Seahawks Deserving. Patriots Fraudulent? And More Super Bowl LX Takeaways!

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Welcome to the Ringer NFL Show. I'm your host, Shiel Kapadia.

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Super Bowl 60 in the books the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions.

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We'll talk about it all.

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Was it a good game? Are they a worthy champ? Are the patriots frauds?

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And then we go in a bunch of different directions as always.

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So we got Billy Gill, Deontay Lee joining me. Let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll talk Super Bowl.

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All right. We are back on the Ringer NFL Show, Shiel Kapadia here with my friends, Deontay Lee.

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And Billy Gill, the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions, 29-13.

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I think the weirdest thing for me, guys, is that kind of what everybody expected to happen or what it felt like everybody expected to happen is what actually happened.

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I'm not saying nobody picked the Patriots, but we were all in San Francisco and you're talking to a lot of people.

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And my friends were sending me, hey, everybody on the Ringer picked the Seahawks. It's like, oh, you know, I started thinking before the game.

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This is going to go poorly, but in the end, Deontay was just like the beat down from the Seahawks.

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Like many of their games have been dominant defensive performance offense doing enough.

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That's just kind of how the game played out.

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I agree. And I think it comes back to a lot of conversations that we've had on the show all year, right?

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Is that the teams who have had the advantage in the trenches.

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Ultimately, have been the ones that have moved along in this process. New England was a outlier to that.

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They had kind of been skating by in the playoffs with some poor offensive performances.

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Our offensive line really struggling and them having turnover issues.

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And they happen to run into the one team that was not going to give the ball right back to them, right?

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And ultimately, I think that the story of this game, while I think that Seattle was able to move the ball pretty effectively,

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just not punching it in into the end zone.

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I think ultimately what we're going to remember is a dominant defensive performance, especially up front.

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Are you going to remember anything from this game, Billy?

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Was this a good Super Bowl?

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Was this like, you know, this is one of those for like five years from now.

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So I'm going to be like, hey, Billy, do you remember who won the Super Bowl after the 2025 season?

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And you'll be like, no, I have no idea what happened in that game.

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So we were talking before the week about whether or not like this was a Super Bowl that didn't have a lot of excitement.

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We had it into it, right?

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And through three quarters, it kind of was like that Jack who, you know, worked for us here.

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Came up and he said, this Super Bowl is actually living up to the expectations we had for it,

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which wasn't like a good thing at that point.

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And it would be kind of exciting, right?

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There were a couple of touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but I don't know.

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I mean, if you'll have defense, you could have loved this game, right?

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But it was a boring little bit.

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It was, yeah, it was a little bit more.

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I mean, I'm a defensive guy.

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I was born.

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I mean, the Seahawks defense was incredible.

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It doesn't mean that they weren't dominant.

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They weren't incredible.

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They were, but from an entertainment value.

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Yeah, this isn't one that we'll be talking about years from now.

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Like, Ravel, is this supposed to be the stuff guy?

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Like, why was it not more aggressive coming out of halftime?

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I mean, down 12, nothing.

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They had a, but it was like fourth and three, fourth and one, fourth and three.

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And they never went for it.

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They didn't do anything that signified, like, hey, it's going to be hard today.

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We need to have a wrinkle.

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Wasn't a trick play all game long, right?

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I kept calling it to Deontan was wrong every about seven times.

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Like, this is the possession.

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You know, they're going to do a double pass.

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They didn't do anything.

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Fourth and one, they punted.

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Yeah, they kind of early on, I understood it because he was like, all right.

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We're stealing each other out.

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You know, we're not going to make the big mistake earlier.

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Put that, that gets us down.

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But then in the second half, it's like, dude, there's like seven minutes left in the third quarter.

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You're going to have to score at some point.

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Yeah.

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Ravel, yeah, for all the game management, love he got.

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And I don't know that there's anything he could have done for them to actually win the game.

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But if I'm a Patriots fan, I would have been like, it would have been nice to try some more stuff in this game.

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Right. That doesn't mean you have to go full bin Johnson.

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And like, every fourth down we get in the first half, we're going to go for it.

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But it was pretty clear, I think, after the first quarter, that it was going to take a different level of urgency.

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If they wanted to change the flow of the game, all those fourth downs that Billy mentioned all around midfield

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are in plus territory, where it would have been justifiable, even if you had failed to at least take the shot.

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Especially once you're chasing 12, right?

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Because now it's a two possession game.

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You're going to have to chase points one way or the other.

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But they kept playing as though the expectation was that they were going to outlast.

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This Darnell turnovers coming.

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That's how they played the game.

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That's how they played the game.

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Yeah.

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And it's not a strategy, right?

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Hope is not a strategy.

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Not in the Super Bowl.

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It just seemed like the Patriots just kept hoping that this game would play out the way the rest of the postseason have played out for them.

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That if we just sit back long enough, no matter what's going on with our offense, we'll force the turnover, we'll get the field position where we wanted to.

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And truthfully, I mean, they did have Seattle backed up for a good chunk of the game, which is really where the game started to lose its juice.

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Because they were always inside.

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They're on 25s, they're on 30 and couldn't get much going.

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But I think that them waiting and waiting and waiting for Sam Darnell to ultimately hand them a win.

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It proves to be a mistake.

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And I think that what we really got out of this is that what we had seen for the first few weeks of this playoff run was true.

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That Sam had done a much better job.

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I think of avoiding turnovers.

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Now there were some risky throws, especially early in this one.

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But I think that after kind of those jitters in the first quarter war off, they really were able to handle business.

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And I think that Clint Cooby, I did a good job of managing his quarterback throughout.

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I don't think they had a turnover in the playoffs.

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I think I read right.

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That's kind of crazy.

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It felt, yeah, you're right.

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It felt early on.

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I was like, ooh, Sam's kind of feeling himself here.

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And the Patriots were just jumping every round.

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I'm like, it was an interception coming.

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It never came in Sam Darnell now, Billy, just like a one-of-one career.

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I mean, it's crazy.

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I mean, the quarterbacks were drafted in his draft class.

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And he beat all of them to not only get to a suitable win.

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It's insanity.

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Like this guy, you were saying it during the game.

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Has there been anyone that's had a bad career for that long?

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No.

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And then he goes on and wins his Super Bowl.

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I don't think so.

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I can't think of one.

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I mean, normally, like, he had like a five-year sample.

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You know, sometimes a guy gets one year or two years and then they get yanked.

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And you're like, well, give him another chance later.

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He had like a five-year sample that just statistically was one of the worst you would find

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from a starting quarterback.

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And so I look at that and I go, well, I'm looking throughout history.

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And there's not a guy who's turned it around after that to even be like competent

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for a stretch of their career, let alone win a Super Bowl.

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It really is a one-of-one career.

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And I mean, we've said it before.

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He seems like a normal guy.

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He seems like a nice guy.

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He's being interviewed after the game.

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And he's like, hey, 12.

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He's here for the defense.

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You know, DK was getting all emotional in the theater.

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Like, clock, he's not even now.

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He's pointing to the defense here.

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But I think he's right.

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I think if you root for Sam Darnold, you're like, I love this guy.

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100%.

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Yeah.

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I mean, totally deferential the entire way through even after the NFC championship game

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where he was pretty clearly.

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He needed him in the driving force to get them to the Super Bowl.

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He still was kind of given credit to the coaching staff, to the defense,

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to the running game throughout this whole process.

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And I think that that's why most people have kind of rallied around the idea that like,

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hey, man, good for Sam.

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Yeah.

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Because it hasn't been trying to reshape what happened in New York or in Carolina

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or what the meltdown was at the end of last season in Minnesota.

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It seemed like he's done a pretty good job of just owning where his shortcomings have been.

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I think that he was never a quarterback that was any different than who he had always been.

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And we just happen to see a longer arc than we typically see for quarterbacks

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who struggle the way that he did earlier in his career, get connected with the good coach

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and now you get to see, I guess, the fruits of that labor.

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Only QB with no haters, Billy.

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What do you think?

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Do you don't think he has any haters?

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I mean, well, see, I was a Darnold Tater, but I'm like, I was wrong.

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Good for him.

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I'm not, I'm no longer a hater.

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I'm handing in.

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I'm actually able to my group chat that might prove to be a counterfactual.

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Yeah.

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I think there's still some, some anti-Darnold stuff there.

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What is their deal though?

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They just don't like their argument.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I don't do anything.

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I mean, A, doesn't really have to do much.

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You're playing with the great defense.

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You're playing with an offensive coordinator who is going to become a head coach.

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Right?

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So you have a pretty good ecosystem around them.

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And people don't forget, man, like people who are around at those times in New York.

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And I mean, I watched some of those games as well.

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Right?

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He just looked lost.

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You know, I think that people change, tell him, Deontay.

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Well, the problem is that San Bruno really hasn't changed.

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I think he has.

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I mean, he has, come on.

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He has improved.

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I'm not saying that.

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He improved, yes.

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He improved, yes.

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Change.

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No.

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And I think that that's a belief of mine.

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And I think of other people who are more critical of them, which is that quarterbacks progress.

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They don't change.

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Right?

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Like, if I were to tell you that Bryce Young, a half decade from now, will be in this exact same position,

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where we have all these questions early in his career.

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He's a long-term starter.

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He goes to another spot and then he ends up winning a championship.

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But he's still playing the way that he's playing.

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And being the right ecosystem, anybody who was anti Bryce Young now, if they were still

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that way, then, I think you would understand, especially if you were playing similarly,

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because there's still a word moment.

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She mentioned it in the first quarter.

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I'm like, Hey, man, good for you that you got that completion.

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Good for you for taking that shot.

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But I don't know if that's the way that you want to be playing.

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He's 100%.

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He's 100%.

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100%.

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And I think that that's always just kind of been inherent to his game.

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I guess that I mean, ecosystem matters so much.

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And I think that this past decade, we have learned a lot about exactly what kind of influence

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a healthy ecosystem can have for a quarterback.

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So this is what's going to happen.

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Billy is that because I believe, because the last two Super Bulls this week, keep up,

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I'm going to start saying, you got to rethink how you build your football team.

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100%.

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If you don't have my homes, if you don't have Josh, you can still win a Super Bowl,

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build that elite defense.

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And then you know what, you got to get a quarterback.

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It's good enough.

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Not saying you can, you certainly can't do it with anybody.

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But I don't think anyone right now looks at Jalen Hertz or Sam Darnal, then it's like those

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are, you know, whatever, top five top eight quarterbacks in the NFL.

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What will your reaction be?

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You know, you're flying back to Miami tomorrow.

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You're at the airport bar and you see somebody on TV yelling at her.

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You're going to be like, you're right.

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Or you're going to be like, shut up.

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What's it?

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What do you know?

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No, I started thinking when you were talking or you're going to be asleep.

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Who's?

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Oh, see.

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I don't, I don't sleep on flights.

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I'm not good.

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I'm going to try to not relate.

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I cannot relate at all.

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I'm out.

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Every single flight.

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What's your secret?

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The five from San Francisco to San Diego is only like an hour, 15 minutes.

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I'm out.

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Okay.

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Really?

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100%.

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Oh, no, I'm a I'll see guy.

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Yeah, same.

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I'm an I'll see guy.

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Nope.

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No neck pillow.

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You're just reclined.

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No ambient music.

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None of that.

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Really?

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What do you guys call it?

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Raw dog in a flight?

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Yeah.

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I'm able to sleep through that.

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I'm able to sleep every night.

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Are you a good sleeper as it is?

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Absolutely.

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Wow.

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What's your secret?

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I don't think I have one, man.

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Get very tired.

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Have children.

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I'm going to work in formula for me.

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All right.

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So who's the next quarterback that just gets plugged into the perfect ecosystem?

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Well, he said Bryce Young.

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I mean, that is a pretty good one.

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We're Bryce guys.

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Yeah.

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I could see five years from now.

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Let's have in that conversation about Bryce Young.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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I think so.

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How many years?

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Let's take it off of Bryce Young, right?

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Because there are just, there are certain things physically that will lead people to have questions

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about what it would even look like for him to be a championship level quarterback.

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Let's go with somebody who might be similar, like a Kyler Murray, right?

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Good Kyler Murray land in an ecosystem where two, three years from now, we're looking at

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him in an NFC championship game where a Super Bowl and saying, wow, this guy might actually

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do it.

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See, I feel like Young has more of the darnled intangibles where like no one said to write

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in his contract, the thing about you have to watch Hill type.

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Okay.

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I feel like Darnellt had that kind of thing.

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I think Young has that type of thing.

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I feel like Murray now that he's probably going to get traded this off season.

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Maybe we'll see a second version, but it's kind of crazy to say Murray is much more talented

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than Bryce Young.

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Yet, if you told me like, who do I think it's more likely to happen to, I feel like

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I would choose Bryce Young.

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Kyler Murray also has like a jet stop on his journey, for sure, right?

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And he's not going to do it in the New York.

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So he's going to have to have that jet stop and then somewhere else and then whatever.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I'm looking through.

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I don't know who the next guy would be.

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Trevor Lawrence has already kind of shed.

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He's already kind of on.

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So that's different.

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And what a playoff game.

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Dana Jones might be the next best option for that.

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Coming off the Achilles.

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I feel like this was his chance at that.

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I don't know if it's still going to happen for her.

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Maybe it will.

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It's fans.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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But yeah, I'm looking at the other ones.

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I don't see another obvious one here.

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What about a two-a situation?

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No.

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Come on.

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He's serious, Billy.

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People are willing to hear it on Bryce Young, not on two.

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I feel like Daniel was his guy.

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Yeah, it's not going to get better for him.

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You already had the good situation.

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That's the thing.

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You got to come out of the bad situation to a good situation where I guess you could,

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yeah.

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The Jones and Bryce Young might be the only two that would check those vibes.

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Those are two to keep it on.

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This sea ox team.

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Now, this whole season, we've been like, this is such a weird season.

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Yeah.

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It's just like, is there a great team?

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How many great teams are there?

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Who is going to win it?

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I do think they are definitely a worthy champ though.

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You know, there was this weird thing where all the advanced dance TVLAs, like, this is

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the sixth best team of the last 50 years or something.

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You're like, they feel good.

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I don't know that they feel that good, but now you look at it, they're 17 and three

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over 20 games.

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They lost three games by a total of nine points.

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They did not lose a game by more than four points.

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All season long.

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It's just any way you look at it statistically, reasonably, resume.

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They do have a super bowl resume, right?

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Do we put that to sleep that they are a great team, even though it's a weird season?

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Or are you like, well, not so fast?

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I would say, I would say there's a great team.

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There are great teams.

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I would be really hesitant to put them in.

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Any conversation really with the best teams that we've seen over the last decade and

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half, let alone, you start talking about the last 30 plus years, right?

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And it's not a knock on what they've accomplished.

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We just happened to have seen-

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Here's the one.

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She's out of my mind.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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But we've just seen some incredible single seasons throughout over the last two decades

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or so.

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So yeah, no, not in that conversation for me quite yet.

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If they hold this group together and they're able to make a back-to-back run, then we would

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have that conversation like, is this the most unlikely, you know, hot streak that you

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could have imagined in the NFL?

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But all time now.

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Was there any HFC team that could have actually challenged them?

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Good question.

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The best probably would have been a healthy Denver.

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I think a healthy Denver could have challenged them.

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Healthy Denver?

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Interesting.

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Not Josh Allen going?

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No, I don't think-

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I don't think of that.

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You don't think so?

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I don't know how that defense would have fared against the really game that we saw from

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Seattle.

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Come play off time.

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See, I look at it.

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I feel like it would be more like the Rams basically were the team that pushed them

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the farthest.

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And so if you have a great offense and can put up points against them, at least you're

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going to be in the game.

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So I kind of feel like Buffalo, maybe.

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I don't know.

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Maybe it's that Thursday night game against Houston that is just like sticking out too much

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in my head when you think about similar defense.

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I mean, and obviously Josh Allen was awesome in the wildcard round against Jacksonville.

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I think turnover decided was actually had a very reminiscent game to the one that we

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talked about and run that time last year between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.

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We get those ugly early turnovers and then ultimately ends up sinking your playoff

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chances.

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But I just don't think that that Buffalo team was complete enough to deal with what we

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saw from Seattle, knowing that the best offense this season, Los Angeles took basically two

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A plus plus games from their quarterback and their run game to be able to hold, you know,

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be able to hold serving incident for one game and then take them to the end in the others.

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I don't think there's anybody in the AFC that could have reached that level to play

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with them.

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They didn't make it to play us, but Phillip Rivers colds played them tough and we lost

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by two.

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What a weird game that was, yeah, you're right.

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And that was his first game.

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That was his first game.

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Yeah.

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It was bubble screen central.

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Yeah.

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That's what bubble screen and inside zone central in that game kept them in it.

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Yeah.

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Phillip Rivers.

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Yeah.

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What if he was one last ride?

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One last ride.

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That's right.

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I think the bar.

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Who are the people who are just like we're not sleeping tonight because of the result.

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We talked about this before.

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Jets fans.

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I think Jets fans are fine.

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You got to be fine.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if I forwarded the emails.

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I got, we got emails from Jets fans who were like, no, we actually are rooting for Sam.

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They said, they said if you go on Reddit, Jets Reddit, the only thing that everybody

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agrees, agrees about is that they were rooting for Sam Darnell on playoffs.

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Let's see.

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It's a weird phenomenon just because he's like a nice guy and they're like our organization's

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dysfunctional.

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Good for him.

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Like he never, he never was like, get me out of New York or anything.

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I mean, three stops after you're allowed to be happy, right?

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If you're going to Carolina and you're making a run like the AFC Championship game,

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you want to be a little bit more salty and to the point of being a relative like a low

17:15

profile guy, in spite of how high he was drafted and how much attention he had garnered

17:20

from getting the strut in his career in New York.

17:21

I'm not surprised at Jets fans rooting seem strong.

17:25

I think indifferent to the success will probably be a little bit more accurate.

17:29

I want Jets Reddit.

17:30

I want Jets Reddit right now.

17:31

There's people wearing Sam Darnell jerseys watching the games and let's go Sam, they were

17:36

rooting for him tonight.

17:37

Now, do you think that's a good representation of fans on Reddit?

17:40

I think they just hate Woody Johnson, if I'm going to lose from it.

17:43

As they should.

17:44

Yeah, I think that's right.

17:46

Good for them.

17:47

This might be like a new segment, Billy checks Reddit.

17:49

Yeah.

17:50

It's a dangerous game.

17:51

It's a dangerous game.

17:52

It's a dangerous game.

17:53

That's the day.

17:54

That's the day.

17:55

You know what?

17:56

I think like 20 years from now, Sean McVase is going to be like that year, 2025.

18:03

Yeah.

18:04

I feel like we had a great team and now it's two years in a row where he's looking at

18:09

like going like one play goes differently.

18:12

He could have been playing in the Super Bowl.

18:14

I think that Rams team last year beats the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

18:17

And I think the Rams team beats this Patriots team in the Super Bowl.

18:21

We could be talking about him as a three time Super Bowl champ without adjusting that

18:26

much.

18:27

There's isn't one that like, hey, five or six plays go differently.

18:29

It's kind of like one play at the end of that Eagles game.

18:31

And then the one player where DeMarcus Lawrence peels off against the Seahawks, like, I mean,

18:36

McVeigh and Stafford, like no, look at what the Seahawks

18:39

did to everybody else.

18:41

And they were just like, we're cooking this defense.

18:43

We're going to go up and down the field on them and they have nothing to show for it.

18:46

Hell, I mean, if you win the Thursday night games towards the end of the season, the

18:49

enough to ship the ship game is being hosted, you know, at so far stadium and that might

18:53

have been, that might have been what ultimately swung the game.

18:55

So I think to to your point, yeah, they're both probably going to be 20 years down the line,

19:00

both wearing gold jackets, watching their daughters, you know, all around or whatever.

19:04

And they're going to be saying, man, can you imagine what this would have been like if

19:07

we had just finished the deal against this thing, we might have been multiple, multiple

19:11

time champions.

19:12

Has an own ever gone out on top like this?

19:14

Like we just won the championship and now we're selling.

19:16

Is that what the Celtics did or is that the year after?

19:19

Yes, I think that was our after this.

19:20

Is this the new thing?

19:22

When the title and sell your team?

19:23

Well, and you're also losing your O.C.

19:25

So you're going to be kind of a little bit down there and that's the time to get off.

19:29

So high, you know, it's going to be that hard to replace, Clint Coot.

19:32

I did agree.

19:33

You did an excellent job.

19:34

Oh, this is the tag.

19:35

Well, Mike, come on.

19:36

Mike McDonald is the guy who I mean, that is they were we have watched it.

19:41

I think Clint Kubiak did a great job.

19:43

I don't think it's like the hardest guy to replace.

19:47

I would say in terms of like, is he is he among, he's certainly not among the top five

19:52

to replace probably not top, maybe not top 10, maybe top 10.

19:56

I would say top 10.

19:57

I would say top 10.

19:57

And so the point of replacing offensive coordinators,

19:59

I'm sure we can pull up your Philly special email

20:01

and see a lot of people with a lot of thoughts

20:03

about what the experience can be like

20:05

when you have to replace your championship winning

20:07

offensive coordinator.

20:08

That's true.

20:09

After Super Bowl, is it too soon to ask Drake,

20:12

me, Fraud, like what happened?

20:14

Great tease.

20:15

Take a break.

20:16

We come back.

20:17

I do think, again, when you're in the airport tomorrow,

20:20

you look at the TVs.

20:22

Oh, that's, oh, it's gonna be all over.

20:24

Where's it going?

20:25

Where's the Patriots Fraud all along?

20:26

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All right, we're back on the ringer NFL show.

21:03

All right, let's talk about real quick before the Patriots.

21:06

Mike McDonald, we just talked about

21:07

and I feel like he already has the resume

21:11

of one of the great defensive coaches.

21:13

Like he just went to a, he coached a great defense

21:15

in Baltimore, engineered it.

21:17

And then he left, became a head coach.

21:19

And within two years coached a great defense

21:22

that won a Super Bowl.

21:23

Like even if he retired now, that's an incredible resume.

21:25

I have my ideas.

21:26

This is when he start those games.

21:28

I'm gonna go to TV.

21:28

No, I wanna, oh, I think I'm tired of coaching.

21:31

I'm gonna go to TV.

21:31

I think he's a more of a podcast guy.

21:33

No, but that sports podcast.

21:34

No, he has no intention of retiring.

21:36

TV, he's just gonna say that to get Patrick.

21:38

Yeah, there's a shaming thing.

21:39

If you listen to Mike McDonald talk, that is a sicko.

21:41

Okay, it is a coaching sicko.

21:43

If there's one thing he's not going to do, it's retire.

21:45

I think you're gonna have to pry this job.

21:46

Maybe he's behind the scenes on podcasts.

21:48

I think he's the list.

21:49

Oh, that's pretty good.

21:51

Keep it up.

21:52

You gotta keep it up on the live screen.

21:53

We have room for a comment section.

21:54

Yeah, we got room for you.

21:55

Absolutely.

21:56

But yeah, this is, I mean, he has a chance.

21:59

Now he's so young and he just started

22:03

that it's crazy to say, but like he has a chance

22:05

to build up a Hall of Fame resume as a defensive coach.

22:07

I mean, you'd have to say the last one we had like this

22:10

that came from a great putting together a great defense

22:13

of one spot becoming a head coach

22:15

and becoming a champion is Tony Dungee, I guess.

22:18

Probably would be the next closest.

22:19

And I mean, that took a while and you're tied

22:21

to Peyton Manning at that point.

22:23

So obviously, you know, the offense ends up,

22:25

I think, carrying the brunt of the labor,

22:26

especially when you look at some of the ways

22:28

that the coach struggled at that time.

22:30

Lovey Smith didn't reach these heights, right?

22:33

If they would have won with Chicago,

22:34

that probably would have been the next best thing.

22:36

Is a defensive minded guy getting control

22:38

of an organization and being able to push them

22:41

to a championship level.

22:42

But no, I don't think that, I can't think of the last time

22:44

we've had a guy from a defensive background

22:47

reach these heights, especially coming out

22:49

of the Brady Manning breeze, et cetera, et cetera,

22:52

Arab, it definitely has been a while.

22:54

All right, so are the Patriots frauds, Billy.

22:58

Wait, where are you saying he's Drake?

22:59

May a fraud or are the Patriots frauds?

23:00

We can both.

23:01

If you want, where do you want to start?

23:03

I mean, the Patriots, yeah, they saw a schedule.

23:07

We were saying it all season.

23:09

And then here we go, super bold time.

23:11

They didn't look great.

23:12

At any point in that time, did you think

23:14

the Patriots were in the game?

23:15

No, unless there was like a flute, like a special team's font,

23:18

like I felt like it needed that kind of play

23:20

for them to get back.

23:21

They actually did a decent like, bend, don't break.

23:24

It's a great play for the first.

23:26

Well, yeah, yeah.

23:27

I mean, we were talking, well, not seriously,

23:29

but we were having a conversation.

23:31

Should we be considering the kicker for the MVP of this game

23:33

because he's the only one who's put up points?

23:35

He set a record, five fields of survival,

23:37

never been done before.

23:38

29 points.

23:39

Honestly, the punter was, the Dixon was more impressive.

23:42

Do you see those punts?

23:43

He was just feeling himself on that last one.

23:46

Little quick, little liner.

23:48

Actually, I need a little bit more character

23:49

for our punters when they're out there

23:50

continuing to win.

23:51

I mean, he was jacked.

23:52

He's probably hated by other punters, right?

23:54

You would think it was great.

23:56

Yeah, he listened to Chris Long.

23:57

I think that other punters probably don't like him

23:59

because of what a great job he was doing

24:01

because now that becomes a norm in punting, right?

24:03

As it should be.

24:04

Right. We were talking about this.

24:06

One job.

24:07

He had the great pun early.

24:08

And you're like, oh my god, it's incredible.

24:10

It's like, this is your job.

24:11

Shouldn't you be able to do this almost every time?

24:13

I don't understand.

24:15

Masked.

24:16

I don't know.

24:17

As a one-coach here, I'm going to have stains.

24:19

You're abstaining?

24:20

I'm abstaining.

24:21

Why?

24:22

I'm abstaining on this one.

24:23

Because I don't think I have any healthy punter.

24:24

He has to coach a punter.

24:25

He can't exactly.

24:26

Now of his, now of his, the kid he's coaching,

24:29

yeah, is a punter and be like, yeah,

24:31

all right, the guy's going to get all nervous

24:32

and be like, coach, coach late, coach day.

24:34

What do they call coach D late?

24:35

Coach late.

24:36

Coach late.

24:37

Coach late expects me to just take my mic off.

24:40

Take my mic off.

24:42

What are you teaching your punters?

24:44

Just going again.

24:45

Just for exactly.

24:46

No.

24:47

You should be, yeah, about punting specialist Billy.

24:50

I did not have pun, but I mean, I feel like.

24:52

You feel like you're in on?

24:52

That's not.

24:53

Thank you.

24:54

I have to leave him here.

24:55

Leave him here.

24:56

Yeah.

24:56

I can give us some remote work.

24:57

Yeah.

24:58

I will take that.

24:59

definitely take that.

25:00

All right, so are the Patriots frauds?

25:02

Now, I think that there's certainly a case

25:05

that they beat up on a soft schedule all season long

25:09

and then they got the face jerts, did them

25:11

in the AFC championship game

25:13

and then they got to the Super Bowl

25:15

and they kind of looked like they didn't belong

25:17

for most of the game.

25:18

But I will also say it was a weird season

25:20

and you can only play the teams in front of you

25:23

but I do think the people who think the Patriots

25:25

are frauds do have some ammo here, Deante?

25:28

I wouldn't say they're frauds.

25:29

I'd say that today they were the same team.

25:31

They had been throughout the entire playoff run,

25:34

which is the offense disappeared

25:36

during the playoff run.

25:37

It was an awful offense, terrible, all postseason.

25:40

They played four straight games against four good defenses

25:42

and the defenses they played against kick their asses

25:45

in all four of them.

25:46

They just happened to force enough turnovers

25:48

and play well enough with their defense

25:50

to be able to get by.

25:51

Like I said, this was the one team

25:52

that was not going to hand them the game

25:54

that had enough explosiveness and was consistent enough

25:57

not hampered by weather conditions or anything like that

26:00

to be able to finish the deal.

26:02

But New England looked like the same team

26:03

that they've been for the last month,

26:05

which is a team that can win a game if you make mistakes.

26:09

But if you hold onto the ball, if you're smart

26:10

with the ball and your defense plays well,

26:12

they were always going to be vulnerable

26:14

and susceptible to a game like this.

26:16

The fraud question probably isn't fair

26:18

and I'm the one that asked it.

26:19

But here's the thing about them and about Drake May, right?

26:24

Did they blow their opportunity?

26:26

I think one argument in their favor is

26:30

who's the power in the AFC next season?

26:33

I mean, you don't necessarily see them

26:34

and say they're going to come back

26:36

to the Super Bowl next year, right?

26:37

But who's the one that's going to be in their way?

26:40

I think it's not just one.

26:42

It's the fact that there's going to be a group

26:44

that was not in there this year that they'll have to play.

26:48

They didn't have to play Josh Allen.

26:50

They didn't have to play Patrick Mahomes.

26:51

They didn't have to play Lamar Jackson.

26:53

They didn't have to play Joe Burrow.

26:55

I know the chargers never want to play off game

26:56

but they're going to be better.

26:58

Josh Allen had to be Trevor Lawrence

26:59

so you didn't have to see that Jacksonville team.

27:01

Yeah.

27:02

So like, because there is always this thing

27:05

when you have a young team or a young quarterback

27:07

who gets their sooner, you always are like,

27:10

oh, well, they'll be back.

27:11

And as the broadcast pointed out,

27:13

much to Billy Shagran, my dolphins fan,

27:15

he's like, you know, they're like,

27:16

or will it be like Dan Moreno?

27:18

And he's like, why do they have to mention that?

27:19

Every time I was just looking at Colin's

27:21

or whoever was just looking to take that shot

27:23

for some reason.

27:24

It's a personal loss, you know?

27:26

But it is a good point.

27:27

I feel like there's no guarantee.

27:29

They might, they could never make,

27:30

might never make a super bowl.

27:31

It should happen to the Lions a couple of years ago.

27:33

Right.

27:34

And Dan Campbell was crying after the game's like,

27:36

that might have been our window and we're like,

27:37

come on, Dan, stop being ridiculous.

27:39

And he was right.

27:39

I mean, he was right.

27:40

That was the closest they got.

27:41

Now the case for them, Deontay,

27:43

if you're a Patriots fan, you listen to this

27:45

and be like, shut up, you're wrong.

27:47

Is that maybe, because we have to get to the heart

27:49

of what happened to them in the playoffs.

27:51

So the theories are Drake May's shoulder was hurt way more

27:55

than they were letting on and we're going to find out by the time

27:58

you listen to this, they're going to be like,

28:00

he had 17 surgeries on his shoulder an hour after the game

28:03

and we'll be staying in San Francisco for the next six months

28:06

because he can't fly.

28:07

He battled through it, unbelievable performance.

28:09

That's one.

28:10

It could be that it was a combination of different things.

28:12

Whether in one game, opponent in this game,

28:15

AFC championship, it was just that,

28:17

hey, we don't want to give the game away.

28:19

So we're going to play this certain style.

28:22

It could be that.

28:23

It could be that they beat up underneath the schedule regular season.

28:26

You faced tougher teams and now all of a sudden

28:28

your offense isn't as good.

28:29

Here's the one I actually think it might be.

28:31

Is that the deficiencies around Drake May

28:35

caught up to them in a real way where it was like,

28:38

before the season, I'm looking at the old line

28:39

and the wide receiver's going like, you know,

28:42

I'd like Drake May, but this is going to still be very hard

28:45

for them to succeed with this.

28:46

And he was able to overcome that for a while

28:49

because of those other factors,

28:50

but eventually it catches up to you.

28:52

So I feel like they have an off season

28:54

where we could look at this team in week one of next season

28:56

and be like, wow, Drake May is in a way better spot now

28:59

than he was even in the Super Bowl.

29:01

I think that's true.

29:01

I think that when you look at, especially up front,

29:04

they had two rookies playing side by side in a Super Bowl

29:07

in Jared Holtz and in Will Campbell.

29:08

And I mean, those two got roundly beat throughout the playoffs

29:12

and were clearly being targeted throughout today's action

29:16

in the Super Bowl.

29:17

I think you would, you can't assume that trajectory

29:20

is always just going to be upward, right?

29:22

Like, that's not how this works in the sport

29:23

or in any sport.

29:24

Especially for losers of the Super Bowl the next year.

29:26

Exactly.

29:27

You can only get, there's only one condition

29:29

that would be better than where you were just at, right?

29:31

But I think you would say, try me on Henderson,

29:34

Will Campbell, Jared Wilson, a second year quarterback.

29:37

Maybe you can address some other things

29:39

with the receiver.

29:40

AJ Brown.

29:41

Possibly.

29:42

Possibly.

29:43

I feel like that could ease.

29:44

I feel like that could happen soon around them.

29:47

It could be AJ Brown.

29:48

It might not have to be AJ Brown.

29:49

What if it's Alec Pierce plus another receiver instead

29:52

of the whatever currency is going to take for you

29:55

to go acquire a player like AJ Brown?

29:57

I wish he'd say, he'd say, how about both?

30:01

Why not?

30:02

Why not?

30:03

Well, quarterback on a rookie contract, right?

30:05

Did it look like the moment was too big for him today?

30:07

Did he see, no, it's always right.

30:10

Yeah, Drake May, he seemed nervous.

30:11

I mean, he seemed to be rushing things,

30:12

but it could also be, he didn't want to keep getting destroyed,

30:15

you know?

30:16

Yeah.

30:17

Yeah.

30:18

I honestly just think he was getting crushed.

30:19

Yeah, it wasn't like even the place where he wasn't getting crushed.

30:22

He wasn't good, but as we've seen with quarterbacks,

30:24

when you get hit, it has like a cumulative effect for all of a sudden.

30:27

He's rushing throws.

30:28

He's off target.

30:29

He really has looked like a different guy the last month.

30:32

And even during the season, he had like the best numbers in the NFL

30:35

when he was pressured.

30:36

So again, it was like, it wasn't, it wasn't that he wasn't getting pressured.

30:40

It was like when he is getting pressured, he's Superman.

30:42

And then if you look at the playoffs, he's turned into like the worst quarterback

30:45

in the NFL when pressure.

30:46

So this isn't Super Bowl related, but it's probably good that he didn't win the MVP,

30:50

right?

30:51

Because it would have been bad.

30:52

If the MVP, he comes out and he has that stinker of a game, I'm like, oh, that would

30:54

have been rough.

30:55

Now, can we talk about the fact that Justin Herbert got a 90 people, and that's what caution

31:01

the MVP.

31:02

I can't do that.

31:03

That's crazy.

31:04

I can't do this.

31:05

I can't do this.

31:06

Sam Monson.

31:07

We're a PFF buddies.

31:08

I always got your back.

31:09

Okay.

31:10

Okay.

31:11

If nobody else got you, I got you.

31:12

Well, listen, he at least said who he voted for.

31:14

Yeah.

31:15

He gave the reasoning.

31:16

I don't see the reasoning for Justin Herbert.

31:18

This is to me, his hipster culture has gone too far in the NFL, only because I understand

31:23

Justin Herbert had bad circumstances, but if I'm a Patriots fan, I'm like, Drake may

31:27

have bad circumstances too.

31:28

And he was like the best quarterback in the league statistically.

31:31

And Justin Herbert was what?

31:32

Like 21st.

31:33

So to me, it's like, if he had a grit, like I would, I think Dak Prescott would be more

31:37

deserving than.

31:38

Okay.

31:39

Justin Herbert.

31:40

No.

31:41

That's a great question.

31:42

It's like, at least I need somebody whose numbers are at a certain spot where it's like

31:46

if you've replaced him with somebody else, like if he was like the 10th best quarterback,

31:50

then I could be like, all right, he was 10th in EPA per play.

31:53

And if you put someone else in there, it would have been 25th.

31:56

But when you're 21st, there's like not that, you know, not that much further down you

32:01

can come.

32:02

But people are free to vote for who they want to say.

32:04

Yeah.

32:05

100%.

32:06

I think that all over board.

32:07

I wonder what he's telling you to target.

32:08

Everything would be a bond.

32:09

Everything would be a bond.

32:10

Everything would be a bond.

32:11

Everything would be a bond.

32:12

That rogue vote saved us embarrassment in the Super Bowl, right?

32:15

Yeah.

32:16

You could have the MVP and then look at this.

32:18

That actually would have looked, but yeah, because if Drake May would have won it, and

32:22

then we just saw Stafford face the car and then we just saw Drake May face the C-Hogs.

32:26

Yeah.

32:27

That probably wouldn't have been great.

32:28

I mean, so say a month in here, one of the winners was Super Bowl.

32:31

Four saw this.

32:32

100%.

32:33

A month ago.

32:34

I mean, to your original question about like, is this, was this too soon, will they be

32:38

back where they frauds for not being able to come through in this moment?

32:42

As we're talking, the thing I just keep thinking about is Drake May's hometown team, Carolina

32:46

Panthers, who were here, who were in that stadium, a decade ago, you know, and came up short

32:52

and everybody thought, hey, Cam Newton and his prime just won an MVP, Luke Keekley already

32:56

looked like a Hall of Fame level player.

32:58

They had all this defensive talent.

33:00

They were on the upswing at that point in time as a franchise, and they didn't come

33:03

back.

33:04

And a lot of that is because the NFC at that time had so many great quarterbacks.

33:08

You're still talking about Drew Breeze and Aaron Rodgers, right?

33:10

You had Carson Palmer, who I played really well in Arizona at that time.

33:14

It's entirely possible that yes, we see the Patriots regularly in the playoffs for the

33:19

next half decade.

33:21

And it just doesn't matter because they end up on the road playing Baltimore or playing

33:24

Buffalo or playing Kansas City or Cincinnati, right?

33:28

It can swing just that quickly.

33:29

Well, I mean, it's early in his career, right?

33:32

But that's kind of where Joe Burrow is at, too.

33:34

That's right, right?

33:35

He's made the Super Bowl right away, hasn't gotten close since.

33:38

I mean, he's so plenty of career left, but he hasn't gotten close to being back to the

33:42

Super Bowl.

33:43

It's hard.

33:44

It's hard to get this.

33:45

Yeah, it turns out it's hard to make this a lot of stuff as to go the way.

33:47

You know, you have to like get the schedule.

33:48

You have to pile up the wind.

33:50

You have to be silly.

33:51

Stay healthy.

33:52

Stay healthy is the biggest one.

33:53

I mean, these quarterbacks, it's like you look at some of them and it's like, unless

33:56

you're like Josh Allen, injuries are a part of almost every season.

34:01

It's just a matter of how bad it is.

34:03

Can you play through it?

34:04

Did you get injured in September?

34:05

Did you suffer that devastating injury in December?

34:07

Now you look like a different guy in the playoffs.

34:10

So I like Drake.

34:11

I just like Drake Meila.

34:12

I'm on the record.

34:13

I like Drake Meila.

34:14

Yeah.

34:15

This is a poor reflection on Drake Meila.

34:16

Yeah.

34:17

Put that on the record.

34:18

But yeah, there are no guarantees.

34:19

I mean, this was bad.

34:20

I was so among 33 quarterbacks who played at least three playoff games in a post season.

34:26

The last 10 years, he ranks 47th out of 52 starters in EPA for past.

34:32

It's kind of one of the worst.

34:34

In terms of quarterbacks whose teams won, it's almost, it's like one of the worst quarterback

34:39

players.

34:40

Yes.

34:41

They don't get this far.

34:42

It's said much better.

34:43

See, this is why you need help from your friends because I, I don't know what I was

34:46

saying.

34:47

I couldn't explain it.

34:48

And then Deontay, just with the one liner there, co-pilot, a lot of weird broadcast moments.

34:53

There was, there was Collinsworth where for whatever reason they were talking about the

34:57

onsite kick.

34:59

And he said, I'll never forget where I was.

35:00

I was at the concession stand.

35:02

It's like, wait.

35:03

But then in one of the Drake May, so in Drake May's interception in the middle of the

35:08

field, they went to Chris Collinsworth for analysis and he said, and I quote, I got nothing

35:14

for you here.

35:15

So it's because I'll bet the past was like the broadcasting was awesome today.

35:20

They are great.

35:21

Honestly, just a very fun listen.

35:23

It was very much like this is our last game this year.

35:27

They had that officiating thing where you kind of put it out right before they threw it

35:30

over to their official in studio.

35:32

And he was like, yeah, that was a wrong call.

35:34

You know what?

35:35

They did a great job because they all, I've ripped the officiating experts all the time

35:40

on here because some of them to mention names where's my, you know, I'm talking, I'm

35:46

talking about, I guess my camera.

35:47

I don't know if I did that right or not.

35:49

But some of them are like, you know, it's just like, this is my chance to shine.

35:52

And they talk for eight minutes.

35:53

You have no idea.

35:55

So Tareko, what he did was, it was the catch, Cooper cut catch on the first possession.

36:00

And it just goes, Terry says that would have been a catch.

36:02

Thank you.

36:03

We just solved the officiating expert thing.

36:05

We actually don't need to hear from them.

36:07

We just need them to tell the broadcast.

36:09

Was it the right call or the wrong call?

36:11

So they did a nice job there.

36:13

But the concession thing had me rolling.

36:14

That one, we need to spend another minute because they're talking about the Thomas Morstead

36:19

onsite kick.

36:20

Saints Colts.

36:21

They're iconic.

36:22

Literally.

36:23

What a great is Super Bowl.

36:24

I started out the second half with that.

36:27

And Chris Collins were, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, you're meant, everyone remembers

36:30

where they were for that.

36:31

And Chris Collins were just, I was at the concession stand and Tareko just moved on to

36:40

the next thing.

36:41

I mean, I don't understand why you're playing by playing guys lap.

36:46

What is he supposed to do with that?

36:48

That was very, those very Al Michaels, listen to his cons work.

36:51

I'm not here to tell NBC content, social media what to do.

36:56

But I would like to learn more about, I mean, so he wasn't calling the game, I presume.

37:00

He couldn't have been because that was a CBS program.

37:01

Okay.

37:02

So he's there as a fan, presumably, or media, I guess he could have been media half time lines,

37:07

I guess.

37:08

No, but I mean, half time is so extended.

37:10

Why was there a musical back?

37:12

He was the concession stand with like the commoners.

37:14

Did he mean the media press box thing?

37:17

I don't know.

37:18

Maybe.

37:19

Imagine just going to a game and Chris Collins was just going to hang out.

37:23

He's a tall dude.

37:24

He's a big dude.

37:25

Just seeing Gangler Chris Collins work.

37:27

I got to tell you.

37:28

Trying to grab that hot dog.

37:30

Just looking.

37:31

Trying to grab a can of Miller light and a hot dog, you know, I uncovered a new football

37:36

strategy today that I floated by you very briefly and you said, tell me no more.

37:40

Okay.

37:41

Let's talk about this later.

37:42

I actually forget what it was.

37:43

So I discovered kind of like a glitch in football and in the NFL that can be kind

37:49

of exploited by a smart coach down the road.

37:53

So we saw or we didn't see because they intentionally didn't show us this situation.

37:57

There was a streak around the field and legends, they were, you know, just no sure.

38:02

But a streak was on the field and it delayed the game a good like three, four minutes.

38:08

Why can football teams not employ people to go and streak on the field on their behalf

38:16

should they be out of time out?

38:18

You can't like have it be known.

38:20

This is the team's official streak, right?

38:22

Yeah.

38:23

But like you have like a guy like a big dom or someone and he goes out there, you know,

38:26

for the Eagles and he tells some of his friends, hey, you know what?

38:29

We're going to post bail.

38:31

I know some of the cops in the city.

38:33

This will get expunged.

38:34

You're not a big deal.

38:35

Like it's not really going to affect you long term.

38:37

But why don't you have like two or three people in the stands in a game like the Superbowl?

38:42

So if you run out, you're down by five under two minutes left.

38:46

You're at a time out.

38:47

You can't stop the clock.

38:48

Right?

38:49

Yeah.

38:50

You're driving.

38:51

You can't stop the clock.

38:52

Boom.

38:53

Someone runs on the field.

38:54

They have to stop the game.

38:56

And they're not going to know that this person's attached.

38:57

Do you why?

38:58

Why has no one done this?

39:00

Honestly, you've had many great ideas, but this is the best.

39:02

I think this is peak because especially, you know, I was thinking about it because this

39:06

is the Superbowl.

39:07

This was actually the hardest situation because you had a neutral site.

39:10

Yeah.

39:11

There's so much security.

39:12

If you can pull it out, if a striker can get on the field here, that's a hell of a

39:15

cheater.

39:16

That's why you have two or three though, because then you can kind of attack from

39:18

different fronts.

39:19

You know what?

39:20

This brings up a great follow up question.

39:22

How far down on your friends list do you have to go to find a handful?

39:26

A handful of people.

39:27

How many knows are you getting before you collect your three striker?

39:31

striker? Well, because as he was describing it, let's say it's Lincoln financial field.

39:34

Let's say it is big down. He go, you know, he, all right, they, you have to

39:37

identify the people ahead of time, right? All right.

39:39

There's three people, get them good seats here,

39:41

put them in their family and friends.

39:42

Yeah, go up to the event staff person.

39:44

Hey, just so you know, it's those three people that have the game a little

39:48

you look at big time and it's like a basic, it's like a third base code.

39:50

Like when he goes, yeah, there has to be a such a cute.

39:53

There has to be a son and then they're on the field and forget bail.

39:58

Like they're just, this is all handled under the table.

40:00

I mean, you're, you're at home, you can do whatever you want.

40:03

Well, no, you have to, no, I think you have to carry.

40:06

Here's the thing, there has to be like a degree of separation, right?

40:08

Because this, like, if this were to ever happen,

40:12

and this person is found out to be like paid and like arranged by the team,

40:16

like this would probably blow the Connor Stallion's thing out of the water.

40:20

I mean, Victoria would have a field day.

40:22

Yeah, but like, this is the greatest story.

40:24

I feel like you need, you could get this.

40:27

There will be people willing to do this.

40:29

Here's the deal.

40:30

This has to be a, a save it for the right moment thing.

40:34

Yeah, you can't do this three times.

40:35

No, this is like home playoff game.

40:38

A lot on the line.

40:40

I think you do this for this.

40:41

I like this.

40:41

I think because here's the thing, if it gets, if you're the head coach,

40:46

you have to be 100% separated from this situation.

40:49

Because this would be horrible ramifications for you.

40:52

If it's found out that you orchestrated this, right?

40:55

But you need to have someone there and you could,

40:57

you can only really probably pull it out once.

40:59

Like, guess if you pull it off the first time,

41:01

this is a problem with like a heist, right?

41:03

Like heist movies.

41:04

There's always one more job.

41:06

There's always one more job.

41:07

Once you pull it off, you get a little greeting.

41:09

You always go one too far.

41:11

Listen, there are people dying to work for NFL franchises.

41:14

There's like a quality control coach.

41:16

There's an intern.

41:18

There are low level.

41:19

Yeah, the coach doesn't even have to know about this, honestly.

41:21

Except you know, you have one conversation at one time

41:23

and they say, you don't need to know anything about it,

41:27

but we got you.

41:28

Don't worry about it.

41:29

And then you have someone else handle it.

41:30

I think it's a great idea.

41:32

I would like to see if anybody knows it.

41:34

The one thing I will say is to learn from the shrieker in today's game.

41:37

Because he did an excellent job of giving his body up.

41:40

Yeah, I thought that.

41:41

Oh, I didn't see it.

41:41

He's got a bunch of-

41:42

You must have had.

41:43

Where was the fun as you just said

41:44

they didn't show on the broadcast?

41:46

You guys are searching this somewhere and don't send it to me?

41:48

Yeah, so whoever this guy is,

41:50

he must have had a history as a quarterback.

41:51

Because we want to say, like, textbook slide,

41:53

Ask Kyle Williams is coming in.

41:55

And it felt like-

41:56

Kyle Williams was going astray.

41:58

It almost felt like the slide was so good

42:00

and triggered an automatic response in Kyle Williams.

42:02

Because he immediately back off.

42:04

Like, hey, man, he gave his body up.

42:06

If I make contact with this guy's 15 yards,

42:08

it's an automatic first nail.

42:09

Even the security seemed like they kind of played it a little easy on him.

42:12

He got lucky, he didn't have the aggressive security guards

42:16

who wanted to come in and just take a free swim.

42:18

So he's feeling good tomorrow and he wakes up.

42:19

Yeah, I might have felt good.

42:20

He might be able to do it.

42:21

But not as bad as the other ones would be.

42:23

Oh, 100%.

42:24

Okay.

42:24

You know, Toreco, I always laugh when the announcers feel

42:28

like they have to get to a certain outrage level.

42:30

Yes.

42:30

When that happens, Toreco actually didn't do that.

42:32

Another feather in his cap.

42:34

He's called a Moroccan scientist.

42:35

Yeah.

42:36

He was male.

42:37

His head was already in Milan, you know.

42:39

Yeah, sorry.

42:40

He's like, I'm headed to the Olympics.

42:41

I don't care.

42:42

You can call it Sivan's injury later.

42:44

Thank you.

42:45

Crazy.

42:45

All right, one more break.

42:46

Come back, get to some leftovers here.

42:48

And wrap up our coverage of Super Bowl 60.

42:52

All right, we are back here on the ringer NFL show.

42:55

Are we covered?

42:56

See how you had the, you had a case for another MVP over Kenneth Walker.

43:00

Tionte that I thought was interesting.

43:01

I did.

43:02

I had devil with a spoon.

43:03

I think ultimately statistically,

43:05

when his sack was ruled as an interception by you, Shinnon Osu,

43:09

that actually in the car.

43:10

I heard it.

43:10

Yeah.

43:11

You got to have, you could just kind of have to have

43:13

the counting numbers as a defensive guy, right?

43:15

The kind of how Malcolm Smith was able to get it,

43:17

getting the fumble recovery,

43:18

gets the interception that he takes back to the house

43:20

against the Broncos.

43:21

And to see how it's played them in 2013 in New York.

43:24

But I thought that at least defensively,

43:26

he was the most valuable player on the field.

43:28

Like, I think I tweeted out that it was a rendez-barber-esque

43:30

performance, right?

43:31

Like, I think about all the time that he was used as a blitzer.

43:35

He had two TFLs in this game.

43:37

We mentioned the sacks.

43:38

He ended up getting a pass break up as well.

43:41

And it's very similar, I think, to when you and I were

43:44

in the press box last year in New Orleans watching Cooper D'Gene.

43:47

And I was just watching him on a snap-by-snap basis.

43:48

And I'm like, you cannot convince me that this isn't the best football

43:52

player on the field right now.

43:53

That's kind of how Devon Witherspoon looked,

43:55

even though he didn't win MVP ultimately,

43:57

I think that he had about as big of an impact

44:00

as any singular player did in this game.

44:02

So it was a great argument.

44:04

When Dianne was making it in real time.

44:05

And it's beginning to regal.

44:07

He was like, oh, if Kenneth Walker,

44:08

if they were to let that run go without the whole thing,

44:10

he's like, that could have been an MVP decider.

44:13

It's like deciding over who he didn't mention it,

44:15

probably thinking like the auntie was Jason Mayer.

44:17

Listen, I was Jason Mayer.

44:18

I can't know him one because.

44:20

Yeah, no one wanted that.

44:21

So you could go online and vote.

44:22

I don't know who officially decided.

44:24

I didn't know that it's already told me.

44:25

Yeah, they set on the on the screen.

44:26

But that's what I was wondering too.

44:30

I don't know if that would work.

44:30

Who officially votes for the MVP of the Super Bowl?

44:33

I think media, right?

44:34

I think that there's a select panel.

44:35

Is it like the thing where it's like,

44:37

oh, you got one vote out of, you know,

44:39

four votes or whatever, probably not.

44:41

But you could go online at like NFL.com slash MVP or whatever ads.

44:45

Come on.

44:46

Well, that wasn't what ever.

44:47

It's just my Jason Mayer wasn't even an option.

44:49

And at the time, he was the only way.

44:51

It scored any point.

44:52

Totally so.

44:53

No specialist.

44:54

So no specials get to win Super Bowl MVP.

44:57

What if you would have just given it to Seahawks special teams?

45:00

Like how are we to between the punter and the kicker?

45:03

That's cowardly.

45:04

They were carrying the Seahawks for that.

45:06

What do you mean?

45:08

The real special teams is the MVP.

45:10

Yes.

45:10

The Grammy's just passed by.

45:11

Imagine if they had given a co-album of the year.

45:14

No, that's cowardly.

45:15

I feel like it's happened.

45:16

It's probably it's happening.

45:17

It was cowardly every time that it has.

45:19

I did love those sticks and punts though.

45:21

That's what I'm saying.

45:22

He put on a clinic.

45:23

How did he do that?

45:24

He put on a clinic.

45:24

Unbelievable.

45:26

Kevin O'Connor, happiest man in a...

45:27

Is he...

45:28

All right, well, I don't know.

45:29

Is he happiest or most upset?

45:31

Because there's two sides of it.

45:33

Happiest because he's like,

45:35

well, are you saying I engineered this

45:38

outster of our GM?

45:39

Now look, if I would have had Sam Donald,

45:42

we would have been playing in the Super Bowl.

45:43

Or is he actually upset?

45:44

Because he's like,

45:45

if we would have had Sam Donald win in the Super Bowl,

45:48

you've got to be upset.

45:49

You have to be upset.

45:51

It's not just that this guy wins a Super Bowl

45:53

and his backup went eight and one to start the year

45:56

or whatever the case may have been.

45:58

It had the most efficient offense

45:59

before he ended up tearing his Achilles.

46:01

So I do think that you're kicking yourself,

46:03

even if you're the GM who kind of helped

46:06

with orchestrating,

46:08

this roster is no longer there.

46:09

You have to be thinking,

46:10

either one of those two guys on this offense

46:13

and that might have been us.

46:15

I wonder if teams will do crazy stuff.

46:16

This offseason being like,

46:18

we're going to build a great defense

46:19

and we're going to go get this quarterback

46:21

and we're going to win next year.

46:23

Like we were saying,

46:23

that's going to be a talking point this week

46:26

but I actually wonder if NFL teams are going to do that.

46:29

Let's say you're Miami or your Arizona.

46:32

You have ties to Green Bay.

46:34

Malik Willis's deal is coming up.

46:36

He'll be a free agent.

46:37

Yeah. What if a Michael Floor or your Jeff Hathley

46:39

and you say, you go get me Malik Willis

46:41

and give me two years to go draft up a defense?

46:44

You need the coach cell, I think.

46:46

You need the defensive coach.

46:47

I don't disagree with that.

46:49

I don't disagree.

46:49

So it would have to kind of be a Jeff Hathley

46:50

and then I guess you're still.

46:52

You're still dealing with the agency.

46:53

The Vikings could talk themselves into it for sure.

46:55

I think so.

46:56

You know, now they would have to get

46:58

good enough quarterback play

46:59

but they could talk themselves into

47:01

the Texans are probably like, man.

47:04

Are we that far away?

47:06

You know, we had a great defense.

47:08

The answer is probably no.

47:09

You have three turnovers instead of five

47:11

in the division around and they might have been

47:13

hoisting the Lombardi chart.

47:14

All right, so Texans are feeling pretty good.

47:16

There's not good free agent quarterbacks.

47:18

Broncos.

47:18

I look, there's Daniel Jones

47:20

but he's coming up in the injury.

47:22

Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Marcus Mariotta,

47:25

Zach Wilson.

47:26

Yeah.

47:27

Zach Wilson in the industry.

47:28

No.

47:29

Crazy is worse than two earlier.

47:31

No, but Kyler Murray's probably going to get traded.

47:33

That's probably the big dominoe to fall.

47:36

Yeah, Kirk Cousins is going to get released.

47:38

I don't know if you love it.

47:39

I'm more interested in who has the great,

47:41

who can build up the great defense

47:44

where maybe the quarterback doesn't have to be perfect.

47:46

No, Wilson.

47:47

Minnesota.

47:47

Minnesota.

47:48

Minnesota.

47:48

Flacco's out there.

47:50

One last ride for Joe Flacco.

47:51

Like, oh, maybe.

47:52

Let's say, all right.

47:53

What a Christian Gonzalez great game.

47:55

I'm just going to my leftovers here.

47:56

It was awesome.

47:57

Oh my gosh.

47:58

Probably, I mean, outside of Denver,

48:00

whether it's from my favorite defensive player

48:01

to watch today.

48:02

Yeah.

48:02

Probably should have had two interceptions,

48:04

frankly, but played, played excellently throughout the game.

48:08

Riley Mills is it okay to admit

48:10

that I work in football content.

48:12

And when he, this guy named Riley Mills,

48:14

I think that's his name had a sack.

48:16

I was like, I don't know who that is.

48:17

Is that okay?

48:18

Should we cut that out?

48:19

I think everybody should be allowed,

48:20

like three to five per roster.

48:22

I mean, yeah.

48:23

I was talking, we were sitting next to Danny Kelly

48:26

and I looked over and I was like,

48:27

isn't that like the ninth defensive lineman

48:29

in your, in your rotation?

48:30

Like, why would any reasonable person be asked

48:32

to know who this rookie defensive tackle is?

48:35

Yeah.

48:35

I had no idea.

48:36

All right.

48:36

Anything else you guys need to get off your chest?

48:38

How are you feeling?

48:39

Billy, you look like you're,

48:40

D.R., you're just googling stuff.

48:41

What are you looking at?

48:41

I'm going through the notes.

48:42

I was disappointed by the commercials this year.

48:45

Superbowl commercials.

48:46

Can I be honest?

48:47

I don't.

48:47

All right.

48:47

So are you, you tell me why were you disappointed?

48:49

That there was none.

48:51

There's no like memorable like great commercials

48:54

that wrote down like three or four commercials.

48:56

There's a coin-based commercial

48:58

where it was just karaoke of Backstreet Boys.

49:00

I wanted that way.

49:01

There were two Backstreet Boys commercials, I believe.

49:03

There was a liquid IV commercial

49:06

with singing toilets, singing take a look at me

49:08

and now encourage.

49:09

Oh, that's right.

49:10

To look at your pee,

49:11

to see if you were dehydrated,

49:13

to take liquid IV.

49:14

Okay.

49:14

And then Benson Boone and Ben Stiller

49:16

were in an Instacart commercial,

49:18

where Ben Stiller was doing his flips

49:19

that he does when he sings all the time

49:21

and Ben Stiller was trying to do that

49:22

and he was falling.

49:24

I'm totally indifferent.

49:25

I just feel so washed

49:28

and like I can't speak about any topics

49:30

because these companies come up

49:31

and I don't know what that is.

49:32

I don't know what they do.

49:33

I've heard about that one before

49:34

but I don't know what it is.

49:35

Hmm.

49:36

His name is Philly Kill.

49:38

His name is Deontay Leigh.

49:40

Thanks to everybody for listening all season.

49:42

Last football game.

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Are you sad?

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No.

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I'm with you.

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No.

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I'm like, I'm good.

49:46

I had my fill.

49:47

It was a fun season.

49:49

But I could not find with a little bread.

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I'm a completionist, man.

49:51

Once he's done, I'm totally fine.

49:53

Let's get a foot off this door.

49:54

I'm going to say, I don't want to look at my hand again.

49:56

So I can do this every day.

49:58

So I'm going to restructure some deals on over the cat.

50:00

I can't wait for air shots.

50:01

There's new bunts to come out for.

50:03

Big trades and be a playoffs.

50:05

Yes, sir.

50:06

Madness and golf majors.

50:08

String training.

50:10

You don't care about the draft.

50:12

You don't care about the draft?

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I am the host of NFL.

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I can't say I don't care about it.

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But I like to give me some space.

50:17

Okay.

50:18

I like to, you know,

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I like to progress in it in college.

50:20

I like to just cram at the end.

50:22

All right, I don't need to hear

50:23

your 400 different things.

50:24

Let me just cram at the end.

50:26

I'll form some bad takes.

50:27

You don't have any shields.

50:28

Big boards coming out soon.

50:29

No, there will not be.

50:29

No, V1, V2s or that.

50:31

And there will not be.

50:32

But on the ranger.com,

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there will be Danny Kelly.

50:35

We'll see you.

50:36

DK, Todd McShay.

50:38

Deantay, I'll be doing.

50:39

Deantay has good draft takes.

50:41

I don't know if I have draft.

50:41

I have draft takes.

50:42

I don't know if I have good draft takes,

50:43

but I have drafts.

50:44

Yes.

50:44

We will have all those cover.

50:46

But we appreciate everyone listening.

50:48

All season long, we'll move to kind of a different

50:50

little set up here for the offseason,

50:53

which we will get to you as soon as possible.

50:55

We'll be back later this week.

50:57

So again, thanks to Billy.

50:58

Thanks to Deantay.

50:59

Thank you to Christopher Sun.

51:00

Congratulations to Christopher Sun and Seahawks fan

51:03

for producing us today.

51:05

Had to watch with us.

51:06

But he got to celebrate.

51:07

So it worked out well for him.

51:08

Stefano Sanchez on video

51:10

and additional production.

51:11

Supervision by Connor Nevans

51:12

in our Junot,

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51:14

I'm Shilka Padio.

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We will talk to you soon

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