Games with Names - Highlight Reels: Ernie Adams Stories

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

Ernie Adams shares his best stories and insights from his time with the New England Patriots!Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel starting now. Now, Ernie Adams on Drake May, Mike Vrable, and the 2025 Patriots. What do you think a good year is for Drake May? Okay, so I think the basic standard is... Year two. Year two. First year, you got to show some potential, which he did. Second year, you got to show some significant improvement. Obviously, we all love them to be, you know, championship level quarterback,

but you've really got to show some real significant improvement. Third year, you've got to be a player. I mean, a guy who can go out and, you know, when championships on the line, you know, you're ready to go. So he's clearly shown potential. I mean, he's got to, you know, we've got to see some real progress here. And what's progress like? You know, all the little things like, I would say just watching him.

He has a little bit of a tendency. Step up in the pocket, tuck it and run. And so step up, keep his eyes down field, throw the complete the pass for 15 yards. I would much rather have the quarterback complete a pass for 15 yards than try to run for 15 yards. If you want to run for 15 yards,

give it a Henderson or Stevenson. But the quarterback's there to throw the ball. So, you know, keep your eyes down field, try to complete the pass. If there's nothing there, you know, then you got to run. But it's just all the, you know, processing things, you know, faster.

No one, you know, when, like you run the, the, the, we could call 64 special. Yeah. You got to be able to see, hey, in two steps, my X is going to come open. No. Covers to. Can I hang with him for the extra half second or not? Which is, that was something, like Tom was always a master of. He always knew where his outlet was.

Always knew where his outlet was. So we could hang, hang, hang, last second, go to the outlet. You know, no, no. had a real good sense of the timing of the play. You know, he's got to have a clock in his head. The processing. The processing, which is just, and you know, it's really fast. There's bad guys coming trying to hit you.

So, I mean, it's like where I've told a couple of young quarterbacks, I don't know if you've ever watched on, if I can mention the network ESPN, they do Formula One, you know, with the camera right over the driver's shoulder. That's really good for a quarterback to watch. because that's how fast you got to play. I mean, those drivers, you know, there's no think about it. No. You just got to do it.

And that's how you got to play quarterback. Yeah. Try watching the Formula One and check that, yeah, check that out for that. Well, we watched NASCAR last night to determine our fantasy draft. Okay. I'm a Formula One guy, you know, not NASCAR, but... Why? Because they actually have to make right turns.

But all they got to do is win the poll, Ernie. No one ever passes each other. You know what? But it's still, just there's, there's actually, you know, I actually, there's some real, and I understand it's having the right tires and all that, but it's just, you know, the courses are so much more interesting. You see the new movie with Brad Pitt, F1? I have not.

You're going to hate it. I think you should take Christine to see it. Okay. Get a popcorn on me. Like, I don't watch it every week, but every time I do, that's what I'm thinking, hey, this is the way for a quarterback, you got to be, you got to be playing, you got to be processing information, as fast as that driver's processing it. Yeah.

You really do. Because second drop, you're looking at the safeties on that special, and that safety drops into cover too, then you know how you've got to get backside of the high low. Right. I mean, and that's the shallow to that in-cut. Right. So if that linebacker goes with that shallow,

you better bang that in-cutting. And you have the hole's going to be small. You can't have any hesitation. I mean, you don't get a second look. No, see it and throw it. Yeah. And that's a big, That's what really differentiates, you know, quarterbacks.

So Drake May has to be able to process faster. That would be a successful year. The faster he can process, the better he's going to play. And, you know, yeah, that would get him going towards a successful year. I mean, everything else that comes with it. You think Josh would be good for him? Yeah. I mean, I think Josh is, look, a good coach can help a player.

and that's what I think to me I think coach players look at a coach and can this guy help me play better or not if the answer is yes the player will listen to the coach if the answer is no forget it now I know you haven't been watching this team as deep as Ernie does

but what would you think the identity that this team would be knowing that Coach Frable is the head coach? Well I so my coach Vrable what I remember, apart from all the great plays, was the first game of the 2008 season. Okay, you remember that? You remember what happened?

Tom heard his knee. So we all knew coming in after the game. I think everybody can. Brady heard his knee. He's out for the season. And I'm standing in the locker. There's Mike Frable. Okay, boys, we're going to have a little different brand of football.

And that's, you know, Mike, hey, run the ball and play defense. that is so deep, I mean, I just know it, Mike, that is so deep in his soul, that's not going to change. Yes, he understands you. I mean, he'll throw the ball, but he's a, he's a defensive guy, it's the running game, it's defense, that's the heart of it. That's what he loved to have and, you know, Henry is his back at Tennessee. You can just pound it, pound it, pound it. Yeah, that's his. And Deylon Lewis, too, for a year, remember? He's still dealing from us. They still, yeah. But, I mean, to me, what?

What's their identity going to be? That's going to be... You control the game. It's more of a controlling style of the game. Right. Well, but the thing you get into the NFL, I mean, you run the ball to control the tempo. You throw the ball to ring the cash register.

Yep. So you get, you know, I mean, sooner or later, you've got to be able to do... You've got to be, if you're running team, great. You've got to be able to throw it enough. particularly when you need to, you know, to be effective. I mean, that's really, like Lamar Jackson's NFL MVP and all that. But, you know, when it's third and 15 of the fourth quarter of the championship game,

is he, you know, how good is he really going back and making the throw to pick it up? He's going to hit some of them. He might hit enough of them to win a championship. I'm not sure. Yeah. As opposed to, you know, take the extreme case, you know, you're down 28, 3 with 212 to go in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Everybody in the world knows you got to throw the ball. I mean, you know, and that was always my standard for quarterback in the NFL.

What you really want is someone who can win the game, throw in the football. Because he's the only guy in the field who can do that. And that's, I mean, I know people thought, hey, running quarterbacks are great. It's hard to be a running quarterback much past. age 28. Yeah. I mean, it really,

yeah. For 18 games. For 17 games. Right, right. I mean, so, you know, you got to be, hey,

everything's on the line. It's third and 17. We got to pick it up. I got to throw it. It's going to be a small window. I got to make a good decision, make the throw. We haven't had you on since,

since Braves became head coach. It's right. And here we have the game we're going to talk about Super Bowl 38. Coach Mike Vrable, Strip, and caught a touchdown pass. Stripsack and caught a touchdown pass.

Okay. No, I mean, that's a good chance. It'll be a long time for somebody else plays in the Super Bowl and has a strip sack and catches a touchdown pass. Long time. Now, what are your thoughts on how coach will be as a coach? You know, what I remember, of course, about Mike was

when we went, when there's the defensive show team out there for the offense, Mike played weak safety. and that was his position. If anybody else had gone out there and said, I'm playing a week's day. Mike would have said,

get the F out of him. So he loved the running commentary on football. You could tell that Mike was totally in the football. And I will say some players, you can tell if he wants to coach, he'll be a good coach. The question is, does he want to work the hours? Because it's not, you know,

if you're a player, you're getting the beating and all. But at least at the end of the day, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, five o'clock, you can go home. You know, for coaches, you're going to be there at 11 o'clock getting ready for the next day. Some guys just say, look, I love football. I really don't want to be here at 11 o'clock every night. Like Ryan Wendell, I knew Wendy'd be a good coach.

He's at Buffalo, so I went over to him. L.A. He's at L.A. Well, he started at Buffalo. And I went out, Wendy, how you like in this coaching? He says, I love it. So if you actually, I know he knows the football, if he likes, you know, actually doing it, he'll be a, you know, be a really good coach. Other guys, I don't, you know, I mean, if you're coaching, you get up in the morning,

your wife's asleep. You come back, you come back in the night, she's asleep, you know. I mean, it's the old Vince Lombardi thing with his wife, Marie, and coaching. On Monday through Wednesday, we don't talk. On Thursday, we say hello. But Friday, he's actually civil. I mean, during the season, that's, and that part of it for coaching, has not changed at all.

It's like somebody asked, well, what do coaches do? Hey, the best book ever written on the subject was Vince Lombardi's book, Run the Daylight. It's minute-to-minute account of him going through a big game in 1962. Now, okay, so he used 16 millimeter film. They used tape time. But getting a team ready to play, it's the same thing.

It has not, you know, it is not, you know, maybe a couple of plays are different, but the process for a coach hasn't changed. hasn't so yeah so is rape putting the hours in knowing him i'm sure he is i you know i'm excited for them because you usually do take the personality your head coach right and it takes and it takes you know you take it and it's not something you do in one off season and one training camp i mean you got to go through some you know and he's done that though in tennessee i mean he He has a resume.

This guy... No, no, he did it. No question. I mean, he had... But, I mean, as far as, okay, he did it at Tennessee, but to come... Okay, you come in the Patriot,

new bunch of guys, you know, you start all over. Yeah. There's no, you know, anything you did at Tennessee, that's ancient history. Just like anything that the Patriots did when Mike was a player,

that's like, that's ancient ancient history. Yeah, it is. Who's the smartest football mind you ever think you coached? Ever coached? I have to be Tom. Tom. I mean, because he, first of all, in 20 years, I mean, there's nothing like having.

I mean, you're the starter quarterback in the same offense for 20 years. I mean, it became, and the offense really, it evolved around him. Yeah. So he, you know, and he always, like he, we go up for Friday practice when I do the cards of the defense. you can't show me a coverage. I have said, okay, big, I will see. So that was, I was always a little bit of a challenge in there. So that's why we used to get the, you know,

when the coach was an offense or defense assistant at UOP or something, and he showed one blitz in 1984. I wanted to make sure Tom sides. So that's your way of getting at Tom. I would show you this coverage. Yeah. And, you know, it's like, hey, What killed him every time was dropping eight in the red area.

Oh, he got so upset with that. Because the windows are small, and they just shrunk the even smaller. The pea drop. The pea drop in the red area. He would get so mad. Which is why he needed to see it, which is why we were. Yeah. Do you ever remember a specific time you stumped him and he got really mad?

Oh, there's pea drops in the red. Next, the real reason. The Patriots and Ernie Adams knew Tom Brady was going to be great. Do you remember the scouting process when you guys were scouting Brady? You know, really, it was, yeah, the number one thing you want to see a football player is, what is you do in the games? I mean, it's, you know, that is, it's kind of a bottom line business. And when you get somebody who goes in and plays well in the games, that's what gets your attention.

And we had, you know, one person you never knew, you know, a great guy, Dick Rabine, was our quarterback coach who unfortunately died during training camp in 2001. Oh, wow. I mean, got on a treadmill and, you know, had a heart issue, and he died. But, you know, you look, you don't try to make it too complicated. If a guy goes in the game against good competition and plays well, that is what we're. trying to do. It's not about, you know, the combine stuff, which is important. But, you know, it's really, what does the guy do when he gets on the field against good competition? And so you get

Brady, hey, have a great bowl game against Alabama. I mean, you know, and play well when you, when you're in there. There's a lot of things as a player you can't control, but what you can control is what you actually do when you get out on the field. He always used to talk about that. When did you know he was a killer. You know, when I first, Tom's rookie year in 2000, he was like, he was with a third string quarterback, and he was not going to get in the game. I mean, you know, unless you look, if you have two guys get injured in the same game, he can get in, but it wasn't going to happen. And after practice, he would go, he would go grab our young rookie tight end, Chris Sitesman and take him over on the side and make Chris run patterns for him.

But it wasn't just running patterns. Tom wanted to call the play. It's third and six. All right, I, this is the play we're going to run. Call it out, you know, just Tom wanted to put himself through the situation. Here's the way I'm going to call the play in this situation. It's not just, let's just go, you know, go run around play catch. You know, actually think in a game, thinking situations.

And I always figured if a player was going to stay out late after practice. Somebody should honor him by going over and watching. So I'm just standing watching this guy. This guy, he's really trying to get ready to play, even though he has no chance of playing this weekend. Of course, Tom's the guy. If he wanted to get in the right stance, how do you get in the right stance? You practice it in front of the mirror.

You just do, you know, being obsessive, compulsive can get you in trouble sometimes, but you can also lead to great results. And that's the way I kind of look at that. You know, Tom is the ultimate, obsessive, compulsive, you know, among players because he's not, you know, Tom Brady didn't just drop out of the sky, a Hall of Fame quarterback.

He made himself into a Hall of Fame quarterback. And when people would tell me at the draft, yeah, I work out of his Brady, you're full of shit. You have no idea what you're talking about. And that's the... 100% correct. I mean, I got there.

He already had three Super Bowls, and he was still flying in a coach, week 11, to work on his little fundamentals after a practice. That's, hey, but you know what? That was when he was a 40, you know, that's what people don't see. They don't see.

They don't understand. And that was kind of like when I was talking about being impressed with Peyton Manning warming up before the game. When it's football now, I mean, it's dead ass serious 100% every time. There's no, you don't take any plays off in practice. He never did. never did. And you know what?

He would, if you ran the wrong, first time he'd say, hey, Jules, we really want to do it this way and then he expects you to get it right that second time. Hey, if you might not quite understand the first time, that's not a problem. Screwing up after he explained it to you, that's a problem. Make a mistake. He just can't make the same mistake twice. Right. And with him, you know, I was a punching bag for him because the more success that we had, he could never really get on guys as hard as he wanted to because they, you know, they've been watching him since before they were born. Now, Ernie Adams breaks down the Patriots' 2018 game plan against the Kansas

City Chiefs. So now we put on a competitive level. See, I brought this, this is, this is, now this is my Chiefs book from 2018. Oh my gosh. So, you know, this is, so as you can see here, Jules, what I do be, you know, get rid of the game, I've got every game they played. You know, and this is form I've, you know, get comfortable using. Ernie cards. Well, these aren't the cards, but I can, you know,

one page, you use both sides, of course. I get 16 plays on each pad, so if I want to find out. Because the chiefs are big, they're repeaters. If they've done something in a critical situation, middle of the season, you get in that same critical situation, decent chance, you know, you're going to get it again. And I remember Bill always saying it's going to be the same play. They might have a different guy.

They may have a different formation or a different way of getting there, but it's going to be this guy here, this guy there, and this guy there. Right, which is, and that's typical of most good teams. You know, you get good, you get in the critical situation in the fourth quarter. Like Sean Peyton says, you call the plays they know by heart. I have it. I mean, when you're going down. for game wing drive in the fourth quarter,

that's what you want to run, right? The stuff you've been running since training camp, you know exactly what to do. You know, everybody else on the team knows what to do, and that's what you, that gives you, most of the time, gives you your best chance of success. Now, Ernie, you have a play,

you, so this is your folder for the chief, 2018. Yeah. Do you have a folder for every single team? Probably not to, not to this detail. Not to, but because, I mean, I've got every game here. here, you know, plus, you know, some prior years.

And one of the reasons, because I do the chiefs is they're really good. So, you know, when I want to, you know, I don't want to go, if I'm going to study, you know, in the middle of March, study a team, I'm not going to go study the worst team in the league. That really doesn't work. I want to see what somebody who's good, you know, what, you know, is there something they're doing that we can use? Yeah. And putting it all down on paper, to me, is the best way to, because I will tell you, because you're wearing your Phillips Academy hat.

The best teacher I ever had in my life was my Latin teacher at Phillips Academy who would put a towel up at the board, started a class, and he said, we're going to write out this sentence, how you translated it. And he would come and say, oh, lad, if you don't know it well enough to write it down, you don't know it well enough. Now, of course, when I would use, you know, for 30 years, I would say that to players. You know, say, I know this. Okay, put it up on the board. Let's see if you can diagram. Let's see if you really know it.

So I'm a big believer. You know, you really want to know something. Put it down on paper, study it. Make sure you got it right. You got to write it down. I wrote down everything. That just makes me pay attention. Now, I always remember when we would be playing against these teams, the game plan,

when you're playing against a Patrick Mahomes team. I just remember as an offensive guy, plaster. Plaster. We got a plaster. What's the game plan? So the biggest thing. And what does plaster mean? Plaster means when the quarterback starts scrambling, you know, you find the, if there's a guy open, go get on him.

What made this team so dangerous was you got Mahomes and you got Tyree Kill, who's, you know, the speed factor really changes. things. So we've got to be over the top on him. You know, the other guys are good, but we have to, you know, we have to take this guy away deep. And that's what I say, you always start off, what, at the heart of it, what do we really need to do on defense here? So what did we do to do that? So we had Devano, we had safety over the top of them all day, which, you know, which worked out, but they got, you know, that leaves other people one-on-one. I mean, they got, it's just, we get it later in the game, they start hitting this with the backs on the wheels. They hit the big play to Hill when Mahom's scrambled.

And now you always premise your defense. We'll get a pass rush. We'll keep the quarterback contained. The ball's going to have to come out in about three seconds. When the quarterback gets loose and now he's got up that five, six second range, you know, things start to break down. Bad stuff happens. Again, this is you get your plan, you practice it, and you do the best you can.

Now, how come Travis Kelsey always seems wide open? Because he's, you know, you get, you know, number one, he's got other, you know, other great players around them, so they can't just double up on him. He knows how to work, you know, when the quarterback's moving around. He can adjust with it. And, you know, he's got a great tools for a receiver. Yeah.

And when, for this specific Kansas City team, the number one thing was we have to contain Hill. We can't let him have a big play. Stay over the top of him. Stay over the top. Put Jay Jones, our fastest guy on him. Put our other guys. Right.

So if he goes over to Watkins, you got Steph. And there's a couple plays there in the second quarter. I mean, it's back-to-back plays. I mean, Steph just wires him at the line of scrimmage. So, yeah, you got single coverage, but it's against Steph Gilmore. And you guy can't get off the line of scrimmage. And then, you know, stuff happens during the game. They hit one big play on him because he kind of takes a sneak, you know, what do you can't do?

You mean, you're an old defensive back. You play an AFC championship game when it's man-to-man coverage, what's the most important thing. Keep your leverage. Keep your leverage and keep your focus on the receiver. Your receiver, do not have your eyes in the back. You stick your eyes back at the quarterback. It's over. And even his greater player as Steph is got caught one time.

He stuck a peek back. And, you know, it's going the wrong direction. I mean, this is, like I say, it's a messy game. Stuff happens. You just keep going, do the best you can. You try to make more plays for your team than their guys are making for their team. Yeah. You have a plan and all that.

It doesn't always work out that way. Yeah. I mean, you always got to adjust, as we know. Because the other team is doing exactly the other team is trying to counteract what you're doing. Adjust to the adjustments. Yeah. That's how it's simple. What do you think of what the Chiefs have accomplished since this game?

It's been phenomenal. Listen, they were, you know, I mean, winning multiple Super Bowls, you know, being, and really, okay, they lost one to, they lost one because their offensive line was crippled up. I mean, they've been, you know, for the last six years, they've been like we were. Go to the championship game every year, go to a bunch of Super Bowls. I mean, I take, it's a tremendous accomplishment. Can you draw any similarities between this run and our run? You know, just having, I mean, I'm not there, but I know it's you, you've got to have, you know, mentally tough people who know how, you know, to play over that long NFL season and can know how to show up and be there when it counts.

The one thing that I always say when people ask me this, same question, is it's been really impressive to see how they've reinvented their team the last three times. You know what I mean? Like they've had to adjust and they, you know, people don't realize how hard it is to sustain success with a salary cap with when you have to pay certain guys and you don't have enough money for other guys and being having, having the humility and being humble enough to change their team from being a high flying team like they were in this year to a run defensive kind of team these last couple years. I mean, that's something that we always had to, to adjust to. We always adjusted our team to what we could put on the field. Yep. You know,

so that's some of the stuff. What makes Andy Reed such a good coach? You know, he's got a, he's got a great system. He believes in it. Obviously knows how to teach it. I mean, he's had, he's been doing it now, because remember for him, before the Kansas City, there was Philadelphia. Yeah. And they went to, you know, they had the string there. They went to, you know, several, NFC championship games. And look, when you're in, you know, when you're in the final four and you lose a couple people, say,

ah, they're not there. I mean, let's, forget it. To get, just to get to the championship game, you've got to be really good. There may be somebody who's just a little bit better and beats you, but that really shouldn't take away anything from what you do.

Although in the end, 32 teams in the NFL, there's only one that gets to stand out there, you know, with that final trophy. So just because, you know, maybe, hey, you didn't quite get there, you still could be really good. You just, you know, not quite good enough to win the championship. How are Andy Reed and Bill different? And how are they alike? You know, because it's, yeah, I've never worked with Andy and, you know, Bill, I've known for 50 years.

So that's a little bit of a hard one for me to. I've heard that he practices hard. I heard that they practice really hard. You know, that's my impression. This is a team when they come out for pregame warm up and nobody's screwing around. I mean, they're getting after playing football. Yeah.

And you remember, particularly your younger days, I think we practiced hard. We practice, yeah. I mean, we were in pads in camp. Two days, running the morning, passing the evening. I mean, that's classic NFL. I mean, you know, that's why guys would have your offensive alignment. They'd have on their, you know, their seven stud grass cleats for the morning.

They'd have on their shoes for the afternoon, for past protector. It's, you know, you know, the old thing about the different games. You're familiar with this? A little bit. Okay. Croquet is a gentleman's game played by gentleman. Soccer is a beastly game played by gentleman. rugby is a gentleman's game and all that football is a beastly game played by beasts

I mean it's you know this this is it's a it's a you know it's a nasty game and if you want to learn how to play it it's you know it's it's hard it's tough it's tough you better be willing to bleed eat some dirt take a tablespoon of cement at least back in the day I don't know about that that's it's just I'm joking but but it's you know and that's we say and I I don't really know any good teams that were soft. Yeah. I mean, I think that's, some teams maybe have tried, and there's just some of the teams, the players come saying,

whoa, it wasn't like this the last team. I was saying, well, great, how many championships did you win? Yeah. Now, did you scout Mahomes coming out of Texas Tech? You know, we did not really, because this was at the state, we said there is zero possibility of us taking a quarterback in the first round. Yeah. So I mean, but he was, he was, but, but no, I wish, you know, I wish I could say I'd studied more than I did, but.

Have you seen his evolution from the early part of his career? What have you noticed? How has he evolved if you've watched it? Yeah. You know, he started off really good and he's gotten better. That's a, sums it up. You know, and he know, you know, being a good quarterback in the NFL that's a high wire act. There's no net.

So, you know, you got to be aggressive with the ball. But you just got, you know, you got to know at some point, there's that, there's that fine line between being reckless, you know, being aggressive and being reckless. Next up, Ernie Adams explains that he knew exactly how to beat Peyton Manning. It didn't matter if we were playing, you know, the Jets in a regular season game. I made a point to spend an hour a day at least. One hour a day. Study in the Colts. So, you know, just in the middle, just to make sure.

Now what's the study? Just watching the game? Watching the games. Logging it. Logging it. What the, you know, and the thing was, they would get, everybody was trying to play them in cover three and cover one. And they killed them running up the seams.

Yeah. I mean, you. Dallas Clark? Oh, my God. It was a, it was a slaughter. And so I said, we can't do this. We need to go in and play cover four. We cannot get shoot up in the seams.

And Romeo Cunel, a defensive corner, is one of my favorite people. So when do you want to play cover three? Never. Not against this team. Just don't do it. They will kid you. Okay.

That's kind of what teams would do to us because of Gronk and the seams. So I go, this is maybe two years ago, and I'm watching a Monday night game, and I'm watching the simulcast with Eli and Peyton Manning. And somebody's playing cover four. And Peyton Manning goes, yeah, cover four. I don't really like my in cuts and my seams against that.

And I'm sitting there thinking, yes, that's why we played it. I mean, it just made my day. Oh, Ernie. You know, but that's, hey, listen, listen. Scouting books and 30 years down the road, Peyton Manning. Eli and Peyton, they got us plenty. Okay? I mean, they got us plenty.

So, I mean, you know, it was, I mean, those were, and, you know, people say we went to nine Super Bowls. No, we went to 10 because that AFC championship game against the Colts in 06. It was, well, first place, the NFC team was going to be the Bears. We had beat the Bears in the regular season for like 40 to 7 or something. And there's no way that Bears team. there was no way they were going to be able to play against either the Colts or us. Everybody on that field knew this is for the, this is for the championship.

And, you know, they came back and, you know, we got up ahead of them and they came back. Remember it transferred, though? You know, then when Peyton went to Denver, then it became Denver for us. It was just, it was us first Peyton. And, you know, to this day. Cover four. Cover four. And I was just talking to somebody earlier today.

But then you know what they got us on the cover four? that's when they started putting that tight end outside and putting Jamie Lee out there and then they do that double move. Yeah, yeah, listen, this was like, you know, this is a chess match except those other chest meets, they can fight back and they run fast. Yeah. You know, so it's constant, you know, I mean, it's constant, but, you know, everybody talks about, you know, of course we had in 2014 that great game against the Ravens, you know, we had to come from behind and beat them. You hit Danny on the touchdown pass.

than the Super Bowl against the Seahawks. But the most truly amazing thing that year was, remember in the divisional playoff game, somehow, I have no idea to this day how this happened. The Broncos lost to the Colts. Oh, I know. How did this is like, that, that just shouldn't have happened. In Denver.

I mean, it was like, how. I remember we went into that week. We knew perfectly well. Hey, if we got the Ravens and we're going to have to go play the Broncos. the next week. And that they lost to the Colts. It just, it happens, but it shouldn't have happened. And he given a Sunday, Ernie.

Yeah, and he, yeah, well, that to me was a game that proved it because Denver was so much better than, you know, it's like we ended up beating the Colts 45 to 6 or something. The Colts couldn't play with us. They should not have been able to play with them. It should have been Patriots, Broncos for another Brady, you know, Manning, AFC championship game matchup. I know.

You know, but listen, they got, so we got, we got, we got the Colts in 03 and 04, and they came back and the brothers, they got us plenty good. Thanks for listening. Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new episode and every Sunday for another games with names highlight. This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.