NFL Week 16 Recap: Ravens dominate 49ers, Dolphins top Cowboys, Jags lose again | #nfl #nflfootball

Let’s recap a wild Christmas weekend of week 16 action in the NFL with The Athletic Football Show!

0:00 Intro
4:17 Ravens 33 Niners 19
32:44 Cowboys 20 Dolphins 22
46:25 Lions win NFC North
57:57 Browns 36 Texans 22
1:02:07 Raiders 20 Chiefs 14
1:15:44 Jaguars 12 Buccaneers 30
1:21:55 Sunday Notebook

For more Athletic Football Show content:

– Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3LgLlMY
– Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show’s YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3xLCbmv
– Follow Robert Mays on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertmays
– Follow Nate Tice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nate_Tice
– Subscribe to The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/footballshow

I’m Robert Mays joining me today it’s my good friend Nate Tyson how you doing buddy remember during 2020 when we had games because of bad reasons but on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and everything I do I do it felt like this week should have had that because of the Saturday

Games Sunday games three games on Christmas day which was a Monday I thought I I thought it was the good times you’re going to keep going we have college bowl season so I guess that continues it but it felt like there just should be two more games today it should

Be like this is the Tuesday game right this is paramont special Tuesday package that they got that is the first NFL game I did not have access to ever in my entire life peacock game the peacock game that was the first NFL game in my

Entire life I am 34 years old that I have not had access to we were a day one NFL Network subscriber so we never missed those games when they first started doing Thursdays or those special games I I have Amazon Prime I have never missed a game where I just like where

I’m like oh well I’m just skipping that because I’m doing other things I could not access it and that is uh that was a new feeling for me that I I felt really weird as I’m looking on Twitter I’m like what’s going on ESPN play byplay but uh wonderful Christmas weekend wonderful

Games I had a great time I got great gifts I think I gave pretty good gifts as my fir one of my first times as a Santa so yeah it was a very fun weekend with a lot of I’m so happy to hear it I love Christmas it is my favorite one of

My favorite days of the year it was always huge for us growing up my dad loves Christmas my mom digitized a lot of our home videos over the last couple months so they’re all on a USB it’s just hours and hours and hours so we had them

On yesterday before the game started and my wife was seeing them for the first time and she was looking at me on the couch like I understand you more now after watching some of this and what your Christmases were like growing up was there a lot of chaos no not even

There that is my dad just my Dad loved Christmas my Dad loved giving gifts he was just that sort of person that we just he was up all night we had always had so many gifts and that’s how I treat Christmas now I I’d always just over buy

For people cuz I just love doing it how my dad did it just how we treated Christmas all the time it was a very special day in our house on the peacock front we have peacock at my house because we have exfinity so I had just the normal peacock that comes with

Xfinity we have peacock premium though because my wife was tired of watching commercials while she was watching Bravo shows so because she’s just mainlining real house of New York she doesn’t want to watch commercials so that’s why we have the best version of peacock in my home I pay for every other streaming

Service that we have I handle the streaming stuff but my wife ponied up the money for the peacock premium without the ads so she doesn’t have to worry about it when she’s watching Vander P rules that’s amazing that no but that’s it’s uh what do they say in

Economics in elastic buyer like she have to get that she has to get the premium product because she’s not going to be like she can’t handle life without having that that’s so perfect I when I get the YouTube TV my it blew my dad’s mind because of the multi view yeah and

He was like do you is this a because when he retired to Seattle they in the house they got Remodel and then he in his head he wanted to create his own little race book like for horse racing you know it’s the first time you met him

Was a race makes it’s very true we’ll tell that story on the show one day I’m not sure if we’ve ever told it properly so he had the Met he has his den you know attic whatever you want to call it up there in in Seattle and and he has

Four legit like 60inch TVs to make one big giant TV got all the special features my dad is not techsavvy like for a coach he’s pretty techsavvy but in general life parlament no and I’m like you made the most complicated system for you and like I went up there to visit

And this before they moved out of there because they realized they Liv in the middle of nowhere they I go up there to visit and I couldn’t figure it out and I I I’m pretty techsavvy and my wife’s like you can’t figure out my my mom

Can’t figure it out so he sees the YouTube TV multi and he just like so you got like a special system for that I’m like no comes with it it’s great it’s stream it it goes with your Google package it’s great but uh yeah BW my dad’s mind with multiv view when he

Checks that out every time every time he comes over I’m not Tex heavy so I’m very glad that we’ve reached a moment where even morons like me can figure this out we had a bunch of games going on at the same time on Sunday but it was a great

Game a great set of games overall this weekend and let’s start with the game of the weekend what was really coming into it the game of the year and that is the Ravens and the Niners first question I want to lead this off with the Ravens really taking care of business against

This Niners team and putting together I think probably the best performance we’ve seen from an NFL team all year you could argue because of what that defense did to San Francisco in your mind is this C is this game a case of the ners being more flawed than people understood

Or people appreciated or maybe not giving the Ravens their proper du for what sort of team they were I think people didn’t give the Ravens their proper du I I think it was a remembrance that they remember after about two months we’re like hey this team is

Number one to dvoa over this amount of time period we we run into it Aaron shots had that tweet these are two of the top 15 teams through 15 weeks in dvoa the Ravens are Elite like they are an amazing team I think some of the the

String of turnovers of course is going to overwhelm him it’s hard to overcome but you got to credit the Ravens for getting them that’s the game strip to stop a 49ers offense you have to create chaos you can’t just live and die because you live and die by just normal

Down to down first and second down you’re just going to get gashed I mean the 4ers were getting after him several times but they created the chaos and that’s what creates the favorable game script and that’s when you have to go against another elite team like this

That’s what you have to do so I think it’s more of a tip of the cap to the Ravens than like oh my God the 49ers are crap it’s like no I still think these two teams really probably my two favorites still in each conference I

Just think it was just a really good team with a bunch of turnovers that happened but you have to credit the Ravens for getting those I would 100% agree on the turnover front because I I wanted to see them do something to force the issue we talked about it last week

My thought was do they play a little bit more man than other teams have been willing to it was something to disrupt the game it was something to try to create your own explosives on defense what was funny going back and looking at some of the stats from this game the

Niners had a 16.2% explosive play rate in this game that’s exactly their season average so it’s exactly their season average it would be the best in the league but it was right in line with what they’ve done all season and they were getting some of those explosives so if you’re another

Team if you’re a defense that’s planning for this team you need to match their explosives with a handful of your own you need to find a way to create those and we can go through the interceptions but this is a case of them forcing the issue the first tipped ball interception

They bring a double Corner Blitz off both sides on an early down both guys are coming Brandon Stevens ends up getting the tip ball they intercept it the second interception or excuse me that was the the first interception was just a bad decision by perie the first

Tip ball interception was the was the Blitz the second tipped ball interception they bring a simulated pressure with Kyle Hamilton coming prie doesn’t read it out well he panics a little bit and then the fourth interception is just a hit arm deflection but those two picks the ones

That were tipped ball interceptions you could say Ah that’s a little wonky you get a little bit lucky they’re creating some of their own luck in those moments because they’re forcing the issue with how they’re attacking the Niners offense in those moments and I think that when

You play against a team like this you have to create some sort of chaos you have to create some sort of disruption confusion and I think the ners the Ravens did a very good job of that in their own specific way I I I think that sometimes as like you go against an

Elite defense like I always this Browns defense is really like stuck with me this year is like how do you go about it it’s like you have to create explosives on offense because you can’t nickel and Di against them because it’s just like you can’t they’re too good it’s the

Opposite for an elite offense you know it’s I just have to like un twist my my brain a little bit but it’s like that’s what you have to do it’s that high variance world and that’s why when you have a defense like this Ravens defense even what spags does with the Chiefs

You’re just creating High variance moments you’re creating chaos I always say gash or beg gash is the term I’m gonna somay come up with a better one but it’s just something that’s always been in my mind but that’s the kind of what you that’s the give and take of it

You have to because they’re just so talented they’re going to find a way and some of the like uh cat and mouse game in this game I cannot wait I hate to sound like this but I I can’t wait to watch this game on a22 this side of the

Ball I was kind of bummed it wasn’t already up this morning because I was up this morning and I was kind of hoping I’d be able to run through it before we actually got started but it wasn’t available yet I did my best I I I tell

You again like the some of these commentators are doing a lot much better job this year they’re getting they’re I’m gonna credit for credits do like Troy aan and stuff is doing they’re doing some good jobs when when replays are happening but that first interception with Hamilton it was

Something that we maybe thought the Ravens uh the for are in 21 the Ravens match with base with four DBS but that puts Hamilton in as a back safety as a backside safety which so it’s almost like they caused their own issue there because now they just put a really smart

Player and it’s four push quarters but on it there’s nothing to tie down Hamilton K so strange to watch in real time I’m wondering like what do they think he’s going to be doing in that moment because he’s just sitting there reading that backside Crosser he he

Looks and he watch because he’s on KD he’s number two because there’s two tight ends on his side and KD has they have a high low something it was a really common to what the Eagles run that like cram concept with G but I felt

Like KD was short on it that because it didn’t tie down that safety the whole point of that route is either if it’s covered two you go to that side if not that ties down the safety so he can’t do exactly what Hamilton did so that one

Was a little weird to me uh it felt like a little lack detail which is just so strange for the 49ers but then yeah like you said the second interception Mike McDonald might be an emotional Blitzer I uh I think he’s got a little bit of that

Too because that came came right after a gash and then he was like right after an explosive play to Debo and he’s like screw that double Corners watch this and again again the py readed it right it’s an adjustment you have to make if you run an open Side Run meaning

Away from the tight end some offense traditionally this is what I grew up in some don’t do this anymore the they run a key route which is just a side adjust which is just a little bubble you’re replacing the corner Blitz and you just throw it instead of running it it’s like

One of the original rpos and he does it right Stevens was rer jumps up bats it great play but uh again this you brought the simulated I thought just all the Ravens DBS play had a standout moment Stevens humph Marlon what Marin what Marlon Humphrey did against the run in this game cannot

Be overstated because what the Niners are trying to do to you on a lot of those perimeter runs is there Circle in that outside corner soing we’re going to make you the force contained player here and we don’t believe that you can do it multiple times in this game Marlin

Humphrey is taking on a tight end in space and spilling things back inside to everybody else and the Ravens are making a play as a team defense it was a team defensive effort and these guys coming up and contributing to the game in unconventional ways right that’s not how

You would expect Marlin Humphrey to affect the game he’s had an up and down season even in the ways we think of Marlon Humphrey this year and so he was good as a corner yesterday and as a run Defender playing in ways that maybe you don’t necessarily expect Travis Jones is a

325b run stuffing defensive tackle he wins on an inside move as a defensive end and creates that fourth Brock py interception you have that Kyle Hamilton’s always affecting the game in unconventional ways and the last thing I thought of in this kind of conversation because I’m literally laying in bed last

Night thinking about how I want to talk about this and I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited about all the things about this game The Last kind of slightly unconventional thing that I thought was notable Patrick Queen blitzed several times in this game it was always off the edge

When they were bringing actual blitzes five or more guys to the quarterback very rarely were they bring in guys from depth in the middle of the field to give pry answers right in front of him I don’t know if that’s by virtue of where CMC was lining up whatever but almost

All of those pressures were coming off the edge and they were catching them with them as a result so just these little unconventional wrinkles that maybe are a slight twist on what you might expect from either players scheme whatever consistently coming up big for the Ravens in this game great call of

The queen one because they had a blitz from a Corner Spot yes on one play like an outside corner spot it’s weird guys it’s like like when you see it sounds like oh yeah sure it’s just on the outside it was way from the outside uh

Yeah so that’s a great call it was just again when you have to do some unconventional if you have such the shanan guys have such standard rules because they like you have to be unst standard you have to kind of discom ulate them a little bit but the little

Blitzing I thought they did a great job of making pry make the the decision quickly but getting the ball out of his hands so he can hold on the ball to hit those explosives down the field um couple times he did catch him I also saw that you were bringing up Humphrey in

The run defense that’s always been something with him he’s such a good run Defender it did Debo got him once which was like that’s also a Debo thing uh but it was cuz the Ravens Ran So Much cloud coverage they they were in cover two and

Cover six a bunch on first and second down and when you’re in Cloud that’s cover two to one side that corner is now in the Run fit quarters the safety is in the Run fit cover two the corner is in the Run fit when you have Humphrey that

Helps and also if they want to do those outside runs now that this is old school stuff this is like 2002 football talking about like Ronde Barber here is like what we’re talking about yes against a Mike Shanahan Denver Broncos team like this is it like toss outside Zone into a

Corner crashing down and it’s like just who who blinks first I mean this is like old school in a way um but the first second down play of the game uh and then they gash him on third down but the first second down play of the game I’m

Gonna I couldn’t clip it because YouTube TV like blacks out anytime I try to clip their their stuff if anyone wonders why my my recordings on Twitter are really weird during live it’s because I do it for my phone because I don’t get blacked out I could I could clip the YouTube TV

I’m gonna get so ban now um but but is the second the first second down of the of the game was just awesome cover coverage distribution uh the 49ers ran a Jet Sweep uh uh motion with iuk and the whole time the Ravens are showing quarters and they end up playing

Man and on it the uh they run a slant flat kind of look with yuse cheek and Debo and the Ravens Defenders just run the route for him pretty like double clutches and ends up throwing to cover to use cheek but it looks like Zone all

The way but they ends up playing like man on that side it totally just screwed up the entire offense so they were all over the place man they they it was a great game playay not that the fores did not get them I mean they were a sorry

All right last one this is they’re going to get you though they’re going to get you you remember the the crab motion that they do with CMC you know like Shuffle Shuffle Shuffle they always usually do that right before the snap crab motion I don’t know what to call it

I call it bumper motion I think that’s what Shanahan calls it but crab motion is better I think zoyberg motion uh because he goes out but usually they do that right at the snap this game because they’ve been showing it showing it okay we do Choice routes

From it okay now we do vertical routes for against it remember Eagles game now they motion them then they paused and then they motioned someone else but it was great because they caught the Ravens because they would motion CMC pause because the Ravens were like we’re H

Hold the look hold the look hold the look hold the look we’re hide in our cover and then you see Patrick Queen going like well I gotta cover them and then you see them slowly walk out of the box and then you see the for go okay

Kill kill check check do all the stuff and then they’ hit they hit KD twice on it uh but yeah no it was just a great cat and mouse game between two awesome coaches the last thing we talked about this in the preview and I just wanted to

Note it because we’re wondering what the Ravens were going to do when the Niners were in 21 Personnel are they going to play Bas are they going to play nickel they played nickel about two-thirds of the time in passing situations playing nickel against 21 Brock py six of 11 for

42 yards and two interceptions wow against 12 and 21 in this game in nickel 62.5% run defense success rate for the Ravens not great good enough that was always going to be the question could you slow them down enough when you were in lighter bodies when they were trying

To run the ball for you to get the benefits of defending the pass in those situations the answer was yes the answer was yes all game and it’s a credit to the Ravens for being able to defend the run in those looks yes let’s let’s get

To the Brock py of it all four interceptions the MVP train is derailed after that game you do it in prime time you do it in week 16 it’s understandable do you feel any differently about Brock pie this morning than you did where that game started yesterday nope same thing it’s same

Stuff it’s same stuff and then you watch Darnell get in there make the same throws the the uh the uh the three- game losing streak when everyone all the 49ers fans were just going oh man we might have to might have to go to darnold and stuff like that like after

They were just hyping up the first five weeks he was doing the same stuff he just got punished for some of the chaotic moments and then that’s just what happened again today just something ball interception with from Humphrey that is the moment I will keep going back to because that is he has

Gotten away with so many times over the course of the season and he did not get away with it in that little flip pass he had to see himc over his head that was pretty sweet actually he went for like negative one yards but it was I was like

That’s that was true no look that wasn’t the LeBron Peak and then no look that was a true over the shoulder that I I love that oh my favorite part about that play is that I’m watching with my brother last night it’s 10:30 p.m. he has a 3-month-old baby he’s exhausted

He’s hosted people all day but I did I didn’t have time to go home so I’m sitting there watching the game with him it’s a three-score game but he’s got CMC in fantasy and he’s down like three points so he’s sitting there refreshing

His phone to see if that was a pass or a run to see if he gets half a point for PPR so the game is over he’s just curled under a blanket on the couch just sweating it out so hard my wife on her phone she’s like I can’t believe we’re

Still here so that moment even though it was a throwaway moment in the game hugely important to everyone on that couch as we were watching I know no one cares about fantasy teams but oh my God the Sam darnold thing everyone’s tagging me someone tagged me on Twitter going

Like oh I can to be a flying the wall in the ti household right now you know you know what’s happening in the ti hold right TI household right now is me throwing my phone into the couch because Sam darnold cost me my fantasy league because you deserve that that is a

Proper f it is he started feeding Brandon iuk at the end of the game I lose by three yards and that last Brandon iuk catching run he broke like like the second one second to last one he broke like five tackles r on Smith like had him in a suplex it’s like I

Just like I couldn’t believe it I lost by three yards but that everyone’s like oh my God Nate’s probably so happy right now I’m just like beat red and everything last thing about pie though this was really funny moment this was just more funny than anything remember

The whole man Zone tells I talked about last week they did a little man Zone tell they split out KD all the way to the outside tight end usually match with it if it’s man coverage there’s going to be a a safety on that tight end pie looks over sees

Number 44 and kills the play because Marlon Humphrey wears 44 so in his brain he goes That’s a linebacker of safety I would too if I just like briefly looked at it but then he goes reload reload reload because then he realized it was oh that’s Marlon Huffy that’s actually a

Corner and then they ran to play I think it went to KD but it was like that cracked me up so much because it was like he glanced over s 44 and he goes oh that’s a safety all right kill kill we’re going to get to the man coverage

Beater that we want to run but actually he was no that’s hum free so I going tweet that out because I thought that was hilarious that was like just his brain just instantly just went like oh yeah that’s man a lot of people yesterday understandably so because of

The way the discourse has gone this year very quick to take the Brock pry Victory laps as he’s throwing those four interceptions two three of them are Tipp balls it’s just it’s just bad variance and I don’t again I don’t think the guy’s the most valuable player in the

NFL I think he’s very far away from from that but that last night was an instance of the Ravens defense one being really good two coming up in the right moments coming up with the big plays and the right moments the biggest plays in the biggest moments so I think this is

Way more about the Ravens defense the players they have the plan that they had then it is some indictment of the fact that everyone was right or wrong about Brock p no matter how you thought about him for the last three months too of don’t at it that’s is what it is that

Being said yes the contrast between Brock pie and Lamar Jackson last night that is what I’m talking about when we’re trying to figure out the most valuable player in the NFL when you’re watching those two guys play yesterday you feel the value that Lamar brings to his offense

Independent to everything else that is happening within that offense one of the coolest parts of this season has been watching Lamar navigate maneuver manipulate the pocket all year consistently as he looked to throw or look to selectively scramble he did it again last night over and over and over

Again you could point out a half dozen moments there’s a single Drive where he shakes Off jir Taylor in the pocket and steps up and makes a play twice the last Drive in the first half with about three minutes left first and 20 makes that crazy throw across his body to Isaiah

Likely to cut it to Second and seven they end up getting it first and 25 on that same Drive steps up and throws a missile to Z Jones they chunk it they get put him in a position he HS 31 yard scramble two plays later they kick a

Field goal previous drive cover zero in the Red Zone hits Isaiah likely gets them down to the two they get that Gus Edwards run for another touchdown the throw to Gus Edwards on the first drive of the second half where he’s stepping up in the pocket green law has to

Acknowledge Him and because of that he’s got Gus running up the sideline for a 40 yard gain these moments over over and over and over again that drive ends with him finding aalor for a touchdown while again stepping up and out of the pocket to the left consistently last night just

Feeling the gravity the impact the value that he brings to the team to the football game and that’s why when we’re having this discussion in this unconventional year about the most valuable player you’re going to look at Lamar’s counting stats and say I can’t win it but if we’re talking about the

Most valuable players in the league he has won 100% in the conversation and you felt it in a dozen moments last night it was another Master Class by this guy when in reality his counting stats are not going to blow you away again he threw for 252 yards and he looked like

One of the best players on Earth it’s most exciting 250 yards man it’s everyone is like well earned it’s the the PO this what you have to do against these defenses you either have to operate like Stafford did which is just hilarious and just be a machine from the

Pocket Dash with gashing them boom boom boom never making a wrong decision or you do a little bit of that plus the creation the Lamar making these throws sometimes as he’s getting tackled like he’s he’s hit the weights the the strength is impressive and he’s hit the weights what’s interesting is last year

He hit the weights before the season started as well remember how bulky was it was very bulky and he he this is a conversation we’ll have in a second because I do want to talk about this in a slightly different context yeah he is less explosive than he used to be he is

Less explosive there’s there’s no way around that but the strength now has become a strength no pun intended has become a strength of the game because of how he’s operating in the pocket if he was going to play the way he did last year with that extra size and that lack

Of explosiveness he’s just not this he’s not a player that’s going to scare you consistently because he’s not beating you from the pocket but part of the game now exact because if he’s going to shake off guys in the pocket and play from the pocket now that additional strength and

The slight downtick and explosiveness becomes an over over all positive for his game and that’s what we’ve seen from him this is this is a huge thing for me because he’s always been bord 210 and the the sub 210 quarterback thing is a real thing just because of the pocket

Stuff because of the guys can get dragged down and Lamar usually overwhelms him with athleticism and that’s why he can get away with it that’s that’s the usual caveat to the sub 210 thing is oh are you a freak athlete but no that is a great point it’s that perfect balance where he’s

Maybe 90% of the athlete used to be 85% but he’s 30% stronger and it’s just that perfect little balance that he has so I I think that’s a great thing to bring up and I think against this 49ers defense it stuck out to me the most because

There’s so much chaos happening in the pocket and he’s maneuvering it getting grabbed getting pulled and he’s staying up and get those throws off and avoiding negative plays outside tripping over the ref uh In The End Zone which which is just all right it’s just a terribly

Unlucky play overall I mean there’s no way around that but gets the blitz he I thought he did very well uh the forar tried to heat him up several times but they got him a couple times including that safety but then he gashed him for

34 yards the likely you brought up 23 y 10 y 10 y 10 y that’s five first six first downs that he got against the blitz that’s huge because that’s a thing that defenses could usually poke at against against and I think it was the right move because when they were

Rushing four early in the game he had way too much time to operate back there I think you need to force the issue but he consistently answered the Bell when they did that the last thing about Lamar I want to talk about last night was a reprisal of the conversation about

Everyone could have had Lamar this offseason everyone could have had Lamar multiple things can be true at the same time let’s talk about them several people online yesterday not Sports writers people with decently big followings were saying Lamar was a free agent this season no one wanted him

Incorrect we all know this he was not a free agent he was he was a non-exclusive franchise tank okay to get Lamar you would had to give up two first round picks and the Ravens would not have to match whatever offer they that was given okay just pointing that out there first

Those are facts those just purely teams thought that the Ravens would match any sort of traditional offer given to Lamar Jackson any sort of offer that was like the one he eventually accepted from the Ravens they didn’t want to waste their time putting together a contract offer

For Lamar the Ravens are going to match anyway that being said all that means is teams were not willing to put together a non-traditional offer for Lamar Jackson and we can talk about what that means here in a second that is the gap two things can be true at once that it’s

Reasonable that teams wouldn’t want to draw up the contract lamara got and because they they thought the Ravens would match anyway but they also misjudged what sort of player Lamar Jackson is in not giving him everything he might have wanted that downtick and explosiveness we’re talking about last

Year teams did not think Lamar was this player that we’re watching right now they thought he was a diminished version of the guy we had watched for the previous three or four years and that is a massive miscalculation because if maybe let’s say you give him a fully

Guaranteed contract or you give him something just completely outlandish and make the Ravens match it I don’t think teams thought he was that sort of player that is where the miscalculation comes in not teams just should have offered Lamar a contract and made the Ravens match that’s likely a waste of time but

If you gave him the fully guaranteed DeShaun Watson deal do the Ravens match it and by doing that you run two risks you risk pissing off the other owners because you gave them a fully guaranteed deal and you run the risk of the downside of a fully guaranteed contract

What we’ve learned this year is that Lamar Jackson the player Lamar Jackson is right now he’s worth any sort of risk you could have incurred in this process and that is where teams up and they absolutely did that’s what you pay for you’re paying for a guy to outright

Win you games if you’re in a 50-50 battle he outright wins you the game that that’s what he does he and I think there’s a lot of narrative Scout narrative scouting that happens in general I mean everyone has is guilty of it and I think in the league it happens

A lot and I think that’s what happens Lamar your kind of book gets written in the leag you you are what you are you a lot of and some of that is laziness I really do think because I will say the first month of last season uh that

Dolphins game sticks out to me in 2022 but others um Lamar was operating from the pocket more than he ever had they it was there like it was like it was all happening last year and then you got hurt and other things happened last year

And that was also part of it is the injuries absolutely played a part people did not think he would stay healthy and that’s why I I thought he was I me love Mar so I thought he was worth paying anyways but it’s just the I I think watching him that’s forish weeks last

Year sixish weeks and remember what I remembered from Louisville and going like I think he can do this and seeing that of course he got hurt and of course you have to remember that stuff but it’s also like I think he could do this if he

Fully leans into it and now we’re seeing it we’re seeing this perfect balance of the 70% pocket passer 30% creation magician stuff and I think that’s the perfect chemistry for this version of Lamar of era two of Lamar and I think that’s really exciting because I think

This actually makes him age better if he’s getting bigger and stronger I mean even if it’s five more pounds but then be able to win from the pocket consistently not just win from the pocket once in a while win from the pocket on a whole Drive throw after

Throw after throw after throw creation throw after throw after throw he can do that and he’s proven It All season long and it’s like that’s why you pay it it’s because that’s more sustainable than all the creation all the chaos stuff that’s what puts them over the top but to get

That sustainability that’s what lar is showing this year and I think he showed it last year too and I I actually I wrote about this and I actually that’s where I think some maybe the quote unquote laziness happens but it is a bet you would have had to make they were

Bogged down in version one teams were bogged down in version one and It ultimately cost them because who knows if you were to give him a fully guaranteed deal what it would have meant but again teams were not willing to run the risk by doing that on multiple different fronts pissing off the

Quarterback you already have pissing off the owners potentially having a guy who’s injury-prone with a fully guaranteed contract that you have to eat all of if he ends up getting hurt what we have learned is that version two of Omar Jackson is worth every single one of those things beautiful I love it

Really is has been beautiful to watch Lamar’s version final note on this game what one of my takeaways from this the Niners losing in this fashion the Ravens showing what they have the playoffs are going to be awesome awesome both sides it just it just feels like so much is on

The table and we the Niners felt like this Unstoppable Juggernaut they were playing like that and I know the Ravens are a great team and the Ravens are the second best team in the league you can make an argument they’re maybe the F the best team in the league they these are

The two best teams and maybe they’ll play in the Super Bowl again but this just made me so excited for the caliber of games we are going to see when we get to the postseason with the best teams in the we’re in for a good one it’s I’m

Very excited also wanted to give one shout out to a Ravens player Tower Lind Linder bomb played phenomenal last night he he he had well he got be one time but he had a couple really nice moments in the Run game where he was reaching guys and that really really helped him out

You worried about the tackle rotation on offense for Baltimore I I think anytime you say tackle rotation I’m gonna be a little bit worried the Ronnie stle is not what he is just it concerns me though if we’re trying to pull HS in Super Bowl teams the fact that they’re

Rotating in their tackles consistently and I don’t know it’s oh man Daniel F F is out there now Morgan Moses is out Rony Stanley’s in there mcc’s in now he’s in the blue tent being trying to keep track of the three card Monty that’s going on in the offensive line

For the Ravens right now it’s the one thing about this team that gives me a little bit of pause as we get to the postseason I wanted to mention that especially when you look at some of the top defense or top teams in the playoffs right now if they play the Browns or

Dolphins or anything like that that could be a DI let’s let’s bring it all full circle though that’s why you have Lamar Jackson because he can mitigate some of these things in ways that other quarterbacks can what’s the best way to block Aaron Donald have Lamar Jackson he

Can mitigate these things in some ways other people cannot which is why he absolutely deserves credit or deserves mention every single time we talk about the MVP there all right let’s get to you have my attention it’s time gentlemen you had my curiosity but now you have my attention each week and

Especially this week when the games are happening over 72 hours we got to figure out out what grabbed our attention over the course of week 16 Miami Dolphins getting their biggest win of the year against a Surefire playoff team in the Dallas Cowboys the Miami Dolphins you have my

Attention yes you do do you feel Tyron Smith’s absence I I did Dao’s knocked down 16 times by this Dolphins front eight of eight of 10 third down dropbacks he got knocked down on eight of 10 I mean some of that is Tyron Smith and some of that is the Miami Dolphins

Front because they took advantage of the Interior consistently with some of the stuff that they were doing stunts odoko was just leaving guys unblocked he left Bradley chub unblocked multiple different times when they were in any sort of empty protection it it just something felt off for them up front the

Entire game and it consistently caused the offense to struggle oh Dak was looking to bail a pocket right away the guy that I think has some of the best pocket movement like I’ve seen in my lifetime and he’s just go screw this I’m out and I mean like you said those some

Of those botches Olson did a great job of just going I don’t know why like I didn’t understand why because there’s times we should just not talk about the games that olssen does we should just have Beller come up with a montage of the that Olsen says over the course

Of the game so we can skip it in the recap I could just repeat it it’s great I I it’s it kind of well actually it’s not great because it takes away so much the stuff I’m gonna talk about everyone just goes oh you’re just copying Olsen

It’s like ah uh no but he had the empty protection stuff which I didn’t understand like it was because even just the look of it like David long was kind of slow rushing and he like he classic like the tackle trying to be right and he’s trying to be

Smart and it’s like no just play your rules and you would been fine like and all those things but holy crap I I thought that this Dolphins front just fantastic the offense found a way and this is just kind of what they did the the toss wind back stuff by this

Dolphins offense was fantastic which is they toss the play they usually do outside Zone with it um where so everyone’s getting to the outside everyone’s racing to the outside they would toss and then the the running back winds back to the to the other side and the offensive line seals great against

The Cowboys because one you’re getting the ball away from the front so you don’t have to worry about someone losing right away at the line scrimmage but then also you see all those linebackers we talked about the Cowboys linebackers they go oh my God SS outside run to the

Outside we gotta beat R Moser and there he comes winding back so again that that respect for the speed that this Dolphins offense makes you have makes every defense have creates just these easy good plays for them even if they have some wo sometimes it’s just like it and

With how that defens is playing man this is just a real good team too in the AFC I I was worried again about how the Cowboys defense played in this game because even though the Dolphins didn’t score that many points it’s because they were kicking field goals yeah Miami had

A 52.2% offensive success rate this week it’s the best in the NFL the best success rate of any foot offense in football this week was Miami against that Cowboys defense over the last three weeks incredibly small sample normal caveats and involved here Dallas against the Eagles bills and this Dolphins team

Dead last in defensive success rate over the last three weeks the Dallas would be better if you include the Seahawks too yeah that’s right I didn’t even include the Seahawks game probably should playoff games so four playoff four playoff teams and they have struggled and this is a perfect this is a perfect

Example of what we were talking about in the preview show like okay you have this Cowboys defense they only play Man coverage and when I say that they play Man coverage on 40% of their snaps which is the highest rate in the NFL they had

Not played man on less than 20% in an entire game this season they played man on 10% of their snaps against the Dolphins on Sunday or whatever day it was I I’m tired of this whatever day it was this weekend they played 10% man when they it was Sunday it was Sunday I

Actually don’t even know anymore so they’re playing tons of soft Zone and they’re just not equipped to do it they look completely out of sorts so they’re getting gashed when the Dolphins are trying to throw the ball because they’re playing left-handed because the way they want to play they can’t play against

Miami and against the Run they’re still just getting crushed because you just have this team that’s just not set up to do it moster gets down his a gash down to like the 15 yard line in the second quarter they’ve got Cur essentially as an off ball linebacker there and

Wilson’s just walked down into the box too so you got two guys who are safeties in your run heavy look that you’re trying to play you just can’t do it if teams are going to be willing to run the ball downhill at you in those moments you’re going to have a really really

Hard time stopping the run so it’s just a damned if you do damned if you don’t sort of situation especially against Miami that’s why they were such a unique strange difficult matchup for this Cowboys team because they can’t play anywhere near the way that they wanted

To and you saw it consistently down in and down out they bat up in the Red Zone it’s why the game was close but every play consistently throughout the game they were just scrambling Gras ing at straws for answers it was a problem and I think it might continue to be a

Problem as they play against these really good offenses it and this is a team that didn’t have jayen Wadd and two-thirds of the offensive line is banged up that’s it and and it’s a quote unquote finesse Run game which is like should be what the Cowboys match up well

Because they speed they’re so usually and that’s the thing when you also take away that man coverage card from them you take away that aggression of this defense this defense wants to take it to every offense they play yeah they want to throw hay makers over over and over and over and over

It’s like stop us stop us you have to stop us and then they just overwhelm you and yeah they they’re they felt so much like like they’re in the guard the entire time and it just against that run de or run playing run defense against this Dolphins team it just felt like it

Happened all the time I will say that they will I I’m curious to rewatch this game because they were doing some the Cowboys were trying some tweaks like they had uh Michael Parsons as like this kind of Middle Ground player I don’t know what to describe it uh in between

The line defensive linan linebackers he was in between that like uh I don’t know there there’s got to be a soccer term for that he’s like a number 10 on on defense he was in between the forwards and the midfielders uh but also I just like watching the Dolphins offense and

There’s a couple throws by Tua where he threw that thing four steps before the receiver was breaking on the ball and again but the Cowboys defense is like you’re gonna get gashed by that okay like you they they they just never felt this entire game that they’re just

Taking it to him at all even if they were trying things and even when the Dolphins got or I’m sorry the Cowboys backed them up Dolphins were just like we’re just going to spam go balls because we know you can’t keep up with our guys on the outside and but it’s the

Fact that this team when this they’re kind of battered right now they can hold up in cut if they could hold up in protection that Wadd won early in the first half it’s third down Cowboys bring four Parsons gets double teamed no one else wins Gilmore has no shot he has no

Shot against Wadd and space out there and that’s what you’re seeing you’re seeing teams start to take it to this defense and it is becoming a consistent issue come back I the fact that that’s what we’re talking about where they need him so badly that that’s all you need to

Know about the state of this team right now I’m really trying to work an answer for them and that’s why I’ve really tried to help and for them that’s it that’s the only thing I could think of it’s like get that guy back on the field because all these other answers aren’t

Working for them and on the other side of the ball they have two big plays to cidi on a single Drive in the first half where he’s lined up in the slot like okay we’re not going to move Ramsey in there so he’s picking on kohu makes a

Lot of sense with the route combinations they were clearing the middle of the field he’s hit the big Crosser for a big game and then again another in breaker he takes for a touchdown they didn’t do it again for the entire game for the entire game and I’m sitting there I’m

Like what is what is going on I understand if you don’t feel like you can be as complex offensively on the road you can’t use as much motion the offense feels a little bit more static this is not rocket science this is not a lot of moving pieces it’s putting your

Best player in the slot against their worst corner and going to work in the way that you’ve already seen it be effective in this game and they went away from it for two and a half quarters I just I just don’t understand this team whatsoever again the Dolphins deserve a

Ton of credit for where the way they’re playing right now they are dangerous but the Cowboys remain frustrating when it comes to these moments where you want to see them answer the call oh and then oh the touchdown of CD was was an awesome design and that was so early and I was

Like oh wow I can’t wait to see what else they got the rest of this game and I was like that was it apparently it was uh empty they were empty they motion pared back into the back field and then had him orbit motion back out to empty

Popped the Dolphins Defender brains and I was like oh there you go that’s some that’s some inspired design from McCarthy and shoten Heimer and never saw it again never saw that motion again uh but then also uh Dak had the ultimate respect for Jaylen Ramsey it’s it’s a

Flip so Ramsey lines up on the offense’s left and Howard lines up on the offense’s right usually typically the number one corner lines up on the offense’s right towards the right-handed quarterback side I wonder if they it’s because they practice to every day and then they’re just like that maybe that’s

What it is but uh he had the ultimate respect for him he only had one throw outside the numbers to the left the entire game past the line of scrimmage one you know what what it was was the Brandon Cooks touchdown and that that was it yeah that was it that was only

Throw past the line scrimmage to the left and that’s that’s from the what the seven yd line or whatever it was the 12 y line from the slot what stack thing and a release and all that so he it was the ultimate respect to that side and it

Just felt like this classic kind of cowboys thing where it’s like the Run game was kind of you know and it just felt like they just were some sloggy drives it felt like whenever you see Dak doing the pump fake that’s why I’m like oh no it’s not gonna be a good day

Because it’s just that that means something someone’s not coming open and that means that they’re getting them a little bit and so that but he ended up in the second half really coming along we saw Brandon Cook’s Jet Sweep which was like shout out to to Mike Riley

That’s a throwback J that’s that’s either Mike Riley Oregon State or 2019 Rams or 18 I guess when he was there or uh Shawn Payton right after he drafted him he like sprinkled in all these jet sweeps and then it was like never ranom

Again but um no but it it was just yeah I don’t know I thought this Cowboys team there’s moments where I was like man they look good even without the the offensive line injuries and everything but then they just had several drives where it’s like they’re in third extra

Long and it’s like man they they can’t get like get off the ground um I will say that this Dolphins defense has maybe just go like man this team this defense is legit so that’s what I wanted to Pivot to here because as disappointing as the Cowboys have been is they’ve

Tried to answer some of these moments the Dolphins playing the way that they did on both sides of the ball with that offensive line banged up I I think this team is legitimately a threat to come out of the AFC if you think about how they’re playing on both sides of the

Ball Austin Jackson hopefully will come back from injury we see how healthy the offensive line can get hopefully wad can get right he just been dealing with these nagging injuries all year but even without him on the field this weekend again this weekend I’m being better this weekend Tyreek is still enough where

They’re able to find explosives two is playing well enough and what they have on defense it’s everybody in the front Seer has his moments every single week Wilkins has his moments every single week including a roughing the passer call that probably could have gone either way chub has been a consistant

Disruptor we talk about what David long is Ramsey being back even the safeties safeties are banged up up and I thought they actually played really well in this game and I think that position group as a whole seems to be very locked in and well coached and they’re going to get

Healthier there so I just think that what the Dolphins are doing on both sides how complete they feel even if there are some missing pieces and some missing elements in who they are I could absolutely see this falling into place over the next two weeks or so and seeing

Them be a really really frightening proposition when we get to the postseason they’re they’re answering questions I know that Titans game happened but that was just so fluky rewatching oh my God and and and watching this team I’m so glad I’ve been studying him a lot because the defense

Is playing out of their mind and the offense finds answers and the fact that they can find a run game is huge no matter what even with offensive line injuries that is so huge for the playoffs and I I I mean it was pretty funny seeing the the Holland injury

Because it was knees plural it wasn’t just one knee it was knees uh so but get him back holy crap like this defense is just grooving and so I really feel like they can hang with a lot of teams because I trust what the offense could do even if the offensive line has

Injuries because they can be as explosive any game they can find a run game and they have a good defense that’s that’s a good formula for as the muts get colder and Robert Hunt is not on IR so in the he might be back this year as

Well so if they can get him and Jackson back and left guard is the only spot where you’re dealing with the and Conor Williams is hurt as well but ikenberg is you know of all the positions I think that maybe stabilized more than some of the other interior spots so hopefully

They can get to a place where let’s say the line is 70% of what it was at its best when everyone was healthy that group plus Wadd and Tyreek Hill plus this defense that’s enough that that is enough right now in the grander scheme of the entire league for you to be

Dangerous yep you can create you can run the ball you can create explosives and you play good defense that’s that’s the for that’s a good formula that’s that’s what you want to do in the playoffs and they can do it next one here the Detroit Lions you have my attention first

Division title in 30 years they win a wild one against the Vikings hey 30 years that’s that’s really we can talk about the game and some of the stuff that they did their offense continues to be really productive they had a 50% success rate in this game a lot of

Answers jir Gibbs consistently giving them explosive plays almost Conjuring them you know the fact that you can just get the ball in his hands and you’re Conjuring explosives three guys missing the back field in this this era when it’s hard to find explosives having a guy that’s a living explosive play

That’s a nice thing to be able to tap into comb real quick sorry but that’s funny it’s for even draft reasons this is changing my perspective on prospects and I talked about this with DNE and I’m giving a bump to Malik neighbors the LSU receiver he’s GNA probably end up my

Receiver too over the Washington receiver who I really like whose name is Roman duer who I compare to Chris Godwin so of course I love him that’s I I knew you would like him just watching him in the slight burst that I have he’s just

He’s so I’m I’m trying to find the right my alley yeah he is just like he’s just put together in the way that he moves the way you want a receiver to move that’s exactly what I’d say about a d with d yeah he he’s uh he’s good or

Better at everything and that’s like yes that’s exactly what I like and yeah’s but anyways but why I give I’m just gushing about him it’s a great receiver class but neighbors is a walking talking explosive play machine and I just true how when you just brought it up

Explosive plays are so freaking hard to create now you need guys take a break a tackle and take one to the house or create 20 yards when it’s only for six watch the 49ers and you just need that now and I just know I’m giving that more

Of a bump even if he’s raw as a route Runner I’m giving that more of a bump than maybe I used to three four five years ago Expos like speed to speed don’t get me wrong but a true explosive play thing is is the greatest valuable

Thing that you can have right now and I think that we should have that same sort of reframing when it comes to jir Gibbs the position that he plays and the impact that he can have within an offense and that speaks to the larger discussion about what the Lions have

Been over the last three years and how they’ve done this they have found value in unconventional ways and unconventional places over and over and over again over the last three years what they saw in Jared Goff what they’ve seen in some of these guys that were available for free on the street and

They said you know what this guy we can get something out of this guy John Kaminsky right John Kaminsky is not a great player John Kaminsky was available for for free Charles Harris in the production he gave them over the last couple years was available for free k

Raymond was available for free Josh Reynolds was available for free they’ve consistently done this they’ve brought guys into this building and into this program and gotten the best versions of them this is a topdown success from the way that Brad Holmes has done this from the way that Dan Campbell has done this

The staff that they have built What Hank Hank Frey their offensive line coach has done great they have done such a great job of just developing these guys inhouse and creating an ecosystem that is getting them especially on offense but just the vibe they play with and

There there have been so many things that they’ve done where in the moment I was like I don’t know about that I’m not sure if that’s the right move I’m not sure if I would do it that way and consistently they have made me look like a and I’ve really enjoyed doing it

I’ve really enjoyed feeling that way as I watched them succeed because them building it the way that they have and creating this effect where you’re reinvigorating football in a place that people deserve to love football for a fan base that deserves to feel this way it has been an incredibly rewarding

Thing to watch from afar when you’ve I’ve been so close to what this Detroit Lions experience has felt like over the last three decades sharing a division with them my entire life and it really felt like I don’t know the Lions and their path under Dan Campbell and Brad

Holmes has been really you know with this show it kind of like the timeline matches perfectly there’s the year before they got there so we knew what they were we remember Patricia and then all the moves that happened in that first offseason and in 2021 and watching Campbell the opening press conferences

Watching him throughout That season we have brought up that Rams game in 2021 400 times on this show but that game will stick in our brains because that was like hey they might be on to something here all the fake punts they did that they did but they just kept

Betting on themselves and not not in a way of where it’s like we know better better more themselves and their timeline the patience has struck me so often it’s been so impressive to watch what what watch even how like last year Jameson Williams comes back from injury

Okay rather than just putting him out there and going like Hey we’re gonna have him run 40 snaps in here we’re gonna have him run we’re gonna put him as a punk Gunner and because he’s good at it and we’re gonna get his legs back but we have no rush we’re trying to

Fight for a playoff spot but there’s no rush to play him 30 snaps and have him make 10 mistakes and cost us a game like yeah you’re going to need that down the road but no just get his legs back but I I just patience is such a great word

They just always have a plan and it’s cool I I I I love watching this team I love watching these young guys get better or guys that Ben Johnson does such a great job he truly that has some of that Shawn Payton DNA with this offense where every guy gets used

Exactly how they should be used and I love that there’s never a time where I’m like why do you have khif Raymond doing that there’s never a time where I’m like why you have Josh Reynolds doing that no they understand what these guys do they understand Sam Porter can only do some

Things in the Run game but then let’s use him as a dynamic receiver I don’t know it it’s everything they do makes sense I I it’s been so fun to watch this every step of the way and then Bang the Drum for this this kind of team and then

This offseason kind of go okay pump the breaks a little bit guys but I’m kind of glad that like they blew through my expectations I thought they’d be maybe 10 and seven like pretty good make they have blown even me away and I I think they should be commended for it I think

They’re one of the most filmed teams every week to watch because what they do on offense and the friskiness that they can have on defense and I just like the coaches even a month ago when we were talking about this Lions team it felt like okay we have the elite teams in the

NFC with the Niners at the top and the Cowboys and the Eagles are somewhere in that conversation you take a step down and then you have the Lions because their defense was struggling the way that it was so it’s like okay these other teams they feel more complete on

Both sides of the ball that conversation has shifted the lion the ners are absolutely the best team in the NFC whatever happened yesterday don’t worry about it they are very very good football team they continue to be arguably I think the best team in the NFL probably oh yeah you could beat the

Ners yeah just get three picks that’s that’s the formula yeah get three get three tipped ball interceptions and have the best defense in the NFL arguably that’s all and have Lamar okay yeah so those are all the things you need to beat the ners that’s it but if you look at the

Rest of the teams in the NFC the Cowboys feel very flawed and with even with their defense is playing they’re they’re concerning right now the Eagles defense is a huge problem and their offense feels extremely uneven I’ve gone from thinking the lions are a step back from

Three teams in the NFC to thinking first of all they have the number two seed now yeah right now as if it started today they would have the two seed why can’t the Lions go to the NFC championship game with the way that they’re currently playing even with some of those concerns

On defense that do persist yes I I think they absolutely can they they can get some pure trush every once in a while it’s like but they can get enough on they’re going to have to be opportunistic on defense those M phone wo plays we got this weekend picks

Branch coming up with a big play here and there that’s the type of defense they’re going to need to be you know who had the biggest explosive play rate in the NFL this weekend which offense the Minnesota Vikings the the vi the Lions defense is going to be something that’s

In the back of your mind no matter what but the offense can overcome it do you like the Vikings uh o piece of candy drive with oh piece of candy which is oh just Jefferson that was the 22 yard gain 29 yard gain on third 19 then a 26 yard

Touchdown I was like oh Justin Jefferson but just Just Launch it up to him that that’s all we have to Nick mullen’s Justin Jefferson experience this weekend was very enjoyable to watch even I I wouldn’t want to watch it as a Vikings fan I don’t think what Nick Mullen has

Been over the last couple weeks but as someone who doesn’t care it’s wonderful I’m in that group chat with my high school friends who are all Vikings fans and then I’m in a uh one package fan there but then I have my good friend here in Vegas my first friend I made in

Vegas just happened to be a Vikings fan and I did not know that when like the first couple times we hung out then that came out he didn’t figure out who my dad was for a while which has been a running joke for like for years now that he

Didn’t figure it out for a while um but I I just I don’t know watching watching them gash after him but I just watched the Lions offense they’re always gonna have answers they’re gonna get their points as long as they don’t play the Ravens defense they’re gonna get their

Points because they could run the ball always this te what did we say about the Vikings defense was the the stat that I I found from sis was they have the they face the least amount of pulling offensive lineman the one run that they make you

Run is Zone runs and we always talk about the Lions can get to any type of run they pounded away with Zone runs in this game that’s why you saw jir Gibbs popping so many but the fact that they can get that the Jamal Charles conversation we had last week he can do

That for you he can someone else tweeted that too which is funny it it was like that that’s coming around but this offense is also doing like Zone runs to David Montgomery and he’s pitching BB throwing bubbles to Le Raymond like so they have that creativity in there that

Again this is the offense that snapped the ball between the quarterback’s legs to the running back in the Red Zone just because they can but they always have that and the defense I will compliment them all year I’m like why don’t they play the Vikings play Tai Chandler why

Don’t the Vikings play Tai Chandler one with a classic reason why a young talented running back doesn’t play they’re bad in protection oh my God the lons got after him there were several times he just walked by his guy as a free Runner comes in smokes mol so the

Fact that the Lions did that though it’s like all right at least you got something at least you got something you can get to to create a little bit of chaos on that end this is the period at the end of the sentence exclamation point at the end of the sentence of what

The Lions have built over the last few years and what’s cool about watching it this is what everyone wants everyone wants this you have a team that finishes the worst team in the NFL you’re tearing it down okay we’re starting from Square One how do we get wherever everyone else

Is how do we get to be one of those teams the Lions did it I don’t know what how this ends up they’re going to have a Jared go conversation and what he’s going to need to be paid and how does that figure into what a championship

Caliber team is built like but they’ve made me wrong a 100,000 times and I love watching Jared golf play football right now so that’s a discussion for a different time but what they have done over the last couple years again everyone wants this everyone wants to

Try this to say how do we get from Square One to a championship caliber team and they have checked every single box knocked off every single challenge along the way and they deserve an unbelievable amount of credit for making that happen yes I wholeheartedly agree I sorry guys it’s just even just watch

This Lions team protect against Brian Flores and all these blitzes and you just see how well coached and how sound they are it’s just everybody’s on the same page and watching the offensive line that this team goes through them and but how they play and the consistency they play with and the

Soundness they play with that’s how this whole team feels like they’re always prepared for whatever they’re going to pace which makes me feel really good about them going from soundness to just pure chaos last one here Joe flacko you have my attention oh my God I I have no

Idea what to make of this game it it was it was insane to watch okay so Flaco throws for 368 yards in this game I we could start with anything the first play of the game they take a 60 yard shot down the middle of the field at one

Other point he takes a shot for a gold ball to Amari Cooper that he kind of like sidearm Loops 40 yards down the left sideline skipping rocks man he’s there there was a stretch in the second half where he made three off schedule plays on the same drive I I don’t know

What to do with any of this like it’s truly ridiculous that he is playing like this this is a man who has nothing left to lose truly he is coming off the bench he’s coming off the street to a playoff team that that has fully embraced the volatility and the volatility and

Variance that he is going to bring the offense because it is truly their best chance as currently constructed to do some damage it is a marriage of convenience and of opportunity and it has led to a wonderfully beautifully chaotic final product that I cannot wait to watch on wildart weekend I love the

Browns uh they they should be America’s team right now they they are so much fun it’s the chaos of flacko is the best the the one the go ball to Amari Cooper where he just pulls he’s they have him boot to the left too by the way which is

Like okay that’s listen he can move in the pocket man the the best pocket manipulation of the weekend was Lamar Jackson second was probably Joe Flo two players I’ve often compared Flo had that was the slowest bootleg ever like he would have been caught prohibition for sure and but he

Catapult catapulted that thing 50 yards but the he would have usually we do this show at midnight for me now we’re doing it at 700 a.m. for you so there’s a whole different chaotic energy that’s happening total loopiness the the oh but then but then

We were saying this oh the chaos and and the stuff and he’s great breaking tackles then he throws a one Center throw to n joku for the touchdown that was an incredible throw that on a stick that’s like that’s a big boy throw and so you have that he have some size so

You can get out of some stuff I don’t know he’s perfect for him he can get it to their good players and they have a great defense so yeah he’s throwing some interceptions but he’s bringing that high variance play and it’s like that’s what they need they have an offense that

Can rock or a defense that can carry them through all games so it’s get some variance on offense which is that that can keep us in games that can create points just watch the Bears game I mean obviously you did but a few weeks ago even but even when stuff’s not going

Right for them the Bears defense is playing well well they can stay in games because they can create points and they have really good designs and they have enough players so I don’t know I I really like watch this Browns team let it rip let’s go fire fire Away Joe

Flacko their offense has such a vibe to it right now that Amari Cooper’s coming out after the game just saying people can’t guard me I’m unguardable because Joe flacko is now his quarterback coopa is the most anti- receiver receiver ever doesn’t talk like just is the yeah that

Is so funny that’s that’s how he played though like C this is C again I love weird chemistries in the NFL between quarterbacks and pass catchers and Amari Cooper and Joe flacko they just they they should have always played together they just have this chemistry together I

Thought Amari Cooper was gonna have a huge season this year because I thought the Browns offense would just be better thought the passing game would just be better if you looked at he had like 30% of the teams at a yards last year which is the top five Mark huge Target exactly

Just everything I didn’t realized that it would take Joe flacko coming to town for that to be fully unlocked but here we are it’s been that sort of season in both Cleveland and the NFL in general 2023 baby all right let’s get from what Flaco did this weekend to the exact opposite

Of that it’s time for I’m not mad I’m just disappointed Kansas City Chiefs oh we we have reached a low point my friends we we have reached a low point I it does not get much worse than putting up that sort of performance against a team that

Did not have a passing yard for two quarters and losing to the Raiders at home so sloppy it it’s this team led the league in uh penalties per snap on offense going into last week and I’m sure I don’t think their numbers are G Gonna Change much uh this Chief skill

POS player group skill position group receivers tight ends a little bit because Kelsey can be a little loose and in running backs is probably the lowest Collective football IQ I’ve ever seen at least from a contender um at least from a team that oh we’ll talk about that

Holy crap uh but it looks like a first preseason game with these guys but that that fourth and one they had to burn a timeout which one but the the fourth and one they had to burn timeout and I tweeted about it was that was just like this the perfect little snapshot what’s

Going on with this offense the play gets in late so they’re breaking the hudle you see couple guys trotting in about 16 seconds left usually you want to break the Huddle at 20 seconds break the Huddle at 20 seconds 18 to 20 that means you have to sub about 25 to 30 so

They’re subbing at 15 to 20 all right so you’re already t seconds late on a fourth and one and of course of course it’s an Andy Reid offense so you’re going to have some shifts emotions why not got some guys who could barely get lined up let’s shift em motion them why

Not that’s what you do so huddle breaks at 12 to 13 seconds Pacho looks right away at Mahomes like what’ you just call like he goes what what like he looks on you could see it it’s on the spider cam you could see it and then okay Richie

James shs into the backfield him and Peko are sitting standing next to each other they did the night at the rockberry routine where they point at each other like you go do I go you him me so the peo starts moving Mahomes burns the timeout pissed off they

Convert on the next play but this is constant with them any short yardage any game plan play and that’s usually situational Play Short yardage Red Zone the third down those are the play that are terrible in short yardage this year they’ve been the worst short yardage

Team in the NFL are numbers at least two-thirds away the year that bore that out they like so much detail Trey Smith the right guards played poor I think he got hurt uh yesterday or he did get banged up yesterday yes and but this is just constant with him say they have no

Sustainability on the ground and that’s the big thing that’s why it feels so uneven and then when they need the high moments Kelsey just looks out of it I’ve never seen him play so angry like he just looks angry out there and that that’s really strange I felt like he

Should be happy right now with with his life personal life’s going on two things I think are worth pointing out one last year we talked about this and they showed us this with their team building model their thought as a front office red feed sh down clearly was as long as

We have a line it doesn’t matter who he’s throwing to to an extent right it’s Kelsey it’s whoever else as long as we protect him we have the opportunity to have an elite offense guess what this year they got neither they didn’t go get the pass catchers and the offensive line

Has played poorly obviously they have an injury at left tackle right now but like you said Trey Smith has taken a step back they paid Jawan Taylor a shitload of money yeah they paid him like an elite tackle he has not been that so this plan that they’ve had over the last

Couple years of hey as long as we protect him we can do whatever we want on offense they were right last year they won the Super Bowl yeah they were wrong this year because they did not put together the line in the way that they thought they were putting together the

Line so that’s one misstep two talk about Kelsey playing Angry The Vibes are unlike anything we have ever seen from this team even in moments where it wasn’t perfect from the start of 2018 when Patrick Mahomes stepped in as as the starter until the day they won the

Super Bowl last year name me one moment that you can point back and say man this team feels off it never happened it never ever happened even the year they quote unquote were struggling which was 2021 they had like the best offense in the league yes it never it never it

Never happened he’s always in a good mood we got Andy Reed and State Farm commercials everything is just going great all the time always now you got Mahomes he looks miserable every single moment we see a camera on him he’s screaming at his offensive lineman on

The on the sideline which I would love to be fly on the wall for that conversation his voice just screaming at people I didn’t know he had that in him like I never picture him as an old line screamer you know what I mean like that’s just yeah and that’s fine you can

Be an old line screamer Tom Brady was an old line screamer like that’s okay most quarterbacks are old line screamers but that was never what this team felt like and now it’s what they feel like and I don’t know what the path out of this is

The defense I think is still a very good unit I think that that team even though they struggled against a run yesterday I think that unit is still good enough to keep them in some of these games even with the offense struggling but we have gotten past the point of benefit of the

Doubt because it’s getting worse instead of better which is not the direction that this was supposed to be heading I thought this game would be a cleanup game for him okay we’re playing the Raiders we’ve played against this defense a little bit they’re pretty good this Raiders defense is good right now

About second yeah shout out Patrick Graham but it’s but okay this is a kind of a Get Right game we just played them a few weeks ago Rashid rice went off and like we just had our way even if I think they went down 14 nothing but then after

That they just torched them and at first in this game but then it’s week after week There’s No reinforcements coming the I I said a few weeks ago I was like they need their they need Juju back Juju Smith Schuster and really it’s more that archetype they need a vet receiver

That’s like an every down player mvs is the vet Receiver right now mvs is not known for his details guys that is not who you’re that’s not a guy that you want teaching the young guys so then you got Tony who’s that’s why he I graded

Him in the third round when he was coming out as explosive as he was it was lack of details there’s a reason he didn’t play until a senior year at Florida I mean you see his talent and Florida was like Dan Mullen was like nah I don’t trust that guy so okay there’s

That Rashid rice was known as a project he was the wild horse that’s why I call him the Mustang who’s reliable Kelsey’s stuff is all adlip stuff that’s why you need a juju Shuster is because he stays on script and then Kelsey can ad Li

Mahomes can add Li when they need to add Li they can do the ad Li funny stuff the Jim Carrey stuff Robin Williams stuff but when we need to be on script okay boom there we could just pepper the other guys and that’s what they don’t

Have it’s all adlip it’s all adlip it’s all wonkiness it’s all do another take and it’s just you can’t do that you can’t win that way because you still have to stay on script some you need a Sally Field in the Mrs Doubtfire Universe to keep everything on track I

Blinked on uh uh and I not because I don’t know who it is but blanking on his name uh Lloyd and uh not not Lloyd uh and dum and dummer uh freaking what’s his name uh Jeff Daniels Jeff Daniels thank you thank you I was like Jeff

Lloyd no no Jeff yeah Jeff Daniels that’s that’s what you need you need Jim Carrey and then you need Jeff Daniels you need a traditional actor to keep you on script but that’s what they they just don’t have that and like like peo is so frustrating to me because there’s holes

There and he just is pounding the ground I know he looks fun to watch guys his vision is horrid he misses so many holes and it’s just but you can’t have that again they built to be so explosive that they kind of lost their way of the sustainability and that’s just what it

Feels like right now on the flip side of this I don’t want to have this be a on the Chiefs stretch and not give credit to the Raiders defense because this is not a oh we got jumped on by a bad defense and we haven’t talked about the Raiders much since the McDaniel’s

Firing it’s been weird when they they played a couple Prime Time games when they beat the Chargers I think the correct response to that game was Brandon Staley just got fired what does this mean for the Chargers but what the Raiders have done under Antonio Pierce especially on defense the Raiders are

Number one in the NFL in EPA per play on defense since Josh McDaniels get fir got fired number one in the league right now and that is obviously that’s a smallish sample so that can go a lot of different ways seven games right but think about how many defense touchdowns they’ve had

They had two last weekend Jack Jones has another one so they’ve got sucess rate and guess what they are fifth in weighted defens of DVA fifth this is the Las Vegas Raiders and that in and of itself would be impressive but coming into the season I think you could

Have made a real argument that the Raiders defense was set up to be one of the worst units in the NFL when you think about the talent that they had and the Investments that they had made there is only one team in the league this year that is spending Less on its defense

Against the cap than the Las Vegas Raiders and that is the Los Angeles Rams who have had to who have had to agent seventh rounder fifth rounder the Rams have had to atone for their resource spending sins okay the Raiders are spending $49 million on their defense

There are multiple teams in the NFL this year the the bills the Steelers that are spending a hundred million against the cap on their defense the Raiders are half of that and they are fifth in weighted defensive dvoa they deserve a ton of credit Patrick Graham was

Somebody that when he was the defensive coordinator for the Giants I was looking at what he was doing I was like I like this guy I think he’s doing some really interesting stuff and it has been a Winding Road in Las Vegas and what that defense has looked like over the last

Couple years but what they have done mix of coverages guys clearly being in the right spots Jack Jones giving them a lot since he came over there Nate Hobbs is still a good player mer and EPS are stabilizing for ver at safety what Spain has been for them this year down in and

Down out that guyy is fun to watch this is somebody that anybody could have had anybody yeah he was shredding the Dolphins single-handedly and now you have Max Crosby doing what Max Crosby does but Malcolm coun is playing well they’re just they’re getting they’re getting so many productive outings from

These guys that were afterthought and it’s the unit that was an afterthought so now this brings me to a larger question about the Raiders what happens here because I don’t think in good faith you cannot give Antonio Pierce this job based on the way that they have played

And especially the way the defense has played it feels like in if there’s one team for like a former player to be the coach that feels right it’s the Raiders because it just I mean but watch the locker room stuff Max Crosby is gonna get in trouble soon uh but it’s but some

Of those videos after the game are just have him call me I’ll pay the fines I want him to keep doing everything he’s doing I love Max Crosby man I think he is just a hero I love watching him I love his demeanor I love the his

Perspective on life it’s just he’s very refesh I have a special sort of respect for him as as you probably understand yes but it’s I I love it because he just has that kind of guy that found a new leaf on life a new lease on life it

Really does and but watching him they all play hard the Nate hob shout out I’m glad he brought it up because he just week in week outs just making plays he’s around the ball they smart unit this is how that Giants team played under Pat gram everybody was at the right place at

The right time they were a lot of a lot of Zone coverage looks in it but they would make the offenses pay because they made it tough on you but now you got a dude and now he’s getting some help it’s a good unit and yeah I thought I even

What I wrote about like the Chiefs I said hey they got a pretty easy schedule hey it’s a frisky Raiders defense though they played more than frisky they played like a legit good one I think Pierce though as I would stick with it because the players were responding I feel like

His game management stuff has been he’s been on top of it or whoever he’s listening to has been on top of it um I think both sides of the ball played inspired with a fourth round rookie quarterback back there they’re playing hard Devonte Adams is trying to fit up

Runs and block like that’s what the head coach does right they play sound ball on both sides everyone knows what they’re doing everybody seems like they have a plan Raiders team that’s probably paying several coaching staff still could be a good way to kind of manage the situation

I think Pierce has done everything he can to deserve it that I it makes sense for me if you had told me that a month ago I’d been laughing but I truly think how this Raiders team under Pierce has been like commendable that deserves to be rewarded I think on defense you

Continue rolling with everything you got correct and in the way that things are currently constructed on offense I think you start over right this is the remnants of the Josh McDaniel staff you Bo hardigree who’s never been calling plays who’s an assistant on that on that staff offensive coordinator Scott Turner

Is still there yeah I I would say okay let’s keep rolling on defense cuz the infrastructure that we have built there is solid on offense anything should be on the table offensive coordinator quarterback the way we’re building the Personnel on that side so that is a larger

Consideration what we want to do with Devonte like aot is do we keep Devonte Adams do we trade Devonte Adams they have some cap space we we kind of rebuild a couple pieces along the offensive line just what do we do this offseason what is the plan but I right

Now based on what they have done and more than okay with champ Kelly and Antonio Pierce overseeing that plan because I think they deserve it same I I went from just kind of like whatever whatever whatever we’re yada y yting the Raiders and it’s fun to just I have to

Acknowledge them because they’re doing this right now and I have to and I have to watch them have to study them have to talk about them and I think these guys that are now in charge deserve more chances all right let’s get back to I’m not mad I’m just disappointed the

Jacksonville Jaguars I’m not mad I’m just disappointed the Jags are spiraling yeah fourth straight loss they’re now 8- seven in a virtual three-way tie with the Colts and the Texans in the AFC South and things are heading in a troubling Direction Lawrence is hurt again so now he has a shoulder injury

We’re not going to be not going to know when he’s going to be back or at what capacity when he gets back and maybe even more problematic than that the defense has fallen off the rails I mean what Baker was doing through the air in that first half of that game while it

Was still in the balance it was too easy just way too easy chucking it chucking it ch and now you have guys that were playing at an elite level at times this year like Tyson Campbell being the best example he was hurt now he’s been in out

Of the lineup he doesn’t look look right so I just don’t know what to make of this because it felt a couple weeks ago like yeah they’re incomplete you know they’ll get into the postseason they’ll win 10 games they’ll lose in probably the first round of the playoffs we’ll

Get to the spring and say okay now what needs to happen with this do we need a new general manager how do we need to build the roster we’re not even going to get there we’re not we’re even going to get maybe limping into the postseason as

The worst possible outcome here for this team and I just did not expect that to be the case at all I I was loving this defense I was giving Mike calwell a shouts I still think he’s a solid defensive coordinator but it’s just this team feels like Trevor Lawrence’s injury

Report hobbled in a sling and cussed like that’s that’s that’s he has all those injuries right now and that’s he’s car I cannot believe the the backlash that’s happening with Trevor Lawrence right now is are you watching this team and him just getting clothesline and high ankle spraying and just like the

Offensive line can’t block anyone right now Z Jones is one of the most important pieces on this team the weapons in this game was I mean you’re talking about par Washington Tim Jones catching comebacks again Anon Harrison gets hurt at some point in this game now on two backup tackles the

Trevor thing continues keep coming back to the same place just hang out of the football Ju Just the F the fumbling continues to be a concern but their off what the offense looked like overall this weekend and their inability to block anybody this is rotten at its core

Right now and needs to be revamped in every single way it’s it’s the defensive flaws too like they invested a lot in linebacker you just brought up all the expensive defenses Jacks have an expensive defense and the defending the middle is very real week after week

Tight ends are getting them Kate Aon got them this week it’s it’s a thing it’s happened it happened last year they shorted up a little at the beginning of this year and now it’s a thing again week after week these linebackers are getting targeted they’re a flaw team and

They hit a real rough patch but the flaws are just so much more just devastating now as opposed to like hey just waved away because the quarterback is not healthy that that usually is what will help cover up a lot of those woses but it this this team was fragile not in

A sense well some injury sense but more just their ecosystem the offense is just the ridiculous that it can come Unwound if one guy gets hurt as opposed to going well we can cover it up this way with this this and this that’s what good

Teams do they go ah this guy’s hurt well we have two other answers we can get think about the Lions over the last two years and how many guys have been out of the lineup whether it be offensive skill position whether it be offensive line it doesn’t matter yep St Browns Miss games

J Dolphins about the Dolphins oh my God Dolphins especially Dolphins a line wadle everybody just all the running backs a chain being out yeah exactly they find different ways to Pivot to and it just feels like this Jags team if one starter’s out as far as skill position

Guys can’t do it we’re done we’re done but it’s like that’s that’s where you’re at right now and man and it’s kind of what hate to sound like this but it’s kind of what I thought going into the season but it’s just so much more Stark

Now and just seeing it h because I saw so many highs happening this year and then now it’s just all kind of coming unraveled so quickly on the other side of this I don’t want this just to be a Jags pity party I was really impressed

With the way that Baker played the first half again what he’s doing in the pocket and his ability to step up in the pocket Fireball on third down I want SP team in the playoffs dude just just they’re probably going to get there make it they’re going to they’re probably G to

Get there yeah I I’ve been so impressed with the way that he’s played over the last couple weeks and again I know he played against the Packers last week natural caveats that come along with that but what he has done again against pressure specifically this year and I

Don’t know how sustainable it is I don’t know if he’ll turn back into a pumpkin at some point in those situations because we’ve seen that be a volatile piece of people’s games over time but what he has done in muddy pockets and on third down this year continues to be

Very impressive and now you got Mike Evans running whip routes for touchdowns and it’s everything about their offense right now I’m fine watching it I’m more than in like I said Kate aon’s catches stuff it’s great uh and also Devon white gets benched and it comes back and plays

Awesome like it was yeah like way to go Deon white kind of bounce it back didn’t didn’t go into the to his hole and kind of pity partied it like so like shout out to him too so again this Buck team they just have so many good players like

They just do so Baker gives him a chance because he’s going to give those guys chances he’ll have his negative plays don’t get me wrong but but he’s going to give them at least a half dozen positive plays like big ones a guy we probably have not talked about enough on this

Show this season and the way that he has played antoan Winfield play an insane level he is playing unbelievable football so that’s just somebody that again his name has not come up often enough on this show the Bucks very likely going to win the NFC South and

Get into the postseason on the flip side the AFC South is an absolute mess okay the Jags have the Panthers and the Titans in their last two games so in theory they should be able to do but who knows if Florence is hurt and he can’t

Play so there is a decent chance that they miss the playoffs the Colts have the Raiders and the Texans and then the Texans have the Titans and the Colts Texans are currently the e seed the Colts are currently the seven seed so who knows how this is all going to shake

Out with these teams trying to get some interesting games yeah oh man that’s fun those are some interesting matchups the outs no easy ones no easy buckets all right let’s get to the Sunday notebook h a couple quick things before we we get out of here the Broncos lose to the Patriots

This weekend which is a huge blow to the Broncos playoff chances but also kind of feels like a puck victory for the patriots who are now drafting fourth overall and potentially through all of this where the only Solace you could find in the type of season that the

Patriots were having was your ability to find a quarterback in next year’s draft suddenly could be evaporating because of what is happening at the top of the draft so just a mess of a game overall for both of these teams I I I think everybody in that Stadium because

There’s Patriots fans in that Mile High I think everyone that stadium with that field goal went in was yelling no just everybody just no as they saw Caya Williams and Drake May going away that that that’s exactly what happened there uh what a wild game what a wild game you

Have two essentially the the Patriots offense was two Devonte Parker go balls want to talk about this game because this game was whack out two Devonte Parker go balls a couple Ender rounds to tawon Thorton one Zeke Elliott leap over somebody one Mike Kiki touchdown on the

Back end line a fumbled return for a touchdown and a fumbled kickoff and Christian barmore just wrecking like that was the Patriots formula for victory in this game as Russell Wilson just short circuited in the pocket over and over and over again they got zapped oh I know that a bich defense against

Ross that you can that’s the worst for him just push the pocket on him make him throw the flooded Lanes yeah that is that’s not gonna be a formula for Success which also disappointed me because it was one of those where I was like as I was looking at the spread I

Was like I think I’m gonna go Patriots here it was one of those where it’s like I as I thought more about it it’s like man I actually should have been all over that one sorry no one cares about my bedding either I’ve I’ve I’ve Incorporated fantasy and bding on this

Hour and a half show so far so I’m sorry everybody but I I I don’t know I watched what the zappy effect I guess I thought this Broncos team was found some formula and that they ugli it up every game but then they face a team that thrives in

Those situations that that’s like I’ve been born into this darkness of ugliness and and that they got him I I really thought the Broncos were gonna pull it off in the end but man yeah shout out to the Patriots I guess for pulling that one off Broncos is gonna have a very hard

Time making the playoffs now they are pretty much out of it you look at the rest of the AFC wild card we just talked about the Colts the Colts right now are positioned to be the seven seed they have 66% chance to make the playoffs scoring to our own and Austin Mack

Texans at 8 and S have a 36% chance and the Bengals after losing to the Steelers this weekend are now the 10 seat so the Steelers and the Bengals are probably out of it even though they are eight and seven the Steelers have the Seahawks and the Ravens the Bengals have the Chiefs

And the Browns so the difference in strength of schedule for the AFC South teams compared to the AFC North teams are the reason that the Texans and the Colts have a much better shot of doing this the bills are now pretty much in at 9 and six as everyone else is just fall

On a part the bills just continue to take care of business and they are very much a dangerous proposition if they were to get in so that is the state of things in the AFC wild card at the top of the draft the Patriots are now picking fourth Washington now picking

Third keep an eye on them I told you guys and we’ll see what happens with the Cardinals because the whole thing was how well does Kyler Play Over the back half of the season does it dissuade them from taking a quarterback there’s a chance based on the way that he’s played

And some of the struggles that they say all right who wants them we’re starting over because that that was always going to be on the table so it is possible that the Patriots now picking fourth quarterbacks go one two3 with Jaden Daniels going third to Washington and

The Patriots are out of the quarterback Derby after everything that they’ve had to put up with this season and then we all get cursed with Marvin Harrison Jr going into the quarterback Wasteland of New England and it’s just there is no God it’s not a bad consolation prize but

The fact that there’s you wouldn’t find a quarterback after all this yeah is is there a team that needs him more though when you when you watch that Patriots team and the guys that they’re throwing the football to right now is there anyone who needs it more for a draft

That’s loaded with well top loaded with quarterbacks but then one of the best offensive tackle drafts I’ve seen in recent memory a great receiver draft as well it’s like the Patriots are set up it’s like no matter what offense okay thank God we have some offense uh

Happening on this side of the ball all right let’s get to a couple more here I just wanted to shout out the drive that Gino Smith had to essentially save the Seahawk season they got the ball back with about three minutes left they’re down four he needs to go down and score

A touchdown I tweeted out the four throws that he made in this drive there’s a second and six Dart he throws to Tyler locket at the sticks for a first down takes a sack third and 14 throws a missile to jsn over the middle of the field sweet incredible throw in a

Huge moment in a huge moment if they don’t win this game there’s a chance they do not get in the the playoffs are hanging in the balance as he’s doing this hits locket after stepping up in the pocket and creating a little bit of movement on the left side again throws

Another Dart to lock it at the sticks on the right side G throws a perfect ball to DK and a little INB Breer where he gets a pass interference call to get them inside the 10 hits Kobe Parkinson as he posts up for a touchdown so with

The season on the line Gino has that sort of draft and again it it’s been a mading season for their offense but that guy when he’s firing it is really fun to watch high end shoot looking how this playoff picture is that’s what you got

To bet on guys it’s guys that could just bring that high variance big boy throws in there um yeah fader out to Kobe Parkinson that’s exactly what you plan on right when you predict a Seahawks game-winning touchdown with jsn with DK meaf Toler Lockett even Noah fan or you

Know Kenneth Walker Zack sh blocking tight end Kobe Parkinson what’s dunk on guys but it worked um honestly I was more impressed with this Titans offense because that or I’m sorry this Seahawks offense because that Titans defense is a terrible match up for them just just how

They play and how they play up front front and I thought just how their offensive line played was very makes me feel more optimistic about him shanet sharbo blco man block picking up those Titans blitzes that makes you feel optimistic so yeah I uh I I feel much

Better about him especially with Gino ripping those ball in Pauls and like if Drew Lo can beat the Eagles like Gino can do a little bit better especially if this line feeling better I also remembered my joke I was gonna say was the Bears Cardinals game the the

Quarterback showcase bow in the sense that hey what’s what’s what’s we’re going to trade these guys hey look at this Shiny Toy hey I heard your perspective quarterback buyer like that that’s what that game felt like to me that that absolutely felt like that it was funny watching my mom get really

Angry and my my mom’s husband get really angry while I’m sitting in this living room like guys this doesn’t matter the the outcome of this game truly does not matter Panthers lose again okay we’re good it’s just funny to be around that as they’re like living and dying with

Every single play it’s like I promise you guys it’s it’s it’s going to be all right it’s definitely going to be all right let’s stick in the NFC North By the way another very concerning day for the Packers defense and the fact that I had to sweat that game out I resent Joe

Barry so much for me having to think that there was a chance that the Panthers would win that game 50.8% success rate for the Panthers second best P second best offensive success rate of any team in the league this week the Carolina Panthers oh man only the Dolphins had a higher offensive success

Rate this week than Carolina what they put up 30 30 oh boy yeah when when this team this Panthers team that has had some issues throwing the ball and they put up three B say and they put up three bills on you DJ CH went for a

Good amount what oh yeah 98 yards and two touchdowns it’s just but it’s the same thing it’s the same story I remember a couple weeks ago we talked about it’s like it’s the same stuff say the The Arc of this show has been talking about this Packers defense that

Has felt exactly the same every single year even when Barry wasn’t there I don’t know what’s going on with Jer Alexander he comes out for the coin toss calls the coin toss asked asked to go on defense first wasn’t supposed to be a captain I the offense I know is Young

And I know know story that happened oh yeah so he was not one of the captains he goes up to the coin toss calls the coin toss they they I don’t remember but they won the toss they asked him what he wanted to do and said I want to be on

Defense and the ref was like are you sure because if you ask to be on defense then the other team still gets to pick what they want to do at halftime yes that’s not the same as deferring so the ref was like are are you sure you you

Want to be on defense so they gave him multiple chances and I guess his response was I I guess we’ll defer and after the game he said coach didn’t know I was from Charlotte and I should have been one of the meaning that he should have been one of the captains he’s the

Vet this young Packers team he’s the vet the Vets on this team were David bakari and J jier Alexander so that happened that was a real thing that happened in before this game oh my God I didn’t know that that is hilarious I Tack and JV one

Year one year because he I let him call it and he did the same thing I said hey no no no no no no no no no no no like I pushed him away I was trying to be nice and so I was like I got it I got

It the offense is Young I understand the growing pains on offense the the weird Vibes with some of the expensive veterans on this team plus the state of the defense that is all stuff that needs to be addressed as we get into the postseason such a strange team dude I’m

Feeling so good about this team like a month ago off look at the Young off the young cheesee heads look at them and they just they can’t help and they won this game so they won this game they still probably are not getting in though and but the way it currently sits based

On everything that happened this week it does feel like the Seahawks and the Rams have an inside track to do this and if there are two quarterbacks that I would want to watch in the postseason Gino Smith and Matthew Stafford are absolutely in that conversation right

Now Lions so right now that we would not get that because the Rams the six seed and the Seahawks the seven seed but there is a chance because the Rams play the ners in week 18 so if the Rams lose to the ners and the Seahawks went out

And the Lions maintain the two seed we would get Rams lions in the Wild Card round the over under for that game should be 64 and a half and I’m going to be sitting there on my couch with popcorn if we end up getting that I not

I can’t even independent of the and the story lines going along with that the experience purely of watching those two offenses play against each other right now I want it I want it let’s make it happen I agree and then you get and then OB just like match ups like Aaron Donald

Versus the Lions offensive line like just all the personel matchups story lines yeah that would have please please I don’t ask for much I don’t I don’t I I really don’t just please let that happen it’s not even a stretch you’re not even asking for that much it’s not it’s not

It’s not at all I I oh man how about that that Rams team dude that Thursday performance it was like I’m telling you that’s all I want and it really does feel like we’re going to get them in the playoffs now which is a nice outcome considering what the season has looked

Like overall all right that is all we got chill little hour and a half long show on a it was a long weekend it was a long weekend lot of thought we going three hours for three days I thought that’s what we were going to do we me

Listen we had the game of the year last night probably with the two best teams in the NFL we got to give that it’s due for now guys that is all we have we will be back with our regularly scheduled programming for the rest of the week no

Key for the Beats obviously because we’re obviously thrown off there but uh we’ll be back with everything else that comes your way in the athletic football show feed so please come back and check that out for now that is all we got appreciate you guys listening we’ll talk to you Soon