Green Light with Chris Long - Stanford Steve! NFL Divisional Round Recap. Chris’ Experience at Chiefs vs Bills.

Episode Date: January 24, 2022

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Welcome to the Greenlight Podcast. Oh, boy. Stanford, Stephen Chris recap one hell of a divisional round. I mean, the Chiefs, Bill's, Chris was there, he'll run you through his afternoon at the game. He had some fun. And then we recap each of the four games. Best plays, best performances, great play calls. And then stick around to the end of the show today.

We've got some highlights from our live stream, the Bengals Titans, we live streamed on Saturday. Check that out, Greenlight Tube. We've got some fun conversations from that stream. So stick around for that and enjoy today's show. Love is love. Kansas City. If you didn't notice, I'm not doing hellos. I'm going to let May can have that thing and we're going to do the hey, hey, hey, hey.

Legendary by that official. We talked about that with Mike Pereira. Hey, I just saw one of the best games I've ever seen. I'm going to keep it brief and get to Stanford Steve. I was in Kansas City for that barn burner. I know some people are into, you know, sloppy defensive football games hand up. But this one, if I'm going to, watch a shootout, I want those two guys in the driver's seat. Mahomes, Alan. I mean, like,

it's a shame somebody lost this game. It's why QB wins or a dumb thing in the playoffs without the context of like, hey, Josh Allen lost a football game this weekend, but he didn't really lose a football game. And overtime, save your complaining. I mean, this has been a thing for a while. If you don't want to lose a game like that, don't go into overtime. It's sketchy. It's after hours. Things are risky. Al Groh used to tell me in the team, nothing. good ever happens after midnight out at a bar. And that's not entirely true. A lot of you might be saying, well, Coach Groh, that's not entirely true, but nothing that you hear about when it comes to an NFL team. I feel like you can give your locker room the same rundown of what it's like to

go into overtime. Like, nothing necessarily good happens in overtime. Like, let's avoid getting there. And the bills really could have avoided getting there. I think they should have squib kick that ball and I don't think they have to see Mahomes in overtime. So there's always something that you can control. And Kansas City turned that rule in a couple years ago to the competition committee. They tried to get that change. Well, you don't want to change it?

Here you go. We'll take advantage. Patrick Mahomes went in the toss in overtime like Tom Brady, who went in tossing overtime. I remember in the Super Bowl, when we won the toss in overtime, defense, we said the front, we just put our helmets on the ground. And we're not going back out there.

And I'm sure Kansas City felt the same. way. But I've never seen a game like that. I've never been in an atmosphere like that. I maintain that Arrowhead is not the loudest place I've ever been. I think Seattle's louder. I think New Orleans the times can be louder. But this place is, I'm in love with it. You know, like the retro kind of vibe, the sea of automobiles. Like there's no, hey, here's lot G, lot. Maybe there is like field G, field H. As far as I can tell, you just pull in, find a spot in the grass and fucking make a fire. you know, Jimmy Rigger TV and drink 12 beers. Like we were there three, four hours early.

We were late to the party. What a party it is. And it's so retro. Everybody's got those old retro jackets. It's a retro stadium. It looks like the 90s. I loved it. Now, granted, shout out to Jack and those guys that people took care of us in our suite.

We had a great viewing experience. Sweet Life was great. Kentucky mules on tap. Are you kidding me? These pretzels were so fucking good. I feel like the Midwest has the whole starches thing or bread thing figured out like carbs. They got carbs figured out. They had different kinds of pretzels.

They had sweet. They had savory. They had heaters outside the sweet. And most importantly, I had my gummies. So Arrowhead on gummies, I felt like I was a part of a living organism. This stadium is incredible. It's a piece of history. And it should be treated as such.

It was so loud. I mean, past rushers have it good there. and a little twist of the knife, you know, a lot of people get to play in an environment like that, their whole career. The only celebrity fan we had. Well, not the only. Shout out to Ty Borell and a few others in St. Louis was Nelly.

And they roll out a bunch of speakers at halftime. And lo and behold, it's our old celebrity fan. And I think, I don't know if you had a me Cole Hardman jersey on. Up in the Skybox there doing a six-minute set, probably making five figures and I don't blame him you know uh the Rams leaving he had nowhere to go he had to you know head head West on 40 um and make his money in Kansas City I'm not even mad at him I'm not mad at the Chiefs for plucking our only celebrity fan but I got to admit it was like a little bit of a fucked up feeling I was like I thought I thought we

had Nelly well I guess nobody nobody's a St. Louis Rams fan anymore we don't exist but on the other side of the state, boy, do they have it figured out. Awesome atmosphere would recommend, and I will be back for another Chiefs game. I don't care if Kyle doesn't play next year. I don't care if Kyle's not on the Chiefs next year. I think I might just, like, come back to Arrowhead. That was so live. So I'm going to give you a layup line.

It's going to be Durando. It's going to be packing up because I'm packing up and I'm leaving Kansas City. And I've had that song stuck in my head the last week. So apologies for the late podcast. I'm doing this from Kyle's Gamer. Den here in the basement. There's food crumbs everywhere. There's there's a giant hard drive behind like a Plexiglass. He plays video games on a computer. He's one of those guys, PC gamer. He's down here playing Legends of Zelda. I'm playing on the road. This is like

podcasting in Arrowhead. Any moment he might bust the door open wanting to play fucking Fortnite. What do I say? I say yes. I mean, he's huge. He's like 3.30. He's got traps up to his ears. I don't get to see my brother a lot. So this has been really fun when you work in the NFL, when you play in the NFL, as my brothers and I, all three of us, Howie working for the Raiders,

Kyle playing for the Chiefs and the Bears throughout his career. We don't get to see each other a lot. So really cool, we spend the time with Kyle. We were up shooting the shit till three, four in the morning. It felt like, and then I had to prep for this.

So we'll go through this with Steve. And then we did a fun live stream over the weekend with Cincinnati and Tennessee. We are trying to get Green Light 2 popping, man. You know, you guys always tell me, hey, thank you for the content. Thanks for putting me in a good mood. Thanks for helping me win my bets.

Thank me by going over to Greenlight Tube. I'll remind you once more after Steve, but I've got a couple little blurbs from our live streams over the weekend, some shooting the shit with Dr. Fax, to give you a little, and Cowboy Reed, to give you a little idea of what we do on Greenlight Tube during big games. And we want to pump those numbers this weekend. So just open your laptop this weekend and enjoy. the ride with us on Sunday. We will be live streaming. So please help us out. I know some of y'all

aren't YouTube people, but dip your toe in the water. Okay, green light tube. Stick around. We will have some blurbs from that to give you an idea of what we got. So Stanford Steve and then in a couple of days, we got Michael Strayhan. So that's what's on the horizon. Enjoy Steve. Enjoy the little blips from Saturday. And y'all take care. It's really that time of year and your team might finally do it. Or if you're a Chiefs fan, you might want to just book the trip now. This year, Super Bowl 56 is in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium. February 13th. You can scour resellers to buy an overpriced ticket closer the day. Of course you can. Or you can lock in the Super Bowl experience of a lifetime now with our friends at On Location. True 50 yard line seats? Only available with on location.

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This is where Kyle plays his video games that he plays on a computer. You know, he's one of those guys. Uh-huh. He's a PC gamer. Yeah, this is his den. I'm a little bit concerned about, you know, it's very dirty. I'll put it that way.

There's a lot of spitters and all types of food and crumbs and that sort of thing. Don't drink the spitters. You know that rule. I absolutely know that rule. Never happened to me, but I've seen it happen to a few. Yes, exactly. It's not chocolate milk. Kansas City Buffalo, the best game you've seen since when?

Oof. Trying to rack that thing. Probably since, I don't know, the three games prior to it this weekend. Like, you think about what we saw this weekend, Chris, with Saturday with the one seats going down. And then it just felt like Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth are trying just to will Tom Brady back in the game. Like, you know, we've sort of seen this before.

And you're just watching it. And you're just watching L.A. just tee off on the Bucco line. You're like, it can't happen. He doesn't have enough time. They're not going to get the ball enough times. The Rams have played so well. then turn over, turn over, turnover. And it's just like, holy shit.

So I don't know. Maybe, I don't know, Seahawks Patriots Super Bowl. Yeah. I don't know. Like that was absolutely insane to me. I also had Seahawks in that game too, so that one hurt. Your guys, Super Bowl with the Pats and the Falcons. It's just what you saw from these two guys.

and what is expected of them. And when I talk about the expectations of Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, I'm talking about what these teams put on their play, Chris. Like I'm watching the games with Tim Hasselbeck last night, and he's just like, and I'm like, look at what Josh Allen is doing. He's got to run quarterback power. Then he runs quarterback sweep. All right, third and nine, we need you here to make the best throw the game.

And that little hitched Dino route, he hits Davis on on the fourth down. that's how good he saw that as soon as he falls down. He's looking at him and he drills it. If he sees him any later, Gabe Davis is running so fast. I think he's going to go out of the end zone. But the fourth down where 24, what's our guy's name from South Carolina,

Melvin Ingram, uses the Reggie White hump move. Oh, that was beautiful. Was it not? I mean, absolutely. But like, so he's basically unblocked. Another guy runs free. Alan gets out of it.

and gets the artist on the fourth down to overcome. And then you look at Mahomes, first drive of the game where it's just like, oh boy, we got locked in Baham's here with a scramming ability. And just to see them go back and forth, it was incredible. They're both as good as you could be.

And, you know, I just, I can't, like, I don't know what to say to Buffalo people. I really don't. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where I was walking out of the stadium,

and the sentiment was, you know, we're glad we won, but I don't think that they would have been upset had they lost, but I feel like everybody in that stadium would have respected the outcome of that football game no matter what happened because it was such a classic. And I think everything we're talking about with the quality of this game and kind of the gunslinger nature of the fourth quarter and overtime,

I mean, this was Pac-12 after dark with competitive, you know, competent quarterback play. pros with pros. These were pro executing teams and quarterbacks, short of Kansas City in the red zone. I mean, the free access they were allowing was ridiculous. Of course, they played most of the game, or a lot of the game without the signal caller defensively.

So that's going to be a big question next week. I just, the entire thing is framed by the fact when we talk about everything Josh Allen did with the fact that he did it on the road in one of the most hostile environments in the NFL. I have never seen a game at Arrowhead. I played there. I played there early in the season when we were there in 2017,

and we weren't supposed to be that good. And we played, that was the Super Bowl year. Then we played the Chiefs and lost. It was a close ball game, noon game. And I remember thinking, oh, this place is loud, but this was playoff Kansas City. And I have never seen anything like about it. I talked about it in the open, just chills thinking about that.

I will never forget that stadium last night. And Josh Allen damn near brought the place down. Yeah. So really impressive. And when you're walking out of the game, somebody asked me last night, well, if you're Buffalo, what do you do now?

You do nothing. You do whatever you were going to do anyways. This loss instructs only that it just so happens. You're in the AFC. And you've got to deal with Burrough, Mahomes, Herbert the next 10 to 15 years. And I think if you're Roger Goodell, talk about a best plane ride,

wherever he was flying last night, he's thinking, I can take a deep breath because these guys are going to be throwing the ball around the yard the next 10 to 15 years. And so if you're Buffalo, I think you feel even better about that quarterback than you did when you woke up yesterday. Yeah. I mean, it was unbelievable. He threw the ball 58 yards on one little baby crow hop. His foot hit the, I think it was like the 20. And he climbed like the yard. And next thing, you know, Davis catches the ball on the opposing 22 yard line. But Chris, that's just the biggest part of the game. down nine, they absolutely need

a score. Like they can't, the crowd's going crazy, it's the biggest lead of the game. You absolutely have to have an answer there and he does it in one play. And I don't know how he does it because the safety is straight backpedaling as soon as the snap goes. And to me,

one of the other guys that, I mean, obviously with his record setting performance, but Gabriel Davis, I didn't know he was that fast. Like when he ran that post route, then he runs the Dino route. Like, those things are happening so fast. And to be able to catch those balls from Allen, who you know puts a lot on him. It's just incredible.

I mean, he broke a guy's legs. You know, it was unbelievable. He was a big piece for them last year. Now he's kind of, this is one of those games that, unfortunately for him, nobody's to remember it as the Gabriel Davis game, but this was the Gabriel Davis game. I mean, he outshined Cooper Cup. If you had told me there was going to be a receiver not named Stefan Diggs or Tyreech Hill that was going to go. for more than Cooper Cup did earlier in the day.

I would have said you were crazy. And he really stepped up. And you mentioned this about Josh Allen. It's not just the throws, man. I mean, I was up in that suite, you know, yelling, hey, third and three, who do you think has the fucking ball for Buffalo? I mean, he's everything for them, whether it's fourth and four, whether it's third and three.

He's going to be the guy keeping the ball. You almost have to overplay that. And I ran into my old D-line coach, Brennan D-Daley, who's now in Kansas City after the game, I said to him, I know you were yelling at people today, but like you couldn't have meant it. Like there's no way.

If I was playing for you right now and Josh Allen, you know, bailes out of the back of the end zone or out of the back of the pocket with the ball out there, like a loaf of bread and then rolls right

and throws a piss missile to Davis for 15 yards. Like that's not my fault. Yeah. There's no coachable answer to keeping him caged in the pocket a lot of times. I just also think, Chris, and I don't know if it gets talked about enough, I sure look at it when I'm watching the game.

I know you're watching it too and you're down in a stance looking at the quarterback, but how good these guys are pre-snap? Yeah. Like Josh Allen, I mean, I don't think it gets, it's one thing that doesn't talk about, like to see what they're doing to digs, right? And he ended up only getting seven targets, I think it was three catches for seven yards. And then just to be able to say, all right, they're going to do it again. Gabriel's my guy and I'm going to feed him.

And I'm going to feed them and I'm going to feed them. And it's just incredible. And Mahomes too. I mean, I'm sure we'll talk about the 13 second drive. But it goes back to how the 49ers defended the Cowboys at the end of last week. And that's a really, really crazy dynamic because I understand people don't expect athletes to make mistakes, but people make mistakes in crunch time. That's what happens.

It happens all the time. But Bohmaholmes, knowing what he has to do, knowing the clock is totally against him, and to be able to get the ball out that quick and know what they're doing. I still go back and look at the alignment on the corner, Buffalo on the Kelsey play. I do think he's so wide,

and that's why that throwing lane is so wide open and easy, but they still did it. Um, and, no, see, I had, I had a problem with that. And I don't know what my problem is, but I feel like if you give Kelsey the ball, like you almost have to play the sticks, like it's third and six with a fourth and six with the game in the line because I mean, I'm worried about getting beat deep, but I'm more worried about the fact that Kelsey's going to catch the ball with a, with a full head. Running starting. Yeah. At, you know, at, at the 30, whatever it is, like I got to go back and look. But essentially,

where he catches the ball is unimportant. You know he's going to run for three to five more yards. And so I would have challenged him more. There were a couple things Buffalo did at the end of the game. Before the half and at the end of the game, not squibbing. I mean, like that's something that people picked up on. This game is completely, well, that game probably is theirs if they squibed kick that ball. I mean, I was praying they didn't.

As soon as they put the ball in the air, I said, let that go. You obviously have the Kelsey issue that I just talked about. So I thought there were a couple game management issues at the end of the game for them. But you're right. Like we're talking about Buffalo. We're talking about Josh Allen. We should be talking about Mahomes. Yeah.

The guy who's there's been everybody's had a flavor of the month this year. You know, different quarterbacks. And with good reason, there's a lot of exciting new names on the scene. People really wrote this team off. You know, I damn near wrote this team off. And my brother was on the team. But it's incredible, you know, kind of the competitive spirit he has and the, the mental edge that he has that you alluded to.

13 seconds ago, I guarantee he didn't fledge. It's just the type of leadership where you look at Mahomes. It's kind of like looking at the flight attendant on a turbulent flight. Like that's who's going to tell you if we're fucked. Look at Mahomes. He's never going to look like he's rattled.

And two completions right down the field and bang. We go to overtime. And the worst part about not challenging Kelsey is you never see the ball again. You never see the ball again. So, you know, there were times where Andy Reid got too cute. I didn't like 81 under center on fourth and short in the red zone, but I thought they called a brilliant game. And just the little things like the window

to throw that ball into Tyreech Hill, that pocket kind of closing it on him. He finds little avenues to get the ball out that you go back and replay and say like his arm angle is just as impressive as Josh Allen throwing a piss missile from one hash to the next, you know, 15 yards down the field. I mean, they do things differently a little bit, but they're both otherworldly. So the touchdown of Tyreek Hill, I thought was really the one that put Buffalo's defense really in a tough spot because you come out, you get the lead. And then they go, you know, they run the cover two man. And then Tyreek is so fast, he beats the guy with outside leverage. But that in route against a cover two man where everybody's running.

everybody's got their backs to him. So he puts the ball in a place where Tyreek doesn't miss a step. He stays full speed. And then for him to get that crease, you know, you know, if you're even, you're leaving, they say it. And he's easy guys, I mean, Poir and Hyde have bad angles because of where they are. Those angles got bad quick, didn't they? Exactly.

Because of his speed and where the ball was put. So, again, to execute in that situation, and then Buffalo comes back and scores in, what, four plays? So now your defense is still winded because they're all chasing Tyreek. They come out at 13 seconds. It's still that situation. Yeah, you practice it, but you still got to, you know, you're just looking at the clock.

Sure enough, Kansas City gets, you know, enough yards on the first play. And then the second play, you know they're going to run vertical. But then they get the field goal. Now you come out in overtime. Now you've got to line up for a whole drive. Like I just thought they were back. pedal in the whole time. And it's, I mean, on the road, you mentioned that the frenzy of the stadium, it's just a real, real tough dynamic for a defense to play and knowing what you're up against.

And that's, that's ended up what being, what was the problem. And I got to say this, man, and like the first drive, he took it into his own hands with his legs. I mean, like, that was as big a moment as the last drive because this was a game you didn't want to end up playing, you know, Chase with Buffalo, like not a fun game. And if you're Buffalo, one more thing, before we close it out. I think, again, I said this earlier, like, what do you do? Obviously, you do what you were going to do in the off season. You might have to replace coordinators. You know, this was another dable kind of masterpiece going into this coaching cycle. But you've come a long way in a year where I can remember last year that offense having to go

for it on fourth down or talk about going for it on fourth down routinely in the first half of that Kansas City game because you were playing Keep Up. And now Kansas City kind of felt like the elephant in the room was, we got to play Keep Up with Buffalo. So they've come a long way in a year. They're in this thing year after year. I don't think anybody needs to panic. That was just a great game.

And honestly, Steve, I have never liked going to NFL games until last night. I mean, it really was. Yeah, cool. Also, because you can see the whole field. And in a game like that with the past. attack. Like at home, I would have been so, I would, I just saw so much more. It was incredible on the back end.

So, um, amazing. And then I get to go home and watch the highlights and I get to hear the calls. You hear the crowd noise. You hear the shock in the stadium after late, the late Buffalo scores. You hear the, the mic picking up great motherfucker, that one of the best motherfuckers on, on that Gabriel touchdown in the red zone. I mean, there's nothing like a quiet stadium on the road. And that place was amazing.

Um, what a battle. So, and the coolest part was watching with my dad, Steve, where the last two minutes, I was thinking to myself, first off, he's walking into a stadium that he was like hated in. Yeah. So it's a lot of, it's a lot of fun and it's kind of surreal to see like Kansas City fans like pat him on the shoulder and hey, Howie, we hated you when you played and we love you now. Um, but then watching him kind of staring down on the field the last two minutes where I feel like we were pointing at our watches every five, every five seconds. It's too much time. There's too much time. A lot of time.

When he played in 1986, can you imagine, you know, like seeing three scores in the final two minutes? Like, just watching that game in that stadium,

watching that style of football. It was probably a surreal experience for my pops too and a lot of fun. So one thing. You mentioned it was a hostile environment. Now, when I think a hostile environment,

I think of the NFC championship game, Case Keenham, coming into town against you guys. And in Meek Mill, like, Philly is hostile. I would imagine Kansas City is not as hostile. No, it's not as much. Not as many cuss words, right?

No, there's people saying, fuck, I think. I mean, like, listen, my favorite thing about that stadium is, if you, if you, if you kind of zone out and like just squint a little bit into the,

you know, the mass of people, it looks like 1997. It is incredible. incredibly retro. Everybody has their best 90, like vintage Kansas City jackets. I don't know how there are so many of them, but everybody has, you know, an old jacket from the, you know, the Joe on Thomas days. Yeah. Derek Thomas days. Like back in the day and I feel like it's just been a thing that they really do. There are no posers in that stadium. There's a sea of automobiles out. So like when you're pulling it is really mind blowing to see that the amount of cars. that are there three hours early. There's no parking garage, right? There's no parking garage.

Like, people were out there partying. They have great gear. It feels like 1997. It's a retro stadium. It just, it was a really special experience for, you know, even a retired player. Because I totally get the fan experience in some moments. And this was one of them where I was just like, hey, I fucking totally get it. Chiefs fans, you got it made.

I hope they never bowl. bulldoze that place. Somebody should ask Roger Goodell at the podium at the Super Bowl, put them on the spot. Do you commit to Arrowhead being around for another 100 years because that place should never go away? I love it. I'm totally with the, and it's one of those places it does come across on TV, and that's when you know it's special. I do think this puts Kansas City right to the Super Bowl championship, Chris. I really do.

I think L.A., Kansas City will be a fun game. I think LA, Kansas City would be a fun game. A lot of yellow. A lot of yellow. A lot of yellow. You're right. A lot of yellow. It's better than Kansas City, San Francisco, which is too much red. Too much red. The indoor two red teams, it might as well be the SEC Championship. I don't need to see it.

I'd rather see the SEC championship. Hey, by the way, do this. 300 yards, 70% completion rate, and 50 rushing yards. Somebody tweeted last night that that's happened four times in the postseason when it comes to quarterbacks. Two last night, Mahomes and Josh Allen. Can you guess the other two? I haven't looked it up.

Me and my pop said Cam Newton definitely won. Kurt Warner? I was going to say Steve Young, maybe like in 1994 when they were playing the Chargers. I feel like he had to have. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Cowboy, get us the other two at some point.

Bill Sims. You don't have to rush. Bill Sims against the Broncos Super Bowl was, I believe, the best completion percentage before Steve Young against the Chargers. I believe Sims went 22 at 25, and I think Steve Young topped that because he had more completions and more attempts.

Just one more thing, Chris. I'm sorry, I'm Buffalo. This game deserves its own podcast, so we don't care. When you really dive back in, because the whole day, I wake up Sunday, I'm like, holy shit, man. If Buffalo wins, they get an AFC, title game at home to go to the Super Bowl.

Yes. And like that, that's like you, you definitely think about that possibility. And then I saw a thing today, the Jags three wins. One kept the dolphins out of the playoffs. One kept the Colts out of the playoffs.

And the other made Buffalo play on the road last night. How about the, how about the team that just that did a big 12 game, uh, actually lost a nine to six ball game against Jacksonville. And that's the reason. that this game didn't happen in Buffalo. I mean, it's such a shame.

It's a Greek tragedy in a lot of ways. But you know what? The biggest Greek tragedy was the Bills fan that went viral with the sign that said he missed his mother's funeral to go to that game. But you know what? Considering how she raised him, I don't think she's, I mean, I think that worked out perfectly. I think that it's in their DNA to grieve.

And this was the perfect occasion for this guy. And I'm only joking about it because he made the sign. He's self-deprecating. That is fucked up, dude, for you to do that. And I saw a viral video of a, the viral videos of Bill's fans are starting to come in. Yeah. They're just tremendous. I mean, guy went from standing on chairs, calling people motherfuckers, you know,

imaginarily ringing the hell's bells, you know, this, this, this, to laying motionless on the floor, there was a whole lot of that last night. So sorry to Bill's Mafia, but you'll be back. You kind of have a jugs machine that runs 20 miles an hour on your team, giving a pro bowl a tight end. So 300 yards passing, 50 yards rushing, 70% completion rate. Four quarterbacks have done it. Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes last night. Josh Allen against the Patriots in the wild card round.

and Josh Allen in the wild card round in 2020 against the Colts. Wow. Josh Allen, he's four. Wow. He's unbelievable. I forgot the rushing part was part of that. Sorry.

I should not have, I would definitely not brought up Phil Sims. I was going to say Phil Sims was rolling, dude. Speaking of Phil Sims, Chris, yesterday, well, we have the multiple TV set up. and in our studio and watching the end of the Rams game and then watching the CBS pregame show with Bill Cowher, Nate Burleson, Boomer, and Bill Sims.

Bill Cowher is talking and they show the full shot of the desk. No one's listening to Bill Collar because they all have the TV on the Rams monitor in front of the desk, and they're all like trying to pull the peak to watch the end of the game. It was so funny. I mean, I can't imagine how bad of a spot that is. No, it's terrible. It's brutal.

and I just had to laugh because those guys were trying their hardest. And it was just funny to watch in real time. I know everybody was watching the end of their Rams, Buccaneers games. But it was just something that we had. Much smaller scale. I had to do Amazon on Saturday. And a week ago, Eagles, Bucks, you know,

and I had to do it in the fourth quarter. And I don't have a monitor. The way those work, as you alluded to, is like, when my dad's watching a game at Fox, and he used to always talk about like trying to watch us play as he's on the thing. You can peer down under those monitors. We don't have that in my studio. Cowboy Reed, we need those monitors with a little tent.

They have like a limo tent unless you're looking straight down through them. Correct. You know, so that the people, you know, in front of you, maybe the cameras can't see that you're, you're watching your kids play or, you know, maybe. I wonder how many of those guys have the under on a given Sunday. Studio guys. Because I know, I know Fox, they're not gambler. like those guys are not gamblers.

No. They got to tighten up that gambling segment they're made to do, though, too. Oh, they got to tighten it up? Yeah, yeah, I got to tighten it up. Supposedly they had a little weather bug that they added to the, you know, the breakdown of the game this weekend. That comes from my mom. You know, my mom was on my back about putting the weather bug out there.

So shout out to Delo. There we go. All right. So the Rams, listen, told you. I mean, I'm not saying told you, but told you the listener. the Rams were going to win. I told you the bucks were cooked. I mean, like, that was too much, you know,

for those guys to start the game that way. I mean, had they come back and won, I still don't feel good about them down the stretch here. They're just outclassed, and they're losing a bunch of people in free agency. We'll talk about that. But what did you make of this game, Steve? Did this surprise you?

And how does this affect kind of Brady's future? All right. Well, with the game, I want to say it wasn't alarming, but it was kind of surprising to me, Chris, to see the way Tampa comes out on those first couple third downs. You know the Rams could get heat with only four, maybe even three guys, knowing that the Bucks are under man. And I thought they would give more help to the right tackle. And that's why I thought the Bucks would be able to figure out with a week of prep. And knowing what Brady has done in past days with New England, not having as many game breakers on the edge, you know,

to win one-on-one matchups, but to secure the pocket enough and not go max protect, but just go, you know, keep more guys in to help you. You know, we know how much pressure, you know, up the middle of the line of scrimmage affects quarterbacks, but I thought Tom was a little antsy, not knowing where he was going to get pressure from. And I thought, you know, where he thought he was going to get protection was his left tackle and he got beat early. And that really kind of rattled him.

I was really surprised. I mean, I talk, Bruce Ariens talks about the end of the game, the last play, how there's a miscommunication. Why people continue to go zero blitz at the end of the games, I don't know. Going back to pre-snap reads, I think you make it so easy for the quarterback because he knows he has to get rid of the ball and he's just picking it and throwing where he's going to go. But early in the game, you saw miscommunication, you know, on the cup touchdown, the long one. That's covered two. The corner's still looking to see if he has the safety's help. and there just felt like there was a lot of that. And I love the idea of Tampa's defense finally being healthy.

I love that unit with the disruption they could cause, with beat up front, not having to do a lot knowing what he brings to the table. And Sue also. But the linebackers seem to be on different pages than the secondary. And the Rams caught them a lot of times. And that's a great job by Stafford and McVeigh of dialing that stuff up. I can't believe the turnovers.

People wanted to pick pinpoint McVaget and conserve it at the end. Yeah, of course, the runs aren't going to look good when your guy fumbles, but he's breaking for an eight-yard game. No question.

And then one of the strongest guys in the league gets his big paws straight on the ball. And again, I chose you how good the gloves are because that was all in Domicant's to that hand on that last fumble camakers. But the Rams, I heard Niko talking with you about

this too. And I've thought the same thing. When they have everybody from Ramsey and even the guys that are filling in their secondary, their team speed on defense is stupid, man. So you saw it on the interception right before the half. He made a great play on that. Brady, you know, throws that loft on the corner route to Gronk and the safety comes over. So that was pretty alarming that the bucks weren't able to compensate for that, knowing how good Brady is in a week of prep. But, again, Again, they battled. They needed to get back in the game, they needed to score before the end of the third. They needed a three and out right away.

And then, you know, the strip sack turns into a 30-yard gain because of the snap that goes by Stafford. Like, it's just amazing how it all snowballed and it gets them to a tie game with 36 seconds left. But at the end, I still have a problem going zero there because you're going up against the clock, too. And I don't understand why you would make it easy for the- I'm totally with you. I'm totally with you. And before we get into the Brady stuff, because that's premature. Like, number one, Stafford secured a piece of his legacy.

I mean, like, I hate doing a legacy thing, but we were going to do it had he lost last week. We were probably going to do it had he lost this week. You know, we were going to talk about him being one and done, you know, beating a, you know, poor performing Cardinals team. Okay. Yep. That those throws at the end of the game.

Now, he's responded late in the season in big, big spots. now. He didn't play great against Baltimore, but there were big conversions at the end of the game. And obviously, they're at OBJ in the red zone. He stepped up late in this game, obviously. He responded against San Francisco, even though they lost that game. I mean, that third and six, we're still talking about it, that touchdown drive. It's not his fault that he really didn't have the ball last, I don't believe, in that football game. So he's been clutch. And now he's been clutch. and now he beat Tom Brady. Correct.

And so that matters. And so when we're talking about Matt Stafford, I hope people realize that the suspicions we had about him in Detroit were real as far as like his setup and an opportunity to win. So a big moment for Matt Stafford, no matter what happens the rest of the way. And now Brady's lost to Tannenhill, Stafford, Manning, and Foles, Eli Manning, in the postseason. So saving some of these losses for kind of mere mortals relative to his status.

It's not like he's lost a bunch of shootouts with, you know, the Peyton Mannings and Aaron Rodgers in the world. It's been interesting spots where he's lost. Having said all that, the only team that played kind of worse than the Bucks in spots was the Rams. And that's the reason that the Bucks got back in this game. And the unfortunate part was the entire thing that we just did on Stafford, you know, people would have thrown tomatoes at us. And we've done it this morning if they lost. And that's the dumbest shit about quarterback wins and talking about the outcome, dude, because Josh Allen and Aaron Rogers both lost football games this weekend.

That's about where it stops. And had Stafford lost this game, I would have been tearing my hair out hearing people talk shit about, you know, big spot, couldn't do it because these were all the things the Rams did in the second half. Obviously, the fumble with Cooper Cup. that for a second looked like the high tower strip sack where

Freeman missed the protection when we played Atlanta if you started to think about that game in the term 273 283 I was like that's the same turnover by the way Gronk had a big second half so they were climbing back in the bad snap

the acres fumble at the end of the game acres fumbling before the half for you points there is unforgivable we're not even having this conversation we're spending on this game. We're talking about Brady's legacy and we're moving the fuck on if they score before the half. So, correct. If you think about all the shit that the Bucks didn't do in the second half and they still climb back in this game, the Rams should be ashamed that they made this a game. Bucks were down 27 to 3 and they settled for a field goal with 302 left in the third. They needed to

convert on a fourth and nine down two scores. They fumbled on a Von Miller sack. They missed a field goal. and they failed to convert on a fourth and nine down two scores with four minutes ago. If I put all those things on paper, you would have told me there was no chance they climbed back in this game. So the Rams not closing that San Francisco game out, not closing this game out. They have to be better. Like a lot of people are talking about how great a win this is for them, but they're better than this. Because I expected them to win this game. And they should have closed this thing out, especially with that rush.

and the rush did their jobs, man. Like Vaughn Miller has validated what you went out and did for him. I mean, this was a big spot, big plays by him. He had nine pressures, one sack, two turnovers forced by pressure. Aaron Donald out at defensive end, I told you guys, when I was in St. Louis, he used to go out to defense venn, when we needed a break in practice running odd man stuff, which is like a three-man front.

And he used to beat people so bad, we would run right back on the field to make sure he didn't take our reps at end. I mean, like, they were so good up front, and for them not to close that game, it's all on the offense, the turnovers. Yeah. They have to be better because they could have a lead this week again. You know, they're the better team than San Francisco. I don't care how bad the matchup is. They're a better team.

I'll save my pick for later in the week, but holy shit, how about seeing them again in the NFC championship? Oh, my God. The idea of playing a division opponent to go to the super. ball, Chris, is just nuts to me. I believe we did it on the show with Scott last night. It's happened three times, and all three times, the winner of that game has won the Super Bowl. I know the Steelers did it to the Ravens, Packers did it to the Bears. Right.

And there was another one that's more recent. I'm going to slip to me. But that, because I'll have, Seahawks. Oh, that's the other one. That's it. Yep, that's the third one. So to me, I think it's so not fascinating, but interesting to me because you know how familiar you are with it. You just played three weeks, two weeks ago.

And knowing what the stakes are and knowing how familiar are, like, you could lose your mind overanalyze and film and stuff like that. So I think it's more of a self-scout that you have to go into here and looking at what you did in certain situations as opposed to what they did. Right. Because you go back. The Rams go up 17-0. McVeigh's running down to the end zone chest bump and Higbee after a touchdown. And they're rolling in that week 18 game. Yeah. And then sure enough, the Niners do what they did Saturday night. They play good defense. They don't ink mistakes. And they just hang around close enough where one play could swing things. And if I'm the Rams, I'm like, all right, bring that. Bring that to us because all we want is another opportunity. And like I said, now you factor in the stakes. That's a whole lot of shit on the table, man. And I'm just fascinated to see the outcome of this one. No one, was it? Niners won six in a row. I mean, look at what we have on the table.

I mean, you have the ultimate underdog. It's incredible. I mean, this is great. With these two teams, as you said, like the rich history, it's become like a rivalry now between these coaches. And I mean, like, I know it's friendly or whatever, but I know McVeigh at night is fucking Cussing Chanahan out under his breath as he hits the pillow.

So, you know, it's going to be awesome. I do want to ask, though, before we get off, like, I don't want to let us off the hook on the Brady thing. Do you think Brady, I don't think there's anything to this. I'll just say that. I don't think Brady walks off without, you know, farewell tour. I don't think that's, I don't think it's about that to him. Like, you knew Ben was going to do a lap.

You knew Ben, like, had to do kind of a thing. Yep. I don't think that's a Brady thing, but I don't think the greatest quarterback of all time is just going to start the season say, hey, I want to be here a bunch more years. And then by the end of it, because of injuries and that sort of thing, like he's completely changed his mind. I don't think so.

I think everybody has a plan, right, Chris? I mean, and you look at what Brady did and what he orchestrated to get those guys to Tampa and him go to Tampa. Like, he had that plan. And part of it was recruiting. Part of it was the setup. Part of it was the roster he was going. to. And let's be honest, a lot of guys with the bucks this past year took less money to say,

all right, let's rerun this and let's go back to back. And it didn't work out. And it rarely does in this sport because when you factor in that, I can't imagine how divided the locker room was on Antonio Brown. And then you see it was divided? Oh, I do. No, probably not evenly. But look Look at the people that had A.Bs back. It's the quarterback, the head coach. And then say your guys on the defensive side, like, hey, man, like, that's, that's really going to be a tough thing. You guys keep backing them.

I'm telling you, I'm telling you. Before he went, you know, with the meme last night, Bucks eliminated the whole thing. Like, yeah. No, I do. Preferbially off the deep end when it comes to being a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. No doubt. I mean, you play on teams. There's plenty of instances where guys I'm willing.

one side don't like guys on the other, but when Sunday comes, you put the helmet on and you go play for each other. You know, you put that stuff behind you. Yeah. But as this boils up and you see what happened, and I think the ultimate problem was losing God when seeing how valuable he was

to their offense and seeing how they use him. But I could just see that because now the guys that, you know, took less money. I mean, those guys that are up this year, they're bouncing. They're going to get theirs. I mean,

they did what they had to do to try and do this. I think a lot has to do with the roster as far as Brady goes. And the one thing that what I thought was really, really eye-opening was when they showed the quote from Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth sit down with Tom Brady. And he says, he says that the perfect ending is a Super Bowl. And then after that, he says, I don't think this year is one of those years. I'm like, holy cow, Tom Brady admitted that this possibly could not be a Super Bowl winning year. Like you never, ever hear Tom Brady give in in any kind of instance.

But here's the thing. Had we gotten, had we blown up, like, we've said this on the show for a couple weeks now, like, if I was somebody and I said, like, the bucks are cooked, they would have gone all underdog nobody believes in this thing. Yeah. And he said it out loud. That's, that, that, that was, that was the most eye-opening thing because then they keep talking about the end of the quote where he says so many things are inconclusive.

right and they went and they kept going on the inconclusive word and I'm like hold on I'm like right in the middle I'm like he said this is probably not a Super Bowl year yeah I mean we're right so so there's nothing unreasonable about knowing this was coming because of all the injuries you talk about Chris Godwin that was like the number one thing which by the way McVe who's taking some lumps including the San Francisco thing they figured out a way to make that offense role without their Chris Godwin they're without Robert Woods and so less runway to do that way to do that. so for Tampa and Lefwich, but they just haven't been able to. And I think when you look at this, look at the unrestricted free agents. Howard, Jensen, Kappa Wells, Grunk, Fornett, Sue, Goldston, JPP, Davis, Whitehead. And, you know, that's not to mention Godwin's on there too, I think. Godwin. I think there might be more, but like these are just some names I saw. And then Gronk, he might be done. Like, we're talking about Brady here. The biggest domino for me is grunk. Like if gronk is done, maybe that's the one thing that changed Brady's mind. Like, because maybe Brady doesn't want life without that security blanket. Now, I don't think he's

like, I know he's old, but he doesn't play old. Like, I know we say this all the time. He didn't have the best day throwing the ball yesterday. Like the pick before the half was bad. He missed, he missed on third and three right out of the half. I think it was like these were sequences where he had to be really sharp and he wasn't. But he looks young moving in the pocket. And that's the place that you see the other guys start to, you know, kind of trail off. I mean, I think it was a second and 12 where he hit Gronk for that big, big game. And there were a number of instances like this yesterday where he looked 35 moving. How about the touch pass on the run over his shoulder to Four Nett down the sideline?

That's a six throw. Sixth throw. He looks younger now than he did in New England. I agree. At the tail end of that thing. I agree. So if he's retiring, it ain't because he's. he feels shitty. I think the only reason that I could see him walking and I don't want to see him

walk and I don't think he's walking would be like a gronk retirement couple with all the undrafted free agency things. Maybe someday you just wake up and you say like I'm like my kids are growing up. You know, like that's the wild card that you can't factor in because you never know like when I was done. I thought about my kids like primarily making that decision. There's no warning. You just wake up one day and you say, now I'm not Tom Brady and I'm not 44 and I'm not the greatest player of all time. So I don't have as much motivation to keep playing. But I do think someday you just wake up maybe and say, hey, I've missed a whole bunch of shit. Having said that, I think he's back. And if he ever plays for another team, I pray it's the 49ers. Yeah. I mean, I would think

that is a definite possibility. But I also think 12 in Green Bay in Sanford. could be a possibility also, right? You're right about that, but like, you can't beat him, join them type thing. I don't know if Rogers can handle that, that narrative. I don't think that would sit well with A-Rod. Let's talk about

Aaron and Green Bay, go back to Saturday games. I think this one hurts, I think this one hurts Rogers, man. I think this one hurts, you know, when you talk about the big, the grand scheme of things, it's getting laid early for him. And I think it's unfair sometimes to talk about guys and

say, hey, he only has one ring. As long as you're going to talk about him, like he's maybe Brady's the greatest of all time and he's like the best I've ever seen, that kind of conversation. If we want to have that conversation, then we have to hold the one Super Bowl against him because he's played in a lot of playoff games. He's lost now, I think four playoff games at home, maybe three, four at home. And for him to lose in the cold weather with all that we talk about, Green Bay going through Landl.

I fell for it this year, okay? I'm totally with you. I'm totally with you. I fell for it this year. The weather lined up. Like, you hear people all week, and this is why I took the Niners, because they're not afraid of that weather.

They're built for that weather. So, like, sometimes I think people assume that the makeup of a team fits the home field advantage. And I'm not saying Green Bay's didn't, but it kind of fit the Niners even better. and for Aaron to not make some of the throws that he missed late in that ballgame. And Jimmy G. as bad as he was to hit some of those big throws in the second half, like Jimmy G. hit more big throws in the second half than Aaron.

He made more bad, scary throws where your balls go up in your stomach. If you're a Niners fan, you hold your breath. You're used to it by now. Yeah, they're used to it. But he made more big throws than Rogers down the stretch. So to get not out dueled but beaten by Jimmy G at home in the cold. He's in 32 degree or less games. I saw a stat before this one, 28 and 8 and 6 and 3 in the playoffs.

And Jimmy had never played in a game below freezing. But that's why this shit is overrated because Jimmy's team was built to win in the cold. Jimmy played in Illinois growing up. Jimmy played in New England. You don't think they scrimmaged in December. I know they did. He was ready as bad as he was at times. good for him and really bad for Rogers when it comes to like the grand scheme of things.

A couple things here. When you talk about holding the one Super Bowl against Rogers, think about this. Okay, the last time we lost both one seeds in the same weekend in the divisional round was 2010. That was Rogers going to Atlanta and beating Matt Ryan. Rogers wins the Super Bowl 2010. It's 11 years, Chris. He hasn't been back. 11.

Yeah, it's 11 years. He hasn't been back to the Super Bowl after winning one. So that dynamic feels like it's unprecedented. Now you go back and dissect the playoff games. Their defense was terrible. They got run over by Mozart. And every scenario. Not this time.

But this one, and this is what I had a feeling all week about San Francisco, and this is what I love about him. I go back to, I was a FARV guy. Farve was my guy growing up. I love the guy. War IV in high school, the whole thing. when Michael Vick went to Lambo on that Saturday night that year and just gave the Packers a dose,

that's when I was like, all right, this Mystica Lambo feel like it's way blown out of proportion because what happened, and then you hear Michael Vick talk about going into that game and how fired up he was to be able to play in that setting, that's what worried me because the visiting team is more excited now because they're like, what?

We can't go play there. We can't win there. You know, it's, you know, field's still 100. yards, whatever. And that's what, and it then go back to the Niners. Like, that's what I just love about a man. Like, I just, they, they, they, they, right in your face will admit, our quarterback is not as good as yours, but we're going to be dogs out there and we are going to out, no matter what, we are going to be the tougher team. And we still like him. Like, I feel like there's kind of this arrangement. It's

like an arranged marriage or like an open relationship type thing where the vibe is, like, hey, we know we're going to play better quarterbacks. Like, we know the guy on the other side line. We'd probably rather have that guy than you, but we still love you and we're still going to rally around you. I'm not saying, I'm not trying to be disrespectful. Like, hey, Jimmy G. G. playing Aaron Rogers, pull the fucking sideline.

Okay, Jimmy G. playing Dak Prescott, pull the sideline. Jimmy G. playing Matt Stafford, pull the sideline. You know, Jimmy G. playing Mahomes or Burrow, pull the sideline. But it doesn't matter because this team, like, knows exactly who they are. And like, knowing who you are is a really scary, dangerous thing in

the NFL and they lean the fuck into it. Then you said it, dude. You said it. Lambo doesn't scare people, okay? Oh, like, Arrowhead is the real Lambo, bro. You know, Lambo does not scare people. And Rogers has got to be concerned about, like, his legacy being as much about the playoff letdowns as it has been about his spectacular play. And he's, one of my favorites to ever watch play the game. But this year and the dunks people have, which I want to leave that stuff out of my analysis of Aaron Rogers. Yeah, no, I don't.

You know, I actually think that stuff, you know, like spending all day spectacularly dunking on Aaron Rogers is not going to get anybody vaccinated. So it's just going to get you a couple likes and the whole thing. But this is about football. And he did go out on limb, do a lot of interviews this year. he was very vocal. He, you know, he was kind of this new Aaron Rogers.

This new mantra that he has is going to be tested big time this offseason. Like, is he still like Mr. I might have took psychedelics last April. Everything's chill. You know, like life is just good. I'm happy to be here. We're going to know within the month whether that was like a flavor of the month for him or if that's like really who he is now because this is going to test him.

Yeah. No doubt. A couple things. You said this is real, like Arrowhead's the real. I got to ask you about being real here. If you're Gary on that play where Trent Williams is opposite of a wing and runs in motion, do you know he's over there? I would, but Gary's young. I would because you always try to keep an eye on the move tight end. You always try to keep an eye on the guy. And obviously this is the play the win viral where Gary got a rib cage full of Trent Williams, which is just unfair. Like, it's totally unfair. That's what I'm saying.

Like, I don't want to be you up. Yes. You're engaged with one of the studs. And you've got this 330-pound guy who's like moving like a blur to come clean you out. Like, I know where that guy is. You know, it's like people have to know where certain shooters are on the basketball court. You know where Trent Williams is. If that big motherfucker is on the move, like maybe.

pay attention. Another thing is two weeks in a row, Shanahan got cute. Got cute and short yardage. Stop that shit. You're lucky to have another opportunity. Like, please stop with the cute stuff. Like the cute stuff, everybody knows what happened in New England, like, or down there in Houston, rather, playing the Patriots. But like, this week, you're going to have a big short yardage call. Don't do some crazy tackle over shift. Don't do some motion. Don't do some motion. Don't do some bullshit, like just line up and run your offense. It's kind of like when Andy Reid got cute last night. The best player in the field is the guy you just set out wide or sent to the sideline. Why are you, why is anybody else touching it? And why don't you have use, you put you check at full

go eye formation. Run your offense. I don't, I don't understand why people don't have full. When you have a fullback and you don't have them in on short yardage, I don't understand that because he's taking up a roster spot. The threat now of a four of a fullback in the flat is. is just, it's incredible to me. Going back to Josh Allen, like Gilliam comes in, he has like four catches last night, and they were in big spots to get positive yardage.

Like, those guys are such an asset, and Ushak's the best one in the league, I would think. So one other, can you imagine, you know how the Niners run that split zone, toss where Debo just comes downhill and kill, what if they ran that with Trent Williams as the crack on the split zone? That would be, oh, my God.

I mean, he's got it in him to, the scheme of some really devilish shit like that. But the thing is, is like, hey, when it's crunch time, just please, Kyle, don't be cute this week. Y'all are game away from the Super Bowl. You're the smartest guy in the league. Just please, just line up and run your awesome offense or do any crazy shit. Also, Wishnowski deserves a big heroes welcome back to San Francisco. I'm sure he already got it.

The holder, the punter. That snap was dicey to win that game. but just tremendous drama for them. This is a battle tested team. Like battle tested in dictionary, if it's a term, the Niners picture right next to them. And they're not afraid of anybody. And special teams continues to kill the Packers, bro.

And honestly, the one year that I don't hold against Rogers and I wonder if everything's different is the year that they botched that onside kick against Seattle. Honestly, I think that was your chance to get off the Schneid. I think it was like 2014. team. We're not even talking about this Super Bowl legacy stuff. I think they win that Super Bowl. And honestly, we're not having this conversation. So special teams then, special teams now, you talk about the block punt. You talk about, I think they missed a field goal maybe or something

else in that game. And then they only had 10 guys out with the game on the line. You know, so these are five, I don't call for people's jobs. I don't even know who the special teams coordinator is there, but like these are fireball offenses. If this is a player that, player gets cut. Yeah. I do want to shout out Jimmy Ward. He gets burned on the play to Aaron Jones. And I mean,

tough spot right there. You don't know why Aaron Jones didn't keep running down the sideline? I still don't know. You guys love the cut back. But regardless, Jimmy Ward comes back, a play later and blocks that field goal. Like,

that's the good shit, man. And they didn't mention it. It, that amazed me. I'm like, so good for that guy. Because also, the dynamic of that game,

if you're to Niners and you go down two possessions in the half and you come out and see that weather start like two possessions is totally different totally different in that and those elements so jimmy war man like that's just hey i'm going to come make a play after after screwing up and i was really really happy for him because that was a monumental play um and it also does show you that when defensive linemen don't want to take plays off on field goes or extra points that they could be heard from because always being always being on a field goal extra point and being the wing, I always just like, all right, I would always check the hands and the knuckles and the pressure on the guy's hand.

That's the worst job. It's awful. But it was like my first way on the field. So I was always like trying, all right, are they coming here? Are they coming? I got two outside. I could be heavy inside. Yeah.

Like, you could tell D-Line, you give it away too easy. But it just shows you the way they slapped the hands not to be able to get that punch out. makes all the difference in the world, and Jimmy Ward blocks that. So that was just really good to see. It also lets you in on, like, how much of a fractions of time thing, operations, you know, like, if you're a tenth of a second late, like, that ball is getting blocked, if the angle of the kick is different. And you're right, it was like such a makeup play.

It was the ultimate makeup play for him. And people didn't make a big deal about it. It's a good catch. And then Terry Bradshaw, I think, said something after the game that my ears perked up on when Uncle Terry drops a job. Joel. He said this team reminded him of, you know, one of those old Giants teams that he was talking to, you know, Strayhan about. And honestly, that's a pretty good comparison. This team is just that kind of, you know, underman bully attitude kind of rag tag, good up front. Like, Armstead was

huge for them. And that's got to feel so good because Armstead made a couple plays down the stretch that helped decide this football game. There was a time when, and I was one of these people, I was like, ah, did they choose correctly? It was Buckner or Armstead. Buckner goes to Indy. You know, that defense finishes the season, the way they finish the season, even with all those great players. Armstead helps you win a playoff game at Lambo. And Nick Bosa, who, you know, we found a way not to mention this entire thing.

This guy is incredible. I told you. What is it? Six and a half and five playoff games? I don't know. It's incredible. He's just, he's hitting for average. and power. And I say that because he's a rusher who's never out of the rush. You know, even that rush

against Rogers that he clipped his ankle, you know, and got him for a yard loss on the sack, which we always look at the sideline. After you see a defensive end get a sack and look at the sticks, we're trying to see if that's going to go down as a sack. If it's too close to the line of scrimmage, he just is always in the rush. He's got power. He's got speed. And he's legitimately a weapon for them. So this team is built. We'll see this weekend. Hey, CINC, you know, it feels like eight years ago, but yeah, what a win for them. Here's the most impressive thing about CINC, they're winning different ways. They've won different ways the entire season and Joe Burrow getting sack nine times, one freight on third down. If I told you that happened, I'd show you the score. What would you

think the score was going to be? Oh, 27, nothing. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I, I don't know. I wanted to ask you this one too. Like just, I mean, we didn't even talk about the Green Bay defensive line, but they were obviously awesome.

Oh, yeah. Welcome back to Darius Smith, like immediately. Oh, my. Yeah. First third down. In your mindset, if you're on the D-line of the Titans or the Packers, like who feels worse Sunday morning,

waking up knowing that your season's over? Honestly, um, it probably, it probably feels worse if you're the Packers because in a vacuum, like, I know we had a better chance to win the whole thing. Like, and those guys played well up front. Like, they got pressure.

They did their job. The guys in Tennessee did their job. I think the guys in Tennessee are looking at things. And I don't think Tanna Hills got a bunch of bad juju behind him in that locker room. But this was a game where he did not play well enough to win. I mean, that was the bottom line. Like when you're D-line plays like that, when you keep the points down as a team, because they did. You've got to find a way to win this game. And one of my biggest concerns was,

I bet the Bengals thinking Derek Henry wasn't at full strength. I bet the Bengals thinking, you know, I would notice the 70% or whatever it was. Like, Henry looked fucking healthy. Yeah. Like he took that first ball downhill from nine yards deep in the backfield, full head of steam. And I said, oh my goodness. Now, Foreman was a tremendous one to punch for them. So they have something there. But this was. was such an impressive win for these guys, man. I think the Bengals are just growing up at an accelerated rate because they have a grown-up quarterback. I mean, like, this team is ahead of schedule. This was a team that lost a bunch of close games last year. I had their overwin total.

I mean, there were so many games that they should have hit six. They should have hit seven. And for this team to come back this year, win in the multitude of ways they've done it, kind of show the resolve, knock off a Raiders team that was like hard to kill. D.S. Tennessee Titans, hard to kill. The Bengals have this scrappy vibe. And they don't even have an offensive line. So they're going to, they're going to establish that stuff in the draft this year. However, this season ends, they drafted a kicker, McPherson. People laughed at them. People laughed at them when they drafted Jamar Chase instead of an offensive tackle. Incredible. So everything has gone their way.

And I actually think they have a puncher's chance in Kansas City, although I think Kansas City at home, you got to beat in twice one year. I had good luck. I mean, Spags isn't going to kill him on zero blitzes two games in a row. I don't think this has been an incredible run by Sincet. I'm not saying it's over, but holy shit, can we pause and just say, wow. Yes.

To me, I mentioned it before, Chris, I was a huge Farr fan. And to me, this team, it reminds me of when Fav went and beat Steve Young with the Niners. I believe it was 93. It was a year the Cowboys won their last Super Bowl because nobody everybody was waiting for Cowboys Niners again and Farvin the Niners go out to San Francisco, beat him, end up

losing to Dallas and the NFC championship game. But you took that step a year ahead of where you were supposed to. And I just think that's huge for guys' belief. You know how young the roster is. I said the beginning of the year, I love what they did because they used

pre-agency to get defense and then they use a draft to get offense. And look at the guys they got, Hendrickson and Hilton, the, the, the, nickel that gets the interception. It's just, it's been, it's been an awesome combination of guys just getting together. I think the defense has developed a nice attitude about them. I mean, you look at the ground, Bates, I mean, it's a total gamble, first play of the game, but Bates playing that cover three safety and on the other hash and jumping that court, that, that hook route on the other hash like that's a guy that's locked into me like hey we're going to go make a statement here and we need to make plays to give our offense as many chances as possible today and the bengals

did that um so you look at that the offensive line worried me i said it all week um that's why i lean tennessee in that game because playing offensive line on the road it sucks oh yeah it sucks You got crowd noise. You got to go off first movement in the defensive line a lot of times, almost basically on every third down because you know the crowd's going to be into it. You got a young quarterback that does like to hold on to the ball, that extra second to give his receivers, that extra second for separation.

And you saw that add up, but they just kept coming back. Mixon made a couple of huge plays. They went T. Higgins on that delayed slant. Burrell was locked in with him on that. And then the play right before the, field goal where they run the cover two beater, the out route to chase on the double move is

just a sick, sick play. And to be able to execute again there with the stakes of what they are just shows me the world of what Burrell's capable and up chase. So like I said, I take it all in. Embrace the journey if you're to bangles because this has been phenomenal. You dreamt about this stuff going on the road and

getting a win in the playoffs out of one seed. Like take it all in and enjoy this. And then, you know, roll the dice Sunday. Because when I look ahead to that, I don't see it at all. No, I wonder the number was six and a half. I could see them cover. It's already seven. It's already seven.

I would take the Bengals to cover, but I think the, I think the chiefs win that game. I mean, like, if you're a Bengals fan and you want to, and you want to have some fun with that one, definitely if it goes to six and a half, buy back to seven. But I think it's just too hard to ask them. Now, Joe Burrow doesn't think so. And that's what makes me great. Like Joe Burrow, Joe Burrough is the reason that in a don't flinch game, they don't flinch.

And that was a don't flinch game. Like, Brable and those guys, that's pre-fight, way in, like stare down type energy going to Tennessee. And they, you mentioned the defense, they match the energy of these guys. I mean, like to stop them on a fourth and short in a crucial situation, to come up with a turnover, to put Tennessee on their heels, just to get those points,

these guys deserve a lot of credit. So a lot of people say, hey, Raiders, Titans, not, you probably the two teams that, you know, were the most untalented at times this year in the AFC playoffs, but two of the toughest teams

and the Bengals are the quarterback, so deserve a lot of time. Joe Burroughs got two playoff wins in the last two weeks. It's a hell of a lot more than a hell of a lot great quarterbacks that played in the sport. Well, he got two in two weeks, and that's more than DAC, his entire, which is, these stats are dumb. It's the QB wins thing, but correct. Again, it's like starting your career playing with house money a little bit.

No doubt. Like a Romo had to wait. I mean, like, these are things that matter. And I think, you know, as he battles year after year, it's nice to have these pelts, you know, on the wall. So, all right. couple big ones this weekend. I don't think we're going to be disappointed. I can't wait already.

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I'm on the under 47 there. I'm teasing the Niners with the Bengals. I've got Cincy Money Line. I've got Cincy Catchin'4. I've hit the under 48 here. Basically, what I'm doing here is I know the end is near, and I'm just spraying. You know what I mean?

Like, just spray. This is when it starts to feel like the elite eight in the NCAA tournament. You're like, fuck, it's almost over. Super Bowl Sunday is the final four championship night. Nobody cares. Sinci plus seven, under 49 Tennessee, Sincere, under 49.5 Rams, Bucks, Kansas City, given a point in a half.

That's a parlay that half a unit could make $5,000. We hit on the last big one. We hit on the last big one, so. Uzama and Mixing over receiving yards. Oh. Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is how you win this game. This is how the fuck you win this game, dude.

And a great job getting him down in the open field. Chopping that one blocker down, making sure Chase has to hurdle you. What are you doing? You guys just give up 50 plus yards. I mean, they bring 80. They bring 80 guys. That's a crazy catch too. So is that, that's pretty much the only thing 37 could have done, right?

Yes. Just slide in and right in front of the blocker. Yeah. But anyways, Jamar Chase and Fulton, I think grew up together or went to college together. LSU, both LSU. Yeah, I think they might have grown up together too. And so like that match up was pretty interesting putting those two guys on an island. And that's the thing that makes Jemar Chase great.

You know, you can throw a screen to him that can go for 80. just like you can throw a deep ball to him. And then you're running reverse. Very few guys can do that. But you really can't get comfy if you're the damn the Bengals, man. It's Tennessee team. There are a lot like the Niners

in the way we were talking about. I think Swago and us were talking. Yeah, Swago was saying there was something in scandal, the TV show, where they were just dripping water on a guy's head. And it was just like,

the guy went crazy eventually. Chinese water torture. Yes. I thought there was a term for it. But he said that's like the 49ers. There's offense, like even when they're down, they don't worry about it. They just keep, yeah, like running the ball, dripping the water. And Tennessee keeps dripping the water too.

So, like, I don't care if you're up six. I don't care if you're up nine after the next field goal. Keep your fucking foot on the gas pedal. But you know what looks great? Those, I think those jerseys. Yeah, it is. All blue. Yeah, they look solid color.

Like, when your pants match your jerseys like main color, I think so. It's fire. There you need. No, same on the other side. Like that all white. All white's great. I don't know about Taylor,

Luan, and the receiver over here. I think Chester Rogers both have a red arm sleeve. I don't know. I don't mind the incorporation of the red. I like the red, red cleats and such.

Because they have the little red in the Titans thing. Now see, I like that blue sleeve. I like Ben Jones's fucking sweaty muleer elbow bands. I remember those. You think when you grow up, you think that those,

like, guys that wear that are just for like just to throw something on like any of those means like a guy's battling something like on the low you need those like you know what I mean the difference like when you I started wearing those year 11 bro my god because my knee would just you know blow up that's that's when I that's when I started to feel old and this is the problem these slants are just these little in cuts are easy let these guys work okay Julio I started feeling old when I started having this I have to wear like the black McDavid knee sleeves. When I started doing that, I was like, it's ending for me.

Because you need your knees to walk, you know, to do anything. But when you take those sleeves off, you know when you get that like random like dead leg or dead like, like dead knee? Third and nine, this is not where they want to be. I mean, Tennessee can get pressure with four. They bring five. Yeah. Simmons already. Oh, they could have got them with that extra.

Thank you, sir. I like that. They got that extra hit, little JOP on the quarterback. Little JOP. Love this. This is just, this game is going great. I love the playoffs. The Wands early, Hendrickson going inside shoulder.

Blowing the whole play up. Blowing the whole play up. And now, fucking former wide receiver picks up five yards. Yo, we're going to talk about going for it. Hey, Tand Hill ain't no small dude. But, hey, that D-Lyman just threw all of his weight to hit him, and he bounced kind of far. Out of the back of the pocket? No, just now when he just hit him.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Tannah Hill. He's tall, man. Yeah, he's a big dude. Who's the most shockingly big quarterback that you played against? Big Ben, for sure. Even though you knew he's in the nickname. Yeah, but like, but like his stature,

his stature like he was kind of sloppy that's what i mean i guess like he was kind of like he's a doorway dude he you you haven't seen like young big ben was a doorway he was just like a big man dude just huge and like for a quarterback like my eyes thinking like quarterback he was big and sloppy and then he this is when he was wearing like those double sleeves no those like rib brace like all the way around so it looked like he had a keg a keg on But he also wears a lot of fucking jersey, a lot of underarm stuff, a lot of fabric. So not only are you like trying to take down a, you know, water buffalo, but you also, it's like a water buffalo and a snuggy.

We played them. We played them on the Sunday night. And I had a clean. Of course, I never got close to him. I had a clean hit on him. Like, I think they completed the past, but had a clean hit on him. And it was one of those situations when I hit him and I landed on top of him, like it almost knocked the wind out of me.

Yeah. And I was just like, Cam Newton did that to me, bro. I hit Cam Newton. Fucking should have just went for the ball. My dumb ass beat Matt Khalil so clean. You know, I was an idiot. I should have gone for the ball.

Instead, I ended up with a cracked rib from Cam Newton landing on me. We played Cam when I was in Jacksonville, and I had a fist full of Jersey, torrential downpour. And I think Cam proceeded to, drag me maybe a couple of yards while I'm trying to sack him to he was still looking for an outlet to make a pass the t-shirt stretching like stretching like stretching like cheese and nachos I have an amazing picture of it that looks like I got a sack looks like like you're oh for sure

he got a sack but he threw the ball away and it was just like like me knowing like holding on to him like I'm like damn he's dragging Did you miss a sack? You remember it in slow motion the rest of your life. The rest of my life. But it was one of those things for him. He knew I wasn't going to sack him. He was like, yo, like you think just because you have one hand on me,

like you're going to be able to pull me down, he's like, you're not going to sack me. Right, right. Was there a quarterback that you didn't think was going to be as. Tavares Jackson? As athletic. Well, just tough to bring down Tavar's Jackson. God rest of soul. Who was your backup from?

He was pretty shifty. your backup in St. Louis for a long time, the kid who played at Duke? Yeah, Thad Lewis. Thad. He's a cool motherfucker, dude. I sack that in preseason. I think I sacked them twice. That got me on to the team in Jacksonville. The whole entire preseason that year in Jacksonville, we had zero sacks going into our last preseason game, and I had the only two sacks. And I think that's the only reason why.

Stroll into the building. Like, honestly, like, I feel like that snuck me in, like literally snuck me into the building. That was my second year. Yeah, that was my second year trying to get back onto the team. It's scary the second camp, huh? Oh, man. It was a whole bunch of guys coming in just like you last year. No, no, but it was second camp but my first year camp in Jacksonville. Tennessee is just. Yeah, their defense is just playing the

in the backfield when they're doing a run play. Yeah, the front is dominate. The front's dominated. We're going to play the run on the way to the quarterback. and that's what they're doing. They're rushing. Like they're rushing. Yeah, Simmons is rushing and that's when the coach is saying, hey, we're going to play the run on the way to the quarterback,

but these guys are going to throw the ball the majority of the game, so we're going to keep the pressure on them. Yep. And if you stay in your lanes, you should be able to make tackles if they hand the ball over. Probably a whole lot of reset in the line of scrimmage talk. I mean, these guys are very vertical. Landry's got a great jump, so I keep an eye on him.

make sure he's chip let's go let's go get up the field get up the field big guy they're doing exactly what they need to want deep zama yeah over 30 check down mixing still stuck squarely at 21 it's fucking it's bro if you don't get another catch i am going to take it up with upper management well whoa is this is it are these like first half bets for you or just the whole game whole game dude i just oh oh oh you're being so greedy right now greedy oh my goodness i want to win man no i feel you you know i feel you i want to win win win bet i'm like joe borough right now I want to win I'm hot right now dude I was hot last week I was hot the week before that I've been hot since as a not one as a non football player

yeah do the shoulder pad um jackets look cool actually yeah when they're all huddled at the coolest thing was I think it's that Packers picture from like 1960 or whatever but all the dudes are wearing these like brown that's what it looked cool yeah that's what yeah that was like legit but I mean even this this is it makes you think like I kind of want because are they sleeveless? Well, they actually They have to like capes, but yeah. But honestly, they're all a little different, but they're basically like capes. Honestly, though,

don't knock it until you try it. Like, you know, there's the big, you know, it's funny in football. There's the big sleeves, no sleeve, like pressure, perceived, like kind of macho thing. There is none of that when it comes to getting in that fucking thing on the sideline. I'll wear no sleeves to spite people

and then run to the sideline and be like, you know, Jimmy Lake, where the fuck is my? My little igloo, man That thing's fucking warm But here's a funny thing My girl brought it up to me the other day She was saying that she thinks those are cool But it's funny at the spectrum of them

I hated them because I wasn't Like a top tier guy So when guys came off the field Like Chris They're limited They're limited But I would never take one from someone No no you wouldn't

But like when the equipment guys are looking like Hey get me a jacket It's just like If you're in a line of fire and you know you're a guy that's like on like the team, the 53 spectrum, it's just like, damn, do I want to just take this off and offer it or do I want to be embarrassed and get asked to take it off

knowing I'm going to have to take it off? Why can't they put like a real life little heat hut, you know, like somewhere on the sideline? No, no, they have them sometimes, but they're not big enough.

They're not big enough space. There's a fucking blue tent. There needs to be a red tent. Because that would look ridiculous. It would look ridiculous. A field level hospitality. Yes. But imagine.

The Raiders, the area that we were at, that would be their area. That would be sick, dude. No. Imagine the optics of that, though, like, the Raiders shit was so cool. The optics of guys running in there to be warm, like, a coach would probably hate that. So when you go on the field, does every player get a jacket? No. That's what we're talking about.

They have a few suitcases of them. And, you know, why they don't have enough for every. Everybody, no idea, especially teams that play in the NFC North. You've got this big glass stadium, you know, killing a bunch of birds. And you don't have an extra couple Gs to keep everybody warm on the team. Now, Derek Henry, he has his jacket. He would give it to somebody. He wouldn't, like, put it on the ground or put it.

No, he just takes it off. You just, you know, like, when you go in there, you just throw that thing off. Someone's going to grab it. And for real, someone on the sideline who's coming off the field or someone on the side line, they might try to grab it and throw it on real quick. Well, because that would suck if you're, it's all warm and then you go on the field and it's a quick three and out and you come back. Well, when it's wet, when it's wet, dudes need to be like,

so look, they'll probably put them on the bench and if I'll show you when they come back. Those benches, they're heated and they have like heated pockets and some of the jackets they might throw it over or in they have spots. They have spots for your helmet to keep the inside of your helmet warm. Fun. Somebody said fun fact about Green Bay. Yeah, on the back. So if you see on the back of the benches, those stakes, there's like individual stakes coming out.

They have heat coming out of those. So you can put those pads inside their helmet, they'll stay soft because those shit's get, that's the worst. Put on a cold helmet. Yeah, cold helmet's the worst, especially, you know. So if you're on a team who doesn't have that on the bench, like heating up the helmet, that shit sucks sometimes that have to put your helmet on and your pads are kind of like frozen. Late in the season, it hurts to put your helmet on. Anyway, yeah.

Your head is just like, I'm tired of this. Oh, don't drop the rock. So again, this line is having a hard time sorting these pressures. I mean, this is just a basic edge pressure with Landry coming underneath. And we'll see if the guard's late. Look, he thinks he's got help. It seems like it's loud in there, too. No, but just no Bueno.

They're rattled. I think the crowd is hoping out a lot. totally rattled oh flinging it oh yes he has not been great today that missed the pick he missed uh j brown on a third and 11 and even that drop earlier by the uh by the tight end that's on the wrong

it's on the wrong side of him yeah turning up tannahill does not look good folks folks tennahill does not look good you know it it might be tannahill and zach taylor have a big history together maybe that's on his mind I think he coached him at Texas A&M it's a home playoff game you got too much to deal with you I don't think he's really got that on his mind

but I read something about it a commenter asked is there anything you would invent to make players more comfortable on the sideline absolutely that commenter might be related to you Diane Long oh awesome great question mom

I would say like zero gravity chairs or like a safe space maybe a safe space where you could like there's a D-line coach who doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about and he's just not

he won't stop bothering you about something that didn't happen can I go on my safe space maybe Greg Williams is in a bad mood can I go on my safe space I would go in the safe space to put Greg Williams in a bad mood I love fucking this is a good This is a good job not getting a penalty.

Great question. Yeah, great question. Oh, what was that? A fumble? No, it was deflected. He threw it right into his hand. It's fucking bad, dude. It's bad.

Right. Tennessee's defense is flaming up. All they need to do is rush four. They're going to score. If they score on defense, that's all they need to do is score on defense. They're right to his game. Man, Andy got hit. Golly.

They're having trouble. God, dog. Dude, this can be tough. y'all are de linemen for the titans what do you say into your fellow you guys know you can get pressure with four what are you all talking about right now is djo and dejo is djo is djo is don't jump off size because it's third and four the easiest thing that you can the worst thing you can do right now is jump off size and give five-yard penalty and give them an automatic first down and it just depends on the the head bob you know at home because you know obviously they're not going to be going hard count because you can't hear but what you are going to be getting is that double and triple head bob and that's the scary thing like so

and also watching the fake if they're like the tackle tap you'll see like either the guard or the center like one of the guards will look back and maybe tap to center and they might do fake ones of that but

they're just going with it yeah not a time to play around right now when you're trying to just get these yards how annoying I mean you guys weren't running backs or wide receivers but how annoying would that to be you have the ball after the play someone's scrapping at it oh we do it all the time yeah it's like it's the best it's a major adjutation do you remember when uh alvin camera got into it with um you christian wilkins on monday night yeah um you were gone chris it was because of that read i mean honestly yeah that's the fucking thing that you know ball carriers i feel like

they're traumatized from their coaches doing that the entire training camp like not even in a football sense but just like the annoyance and it's one of those things for defense if you knock it out a guy's hand even if it's after the play that can make that running back like

damn I'm not holding the ball the right way that's what because like he's obviously on the ground but he can't one in his mind he can't 100% let go not yet nope you never know like so like they're tall and it's one of those things too it's like even when you see the ball in the ground, like good defenses, you'll see like defenders kind of

rush to try to pick it up because like you always, it doesn't matter. Like, because the refs, they make mistakes all the time and they don't know what to do. And the worst thing you could do is let a ball just like roll around. So you want to pick it up. So if it is something, hey, I have possession less. That's another thing. Simmons just creating havoc. Another tackle without going to the ground. What up nine and eight? Jeffrey Simmons just body slams people yeah no like a rassler it's like a 54 yard field goal now yeah it's tough you can't do this yeah rip to the sky and honestly honestly though for you guys out there keep that rip you want to take that rip down no you keep it honestly up and going run the circle

i think burroughs got it i think burroughs got a move in that pocket i know i don't know how the mobility feels right now but there's a vacant be gap to your right to kind of slide to step up and deliver a throw. I know it doesn't look like that, but I don't think that's a clean, clean, clean win. Wow. Which means he's thinking about shit.

His eyes are down the field. He's, you know, bro, I've always talked about how Grady is moving in the pocket. You know, if he's not able to kind of find pockets inside the pocket back there, he's probably looking at the coverage. Simmons is having a game.

On the ball. Just keep hearing his name. Number 98, baby. Wow Boom Look at that Four sacks And A pressures

On four man rushes Jeez And that was the whole thing And you knew They were gonna be able to do this And you And a lot of people said If they can do this

They're gonna win this Football's game It's that muddle rush too It's just like hey You can let him scramble Long as it's not outside the hash Yep Saffold's still going

Is Saffled Oh I played an all-star game with Saffold It's good dude. You played against him too at Virginia, Indiana. Yeah, that was the best game. We were beating the shit out of him.

And Matt Conrath had the unfortunate pick of cards that he was going against Stafford. Literally, everybody was getting golf and getting stats that game except for Matt. Yeah, because Matt kept coming to the sideline. Everyone kept coming to the sideline being like, yo, I'm killing my guy. I just hit him with a spin move, this and that. And Matt was like, yo, my guy's good. Like, the guy I'm going against is really good. And mo'n behold, it was Stafford.

I remember him telling that story. I think we ended up all teammates in St. Louis, Matt, Saffled overlap. Yeah, he talked about how damn good he was in college. I mean, he's been really good in the pros, too. You got to clock. Two other teammates? Clock, clock, clock, clock.

Hand the ball of the official. Mixon watch TV. Yeah. Mixon watches TV. Joe Mixing made me much. and he watches TV. Fuck yeah, dude. He saw the debacle in Dallas, man.

He saw it. Mixing watches TV. Thank you. Give the ball of the official. I mean, if they finish this thing with a touchdown, you catch them for. Mixed! Backside.

Let's go, man. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. I want you. Who day? Who day?

This is the, this. This is the hottest person in America on the windbed app right now. You're looking at him. Let me look into the camera. I am on fucking fire, dude. Outside that Philly pick last week, which is a, you know, there's a blind spot.

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