 Patriots. I'm going to pull the Kirk Herb Street. abstain because I'm covering the game.
Starting point is 02:02:30 Oh, oh. Wait, they got you in the booth up there? You and your dog? You and your dog are in the booth? No, I just don't want to say. I don't want to jinx it. All right, I like it. I respect it.
Starting point is 02:02:39 Well, that's a fun episode. We gotta get them on and do another one because we could have talked for like another five hours. He was amazing. He's here often for that show. Definitely. What a guy. Well, that's been another episode of games with names.
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