Nightcap - Nightcap Hour 1: Seahawks BLOW OUT the 49ers + Broncos BEAT the Bills + Bo Nix FRACTURES Ankle in Broncos Win

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson react to the Seattle Seahakws blowing out the San Francisco 49ers, the Denver Broncos beating the Buffalo Bills to advance to the NFC championship game, and Sean Payton says that Bo Nix has fractured his ankle and will be out for the season and much more! Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 04:30 - Seahawks beat Niners22:12 - Broncos beat Bills (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and thank you for joining us for another episode of Nightcap. Y'all know who I am. My team at the AOC Championship game. I can't celebrate too much because we got the news shortly after that Bow Nix has a broken bone in his ankle and it's going to have surgery on Tuesday and he's out for the remainder of the playoffs.

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He's Chad Ochosinko Johnson. As you watch that demolition job that the Seattle Seahawks, man, I don't give a damn who wins between the Rams of Chicago. They got their handful going up to Seattle to take on them Seahawks. Boy, they look good.

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game. They'll host either the Rams or the Bears next week. Raheeshaheed returned to open and kickoff 95 yards to set the tone and they never look back. Seattle's defense was stifling as they were of the last game of the season when they beat the 49ers 13 to 3. This time it was even more convincing. Seattle defense dominated, forcing three turnovers, holding the 49ers to 3, 236 yards, and three turn them over on downs three consecutive times. Kenneth Walker finished the game, 116 rushing yards,

and three touchdown tying the great Alexander the great, Sean Alexander, the great Seattle running back, Seattle, Seahawks running back for the most touchdown in the playoff. game. Ocho, this thing got started from the job. It's hard to overcome. You know, a special team touchdowns, Ocho. They just do something. Hey, listen, they take the win out of sales. For one, you're already playing on the goddamn road, having to deal with the 12th man. Then, obviously, you know, you practice all week and you

focus on the offense and the high power octane that is the Seattle Seahawks offense. Then you know what they look like on defense. And then they have to deal with the special teams too, they come out and score as soon as the game starts, it already puts you behind the eight ball. Then you can't get them going offensively. On top of the turnovers you having in the game, hell,

you really don't stand a chance to actually let alone win. You can't even compete. Playing like that. And so, I mean, damn, all three phases. They dominated. All three phases, they dominated the entirety of the game. At no

point. At no point in the game, well, the goddamn 49ers in the game at all. And listen, I tweeted at one point, they were up by, maybe about 14. What, 17, 3, 176, something like that? For the 176, I said, listen, at some point, the pendulum is going to shift. The momentum is going to shift.

Can the Seahawks get enough of a lead when that momentum shifts where the 49ers don't have a chance to come back? Most of the time, Monk, you watch football for a very long time. Most of the time, when it does, shift, the other team makes away and finds a way to come back and crawl their way back into the game. Tonight

man, yeah, that wasn't even close. I don't know what that was. It wasn't happening. I don't know if I've ever seen this before. A team only had 50 plays. Team ran 50 plays, Lachio, and get 41 points. Okay, let's just say for the sake of argument, we're going to take that special teams play away,

but still they got 34 points on 50 plays. That's crazy. That is crazy. You cannot, in the postseason, I don't care how good your team. And we're going to talk about this. Buffalo, you turn the ball over four times. Now, you know, Sean got a little conservative there.

Oh, whoa, four. They had five turnips, my bad. Five. But in this game right here, Seattle, man, that defense, they're good at all three levels. Their back end is really good. Ernest Jones, the fourth, takes the ball away. Big Leonard Williams and D. Long,

DeLont, DeLont, DeLont, is final. new life getting out of Dallas. He finds the guys are playing for one another. They fly to the football. Big Leonard Williams has been sensational. Man, you know, they got guys that can make plays on the offensive side of football. They can run the football with Kenneth Walker, what is the third, Sharbonneau. But the receiving end, they make plays.

I mean, they're just the sound football team. Very, very well coached. And I think the thing is defensively, Ocho, when you're watching, they don't do a whole lot. they don't do a whole lot. I mean, from what I see, they play some quarters and maybe man down in the red zone. But other than that,

simplicity. Let's do a few things great as opposed to doing a lot of things, okay. Yeah, and I think that's one of the reasons why defensively, most of the time they're really not ever out of position because they do the simple things and they do the simple things very, very well. Obviously, when you have the personnel

that they do have defensively, it makes it a lot easier. We don't have to do all the exotic shit. You don't have to confuse your opponent with all type of different coverages and schemes and tactics to be able to do things. And the fact they were able to put up 41 points tonight,

like you said, let's take out the return from Shishahee. They still put up 34, 35 goddamn points. Sam Donald tonight, he was only 12.17. But that's it. One TD, the JSN. That was it. That is how.

good they played the night. Kenneth Walker Jr. played well. Cooper Cup led the team with five for 60 but that goddamn defense, boy. That goddamn deep. I don't, I'm not sure who they're going to play. I don't know who they're going to play. Obviously, we'll find out tomorrow. I'm not sure it matters. I'll be honest with you, Ojo and that. You never want to put the,

you know, the card in front of, the horse in front of the car. Well, that's where it goes. The car in front of the horse. The car is in front of the horse. The car is in front of the horse. The horse's supposed to pull the car. I mean, when you look at, when you just look at them in the way they rally to the effing football, I mean, it's not one. I'm like, well, hold on. Hey, Ralph, I bet they got too many men on the show.

Ain't no way ahead. Hey, hey, no, no, we all are supposed to have 11. They got to have 13. Ain't no way they get to the ball that quick. And they do. That's exactly what it's right. The front floor, they can generate pressure. Occasionally they'll come with a blitz,

but most of the time they just generate pressure with that front four. Hey, that number three, ooh, ooh. But if you look at them, they play defense just like the old Legion of Boone. The Legion of Boone basically plays one cover. They played single high robber. We called, it was back then he used to call it Lurt.

Cam Chanson lurking looking to pick up any crossers. They call it robber. Now he's looking to rob the crossing route or the In-C. Other than that, that's it. that's all they played. If you look at this team, they're a very simplistic coverage team. Good luck, good enough against spoon and wolding.

Got love at safety. You got Ernest Jones, the third, excuse me, the fourth, and then you got those guys, you swarm the D-Lines just swarm. They are fundamentally sound McDonald. You know, this is really tough, because Ben Johnson could get coach of the year, Braybill could get coach of the year, D'Amico Ryan can get coached the year,

McDonald's up in Seattle could get coached the year. I mean, look, there are a lot of worthy candidates. Hell, Sean Payton can get coached to year. There are a lot of worthy candidates. But the job that McDonald has done with this team in a short time there, this is only the second year. Yeah. Only second year.

Phenomenal. And here are the NFC championship game with that game on their home field. Go ahead, Ocho. The funny thing about it, too, those in the chat that are watching, now you understand the importance of a quarterback. You look at some of the teams that have struggled, and it's his goal to say for Sam Donald, situations matter.

Where you go matters. Coaching matters. The person that's around. I don't give it that. Carl Brady could go to the Jets. He ain't going to be to do what we know. Well, yeah, what we're used to seeing. So, I mean, Sam Donald is in a perfect situation.

I know, I've said it multiple times on the show. I know Minnesota is kicking their selves in the foot, you know, for actually allowing it. Get out. You kind of hard to kick yourself in the foot. But I get what you say. then. We get, we know what he was saying, Chad. Come on, that's also, man.

Hey, no, listen, I'm trying, I'm trying to prevent from cursing. That's why I said that. We know, we know what you be. Right, right, right. But, hey, Sam Donner's playing exceptional. Yeah, I've been worried about him. He's been somewhat, he's been turnover. Yeah, he's been very inconsistent.

You're right. I think he had 20-something interceptors, huh? He had 20-plus turnover. And 20-plus turnover, so I was worried about him, going to the playoffs. I was hoping he just took care of the ball because the defense was so well. And if they can play defense the way they play tonight and special teams, they do what they need to do.

And Sam Donald doesn't put the ball in harm's way and just allow offensively. Whatever the defense gives you, just take it. Just don't lose the game trying to make bad situations worse. You're right. You're right, Ocho. And when you look at this team, like I said, they're very well coached, the discipline. They're good in the special teams area,

especially on punk kick return because he is a pro bowl player on their special teams on the other end. They do a great job of tackling. They pin you down. They make you, they don't give you big plays. They make you nickel and dime your way down the field. And that's the best way to play defenses. Defense is not to give up anything cheap, anything deep.

I believe if you have to consistently drive the ball 10, 12, 15 plays, I believe I can make you turn it over as opposed to giving up a one or two, you know, a 60-yard road. or a 50-yard pass play. I believe if I make you go first down, first, second, okay, convert third down, first second, convert third down. I believe if I make you continuously have to nickel and dime your way down the field,

I believe you'll stub your toe. I believe you'll make a mistake. And that's all I need. Yeah. And you know what else is good? If you look at the landscape of the teams of the left, let's say for the NFC in general, you look at a game like tonight offensively,

Chris McAfrey causes the issue regards to who they're playing because they can create mismatches by using him in a multitude of ways offensively. But because the goddamn Seahawks are so good in all three levels, whether it be the front, whether it be the second level or they got them back in, they match up so extremely well. Some of the things that Christian McCaffrey is able to exploit when they're playing other teams, play somebody like Seattle, uh-uh. it's not happening. Like he had some runs. He wasn't able to do what he knows. He does. No,

there were no gasses tonight. And boy, they was putting a hat on him the night, boy, they was putting a hat on him tonight, boy. I mean, Bernie Jones,

the fourth had two takeaways. He had a pick, had a force fumble, ripped it out on the tight end. But I thought, from about week, I mean, for like the last month,

after what they did to the Rams, they showed me something. being down like they were and finding a way to get up off the mat and to win that game in overtime and the fashion, not only did they tie, because the Rams go right down the field in overtime, get a touchdown, PAT, they're up seven.

And for Seattle to match it, to go down the field, and then say, you know what, we ain't doing no more overtime because the next score will win. We're going to win it or lose it right here. And they say, you know what? We're going to win it. And Sam Donald did a great job. Seattle's going to be a tough idol, Joe.

They're going to be tough. I don't care. Look, the game, obviously we can say the game favors Chicago because they practice in that and they play more often in those kind of conditions than the ramp. But anything can happen on a given Sunday. That's why we love football so much because it's one game. It's when to go home.

There is no tomorrow. There's finality once postseason. It's not like that in any other sport. They say game seven. There's nothing like game seven. Well, in the NFL, every playoff game is a game seven. Whether it's the wild card division or the AFC championship. Obviously, the Super Bowl, we know what that is.

But every playoff game in the post season, I mean, every playoff game in the NFL is a game seven. No other sport has that because I get four chances. All I got to do, I got to beat you four times. But it doesn't work like that in the NFL. I ain't got to beat nobody four times. I got to win four games. If I win four games, if I'm a wild card, I'm going to beat a Super Bowl. champ.

I'm holding up the trophy. In other sports, if you win four games, all you did was advance to the next round. Oh, yeah. We're four games in the NFL in the postseason. You're super bowl champs. But, uh, looks. San Francisco, uh, you know, the injuries, the end and out, you know, they lost Tramp for a minute, uh, the wire receiver.

I thought they did, I thought they, they played well. But sometimes, you know, team just has your number. Teams just have your number. Oh, they had it. Seattle, Seattle is. I'm not so sure if the 49ers have all their pieces that they're a better football team than Seattle. You know, when I think about it, I think about if they had Bosa, if they had Fred Warner. Okay, yeah, because you got to be, because they can't get pressure on the quarterback, Coach.

It's so hard for them to get pressure, and you got to have somebody that can win quick. You need somebody that can win right now that can win his one-on-one matchup. And they don't really have that. Fred Warner's not going to make some of the mistakes that these guys were making. They're trying to go under and they get peeing and it spits out or they go over and the guy cuts back. Fred is not going to make some of the mistakes. He's too veteran of a player. He's going to read and diagnose what's going on a lot sooner than these guys.

But I think, look, these games are always close normally, normally. I mean, the first time they played up in Seattle, the 49 is one, but it was a very close ball game. The second time it was a 13-3 ball game. The 49ers felt that, you know what, if we eliminate some of these turnover, we like our chances because we've already we've already been here and won before.

So it's not like it's foreign to us. It's like it's out of the realm of possibility that we can't, we can win because we've won here before. So, you know, you feel somewhat good. You like to have Bosa because you had Bosa when you won the first time. You had Fred Warner when you run the first time.

You had Kittle when you won the first time. first time. So you would have liked to have some of those pieces. But you got what you got. You got what you got. You got what you got to look good. You got to make do it what you have. Obviously, I think it hurts not having kiddle, not having boasts and not having Fred Warner. But when you think about when it comes to this time, when it comes to the playoff time, there are a lot of teams that that have injuries. Maybe not maybe not injuries to some of their star players to the extent of that of the 49ers, but you got to make do it. You got to make do it. You got. You got to make what you got. So, I mean, it's unfortunate.

fortunate. I think for the 49ers, it's hard for me to, and I got a chance to look, it's hard for me to understand why. It's right back in this year. So, I mean, it is what it is. Yeah. I'm trying to think, I'm looking at the 49ers, maybe a D-Lyman, maybe a corner. I mean, losing Huff, a Fanga, who's in Denver right now, their safety. man, I just don't know. I mean, the past in Jigba, I don't know what 36 were looking at. I don't know what he looked at.

Oh, so why would he look back inside? The quarterback is rolling towards the sideline. You look back inside, and he throws it and Jigba slith and catches it. I'm like, what are you looking for? That was a nice drop in the bucket, too, now. I mean, he's looking like his mom called him. Like he heard somebody.

You called me, Mom? No. Oh, man, see, oh, Joe. I mean, when I go to games, this is why, and we're going to talk about the Bronco, this is why I came, man. I see some stuff, bro. I'm like, bro, what?

I just, okay, come in, son. Come in, let me see something right quick. Tell me what you saw. What did you see? Right. I don't know. I don't know. But, yeah, you got to understand, too,

Unk, now, when you're watching the game from a fan perspective, even though you play the game, and when you're watching from, from eye level of view as you were to date. Huh? That's the $2.22 because we can see everything up high with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes, you know, what we see with a clear eyesight.

Dick can't see. Not an eye level. Yeah, you know, and the bullet, and the bullet, you know, it's flying. You know, it's a thinking man's game out there, huh? You think of man's game. So one mistake, one slip up, one step behind, what are you done?

You look the wrong way. you hesitate, you peek in the back field, that's all the time. The only thing that I tried to do, Ocho. Go ahead. Go ahead. You say, yeah. I'm going to say, I say it's a millisecond. You're out of position.

The only thing that I really emphasize, Ocho, is that I never tried to get beat on what I've seen on tape. If I know a guy like the cross face, I can't let you beat me cross. Now, if you step cross like you're going to cross my face and come out of the back side, we need to get a different running back because he two got them slow to hit hold. Other than that, Ocho, you can. you're going to have drops. You're going to make some mistakes.

But as I told, I remember Pat Sartan, I got a chance to highlight him. I saw his dad. I saw his dad also talk to him. I say in the playoffs, there are no incidental plays. Every play matters. See, in the regular season, Ocho, sometimes the first quarter play

might not have an impact in the rest of the game. But in the postseason, every play matters. Every play matters. And so you're like, oh, don't worry about we'll get it back. But that's the difference. You know, now all of a sudden, instead of a seven point, you got three. Now that's four points week. Mm-hmm.

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We'll come back to this. The Broncos beat the bills in overtime. Head to the LFC title game. Will Lutz made a 23-yard field goal to win in an overtime following two late pillars to get Denver in the red zone. Bo Necks passed for 279 yards, three touchdowns. He did have one interception. Josh Allen threw for 283, three touchdowns, but he had four of Buffalo's five turnovers.

But the big news came after the game, Ocho, when Sean Payton took the podium, let's take a listen to what he had to say about this breaking news. Not good news. On the second to last playing overtime, Bo fractured. a bone in his right ankle. He's scheduled to have surgery Tuesday of this week, which will put him out for the rest of the season. Instead, he's ready to go.

And it was the second and last play before he threw the pass to Mims. Birmingham is where he'll have the surgery with Dr. Waltrip. And I don't really think there's any other questions. You know, in other words, this is just what it is. And we felt like it'd be best to just tell everyone now. Man, hey, Uncle, that's a good.

I mean, come on that. Damn, boy, that's a buzzer look. I know, no, yeah, that's bad luck. Listen, second, second play, the second and last play before the game, you know. After playing the entire of the game, I mean, that sucks, especially for Broncos fans, I'm sure, obviously losing your starting quarterback, that changes everything. That changes the way your offense is called. That changes the way your offense is done. So now someone else has to step up.

I'm not sure. Who is your backup? Steadham. Started with the Patriots from Auburn. And then he went to the Raiders. Yes. I remember Stidham. I remember Stidham.

He's not Bownecks. I think he is capable. of maybe winning you a game. Obviously, listen to me, I'm trying to get some hope. I'm trying to get some hope. That's a young lady's name. That's a young lady's name.

What, hope? So what, you ain't got no faith in still? Bro, we're going to face the Patriots or the Texans. Hey, both two defenses, though. Yes. And then if for some unforeseen reason, you get past them, there's a great chance you're going to play Seattle.

I saw with Seattle. I was in New York when Seattle did that 43-8 demolition job on us. I'm good. Yeah. So basically, you want to start packing your stuff for Cancun now or what? I'm going to enjoy this. I get 24 hours to enjoy this. Okay.

You can't. Right. Don't feel bad by. Yeah, I'll feel bad. He was elected in the fourth round of 2019 draft, Ocho. He's not his first season with the Broncos serving as a backup to Knicks for two of those. Did him. is one and three of an NFL starter.

He last started a game in 23 when he went one and one over the last two games of the regular season. Stidham has thrown eight touchdowns and eight interception in 20 NFL games. The Broncos, they get the ball and they go right down the field, little John Humphrey, bro, he dropped it. He dropped a touchdown.

Now, he came back and caught one in the second, no joke, but that's four points. Yeah. The same play that I think, who was that, King Kay, that caught a touchdown from the slot, run the fade from the slot. That's the same play, little Jordan Humphrey drop.

Cortland, bro, you're a pro bowler. You just signed an extension. You on the last, you dropped two passes. You drop two. You got to have that. You're supposed to be their best, their best Y receiver. He is.

You can't, you can't have those drops, join that situation. Yeah, I mean, everything is magnified, especially in the playoffs. You know, you don't get as big plays as you'd like. So the plays that you do get when the ball does come to you, they didn't go to court for a very long time during the game. He wasn't in rhythm. He had to catch.

He's one of those that's not going to complain. He's not going to say anything. He's going to run everything hard until the ball does come his way. So I kind of understand it. But he understands and he knows you can't have those drops. Those drop could have been costly. obviously it didn't cost you this game but listen

the Broncos win the game we need to talk about Josh Allen oh we need we need to talk Josh Allen hey um four four four to five he had four of their five turnovers yeah I mean two interceptions two fumble uh the

the phone you got the ball what he doing carrying the ball like that Ocho come on come on man you know he should know better than that take a good knee and get your ass into the locker room Yeah, he's fast, but he's not that fast to not think pursuit is right there. They had the ball holding it like a loaf of goddamn bread.

Like, this was supposed to be the bill's year. I said it multiple times because he didn't have to deal with Pat Mahomes, his kryptonite. He didn't have to deal with Lamar Jackson. He didn't have to deal with Joe Burrow. And he's the best quarterback. He was the best quarterback remaining on the AFC. He's out. But there's nobody.

He's better than C.J. Stride. He's better than Drake. He was the best. quarterback in the AFC. And he gagged. Yeah. And I told you at the beginning of season, Buffalo,

y'all need to have some questions about Sean McDermott. Whoa, wait. We can't, we can't blame McDermott. We can't blame McDermott after that performance by 17. So what about those before?

What about the previous six game when Josh Allen didn't have any turnovers? And you still lost. Okay. Talk to me now. I mean, at least John Harbaugh, he got to a Super Bowl and won it. Mike Tomlin got the two

one-one. I mean, we got to have some conversation. It's just not good. Oh, Joe, you had the best quarterback. You were the only one that had an MVP quarterback. As a matter of fact, nobody else had an MVP quarterback in the post season. You're the only one.

Hey, he put up a stinker. Yeah, and I'm trying to figure out the way you're running the football. Why you got Josh Allen throwing? them all 39 times. James Cook got 24 carries for a buck 17. He's averaging basically four your five yards of carry. Josh Allen got averaging five and a half yards of carry. And you throwing the ball.

So yeah, so I got a question. You think, you think it's time for a new voice over there in Buffalo? I think they're going to have a serious discussion. I think the Pagulas are going to have a serious discussion with themselves. They got, they got asked themselves some, some questions because are you, I mean, think about it, Ocho. Are you closer? Are you closer?

Remember, you got to the AMC championship game last year. They put all this technology in to make sure because, oh, he got it, no, he didn't get it. Now they got this technology. When everything removed, when they had removed the hedge from around you for you to go, ain't no Pat Mahon. You don't have to go to Kansas City. You don't have to deal with Burrell. you didn't have to deal with Lamar, although you beat Lamar.

But those are guys that are Lamar, the two-time MVP. Joe Burr is going to your building and beat you. He's gone to Pat Mahon's building and beat him. He was, you know, a couple of plays away from winning a Super Bowl. He's removed. The guy has gone to five Super Bowls, one three in the MVP, league MVP. He's gone. And the guy in his second year, what are we doing here?

The funny thing about it, if there was a year, year for Buffalo to make it to the Super Bowl? This was it. This was it. So I don't understand what happened in the game like the day. You need Josh Allen to be what we most of it we call him. We give him that moniker as being Superman because he does less with more.

I mean, he does more with less. This is the game. He put up a sinker. He played bad. There's no if and's butts about it. How about this, Ocho? Bill's in the postseason under Sean McDermott. lost the wild card game round to Houston, lost the championship in the championship game to KC, lost the divisional to KC,

lost the divisional to Cincinnati, lost the divisional to KC, lost the championship to KC, lost the divisional to Denver. You think about some of those turnovers on? You think about... I'm like, well, who was that? Now, anyway, but you think about some of those turns on?

I think the game changes because some of those are points. Yeah, for sure. Some of those are points, and it takes away your opportunity, your chance to win a game of this magnitude where points at a premium. Every series counts. Every time we have the ball, it counts. And the fact that they only lost by three with five turnovers, let you know that the opportunity slip right between their fingers. Oh, Cho, all you got to do is take a knee, going at the half. Now you kick it instead of a tie the game to going over.

time you're kicking the game to win it. Come on, man. Sometimes you can be too cute. Sometimes you can get greedy. They got greedy. We got Josh Allen. We got two timeouts. Let's see what we can do.

He didn't protect the ball. Benito did a great job, stripping him from behind. Then Benito did another job. He hit him in his back. He fumbled that ball. Denver should have put that game away early. When Benito hit him in his back, they got the ball at the 19 yard line.

You get two yards. I thought Sean called the game conservative at that point. No, I'm going for you. I'm going for your throat. Yeah. That's what I'm doing. I, I got to, I'm going to end it. Can you imagine, oh Joe, if the score is, instead of 20 to 10, the score is 24 or 27 to 10?

Now we've got a whole different ball game. Ball game. But McMillan, that DB, 29, he made the play of the game. Yes, sir. Chat, I know y'all say that was a catch. You should have been down. Let me explain it to you. It's called the Calvin Johnson rule. If a receiver catches the football and he, in turn, goes to the ground, he must maintain possession of the football throughout the entirety of the act called catching the football.

I don't know how. Let me explain it again. If a receiver catches the football and he goes to the ground, he must maintain possession of the football throughout the entirety of the catch. To make a long story short, and I made a long story, and I made a short story long. He goes to the ground. He needs to get his ass up and hand the ball to the official. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like.

It's called the Calvin Johnson rule. Yeah, yeah, basically when he was playing Chicago, remember? And that was a catch. They called the ball and tried to get up. And they challenged it. And they won't. And obviously, when I saw it, most of the time, I call it somewhat of a bang, bang play.

sense where you have to maintain possession of the play and through the play where where possession is supposed to be maintained. He got the ball. He took the ball. He took the ball away from you. That was obviously the play of the game. Because they had the 20 yard line. They're going to kick a field goal and win it.

Yeah. Exactly. So, I mean, it is tough. Then I hate, I don't know. And I say this. I tweeted this as well is with a game like this, as close as it was, I hate for the refs to be the one to to be.

They're going to be maligned, but it was the right Ocho is the right call. By the P.I. The P.I. The Davius White. Oh, Joe, it was PI and they missed the other one earlier. Earlier, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we pulled his arm back.

They missed one. They were PIs. It wasn't like, man, I don't think that was a P.I. It was an obvious P.I. They missed one earlier. And they They let them play for the most part. Hey, yeah. You know what you just said?

They let them play for the most part. But I would love some consistency. If you're going to let them play early in the game. We can't let you be that egregious with it, though, Ocho. Yeah, it was egregious. True Davis was a little early. I wish he would have looked back for the ball. He panned it along.

He got beat off the line. When you get beat off the line of scrimmage and then you were in hurry up mode trying to catch up, what's the first thing you do? If that receiver slowed down, and you can't run up and slow it down. Yeah, you're going to run right up and back. that's exactly what Bo, that's supposed to be a walk-off touchdown,

but Bo didn't trust himself. So he put it up there, knowing Mims was going to have to slow down and know White was going to run up his back. That's a touchdown. That's a walk-off touchdown. That's supposed to end the game. All he's supposed to do is let Mims run up a,

who-woo. Yeah, I just hate the fact, I know it was P.I., but I hate the fact that it came down to the yellow flag. I hate that the end of the game and the game's decision-making ended up on the rest flag. I mean, it was PI.

I'm not not not not by saying it wasn't. I just hate that it ended the way it did. I do. I do. But I can see Ocho if it wasn't like, it was kind of like when you had the conversation of our first year old nightcap with the Eagles and KC.

Man, man, you can't throw the flag. The man came and told you Bradford to Ford and said, I held him. I was beat. So the man telling you he held him. even the official when he explained it to the pool reporters what we saw is the guy gives beat he's pulling away and the guy he's about the option away and he tugs it he said i did it i was hoping they didn't see it and philly fans still and everybody talking about what they shouldn't have called it the man oh cho so if a man i robbed that bank i took that 15 million dollars man he ain't do it they shouldn't even arrest that man he told him He did it.

And he got the money to show you. You saw the man grab Juju jersey. All he had, like you said, they missed the first PI. That really should have been PI. And they didn't call. I'm like, well, damn. Are y'all not going to call PI today?

So, Sean, say, you know what? Let's dial it up again. Let's see, either we're going to get a completion or we're going to force him to call it. One or the other. And especially, especially in that situation, that timing of the game once I saw

once I saw White get beat off that and then a bomb blitz you ain't got no Elcho he ain't got no help he already know at all I got to get on my horse I got to get on my horse

and the funny thing about it is would make some of the greatest dbs in the NFL in the NFL when you're in a in that in a no a bad situation that oh there we go

when you had a disadvantage like that, when you get beat, can I still remain calm and collective when the ball is in the air and still be able to play the ball even though the man is in front of it? That's hard to do, boy. It's even harder when you're in overtime. So just imagine that's all right. In first quarter, second quarter, maybe there's a chance. Now, if next score win, they have had the ball, we've had the ball.

They score, they win. So now it ain't like the fourth quarter. okay, our offense get a chance, they can go down and redeem this. No, no, no, no, no, no. No. And when I look, I was like, oh, he opened. And I saw him throw, I say, why would you throw the ball like that

when you're not confident, Ocho, and you don't want to overshoot him? Yes, sir. You try to just get in the ball, knowing that he's going to, because I can see the ball, Ocho, I see the ball. The D.B. not looking back because he's in such a hurry to catch up with me. He's just going to run. It's just like you, when you're not paying attention, you run slamming the back of somebody.

Where if you paying attention, you don't run in the back of nobody. You fill and down with your phone or you go to answer your phone and you go to train. Bam! Oh, man, what happened? You're a ran dead in the back of somebody, Ocho. But it was, it was a man, Ocho. I think we got the record.

119.7 decibel. That's a lot. Hey, that place was crazy. Yes. As check that 119.7. I think we took that thing back from from Seattle or Kansas City.

I don't know. I think we got 119 unless somebody got more than 119. It's ours now. I know, Kansas City or Seattle might have higher than 119.

I could be wrong. But them two stadiums there when it comes to that crime. Seattle get loud. Well, you can't hear nothing. See, I was getting back. track and stuff like that when it was in like the kingdom or the Astrodome when it was old,

the House of Pain. That's what you used to call the Astrodome, Astrodome, the House of Pain or the King Dome or some of these old, but they didn't keep track of it back then. Here's Sean McDermott on that controversial call. It's hard for me to, and I've had a chance to look at, it's hard for me to understand why it was ruled the way it was ruled. And if it is ruled that way, then why was it? and it slowed down just to make sure that we have this right.

That would have made a lot of sense to me, to make sure that we have this thing right, because that's a pivotal play in the game. We have the ball at the 20, maybe kicking a game winning field goal right there. So I'll just leave it at that. But I'm saying it because I'm standing up for Buffalo, damn it. I'm standing up for us.

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He's talking about the interception. The play the Cooks in which McMillan took it out of his hands. Hey, um, listen, Mr. McDermen is very, around the game of football for a very long time. Mr. Gern understands the rules when it comes to the game of football. Even watching from the sideline, you had a field side, you have an eye,

you have an eye view of what's going on. You know that's an interception. I'm a receiver. Even I understand that you have to have positions to the catch and maintain it and get up with the ball. Because he went, if he doesn't go to the ground, it's a catch. But once you go to the ground on, Cho,

you must maintain, if, The Dan Bryant. Dan Bryant is the Who daredeers? Green Bay game. We went to the ground. No, the moment you go to the ground. So let that chat.

If you, hey, I don't know what your rules are in the Turkey League or your flag football league. But if you catch a football and you go to the ground, you got to maintain possession of the football throughout the act of the catch. And. Buffalo, it's hard. But you know, McMillam, as he was going down, McMillan was pulling the ball.

That's why he was able to come up with it. Yeah, hey, that's a bang, bang play. It's, you know, going to the ground. I mean, the receiver, you want to do the best you can to grab that thing and have strong hands. But obviously, you out here. You out here with it. So it's hard to bring that in.

And because you're out here and you expose, you don't have much strength because it's not close to your body. And because when he turned, made a stronger man, Lee. Because when you turn, Ocho, you bring the DB into play now. Yeah. Now he got, now he can do this and his momentum is carrying him over. So he's going to pull it out.

Yeah, every time. But think about it. He pulled it out and held on to it. A lot of times we see it pull out and it's, complete. Yeah. But the hair of the play before. See, if Cooks was a hands catcher,

he'd caught that one on the sideline. Remember, he jumped up and caught it with his body. He got his foot down and then he tried to brace himself and his hand touched down out of bounds. Yeah. He caught it with his hands. He got both feet down in bounds. You have to understand where you are on the field.

Field. But I thought, look, if I'm Buffalo, I'm definitely bringing Cook's back. because I think he played, I thought he played really well. I mean, also he just got there like two days ago. Yeah, he ain't been that long. He ain't been that long. But even if you don't bring cooks back, you think about some of the options,

some of the options that you have, you know, there might be a shakeup. There might be a shakeup with someone that's down there in Philly, who might be a viable option to come in as your number one, who would be tremendous to have for Josh Allen to have a, What I like to consider a true number one. Chat, y'all know exactly where I'm going with this. You never know what can't happen in regards to people

talk about cap hits and all that. I'm not sure if you're following the game of the game of football long enough. NFL teams don't care nothing about no cap hits. They'll make it work. NFL team don't care nothing about no cap hits or high it is. They don't care nothing like that, especially when situations have deteriorated as much as they have this year over there with some of the issues that they had. So I think they're probably going to move on from one of the best in the game.

And there's a good chance he might end up in Buffalo. Oh, Cho, pool report reasoning. Question, what did you see on the past of Brandon Cook's that was ruled an interception by Jaquan McMillan? Carl Chaffers, who's the referee. The receiver has to complete the process of the catch. He's going to the ground. As part of the process to catch, he lost possession of the ball when he hit the ground. The defender gained possession of it at the ground.

that point. The defender is the one that completed the process of the catch, so the defender was awarded the ball. Did the ball hit the ground? No, that was confirmed in the replay process. The interception was confirmed. Now, he's an official. Now, I just told you the rule.

I told you the rule. I tweeted. I said, this is what has to happen? When you go, chat, it's the last time, Ocho and I was going to explain it to you. Ocho is a receiver. I'm the DB. Ocho jumps up and catches the ball. If he stays on his feet, we good. But if Ocho goes to the ground

and in the process of going to the ground, we hit the ground simultaneously and he loses possession and I come up with the ball. It's my ball. I completed the process, not Ocho. Ocho started the process. I appreciate him for doing that. I completed the process.

That's my ball. Right. Also, chat, with this hypothetical scenario that Hung just created, if he was a DB and I was a receiver, I would have scored a touchdown. That would have been a difference. I ain't let you off the judge. I ain't let you off.

I ain't let you out of Ocho. And they know this. And overtime, everything is replayed. All scorer. Yes. Because they didn't want people challenging it. A touchdown. Somebody had to burn a challenge flag because they thought it was a touchdown.

Oh, that was a thundle. Or that was this. you know what, we're going to let you save your challenges. The mere fact it was a change of possession, they replay it. I don't know why Sean McDermott burned the time out. They replayed it. It was a turnover.

All scoring and change of possession plays are automatically revoked. Yep. Yeah. And then to know the rules as a head case, and still you have to you got to fight for your team you got to stick up for your team

but like come on there you know that once Brandon Cook goes to the ground he was maintained possession if he'd have maintained possession what that would have meant Ocho McMillan wouldn't have had the ball how you have something in your position

and then I got it in my position right and then you know some people aren't even going to listen some people aren't going to listen you know the people are that are not going to listen, the people that are buffalo failed. Oh, Shadda, you just saying that you just saying that because your team won. No,

I'm saying that because that's the rules. I just happen to know the rules. I mean, yeah. I mean, I would, I would, look, and I get it. And in situations Ocho and I'll talk about a little earlier, is

that PIs are really hard, but they become excruciatingly hard the later you get to the game because you feel like that might have influenced or had some impact on the game. Yeah, I hate that. But ask yourself, Buffalo fans, if the guy had there secure like that,

would you have wanted that play call? Yes or no? Yeah. How about your quarterback? Hold on to the football. How about your quarterback, not try to throw down the scene and read the backside safety?

Right. Josh Allen, I mean, for the mere fact that you was even in the game, y'all should, I mean, you play probably any other team, you lose it. You're in a situation like, you're in a situation like San Fray and Seattle. Oh, game over. Game over. Four, four turnovers? Five. Oh, five, excuse me.

You do realize the goddamn Seahawks capitalize off every turn in a night. Every last one. Oh, Joe. And the thing, this game was about. boy, this game was about to get out of hand. It was 7-3. Devere did not do anything. They got the ball back, and they're going right back down the field.

And Singleton put a hit on James Cook. Yeah. Take it. I mean, he and picked him up off his feet. Huff was right there Johnny on the spot, and they go right back down the field and they get a touchdown. But this thing was about that. I was like, oh, it's about to be 14 to 3.

There are no inconsequential plays come postseason. Every play matters. Every play matters. And people don't, well, that ain't no one play. Because it's only, it's like four or five plays that actually determine the outcome of the game. Every time.

It's four or five plays. You can go back and look. And the postseason is because every play it's very, very important, you just track it back. You make this, we do this. But that was an interception. They reviewed it.

I don't know. He's talking about, well, they should have took a little bit more time. How much time you want them to take? It doesn't, it don't change. Oh, Joe. If they took, you know what, they just came back from the review.

It was an interception. It doesn't matter how long it takes. It doesn't change the outcome. No. Mm-mm. And some people, I'm reading the chat as we sit here talking. Some people still, still not listening. He hit the ground with the ball.

I mean, like. He did. But, so let me ask you question. If the ball, let me ask you question, he catches the football. He hits the ground and the ball pops out. Is that a catch? Why isn't the catch?

He hit the ground with the ball. Mm-hmm. If I'll try, I can't. read the chat. But Ocho's saying he's reading the chat. He said he hit the ground with the ball. So if he hits the ground with the ball and the ball pops out, what is that? Incomplete. Okay. Go to the ground as the receiver. You must maintain possession of the football. He goes to the ground. He didn't maintain possession. You know why? Because McMillan took it from him. Yeah. McMillan. Simple as that. And Carl Chappers told you. It was the DB that completed the process of

going to the ground and coming up with the football. Oh, yeah. The difference is McMillam was down by contact because Cook had touched it. If not, he could have got up and ran. Yeah. I mean, it, it's, it's, you don't like, it sucks. It's like, you get your girl pregnant. And she wait, oh, Joe, she wait three or four weeks to tell you.

Why didn't you tell me? It wasn't going to change anything. I'm still pregnant. It doesn't. It doesn't change nothing. If I had told you in March, instead of telling you April, what would that have changed? I'm still pregnant. So if they take 30 minutes, they take 45 minutes, they take an hour to review that call.

It's still an interception. It's still the Broncos ball. No matter what. I know, but I know. I get it. I get it. This was supposed to be your year because all the stumbling blocks, all the things that have stopped you in previous years, removed mainly Joe Burrell and Patrick Mahomes.

Those two have been removed. And now you let us say, your quarterback come in and that's why I'm a firm believer in letting a coach pick his quarterback. Sean didn't want Russ. I don't believe he had to be little Russ like he did in Detroit.

Hold on who's, I was talking about. Not to get off track. Oh, John, there was, we talk about A.J. Brown. They talk about A.J. Brown too big of a cap hit dead money. I said, is he more or less than what Russell Wilson was on the cap? I mean, if he ain't $85 million.

I don't think people understand how this business works. I don't think they do because the first thing they do is they, and the NFL teams do not care about that dead cap big money. They don't. When things have deteriorated, the relationships, the distractions, as they so call them. When it gets to the point to where it is now,

there's no going back. There's no going back. And obviously it's the Eagles fans. Listen, you love AJ. You love what he stands for. You love what he's done for the organization. But it's tough, man. It's tough.

He's not happy. No, and the report is that he had requested a trade. I don't know if that's true. Some reports could be erroneous and some can be have some. There might be a little truth in it. There's a little truth even in the line. Oh, wait, it depends on what came from.

It depends where it's, it depends where the rumor came from. And if it, if it's anonymous and someone that is somewhat of a credible source says it, it's coming from somewhere. Yes. It's coming from somewhere. They reviewed it. Oh, man, the NFL record decibel level is our head stadium fans reached 142.2. Wow. I told you.

I knew. I knew it. Way off. It was either Kansas City or Seattle was one of the other. Oh, Joe, that thing was like laugh. So that's, that's 23 show. Yeah, yeah. You, you, I mean, oh, you played in Kansas City.

Oh, Kansas City and Denver was the too loudest state as I ever played in. Yeah. And it's just what happened. You know, Denver was my home in Kansas City. We played, you know, we played that every year. Played there every year for 12 years. So I got 12 trips to, well, I got 13 because we played them in the playoffs one year. Yeah.

I only had one trip. And that one trip there, I was like, I never, never experienced nothing like this. And I'm like, I'm curious, all fans, they sit in the stadium, they all scream, they all cheer, they all boo, whatever it may be. And I'm thinking, well, maybe it's the way the stadium is built. Why is it that this stadium in particular sounds so much different than everyone else? I mean, it's, I mean, when it's so loud and I got to, and you sit right next, and you sitting right next. to me. And you can't, you can't, I can't hear what you say it.

Unless I, yeah. That's when you know it's loud. This thing, it was, it was crazy. But I'm glad Carl Chepers and normally, um, the referee meet with pool reporters and they ask any controversial call or what this, X, Y, MZ. And he explained it to him. Possession of the football receiver goes to the ground. He must maintain possession of the football throughout the entirety of the

the act of catching the football. He did not. And y'all know it. So hopefully, Ocho and I explain that to you guys really, really well because I don't really know what else to stay. Ocho, obviously, emotions were extremely high in the Bill's locker room after the game. Here's Josh Allen and Dion Dawkins after the game. It's extremely difficult.

I feel like I, yeah, feel like I love my, let my teammates down tonight. He said he feels like he let you guys stay. How do you react when you're a quarterback who's done so much for you, says that to you guys? Let us down. I love that. I love that emotion.

Because you know why I love it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I know how much they invested into them. This is the kind of emotion that when you invest into it. Your relationship is ending out for five, 10, 15 years. That's that hurt, boy. your child is after everything that you've done and you've invested so much

and they get sidetracked temporarily that thing hurts. Yeah. I've been there, Josh. I've been there, Dion. Bro, don't let nobody are a big grown-ass man. If I'm, because everybody's going to say, man, if I'm making 40, 30, 40, 50, 50, I don't care. See, the funny thing about it is people can't see past the money.

People can't see the money, but they don't understand all the work that you put in to be able to make. That kind of money. Lot of sacrifice. Training camp, all season program, hours and hours and countless hours of practice and film and studying, rehab. They don't understand everything that goes.

People, fans of the game, they get to see the finished product go out there on Sundays. They don't understand the work you've got to put in before Sunday gets down. Do you know what a lot of talking to get there? That's why. That's what it is coming from. about how long it took them to get there. I mean, from the time a lot of these guys

been playing football from the time they were seven, eight, nine years old. This is a lifetime of devotion. This is a lifetime of dedication. And I'm so close. I can see it. I'm so close. I can see it, Ocho. And every single year, it doesn't get easier.

I want you to know, disappointment does not get easier. It doesn't. even if you've had disappointment one year after the next, it doesn't get easier. It doesn't. As a matter of fact, it gets harder. Because as you suffer these disappointment,

as the years go by, you realize I've got you less years to do this. Oh, yeah. Oh, that window of opportunity is small, huh? That window of opportunity in the NFL in general is small. And then you have to maximize the opportunities to make the playoffs or be able to make that run at getting the Lombardi.

You were afforded opportunities for a while in your career. That was very fortunate. I want three and four years. Hey, imagine being on my end. No, I don't know. You know, going into each season hoping, at least just hoping

to have a winning season. You got me thinking about no, Lombardy? Shit, I'm trying, can we have a win this season first? Yeah, let, let, let, let, let, let, Let's win. Let's get to the playoffs. And then maybe I can shift my focus. Because right now, I can't really see paths.

I can't see that far down the road, don't you? It's dark and I ain't got no headlights on. Yeah. But the raw, like I said, Chad. And just let's like remove yourself if you've never been an athlete or or, but I'm saying, just imagine the thing that you poured the most into, the thing that you sacrifice the most. and it didn't go your way.

Maybe you didn't get the job. Maybe you didn't get into the school that you wanted. Maybe you didn't get the grades that you wanted. Maybe you didn't get the promotion that you wanted. You know what the funny thing about it is? Is everybody can be able to have a sense of how Dion Dawkins is feeling or how Josh Allen is feeling? Simply because maybe if you didn't play sports, hell, it could be a relationship.

You think about the years and the time you spent, you know? investing in something and not getting that return on it. And then it ending and you're sitting there wondering like, well, God damn, what did everything go wrong? What did I do? What could I have done differently? Better. Yeah.

Yeah. Because that's the thing. It's the lifetime of regret that you look back at like what. Because nobody's going to, nobody remembers all the great Superman, the Hercules plays that Josh Allen's made. I remember the man I remember him in the divisional round

he turned the ball over four times he had gone six games he had turned the ball over 16 total touchdowns zero turnovers and then today he had four they had five turnovers and for that you have five turnovers

and still I have take a field goal in overtime to beat you let you know you're close but close only matters if you're throwing grenades and you slow dancing and if there's a chaperon there you're not going to be able to get that

close. I like that. I ain't never heard that one. It's tough, man. I know how Josh been feeling. Because, boy, I felt the same way when we lost to Jacksonville. That exactly, exactly. And I held it together when I was

on camera. But when I got in that car, you let it out, huh? As a matter of fact, my girl, she didn't eat right home with me. I said, right home with your mom. Damn. Because I already know I already know all we're going together, no.

Yeah, you want to see you vulnerable, huh? Hey, it's okay to cry? I know it is. Hey, I didn't see. I didn't, because I didn't, because I had put so much blame on me, I had dropped the two-point conversion. I had dropped the crucial third down. I had put so much on me.

I couldn't let her see me break down because I know I was going to break down. Hey, Uncle, it's okay to be vulnerable, huh? See, I'd be crying on the show, live in front of everybody. I don't be can. that's uh yeah just like and plus i just want i just wanted to talk i just wanted to talk to my brother i just needed to hear his voice because he's that he's that soothing he's that calm that let me know it's okay yeah and that's that's that's what i got so what josh is feeling what dion doggis is feeling i felt the same thing i was just able to keep it i was just able to hold it together on camera

but trust me when i got in that car yeah damn uh I'm sorry, I'm sorry about that, man. Boy. I mean, you play shitty, boy. Yeah, I caught a touchdown, Ocho. I'm feeling good, Ocho. Call, put in motion, went down to, ah. I was like, you know, I put a move on the motion.

Yeah. Got up to sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Called like a 20-something yard, 27-yard touchdown. We were hype. Go back down the field, scored again. Two points, because we kick two field goals. Then we've got a touchdown.

And the might say, we've got to go for two, going for two. Yeah. Oh, man, I still. Damn, uncle, you drop it? Hey, you're sorry, man. You're sorry, y'all. What I say? The mind replayed with the heart can't delete.

I was heartbroken. I replayed that over and over. I mean, think about it. I mean, I won three Super Bowl. I was a multiple time all pro pro pro pro bowl player. I'm in the pro football Hall of Fame. Every state that I've ever lived in, I'm in the sports hall of fame.

I'm in the Division 2 Hall of Fame and the Black College Hall of Fame that play. Damn. That play. I still think about it. And don't worry about it now, boy. That was a long time ago, boy.

It is. I mean, sometimes I find myself, I mean, you know, I just be, I find myself just thinking like, damn, whatever. But then I flip sides of it with Shannon, that was the catalyst for you guys to get,

go get back to back. But then I start talking to Burns. I start talking, man, man, we, you know we should have three-peated. Then all of a sudden, all those emotions that I felt so many, many years ago start coming back. Ain't back. Dang.

I, I, I, I, that's, I think that's one of my problems because I try to be, I try to be a perfectionist. I try,

I try to do every single thing right. Yes, and I try to do, I try to take every step to make sure it's right. And when, and when it's not, boy. It hurt.

You got to understand, but you're human, man. You're human. As much as we want to be perfect in all that we do. Yes. Yes. My sister tell me that all the time, much. Yeah, human error is inevitable. No matter how much we try to perfect our craft or perfect the way we walk,

you know, in the steps of the big man upstairs, man. Man, we all backslide at some point. We all fall short at some point. And then the thing is, I go to Baltimore, and I'm known as a Jaguar Killer. Two game winning tough guys against them jokers. Set up another game when they keep field goal. Yeah. I was like, okay.

Yeah, okay, okay, Jaguar killer, a little joke. Okay. Hey, hey, y'all. Yeah, yeah, I declawed them. Give them them clogged. You can't do nothing. Who are the claws down? I declawed him.

Let me stop for, you know, Peter be talking all crazy, reckless. They got mad at Kim Kardashian because you wouldn't bought some dogs and didn't go to the pound. Ocho, yeah. We're going to put this loss on Josh?

Yeah. Yeah, uh. We put it on every other quarterback when they lose. This is on John. Because we gave a ton of credit last week against Jagged, did we, Ocho? They gave a lot. Game a lot.

The on us on that win was Josh Allen. So the on this loss is on Josh Allen. He did have four turnovers. He played like doo-doo, boy. He played like dude. I ain't talking about any kind of doo-doo. I'm talking about like diarrhea, like slippery. Yeah, like, like messy.

Hey, tonight's bad from 17, what? You know, and I'm, you know, I'm not one to really criticize, but I've gotten better at being able to express myself when someone doesn't play up the bar. Based on standards of being of MVP, caliber quarterback and not having to deal with your nemesis. No, he ain't no MVP, Calibaba quarterback. He had an MVP.

He got it. He got the award last year, remember? Okay, I bet. There ain't no caliber. Right, right. Yeah. Hey, boy, and you know who Mr. Hanky is? You're on Wild South Park?

Oh, no. Yeah, well, Josh Allen played like Mr. Hanky tonight, on. I let, I let Ash or Jordan, they can tell you who Mr. Hanky is, but he played like Mr. Hanky tonight, boy. For the most part, if it ain't a, if we're not critiquing a movie for a Netflix or a movie house, if it ain't sports, someday,

if sports, like if we got, let's just say, we're going to be off Tuesday and Wednesday. If the Lakers not playing, my team don't even come on. I go days without even TV even coming on. And like I said,

if we not go, if I ain't got to watch to talk about it on nightcap, TV ain't coming home. Yeah. I got to get my, I have to give my line of break because I mean, bro, I go. I mean, I'm all in.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I make it look easy because I enjoy what I do. I love what I do. This is my passion. I'm passionate. God has blessed me with tremendous recall. He's blessed me with the ability

to express myself and have a way with words and I can make people laugh. I can be serious what I need to be. But sometimes you just have to turn your mind off, Joe. And it's hard. I can turn my mind off and not watch TV. But then I'm like, try to go to bed. And I just sit there, two, three hours at a time.

I mean, sometimes I go to bed like after nightcap. Hmm. I look at my watch, it's like 2 o'clock at the morning. Knowing I got to get up at 630, because I just go bark one time. Right. I mean, it's time to go. Let me just say here.

And then you bark two times. and then I said, well, I got to get up because he's going to wake the little ones up. So, Josh, I feel you. Now, don't think, now, I ain't going to put all this blame. A lot of this blame on you. I empathize with you.

Now, I do. You end it, though. Yeah. But just know, you don't play. They like some stir fry. Oh, Joe, did you see the flag plant before the game? The flag plan. Hey, man, I've seen that jacket you had on.

Get the black, man. You're right? Yeah, yeah, I got, look at them. Look at the jacket. Hey, but that jacket, well, I don't know me you got that from, boy. That jacket 27 years old. That jacket is 27 years old.

Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. That thing, when I knew, that's the first thing I saw, I saw the video when you got out of the truck. I'm like, well, what's that in on-side-old? Yeah, that thing is a nice, yeah, man. You know, Jeff Hamilton.

Actually, he's going to make us some nightcap jackets. For real? Oh, man. Hey, that's, I need a law. Hey, you know, when we go to Santa Clara now, you know it's going to be cold up there all week. He won't be able to turn it around that quick. It's like a two-month, yeah, because they're the handmade.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Hey, let me see my, I didn't see, I was talking to all with you. I didn't see the flag plant. Run it back. Yeah, run that thing back. thing back. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're

got a high. Little flag playing. Okay. Yeah. I see you. You should have me out there on the field. Let me plant that thing. No, what you should have done is you should have wrote the horse out of the goddamn tunnel. I told you, man. Hey, you got to make a statement, man.

When you get an opportunity to go back to the stadium, you don't go too often, you've got to come in there with some style and grace. I made a statement. One time when I skydied in the statement, that was the last statement. I was making it in a mile high. Other than I'm getting my ass out of vehicle.

Hold on. You skydived? I skydived in the mile high. That? 2009. Well, boy, you do a dendal. Okay?

You know, the end up the day. I used to do something. Hey, so that means you won't have no problem to get on the back of one of them boas with your boy, huh? Not with these hips. Oh, no. Man,

I, you weren't, oh, you weren't here, Ocho. Man, my knees still hurt from bowling. I almost pulled my glute. That's why I started throwing the ball like that because I couldn't get into the slide. Man, my glue, man, don't laugh on your.

Man, my glue don't fire, man. Hold on, speaking of you, you told the chat, how I whipped you in mind? No, I didn't tell nobody. We hold it up on that. But you know, but you know who bragging, though. I just want you to know who bragging. Oh, yeah.

Hey, he's talking, he's talking heavy. Yeah, man. Okay, okay. See, okay. I got something. Oh, yeah, I got some. Oh, I definitely. I definitely got to get Joe.

He already know it. Oh, Joe, Brazil. Hey, Unk, man, listen. I don't know how to explain it. Hey, chat, I don't know. Unk, you don't really watch soccer like that. But I had the opportunity, man. I had the opportunity to meet Resilion Ronaldo,

who is arguably the greatest, complete Renado or Ronaldino? No, Ronaldo. You know what I know Ronaldinho like this. We were cool, but I never had the opportunity to meet Ronaldo. The Brazilian Ronaldo

who won the World Cup 2004? Oh. I think it was 2004. I felt like a little kid. I felt like a little kid. I don't think, I don't, it's hard to explain

meeting someone of that magnitude that you have been a fan of for years and you always watch videos, you watch highlights, you was able to see him when you were in high school, watching play, knowing how great he was,

and finally being able to be right there up close in person and person with him and talk, and he, his English was okay. And it was like, I'm not calling him a God. I'm not calling him a God. It's like, like Godlike.

Like to see him walking to that stadium and see all the, the Brazilian fan thought they went crazy. They went crazy. And people in the chat, unless you understand soccer, it'd be hard for you to understand that feeling I had. And then I met Namar as well. You know your first time meeting Namar?

My first time meeting Namar. First, I'd have met everybody else, and it's my first time meeting Namar. And to meet both of them at the same time within a 10-minute span. I tweeted, I know what it felt like to get drafted. by the Bengals. I know what it felt like to get that phone call. And today, the butterflies, the nervousness of meetings, players of that magnitude, it almost trumps that feeling of drafting, getting that phone call from Mike Brown, like Dow. Like, I'm talking about unbelievable. I don't

know who is someone that you enjoy watching them in their respective craft. And if you ever had the opportunity to meet him is like, wow, I can't believe it. I told him, he was levitating with Michael Jordan. Everybody tell the same story. You know that, you know that feeling? You know that feeling when you met Mike? Bingo. Same thing.

Same thing. And to meet two of two legends at the same time, I doubt. It was unbelievable. And you know, it's funny, I had on this jersey. The jersey I have on right now, Grimio is a team here in Brazil where Ronaldino played when he was younger. And they made me take the jersey off at the stadium I was at. Because the stadium I was at is where Palmaris plays,

and it was the rival. So it was somewhat of a disrespect in a sense. It made me take my jersey off and had to put something else on. But outside of that, people here in Brazil, though pure class, showed love. It was awesome. I played here in the Kings League, a little 77 league. It was awesome.

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