Live. Live and direct. TikTok on the left. Nice little switch up. The season is over. Count it down like it's New Year's Eve. 10, 9, 8. Screen to fucking somebody. 6. Travion, get down. We've got the under. Some of us have the under. Let's see what color the Gatorade is. happy off season that's the final 29 13 on nbc gatorade is green some of you might call it yellow but uh that's why you bet three gatorade colors um what a what a game i know some of you think that's a tongue-in-cheek thing that i'm i'm saying i'm gonna let some people get in here but what a game. If you play defense, what a football game. Good for Mike McDonald. I'm watching him and this is the roughest thing right now. I'm watching Patriots players walking through the confetti. That always got me watching guys have to walk through the other team's confetti. I always talk about this when you talk about a Super Bowl. My favorite two things from winning Super Bowls were experiencing the parade, number one. But when I'm old and I can barely remember that parade, or right now I can barely remember that parade thanks to fucking Casamigos and Timmy Jernigan and others, I'll always have these. This means a great deal. This is what we used to dream about right here. in fact if you told me hey you got to give up your super bowl ring or your confetti i give up the ring uh and i don't know why that is maybe it's because i sat in defensive line rooms for a long time with mike waffle and he used to say to us my only hope for you guys is that you can feel the confetti fall on your head it's the best feeling in the damn world of course he got to win a super bowl with the New York Giants. And tonight kind of felt like one of those games where the defense just won the damn thing for a football team. Seattle Seahawks, you are Super Bowl champions. And I feel very happy for that organization. I think it's funny how some people probably assign sensibilities to like my takes based on where I played or who I played for. Like I'm going to hate the Seahawks or, hey, I played for the Pats, I'm going to be super bummed the Pats lost or whatever. I think both those organizations are great organizations. And maybe it's such an ancient wound having to lose every year to the Seahawks, like maybe winning Super Bowls with the Patriots and shit like that allowed me to get over playing against those guys and going up there and the 12s, you know, making it deafening loud and, and, and us, our offense pissing down its leg every, every year annually. Like you think I'd hate that organization forever. I don't, I have a lot of respect for that organization. You know, I picked them to win the West this year. They were probably on the tip of my tongue to get to the big dance, but I didn't put them in. But I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all. I'm not surprised at all. When you look at the job that Schneider did constructing this roster, when you look at the job that McDonald did coaching this defense, when you look at the job that Kubiak did calling this offense and the team. Breathing some confidence in Sam Darnold, man, like I'm not saying he was lacking for it because he showed flashes of what he was more consistently this year in Minnesota last year. A lot of guys might have had a hard time getting back on the horse after that playoff experience last year. And I think a lot of us looked at that and said, hey, it is what it is. When you've got an offensive line that's as beat up as the one he played in front and behind last year, late in the season for Minnesota, you're going to have a hard time, especially facing a front like that. And they had a spectacularly hard time against that Rams team. And, of course, the Seahawks are sitting there at an impasse. You talk about impasses. Historically relevant impasses in the NFL for franchises. That's got to be one of them since 2000 at least. Like, hey, John, what do you want to do? do you want to run it back with Gino right like security and playing it safe is often like the enemy of taking that next step in the NFL right do we want to bring this Sam Darnold guy over who probably a lot of people are saying it was it was Kevin O'Connell he played with Justin Jefferson you know um he looked terrible in the playoffs you're just going to get the same guy I'm not saying he's a big reason that they won this game today. He didn't play his best game. He just had to not fuck it up. And he played great through a lot of stretches in the NFL season, including the game of his life in what was probably the Super Bowl two weeks ago, as far as this NFL season was concerned. So it didn't really matter. And this is the thing. People get bent out of shape because it didn't matter that he didn't play great today. He did what he had to do to get his team here. And he's a Super Bowl champion. And he deserves it. This team deserves it. Two weeks ago, in my opinion, that was the Super Bowl. Especially with Denver playing with a backup quarterback and New England being who they are. And listen, I picked against New England every game this postseason. Every game. You would have thought I hated that team. I have a lot of respect for Mike Vrabel. I think Drake May is a rising young star. He's a fucking vote away from being the MVP. And I think there was an argument to be made that he was the MVP of this season this year. Not the best quarterback, not the best player, but the MVP. because coming into this season, you would have ranked that wide receiving core with an offensive line in the middle of that offense, the left side, rookie unit, right? Veteran at right tackle in Morgan Moses. Running back with a fumbling problem. Promising back in Henderson. You know, solid tight end, but not a real dynamic group. I saw that, you know, that wide receiving core was probably ranked like 31st in the league coming into the season. I don't know that I feel too much different about it. We talked about it this week. They got better, right? And the connection between like Booty and Drake May, that got a lot better, right? There were guys that made plays for them. But what Drake May did and what Mike Vrabel did and what Core did dragging this defense and this offense to the Super Bowl, right? You've got a backup defensive coordinator and a second-year quarterback, and you make the Super Bowl? New England should be very proud of what their program was able to produce this year. I'm not saying they're back, right? They got a long way to go, even with all the money they spent in free agency, all the hits, right? A lot of hits. They still got some work to do on this roster. and Drake's got to play better, even though I'm pretty sure when we turn on all 22 tomorrow, you're going to be like, where could he have thrown the ball in some of these situations, right? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until we see the tape. That rush was ferocious. That team had to play with timing to win. Forget talking about the Pats. I'm going to finish with the Pats. Here's how the Pats should have. This is a Seahawks-centric take. Starts with the Pats. my feeling on this game was the way that the the somebody asked me before the game do you think it's possible that new England wins this game I'm like yeah dude I debated laying the points until like two hours before the game I knew it was like inevitable um laid the points but I you know I felt like in a lower scoring game it might be tough and like there was a path for for England winning this game And all those roads in my head pictures involved multiple turnovers from Seattle which as we know can happen. It can happen with that quarterback. It can happen with any team in the NFL. It's happened throughout the playoffs. Teams have turned the ball over. That didn't happen. And when that didn't happen and when the game was 3-0 and, you know, there were moments where you're like, Hey, see, yeah, shit. It might, it feels like nobody's going to score a touchdown in this game for a bunch of the first half. And at that point, I think if you're a Pats fan, you're like, if we just hang in there, we can pick him off once. If we can get a big explosive, right. If we can figure out how to put the ball on the turf and pick it up, they never got that thing done. There was, there were a couple of outbreakers early in the game that new England was jumping all over, all over the outbreakers. And like Marcus Jones on a barner, um, in completion or his completion early in the game. Collinsworth and them were like, great throw, Sam Darnold. I was like, man, that's flying a little close to the damn sun because Marcus Jones was all over that thing. The only thing he didn't make was the play. And in those situations, that can be the game. I'm not saying, hey, it's Marcus Jones' fault or it's Christian Gonzalez's fault when Sam Darnold serves you up one before the half. Before you go up 9-0, it becomes like a really tough game. You know, you're down two scores against that defense. They had opportunities. It wasn't going to be easy to win that football game. Seattle was definitely the better team. But they had their chances, and they just didn't, you know, the ball didn't bounce their way, right? And then as the game went on, the ass-kicking commenced. You know, it was like watching a boa constrictor, like, slowly squeeze the life out of the opponent, man, out of their prey, man. And it was Seattle, as the game went on, just stepped on their neck. And I've seen a lot of great defenses play. We had Michael Bennett over earlier this week at the Airbnb in San Francisco. I'm not there anymore. Mike B, you know, comparing LOB to this group, like, do I think it's LOB? No, probably not. But, like, we don't have to do that. this is one of the best defenses that played the biggest on a huge stage probably in the last 10-15 years for sure. And so I commend this group. You can only play who lines up in front of you, right? I think the Patriots were a very imperfect team and it's a great credit to Vrabel and to those guys and that staff and the players on the team that they made it there. but you know like they listen we've we've done this dance they deserve a lot of credit but it was an easier road right and when the road was tough drake who i think is a stud did not play his best ball against the good teams this year we talked about some of the numbers that came out they can come out they just got added up or it's like shit the five six times they played teams with winning records bit more pedestrian didn't look like an mvp stat line from that guy and tonight same problems but again I don't want to put it all on him because the Seahawks are that fucking good and I think when you look at like Eman Warrior I heard before the game somebody said he didn't look great you know didn't look full speed warming up out there and he looked pretty good to me in the open field making that tackle on Drake May early in the game I'm pretty sure everybody had a big sigh of relief to say I'm at this guy looks like he's still playing at high level. He's a big key to their defense. Really, for the most part, they gave up the one drive and the late drive and garbage time, but a couple missed tackles in the flat. That was it through most of the game. They were dominant. You talk about this defensive line, okay? Hall, two sacks, young player drafted Seattle right Stud Murphy Sack Stud D Law all over the field as usual right Nwosu picks up a fumble and runs it in for a touchdown the Mills the white kid that you know like if you don't watch the Seahawks you're like who the fuck is that guy they got a conveyor belt of solid players on that defensive line we always talked about it not a team with like a batman guy on the front they've got like they got a bunch of dudes right and and they play unselfish they play gaps out in the run game and if you get down to them because the coverage is so good behind you and you're playing an under man group outside for new england it can get ugly and it did that's a team that would have had to a create turnovers to win They did not. B, play with timing offensively and play in phase. They could not. We will see what was happening on the back end overnight and talk about it tomorrow. But the front was great, and what I loved was McDonald not sitting on his hands and saying, our guys are just better than you in the back end. We're going to bring pressure because we got this little motherfucker, Spoon, who rushes like a damn defensive end. I can't tell you how many times today I saw him win a rush against an offensive tackle or an offensive guard. You know, probably I could tell you. It was probably three or four times. It was Malcolm Jenkins used to show up in our D-line Indy, not just because he liked me. All right? Shout out to Mal. He wanted to learn how to pass rush. Not learn how to pass rush. He knew how to pass rush. He honed his skills. Every Thursday or whatever it was, he'd come over. We're doing some little bullshit drill. he'd do the drill 100 miles an hour and he'd work his hands because that's part of the game you know for spoon a lot of the other stuff he's doing has nothing to do with pass rushing but the four reps a game that you get to affect the passer he decided that i'm going to be the best fucking blitzing defensive back in the nfl and he played like it today it was unbelievable i mean that was great and the standard that this defense has for their play i'm a little pissed off about them blowing my parlay at the end of the game not that they're worried about it but a six legger plus three thousand last thing on the docket i needed three mac hollins catches drake may was like here you go i needed drake may to have under one and a half touchdown passes stevenson took that off the grass like i cannot believe how close that thing was to being incomplete but the point i'm making is i mean the standard right up until the last drive they are playing hard little things like attacking the football up three scores you see guys in traffic with the football for new england i counted four or five guys throwing left hooks right jabs at the football right that's something that some teams don't even do in the heat of the game these guys have the super bowl wrapped up a lot of people are thinking about what color is the gatorade where's the party tonight they're thinking about taking the fucking football off somebody it's the fourth quarter the weaning moments of the game waning moments of the game and and and you know i see that standard when like little things like new england's in in hurry up you know and the defense is unsettled they find a way to blitz after an explosive and guys are lined up and they execute the damn call i'm passionate talking about this seattle defense i think coach mcdonald's gonna go down as one of the premier coaches in the game of this era that i just he's already got one how many defensive head coaches in the last 25 years win super bowls there's a few a lot of them are named bill belichick right he calls plays he did a great job schneider and him you can really tell are in lockstep because everything they do turns to gold and i think the biggest domino and he didn't make a lot of big plays tonight per se i'm sure you turn on tape you played pretty fucking good ernest jones you know there's a lot of guys that came since ernest jones that deserve a lot of credit to Nicky Minowires of the world, to DeMarcus Lawrence of the world. Leonard Williams, rightfully, talked about finally like an all-pro. Ernest Jones was the first domino, dude. When he showed up in Seattle last year, their defense changed. And I can't help but also feel like that defense has a lot of leaders right Because you listen to Ernest Jones I haven seen a backers stand up for a quarterback like that in the media in a long time right And a lot of people would think Sam what Sam Darnold do for this guy He been here like eight weeks This guy ready to die for him right JSN, as soon as Sam Darnold gets in town, talking about how great he is at throwing the ball before you're out of your break. The timing, right? I mean, these guys, you look at DeMarcus Lawrence in a text with Dez Bryant at the beginning of the season. When Dez Bryant releases a text message, it goes something like, hey, how do you feel about Sam Darnold? He's like, Sam's going to have us right. There's a belief in that building. And that, to me, is the common thread between that LOB team and this team, like the supreme confidence. And not in a cocky way, but in a very competitively confident way that we're going to have each other's back. We're going to play really hard. And then the other thing is the competitiveness. I talked about the competitiveness that's obvious when you watch this defense. I mean, I know the culture's changed, but it's pretty cool if you're a Seahawks fan. You can kind of draw some parallels, right? Do I want to say, hey, Chris Collinsworth said, one of the best defensive performances in history. I do not think that they're necessarily one of the best four or five defenses in history. but you can only play who you line up against and they may mince me to these fucking guys you know and that's another reason why is it like you know people love to hate the great teams in the nfl right some of the teams you get tired of the game can look a little different without them in it seattle could have beaten anybody this year they got the pats and they made them look like the pats right a team that was probably a year ahead right a team that's got a bright young quarterback bright future great head coach but not that talented and they took care of business man seattle seahawks took care of business if you haven't signed up for bet mgm yet use bonus code green light and you'll get up to a 1500 new player offer on your first wager with bet mgm here's how it works. Just download the BetMGM app and sign up using bonus code GREENLIGHT. Deposit at least $10 and place your first wager on any game. If that bet loses, you'll receive up to $1,500 in bonus bets. Then get access to second chance promos, odds boost tokens, same game parlays, and so much more throughout the entire football playoffs. BetMGM, make it legendary. I will say, like, if I'm going to look back and remember this Super Bowl for something besides the defense, I would say, hey, like, pretty pedestrian quarterback play. I don't remember a lot of Super Bowls where the quarterback play was more pedestrian, but Sam took care of the football, right? He's done that all postseason. Hey, guys, you got to clap for Sam Darnold, too. There's five guys in here clapping for just dudes clapping for Sam Darnold. Because, and I'm not being silly or making fun of him, but, like, of all the guys this year, like, my favorite, Josh Allen, didn't take care of the fucking football. Drake May didn't take care of the football. Second in the MVP race. Stafford, at times, late in the season, did not take care of the football. I go down the list. The postseason this year was marred with turnovers. C.J. Stroud had no respect for the football. Darnold took care of the football, and he's standing on the podium now, you know, saying something probably pretty fucking cool. And I'm pretty sure Kenneth Walker is the MVP. I don't know if that's come out yet, but Kenny Walker has to be the MVP in this game, in my opinion. And it's kind of a – we knew coming in this would be one of those games where, you know, like maybe it's not your quintessential quarterback gets the MVP type of game. We said it might be ugly, lower scoring, and it was for a long time. My pick was Shahid. The problem wasn't, again, Vrabel. My long shot MVP was Shahid. Vrabel wasn't going to let the fucking guy catch and return punts today. And that's another thing. Special teams in this game, we talked about how it come down to special teams. Kicker made every kick. Kicker made every kick. They downed multiple punts inside the five. I mean, covering kicks, it's the mark of a great team. They cover the fuck out of their punts. The punts were right on target. It was a field-flipping type game for a long time. What else can you say? And now John Schneider just grabbed the Lombardi trophy, and he deserves it as much as any GM, right? When you think about Howie Roseman in Philly, like what a force he is for that team. This guy's a fucking force, dude. Schneider's a force. he's got a great coach with him too i want to make sure i don't forget anything else um we talked to some special teams we talked about um we talked about uh kenny walker kenneth walker i've said this when you prepare for kenneth walker everything is a bounce everything is a bounce that was the case tonight you had to talk about setting good good edges the edges had to be good but also the off ball support players too you know and he makes it hard on those guys you know he really does press press press the hole without gaining ground you know Collinsworth talked about that a lot tonight like he'll throttle it down not quite like Le'Veon Bell who kind of comes to a full stop right and he's kind of like he used to play um you know like patty cake with um with that big ass guards back i'm trying to ramon foster my dog ramon foster he used to sit back there and just do this well kenneth walker has a real good ability and another thing is they run from under center enough right with the play action that sort of thing where he has the landing strip to really influence support players right like hey here i come. Hey, Gap. I'm throwing it down. Throwing it down. Doesn't look like I'm throwing it down. Oh, no. I'm bouncing. And I thought he was the most important player in this football game. He was. And when you think about the fact that not only is he a free agent, he's going to get the bag. He also was the guy that, from the outside looking in, a lot of Seahawks fans are like, why didn't he get the ball more? We love Charbonnet, but he just doesn't get the... It seems like they don't always trust him. And part of it is like, hey, maybe you're not the best protector or you're not the best receiver which they called out tonight but what a way to prove yourself in a game where and in the playoff where your bell cow goes down and you know i'm gonna need you to to carry you know how do i say this without saying the word load i i need you to carry the weight of this running offense and he did it all postseason and he was awesome he seems like a a great dude and he deserves MVP. I don't have the sound on. I don't know if he's getting it. Fucking awesome. Just awesome. And Demarcus Lawrence. Shout out to Mrs. Lawrence. She's pregnant with their sixth child. She's 37 weeks pregnant. She's at the football game. That woman rocks. And Demarcus Lawrence fucking rocks, dude. Because he's like, I don't want to know if you're going to labor. Don't tell me. I'm going to be playing in the Super Bowl. What a night for him and his family. I mean, just awesome, dude. Awesome. Listen, I thought the – I don't know if I forgot anything here, but I thought the commercials were cheeks early. The Super Bowl commercials in the first half were kind of shitty. There was a good run on commercials in the second half. you had the the skinner eagle on the horse's back for budweiser um yet you had some other good ones i can't remember but i thought the commercials were great um i thought um my man mac holland and that's my dude is probably going to be hollow man although he played really well because he came in like hannibal lecter like they had him in cuffs and that wide receiving corps ended up kind of being like like incarcerated this evening and so like it was like that was some fucked up foreshadowing um i'm just bouncing around and non-football stuff was there a halftime show that was a hey listen i gonna just tell you i wanted it to be good right because i yeah I been doing the thing I just think it so stupid Like whoever what dude I understand, like, I've heard some women be like, who's in the halftime show? Like, how was Lady Gaga? But for my entire adult life, I had never heard anybody give a fuck about the halftime show. Usually that's when you go out on the porch, you make yourself a sandwich, you know? And all of a sudden this year, people care about the halftime show, right? A lot. Okay, so I wanted the halftime show to be good. A little disappointed that he didn't play Born in the USA. That take really caught on. But I'm just, I'm saying this, and this is with zero tone. This is with zero divisiveness. I thought it was a really good, I don't know any of his fucking music. I don't know any of the words. I know a few. I've never seen so many white guys all of a sudden act like they don't like big booty Latinas on TV. i mean that that is unbelievable dude like all of a sudden like nah i want to watch brantley gilbert i don't like latin women bro you can't even like be real dude the set design was fucking fantastic the plants were people there was a whole town in there somebody got married somebody really got married um fucking people were hanging out Ricky Martin showed up. Lady Gaga was there. She was like, I got your English song. But I just thought it was cool. And at the end, like, who's mad about like... Somebody made a funny joke. They were like, for a while, first touchdown scorer was Bad Bunny. He had great ball security. I just don't care about the fucking halftime show much. But I legitimately was like, this is a quality show. It was a good show. I hope the other one was good too. I hope everybody... I'm not even being a dick. I hope it was. because i would hate to like did you have to get that on like the zone or something okay but i thought he was i thought bad bunny was cool and and it wasn't it wasn't like weird it wasn't like anti it was more like hey it's fucking sick man we're sick dude puerto rico's fucking sick dude people go on vacation to puerto rico dude you don't like Puerto Rico? Place is sick. I don't know. I was fucking saying the horns on some of those songs were awesome. You don't have to know Spanish to know the damn horns. You're going to tell me you understand the words to Mr. Roboto? Not every song you got to understand the words to. What is it? Domo Orgato, Mr. Roboto? I mean, come on. Some songs you don't need to know the language. Although I think I know what the fuck that means. Do you know what it means? I think it means like thank you very much, Mr. Robot. Just listen, I know the game was kind of shitty for some people, but my parting thought would be we needed a year like this in the NFL, dude. We needed a year like this in the NFL. Everybody was complaining about the same quarterbacks being in it, the same teams. You like parity? Smoke the whole pack. you remember when you're a kid and you got caught smoking a cigarette and your parents were like well i never got caught but some of your parents were like you like it smoke the whole pack you like parody we're gonna give you a 29 to 13 fucking super bowl where one team has 50 yards deep in the third quarter see if you like it um could have been anybody's game this year i i actually enjoyed it i enjoy the defense and i think the patriots defense gets lost in all this right because i want to shout those guys out man milan williams he had a chance to do uh the back to back thing dude on two different teams which basically when i did it amounted to like being good handicapper right which can that trend continued today he he was a big part of that that team being there and you know to leave philly where he was a huge part of that win and to be a central central player in the thing when he leaves for a span during the regular season late in the season they're not the same he was abusing people tonight and you know he got close a lot he got there and that defense is they played hard all year long you talk about having a backup defensive coordinator and cure. I'm going to learn how to say his name. Cure, Kurt, core, core. That dude deserves a lot of credit, man. That's unheard of. It really is. And they did it by being fearless. They did it by bringing the fight to teams. They had great players. I don't think their linebacking course, particularly great in the current form. I think that probably played into some of the run game. Their safeties are awesome, right? corners love gonzo carlton davis that was a big pickup for them even if he wasn't like a lockdown corner is a big pickup for them so um listen the guys up front chase on had a great year dude like um barmore obviously stud um who was it uh land landry um didn't didn't play down the stress but great player so i i listen those guys deserve a lot of credit and they're gonna leave the stadium tonight and they're gonna be like shit we wasted a year you didn't waste anything if you're the pats you remember this feeling you'll be back deep in the playoffs next year right because you're gonna have a whole another year of building this culture jim or um i called him jim because i was about to make a point about jim harbaugh Vrabes just did this in one year okay when Jim Harbaugh came to the NFC West when I was in it and he took that team to the Super Bowl I think in the second year from a team that was like veteran laden, aging roster strike season you know CBA shortened training camp and he's able to install his culture and we thought a year was fast so they had a year and next year they end up in the Super Bowl How about doing it the first year with a team that had a damn win total of like eight and a half or nine? So, I just, I'm just so impressed. And Clint Kubiak is going to be a damn head coach, obviously, in Vegas. And if he can turn that thing around, good on him. And for the Seahawks, they're going to have to replace him. And here comes the hard part, right? Where this is the thing when you have a defensive head coach. You got to find a way to replace your presumably successful coordinators when they go get jobs. So, dude, what a day. What a season. I appreciate you all hanging in with us. I really do. And I hope you like the content in San Francisco. We had a great time. Got back today on a flight with all the boys. And they worked really hard this week. So, I'm going to let those guys go to bed. Um, I'm going to go to bed and, uh, 345 tomorrow's live show. We'll, we'll finish the live, the live shows there, but we got some great interviews coming up for you even after that. So, um, I thought it was cool. Another thing I liked daytime Superbowl, West coast outdoor daytime Superbowl. Give me more shots of the golden gate bridge. I don't even like that stadium, but it shows well on TV in that setting. I would 100 times out of 100 rather watch a Super Bowl in that building than under the artificial interrogation lights of the Superdome or, you know, some other fucking indoor football stadium. That was really cool, man. I enjoyed that. So. Great day. I didn't miss anything, did I, guys? Who wants MVP? Good. He deserved it. He deserved it. and this hat here yeah is this hat on sale on our site because people are going crazy about the about the damn hat so the glasses i finally got these in so i'm not gonna have to do orange ones all the time people are like yo what's up with this tool bag i'm like i just don't like i don't like harmful lights and now i can just get my sean mcdermott on so without further ado i'm gonna go to bed and I'm going to check my winnings on the BetMGM app and I appreciate y'all. We'll see you tomorrow.
