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I have a ton of energy this morning recording this.
Of course, you guys know it's an instant release show.
I am absolutely excited to be here.
I'm excited to be with you guys this morning.
I cannot overestimate that.
How happy I am if there any exciting division around that we kind of deserve
this football fans like a lot of you.
Cuz we had a blowout field wild card around,
saying it's a couple of moments obviously Jayden Daniels what he did in Tampa.
We had a couple of moments there in the wild card around that was exciting,
but for the most part the games were cakewalks.
However, the division around delivered four bangers,
even though the biggest margin of victory was 14, which is commanders and lines.
And we'll touch on them of course.
None of these games fell out of reach until the last,
even the commanders and lines with like three minutes left.
People were like, if this happens and that happens, this line's offense.
So banger out the banger of a game.
We're gonna start off with Texans at Chiefs.
So this is how we're gonna do this.
There's only four games.
We're gonna rip off a lot of numbers at first.
And then we're going to get into some analysis of course.
So Texans at Chiefs in the division around, open up the division around card weekend.
We're gonna get into numbers first, we'll get into what happened.
So CJ Stroud, 19 of 28, 245, no touchdowns, no picks.
Patrick Mahomes, 16 of 25, 177, one touchdown.
No picks, Joe Mixon, 88 yards on 18 carries and a touchdown.
Kareem Hunt led the Chiefs 44 yards on 8 carries and a touchdown.
The Chiefs only ran for, okay, the official stat is 50.
But that because of Matt Ariza's purposeful safety.
So really the official stat is 68.
However, the Texans ran for a buck 49.
KC's main receiver, of course, playoff time, Travis Kelsey.
Seven for a buck 17 and touchdown.
Houston's main receiver was Nikko Collins, 5 for 81.
That's pretty much all the individual stats that anyone cares about.
And then looking at the team stats, first downs 18 to 14 Texans.
The Texans confided more third downs.
Texans ran more plays.
The Texans had 124 more yards.
They had one more yard per play.
They had 25 more yards passing.
They had officially 100 more rushing yards.
However, the big number, two big numbers that jump out when you go into the box score.
They even had the ball for more time, seven more minutes.
The big number that jump out in the box score is penalties.
The Texans had eight penalties for 82 yards.
The Chiefs had four penalties, 29 yards.
Neither team turned the ball over.
And in the red zone, the Texans were one for three.
The Chiefs two for five.
All right, so now that the numbers are out of the way, let's get into the analysis itself.
This game, and I want to take nothing away from the Chiefs.
Okay, I want to first, I want to give, I want to go through all the,
what I feel obligatory, obligatory moments.
Congratulations on the Chiefs for your seventh straight conference championship game.
Patrick Mahomes ridiculously has never played, has never started a season and
not finished it at least in the conference championship game.
He doesn't know what it's like to lose before this.
He's never felt that emotion in his life.
Congratulations to the, to Andy Reed.
He continues to march.
He becomes the third coach ever to win 300 total games between regular season and playoffs.
And he's within shouting distance of both Shula and Belichick.
I want to give credit to the Chiefs organization.
They continue to find studs, like I said.
The main, the main problem in continuing a dynasty and
a diagnostic run is retooling every year.
The first thing you gotta have is your quarterback and
gotta have a stable head coach.
It's retooling coordinators.
It's retooling personnel because when those guys are good on your team,
people are going to pay them to come off of your team.
And especially these days with how much quarterbacks taking up a percentage of
the salary cap, it's really hard to keep retooling,
especially if you're always picking 27th and below.
You don't get those superstars quote unquote every year.
I know the NFL has so much talent, half the league's undrafted.
If you have a good GM like a Brett Beach, you can continue to retool and
that's what they've done.
And then every time they had to make a play, they've made it.
I mean, it's just they've blocked field goals, they've gotten scrambles,
they've come up with fumbles.
They've had, I said it'd be that drive because it's like they played the first
time Houston has, within one in case he puts together that long drawn out drive
almost to the T of what you want perfection wise and
they go by eight and they win the game.
I mean, they are just great situationally.
It's just every single time you need them to be off, they're not off, right?
And it's just, it's insane how they get it right every single time or
I feel like they get it right every single time.
And on Houston side, this was a year that you battled through a CJ Stroud,
sophomore slump of a season, he was not nearly as good last year as he was this
year or he was not nearly as good this year as he was last year.
Cuz last year he went for 4,000 yards, 23 touchdowns,
five picks with 100 rating in a QBR, 100 perhaps rating in QBR 58.
This year he only played 15 games in his rookie year.
This year in 17 games, 3,700 yards,
20 touchdowns, 12 picks, passer rating of 87 and a QBR 49.9.
Basically at ultimately average cuz perfectly average is 50.
So he did not have nearly the year, he even had three rushing touchdowns as a rookie.
He had none this year.
So he didn't have nearly the season.
He had a bit of a sophomore slump and they overcame that.
And I think Demeika Ryan's year two, your process,
people start understanding your process,
understanding your thought process, playing for you differently in situations.
And so you go through all of that, you hit all that.
And so credit leads to the Texans, you still find a way to win your division.
You still find a way to be in the fourth seed.
You won the first round of playoffs, right?
So good year in Houston, especially cuz you overcame Stefan Diggs blowing his ACL.
You overcame the devastating injury to the other wide receiver whose name
escapes me and I can't think of his name right now.
But you overcome the injury to him.
That happened in the Chiefs game, ironically, you overcome his injury.
So you lose two of your three best receivers later in the season.
Nico Collins was in and out of the lineup all year.
So congratulations to the Texans, right?
You have a lot to build on.
You own your draft now cuz you had to give up your freshman pick last year cuz of
the Will Anderson trade, which, hey, worth it.
And so now you get your draft pick back, you got a good GM.
You have your coach, you have your quarterback.
You probably have your coordinator another year cuz I don't see,
I think Slovik is the OC in Houston.
I don't see Slovik getting a job this cycle.
I don't see either coordinator, any of your coordinators getting a job this cycle.
So you're gonna bring your whole staff back and you get CJ's trial in year three.
And now again, Houston has to be a free agent destination.
I have a quarterback, I have the coach, they're always in their division.
They're gonna have cap space.
If I'm a free agent, Houston might be a free agent.
If I'm a T Higgins and it's Cincinnati can't come up with my money,
Houston could be a spot.
I get a good quarterback, I got a good head coach, I'm gonna be the number one
receiver, but I have a dog next to me, Nico Collins.
I have Dolan Schultz, we can run the ball.
If I'm a receiver, I said this last year about being a running back.
I was like, if I was a running back, I would have looked at Houston.
As just like, I'm the missing piece.
If I'm a receiver, I'm looking at Houston.
Because I get my money, have a good quarterback, I'm not gonna be,
I may get the number one corner, but I won't get the covered role to me,
cuz Nico Collins is on the other side.
Like I still have Dolan Schultz in the middle of the field, and
Jinjo Mixon's that running back.
So you can't really load up on me because so many other pieces exist.
So if I'm a receiver, Houston can be my spot.
Okay, got it all out of the way.
At a certain point, I'm sick of having the conversation.
At a certain point, I'm tired of hearing about it in the national media.
And what's worse is, I'm tired of it being accurate.
The Kansas City Chiefs have the most favorable whistle I've ever seen in the NFL.
Now, I'm not 60, I'm not 70.
I don't remember what happened with the steel curtain.
But no one talked about the officials back then, right?
I don't remember what happened with, my God, the 90s bills and
if they had kept getting a job call on the Super Bowl.
I don't remember that, right?
I wasn't there.
I'm 27, I have a Rolodex of fine football, about 20 years.
I remember moments briefly before that, or I've seen them enough where they feel
like I remember them.
But regardless, I have a football Rolodex of about 20 years.
NFL officiating discord, the NBA has always been a thing cuz officials matter so
much with files and stuff like that.
But NFL official discord and talking,
stuff in the media really only popped off about 10-ish, 12-ish years ago.
Well, no, the tuck rule.
The tuck rule was the first one, but then after that,
you don't really remember much of it up until about ten years ago.
The Kansas City Chiefs have the most favorable whistle ever seen.
And it's always at the worst moments.
It's always at the moment where they're like, their drive's gonna die, flag.
What?
And the two players everyone's talking about is the roughing the passer penalty.
That it was third and 14, home throws an errant pass to Kelsey.
The crazy part is Kelsey is about three yards from it, it was a bad throw.
Texans gonna get the ball, they are managing the game pretty well.
And then a flag is on the ground.
For what?
Because top of Will Anderson's head touched the face mask of Patrick Mahomes.
They threw a roughing the passer call.
It wasn't more than two steps.
Will Anderson had to one step.
He swiped down, all the forcible contact is in Patrick Mahomes' chest.
He didn't fall on him or anything, roughing the passer.
Are you freaking kidding me?
And of course, the Chiefs go down and get points.
Then later in the game, Mahomes is sliding, the two Texans hit each other.
And they call a penalty on them hitting each other.
He didn't even hit him.
If he was, it was incredibly minimal.
And the flag's out.
And of course, the Chiefs go down and get a touchdown.
And it's just like, and just those two players,
they went looking and goes, it happens every single time with that team.
Every single time with that team and those spots, they get that flag every time.
And at a certain point, I remember the Patriots weren't light.
I'm Patriots fans.
I remember we were hated.
We were hated because we beat you.
Not because we, to me, that was the flake gate, but that was a 45 to 7 game.
And the Indianapolis Colts had to play the footballs too.
Spy gate, okay, right, like whatever.
And then the tuck rule, cool.
But for the most part, we just beat you.
People got tired of us beating them.
Like we walked down, it was Patriots down four, two and a half.
The Patriots down four, minute 45 left, one time out.
And we marched down the field and scored a touchdown with 20 seconds left on you
repeatedly.
Like that's why people hated us, cuz we were better than you, a lot.
The Chiefs feel like y'all get hated because, god damn,
like every time they need that flag, they get it, every single time.
And so it's a situation where people are screaming, rigged.
Like there is no way that you get that flag every single time.
And so, and that's the beef with a lot of the Chiefs stuff is that they seem to get
that flag, like I said, every single time.
A little bit of breaking news into the show.
The Chiefs in Texans, the game we were just talking about actually,
was the most watched NFL game ever, a playoff or
a regular season game dated back to 1987.
And then Divisional Saturday was the best viewership in ten years.
So hey, people are still tuning in to football.
That's always gonna be a thing, NFL's king, right?
All right, moving on.
Coming out of the AFC, jumping to the NFC with the Washington Commanders with their
upset of the one seed Detroit Lions.
Absolutely spectacular game, a game again that was very, very high scoring.
I mean, Washington score was 28 points in the second quarter.
It was a game that was incredibly high scoring.
Start to finish all the way through and like I said,
even though this was the biggest margin of victory, it was 14.
Up until about three minutes left, you didn't really relax if you're Washington.
Again, let's run through the numbers.
Jaden Daniels, 22 of 31, 299, two touchdowns.
He was never sacked.
Jared Goff, 23 of 40, 313, one touchdown, three picks.
And also I will be remiss if I didn't mention David Montgomery's one for
one for 20 yards.
Teddy Bridgewater is one for one with three yards.
He was in for Jared Goff, was momentarily getting evaluated for a concussion.
And Jamison Williams, 0 for 1 with the interception.
Again, got a little too cute there from Ben Johnson.
Running the ball, Bryan Robinson led the commanders who ran for 182.
Bryan Robinson led the commanders with 77 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns.
Jaden Daniels, person of the 51 on the ground on 16 carries.
Eckler had 47 yards on six carries.
And then for the Lions, Sonic, aka Jameer Gibbs,
goes for 105 yards with two touchdowns on 14 carries.
Jamison Williams on a beautiful end around, 61 yards on one carry for
a touchdown and then Knuckles, David Montgomery, 28 yards on seven carries.
And the Lions actually ran for 201 yards and three touchdowns on about half
the carries that the commanders ran for 182 on.
D'Ami Brown and Terry McLuhan led the commanders in receiving.
D'Ami Brown with 98 yards, Terry McLuhan with 87 yards on the touchdown.
Amon Raw led the Lions in receiving, a buck 37 on eight catches.
And then Sonic, again, Jameer Gibbs, 70 yards on six catches with La Porta,
another six catches and 51 yards.
Going to the team stats real quick.
The Lions had more first downs, 30 to 27.
The commanders ran more plays on them by five.
The Lions outgained them by 40, 521 to 481.
Lions had more yards to play by about a yard.
The big numbers, two big numbers, jumps out in this stat.
Red zone, just like I said last time,
the better red zone team won the Texans and Sheeves game.
The better red zone team won the commanders and Lions game.
The commanders were four for four in the red zone.
The Lions was three for six.
And in time of possession, the Lions had the ball about eight more minutes.
I mean, the commanders had the ball about eight more minutes than the Lions.
So, we spoke about this moment last week.
And I said, man, Jane Daniels arrived as a superstar.
I even tweeted out on Instagram and everything, I posted about it.
Jane Daniels arrived as a superstar.
There was this superstar moment against the Bucks.
Those who watched the commanders knew what Jane Daniels was doing.
If you're really into the rookie evaluations and stuff like that,
you knew what Jane Daniels was doing.
But for the most part, the national market,
no one cared in Detroit what Jane Daniels was doing.
He wasn't on the schedule, and he wasn't in the division, and
he couldn't get the one seed, he was irrelevant.
If you were in the bottom of the thing, you didn't care what Jane Daniels was doing.
I started giving you hope for your own rookie quarterback.
You didn't care what Jane Daniels was doing.
But national stage, the last Sunday night, I mean, not the last Sunday night,
but no, it was the last Monday night.
Prime time game, no it wasn't, Vikings was.
Prime time game, Sunday night football, NBC slash Peacock,
the whole world's watching, you're the underdog, and
you do that moment with that drive to win that game.
And it was like, okay, this is your superstar moment.
Couple days ago, Saturday night, was Jane Daniels top five moment.
That was his moment, and I'm relating this to the Heisen moment.
Again, for Daniels, it was the 86 yard run against Florida,
where he scampers through in Death Valley untouched.
Maybe he was in the swamp, might have been in the swamp, but
wherever he was, he goes through 86 yards untouched.
The superstar moment to me, and I say there's seven to eight in the league at any time.
Now, to me, he's top five, and his nickname is JD5, or
it's that kid, Jaden, you gotta start saying JD top five.
I mean, that kid is insane, he's the best quarterback in the NFC.
He is the fifth best quarterback in the league, my big fours all play in the AFC.
It's Mahomes, it's Allen, in no particular order,
it's Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, and Lamar, again, no order.
And I always say, man, the top five quarterbacks, I always say CJ Stroud.
The top five quarterbacks might play in the AFC.
No, the fifth best quarterback plays in Washington, he's in the NFC.
He's the best quarterback in the NFC, is Jaden Daniels.
Now, do I think he's absolutely being helped right now with Cliff Kingsbury?
Of course.
And remember, Washington fans have to be kinda getting deja vu a little bit,
because RG3, by the time that rookie year was over,
people were saying he was a top five quarterback in the league.
Which he was, and then injuries and fallout and so on and so forth occur.
And he was never the same after blowing out his knee.
Hello, not a blowing out his knee, but this has to be getting a little bit of
deja vu, and not in the sense of a bad thing, but in the sense of, man,
almost like we had to wait a decade plus to get our guy back.
Very similar situations, I mean, team a little bit underachieve in college for
what you end up winning, but you win the Heisman, you're a skinnier quarterback.
People talk about your legs probably with your best asset earlier,
you're great with the deep ball, like it's almost 2DT.
The same exact storyline, except Griffin didn't transfer,
Jaden had a transfer situation.
But other than that, they're about what and what, so the storyline.
Number two overall pick, behind a guy that was reportedly seen as generational,
Andrew Luck, which he was before the injuries, Caleb Williams for Jaden Daniels.
I mean, the history is almost copying itself for
Washington with Jaden Daniels, and to me, he's the fifth best quarterback in the league.
Now, do I have the raw numbers supported?
No, but I know my eyes are telling me.
My eyes are telling me four quarterbacks are left in the NFL, and
he's one of the four.
My eyes are telling me that the others are one of the top five Patrick Mahomes,
one of the top five in Josh Allen, and then Jalen Hurts,
who's hanging around at eight, nine-ish mark just outside of the Superstar Club.
Josh Allen beat one of the other top five in Lamar Jackson,
and Joe Burrow couldn't drag his disaster of a franchise into the playoffs.
Otherwise, who knows what he would have done as a seven seed.
But Jaden Daniels is a top five quarterback in the league.
He's so poised, man.
He is so poised, and it's like he makes the right decision every single time.
It's square for a vet to make the right decision every single time.
It's like it's always in that moment.
How to talk about the Chiefs, how that throw is always made,
how that call is always called, how that play is always happening.
If you're like Daniels, fourth and two always gets three.
Third and eight, deep over route, it's always right in the bucket.
He's gotta dance around this sack and get through the line on third and nine,
he gets 12.
And it's like it happens, it feels like it happens every single time.
Especially in these two playoff games, he put together two,
he put together the game winning job against Tampa and the put away job against Detroit.
And it was like every single play was the right decision every time.
And that is, it's insane, especially out of a rookie to get that from him.
But he gets it again every single time.
Moving on to Detroit, man, heartbreaker of a year and
Dan Campbell's raw emotions at the podium, I felt that.
I felt his raw emotions, I felt his compassion, I felt him in that moment.
And it's just like, man, you talk about the players work so hard and they did.
They battled and they played it almost perfectly throughout the season.
I mean, they were 15 and 2.
They get the 1C, they smashed Minnesota in week 18.
I mean, they get the bye week.
And I was saying it was gonna be a traditional bye week because they didn't
have, the Chiefs had the double bye with sitting week 18.
You don't get the wild card game, anything you play division around.
The Lions played week 18 and then had the traditional bye week and
then played again.
But the angels were just too much to overcome.
They had 16 players, I think, on injury reserve.
It was just too much.
You don't ever replace Aiden Hutchison, but you're filling his gap and
your linebacker core was smashed to bits.
Your corners were out.
I mean, it was too much at a certain point.
They were too injured.
And they couldn't overcome it against a really, really talented quarterback and
talented offense.
And it seemed like every weak spot they had, Cliff Kingsbury found it.
I mean, plain and simple.
It was like every singular weak spot they had,
Cliff Kingsbury got his hands on it and he found it.
And so that's hard to overcome.
But the Lions fought, man.
And now the big question in Detroit is, what's gonna happen now?
Both coordinators are expected to get head coaching jobs.
Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are expected to be gone.
So since Dan Campbell's got there, he's had ultimate stability.
He's had both his coordinators, he's had his quarterback.
He's had as much stability as you can have at the coaching at the NFL level,
as far as the upper echelon.
Same GM, same coordinators, same quarterback.
Mostly the same stars.
It's been just a stable operation.
So now he's looking at staring at possibly replacing his OC and his DC.
Knowing Dan Campbell, he'll promote from within and kind of just do a pull up.
Everybody gets pulled up and he ends up probably the assistant lineback coach,
may end up being the lineback coach.
The lineback coach becomes the DC.
They just pull everybody up.
And then the OC, the QB coach becomes the OC and
then the assistant QB coach becomes the QB coach.
And everybody just pulls up.
Knowing Dan Campbell, he's really big on keeping things internal and
keeping things in the family.
So that's what I expect in Detroit.
But then Jared Goff, Jared Goof, Goff's gaffes.
I mean, whatever you wanna say.
It reared its ugly head again.
And somewhere in some room, and maybe not today, but
somewhere in some room, Shawn McVay at some point is gonna go, that's why.
And Detroit fans, I'm sure, are going, that's why the LA traded for Matt Stafford.
Games like this, it always seems to happen to Jared Goff every single time.
Goff's gonna gaff, Goff's gonna be a goof.
It's gonna happen every time.
And it's just like, yeah, that's why McVay got rid of you.
But jumping into Sunday, jumping into Sunday,
the Rams versus the Philadelphia Sequans.
I mean, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Absolutely spectacular day for Sequon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles.
The snow game, which actually what was weird about this game was,
this wasn't supposed to be the snow game.
The snow game was supposed to be the Bills and the Ravens,
who we'll talk about, of course, lastly, just convenient order.
But it was supposed to be the Bills and the Ravens.
This game ended up being the snow game.
And so that limited, the Eagles passing game, even more than what it already is,
and it caused a lot of turnovers late.
But let's get into the numbers.
Matt Stafford, 26 to 44, 324, two touchdowns, no picks.
He was sacked five times.
Jalen Hurts was 15 to 20, 128, no touchdowns, no picks.
He was sacked seven times.
Kieron Williams, buck 06, no touchdowns and a very costly fumble.
Sequon Barkley, 205, two touchdowns.
Jalen Hurts, 70 with one touchdown.
They ran for 285 in this game.
Apuka Nakua led the Rams in receiving with 97 yards, no touchdowns.
Dallas Goddard led a very limited pass attack for Philly with 56 yards.
And no touchdowns.
Fumbling was a big issue in this game.
Rams fumbled three times, lost two of them.
Which Kieron Williams picked up one of the Matt Stafford ones.
And the Eagles lost, the Eagles fumbled two times.
The Eagles fumbled two times, didn't lose either of them.
So huge news there.
They didn't lose either of their fumbles.
Let's go to the teams that, Rams had two more first downs.
Rams hadn't ran nine more plays.
Rams had 52 more yards.
If you're asked to play, we're dead even at 5.7.
But of course, there's always a number that jumps out.
And the number in this game, in a snow game, was the rushing yards.
111 to 285.
And that was the difference in the game.
Rams didn't have Saquon Barkley.
I mean, it was just playing in simple.
It was one of those games where if the MVP could be counted for the playoff runs as well,
like how the conference championship games are in the Heisman voting, quote unquote,
like the votes don't come out in time, Saquon Barkley would have ran his way into the MVP.
He rushes for a team record, 205 rushing yards.
And the team playoff record, 25 rushing yards, including the 78 yard dagger in which he runs
and just slaps his helmet halfway through and he's gone.
And I mean, absolutely, that's why you paid him.
Because on 30 touches, 26-7 being a rushes, he had 232 total yards and two touchdowns.
I mean, absolutely spectacular day from Saquon Barkley.
In a game where the Eagles already limited in passing, couldn't pass to even more.
And so it was just a game, it was Saquon Barkley's night.
You know, a shout out to my staffer for continuing the battle, continuing to throw the ball and
continuing to find a way to throw the ball because most teams would have packed it up,
but they couldn't run it.
I mean, they ran it decently well, but hell, for the most part, Conor Lacey had 30 yards
of one rush.
For the rest of the game, he's 18 carries with 76 yards.
That ain't doing much.
And so, in Saquon, for the most part, was bottled, except he had a 78 yard and a 62
yard touchdown.
But for the most part, he was bottled up, but this that explosiveness, man.
He gets through it.
And on the 78 yard run, there's a video of him looking at Jalen Hurts and going, I got
it.
He looked down at him and smiled and said, okay, let's do it.
And he slips through the gap, sets the block up perfectly and smacks his head on the goalpost
for a Saquon signature run with the snow on his face.
I mean, it was picturesque.
It was movie-esque.
And then, of course, the Rams came right down the field and scored.
So everybody got a little nervous, but ultimately, the Rams just didn't have enough time.
And it was just a great moment for the city of Philly.
I hope Saquon can renegotiate his contract because three years for 37, I think up to
42 and a half, that ain't enough.
I mean, he needs to go in and hold out.
I ain't coming back unless I get my money.
Like if I'm him, I want $18 to $20 million a year.
I'm the best player on this team, especially when the Super Bowl off him or even the conference
off him.
I need $18 to $20 million a year or you have to trade me.
Like, I mean, if I'm him, that's what I'm going in demanding.
I need my money in the off season.
But sliding into LA, we can talk about what's going on with them.
I mean, I was not going to talk about this game, but Saquon Barkley night, to be honest
with you.
When we were in LA, Matt Stafford, he did something you never want to hear a player
do, which was I'll take time to decide my future.
It usually never goes well.
Either they retire or they come back and it's not the same.
They have an off year, then they walk.
But Stafford did say he would take time to decide his future, which is my...
Can Matt Stafford do something to guarantee his number of Hall of Fame?
Yes, he can come back and win a Super Bowl.
Right?
And then he's guaranteed in the Hall of Fame.
He'd have all the counting numbers in two rings.
Like, he'd be guaranteed the Hall of Fame.
I think he won Super Bowl in repeat, although that doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot
in the Hall of Fame discussion.
Right now, would I put him in the Hall of Fame?
I would say so.
I would put him in.
But it would be close.
He doesn't have the all pros.
He's got the Pro Bowl, he doesn't have the all pros like that.
At no point would he regard it as the best quarterback.
To be honest, at no point would he regard it as a top five quarterback, maybe besides
that first year in LA.
He had a lot of losing early in Detroit.
So, I mean, he'd be teetering in the Hall of Fame.
But he's heading on to decide his future, which is kind of going to hold the Rams up
as an Orc.
And the reason why is now they have the task of going back to LA.
And of course, I'm sure the entire Rams org is now focusing on helping LA and Los Angeles
area with the fires and the Palisades fires and everything.
Again, that heartbreaking tragedy.
But now what do you do?
If you're the Rams, do you say, how do we feel about Jackson Dart?
How do we feel about Jaylen Milrow?
How do we feel about, I mean, not sure doing Ken Ward, obviously, but how do we feel about
some of the other quarterbacks coming out in the draft?
Do we say, all right, let's get the heir apparent to Stafford on the roster?
It's not Stetson Bennett.
So let's get the heir apparent to Stafford on the roster.
How do we feel about, let's say Stafford walks.
Do we call Sam Darnall?
Do we make that call for Teddy Bridgewater?
Do we just draft, let's say we draft Jackson Dart late first round and just say, hey, we
got you for five years on the team control.
Stafford plays one more and walks.
You show up as a second year player.
Decisions have to be made in LA, but they're all contingent on Matt Stafford's decision.
Oh, but the game I struggled to put last, because I want to talk about it from the door.
The Ravens and the Bills.
The Ravens and the Bills, the Bills and the Ravens, Ravens and the Bills.
The United Cap, the end of the division around, the absolute whale of a ballgame.
To me, the best game of the weekend.
Although Commander Alliance has a case, to me, the best game of the weekend.
Before I get into my gloat session, I will run through the numbers like I always do.
Lamar Jackson, probably his best playoff L playing wise.
We'll get into that later.
Lamar Jackson, 18 to 25, 254, two touchdowns, one pick.
He was somehow sacked twice.
Josh Allen, 16 to 22, 127, no touchdowns, no picks.
Derrick Henry, 16 carries, 84 yards, one touchdown with a longest rush of 17.
For context, Justice Hill, six carries, 50 yards, longest 22.
But we'll get into that later.
Lamar Jackson, pitching another 39 on the ground.
James Cook led the Bills in the rushing, 67 yards, 117 carries.
A couple other guys pitched in for the Bills to get to 147.
The Ravens ran for 176.
Isaiah Leichli led the Ravens in receiving, 73 yards on four carries and a touchdown.
Rashad Bateman had 66 yards on the fourth catches and a touchdown.
Mark Andrews had 61 yards on five catches.
Khalil Shakir easily led the Bills with 67 yards on six catches.
No one else on the team had more than 15 yards.
The case in this game will be the turnover situation.
Mark Andrews fumbles once.
Lamar Jackson fumbles once.
Tyler Wallace fumbles once.
Nobody on the Bills fumbles at all.
And going to our teams, the Ravens had three more first downs.
The Ravens had 140 odd more yards.
The Ravens had two and a half more yards per play.
They basically doubled them in pass yards.
29 more rushing yards.
But two big numbers will jump out to you, which will be the turnovers, three to zero,
three for the Ravens, none for the Bills, and the red zone.
Literally, the fourth game in a row where the better red zone team wins the game.
And actually, hold on, let me double check the stats for that.
Let me go to the Eagles and Rams.
Nope, actually no.
So the Rams have a better red zone.
So three out of four games, the better red zone team won the game.
Three out of four, right?
The better red zone team wins the game as the Ravens went two for three, but the Bills
were three for four.
And again, the big number in this game was the turnover battle, three to zero, with the
Ravens giving up three turnovers.
But it's almost like these as a media person, as a sportscaster, as a guy who does this,
that you feel very vindicated.
I had a take and for the life of me, I could not find it.
You guys are probably better at it than me, but I know I've told it to a bunch of people,
you know, people who are hearing this podcast, if you know me, you know I've said this plenty
of times.
What did I say?
I said that the Ravens signing Derrick Henry looked great on paper, but ultimately will
do nothing.
And in the moment you need it to happen.
And said, you will look around and say, dang, we didn't do what we needed to do in a big
moment again.
Because before you signed Derrick Henry, you had the best rushing attack in football.
You had a passing game that would left something to be desired in big moments.
You had a young and experienced offensive line, and you had a defense who could sell
you at any given moment.
After you signed Derrick Henry, and last night, what happened, you had a passing game that
you couldn't count on in big moments.
You had a young and experienced offensive line.
You had a tendency to turn the ball over and you had a very large running back that did
not help you when you needed him to.
Because Derrick Henry had 84 yards on 16 carries.
That is, 8 yards per carry of 5.5.
Justice Hill had 50 yards on 6 carries, 8 yards per carry of 8.3.
Lamar Jackson had 39 yards on 6 carries, 8 yards per carries of 6.5.
Derrick Henry had the worst yards per carry on your team.
Because the signing did nothing.
You ultimately did nothing.
People blabbed back to me for my take.
I got looked at crazy.
I said, the Ravens are going to be second round and out.
Derrick Henry in the big game is not going to even probably be your best rusher.
Because it's not going to do much for you in the long run.
Oh, looky there.
In the big game, he was not your best average rusher.
It ultimately did nothing for you.
Once again, your passing game cost you a game.
Because you couldn't get a stop either when you needed it to.
No, you didn't.
You turned 3.
You stopped him from getting 7.
In the big moment, you held him to 3, which opened the door for the Mark Andrews gaffe
at the end.
But ultimately, Derrick Henry didn't do a whole heck of a lot.
Didn't even get 100 yards.
And you're gone in the second round again.
If you're the Raven, you should be used to this.
You're usually always done by the time the president selected.
By the time Martin Luther King day rolls around, the Ravens are at home annually.
And this just be normal for you.
Because maybe you should have spent that 9 to 12 million dollars on Derrick Henry on
another receiver.
Let's go at another tight end.
How about a linebacker?
Corner?
Safety.
Something other than what you were already really, really good at.
You know, you were the best in the league at it.
And Derrick Henry didn't make you that much better where the gap became that much bigger.
You idiots.
Next time, spend money on something that matters.
Like, I don't know, the Eagles.
Hey, hey, our running backs are always hurt and can't explode.
Steakhorn Barkett may always be hurt, but there's one thing he can do.
It's explode.
And he's been doing that to everyone all season.
Oh, the Grammy Packers had a problem with power running.
So they got their running back in Josh Jacobs.
Power run.
People usually do free agency.
They usually do that to solve a problem, not get better at what they already were great
at.
That's a draft thing.
You get that next running back to keep going.
You don't pay for what you're already really good at.
But hey, Baltimore, you signed Derrick Henry.
Good job, guys.
Whatever.
So, all time take by me.
It didn't look great at certain moments.
I had to ride that take out.
But all time take by me.
And then I will do a quick hitters on this game.
This game was not Lamar and Jackson.
Anyone who says otherwise is a goof.
Lamar played really, really well all game from start to finish.
He had the pick that was basically a punt.
He was anticipating a coverage.
He got fooled.
He threw a pick.
But other than that, he had the fumble.
The fumble wasn't great either.
But other than that, he's played really, really well.
Was it an A-plus game?
No.
But was it an F-game or D-game?
No.
I give it a B-game for him.
He played really, he played good.
He played good enough to win the game.
But Mark Andrew decided that wasn't going to happen.
He had a fumble and a drive that was going to net you at least three.
And he dropped the two-point conversion on a play that was going to tie the game.
Now, a minute and a half left at home, Josh Allen with the ball.
Bills probably win anyway.
But Lamar played good enough to win.
He was let down by his teammates.
And he said it after the game, we got to stop turning the f-ing ball over.
We got to stop like that.
That's how we lose these games.
And Lamar had two to three turnovers, right?
But now you sit in Baltimore, what do you do?
I assume Derrick Henry comes back next year.
But his money's not guaranteed.
I'm sure he's going to want guarantees.
That could be a situation.
You have free agents that are going to come up in key spots, including Ronnie Staley.
Todd Munkin is a hot name on the court.
And then the late streamer has to replace another coordinator.
What do you do?
It could be very interesting in Baltimore.
But that was the longest A-block I've ever had.
Very long-winded A-block.
And now we're going to shift into conference championship week.
Welcome back into the show.
And I appreciate you guys for rocking with me on that really, really long A-block.
But I had a lot to get out there.
Division A round was exciting.
And usually we don't get to record the next day.
So I was excited for that.
But we're moving into conference championship week.
And we'll pick winners and stuff in Jax Pack.
You know how we guys do it.
We will touch on the games right now.
So first off, the NFC will go first.
The NFC will play at 2 p.m. Central Time.
On Sunday, the game will be on Fox.
It will be the Washington Commanders led by rookie sensation Jay Daniels entering the
link going into Philadelphia to play their division opponent actually.
And again, that game will be Sunday, January 26th at 2 p.m.
And this game is an exciting football game.
I mean, from top to bottom.
We have two dynamic quarterbacks.
We have two solid coaches, staffs.
I don't really love the Eagles staff.
I love the commander staff.
I don't love the Eagles staff.
But these teams are one and one over the course of the season.
Now the one commander's win was the Jaylin Hurts concussion game and Kenny Pickett gave
him fits.
At the same time, Kenny Pickett was a starting quarterback in the league, number one.
Number two.
Number one, right?
And number two, you don't prep for the back of quarterback.
So you know, that was probably the game plan gets tossed out of the window because Kenny
Pickett isn't doing none of the stuff Jaylin Hurts would do.
And then the Eagles, when those two teams played early in the year, it was early in
the year the Eagles did come up with the win.
Okay.
So we're so we're good on that.
Now this is a game that can come down to Jayden Daniels could be the first rookie quarterback
to lead his team to the Super Bowl.
There's been five other quarterbacks who start in the conference championship game in this
situation.
All five have lost.
Most recently, you look at Joe Flacco's of the world.
You look at Brock Purdy.
That was the elbow game where he hurts his elbow in like the first like drivers.
Oh, and at one point Christian McCaffrey playing quarterback, the actual inspiration for the
rule for the emergency third string quarterback for that game.
If you start to play get hurt, you can have one player who was inactive.
But as your emergency quarterback can come in the game play quarterback for that reason
because the Eagles hurt Purdy's elbow.
And then it hurts somebody the other quarterback gets hurt.
And then at one point CMC comes in to play quarterback and Purdy's back in the game but
couldn't throw it.
It was a mess, right?
But it was the inspiration for the emergency third string quarterback.
Anyway, so now Jayden Daniels in this position, right?
He has passed every test he's given.
A couple of pop quizzes too.
He's passed, he's rolling.
Right?
And he's aced them all.
And now he goes up against the Eagles, probably the best front seven he has seen and will
see this season.
This front seven is mean, nasty and they're coming after him.
Now the benefit and they've got a lot of sacks recently.
The benefit is I think the better D line would have been the Rams because the Rams get their
pressure with four.
The Eagles usually have to bring a fifth or sixth guy in order to get their pressure.
So that could open up some passing lanes and some running lanes if he slips through it.
That can open up some running lanes for him to get into the cold wintery air in the link
and the cause heartbreak and filling.
However on the Eagle side, Saquon Barkley has to be licking his chops.
Oh my God, that defense is bad.
Like he has to be looking and going, that defense is awful.
Which it is.
They have no chance on this God's green earth of stopping me.
Like in my mind, that's where I'm going.
I'm looking straight at that defense and going, Oh my God, give me the ball and keep
giving it to me.
Don't pass it tonight.
Like I got it.
He should be looking in the hole and going, I got it every single time.
That defense in Washington is awful.
Jameer gives ripped through it like a hot knife through butter.
Like that defense is a disaster.
Now they're opportunistic.
If you mess up, they will take it from you.
I will give them that credit.
If you get it wrong, they will take it from you.
In terms of you guess wrong on the read, air and throw, they're catching the pick.
But as far as if you don't give them the ball, they are going to get gashed repeatedly.
That's not even from a scheme, but they're just not good enough.
I think Washington's entire off season should be focused on retooling the defense.
That's the number two receiver and retooling the defense because it's bad.
Like the old line is pretty solid, but that old line is decent.
With that, Ronnie Staley should be looking at Washington to go for them, probably left
tackle for them, and then they need to retool that defense.
It's awful.
If I'm saying Kwon Barkman, I'm licking my chops.
If I'm Philly, I know my passing game isn't great.
I know that for a fact.
The weather is not known as of now.
The country's kind of all over the place.
For instance, I'm in Louisiana and we're expected to get effectively a winter storm.
It's insane.
Right now, it's supposed to be real field of 29 and sunny when that game kicks off.
Cold, but not a wintery blast situation is going to happen there.
Great news for the Washington pass game.
They could play in the cold.
They just showed that.
They can pass through the cold and they play in Washington.
Their issue is going to be having to battle with that front seven and then slowing down
Saquon is going to be a major problem for them.
I think the one interesting battle is going to be Nick Sirianni versus Dan Quinn situationally.
I think Dan Quinn is a better coach.
Like I said, I love the Washington coaching staff.
They have the best two head coaches on the field.
They have Cliff Kingsbury and they have Dan Quinn.
I think the worst two head coaches is Nick Sirianni and Kellan Moore.
I think situationally, the Washington commanders are going to win this game situationally.
No matter how many situations occur, who knows?
I think from a coaching perspective and a strategic perspective, the best situational
organization in this game will be the Washington commanders.
Nick Sirianni is a goof.
He's a mistake waiting to happen.
Kellan Moore, I think has split brain right now.
He's interviewing with Dallas.
He could be the head man in Dallas soon.
I just didn't like how he called that game.
You're in a snowball and you're pulling the ball out of 26 hands.
I just didn't like how he called that game.
I think OCs can get ego-y and he's like, no, I'm going to prove I can do this in any situation.
At a certain point, you got to be used common sense.
You got to use your brain here.
I just don't think Kellan Moore does that sometimes.
It's going to be a very interesting battle there.
We'll pick our winners in our next segment.
In the AFC Championship game, the Arrowhead Invitational at this point, for the sixth
time in seven years, the AFC Championship game is being played in Arrowhead Stadium
in Kansas City.
This time, the Buffalo Bills enter and they come to battle.
It's going to be a ball game.
Ironically, from a betting perspective, both games are 47 and a half over unders.
That's intriguing.
It was weird, but we'll get into the betting a little more.
Both games over unders are set at 47 and a half.
The Bills won in their regular season.
The Kansas City Chiefs, with their starters, have only lost one game.
That's two, the Buffalo Bills, a couple of months ago.
Are they different teams?
Sure.
A couple of months ago, the Bills in Buffalo beat them 31 to 20.
The only team the Chiefs have lost to with their starters in the last 400-ish days is
the Bills.
Right now, the Bills are coming in, riding high.
They got over a hump.
They're going into KC.
They're confident.
However, you're dealing with the playoff Chiefs.
You're dealing with the playoff Chiefs and just how they always seem to get it.
They always seem to figure it out.
How they always get the call.
How they always get the play.
Travis Kelce wakes up.
They were saving Kelce all season for this moment.
Chris Jones knows, I got to make three plays.
I'm on the field for 30 snaps.
If I get three tackle for losses and one sack in those 30 snaps, I've earned my money.
You have these guys who are just playoff savants.
If you ever watch Chris Jones, young pass rushers and young players go hard every single
play.
Once Chris Jones realizes he's double-teamed, he stands straight up.
He's looking at the backfield.
He's looking to see if we're trying to scramble.
He's looking to see if we're trying to throw.
He could bat the ball down.
He's not about trying to bully through two people on a pass.
For what?
He's not going to make it.
You have stuff like that where it's just like, man, these guys are so freaking smart.
Looks like they're always correct in what they do.
Looking at Kansas City and their weather.
Jesus Christ.
It's 21 degrees right now in Kansas City.
Their weather is 38 degrees with a real feel of 33 with sunny.
You look at high 38 degrees, probably time to get the game time, probably slightly below
freezing and sunny.
Going back to Philly and their weather, I realize I looked at the wrong thing.
We're going back to Philly and their weather.
They are sitting at, again, very similar weather.
Right around freezing, real feel of 32-ish.
Cloudy, however, in Philly.
The storm is moving in, but won't get there in time for the game.
Back to KC and Buffalo.
This is going to be a heck of a ballgame.
Both games I expect to be really, really good.
I expect Commanders and Eagles to be very high scoring.
If I was betting over-unders, I would bet the over Commanders and Eagles.
I don't know if they're going to be high scoring in Philly.
In KC, they scored 51 last time.
I would lean towards that this time.
You get more of the playoff Chiefs as far as they just are great situationally.
Two points on the Bills, man.
Then we're going to move into our Jax pack.
Two points on the Bills.
Number one, they just feel like a team of destiny.
They feel like they're just finding ways.
The Chiefs always, the team, the joke on the internet is the Chiefs are a team of black
magic.
I'm not going to get into that, but it feels like the Chiefs always get that moment.
They always get that call.
They always get that whatever.
The Bills are just getting, not lucky, but they're just getting moments that happen for
them.
The Mark Andrew stuff, he has a safety to beat to the end zone.
He scores, and who knows where that game goes, and he gets popped out.
Then the drop on the 200 conversion, he basically triple catches it, and somehow still doesn't
catch it.
The Bills are just finding ways to win, man.
When you get to that point, when you get to a situation where you feel like you are just
inventing ways to win, not inventing, but you're finding ways to win, you almost feel
like it has to be our year.
Honestly, my second point on them is if not now, when?
You had a playoffs where Joe Burrow wasn't in it.
You had a playoffs where you're existing in a league where the Patriots are maybe starting
to figure this thing back out, with Rables back in there.
They have the quarterback.
The Dolphins were a disappointment.
The Jets were the Jets, whatever.
But the Patriots are starting to figure their life out with $130 million in cash space,
and they have Drake May, and they have Mike Vrabel, and they have belief in the building
again.
How long will your grip on the division even be?
Again, Burrow was not in it.
You beat Lamar.
Herbert was beaten by the Texans.
The Texans were then beaten by the Chiefs.
A lot of the top guys in your conference, you only had to play one so far, and that
was Lamar.
You didn't have to play Herbert.
You didn't have to face Burrow.
You didn't have to face Stroud.
You didn't have to face Herbert.
You're starting to get to a point where if you're Buffalo, if not now, if you don't
win the conference and get to the Super Bowl in New Orleans now, when are you ever going
to do it?
Burrow is going to be in the playoffs next year.
So will Herbert, so will Stroud, so will Lamar, so will Mahomes, so will yourself.
To me, there's one seed available in the AFC next year.
If you don't get in this year, and you don't get the Super Bowl this year, to me, someone
to the Lions, if you don't get it now, when are you going to?
So I'm sure that's what's in the thought of a lot of Buffalo Bills.
If you don't get it this year, when are you ever going to get it?
Next up, we're going to shift our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack.
Welcome back into the show.
Now we're going to get into our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack.
Last week, we went 3-1.
I know a lot of people were heartbroken because at the time of the game, the Chiefs were minus
nine and a half.
We got the number at minus eight.
We hit it at minus eight.
We missed on Eagles minus six and a half versus the Rams by a literal point.
Hurts.
We almost went undefeated.
We went 3-1, brings our playoff total to six and four, which is 60%.
Fifty-six percent is our goal.
So right now, we're on our goal perfectly.
But let's get into these numbers really quickly.
Commanders plus five and a half at the Eagles.
Take the Commanders.
I have been driving the Jaden Daniels bandwagon all season.
I'm not getting off of it now.
I think the Commanders actually win this game and get into the Super Bowl.
I truly think they're going to win.
They're going to get into the Super Bowl, and we're going to have our first rookie in
the Super Bowl ever.
Dan Quinn is going to get back to the Super Bowl, first time since blowing 28-3.
Cliff Kingsbury won't be at his new team.
I don't think Kingsbury gets a job this cycle, which would be enormous for the Commanders.
But I don't think from kind of what I'm reading in the tea leaves and who's getting second
interviews and who's getting whatever, I don't think Cliff Kingsbury gets a job this
cycle, which again would be massive for the Commanders.
My opinion, he comes back.
I don't see a coach being able to pry him away from Washington.
A friend of mine, we were talking, and he was like, man, if Ben Johnson gets a job,
the first call he's making is to Cliff Kingsbury.
And he's like, whatever you want to come be the OC, come do it.
I don't see that happening.
I don't see anyone being able to pull him away from Washington.
He's the head coach of his own side of the ball.
So on and so forth, like unless it's for a head job, I don't see him leaving Washington.
So because of which that would be huge for JD Daniels going into year two to retain Cliff
Kingsbury.
I don't see Kingsbury, Kingsbury getting a job this cycle.
As of now, things could change, but as of right now, I don't see it.
But I think the Commanders win this game.
All right, so definitely take them plus five and a half and we're going to have JD Daniels
in the Super Bowl.
And then the second game, Chiefs minus two and a half versus the Bills.
Take the Chiefs.
Here's my thing about this game.
If this was a game that was in the regular time, I don't touch this game.
I don't get anywhere near it.
If it was a regular situation, I don't get anywhere near it because two and a half is
dangerous.
This is the walk off field goal and over time, Kansas City wins it.
I have no confidence in who's going to win the game.
I'm leaning towards the Bills.
So my official pick is going to be the Bills.
However, could I see this being 27-24 Harrison Bucker for the win as time expires?
Yeah.
Like, I just, I don't see.
If this was three and a half, I go the Bills.
If this was three, I'd probably go the Bills.
The number being two and a half, it's smarter to be on the side of the two and a half.
That's why I lean Kansas City.
Bus on the bet.
But my pick to win the game is slightly the Bills.
So again, this is a game I'd probably stay away from.
I don't touch it with a 10-foot pole in the regular season.
Only being minus two and a half, and it's crazy.
I'm putting a number in at two and a half.
I'm watching the number fall to two.
I got to lean Casey here.
But my official game pick is going to be the, nope, I'm going to stick with the cheese.
Oh, live.
This is a live.
This isn't making, I'm actually fighting anything right now because, nope, I'm going to go with
the Bills.
I'm flipping my pick.
Okay, so live on the show, the pick is being flipped.
The pick is being flipped live on the show to plus two and a half for the Bills, and
the Bills are going to win this game.
With the same feeling I got when I basically effectively live flipped two of the Chiefs
over the Texans on their bet, I'm getting that same feeling for the Bills.
Bills, I'm flipping to the Bills plus two and a half, and the Bills are going to win
this game.
So that is my official picks.
Washington Commanders plus five and a half at the Eagles.
The Commanders are going to win the game all right.
I've been driving the Jane Daniels bandwagon all year.
I'm not going to get off now.
And then Bills plus two and a half to win the game all right against the Chiefs.
But up next, we're going to have our best for last, which is going to be a discussion
on the college football national championship game.
Welcome back into the show and welcome in to the college football national championship
game.
Best for last.
The game goes down tonight in Atlanta at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
So Ohio State enters as an eight and a half point favorite, although it opened at nine
and a half.
Currently, it sits at eight and a half.
So it's been bet down a little bit.
The over-under sits at 45 and a half, with Notre Dame's money line being plus 300.
The match is predicted based on ESPN Analytics, as Ohio State has a 55% chance to win the
game.
The weather doesn't matter.
It's a frozen one, but it's inside.
The game will kick off at 630 local time, 730 Eastern time, which is when the game is
going to be played in the Eastern time zone, and it will be on ESPN.
This game sits to me as it would take a perfect Notre Dame game to keep it close.
Not to win it, to keep it close.
If Ohio State plays good, I'm not even saying great.
If Ohio State is playing good, Notre Dame can't win this game.
Texas to me was the, as I would say, healthy, good Georgia probably was the best team in
the country.
Ohio State had a case.
Ohio State being two, Texas being three, Oregon probably being four.
But that top four could all meander through.
Then maybe there was a gap before you get to a Notre Dame.
The last team out of that group is Ohio State.
Mainly because they've all had to beat each other.
Ohio State is beating Oregon.
Ohio State is beating Texas.
Notre Dame beat Georgia.
Cool, but it was Georgia not playing their A game and with the back quarterback.
Ohio State is going to have the two best receivers that Notre Dame will play all season.
Notre Dame almost lost to a team who literally could not complete a pass to a receiver in
Penn State.
Ohio State has Jeremiah Smith and Emeka Buka.
Emeka Buka is probably a first round pick.
Early second at the latest.
Jeremiah Smith is a first round pick whenever he enters the NFL draft.
If he entered the NFL draft as a freshman, he'd be a first round pick.
These two will easily be the best two receivers.
Notre Dame will have to contend with all season.
They ain't got enough.
Not enough athleticism, not enough talent.
It is what it is.
Some games, y'all, I'll match.
Ohio State is the best team in the country.
Good Ohio State was always the top four team to me.
They're the last one standing of that group.
They're going to win this game easily.
I may even take the eight and a half.
I'll swallow the eight and a half here.
They're going to, to me, run away and hide in this game.
I think Notre Dame will try and keep it on the ground.
Jeremiah Love, make it a close one.
The better quarterback is at Ohio State and Will Howard.
The best two receivers exist on Ohio State.
To me, the best running back, I mean, Jeremiah Love is a better running back, but the best
rushing attack, you got Henderson and Christian Judkins and the duo for Ohio State.
Like, it's just, they're just better.
In certain situations, they're just better.
And playing in some pool, they're just better.
It is what it is.
And so Ohio State will get the draw.
And to me, they win the national championship game.
Ryan Day gets a massive contract extension in the off season.
And all the talk of him being fired never exists again.
And Chip Kelly at that point has to decide if he ever wants to be a head coach again
or he wants to continue OCing for Ohio State.
What is his decision going to be?
And where will he even go at this point?
But could he be an OC in the NFL?
Chip Kelly is an OC in the NFL?
Could be interesting.
One of these Ben Johnson brings in Chip Kelly as an OC or one of these defensive head guys
brings in Chip Kelly as an OC.
What if he ends up in New England as the OC?
I mean, I don't know if there's been any talks of that, but variable needs an OC.
What if Chip Kelly ends up the OC in New England?
That's all you did with Philly.
But that is all I have for today.
Very NFL heavy show.
We did touch a little college football there.
The YouTube show will be coming out soon as well.
That should happen.
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Oh, but as always, this is your host Justin Jackson signing out.