Feel the playoff intensity surge as TJ and I break down the divisional matchups with only the elite eight left on the field. Discover why Mike Tomlin's return to the Steelers is sparking debate among fans, and get the lowdown on the Houston Texans' remarkable playoff charge, led by a rookie coach and quarterback. The Texans are turning heads, but can they take down my beloved, star-powered Ravens? We're mapping out the strategies and sizing up the odds in a gridiron battle that's guaranteed to be a nail-biter.
The playoff atmosphere is electric, and as a die-hard football fan, I'm bracing for a frosty face-off between Houston and Baltimore. Amidst calls for respect after the snowball incident in Buffalo, I share why sportsmanship matters and how fan fervor, like the Ravens' 'bounty gate at the bank', can electrify a stadium. Switching gears, we dissect the Chicago Bears' pivotal draft choices and the mounting pressure on their front office to assemble a team that lives up to the city's legacy. Will USC's Caleb Williams be the answer to their woes, or will history repeat itself?
Wrapping things up, we cast a humorous shadow of Taylor Swift over the upcoming Buffalo vs. Kansas City showdown, while serving up our 'Brown Bag Awards' for the weekend's mishaps. We're not shy about dishing out criticism where it's due, and we're just as eager to celebrate the successes. Looking ahead, we're gearing up for the championship games and the Vegas-bound victors, and we can't wait to reconvene next Tuesday with our listeners for another round of fiery football analysis and banter.
Feel the playoff intensity surge as TJ and I break down the divisional matchups with only the elite eight left on the field. Discover why Mike Tomlin's return to the Steelers is sparking debate among fans, and get the lowdown on the Houston Texans' remarkable playoff charge, led by a rookie coach and quarterback. The Texans are turning heads, but can they take down my beloved, star-powered Ravens? We're mapping out the strategies and sizing up the odds in a gridiron battle that's guaranteed to be a nail-biter.
The playoff atmosphere is electric, and as a die-hard football fan, I'm bracing for a frosty face-off between Houston and Baltimore. Amidst calls for respect after the snowball incident in Buffalo, I share why sportsmanship matters and how fan fervor, like the Ravens' 'bounty gate at the bank', can electrify a stadium. Switching gears, we dissect the Chicago Bears' pivotal draft choices and the mounting pressure on their front office to assemble a team that lives up to the city's legacy. Will USC's Caleb Williams be the answer to their woes, or will history repeat itself?
Wrapping things up, we cast a humorous shadow of Taylor Swift over the upcoming Buffalo vs. Kansas City showdown, while serving up our 'Brown Bag Awards' for the weekend's mishaps. We're not shy about dishing out criticism where it's due, and we're just as eager to celebrate the successes. Looking ahead, we're gearing up for the championship games and the Vegas-bound victors, and we can't wait to reconvene next Tuesday with our listeners for another round of fiery football analysis and banter.
Oh man, anybody excited? Anybody ready? Hey, playoff pitch is a lot more clear now. Hey, listen to this. We are down to the final eight. We down to the final eight. Hey, it's getting ready, it's getting. Oh, my goodness, it's just getting so exciting. Now, if your teams are still in it, congratulations. If your teams are home, hey, you know. Better luck next year. But hey, we are getting this started.
Speaker 1:The vision arounds are here. Look, each day we came on here, we talked about all the Tom Fulery that was going on. But you know, here's what I want to say to all you Steelers fans and everything Mike Tomlin's coming back. They already announced it. Mike Tomlin's coming back. So, all you ones that won them out of Pittsburgh, that's what you get. He's coming back for another season, but you see those sponsors rolling across bottom of the scene, up on the bottom of the screen. I'm sorry, but, as always, I gotta bring my boy in here, because you know we always talk about stuff. My man, tj, always in the house. We're always in the house with me. We are down to the final eight.
Speaker 1:The final eight, and it's getting interesting, it's getting lovely. I'm just trying to figure out who's going to be where and what's going to be what. I'm just saying we're going to see what's going to happen. Only thing I got to say is good luck to everybody. But now my trash talking begins because we got the Texans. Okay, my trash talking about the start. Listen, I don't expect it to be a blowout like it was last time.
Speaker 2:Not expecting that.
Speaker 1:I am expecting the Texans to come in here and give us a fight. I am expecting the Texans to come in here and hand us the fight of a lifetime, because they don't want to just be one and done. They got something to prove also. Hey, rookie coach, rookie quarterback, rookie, everything I mean. Hey, I get a floor to you on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man. And so with Houston. We've been saying it all year, but I don't think it should be understated how they're able to get this far with a rookie quarterback, with a rookie head coach, a defensive rookie head coach, on top of that a rookie offensive coordinator, a rookie defensive coordinator. Outside of CJ Stroud, there is Will Anderson, and that's because he was in the same draft as CJ Stroud. Outside of those two, outside of those two names, you can't really come up with a whole lot of names that you know off of the Houston Texans roster, unless you are a football junkie like we are. And so when you look at what Houston has done this year in its entirety, along with what they did on Saturday with Cleveland, we're looking at a big play offense. We're looking at a defense that has no problem taking the ball away from you. We're looking at a team that is playing about as well as you can play and then tire playoffs about as well as you can play. As far as playing it on both sides of football, it doesn't get a whole lot better than what Houston is doing right now, and the problem is, out of all the teams that they had to face, they got to face the Baltimore Ravens. The one team Dante welcome, what's up, dante? The one team that like. It's just everything that I mentioned about the Texans. You can add that to the Ravens, but add the fact that they have a more star studded roster. Ha ha ha. Yeah, you know, and so it. Just it makes the game so much more interesting.
Speaker 2:You and I both agree that this is a Ravens game to lose sort of deal, but Yep, it does not take away what a job Houston has done all year long, regardless of what the final score is.
Speaker 2:It does not take away from what Houston has done all year long, because there wasn't supposed to be this far. We thought at the very most they would sneak it to the playoffs and they'll be one and done, and now be it. I'm pretty sure that was what everybody's expectation was, and even that would be a big win of the season for them. But to not only have the record that y'all did y'all won the AFC South then y'all win a first round playoff game with everybody not knowing what in the world is going on, to then lose to Baltimore, who is eventually going to find themselves in the Super Bowl when it's all said and done, if thus far hasn't shown you how overachieving the Houston Texans have been this year. I don't know what is. I really don't know what is. It doesn't get much better than this. There's a lot of teams that would love to be in Houston's spot right now.
Speaker 1:That's how it is. Oh yes, absolutely, absolutely, and I think that's going to be one of our best games of the week as them two Because, again, it's not going to be a shellack, it's not going to be a beat down, it's going to be. They're going to go back and forth because, trust me, they're both watching each other's tapes. Okay, we need to cover this, we need to cover that, but I just think that Houston's defense won't be able to cover all that offense that Todd Munkin's going to throw at him. So, okay, you want to do this, let me do the same play, but just switch up the players. Let me switch up the scheme on you. Hey, 70 is eligible. I'm sorry, throwing shade Dang, so throwing shade, throwing shade.
Speaker 2:Ah Ah Ah. Geez, that was jarred.
Speaker 1:I wasn't prepared for that one All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, 70 is eligible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, I mean, but you bring up a great point, I think, with Baltimore, what they have been able to do this year is it's not even so much of them scoring points, it's how these drives are going. For them, it's a. If I'm not mistaken, I believe they average six yards per play. So what does that mean? That means that every single play that they dial up, every two plays that they dial up, is a first down. Every two plays they dial up, it's a first down, and then their average big play is 40 yards. So if they get a big play, best believe the field will switch, and that's the thing that we couldn't say about Baltimore back in 2019, when Lamar went into the US and they had to run and they did.
Speaker 2:We could not say that back then. They have the ability to flip the field on a dime. They could be. This is the only caveat with Baltimore is that the rush doesn't need to be too long, because if it lasts too long, houston will find a way to make sure that it burns.
Speaker 2:Ok, yes, that's the only caveat I have. But even then, baltimore has such an ability this year to show you that you may think that you have was behind the A-ball, but all we're going to turn around and do is gain that first down when it's third and 20. Or we're going to gain that touchdown even though it's second and 15. And it's on our side the field. They've shown that all year long and so again, it's very important that people understand what kind of offense Baltimore has, because it's not a run first team anymore.
Speaker 2:I know everybody's still stuck on that because Lamar Jackson but Lamar's not even running a whole lot, which should be a concern for the rest of the league. Lamar is throwing when he is escaping a pocket. He's not looking to run, he's looking to throw, and usually when he's scrambling outside the pocket we've got wide receivers that's going off script trying to get open. But now what Lamar is doing is he's using his speed on the outside to get somebody on the opposite side of the field wide open because they have to worry about Lamar. We saw it against Jacksonville a few weeks ago on Sunday Night Football where Lamar was going all the way to the right and you saw all the defense just go towards Lamar. And then all you see, as the ball is thrown and the camera pans out, you just see Isaiah, lively but naked open. Hey, hello, catch us the thing and take it in for a touchdown, but to defend us on him, Right.
Speaker 2:It's like come on. So that is how important this game is, knowing that both teams are capable of switching the field just like that.
Speaker 1:And it doesn't matter how it's done. Nope, doesn't matter, sure does it. And one thing I can say about this, with this matchup and I was excited is because, like I said, cj Straub has been doing If you looked at some of them games he was running for his life and found a receiver. Yeah, found a receiver. It happened with the coach game he was running for his life found a receiver. They won the game. I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:CJ Straub boy, yeah, sir.
Speaker 1:Your rookie of the year and I'm calling it right now. He is the rookie of the year Because, again, no one expected Houston to be here and if Houston comes down here and put on a performance of a lifetime, they just a couple of pieces away and probably doing it again, doing it again, yeah. So, hey, I give Houston all the props and all the Houston people. If any Houston Texas fans are listening to me, I'm willing to take a bet on that game. Uh-oh, uh-oh, I'm willing to take a bet on that game. I told you I'm going to start rapping this up as we get closer and closer. So if you hear this podcast and you want to take that bet, let me know, because I'll be in these chat rooms.
Speaker 1:They thought, oh, texans is going to take the Ravens down. I said we'll see about that. I said, keep dreaming, we'll see about that. So I'm willing to take a bet on that. And they say, uh-oh, I don't back down for no bet, I'm on. Hey, they coming to the bank. And for the simple fact there's supposed to snow here on Friday. Houston plays in the dome, houston plays in the dome. We won't have nothing like what Buffalo was, but it's supposed to be snow and it's supposed to be below freezing here. So bring it on Houston. You come on down here. You're definitely going to need some under armor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure You're dealing with that.
Speaker 1:But again, I'm going with my squad. But like I say, I know it's not going to be a blowout, it's going to be a really close game. I say it probably come down to a field goal, or what defense can stop the other?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Say headhunters at the nest. Yeah, hey, come on down to this nice bitter cold down here. Hey, they're right down there at the end of Harbor, so all that cold is broaching right off the water.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I hope it's as cold as possible to be in oh my goodness. Terrible man I ain't talking about that. Kansas City cold, or that Buffalo cold.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about that. Yeah, maybe something down. Maybe like 10, 5 degrees, yeah, yeah, by game time, man, 10, 5 degrees, yeah, we'd be good, Right. But again, I give the Texans all their props. Man, hey, listen, they have done something that nobody expected them to do and they did it. So I'm giving them all the props in the world, All the props in the world. Houston, texas, give you props on that one. Yeah, but now it's time to come to the bounty of the bank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Ah, you know what I got to say me personally. I'm so grateful, I really am so grateful that you have opened your arms to the phrase that is so predominantly true with Baltimore Ravens Allure. I'm so glad that you've wrapped your arms around the fact that it is true. I'm glad that you've wrapped your arms around the fact that it is a reality. I'm glad that you wrapped around the subtle notion that the Houston Texans will be going to hashtag bounty gate at the bank. I'm glad. I'm glad you've embraced it. I'm so glad. You have no idea how much that means to me. You have no idea what that does to the fan base of Baltimore around the world. Around the world. You embracing this mentality, this phrase, this movement, it's not a moment, it's a movement. I appreciate you just in open arms, embracing always. I really do, I really do Thank you, thank you. You can't even deny it, no more, man. You can't even deny no more.
Speaker 1:It's cool. It's cool. I'm hoping no one gets hurt at the bank. No one gets hurt down there.
Speaker 2:But the truck record shows that somebody finds a way to get hurt anyway.
Speaker 1:So there it is.
Speaker 1:Oh, I am crazy, because there was a lot of injuries up in Buffalo last night, a lot of injuries up in Buffalo last night and I wish all those players speedy recovery, because no one likes to go down, no one likes to see anyone get hurt in doing this game. But again, I had a problem with the Buffalo fan base Throwing snowballs on the field and we're thinking there's flags and everything in snowballs. I had a problem with that with Buffalo, so I'm going to keep picking with Buffalo about that Throwing snowballs on the field. Listen, you want to have a snowball fight? Going to a parking lot, y'all can have a snowball fight with each other out there. Don't be throwing them at professional athletes.
Speaker 1:It was disrespectful and it was unprofessional. My thing with this is that again, these are professional athletes. They're playing their life out trying to get to the next level and y'all throwing snowballs. Come on now. I mean, if they didn't want a, I'm going to take this back to the basketball. What's my name? What's my man name? They threw the thing down on it and he went up to the stands. I can't think of his name, mike.
Speaker 2:Brown, ronald Tess, ronald Tess. Oh, ronnie, ronald Tess, ronald Tess, ronald Tess, paul's Parkfield oh.
Speaker 1:God, ronald Tess, if somebody went up to the stands when the players went up to the stands, it was justifiably so, because you throwing a snowball at the guy and it was unprofessional, and I know it's not all the Buffalo fans, it's not all the Buffalo fans. But again, hey, Ronald Tess, oh, you threw something on me. I'm going up here, we're going to fight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sir, yeah sir, it's on site OK.
Speaker 1:We're not playing these games right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're not playing these games, oh my God, but no. But yeah, come on, man. Like it's just one of those things where it's OK being a fan, but don't be, don't come on, come on, enjoy the game.
Speaker 1:Enjoy the game.
Speaker 2:Enjoy the game and enjoy the game. It's that simple. You know cheer and boo, cuss people out, scream as loud as you can do the whole nine, but anything extra like seriously, like, are y'all back in elementary school Come?
Speaker 1:on Right, like seriously Now. I agree, when Buffalo scored they was throwing snow up in the air. I agree with that. That's fine, that's cool.
Speaker 1:But don't throw that on a player, yeah and yes. Yes, you write PJ. A lot of them was throwing snow, it was just. It was unprofessional by that fan base and if I was the Buffalo Bills PRP, I'd be apologized for that and I'd be probably going back through that footage seeing where people were sitting. If they were seasoned ticket holders, I'd throw them out of there. That's exactly what I would do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But hey, like I said, the bank going to be rocking on Saturday and I can't wait. Yes, sir, yes the bank is going to be rocking on Saturday, so and we going to get that. You said I was watching and I was like what is that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because again when he went down for that touchdown I thought it was a flag. I said, oh, it's probably passing first, and even the commentator thought it was a flag. I said, oh, it's going to be passing first and he is on. This is not bad. Tony Romo was like wait a minute, that was snow, that wasn't a flag. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I said, oh, pittsburgh, coming back in the club, it's a flag. And then, oh, it was just a wrong color. It was white, not yellow.
Speaker 2:I know they don't like to brighten Buffalo.
Speaker 1:I rewatched that game again today. I rewatched it because they replayed it again today and you're absolutely right, it wasn't enough flags throwing that game Because, yeah, where they're flagged, y'all had some serious gripes, some serious, serious gripes, with them not throwing a lot of penalties on Buffalo. But, remember, it's my whole cliche If we tear them out, the fur we ain't got. Where about the refs?
Speaker 1:We ain't got where about the refs and probably next season y'all going to get them pieces around Because we're saying Justin Fields or Tyler Huntley is coming to Pittsburgh. Yeah, so even one of them were coming to Pittsburgh, so y'all are going to probably be in a lot better stand. I would love to see Justin Fields go up there, especially the way he bowled out at the end of the year. He bowled out up there with the Bears. Oh, speaking of the Bears and I want to see if you think this is the most Bears thing they did they interviewed Greg Roman for offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2:You're joking, you're joking, you're real.
Speaker 1:For real. They interviewed Greg Roman for offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears. Really, I'm not going to say he's going to get it, really, but they interviewed him for it.
Speaker 2:Look, here's the thing with Chicago that I need Chicago to understand. Y'all do understand that y'all have the number one overall pig. Y'all do understand that y'all are going to get Caleb Williams out of USC. Y'all do understand that y'all need to get this right, like this year, or else everything that you thought was a thing in Chicago won't be. Dj Moore is going to want to go and he will leave, because I just believe he'll force his way out.
Speaker 2:Montez Sweat, oh, that contract you gave him. This year. Oh, you thought that that was going to mean he was going to stay. Nope, he's going to find himself the one to leave too. He just came from Washington. You want to have him go to another losing franchise? Come on, stop. Thank you, ok, all these pieces that you need to win I'm not even saying you have to win a division next year, but to be entertaining, to be watchable, and you're doing this Really and you think Caleb Williams is going to want to go over there. I mean, I know for the memes it's Caleb Williams is going to make sure that Chicago Bears trade the number one pick so that way he doesn't go to Chicago. But that is a real thing.
Speaker 2:And if I was Caleb Williams, that would be an honest conversation that I would have, because y'all have shown over the years that y'all can get quarterback right, y'all can get offense right and even if y'all find a way to get a little smidgen of good offense, all you do is just trade the next piece away for practically nothing. Alistair and Jeffrey does that ring a bell? How about Matt Forte? Does that ring a bell? All these different guys that you have had that engineered a good offense, not a great offense, not a great offense, a good offense, a serviceable offense. You kicked them out the door, like the following year, for two or three, if you were that patient. So be careful of how you are doing this, how you are making these decisions, because if y'all mess around, if y'all mess around, y'all going to mess around like the chart. Look, actually I'm going to draw it out so that way they can understand If y'all mess it around. If y'all mess around, look, I don't think y'all can see it. If y'all mess around, Stock market plunge.
Speaker 1:Y'all going to find out.
Speaker 2:If y'all mess around, y'all going to find out. I'm trying to tell you, ok, and that's not the actual phrase, but I want to keep it as PG as I possibly can, but Chicago knows what I'm talking about. You mess around and you'll find out. Keep playing with five if you want to. So that is my advice for Chicago's Bears front office right now for deciding to have interviews with guys like Greg Roman.
Speaker 1:Greg Roman.
Speaker 2:Right, and those in that nature. Just hey, just so you can have a visual, because I know there's some visual people out there. Hey, look, mess around, mess around. There we go, mess around, mess around and find out, mess around and find out. If you want to, I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 1:Stock market plunge. Stock market plunge hey.
Speaker 2:Just. But I feel like they know this. I really do. I feel like they should have this understanding Because, with them dropping the ball on Trabisky all those years ago, instead of getting Patrick Mahomes or to Sean Watson, all those years ago, back in 2017, to get Justin Fields instead of actually. Actually, the crazy part is Justin Fields is the second best quarterback in that draft class, so maybe they weren't so far off with Justin Fields. The Bears were just so godawful that we couldn't tell the difference.
Speaker 1:Ok, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 2:You cannot afford to mess this up again. You can't. You have the number one pick again this year. You had it last year and you traded it away. Okay, got DJ Moore, got picks, all that. That's cool, that's cool. Now you need to get it right this year, Because if you don't, I'm telling you right now forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 1:Forget about it. The second coming to Washington, oh my bad my bad man.
Speaker 2:I mean yes, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. I mean honestly. I mean at least Washington has had recent success over the years. Can't say the same about Chicago. So, yeah, maybe they'll be the first generation of Washington. How?
Speaker 1:about that. Hey, Dante, I love this one. They've been stuck in a holding pattern.
Speaker 2:Okay, just saying they know what they need to do. They know what they need to do, Just like Carolina that wants to interview Brian Johnson for head coach. Did you not see them last night?
Speaker 1:Did you not see the last game? Have them. Did you see the game last night? Have them, have them. Did you see the game last night? I'm just saying, did you see the game? I mean, did you see the game? I'm just asking did you see the game?
Speaker 2:I mean shoot, have them. I mean we're not even going to budge, we're not even going to fight. You Take them, please. You think that he's a savior for Bryce Young? Really, Please take them.
Speaker 2:I mean so, but you know what. It's unfortunate to joke like this with certain franchises. But when you have a franchise like Chicago that's still stuck on 85, when you have the Panthers that just doesn't know what it's like to have a great team all together, when you have a team like Washington, whose front office has been in decays for decades, they finally get a switcheroo in the front office. Now they got to figure out what to do a head coach and all these different questions you have to ask. In Washington we have a team like the Jets who just are inept of doing anything right in terms of free agency, let alone getting a team constructed properly. When you have a team like a Cleveland, who, they may have a little bit of success, but because it gets so caught up on that slither business of success, that means that they are the creme de la creme, and that is not the case.
Speaker 2:But again, these are what happens when you have poverty franchises that don't know what it's like to win recently or at all Right. So it sucks that they have to be the butt of these jokes, but they deserve it honestly. They deserve it because, until you get it right in these certain phases that I just brought up. You will always be the butt of the joke. You will always be the butt of the joke and no one's gonna apologize for it. It's just gonna be. Hey look, man, it's not my fault that you sorry, it's not my fault that you don't know how to. Hey look, man, don't shoot a messenger. I'm just delivering the message Right?
Speaker 1:absolutely, I think I need to get them ready. I need to get them ready. I need to get them ready. I gotta get them ready, I gotta get them ready. Kelsey's actually on Instagram watching us today.
Speaker 2:All right, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:But I'm gonna get them ready. She might switch over when I start saying this Buffalo, get ready, cause Taylor Swift is coming. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Buffalo, get ready, cause Taylor Swift is coming. Taylor Swift is coming, buffalo. I saw that sign up there and said, yeah, we ready for Taylor. Hey, I'm just letting you know Taylor Swift, buffalo. Taylor Swift is coming. I don't think that's good news for y'all up there. Yeah, can't? You see? Don't tend to lose when she's in the building, unless you have bug fingers, make bobs trying to catch the ball or something like that.
Speaker 2:Right right.
Speaker 1:Great, but Kelsey's saying on Instagram they can have her.
Speaker 2:What? Let me say this Buffalo fans, let me break this story down for you. Let me break this story down for you. Do you know how heartbreaking it would be to get all the way to second overall seed in the AFC, win a playoff game, host a divisional round game against the Kansas City Chiefs the Chiefs, that's been authority y'all side for years, for years. Yes, you finally get an opportunity on your home turf and y'all still lose.
Speaker 1:You're right.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. You're right, we got a problem in Buffalo if that transpires, so just wanna keep that in mind because that is a reality. We said on the show what we think is gonna end up being the result when it's all said and done, but that's what the narrative is gonna be If Buffalo just can't beat those.
Speaker 1:Chiefs again, nope, again, again, and this time they came to your house. They came to your house and they come into your house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they came to your house. I get it. I get it. Buffalo's, you know they're beating down a little bit. They have some entries in the linebacking court. I get all that the defense has been.
Speaker 1:I told you she was gonna come over here. Look, I told you.
Speaker 2:The defense has been hurt. Okay, I get all that I do, but at the same time it's at your house, cause that was the one thing Buffalo fans will tell you. Man, if this was at Buffalo Stadium, this would be a totally different outcome.
Speaker 1:They ain't be like, they ain't be like you got your chance, because this matchup between these two, this is a rivalry and they're not even the same division. No, but this is the rivalry between Buffalo and Kansas City. They just seem to find some way to bunheads. All the time. It's Buffalo and Kansas City, buffalo, kansas City, and until Buffalo finds the remedy to get over Kansas City, right now they just can't, they just can't. Wow, but it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1:I honestly think the Chiefs are gonna edge them on it. I really do, me too. I really think the Chiefs are gonna beat them, me too and Bill's mafia. You may be upset, but if y'all start throwing snowballs on the field again, we're gonna have a problem. We're gonna have a problem. Hopefully doesn't snow up there before that game, right, and the game doesn't get delayed because of the weather. But yeah, I just think the Chiefs, you can't count them out. You can't count Kansas City out and all that stuff we did early in the season trying to get them, trying to get them pressed. We tried, y'all.
Speaker 2:We tried.
Speaker 1:We tried. We tried to get Kansas City out of here. I swear, we tried. I swear, we tried.
Speaker 2:We tried everything. We tried to press. We tried. We tried the attention. We tried the commercials. We tried. We tried picking against them. We tried talking about how bad they were, because they were honestly bad in certain parts of this year. We tried. So we put our best effort to make sure that they don't get into the AMC Championship game. But if they do, just know we tried, man.
Speaker 1:We tried, we tried, we tried, we tried, we tried. You can't count. You just cannot count them out.
Speaker 1:Ah, Ah oh, hey, hey, Kelsey yelling at us. She said the last time I counted them out, not only did they win the Super Bowl, they won Ah. No one's denying that, kelsey. No one's denying that at all. They are the Super Bowl champs and they're defending their title. They're fighting to the end. I honestly believe they're going to make it to the AMC Championship game. I really do. I really do. But it just what happens up in Buffalo. Like I said, buffalo, taylor's coming. Y'all asked for it because the sign was in there. That sign went by wrong. Y'all asked for Taylor. She's coming. That's the good luck y'all. Yeah, y'all better make sure her playing get delayed or something.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying have you started saying never get, ever, ever, ever getting back?
Speaker 1:together yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Got a whole delay going on with her. We're playing some ways from now. It just so happens to coincide with the game on Sunday. Come on, come on. You know it's coming. You know it is.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's coming. It's coming, but hey, like I said, that's going to be a good game and I got the cheese beating them. I got the cheese winning that one.
Speaker 2:I got the cheese winning that one.
Speaker 1:So it's all good. It's all good. Where we at, where we at. Oh, is it going the 49ers? Better not sleep on the Packers, nope.
Speaker 1:They better not sleep on the Packers, because I know if the Packers win that toss, they're going to ask for the ball first. Yes, if no one's not seeing a trend with this, because this is what they've been doing, oh, we win the talk, we'll take the ball. We'll take the ball because they want to set the momentum. We want to put you right behind. If they march down the field on the 49ers to score in their first drive, that's going to be a game.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah that's.
Speaker 1:That's gonna be a game because, again, shanahan just don't like blizzard, for whatever reason they know, I front-fork into it and we'll drop it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing with Green Bay man and I said this yesterday and I said it on on, I said it Throughout the year man, there's not one singular guy that you can take away from the offense and be like you know a they're depleted. No, it's literally. You have, and this is just a wide receiver. I'm not even getting into the running bags Christian Watson, jaden Reed, romeo Dobbs, that's three.
Speaker 2:They have your tight end with must rave, who's been a stud, but no one talks about him. Nope. You have Tucker Kraft, who is being dicey himself. He's doing his Isaiah likely impersonation. Then, in the running backs, you have Aaron Jones, who is still that guy. He's hurt and I've been hurt, but when he's healthy he is still a top-ten running back.
Speaker 2:Yes, beasting out and oh, by the way, in case you thought that that was it, they might mess around and get AJ Dylan back. So you have not one, not two, not three, not four. I feel like I saw it, lebron, in Miami right now. Not five, not six, not seven, but eight different weapons that could tear this game apart. If Jordan love feels like it, it might look, for it feels like it. That's how lethal this offense has become. And oh, by the way, yes, these are a bunch of kids, these are a bunch of Players that have no idea what's going on. They had no idea what was going on when they played Dallas and messed around and have and Forget what the break top of them.
Speaker 2:They have 50, they have 50. Okay, that's how. That's how, oh dynamic this offense is. So, 49ers, look, I get it better. Team Christian McCaffrey, debo Williams, brandy I you, george Kettle, bolsa, young Fred Warner, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, shanahan, I get it. But if Green Bay Messes around and starts getting hot, you best believe, not only will it be a game. Y'all may mess around and lose they don't let Green Bay get hot.
Speaker 2:That is it. That is it because if they do, you're not stopping them. You're not stopping them. I Mean, it's not even. It's not even. Oh, maybe we need this to go their way, or no? Green Bay is so lethal right now that I don't one of those names that I just mentioned can go off. Yep, and if you let me fire. You're not beating this team, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:No you're not, you're not. So, no, I know what, I know what San Francisco is capable of. They showed it all year, all year long. But, like you said, do not sleep Do not sleep on the Green Bay offense, because they can put some points on this board and if they get hot best believe, best believe. You're not getting them, you're not.
Speaker 1:Nope. So then they're gonna go and be in the NFC champion game and God knows who's gonna play him the tree, or Don't they have a bay? But I don't see Tampa Bay beating Detroit. No, I don't see that at all.
Speaker 2:I think Detroit walks into the NFC championship game. I don't even think that these you, but you know what you know is weird, man. I Know we had the hoopla with Detroit and, granted, that was an emotional win on Sunday night, but they won by one point against those LA Rams and they had some calls to go their way. Yeah, and Tampa Against. Oh, I think I could take this off now. They don't deserve it. They don't deserve it. Y'all can't see this. Y'all don't know what this is. See, it wants to stand tall. It's fine. Whatever that against, against this Run of the run of the mill franchise. They found a way to put up 32 points and if they had just catch the football, it would have been 50. So just like the Tampa Bay did to us, the toy is gonna Do that to those same buccaneers. Okay, so I mean I, you never know. Obviously, we saw green Bay getting upset. We saw Tampa do what they did.
Speaker 1:Okay yep, absolutely.
Speaker 2:It really is one of those scenarios where you got to ask like what is seriously going on here? What is going on here? Oh, I mean, dallas is not in. It still feel you got, it is still.
Speaker 1:Oh, all your powerhouse teams are really gone, except Detroit, yep, 49ers, yeah, baltimore, baltimore and the chiefs in the bills, that's it. Yeah, three in each, yeah, yeah the local JV could have done with Tampa Day last night. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2:Yep, and you know what man? I've been wearing these glasses throughout the show because I Am. I am grieving From the Philadelphia Eagles, I am blessed, I am lesson lesson. It's not been easy Eight hours for me. So far it hasn't, sorry, hasn't.
Speaker 1:Well, marvin had one of the best pictures of all on his social media because he had to steal his fans and they were upset. He was taking pictures.
Speaker 2:Couldn't get the job done, man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I was just like oh my goodness. Well, hey, listen, we down. But hey, saturday and Sunday we gonna be down the four. We gonna be down the four and we gonna find out who's going to Vegas. Because I'm telling you right now, if we go in the Vegas, I'm going to Vegas too. Oh, wait a minute. There was a comment on Instagram and say at least Taylor Swift's not doing a halftime show.
Speaker 2:Let's hope she not doing a halftime show anytime soon because if she do, y'all gonna be going to a frenzy. Y'all ain't gonna like it.
Speaker 1:Some officer. He like buffalo in that match. I just got a feeling Kansas City is gonna beat him. I do. I Got a feeling Kansas City is gonna beat him.
Speaker 2:I'm telling y'all we tried, we try so hard.
Speaker 1:Because I rice really stepped up in that game when they play Miami, right stepped up. He was catching that ball. He was like, he was like my homes. I got you, I got you, I got you. Just thought to me man Kelsey was getting open. Yeah, so you can't, you can't count them out. I, you can't have a reception 104 yards.
Speaker 2:A touchdown like repeat rice. You know he was always under the radar type of receiver as the year progressed, with everybody talking about the drops, but he's starting to be a thing. He he may actually be that favorite target for my homes.
Speaker 1:Hey, but wait what we say? Getting hot at the right time. Getting hot at the right time. That was the right time for them to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're doing it now. Who's getting hot at the right time and and that's the scary part about this whole thing leading to February, but yeah, hey, listen, eight, we're gonna be down to four by the end of the weekend, right, and we don't, we gonna find out who's playing for the Super Bowl. So let's go Ravens, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Stand up.
Speaker 1:We gonna be in the bank on. Uh sir, I'm not gonna be down there, I'll be cool. I won't be down there. I Body can't take that kind of weather right now. I'm good. No, I am good. But, like I said, I think it's gonna be Baltimore and Kansas City and a FC championship game. I just think that's what's gonna be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if it is again, we try, we try, we try, we try everything, everything. They made a losing streak, it didn't matter.
Speaker 1:Wait, they even lost the Denver and it still didn't matter it just didn't matter, man, it didn't matter, it didn't matter, it didn't matter, it didn't matter and I know we gonna show y'all that we still Super Bowl champ. We tell. We try hey, but at least it's not an arrowhead. Yeah, that's an advantage, it was just not narrowhead. That's true, oh, that's true. My home is on the road for the first time. Let's see how you deal with that pressure Mm-hmm which I think you'll be fine I like.
Speaker 2:That's the. That's the thing about my home's man. He's starting to get into that. Peyton Manning Well, okay, I can't associate Peyton Manning with playoff success. But, um, tom Brady, thank you, tom Brady.
Speaker 2:Drew Brees, he's in that category. To where at this stage in his career, look man, I Can really wake up and throw a hundred, three hundred yards. I can. I can wake up and have three touchdowns. It. How do you want this?
Speaker 2:Like that's, that's how, that's, that's how far my home's has gotten in his career so far in regards to the playoffs, to where, like, either way, I'm gonna find a way to win. You just let me know how it's done. Do I throw for 300 yards? Do I? Do I let the running game do all the talking and they get a hundred yards and they get two touchdowns? Does the defense get, you know, a pick six or something like that, and then I just throw a touchdown? That's all that's needed. Like that's the stage that my home's in right now, to where it literally doesn't matter how it's done. Just as long as he doesn't Completely wet the bed, it's almost a guaranteed win. That is, that is where he's at right now, and that's what's so Aggravating about the chiefs, because, literally, they've been struggling the same way this So-called team has been all year. All year, this so-called team has has been struggling just as much as the chiefs have been, and they still may mess around and get to the championship game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. But this, let me tell you what this reminds me of. Remember New England will always get into the playoffs. New England always get into the playoffs. New England always get into the playoffs. Who was always a thorn in their side? The Raven Ravens was always a thorn in their side. We may have not always beat them, but we was always a thorn in their side. Yeah, and it was one of those playoff games. We went up there and went up 21-nothing on them and we went to New England and we've always been a thorn in their side.
Speaker 1:And this is how I equate Buffalo and the chiefs they're thorn in each other side, but the sleeper is the Ravens. It's like, okay, we're gonna be that thorn too, and somebody side. So, yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's why I equate that too, because New England you knew New England will always be there. We're pretty always, always, technically, the man should have 10 rings. I, if he won those Super Bowl 10 rings unbelievable, yeah, unbelievable. They've been to the Super Bowl that many times. But it should it that dynasty. But we were always a thorn in their side. So whenever New England would lose, we'd be cheering in Baltimore.
Speaker 2:I'm doing it right, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But the one thing and I would say this again Tom Brady left in retirement. It was one thing he didn't do beat Lamar Jackson. Each one of their meetings Lamar has won. That's the only thing he didn't do beat Lamar Jackson. So, but, like I said, that's gonna be a clash. We think the lines is probably just gonna tear the fur off the bucks. But hey, I give. But Detroit, you know something if they go to NFC championship game, they gonna ride up there in Detroit riot. They gonna be flipping over cars up there cuz they so happy. Yeah, if they go to the NFC championship game and win it and go to the Super Bowl, and, and I see to, it's gonna be Eagles 2.0 back in 2017, all over again.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you.
Speaker 1:It's. It's gonna be crazy because remember that franchise never won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Nope.
Speaker 1:Never won a Super Bowl, so it would definitely be interesting to see. But uh, man, I can't wait. I can't wait for the weekend. I Can't wait. I can't wait for the weekend, because it's gonna be interesting. We gonna be down.
Speaker 2:We gonna be down After the weekend are we down to our favorite segment of the show?
Speaker 1:the brown bags. Yes, we're down to the brown bags. Go for it.
Speaker 2:I honestly don't know which one to pick. I Don't know which one I want to pick first, but I know I got three, so I'm gonna make sure I get these three right. My first brown bag, you know, I'm a, I'm a big, I'm a big accountability guy. Okay, this, this See, they actually thought I wasn't gonna pull it down. Huh, see, look, let me tell you something. This right here, this, this team right here, gets up brown bag of the century.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad that it was on display for the whole world to see. I'm so glad that Tampa Bay you know, actually I don't even want this on me, my god, um, I mean over over nine on third down, 42 resting yards like we couldn't tackle. I mean, the play calling was the same. Three plays has been the case all year long quarterback draw, read option and, and we're gonna do a Verticals route that has given her soda ball to practically sideline every time it look y'all completely no-show. Y'all were god-awful.
Speaker 2:It was tremendously terrible what I saw last night and it's so terrible because I Like my banner. I do, I do, but it's now because of y'all. Y'all have to be on the scum of the earth Having to have all the talk heads, talk about how bad we are, because I decided to put that on display for the whole world to see. Thank you, tampa. But for Philly, only have one word for you until we get to next season, because there's only one word to describe what this season has been as a whole for you guys, and that is your. Philadelphia. Eagles are big game. My screen, get out of here, man. That's probably the most emotional brown bag I've ever given out.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm gonna start off and I'm gonna go north with this one. I'm coming north. I'm coming because I just didn't forget about that buffalo Buffalo builds mafia, throwing snowballs on the field and players. Yeah, I'm coming up there to give y'all some brown bags for that one. Yeah, I'm professional. These guys are playing for their life out there and you decide y'all want to throw some snowballs at them. That was just not cool. So you know the buffalo mafia fans that threw those Snowballs at those players throughout the game. You all get browns bag. I'm not going penalize the entire mafia for it, but the ones that did it. Oh, you definitely get some brown bags for that Mm-hmm together, because that happens again when Kansas City comes up there. It might be a wrong. Our test moment.
Speaker 2:Okay, my second brown bag. I'm staying in division. I can't. I, you know, it's something about the nsc east this weekend that just shows that they are under well, under pressure, um, but I don't feel like saying their name doesn't do it justice, so I have to do it the way that I started the show Just two days ago. My second brown bag goes to how about them? Did you want to show up? Did you want to be there? Did you? Did you feel like it was worth being at AT&T stadium? Did you feel like you? You, you earned the right to be an nsc east champion? Did you really feel all those things? Because that was the conversations that I was getting from Cowboys fans all over the place all year long oh we're, we're, this is our year. This again, again. Oh, this is our year, this is our year. We're man, we the curse is lifted, we, we wanted the vision again. This is our year, it's our time. I mean baby packer show about it 48.
Speaker 2:Forget the final score 4832. It honestly is 4816. Okay, the beat down, the shocker of all the playoffs, and it's not even close To lose. In the manager I did it was one thing. Lose because they David Jones over here Said that there was there was an upset coming in Dallas. We okay, it's fun, it's called it lose, it's final news to get beat down like they done, took something like you done, put something from them. That right there, boy, that is brown bag worthy in all.
Speaker 1:Like I say, Since we're staying in divisions here.
Speaker 2:I got one, I got one, I got one, I got one.
Speaker 1:I got one. Hey, cleveland, where you at any Cleveland fans?
Speaker 2:any Cleveland fans.
Speaker 1:Anybody thought flaco was gonna take you to the promised land. Flaco did what flaco does. Okay, let you down, flaco, it's just like he. I'm gonna equate this to this, and you know Any truckers out here they are understanding this a lot, liz, it a lot lives will always get you up and then let you down. I Believe it. I mean, you know I saw some brown bags over the Philadelphia Eagles fans, but I'm gonna have to transfer those bags from the Eagles fans all up there to you, because if you actually thought the job was gonna go out there and just beat the bricks off the Texans and the Texans returned the favor, I said when y'all played the last time, cj Stroud was not playing the game and I said it's gonna be a different outcome. And boy was it ever.
Speaker 1:On the so-called number one defense, number one defense, the any of y'all decided to show up. Wait a minute. Did y'all leave the hotel? Wait, wait, wait, I got one. Even better, did y'all even leave your house, cuz no one seemed to one showed up for game? Because, oh yeah, the office, if you blink. Black hole, do a pick six. Black hole, do a pick six, not once, but twice. Black hole, do another pick six. And did you see that deer in the headlights? Look, he had. He just couldn't recover from that. So Cleveland, so Cleveland, so guess what? You get that brown bag. Wait, this is, this is what the Texans said to you. I'm the Texas, alright, I'm done. I'm done, oh.
Speaker 2:Boy, my last brown bag. This is a very this is a very necessary brown bag. I think this is the most necessary brown bag I've given out since the start of of 2024. I granted, granted, we're still in January, but we don't talk about that, it's cool. My last brown bag goes to the head coach who should no longer be the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Nick Siriani.
Speaker 2:I saw a quote from last night's game when this man had the nerve to say that he's not worried about his job. Oh really, let me tell you something. Tell you something, mr Mr Siriani. Let me tell you something, sir. Okay, you suck, alright. What is one thing that you do well? Can you tell me that please? Yeah, I mean anything offense, defense, motivate the encouraged Participating team meetings. Are you a part of any of that? I mean, seriously, what do you do? Well, you're god-awful. You picked the wrong offensive and defensive coordinators for all year. It was the same three offensive play calls. All year long, it was the same non-packling, non covering, non-stopping defense. All year long, and it was the same. Oh Well, we just need to fix these couple things and and and we'll be fine, we'll be right back, we'll be right. Well, now we don't get to fix those things because I know.
Speaker 2:Because of you and you feel the need to have the mitigated goal to say that you Are not thinking about your job. You know what you write, you know what you write, you know what you write. You shouldn't think about your job because you're not gonna have it no more. You're not gonna have it no more and you gonna be out of there. And when you do, take the rest of that coaching staff with you, keep, keep, keep, keep, keep, stoutlin, keep, stoutlin. That's that's my point. That's my point now. That's my point. But everybody else get out, get out, and you too, get out. Y'all deserve to be there. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm tired, I'm tired of the.
Speaker 2:Oh, nick Sirianni, he was just in the school last year. No, he barely got in. And he got in because Shane Spanken started calling the place back in week six the last year and took the offense over, and then you had the defense. I was doing this thing with 70 sacks and creating turnovers all over the place last year. We can't do either one. And because of you, nick, because of you, jason Kelsey's not retired. Brandon Graham's probably gonna retire soon, thank God, is gonna retire soon. Fletcher Cox may be on his way out the door to. We're gonna have a whole new regime because of you.
Speaker 2:And so you, sir, nick Sirianni, you not worried about your job? You, sir, get the biggest brown bag of all time for me, because you don't ruin this season all by yourself. Talking all this tries to different fan bases like Kansas City, telling them to shut up, and that's not the words that he used. All these different things he was doing being such a juvenile head coach, and you ruined it for all of us. You ruined it. So you, sir, get the biggest brown bag I have ever seen, I've ever witnessed, and you heard it from here first. You should be exiled along with the rest of the coaching staff, aside from Jeff Soutland, and you, sir, are the biggest brown bag in all of Philadelphia. It's not even close. Get out of here.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute, that sound like you, sound like the matrix exiled.
Speaker 2:Yeah, get out Exiled him. Get out, Fire him up. Oh, I'm not worried about my job. Man lost my mind.
Speaker 1:Huh, okay, I got you. I got you. I'm standing in my division. I'm standing in my division. Don't think I ain't coming.
Speaker 1:Pittsburgh fans. I ain't even talking about the Steelers. I'm talking about the fans now, the ones that said y'all all wanted Mike Tomlin fire. Mike Tomlin should be. Oh well, I guess he just crushed your dreams today because he announced that he's coming back for another season. Oh, how do you feel now that you want Tomlin gone from Pittsburgh? Well, he's coming back now.
Speaker 1:Hey, I would have walked off that podium last night to ask about my field. Hey, look, that's not why we're here. Okay, my guys just lost. We talking about the game. Don't ask me about me. I would have left. Also, that was the most gangsta thing I saw him do and I'm proud of Mike Tomlin for that. Before all you fans that wanted him fired, y'all get the biggest brown bags for me also. This ain't even about the Steelers. This is about y'all fair weather fans that don't think y'all really know about anything. Oh, we need them fired. Oh, we need them niz. Oh, we need them that. No, y'all just a couple pieces away of being dominant. That's it. But hey, y'all get that brown bag from me.
Speaker 2:Y'all get the brown bag. And for me, for me, just to add on salt to injury you Steelers fans that believe that, that, that that fallacy, that, that, that false truth, you, you have just made the list.
Speaker 1:They made the list.
Speaker 2:You just made the list. This list is increasing.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, it's increasing. It's going to increase next week too. It's going to increase, yeah, because we're going to be down to four. We're going to be down to four next week, down to four, march to Saturday and Sunday. We appreciate you coming on and joining all our shenanigans on here because, yeah, we like to talk shenanigans, we like to talk trash, we like to have fun and we love to hear from you because that's the best part of our day here from you all.
Speaker 1:And guess what? We're going to see who's going to make the list and we're going to see who gets another brown bag and we're going to see who's we marching towards the Super Bowl Go Ravens. So that's my team. I'm a rep. We still got a hand in the fight right now and until Saturday, once the dust all settles, hopefully we still have a hand in the fight. But hey, we will see what happens. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh I got to put this comment up Go cheese. Ha ha ha, listen, hey, listen, tell us, tell us, tell us on our way to Buffalo. So we'll see what happens, but again, thank you all for tuning in.
Speaker 1:We love you all. We'll be back here. Um, I think I'll wait to Tuesday this time. Ok, we'll do it. We'll wait to Tuesday this time and then we'll be back here next Tuesday and we'll talk about what these championship games going to look like, who's going to who, but yeah. But you know, I'm going to be in these chat rooms, like I always am in all the trolling and listening and screenshot in your comments because I keep receipts. I keep receipts because, trust me, since we getting down to the stretch, trust me, I'm keeping receipts because I'm be, I'm be using them against you. I'm using against you Move, oh gee, hey, you're 49ers. I see they coming up, so wait a minute.
Speaker 1:Taylor Swift with the stylish 87 Chiefs Go. And a lady here from Merlin and Towson. Merlin made that coat for her. A lady in Towson. Merlin made that coat for her and she designed it. I'm going to see if I can find it. I'll see if I can send it to you. But, yes, some lady in Towson made that coat. So shout out to her for making that coat for the old Taylor Swift. But, hey, we're signing out. We see you next Tuesday. But guess what? Hey, the trash talk is just beginning because you know, as we go to, the trash talking is on, it is on and popping, popping for the trash talking, I'm all for it. Any Houston fan I'm saying this again any Houston fan that hears my voice, if you want to take a bet, I'm all for a bet, bring it on. Y'all seem to like our cramp kicks here anyway, so we can bet some food. We see y'all later. Oh my.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, Hilarious, hilarious. Oh my man. He said he's scared of the Packers. He's a 49ers fan. He's a 49ers fan. You should be. Yeah, yeah, you should be.