00:00Andy, let's go into the game here, man.
00:01Who do you like in this ballgame?
00:03Patriots and Seahawks, obviously.
00:06Two defensive-minded football teams.
00:08Look at the head football coaches in this game.
00:10Who do you like in this ballgame?
00:12Well, I guess I'm kind of going to be anticlimactic in that I don't think
00:18this is a very good matchup.
00:21I think this game's decided by about 10 points if it all goes as it should.
00:27I think the Seattle Seahawks are clearly a better team from the standpoint
00:33of having a complete offense.
00:35Smith and Jigba and what Sam Darnold's done,
00:39what he learned under Shanahan that year and was able to take with him
00:42to Minnesota and do there.
00:44And then for some reason they have that brain cramp and decide he can't play
00:47and he gets to go to Seattle.
00:50Fantastic deal for Seattle.
00:52I love that offense.
00:54Great offensive line, I believe.
00:55That running game is deadly with Walker.
01:00Defensively, they're as physical as any defense.
01:04You know, every – and you know defense really well, Dan.
01:07Every five to ten years you see a defense and you look at them on TV and you go,
01:11oh, jeez, those guys are physical.
01:15And they are that kind of defense.
01:17They're Ravens, Bears, you know, old Bucs, that kind of physical defense.
01:23And that's going to be an issue because the offensive line for New England,
01:30though they block on the run pretty well, especially on the edges with their two
01:34tackles, don't protect very well.
01:36And that's going to be a problem for Drake May.
01:39You know, I look at it as kind of a 31-21 game.
01:44But if things go, you know, better for New England, they could keep it within, you know,
01:51four to seven points or four to five points and maybe have a shot at the end.
01:56But to me, it's Seattle's game to lose.
02:00If they're ready to play like they were against San Francisco twice at the end of the year,
02:04if you look at those Niner teams and say, okay, Niners or New England, who's better?
02:11It'd be kind of hard not to say the Niners.
02:13I don't care how many injuries and the way they execute and everything else.
02:17And they just – they did – that was like a superhero movie.
02:22They took them and held them up in the air and just – and beat them around.
02:27And I think they could do the same thing to the Patriots,
02:30specifically because of the edges where I think New England will have a real issue.
02:35Have you ever seen a story like Sam Darnold?
02:39I mean, Randy, this guy was – this guy's Joe Namath 2.0 to the Jet fans right now.
02:44If this guy wins the Super Bowl, you had Joe Namath in the building.
02:48If he wins this, I mean, does this tell you more about what they're not doing
02:53with the quarterback position and how much you really need to develop the quarterback
02:57and the coaches and the offensive coordinators?
03:00Because the last two years, Randy, this guy's thrown for 8,200 yards, over 60 touchdowns.
03:06He's now 2-1 in the postseason, and he's 60 minutes away from a Super Bowl.
03:10I mean, is this more of an indictment on how you develop these quarterbacks
03:15and organization failures?
03:18Remember what I told you earlier about playing for the best owner
03:21and the best organization?
03:23We also had the best coaches.
03:26And if you can get all three of those, you can do just about anything in the NFL.
03:30It's very rare when that happens.
03:33They've never had that in New York.
03:34They had one fluke year with Joe Namath.
03:37Other than that, they've told – they don't have any more toes left.
03:41They've shot themselves in the foot so many times, especially in the draft.
03:45And you look at, you know, where he went.
03:49He went from there.
03:49He went to Carolina.
03:51Went to San Francisco for a year.
03:53What happened in San Francisco?
03:55He was a backup.
03:56He got to play some.
03:58He was around Kyle.
03:59And they had that style of an offense.
04:01Now he goes to Minnesota with a similar style of offense and philosophy and has more success.
04:08He basically reinvents himself and gets to go to Seattle where what's he's asked to do?
04:13Hey, the same stuff he was taught in San Francisco.
04:16Maybe I'm a lone ranger here, but I give Kyle Shanahan and his staff a world of credit for sort of, you know, refurbishing his career and getting him ready.
04:30Because most quarterbacks don't get that chance.
04:32By their third team, they are on the downhill slide getting ready to go into their next phase of life, as Bill used to tell us.
04:41So, yeah, he's a fantastic story.
04:46And the way that he's played is got to make every kid in America that wants to be a quarterback pay attention to that because it ain't just you.
04:54There's a lot to it.
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