Bye Eagles Bye, You CAN Have Playoff Wins in Detroit & Burned Browns | Ep. 131
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Alex Boyajian
1/19/20241 min read
(00:00) Intro (02:06) Cleveland Browns Fall Apart Against The Houston Astros (06:00) Green Bay Packers Upset Dallas Cowboys (16:09) Kansas City Chiefs Freeze Out Fins (22:04) Detroit Lions Beat Matt Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams For First Playoff Victory in 32 Years (28:32) Buffalo Bills Dominate Pittsburgh Steelers (34:13) Philadelphia Eagles Complete Epic Collapse in Loss To Tampa Bay Buccaneers (41:34) Baltimore Ravens Return From Bye Against the Houston Texans (46:47) Green Bay Packers Try To Flip The Script on The San Francisco 49ers (52:43) Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sail to Detroit Lions (55:24) Kansas City Chiefs Make History For Patrick Mahomes’ First Road Playoff Game Against Buffalo Bills Follow us on: / chaoticallyintolerant / chaoticallyintolerant https://www.threads.net/@chaoticallyi... / chaoticallyintollerant / ci_podcast_ Checkout our website! chaoticallyintolerant.com Blog: https://chaoticallyintolerant.com/blog Catch Summer Smash Here: https://chaoticallyintolerant.com/sum... All Updates on Tecmo Bowl: https://chaoticallyintolerant.com/tec... Meet the personalities of Chaotically Intolerant: https://chaoticallyintolerant.com/per... Meet the Hall of Famers: https://chaoticallyintolerant.com/hal...
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Okay, welcome back episode 131 of Chaotically Intolerant.
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Really awful wild card weekend, I feel like. Just no real good games, except for the lions rams, obviously.
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But a lot of blowouts. Not a great product for the end.
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No, I mean, you had your home cooking five and one for the home teams.
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Um, you had just some teams that looked like they didn't belong. The Pennsylvania teams in particular looked, I mean, you know, give the
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Steelers a little credit. They, they kind of chipped away. I think the Eagles looked worse than the Steelers did.
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They looked more overmatched than Pittsburgh. Um, Cleveland, you know, that was a surprise obviously to both of us.
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But the, with the, uh, the, uh, just. The level of blowout that game turned into and, you know, I mean, Green Bay crushing
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down. I mean, we expect the Cowboys to fail in the playoffs, but that game was and forget
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what the final score said, it was 32 points at one point in the fourth quarter. So there were some, there were some just some mismatches.
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There were some teams that just didn't show up to play really. And you expect better in the postseason.
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yeah, do you, you expect better showing from some of these teams getting, getting to this stage, you've played 18 weeks of football prior.
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Um, so it was a little surprising to see some of these, you know, teams we thought were going to be better laying eggs, especially, you know, Cleveland and
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Dallas. Yeah, we can jump into the Cleveland game. Just a horrendous miss by us.
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More me, I would say. Hold on, ESPN is playing another ad in my ears.
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But I mean, we forgot about Flacco, the other side of Joe Flacco and the turnover
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machine that he really can be. And I think that injury was a lot more impactful for Miles Garrett than
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We really expected. Yeah, I mean, the way the game started, there was no indication that the blowout
Cleveland Browns Fall Apart Against The Houston Astros
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was coming and we had, you know, uh, 14, 10 Cleveland lead and, you know, the
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Browns were finding some big plays, but again, the turnover bug. And like you said, the defense, I mean, that to me, okay, so take out the two pick
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sixes and you're still looking at a Cleveland team that statistically was the best ranked defense in terms of yards, giving up 31 points to
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a rookie quarterback, granted he's a really good rookie quarterback, but postseason, Houston took on that role of the underdog, even playing at home, and
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they just took it to the Browns. I don't know. I mean, but look, at the end of the day, at the end of the season, I should say,
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the job Stefanski did with all the injuries the Browns had and losing Nick
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Chubb and being down to And having obviously Garrett injured at this point in the season, that's not the
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Cleveland Browns that we've grown accustomed to. You would think given the Browns history and all those injuries this year, that
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they would have been a four or five win team. So for them to have won 11 games, even with this disappointing end, I think it
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was a great season for the Browns. They just need to figure out what they're going to do at quarterback next year. You know, if they're going to keep Watson.
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Yeah, I, the one thing that I will say I just didn't even know was how bad the
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Browns defense is on the road. Because I knew, I knew they got shellacked against the Colts.
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I mean, the Browns won that game, but their defense was shellacked. But there was also some turnovers in that game.
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And like, I think Watson was like their biggest problem in that game at the beginning.
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But I was not aware of just how horrible they have been on the road consistently.
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Yeah. And they showed that this week. I mean, it was 24-14 at halftime, and it felt like a game.
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And Houston was gonna get the ball at the end of the half, and you thought maybe they're gonna double dip, and then Cleveland gets the stop at the half, and
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you think, okay, that's what they needed. They needed the stop, they fell into a little bit of a hole, but Flacco's gonna dig them out, and then the back-to-back interceptions happen, and the game is
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literally like that, it's over. Like there's, there was no, almost no chance at that.
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It was 38-14. I mean, that's how quickly this game was able to switch.
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So this was, this was the game of, of two of the team of destinies too, it felt
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like. It was unstoppable force versus immovable object and the Texans, clearly they had a
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lot more destiny on their side, I think. Yeah, I mean, like from a, from a yardage standpoint, it wasn't, I mean, if you just
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looked at the actual stats, I mean, Cleveland had more first downs and I understand, you know, maybe garbage time as you get into the later in the second
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half, you know, the art, Houston only outgained them by 32 yards and the, uh,
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you know, of course the yards per play was egregiously different, you know, 8.1 to 4.6, but it just, it, it didn't feel like it was so much a blowout until those.
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pick sixes and if you took those out, yeah, Cleveland was three and five on the road this year, I understand that.
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Houston getting a healthy Stroud is, it makes them a different team, when they were struggling there with Case Keenum.
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And I, Houston, when you've got a young quarterback and you've got nothing to lose, you become dangerous.
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Just ask the Cowboys against Jordan Love. Yeah, well, I guess actually let's go to the Cowboy game after, you know, because I
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feel like Dolphins Chiefs were just so boring too. I want to give credit, I don't think a lot of people are really talking about just
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how impressive Green Bay going into Dallas was.
Green Bay Packers Upset Dallas Cowboys
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I mean, this is the youngest team in football. Jordan Love, he really, I think he only had like five elite games like that we
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would And they came out and just punched Dallas in the mouth.
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And Dallas had no response. I mean, what, I don't even know where the Cowboys go from this. They've how many times have they done this now where they have an elite?
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I mean, they were, they were a great home offense too. Like this is at home in Dallas. Dallas doesn't lose at home, especially like this.
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I don't care about the garbage time, the garbage time stuff. It was really like 48 to 16.
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That's, that's really what it was. And this is. This Packers team could win the Super Bowl, I think, realistically.
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come back to that in a second and just looking, if you actually look at the Cowboys recent playoff games, you know, they've lost playoff games.
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They lost at home to the 49ers a couple of years ago. They have not had one this bad since Favre carved them up with Favre with the Vikings
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in the 09 divisional round. That was 34 to three. Most of their playoff losses have actually been more of the heartbreaking variety.
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They had two against Green Bay, the Desbrang, Keshe, and then the third and 20 to set up the field goal.
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in one and they had, you know, close loss to the Niners the last two times they faced them and, you know, lost to the Whips.
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never forget the DAC running up the middle and they're trying to spike it. runs out. Yeah. And you know, they had a, yeah, they hung with the Rams to a certain extent in 2018
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when the Rams went to the Superbowl and, um, you know, they had the heartbreak with a couple of games with Romo, the one where he dropped the snap.
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But so this is the first time really outside of that, that 34 to three game I mentioned in the 09 playoffs that Dallas has just been embarrassed in a postseason
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game. And so they had been dominating at home all year. And I like what Michael Strahan said. I was happened to catch a little bit of the OT after the game.
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You know, you talk about all the media pressure on Dallas and all the sort of, you know, the coverage and the expectations.
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And it kind of feels like what Strahan was saying is it feels very theatrical. You know, it feels like these guys are not, are, are like putting on a
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performance rather than just going out and playing football and that everything they do is so magnified and glamorized.
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And it doesn't need to be because the Cowboys aren't America. I mean, they might be America's team in terms of fandom and everything, but in
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terms of winning and success at the postseason, they're, they're They're on the lower end because of their inability to even get to an NFC
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championship game since 95, right? Um, so for Dallas, I think, you know, look, Jerry Jones is the problem, but
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he'll never admit it. It's just keep firing the coaches, keep firing quarterbacks or players, whatever.
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But it's, it's him. Is Jerry Jones on a Jim Ersay level of ownership where he's actually preventing
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great coaches from going there? I mean, Shane Steichen, we don't know what is going on right now, for his future at
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least for the Colts. I mean, we think we have it, but the last like really great Colts coach that we saw
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was Dungey. I mean, Jim Caldwell took him to a Super Bowl, but he really wasn't successful with
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Manning. And then Pagano was... I mean, he was a mid-level coach.
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I think he was much better than we remember him. And then obviously the Frank Reich situation.
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But I feel like Jerry Jones is in that same level with Jim Ursay. They're not as bad as Dan Snyder.
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Dan Snyder is a whole nother league. Same thing with David Tepper.
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Those guys are the worst or bottom of the rung. But I think right there, right above them is Jerry Jones, Jim Ursay.
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I'm not really sure who else you could really put in there. Who's, what other owner is really. Well, it would have been Dan Snyder, but, you know.
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Dan Snyder, but he's gone. Josh Harris seems like he's doing pretty damn good actually, so far. there's very few owners that in football, there's owners in other sports and I'm an
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Orioles fan, so I feel that way about the Angelo's family. But I think flipping to Green Bay, I mean, yes, being a set, look, this is a team
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that's won a Super Bowl as a sixth seed. It's a franchise that wins in the playoffs for the most part.
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Yeah, I mean, obviously you can't win every year, but they have won some Super Bowls, they have had some really deep postseason runs, and they've got...
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Like you said, youngest team in the league and a quarterback that loves not a rookie. We have to remember that.
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I mean, he's not, he's in his third year now, I think. Third or fourth year. I can't even remember.
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I think he might be in his fifth. it's third. I think they took love in 21.
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Like right, I think it was right after Rogers won the MVP actually. Now they took him in 2020, so this is year four for Love.
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And remember that Rogers, he became a starter in year four and Favre was early
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in his career when he became a starter. He wasn't a rookie, I don't think, cause he was with Atlanta before. So, and Love, you know, I really like the gunslinger mentality he has.
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And he's throwing balls off his back foot. He's standing in, he's taking the hit. I mean, he has won that team over and-
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To me, the Packers, you know, they, they can go far because of him. They, they can go far if their defense can keep making plays.
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They, they, they had a little hiccup there. They lost a couple of games. Mayfield torched him in December, and then they lost that game kind of inexplicably
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on Monday night to the giants, you know, they lost to Tommy cutlets.
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Yeah. And they got You can't stop Tommy Cupps. It doesn't matter, you just can't stop him.
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Yeah. And, you know, it wasn't like the Packers played horribly in that game. They obviously just, you know, they gave up a lot.
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They gave up over 200 on the ground that day. So if the defense can put on a performance like that against San Francisco the way
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they did against South, then I like their chances against the Niners. I do. Yeah, I think I said this earlier in the year too.
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Green Bay is just one of those well-run organizations that doesn't lose. Like they, even when you think they lose, they actually don't.
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Like I think Pittsburgh is one of those where when you think they're losing,
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they're never really done. I mean who else? You really can't say New England anymore.
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That was it for 25 years. maybe Minnesota to a slight degree, you know, kind of given what they've, they
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don't, you know, win Super Bowls, but. No, no, they don't. I feel like, I mean, you, it's hard to not say the Cowboys too.
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I mean, it's, it's not like they're horrible. Like they're, they're there every year.
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They're always there. They just don't get over the hump. That I think that's the big difference.
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But the Cowboys, like we, as much hate as the Cowboys have been getting, and they always will get, I think they'll get that for the entirety of the franchise.
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They're a well-run organization when it comes to winning games, winning regular
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season games. They're never... I really can't think of a year, and especially, like, I've been doing a new
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video series on our socials where I'm going back and treating the NFL like it
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was a college football playoff. And I've been going back the last few years, and I went back to 2020 when the
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Cowboys were like 6 and 10, but their division was so horrible that they were still fighting for a possible playoff spot.
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Like that's... I'm trying to say something nice about the Cowboys because they have been getting
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shit on and shit on and shit on. And I'm just trying to make a little nice with the Cowboys.
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Yeah, I mean, absolutely. You can't, you know, I don't think firing McCarthy's the answer.
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I think the defense stunk. I think it should hurt Dan Quinn's stock is getting a head coaching job.
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I mean, they give up 48 points at home in a playoff game, even to a good offense like Green Bay. I mean, that's, that is inexcusable.
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I think, uh, I, I don't know what to say. I think Dallas just needs to lick its wounds and, uh, you know, impeach Jerry
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Jones. That's all they can do. That's that is the answer. That is the one answer, I think.
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And then you go from there. Dak also has one year left on his contract as well. So that's something to definitely keep in mind.
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Heading in, I think heading into training camp this year, and then obviously heading in to training camp next year.
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Um, but. looked out of sync offensively. I mean, Dak put up big numbers because they were throwing a lot. He threw 60 passes and just touched just over 400 yards, but it just never felt
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like that offense was really in rhythm. Well, especially he did the same thing. So at the end of the half, they were down, um, I think five, you know, five, 10 yards
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from the goal line. They were trying to score a touchdown. And at that point, your touchdown or nothing, they were down, I think 27,
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nothing. And that the same thing, Dak did earlier in the year with no time left, no time
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outs, he doesn't throw it in the end zone. He threw it to CD lamb, like right at the goal line and lamb was short.
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Luckily there was a penalty. So it gave him one more play. And then they scored a touchdown to Jake Ferguson. But it's like those little mistakes I think at those times is really his problem
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because 20, I would say 20 teams in the league right now would take Dak Prescott as their starting quarterback.
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Like there's, he did put up MVP caliber numbers for most of the year.
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I don't think that can be denied. And I got shit on for saying that, you know, I would defend Dak because his
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numbers were MVP calibers. Touchdowns were in the top five all year. His yards were in the top five all year.
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His rating was in the top five all year. Maybe it was against bad teams, but it's still in the NFL. Like that's hard to do no matter what.
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Um, so I'm really curious how they're going to handle this. Dak seems to me like a Jerry Jones project.
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He's not going to let him go. He won't admit defeat because that means he's admitting that he was incorrect about
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Dak Prescott. And Jerry is not a guy to admit he was wrong. Exactly.
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Yeah. You summed it up right there. Yeah. Dolphins, sheeps, the coldest one or the coldest game of the year.
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Like third coldest of all time. First off, I want to talk uniforms.
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The Dolphins, Blue Aqua plant pants are chicken shit uniforms.
Kansas City Chiefs Freeze Out Fins
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They can't wear those in the cold. They just they don't fit in the snow. They don't fit in the cold. You have to go all white in the snow.
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I don't care about, you know, real football people say, oh, What about the colors? It's harder to see.
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Aqua doesn't fit. It just it you don't win in aqua in the snow. It just doesn't work.
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Um, And the beers were freezing a catastrophe. Um, I also think People were complaining at the bills game was postponed because of
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snow Uh, that wasn't because of snow for the players. That was for Fan safety and player safety just getting to the games because there
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was a travel ban in buffalo I think a lot of people don't realize that. They just think it was the NFL being soft.
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No, that was for safety precautions. And this game should have been postponed too.
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Anyone saying, oh, well, it's cold. Like football is meant to be played in the cold. Football is meant to be played in 20, 10 degrees.
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If the National Weather Service has to come out and say, you guys need to make sure to cover your extremities or your frostbite is a high percentage, that's a
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danger to human beings. So I think it should have been postponed. The fact that they played the game, I still think the result was the same.
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It would have been the same no matter what, but it was very irresponsible for
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the NFL to play this game. Uh, yeah, yeah. It, it, I mean, it was irresponsible for the dolphins to play this game because
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they don't look like an NFL team. I mean, I get, I, I don't know what to say other than that.
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The chiefs just look like they flipped the switch, but so did the dolphins. I mean, they do this every year.
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Talk about a franchise that's broken and it's always late in the year. It's never, I mean, it's pretty rare. They, the one year with Brian Flores where the dolphins actually started like one in
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seven and finished nine and eight. the most 2021 and then they fired him. I think that was two was first year.
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No, two was 2020. I'm pretty sure it was, that was the same, that was the Fitzpatrick in two a year.
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I'm pretty sure. It was 2021 because they finished nine and eight. So it had to be the first year that they played 17.
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But regardless, Miami has always looked, as you said, candy ass, right?
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At the end of the year, it just, and they, it just looked like it wasn't fair. It wasn't, I mean, it's fair because it's an NFL game.
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The chief's defense is really good. We should point out that if they're going to make a run this year, it's going to be
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a lot in large part because of the defense and in large part because they're getting, you know,
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Rishi Rice might be their breakout star. I mean, someone new, right? It seems like every year.
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has to be a breakout for them, right? Like it just has to be. Exactly. And, you know, you look statistically and we'll maybe try to cover the chief's
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spills game, but you know, they didn't have Pacheco in that first meeting with Buffalo, he gives them a different element.
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He really does. And I think for Miami, I think the talents there, I think McDaniel's too, they need
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like a Parcells, they need someone like, and a Parcells was there as a, as a consultant at one point and they actually turned it around a little bit.
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They need someone to. to make the Dolphins, the Dolphins need to pretend that they play in cold weather.
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They need to develop a grit and a toughness that they just don't ever seem
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to have. And so that's why this game was a mismatch. I'm gonna tell you who they need.
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They need Bill Belichick. Yeah, that would not be a bad idea at all. I mean, the offense clearly has all the necessary weapons.
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To a, the jury's still out, obviously. I think that's, he's a big question mark, especially heading into this off season.
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It's, I think like you said, it's his third, fourth year. You know, this is when quarterbacks need to really show out.
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You know, that rookie contract's expiring. And the Dolphins, I feel like...
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There's so many screens. I understood what they were trying to do. They were trying to get those they're fast guys in open space But you just can't do
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that against Chiefs defense. You really can't the Chiefs defense just won't let you get into open space though
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the one thing that worked was that deep ball to Tyree kill and I Said it when I
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was watching the game and this is a dumb football take but why don't they just keep doing that just?
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at some point in the game in the second half when you clearly are not getting anything done.
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I don't know why they didn't tell Tyreek just to run just run over all over the
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field find an open spot. I mean that's what Travis Kelsey does and until he's double teamed nobody can stop
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him. I'm not sure what they were doing with Tyreek defensively. I mean they were holding him down except for that deep ball but nobody can catch
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him so just run. Teltua throw it up and Tyreek is gonna go get it.
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I mean, if anybody's ever played Tecmo Bowl, it's what you do with Jerry Rice. That is literally the typical Jerry Rice play.
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Cause I'll play, I play my dad against in Tecmo Bowl and I play as the 49ers. And he constantly just goes, you're gonna throw it to Jerry Rice.
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And I'm like, yeah, I am. Because he's gonna go up and get it in triple coverage. It doesn't matter.
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I don't know why they didn't just keep doing that. I think they got a little too complicated. I think McDaniel got in his head a little bit.
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Yeah, but they're not going to replace them, so. No, they're not. So sorry to Dolphins fans.
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They also now have the longest playoff win drought in the NFL um 2000 right?
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Yeah Not good. Uh, and uh, I guess a good transition Congratulations to the detroit lions.
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You guys have done it. You want a playoff game? um, this is I mean I
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I don't even, there was an old man in the crowd, apparently he's been a season ticket holder for 66 years.
Detroit Lions Beat Matt Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams For First Playoff Victory in 32 Years
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I was borderline bawling. Like I was welling up in the back of my throat when I was watching just his smile
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as they were kneeling out the game. Just what this team means to the city of Detroit is so much.
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And Kelly Stafford, like, get out of the media.
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Yeah, I understand Matt Stafford's thing of saying I'm happy for the players like, you know, maybe he's a little frustrated with us with the city Buying him.
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I think when they when he got hurt they booed him, which is wrong. That's wrong but you can't expect to not be booed when you're going into the Into a
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uh in a waste city like no matter what I feel like that's just a given even if it is your town got to expect it like gotta
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I mean, Matt Stafford has thick skin. I'm not saying that, but you gotta have thick skin when it comes to that.
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Yeah, I mean, but look for the Lions, it was just, this was all about them. And I'm glad Stafford is healthy and okay, because it looked scary.
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It looked like he was almost disoriented when he took the hit and his eyes kind of
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glazed over. The Rams, you know, they should have won the game.
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And the biggest mistake McVeigh made all night was not going for it on fourth and 14. It didn't matter where they were on the field.
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They were gonna need to stop. Detroit from getting two first downs, which they didn't do anyway, I understand, but you gotta go for it there.
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You have to go, the secondary of the Lions is suspect. You had two great receivers, one having an amazing night, Pukunakua is this guy's,
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you know, him and Cup, and if you still have a few more good years out of Stafford, the Rams could, you know, go back to being what they call what the
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greatest show on surf now that they're in LA. But the Lions, you know, think about it.
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I mean, hopefully for them, this isn't the last win that they have, but this felt
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like, if it is the last game they win this year, if they end up losing on Sunday, this will be a perfect bookend because this was very reminiscent of that first
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game of the year, which they also won by a single point. By the way, I wanted someone to fact check, and I don't know if they did, that
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the Rams have played three straight one-point games, and I wonder if that had ever happened. I'm just throwing out a random thing there while it was on my mind.
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But anyway. You know, the Lions, this was the definition of finding a way to win because
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the Rams outplayed them, they outgained them, they looked frankly like, I don't know if they look like necessarily the better team all around, but the offense
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was humming for the Rams. The Detroit was doing it all early and then they kind of, it slowed down.
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You know, they've got those 21 points in the first 20 minutes or so and then they only got a field goal the rest of the night.
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But... Detroit for so many years found ways to lose games and they found a way to win
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this one. And that's the difference in the culture now. And sometimes the playoffs are about finding a way to win when you don't play
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your best. And if you can advance in the playoffs when you don't play your best, that to me
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is an indication that you have a chance to go far. So, and what I've seen, and I can just rattle off a few teams off the top of my
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head, when a team breaks a long playoff drought, I have seen a number of times where they then go on a run.
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The Bengals come to mind because that's the most recent one. It was 31 years, I think, for them.
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And then they beat the Raiders barely, right? They hung on. They just barely beat the Raiders. And then they went on and beat Tennessee and then beat Kansas City.
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And you know, I go back to the 05 and 06 season. Seattle broke a 20-plus year drought, went to the Super Bowl.
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Chicago broke about a 20-year drought, went to the Super Bowl. I mean, a lot of times it's that first win.
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that just is such a weight on your shoulders. And when you win that, and that's why I feel really good, if I'm a Lions fan, I
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feel really good about playing Tampa. Not that Tampa's a slouch, I mean, we know that they got a solid team, they deserve
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to be here for the most part, but I think Detroit is gonna feel great about getting
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that monkey off their back. Hey, we won one, why don't we just go win a few more? Now I heard this story from the part of my Take podcast.
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They were talking about Detroit Don. He's one of the super fans in Detroit.
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And there's a lady that, you know, she's a season ticket holder for the Lions as well.
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And she has not been to a game since the Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary at Detroit.
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She said, I will not go to another game until the Lions make the playoffs. And she just popped up out of nowhere.
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Like, what was it? Eight, nine years later at this very game. So just a cool little story just about Detroit and, and just, it's, it is crazy
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to see what the city means or what the team means to the city. And I mean, especially how awful the Pistons are right now and how awful the
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Tigers have been for really the last 10 years. I mean, ever since. I think ever since they lost to the Red Sox in the ALCS, that was kind of their
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nail in the coffin for that whole franchise. And then Michigan, yeah, that's a big one.
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Getting Harbaugh, and Harbaugh also interviewed with the Chargers, so that's big news.
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But he does have, I guess he has connections with the family, the Cronkies who own it.
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But congrats to the Lions, that's just an awesome thing. I feel like... If you're, even if you're like a Packer fan, even if you're their biggest rival,
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it's, it's like hard to say I'm upset that they won.
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My dad actually, it's hilarious, he does not like Dan Campbell, he doesn't like his play call style whatsoever.
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So he was actually rooting against the Lions, but I was like, dad, how can you hate that they're winning this game right now?
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He was like, I don't, I just don't want to see Campbell be rewarded for his stupid decisions.
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And I was like, yeah, but it's Dan Campbell. He's He's gonna bite your kneecaps off. He's drinking a thousand milligrams of caffeine every day That's just you gotta
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love it. You gotta love everything about that team. So, um, congrats to the lions, uh On to monday Steelers bills the initial feeling
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from this game that I got was that the Steelers had absolutely no chance because The the bills were paying their fans 20 hours an hour to shovel out the stadium
Buffalo Bills Dominate Pittsburgh Steelers
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just so this game could be played I mean, if you're a Bills player, you've got to be coming out ready to destroy.
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I mean, they could have beat the 07 Patriots, I think. It just with the pure adrenaline that was probably pumping through their, through
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their veins. Um, but they just kind of let the Steelers hang around. Like they, they went up big and then they did the thing that they always do.
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They let them hang around for a while. Yeah, well, this was at least a game where the Bills didn't play too stupid.
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I mean, the blocked field goal was bad. I wouldn't say that was stupid. It was just unfortunate.
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It happens and it kind of sapped them a little bit of their mojo. Um, what I worry for Buffalo is, yeah, they, they played, they're mostly
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efficient, but they let the Steelers get some yards. There's some defensive injuries. There's some depth issues right now for the Bills that concern me going into that
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Kansas city game, but, um, Josh Allen running and. going for 52 on a touchdown.
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These teams, and we said this watching the Tampa game last night, these teams need to run more.
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They need to just try, they can't get frustrated just when there's one drive where maybe they don't, you know, have success because, you know, James Cook can
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cook, if it, as it were, Rashad White can cook. These guys need to, these teams need to run these guys more.
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They need to be. less reliant on trying to trick the defense or outsmart themselves.
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I just, I wanna see these teams run it more. And what's different about Buffalo this year, they ran it well, but those numbers
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are bumped up by Josh Allen. If you take out Allen, they were 26 for 105 as a team, which is not bad.
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I mean, still 26 carries, but I still wanna see these teams ground and pound a
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little more, especially when they get a lead against an inferior team. So,
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Yeah, I look, Buffalo did what it had to do. If I told you before the game, Hey, the bills are favored by, you know, 10 and a
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half, they're going to win by 14. I think what's at least for the Bills, you know, they won by 14, the spread was 10
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and a half. So if I told you that before the game, you'd be like, eh, you know, sounds about right. And I was saying that they played better than they did in the wild card game last
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year against Skyler Thompson and the Dolphins. And Miami got 31 points in that game. And it was like, what are you doing, Buffalo?
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This is supposed to be your year and the whole Demar Hamlin thing. And then they came out and got shellacked by Cincy. But it doesn't feel like this team's going to get shellacked.
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by Kansas City. I don't know if they'll win. It's definitely kind of a coin flip game, but I think at least Buffalo avoided too
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much stupidity. So that's the good takeaway. The bad takeaways you might have some injuries to deal with for the Bills and
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defensively felt like Pittsburgh moved the ball a little too easily in the second half, but not an egregious performance by the Bills either.
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Just kind of a standard, you know, this is just sort of what we expected.
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Yeah, I think the problem that I have with running the ball and we can talk about this with when it comes to the Bucks as well later, but Do teams and the Titans
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were the best at this when Derek Henry was like in his prime prime? Teams forget you run the ball a ton in the first half because you want to wear the
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defense down That that's the point you're trying to wear the defense down. You're trying to grind them down You're also talk to any offensive lineman
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If you're passing 60 times a game, linemen aren't pushing, they're not blocking forward when you're passing, they're moving backwards.
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And that can be a lot, that's a lot more difficult than moving forwards. And linemen want to be able to push forward as well and use those different
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muscles. So I don't understand teams that obviously if you go down big, you need to give up on
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the run, you know, somewhat you need to throw the ball as much as you possibly can to stay in the game.
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But. It's really frustrating just watching these teams refusing to run immediately.
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Like their game plan, just no running. They're like, we're not going to run the ball at all. We're going to do it a little bit to keep the defense honest.
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But even the defense isn't going to stay honest. They're like, we know you're bullshitting us when you run it up the middle once
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every seven plays. It's really infuriating to watch, especially with a guy like James Cook,
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who's, I mean, he feels like an afterthought on this offense and he's not. He's a great running back.
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Yeah, yeah, I, it, sometimes these teams just, everything they do is backwards. And I mean, so we'll see if we learn.
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Romo also, just the pure glazing of Josh Allen that goes on.
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Like, my god, it is so hard to listen to sometimes.
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It's just, I think like Pittsburgh got an early stop and Romo, literally during the
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punt, was just going on about Oh, like Josh Allen is just such a great quarterback.
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He just knows what he's doing. Like dude, shut Like, holy crap, and we're gonna have to listen to him again, probably, when
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Mahomes and Alan face off this weekend. He's gonna be double fisting it.
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He's gonna be going back and forth between the two. I mean, it's crazy. I'm- now I'm starting to get out on him.
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I was in on him for a while, and I was like, one of the few, but now I'm like, oh-
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Anyways, Eagles and Bucks. This was kind of a shock, kind of a not.
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Eagles fans are they dump popcorn on Nick Sirianni walking out of the tunnel, which
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we shouldn't be shocked that happened because it's Philly. I mean, that's what they do.
Philadelphia Eagles Complete Epic Collapse in Loss To Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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They're trash when they lose and they're like funny trash when they win.
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I'm gonna give you a little bit of a timeline of the Eagles. Before Nick Sirianni, I think they went four and 12.
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The very next year, they went to the playoffs at nine and eight, I wanna say, and played the Bucks and they lost.
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The year after that, they went to the Super Bowl. Nick Sirianni has never had a losing season. He's been to the playoffs every single year that he's been there.
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I understand if you want a coordinator change, Shane Steichen and Jonathan Gannon were both clearly
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big, big reasons why that team was as good as it was. But just giving up on a guy because of, you know, it's a tough season, you know,
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you have Superbowl hangovers, like this is actually quite common. Just the pure complaining and crying about it just didn't really infuriates me.
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Yeah, it's, it's nuts. I mean, this guy's won, uh, 34 games, right over three years, like as starting
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head coach, he's been to a Superbowl to me, it's, if I told you before the season,
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the Eagles would go 11 and six, they lose first round of the playoffs, be like, yeah, it's disappointing, but maybe expected Superbowl hangover, but Hey, they
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want 11 games. They got in, you know, they. Right. It's the fact that it happened the way it happened.
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I think if it went the other way where they started, like one and four and then they finished strong and you'd be like, Oh, Superbowl hangover
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early. Don't. And then they lose in the playoffs. It'd be kind of, Oh, this is surprising. But this whole, the way they went out.
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I understand why people might talk about Sirianni's job. The fact that they just, they've got shellacked by, I mean, even the Arizona
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game, we said like it was the score was 35, 31, but it felt like they got dominated in that game. And then they actually did get dominated by the giants and now they got dominated
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by the bucks and there was some clothes, you know, there were. there was a close loss in there to Seattle. They were hammered by the Niners and the Cowboys.
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And that, to me, was kind of the first time I was like, maybe the Eagles aren't as good because they just got shellacked in two games that were supposed to kind of
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be a barometer of where they were. But I think it is absurd to even be entertaining the idea of firing Sirianni.
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I mean, if it happens again next year and they come out and they go eight and nine, or even nine and eight, and they don't look, I understand then, because it seems
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like. They were in too good of a position after last year to be going in this direction. But man, I, that's just typical Philly.
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I, I'm shocked and appalled to hear that, that they were, you know, are so adamant
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about him being fired, but what are you going to do? But on the, on the buck side, you know, I was saying, could the Bucks be the, one of
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those teams to go on a run? They've been hot Mayfield played well, man. I mean, the numbers again, you could say, cause it's Philly, but
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Numbers look good, you know he's banged up, right? He threw for 3.37, three touchdowns.
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We were saying this because we watched the game yesterday. The play calling was the one thing I came away feeling annoyed about if I'm a Bucks
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fan is that they just stopped running in the second half. It felt like Rashad White, four yards a carry, 18 for 72, but like, they should
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have just been, they should have, he should have had 25 or 30 carries. There was literally a stretch where it was like 15 straight pass plays and they just
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can't do that. You can't do that. I know they want to. when they go up 25-9, that's when you'd need to start just running the ball down
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your throat. Like there's no reason Rashad White should only have, I think he had 18 carries
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total, and the entire team had 29 runs, but that includes like two Baker Mayfield
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scrambles, like a Trey Palmer probably end around or something like that.
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Baker threw it 36 times and they won the game by 21.
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Like, that's unacceptable to me. That's, or not 21. I'm dumb.
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Oh my God, I can't do math. What is 32 minus nine?
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23, I'm sorry. worst playoff loss in Eagles history. Yeah.
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He shouldn't have thrown it 36 times. That is insane to me. And it feels like any run is into the middle of the pile.
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They're not trying anything on the outside. And Rashad White is especially a type of guy that you want him to be running
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downhill. You want him getting more momentum around the outsides because honestly, when you
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look at him, he's kind of built like Derek Henry. He's not as strong. He's not as big, but he still has that Derek Henry style build that can be really
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dangerous. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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I think if they're going to have a chance to beat the Lions, you know, on the road,
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they're going to need a little more of a balanced attack, even though the temptation would be to throw a lot against Detroit because their secondary is
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susceptible to big plays. But you know, in that first meeting, they met in week six and Detroit won 20 to six
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and Mayfield's numbers were very modest. The Bucks ran 16 times for 46
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Now Detroit only ran 22 times for 40 yards. It was much more of an offensive, uh, much more of an aerial type day, um, for the
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lions and Amonra St. Brown had a huge day, but, um, interesting to see Cade Otten be the leading receiver
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at eight 89, so Tampa's just, you know, they're finding ways to use guy, different
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guys and, you know, maybe they're kind of look, Mayfield is you say what you want
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about him, but he's a Tough cookie and they're not gonna be an easy out. I don't, like there's a part of me that feels like Detroit should just kill them
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cause they kind of got that monkey off the back. But then there's a part of me that's like, I don't know, Tampa's, we probably should
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not underestimate them quite as much cause they've been a very good team in the second half, right, the same way the Eagles have just sucked beyond belief for
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their last seven games. The Bucs have been very good in that same stretch and Mayfield in particular has played well.
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And those are the teams that in the post season usually don't go out. you know, without a fight, so.
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Yeah, it also felt like to me like this game should have been worse. Um, Baker, Baker missed a few.
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I mean he missed. Yeah, and like I think when we watched it last night I said the passes weren't the
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best. Like they I think both of one of them was well one of them was definitely a drop. I think Evans definitely dropped it.
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But the other one down the sideline That was overthrown. I think it was. And even if it's Evans, like it's, it's hard to go and get that.
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It was on the fingertips. So it definitely could have been worse. I think if Baker can hone it in a little more.
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They can win that. They can beat Detroit. That's. Yeah. Son of a bitch.
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All right, we're gonna, let's do this. I guess like our prediction, we'll do a couple minutes on it, then we'll get out
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of here. Texans, Ravens on Saturday at 4.30.
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Big game for the Ravens, they're back. I, it's hard, I can't, it's hard for me to pick against CJ Stroud.
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It really is right now. Yeah, I know. And that's fair. And as a Ravens fan, I'm nervous. Absolutely. When you have a, yeah, again, rookie quarterback with nothing to lose, no
Baltimore Ravens Return From Bye Against the Houston Texans
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expectations now, but we'll see. It's going to be really cold. Not going to be like the confines of the dome that they played in, played indoors,
41:47
right? Last week, you know, Houston's going to have to figure out a way to, to get some
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balance, you know, running the football against the Ravens. You know, for me, it's just a matter of, of the rust factor.
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I think when you just put the talent out there, the Ravens, if it was just played on paper, it was just talent.
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Of course, we'd be Baltimore would be the obvious prediction. But, um, you know, I think, look, the possible return of Mark Andrews is big.
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You know, it gives Lamar a trusted weapon. Um, he's limited in practice or we'll see as a flowers, something to keep an eye on.
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Um, I don't think this will be a blowout. I don't, I, I think the spread is pretty high.
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I think the Ravens are gonna, you know, have to, have to work to get through this game.
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I still wanna pick them, cause you know, it's my team and I think that they're, they still, at least until proven otherwise, are the best in football, but
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it is very hard not to have that lingering thought. 2019 MVP season coming off a bye, plus a week eight, or a week then, week 17, now
42:51
week 18 game where you didn't play your starters, playing a scrappy upstart AFC
42:56
South team, it's kinda. You know, you start to play all those things back in your head and, um, and
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Houston just dismantled a pretty good defense. They dismantled a team that beat the Ravens in Baltimore.
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So I think it's going to be close. It's going to be close. I do. I don't think it's going to be a runaway.
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Houston clearly has proven that it belongs here, but the Ravens are the best team in
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football. Ravens have never hosted an AFC championship game. I, uh, it would be a real gut punch if they lose this game at home to Houston.
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I think Houston's going to keep it close. I think the Stroud factor is something, it's not a statistic.
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It's an intangible aspect to the team. I feel like that puts a little chip on their shoulder.
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Again, nobody believes in them. I mean, Baltimore is minus nine. I'm going to be honest, that feels like a trap too.
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That really does. Oh, it definitely does. Look, I mean, first meeting 25 to nine, that was CJ Stroud's first NFL start.
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There's no way you can look at that as a fair assessment of how these teams are gonna match up on Saturday.
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I just feel like, but again, when you come off almost a flawless performance like
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that, it is hard to repeat it. So would it shock me if the Ravens ran away with this game, as the spread makers say?
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No, it wouldn't. I just... You know, I know that there's a little more pressure on them than, than even in
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most years or even previously when they made the playoffs because Jackson has not had the postseason success.
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He's only one in three. And you look on the other side, you have a rookie quarterback who already has as many playoff wins as Lamar Jackson.
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So that pressure alone is what worries me about, you know, how close they can keep
44:38
it. But the Texans look, just want to point out Lamar Jackson only threw for 169 and he was sacked four times the first meeting.
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Now, Stroud threw for 2.42, he was sacked five times, and neither team really ran it
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that well. So you looked at that first meeting, and the Ravens, it was 7-6 at halftime in that
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game. They were up, and then they had a big third quarter, and that was pretty much that. But Zay Flowers, who was the leading receiver in that game, you know, if he's
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limited, yeah, there's a lot of reasons to think this is gonna be a close game. planning on also posting our predictions again right before the game.
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We are gonna give Houston credit. this game. They have, they do belong. It's not that we, you know, it just, look, it, well, the, the press.
45:27
can blame us, really. I don't think there's much to blame. No, I think it's understood. Look, I don't think we're that shocked.
45:33
I mean, I certainly felt like Houston could win. I just, you usually trust the defense and you know, the quarterback matchup, maybe
45:41
five years ago or 10 years ago, Flacco versus a rookie, you go Flacco. And it's not even that he played that.
45:46
I mean, he had two bad passes, unfortunately, but the game, you know, felt like Cleveland's defense was the real shocker and they just got carved up.
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So we'll see. I think Houston Baltimore will be a good game to start off that division round.
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I'm gonna give my score prediction. I don't know if you want to just because of superstition, you wanna stay away from it completely.
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I'm gonna say 27-21 Ravens are gonna win this one.
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I think it's gonna be kind of back and forth. I see Houston making kind of a late run at the end.
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Maybe they score like a late touchdown with. Backdoor cover. minutes left and then they try and get a stop but they just can't quite get a stop
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and the Ravens will come away with it. Packers 49ers, the 815 game on Fox.
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The Packers do not beat the 49ers in the playoffs but this is not Aaron Rodgers.
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This is Jordan Love. But I have a strong feeling.
Green Bay Packers Try To Flip The Script on The San Francisco 49ers
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This year kind of feels like the 49ers a year. It does. I mean, I want to pick the Packers.
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I want to say this seven seed magic can happen and that the Lions can host the NFC
47:00
Championship game somehow against Green Bay and how great that would be. But look, I think Green Bay can absolutely keep it close.
47:08
And I think they can win. I do. But my concern isn't so much love against the Niners defense.
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I mean, I do, you do wonder about, you know, on any given day, the Niners pass rush can just mess things up for a quarterback.
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I worry about Green Bay's defense because it's been inconsistent. And when you think about the fact that Carolina got shut out its last two games,
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but the previous game, when it played Green Bay, it got 30 points. Green Bay's defense is very inconsistent and they had a great showing for pretty
47:36
much the entire game against Dallas, but it feels like whether it's this week or
47:42
maybe they advanced, but I don't see them winning, that Packers winning a Super Bowl because of the youth and the defense, but it would be a great story.
47:49
A seven seed. Green Bay with Jordan Love getting to the championship game. And it would be kind of the biggest injustice yet for the 49ers because they
47:57
have just gotten so close year after year, it seems like, and having gotten it done. And, and one of these years you figure it just, it has to happen.
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I mean, they have to break through there. They're the heavy favorite, but you know, Green Bay might just be due to beat him.
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I don't know. I think it's, I think it's going to be close-ish.
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You know, I don't know. Like I could see it being a game where the Niners cover just by sheer, you know,
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force of scoring a fourth quarter touchdown to put it away or I could see Green Bay taking them right down to the wire.
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I don't know. I just don't know if that pack if the Packers can repeat a performance that flawless.
48:39
I'm trying not to overthink this that much. I'm looking at the postseason results.
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I'm looking at the stats right now. Overall in their entire history, the 49ers are only up five to four in postseason
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matchups. They are up three to two when it's in San Francisco.
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They're tied two to two when it's at Green Bay. They have played each other in 98, 2001, and 2013 in the wild card.
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Divisional round 95, 96, 2012 and 2021. And then NFC Championship game 1997 and 2019.
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Looking at all these numbers, the Packers are due. Like they're due.
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This, it almost feels, I've now switched in this two minutes that we've been
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discussing this. I've switched. I think this is a new era for the Packers.
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You also don't have to deal with Aaron Rodgers bullshit every off season. I think that's a new era for them as well.
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I'm gonna say Packers. I'm gonna say Packers 21-17.
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I think that's a fair number. More of a defensive battle. I want to pick the Packers so badly.
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I was looking at the stat that says the Packers, at least from fantasy, and I assume this translates.
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Packers and Bucks, two of the road underdogs playing this weekend are two of the three worst teams covering tight ends.
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So you wonder about George Kittle and can he have a big game against Green Bay? I think Green Bay will keep it close.
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I want to pick them so badly because, you know, sentimentally I want them to win. I'm going to still take...
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49ers, 30 to 23. I think Green Bay will get some points. I think it'll, I mean, I just don't trust the Packers defense to be able to go on
50:38
the road and beat the top two seeds and do it, presumably do it when your defense
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probably isn't, I don't know if I can see the Niners being held like under 21 or 24.
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So it's just a question of whether Green Bay can do enough and capitalize on its opportunities. I do think this will be a close, I would be, I would lean towards if I was betting,
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taking the points with Green Bay. And I definitely think they can win, but I'm gonna officially take San Francisco by
51:06
a touchdown. I'm just, I'm looking at their, the 49ers injury report right now.
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I want to see if there's any major stuff. Trent Williams did not practice on Tuesday.
51:21
That just says resting. So, I mean, we don't know. Because I mean, we saw what happened when they lost anyone.
51:28
Like they lost, especially Trent Williams. Like he's that, I think he is the anchor. I think he's not the MVP of the league, but.
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I almost want to say he's the MVP of that team because we did see what happened when they lost him.
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And we did see what happened when they lost Devo Samuel too. I think he's a big guy who adds to both sides of the ball on offense.
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Not both sides of the ball, both aspects to the offense. He's such a dynamic playmaker.
51:56
But I really think Trent Williams is the big name that you don't want to see on the injury report whatsoever.
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Yeah. says, yeah, that's all it says is resting players. I don't really know what that means.
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But that's you, Packers fans are really hoping there's some sort of baseball, like
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Chris Sale style injury that happens over the next couple of weeks. Somebody gets in a biking accident, or somebody is playing with their drone and
52:23
they cut their finger and for some reason they can't play now. Like I think that's what Packers fans are asking for.
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Um to the Sunday games Bucs-Lions at three o'clock on NBC. Uh, that's actually weird that NBC has the afternoon game.
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Um, but this is, I think this is the tough, toughest one really, cause we don't
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sail to Detroit Lions
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know what we're going to get out of the Lions or the Bucs. I feel like the other teams, you kind of know what you're going to get.
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Um, obviously it's any given Sunday, but it's a little bit more predictable. The Bucs.
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They could come out and lay an egg like they did the last two weeks of the regular season. Um, and the Lions could do the same thing.
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The Lions have been very suspect all year. Baker is a grip it and rip it type of guy. Uh, I think the Bucs are really going to hold this one close.
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I think it's going to be a little bit more of an offensive shootout. Um, I, do I want to pick against the Lions though?
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I'm not going to, I'm going to go, I'm going to go Bucs.
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I'll say bucks 27 or uh, lions 27 bucks 24.
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I'm deaf. I'm taking the Lions for sure. I think getting that monkey off their back was huge.
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I just I don't think they'll blow them out. I think it'll be relatively close Like I said that first meeting I mean golf was
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just on it They just neither team ran it like well at all in that first meeting and I think Somebody's got to figure out how to run it Well this meeting because I
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don't know if it's gonna work for both quarterbacks just trying to air it out You know, we'll see You know, Bowles loves to blitz.
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We'll see if golf, you know, how that, how golf responds to that, you know, can, can
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Detroit counter that? Can they counter it with the run? Um, can they keep Mike Evans from having it?
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Look, the Eagles actually did a decent job on Evans. Um, granted he dropped the one, right? He missed the one.
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It was Kate Otten that had the big game. Um, to me, Tampa Bay's defense is a lot better than I think people give a credit
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for. So I think this will be kind of a slugfest, a lower scoring game. Um,
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I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say the Lions get it by a touchdown. Also, I'm gonna go 2619 and will throw a weird score in there because the Bucks
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just played a 32 to 9 game, so why not? Love him. I don't think it's a score of gummy, but I think it's a it's not a common one.
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Scoragami is getting overrated, in my opinion. There's been too many. I felt like there was like one or two a year, like the last five years, and then
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it's just the inflation, whatever. Biden's inflation, man, they're shooting the Scoragami's up.
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Scoragami's aren't worth that much. And then Chiefs Bills. This is the premier game, I would say.
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Allen and Mahomes. There was a clip that just came out from, I think a few years ago, and Mahomes and Allen were hugging at the end of the game.
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And Mahomes said, we're going to be doing this a long time, brother. And it's, I mean, definite.
Kansas City Chiefs Make History For Patrick Mahomes’ First Road Playoff Game Against Buffalo Bills
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It feels like every year they're on some sort of collision course to meet each other.
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I feel like, dare I say that this is the year the bills get over the hump.
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I said I was out on them. At the beginning of the year, I said I was done picking the Bills. I said I was sick and tired of thinking that they were going to do something.
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And you know, they're facing, this is the weakest Chiefs team they've had to see.
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Like since, you know, Mahomes has come in and this is Mahomes' first road game, road
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playoff game. I don't even know what to, what to say about this. Buffalo's two and a half point favorites right now, but that can change like that.
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I mean, I so badly want the Bills to win this game, but I just feel like Mahomes is going to find a way to win his first road playoff game.
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I think, I think Buffalo's, they're thin, the Bills are in the secondary and at
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linebacker just worries me that they can be able to contain Rishi Rice and Travis Kelsey.
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Pacheco didn't play in that first meeting. Buffalo, I don't think, I think the Chiefs outplayed the Bills a little bit.
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Obviously the Chiefs feel like they should have won that first meeting if not for that. Tony offside's penalty and my home's throwing a tantrum on the sideline after
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the game. But it's gonna be close. There's no way it's not close, but I see the Chiefs figuring it out and winning
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this game 28-24. I just have a bad feeling that those injuries for Buffalo are gonna mount and
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then there's gonna be one typical Bills moment. And it's a shame because. Buffalo's won three years in a row at Arrowhead in the regular season, and
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they've lost the two postseason meetings that they've had in this Allen-Mahomes duo. It's like now they get them at home, but they're on a short week.
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Kansas City's had extra time to rest. The Chiefs are healthy. They're fully healthy. It never seems like the Chiefs have any major injuries.
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I know Mahomes was playing hurt in the postseason, but he didn't miss any time. He didn't.
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And it clearly, you know, it may have affected his performance a tiny bit. But even an 80% Patrick Mahomes is good enough to win a Super Bowl in a given
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year. Even a 60%... You mean, you mean when they see the Bills, right? Cause there was, I mean, he did leave that game against the Browns and I, he left
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another one. I think it was against the Jags last year, right? He, I'm pretty sure Henny came in, um, a few times, just against the Bills.
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without player, you know, like Evan had a year where they have, where they've had to play without Kelsey for like half a year or in the postseason, right?
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They've had Chris Jones, they've had Kelsey, they've had, you know, Snead left the championship game last year, he came back for the Super Bowl.
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They obviously, my homes hasn't missed any postseason games, Pacheco has yet to miss any, but they've been, they've been fortunate.
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They, they they've been very fortunate, Chris Jones. So Buffalo, they're going to need some reinforcements at linebacker and in the
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secondary. it that I just worry that this game is going to be Buffalo's going to somehow
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lose this game on a Buffalo mistake on a, on a, you know, Alan's going to try to
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throw it backwards and it's going to be a live ball or, you know, he's going to, it's going to hit off a receiver or, you know, or cause it's funny cause the
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chiefs, when the bills won that game, right? It was six and six and they needed that. That was their season. Basically winning that game, they saved their season.
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And I said at the time I'm like, that is exactly the way the bills would have lost this game. typically, right?
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What the Chiefs pulled the Bills in that game. And they didn't have Pacheco, I don't know, does he make up the three points,
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maybe. But I thought at the time, I was like, maybe if Buffalo goes on a run, we'll come
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back, we'll point to that game, and we'll say, that's the moment where the tide turned, right? The Bills, because think about the Sunday night game, they were playing like garbage
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and doing all sorts of stupid things against Miami and getting tackled on the goal line in bounds at the end of the half, and you know, but then they had the
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doink. The pass that went up in the air and the guy catches it and then you had the punt return and I'm like, maybe Buffalo, maybe it's, you know, maybe there's some good
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mojo going on for them. So the question is, does it end here? Does it book it or does it, you know, come full circle?
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I don't even know what I'm trying to say. Does it go like hit a 180 now and go, spirit shifts back to make the city?
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Yeah. And, and look, if you go with the do theory and what's due here, Buffalo's due to get past Kansas City in the playoffs.
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They haven't done it. You know, the Chiefs have been to the AFC Championship game five years in a row
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previous to this. So they've never lost in the division rounds. That would be Doom. Mahomes never, well, he's never played a road playoff game.
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So he's obviously never lost one. But, and when you're, when you're like that new dynasty, the new Patriots, I
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don't know, nothing's ever due against you, it seems, until it happens. It's, I keep going in this circle in my head of, I'm making a lot of really good
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points for each side because the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes is the point.
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Like that is like the, like he does everything. He makes up for whatever.
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And they've struggled this year and he's still made up for all of their issues on
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offense. But at the same time, I'm saying the Bills were dead in the water, it felt like.
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And then they beat Mahomes. And They feel like it feels like they finally overcame this bugaboo that they've had.
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This is this is the hardest game to pick, I think, in a long time. I'm going to hedge.
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I'm going to hedge our the show's picks. I'm going to go with the Bills because.
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It feels like this could be the game where the chiefs say, yeah, that like those
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issues that we had in the regular season that we knew were going to affect us, they did. Mm-hmm. and we have to go fix them because I almost feel like if they win this game and
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they go to the, because the AFC title game is like their standard now.
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That's what the chief standard is. Cause that's what the Pat standard was. It was always, if we don't go to the AFC title game, we are wasting a year of Tom
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Brady. We're wasting a year of Bill Belichick. We're wasting a year of XYZ, all those guys.
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If you're not going to the AFC title game with Patrick Mahomes, you're wasting a year of Patrick Mahomes. Like it's just, it's a waste.
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You know, they've lost to the Cincinnati. I mean, any given Sunday when you get to the AFC championship game.
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But they're not the better team here. I don't think they are. I think defensively they are.
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Offensively, I don't know if they can keep up. And you mentioned how the Bills are thin in the secondary, but being thin in the
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secondary doesn't matter when your receivers just cannot hold onto the ball. the thin linebacker, which worries me about covering Kelsey and if he's still,
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you know, the Travis Kelsey that we've come to expect. No, to me, the Chiefs haven't had, or they didn't have any trouble moving the ball
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against Miami. They had trouble finishing drives. That's kind of been a theme for them. And if they don't capitalize against the Bills, it could cost them.
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But man, Isaiah Pacheco, if he gets ahead of steam, boy, this guy is a difference
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maker. And somehow the Bills need to find a way to.
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convert all their opportunities. They need to get touchdowns. It can't be settling for field goals. The Chiefs have not given up 30 points in a game this year.
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Bills have only done it once. So you know these teams have defenses and they can bend but not break.
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I mean, this to me, you could flip a coin and pick this game. I mean, these teams, I don't know that the Bills are the better team on paper.
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They might be, but the Chiefs might also be. And my homes may need to win a road playoff game before he has to lose one.
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I don't know what the gods are going to have in store for us in this game, but I hope. that they can smile on Buffalo, at least for this week.
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And if. I also think Buffalo being at home, just that crowd environment too.
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I think that's massive. my home staff to play a road game and especially against the Bills.
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Cause this is the third time they've met in this era. So, but you know what, if Houston pulls an upset in Baltimore, the winner of that
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game then hosts the AFC championship game and my God, does, does anyone want to watch Taylor Swift at in the AFC championship game a sixth year in a row at
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Arrowhead that the Chiefs would be hosting? Oh man. So. Let's see. I would love to a little, I would also love a little variety with the AFC
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champion. That's also why I'm going with the Bills, but I feel like just that home environment. But then again, it goes in my head.
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Patrick Mahomes goes in my head and it's like, he seemed impervious to the like
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he's do type of guys. Like that's what it feels like. But then again, I go back to the Bills and I'm like, well, this is the first one that
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they're home at. Like, That Alan could be the reason that they win. He could also be the reason that they lose this game.
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So I'm saying Bills, I'm going to say. Fuck, this is a tough one.
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I'm going to say a game winner, game winning field goal. Twenty twenty four, twenty one.
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Like I think it's definitely going to be more of a defensive battle than we've seen in years past, but I think it's going to be really back and forth.
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I feel like I've said that about every game. Mm-hmm. And we've had like tons of blowouts already in the playoffs.
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Um, but I think it's really going to be back and forth. And I think the Bills will walk away with it.
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Uh, Tyler Bass hitting the game winner from, I'd say 40. I'm going, I'm going that confident.
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I'm saying he's going to hit a game winner from 40 yards out. So, um, but well, yeah, I don't, this is, this is going to be a great weekend.
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This is going to be a great weekend. Everyone appreciate it. Um, we have how many games after this?
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We have three more games, three games after this, seven games total.
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So just sit down, watch it, rot on your couch. And yeah, this is exciting.
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