Speaker 1: All start to what you want to presents. Off the
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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I gotta come off the bench now here's Jacob Hester
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Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 3: Every one?
Speaker 2: January sixteen, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: It is Thursday, and I hope you are having a
great day as uh are gonna have a great day.
Speaker 2: The weekends almost he here.
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Speaker 2: Jake, what's up man? How are we doing today? I'm
doing great?
Speaker 4: We you know, have the grand opening at Elite a
little bit later on, so you'll be there, very excited
about that. Clyde Edwards Dealer is going to be there,
Tyre Matthew is going to be there, So the whole
group's going to be together for the first time in
a long time. And we've kind of been opened, you know,
the indoor space has been opened, then the outdoor fields
got open.
Speaker 2: But now like the.
Speaker 4: Totality of the thing is finally kind of complete, and
Autionar obviously being on site as well, So finally here
excited about it, and I'm glad you get to be
there with us as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a great time. I'm excited to
check it out. And have you been yet?
Speaker 3: I think I've not been. Oh wow, yes, this will
be my first time. I'm I'm looking forward to Laudrete.
You are more than welcome to come. I'm sure you've
got like one of the seven jobs y'all do here.
Speaker 5: But so one of my seven jobs is actually going
to a so.
Speaker 6: I'll be there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the seventh job or just you know,
drink energy drinks here.
Speaker 7: Probably energy drinks here. No, probably will not be there.
Speaker 3: Like trying to sit in his office and pretend like
he's doing something useful all day there. Sure you know
that's it's the best way to stay paid. You gotta
you gotta, you gotta show face. So he can't be
You're out of the elite and he's gotta be sitting
here showing that he's working.
Speaker 4: Every time Matt comes up the stairs, if he sees
Tay at his desk, he thinks he's workingm saying it's
a heavy.
Speaker 2: Play, although he's just on strategy.
Speaker 7: I got Tea Bob was that yesterday?
Speaker 8: So Tea bumps in the bathroom and Musa was talking
about how Moscoona was leading with basketball or something. I
was like, hey, I did the game. Do I need
to send you the highlights? Like I can email them
to you. He's like, yeah, that'd be great. And Tabub
comes out the bathroom. He goes, Tyler, you just randomly
talking like I was. I thought I thought you were
taking for again, Like I was, as for what if
he needed the basketball? Hollbout just paulses for a second.
He goes, yeah, I'm just kind of walking around till
I gotta go pick my kid up.
Speaker 3: So I ended up using that time to dive into
an Ohio State conspiracy wormhole about how Ohio State is
secretly funded by one of jeff Jeffrey Epstein's closest associates,
which sent me into a billionaires in college football wormhole.
So we've got some really interesting hour two information coming
up on money, the buck Eyes, and college football in general.
We forget that Taylor couldn't take what do you mean,
oh yeah, for the rest of the week. Why do
we ban my cameras well?
Speaker 2: Somebody said.
Speaker 7: The rest of the week ers of today today? I
think it's just today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were like, somebody asked about truth or dare?
Are you more of a truth? Yeah? Why?
Speaker 3: I I'm over my dare though, because I I like,
I enjoyed Taylor shakes to rescind it because they're t bobs.
Speaker 8: Was He couldn't interrupt Jake for the whole day. Yeah,
and couldn't bring up conspiracy theories. Jake couldn't say grit,
I chose truth. I couldn't say anything.
Speaker 2: So how you doing to doing good?
Speaker 5: I'm now excited to be at elite. I wasn't at first.
I'm not gonna lie just because I don't want to
do like some work, so i'd like I said the
honey Badger was going to be there.
Speaker 2: So auditioned by subtraction. Yeah, uh, you're doing well.
Speaker 7: Makes it better that I'm doing great a good mood.
Speaker 2: I heard only a one percent chance that Dion becomes
a Cowboys head coach sent him lest you had the
best odds, though he really.
Speaker 8: Think about who makes these odds though. The minute Mike
McCarthy was fired, that's all we heard. I don't care
if he's the betting favorite again. This has nothing to
do with my personal opinions on Dion. I don't think
him and Jerry could coexist. It's too big a personalities.
Jerry wants the attention to be on himself. It would
be on don I don't think Jerry's going to do it.
Speaker 2: It's a good warm up take from you right there,
Proud of you.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm doing a little three man weave,
getting ready to crank crank this thing up. All right,
let's go ahead and tip it off and get the
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Labor and Staffing. So in New Orleans Saints coaching search
kind of boozing right along. We mentioned some of the
elements that I'm about to bring up yesterday in but
it has become apparently clear that regardless of where Aaron
Glenn falls on the New Orleans Saints wish list, which
a lot of reports are the top, definitely near the top.
Speaker 2: If he's not Canonate one, maybe Cannon two.
Speaker 3: Now that Mike McCarthy's entered the Fray, I've seen a
lot of people bump him up to the top of
the Saints smichalists. But is that also because Aaron Glenn,
according to the New York Post, is telling people that
his number one job and that he told the New
York Jets. This that if he was offered his number
one spot would be New York. And I don't think
that's hard to see why, right, I mean, he played
at New York, so it's it's returning home.
Speaker 2: It's New York.
Speaker 3: I mean that is a job that is intimidating because
of how big and intense it is. But for a competitor,
I think it's also alluring because of how big and
intense it is, and especially as a player, he already
knows market. And I mean objectively, I think the Jets
have better pieces. I think the only thing that because
what we're about to get into is maybe how old
the Saints are right now. But I think the only
thing that the Saints would have over the Jets I
would I would still argue you have more stable ownership situation,
because as we know, the Jets are kind of like
a three ring circus like the Saints.
Speaker 2: May be inept, but not a joke.
Speaker 3: I having a punchline in the same way than the
New York Jets had, but with Aaron Glenn. Obviously that
loan advantage for the New Orleans Saints not enough for
him to make the Saints his number one choice. So
I don't think Aaron Glenn will be the next head
coach of the New Orlean Saints. Yesterday we talked about
Mike McCarthy and certainly more intriguing than I thought it
was going to be after talking about Flynn.
Speaker 2: But you got to look at what are you taking over?
Speaker 3: And there's a line in uh force awakens and Kylo
Rinn says to this guy that you felt like it
was going to mean something one day and never did.
Speaker 2: But he looked at him and he said, look how
old you've become.
Speaker 3: And like, that's how I kind of feel looking at
the New Orleans Saints roster. Ross Jackson had a really
good write up on this on Louisiana Sports done Net.
But here are five cap pits for players currently over
the age of thirty two. Jake Derek Carr is a
fifty one and a half million dollar cappit, Cam Jordan
twenty million, Taysom Hill eighteen million, to Mario Davis twelve
point four, Tyron Matthew eleven point three. That's one hundred
and thirteen million dollars and five players over the age
of thirty two. It actually goes up to one twenty
five when you add in Ryan Ramchick's contract having a
whatever money he was deferred and now owed, So it's
actually gonna be one twenty five tied up in six,
really just five.
Speaker 2: I played in five players this season.
Speaker 3: That is forty six and a half percent of the
cap in five players. And I'm sure that that allocation
is representative of others teams. Right, you have to pay
your best players. I'm sure most teams have five players
and kind of fifty or saying everybody else gets whatever.
But I also assume that most teams probably feel a
bit better about the five. I mean, when you look
at that, the highest paid guy you don't believe in
at all in Derek Carr, Cam Jordan.
Speaker 2: You love dearly, but the productivity.
Speaker 3: Objectively has gone down. Now I'm okay with paying Cam
because he was underpaid for so long. Taysom Mill is
great when he's available. Right Tomorrow Davis, I have nothing
to say about. It looked like maybe he was slipping
for some this year, and then I thought he recovered nicely.
I mean, I still think Tomorrow Davis is awesome. And
then Tyron, Tyron's okay, I mean, yeah, Tyron's still very
sold but it's still not a five that inspires a
lot of confidence, Jake, if you are a coach coming
outside looking in and looking at Okay, where are we at,
where we allocated resources? What's the lay of the landlight?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 4: I mean, all those guys are aging, and even if
they're playing well, and some of them are playing still
certainly good enough to be considered quality starting football players
in the NFL.
Speaker 2: But you're looking about Derek Carr, who.
Speaker 4: Nobody has faith in being you know, almost three times
as much as anybody else right now, that like that
can't happen. Taysom Hill is great when he is available.
You're right, it's just not often that he is available.
He's gonna make eighteen million dollars and I love his
style of play, But if you play that style of play,
you've got to stay healthy. You have to have a
body type that can handle everything that he does between
the tight end, the pullback, the quarterback or the receiver,
all that kind of stuff. And so you look at
this list and it doesn't inspire you for the future.
If you're someone looking at this job and you have
multiple other options, and that's why, like the McCarthy piece
is interesting because although he does have other options, he
does have a tie to the Saints being here as
an assistant. Mickey Loomis did mention that it was somebody
that he had a, you know, a personal relationship with
as well.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago when was McCarthy here as
an assistant? I missed this early Jeff Blake so early
two thousands?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 3: Okay, hell yeah, uh so like pre Katrina. Oh yeah,
that's crazy. Okayarthy's been in the game. Brother, it would
have been the head coach when he was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Sorry.
Speaker 4: Continue, So that that's going to be something you have
to pay attention to whenever you're looking at Like Joe
Brady's been here before, so he's got a relationship and
so you do have somewhat of an advantage there, But
it's going to take that because if you don't have
a tie to the New Orleans Saints right now, you
look at this and you're like, man, well, how do
we bring in good players? How do we bring in
people that are going to help us change narrative there
on that franchise? And so I think it does kind
of handcuff you a little bit as far as who
is willing to come to New Orleans to take that over.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you look at maybe Loomis thinking Loomis,
and this is a credit to him, because I would not.
Speaker 2: Guess this given how spry and energetic keepers.
Speaker 3: Mick Loomis is sixty eight years old, though, so he
himself is getting to an age where just realistically, you
probably don't get to make another one of these decisions.
This is probably your last opportunity to try to get
it right and really add it into the pressure of
just the like add it into just the normal immense
amount of pressure that comes into being an NFL general manager.
Is the fact that you're kind of in a young
man's game. Everywhere you look around you, all the other
decision makers and the vast majority of them in the
NFL are younger than you. And you were trying to
prove that you're just as good as them, and in
your last opportunity, you failed mightily.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: I just keep going back to the crass this thing,
without Julius, without Pompey, you're trying to prove that, no,
you were just as responsible for the Golden Era as
those other two guys, Sean Payton and Drew Brees, and
you have not been able to even come close to
that thus far, and this is your last opportunity to
do so you have to get this right.
Speaker 2: Is that McCarthy? Maybe so? Can any coach get it right? Though?
Speaker 3: With the state of the current roster. I mean, it's
it's it's a it's a dark it's it's it's a
very tenuous.
Speaker 4: Time, so a lot on the line when you get
into that situation tea and you kind of know, hey,
this is maybe my last opportunity. I'm not going to
have another one. It's like, okay, well, he got kind
of two choices. Do I go left and go with
another you know what he considers to be a safe player,
because I believe that's what he thought, Dennis Allen was.
Speaker 2: I would wholeheardly disagree with that.
Speaker 4: But do I go play with the safe play with
somebody that is willing to come here because they don't
have many opportunities, or do I go in ve or right,
and do I go to the young up and coming coach.
I go somebody it's a little bit more exciting, somebody
has maybe a higher pyccarthy in.
Speaker 2: The safe play category.
Speaker 4: There, I think I I would just because he was
the OC for four seasons, yeah, in New Orleans, and
so you kind of know him. And again it's not
to say that that wouldn't work out. Matt laid out
some incredible Flynn, Yeah, should not. Moscona laid out some
incredible you know things yesterday, you know, being a player
for him, knowing who he was, and you know some
maybe you're bias a little bit there, but I think
he laid out a pretty good plan, didn't.
Speaker 3: You know. That's always interesting because yes, there's bias, but
there's also.
Speaker 2: He played for parallel.
Speaker 4: I'm not played for four or five six head coaches
in the NFL, so like it well, and it's unparallel.
Speaker 3: Then it's like, because nobody else here played for Mike
McCarthy for multiple years, right, he still has a better
no question with which to.
Speaker 4: Take, and so he thought although he would be a
little bit of a safer play, I do think that
his ceiling with the Saints could be higher than some
of the other guys that maybe he would bring in.
But if you want to veer right and go to
something that's a little bit unknown, it's like the mystery
box that we talked about yesterday, Like, that's where you're at.
Speaker 2: When you have one more how do you want to
play it?
Speaker 4: Do you want to try to play it safe and
try to go you know, nine and eight, ten and seven,
and that's what your ceiling's going to be, but you know,
maybe maybe it's not going to completely fall off, and
maybe we're not going to win three games. Or do
you want to vear right in try to win fourteen
games or maybe you win two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again it's it's fascinating.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy actually has objectively essentially the same but if
you wanted to really argue nitty gritty slightly better resumes
than that of Mike Tomlin and Sean Payton.
Speaker 2: So you have an.
Speaker 3: Aging roster, an aging GM and you got one final shot.
Do you go ag coach like Mike Carthy, or as
Jake said, do you take the gamble the mystery box
and try to go with a young up and comer.
I don't know what the choice will be. What I
do know is that it'll be the choice that defines
Mickey Loomis's legacy here in New Orleans. All right, when
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Speaker 3: You know, you get a megastar, and not all megastars
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Speaker 2: I had a few busis. I don't think any of
y'all gonna watch it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: But for anybody listening, I do feel passionately about the
show that it gets two thumbs up full recommendation.
Speaker 4: Something that I need to know the the world.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not one of the best parts about it. It exists.
Speaker 3: It is completely obi Woman's all right, obi Wan really
has really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we know a lot and I didn't, so
I went in, I watched. It was good.
Speaker 3: Obi Wan's interesting because that show, though, absolutely gets strengthened
if you know a lot. This show truly exists independently
of anything it is.
Speaker 4: Jag and Judlaw kind of have a similar look to
me as well.
Speaker 3: This is just though. Yeah, but but it's not McGregor.
That's obi one, right, Like this Jude Law character is bespoke.
This is completely new. He's not tied into anything else
like McGregor's taking on the mantle of Alan Guinness Alec
Guinness when he first does that. So whatever, Skelety, you
don't even know anything. It's completely independent, which which I said,
is good. I don't even care if there's season two.
I don't want them to tie it into anything really,
like just just I like something good being made and
just existing, and that's exactly what this is. So if
you're thinking about watching with your kids, man all the
episodes around now, I definitely say it's a great, great
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you like Spielberg stuff like eighties Spielberg stuff, or if
you're looking for someone to do with the family, like
you and the boys could have a great time watching it,
if they haven't already about to say.
Speaker 4: That's the thing Like now, it's so easy for people
to watch different things on different streaming services and they've
got it on their xboxes and different things. It's hey,
you want to watch whatever I watched that three weeks ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just came out three weeks ago. It's like, yeah,
I watched it that night. It's like glass.
Speaker 3: The monoculture has been shattered. But again, that's why I
enjoyed this too. Weekly releases. I will continue to bang
that drum. Weekly releases are better, Okay much better. You
and I are in the minority there, but I do
agree with I wonder if we are in the minority
every time. But I mean to be fair, you're right,
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just don't just do not understand it.
Speaker 4: I don't mind having like two or three built up.
That's okay, Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
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win the episode drops is one of the best.
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d Yeah, hell yes, Cliffhanger. Oh man, I gotta wait
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Speaker 2: I just want to do a quick round. It takes
on each game.
Speaker 3: Here, kind of a first pass at how we're feeling
going into Saturday and starting it off Saturday three point
thirty pm, Texans handed headed to Kansas City to take
on the Chiefs. And my first thought, first reaction a
word association with this game is it feels like, Okay,
I sure Chiefs win, but it is crazy because every
game the Chiefs have played pretty much as year has
been close, right, and the Texas look really good last week.
Speaker 2: So it's like, it's.
Speaker 3: Weird that I think it's going to be very, very close,
But I think it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Of the chiefswin. Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you're I think you're asking, like, hey, give me,
you know, one word to describe how you're feeling about
this game. Inevitable, Yes, thank you, perfect, nailed it ten
out of ten. No notes, Yeah, it's the Texans played
great against the Chargers.
Speaker 2: I was there in person.
Speaker 4: They played with passion, they played with a lot of toughness,
and you can tell there's a chip on their shoulder
because of what a lot of people said about that game.
Rex Ryan said, it's a bye week for the Chargers.
They took that personal. But when you have that, it's
like when you hit the nos button a little too early. Yeah, right,
and you empty the tank for that one race No one.
You got Race two and three still left to go,
but you're still racing for picks. No more noss in there.
The tanks are empty. I think that's what the text.
And so they'll fight. They've got a lot of Jamies
and Joe's to keep it close. But at the end
of the day, the Chiefs just continue to do what
they do and they pull away.
Speaker 2: Wait, is is is Travis Kelsey? Is he fat?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: I saw dive climbing, which is one of the weirdest accounts.
I used to love it. It gets weird or weird, but.
Speaker 2: It's so weird because it's like bought by somebody. Yeah,
I got bought by somebody.
Speaker 3: It's not him, but I've heard the guy behind the
original was also really weird.
Speaker 2: It's just an agurg or whatever, but whatever.
Speaker 3: I saw him tweet a picture of Kelsey and it
was Kelsey skinny and then Kelsey kind of looking fat,
but he deleted it, which was it was a photoshop ill.
Speaker 2: We'll see. Travis Kelsey is one of those players. Though.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't care what he did in the
regular season. It feels as if he's going to show
up when it matters most.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does, I don't. That's that's how the Chiefs are.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, sure, Actually, I mean this year their stats
aren't great, they're barely winning, but they're winning.
Speaker 2: I mean, number one seed.
Speaker 3: The craziest thing is still how Saints fans feel about
Steve Spagnolo. We watched that man put together the literal
worst defense in NFL history, but bookended is him winning
Super Bowls with the Giants and.
Speaker 2: The Super Bowls with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: But when he was down here, he gave up more
yards than any defensive history.
Speaker 2: What happened? How's that possible? I know, Look, the Chiefs
have been carried by their defenses here.
Speaker 4: Whatever, and every trackaster talks about him on third downs
and his blitz packages and how it's impossible to figure out.
Speaker 2: I know a year that people did figure it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Chris Jones goes a long way to
take on this game.
Speaker 8: I agree with you with the whole Like you think
Travis Kelsey's kind of washed, but then he's going to
show up when it matters. Most should go look at
his wrong numbers. He had ninety seven catches, eight hundred
and thirty yards. Touchdown numbers weren't where they were supposed
to be. But it was really those first three weeks
because like he didn't even break like the forty yard
threshold in the first three weeks. But his most recent
game he had eighty five yards in a touchdown like
Travis Kelcey's state. Kelsey, let's make a mistake about it,
and I agree with you with it seems inevitable that
they're going to win, but it's going to be close. Hey,
good teams find a way to win close games. That's
what Kansas City's done all the time. I mean, there's
so many people that are like, Kansas City gets lucky.
They're there, They're super lucky.
Speaker 2: It'd be lucky if it's at consistent.
Speaker 8: Dude, he got lucky fifteen times this year. It's like
we said, anytime they needed to make a play, they
did it.
Speaker 3: Every NFL game is stacking tiny, tiny wins in little
moments that eventually equal the big moment, and nobody does
it better than Mahomes read in Kansas City, Alandra, do
we know is Tata going to be at the game?
Speaker 2: I have not our tete.
Speaker 6: I have no idea if is going to be at
the game.
Speaker 3: I thought you were. Is it you were Taylor? Who's
our resident Taylor Swift correspondent.
Speaker 7: It's neither. I don't know if.
Speaker 5: We had a correspondentez, I mean, how are we ever
going to catch Murphy, Sam and Jody if we don't
even have a Taylor Swift beat writer.
Speaker 2: So you don't think ms J are doing Taylor updates
nearly daily.
Speaker 3: No, that's why I said you or Taylor, because I
know y'all have both gone to the Era's tour.
Speaker 2: You're false sure I haven't. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: Y'all both be in the aras to me and Jacob not,
y'all are younger. Just saying, y'all are a bit better suited
to be our Tasler Swift beat writers.
Speaker 5: I would assume that Taylor Swift is going to be
at this game, okay, because not on tour or anything.
Speaker 2: Perfect. Okay, see, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: That's work. That's that's what we were looking for. I'm
gonna yes, And if you can please report on the
outfit please.
Speaker 2: Okay, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: Do you want my take on the game?
Speaker 3: Or was I just as a woman all I really
cared about was whether or not Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: Was going to I thought, I'm just being very clear.
I would love your take on the game.
Speaker 5: My take on the game is that the Chiefs have
sold their soul to the devil, so they're gonna win
this game. But I do think that Pat Mahomes obviously
is not having the best year, and C. J. Stroud
actually had a good game last week, So, like y'all,
I think it might be closer than a lot of
people think. But again, Chiefs, it would be a last
field goal, but it'll be the Chiefs who it's gonna
be like a dumb piece to Kelsey or something, and he's, oh, yeah, it'll.
Speaker 4: Be a lateral from Kelsey, basically like one that nobody
else would make.
Speaker 2: I would say this if.
Speaker 3: The Texans do win, the entire playoffs becomes infinitely more interesting.
All of a sudden, all bets are off. All of
a sudden, everybody's eyes get as big as dinner plates bigger, yeah, thinking,
oh I mean wow, yes, yes, like a multiple orders
of magnitude bigger because all of a sudden, Lamar and
Josh Ally can both taste it. The rain Boss has
been slain, but probably not all right. I said, we're
gonna go quick takes in each game. But here we are,
so let's go to break and when we get back,
we continue to break down Round two of the NFL Playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Don't even know Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning
sports show in America. Off the bench.
Speaker 2: You know, what's the.
Speaker 3: What's the welcome back o TV one them for five
ESPN having a wonderful Thursday. We're talking a little NFL playoffs,
talk Texas Chiefs pretty much, you Danamus, the Chiefs take
it down Saturday afternoon. I love this game being first though,
for what we hit on at the end, because if
the Texans somehow win, then everything else for the rest
of the weekend becomes more exciting, starting with but maybe
not the maybe least affective being that it's in the NFC.
But Saturday night, seven pm, Commies Lions, our hero Jaden
Daniels trying to continue his majestic rookie run. Only this
time he's got to go into Detroit and there may
not be a team playing with more belief, a better culture,
a greater whole, is greater than the sum of its parts,
feel than the Detroit Lions. And Jared Goff is awesome
as well. I mean, what do the Lions have over
twenty something players?
Speaker 8: And I are a little bit little bit less now
because they got Amzeloney back.
Speaker 7: They got the only two or three of them back.
Speaker 3: They are the ones, I mean between Notre Dame and
the Coswell maasteral t have a jip and the lines
of the one Seed here a lot to be said
for how much you can overcome when you're together, well
coached and tough as hell.
Speaker 2: I think that's completely fair.
Speaker 4: I mean Dan Campbell with Detroit kind of has that
mentality and everything that he does. You know, he didn't
just focus on one guy. And look, they got star
players without question. But it's about the team and it's
about can I say grit?
Speaker 2: Do we do? We say? Are off? Okay?
Speaker 4: The gritty team, And that's his message and he's got
it on his hat, he's got it on the wall.
Speaker 2: And I think some of that is.
Speaker 4: You get your other players, your backup players believing. Now,
can that take you to a super Bowl and winning
a championship? Maybe it can't, but it can take you
down the road to try to get to a super
Bowl until you get some of your players back, because
you know, having what you feel like is the belief
from your head coach man. They're all pros there and
that goes a long way in their mentality and it's like, hey,
I don't want to be the guy that screws this up.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be the next man up. Yeah, and
I think, I mean, I think they are good enough
to make a super Bowl.
Speaker 3: They I mean, Jared Goff has made a super Bowl
yep before in the past. Jared Goff is not someone
who I think Wilt's in the big moments. I think
that I think they also have the Adam motivation. Not
that this really matters in the light of all the
other motivating factors, but if they manage to make the
Super Bowl, they will get Aiden Hutchinson back for that game, right,
or have a very good chance.
Speaker 2: At least of getting hutching him. He's saying he would play,
he would play, and he would be ready.
Speaker 3: So I look in the end again, don't overthink it.
This is the one seed. The comedies are great, Jane
Daniels is awesome, but this has to be too much
for a rookie, right. A rookie cannot go in to
Detroit and come out with a win here Saturday night,
round two of the NFL Playoffs. If he does start
building the statues in DC, Jaden canna have his right
next to the Lincoln Memorial.
Speaker 4: I honestly think if any quarterback could do it, it
would be Jaden Daniels just because what do you take
away his legs his arm? You can't take away both.
And he's so dynamic in the biggest moments. I saw
a montage of highlights when he was making game win
and plays just at the back end of the season,
not even for the full season, just the back end,
like you know, the final four or five games, and
you think they're out, you think they're not gonna find
a way, and they always do and they don't have
And I know a lot of Bronco fans and some
other fans that want there got to be Rookie of
the Year, Like look at the weapons. It's like, no,
don't play yourself. He's throwing to a lot of receivers
that were cut from other teams that nobody else wanted.
Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin, yes, he has finally helped. Terry mclaurin's like
the one guy that he has. But like zach Ertz
is on his last leg of his career. Zach Ertz
was like at home a couple of different times because
nobody wanted nobody thought he had anything left, and now
he's having this resurgence. Austin Eckler Chargers didn't want him,
right he's there. I mean there's a lot reivers.
Speaker 4: They got like seven receivers with the last name Brown
that nobody was like, it's just more same Brown brothers.
They just continue to find a way and it's because
of their leaders, because of JD five.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, Londra tte what y'all think.
Speaker 5: So I think that I agree with Jake that if
anybody could do it, it's Jayden for the same reasons
that we talked about last week, Like he's just calm,
cool and collected all the time. But this is the
Detroit Lions. This is a Dan Campbell led team. So
I think the Lions take this one. And like you said,
Jared Goff has been there before. And even the game
against the Bucks last week was very very close, came
down to literally like the wind blowing a little.
Speaker 2: That a little bit.
Speaker 3: So that's that is the crazy part about Yes, I mean,
the the the the wild card here is everything y'all
are talking about.
Speaker 2: It's just jade at the end of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because hasn't he thrown like three final play from
scrimmage touchdowns games this year? That's crazy. When's the last
time we've seen that in a single season? It's like
it's like hitting three buzzer beaters just doesn't happen. Yeah,
and it's waymore games, ty Ted.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going with the Detroit Lions. But it has
nothing to do.
Speaker 2: With k can't cheer for the conference.
Speaker 8: I think you picked the Lions too, But anyways, this
for me, it has to do with the Lions offense,
not even anything with Jayden Daniels. This running game for
the Lions, Jered Goff's been super efficient. Like that's what
killed the Bucks. We were talking about it the play discrepancy,
Like the Commanders ran thirty five more plays than the
Bucks because the Bucks.
Speaker 7: Couldn't run the ball. I think the Lions are going
to be able to run the ball. I mean, what
was it?
Speaker 8: It was penalties and the one fumble by Baker, which
is really what did them in. I think the Lions
are gonna play a lot cleaner, so like, I think
Jayden's gonna get his but I think it's gonna be
hard for the Commanders defense to get the Lions off
the field.
Speaker 3: Uh. Final note here, one thing about Dan Campbell's a
really good ride up in the athletic but we always
talk about him being a meathead there is in this
ride up. The entire theme of it is also that
he's kind of a football genius as well, and that
as much credit as Ben Johnson gets, Campbell is right
there with him in terms of adding wrinkles, throwing in creativity.
And it's basically as players just saying, y'all don't see it.
He doesn't want you to see it because he's happy
to just be pigeonholed as the dumb football guy. But
he's actually very strategically smart as well. I like lines,
all right, that's no surprise that he kind of gets
that tag. And again, if anybody listens to me in
the afternoons, meat hit is not something that is a
bad thing.
Speaker 2: Is a term of endearment. That means you are all
about ball.
Speaker 4: That means you are twenty four to seven thinking of
ways to be better on the football field. And that's
what Dan Campbell has it. Did you ever like there's
a lot of times, like I've had head coaches get
up there and talk like that.
Speaker 2: You're like, uh, yeah, yeah, it's hard to make somebody
believe you're sincere. That was sincere. Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go real quick on Ramsey It's hard
for me to bet against the Rams right now, But
then again, the Eagles are just so consistent as well.
Even if it appears like there's maybe fractures on the team,
I'm gonna go Rams to come up with the road win.
Red hot, Matt Stafford done it before, Jared Verus Bradin
fists playing their ass off.
Speaker 4: All the weapons, give me the Rems. Rams final answer, Oh, okay,
I agree with you. I think the defense, I think
they're healthy, they have weapons, they've got two receivers, they've
got a back, they've got the quarterback. Now they've got
injury at tight end that we'll see how that kind
of affects him. I know Stafford loves to find the
tight end in the scenes and kind of some of
the intermediate stuff when he gets in trouble. But the
Eagles have been disappointing in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: The Rams feel.
Speaker 4: Like they're thriving right now, and so I think the
Rams getting healthy with their defense paired with their offensive stars,
they get the win.
Speaker 2: Okay, real quick, we all got Eagles.
Speaker 7: Rams are my super Bowl pick for the NFC.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going Rams. There you go.
Speaker 3: When we get back, let's break down the biggest one
of the weekend, Ravens bills, and then we'll get into
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to OTV, wrapping up our little NFL.
Speaker 3: Proud to preview here on off the Bench, and we
have saved the best for last as Sunday Night. Ravens
Bills five thirty pm in Buffalo. I saw a headline,
what we're in for another frozen another freezer here just
gonna be absolutely I mean yeah. The NFL films music
may be nowhere more appropriate than two of the best
quarterbacks in the NFL, two of the top n MVP
candidates from this season, two players that the one thing
missing on the resume is playoff success.
Speaker 2: And they will meet in Buffalo in a blizzard. It's
gonna be awesome. It's gonna be wizard. Ravens Bills. He oh, man,
I think I'm gonna go. Ravens's Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry with Lamar added with Mark Andrews added, with
just so many weapons that even those day Flowers has
been out, they just Lamar makes everybody around him better. Yeah,
and I mean even likely the tie in from Coastal Carolina.
He's had some big plays this season. They just find
a way, they find a new weapon because of number eight.
And you pair that with Derek Henry who almost had
two thousand yards rushing himself, and we didn't talk about
it because Saquan did have over two thousand yards.
Speaker 2: And we know what the defense is all about.
Speaker 4: So at Grokwan being out, that's that's a big blow
and we'll see how.
Speaker 2: They handle that.
Speaker 4: But I don't think I'm betting against Lamar, even maybe
down the road.
Speaker 3: It is interesting because Josh Allen also makes everyone better
around him, as evidenced by this season, but certainly maybe
the players around the Martin is going to begin with.
Speaker 2: So they played.
Speaker 3: Back in September and the Ravens dominated thirty five to ten.
Little revenge on the mind. Hard to beat a good
team twice is in play here, Alondra, what you got.
Speaker 6: I'm going Ravens. I'm going Ravens all the way though.
Speaker 3: Like all the way through to win the Super Bowl. Yeah,
oh okay, uh Titan.
Speaker 8: I mean, Ravens are the more talented team. I think
it's a bad matchup for the Bills, But I'm the
type of person to where yingle. What do they say,
You ain't gonnaool me twice until Lamar does it.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 8: I can't bet on Lamar Jackson. Guys, I heard I
heard a stat this morning. I heard a stat this morning.
In the regular season, Lamar Jackson has a one to
oh three quarterback rating that's phenomenal. In the playoffs, it
drops all the way down to the mid seventies. On
the flip side, Josh Allen ninety three rating in the
regular season, one oh one in the playoffs. Josh Allen's
always elevated in the playoffs and up to this point,
Lamar's not. It's at home in Buffalo again, I think.
I think Baltimore is a bad match up. It wouldn't
surprise me if they won. But I'm not betting against
Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm just gonna side with home field here.
I'm just gonna side with Bill's mafia. The game being
in Buffalo being cold as hell. Give me the Bills.
I just hope we get an instinct classic here. I mean, yeah,
I think, I think. I think all these games. I
think the Round one blowouts are think of the past.
I think all these games should be pretty close and
excellent this week and really looking forward to Round two
of the NFL playoffs. Also looking forward to the next
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