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All right, mad at you. Go on here. Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast. Another crazy week. NFC west just cannot get figured out. Every time you think he got it figured out, you don't. Jordan Love, 20 of 27 for 229, two touchdowns. Josh Jacobs 26 carries for a little under 100 yards, 94 yards, one touchdown, four catches, 42 yards. Did lose a fumble punched out by Ernest Jones. They controlled the game from start to finish. But Geno Smith is the big story of this game. Obviously the Seahawks losing, being tied with the Rams for first in division, but the Rams have the tiebreaker. So currently they're on the outside looking into the playoffs. But Geno Smith, 15, 19, 149 yards, did have the interception in the end zone to Valentine. That energy is going to tell the season for the Seahawks. It's going to. You know, if he doesn't come back, I think that that wraps it up for the Seattle Seahawks. You know, you need to starting quarterback in the National Football League and he's leading the NFC in a number of categories. So to lose him as a critical blow to this team who have been rolling since the bye week, their first loss since the bye week. The defense have been playing incredibly well. This game obviously didn't play their best and just struggled on both sides of the football struggle to move the ball offensively when they got down there, couldn't execute in the red zone, couldn't get the ball in the end zone, didn't run the ball as well as they had in previous weeks. They did have a big run by Zach Charbonnet, but he only had eight carries for 54 yards. Because they were trailing so much of the game, they were down 14 points before you could blink and never really recovered. Whenever they got opportunities like the Ernest Jones fumble, they did turn that into seven points. But you know, two trips to the red zone and you know, two field goals out of it isn't going to get the job done. They do have an opportunity against the Rams late in the season if they can keep up with them and keep it tied, you know, to settle this thing once and for all. But Jackson, Smith and Jigba, another consistent game. 10 catches, 83 yards, DK, only three catches, Tyler only one catch and Leonard Williams still has a good game. But no, no sacks, no interceptions in this game, Leonard did have a couple TFLs on very critical plays on third and fourth down, but that's the story. You. They weren't able to get to Jordan Love and get him on the ground. They were able to put some pressure on him, put him under duress, but it didn't lead to any interceptions. They were able to get the force fumble from, from Jacobs, which was a, you know, led to points, but just not enough. And it seemed like in the second half they found their rhythm, found a way to get these guys stopped, found a way to stop the run. You know, outside of the chunk played to Romeo Dobbs on Witherspoon, they pretty much held him in check, held him to three points until that point where they took a shot late in the game. Unexpected situation. You thought they were going to keep running the football and they didn't. This is a tough loss for the Seattle Seahawks. You know, obviously still first year coach Mike McDonald, you know, things to, to overcome and things to clean up, but this one hurts. And for all the fans that thought, hey, Sam Howell, we need to replace Geno, we can do so much better than Gino. Again, I've been telling you, behind this offensive line who has struggled most of the season, it's tough for any quarterback to be successful. This offensive line gave up seven sacks today. That's tough. Some of them were on Sam Howell holding the ball too long, but literally the pocket crumbled in front of him, it crumbled around him. You know, there, there have been some good plays, some good changes in this offensive line, but they lost another center today, the new right guard, the new right tackle, Abe Lucas, has been really solid this season. But this is one of those games you're playing against a team that's really talented, that has a lot of really talented pass rushers. And you saw it, you saw what, what a difference that could make against this team. And this was a potential 3, 6 playoff matchup. And thank God you didn't have to wait to the playoffs to see that this would be an issue. And that's how they're going to attack you. If they see you again. If they do run into the Seattle Seahawks again in the playoffs, they're going to attack, they're going to bring pressure consistently. Whether it's Sam Howell or Geno banged up back there, Jeff Halfley sees that they can get to the quarterback. Whether it's rushing four or sending five, they're going to be able to get there. And I think that's something that isn't going to get cleaned up this season. It's been a really good season to figure out who your playmakers are, develop an identity for this defense. And I think they have done that. I think they found out Ernest Jones and Tyrese Knight are their linebackers of the future. I think they understand they have a really good defensive line. They got a really talented secondary, really talented receiving core, and you have to clean up this offensive line. Obviously, K9 is injured. You know what you have in him. But right now, that offensive line is going to be the thing that holds you back. And I know everybody's going to say, oh, man, that Geno play, if he would have just done it. When you're under duress and under constant pressure, knowing that there's only so many opportunities going to get to get to the red zone and a chance at points, you got to give your team a chance to make a play. He tried to give his receiver a chance to make a play. Unfortunately, it landed in the defender's hands and it didn't work out. But if the Seahawks can find a way to compete in this game versus the Vikings, which is going to be a tough ass. The Vikings are 11 and 2 and they're not a fluke. 11 and 2. They have a really good defense. Flores is going to bring a lot of pressure, a lot of very exotic looks, and offensively, Kevin O'Connell is going to draw it up as good as anybody. So they're going to have to find some answers to that and find a way to change the narrative and be really disruptive on the defensive side of the ball. They're going to have to block, maybe block a kick or something, make a play on special teams. Darden has come in and, and really energize his special teams unit in terms of the returns that he had, you know, giving good field position to the offense. But that was a tough one to watch. That was a tough one to watch because every time you felt like a team was going to make a play, that they were going to do something great, that, man, they're going to. They're going to. This is going to be the one that turns it around. Green Bay muffed the punt. Nobody recovered it. They got it back. They made a play on Jordan Love where it looked like it could have been a fumble. He recovered it. So nothing worth challenging. You got to find a way to make those plays. You got to find a way to get those. That's the way you win those games, especially out at home. But the most discouraging part was probably the Green Bay fans, the Go Pack Go Chance that you're hearing in Lumen Field. You know, that's, that's, that's something I don't ever remember hearing. I don't ever remember hearing the opposite, the opposing team's chance in our home stadium. But that's a story for a different day. I think this is going to be one of those situations they're going to look and they're going to learn from and hopefully Gino's okay and it's not a serious injury. He wasn't able to come back, but hopefully he's able to bounce back by next week and he's able to play against the Minnesota Vikings or. I think that's going to be a tough one to come out of with a win. Oh, that's going to be a tough one. That's going to be a really tough one. If Geno Smith isn't able to play, I think, you know, and people don't appreciate him in Seattle. Like I told people, it's not easy to play the quarterback position under this kind of pressure consistently. And you think you can do so much better than him, but you're not going to be drafting high enough. You're already eight wins in, so you're probably picking 16, 17. If you get two more wins, you're probably picking 24, 23. You're not going to be able to get a quarterback next year. So Gino's the answer right now. So support the quarterback you have and a quarterback who actually has been putting up good numbers behind an offensive line that hasn't been blocking great. So this was a tough one. I thought this would be a good game for, for, if Seattle won this one, to be able to like put a stamp on this season and have a real quality win and go into next week feeling really good that you beat the Green Bay packers and you can beat the Minnesota Vikings. Not that they can't beat the Minnesota Vikings even after this, but it just looks really bleak right now. And if you're, if you're the Rams, you got a much easier schedule going down a stretch and hopefully you, you know, if Seattle loses this game, it gives a cushion to the LA Rams and that's, you know, it's going to be exciting down the stretch. It's going to be exciting. That's why the league designs the schedule this way, because they want it to be exciting. They want it to be nail biting down a stretch and that's what they got. They got what they wanted. They got what they deserved and I ain't mad at them for it. But now we got to talk about this Buffalo game and and this is our Uber Eats segment. So. So you know what time it is. Time for a hat switch.

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Now it's time for a look at this week's tastiest matchup in a segment we're calling Sunday Night Food Ball, brought to you by Uber Eats. It's The Buffalo Bills vs. The Detroit Lions in an incredible shootout. Clearly, clearly not a lot of defense played in this game. The highest scoring NFL game this season just surpasses last week's Buffalo Bills versus The Rams game. It's it was an incredible performance by Josh Allen. Actually a incredible performance by Jared Goff as well. Just the Detroit Lions defense couldn't get a stop, couldn't find a stop. And Josh Allen, I mean, he poured it on early, got up to a 14. 0 lead. The Detroit Lions were able to claw their way back in the second quarter, but still down seven points. And they were relentless. And obviously, after everything that was said last week, Teddy Brusky's comments about Dan Campbell being reckless and everything. Clearly all the attention and energy is going to be spent on his decision to kick the onside kick. With 12 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, after your defense got a semi stop, held Buffalo to a field goal, Mac Hollins takes the ball, gets vertical, gets all the way to the 5 yard line, 38 yard gain and sets the Buffalo Bills up for another touchdown. And what ended up being the deciding touchdown in the game changer. And who knows what could have happened? You know, maybe you kick it and your defense gets to stop, but they hadn't got many stops in the game. And so when you're a head coach in this league and you're seeing the writing on the wall, you're saying, hey, they have answers for us this week and we don't have the answers for what they're giving us. I'm not incredibly upset with that call. You know, you're trying to find a way to get a possession. It just sucks. The rules or the way they are now where it's so obvious and apparent that you're kicking on onside kick. So that obviously changes the makeup of the play and, and surprising somebody versus kicking it to a team that's expecting it to come because you have to announce it, I think that's what makes it a really difficult play to call now. You know, back in the day, if he called a surprise onside kick right there in that situation and they somehow got it, which more than likely you would because nobody's expecting it in that scenario. I think it's a good call. But under this situation it's tough to have an onside kick at all. And I think he just realized that and he learned that, that you can't do that. I think they, you know, still played a really good game, only lost by seven points. The offense scored 42 points. The Buffalo Bills offense looks incredible. Another 40 point game for them. You know, I think once this Detroit Lions defense gets healthy, it's going to be a whole different ballgame. If this is a Super bowl preview, I think everybody would be excited to see it again. Two really good teams. Josh Allen played a good game, obviously. James Cook had a really Incredible game. Only 14 carries, but 105 yards and two touchdowns. Had the 41 yard breakout run to really, really take this game over. Ty Johnson, five catches, 414 yards. But Jared Goff, Jared Golf. What a game by Jared Goff. If he hadn't had the five turnover game, we'd be having entirely different conversations about Jared Goff, he threw for five touchdowns, almost 500 yards through the air. Jameer Gibbs, eight carries for 31 yards, but five catches for 83 yards, one touchdown, made his impact that way. Not a lot of production out of David Montgomery this game, only 4 yards on the ground. But Amon Ross, St. Brown and Sam Laporta really, really took over this game at times. You know, they were the reason that Detroit even had a chance in this game. Amon Ra had 14 catches for almost 200 yards, 193 yards, one touchdown. Sam LaPorta, seven catches for 111 yards. Jamison Williams, three catches for 37 yards into one touchdown. But the real story is Detroit's defense. They had no sacks, no turnovers in this game. And obviously that's something that's going to have to be addressed and it's something that will change once they get healthier and they get all their players back. But still, in a game like this, after coming off a really good win against Green Bay packers, you would thought they would play a little bit better than they played. But what you're going to do, you got to give Buffalo Bills a lot of credit offensively. The last two weeks they've played incredible. Josh Allen's played incredible. Looks like the MVP candidate that everybody is crowning him to be. 362 yards passing, two touchdowns, 10 carries, another two touchdowns on the ground, 69 yards rushing. For some people, that's going to put him over the top. But again, I hate to keep reiterating myself, but the numbers, you know, this is a statement win versus the best team in the nfc. He deserves credit for that. He's pushing his team over the top. He had four touchdown downs total in this game, almost a little over 400 total yards in this game. James Cook also had a really good game, but I just think the numbers have to matter at some point. They're 10 and three are 11 and three at this point. Clearly the class of the NFC. But they're not the one seed in AFC. They're not the one seed in AFC. The Kansas City Chiefs are still the one seed in AFC and I think that has to factor in to this discussion. And the numbers have to factor in. You look at the game that Lamar Jackson just had and again they're nine and five and they're fighting for a chance to win their division. So that that matters, that factors in. You talk about the Philadelphia Eagles and Saquon Barkley had an off game this game, but the Philadelphia Eagles have a better record than the Buffalo Bills. So if you're talking about records being the reason why somebody's mvp, then okay, you can kind of give it to Josh Allen, but you can give it to other people. If records are the only thing that matters. I think that in this discussion, you have to be nuanced. You have to look at the numbers and you have to say, Lamar Jackson beat him straight up. And I remember that being a factor last year when they talked about the MVP race late in the season. He beat him, obviously, earlier in the season. They won't face each other until probably the playoffs if they play again. But LaMar Jackson has 34 passing touchdowns right now, only three interceptions on the season, having a really, really, really incredible season. Numbers that are comparable to his. To his MVP year in 2019 when he had 36 passing touchdowns on the season. He has, what, a little over 3,500 yards. It's a lot closer than people were thinking. And I just want people to have that discussion because before last season, the last five winners, the last five winners of the MVP trophy led the league in passing touchdowns. Now all of a sudden, that's changed. Suddenly the MVP goes to whoever has the best storyline and meaningful wins late in the season, not the stats. You have dominating performances late in the season. Then you're the mvp, regardless of what the numbers say. Sometimes it would be the team with the best record in a league in the best passing stats. Then you're like, oh, okay. Because there were some times that the year Aaron wanted the last Aaron Rodgers mvp. Tom Brady had really incredible numbers. I think he threw for 5,000 yards. You know, he was pushing the ball down the field. But Aaron had those touchdowns, had less interceptions. You know, the efficient Aaron that he usually is when he wins mvp. But I just think it's more nuanced conversation. I don't think anybody's walked away with it right now. And if you're saying somebody walked away with it, then I'm scratching my head because I don't know that. I don't know what the criteria is for MVP anymore. I don't. I don't understand the criteria. And somebody has to explain that, like I'm five years old, what the criteria for MVP is. If. If it's not the numbers anymore, is it, hey, you're the most important player on your team because just about every contender's quarterback is the most important player on their team. Is it. You're the best player on the best team with the best record. Is it? What? What is it? Because I don't understand it. If the numbers don't matter, if you don't have to be top five in categories anymore because you used to have to lead the league to win MVP and now you don't. Not that Josh Allen doesn't deserve it. If they give it to him, they give it to him. You know, who am I? I'm just a guy who's explaining the trends and the way things have been in the past and I need to understand so that I can make better predictions. What's the criteria? But great game and great win for the Buffalo Bills in Detroit that makes this an even more meaningful win. They beat the Kansas City Chiefs who are number one in the afc. They beat the Detroit Lions with number one in nfc, but they also just lost to the Rams last week. So there's, there's, you got to have the conversation both ways. It's not like they're just winning and winning, winning, winning, winning. They just lost to the Rams, but they are having a really great season and they continue to push the envelope and continue to win ball games. The Bills have the Patriots next week and that should be another pretty, pretty cruise easy game for them. The Lions have the Bears. A simple easy game for them. You know, there's no such thing as easy games in National Football League, but the Bears haven't looked very good, especially over the stretch. Given up a lot of sacks. They look dejected, look like they're ready to go on vacation. The Patriots are still somewhat trying to compete, but don't have the star power, don't have the talent right now to compete with a team like the Buffalo Bills. But it's a divisional game so you know, anything can happen. I wouldn't put past them and I don't think Buffalo loses that game. I think they continue to win and they win out the rest of the season and I'm looking forward to these playoffs and seeing how that shakes out. That was this week's Sunday night food ball brought to you by Uber Eats, the official on demand delivery partner of the NFL. Uber Eats has the best game day deals all season long. Order now for game day. Another huge game happened in Pennsylvania between the two Pennsylvania teams, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. What a game we thought it was going to be, but the Philadelphia Eagles defense has been on a tear as of late, especially against the run. They've been phenomenal against the run. They did a really good job limiting Russell Wilson in this game. 14 for 22, 128 yards. Also caused a turnover on a fumble that they recovered. The Pittsburgh Steelers have been playing really, really good football this year. But one common theme that's happened is they've been able to run the ball well and it's complimented and opened up their passing game with, with George Pickens making big plays, flying Muth, Calvin Austin and, and they've had really, really good success when they run the ball consistently and effectively and they play good defense, they turn the ball over on defense, they put pressure on the quarterback, they get sacks. T.J. watt got hot this game. He caused some big plays. But Jalen Hurts probably had his best game of the season. He was 25 of 32, 290 yards, two touchdowns. He carried the ball a little more than usual this game. 15 carries for 45 yards in a touchdown. A.J. brown, you know he was in the, in the news last week and earlier this week just talking about how what the offense needs to do to be more productive. That message was obviously received well by their coordinator because he got the A.J. brown the ball early and often. He had five catches for 65 yards by the beginning of the second quarter. Devonte Smith had 11 catches for 109 yards and a touchdown on 12 targets. So they found both of their star receivers, fed them, appeased them. But Saquon Barkley, 19 carries for 65 yards. A rare, very rare off day for Saquon Barkley and his teammates were still able to pick him up. And you see when, when the run game struggles, the pass game thrives. When the pass game struggles, the run game thrives. It was still a really complete game for the Philadelphia Eagles both sides of the football. They did such a great job stopping the run. They held Najee Harris for to 14 yards on six carries. They really just had to go away from the run game. They didn't have any answers. They didn't have any answers for the Philadelphia Eagles defensive line. Jalen Carter and the boys are are so stout up front, they making plays in the back end even when they gave up a must punt. And early in the game you thought oh my God, that's going to be the chance Pittsburgh needs to get on the board early and flip this game. And they were able to get a stop, they were able to sack the quarterback, they were able to put pressure on Russell Wilson and he was wasn't able to have the game he needed to have. But there's bigger news coming out of Pittsburgh. T.J. watt leaves the game with an apparent foot injury. He can't. He came up lame on a pass rush where he rushed over to quarterback and he just Started to limp, he grabbed the back of his heel. You hope it's nothing serious, but that's something that we have to continue to monitor because he's such an engine for this defense, he's such an engine in a, in a stalwart in a face of this franchise that without him, it changes the whole makeup of this team. It changed the whole makeup of the defense. It changes the whole way you prepare to play the Pittsburgh Steelers. So let's all put our prayers up and our, and our strength up to TJ Watt and hope that, hope that he's healthy for the rest of the season or at least the playoffs when they need him to come back again. A great game for Jalen hurts getting his top receivers to football, getting out of harm's way, using his legs when he had to, accurate with the football. You need to give him a lot of credit for this win. They've really. Philadelphia has been undefeated since Sirianni got the buzz cut. I don't know if it's the buzz cut that, that, that hasn't, but since Sirianni got it, they haven't lost the game. So they were calling for his job earlier in the season and now I'm sure they're calling for an extension. It's crazy how, how quickly the tide changes in Philadelphia. They're. They're 12 and 2. The Philadelphia Eagles are still the 2 seed, but it's a close neck and neck race and the Lions have no margin for error. Now after that loss to the Buffalo Bills, Nick Sirianni becomes the second coach in Eagles history with multiple 12 win seasons. The only other coach being the great Andy Reid who's in Kansas City doing numbers right now trying to chase his third super bowl ring in a row. Philly, settle down. You got your coach, give him an extension, support him. He's running the ball. You got a great team. I look forward to seeing what they're able to do in the playoffs because the way Vic Fangio has his defense playing, the way this offense is rolling, the way SA Kohan has been rolling all season long, they're going to be a tough out in the playoffs, especially if somebody has to roll into Philadelphia to do it. Can't wait to see how that goes. The Pittsburgh Steelers have a really tough game, divisional game that could decide the AFC north next week against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. I think that's going to be a really exciting game. It's on a short week for them, a Saturday game. One less day to prepare, one less day of rest and The Baltimore Ravens are going to be playing with that sense of urgency they need to have this game. And with T.J. watt potentially sidelined, that's going to be a huge factor in that game. And you looked at what Lamar Jackson did this week, five passing touchdowns, 69 yards on the ground. I think they're going to be primed and ready if they could find a way to win that game against the Pittsburgh Steelers and recapture the division lead going into the playoffs. Gaining momentum. Everybody knew this would be a tough stretch for the Pittsburgh Steelers having all these division games late in the season. Even, even a Cincinnati Bengals offensively are playing out of their minds. I mean, we can talk about Joe Burrow. He's not going to get the MVP, but he's putting up MVP numbers over 30 touchdowns. I think he has seven interceptions, close to 4,000 yards passing. And Jamar Chase having an all Pro season himself. T. Higgins having a really good season, been kind of banged up. It's going to be a really tough road for Pittsburgh down the stretch. They're going to have to figure it out offensively a way figure out a way to score more points to put more pressure on these defenses. Hopefully George Pickens hamstring gets healthy because he's a huge factor in this offense and what they're able to do, how they're able to stretch the field and what that opens up for Najee Harris in this run game. So hopefully he's able to get back or else it's going to be a really, really tough finish for the Pittsburgh Steelers on what has been a really, really good and promising season for him. Obviously they got some things to answer this offseason. What they're going to do with Russell Wilson, likely going to sign him to a new contract and bring him back at least for another couple of years until they find somebody else or draft somebody else to succeed him. He's been having a really good season helping them win ball games. I'm looking forward to that.

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It's golf. Another important AFC matchup happening. The Kansas City Chiefs go into Cleveland to play the Cleveland Browns and Jameis Winston Kansas City controls this game for most of the game. Again, Patrick Mahomes Semi Underwhelming game 19 to 38 passing, 159 yards, two touchdowns. Xavier Worthy Six catches for 46 yards, three rushes for 30 yards and a rushing touchdown. Trent McDuffie, Trent McDuffie, friend of the program, gets his first career interception. So happy for him. We talked about it on the podcast. We hoped he would get it this season. He finally got it. Love to see it. Jameis Winston 3 interception game. He asked the good Lord to deliver him from interceptions and I guess the good Lord sent him a few more struggles before he delivers them from these interceptions right now. Jerome Ford seven carries for 84 yards. Jerry Judy 11 catches for 108 yards. Continues his strong season since Jameis Winston has taken taken the reins of this offense. Seems like they have a really good connection and this could be something that the the Cleveland Browns could build on in the future. But the Kansas City Chiefs have two games in the next 10 days versus Houston and then they have Christmas versus Pittsburgh. Another tough game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After playing the Baltimore Ravens, they play Kansas City Chiefs. That's a gauntlet if I've ever seen one. And it looks like even though the Kansas City Chiefs aren't playing their best football, they held the Cleveland Browns to seven points. Their defense is still playing well. George Karloff this two sacks in the game. We talked about the interception for Trent McDuffie and Jaden Hicks gets interception. Brian Cook and Nick Bolton all get an interception in a game. The Kansas City defense ends the game with four interceptions. That's why this Kansas City Chiefs team is now considered a defensive football team. Because even when their offense struggles, they don't have their best game. Still haven't had a game in which they scored 30 points or more. They find a way to win and they're 12 and one on the season. But Patrick Mahomes is getting hit and he's getting hit a lot. If there's one thing that's a threat to their three peat, it's those tackles and they're going to have to get that figured out before the playoffs because in the playoffs, if they continue to let him get hit like that, he's just a human being. He's already day to day with the ankle injury. I mean, I don't know what you expect him to do. I don't know what you expect. I mean, it's been some really, really bad tackle play. They have some of the Best interior offensive linemen in the National Football League. But on the edges they are very weak and they're vulnerable. And I think if there's an Achilles heel to this Kansas City Chiefs team, it's the tackle play. And it's shown week in and week out and it's only gotten worse as the season's progress. Hopefully they can find a way to get that fixed. But usually you aren't getting big things fixed in December and January. If you haven't got it fixed by now, it's probably not getting fixed. And if you go home, it's going to be because of those tackles. And everybody knows it. But they've overcome that before in the playoffs. Andy Reid is a wizard and hopefully he could find a way to mask that to help those guys to chip, to bring, keep an extra man in, maybe bring another tackle in. I mean, I guess that'd be three bad tackles, I don't know. But right now they don't have answers. And their quarterback, who's the star of the National Football League, the face of the National Football League is getting hit a lot and that has to change. Kansas City Chiefs play the Houston Texas next week in a great matchup. A matchup that I'll be looking forward to see seeing. The Houston Texans are playing good football. They just locked up a playoff spot winning the AFC south with the Colts lost to the Broncos. That's great for D'Amico. Ryan's a friend of the program, a friend of mine. This team got Nico Collins back and they're going to be rolling in the playoffs. They're going to be a tough out. Their defense is playing well. Got a number of turnovers in that game and I'm looking forward to seeing that game. The Browns are at the Bengals who are playing some of the best offensive football of their season. We'll see how that one goes. Now let's move over to another game that has some playoff implications. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the LA Chargers, who have been playing some really stout defense. But this game, a lot of things changed. Baker Mayfield, 22 of 27, 288 yards, four touchdowns in the one interception. Also ran for 25 yards. Bucky Irving 15 carries for 117 yards. Rashad White 15 carries for 64 yards and 11 yard receiving. Touchdown. But the hall of Famer Mike Evans continues to do it and they continue to feed him on his quest to get his 11th straight thousand yard season. Nine catches for 159 yards, two touchdowns. A beautiful, beautiful catch late in the game. To pretty much put a dagger in the LA Chargers. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers score 40 points. Levante David, sack and a half. I mean turning back the hands of time looks incredible. Another game with a, with a sack. Jamil Dean, who has hands like a snake usually and yes, I'm talking to you, Jameel, but caught him a pick in this game. Logan hall, second a half. Jalen McMillan, five catches for 75 yards and a touchdown. This is the best that Stamp Bay offense has looked all season. Obviously a healthy Mike Evans changes the whole complexity and dynamic of this offense. But their defense, the pressure, the pressure, the pressure on a banged up Justin Herbert I think was a difference in this game. Justin Herbert, 21 to 33, 195 yards, two touchdowns, one interception. They were able to stop the run. Chargers ran only 11 times for 32 yards. Lab McConkey, five catches for 58 yards in the touchdown. Quinton Johnson, five catches, 45 yards in the touchdown. If this Tampa Bay team continues to play like this, Atlanta has obviously taken a slide this season and Tampa Bay is playing some of their best football. They play the Cowboys next week on Sunday Night Football. Another game they could win on their way to potentially a 10 win season going into these playoffs, which would be phenomenal. I mean it's going to set them up with a date with either the Minnesota Vikings or the Green Bay packers potentially, which isn't a matchup I think you necessarily want. But those that's a matchup this team can win if they're playing the way they have and Mike Evans and his offense is rolling like they have and this defense is playing with the kind of ferocity and intensity that they're playing with right now. The Chargers play the Broncos this Thursday night in a matchup that's, that's going to decide who's second in this division and have a lot of playoff implications. The Chargers are going to be licking their wounds from this game. This defense has played really, really well all season long. Have been consistently a top three defense and yards and points. To give up 40 points this late in the season is, I'm sure, frustrating, but they get a chance to wash that taste out of their mouth off. A short week at home versus the Broncos, I'm sure they're going to be looking forward to being able to get back out there and put a better performance up against a Broncos team that struggled a lot of this game. Against the Indianapolis Colts, Bo Nicks threw through a number of interceptions. I think he threw three interceptions in the ball game and Showed some, some vulnerability there, some youth, but still, they found a way to win that ball game. He found a way to make plays when they needed to have it. And that's what they're going to need this week against the LA Chargers. I can't wait to watch that game. Now it's time for one of my favorite segments. Our Breitling players in prime time. This week, it goes to Baker Mayfield, of course, because Baker was out there cheffing up and he chefed up that Chargers defense who's been, like I said, been playing some of their best football. Four touchdowns passing, 288 yards, very efficient, 22 of 27. What are we going to do if Baker Mayfield messes around and gets this Tampa Bay team hot and rolling into the playoffs? And they make some noise in the playoffs and we see them in a championship matchup, NFC championship matchup against the Lions. Could that happen? I'm going to say it here on the show just in case we can cut it up later and say I said it because the way they're playing right now, they can get that done. And Baker's crazy enough to go into these games the gunslinger he is. If they can get some stops on defense and make some plays. And it's Todd Bowles, coach defense. He's known to put pressure on quarterbacks to give them really exotic looks that they haven't seen before. Anything can happen in these playoffs. That's why we love football. That's why we love this game. That's why we watch. That is why he is this week's player in prime time. Shout out to Baker Mayfield. Great game, brother. Now we have to move on to this game. The Thursday night game between the San Francisco 49ers and the LA Rams. A defensive slugfest in some rainy conditions. Matthew Stafford makes some plays late to give his team the lead. Kyron Williams has a really good game running the football. Brock Purdy with a bad interception late in the game. He predetermined where he was going with the football and it was a mistake. You know, I think he thought, hey, they're going to bite on this double move to Juwan Jennings. They didn't bite. He put the ball up in a place where he thought only his receiver could get it, but the corner stayed on top. Incredible play by them that ended up being the deciding factor in the game. Not a lot of offense from anybody. The biggest storyline came from the Debo Samuel drop, which could potentially have been a touchdown, and broke this game open for the San Francisco 49ers or the Devondre Campbell incident where he refused to go in the game and then John lynch tells him to leave the sideline as he should. They're trying to work with the league on a way to suspend him and make sure he's not able to sign with another team, that he's not able to be rewarded for quitting on his team, that he's not able to get the salary and things that he's. He's going to get because you can't do it. And I can understand frustration. I can. You're a veteran player. You're on a one year deal. You have incentives that are based on playing time and the amount of playing time you have on a season. And it seems as though the team is doing something to jeopardize your ability to make the money that you could potentially make if you're out there playing. But this isn't one of those situations. They're playing the guy that is a heartbeat and is going to inject a lot of energy into this defense. And that's exactly what, what Dre Greenlaw did. When he came in there, he had nine tackles in a half. He was everywhere. He was popping off the screen. I'm sorry, but Devon Dre Campbell, you played all, all season and you have not popped off the screen like that one game and that's why the packers cut him. And you don't ever want to really talk bad about a guy because there's no reason to in this situation. What should have happened is, hey, Drake Greenlaw got banged up in the game. Devondre Campbell goes in there, the Rams are trying to run the ball. Devondre Campbell is a pretty solid linebacker against the run. He stuffs, helps his defense get some stops, the offense gets the ball, they find a way to win the game and then they're talking and clapping you up for being able to step up in a tough situation and being a veteran and being a pro in this situation and being a guy that the team could depend on even though circumstances weren't what you wanted them to be. But instead you walk off on your team, they lose the ball game. Now this is going to be probably what, what the story that is written about your career like this is what they're going to say, I don't know. Devondre Campbell, I don't know. Enough of his plays like this will overshadow just about everything you did in your career, unfortunately. And that's the sad part, because you've been in the league long enough. You've. You've played well. You've played on teams that have made the playoffs. You don't want this to be the kind of thing that defines your career, but these days, this is the kind of thing that defines your career, because most people have never seen it before when Antonio Brown does something like that, and it's crazy, and it's all that, well, they just won a Super bowl with Antonio Brown. He had a Hall of Fame career, so, sure, we'll laugh about that moment and be like, man, Antonio Brown did some crazy stuff at that point, but Antonio Brown is a Hall of Famer, and he's. He. He freaking took over the league. He was the best receiver in the league in his prime. That's a much different situation. It's not right, but it's not going to overshadow everything that he's done and accomplished in his career, all the All Pros and Pro Bowls and the illustrious career that he's had, and even the super bowl win with Tom Brady. But this, for a guy without that kind of resume, you can't do it. You can't do it because it's going to overshadow everything that you've done. And that's the sad part. You. You hurt your team. You made yourself. The storyline. The. You couldn't. The team couldn't even talk about the loss to the Rams because they got to talk about the guy who quit on the team. And you don't want to be that guy. And it's unfortunate that cooler heads didn't prevail and that you didn't just. Just go out there and be a pro, help your team get this win, and then we could deal with the rest of it afterwards. You can go up to Kyle and say, hey, you know, I got these incentives. Don't do me like this, Kyle. Don't do me like this. Don't sit me when you know I'm. I'm close to hitting them. Like, who knows if Dre even plays the rest of the season. If you would have just stayed the course, it would have worked out how it needed to work out for you. That's the hardest part. But again, the story in this game, devondre Campbell leaving the game, Obviously, this is a tough loss for The San Francisco 49ers on top of an incredibly disappointing season in which they're. They're 6 and 8 right now, doesn't look like they have any chance to make the playoffs. They're. They're going to have to answer a lot of questions this off season. You know, you're Hearing rumors that brock Purdy wants 55 plus million, which is what you expect him to want after what he's done for this team. We'll see if The San Francisco 49ers are going to pay him that. You know, every seeds, every off season, it seems like they have a player or two holding out for more money or a better contract or, you know, whatever the case may be. So hopefully they're able to get this one situated early enough in the off season so they don't have distractions going into the season for the third. Or is it four. Yeah, third consecutive season. And then they can just reset and go into a season as underdogs for a change. You know, you don't have to go into seasons as front runners and you can retool, you can refocus, recalibrate, fix the things, you know, look in the mirror so you see what you've done well, what you've done wrong. And it's time for a number of changes at a number of places. You know, maybe you need to, to rethink the way you're drafting, address that offensive line. I think that's something they're going to do this off season, something that's going to. They're going to do in a draft and hopefully they come back retooled. I don't think this. Everybody keeps saying the windows closing on this team. I don't think so. I think this is a rough season in the midst of a really good run for the San Francisco 49ers. This will be the year that they don't go to an NFC championship over a Super Bowl. You know, it's not the end of the world. It's frustrating because it's such a talented team that you don't expect a season like this from them, but it doesn't mean it's the end of the road. So I still have faith. The LA Rams look like they're rolling. Matthew Stafford is playing really well. This is a good game from their defense. You talked about Jared Verse and their young guys up front really starting to flourish. Keller Witherspoon, who left San Francisco, had a really good game with three PBUs, hookah. Nakua looks like an all pro player again. Seven catches for 90, 97 yards. Kyron Williams, 29 carries for 108 yards. He says they're big brother right now and it's hard to argue that when they're winning the ball games. So we'll see what that this season means for the Rams and if they get in these playoffs they're going to be a tough out for somebody and you never know what's going to happen in these playoffs. But the Rams are earning them a spot if they continue to play the way they have. But I can't wait. 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