Divisional Round Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes, Mahomes Is Inevitable And The Lions Are In The NFC Championship Game

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, January 22nd and it's NFL divisional round.

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Not gonna get him. We start in Baltimore, where Stephen the Sims gave the Texans a fake life with a first half punt return for a touchdown. But LaMarche of the Penguins? Jackson, who was the star of the movie, as he waddled all over the icy turf of Baltimore? Running for 102 scores, Admiral Nelson Aguilar was rumming through the back of the end zone on a dark and stormy day. And it's time to tuck in P..J. Stroud and his jam jams as the Texan season goes night-night.

Ravens 34, Texans 10.

Niners 24, Packers 21.

Up a heart taunting Demar Hamlin. And he took that personally, calling his own number on a fake punt and getting a busy signal. Mikola Hardman caught the ball up, giving the bills life. But it was Tyler Bass who clearly didn't take any of Sean McDermott's speech to heart as he failed to hit.

Either of the two uprights, no one kicks it right in crucial moments like the Buffalo Bills.

Moments It was awesome. This is my favorite week of football, it always is every year. Divisional Round, Super Wildcard Weekend is nice.

I have a take. I kind of like Championship Sunday the most because I like, here's all right. Listen, I know it's less football, but there's just something special about booking a trip to the Superbowl. It's like, feels historic. I don't know well. As a fan. If you're a fan of one, No. Just watching it, even just watching it, even if you're not a fan of either team, it's like, Well, this is the Superbowl.

Superbowl week I'm kind of like, Belichick, you get the Championship trophy, just hand it right back, here you go. I don't even look at this.

It was an awesome weekend. It's just data, too. Like you, if one of the games is a stinker.

Yeah, no, you're right, you're right. There's a there's a high likelihood that one of the games will be a blowout. And you're like, Fuck, I feel unfulfilled, but yeah, this was an.

It was a great weekend, great weekend of football. It was good. I think. For the most part, the better teams won, yeah.

Teams won, I think so, I think all four better teams won, so we're going to think about it, yeah.

In the Championship weekend, I'm very excited about it. Yeah, the two best teams in each.

In each conference, are in in the championship game and we're in a little bit of a pickle.

On the N.F.C. side, yes, yes, well, we have friends on both sides, just points.

Yeah, all right, let's get into it. Ravens 34, Texans 10 The first game on Saturday. Um, we could talk about the Texans later and how the season was great for them, but this was the Ravens.

Destroyed. They made adjustments at halftime, yeah, cause the Ravens defense was good, awesome.

Entire time, no, they could, they couldn't run the ball at all and it felt like every coverage that they were. Like the Ravens. What the Ravens do so well, too, is they don't even have like these elite pass rushers. They have guys, obviously, they're very, very good, but their coverage is like confuses quarterback so much that they just always are being able to get to the passer.

Because it's just there's nothing there, yeah, the only time the Texans were able to do anything offensively is if. C.J. Stroud made an incredible throw and broke off a chunk of like 20 25 yards and it was in like the tightest windows possible. Had to his guidance stride, it had to be perfect throw.

On that side of the ball, it was that first half play where he, like, rolled out and I can't remember who he hit. It might've been Singletary, who Patrick Green was guarding him, and it was like Patrick Green was completely smothering him. And C.J. Stroud put it in the only spot that he could catch it, and we all were like, Damn C.J. Stroud.

Had besides that, they did absolutely nothing. The Ravens defense was incredible in the second half, whatever they figured out at halftime to adjust because the Texans, they blitzed way more than.

The Ravens were expecting. I give them credit, I give D'Amico credit, it worked. We're going to.

Just try to do this. So the Texans did, I think everything that the Texans could possibly do in this game. I think they just ran into a limitation of, like, who the Texans are versus who the Ravens are. Right, they kept it close in the first half.

Have to win this game for us. And you saw Lamar, Uh, ran for a hundred yards. And there was a couple where it was like, Oh, everyone's blitzing around the edge. Let me just run for 30 yards in the.

Middle of the field, yeah, they did a couple of those sweet, uh, design keepers, where Lamar would like fake the handoff, tuck the ball and just sprint around the edge. And then they started running past variations on that same play. At that point, the Texans are like, Well, we can't do anything.

Open, yes, wide, open window. I did not realize until they showed the graphic. That the Texans are the only franchise in the NFL to never be in a conference Championship game. That's a bummer.

Well, yeah, that's because it started in what 2001 sort of the J. The Jaguars, so the Jaguars couple, the Panthers have been in the Superbowl, the Jaguars Panthers, that was what.

Talent Yeah, it just sucks. Because this was, you know, it was a a a great season, a great first season for C.J. Stroud. I called it the best rookie year for a QB ever. And it just you just ran into an absolute buzzsaw. And the Ravens have been demolishing teams.

Season as Texans are just getting your ass kicked by the Ravens like this fucking guy. The offense did not score any touchdowns. Their their special teams was the difference maker for them. That's how they got their points for the Texans.

Fucked over my entire operation. But then where does it stop? Because then David Tepper could also sue the restaurant that had the scallops on the menu. That's true, that was entrapment.

Prank Go back to measuring skulls. How about that? Figure out, figure out some other angle?

That nobody has yet. Yeah, um, a couple other things I want to talk about. Playoff Dalvin, Playoff Dalvin. Um, he had a nice long run and I w. I wouldn't mention Playoff Dalvin because he he wasn't really in the game much. But playoff Dalvin then went on a retweet spree about Playoff Dalvin that I just love.

You would have thought he's got some spunk in those legs, and it was just cause Gus Edwards.

Got hurt? Yeah, No, if you, if you looked at Dalvin Cooks Twitter, you would have thought he. He had like 25 carries for 150 yards, I think he had like four carries for like 28 yards. Easy, easy money.

Playoff Dalvin Let's see for 23, Okay, 23, that's good.

That's a fine average, 23 longer than 19. Maybe not. Keep calling, keep calling.

Dalvin keep calling, Yeah, listen to playoff, Dalvin shows up for big games and he shows up for the first carry.

Yeah, so the latest that I saw is that he's taken a few head coaching interviews. I think he did an interview with someone before the Ravens game and he talked about the passing of the torch and he also. It was leaked that his contract that he has been negotiating with Michigan while doing these interviews has an immunity clause in it, which I love. So he's negotiating on both sides of the table.

Every coach, instead of putting in like a massive buyout, is going to start doing this.

Yeah, I mean, well, he's in a certain spot in terms of leverage where he could do that. Because he just won them. A national title for the first time since, like, 1948, so.

Yeah, he can do that immunity clause. He does do the Leverage tour every off season, though this one feels like he's taking these opportunities pretty seriously at the NFL level.

Yeah, I feel like this week we're going to start getting some announcements. Bill Belichick for the Falcons, Harbaugh to the Chargers, that type of stuff, Ben Johnson to the Commanders, Ben Johnson to the commanders.

Yeah, that is wild at the bank.

At the bank, and by the way, I meant to say this, that crowd was awesome.

They got a game ball.

They had, I think the Texans had like seven or eight pre-snap penalties where they were just jumping off sides constantly, false starts constantly. That was all crowd.

Baltimore is a very tough place to play and they love their ravens, so it is going to be cool to see them. I hope they get the later game.

They do not have the later game.

They won't because it's going to be San Francisco. Wait, do they have the later game? I can't imagine that it will. Well, no, they swap it every year.

Yeah, because sometimes you'll notice like it'll be daytime for the NFC starting, so it doesn't matter, it's predetermined.

It's always swapped.

Although it will be dark, second half will be dark.

Okay, good, good.

Three, Eastern, Yeah, fourth, yeah, yeah, it'll be dark.

I like that good for Baltimore, I'm happy for them, happy for the fans, happy for Stave.

Get those camo pants on.

It's so funny when Stave does the pump-up videos because he knows that it's going out for the team account. And he has to watch what he says very carefully. Yes, if you've ever seen any of the old Ronnie videos where he talks about, like getting his dick sucked. He has to be very, very careful with his choice of words and what he chooses.

To say.

But yeah, happy for Ravens fans, happy for Baltimore. First AFC Championship game in the city of Baltimore since 1970..

It's crazy and their defense is ferocious. I think they're the best defense left. I think that's pretty easy to say at this point, yeah.

You don't want to let the guys before you down, yeah, or they'll stab you.

Isn't it nuts, though? Cause you're like, okay, this is, they're. They're just playing Ravens football where they just beat the fuck out of you gang, tackle you. They're like, never letting you get extra yards, and they just play with a nastiness that that's just Ravens football.

I like saying, they got dudes on every level, that's what you say, if you're a football guy, they do. They got Jadevia and Clowney, they got Patrick Queen and Ro'Kwan, and then Kyle Hamilton is a fucking monster.

And Marlon Humphrey didn't even play in this game.

Yeah, I know, so it was, it was an ass kicking through and through. I'm beginning to think, maybe the problem with Lamar this whole time in the playoffs was just that. You don't get to play NFC teams if you want to make it to the AFC Championship game. And somehow he's gotten over that hump.

This will be a big test. Him, it's the it's Lamar like last, you know, step. Going against Patrick Mahomes, who just keeps winning in the playoffs, that's all he does, yeah.

Yeah, he has. Uh, so Max, I'm curious to know, um, as a Philly guy, are you a little bit upset? That they call their stadium the bank? There can only be one bank we should do Bank of the year.

Uh, bank of the year, Bank of the year. Take these. Sure, I. That's the least of my worries right now.

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Yeah, but Brock Purdy did not play last year. the difference was fourth quarter, brock this year. Yeah, I actually love this game for the Brock Purdy.

Issues with the glove? He was literally patting his his, his uh, jersey during the snap.

Yeah, he, he had during the drop back. I mean, he had the glove off before the game, put the glove on, played with that for a little bit, then took the glove off. Based on how much it was raining or how his hand felt. I always say, skin to skin feels better, no glove, no love, take it off.

It was the perfect Brock Purdy game, because if you watch it, you're like, this guy is he good? And then the, and then the last drive, he was last two drives, he was very good. And uh, it's also was the perfect. Kyle Shanahan game one because he finally got that statistic off his resume, although it's still very bad up until they showed it.

KYLE ShANAhan Everything that makes a great football coach. Also, it makes you way less inclined to be really good at math right at the end of the game. So when it comes to those situations, you would rather have a guy that has just like, played Madden nonstop for the last 20 years and never left his couch. Making those decisions about when to call a timeout, all that stuff, all the game management stuff.

Right, it's perfect because you never want. Uh, the, you know, the guy who's like, insanely good looking also has an incredible sense of humor and is like, super night, like, you can't have it all. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan has almost all.

Tattoo that he has. I wish he had a better quarterback's name tattooed on his calf than.

Kristen It's true. He, he, though, gets that monkey off his back. The one win now is big, I feel like that stat.

Of the first half, yeah, he does not trust Brock Purdy all the way. I wouldn't have trust him all the way. But he had no choice but to go back to him in the fourth quarter and for some reason, Brock just decided. Oh, yeah, I was a everyone said. I was a top five quarterback this year.

Yeah, start playing like it, and he did play well at the end. But do you think there was ever a moment on the sideline that Kyle Shanahan and Sam Darnold locked eyes? Yeah.

Dude number one pick? Yeah, yeah, like, just think about it. I was texting my buddy in Scotland, who became a 49ers fan out of nowhere, like 20 years ago.

Brock's not coming back from this, it was it. There were moments where you're like, What is going on with Brock? Purdy? But the good news is Christian McCaffrey is still the best running back in football. That that run, that he broke, that like that would that kept the Niners in the game. Kittle was a monster.

When Kittle got the ball in his hands and he's like, I'm just going to try to tackle everybody while I run, I think McCaffrey is like, Oh yeah, we're playing football. Kittle was a monster.

Kittle's also one of the top guys, cause he had that one drop pass, uh, in the last drive, he dropped that one pass. And it's like he's one of the top guys who are like, the next ball that goes to him, he's catching no matter what he did.

He's going to drop this next pass. I'm a little bit concerned about the 49ers defense. If I'm, if I'm a Niners fan. I'm smashing the concern button, it's not the panic button yet, it's right next to the concern.

Went cheaper than Montez. Sweat. Chase Young now he doesn't stink, but when a team runs it at you constantly, there's something wrong, and when they constantly were running it at him, Chase.

Young's problem besides the fact that he was drafted second overall, so there's a big, you know, big expectations. He's a physical freak, he looks so intimidated. He looks like such a good player that when he doesn't put up any stats, you're like, what's going on with this guy?

Be a little bit worried about that if I was the niner. Chase. Young is also good for, like, three to five times a game. It feels like he just completely whiffs on the direction of where the play is going, like, he'll just he'll, he'll go down in the in the play, where we going wide.

Watching Chase Young? I can give you the guide to it. He'll either stand up straight and extend his arm and then stand there like he's playing the run and it'll be a pass play. Uh, he leads the league in tackling non ball carriers.

So I'm not going to do my usual thing because it's a little different. This year, the Packers completely overachieved what they were expected for this season. They're in a rebuilding year. This is very different than the last years of Aaron Rogers, where it was like one more run, one more run and he'd keep losing. In hilarious fashion.

Championship Game Vikings versus Saints. But yeah, I think that was with like 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter as the Vikings they were in field goal range and Brett Favre threw it. He's like, fuck it. The announcer was so funny, I think it was Paul Allen.

Loved it was exactly the same, it was exactly the same, and yeah, it was, yeah, it was. I think no, it was overtime. that game did go to overtime.

Overtime interception. I think it was in the fourth quarter and it was tied and the Vikings did that. The Vikings were about to win the game and then went to overtime. Yeah.

Um, either way, that, yeah, that that, uh, entire, like last what? 15, 17 minutes for Jordan Love was not great. Um, he kind of turned back into Jordan Love from the beginning of the season, where he was like, trying to play a little bit of hero ball. But I'm a realist, I understand how good he looks and how good he probably is. So I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that this was like, Oh, incredible, the Packers, I'm very happy.

Um, nope, I fuck it up. No, I know it's not Hank. I was just trying to get people to help me.

About to lose? It's like, I can't stop you, but then and then the Apocalypse guy comes out, yeah.

So is the night The Niners are my apocalypse guy. Does he have a name? Uh, Shane, Shane? Does he have a name? The Niners, the apocalypse guy? You can't hear what you're saying.

A flaw in our system. And Thor Ragnarok? When we need to get an answer to this, it's like, I can't stop him, but he can. Who's that?

Star-lord There are some people who are very angry. Is that his name? No, is it Thanos?

Watching Jordan loves little step back James Harden throw that he does, yeah, he's always thrown off that back foot.

He's fun to watch. Yeah, he's not fun to watch. What is his name, Surtur?

You'll appreciate this big cat, uh? The Packers have lost five playoff games with a lead in the final five minutes in 2000, the most of any team in the NFL. They lost this game. They lost also against the 49ers in 2021, Seahawks 2015, Seahawks 2014 and Max's Birds back in 2014..

Yeah, I did see our friend Sam Decker being like, I don't know how much more of this a fan base can take. And I just wanted to. I didn't want to get in the dirt, but I wanted to just be like, Dude, shut up, you're in the playoffs every year, I would love.

To lose tragically in the playoff. I like going at the tournament too, you're at the tournament.

Yeah, once you get in the dance, yeah, you don't want to see the Packers, do not want to see the Niners, but incredible season for them.

Speaker 3. I disagree with you, though I don't. The toughest test of Lafleur's career is, uh, if you're down by what? Eight points and there's two minutes left and you're going up against Tom Brady. Do you kick a field goal? This might. This actually might be a good result for LaFleur in the longterm because he's going to hate kickers.

Speaker 1 Well, that story that was told on the broadcast Tom and Rinaldi's report, Speaker 3. That was one of the most shocking things I've ever heard.

But this might be this might be good for LaFleur. He doesn't trust his kicker so much that maybe he just won't use his kicker.

It also is like a very pack. The Packers are really what they do better than anyone else is they draft and they build their roster. And so they drafted a kicker this year. And they're like, we're going to build this guy up and he's staying.

Speaker 1. It was a bad hold, it was a bad hold.

Speaker 3. But he also stuck all year.

Speaker 1. He did stink all year. I saw a screenshot of the hold, looked like Kirk Herbstreet, not a good hold at all. Tilted way to the side, his hand was all over the back of it.

Speaker 3. Yeah, I feel like I'm being pretty right now, I'm not reveling in it. I mean, I did say that I'm going to go to sleep at night. Dreaming of Caleb Williams and dreaming of Jordan Love, throwing two back-breaking interceptions in the last 17 minutes of a playoff game.

Speaker 1 Drake Greenlaw needs to learn how to go down.

Speaker 3. Yeah, although I feel like he was just trying to get the cover for it.

Speaker 1. He's like DJ Khaled when you catch that ball. His whole team was screaming at him, like guys on the field were telling him take a knee, go down.

Speaker 3. He ran out of the camera shot.

Speaker 1. The game is literally over right now.

Speaker 3. The first one was even crazier. Where he was, just he wasn't even running, he just kept on changing direction for no reason.

Speaker 1. Yeah, I don't know if he wasn't even looking for somebody to ladder the ball to, he thought he was going to run the ball back.

Speaker 3. He was going backwards, sideways, everywhere, and it was just like, What are you doing?

Speaker 1. He was doing like a Barry Sanders run on his way back, and he was, you knew, he was going to fumble the ball, too. It was like, Dude, just go down.

Speaker 3. Do you think, uh, do you think Purdy is going to have confidence now that he? That was a tough game for him and it was wet and all that shit. Do you think he's going to play better in the N.F.C. Championship game, or do you think he's going to get hurt again?

Speaker 1 It's going to be, um, it'll be interesting, because if he does get hurt, then I don't think that the Niners have a chance in hell. Speaker 3 Sam Bernal, Speaker 1. If he does get hurt, or if he doesn't get hurt, then I think that they cakewalked their way to it.

Yeah, so I think you're, I think we're looking at it right now, and I don't. I think everyone can agree that. Like last year's NFC Championship game, he has a huge asterix knowing that the Niners are the best team in the NFC. What? Speaker? 4, because they won the divisional around by three points.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, but we get to see Brock Purdy, like healthy Brock Purdy, healthy Brock Purdy. It's a different, it's a different guy. Speaker 3. In the fourth quarter, especially in the second half.

Speaker 1 The seven seed Speaker 3. Oh so, you're going to hold, you're holding on, hope, okay?

What he's got you there, what? They both beat the seven seat.

Yeah, no, the Giants were not the seven correct. The Giants would have not. The seven, six seed way better. maybe the Vikings are way better seed than the seven seat. what's better seed?

Yeah, this is an argument for you.

Fuck, I did. I just trapped myself. God damn it, I will table.

The Lions pass rush is much better than the Niners right now.

Yeah, the Lions can win this game. Yeah, absolutely no fuck now, Max is nodding.

It's a possibility they can't.

You know what, Max, you know what? You're such a loser that you're trying to hold on like the the the. Basically the sanctity of losing in the Super Bowl, that's the real loser thing. Well, also, if they play the Chiefs, I'm still. You're like, Yeah, that is a real loot. Like, if you had one shit out of them in the in the Super Bowl, I still have. If you won the Super Bowl last year, I'd understand your argument.

Did the 49ers play against the Eagles this year?

Oh yeah, they did, they killed them. Those are two different teams. Wait, no, but PFT. They didn't play they, they played in San Francisco in the Eagles game last year. Was at the link.

Oh, no, they played at the link this year, yeah, but it was close.

It was close. Well, if we're talking about regular season games....

No, I'd say it's 42 to 19.

The Eagles beat the Bills and the Chiefs, which is the best game of the weekend. So if we're talking about regular season games, they also lost to the Jets, or if we're talking about regular season games, they also lost to the Giants.

Well, we're talking about two teams, which are the Eagles and the 49ers. We're talking about regular season games. If only there was some way to figure out which team was better the Eagles or the 49ers.

We're talking about regular season games.

I just don't know if that's possible.

Regular season games don't matter, okay?

I wish there was some sort of like simulation we could do to see which team would win.

It's sometimes it's not about like, going to the Super Bowl. You have to do it the next year. To confirm that going to the Super Bowl was real friendly reminder that that's really what it counts.

I know that's such bullshit that that happened. That's the one thing that I am mad at Kyle Shanahan about is that he put that out there after the fact. Yeah, dude, please keep that....

The Niners showed some holes against the Packers. I will say for Packers fans, you can't really complain because your team is always good. But that was a game that it felt like the Packers were the better team for, like, 50 minutes of the game.

Yeah, yeah, it did, and so the niners were lucky, I'll say that they got away with it.

I don't know if they were lucky, they just made plays at the end and the Packers stopped making plays.

But they played poorly for a lot of the game. The Niners did not play up to their expectations for most of the game.

Yeah, but it really did come down to, like, Jordan loves to. I mean, that interception he threw at the end of the game was like there was no reason for him to throw that ball. They had a couple timeouts.

Yeah, and then we'll see what happens with Debo.

Yeah, he's Debo's an issue.

He gets injured a lot.

It feels like he gets injured a lot.

Even minus Debo, minus Debo, they got dudes. yeah, they do have dudes. yeah, they have a lot of dudes.

But you got to get the ball to the dudes.

Apparently we should give Kyle Shanahan some credit for this. At halftime. He told everybody Change your shoes, yeah.

If you're the home team, that should never be an issue.

Yeah, you have plenty of experience playing on the field, I'm sure you've played on that playing surface in like mild rain before.

That shouldn't surprise you.

No.

Like, Oh man, it rains here and it's kind of hard to run around.

Change your shoes at halftime. I think he told all the skill position guys that love it, yeah, good coaching.

Good coaching, let's take a break and then we'll get to our Sunday games, two great games.

Yes, before we get to the more games. I want to talk about coors light. I had some Coors light on Friday. I was chilling on the couch at Blake, watching football, drinking some coors light. That's actually a lie. I was not watching football on Friday night because there was no football on.

Okay.

It's a great day.

Lions 31 Bucks 23.

We might get to that later. Yeah, but yeah, that's wild, that's a great stat.

Also, Jake is rooting for the Lions and the Chiefs to be in the Super Bowl. So it's the first games, the same as the Super Bowl.

The bookends Yeah, what a storyline that would be.

Rooting for storyline?

Yeah.

I can't wait till he brings this up later, it's going to be great. We already talked about it.

It will be, so, yeah, this was a fun game, it was a fun game. It got sneaky close at the very end, like it felt like things might be slipping away from the Lions a little bit.

It's an incredible story. The fact that it was three years to the day of Dan Campbell's introductory press conference, where he said, Biting kneecaps and everything. I mean, it's an insane turnaround. It's the same story.

You can instantly tell when it's a rookie running back that has the ball in their hands, because they've got those rookie legs. Yeah, they've got the rookie speed, that's different. And when he gets the ball, it's like, Oh, yeah.

With our third running back.

Our third straight running back.

Who everyone thinks is not going to get the ball, because why would you hand the ball off to a guy not named David Montgomery or Jameer Gibbs?

Which based on everything you've seen with the Lions this year. No one saw that coming, no one saw that play coming, and it worked perfectly. And so I love, I love the Lions offense. I love Ben Johnson. I just want to say that again.

Do the right thing. You have Ben Johnson at home, I not yet.

Not yet, yeah.

No, you have a Ben Johnson at home.

Eric B. Nunez Great guy, even, you know what, great football coach, even better human being.

Yeah, Ben Johnson at home in the flesh. Eric B. Nunez, new coach Yeah, no. The Lions and their defense, you know, they give up big plays in the secondary.

And the same thing happened again. It was like his ankle got caught at a 90 degree angle underneath him when he got rolled up by Jerry Goff the first time. And then he goes back in, shoves, vitave, and then somebody else falls into that same leg, giving him the same injury again. Yeah, monster.

He's a monster and that offensive line is just monsters they're getting when that one play where they had Panay Sewell out. And just like he was doing the Trent Williams, he was just like throwing people out of the way and like, just trucking people down the field, which was so much fun to watch.

And you're right about the pass rush, the pass rush. It felt like they were getting two guys to baker every single time, right? And they'd just be jumping like actual lions and they can feed on somebody, just like swarming them.

They can stop the run, I know Rashad White did have like a one, one or two big runs, but they can stop the run. Like they do kind of have what it takes to play against the 49ers. That crowd was electric again, yeah.

You're down by 14 points in the fourth quarter and you score a touchdown. You go for two, why is that? Because if you don't make it, you can go for two the second time, right?

It's simple math, you're planning on going for two twice if you have to, and if you can go. If you can hit your two point conversion over 50, the math says, you will get one of the two.

It's the only math that I'm confident in, it's that. And how many beers do you drink an hour? That puts you over the legal limit, yeah.

Boy, math also is, yeah, figuring out, over-unders, yeah.

Measuring from the base, Yeah, that's boy math, boy math.

Boy math trying to get your brain to figure out, Okay, like, you know, a 155 in college basketball? What do we need for the fouls? How much does the team have to be up late to be in that foul zone? Yeah.

Boy Math also stopping the gas pump right when it hits $20. Yeah, that's boy math, boy math.

So not counting calories when you're eating standing up? Yep.

Boy math also. FACTs Mike Evans had 147 yards. Think how many yards he would have had if he caught every ball, I know.

He's a free agent.

Yeah, Baker is a free agent, so is Mike Evans and Mike Evans, so it might be like a duo coming back together.

This was just, I mean, the Bucs, we kind of. I had shit on the Bucs this year. But I did not expect them to be in the divisional round. They were, they were tougher than I thought they were. And it does feel like if they can add a couple pieces, maybe in the secondary, bring Baker back, they could have something.

I'm just glad that Baker is thriving somewhere, It's good, I hope he's got his forever home.

He's a tough motherfucker, too.

Yes, although he's got to lose the visor. yeah, got to lose the visor.

He had no chance.

No quarterback wearing a visor ever won a Super Bowl.

Yeah, this was a this was an awesome game. Though Lions fans are just on Cloud Nine right now, they are, they're America's sweetheart.

They are America's team, for sure.

Without a doubt.

So with the Lions, I feel like if the Lions get to win a Super Bowl, they'll get probably like a two year grace period before America starts to turn on them. Oh, we turn on people pretty quick, it might happen right away, we turn on people pretty quickly. Dan Campbell could be mayor of Detroit if he wanted to.

Tim Allen He's a snitch.

He is a snitch, stop snitching.

Remember when we killed him?

Yeah, that was funny, yeah, RIP Tim Allen trended.

People who don't know, we did a, Uh, when Covid happened, we couldn't do Grit Week, so we did a 24 hour live stream instead. And at like five in the morning. We just started tweeting about Tim Allen and telling the whole chat to start tweeting about Tim Allen. So when everyone woke up the next day, Tim Allen was the number one trend on Twitter. And it was only because we started tweeting about him and everyone was like, Did Tim Allen die?

And we dabbled in fake news on this podcast. Yeah, for sure.

It was a great moment.

But yeah, who are the big Detroit Lions fans? You got? you got? Uh, what's his name Tim from? I think you should leave Tim Robinson.

Sam Richardson.

SAM RICHARDSON Uh, Eminem is big. Uh, you've got Kid rock. Where's Kid Rock been this entire time?

Jared actually said he wants to see Kid Rock out there.

Kid Rock has been Mia these entire playoffs. Where's he at? Does he have that big estate that his dad born him on?

I don't know.

I don't know.

What are you gonna say?

I'm I'm blanking on his name, Uh, he was in the Barry Barry documentary, The Guy from Dumb and Dumber.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Wow, Tony Sheffler Tony Sheffler Big Lions fan. Yep.

Barry Sanders, Calvin Johnson.

Yeah.

It's interlofsky.

Matt Stafford Most days.

No.

Wow, Ninja.

You're thinking of his daughters, they hate his daughters, yeah.

She actually went and doubled back down.

And said that they were booing it for daughters.

Which now I'm kind of.

That's actually the right move. By Kelly Stafford. Yeah, you can't be like, you're right. I just use that as sympathy. you have to be like, No, they, they flip my daughters off.

They're booing, um, but yeah, Lions are America, and Sprinkles was there.

Yep.

DEtRoit Don let us know that Sprinkles was in attendance. So that's a great story. And yeah, the real Lions are, it's crazy Lions in the NFC Championship game.

You know, it was real tough for the Lions going into this year, they were, they were the hot pick. People were talking about the Lions a lot based on how they finished last year and everything that we know about them. And they managed to live up and surpass those expectations, which is very tough to do.

Yeah, it's a great story arc, especially with last year and it was like one and six and Dan Campbell, like, is he the right guy? And just the way they finished last year to this year, it's awesome.

I am, too, except for Kid Rock, Where the fuck have you been, Kid rock?

Yeah, I was telling you guys before that, it's like, it's funny because you guys can root for the Lions with all your heart. Whereas I'm sitting here being like, I'm happy for Lions fans, I'm rooting for Jared Hard. But there also is a feeling like, if the Lions do win a Superbowl, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be like, Fuck. But we play them two times a year.

I like that.

I thought we were in like squalor together.

You're like the lines, you know, I liked them before they sold out. Yeah, you like the lines. Well. Name five of their heartbreaking losses.

It sucks because it's like Lions fans, Bears fans like we used to do whippets. And and you know, drink too much and stay up too late and just not and have dead end jobs. And now they're fucking got a suit and tie and corporate America, and they're killing it. And they got kids and they're everything's going well for them. And I'm still doing the whippets in my underwear.

That sounds like it's a that's a comedy movie, yeah, and it's like, but then that's what always happens at the end of that movie, what always happens to your characters. You end up realizing, Oh, shit, I got to get out and get a job.

No, I think I think the way I would like this one to go is. I'd like the lines to just be like, you know what, we tried, that whole success thing. We want to do whippets with you slapping the base.

You like, fall in love with your brother's wife, yeah, rom-com, yeah, something like that.

Wait, what?

I feel like that happens.

Fall in love with your brother's wife, yeah.

Like, they're not good for each other, but you guys actually are really good for each other.

I would actually say that the person that kind of a piece of shit like, marries his brother's wife is the asshole in that situation.

I think it's more I'm saying, I'm just that's sometimes how these movies play out.

The lion's character would would win the Lombardi, and then I would kill him and steal it and then do life in jail, that's how that would be.

What movie are you thinking of? Hank? Hank says he's writing a movie right now.

We're all writing a movie.

Hank Think I want you to flesh out that plot line a little bit. Maybe we can put it into Boner dog.

All I'm going to say is.

No, it is a movie, it is a movie.

All I'm going to say is Lions fans enjoy it. It's incredible run, but it's like a Ben's kind of want to do some whippets and have no responsibility. You know, this is a big game, you're probably nervous going into this game.

Is that the plot of something about Mary?

Is it?

You know, it is the plot of something about Mary. Mary, uh, is dating Brett Favre, but she's actually a 49ers fan. Yeah, Mary was happy about that game, true?

True, what are you looking up, hank?

Nothing, don't worry about it.

No, Hank's writing a movie, Hank, I want you to. I want you to write this movie in a way that's heartwarming and charming.

I think it's something about Mary, he's describing the antagonist.

There's no brother.

There's no brother, but there is a brother, Frank and Beans.

That's true.

Yeah, so that actually I would be that brother.

Yeah, stealer from Frank and Beans.

No, yeah, I would be. I would be walking around, being like, you want to have a catch, yeah.

Yeah, no, Hank is just Hank's freestyling, a movie right now, which I love.

Yeah, go off the dome, it works, there's something there.

Yeah.

I just want us to all be happy in the end, but I don't think that's going to happen. Uh, okay.

Well, in order for you to be happy, the older brother has to not be happy, right?

Which is a shitty thing.

You know what big cat this would be perfect? The Lions make the Superbowl and lose it. Then. Equinimious St.

Okay, no, no, I got this, I got this. The Lions go to the Superbowl and win it.

Oh, I like that.

Yeah, and then we all live happy.

That's good, yeah.

You also have your other friends that you can do activities with. Enjoy the drafts together. What?

Yeah, we can enjoy the draft.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, PST and Hank, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'm talking divisional, yeah, I know.

This is like an annual boys trip that we all make to the draft. Yeah, and we get really shitty and loaded before the draft. I do because we love it, because we get to get good players, yeah.

I got you. You don't have to be high in the draft, your happiness doesn't have to come from the number one pick.

It is kind of nice being so high up in the draft, though.

Oh yeah, it's the best.

Get, like, a two month buzz off that.

Yeah, no, every team that loses is a bigger loser than us. Yeah, that's what I was saying last year.