Green Light with Chris Long - WK17 Instant Reactions! Eagles & Saquon Win NFCE, Vikings & Darnold Defeat Packers!

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

Chris Long reacts to the NFL Week 17 action following the 1 pm and 4 pm window games. A huge win for the Philadelphia Eagles as they take the NFC East with a 41-7 win over the Dallas Cowboys. Saquon Barkley ran all over the field and is now only 101 yards of Eric Dickerson all time single season rushing record. The Minnesota Vikings won again over the Green Bay Packers as they continue their fight for the NFC's #1 seed. Sam Darnold was elite again and the Vikings look like a unit heading into week 18 and beyond. (00:00) - Intro (5:45) - Minnesota Vikings Defeat Green Bay Packers (18:10) - Philadelphia Eagles Win NFC East (24:57) - Chargers Make Playoffs (26:57) - Broncos vs Bengals Want your Green Light Merch so you can look exactly like Chris and the fellas? Hit the website below and get kitted! https://stores.kotisdesign.com/yotehouse/products Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. Also, check out our paddling partners at Appomattox River Company to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxWFAA-wuB7osdiAJyLOcw Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turnovers kind of come in bunches like sacks. You know, like they really do. And when a team's in the middle of one of these turnover frenzies, you'd rather it be right now than like week five and then, you know, dissipates. They're taking the ball off people. They had five last week. So for the defense to show up like this, great job.

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A lot to go through. He also touches on Saturday's games, the Broncos and Bengals. What a battle. The charges are making the playoffs in the first year under Jim Harbaugh. And the Rams, who are the biggest commanders fans tonight, along with the Bucks, they both need the commanders to win, and that helps both of their playoff chances immensely. But the big news, the Eagles win the NFC East, and Saquan is only 100, yards away from Eric Dickerson's record.

And the Vikings keep rolling. Another NFC North win sets up a huge battle next week with the Lions. Chris's instant reactions coming to you now. We'll catch you on Monday, 2.30 p.m. Eastern and Joy. I'm live. How are we doing? How are we doing? Eagles.

Eagles. Skow Eagles. NFC's champions. Listen, it's not just personal. It's also business. Bet MGM, maybe make a giant splash bet, giant by my standards. At the beginning of the season, and I said, oh, do I have to? And they said, yeah, you do.

And I said, I think I'll take the Eagles to win the East. And some people said, good luck with that. How do you like me now? Now that I'm on my way. I got a, I got a fucking, I got some walking around money walking into the playoffs, don't I? And the nice thing is, just a little housekeeping items here as we get off the ground. Two huge commies fans tonight, Baker Mayfield, right? Because if the commanders win this game, then the Bucks control their own destiny next week against the Saints who look pretty damn hapless.

And also Matthew Safran the Rams, because if the commanders win this game, night they win the west rendering next week's game with seattle completely useless to the football world giving the rams an extra week of rest um and a big domino would fall that way if you subscribe to like the nfl is it's a bunch of conspiracy theory shit um i don't blame me because when i'm on losing end of a bet i think that the game's fixed but it's not i can tell you from experience but like if you believe that you probably figure the NFL wants Atlanta to win this game because what would be best for the NFL would be to have an NFC West championship game week 18 now jaden daniels can take the momentum from last week and make all that go away that doesn't even have to

happen um and i need my bucks ticket to cash anybody else had the bucks went in the south this year okay i had the seahawks win in the west for less than i had i had to seehawks win in the west for less than i had the bucks i just need the bucks to win the damn what uh south so with that haven't been said um let's talk about things in order eagles fans you're going to have to wait a minute i will talk about the birds winning the n i think vicans fans deserve to be showered with compliments and praise and yeah your team's fucking awesome like i've never thought they were frauds this year this was a game that i thought Green Bay would play better. And I thought Green Bay could win this game.

And they didn't. And it kind of followed the game script of the first game just in a different way where it was like, you know, too little too late for Green Bay. I'll say this to Green Bay fans. I think you got a good football team. I think there's good players on that team. I like the coach a lot. I don't think it's a team that, you know, you're necessarily excited to see come

to Philly if Philly is the two seed and they end up going to Philly or, you know, I don't take your pick if you're the birds. Would you rather see the Packers at home or the Bucks? I don't know. There's no real good answer there. There's two tough draws. I say all that, and I'll say this, the Packers have not won a big game all year.

And I think that's the thing that's disappointing for a team that I thought last year, when Jordan Love went to, well, when Kansas City came to Green Bay, and that was during a Kansas City lull last year. But I thought that was such a big boy win for them. I thought they had graduated past the ability to win a big game. And right now it just doesn't look like they're ready to win that game. They've had multiple opportunities. And yeah, they played teams close this year in those spots.

And you could certainly say, hey, in Detroit's current form, you feel like maybe they could beat Detroit. I think if you're a Green Bay fan, you're saying, oh, well, if we play like we play in the second half of these games against Minnesota. or hey that was a long time ago in Brazil when we lost the Eagles but you just haven't won the big game and I love that team but you haven't won the big game and in this game it's like it's like a comedy of errors in the first half it's like you're playing on the road against one of the best teams in the league and your response is to come out the first drive you got a good drive going

you fumble the football you know you stall in the red zone you don't go on fourth and three in the red zone then you go on fourth and two in the field at seven to three instead of taking a field goal which would have mattered at the end of the game right revisionist history right but it would have mattered mathematically you throw an in cut to who should be your best receiver he drops the ball you know you got a third and one at some point uh you pick it up you get an illegal formation it's third and six and then you take a shot to bow melton and double coverage sometimes this team confounds me. You know, you gift Minnesota three points before the half, and, and which I could argue that Cooper wasn't in, wasn't off sides. It was a bizarre, bizarre penalty, but it certainly isn't a thing

where I'm saying, hey, they would have won the game had they kicked that field goal. Again, I know that things change when the score changes. So this is revisionist history, but they gifted them a field goal that they got two tries at. You know, and that bails KOC out, who's one of the best coach in the league. He rarely has moments like the one he had before the half where he lets the clock run off. They just don't take advantage of the big moments. You know, when they come out of the half, they get 12 minutes in the huddle. It was a lot of work to get in the end zone. It took a pick in the second half that they got stripped on.

Like, they couldn't do anything right. Okay. They could get Jair back. That matchup could look different, sure. But Minnesota is a better team right now. And, you know, when they take Jair, and read away when i'm watching and this is why i love the end zone love love sideline tape when you get get to watch the actual all 22 is i want to see what b flow is doing back there what kind of witchcraft

what kind of fucking sorcery was he on what kind of wicker was going down in the deep to intermediate levels of the field maybe the christian watson injury loomed larger than we thought like if they can't stretch the field with his speed the same way you know Love's not going to see it. I think it's more of a product of Brian Flores in a masterclass by this pass rush, by the defensive play caller. You know, and offensively for Minnesota,

Sam Darnold is way past, hey, is this guy legit or not? He's legit right now. Okay? Like, we can only judge him in his current context, and that current context is very good. You got one of the best play callers in league. You got Justin Jefferson.

You have Jordan Addison. you have hawkinson you have aaron jones who um they were totally willing to give the ball to a bunch early in the game when it looked like green bay's whole mindset was let's not give up the big one they have so many weapons but this guy's made a lot of really good throws and he made him late in the down today the longer the down went on he made good decisions now late in the game he did not make good decisions but these were spots where he had leads right the pick bad decision there was another ball that he kind of airmailed um right through i forget whose hands it was um but he could have thrown two picks late in the game it was stokes

nixon's looking at him like holy shit i would have caught that but the point is sam darnal's stretch we've seen enough and for the people that are just hating on the guy or you know can't get the confirmation bias of well he was a bust out of your head that ain't who he is time to treat him fairly. You know, I understand he's got good surroundings around him, but so do most elite quarterbacks in the league. You know, nobody's saying he's Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes, but, you know, this is the reality of playing in the NFL. Players' performances are variable based on the situations they're in. This dude has done nothing but sees the opportunity. And so I know Vikings fans are after a lot of respect. We respect

you hear at this podcast. I would say right now it's the last team I'd want to play in the NFC. And that includes the Eagles, because I don't know what's going on at quarterback. If Jalen comes back and he's healthy and he looks good in the whole thing, but if you have to go to Minnesota, which I think there's a good chance that happens, this isn't me overreacting to this game. And I got a lot of respect for Detroit and the Lions, but the injuries have piled up. They just made a team that couldn't rush the pastor today. Big win for Minnesota's offensive line. we thought the interior might have trouble with those guys up front. Overall,

Donald had time and the later in the down you played the Minnesota Vikings, the more you're sure. And I'm staring at that fucking TV view. And I'm saying three, four, the zones are wide open. You know, they find voids and zones at the intermediate and deep levels of the field. More than anybody, and they have Justin Jefferson, who draws coverage away from people more than anybody in the league. You know, there were two touchdowns today where, you know,

you might say hey they they bottled jefferson up in the first half no they didn't because when when he's in the area people's eyes are bad and that that's the value of having the best receiver on the planet but they just made a team that couldn't rush sam darnal look like that right and so how do you think they make detroit look next week i'm not saying it's going to be a cakewalk but and i know they got to go on a road to do that but this is going to be a game where i feel like minnesota's coming in with a lot of momentum and they're hunting that one seed and they can get it. You know, but they can get it. We'll see if, you know, another thing is Detroit plays San Francisco tomorrow night,

short week, right? San Francisco is going to try to shorten that ball game. You know, San Francisco is going to try to pound the ball that you're going to try to play physical on a short week, right? Minnesota's been at home. They can take a short trip to Detroit next week with everything on the line. That game, the NFL gets what it's, what it wants, you know, battle for the number one seed and the NFC North.

And I think right now, if you ask me which team's playing better, and people be like, you flip-flop, this and that. You try doing this for fucking 18 weeks in a season. I'm not going to lie to you about how a team's playing. Minnesota's playing as good as anybody in the NFC right now, and this was the biggest test to me

because they were dealing with a team that really wanted to prove they could win a big game going into the playoffs and wanted to get that taste out of their mouth from getting their asses kicked in the first game. And while Love didn't throw the picks, he just couldn't get going. And they shot themselves in the foot left and right. So this team, Minnesota, is as complete as any team in the NFL.

Look at the way, and so well coached, they let the other teams make the mistakes. Look at the way they close this game out. And I'm not talking about on defense. Obviously some garbage time from Jordan Love to cover all the teasers. Thank you very much. But, you know, with the game on the line, up two points, a lot of pressure.

You're backed up. this could easily be a game you lose. I turned to Nolan before the last set of downs. I said there's no way they're losing this game. You know, this is with the two-minute warning, the whole thing. They come out P-10, the first play of the possession, and, you know, you got somebody wide open in the flat, off-play action. And then to have the confidence to drop back and throw it on second down

after taking a loss on first down to Justin Jefferson, which I guess doesn't take that much confidence, but it takes a degree of confidence. I don't know if anybody else is catching a ball under pressure like that. You just knew when you saw who he's throwing the ball too, they're going to catch this ball. And then the call and the execution, the catch. You know, that's not even a guy they're relying upon heavily, right? That's acres.

And for him to make the catch take it off the carpet there, that's the difference between maybe losing that game and next week's not for anything, right? And so This team, you know, top to bottom I can't give him enough credit Really and Brian Flores is a fucking G dude I played for him I love the guy

I hope he gets to be a head coach again in this league His players love him The players in Miami they don't like anybody And like Vic Fangio and like Brian Flores Guess what they both they both left and they're both great Okay so But just a Tour to Force

by Minnesota. Wild story, man. Wild story. And Quasi did a great job. I know every draft pick you're not going to like, but it seems like every big move they made this year has paid off. Jonathan Grenard absolutely love his game. I'm a little bit partial to him.

He does remind me of me when I was in my prime, which is a very old man thing to say, but I like the way he rushes, right? He's got a lot of counters. He rushes with power. he's twitchy he plays hard van ginkle he's up in the double digits i mean pace came back today big deal right you know they've gotten quality snaps out of camu groujay hill who i played with before is like

they they just cashman coming in grenard coming in van ginkle coming in stephan gilmore they snuck him in in camp right we were visiting minnesota and like they're all but starting the season with their six and a half game fucking win total and they're like oh we're bringing stephan gilmore in today we're like oh cool they really i mean not to mention nailing the quarterback and seeming to have drafted a quarterback that you know makes the decision harder and it should be sam darnald's your guy right now and i don't know what i'd have to see in the playoffs for him not to be my guy i i really don't know you know just a just a just a I got a fucking man crush on an entire organization.

Call it what it is, man. Sorry, I thought it would be closer. I just, they continue to impress. No ifs, ands, or butts about it. And, yeah, let's get to the birds real quick, shall we? The NFC East champions. Listen, I just very impressed with the way that team today responded. I thought this was going to be a rock fight.

Now, 61 degree weather in Philly, I could tell by Sal Palantoneo's shit-eating grin in pregame that the Eagles were going to roll. I should have rushed to just, you know, bet the alt-line or something, because the way Sal gave his pre-game report, it was like he was talking to people on the field and they were like, we got their asses.

And maybe it's the fact they knew that even when Jalen Hurtsdown, they were always going to love their notes, number two corner matchup against Dallas today. They were going to be able to run the football. They were going to turn the ball over. I mean, that, that to me is a huge deal to get the turnovers they got today. CJ Gardner Johnson, the guy who, when he exited the game last week, when he exited the game last week, that's when it really went wrong. And then he comes out first, possession and makes a huge play. They were taking the football off guys all day. To have a defense, turnovers kind of come in bunches like sacks you know like they really do and when a team's in the

middle of one of these turnover frenzies you'd rather it be right now than like week five and then you know dissipates they're taking the ball off people they had five last week so for the defense to show up like this great job um you know i thought this was just if you're an eagles fan it was like hey the kelly greens the the sydney brown handling fucking business in the tunnel i love that um You know, the AJ Brown, who's like a baby Megatron dude, like that one-handed catch, he didn't get both feet down. It's just, it's bully ball. And then they give him the ball again.

And, you know, for the Eagles, I'm watching Howie Roseman, who's up there texting on his cell phone like it's a fucking computer. But he's got to be loving what he's seeing. Because Kenny Pickett played well, and he played well last week. and Tanner McKee looks like the type of guy that people are going to be talking about as long as he's on this roster.

You know? Tanner McKee, I kind of get it. I get the infatuation with the guy, man. But, you know, AJ Brown tossing Tanner McKee's touchdown, 40 rows into the stands, bro.

He bow nixed it. It was like, a 50-yard pass. Some Delco guy catches the ball. And it was just like, it was something out of a movie.

It was like Dom had to come over. This guy's day changed. And of course, you're going to give the ball back. What don't I want a Tanner McKee touchdown ball for? No offense. But you give it back to Dom. You're getting an AJ Brown signed fucking jersey. Game worn.

Bro, it's an incredible trade. You trade back in that situation. every damn time, dude. And you get to do the little flex at at A.J. Brown, like, I got you, bro. That was incredible. That was such a Philly scene. Sequin getting 2,000 yards, the timeout, the recognition.

Listen, I don't want people to kill me over this. Inevitably, somebody's going to be upset. I'm saying this. But fuck the record. I know the record is important. Like, I know it's important. It's important to Seekwon. It's important to the group.

It's important to the guys up front. somebody's going to bold letter quote me fuck the record i'm not saying it like hey the record is nothing the record's a big deal but you know what i'm going to say next just be careful just be careful and some people are going to call me a party pooper but like the guy you know stubs his toe in the second quarter next week and it's like what are we doing so i just you know be be careful guys that would be my oh it's got a hundred yards ago if you don't have 70 by the the midway point of the first quarter. And it would be poetic to break the rushing record against his old team.

I mean, be like out of a movie. And it's everything the Eagles organization loves, like the flash, the flare. Like, let's let's kick the door in. Be careful. This guy, he'll take you where you want to go, but you need him. Right. So, Sequin, can't say enough about that guy. Mitchell got beat a little bit early.

I was a little bit surprised by that. But otherwise, I really like what I saw. And, you know, to finish the quarterback conversation, as for, like, people playing next week, I do think it's important for Jalen, get some snaps. You cannot have this much time off. Like, he needs to get out there, get some snaps, shake the cobwebs loose, and he's got to look good.

You know, if he has a, if they go three and out, two times in a row. I don't care if you said, hey, we're getting him two series. I would push it. And I would tell Jalen, I'd say, hey, if I can throw the ball around the yard, let's get some seven on seven here and say,

hey, you know, the guys that are playing up front, we've got to protect this guy while he's in. But throw the ball around the year. And that's the problem. We get into this thing. We're trying to give Sequel on the record. What's the most important thing? Him healthy and Jalen looking in sync going into playoffs.

Because you do not want to yank him in the first quarter. on a pitch count and have the guy looking like shit because he's rusty or because he just doesn't have his best day i want to see him in sync and uh if if sayquan gets the record along the way great but pull that fucking quadzilla out of the damn game get him on the sideline as soon as you can and then uh you know the other thing is they got some tough matchups that might come to town whether it's the bucks green bay like i'm not sure who it's going to be but um man Again, get ready. Playoffs are coming.

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and your house might be worth more than you think, and you can find out at Airbnb.com slash host. So sorting it out, like working backwards from Saturday, Chargers, very impressive in a spot where you could probably see them sleepwalking. You know, I, like an idiot gave out the Pats because I just figured like, hey, I've been burnt betting four-point favorites who absolutely need it, right? Tampa, Seattle. but Harbaugh doing exactly to a T what he did in San Francisco coaching a team to double-digit wins

in a year where they're not expected to be there in his first year with the team. I mean, when he was in San Francisco, I was in division. And like I said, middling team, I mean, bad enough to fire the coach, Singletary, end up hiring this guy and in a strike short and year without, the time to get everybody on the same page. They reel off 12, 13 wins. And they were not expected to be there. And for the charges to do this this year,

I knew they'd be good, but I didn't know they'd be this good. And I don't know how good they are, right? But I think I like them going to Kansas City in the second round better. And I like Pittsburgh or Houston going to Kansas City in the second round, which is why, as a football fan, I would much rather see the Bengals beat the Steelers. next week and the Chargers hold on to grab that five seed because I think that could be a fun game at Arrowhead. The thing that impressed me about the Chargers is, you know, you think about a warm

weather team, one o'clock, going east, maybe being tight, the whole thing. They weren't. They just threw the ball around the fucking yard. And he's throwing the ball to Lab McConkey and some guys. And no disrespect to the other guys. But if they're able to win a damn playoff game with this wide receiver core look out you know the future is bright there um with with the way they've established the groundwork for the program and uh so generally two spots up for grabs coming to the weekend as of saturday night it was one spot after that broncos loss we're talking about in a minute what we have here is an a fs squid game situation four teams one spot um Colts fins bangles Broncos Colts are out now found a way to lose the Giants.

And that's honestly, they deserve it. Like, if you can't beat the Giants with your season on the line, you don't deserve to be in the playoffs. I don't care of Flacco starting. I don't care of Richardson starting. They continue to be one of the most, like, I don't know, middling teams. I just can't get my head around them.

Now, in the ugliest game of the century, the Dolphins, I had one eye on that game. Under came in with flying colors. Just a hideous game. Dolphins find a way to survive. Give two a week. I'm sure he comes back, week 18. Now if you're a Bengals fan,

you need to beat the damn Steelers. Bear with me here. The Broncos, obviously, for any squid game activities to go through, they got to lose to Carson Wentz and a bunch of backups, which, I don't know, Reed, is a Broncos fan. You think is going to happen? I'm nervous. You're nervous.

Okay. I wouldn't be as nervous. And honestly, the dolphins could end up the team in the playoffs anyways. You know, we've been talking about the Bengals again, and dolphins could find a way to win. The dolphins, if they win this weekend, right, and they beat the Jets, and the Broncos lose, they're going to leapfrog Sensi. So since he needs the Broncos to lose, as does everybody,

but they also need the dolphins to lose. So the Squid game is down to three teams. and it's three-team squid game and i i have no idea what's going to happen no idea if you're a bengals fan you got to root for aaron rogers to be the damn dolphins the guy today who pushed a guy out of bounds after an interception and the slow mo of him walking back to the bench with this smirk on his face was like yeah this guy's totally checked out literally at the end of the game he checked himself out and you want that guy that that that's who your future depends on if you're a bangles fan after all you've been through this year it is wild to me even including surviving themselves yesterday that you might

win next week and i think you do and you're going to have to the 1 p.ms are going to be crazy right because they're going to put the Broncos and chiefs at 1 and they're going to put all the other teams or maybe they'll put the maybe they put Broncos and chiefs in the 4 p.m. so that we get to you get the best out of both matchups in the ones that might be how it goes and it would be 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. in Denver. Yeah. It was there one. Yeah. So it's probably going to be a late game. Probably going to be a late game. It probably goes Sincy and um, sincey and Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. get the best out of them. Stack the dolphins with them at 1 p.m. against the jets. I don't know if it's out yet, but that is fucking that is torturous to imagine finding a way to beat the Steelers.

looking up in the fourth quarter at rogers throwing a pick or something and dolphins are probably going to get in and then both teams lose their shit at four o'clock when the broncos win anyways so i mean this is wild this is wild stuff the broncos bengals game was one of the most fun games of the season one of the most fun games of the season i mean early on it felt like since he could run away with it but they just couldn't do the little things right like they when when you have a jimar chase drop in the end zone like it's not your half they come out in the second in half. You know, T. Higgins fumbled. They just weren't getting it done. They were keeping the points down. And then the eruption of points and action at the end of the game was nuts.

And, you know, Sean Payton, the thing that killed the damn bragos and Trent Green, I think, was on the call. He was right. Was it, was it Harlan and Trent Green? Perfect. I tried to explain to my kid yesterday how important it is to like when Harlan's on TV to like appreciate the moment. he's the best and he was like okay cool and he went back to coloring but Trent green was right that the Chase brown injury timeout was a big deal right stop the clock allowed uh denver to have the time to throw that circus ball to mims but as for going for two which i thought for sure sean payton would have listen i understand the whole tie works in your favorite thing i'll give you that whether i agree with it or not the second possession of overtaudson

time way way way too conservative against that defense who i have to say although they didn't get enough pressure all day stood up late in that game got some stops um i want to shout out zach allen four sacks one of my favorite players in the league and uh he you know he he's one of those guys that if he weren't zach allen he'd be a bona fide star but people just decided that he's Zach Allen. He's a bona fide star. Bo Nix, he might be a star in this league. I thought he had some moments in that game late, the 67-yard touchdown, the circus throw at the end of the game, you know, albeit without heavy pass rush on him throughout much of the night. But he really answered the bell and went toe to toe to toe with Joe Burrow. To toe to toe with Joe Burrow. And you got to

remember, and Joe Burrow, if they slide in the playoffs, if somebody wants to vote for him for MVP, because I have resigned to not give it a fuck about the award. So I can tell no matter who wins it, somebody's going to complain, which it doesn't change anything. These guys are all going to the Hall of Fame, probably. But Joe Burrow, if somebody wanted to vote for him, I wouldn't be mad at him. Wouldn't be mad at him. But you have to remember, he's got T. Higgins, Jamar Chase.

Bo Nix is doing this with, you know, Sutton, Mims, you know, they've got a shot to be pretty good in Denver. But they want to slide in the playoffs right now. It's not about the future and I totally get it, but the future's bright. And another thing is, they'll make more noise in the playoffs than some of these other teams. I think they pose

a bigger threat to a team to lose a single game than do the Texans or the Steelers. And the other day I said, hey, I don't take the Steelers seriously in the playoffs. I saw I got aggregated by like Steelers Depot and some other people. I don't give a fuck. And

if it offends you, I don't care either. Do I love the Steelers? Did I say six weeks ago? I thought they looked really good. Yeah, but they don't anymore. Like, what do you want me to say? You trust that team to win more than one game in the playoffs? The one game they can win is going to Houston. If they win more, great. That'll be great for football. But I just don't see it the way they're playing right now. And so when I look at the Broncos with that defense, Riley Moss healthy, that's the only team that could do that to them. Like Higgins, come on. T. Higgins,

here's the thing that's so impressive about him. A lot of receivers you could say, hey, he's playing with Jamar Chase, and you can say that. He's not always going to draw the best cornerback. But yesterday, they got a couple damn good corners there. He's not always going to draw the best corner, but he's not going to be,

every ball is a 50-50 ball. He's a possession receiver. So all his catch. are contested, you know, and that to me is even more impressive than a guy who, like Addison, who plays with Jefferson and there's going to be voids because Jefferson is lined up on the field with him. And I'm not saying Addison's not great, but T. Higgins is number two. He does a lot of his own work. And when you think about like Broncos fans who yesterday are like, well, he might be on my team next year, Cowboy Reed, hopefully, he's going to do work wherever he goes. Like he's going to be

a guy that really pays off. There's some guys that you're like, oh he's playing with him no there's just two of those guys out there for Cincinnati and they're very different but they're both fucking dogs and higgins with the late hands with the with the circus catches with the clutch catches in the red zone he's a he's a nightmare for teams a nightmare so wherever he ends up it's going to be a lot of fun to watch um certainly felt like for broncos fans would it be worth it for you not to make the playoffs if i can guarantee u t higgins next year T. Higgins or Gair Wilson I hope

Garer Wilson gets fucking, they let him go, man. I know it's not going to happen, but what I'm saying is like, if the Jets were a moral institution, they would let that young, talented man walk. They would just be like, hey man, you don't have to deal

with this shit. I saw earlier it was T. Higgins speaking of, his Instagram and they said saw us gardener commented pay the man somebody was like tell that man to come to new york to play for the jets and he said i am not telling him that not in all calves can you imagine a worse place to be right now a worst place to be when when the players are like i'm not even a recruit like i why would i recruit somebody to ruin their life and come here so um nothing else to say

that's in for the night what you got bet's in for a night i you're not you're You know, I have, I tied the Falcons into a teaser. They're catching 13.5. Two of the three legs have already cleared. I gave out the Falcons plus four and a half. That lines moved down to three and a half. You could certainly buy a four. And I've also got a money line parlay with the commanders and the lions.

You know, try to roll some of that money in the next week, starting off with a little walking around money. I think the commanders win. I think it's close. I do. I think Michael Pennix looks good. This could be my famous last words. He might look like shit tonight,

but I think two rookies are going to be impressive tonight. And that's going to come down to who can run the football. If Atlanta can run the football, this game's going to be tight. If they can't run the football, I don't know, Sunday night on the road, rookie quarterback, that's what I worry about. If they can run the football, this might be a game. Anyways, yeah, I don't want to do that.

A bit of life said pretty even. with smitty or higgins not sure if there's a wrong answer i don't know either they're very different players we just don't need to compare everybody i know you're not doing that but well sort of um all right y'all enjoy hey tomorrow 2 30 same time same place uh not same time 2 30 uh live show be there