Best of NFL Championship Sunday Part 2: Julian Love TALKS CLINCHING NFC Crown, Tariq Woolen vs Stefon Diggs

Summary

Club Shay Shay Podcast: Best of NFL Championship Sunday Part 2

Episode Theme:
A deep dive into the high-stakes moments of NFL Championship Sunday, with special focus on Seahawks safety Julian Love on clinching the NFC crown, insights into team dynamics, player journeys, and football’s business realities.

Release Date: January 28, 2026
Podcast Host(s): Shannon Sharpe (with regular guest analysts), iHeartPodcasts and Shay Shay Media

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Overview

This episode spotlights the monumental moments of NFL Championship Sunday, centering on an in-depth conversation with Seattle Seahawks safety Julian Love after the team clinched the NFC crown. The hosts and Love reflect on the intensity of playoff football, balancing emotion versus discipline, the personal journey of players, and the realities of the NFL off the field. There's also analysis of recent high-profile incidents, a candid discussion on the economics and logistics surrounding the Super Bowl, and reflections on how coaching philosophies shape team performance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Seahawks’ Path to the Super Bowl & Julian Love’s Perspective

Julian Love on Clinching the NFC Crown

• Emotional Fallout Post-Game:
  • Love describes the surreal feeling of realizing the Seahawks are Super Bowl-bound.
    "It's a little surreal, for sure. The emotions were flowing last night. Folks were celebrating, but yeah, it’s okay, for sure." (15:19 - Julian Love)
• Game-Ending Moments:
  • Love recounts the final seconds, the importance of keeping the Rams’ receivers inbounds, and the instant celebration. "Immediately, I threw my helmet somewhere, try to throw blow kisses to the family up in the suite, celebrate with the fans. They were going crazy." (15:56 - Julian Love)
• Facing Division Rivals:
  • The hosts and Love discuss the likelihood of repeatedly facing divisional opponents in key games and the intensity of such matchups. "We looked at it, we looked across the playoff bracket and we just felt good... The NFC West this year was just a division of demons." (16:59 - Julian Love)

Emotions & Discipline: The Woolen Penalty

• Tariq Woolen’s Taunting Penalty:
  • Reflection on the impact of emotional mistakes, the social dynamics among teammates, and the lesson to take forward. "He made a good play, he was excited. He lost sense of self in that moment…You live and you learn and it didn’t cost your team." (01:43 - Analyst 2)

The Business Side of Football

1. Super Bowl Tickets & Corporate Influence

• Barriers for Real Fans:
  • Discussion on how the Super Bowl has become a corporate event, making it inaccessible for average fans. "They’ve turned it into a corporate event. We have this conversation every year come Super Bowl time. The true fans that support these two teams throughout the season…I’m not sure unless you just extreme or you saved up." (03:51 - Analyst 2)
• Skyrocketing Prices:
  • The cost of tickets shocks both players and fans alike. "Four tickets, 200,000. Four tickets, 65,000, please." (03:05 - Analyst 1)
• Player Allocations:
  • Even players get a very limited (and expensive) number of tickets for family. "Yeah, it’s—I think it’s like 13, two comps. Okay, maybe 14 to two comps. You get allocated them. But yeah, they said they…We don’t get that off you." (31:38 - Julian Love)

2. Transitions and Player Loyalty

• Cooper Kupp’s Exit from the Rams:
  • Insider take on how the Rams mishandled Kupp’s departure and tried to limit his future prospects. "You release me. No, I don't want to retire...You try to dictate to your wife, 'I don’t think you should get remarried.' But that's going to be my choice." (13:21 - Analyst 1)

Julian Love’s Football Journey

• Choosing Seattle:

  • Love chose Seattle primarily for Pete Carroll and trusted in the vision for him, despite high competition. "Honestly, it was Pete Carroll…Pete Carroll sold me. And so that year, I mean, I was the third safety for real. And I made the Pro Bowl." (21:20 - Julian Love)

• Versatility:

  • Love’s history as a multi-position player, showing adaptability and team-first mentality. "I was kind of in the draft as a tweener for real...I randomly have starts at corner, nickel, free, strong..." (22:46 - Julian Love)

• Personal Life & Off-the-Field Balance:

  • On being a husband and father, how his family grounds him, and balancing football with parenting. "Yeah, married. I started dating my wife when I was 16 years old...We’ve been married for a few years now. I have one son…another one due in March." (26:14 - Julian Love)
  • On relaxation:
    "I’m a homebody, for real...I like to golf. I'm average, but I enjoy it..." (27:39 - Julian Love)

• Walter Payton Man of the Year Nomination:

  • Love discusses what it means to be recognized for off-field contributions. "That's special…Walter Payton was a superhero. To be nominated…was definitely emotional...I do a lot with expected or postpartum mothers, a lot of kids. I have my youth camp for free..." (18:01 - Julian Love)

Team Preparation & Super Bowl Planning

• Handling Logistics and Family:
  • Love stresses the need to set boundaries to minimize distractions for Super Bowl week. "You know, it's a game. I got to win a game in two weeks. This ain't a family vacation in San Fran." (20:09 - Julian Love)
• Seahawks’ Preparation Plan:
  • Team is sticking with their usual approach: early installation, treating it like a regular work week. "No, no, we're getting after it. We're starting up...We're treating Thursday like it's a Wednesday of the week." (24:58 - Julian Love)

Notable Team & Player Analysis

1. Jaxon Smith-Njigba (JSN)

• JSN’s Skills:
  • Love and the analysts praise JSN’s route-running ability and consistency. "He’s special. Like you said, everything’s the same. Those are the toughest receivers...There’s three to five of them in the league. He’s one of them." (33:22 - Julian Love) "Okay, now it makes sense why they let DK go. Okay, now it makes sense why they let Tyler Lockett go." (34:40 - Analyst 2)

2. Coaching Philosophies: Old School vs New School

• Sean Payton Versus Kyle Shanahan:
  • Dre Greenlaw contrasts the physical, demanding style of Sean Payton with the more modern, player-preserving approach of Shanahan. "Sean is old school. He's going to do six days on, one day off…three hours on Wednesday, three hours on Fridays. Shanahan is the complete opposite. He wants you fresh." (39:03 - Analyst 1)
  • Discussion of how the CBA limits practice times, and memories from old-school coaches who kept pads on late into the week.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Playoff Emotions:
  "Control your emotions. Don't let them control you." (02:15 - Analyst 1)

• Julian Love on his Walter Payton Man of the Year nomination:
  "Walter Payton, that’s like a… superhero. That’s how my pops raised me… to be nominated…definitely emotional. Everybody back home was going crazy." (18:01)

• Julian Love on JSN:
  "He’s special...Those are the toughest receivers. You can be fluid in a route and break on every step...He’s one of them." (33:22)

• On Super Bowl tickets:
  "Four tickets, 200,000. Four tickets, 65,000, please...The best seat in the house? On my couch." (03:05 - Analyst 1 / 03:10 - Analyst 2)

• On Seattle’s defensive approach:
  "Situationally on defense, that’s all we had to do…We were sharp there…sharp in the red zone at the end of the game…" (16:59 - Julian Love)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Woolen’s taunting penalty discussion: 01:20-02:15
• Super Bowl ticket prices and access: 03:05-04:51 & 31:38-32:19
• Julian Love reflects on clinching NFC title: 15:03-15:56
• Preparation and family logistics for the Super Bowl: 20:09-27:18
• JSN praise and wide receiver analysis: 33:22-35:12
• Sean Payton vs Shanahan coaching philosophies: 39:03-46:13

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode balances humor, authenticity, and candor. Shannon Sharpe and guests keep it real—sharing both behind-the-scenes football realities and deeper reflections on family, legacy, and the grind. Julian Love emerges not only as a valuable player but as an example of integrity, commitment, and making the most of opportunity—on and off the field.

Listeners will come away with unique personal insights from inside the locker room, practical realities of preparing for a Super Bowl, and sharp analysis of what separates good teams and coaches from the rest.

Transcript

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[Sports Analyst 1]

Ocho the Seahawks quarterback Reek Woodland apologized for his costly taunting penalty that almost cost the Seahawks a trip to the Super Bowl. No cap high intensity game when you're in the zone. You balling with your bro. Sometimes you black out. Can you trust that he won't black out again? Cuz what happens, you know, you know Diggs gonna be talking. Diggs was a talking.

[Sports Analyst 2]

He gonna be all right. You know, you know, you know you're not gonna call, you're not gonna cost your team. Obviously emotions were very high. He, he made a good play, he was excited. He lost sense of self in that moment. Obviously he had one of his players get on him. They exchanged words on the sideline. The good thing about this is you live and you learn and it didn't cost your team. So you know the next week you not going to just mess around and do it again. So you're going to be a little bit more cautious. Control your emotions, make your plays, celebrate with your teammates and leave the trash talking alone.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Control your emotions. Don't let them control you. Like hey get him, get him. Yeah, because that's what we did. Hey you got somebody. We play the Raiders of the The Chiefs. Oh, yeah. You already know we could.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Damn.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You got to try to get any. Any age you possibly can. Hey, bud.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Oh, that's gonna be. Hey, I'm. I'm so excited, but that's gonna be a good game, man. We don't have to worry about the weather being an element, you know? We don't have to worry about.

[Sports Analyst 1]

At least hope not, because, you know, sometimes it does rain in San Francisco.

[Sports Analyst 2]

You know, hey, at night, but at nighttime, I mean, we're not even gonna be at the game. You going to the game?

[Julian Love]

Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Hell, no.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Well, you see. Hey, you seen the ticket prices, man?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yes. Four tickets, 200,000. Four tickets. 65,000, please.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, the best seat. The best seat in the house. The best ticket in the house. On my couch, too, because I leave.

[Julian Love]

I leave.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I think I leave Sunday morning.

[Sports Analyst 1]

If I'm not mistaken, I leave Friday morning. Hell, yeah.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah. Listen, I'm getting up out of there. By the time I get home, I'll be able to sit down and get ready to watch the game nice and quiet.

[Sports Analyst 1]

No, man, I'm. Look here. If the Broncos had made it, I was coming home.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Either way.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Either way. Yes. I'm gonna have my Bronco gear on rooting for him, but I'm not going to the game.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Nah. Hey, they turn it. It's unfortunate. Obviously, I understand it. I understand the business side of it. They. They've turned it into a corporate event. We have this conversation every single year when it come time to the Super Bowl. The true fans that support these two teams throughout the season that are at all the home games, that go on the road games, I'm not sure, unless you're just extreme or. Or you. You saved up to be able to afford to be able to go to the game, huh? Like, it's ridiculous.

[Sports Analyst 1]

He. Yeah, it's. Look, a lot of this stuff. I mean, the advertiser, they spend so much, and they get a block of tickets. You gotta, you know, Pepsi and Gatorade and Verizon and, you know, all. All those. All those corporate sponsors, Pizza Huts, they get so many tickets. O. Joe. I mean, hey. And I don't. I don't begrudge him. I mean, man, if I. Hey, you better. If I'm spending 3,400 million dollars, you better give me a hundred damn tickets.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I mean, understandable, understandable.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Look at Ocho.

[Sports Analyst 2]

What up? What up, twin?

[Sports Analyst 1]

You want to go stay with us?

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah, come on. Come on down here with your boy. Come on. Hey, hey, bring him on down. Take him to the dog Park. Let him.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Let him.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Let him. Let him have a little fun out there.

[Sports Analyst 1]

He can go to the dog park. Cause he. He. He's not.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Oh, you got him fixed.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I did.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, I'm gonna have to call CPS on you. Yeah, you can't. You can't be doing. You can't be doing a dog like that, man. Now you innocent. Now you pure. He would never know what it's like to experience, you know, horizontal activity.

[Sports Analyst 1]

No, he would say, I ain't wanna be no dad. He say, child support. Say, kick my dad af. But he said, nah, I'm good. Why you in upstairs on the bed with your brother Teddy? Be on the bed. That's why I left it. Why you not in the room with your auntie? She closed the door on you.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, make him. Make him bark. Huh? Oh, he can't hear me because you.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Got Daddy get on me.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Got the earbuds in.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Say I go. Say I go. I go. I don't know when to stop. Say, I don't know when to stop. He said, the only time I get really excited when I'm going to get my brother Titus, because I know he in that room, and so I just start scratching on the door.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, I think I might get me a dog, man. Cause you just be just, you know, some just that.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Some you going too much.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I know, but something just, you know, that's gonna love you unconditionally, you know, no matter what.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 2]

You know, good day, bad day, for sure. You know, I just. I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. I'm. Should I do that? What kind of dog can I get?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Huh? You probably. Well, I mean, you get a small dog and you could travel with it.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Oh, hey, that'd be a good one. Hey, what about my furniture? You know, all my. All my furniture. White, huh? White rugs, white everything.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Well, yeah, I would recommend you getting a dog then.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, is there a way to potty?

[Sports Analyst 1]

But, I mean, but like. Like Teddy. Like Teddy. Teddy likes to get. He don't really care about the furniture. He wants to be. He don't really care about getting on the bed. He just wants to be on the floor. Teddy wants to be on the bed. Titus wants to be.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Okay.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Okay, so.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Okay. I gotta think about that, man. I think my. And I'm getting me a white dog, so I'm gonna give me a white dog to go with the white furniture.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Well, I mean, you can get a. A Kuvas. You can get a. A Bichon.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, I had to be John. I had to be John when I was, when my grandma had to be John named Studly when I, when I was a baby, when I was young.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You can get an alibi, Dogo.

[Sports Analyst 2]

No, come on. Dogo's too big, huh?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah, I know. So I just tried to get a dog that's white. I mean, you get Pomeranians. That's white.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I ain't never seen no white palm. I gotta holler at my homeboy at the city, you know, I can get, you know, hey, I can get your dogs, you know, sometimes, you know, y' all pay 5, 10,000 for these dogs. I got a dude out at the city, you know, you know, who can get anything for about 200, $200? I don't know how he get them.

[Sports Analyst 1]

He want me to keep, he want me to keep scratching him. What you do?

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[Sports Analyst 1]

Ocho before joining the Seahawks last off season, Cooper Cubs departure from the Rams was more contentious than initially appeared Mike Michael Silver, I know Mike very well, revealed more details behind what Led Cook released, reporting that rather than trying to negotiate a salary deduction with a former All Pro, the Rams had unceremoniously cut ties urging him to retire. The Rams also reportedly tried to dictate coops market, excuse me, Cups market once he became a free agent. Sources told Silver that Cup became to believe that some of the LA officials had cautioned potential suitors against paying him anything more than the vet minimum suggested that his age and accumulation of injuries had provoked a steep decline. C spent his first six eight seasons of his career in Los Angeles. After being drafted with a third round pick in 2017. He helped lead the Rams to a Super bowl title in 2021, earning a Super Bowl MVP and NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors. Now cup has gotten the last laugh. Cup had the greatest receiving season in NFL history. When you combine that season that he had Ocho, he was a Triple Crown. He finished a couple of yards short of Calvin Johnson. I think he had like 144 catches, 1940 something yards. Calvin Johnson's record is 1964, but he led the league. He was a Triple Crown and then he parlayed that in the postseason and was crazy when he absolutely had to be. He was historically great in the postseason. So I believe when you look well over 2000, what do you I think he had like 2400 receiving yards.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I mean, in his totality. Yeah, it was something like that.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yes.

[Sports Analyst 2]

But even, even with that, even with that historic season he had in 2021, you see how the business side of things come back to bite you in the and you know what? Oh, yep, now you done lost a step. No, he didn't lose a step. You just, you stopped giving the opportunities you gave him the Same you got. Yeah, I mean, and obviously you got Puka, but you still didn't put him in position to make those same plays before Puka got there.

[Sports Analyst 1]

No, you put him in position though. He was, he was injured probably. Yeah, he had some injuries. But you got to realize, think about how often make Ocho. Do you know how many hits blows you gotta take if you catch 140 something passes? Now how many times did you drop the ball and you still got hit?

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Hey, I'm just so think about that over the course of a career now Puka is there. Puka's a little bigger, but Cooper cup is bigger. People think Cooper cup is a small guy. Cooper cup is a little.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Cooper ain't small. He look like it on the field until you get up close. Yeah, he's just a big boy now and so.

[Sports Analyst 1]

But my thing is, Ocho, I don't. You, you shouldn't be able to dictate. Okay, you release me. No, I don't want to retire. I don't believe. Look, Ocho, you, you. You married. You get a divorce. You try to dictate to your wife. Well, I don't think you should get remarried. I think you should just, you know, right. Just live by yourself. I'm not, I'm not sure, you know, and vice versa. The wife gets divorced and say, I don't think you should get remarried.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Right.

[Sports Analyst 1]

No, no, no. You don't want me. Don't worry about what, what I go do somewhere else. I might decide to retire. I might decide not to wonder why. But that's going to be my choice.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Why would they do that anyway? Why would they even care once he decides to leave and you didn't want to pay me. You telling me to, to, to, to take a pay cut. Not only you telling me to pay. Take a pay cut. You telling other teams that might want me telling to only give me the vent minimum. What is that all about? Why would you even care?

[Sports Analyst 1]

You, it's not your money.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Why would they even care? I don't, I don't understand.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Exactly. And, and, and, and, and, and Stan Cronkey. He's the largest land owner in the world. Got over 2.3 million acres. He worth 16, $17 billion on the, on the, the Nuggets, the Avalanche, Arsenal.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Boy, I need a holla stand too, bro. I'm glad you said that, bro. Could you, could you. Could you imagine if I played for the Rams? I would have been the first player to be a, to play a two. Two. Be a two. A two Sport player like Dion, huh?

[Sports Analyst 1]

In both, yeah.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I would, I would have played. I would have played for Arsenal and I would have played for the Rams.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Okay, we got a very special guest joining us. We got Pro bowl safety Julian Love going to his first Super Bowl. J. Love, has it sunk in that you're going to the Super Bowl?

[Julian Love]

How y' all doing?

[Sports Analyst 1]

We're doing great, bro.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, I mean, it's a little surreal, for sure. You know, the motions were flowing last night. Folks were celebrating, but yeah, it's okay, for sure.

[Sports Analyst 1]

So you're getting, as time is winding down, you're like, okay, we got a four point lead. Just nothing cheap, nothing deep. Keep everything in front of us. Keep them inbound. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, clock, tick, tick, tick, ticking away. So when, when, when Puka caught that ball, you like, damn, we let him out of bounds. But you saw the rep and you saw the official kept doing this. You like, it's over. So the first thing that goes through your mind, you know, like, okay, this game is over, what goes through your.

[Julian Love]

Mind immediately, I threw my helmet somewhere, try to throw blow kisses to the family up in the suite, celebrate with the fans. They were going crazy. But yeah, I mean, our offense did their job in that four minute drill. You know, they, they burned their timeouts, so they had a whole field to go. 25 seconds left, no timeouts. I mean, that's a challenge. And they completed two balls, but they were both inbounds. And so, I mean, that's, that's, that's tough sledding for a team that needed more than a field goal in that situation. So, yeah, we feel good.

[Sports Analyst 1]

So now it's a situation. You played this team, they've kind of had your guys number, but you go back out there and you do a job on them. The final game of the season, you know, there's a, There's a probably 80% chance that you're probably going to have to see this team again. A division opponent that we've already seen twice, we see them twice a year. You know, there's probably a better than 80% chance in order for us to reach our final destination, we're probably going to have to go through this damn team again. Damn it, man.

[Julian Love]

We looked at it, we looked across the playoff bracket and we just felt good for real. I mean, NFC west this year was just a, a division of demons for, you know, the Niners somehow were finding a way to win games despite losing all their star guys. And the Rams was just that. The offense man, they, they're so high powered. Stafford, McVay, that's just a combo that no one wanted to see, for real. But we knew situationally on defense, that's all we had to do. I think. I can't remember the exact number, but they got a 1 or 2 3rd down conversions. So we're sharp there. We were sharp on fourth down. We were sharp in the red zone at the end of the game. And sharp end of the half, two minutes, everything like that was critical. We stepped up for some of the other stuff. Yeah, we gotta, we gotta get back to the drawing board.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah, most definitely. Obviously, I want to say congratulations, jl on all your accomplishments, what you guys have achieved defensively collectively, not only as a defense, but as a team as well and going to the Super Bowl. But I want to ask you, being nominated for the Walter Payton man of the Year, what does that mean to you, boss man?

[Julian Love]

Man, that's special. You know, I'm a Chicago kid and so Walter Payton, that's like a. He's a superhero. That's how my pops raised me. That's how my grandparents raised me. That's what it is. You know, Walter Payton was a superhero. And so to be nominated, you know, it was definitely emotional. Everybody back home was going crazy because they just know what it means. And for me, I mean, I was just. I don't know, I'll just be myself for real. You know, I, I do a lot with, with expected or postpartum mothers, a lot of kids. Obviously I have my youth camp for free. I don't, I don't like charging kids. I know my parents are grinding paying that entrance fee for these camps and all these things and you know, they did it thankfully. But I know it's not easy. And so just everything we. It was cool to be nominated, but yeah, it doesn't stop. You know, that's.

[Sports Analyst 2]

That's dope. That's dope.

[Sports Analyst 1]

The team that you're going against. This look, this is a rematch with Super Bowl 49. And, and I, I think, I think there's a 99.9999 chance. If y' all get the ball on the one yard line, y' all gonna hand that damn ball off the Ken Walker in a similar situation because. Or you guys gonna lose y' all damn mind on Clint. And I know Clint very well. I played with his father. But has it like, okay, have you given yourself an opportunity? Have you watched any film on the, on the Patriots and kind of what they like to do offensively or you just taking it in. Okay, we're going to. We'll start getting to them on Wednesday. We got tomorrow off. You probably came in today. Okay, we're going to leave Saturday. We're going to leave Sunday to head down to San Francisco. We'll leave Monday. Get your ticket situation, the hotel, this is what you got. The plane situation. When I wed J. Love, my family was leaving from where they were from. And so I had seats on the plane that I ended up giving to my best friend. Like, hey, your family's here. They can take those seats. That's kind of the planning that y' all had today. You brought everybody in. You explained when you're leaving, the hotel situation, the ticket situation. Look, let's get all that out the way. Cause once. Once we get started on Wednesday, we don't need any distractions.

[Julian Love]

You hit it exactly on the head. That was the whole day today. Logistics. My head's in a blender. You know, the team went. You know, we celebrated last night. So we're trying to figure it out this morning. And yeah, we had some uncomfortable conversations this morning trying to tell the family, all right, this is a situation. You know, it's a game. I got to win a game in two weeks. This ain't a family vacation in San Fran. And so, yeah, there's a lot of that. Today we treated like a Monday. I mean, you heard our head coach talk, McDonald, he's very much direct. He's very, you know, straight line, and he just. He treated today like a normal Monday. We celebrated, watch the good plays, did all the things. Tomorrow's an off day, and Wednesday we'll get after. And so we just follow the same method. We have a little more time. I haven't watched them, to be honest, too much. Just our paths just didn't cross too much. You know, I'm watching film on other teams and so, yeah, we're excited to just take a dive for sure.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, before. Before you came to the Seahawks, I think if I'm not mistaken, my year served me correct. 20, 23. What was the selling point? What was the selling point based on other places you could have gone? What made Seattle the destination for you?

[Julian Love]

Yeah, honestly, it was Pete Carroll. The straight up and down. You know, I had three head coaches in four years in New York when I was with the Giants. Tough slut. No, you know, we were figuring it out, but, you know, my last year in New York was like my first time a start, full time starter. I played a lot before that, but first time as a full Time starter. And so I was looking to grow. You know, some people in the Giants building just didn't see that. And, you know, I was 24 at the time, so I'm like, man, I'm young. You know, I. I left school early, but, you know, back when people did that and yeah, it was P. Carol, he just said, listen, we have two high pay safeties. We have Mall, as we all know, Andre Diggs. Through my mentors, who are my guys, they said, but, you know, Mall's kind of dealing with some injury stuff. We need you to come in. And we just have a. We have a clear vision for how we want to play you and deploy you into everything. And I just trusted it. Pete Carroll sold me. And so that year, I mean, I was the third safety for real. And I made the Pro Bowl. You know, we. I accomplished a lot of things. I earned a lot of what I have now because I just. I just took a leap of faith. For real.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Have you. Have you always played safety growing up? Most of the time, you know, we play other positions. And as we get. As we got older, we were fixated on one thing, especially when it was time to get to the next level. You've always been a safety all your life or you. You played other things?

[Julian Love]

No. You know, when you're a kid, man, you just play whatever. Who could score the most points? Lily, you're running back, of course, high school running back, receiver, return kicks, did all things. Played kind of linebacker, safety. Because in high school, corner. I mean, nobody's really guarding people for real in high school. So this is where I can ever tackle. And in college at Notre Dame, I played corner. Okay. And so I was kind of in the draft as a tweener, for real. You know, people were like, is he a nickel? Is he a corner that, you know, that just tackles? Well, size, speed, all that was kind of being analyzed. And thankfully, a mentor is like, listen, get some reps at free safety. I think you know your skill set. You can move, you can tackle, you do other things, and I think it'll serve you well. And so, yeah, I randomly have starts at corner, nickel, free, strong, all in the least in my first few years. And so, yeah, I bounced around a little bit.

[Sports Analyst 1]

J. Love, you said something very important that you. That you realize you. You relay to your family that this is not a vacation, because the family, you're gonna probably, guys, gotta go get down there Sunday or Monday. The family's gonna come in on Thursday. And the way I approached it, I went and saw my Family. When they got in, I saw the kids, we hung out, and then I didn't see the kids again until after the game. Because I'm there to win a game. I'm not there to go sightseeing. I'm not the other. Because the first super bowl we had was in Sea World. So, you know, the kids are all excited about SeaWorld. We go to SeaWorld. SeaWorld. See all the diploma. Yes. That was my mom, my sister, my girlfriend at the time. That was their job. Y' all handle the kids. Don't call me for nothing unless it's an absolute emergency. And then I'm gonna meet you guys at wherever you need to be at. But other than that, you have to relay that because they like, oh, man, that game ain't till Sunday. You. They. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The game is one. People don't realize games are one. Monday through Friday, you go out there on the field. That ain't nothing. You win games on Monday through Friday. That's when you won the game. So I. Are you guys installing because. And then have everything as a dress rehearsal, or are you waiting till you actually get to San Fran before you do installation?

[Julian Love]

No, no, we're getting after it. We're starting up. I think. I think actually we have an extra day off. I think we have a Wednesday off, and we're getting. We're treating Thursday like it's a Wednesday of the week.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yep.

[Julian Love]

Mike might have his in full pads, knowing him, so we might just be full pads. Yeah, man, we were in full pads, like, a week or two ago. You got to get that callous because that monkey off your back. But that's been the whole season for real. Like, we're, you know, to us on the inside, we're like a team of nobodies, you know, to most people. Not a lot of star power, you know, a lot of people say. And we just approach every day the same, you know. So, yeah, we're gonna get after, you know, our Wednesday the same way we always do have our meetings, you know, get in at, you know, however early you're getting in and leaving at 5:30 or so. Yeah, we got locked in. I mean, I told my family, listen, I can see you exactly right Thursday, we have NFL honor. So maybe I could see you Thursday. But then my normal Friday, I like to get in. I'm already in that mode Friday for a game. I. I'll do disservice to you guys if I'm trying to play host, because I'm gonna be like, Quiet and then kind of in, you know, in that mode. And so, yeah, I think they know what time it is for.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Are you. Are you married? Did you have a family?

[Julian Love]

Yeah. Married. I started dating my wife when I was 16 years old. Oh, my goodness.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Congrats.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, I got lucky. It's hard. It's hard nowadays for these young guys.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah.

[Julian Love]

And so I got lucky. So, Mary, we've been married for a few years now. I have one son. Yeah. Years old. And we have another one due in March.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Congratulations, man.

[Julian Love]

Boy. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.

[Sports Analyst 1]

But that's the thing. You got a wife, a. You got to handle this.

[Julian Love]

You got to handle it, because, hey.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I. I don't know if and when I'll ever get back to this situation, so I want to seize this moment. Mom, dad, hey. Wife. Got all y' all set up. Y' all don't need me for anything. Let me handle this game. When we win this game, wherever y' all want to go, I got you.

[Julian Love]

Yep. Exactly right. We'll have time. We. You know, we got an off season. We can do all that. We live. I live five minutes with my folks, so. Back in. Back in Chicago, and so.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, really?

[Julian Love]

Yeah. We'll have that time. So. Yeah, wife's playing mediator, manager. You know, all the things. She's putting overtime.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Hey, once. Once all this is over, once the dust clears and y' all win the super bowl, you host that trophy, everything settles in. What do you like to do outside of the game of football? You know, any hobbies you might have? I mean, you. You cook, read, books. I mean, whatever it may be. Do you have anything that you. You.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You're.

[Sports Analyst 2]

You're excited to do once everything settles down?

[Julian Love]

Man, I'm a. I'm a homebody, for real. You know, I get back to Chicago, I train, I hang out with the family. You know, I. I wake up, I enjoy playing, you know, with my son. We'll be the, you know, two boys this off season. So I chill. I do like to golf. I'm average, but I enjoy it. Just kind of getting out, you know, have a few drinks with guys, you know, play some music. I'm more of that type of golfer.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You got too much muscle, J. Love. You gotta lose some of that muscle to be good at golf. You gotta be. You gotta be free through the shoulders.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, I don't want to see a video of you swinging a golf club. I might not look right. Look like LeBron.

[Sports Analyst 1]

A few weeks ago, Greg Bell tweeted Julia Love said he and former Giants teammate Leonard Williams hugged in the locker room post game at the 49ers and said, Eat to each other. Seahawks winning the division, making the playoffs as top C. We made it. GM John Snyder walked by and said, you're welcome.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, man.

[Sports Analyst 1]

When you look at you, you spoke about the journey that you went on. You go to the Giants and they don't really give you the opportunity that you think you deserve. And you have to take a leap of faith. You go to a team that got two starting safeties and both have gone to the Pro bowl, been perennial All Pros, and you say, what? That's the perfect spot for me. I'm going to Seattle to play behind two perennial Pro Bowl.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yes.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I can't think of a better place for. For J. Love to go. This is. This is old. When you told your wife that you were signing with Seattle and she said, hold on, honey. Jamal Landon, Quandra Diggs, are you crazy? Chicago don't want you. There's not another team that need a safety. So this is the only team. First of all. You pulling me way.

[Julian Love]

Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I go in New York.

[Julian Love]

That's right there. Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Okay. You pulling me way. That's a six hour flight, baby.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah.

[Julian Love]

She looked at the map, she was like, oh, man, four flights out from Chicago. Yeah. It's going to at least be five hours. Yeah, it was a leap of faith, for real. But at that point, just like I'm sure you guys did, I mean, there's no higher belief in me than me. I felt like I was playing my best ball and I was climbing, I was young, I was hungry. And so, you know, the value wasn't there for some people with the Giants.

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[Julian Love]

I'm gonna go make a shake somewhere else. And so it was an element of betting on myself and yeah, with that conversation with Leo in the locker room, Leonard Williams, man, Big Cat, I play. It's my seventh season. I played every season with Big Cat. He's the only time I've had on two different teams. For my first year in New York, he got traded from the jets to the Giants. We played four years together, my first year. Then I signed as a free agent to Seattle. And he gets traded to Seattle that year. And, like, we're best friends. And so that tweet or that quote's a little wrong. I said, we made it out.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You made it out.

[Julian Love]

We made it out. We found a way, man. We're around some like minded people, some dogs and people who are pretty selfless. And yeah, thankfully, that GM made that call because, yeah, it's night and day.

[Sports Analyst 2]

From what we were. I mean, listen, be careful. I mean, obviously they gave you the opportunity. You never want to say anything, anything bad about him. I like, I like the way you've been very cautious about that. But my grandma always told me, you know, closed mouths don't get fed. So I'm going to go ahead and be the one to ask. Can I get a ticket to the Super Bowl?

[Sports Analyst 1]

No, I saw what they said there you go. That way to keep that thing a stack.

[Julian Love]

Hey, I saw what they're trying to charge me, people who are in the game. Yeah, I was shook.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I remember the tickets used to be. I think, I think the max ticket might have been like $1200 when I played, but I think now they're probably 3, 4, 5000.

[Sports Analyst 2]

He didn't even hesitate. He said no, fast as hell.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Hey, do you still get 13 with 2 comps or can you get more?

[Julian Love]

Yeah, it's. I think it is like 13, two comps. Okay, maybe maybe 14 to two comps. So you can, you can you get allocated them. But yeah, they said they. We don't get that off you. Yeah, we.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, they. Oh, they gonna. Oh, oh, a lot of that. Oh, them tickets. Oh, you playing 50, 60, 70, $80,000 for those seats.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, yeah, they told, they told us today. You know, usually have like a lap infant and we have a two year old. Whatever. They said. Everybody, everybody, the ticket. You six weeks old with a baby.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Baby needs.

[Julian Love]

They need a ticket to this game.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Baby, you better be glad they in charge of your wife. She pregnant. So that's still two.

[Julian Love]

Hey, you know, charging me one and a half crazy.

[Sports Analyst 1]

But the year before guys don't know this. This is between us. Used to get up to 30 tickets for the Super Bowl. Dang.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, 30. Decent rat.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I tell, I tell you off camera. What, what, what changed that? But we don't, we don't want to. We don't want to put family business in the street, man. Congrats. Hey, before you go, we're gonna get you out on this. What's it like every day to see JSN and to have to deal with him on a regular basis? Cause you see him every day and you kind of know his movements. He does a great job of staying level because a lot of times when guys, when guys go to stop, they'll drop down. But if you watch him, he kind of like, he's like just floating on air. So everything looks the same. He'll run out. It looks the same. He'll run in, it looks the same. He run a dig, it looks the same. He runs the seam, he runs the go. Everything looks the same. So it's really hard to get a bead on what he's actually doing. So what's it like watching him every single day?

[Julian Love]

No, he's special. Y' all got to get out and see him like in person, go to work. He's special. Like you said, everything's the same. Those are the toughest receivers. You know, you can be fluid in a route and be able to break on every step and you're, you're moving at full speed. There's, there's, there's, you know, there's three to five of them of them in the league. Pretty much, he's one of them. So natural then out of the route. Natural pass catcher. You saw him with the one handed grab. Yeah, just natural. I think a lot of his teammates, you know, back in college, you know, back in his Ohio State days, they said the same thing. Like, man, he's special. And he's, he's just a guy, man. He's chill, you know, he's cool. You know, he's, you know, young, single dude, enjoying himself. But when it comes to work, you know, he's serious. We know he, he's for real. He needs to get more attention. Obviously, he's, he's getting a little this year, but he's, he's.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Listen, I got, I got a small sample size of him. Obviously, seeing what he did Ohio State, seeing what he did in the Rose Bowl. I hold a wide receiver workshop for all the NFL receivers. He was one of the receivers that came out with Jamar Chase and T. Higgins and Cortland Sutton Judy. And being able to see him now up close and personal and to see his footwork and his ability to start and stop and transition and get in and out of breaks, I was like.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah, what the second?

[Julian Love]

The hell Top tier.

[Sports Analyst 2]

So then, so when I see what he does this season on, on, on film and on camera, I'm like, okay, now it makes sense why they let DK go. Okay, now it makes sense why they let Tyler Lockett go. So I'm like, dog, Unbelievable. Unbelievable. He, he's nice. He's nice.

[Julian Love]

Now to have his production with the style offense we play, you know, it's run heavy. I think we run it at the highest clip in the league. And to do it on the west coast.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, you absolutely gonna run it.

[Julian Love]

Yeah, yeah. He. To get that production out of him is crazy.

[Sports Analyst 1]

But when you play action off that run and when Kenneth Walker III is running it like he's running it and when you play play action off of it. That's why you got guys running free. JSN is still an excellent route runner, but he's even more running because those safety like, damn, we got to get down in the box. We got to stop this because we can't let this guy get ahead of steam. But he's, he's special even like Ocho was talking about in that Rose Bowl. And you watching him, you like is this team that bad or this dude that good? Because you know, you don't see, look, we see receivers get 175, 200, but to see a guy go over 300 yards receiving. So I'm asking myself, is this man really this good or they that bad at defense? And come to find out, no, he. He's that good.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah.

[Julian Love]

Had no answers. Had no answers for him, man.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Well, congratulations man. Thank you for coming on and joining us tonight and showing, sharing with us a little highlight from the game and what it means to you and your family to go. Congratulations on, on the newborn that's about to happen in March. Wish you best of luck. Everybody's healthy and happy and come back after the, after the game. You guys take care of what you're supposed to take care of.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Come back and talk. Don't forget my ticket.

[Julian Love]

Go to Will call. You might be waiting a little bit, but just, you know, it'll be there.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Appreciate it. J. Love, congratulations. Stay healthy, bro.

[Julian Love]

Thank y'. All. Appreciate y'.

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[Sports Analyst 1]

Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw said transitioning from San Francisco to Denver was very tough because how much more physical, demanding Sean Payton coaching style was. He told reporter sean is old school. He's going to do six days on, one day off. He's got his way of doing things. You're going to be practicing three hours on Wednesday, three hours on Fridays. Shanahan is the complete opposite. He wants you fresh.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Well, hold on, I thought the CBA didn't allow them to be out be out on the field that that long.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Don't start. Okay? Yeah, I mean the 49ers have never won a game on the Kyle Shanahan when trailing by eight points or more in the fourth quarter since 2017. Kansas City leads the NFL with seven wins in 30 such situation with a comeback rate of 23.3. San Francisco is dead last when trailing by eight points in the fourth quarter. They're oh and 51.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Damn. Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Wow.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I can, I can believe what he's saying too about Sean Payton and obviously.

[Sports Analyst 1]

His yes, Sean is old school.

[Sports Analyst 2]

He's old school. I'm sure he's had to adjust a little bit and adapt to the new CBA And. And the rules and the way players wear pads and the way they wear shells. But he gonna get the most out of you. He gonna get the most out of you. And that's probably the reason for their success. Literally and figuratively, that's probably the reason for their success. Okay, Chat, Uncle's gone. How y' all doing today? Cool. Okay. Bet I'm doing good, too. That's pretty much it. Y' all like my jersey? Flamingo? No. Brazilian team? No. Cool. What? Ungo. Hey, Chat, y' all want to hear a joke? Chat. Y' all want to hear a joke? Can they even hear me? Ash, can you hear me? Okay, Should I save my joke to uncle back? Hey, Chat, would you call a wandering nun like a nun that's wandering around? What do you call a wandering nun? Anybody. Nobody knows? A wandering nun is called a Roman Catholic.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I heard it. Back to our normal scheduled programming. It is a transition Ocho, if. I've always felt it's easy to go from difficult to easy, as opposed to easy to difficult. That's why they say you could always lighten up on your kids, but it's harder for you to be light and try to toughen up on your kids. And Dre was. Look, I. I know this Wesco system and. And. And. And know how it operates, and that's how Mike was. Mike says, I want you fresh. I don't want to waste all this effort on the practice field. I don't want to leave this. You leave your best material on the cutting room floor. Nah, I'm saving this for Sunday. I want you guys fresh. I want you guys to get off your feet. I want you guys to start mentally preparing and getting ready for this game, and I want you fast. Mike didn't beat Ocho. We had on pads. We put on pass Thursday. So I wore pads basically. 12 plays in my entire. 12 plays. 12 plays. Practice a week when I was Mike Shanahan. Now, once we got to probably about week 10, we were completely out of pads.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah. Yeah. Keep. Keep the body fresh. And obviously, obviously, everyone knows keep everybody upright, don't tackle nobody and stuff like that. I. I remember even the days when we would have pads on. I got to the point where I would just wear my shells. I would wear my shelves over. I mean, obviously, I went with my pads, and everybody knew they. They weren't gonna hit me anyway. I just. I just didn't want to put no pads on until it was time to play ball on Sunday.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Right. I mean, John would wear heads because he needed to throw him with those pads on. But nah, we warm up in them. Once we got the. We did a little team stuff. Then once we got the 907, hey, I went down there. We. I would run, you know, couple of rounds, one on one. We out the pads. But that's. But that's how. That's how Mike was. And it was easy for me to adopt a mic system because I had Coach Reeves. Coach Reeves was really, really old school. He learned under coach Tom Landry. Coach Tom Landry. You had on pads on Friday.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Whoa, whoa.

[Sports Analyst 1]

So shells were shoulder pads Friday.

[Sports Analyst 2]

You had on pads on fast Friday?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yes. Oh, goodness, yes. Shells were shoulder pads and shorts. Not the shells that you're talking about. Like those little. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what shells were. Shells were shoulder pads and shorts. Other than that, you had on everything and Dan didn't allow you to wear. You had to wear your full uniform. You had on thigh pads, knee pads.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Okay, that's.

[Sports Analyst 1]

You had all that?

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah, that's better check too.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah, absolutely. Hey, had you out there looking like that man on that in the equipment room.

[Sports Analyst 2]

That's exactly.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah. He had all the pads on his arms and they had a bird cage face mask. You come out there, that's how coach Reeves have.

[Sports Analyst 2]

You come out there with Belichick and you try to come out there with no thigh pads, no knee pads. You don't have your hip pads in. You're going back inside. He had you wearing everything like you were the damn. The. The model in the equipment room on how to dress properly.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Yeah, yeah. That's what it was that. Those were what shells were shells where you actually. Shoulder pads and you got to have on short. You know, back then. Ocho, they don't have them now. You remember those grays, those cotton gray shorts? You have probably had them in college. Okay, we had the cotton gray before. We had the. The. The. The Nike tech, the high stuff. They were all cotton, you know, Cotton.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Right, right.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Boy, after a while, you can't get that stench out of cotton, man.

[Sports Analyst 2]

They get the stanking, huh?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Look, I don't think that's. And I know people gonna say, you know, he's making excuses. I don't believe that's the reason why they lost. He's just speaking in general. He had to. He had to train himself. He had to learn that this is what's expected. 3. Look, I. I've been there. Not. Not during the season. Not during the season. Training camp. We had a couple we had some three hour practices. Not during the season. I think the longest practice we had, we normally, like, Thursday was our longest practice. We're out there two hours normally on Wednesday, probably out there like an hour 45. Friday, if it's really good, you get to 115. You're not going over 130. Because I'm trying to get to those wings, you know, probably, hey, you know, have wings and pizza. Yeah, yeah, wings of pizza. So, you know, I got four wings, a biscuit, and I have pizza, too. I gotta, you know, have pizza. Have my own pizza. My stuff have my name written on it. Cause everybody be gonna pick through everything, man. You know how everybody come in there and people don't be washing their hands. They come in there straight with the gloves. They got the gloves. They don't talk past it. They'll hit somebody. Nah, hell you laughing on you. I said, nah, I'm done with this. I'm done. So they started. I was like, look, I told Mike, I said, mike, all I want is four wings and two biscuits and a pizza. I want pizza. I want hamburger. I'll say. I say, mike, these jokes don't be washing their hands. They come from. They come straight. They come straight off the field. Don't nobody take their gloves off. They still got tape on their fingers. And they go outside. I'm done with that mic. He's like, all right, 84. So they have, you know, 30, 40 boxes to have like seven, eight boxes of 21 pieces. And then they have wings and they have drumsticks and they have. I don't know why I keep calling them short thighs. So they have that, and then they have, you know, like seven, eight boxes of biscuits. They have, you know, bags and bags. Right, honey? And ketchups and stuff like that. But I was like, nah, I'm good. I'm good. I said, so I'll get my pizza, my chicken, I go eat. You know, sometimes me and Burns, you know, we. Because, you know, that's the time to cut a food.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Oh, yeah.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, yeah. We know how we. What you. You know how we do.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Absolutely, absolutely.

[Sports Analyst 1]

But. But I mean, that just goes to show you the greatest of my homes, that he's won seven of those 30 games. The Vikings are eight for 55. The packers are seven for 50. The Bengals are two for 61.

[Sports Analyst 2]

That. That was. That wasn't necessary.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I'm just saying.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I know you're reading it off. I'm just saying that wasn't necessary.

[Sports Analyst 1]

The Broncos we 7 or 66.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah, that ain't.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What are the Ravens? The Ravens are 3 for 37. My team's up there, so both my teams in the top 10. So I'm cool.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Both your teams. Oh, now they both your team.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Now, don't do that.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying, you.

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[Sports Analyst 2]

You won two. You went to show about your team the other night, but now they both your team. Okay.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What you mean? I was. Yeah, listen, I'm a Bronco fan. I'm a Raven fan.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure you're a Ravens fan. I'm sure you're a Bronco fan. I'm just saying your faith in your Broncos, it wasn't sitting too high. You weren't too voicerous. You weren't screaming to the mountaintops about your goddamn Broncos before that game.

[Julian Love]

Because.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What was I screaming about?

[Sports Analyst 2]

You didn't have any faith. Because the quarterback who was starting.

[Sports Analyst 1]

I didn't.

[Julian Love]

Okay?

[Sports Analyst 1]

That's why I wasn't. That's why I wasn't as upset. Had I been. Had. I would have been. Had both started. If both had played and we lost, yeah, I'd have been disappointed. Extremely disappointed. But with Steelham, I know what he is. Everybody knew what he was. I think Bronco country was trying to hold out fate that he could. He could do it, but they didn't have. Man, stop.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Well, yeah, I think everybody probably in Cancun by now, huh?

[Sports Analyst 1]

They. They definitely. Probably out of Denver. I mean, but a lot of. But a lot. A lot of people now, Ocho, they live in the city where they play. We. A lot of us went. We went home. I mean, you know, we were. Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I think I've been to Denver one time. Denver's a nice city. Denver's a nice city. Everything they have to offer. But the little bit I did see is it's a nice place. Food was good. The people were very nice. Everything was very, very green. Obviously. I'm sure it's cold and snowing there right now, but it was cool.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He hasn't come back. He's gonna have to fix that.

[Sports Analyst 2]

What happened?

[Sports Analyst 1]

I mean, he doesn't have any come from behind victories when he's down by eight points in the first Shanahan. Oh, yeah. Now, it didn't help that he had some, you know, he had C.J. beathard and he had some guys tried that he was trying to win with. But you. I. I would have thought that with Jimmy G or a Purdy that we'd have at least one or two. But I think it just goes to show you the greatness of Patrick Mahomes. That's what this tells me. Because he's at the top of the chart. The Guppies won 470.

[Sports Analyst 2]

The who?

[Sports Analyst 1]

The Guppies.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Are you talking about the Dolphins?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, my bad. Yeah.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I mean, they just. They just as bad as the ponies then.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Don'T do that.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I'm just saying don't do that.

[Sports Analyst 1]

When last time y' all want to playoff game?

[Sports Analyst 2]

Oh, what's the point? What's the point?

[Sports Analyst 1]

Last time you want to play, y' all didn't even make the playoffs.

[Sports Analyst 2]

We didn't make the playoff. But y' all right back at home.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Y' all right with us with Joe. Y' all got Joe Burrow. You say Joe one of the top three quarterbacks. And y' all can't make.

[Sports Analyst 2]

I got hurt this year. Don't do that.

[Sports Analyst 1]

What about, what about last year? Did he get hurt?

[Sports Analyst 2]

Yeah, he was hurt last year, too.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Oh, yeah?

[Julian Love]

Yeah, yeah. Don't.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Don't do that. You talk about. You talk about the Guppies. I mean, we talk about your ponies because the same place the Dolphins at the same place the Broncos at right now.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Nah, y' all been underwater. We just got here.

[Sports Analyst 2]

Well, we got there two weeks. Two weeks before y'.

[Julian Love]

All.

[Sports Analyst 2]

What's the difference? It ain't no different.

[Sports Analyst 1]

Y' all got there three weeks before us.

[Sports Analyst 2]

We all in the same place right now. That's all that matter.

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