2021 Divisional Round Weekend Recap

the NFL is king, look, it kind of is. When weekends like this go down where it's just takes over the culture and divisional round playoff football played at the peak level of drama. It doesn't get any better. And we talked about it. The wild card round was a little bit of you know, dud. This one, Greg was as good as any I can remember. I think it was the best ever pound for pound. Yeah, and I

feel personally responsible for making happen. That's one thing, like what with us working for the We we did it. We put this together. We put the Bills Chiefs last. Right. You almost thought, I thought at the beginning of that game, it's like this weekend has been so good that almost inevitably, maybe this game will be one sided or won't be as like insane of an ending, as the two NFC games were, but then you were so happy that it

was last. I watched the end of the game almost with my kids, and watching them go nuts, Uh, just got me thinking about what you're saying about NFL being king because they they're not Bills or Chiefs fans, and they they were kind of tuned, starting to tune out towards the end because you know, it's been a long week at of football watching. And when those two teams started going back and forth in the end, they are screaming and yelling and running around and jumping and hugging,

even though they're not rooting for either team. And I was I'm just thinking, like, that's that's how you get them, Like they're gonna be paying that cash to the NFL for the rest of their lives. Got them in that particular game we'll talk about for fifty years. The contrast for me was my family left for a little bit.

I went I normally watched these games in the garage and that's where I stationed box rams, but I went into the house, uh, to go watch the rest of it, and then came here in the middle of Chiefs in the Chiefs Bills colossal event. I went back into the garage right before leaving to go turn it off, and there was this that that station had switched to a like low level college basketball game. In the contrast between what we have experienced and that sporting event, it was

so incredibly low level and depressing. The NFL is has no competition and oranges like and just saying that. Anybody imagine the human being that switched to watch that instead. And I was say that, you know, I love sports. I love you know, basketball, baseball, football, There's always been the big three for me, even college football for instance, like in the playoffs. I can get into that, but

there's something different about the NFL. If you're watching their postseason, where I just I'm fully invested as if I'm like the Jets were playing in the game. It's always it's heightened if your team is actually involved, but the games are just there's so much at stake, and you could feel it and you see it the way these teams play. Some of the teams that you see meltdown, and there

were a couple including both top seeds. Um you see what pressure does to some teams and some players, and you see how it makes some players greater, and that's where Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen come in. So we're gonna get into all the games, but we have to start. I think I was thinking about this driving in that this might be my pick for the best game in

the history of the Around the NFL podcast. Now I don't have again, like maybe a Patriot fan feels differently about some of those Super Bowls, and there have been some great ones, but in terms of just the field of the game, the vibe of the game, the greatness on display from both sides, this to me is the best of the A T N era. So let's get to it. Ricky, Let's fly thirty six thirty six time overtime, Chief's first down and goal to go. Mahomes looks to

throw it pump thaking right side. He wants a come back and is trued by Kelsey touchdown cansa city one of the greatest tools in the history of the National Football League. Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelsey, all the push fade, comeback and the Chiefs have one that's incredible. Divisional playoff game and overtime. There you go. See the great ones rise to the challenge. Mitch holt is is another one.

W D A F don't give up. Patrick Mahomes finds Travis Kelsey in the corner of the end zone eight yards early in ot Chiefs ali to beat the Bills in one of the most wild games you'll ever see in the playoffs, a game where the lead changed hands three times in the final two minutes of regulation. Harrison Buttger, you know, maybe he was feeling a little pressure when he was found out he was the number one kicker on the A T N kicker power ranks. Yeah, yeah,

he felt that pressure early in the game. But when he needed to make the kick, he hits the forty nine yard or as time expired to four, so t and then the Chiefs win the coin toss. And that's annoying because you wanted to see Josh Allen, who was a beautiful football man in this game, to do his thing. But the Chiefs take care of business. They take them go right down the field. Let's start, Greg, There's so much to get to it for this game, but why

don't we start with where we're at. When the Bills once again with Gabriel Davis finding the end zone um for another touchdown, it's a nineteen yard touchdown pass. The cornerback falls down. It is now thirteen seconds in regulation. It's thirty six to thirty three after the p a T from Tyler Bass And that's the game. That's when everything it should have been over, and yet it wasn't. I left, so I I told you, I watched the end of that game with my kids. Thirteen seconds left.

We had to drive. We're driving into the studio. We're in a different studio so we can be safely socially distanced. We're not in our podcast studio where where where we taped a t on the other day and games that's room. This room is completely safe. We are, you know, like one or two ft extra apart. And I just thought, I and and the kids said, oh, it's not over.

And I said, well, there's thirteen seconds left. All you gotta do is pop it up before the end zone or uh, you do a squid kick, because you've got to teach the kids situational football early in their life, and that's gonna take off at least five or six seconds. Uh. Then, Pat, you know you have seven seconds, seven eight seconds. You got one play. I'll listen on the radio. It should

be fine, and that's terrible strategy overall. Greg, I texted you as well, Greggy, this game is not over a game like this, do you really want to be in the car? You're tasting fate? How much time are you really saving? Ultimately, when one of the greatest games of all time has thirteen seconds ago and the greatest quarterback in football is heading on the field, and Gregg, we had already told you you can take you have a window of time to get here. We're fair. I was

still the last one to get here. I didn't want to hold you guys up. I was trying to be considered. And you know, you put the game pass on in the car. You you could watch it. You listen there and maybe it's not me. It's not It's not the safest thing in the world, but that that's just what I assumed. But it was stupid because thirteen seconds is officially too much time to leave mahomes. But it was a mistake that the Bills made that. I'm sure they'll answer and and we'll look for that, but it how

do you not do that? They get They must have talked about it. I hope it wasn't just like go out there and kick it through the end zone. Tony Ramo mentions it right before the play. They they don't they don't harm harp on it because the game gets

crazy from there. And yes, you should make the stops defensively at this point, but you know, the Chiefs have all those time outs, and when you think like, well that's that's not much time, Tyreek Hill just took it sixty four yards on you on the last play that the Chiefs had. I wasn't trusting any defense and that spot, and so that was just one mental mistake from a coaching staff that otherwise, you know, I think had a

good day and it's a good coaching staff. I love the point because if you're the Bills at that stage or the Chiefs, you realize that both defenses have been like abducted, abduct abducted by the Hilbop comment, they don't exist. I don't care about Buffalo's number one ranked unit. That means literally nothing at this point. Uh, the game is clearly not over. And if you give them that chance, Mahomes and what was happening at that point, they're gonna

get that, They're gonna get into field goal range. It's far too risk you could have ended the game. And it is ultimately, yes, Bass kicks it through the back of the end zone. They shouldn't have done that. That was a strategic error. But they're still set up obviously

they even then. If I if you had told me they were doing a touch back, I still would have thought had been because if it's still it's either two plays in a in a long ass field goal attempt, or two plays and one of them is a hail mary or a hook and ladder, uh trick play of some kind, and it's probably over unless you give up the nineteen yard reception to Hill. And that's okay. You kept you kept it in front of you, he stayed

in bounds. All that, that's okay. But the one that's gonna stick with them and stick to their ribs even more than the kickoff, I think, is they let Kelsey come off, unchecked, unmolested, straight down the seam, turns and he's wide open and he rumbles twenty five yards and it was as easy as possible. There was, there was no resistance. There's two people who can't beat you there, Kelly Entyreek Hill, and you let one of them beat you, and and you know Bucker makes the kick and then

the coin tosses lost in the rest of history. And I thought the defense, you know, for much of the game before this thing got completely out of hand, and what twenty five points were scored in the final two minutes of regulation. I thought the Bills defense came into this game focusing on trying to stop Kelsey. And I know it got out of hand, but that's what they tried to do early. And by the end, I mean,

the bow had totally broken. Well, it was twenty six to one at the two minute warning and and Josh Allen was facing a fourth and thirteen. Is that the play? I mean that it is ridiculous to think that that was the score at the two minute warning and the final score was forty two to thirty six. Just to close close the book on the the lack of a squid kick or he could have popped it up, I think that would have been the move. I mean, they

practiced this stuff and every single day. He said, and he was asked about it three times, that it was a failure, that was an execute it was an execution problem. And he takes responsibility, which which is kind of a non answer. But but to move it back to that two point conversion. That's where it really goes great. I mean a two minute warning. It was fourth and thirteen. And that's part of what I think has to hurt for Bills fans right now is that Josh Allen was

on another planet. So is Patrick Mahomes. Those two guys, I think we're taking plane quarterback to about as high a level as you possibly could. But Josh Allen in these two games was as good as they've ever seen any quarterback period, and they lost the game. Like the place he was making down the stretch and gave Davis too, you know, make a move to put his cornerback in the dirt to shake up on that fourth and thirteen for the touchdown. It's just it's crazy to play that

well and lose well. And so before the fourth and thirteen, the touchdown to Gabe Davis, he also converts the fourth and four Josh Allen, he he also completes the two point conversion. Is Stefon Diggs. And if you came into this game, and if you had one factory when we're doing these preview shows and someone said Stefan Digs would have seven yards receiving in this game, you would think

the Bills are likely in serious hot water, potentially doomed. Instead, you got game Dave Gabe Davis becoming the first player in NFL history to catch four touchdown passes in a playoff game two hundred plus yards. He was out of his mind in this affair. Let's hear him, Mahomes, because yeah, I think this will be when this is replayed forever on NFL network and anywhere else, it will be remembered

as the Mahomes Josh Allen duel. At the end, Let's hear Mahomes talking about this great shootout between two future Hall of famers. I'm going there. Yeah it was. I mean it was a heck of the game. I mean seventeen Josh played it, played his asshole as pardon my language, I mean it was. It was a great game to two great football teams, and at the end of the day, gods like Tom Reagan Travis made the plays that that

wanted won us the game. And I thought that the shot of Josh Allen, and I feel everybody, I don't even know if you're listening, this might this is one of those games where Bills fans, you need a couple of days. Maybe you listen to the show, maybe you don't. I get it where you know your quarterback did something insanely special, and when he's sitting on the bench staring straight ahead, I think there's just shock because they went ahead. Of course, Uh, they go ahead on a on a

drive that ends at let's see where we're at. Pardon me. They go with one to go, they get the two point conversion. At that point, you think maybe that's the hero moment. And that was the Alan drive. That was where he is running. Basically every card on that drive was from him, whether it was scrambles, whether it was fourth down, and then try and run the clock out there.

They used seven minutes. Obviously it didn't work out, but they quickly give up the touchdown and then to go back down the field again six seventy five yards and seconds. Everyone in the building, Uh, since that, Oh my god, they actually have slayed the dragon. And I talked, we talked about it on the network show and a day. Uh, a bunch of wrong predictions. I had this u for these games. I went oh and four with my picks,

and that's fine. I have no problem with that. Actually, Um that there's gonna be a team that has like a heartbreaking loss this weekend that they'll they'll grow from it. It will be something to look back on. It is like the pivotal moment and their growth. And I thought it would be the Bengals, but I hope it's the Bills. I hope the Bills eventually get over the hunt because I felt so badly for not just the team and the coaching staff, but the fans that have to be

just dying right now. Well, you hope, you hope. It's a like a Michael Jordan's Bulls first Detroit Pistons scenario where there's been a couple tough playoff losses and this, you know, also sparks them to come back because they were the chiefs against the Page, the chiefs of Patriots. I mean, these are the growing pains and then the thresholds you have to go through. But um, I mean,

I'm with you. The Josh Allen look was a thousand yards stare because you're asking someone who's thrown nine touchdown passes in two playoff games to get on a plane and go home now, right. And also, if you're a Bills fan, you kind of think like, well, last year was that lost for us, Like this was our win. We were ahead with thirteen seconds to go in Kansas City. I've kind of I thought going into this game, the winner of this game is gonna win the Super Bowl.

I still feel that way, and I definitely was feeling that way with the Bills ahead with thirteen seconds left, and and there's just no guarantee. We say this every year around this time. That's like, it sounds good that you're building something and we'll be back. But I don't have to tell the Browns fan in the in the

room like it doesn't necessarily work out the way. The reason I think it hurts because I think Josh Allen was just playing the position at such an outrageous level that he was not going to allow his team to lose in these next few weeks no matter what. And maybe maybe he'll be like that again, and maybe the defense will be at even better coach than the future, and and they'll get their time. But but there's no guarantee.

The problem is he went against the quarterback that's basically at that level two and I thought it was interesting in the first half. I know it was only seven seven with two minutes to go in the first half.

But I thought that first half showed how much these two quarterbacks have evolved and gotten better, because I felt like the way defenses went at them all season, the whole story we talked about with the two high safety looks and like the ups and the downs of the Bills, like that all led to this moment where the Chiefs offense and the Bill's offense really solved those problems. The quarterbacks solved those problems on a Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady type of level, where it was like, you can

play us any type of way. Maybe you'll slow the game down, but you're not gonna stop us. Because they weren't really getting stopped in the first half. For the second half, the only time they got stopped is when they like ran the ball a couple of times in short yardage. It's just like they they showed the evolution of quarterbacks and and like how you can do it within a season even and and you still lose. Was I don't know, I'm just ranting. Goddamn, I mean it was.

Mahome said after the game. I will will remember this for the rest of my life. That's why I just to bring in full circle one again to me, the best game in a t N history. We'll look back and it'll be these two quarterbacks, young at the height of their power, is just going back and forth. I'm a little annoyed about the coin toss situation. I know, we don't need to talk about that because it's whatever. Whatever,

It's a bit basic, just like basic. Like Bill Kaer on CBS before the game kicked off said, the last team that has the ball is gonna win this game. It's like, goddamn right. So I watched the first CBS halftime of the year for my meet today, and at one point out of nowhere, he just went on a and I think, thank you Tom Brady for what Tom Brady has done in the league and ended it by saying, I love you Tom. Well, what is that, Ricky? If you can find that, can you play? You love? Don't you?

I love the four Niners, But I'll tell you what. I love the opportunity and watch Tom Brady what he's done. If he does has stepped down. We've been blessed to watch from the greatest of all time, the ambassador of the football game, National Football League. This guy represents everything that's right about it. I love you, Tom. You think he's watching when it's going so, I don't know the coin toss. That's the only thing Josh Allen did wrong. He called the wrong side of the coin, which is

not meant to be a skill set. It's not white. The only thing that Yes, they got to bring in Gino next year. They gotta get I think he's going to be available after that. D u I, Greg, I'll notice how the d U I for Gino? Just Greg was like, I'll make sure not to mention. That will just slip on. We've been, we've been in the playoffs and it was just a side um anyway, unbelievable game too, tremendous talents the Bills, and if you're a Bills fan listening, uh the game, no, I I tipped my cap. That

is that's some real fandom stuff. And hopefully, uh, the people of Western New York are covered from this one, because that is that's a stomach punch loss. That's it's it's pretty high up there. Like again, we've been doing this long enough where I'm thinking a t N are right still to me? The worst point, well, let's say so the Falcons lost obviously, um, Malcolm Butler Seahawks obviously, But to me, one that's right there is the Packers lost.

I think the Packers are the worst because they truly blew it in in impossible with Butler would have been my pick as the best game of the of the era because those are the two best teams in the NFL. A team going for a read. This was true, but it was a divisional round I I agree, but it was a divisional round game. So that's the super Bowl to the best teams, one going for a repeat, one trying to win, you know, a dynasty at first and

ten years. I'm just saying I'm going again. But this it will be interesting to look back if the Chiefs can win the Super Bowl here. I mean, this is historic stuff from Mahomes to try to get back to his third straight Super Bowl, to get to his second trophy, and it's sort of for Chiefs fans just desserts after losing that coin flip against Brady when it was it was three weeks ago, we were still asking do we trust this Kansas City offense? At this point? Can they

get out of this season long funk? That feels like fools conversation at this point, I like the minakime solutions. She basically said, blow up the rest of the postseason. Have these two teams just play best out of three. Just give us what we really need. How do you follow this? Wait? Would you? I mean, I get I get it. I don't think that's I don't think she's actually asking for I mean, what what would you do it? Overtime? Though? I I don't have an improvement about How about playoffs though?

Like if it's touchdown for touchdown until someone stopped, but then this second team has such an advantage, there's like no perfect wait if you if you know that you don't need the touch that's giving an advantage to losing the coin toss. Weirdly, it feels less unjust than what we witnessed here though the football, the modified overtime rules, Like younger listeners might not realize that, like eight years ago, it was just first score wins and that felt brutally

unfair on the coin toss. But what what really stinks about with these games? These classic games? And I was at one obviously it's not even the same ballpark, but the last time the Chiefs had a great overtime game where a lot of people were watching. I was in the stadium, but so far against the Chargers, and it was the same thing where these two teams are going

back and forth, these two great quarterbacks. The Chiefs win that coin flip and they go down the field because the other defense in addition to that, they can't figure out this all time quarterback on a heater or they're gassed. And that's what happened again here, just like in the Super Bowl three with the Falcons and the Page and the Chiefs Patriots a f C championship. I wasn't quitest confident there because the Patriots offense wasn't going as well.

The difference of like this game in that Chiefs Rams game was like, there was no turnovers in this game. There's no defense, there were no there were there were Chiefs to have a penalty. There are almost no penalties. There were almost no set There was like four sacks, there was no turnovers the few stops that they had.

And I guess, and I know we should move on, but you know McDermott did pass up that fourth down, that fourth and one, like there were a couple of moments where like that I know, but that that drive, that drive where basically Alan, you know, handed it off two straight times and then they punted and the drives were just so few in this game, you know, they just were holding the ball that that maybe, like I think they just had to be aggressive the whole time.

If you're the bum they got a little bit, they got a little safe for a stretch in the second half there, and I mean it was like Romo was harping on that. I think it was legit. I if I'm a Bills fan though that there the landscape is changing potentially because Brian day Ball, who has been in a mind meld with Josh Allen for years and and called an incredible game. Obviously today could be gone. Leslie Fraser could be gone. I'm not sure who's looking to

hire him after today's defensive performance. But I mean that that that is uh, this it's been so consistent there, you're losing two of your there's a wind, there's there's a window, and you have to when that windows open, you gotta find a way. But you can't really blame him, Like I was saying that the four Big Game, the mount rushmore of crushing losses. Since we're doing this podcast, Packers meltdown, Falcons meltdown, Seahawks play call apocalypse this Bills,

There was no meltdown. It was just a horrendously difficult loss where you greatness defeated greatness. But Dan, there was also Brown's Jets week three. I thought that that was on the mountain. If you want to add a fifth face, which that was the one where Sam Donald was outdueled by Baker Mayfield. That doesn't that feel small? Gre Gregg doesn't seem moved by that suggestion. Um, how about this one last statement game before we move on? Tony roma

Statement game a rama. He's heard the criticism. He's not immune to checking Twitter and the mentions. He knows people are saying he's not as good as he was a couple of years ago. He was. That was a masterclass. And I know from some behind the scenes infield that, Um, his son was in the booth for part for the booth for part of the game with him, so maybe

that inspired him. But uh, he is like I we have we have feed that you can hear what's happening during the commercial breaks, and it changed what I thought about Tony Romo. The person I really and I really admire me so nice Greg, Greg. That doesn't register with Greg being nice. He was genuinely was being incredible, like the way he got along with Nance. It was genuine

he real. Don't you remember when Tony Romo, when my wife was living in Dallas, came to her condo where my wife was living with other single women in Dallas, rang the doorbell and asked for band aids. I've never questioned whether he's nice. I mean no, I think that I think the quality of being nice doesn't seem to point was if you're gonna go as far as well I've gotten certain information about what's happening, because I don't say, I don't say. I don't think I'm supposed to give.

But if you're giving positive information, no one's gonna mind you're saying Mark, Greg doesn't being nice and stuff is not something that's important. Gad, it's in the media landscape. Greg would be more like, I'm going to cut off your head and then maybe bury your head in the dirt. Please, maybe i'd bury your head and leave your body on top of the ground and freezing weather. I think you're a nice guy, Greg, but not in the way that some other people deemed like a person being nice. You

are you have nice qualities though. I've Greg, in fact, gave me a book to read on Friday, which that's an example. It's he does very nice things for people who you want in your corner. You know that. Let's see listen, it's there's different levels of it. Um, all right, let's move on. I feel like we could have done the whole podcast. I know, I I kind of want to, but we can't. We need to move on. Let's go through the Devin Singletary contribution. At least we've saved the

best for last. To keep people around Honey Badger being out by the way, that was a big part of that game. In the middle of that defense for Casey was hurting there. All right, let's move on that. We gotta move on. A f C. Let's uh, let's let's finish out the a f C. We have the Kansas City Chiefs hosting the a f C championship game. This is the first franchise in NFL history to host four consecutive conference championship games. Who are they playing? Well, let's

talk about it after this break. McPherson ready from fifty two yards away, car Carouse will snap it back to Kevin Hubert for the win, to snap the puck down the swing the White Lady, it's on its way. Its good knows bam. That is unbelievable. Fifty four gun Nick fearless.

Then again Dan Horde and Dave Lap him Lap him being the fan in the booth love at w c K. Why with the call Rookie Evan McPherson kicked a fifty two yard field goals time expired, It lifted the four seed bangles pass the number one seed Titans, Titans fans. That comes so quiet, and the mentions after this game this night, No, you know what are they listening to this? Not a single not a single mention in the mentions about hey, maybe we were wrong. Well you've won, you've won.

That that tool with that group of people on Saturday. Uh. Just the Bengals snapped a thirty one year, of course, winless streak in the playoffs. Now they snapped the NFL's longest active road playoffs skid. And they do it with the performance that wasn't let's say this, Greg, it wasn't like as electrifying as we've seen Joe Burrow in the Bengals in recent weeks. But this was a tough, hard nosed win where they basically were able to beat the Titans at their own game. They won despite nine sacks

and losing both lines of scrimmage. Really, I mean they I think they did a good enough job against the Titans running game. But when they picked off those three Tannehill passes, which which really felt like the difference, it wasn't because of pressure. It was because of their coverage. Uh, it was because of Jesse Bates, like just fooling Tannehill's Tannehill forcing to pass at the end, and more importantly

on offense, it was Joe Burrow overcoming the pressure. Like they just like thinking about two plays in that game, but but starting with one is that Joe Burrow passed the chase to set up the game winning field goal. That was, you know against like this cover two look that the Titans had been throwing in. They're they're more of like a man team, but they've thrown it in

pretty effectively throughout the course of the game. And they said, you know, they've seen that, and they they knew it was possibly coming, and Burrow knew in his head what he was gonna do. They adjusted their game plan. Chase to me is as so mature as as a route runner. They're both seeing the field with the same eyes. They have the perfect calling and they like executed and that was the opposite of of what Tannehill and the Titans

offense did in the crucial moments. And sometimes it does to come down the quarterbacks, like the Bengals quarterback is way better. Yeah, and Burrow, you know, credited Zach Taylor for calling that play and said that they had seen the coverage on the tablet on the sidewalk line, Land knew what they knew what the Titans would do there.

I mean, Burrow executed, And like we're in a season where a lot of high octane rookie quarterbacks came into the league and look completely beguiled from what from wire to wire, I mean, maybe a couple of good moments second year quarterbacks too. And Burrow to take nine takedowns in this game and to show the composure he did and to simply be completely unflappable. The a f C North has changed for the next fifteen years. The a

f C has changed. I throw him right into the pile with Mahomes and Josh Allen, the Bengals who have been well, I'm just I'm just saying he's getting into that mix for me, and I don't need to go whoa, whoa, whoa. I honestly we're looking at that kind of player. I mean, we got knocked out the door first. No, I think you're probably right. Just to me, they're just a couple of years ahead. That's fine in their development, that's fine.

But I mean to me, it was like they took their defense to your door before you walk in there. I kicked the door open. I told you eight weeks ago that the Bengals were going to kick someone's but that I can do whatever I want to do. Mean, you you got on the Bengals bandwagon, then you jumped off. I didn't jump on, and you jump back on. You can't then jump I didn't jump off. I was my take looked bad because they lost a couple. They kind

of know that's your take. They they they kind of got they kind of fell into the up and down. Did you take them to beat the Chiefs when they were playing the Chiefs? I don't think so. You know, you two are unbelievably un annoying to hang out with. Most of the time Burrow in this game, though, two hundred and forty two yards after the catch. A lot of it was not downfield throws like you've seen in

other games where it was deep shots. It was his receivers making a lot of action happen after they caught short passes. I mean, he had three passes of fifteen plus eight yards and none over twenty the entire game. If you're a Titans fan, you're you're so disappointed, obviously because this is now the third time they've been the number one seed and got knocked out. And also, uh, you know, I was having some fun a few minutes ago. But you know, they were very They had their chests

out the fan base. They thought, we're gonna show you what you don't. You don't think we're a true number one, We're gonna show you something. And part of the reason they had confidence to the party. I wish Grave Digger was here because I'd love to hear his thoughts on this. But we'll get it eventually. Um, Ryan Tannehill was a guy to trust. He was a guy to trust in these situations. We talked about it on our TV show

on Friday. On Saturday, it was like Listen, we all know Joe Burrow is a rising superstar in the league. Tannehill might not have that ceiling, but he is a damn good quarterback. And then he goes out and throws an interception on the first pass of the game. He throws an interception, uh a couple of quarters later after that, and then throws the interception that sets up the game winning field goal. He came up small. There are a

few small performances from veteran players. Uh, we're gonna get to the Packers in a little bit, um, but Tannehill, it can't There's no other way to go around it. He he kind of let him down here. He also had a E. J. Brown open on a deep shot that would have been a game changer in this and he missed him on that. He was just off. And I think that the Bengals did a good job. You know, Loui and Aramo who we uh, you know, we've you know, we we used to kick his butt around on the

show a year ago. He's now interviewed for the Giants job because I think he put the Titans. How quickly things changed? Do change, because the whole Bengals changed. But on top of it. We were wondering what version of Derrick Henry do you get? And we just didn't get. He ran well, I thought early on, but he just wasn't able to take over the game. There was one

moment in this game that I thought was awful. It was a third and inches play where they had Tannehill and shotgun and he takes the snap and he winds up running the ball. Just why not just QB sneak it there? Tannehill is good at that. I mean, like they you're you're asking him and that then and then on fourth down to give it to Henry and he stuffed drive over right. They they weren't helped by Henry returning.

Now I don't I don't know if donte Foreman helps them win the game, but like I don't know that he wouldn't have I mean, his his his forty five year run that he had and he had another. Um, we're two of the best runs of the game. I mean the forty five years and was the best round of the game. And then he had another. I'm failing to remember how how long it went for, but he ended up four for sixty six. But they were loyal to Henry Henry gets stuffed on the two point conversion,

which which looking back, was such a crucial play. It was a great play by Clay Johnston. But this was an offensive line that was used to leaning on teams and leaning on them throughout the course of a game, and it just didn't happen for them this game. Tannehill actually hit like a lot of big plays. I mean, Brown goes five for one forty two. You know, he

hit him downfield a couple of times. They had the big plays, but that that interception he had and just to put you know, the time on it, you have to get to overtime. There it is in saying that the Titans had the ball left with twenty eight seconds left on a third and five on their own forty and they lost in regulation. On that play, he forces

it into Westbrook Kina. You know, you can do the thing where you kind of pose it and you see that there's actually a tight end coming open in the flat, and you lose the game throwing it to Westbrook Kna. Julio is not on the field. Julio had a nice game. That's weird. They don't throw to a j. Brown. But the thing that gets me with that play where you talk about veterans and where like Joe Burrow was not

making that mistake. There's no pressure. So like he made a bad decision with no pressure, throwing it into a crowded area to a bad receiver with no pressure. Like that's that's like a mental thing. That's a short circuiting. We gotta talk Kevan McPherson. He converted his eleventh field goal from fifty yards or longer, the most in a season for one player. He also became the first kicker in NFL history with at least four or more field goals in multiple games in a single post season, He's

played two both games, he's four for four. Here's what Joe Burrow had to say about the last kick. So he was talking to Brandon as he was going out to kick. He'd give a little warm up swing and he said, it looks like we're going to then FC championship right before he went out there to kick it. And when you have a kicker, I mean, we knew exactly what we had as soon as he walked into the building in camp, and we just saw how he carried himself. Oh, let's let's go behind the velvet. Ropes

for a second here, Evan McPherson. He's moved all the way up now to number one the kicker power right in the playoffs. Justin Tucker still in his own world, and I wonder if he changes the way teams start looking at the kicker in the draft. Taking in the fifth round, it's you're not Roberto Aguayo. I think scared off a lot of teams that second round pick of the Bucks. That was a horrific misfire. And you've seen

it every couple years. Somebody really reaches, but teams that have avoided it completely take a look at the draft classes, because look how much a great kicker can change a Teamskowski was a fourth round pick and you had it, got a lot of grief at the time. There he's in the back right now, pop and getting rid of minitary And I always thought like people like you can't believe you a wasted draft pick out a kicker, Like what your fourth and fifth round picks are changing your franchise?

Ever ms They always think the safety they take in the sixth round is actually a big time if you believe in them. And you're right obviously with McPherson, but if you believe in them, even in you're only halfway right, Like, that's a perfectly acceptable There's twenty five scenarios a season where a better kicker is gonna give you a chance to win. We look at Justin Tucker Tucker for the Ravens obviously, but you've added Burrow and McPherson over the

course of two seasons. It completely changes the Bengals. How many there Burrow and McPherson. No, but you know what, but honest like, how how many teams with good quarterbacks are riding shaky streets because the kicker you can't trust me your third and fourth Kickerycember, big Bone, Randy on their roster, which I think they did at some point. Uh, they're not playing for the a f C Championship on Sunday.

It's simple as that. I mean, he's that important. Did you guys see the clip that was circulating today that was on TikTok, but it made it to Twitter too.

There's a video of McPherson kicking it and there's a gatorade bottle to the pylon and he kicks the ball like a field goal range and the ball hits the cap and unscrews the Gatorade cap and it's like crazy, Cincinnati's got swag coming out of their ears between Nick fearless, Chase Stewing, the gritty and Burrow like, who's just like on another level with the way dresses and the way he plays and people weren't driving last night in Cincinnati

was like my senses that sound like stew and Bible alcohol. It's crazy though, because like you watch this game, did you guys get the feeling that like the Bengals were better? You know? I mean it was just even it was a field goal game, they eight were dominated. Their offensive line was dominated in such a manner in a winning performance unlike anything I've ever seen. I mean, Burrow has to take some of those sacks as his own responsibility.

A couple of times he was protected and he held the ball too long and he's trying to make a play. I would say at least three of those times once knocked him out of field goal range. It wasn't it wasn't a perfect game from Burrow. In fact, before that field goal, uh, they had gone three and out interception punt punt uh in the drives before that field goal. But the reason is because all day he was in third, third and eighteen. They they had they faced at one point,

third and fourteen, third and sixteen, third and eighteen. Like their offensive line was absolutely manhandled. Jeffrey Simmons had as good a performance as anyone not named Aaron Donald has had a defensive tackle. Like they still won the game. I don't know. There's part of me that feels very like like that was problem, that was a problem them that I'm worried about that, but that is and the Packers were the same way the Titans. They I thought

they were a little bit tight in this game. I thought, you know, you saw the defense defense borrow to nineteen points exactly. But just that idea of like being at home, having the opportunity to take care of business and just not quite being there, not executing the way you were when there was less pressure on you at the end

of the season, when you had that winning streak. I don't know, it's just it's very frustrating, I imagine for t for the Bengals, like you know, we'll look forward all week, but it's two weeks in a row where you can look at a series of drives and it's the protections. First of all, like coaching staff, maybe can we figure out how to stop some of the bleeding with the Joe Burrow punishment midway through this game? There was no answer for that. But Raiders game this game,

they're not finishing certain drives. That's not gonna work against Kansas City. Well. I also think their weaknesses have matched up really poorly. Their interior line is where they're just terrible. Chris Jones, you have owns and Jaren Reid coming. But but the thing Burrow did that like Tannehill didn't at all, and no one on the Titans offense did, was like he made plays that weren't there. There's a play I can think of where they knew he was gonna roll out,

like they didn't bite on the play fake. He has a defender right in his face and they have two defenders on Jamar Chase. I think it was a third down, Maybe it wasn't. That play is defended perfectly, like the coach had the exact play in everyone's in place. It's three on two. Burrow makes the miss and then he gets into Chase, who makes two guys miss and they pick up a first down. And that's kind of just like our players are better than your players. I don't

care about he is. He is mentally tough and makes me think of Ricky Hollywood. There's a parallel with the way that two of them operate in their in professions. Here's the good news, by the way, how he kind of got into this game? You said, Joe Burrows there with Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes are right there. We get to find out that's gonna be a made because Josh Allen did literally everything he a do and it

still wasn't enough to knock off the Chiefs. Joe Burrow is gonna have to deliver on a similar scale, and he did. He did. He did it in Arrowhead, which I don't know if that helps it hurts either team in in particular, but they know they can come from behind. But the Deserts not buying it. I mean the Chiefs. The Chiefs went into this game barely favored over the Bills. Uh, the Chiefs are favored by a touchdown next week. Well, I mean, the Desert has adored Kansas City all season,

so I I'm not overly concerned with that. All right, Uh, let us before we move on to the NFC side of action. We do have the Bill Cower comments on Tom Brady. Would you like to hear them? Please? Why not? Okay, go ahead, Ricky, you love don't you love the four Niners? But I'll tell you what. I love the opportunity and watched Tom Brady and what he's done, if he does, has stepped down. We've been blessed to watch from the greatest of all time, the ambassador of the football game

on National Football League. This guy represents everything that's right about it. I knew I didn't. I love you, bro, That's not gonna work with day and I can tell you that much. Well. The funny thing, too, is James Crowd asked him about the forty diners. All right, Well, you know he answered the question you wanted to answer his own way. Before we move on, you guys were all with lakisha Um. I didn't make it over, But

how cool was that when they hit that kick? I mean, I think someone of you vid like she was on top of the world and that must have been so nice. It was really nice. I'll be together at all these days, but watching a football game like we did it outdoors? Link is there. He slept through the first half came out for the second half. Walker was there, you know,

Connie and Gonza were all there. It was beautiful, and I don't know, like we're along for this, right She's already thinking like what if there's a Bengals ram Super Bowl, who do I root for? We'll be confusing. And it's so funny because like I was driving home after the game from Lakisha's and it was like, imagine, like having

this conversation, where would West be at right now? Bengal situation Now, it's kind of it's taken on a life of its own on on Twitter and amongst like the listeners, and there's a general vibe like Bengals of the team of a t L, this is for West and all this stuff. We don't know like where West would actually come down in Cincinnati at this point in time, but there is still like this like kind of spiritual bond

and it just connects. It's just it's been very nice and his brothers, I mean, we like we've been texting with now. I mean, West is was the most stubborn friend I've ever had, So I am not just assuming that he would have flowered open and become this giant Bengals fan this season, Yet there are elements of the Bengals that West would have loved about. What does he do when that when that field goal goes through the

uprights fifty two yards? I think I think it would have melted his heart by then, would have melted to some degree on the Bengals front. But would Link be in a Bengals shirt? No way, no way. I don't know. I don't know. We were talking about this in in the moments after two. Yeah, I I kind of don't think he would fully embrace it all. But you know, Wes, like there were times where he'd say one thing and I think he would still like be appreciate. First of all,

he'd appreciate the borough of of it all. He'd appreciate that his brothers are having some fun. And even if he wouldn't want to like admit it, I think he would just enjoy that it's like interesting, like, oh, this is a fun new life experience I'm having um and and it makes it bitter sweet to say the least.

Definitely bitter, but it was it was beautiful to be out there like friends like I. That was one thing I was thinking, was like he'd he'd appreciate that we are all getting together and that we're all together as a family with his family, right, and he'd appreciate how much it means to Lukisha because it does for her, it ties to him, and that is Lukisha's mom sitting you know, in the back with a notebook full of notes. She walked up to me, like what happened on that

last trial? She's charting every day and I showed her like NFL Jesus, like, if you'd like this can help you too. But I love that you're by hand. From the first snap she was she had her notebook out, she's taking notes. Uh. She she is the best. I'd love to We've kind of had her on the podcast. But at one point I kinda I kind of rolled up next to and I saw her notebook and I said, what you got in there? She's like nothing, Yes, she's

not afraid to kind of just go quiet. But then as we were leaving, she gathered us all together and said some really nice words about how important it was to be together and how much it means with West and everything is just like all right, that's a special woman. All right. I'm so pissed at duty. We were supposed to be there for a little bit. We did have a prior engagement, but we go there first. The Bengals

were't supposed to get this far. I mean, what do you mean that I've had a I've had a brunch plan for a long time for someone's birthday during a playoff game. He's still technically in her twenties, so brunches

matter on level. That weekend, it was someone's birthday and I had said yes, but Jet was supposed to be done school and we were going to go to Keisha's first, and then you know, she just took way too long and we're doing the pod right now, right, but I'm mad that I'm not there, and she she was like, I know how much this meant to you, And I was like, clearly, you really hustled zero. We have all right, let's welcome in Jet to share her thoughts on how

this played out. Erica was handling at six in the morning. I do like that bar quite like during a playoff game. He's well, no, but it's like, I'm sorry, but this is our core. I mean, I know you were probably tracking it heavily on your phone. Yeah, we do. We're hearing from the Wesleyan brothers, Nick saying that Tim sounded like he was having a fake orgasm at one point, which I thought was, uh an interesting response. And I

just want to give Dan credit. U sixteen to six Titans, not to go back to the game, but one sixteen to six Titans, they just I think, for a minute, just hit that play. They're in shotgun, and as they're getting ready for this, that did goes don't throw it, don't throw it, do not throw this ball. In three seconds later, Tannehill threw that interception where on the stage. So there was another moment where Dan was a great job.

Dan raised incredible alarm um at this garden party because Joe Burrow got hit and it looked like for a minute he was slightly uncomfortable in the the area, and Dan sounded like he had been taken out in the stomach by a bow and arrow, but instead, uh, you know, listen, Joe Burrow is one of the most exciting aspects of this NFL season. He's coming off a catastrophic knee injury. And he got hit low and then grabbed his leg and I went, I'll move my micare I'm like and

then Greg was legitimately upset. He was like, hey, calm down about that easy, and then Tanna's nothing wrong with this. Tannehill did actually look like he was hurt. A little bit later, I was like, Dan, please, you know fill it. I haven't say that, but I was just trying to coach you up a little bit. Cop doubt. You're around a bunch of people like Joe Burrow's mom there, we're there. Who am I not? Who? I'm just saying, if you're gonna yell out like that, be a little more sure

that something bad happened. Social dynamics class. You don't need to alarm the masses that Burrow blew out of. Greg also dropped an F bomb in front of his child Walker at one point, which I noticed, So, you know, everyone paying attention. So he turned and looked at you, and I saw in his eyes he had never heard that come out of your mouth. Dan did a great job playing quarterback into it, and I appreciate it. Yes, we had a great time. Dan was the dad I

I could ever be. I I was really in the doghouse with Greg about referencing Joe Burrows and the injury, but then I played with Walker it was like back in do we need to take a break. Let's take a break and then hit the NFC. Lets go fund Jet's body, you wish. Matt Gay with four seconds on the clock, well attempt a thirty yard field goal with the right foot kick on. It's one. It is through. It is good. That game brings it home. There is j B. Long. He deserves it. He's got a lot

of pop on the show. With the call KSPN, Matt Gay thirty yards out the difference and at win for the Rams over the Bucks. Moves the Rams back to the NFC title game, a game that the Rams led three at the half and to three in the third quarter before a series of self inflicted errors opened the door for what could have been one of the great collapses in NFL playoff history. Cam Akers played a major role with two lost fumbles in that, but that was

just two of many errors the Rams made. Matt Gay himself fell short on a forty seven yard field goal attempt in perfect conditions. There was a wayward snap, all sorts of things going on. But when it came down to it, mark when the walls are falling in and it goes from seven to three to seven to seven. Late in the fourth quarter, matt Stafford dropped back and made the past to Cooper Cup. That's set up the

field goal. Cooper Cup, who I just consider to be the m v P. I don't really care who they name m v P at this point, because he saved the Rams season. He had the early touchdown that Matthew Stafford later called, uh, you know, his route essentially a love of the game route where he's a decoy trying to pull defensive backs away, but he was left open. Scored that one, scored the game winner. This is exactly

why you went and got Matthew Stafford. I thought Stafford had to answer that question over and over this season. He did it today in spectacular fashion. And you know, it's the Rams overcoming past demons and current demons because you're dealing with Tom bray d who you know, with With ten fifteen minutes to go in this game, it looked like this thing was this was the stinker of the four four beautiful efforts, and instead Tom Brady nearly

took them to the brink. I mean, it was incredibly watchable. I thought the Rams defense made life very tough for Tom Brady and early on in the game. It just looked to me like the Bucks had hit a wall, that there were too many people not on the field for them. Tristan Worth's absence affected tom Brady a ton You're obviously your wide receivers are out. You know, they

were missing guys. Tom Brady was out of sync and he really had no one to throw to, and even with Gronk, he seemed out of place with Gronk until later in the game. It was nearly a gem for tom Brady. I wonder if it's the end of tom Brady's career that hangs in the atmosphere at this point for us to find out. But for the Rams two weeks in a row, there are parts of them that looks totally confirmed as a Super Bowl team. They put

they faced next um, but an incredible effort on the road. Well, I mean, if I guess, if you mean, if you've been living in a cave, that's news. This it's such a misleading final score and box score to me. And yes, the Rams losing four fumbles is part of the story and we we should talk about that. But if you wish to the defense, like the Rams defense, it's not this. This comeback, and it was it was a good comeback, but it was all like it was a lot of

like I can't believe Brady did it again. They they were stopped three times in a row in the fourth quarter. In any other situation, that's the ball game. The Rams defense stopped two different times like forced punts, uh, and also forced to fumble there in the fourth quarter to take it under five minutes. And yet this still happened. But Cup is the story to me, Like those two plays to set up the field goal, it almost feels like, now, after what what the Chiefs did? Oh forty two seconds,

that's nothing. But they didn't. They didn't have time outs there, which is like such a big difference. Mcveigh's pension for burning totally unnecessary timeouts should have come back to haunt him, but it didn't. Those two plays in a row in Cup, going nine for three and one is just like it. Maybe it's at the end of the one of the best receiving seasons of all time, but it's the most memorable thing yet. The first play he puts Murphy Bunting

on the ground. He he shakes them so bad that that man went on the ground and in a in a very safe defense where they're playing to prevent him from going to the sidelines. He gets deep and it was second and eleven. I'm I'm talking about the last two.

The last two plays thirty five seconds left, after Stafford almost fumbled the ball, they're they're playing safe and they didn't send anyone and they didn't get any pressure on Stafford and Cup gets out of bounds after shaking that dude, And I think Todd Bowl saw that and was like, I don't want to go down like like a b basically, and he decides to send the house on the next one because going safe didn't work. They hadn't been getting pressure all day, so he decides to send everyone. But

here's where McVeigh makes it up to me personally. They played at so fast the NBC actually wasn't even ready for the next snap. They were still in Cup's replay. I went back to look, they snapped the ball with twenty one seconds left, and because they played with such tempo and that was the plan coming in even though the clock was stopped, there was miscommunication by the Bucks. The blitz call did not get passed around to everyone,

so it was a total mistake. In terms of coverage and what their responsibilities were, and Cup goads deep and oh, by the way, you gotta make the play and Stafford like delivers beautiful and you have to get down and clock the ball like that's that's that's beating, Like forget

about coaching, it's that's just playing excellent. And the going back to that quot because I found that to be an intriguing quote and I didn't know what it meant at first when Stafford called it a for the love of the game route, because of when the defense is sending the house like that, the guy that just goes straight out to pull away some defenders, he's there's not enough time to make him a part of the play unless some of the defenders that are supposed to be

blitzing don't get the play call in and they didn't have the full complement of blitzers coming at Stafford. Now I think it was Sue has still got to him, and Stafford made the play, and you gotta give it credit. And a great throw under pressure. Even then, most quarterbacks are not making that play. Now here's the question. Now, Mark with the Rams not to spin out of this game. But I'm just like, I'm still trying to process the

rams with this game. As we now look ahead, they have a one more game to get to the super Bowl, and you can't say if they closed this game out. They had a quarterback and a wide receiver whom made a very special play to save the day. But even Cup had a bad fumble in this game lost to change things. There's something about this team lacking a killer instinct.

It's what got them beating week A team from by San Francisco, and it almost costs him in a game that would have been remembered forever, and that that spooks me a little bit as we spin forward. I'm with you, but they also have guys like von Miller, who had an absolutely incredible formans today. Oh b J completely fits. I'm not sure I love watching that personally, but they like these moves they've made have worked, and I the

mistakes they somehow overcame it today. I mean, you're also playing the dark magic of Tom Brady and it's like to get out of there with the way they did. I don't I'm not that concerned with that. I'm I'm probably more concerned with the matchup for San Francisco. But this team is like well built, well put together to get this far and overcome their own mistakes. To me, I don't know. I'm kind of sold on them though, Dan, like I do think it comes from above, that there

is something that they get. They tried to sit on this lead, and that's it's so dangerous because like when you asked Stafford and come to make a couple of plays. Look, they made it, but they didn't ask them to make those plays for a couple of quarters. There was like the field goal kick that you mentioned that they were short on. They just ran the ball three straight times, including on third and long. It was like McVeigh was just he he has this He the real issues with

nickveigh well just to every show, it's just this. He has this conservative streak that when you like is leading, he he wants to get so conservative. And the running game wasn't working today, Acres. So I just in a game that you're the worst games ever. Acres averages two yards of rush and twenty four carris and has two backbreaking fumbles. He fumbled more in this game than Michelle has in the last two years. I was I was thinking at the end, you gotta have a Sonny Michelle

in there like a trust too much. He's gotta have like four four yards. That said, they started out very aggressive, like they weren't running at all. I liked what they did, like throwing early, but it's crazy to dominate a game like that for fifty five minutes and haven't be that close at the end. I don't buy Tom Brady retiring. I think this might be the beginning of a lot of these guys, these legendary players, um even guys that just around forever, like we just saw a big bend.

There's the period where they're playing for a long time, and then there's the period where it's like every year is like is he coming back? Will or won'ty? And then he comes back like a couple of years, and then there's the last year. I think with Brady, the way he is everything tells me as a competitor, he wants to draw this thing out, so I'll believe it when I see it. I was thinking about it because I guess, but that's what I'm saying. It's all part

of the process, I think. And I thought he looked I'm not saying he looked old in this game, but he was. He was so uncomfortable. This was a tough, tough game for Brady. You got to throw the ball fifty four times. He was constantly under durest he was having to move around in the pocket. I thought to get to three nine yards to get that comeback really was gargangean effort by him, because the Rams defensive line

really came after him all game. Well they I mean they were a mess on third down two for a long, big chunk of this. I just I who were his options to throw to. I mean, Tyler Johnson seems to be so out of sync with Brady and everyone of these playoff game. He's not used to his line getting worked that That's why, I mean, like the box scores misleading.

He he looked done with this game, by the way, when he overthrew break um to turn the ball back over with about four something left, and it was it just looked like, I was like, let's do let's get out of here now. The Rams overcome losing four fumbles in a half, or you know, they had one right before the half when they could have gone up three and acres fumbles on the goal line going into halftime. The Arians doesn't take time outs there, which felt like

the biggest like give up move ever. It was just like I don't even want to try to score at the end of the half. It wasn't taking time outs when the Rams had the ball, but before that, like, I don't know who, if any quarterback could have done much there because the Rams defensive line was destroying them. ESPN ran a stat that said they had the highest pass rush win rate of any team in any half in a game this year in the first half of

that game. This was the ultimate proof that like sacks and QB hits are are a quarterbacks that because Brady managed to make it only three sacks in four or five quarterback hits. But it wasn't just worse. This guy that was and beat like a drum like Donovan Smith was getting destroyed. The guys in the middle, We're getting destroyed all those Rams defensive lineman. I think it's a special group, but I think it's potentially like a special

Super Bowl championship. And Miller's nine QB pressures were the third most he's had in the next gen. Right now, he's playing Floyd there and Donald. Yeah, I think Brady for the first having they showed at some point coming back from a commercial break, him and Gronks celebrating after the Super Bowl last year on the field, and it struck me that his jersey and they played on grass, it was that Tampa was completely white, gleaming white, like it didn't have it. He didn't have a mark on him.

And in this game he took a beating. He was bleeding. There was a shot as he was walking off the field with a son in his face and he kind of actually looked forty four years old for the first time ever, and I was like, man, this is this was hard work. So maybe if you want to buy into the ideas Tom thinking about coming back or leaving, this was kind of probably a very tough game for him to head into the off season on. I wonder if if the comeback, because you know, he does throw

that past to Evans, just a beautiful throw. When he made that through, I was like, that would be a great last throw in the NFL. Burke texted me that's so true. But then he gets the ball back, they go, you know, they score again. I almost wonder if like this the way this game ended, I don't know, maybe it's a good way to go out at him. Just

that like it wasn't embarrassed. The super Bowl would have been a good way, but no one's going to remember this is I guess what I mean is like it was a reminder of ball things, how completely, how completely difficult it is to play and try to win the super Bowl like this. He knows how poorly the Bucks offense played and how badly they were beaten for fifty five minutes. Then you have like the way it finished and at least like you didn't go out in some embarrassing,

chump like way. When I saw these reports, I was like, Oh, I think he's kind of gone like I was, because you haven't you haven't seen now I don't. I don't feel I don't think he will. But Greg, like I I don't feel like hear what you're saying. Greg, maybe

I'm wrong about the who who? Who would disagree with you more than it's a it's a competent way or a memorable way to go out to Tom Brady, right, They just he was He was esteemed and annoyed after this game and throughout this game and last week and in previous weeks. As I've seen him, I think he's very frustrated. With how this offense finished in general. I think that's true. I take back saying would be in

some way a good way. I guess in my it's my fandom that it's like, at least it wasn't embarrassing. He had a nice had come back and that was it. Because those reports and he basically said it to al and he probably said it to Jeff Darlington and Adam Schefter who reported on ESPN. They hinted at like, well, if he makes or wins the Super Bowl, then that's probably it. So he was he was already thinking that way, as if he could get to the finish line then

maybe he was. Like. The part of that report also was like, actually his wife has wanted him to retire since two thousand seventeen. That must be. They were getting awkward, right, they were like half a decade ago, who was doing this game up? Yeah? Troy was like, yeah, I think Giselle have a say of that, and I don't know. I mean, this is Chris was saying that, and I was like, well, I think if she had to say he would have retired four years ago. I don't he

ken't throw the ball and catch it too. My favorite Giselle line of all time I do like this. That was a low moment from walking out of that Giants locker room and seeing Giselle waiting for Tom from s I Mitch Goldnich that he tweeted the daytime Michael's and Collinsworth, It's like running into your teacher at the mall. It was very bizarre to me to listen to them at daytime because I'm typically what the we we we we

watch football all day long together. We go watch that Sunday night performance in that in the Big View viewing room together when we're allowed in this building, and you get the throaty, kind of chalky Chris Collinsworth shouting at you for three hours as the nightcap. I don't understand in the day Owl who's probably having cocktails um the Malibu coastline at two am the night before. You know, he's a night owl. He's a guy that like you could you could he was still waking up when it

was one thirty in the afternoon. They're like Al's likes to hit up the nightlife. You Bucks are a prime time team. You and West always used to be annoyed at the light in Tampa afternoon games, which which was a little annoying, Well, it was much more annoying when they were also like a wild trash bag of a team. It's a little less annoying the sunshine in Florida when it's Brady Way. That was not a That was not

a criticism of the great legendary Al Michaels. I just know Al likes he likes living in l a and he likes the life. What's the place where mel Gibson went shadows? Yeah, I'll have a steak. And more than just went there, he or just go there. He was his fun until it wasn't. What one last quick thing is we've been we should I do just want to say how great Stafford was because he had nothing to

do with why they fell apart in this game. He threw the ball over his head, his running backs fumbled twice, Cooper Cup fumbled twice, his coach started running and not like letting him throw. He was excellent, uh and they were aggressive from start to finish. He he was the better you know, he was protected better, but he was

the better quarterback in this game. As if we needed any more validation for that being one of the best trades in recent memory today basically locked that up and they absolutely run with Andrew Whitworth out at left tackle. I mean, we've seen what that's done to the Bucks to lose your star tackle on the right side. Joe note Boom came in and I thought he did a good job. I mean it's like that could have unspooled, got some theos. I didn't see much of a shack

Barrett or or JPP. This team will not be the same next year. That's the thing they tried to do. They brought everyone back. That's not you know that the look they got to this point they were in a good position. But everyone's not gonna be back next year. JPP. For one, it will be one of those people. I'll tell you the first person. Yeah, I'll tell you the first person out the door of Tom Brady leaves Bruce Arians.

He's not on board with Like now, Arian said he's back, But there was there was talk also in the in the media that if they could make it to the Super Bowl that he would be out to um. But he was very quick in definitive saying he was back because I think he knows there's he can't have any equivocation there or else. Brad. They also have about five million in effective cap space. So we'll see. All right, so the Buccaneers are dead, long lived the Buccaneers. There

will be a new Super Bowl champion. Let's find out the Rams opponent. Maybe you don't know, maybe you don't, and now you'll find out. Well, maybe they missed that. How about this, how about bleep out the team that I mentioned. Erica's a great idea. What I mean there might be one person listening that is on the edge of their seats. Anything in the description. Why is the response in no way because if he really out of hand, just I won't do it for you. The description is different.

Most people don't know that you can avoid the description or put how about this, if where you were going to mention that team in the description six X is five xes, leave it a surprise for everyone. Okay, So then we get into an s c O situation there, right, because we're trying to drum up the you know, the clicks. Well, for the for the individual that did not watch the game,

they probably aren't reading the description. They probably floated in audio wise, you're very well practice that beeping out things. I mean, that's very true. Be you obedient, and then when people get to this part of the show, it's always got to go there. Mike. I'm just saying, well, I don't understand why the response is no way like I am allowed to suggest something and you might say that's a good idea. I'll think about it, at least I would if it was a good idea. Men uh

wanting saying they love Tom Brady. First it was Zolac, I love Tom Brady, and now it's cour down gorgeous, gorgeous girls love Tom Brady. All right, let's get to another number one seed melk how as Bill I love you Tom. He got caught up in the moment. Cower Pepper Snap, it's a little high pulled on divers Shnowski. Robbie Gold has it away and it is good, good as gold. Robbie is. Robbie Gold has kicked the forty

diners to victory here in Green Bay. Oh, the bongos, you gotta can you supplement the bongos with some you know who I'm looking for? Pheely good as gold, Robby Is I just hit it, hit it like five times in a row. Now, be obedient, obedius with this all right? Ready, No, Robbie Gold got his gold. He is. Gold makes a forty five yard field goal Saturday night time expires. The

Niners knock off the top seeded Packers thirteen ten. Yes, it is the forty Niners listener X who will meet the Los Angeles Rams and SOFI Stadium for the right to play in Super Bowl fifty six right here at Sofi Stadium. Would that be weird if two years after never happening for fifty five years or whatever, two years in a row the team in the Super Bowl is playing in their own stadium. That could happen. That's in play now. It doesn't matter right now because we're talking

about the Niners. Robbie Gold has made all twenty of his career playoff field goal tempts. Maybe he should be number one in McPherson number two type battle. I'll have to think about that. I'll get back to you on Thursday with the official rankings. Uh. The Niners continue to put a postseason curse on Aaron Rodgers. Uh. They have always had their way with him. And for the Packers, Greg this is a lot more disaployment. We'll get to them. But the Niners is a gritty win by a team

that just finds a way. I feel like such a company man. But how how great is the NFL that you can have these two classic games and I consider this a classic game, and one is forty six in overtime and one is thirteen to ten in the snow in the same categories. Different Certainly the execution and like the level of football is not the same. But in terms of it being a memorable football moment that was so tense throughout the game, that had an explosive uh

ending and had me riveted and had great plays. Absolutely, the one player I'll remember forever is that Deebo Samuel third and seven run one oh three left such a fascinating moment. I think for a coach, the Packers had no time outs, and I just thought they kind of have to run it here. As much as I'm like the stay aggressive guy was like, you kind of have to run it here. You can't give Rogers the time and you've got to try to run it twice and

see what happens that. That's who you are. You're the forty Niners, and worst case scenario, you you bring the clock down and you don't let the Packers get the ball. They they line up and shotgun to spread them out. They get used check running all the way across the

plate to check it out even more. They pull their guard and then they give the ball the Deebo Samuel, a wide receiver who only had eighty three yards in this game, but was like, it's like the most impactful eighty three yards plus that kick return you will ever see,

and it's what the forty niners are all about. You have Juwan Jennings, a wide receiver blocking out there, you have Kiddle blocking out there, and then you have Deebo who has two guys pretty much unblocked that he has to beat, and he like dead legs Gay Alexander who came back for this game last couple of weeks and just kind of puts a move on him, breaks the tackle, gets the first down. It was a perfect play call of like doing what your best that your best player.

They convert it and Gold gets it done a few plays later. It was an awesome way to end. I love that you paired it with the Chiefs and Bills game because I think if you were to like double bill football games like you do movies, it was such a different type of game, and you know, watching this with my kids a little bit too, it's like, oh, special teams for certain teams, if you can if you can make that and maximize that, That's what the Niners did.

I mean, it was the that Deebo sam of the fact that he was playing injured at that point that it was snowing that it was the Niners against this this matchup. To me, I enjoyed watching this so thoroughly, and there was a moment in this that I thought showed that gave the Niners total hope before halftime because Jimmy Ward blocks the field goal. Before that, he had allowed Aaron Jones to have the seventy five yard catch and run the blown coverage that that really put them

into a hole. Then the field goal is blocked by Jimmy Ward right before halftime, because if you look at the way Green Bay came out on that first drive, I thought this thing was going to be curtains for San Francisco. Instead they start to put the muzzle over Aaron Rodgers and the green Bay offense. You go into halftime off that special teams play with a completely different mindset, feeling like we're the more resilient team. This reminds us

of so many of our different wins. We trust that Shanahan's gonna get out of get us out of this. Aaron Rodgers butt is tightening by the minute. The Packers are not here for the moment. And this is what Green Bay does every single January. They are misfits. They are absolute meltdown artists. And I I know I have I I know that a lot of listeners come at

me from being hard being hard on the Packers. They are a regular season team that doesn't know how to close, and they were taken to town by a football team that played all three phases and did not let up. So we all phases, including well they played all three they executed two of them very well into this game, thinking this Packer, this team would be different, like we talked about it on the on the Network show on Saturday at this and yet they weren't. And I think,

what for me? Um? When I think about this game and why I don't see it as necessarily a classic is when when a team, let's I think this game of the Packers lost more than the Niners won, and and that affects like when I think of like all time classic playoff games, and I you know, they go right down the field, they score a touchdown, they get the ball back in a sneaky underrated play in this game is Marcedes Lewis fumbles on the second possession where

they're marching again. To be absolutely but from that point on and everyone's gonna be dwelling on the special teams. And I get that because not only did the field goal get blocked thirty nine yard or at the end of the first half that would have put him up ten nothing, they then allow a forty five yard kickoff return on the first play of the second half, and then of course the block punt and touchdown return and heard around the world of four or forty one remaining.

But the thing with Aaron Rodgers and the thing with the Packers this year was this was a special offense that was supposed to rise through the occasion. And I think starting with that Marcedes Lewis fumble, they got tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter. And think about the two possessions for the Packers, that sandwich, that block punt. It was a three and out and a three and out.

Like Rodgers needs to wear this loss as much as anyone else because he's the guy that's going to get the m v P Trophy, and he came up very small, as did the rest of the team. I hated the scheme. Like we were talking about or I was talking about Alan Lazard, barely gets targeted in this game. All it was Aaron Jones and it was Davante Adams attempts to those two And at the end I did a sky Sports hit at the end of the third quarter and they had not yet targeted a wide receiver other than

Davante Adams targeted. And so what happened? Why did that? Now you gotta give credit to San Francisco, of course, but what happened with this team? How did they get tight? That goes to the head coach as well. I think that the weather is a helpful equalizer. I think the forty Niners pass rush was awesome. Bosa with five pressures, two sacks, Armstead with four pressures two sacks. If you think about those special teams gaffs, what happened right before

both of them sacks in the red zone. Aaron Rodgers had twenty six seconds left in the first half when he took that sack, and and those were quick sacks. Those were not sacks I really put on Rogers. Those were sacks where the old line kind of collapsed and they got to him almost right away. Uh, the one before half of him. They had a lot of time there to go try to score, but instead they sacked him. And then they just had to spike it and do the kick and the same thing with the block punt.

You're you're buried deep. Uh. There he he makes a mistake on second down. Uh, and he gets sacked on third down. So it was they moved their entire offensive around. Billy Turner came back, but Bakari didn't. And Billy Turner is another starter who's been out for a while, and they decided to put him at left tackle. They got rid of our guy, Yoshi. I forget what his name is. I call him Yoshi. Uh. And then they moved they like moved the guards from anyone. What is his name? Yoshi?

Our guy. He's one of my favorite names in the NFL. I should know his name. He's he's been there left tackle for the last few weeks with Turner. Anyways, they reshuffled their entire offensive line and that seemed to cause some sort of communication, and uh, it was maybe a decision that La Fleur regrets, and certainly they were bringing it up during the broadcast that maybe it might be something they regret that they moved around three or four positions.

Yoshi Ni, I mean this they overcame, you know what, was pretty stagnant, obviously and mistake prone Niner's offense. I mean Jimmy G with seven minut it's left in the third quarter, had six completions that traveled twenty one yards downfield. They overcame a terrible interception by Jimmy Jr. The goal line that set up that Aaron Rohns Aaron Jones catch and run. There were a lot of risky throws by Jimmy G. There were a lot of drops. It was.

It was not a good effort. I kind of thought the Niners would tell us who they were by their first driver too, with their scripted drives. They wanted to run the ball forty times. They were total duds. I thought, maybe this is the game where the journey is over for this team. They're not Texas, I recall, I mean that's what I thought. I said on our network show that I wanted to see what happened on the first drive.

It couldn't have been worse. I just couldn't be more impressed with the way they worked the way out of this. I do think the weather, to your point, Greg, changed it for both teams. And I'm sure we'll get a bunch of thinks that doesn't it hurt the team that's better at passing. It absolutely was zero degrees there, but it's like it's at Lambeau and they were eight no, right, and the Kyle Sannan said like, we'll be happy to be playing somewhere warm next week. But I think it

helped them. They were built more for it. I mean, I although that said, I mean they've had probably sixteen better offensive performances this season. So I'm not sure, but I'm just saying, you know, I take the trade off because I think it just made it tougher for the receiver. Just put the Packers in the dome at this point because Lambeau maybe isn't an advantage for Green Bay in the situation. Keep melting down in this, but what do they texted me that they're like seven and seven? I

think that was me, Greg did it? I think I think it was me. I said that, But we're doing these games like eight hundred texts Happenny, where you're trying to watch the game. Please. I feel really bad too about yoscause because like Yoshi just reminds you of Mario Kart, and like this man though deserves He's not Yoshi, says Yoshi, so he deserves. What happened the back by the way, that was? That was That was one of the more the dumb subplots we've had to deal with for the

past yea. They went in attend and then vanished. Well, he clearly didn't, you know, he tried to return it, clearly his body. Many mistakes were made by the packers, obviously in execution on Saturday night, but was bringing in back the r back in week eighteen for a tune up for a game he didn't even make two weeks later. I wonder if that's something privately that they botched as well.

I get why they did that though, because we were asking, oh, will the chemistry be there when they put all of them into the Rogers said, I was so happy to like play with those two guys with wells who did who did play in this game? The center I do want to talk about like the Rogers missed though, so the way it ended was crazy in terms of their last possession. I misspoke before I was mixing up the drives.

His last throw of the game was that deep shot to Davante Adams where once they got the coaches tape out, today he has Lazard breaking open on a pretty clear read. It's tough for like dorks like us to be like, oh, you should have thrown it there, but this is one and and smarter people than me have broken it down where it's like, okay, if the safety goes here, then then you get the crosser here and Lazard is wide open.

And instead he clearly kind of made the decision I'm just gonna give give Davante Adams a chance, and he just hucked it up and it's like totally not what he has done the entire season. And it was very far ving and it was very far against the Giants where he just started like chucking the balls. This is something that now needs to be talked about. This is this is a big that that was a big legacy

game for Rogers. The resume is stacking up. Now what's happening in these January games and to see what he did yesterday, and again you're right right, there was a lot of past protection issues, but when he was as dominant as he was for most like of this season, including untouchable in the last seven weeks, and then to fail to move the team when the when the season was on the line, then you watch what happened today, Arrowhead.

It's pretty cool there too, by the way, and you see Josh Allen and Patrick go Homes just going at each other back and forth, brilliant artists at the peak of their game. It makes me think differently about Rogers after this particular game. He's still a legendary player. He's still probably worthy of being the m v P this year, but that you can no longer look the other way with this January stuff. I tried to look the other way at Mark and it cost me. In the lock game.

I had a chance to win the title out right and I lost it. And I now he lost it for you. He certainly did. And I will tell you what. I now have to pull like at the break glass, and I have to flip the emergency switches. Ride or die with mahomes Well. This is riding or die with momes Well. I I I won't be afraid to confront you again. I'll i'll, you know, consult my own internal strategy. But I'm not looking necessarily to tie here. Um, nor

am I I feel the same. I mean, but there was there was a year that you caught me and tied, and like, I have to take that into consideration. But that was sort of a cheesy photo of both of us, like holding a trophy together. Now it's just absurd. So there's a lot to look ahead. But UM, I'm with you on one thing. I am not doing this again with Aaron Rodgers. I will not. I am not. Like, I don't think he is either. I don't think he

is interested in a rebuild on any level. They are forty four million over the cap heading into the offseason. They got a lot of big questions. His comments after the game I thought were I mean tilted towards uh uh, not into it anymore. Really, So I we all agree that we think he's coming back at this point. I

think he'll come back and retire in week six. Things are bad, but that's he's He's had some annoying, to put it mildly moments this year, and my least favorite was reading that entire ESPN article, like if you were trying to give Aaron Rodgers any benefit of the doubt. He drove me crazy in that article. I don't know if you read it. And so I like, like a lot of people apparently on Twitter, was was, you know, happy to see them lose on some level and and

happy to yeah, say bye bye. But I watched the press conference. I thought he handled it pretty well. I don't think it it showed much either way he was he was trying to be fair. I don't know. I went into this game kind of assuming he would be back with with the Packers. He did say the good at Cunts relationships going well. I I think he wants to keep playing football. I think he would like when he went. I would have voted Brady, but when he wins the MVP, it's a regular season award. Uh. But

he just played poorly this game. It wasn't just that unless he doesn't love the game. And the Packers aren't getting rid of him, like they have all the leverage, they have him under contract, They're not handing it over to Jordan's love like they're gonna give him some more money. I just don't see how it wouldn't work out that way. But to your point that he has to wear like

he his location was off throughout the game. It was in the play before that Lazard miss he almost threw an intercept been trying to force it to Randall cop It was not It was not a good game. He didn't out play Jimmy G. Jimmy G who was not good in this game either, but he made as many plays as right, he made a couple of plays. I think statistically you look at the box score and it says, oh, Rogers outplayed him, but really, well, let's let's face it

that Rogers was a massive disappointment. Rogers bombed out in this game. And he's the m v P. So like there, there's a higher bar that needs to be uh Met Garoppolo could easily throw a pick six or two in this game, but he didn't. And the Niners are moving on, and that is as annoying as to me the performances of the Packers. You just gotta give it to the Niners.

And and think about now that they go to l A to face the Rams for a chance to go to the Super Bowl, and they know they could beat the Rams, and that's gonna be an interesting game to watch how it all unfold. How about Shanny just kind of owning Matt Lafleur and owning Sean McVeigh. I thought they were they had split their mass ups before. Yeah, maybe it's that I was thinking, Um, well, next week could change everything about all that business. Well, they he's

owned Sean McVeigh. You know, they've won what sixth straight? Uh, and they they've certainly maybe it's the forty Niners that have owned Aaron Rodgers after passing on him in the draft. You know, he's never beating him in the playoffs in the playoffs. But I've noticed that Shanny is coming for la Fleur's beard. You know, fre is known for this, and it's almost thin to the point of silly. Now Lafleur and Shanahan's beard has never looked better, never more groomed.

He outbearded the bearded boy, and he went to, well, one is it. One is a boy. So that's the that's that's the beginning. Hard when you're a boy, it's hard, all Right's spinning forward Sunday, January two two And by the way, you don't have to worry about anything. COVID related COVID has been cured in the NFL. We're done with that now all. Now we just need Fauci to connect with certain figures in the NFL and the rest of the world will be fine as well. So just

given everybody heads up on that, isn't it crazy? That? And I'm happy obviously, and we all should be happy that we just went through this entire weekend of playoff football and it wasn't even on the radar, like whether you think that's good or bad or right or wrong. From where we were in December where it looked like the season was about to go under. Do you get

to this place? And it didn't even come up. Really, it has to do with something green with the face of presidents on it, and uh, there the machine will not be Usually I would say that, but I think there's some other No, you're I'm wrong. The league is very pure and uh that's you know, that's there, that's how they'll perceive. No, I think there might be some things going on here where we might see society start

to follow a path that the NFL is on. Not that the NFL started this, but it's also died down. It's kind of like my kids school. There were six people in it two weeks ago, and there's eight ten, you know, in Ellis's class. So there's six in it two weeks ago and there's eighteen in it now. Right now, there's just the general idea that there's we might be reaching a stage where society is just like, we gotta

live with this. We lost, We're taking the l you can't do this, you can't do this business all next season. And they don't intend to dying down. It's well, you said I was going to die down after the I'm just saying this wave. It's clearly on the recess was what was It's going to be fine by June? That was you know, into whatever. It wasn't as bad as the like the first weekend of it. Erica on our Network show's final thought was everyone should go out and

oh my god, I forgot live your life. Ordering the people together to to breathe into each other together. I said, safely outside in blocks are good for your mental hall like they Even the NFL just announced that they are not testing unvaccinated players anymore if they're you know, unless they're showing real symptoms, symptoms like it is. So many players self reported for those couple of weeks too, but I think, well, unless they're on your favorite team, But

like that kind of went out the window. I feel like once the player, once the playoffs started, in terms of like you were leaving it up to the players to self report. They did that in the regular season, and they're not like Deepo Samuels, like I have a small cough you next season, like, no, shut up, you will say nothing if you will play for sixty minutes. They missed a j Dillon in that game. That was a big well, that is a nuclear level loss for

the Packers. I really thought, I'm gonna tell you something right now. If Rogers comes back and of sports writers picked in to win in the NFC, I'm out of here. This was coming to work for Home and Guarden magazine. You know, I think you like Rogers. You locked them up. I think you got to recognize this was a classic different not at the same level, but also very memorable. No, I will remember the Packers gagging and collapsing into puddle their own peace. Was it exciting? Like the block punt

was an exciting play. I'm not saying it wasn't Like I like fun low scoring games. Too. I'm just saying the Packers utterly collapsing and pooping themselves on Saturday night was a highly disappointing outcome for a team that here, this is what it's about for me, especially like, for instance, I item number one of the power rankings. Well, listen,

let me explain. When you watched all the games and you get invested in the themes of a season and how how teams respond to certain things and how a quarterback plays, and they everything's pointing to this is a big time, real deal team. And then people say, oh yeah, but sometimes in January and sometimes and then I'm like and then I'm like, well, I've watched every snap of this team, and I've watched the way this quarterback is playing, and I'm going to lean on everything that's happened this

year to inform how this weekend goes. And then a totally different team shows up. That's annoying. That's a lot magical way to approach exercise as such as power rankings. I'm totally with you, but the clock has struck midnight on Green Bay, not just sometimes every single year since two Aaron Rodgers, but one Super Bowl. You said in clear terms that you think this team is different also than right, But I the Niners to win. I picked the Niners to win the game. I didn't think this

was what do you mean? I was different than the past times for weeks and weeks. I do think that they they're not the same Packers team where the defense under Dom Capers with his fake hair flying in the wind, is going to totally collapse. That. I do think they were built differently. But I did not think they were going to win this game. I picked the Niners. There's

not I didn't say to things. I picked the Niners too, partly because I just thought it was fun and I thought they'd cover, and because it started raining along with that snow that's right, freezing rain. Oh yeah, Baker for the year, you're going are more annoying than Aaron Rodgers are talking about quitting. Just don't do it or do it? That's fair. Uh. I didn't think it was like a mismatch though. To me, these teams were pretty close to

even over the course of the season. I know that seems crazy, but over the course of like the last nine or ten games. And that's the thing about the NFL. We we invest so much time, especially us because we're working in it into it all being like this build up and it's like your resume and here's what you did. But it's just like one game. And these two teams personally, I don't think we're too even. I think the forty Niners have a lot going for them other than the quarterback,

you know, other than the two quarterbacks. I think the forty Niners are legitimately a better team. They get into teams heads. When we picked the game, I said, well, ultimately Aaron Rodgers Jimmy Garoppolo. That's unless unless Aaron Rodgers p's down his leg in a huge spy in the playoffs, and an m v P shouldn't do that. He's not special and special teams. Was a seven point difference and they won by three because they blocked the field goal, they get the touchdown, they also get the return. You

know who's piste off it? And right you think like we are whatever you are, like, you know who's pissed is Rashaan Gary and Kenny Clark and that defense who gave up six points. They get up six points in

a playoff game and they lost. And that's why I wouldn't I wouldn't like I wouldn't like the Niners next week, but then again, they find a way and the Rams are showing they are not really good at stepping on throats, so that's But if you take out the Rams three times in one season, this feels like a different Rams team to me than the one that got thumped by the Niners on primetime. It just does. It's yeah, yeah, well, well all right, so the Bengals are still in the

west of his time slot. Even though they're in the a f C Championship game. They're the noon window. They do not before the season starts, so that doesn't feel like a slight Well, it happened three weeks in a row. That's all I can tell you. A CBS that's that's Romo and Nance Bengals Chiefs. Three o'clock from gee Field at Arrowhead Stadium. I don't recognize that it's Arrowhead and then three thirty uh Pacific, six thirty eastern next door? Should we go Niners? Rams? Should we try to go?

Should we ask for press? Press passes? Here? Danny, I would like to go to a Okay, I've never We've been lucky enough to go to many Super Bowls. I've never been to a conference championship. Do you guys include me on the credentials email or we will? I don't know you Usually that's actually the producer's job. So well,

you did it without me even knowing last time. Maybe if you if you follow my suggestion on a couple you know, Okay, Mark, I'll go back and bleep a score that you gave that happened from a game from yesterday. Someone listen to it on Monday. I've been to two. I saw the Patriots drop a bomb on Mike Tomlin Steelers and I saw Case Keenum get waxed by the Eagles. Neither one was competitive. I hope this game is a little more competitive. All right, m hmm, get a better game?

What was that? What is it? You didn't get the good as Gold Robbie is? Of course, why would you? Why the incomplete drop there just to his gold. That's that, That's what made it really sing Good as Gold Robbie is. Okay, Yeah, that's the podcasting. We'll be back on Tuesday. Uh. Connie Fox will be joining us. We'll get her back uh in the virtual studio, so I'll be nice and then um Thursday, the Big preview of the Championship Sunday, Saturday morning, the NFL Network program, and we go on and on

and on anything else, poise not a word. All right, let's go. Everybody, enjoy your week. I hope you enjoyed the football legendary weekend of action until Tuesday. I know you gotta do. He's a coll