NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - 2019 Super Bowl Recap!

Episode Date: February 4, 2019

In a concourse filled with heroes – Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, Marc Sessler and Chris Wesseling – react to the New England Patriots winning the Super Bowl! The heroes share their takeaways from the big game (1:00), and discuss the night’s marquee plays, including – Tom Brady’s early interception (10:30), Jared Goff’s massive overthrow (25:45), Gronk’s spectacular catch (32:35) and Gostowski’s game-clinching field goal (48:30). To close out the show, the rainmaker bids the season adieu by retiring (59:00).Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey, everybody. Daniel Jeremiah here. And I'm Bucky Brooks. On Move the 6th, we take you inside the game from breaking down college prospects and NFL rookies to evaluating team building philosophies, coaching trends, and how front offices construct winning rosters. We study the tape, talk to decision makers, and give you a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

It's everything you need to understand the why behind what happens on Sunday. Don't miss it. Listen to the Move the Sticks podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Around the NFL podcast. Greg can't wait to wrap in Atlanta. Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansis and I'm joined in a stadium filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys, we are on the concourse, Section 119, to be exact, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, the site of Super Bowl 53, and another conquest for the New England Patriots, who playing essentially what was, Greg, a home football game. Maybe we're talking 40,000 Patriots fans in this building, maybe more, maybe 50,000. cheering hard for a team that didn't put up a lot of points, but their defense hardly gave up any.

A 13 to 3 win for the Pats title number 6, and I can feel the electricity coming off you, Greg. Another victory for the house. The house wins again. We got to fake some energy here. We got to get up after a long, long week. And I know this isn't going to be one of your favorite podcast, Dan, but it was kind of an old school game and an old school night. It reminded me of New Orleans when a lot of people were behind the Patriots, not necessarily in that crowd, but around the country, that it did feel like a Patriots home game. And it almost made it too easy to write after the game that it was come full circle.

It was teammates picking up Tom Brady, who didn't play particularly well. I think he had one of his worst games in what was probably his toughest season in a long time. It was a defense, and the linebackers especially getting after the opposition. It was a veteran secondary that let them be created. up front. It was their best cornerback. Stefan Gilmore having a great game like Thai law did back in the day and it's special teams in defense and

you can almost imagine Bill Belichick likes this, you know, like that he likes showing that you can win games these types of ways that it all came back to how it started for this dynasty which was defense. You heard Greg's big takeaway right there so let's go around the rest

of the concourse filled with Heroes West. What's your big takeaway from Super Bowl 53? During the week on Twitter, there was a lot of discussion about whether it was ridiculous to suggest that Julian Edelman is starting to build a Hall of Fame case. And I think it's no longer ridiculous to talk about it. I think you have to talk about it that the way Julian Edelman has played, especially in the postseason, he's now behind only Jerry Rice and receptions and yards in the postseason. The way he played there, this three-game stretch where it's almost like a Larry Fitzgerald level of play that he's had in the postseason, you have to. talk about him as a guy who has a chance there was during this playoff run and into tonight his

numbers speak for themselves 10 for 141 12 targets time after time big plays that move the chains and kept patriots drives alive on a day where their offense wasn't very good overall and if you watch him if you keep your eyes on him when the ball snap he gets instant separation right off the line it's uncanny. I joked about it on the Thursday show, Mark, that he's Jerry Rice from the richest brought up rice. He's Jerry Rice for the first five weeks of the calendar season, but he could not be covered. At one point early in this game, I believe he had seven catches midway or early in the second quarter. And they just, they had to change their defense.

The ramp said, we cannot cover Julian Edelman one-on-one. This is a 32, 33-year-old wide receiver coming off knee surgery a couple of years ago. Yeah, I don't think Marcus Peters is a perfect. person to be on Julian Edelman and Julian Edelman, you know, the route running, the way that he created extra yardage after making, you know, they seem to run the same play

to Edelman and Gronk over and over like the old version of Techmobile with just four plays, but it worked because he was able to, you know, dart around defenders and get those extra first down catches. My takeaway though is that we spent so much time

really bathing in this matchup between Bill Belichick and Sean McVeigh. Sean McVeigh is a great coach and he's going to be back here. I'm sure he will be with his team. But he comes out of this game with a lot to reflect on and learn because the three games stretch by Newlands coaching staff is, I think for me, the best three game playoff coaching stretch that I've seen by any team. It starts for me with Brian Flores who, you know, I was listening to the CBS broadcast on one of those little ear things that you can switch between that and a Spanish broadcast. Humblebragg. Well, I mean,

I don't know any Spanish. Where do you get this equipment? I mean, what do you, a million? It was in front of every desk. I should have maybe done it. How was, I did the whole thing. Romo was great, but I think... Oh, you did? Yeah. Romo would have had the game been a little juicier, had the chance to have a little more of a juicier performance.

They did a nice day. They barely mentioned Ryan Flores deep into this game, who now goes to the Miami Dolphins, and I think finally we might have someone pulled out of the Patriot system. We'll find out. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see, You know what? He was phenomenal over this three-week stretch. And what they were able to do against the Rams, who you start to say that people were starting to break down, looking back at the film, they stayed in 11 personnel, the Rams.

They did not move out of it. They did not adjust. It was the Patriots that were able to make adjustments. And the Rams never did. Shaw McVeigh killed himself after the game for his own play calling. What a difference a year makes, too, because obviously if you work on Bill Pelich's staff, it is a gateway to get head coaching jobs. we were at this game last year when Matt Patricia's defense gets carved up for over 500 yards and he gets introduced as the Lions coached like three days later and it was a little bit

awkward because it was like you're supposed to be this defensive guru and you just got shredded in the biggest game of your life. I imagine Lions fans were a little, you know, worried about that and they're probably still worried about Matt Patricia. Now the Dolphins fans and Dolphins fans don't get a lot of nice things but even handsome Hank, our friend who's a Miami fan, has to be feeling great now all of a sudden you're like whoa we got the gifted defensive mind of a generation but that's what this game spawns a lot of optimism i'm sure uh in miami tonight after what we saw their their defensive personnel wasn't that much better this year than it was a year ago and so you have to credit the coaching for being better and they they were better throughout the season

on defense and they were especially better the last five weeks that was a difference and speaking of like how different this year is this is our one the one year anniversary uh the super bowl was of Josh McDaniels getting announced as a head coach of the Indianapolis Colts and it's like you have these two old defensive minds. I know Flores did a great job too, but ultimately you have these two older defensive minds that have been in the league

for 30 or 40 years, Bill Belchick and Wade Phillips putting it on them young and McDaniels and Sean McVe in a year that all we did was talk about offense. My takeaway is it's in the realm of marks is that it was just a humbling night for Sean McVeigh and company, but

their quarterback. It was a tough, tough game for Jared Gough. We're going to get into all that and the big plays in this game, but I just didn't think Gough, you know, I don't think he rose in the moment. And I know the offensive line did not have a good game, and that shouldn't be overlooked either. Los Angeles's O line allowed the quarterback to get hit and hit a lot. And the young quarterback, Jared Gough, wilted, I think, in this game, including and the

two of the biggest plays of the game. he made fatal mistakes. So Jared Gough, he is still obviously a guy that Rams fans and Sean McVeigh should believe in. But this is the game that says, ooh, I'll remember him coming up small in this game. I mean, we talked at times where let's diagnose one weakness that the Patriots, you know, could be hurt by. And at times it was their lack of pass rush. Tonight they were so disruptive. And again, you were playing essentially at Gillette Stadium.

Tom Brady said that right after the game. So for the second game in a row, Jared Goff and the Rams were dealing with insane noise and a lopsided crowd. But they got to him. They rushed. They blitzed on like half their snaps on defense. They went after you. Did that annoy you, Dan? You started the show with that.

And I should have, the Patriots crowd. Was that in your? No, not at all. In fact, this is the least annoying Patriots Super Bowl I've ever been a part of just because there wasn't a lot of like juice in the sense of there was no epic comeback. there was no snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. It was just a Patriots team that kind of outlasted an opponent that just wasn't ready for this game and wasn't able to get the job. And it wasn't like a heartbreaking win for the Patriots from a Patriots' haters standpoint.

I didn't know if the fans, because it was an advantage in the... It was legit, but what I meant to say was that we were here all week. And this place, this whole city, Atlanta was teeming. It was lousy with Patriots fans. And then I think an Uber driver said to me yesterday, oh, all the Rams fans are getting in today. And I was like, I don't think so, Rob. And they never did show up. The telling moment for me was I was walking around the convention center outside the stadium before the game.

And they had dozens and dozens of people that worked either for the league or for the Rams trying to hand out these yellow rally towels for free, trying to give out five at a time. I see when our producer, Jason Kleinen. Oh, I got some. I brought some. San Rams fan for my daughter. And they couldn't give them away because there weren't enough Rams fans in this building. So the fan base maybe wasn't ready for the Super Bowl yet either. You're right.

And you're right about Goff. And yet it is such a team game. It's like, did he play that much worse than Tom Brady? It's like if you look at the PFF score, Brady even had a worse game. I don't know. Well, one guy had a big drive in the fourth quarter. Absolutely. I wouldn't go that far.

But I think Brady was lifted by his teammates and his coaches certainly more more than Goff. in a game where the Patriots defense and running game didn't show up as much. I mean, it was a total failure for the Rams because you opened the game with eight straight punts and not really any of those drives set any sort of promise that they were going to get into flow on offense. Patriots had almost twice as many yards as the Rams. I mean, Brady had a better game than golf. Let's get into this game, kind of going through some of the big plays and we could stop down and talk about whenever we want because this game starts.

With the Rams winning the toss, heads doesn't always work, Greg. Just when it matters the most in overtime. As far as I'm concerned, it worked. Yeah, well, that's fair. The Rams win the kickoff. They defer the Patriots use the running game and start moving right down the field. They're matriculating, as they say. Tom Brady drops back for his first pass of the game, and this happens.

Chalkin's half active Brady looking right all the way. He gets rid of it quickly. It's tipped up in the air. It is intercepted. Picks off at the 27 yards. line, Corey Littleton, with a takeaway on the game's first possession. That's our buddy, J.B. Long, your neighbor there, Wes, of Rams Radio. It was a poor pass targeted at Chris Hogan, who just cannot catch a ball thrown to him by

Tom Brady, which is maybe a bit of an indictment. This was Chris Sogan's last game as a Patriot. Let's be real. It would have to be. So an inauspicious start for Brady and the Pats, but it didn't matter because like you said, Mark, after that, the Rams are in a total shell. In fact, this is the first half for the Rams on offense. Three plays, punt, five plays, punt, three plays, punt, five plays, pump, punt, three plays, punt, three plays punt, half. So while the Patriots are trying to figure their stuff out, the Rams weren't even showing a pulse, Wes. The Rams, this is why I, you know, I kind of bristle with the notion that golf only

barely outplayed Brady. No, no, Brady outplayed. I'm not trying to make that way. Golf's performance might be the worst Super Bowl performance I've ever seen by a quarterback. He held the ball. Did you see Kerry Collins and Super Bowl 35? It's on the same level.

He just held the ball so long and Brady was getting rid of the ball, at least, and I think that was a difference. But this Rams offense, we went in to do a Sky Sports hit, and Neil Reynolds must ask me the same question four different times. What can the Rams do differently? Do they have to get creative? Do they have to come up with trick plays? What can they do differently?

and nothing was working. Including the running game, which they came out and they tried to run. They couldn't. And I think as a Patriots fan, like what was so satisfying is everyone got in on the action. It was hard to even like pick one guy in the first half that's totally standing out. Kyle Van Nuoy had a ridiculous postseason. I would say he was their postseason defensive MVP. Trey Flowers would be close, but Van Nuoy and Gilmore, you know, were awesome in this game.

But it was also wise in the first half making plays. It was our old friend Danny Shelton from the Browns. That move finally paid it off with a couple of plays. And it was like it didn't matter which one. It was like someone was winning each play. Todd Gurley, you know, we could put a bow on what was an incredibly mysterious and frustrating end of the season for one of the league's best players. He was once again in a report emerged by Ian Rappaport of NFL Network that it would be a timeshare on Sunday. And that's exactly what happened.

He had 10 touches on the ground and one catch for a negative one yard through the area, 35 yards. He just wasn't the same guy, whatever it is. And you kind of want to be surprised, Wes, if we hear more. Despite them saying that his knee was healthy, he was never right in the playoffs. I fully expect to hear that there's more to it. Really? Yes, we've seen this guy play when he's healthy. he is a first-team all-pro offensive player of the year MVP candidate when he's healthy

and when he's whatever he is now he's in a time share and can't do anything effective but like basketball players go in slums or great baseball pitchers running backs or not running backs have a bad he played two and a half times as many snaps as zj anderson so the reality is he played two-thirds of this game which is which is not atypical his confidence for whatever reason seemed to be a problem. They didn't seem to trust them in past protection and I don't know. I mean, he just wasn't a confident player. They showed C.J. Anderson on the sideline

talking to him to Todd Gurley all game and confidence is an issue but what would be the number one reason of running back would lack confidence if you don't feel fully healthy? I mean he doesn't, yeah, I would think it has to be tied to an injury if we're talking about he has some type of crisis and faith or belief in

himself out of nowhere. That would be totally bizarre and really quite frankly more troublesome than a lingering. Neutraling well Anderson didn't do anything more in this game which was also a problem for them and he's lucky he didn't lose a fumble as well he fumbled it didn't lose it rolled out of bounds almost causing a huge turnover

but Anderson didn't do anything in the NFC title game either so the bloom was a little bit off the CJ Anderson rose and with that gone and Todd Gurley still not playing at a high level the Rams were exposed a little bit on offense and it put more on golf and that was not a good thing considering

how poorly the quarterback played today they were never the same after the, you know, the game that revolutionized football or, you know, changed football forever, 54, 51. They were never the same from that point forward. They took a week off, they came back, and they were a below-average passing game for how many weeks was that? Seven now? Eight? Yes. That's a pretty long time.

They were a good running team for a chunk of that, but they were a below-average passing team. So the Patriots, Greg, have the ball constantly. As a result of the drive charts that I just laid out earlier, the Patriots have the ball an exceeding amount of time. But Gaskowski misses his first field goal attempt badly. He eventually does hit a field goal to give them three points. But why were the Patriots able to do more? Well, I was a number of things.

And it was, West mentioned to me, it was as stressed and freaked out he's ever seen me. I think was that what you were going to say, Wes? It was the P scale was at 9.5. And this is noteworthy because every time you're asked you say it's at one. Right. But we never believe him when he said. Well, here's the thing.

It's always that one before the game starts. When the game starts, then it starts going up and down. It wasn't even the most, not just in football. It was the most stressed and nervous I've ever seen you in life. It just seemed like they were so much. They were better. Wow. Well, I'll take that as a compliment.

It just seemed like they were so much better and they were blowing so many opportunities through some unforced errors and just struggles. I just couldn't imagine the defensive performance that they had would last all game and the fact that they just have five drives in the first half that reached at least the 40-yard line

of the Rams and they scored three points. I mean, that's unbelievable and that's so unpatriot-like and a lot of it was Tom Brady not feeling very comfortable and throwing ground balls and throwing screen passes before it's time and him just not feeling like it's, you know,

it didn't feel like it was his night for a while. I mean, in the sense, it felt to me on Super Bowl-like for large periods of time because these are, in theory, the two best teams in the NFL, unable to finish drives. And I kept thinking around sort of late third quarter when it was just this low-scoring, deadlocked affair, that whoever loses, this is a torture film to have to watch

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Get roman.com slash around. Let's get back to the killer game. Let's now talk about the fourth and one play for the Patriots. It was 113 to play in the second quarter. Like Greg was saying, they were able to get the ball past the 50, and that something was happening between like the 40 and 30 yard line. In this case, they had fourth and a long one. from the 32, and they had been running the ball to success all through the playoffs.

But the Patriots go with an empty backfield, Brady in shotgun formation, and here's how it played out. The fourth in one, empty. Fourth and one, and the past are going to go empty. Borderback, extending the hands and taking the snap, backs up, looks to throw. Fires down the middle, fourth rock, is complete. Now Brady threw that ball into traffic, not a chance. Turnover on downs with 1-13 to go. Just stall city right now on offense. I mean, I'm sorry

With the backs that we have And our emphasis to run the football with Devlin and all that You can't pick up fourth and one We're going to go empty with fourth and one again The Rams have Zolak exasperated I mean I was I was feeling the same way Because I was like the same guy

Let's just face it No I saw him earlier today You know glad handing And enjoying the devotion that Patriots fans give him and he is about three times as large as I am. I would say more than three times. That's not being generous. It was driving me crazy,

and that play was kind of typical. Brady not comfortable enough to hold the ball a little longer to maybe try to find a different open receiver and throwing it into traffic. There was a third down where he just, he had white wide open, and he made white kind of dive for it, and that missed target was the reason that play didn't work.

And there was a number of plays just like that in the first half. And Wade Phelps deserves a lot of, credit for it too though like the interception was a play that he was just fool they were playing zone defense and they were rotating after the snap and i can think of multiple plays including one to hogan where brady thought he had a guy wide open and he was shocked that there was a rams corner back there so we go into the half three nothing um in favor of the patriots and i'll tell this i went for a walk in the concourse and again it cannot be understated how pro patriots this building was uh to the point where in the pregame

stretches and things of that nature when the rams are coming out the place just was the booing was relentless and anytime brady came up on the and this is an amazing stadium by the way this stadium makes me want to pick it outside metlife stadium in new jersey and say take the l take the l jets and giants get out the wrecking ball and try again i know your facilities less than 10 years old build this exact thing because i think not only should the jets and giants tear down that dump that they got, I think a lot of teams should come here and look at what this place looks like from the design of it, the uniqueness of it, the Megatron's butthole, and also the video screen, which is state-of-the-art and the best possible...

Megatron's butthole is the roof that opens up, and in an act, a showy act that I really enjoyed, they opened it just so the fighter jets could go over it after Gladys and I did her opening, and then they shut up, they shut the butthole up. And they said, let's get to football. The butthole closed. I mean, one thing I'd say, when the Patriots go back to the Super Bowl next year, can we cease with this narrative that Patriots fans have been to too many of these and no one's going to show up? This is essentially, if you live in New England or you're a Patriot, you build this into the family budget at this point.

We are all going to be going to the Super Bowl, four or five of us. Save your pennies in the summer and, you know, late spring. We being the media, being everyone that doesn't root for the Patriots, the opponents, fans, that come, the opponents themselves, it's like Truman Show. We're all here to serve as entertainment and fodder, cannon fodder, for this like 40,000 people in one corner of the country. And then Ricky Hollywood and Greg Rosenthal and Scott Zolak. And in this case, about 65,000 people.

That's what this has become. It was a different story 12 months ago on this day. The biggest sporting event in the world. They were outnumbered on Super Bowl Sunday. It's all about entertainment for a time. portion of this country and it's fine. That's not my point. My point is at halftime I walked the concourse and speaking of butts, people were walking a little tight butted. The Patriots ends. There wasn't a lot of whooping and hollering and hooting and hollering that you heard before

the game when this felt like it was a coronation to a lot of people who got their road trip on to beat up on the Rams. There was a nervous energy in this building at halftime when it was three nothing because it was a weird half of football. It did feel like a good could go either way. I don't think a lot of people that came to this game from your little area of the country, Greg, thought this was going to be a game. I think they came here to celebrate. Really? I mean, I don't know. That seems crazy to me because going into the game, you know, these are two. It's a coin flip game. But you're right. At that point, I was feeling the same way that you're right. A lot of people walking around are feeling, which was not good about the situation.

It was just, it's just uncomfortable to see Tom Brady playing that poorly in a game where you have so many miss chances. But the thing that made me feel better, because you mentioned this stadium, was all the delicious food options everywhere around this stadium. I mean, if you have a great restaurant in Atlanta, there's a version of it in this stadium.

So I just wanted to back up what you were saying. This is the best stadium. Perfect stadium. When you got two urban licks, you got the barbecue places, you got it all. When halftime hit, I thought of the two teams who combined for over 100 points in that shootout, the Chiefs and Rams, two of the best offense,

of the season combined for zero points in the first half the last two games against the Patriots who allowed seven points in the first half of three playoff games the last team to do that was the 85 bears against three statistically of the best five offenses in football I mean it's it's really insane because who is the Patriots best defensive players it's what flowers and step on Gilmore but these aren't guys that's what I'm saying mentioned brian flores more than twice during the broadcast possibly just you know that's fair so we go to the second half and it's more of the same punts on both sides the patriots uh and rams um trading puns and then on the third possession of the third quarter the rams finally get to work it's a 10 play drive uh it ends with

a 53 yard Greg the leg uh Zerline field goal uh but the play that will be remembered in a play Jason Climman, our producer for Twitter, who's sitting behind Ricky Hollywood right now. Right now we'll remember forever is Jared Goff and those late eyes over the middle with Brandon Cooks all alone in the back of the end zone. Let's listen to that call. First in 10 from the 29. They want to throw. Gough well protected.

He climbs. He throws end zone all alone. Back of the end zone incomplete to Brandon Cooks. He was underneath the goalpost and when Goff let it go, there wasn't a patriot within 10 yards. Jason McCordy close quickly. That should have been six. Disasterous. And if you watch, like I was saying, in this facility, they have in the round video board that not only is they do a great job with stats, they have instant replays on a high-definition screen.

And you looked up at it and you can actually see Goff's eyes scanning left and then he's there just a hair too long, finally sees cooks. And then I don't even think he put a good ball on him, Wes. the ball, a duck, it was a little bit of a duck and allowed McCordy to catch up and knock it away. It was a game-changing play. I wonder if the Rams win the game at that. If golf season is split second earlier, I mean, that was a coverage bust. He was wide open, and I think the whole stadium saw it before the quarterback did. He was slow all game, but Jason McCordy deserves a ton of credit.

He made a few game-changing plays. That is another trade that they made in the off-season that had huge dividends, basically gave up nothing for a guy who's played quality snaps all year. And he played his best game in the Super Bowl. He broke up three deep passes. And him talking after the game about the experience with him and his twin brother, it's just like, you know, you can only imagine what that must feel like to be on the field with your twin brother that you had never played with before, you know, in the pros.

And to come up that big on that stage is just like an unbelievable story. It could be the final game for both of them. I mean, there's whispers about that. That was one example of a play where on television it looked great, but to be here and watch that closing speed before breaking up that pass from where we were sitting, that's the benefit of being here live because it was just, it was an incredibly athletic play.

And how painful it was for Rams fans and me and a lot of people rooting against Patriots, to see that ball just hanging in the air, it reminded me of post-shoulder surgery, Chad Pennington. You know, it reminded me of late period, boomer size, and it just would not, if he could have put the ball with some zip on it, maybe he could have snuck it in there. And Jason McCordy was playing on the telecast, Tony Romo made the point that Patrick Chung, who had gone out with a broken arm earlier in the quarter. And I saw him, by the way, in the locker room with the sling off. Oh, I saw him running around the field.

Right, yeah. They took the sling off in the locker room after the game, and they had, he was walking, and they were walking. so slow and you can see the pain in his face being led to the trainer's room for whatever comes next as he begins what will probably be a long rehab. But Romo said that McCordy was in a different position than Chung would have been for whatever reason. And that is a play that will haunt the Rams

and then to top it off, Gough then takes a nine-yard sack. Oh, he took some terrible sacks in this game. Again, Gough just played terribly in this game and Greg bailed them out to get the tie. but that was a missed opportunity ultimately. And that, yeah, that broken arm, it's like the Patriots have done this so many times there's echoes of a lot of moments,

but that was so reminiscent of Rodney Harrison breaking his arm on the last drive of the Panthers Super Bowl, but being there in his uniform throughout the second half to watch his teammates. The Patriots have been to the Super Bowl so many times that literally everything has already happened. Yeah, I was saying to Greg and I walk over

to the concourse that Greg made the point that Bill Belichick on the riser with his grandchild. Granddaughter. Granddaughter. It was like, you know, he's never been happier. I've never seen him so happy. He's like, that's a trope.

We heard so many times. You know, Tom Brady, you know, he's having fun this year at the Super Bowl. Bill Belchick, you know, he's smiling a little bit this year. You know, I've heard, we've run out of things and angles with this team. Will you just let us go? The, the Gatorade. Well, what are we supposed to talk about? The Gatorade Bath and, first of all,

The granddaughter was a new twist, never had a... That is a new twist. He was never carrying something. Turning into a prop. What a joke. It humanized him. And then, no, there was a moment I was thinking of before that. I don't know if it was on camera, but I was looking at it through the binoculars with him

and Gronk, where they were sort of like giddy and jumping up. And I've never seen Belichick. Well, there was also a moment where the smile was not on his face when after the celebrations were beginning, a cameraman tried to get up into Belichick's grill and take a photo. And Belichick, like, took a step forward, grabbed them basically and shoved them back. And they showed it up on one of these huge screens here. And it was like, I realized at that point that Bill Belichick is not a weak person. He had, he showed like superhuman, scary type strength for a second there.

He's a bully and he's a mean guy. And you know what I would have loved if he would have been taken into police custody tonight? That would have been a great story for the morning. And a few more years it's going to be Brady with his granddaughter after the game. Like postgame interview and he's got a great granddaughter. and then his great, great, great, granddaughter. It's like Bill Belchuk, who's 175 today, I mean, what is going on here?

But, I mean, you can't push a guy down. That's assault, brother. That's Fonte's perfect's move. You're right. And speaking of which, Pat Patriot on the field, doing jumping jacks and cartwheels and running around to the confetti, what a phony.

That guy could be sued. Oh, my God. Are you certain that it's not a different human being playing bad professionalism here, Daniel. No. You know, it's like four days ago, we're told he's in ICU, and now he's dancing around on the field. Well, there's two of them. There's a few of them.

Please. Anyway. So. This is getting dark. I hope my voice last rest of the show. So, 3-3, and Greg, here we go. This is where it all changes. You know the Pats.

Here we are in the fourth quarter. It's 3-3, and we have never had a game with this lowest score entering the fourth quarter. But you just knew the way the game was moving. And this kind of goes back, I guess, why I'm not so annoyed. Obviously, I'm annoyed. But I'm not devastated right now is that you kind of knew where the game was heading because Goff was playing so poorly and the Rams offense looked so lost. And you knew Brady had one big drive in him.

And I thought it was fitting that the drive began with a big play by Grunk. And the biggest play preceding the touchdown was also to Gronk that put him right at the doorstep at the goal line. Let's hear that, Ricky. Shot comes to stab to Brady, dropping back. Lobs the throw. Forkronkowski, left side, makes the catch. Over two defenders, tumbling

to the two. First and go to go. I just told you, they're going to bleed him. He's going to take, he's going to dump you, he's going to set you off. The Rams, they can't line up. Brady sees it, and it's a 29-yard strike to the big boy. His favorite

tight end, the old world tight end. What a catch. During that sequence, you know, during the game, actually, there were a couple instances where I just thought it's got to be so cool to be Tom Brady. No one else has these little moments where, like, America the Beautiful is playing up on the screen, and it was great rendition, and they, you know, his face pops up and the whole, whole crowd just erupts with like this. I bet you stay silent and respect the country, that's but. Okay.

And then like Brady chant. Like they were, the Patriots slanted crowd is trying to like conjure up offense because at this point it's getting a little uncomfortable for everybody watching. They did it to start that drive. They chanted Brady before even the first play of that drive. Like right when he came onto the field, they started chanting his name. And then they did it again during the drive. And it was like, what a cool moment to be that guy. And that play, it was one of Gronks all time plays.

It reminded me of the drive he had against the Broncos that ultimately, you know, fell short in the 2000. 15 AFC Championship. But you've mentioned this week, kind of, what does this game mean for the Patriots? You know, there's not as much pressure because they, you know, they've been here. They've, like, this game means so much for Gronk. I think it means a lot for the Patriots, period, like any championship does. But to have that moment, who I think is the greatest tight end of all time, doesn't matter if he retires right now, to make one of those catches where ultimately,

yeah, they saw something before the snap, but there were three guys in coverage by the end of that play. for him to be as physical in how he plays, but also to be able to adjust to ball passes in the air so dexterously, like in his hands are as good as anyone in the league. And to go after that ball, when there's three defensive backs around him, no one else is doing that, and he's done that in so many big spots. And it put the exclamation point on the greatest career I think any tight ends have in terms of dominance, and it also gives him three titles.

And so I think that's kind of important because to me there's two eras of the Patriots. There's the first one which is defense and then the second era, which is Gronk. And I think he's the key part of the second one other than Brank. And to go back to the coaching on New England, Grong talked after the game about the fact that they dialed up that play. Not too much, a few plays earlier they tried it. And Brady just didn't see him. And McDaniels knew that and said this time around, take a look for him and you're going to get him.

And it was a great play. It was five plays, 69 yards. gronk had the two longest gainers there was an edelman first down catch in there so of course edelman was involved with it and it was a drive that summed up the whole patriots playoffs because the man who ends it is the guy that set the postseason record with his sixth score of the playoffs from the eye michel the tailback behind deblin brady under center gives to michel runs it left a dive to the end zone touchdown patriots Michelle for six that's the office I know that's the office we love I told you it could be three

strange quarters that we haven't seen this quarterback playing a while but it's fourth quarter and it's money time for the greatest guy ever suited up you know can I say one thing when we're here and I had a very open mind to this and I was I can't help sometimes then but to root for Tom Brady

when you're here in the moment I don't know what it is but well you're like you're like You locked them up, too. There is that. Oh, congrats. Thank you, Wes. I was not going to bring that. I mean, we'll bring it up eventually, I'm sure.

Well, there are a lot of sad Rams fans, one of them that lives with you, Wes, so that's not going to be easy. But the minute I hear Zolok's voice, I start to feel irritated. That kind of brings it back to where it needs to be. Because I know what you're saying, too. Like, even I feel kind of lucky to be at these games because Brady, 50 years from now is going to be known as like a Johnny Unitas level all time great and we were there

for all of it at least the second part, the gronk era as Greg puts it so I get that and I think you know it's it's incredible to me that he is never going to have the game in the Super Bowl and he's been in what

how many of them though nine yeah he's never just going to have one where he just stinks and he has a bad game and it's just well it wasn't his year. Even in this game, which is a weird game where he could never get things going, he was going to have the drive in him. And like I said, it felt inevitable and he delivered it. And that's what I knew. It was 10, 3, 7 minutes to play. Then the pressure goes back to the kid on the other side. And you're thinking yourself, does he have something big in him? And it didn't

feel like it was in the car. It didn't. I agree with you. I didn't think the game was over. But it was uncanny. Like when he needed the, he did it at the moment they tied the game. Much like in the first Super Bowl against the Rams, he didn't do much that game, but he did it in the moment that they tied the game. I mean, he's six and three, or the team is six and three in Super Bowls during the Brady era.

But in two of them, he had game-winning drives, and then they lost, the defense lost the game. I mean, it's unreal how often he delivered in those spots. So the Rams take over after a touchback, like I said, seven minutes to play, down 10, three, and they start moving the ball.

And enough, I'm sure, Greg, your P scale then is it's got to be eight and a half when they cross over midfield. It felt like they were heating up a little. I mean, just a little. It was back to like six at that point. It was eight or nine for most of the game, but that touchdown was such a relief. It was like, you know, it was like, yeah, get it out. You're next to Greg the entire game.

As you said, it was the most nervous you've ever seen him. Where was he after that score? All of these claims by Greg about the P scale, you have to put like a Greg filter on it because he claims never to be like nervous about anything. Right. Nothing matters, all that. When he says he was like at a six at one point, no, he never dropped below nine all through the game. He was very quiet.

I did catch. He wasn't quite. I was right next to him. Oh, he was shattering to you a lot? He had running comment with himself going on the whole game because that's how nervous he was. I was talking to you. I was trying to talk to you. Hey, independent observer, M.J. Acosta, great reporter for NFL Network, sitting between Mark and I said,

hey, you're not as, yeah, because I was joking to her about how I'm a Pats van and I was nervous. She was like, you're not as. nervous is Mark. You don't see if it's nervous as Mark. So, hey, as me. Yes, she thought you were, she thought you were a big Pat's fan and we're feeling the, feel, the heat. You always, I don't know. You always look a little nervous.

It was the lock. It was the lock. It must have been that. It was the lock. I think that's when I was listening to the Spanish broadcast on my ear. Let's pause one more time to hear from our sponsor. Remote controls. They're confusing, right?

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falls apart first and 10 at the 27 i didn't realize they got that far down uh jared goff drops back he's got brandon kooks step step and can't hold on to the ball and you could and cooks had a really nice game statistically. There was some garbage yardage at the end. But he made some plays in that game. But that is a catch. In the Super Bowl that you're remembered by, if you could pull it in, me and my dad were watching some games on YouTube,

old Super Bowls on YouTube this weekend. One of the games we checked out was the Steelers Cardinals game where Santonio Holmes and Larry Fitzgerald put on one of the more epic one-on-one showdowns when they were never on the field together that you'll ever see. In this game, that's how you're remembered forever when you make catches. Cooks couldn't do it. and then of the very next play, Jared Goff, who had felt pressure all game,

got pressure one more time on a blitz and made the worst throw of his life. Now Goff with three to the left, takes the tap, Harmon out of bliss. Goff throws it to the right. Gilmore's there, intercepted at the four. Harmon forced the pick, and Gilmore comes up with it.

His second of the postseason. What a call. What a call by Brian Flores, pressure on number 16. You know the kid. was going to crack and he did there and what a play by Gilmore let's go it was another one of these plays were when from where we were sitting it was an awful throw and you saw the result before it even left his hands i just think he the patriots put so much pressure on him from wire to wire there was never a moment where golf felt like he was in the flow of the game or had any confidence

at all and i think that does tie back to an inability to adjust between coach and quarterback and the rest of the offense. Reminded me a lot of the first half of their game against the Saints. You know, by the end of the game, I was surprised how many people thought Gough outplayed Breeze because for an entire half, he looked lost in that game, and it happened for like four quarters in this game. You can't, to me, that would leave a bad aftertaste in my mouth as a Rams fan. Absolutely.

But Jared Gough, like, did not play well from November on. Well, he didn't adjust. He didn't, he never had a feel of what was going to have. happen. And the whole game, I was waiting for a defensive turn. I was waiting for a turnover, a touchdown, because you felt like it was going to come. Like, hey, if Brady's not going to do it, the defense is going to make the big play. Brady ended up getting in the end zone first, but they finally did it here. I mean, he dropped back 38 times, I guess more if you include the sack, 14 hurries, five QB hits, four sacks. And the thing I loved is the Patriots

stayed aggressive the whole time. They didn't try to change it up. You know, they, they kept coming after him, even in that drive where they were starting to make some hay. They kept putting pressure on him, expecting him to make a mistake. And Stefan Gilmore, who had an all-pro season, fittingly, is the guy that did it. And yes, Danny, I enjoyed that Brandon Cooks came up a little small in this game. I don't care about those. You got to let that go, dude. He seems like a nice guy.

Okay, okay. And he's been a really productive pro. Been on our show. There were some real hitting early in that game. And he was not getting the yak. He was kind of, he was staying away from those hits. See, I don't care if they won the Super Bowl. He should still be on this team.

I don't think it was a great move to trade him. And why don't you just take the L and move on? Okay. I don't understand why. Brandon Cooks has to be taking heat from here. You have everything else you could ever want in this world. It's fair. It's fair.

You want to take him down with you. All right. So that was the killer because now it's four minutes to go. And the Rams defense, West, which to, they weren't on the field as much in the second half. So it didn't become like a Super Bowl 51 Falcon situation where the D was just gassed, but they let down because the Pats tried to run out the clock. They were looking to get maybe 10 yards or 11 yards on three plays

and they started gashing them with runs. And that was now the Rams were on the ropes. I do think the Rams defense is going to be overlooked for how well they played in this game. With the exception of not being able to cover Julian Edelman and not been able to stop the Patriots clock feeling drive late the runs that they had it was a it was an incredible game by their defense can we can we say that arnold came up a little small in this game he had one

solo tackle one qb hit that we talked about it all week that arin donald needed to be a for a wrecking ball in this game todd girly had to be todd girly neither of those things happened it was a quiet game by donald but he could have be quieted they needed him he didn't come through well i i don't i felt like he was getting pressure yeah he He made a couple plays, but I guess I don't agree with that because ultimately the Patriots had 11 drives and they scored 13 points. So I don't care, like, however you added that all up, that was maybe the best defensive performance by the Rams all season and one of the best defensive performances against a Patriots

all season and certainly in a Super Bowl. So it's like, it wasn't Donald, but what, you know, what more could he ask? This needed to be an offensive team, and the offense completely blew it. And I think they got a championship level defense as a group from Wade Phillips's. If you knew, hey, we are going to keep Tom Brady and the Patriots to 13 points. Right. All your job is, Jared Goff and Friends, is to score 14 points. You would think you would be the Rams fans, even if there's only 50 of them here, you would roll in dancing.

You got it. Oh, that's fair. To Dan's point, though, they started the game kind of running right at Donald. and that's not what they did in this last drive, but if you're going to fault the Rams defense for anything, they knew the Patriots were going to run. On second down there, it's on the five-yard line. I'm chattering.

Stay aggressive. Keep throwing the ball. You know, don't just like run into a line and punt it over. And it's when you claim to be at a six on your scale. Right. You know, and I'm an idiot because they did keep running. Just like they have been really at the end of the season, they were able to run on so many teams, the Chiefs Chargers,

Rams, you know, Bill's Jets, When the other team knew it was coming, it was over Trent Brown. It was over Marcus Cannon. And, like, that was kind of the name. Well, I was sitting near Greg, like, there was a moment when Sony Michelle blasted for the initial first down on that game ceiling drive. That was the biggest run of the game. This thing is over. Greg let out, like, an erotic mode.

No, I looked over and I just saw Mark going like, yeah, just like doing the slash sign. And I was just like, you know what, buddy? I agree with you. Way to be on Team Patriot once again. over that was well i mean fourth and one slightly obnoxious with the patriots love now fourth and one inches literally maybe an inch and a half from the 24 yard line with a minute 12 ago still just a seven point game one score game and belchick has a decision to make is he going to sneak it against aaron donald and company or hand the ball off or call pass play or does he bring out the kicker stephen

Gustavsky who's you know had some issues in the Super Bowl the last couple of years decided to go with the kick if he makes it the game's over if he misses it the Rams have a shot and this is what happened turns toward Cardona in a 10 three Patriots lead extends the hand receives the step swing of the right leg kick driven to the uplights and the kick is good ball game two possession game no chip shot sir that is no chip shot to a chip shot but whatever he snuck it inside the left upright that was 133 and that was the final margin in this game the Patriots title number six you can't even give a kicker some love I mean that's your guy that's a big moment this is this is a kicker who's not in love with him as a kicker

he's now been in as many Super Bowls as anyone in Super Bowl history except for Tom Brady well is it because of him no but like adam venetary you don't remember you know ultimately the ones they missed, you know, Vinatari missed some in the Super Bowl too, but he deserves credit for getting the one. I knew Adam Venetieri. You, sir, are no Adam Venetieri. That's fair. That's fair. And it was, by the way, very awkward. He was a good man. They had an interview in the stadium. Nice Dan Quill in the moment there. With Adam Venetary in the middle of the third quarter, I believe, or even fourth quarter, like Scott Hansen, you know, while Tom Brady's trying to like call plays in the puddle during a commercial break.

Scott Hanson is asking Adam Venetary about like, how great is it that you started this dynasty? And I'm thinking like, is anyone on the Patriots sideline and Tom Brady going like effing nuts that this is happening like in the middle of the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl? This also came minutes after they had Trey Burton on the field, walk the Patriots fans through the Philly special as if that's going to be a crowd-pleasing moment here.

I kept on waiting because there's one issue with this beautiful stadium. And again, Jets and Giants. start over, take the L, and get to work. But the one problem I did have is the Wi-Fi, not great. And I was wondering if the Scott Hanson Wi-Fi would quit out at some point and he'd stutter over a word or his smile would, like, drift away for a moment. But no, it was a typical classic in-house Super Bowl performance from Hansen, unshakable, almost inhuman.

Great job, Scott. Dan's voice is so close to not performing. I mean, it's like, I really am starting to worry about your health. You will not see me for the next four to five days, four weeks. It's like, you're like the new, like, Paxitani Phil. It's like if the Patriots win the Super Bowl, you don't see Dan for six weeks. That's true. Final thoughts on the game, Greg.

Oh, no, actually, Erica, Greg, we've heard enough from you. Erica, we'd love to hear from you. This time last year, I wouldn't say it was something I was happy to see because I don't like to see you upset. Yeah. But you were laying on the, I don't know. concourse floor sobbing over the Eagles victory. This

ho-hum vaguely boring least entertaining superb many years. How are you feeling after it? I feel like a million bucks. I don't really have a voice left. During the National Anthem, they zoomed in on golf and he had his hand on his heart.

And he was tapping his fingers on his heart. He looked a little freaked out. I was sitting up there. I was sitting up there looking at and I go look at his hands, shake, Look at his handshake. That's a good, I was so excited. And then I'm reading on the board that we lost the coin toss the last, the five times that we've won the Super Bowl and the two that we won, we lost. And then when we lost the coin toss, or we like got the kickoff, I literally was doing.

What about Patriots and White Jersey's at the Super Bowl? We freaking won. We're in white. It doesn't matter. We weren't going to lose again. And it was when I was watching golf, sweating it out, and it felt great. What was the, uh, this take? me through the end of the game what happened after the end of the game

towards the end and then the end when he when he made when he made that field goal and it was a two it was a two sort of you know conversion two two points yeah I don't even know it's been a long week it's been it's been a terrible we're all of us and when he made that and I knew it was a two score you know possession deal yeah it's a two score game tempo whatever it was whatever it was I knew that they were going to come up short and I knew it when he hit that we were celebrating weird I have like oh my God I was screaming I knew I knew did cry did you cry how do you celebrate tonight when this is over well I'm here yes this is my celebration do the podcast yeah did you embarrass the NFL

in any way with your interactions nope I didn't I wore my sweatshirt and I'm wearing an NFL t-shirt but under it, I have a Tom Brady T-shirt on. But I didn't take it off. I didn't take my shirt off. Hey. Well, that's good. You know who did take their shirt off? Adam Levine.

I did. I saw that. You know, we talk about performance enhancing drugs. Yeah. And maybe that's why they canceled the press conference. Yeah. For Route 5th. He looked like he might have been, you know, on the cycle a little bit.

I mean, he may have worked out a lot too. He's like a big yoga guy. You don't get a body like that from yoga. He's never been that big. And then we had two nipples out, too, and it's like, I guess we've come a long way since Janet. Yeah, but no one was really freaking out. Were they? I mean, I wasn't really on Twitter.

What did you think of the halftime show? I thought it was fine. It was good. It was great. Love it. The bar was so low that it was easy to clear. Nothing good of. I was literally like in tears last year seeing Justin.

It was like, I was so happy for him that he got that, you know, moment again that this year I was just like chilling, you know? I would equate that performance with Jared Goss. Yeah. Erica, as much as I hate the Patriots, I do, I'm happy for it. Thank you. I don't know. I'm not so happy. I don't really care.

I know you're not. I don't really care. Dan had to sit far away for me because he didn't want the risk of me being too happy. No, I do that for your benefit as well. You don't want to be. That's true. But I'm going to be against your team. I mean, I'm sure I would feel the same if I, if the situation.

Oh, yeah, that reminds me, your buddy Matt, who's a Jets fan that we got drinks with earlier this week, you made a comment that was so. telling such a laura alveo magnifico that matt is one of your closest friends you've known me for a long time you know how much i care about the jets you said it you would you would be totally cool in fact you would love for the jets not to go to one super bowl in 50 years well i said i also said if they lose this one i said it's up to the patriots getting a six you go nine and eighteen years and win six and me and your buddy matt and my dad by the way can't get one in the next 50 years after me oh for 38 already but you

rooted against the Patriots in every single one and I talk to your dad and it's a little evil Greg just there's a little tiny little tiny drip drop of evil that's their biggest rival this is we shouldn't be talking about the Patriots Jets right but I just think that's like BS because if the Browns were in I would be full

fledged like killing myself for the Browns or if the Jets were in I would literally be giving my entire soul to have them win for you if they got here I would wow so we just you're a better person than Greg is that what we just Well, obviously.

Anyway, final thoughts. I'd love to hear your final thought, Wes, if you have one. It's also very late. Yes. I think seeing the greatest of all time, throwing to the greatest of all time at a different position on the game-winning drive is it saved the game for me. Like, it finally gave me something to appreciate from the game and seeing Tom Brady and Gromk making magic maybe for the final time. Yeah, I think that would be my final thought that it certainly in it and social media will say the same thing and people will write about this tomorrow that this was a quote unquote boring Super Bowl. And it might have been, especially if you're on your couch at home, but in the building there was a lot of tension.

It was a close game until the very end in terms of a one possession game until the very end. So it wasn't to me one of those laughers, especially when they were growing up in the 80s and early 90s. I mean, people that are younger don't realize what a bad. Super Bowl is. Not at all. So they call this one a bad one. No, no, no, no. We're talking Jerry Rice having like six touchdowns at the end of the second quarter

back in 89 and 5510 and 497 and 353. I mean, that used to be the norm. So yes, this is probably the worst in terms of entertainment value Patriot Super Bowl in the Brady era, but it still wasn't a terrible game. I would say one thing. My takeaway would be Rams related that we all were together when the Seahawks detonated the Broncos. And you wondered, you know, they had an aging

Peyton Manning and they had a lot of talent, but would they ever get back? And I didn't know if they would. Two years later, the Broncos went and a lot of people thought they would not beat the Panthers and they pulled it off. It's just that this Rams story is not over. It's going to be a really, it's going to be an interesting

offseason because last off season, the Rams were gushed over for months and months. Today they were exposed. But there's a lot more progress and reason for hope in the Rams then reason to tear them apart and think it's over. After 55-51, I believe that was the final score. It felt like anything less than the Super Bowl would be a disappointment.

You made the Super Bowl, but it's crushing because you have older guys, the roster, you can't keep it together for long, but they'll have another chance. They're not done. Greg. No, I don't think they're done. My takeaway is just Bill Belichick. Like, what an incredible thing that he,

he's built, that he's achieved, that will be told as long as there is an NFL. I mean, Vince Lombardi's got his name on the trophy, he's not taking that. But there's never been a figure in NFL history that's done anything like what Bill Belichick has done since Vince Lombardi. And this is a couple of Super Bowls now that really weren't about Tom Brady, that were about the team that was about special teams and linebackers and punting and the running game and the offensive line, adjusting late in the season, and finding your identity and kind of taking all these veterans and getting them going at the right time. And he's my favorite sports figure

in any sport. And to me, this was such just a crowning Belichick moment because, you know, hey, what's a difference between six and like five and six? I think it is a difference because this was improbable. Brady's 41 years old. You know, they've won three out of five a decade plus after they won three out of four. That's just, it's just kind of insane. And if Grank, you know, is retiring on such a high note as the greatest of all time, that's kind of the cherry on the Sunday, just like the rainmaker retiring on a high note for him. Finally, he got all that money back.

You stuck with the rainmaker, and you put all your munch tips in the table, and now you're going to Hawaii. an island forever. Is that the first is it true that that's the first time that the Rainmaker has predicted a game right all years? Sounds right. We got two out of the first three and then it was a long That was 2018 though. This is 2019.

This is a long long run. Joe. Everything is just Greg and his friends with the Patriots. Having a great life and we're here to entertain him. Well, that's it. Good job guys. Great season. Fun season. Nice job on the walks, Bark.

Big win, Mark. That's two years in a row. We tied last year this year. You have it all to yourself. So you're starting a little dynasty yourself. I think the rainmaker's sitting right over here. Oh, look at that.

That's fine. Burn. All right. We will be back. 1.18 a.m. Burn. We'll be back on Thursday with another show.

We'll do some more Super Bowl talk, but also spinning forward now as it goes on and on, Mark. The season is not over for us. Yeah, nice season, but it continues on

week after week, three shows a week from now until, you know, the end of days. So we're going to know where. have we done the show long enough where we should just start subtly mailing it in a little bit

start to just like we're doing all these shows oh maybe like a little less grind aspect to it we could be asleep we do just do one show next week and then it comes back there was some mailing in this week when we were on the stage of Piccadilly at Centennial Park

we did the best week there was some mailing in at certain points this week for sure So maybe it has begun. I think we would need next time we do something like that to put a little more prethought into how it's going to operate because we maybe caught a little by surprise. But this is our first show since the live show.

I know that everyone listened to it. Sure. That was the opposite of that. And we thank everyone. No, it was another great. That was there for making that like an unbelievable experience that we're going to keep doing. The NFL season, which is over, the 2018 season,

started with our trip to London, which led into the kickoff game, of course. The week three Browns went over the Jets. Right. One of the year. Seven wins

and another losing season for Cleveland. And it ended with another Super Bowl win and another trip to the Super Bowl for our show. So a great

successful season. Thank you for listening. And we will see you on Thursday. This is Dan Hansa, signing off. For Quiet Storm, the mailman.

The old boss, Ricky, Hollywood behind the glass. Sign it up. confetti everywhere, folks. Another season in the books. Till Thursday. Hey everybody, Daniel Jeremiah here.

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