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Daniel Jeremiah: Defensively, the Texans Keep the Score Down Against KC

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Rich breaks down how the Ravens’ dynamic duo of Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry could carry the Ravens to a Super Bowl win this season.

 

NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah and Rich discuss Justin Herbert’s 4-INT meltdown in the Chargers’ blowout loss to the Texans, how the Texans matchup against the 15-2 Chiefs in the Divisional Round, why Jayden Daniels looks more like a seasoned veteran than a rookie QB, if the Philadelphia Eagles should be concerned about their sputtering passing game, the epic Divisional Round showdown between the Ravens and Bills, where Mike McCarthy could land after parting ways with the Dallas Cowboys, and why some scouts are high on Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders while others consider him “solid” at best.

 

Rich explains why the Denver Broncos’ season was a huge success despite their Wild Card Round blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills.

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The cardiac commander or the clutch commander. Today's guests, NFL network analyst, Daniel Jeremiah. Plus, latest news and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Our tour of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. What a day it's already been. Brockman and I recorded the latest overreaction Monday podcast and it's a good thing you popped in that overreaction Monday subject matter of the Cowboys and Steelers should swap head coaches because guess what? Right in the middle of our number one, the news broke out of the Metroplex that Mike McCarthy will not be back as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys just as Mike Vrabel is being introduced as the 16th head coach in the history of the New England Patriots just right after we started talking about the NFL playoff weekend. Just after we posted on X a poll question, we'd love to get you to chime in on the wildcard weekend loser that you have the most hope for in the future and we popped in all four non-division winners who lost over the weekend.

The Chargers and Chargers and the Broncos also lost with the Packers. We asked you to chime in on that subject matter. But the biggest news of the entire first hour that we did not talk about at all is that Adam Arcolscrener brought in three boxes of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies and that's a problem. I've already eaten half a sleeve.

Dude, I've seen you. You brought the entire sleeve out. There was half left in the sleeve so I was just like I'm not going to take one because you can't just eat one Thin Mint. So I brought them all out and they're all gone. I ate them all on the break. Where are the peanut butter ones?

I'm not a meat guy. Are those the Tagalongs or the Samoans? Samoas. Samoas?

Is that them? Did I say Samoans? Yes. The two of us are Subos? The Samoans are who I want to send to Canton with you. Yes. You're going to need Samoans.

Some help? Yes, security. Well, not if Ohio State wins. They won't care what I have to say. I don't know, man. They will not. They will not.

They will interrupt you so much with OH. National champion. Yeah. Yeah. I might have to bring the box score from November 30th, 2024 and put it up on the screen behind me, right? Get a shirt.

Might need some visual aids to get through that. Yeah, so on the poll question, Rich, a loser with the brightest future. Broncos are kind of running away with this, 56%. Packers, 23%. Chargers, 20%. And old 1% milk for the Steelers.

1%. Well, I think there's two reasons for that right now. Bo Nix looks terrific. I mean, he came out and- That bomb was incredible. What a starter.

He grew up 7-0 like that. But the reason why I told you, Chris, over last week that the biggest upset of the weekend would have been the Broncos over the Bills is it's not because I didn't believe in the Broncos. The Bills are just too damn good.

Certainly in Western New York with Josh Allen. And then, you know, and that's why I also chose Jayden Daniels to go on a deeper run in what's more likely as to which rookie quarterback could, because I thought the commanders could potentially win in Tampa, although I didn't choose that on game day morning. All that said, and maybe the Steelers are 1% because unlike the Chargers and the Packers, and obviously the Broncos, the Steelers don't have that quarterback for the future at all. And also the way they looked, the way they looked the last five weeks. I mean, and part of the reason why the Steelers looked the way that they looked is because they're going against a potential Super Bowl winner, which the Steelers looked like when they were 10 and 3 and beating the Ravens in the process. But the Ravens have flipped the old switch and that switch came after their bye week. Their bye week happened late. Their bye week happened in week 14. And after the Ravens lost to the Eagles at home, they have won five in a row, the exact opposite of the Steelers. The Steelers lost their last five. The Ravens have won their last five and their defense has been lights out. Top two in many different categories since week 14. But the reason why the Ravens look the way they look is because they may have an argument here.

There's an argument. They may have the two best offensive players in the NFL and they certainly have the best quarterback running back combination in the NFL with all due respect to Jalen Hurts. Hey, Lamar Jackson's out of his skull and you look at the AP voters who voted for the All-Pro list, they are the same voters who will vote for the MVP. And they made Lamar Jackson first team All-Pro quarterback, which means it looks like he's going to be the MVP. And, you know, I could go on and on and on and on about how his stats this, his stats that from the regular season, but it was all about now. It's all about now. And when I say it was all about now, the was is Derrick Henry's signing. I know you hate me bringing it up, TJ, but it's it's the truth in terms of of of the reality of roster building and things of that nature. Ravens could have easily run it back.

Same roster. They could have gone all in in that regard, right? They could have gone all in, meaning we're running it back.

We get beat by the Chiefs. Zay Flowers has that ball knocked out. We could have won that game. Zay Flowers leaping for the end zone. He gets in ninety nine at a hundred times. That's a one in one hundred, you know, shot of having the ball knocked out. We could have gone all in.

He had that penalty. Yeah, could have gone all in. Let's run it back. We got the MVP quarterback. What do we need?

What do we need anything else for? They signed Derrick Henry. And the reason why they signed Derrick Henry is for right now. And I found it fascinating that the leading ball carrier on the Ravens opening drive was Lamar.

And normally that's what you see. You see Lamar doing Lamar things with his legs as much as his arm. And and and they went and ran it with Lamar quite a bit on the opening drive. But without Zay Flowers, OK, Lamar runs it pretty much down the field and finds Rashad Bateman in the end zone. By the way, the Ravens are now 8-0 and Rashad Bateman catches a touchdown this year.

And no Zay Flowers. He's out. Bateman scores a touchdown. Lamar's doing the running thing. But guess what they needed to do as well. While the Steelers were struggling, run it down their throat and not what just with Lamar. With Derrick friggin Henry.

As well. And, you know, this combination is unlike anything we've seen because we haven't seen someone like Lamar. Right.

No. And now you add to the mix a 31 year old who's running like a 21 year old. And what Derrick Henry is doing is truly one of the most incredible performances I think I have ever seen.

As a 31 year old. And what he is doing is doing things that we have only seen somebody named Jim Brown do. He tied Jim Brown for the most games of the 150 or more rushing yards to two or more rushing touchdowns in NFL history. With his 186 yards. Fourth career playoff game with over 150 rush yards that ties Terrell Davis's NFL record for most of all time. He's the only guy to have 150 more rushing yards in the playoffs with two different franchises.

But this is the one that's the difference. This is the stat that just says it all here. His 186 rushing yards are almost triple as any as many rush yards as any running back has had previously in a Lamar Jackson playoff start. The most rushing yards the Ravens have had in support of Lamar's running and passing. In Lamar's playoff history in which he was two and four and you beat Tannehill. Congratulations Mr. MVP. You beat C.J. Stroud in his first ever rookie road start.

Congrats. A hundred and eighty six rushing yards are triple the number of most rushing yards he's ever received in support. Justice Hill had sixty six yards rushing in that win over the Texans last year.

You could add but and then Gus Edwards had 20 in the AFC Championship game. So that's what? Eighty six. Correct. Sixty six and twenty is eighty six.

Correct. Derek Henry to one hundred eighty six. A hundred on top of the rushing yards in support. Not total, obviously, but just the top rusher. J.K. Dobbins once upon a time at forty three in a game, the divisional round twenty eighteen.

Mark Ingram had twenty two. You know what I'm saying? Yada, yada, yada.

They got Derek Henry to fix it. And then when he just these are the numbers, the intangibles, it's just you don't want him. You don't you don't want a piece of him.

You're not you don't want it. And then the the the mesh point game that we were talking about as soon as he signed. Right. We're like, what's the mesh point game going to look like?

You don't know who has it. And then Todd Monken comes up with this business of direct snapping it to Henry while Lamar is eye candy running behind Henry. So could Henry hand it off to Lamar?

I think that's setting something up like that for Buffalo, maybe. Derek Henry takes it right to the house, straight up the gut, smiling as he does it. Did you see that? It reminded Lamar Jackson of another fast machine smiling. Whose name is Lightning McQueen. Did you hear this sound bite after the game? No, no, but that's amazing.

Hit it. It looked like a movie clip, like, you know, when like I'm going to give cars, you watch the movie Cars. A little bit too old to watch Cars. But anyway, for kids, I was and I was a kid when I watch kids. I was a kid when I watched Cars.

That's all I'm saying. You know, when when Lightning McQueen just flying, flashing past and then it's like, that's how Derek look. He was running past and all those guys just, it looked like a movie, bro. I'm not going to lie to you.

But I'd rather be watching it than being on the opposite side of the ball. I know that that guy's just a record. That guy just, that guy, like, I don't know. I can't find the words to say, man. Like, I believe everyone sees it. Like, I can just hand the ball off.

My feet, 10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards. And I'm just chilling, you know? So now when they're attacking him, then I go and it's like, I'm fresh, you know, just making my job a lot easier.

We just pick it back off of each other. If Derek Henry is Lightning McQueen, then which car are you? No, I didn't say he was Lightning McQueen. I said it's like watching Lightning McQueen. He just flashing past.

I'm no car, man. I'm just chilling. I'm just watching the show, you know? Yeah, he's like Tow Mater sitting back there, right? I mean, Derek Henry, if you know, you know.

I don't want to be Chick Hicks. I'm not a good guy. Okay, got it. You know what I mean?

That's, by the way, the split does look like Lightning McQueen. That's hilarious. We said this when he signed. Good job, Hoskins. We saw this coming. We sure did.

We sure did. And now we can confirm life is a highway. For the Baltimore Ravens, yes, I'm going rascal flats on you. It's basically Lamar saying, if you're going my way, I want to drive it all night long.

All night long. That's what the Ravens are doing right now. And then defensively, they're just beginning to really, that was the idea.

Well, you're going all these track meets. Russ is throwing for 400 yards and Joe Burrows throwing for a gajillion yards. And who are you going to stop?

Well, they've stopped everybody. And in the first half, more than enough. I mean, that game was a wrap.

We all saw it. It was a split moment, like maybe if the Steelers can do something here. Look out is the headline in terms of with the Ravens. And that game in Buffalo next week, I texted you guys as soon as that game hit, as soon as the Bills won, I'm like, you could make book. Ravens and Bills is going to finish up divisional round weekend.

What a perfect cap. That is the finisher. Six thirty Eastern time kick.

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I'd never seen those movies before. Oh, Derek Henry, if you know, you know. Yeah, that was part of the last segment. I didn't notice the Derek Henry part.

Derek Henry tweeted that, if you know, you know. That's really funny. Oh, yeah. Do you think Cars 2 is an abomination, right? No, Cars 3 was the abomination. No, Cars 3 should never have been made. No, Cars 2 is the one with the... Oh, Cars 2 is the one where it starts where they...

He's like fighting crime and stuff. They're tires up? Yeah, yeah.

In the water? Yeah, was that that one? I thought Cars 3 was that way. No, Cars 2 is that way. Yeah, it's just like, what are we doing?

Yeah. When I explain to my kids, no, no, no, no. When the tires go up in the water, they're not dead. The cars aren't dead.

They're like, what are we doing here? I've never seen a Cars movie. Neither have I. But that tracks.

No, you shouldn't have. I had never seen them until I had a son anyway. Every Disney movie kills off the parents. Yeah, well, yeah. Everyone.

We know that. And then, honestly, I hadn't seen Beauty and the Beast in years. I'm watching Beauty and the Beast with the kids, and I'm like, said to Susie, are we teaching our boys that if they are into somebody, all you've got to do is throw them in the library in the basement and she'll come around eventually. Is that what we're saying?

Kidnap them, entrapment them, and come around. Yeah, it's perfect. It'll be fine.

And then we're seeing Frozen, and all of a sudden the parents, their ship goes down, and I look at Susie, I'm like, even this one. Yeah, exactly. Sorry.

I'm like, even this one. Let it go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let it go. Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network, I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk, furnished by Grainger, with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

Call clickrainger.com or just stop by. We haven't hit the Texans Chargers game very much in the first hour and a half of this show. I kind of held that back because this man was at the radio mic in the booth in NRG Stadium for that one on behalf of the Chargers radio network, one of my favorites to work with Daniel Jeremiah back here on the show. How are you doing, DJ? I'm doing great, Rich. How are you doing, bud?

I'm doing fine. That CJ Stroud botched shotgun snap on third down, deep in his own end, balls rolling around. I thought this, as the ball's rolling around, this is the Chargers moment to put them away because they were dominating the first half. Stroud picks the ball up, makes a play, and the game changed, DJ.

That was it right there. That play, right in that game? Yeah, I think there was two plays. I think that one was an obvious one, which ended up being, I believe it was a 110-yard scoring drive, which you don't see every day because of the penalty. But that play, and then I would also say you're up 6-0. You get an interception at the Houston 40, which was an unbelievable play by Dean Leonard, kind of tightrope the sideline. And the very next play, you dial up a shot play to Quentin Johnson, and Herbert underthrows it a little bit, and Lassiter makes an unbelievable interception. So that went from potentially you get five yards. It's 9-0. It's a two-score game. Houston really hasn't done anything to immediately turn the ball back over there.

And then you're right. You pin them on the one. They get the ball.

They're still pinned deep, and you get them third and forever. And CJ, that just loosened him up. He's a rhythm quarterback, and he was in no sort of rhythm for the first part of that ball game. And then he creates that play. And then I think he ended up with four carries for 44 yards, which were timely runs. He was able to get outside the pocket.

And then their stars were outstanding. Nikko Collins is a legit one, a total stud. Joe Mixon, after not having much room early in the game, he kind of put the game away in the second half. And then defensively, it's not just the edge rushers, I think, get a lot of the attention.

Stingley gets a lot of the attention. But when you have Al-Shayyir back at linebacker and Harris back at linebacker, it's a really good defense, man. I know everybody's just going to kind of chalk up this next one with Kansas City having felt like they haven't played in two months, rested and ready to go. But that defensively will be a challenge. That is a good defense with D'Amico Ryans.

Before we get to that, then, oh, screw it, we'll get to it. So how do you think the Texans match up against the Chiefs after you just eyeballed them, Daniel? Well, I think defensively they can keep the score down. And the Chiefs haven't, you know, the Chiefs are very comfortable. They'll beat you 13 to 10 or 33 to 30, whatever the game requires. So, you know, like you still have to have the Chiefs as the favorite here. But defensively, I think they keep this score down.

I think they match up well. I think those edge rushers against the tackles for the Chiefs is going to be a challenge for them. My problem on the Houston side of it is when you flip it, they don't have anybody to block Chris Jones. And Chris Jones, as we've seen in big games, playoff games, he can just flat out take the game over.

So that's going to be key that they have a plan. It's going to be key that they get some semblance of a run game earlier than they did last week to try and slow that down. So then let's hit the third rail subject, if you don't mind, for the Chargers, DJ, because this is the national conversation coming out of a four interception day for Justin Herbert.

You know, as we know, not all of them were on him, but there were two backbreakers from him. And it's another playoff start for Justin Herbert, the different head coach, same result. How should we evaluate Justin Herbert as a quarterback in this league where we talk about elite, top 10? How should we evaluate Justin Herbert, Daniel? Well, I mean, you could pull that picture back up again, and I don't know if it's just the angle of the picture, but you can almost see his eyes staring at somebody that's getting ready to hit him versus his eyes being down the field.

So look, they got a lot of pressure on him. And I'm not going to make excuses for Justin. I don't think Justin would make excuses for himself.

He'd not play anywhere close to his best game. But I also think from a positive standpoint to spin it forward, with Jim and Joe Ortiz there now and where this organization is at this point in time, I was talking to Joe Ortiz on the plane on the way home, and I just said, this will be the worst offense that Justin Herbert plays on. Think about that. They're going to get better. They're going to get better along the offensive line, the interior.

They have an opportunity to upgrade that. They're going to get a more dynamic array of weapons with eventually get a number one tight end, a number two receiver, add more to the backfield as well. This is going to be the low mark. And so the low mark was a double-digit win season that they weren't quite good enough, and he wasn't good enough in the postseason. So I don't absolve him of that, of the turnovers, and I know he won't either. But I also think that whatever warts this Charger team had, which Jim, with outstanding coaching, was able to cover up for the majority of the season, they beat all the teams they were supposed to beat, and they got outclassed against some of the better teams. But it's a very well-coached team, and I think from a talent standpoint, this is the floor for where they're going to be going forward. Yeah, I mean, what's your two cents on McConkie's season, right?

Oh, my gosh. Is he the Chargers' puka nakua? I know they're different styles, but, I mean, results-wise, they come up with similar numbers, Daniel. Yeah, they're different play styles, different sizes. I'll be honest with you, watching him in that game where he almost had two bills in his first playoff game, he looks a little bit like Marvin Harrison, just in terms of the route running, and I'm talking senior, not junior, just with the quickness and the feel and the instincts. There was a third, and I want to say 14, Rich, where if he catches the ball, he's at, like, 12 yards or what have you, and it's going to be stopped short. He comes back, so now he's back to where he's maybe 10 yards, you know, a distance from the quarterback, but he knew coming back to it, he'd be able to roll out of it and then go get those extra five, six yards that he needed to get the first down. Like, you don't coach that.

You just kind of have that and that instinctive feel for the game to go along with, you know, the elite quickness and ball skills and all those things. So they have a stud there that is a definite building block going forward, but they've got to get some more help. They need some more weaponry to surround him with. That's got to be towards the top of the list. You know, I was joking on the plane on the way home, and I said, you know, look, this is a team, and rightfully so because it's Harbaugh's, his mantra is that this team went shopping in the hardware section in his first offseason.

They got, they did some nice work there. Now they get to go play in the toy section. So that'll be fun.

Go out and get some weapons and get some toys for Herbert. Daniel Jeremiah here on the Rich Eisen Show. One of the many reasons why I love working with you and love having you on the show is the number of different events that you and I cover and then talk about when you come on this show.

And so we've been through all the narratives, et cetera, et cetera. We've come a very long way, Daniel, from the narrative that the commanders pissed off Jayden Daniels because they had him visit with a whole bunch of other prospects at the same time. Remember that one?

Remember that one? That they might not be interested in him and he might not be interested in them because they had him on the top 30 with all the other quarterbacks and he was pissed and all that. He is a revelation. He is unlike most, and I know I'm going on a very, you know, thick limb on that, but when you see him perform like he's performed and then last night, what goes through your mind as an evaluator, somebody who scoured all the tape and you're going to do it again on Cam Ward and Chidoor and everybody else shortly? Daniel, what do you think when you see this?

Well, I don't know if I've ever used to combine these words, but he's yawningly good. I mean, I just saw someone, when you watched him in that game, and this is what is, you know, you scout, you watch the L-22, but then when you go to a live game and you can watch a player or even when you're watching on TV, especially in the playoffs, it gets so many cameras and so many different angles. I love the close-up shots of quarterbacks in, you know, whether it's a college quarterback in the college football playoff or whether it's an NFL quarterback getting his first taste of the playoffs.

Rich, have you seen anybody like with a lower heartbeat than what Jayden Daniels looked like last night? I mean, even when the kick went in, it was just like, all right, what do we have him for snack after the game? We get a little sandwich here?

What do we want? Like, he is so unfazed and it doesn't seem big at all. In fact, he's the one who looks like he's been through, you know, a dozen of these playoff experiences.

And I also think it's like a muscle. When you have a chance during the regular season, your first NFL campaign to have all these late moments, these late wins, you know, and I know they put even put the Hail Mary aside, but look at what he did at the Eagles at the end of that game, the Cowboy game where he, you know, he brought him back and then, you know, it, you know, fell apart, but it wasn't his doing. He has built up so many of these experiences that there was was weird to watch a game and having seen Tampa up close and personal this year, I know how good that defense is to see how how sure he was confident he was and how flawless he executed late in that game. I got I don't know.

I don't really have any other words for it. I texted Adam Peters last night and I just congratulated him because I feel like maybe he doesn't, he gets lost a little bit because of Jayden and the job that he's done. But Adam Peters went out and you go out and you get veterans like Bobby Wagner, Zach Ertz, people that I think, you know, Austin Eckler is another one, people that, oh, these guys are, you know, why these guys are old. They don't, you know, they're past their prime. There's nothing left.

What are they doing here? And I'm watching that game and go, well, you know what? Bobby Wagner's been on one of the best defenses of all time. Zach Ertz in the clutches of clutch moments, you know, won a Super Bowl. By winning a one on one route, Austin Eckler has been, you know, kind of the bell cow, Mr.

Reliable. And now all their roles are a little different. But there was there there was something to how they put this team together. So I think Adam Peters is going to be one of the he's going to be the GM of that team for the next 15 years.

He's he is a stud. And of course, watching them go into Detroit will be a will be a fun one because, you know, as you say that he doesn't appear to be affected by anything. Now here comes the Ford Field crowd and and a 15 win team.

And that's going to be dynamite. And then you've got Philadelphia taking on the winner of the Monday night game. What do you make of the the narrative coming out of the Eagles win over the Packers is that it was unimpressive on offense and a problem potentially for the Eagles to get back to the Super Bowl.

What do you what do you what's your two cents on that one, Daniel? I think every Super Bowl team has a game where they're not clean, where it doesn't look pretty and you just find a way to win when you don't have your, you know, your A stuff. I don't think they had their A stuff offensively, but they still won and ended up at least from the score standpoint being convincing, even though it was in jeopardy late.

I mean, I go back to the Tampa Super Bowl with with Tom Brady. I mean, remember that game against Washington? That was, you know, not a flawless exhibition, but they kind of got through that game and you survive.

And then you get rolling from there. My takeaway from that game was not Jalen Hurts related, was not, you know, Philly offense related, was have I mean, and I'm sorry that the guys got hurt, but I mean, have you seen a team hit more physical than the way that they were hitting that game? I mean, Elton Jenkins is pulling and Nolan Smith, instead of sitting there and kind of bracing for it and trying to absorb it, he's like a missile and knocked him out of the game, attacking a polling guard. And then it was just one after another after another.

Every time they hit somebody, they were leaving the game. I mean, it was that was a physical Vic Fangio defense. Now, Nicobe Dean is a big loss for them.

He'd been playing lights out and it kind of he's grown into what we saw when we were talking about him in that draft. You know, coming out of Georgia as the leader of that team, that's a big loss. But my takeaway from that was no matter who they play next, if they played that physical, they're going to be tough to knock out. Well, and then the the Ravens and how they performed it, you know, and they're going to Buffalo next. And that's the marquee event of next weekend. And then leading to an AFC championship game, that's going to be something else as well. And and if they run like that, doesn't matter where the Ravens have to play. Right.

And and and we saw what I'm sure, you know, DaCosta and everybody else in that front office saw when they saw Derrick Henry raises and say, I'll play for you. You know, this is it. Right. Like to have him do what he did in Lamar was talking about how he's like Lightning McQueen.

I just sit back and I enjoy watching cars play out, you know, and that's that's it. Like right there. That's the formula for the Ravens with their defense playing well to win it all. When I go with that game. Yeah.

With Isaiah likely playing the role of Mater. Yes. I like it. You know, I like it. I like it.

You know, I have the club in my bag and my kids are older, too. I think I deserve some credit for that. Ladies and gentlemen, give him some credit. Everybody, Daniel, Jeremiah aging down.

Well done. Yeah. Well, they they they travel.

I mean, everything they do travel. And they're so just have you ever seen a team and an organization who knows who they are more than Baltimore? To the point it's gone from I remember being in the room when the phrase was was first discussed about play like a raven. And now every team has their, you know, play like a jet play, you know, play like a whatever.

Everybody's kind of adopted that. But that was a Ravens thing first and foremost. And it was we have to understand what our guys look like.

And so when we go out and scout, it's gotten to the point now where we can be on the set of the draft and sit there and go, well, they're going to take this guy and be in free agency and go, oh, my gosh, Derek Henry's a free agent. Well, he'll go to the Ravens. I mean, that guy was born to play for the Ravens. He's a perfect fit for them. You know, Steve Smith in Quam Bolden, like these type of players who are just so physical and so tough. They they the Ravens select them or those players end up finding their way there.

And that's you know, that's who they are. I know there's the Super Bowl and I know there's the conference championship games. If this was a, you know, a pay per view fight night, those would be on the top of the of the billing. But, Rich, it's just like when you get the list of the of the fights and you're like, well, I don't know, man. There's that fight three down there between the Bills and the Ravens. That sure feels like the main event to me. I cannot wait for that one. Yeah.

I mean, is that the is that the difference? Stopping Derek Henry? What's your first blush two cents on that divisional Sunday finale? Well, you don't stop Derek Henry. You have no chance. Right. And that doesn't guarantee anything because now you still got to deal with Lamar and what he's doing.

But I think you have to start there and you have to devote bodies to it. They're good. You know, they have a lot of depth up front. Buffalo does. And and they're going to have to roll guys through and keep them fresh and play well.

But I also, you know, you get to the other side of it. I think the Ravens are a little susceptible on the back end. And Josh Allen's about as dialed in as you can be. And when you watch him, I always just feel like it's, you know, whether whatever you want to whatever analogy you want to use, is it the uncle?

Is it the uncle at Thanksgiving who goes outside and plays with the, you know, with the kids and the nephews? And it just looks bigger and he's all time quarterback and it doesn't belong out there. That's what it feels like with Josh Allen. You know, I get I got a call from my dad who is just kind of, you know, watching the games. And I don't think he watched a lot of Buffalo Bills. So I think it was one of the first times he'd he'd seen him this year. And he was like it was like 10 minutes of my dad, who's 83 years old, just gushing. I couldn't believe that Josh Allen's a thing like that.

So I didn't know that that was possible to have somebody that big, that athletic and that talented. So in the few minutes I had left with you, Daniel, your phone no doubt has been buzzing with the news that Mike McCarthy's out in Dallas. What's the general sense of what people are saying about that, Daniel? Well, the sense is like to see have something else cooking, you know, because there's not many of these jobs around.

And whatever you have to deal with with the Dallas Cowboys, I don't think that he would, you know, have such a hard line in negotiations unless he had something, at least a good idea of something else available, considering it's not just him, but also all the other assistants underneath him that you want to take care of. So I don't know what that means. Is that the Saints? Is that the Bears? You know, and then on the Cowboys side of things, it's like, man, you're kind of you're kind of late to the party.

The debate, I guess it's not even a debate because it was universal. The conversation in texts that I've had with people is why are people saying Sark? I don't understand why they're saying Sark. He has a better job than that one. Why would you give that up?

And I think it's some somewhat the same with Marcus Freeman in the discussion with the Bears. I mean, it's just isn't his Notre Dame where they are right now. Isn't that a better job? I don't know. That's the discussion we're having. Does Bill Belichick have a better job right now than Dallas? I don't know. I mean, Bucky's going to get mad at me, so I better be careful how I answer that question.

What do you think? Look, if I were Bill Belichick and I've spent my entire life in the NFL and I had an opportunity for an NFL head coaching job, I would leave North Carolina, even though it's such a brief and maybe a bad look. I just think that's where he's proven his wares.

And he has a record that's right there within reach. But I assume that when he took the Carolina job that they had his team or whatever, his representatives had done their due diligence and didn't think that there was going to be one he was interested in. So that's why he's there at North Carolina. And our friend Mike Lombardi has come out and said, absolutely, that chapter is closed. He's coached as you know, he's going to stay at North Carolina. But for me, if you're asking if that's a better job to me, it's a better job.

Last one for you, Daniel, since this may be the conversation tomorrow morning and if it's not, we'll have it at some point in time. In regards to what the Vikings should do with J.J. McCarthy. And I'm going to term it this way by asking you if J.J. McCarthy was available in this year's draft, would he be? He's one.

Yeah, that's what you're saying. He would. He'd have been the first pick in this draft. Yeah. As the quarterback.

I mean, if you if you don't you know, if you want to take the best player to me, it's Abdul Carter. He's unbelievable. Holy cow.

Does he jump off the screen? Oh, my God. Yeah, I don't I don't think I don't think they give you that number at that school unless you're just an absolute freak show. Right. It's what is it?

It's 44 in Syracuse, 55 in USC, number one for wide receivers in Michigan, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. He's unbelievable. Oh, my God.

But he's at a different speed. I was I was I brought my son in who was home from college and he works in recruiting for Baylor. And I said, here's a good test. Here's a good thing when you're watching pass pressures. Let's watch the sideline. I pulled up Abdul Carter. He is two yards ahead of the edge rusher on the other side.

He was a good player, but that's how fast he was off the ball and how much ground he was covering. Well, that's that's when you know you got absolute freak. OK, so he's top five, right? Who else is top five right now?

Taking a look at things. Well, I mean, he's he's big time. Kim Ward. To me, I have him as the top quarterback from where I am in the process right now. And there's quarterback, needy team. So that's going to push him up in there. Well, Johnson, you know, did not have the year this year that I think he would have liked to have.

But, you know, and didn't play as much. But if you go back to the previous year and I do have some connections to people that may have coached him that quite highly of him. So I think he will find his way up in that mix for sure.

OK, but any other quarterback top five or you think it's Kim? I mean, I think I think there's I think there's Chidor is going to be, you know, some teams are going to really, really like him and some teams, you know, aren't. It's not going to be a slam dunk.

Why? Because he's he doesn't have the exceptional size. He doesn't have an exceptional arm. He's not an exceptional athlete.

He's he's he's he's really, really solid. His superpower is, you know, an obviously important accuracy, you know, touch anticipation like the throwing stuff is great. Somebody brought up a great thought on him the other day when I was talking to him around the league.

He said, you know, it sounds weird to say it because of his dad. But he said Chidor is an overachiever like he hit the sum is greater than the individual parts. If you just break him down with all those, you know, the traits, the size, you know, the arm strength of the explosive athleticism, the twitch, all that stuff. You might not be enamored, but he knows how to play the position. And so I go back to, you know, going back to Adam Peters were talking about earlier when I was saying, did you learn a lesson when you were in San Francisco with Brock Purdy and the scouting process?

And he said, yeah, he was the best at quarterbacking. So like that's kind of a funny way to phrase it. But I was like, OK, yeah, you know, drop back, see, sort and deliver the ball where it needs to go accurately. That's what Chidor does really well.

It's just I think as through the spring process, you know, some people that are going to be more traits based in their analysis aren't going to be as high on him. So that's going to be the discussion. Well, I mean, we'll put a pin in the J.J. McCarthy conversation to see if we're talking about it next time.

You and I chat or or or that's for further down the road. But in the meantime, D.J. really appreciate the time. You're the best. You be well. All the best and all the best to all your listeners that have been affected by the fires, man. I know it's it's unfathomable the stuff that's going on there, but just praying for everybody that's been affected. Thanks, brother. You're the best. You be well.

That's Daniel Jeremiah. Next up for him, Senior Bowl and everything else is right around the corner. We're just talking playoffs. We're talking about draft.

We're talking about combine. He and I are going to be hanging out in Indianapolis sooner than we know it. Time now for a sports date. I'm the Infinity Sports Network with Rich Ackerman. Rich. Bravo TV star Lala Kent holds nothing back on the Give Them Lala podcast.

No, I have a very short views. Get to know the TV personality. I don't need to watch the show because I get the real life version from relationships and motherhood. Let me tell you something about breastfeeding to business and beyond.

You are scared of failure, so it prevents you from trying. This is where we implement a big set of ovaries and then we obsess. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. I'm just trying to keep up with you, bro, but no, that's it. I am. You get you do this. You got TV shows. You're the face of a network.

I'm not giving away cash and prizes. I'm not saying good morning to an entire nation every. Well, I guess on this show, I'm doing that.

Yes, you're doing that. But I guess maybe it should be the Good Morning Rich Eisen Show America or something. Let's not push it now. We need to workshop that idea.

Got to workshop that idea a little bit better than that. It's good, man. I mean, and I'm one of these guys. I'm very grateful. And I understand that I owe everything to the game of football. I know there's a lot of flack about football and a lot of the things that have come back, you know, with the haunt, you know, some of the players in the game.

And I know a lot of players that there are a lot of issues and there's a lot of responsibility that needs to be had on their behalf and on all the players we have. But at the same time, I think, you know, I'm very grateful as well. And you're got a second season of Pyramid coming up. Yeah.

Yeah. Hundred thousand dollar pyramid, man. Come on, win some money, baby. Help somebody win some money. By the way, you know, I am a game show aficionado.

Are you good? You know, everybody says that. I'm not telling you, but everyone says, oh, man, my mom, the same way. Mom, we did Chunky Soup commercial years ago. Oh, boy, I can act. My mom.

So we get there and her line was, you need a hot bowl of chunky soup to fill you up. Right. Mm hmm. You, you, you, you, you, you, you. What? What happened in Zell, Washington?

Where are you now? So it's it. The game sounds easy and the game looks easy when you see someone who's really good at it. But it is tough when that clock is ticking. You got 30 seconds in that person across from you. Who are you talking to? Come on. Rich, I can give clues. I can receive the clues. I know all of the best.

I know you got to put your hands in the straps. You know, you set yourself up, right? Oh, I'm I'm ready to make somebody's one hundred thousand dollar dream come true on your show.

It's going to happen. Like Joe Namath. I am calling my show.

You're like Joe Namath now. Oh, yeah. You're calling a hundred thousand dollars for whatever lucky individual your producers care to pair up with. Oh, yes. I love that show. It's the truth.

We're going to make that happen. I watched the Dick Clark daytime version. I watched Dick Clark nighttime version. And I watched your version. It is fun.

I love it because. Look, if Prong can do it, I can do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Prime.

I got to say, wasn't Prime's finest moment to do the show? Some of the he was given body signals that didn't match up with the words. I'm like, what? How does that mean money?

I don't get it. But the Prime it made sense. And yada, yada, yada.

I did do Pyramid and I was going to give away fifty thousand dollars in cash and prizes. And the contestant blew it. She said the clue. She said the clue behind me.

Or behind her. Right. So I was as advertised. Well, as we know, you were put on this earth to give away cash, cash and price and prices.

I have no idea. Some people don't know when I do game day, game night on on NFL Network on game day morning. It truly is my call. Oh, you're so happy. I like the new look yesterday with the table as opposed to just the chair sitting there.

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That's try e t h o s dot com. Derek in Missouri, one of our long timers. What's up, Derek? Hey, Rich. So T.J., do you need a hug over there?

I'm just curious, brother. I mean, it's been pretty rough for you. Well, I mean, honestly, Derek, he's such a giver. Things have been rough just in general for us Angelenos right now. But when it comes to this, no, definitely. Derek's a giver.

You're the one who needs a hug. It looked like seven, nothing bonics tossing that touchdown was the high watermark of his rookie season. And and for that split moment in time, it looked like things were going to happen for you. The bills after that fake punt, by the way, just took things over. You've got to feel good about your first season, though, with him, right?

No, absolutely, Rich. You hit it right on the noggin. And I got to say, like I mentioned to you last week, this season was it was supposed to be a rebuild for this Broncos organization with, you know, the dead cat paint with rust that took place and everything. And nobody really gave this franchise a chance before the season even started. People overestimated. Broncos will get four or five wins.

And we doubled that with a rookie quarterback that just played stellar. The future looks bright, Rich, more than anything else. And like I said, I'm thrilled. And if anything, this loss yesterday humbled this team more than anything else, because now these players could say they got the playoff experience under their belt.

Yeah, they do. And kudos to Buffalo and Dachdown and those guys and Hoskins and all Buffalo Mafia and the Bills Mafia and everything. And you know, it's I'm happy, Rich. It was a great season. I couldn't be more thrilled than anything else. Thanks for the call, Derek.

Appreciate it. That was a very Oregon Duck moment next to Troy Franklin. First touchdown pass from a rookie quarterback to a rookie pass catcher in the history of the NFL playoffs.

And it started things off. And you had that 43 yarder and just 101 passing yards and no touchdowns after that. That's why I told you the Bills are a stellar team and at home.

You're just not going to you might stagger them right, you know, with a nice right cross in the first round. But it's a 10 round fight and the knockout came. But a great season for the Denver Broncos to start things off just really is a truly great season for Sean Payton in Denver.

Without a doubt. Because we again, we had NFL Network, Kurt Warner and I called Bill Belichick's last career win and a Christmas Eve in Denver. And after that loss to New England, it was the end of the Russ Wilson time. Remember, they they they sat him for the rest of the year. It was Jared Stidham time. Little did we know they would get another Auburn quarterback quarterback out there. And he was the last one taken in the first round. And everybody looked at Bo Nix as the hanging chad, I guess, right of this whole quarterback prospect front like the consolation prize.

Thanks for playing. We have Bo Nix for you. You didn't get any of the top three or the national champion or Michael, the national champion runner up. Right. You got Bo Nix.

Sixty one career starts in college, you know. And he turned out to be the second best rookie quarterback. Yeah, he was dynamite. It goes Jayden Daniels and Bo Nix. And then after that, Drake May and Caleb Williams.

Panics got in there at the end. We'll see what J.J. McCarthy looks like one day. But you got the answer. You got the answer.

And you got all the like. Nick Benito and all those young guys on defense. Patrick Sertan may wind up being defensive player of the year. Sean Payton comes up with the biggest dead cap. Charge in the history of the NFL and Bo Nix comes in and they just need to get a better running game going. Yep. If they find their Alvin Kamara.

Right. They put a Jameer Gibbs type player in this offense. Yeah, they didn't get a lot of tight end production. I mean, Marvin Mims kind of came on. Yeah, yeah. The quote on Sutton was good, but they need a really good number two receiver.

The future's bright. I agree. I think Mims can be that guy. I think Sutton is pretty exactly right.

Here's just my one piece of advice and talk about a step back. The uniforms. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness. I hate it. Those guys go to the throwbacks full time. They clench in their throwbacks.

Use it full time like that. And then they show up in Buffalo. What the hell was that? Those the pants were you knew where I was going. I hate watch that game just because the pants were just like, oh, what am I looking at?

They would have made the kick had they had the Navy pants on. Come on now, if Nix is going to play like Elway, let him look like it. That's all I'm saying. I'm with you. Hour three coming up. Actor Michael Rosenbaum knows some of the most talented people in the business, and now he's getting the inside story.

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