PMS 2.0 1484 - TOP 5: SUPER WILDCARD RECAP

0:00Ladies and gentlemen, we got five headlines coming out of Super Wild Card Weekend that you need to hear. Five things that we think really stole the headlines. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for top five driven by Ram Trucks. Listen, when you hit the gas pedal on a Ram Truck, the only sound you hear is Ram. You know, they're getting back in the NASCAR truck race. That's right. What have you said about NASCAR truck racing in the past? It's arguably my favorite thing ever, and that was before Ram Trucks were out there on the dirt track. So I can't wait. I forget when it actually is starting, but I've been basically waiting every night for this to happen.

0:36Yeah, and we're not 100 % sure if it has already happened. Yeah, correct. 19 days, right? If your counter is right out there. Okay. Well, we don't know, though, because power goes up. It might be 100 days. Nine could be a zero. You're right. Whatever the case, this is driven by Ram. Let's get to number five, shall we? the Chicago slight. A cold handshake after a crazy comeback. What a win for the Ben Johnson led Bears. Everything that Ben has kind of preached about mental toughness and his team has shown fourth quarters, they've been outrageous. Everything he has tried to build so quickly over there in Chicago comes to spotlight in a super wild card round against NFC North rival for a long time the Green Bay Packers.

1:22Packers up by a lot. Kicking shit eyes Chicago Bears. I'm texting Chicago Bears fans saying, ha, ha, ha. Just like we said. Just like we said. You thought Ben Johnson was going to be able to go in there in one year and create an actual winner? Whenever push comes to the show, if you play a good team, you're going to lose. We already played the Packers. We already beat them. Doesn't matter. Bears can't get it done in the playoffs. A lot of people thought that. Turns out they can. And you know who can't? The Packers. Oh. Green Bay Packers. I shouldn't say that. Matt LaFleur can't get it done in the playoffs.

1:55Whoa. Wouldn't that be the Green Bay Packers? I saw he's potentially going to be maybe negotiating to sign a new one with the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. No, but, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. It's like the Bears have been doing this all year long, and kudos to Ben Johnson for dropping his nuts on the table, not only at his opening press conference and kind of starting this whole thing off and saying, like, you know what, I enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year. I can't wait to do that again. And then just kind of all the back and forth that led up to the game. Like, he knew he was going to get crucified.

2:26He would have got killed if that would have been the end result. You know, they just played flat the whole game. But he is an unbelievable coach, and his team believes in him, and we saw what happened. Yeah, and not only believes in him, what Caleb Williams becomes late in these games is outrageous. Let's go to 537, 27-16. Caleb's down 11 at home. This is going to be his legacy. Jesus. Cross body on the run, one leg off ground, one falling into a bucket, fourth and eight pickup, extends the game, keeps it alive, and has play a season as he's jumping out of a sack. I mean, you're talking about Caleb shit in the NFL here.

3:01Now, I did see a couple people tweeting about people wondered if he was going to be able to do this like he was able to do in college in the NFL. I was one of those people. I had no idea if he was going to be able to do stuff like this against grown men who are all the best in the history of the game at one time. He certainly can't. And his arm strength is outrageous. Outlandish, I would say, with how strong he throws the rock. And then obviously his ability to move is crazy. Third and ten now after they pick up the first down. D-butt, they always got it when they needed it, especially in the biggest moments.

3:30Yeah, the three times these two teams played, it always kind of came down to the end. We had the interception in the two games where he made big-time plays down the stretch. But this is what he did all season long for the Bears. Already six fourth-quarter comeback wins leading into this game. Now seven, including the playoffs, which is most in Bears history already. He's kind of already up there when you talk about Bears all-time quarterbacks. But, I mean, just these throws, Colston Loveland, he's been unbelievable, especially down the stretch. Had to go for two, obviously, to make it a three-point game.

3:58Oh, my God. Are they going to erase 11 points in four minutes? Are the Chicago Bears at home going to be able to do what Jordan Love says, not on my watch. Dime to dog. He's the greatest guardian cap wearer in the history of football. Yes. He's the best player by far. That thing is everywhere. I see it. And, hey, whatever protects your brain, whatever makes you comfortable, you do what you got to do. but it does stick out, and he always seemingly is making big plays. What a catch. What a throw. Gets them in a field goal range. All right, let's at least make them have to go down the entire field and get a touchdown.

4:32Brandon McManus, former Super Bowl champion, reliable normally, not this year as much for Green Bay, misses his second field goal of the night. Yeah, I mean, this is the shit that drives you insane because I've been saying this for weeks now. He's three of nine on field goals over 40 yards this year. So, I mean, they knew that was an issue. going into the game. Really knew that was an issue. Guys won a Super Bowl. He's been there. He's done that. I will stick up for McManus. Now, on that note, he makes the 50-some yarder. Timeout. Hits it again. Misses it. Seems to move a little bit more. This ball feels like it was down the middle.

5:07Moves way to the right. Extra point miss. Obviously becomes a huge crash. He had his worst game I think I've ever seen Brandon McManus have in the Super Wild Card weekend against Chicago Bears. Yeah, but, and, you know, again, you don't want to just shit on him because he has had his moments in Green Bay, but, like, he hasn't been good this year. He just hasn't. And that's kind of where you're, like, and I don't even want to say that because, honestly, yes, he misses that extra point. Packers drive down the field at the end of the game. He's not making that field goal to tie it. The way that the game was going, they had to score a touchdown.

5:41He's just not sorry. But, yeah, you know, you leave seven points out on the field in a playoff game. Yeah. That's usually going to come back and bite you in the ass. On the road. You might as well go ahead and call it a couple of turnovers. Then third and four. Are the Bears going to answer in front of a crowd that was insane? Very quiet, obviously. Didn't have much to cheer for for a long time. Then this fourth quarter, Chicago Bears fans. Awesome performance, I would like to say. Incredibly loud. Wildly into it. And it felt electric through the television. First and ten. Down three. What's Caleb going to do?

6:15Pump fake. Got him. Touchdown, DJ Moore. This one almost went into his face mask, into his helmet, like in that one kid movie where they throw the football in. Little Giants. Little Giants. Bang, where it goes right there. DJ Moore almost got that. Had a drop a little bit earlier. So him having this catch, this touchdown, this release, this everything in this moment, congrats and shout out to DJ Moore. Always been an incredible player. Yeah, in this situation, Caleb didn't have to make a phenomenal throw or break the pocket. This was a great play call from Ben Johnson. And they kind of set this play up.

6:46One of the first plays of the game, they ran a screen to the same side of the field, picked up maybe 10, 11 yards, and then came back to it now at the end of the game, kind of a screen and go. Great fake, great pump fake. Everyone executed properly. And then obviously hit him with an accurate throw for the Gorehead touchdown. I mean, if that thing hits in his face mask and sticks there, that would be a really cool thing. Catch the catch. And said, DJ, he caught that thing like this. That is maybe the hardest. That's an incredible grab, especially in the moment. To score a touchdown, those easy ones.

7:16Always the hardest. Congratulations, DJ Moore and the Chicago Bears. Now the Green Bay Packers will get a shot at it, down four. Got a chance to take a Hail Mary. We dropped the snap, obviously, then we fumble bumble around. Somehow they stopped blocking, even though I still have the ball. Now we have pressure, little throw to no one except for their team. Could have got a pick in a super wild card, instead drops it 31-27. I'll put this thing into the stand. Somebody can keep that for the rest of their lives. Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson experienced their first playoff wins. together, and it's a dawning of a new day in the NFC North.

7:50Then at the very end, obviously, there's a ritual that happens of sorts. You know, each coach will go out and shake each other's hands, say, wait, wait, compete out there. Well, there's been a couple of these, obviously, this year because it's been split. Matt has been on the winning side of it quick. Ben has been on the winning side of it quick. This one, though, whoo! Go ahead and keeps it moving as quick as possible. Easy come, easy go. How you doing? Keep it moving. You know, Matt LaFleur said good job, and then he turns quickly. I don't know if there was an extra stick-em on the end of that.

8:23Did he yank him that way, or was that just kind of Matt LaFleur pivoting like that? It might have been like a watch this. Watch me go celebrate my guys, bitch. This is going to be awesome. Oh, is that what he was saying? Yeah, yeah. Look this way. Something that wasn't really talked about here is the fact that Ben Johnson going in, yelling quickly, leaving. Certainly an alpha dominance. Certainly an alpha dominance. But it was an answer, I think, to what LaFleur did before, right? Didn't LaFleur do a quick handshake on the way out whenever they won over the Chicago Bears? Yeah, he did. And these two have been bickering for a long time.

8:52Yeah. I saw some people saying they didn't like this.

8:57Who was Schwartz? Didn't he go fight a guy? Oh, yeah. Schwartz fought a guy. Schwartz and Harbaugh. Yeah, Schwartz and Harbaugh fought a guy. The backpacks. Yeah, the backpacks. Yeah. And then Ben Johnson in the locker room going, the Packers. Hate those guys, man. Yeah, him saying how bad he hates him, like continuing to follow up on it. And the Chicago Bears posting it. Okay, like the Chicago Bears posting it. I respect that. I love that. I wonder what the Packers did to the Lions. Was there some sort of something with a locker room incident, some personal incident that took place? Because Ben Johnson immediately upon signing to the Chicago Bears says, can't wait to beat Matt LaFleur twice.

9:33Like literally says that. Oh, piss ant. I can't wait to beat him twice. And we're all like, yes, we love this for the rivalry. But then now it's like real heat. And Ben Johnson living the gimmick in this entire thing. And the Chicago Bears social team posting that means everybody in the Bears building saw that and was like, yeah, we do hate those guys. Let's go ahead and run this. I love that for football. I love that an entire organization in the NFL, which I would say sometimes lacks the passion that college football has. I like that in the NFL, in a professional business, brand new head coach, a lot of new pieces in there.

10:06Obviously, ownership pass, got new ownership in there. I like that they're all bought in on keeping a rivalry of hatred. Like, I like that. I don't know if LaFleur is doing enough. I don't know if the Packers are hating the Bears enough. It certainly isn't. I don't – well, okay. I didn't mean that. In any regard. You'll certainly be able to speak your mind here in a matter of seconds. But I don't think the Packers are pitching that. The Bears coming out and saying, nah, fuck this team over here. And that's been a rivalry for how long? Forever, right? Big city or small town. Over 100 years. It's like the oldest rivalry in professional sports.

10:39Yes. I love everything about this because Ben Johnson is letting his boys know, like, hey, this is really how I feel about this entire squad. This is how Ohio State and Michigan started, right? Then the two coaches, they're both Ohio State coaches, and old buddy leaves and goes to Michigan, and their actual heat is what led to the Michigan thing. It's like I will be tuned in to Bears-Packers, not only because the coach is seemingly good, great teams as well, both sides. I'm not saying Ben Johnson. I'm saying LeFleur, too, seemingly good. And also, all the shit. This is a real rivalry. I love it, D-Bud.

11:13Yeah. I love everything about it. There's people that are saying they didn't like it. Of course. There's going to be people that didn't like it, especially, actually, both parts of it. The handshake, you know, obviously you think, hey, you want a coach to be respectful, and regardless of what the game is, regardless of how you truly feel about each other, do that gimmick, you know, how the gimmick is supposed to be done. In the postgame, when you know it's recorded and you know it's going out, hey, have the respect. And it was surprising to me only because of the history of the Bears and from the ownership level, I know they're really specific.

11:42I think even with a hard knock, they're like, hey, very careful with the language. We don't want this franchise represented in a certain way. But he's fired up. His first playoff win. And it's kind of, it seems like this is who he is authentically. He's been himself. And when you hired him, you got to support the face of the franchise, the new CEO of your team if that's who it's going to be. And then hearing on the flip side, I feel like Caleb is – he sounds like a 40-year-old man when he's talking. He's always taking the high road and being classy, and then he'll take his shots on his socials and stuff like that.

12:15But I love it. I love when there's some real heat between coaches, between players. It's football. I don't mind people shaking hands and exchange his jersey or any of that either, but I also do like some of this throwback heat for sure. Ben Johnson today in his press conference via Ari Mirov here. It's a rivalry. City of Chicago and Green Bay, it needs to be a rivalry. Hell yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I might like them as a person. Who cares? To hell with them. I don't care at all. I love that. That's so good for our league. So good for our league. Because college football has that. A lot of that.

12:47And that is college football, clear number two sport in America. The ratings came out. And what are they? Who knows? I had split screen on yesterday with sound on one. So are they counting the one as a rating? Or are they counting both? because I had Golden Globes on to see if Timmy and Dwayne and the boys get a big-time win. Did Dwayne? Did not. Did Tim? Timmy did. Timmy did. But I didn't have any audio on over here. You see, I had the audio on New England game. Okay, so I was almost picture it, almost sent a picture and sent it to Nielsen on X. Yeah. Count this. I can't believe you did that.

13:21Why? That's disrespectful to football. I know. I know it is. But I was trying to show respect to Timmy and Dwayne and them. You know? I was trying to show my respect. YouTube provides that. YouTube TV, which, boy, I'm happy. Yeah. Yeah. Thank God. They got it. By far the best platform. By far. By far the best. Great. No question. I mean, just being able to do that. Two very, I mean, we're doing okay around here. Two very big squares watching both things. But the audio is only on one side. So are they going to count me for that? Because then they will go to commercial, and I'll be like, oh, I'm going to go to the other one.

13:54And guess who comes on your side? Drake Mays. It's like, yeah, right, dude. So sorry for me to care what's going on over here. I do wonder what that's going to do. But ratings up and to the right for football, huge. College football, clearly number two. Clearly number two. I think it had eight spots in the top 100 or something like that. It hadn't had that many in the past. 90-something were football, and then the others were whatever they were. How do you not like sports, these people, that are just always miserable? How do you not? Everybody does, seemingly. Yeah. Get with the times. Come on.

14:25Get with the times. Football is good. It's fun. It's fun. Sports, good. They're fun. Let's do that. Humans. The humans playing and coaching as well. So it's always good to have like a human moment. Thank you. Regardless of where it is, like, hey, keep your head up. And you can tell Liam genuinely appreciated that too. So, like, I mean, I just don't get it. I appreciated Lynn going, listen, you're new here. You're a young lad. It's your first time. You got it, buddy. You're the one. Just her inner body saying, this poor little, look at this little, this guy needs to be lifted up a little bit. Yeah.

15:02Hey, Liam, you think it was a good idea to, first question. Hey, Liam, earlier in the year, bye, you said bye, you said bye. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And he's like, give me the microphone, please. You all right, young man? Did you see any of the other questions asking that pressure? No, yeah, that's the thing. Or answers? Yeah. Oh, okay. We need to watch the whole thing, though. Yeah, sure. Well, it's not about winning the press. We care. We watched the game. You know what happened? I don't want to see a coach up there pouting. Yeah, but I don't. I just, I don't. The ownership of what something is is my problem with things.

15:36It's like we had three years, four or five years, I guess, in total. But three years, the first three years of Aaron Rodgers just wide open through an entire season. He won two MVPs. That's awesome. We rode every single week with him. like every single time and the guy never talked really to anybody before that and they're like get mad at me for not like countering an answer that he gave that he has researched that he lived that is his opinions and i'm asking him questions it is we are learning about like how is that not journal like how is learning entirely about one of the greatest of all time not considered some form of journal are documentaries a form of journal like i don't think i fully just comprehend how this is what journalism is.

16:22It is sawing everything down all the time and finding the worst. It's like, what about learning about things and, like, expanding your – like, is that not a part of it? I genuinely don't know because I didn't get invited to broadcast. True. I don't have a clue what it is. Why is that always the thing? I don't know. I don't know because we get accused of it a lot. A lot, a lot. Well, I mean, the Roger situation especially. You know, you can't have your cake and eat it too. You know, you can't want you to be a CNN or a Fox News anchor, and then 10 seconds later, all right, now you're an ESPN guy again.

16:57Okay, you're a sports guy. Get shut up and talk about sports. It doesn't really work that way. It's great. It's all good. But we're just saying you're allowed to be happy in sports. It's fun. Like, in our world, you're allowed to be happy. If you want to go be miserable, go do it. Like, there is certainly a lot of options to these yell at each other. Cover war. I guess, and war is happening every day, I think, with the political world. Yeah. Every once in a while, that shit will show up in my algo, and I'm like, why would anybody want to get into this? This seems like the most negative of all of it.

17:28It just seems. And then every day, somebody new is the best human on Earth. And it's like, so you're fighting every day for a new best. Good job, security, I guess. Oh, my God. It is just like a never-ending supply. And it's like, who's right? Is there a scoreboard? There isn't our world. Let's go to the number four headline. and it's been very good to this team over the years. A familiar feeling in Foxborough. The Pats are all the way back. We chatted about it already a little bit, but here's the top five headline out of Super Wildcard Weekend. Mike Frabel, he's done it, folks. He's done it. Yep.

18:03He got forced out of Tennessee. They're in a great spot. Yeah. Goes up to Cleveland. Has an office in the attic, I think. Okay, I don't want to say we FaceTimed him one time He was there. Oh, we did. We did. And he was in and out. His office, I mean, I don't want to put anything down. I assume they just kind of cleaned out a closet maybe and put him in there. Ohio. I mean, he was just in the building, like not really, but obviously helping around. We see him in the practices. We see him the entire thing just kind of hanging. And then him going back to New England after a one-year stint for Coach Mayo is just like an absurd series of events that leaves all football fans thinking to themselves, this is the next 20 years.

18:42We've already seen this song and dance, and it's a whole new cast of characters, but it's such a familiar feeling because one of the players is the guy leading it, and obviously the uniforms and the fans are the exact same. What a performance out of your fans as well. Yeah, it was unbelievable, exactly. Starting with the fans, they were the best home field advantage home crowd of the entire weekend. You could even go to, you know, the only one I'd compare it to would probably be Indiana in Atlanta against Oregon where they dominated, but I think they had four false starts, the Chargers offensive line when it came to just noise in general from the mass holes.

19:15Josie was playing, living on a prayer. Bon Jovi they came back with from one of their commercial breaks. That sounded electrifying. But then just the dominance of the whole entire thing. There was never really a moment where the Chargers offense looked like, okay, here they go. Early on, you mentioned the deflected interception Drake may have. And that set the Chargers up with first and goal. And what do the Patriots do? They just stand pat, basically lock it down. The Chargers decide not to, you know, kick the field goal, get some points on the road. But instead, they just say, hey, let's try and score touchdowns.

19:46You just showed the Milton Williams one. Sorry, what was that? I was going to say, do you think Harbaugh was worried about his defense against Drake Mayhem early? Because he decided not to take the points. Didn't think the three points would be as important as they inevitably would become, obviously. Yeah. I was very confused. The first points of the game? Yeah. Plus, with that defense, how many times are we going to be down in here? Just my thoughts from Jim Harbaugh. Plus, you keep the momentum when you kick a field goal. As soon as you get stopped, that momentum swing is just ginormous. Yeah, but did Jim think we might have to score some points here, at least 20 against, like, Drake and him?

20:17Or did he trust his defense and say, if not, we'll pin him down here and we'll get the ball back? I think that's what it was. Doesn't matter? Yeah. This is a bonus. This is house money. We just got a turnover we didn't expect to get. We're down in here. Let's just go for it. I mean, I guess whatever school of thought you're from, some people, hey, if it's the points, especially your first points, take them in a playoff game or a lot of people now, especially with the new analytics, once you get kind of inside that red area, you're not taking any field goals unless you're fourth and seven plus, probably because the likelihood of the team getting the ball and then driving the length of the field and scoring is whatever numbers are there.

20:50So it's wherever place you're in, whatever analytics you believe in, you know, you can always second guess the decision, but he also has, you know, one of the best defenses in the league over there with the Chargers. So maybe he trusted him to hold him up. And also, maybe he thought his offense was going to be back there. Yeah. You know, maybe he thought, like, this would be – I mean, there's so many different – until he comes out and tells us, which I don't know if he did. I don't know if he gave his answer afterwards. There's so many different angles it could be. And in Harbaugh's mind, he was right.

21:17You know, and that's what some people don't understand about having a differing opinion about somebody else. Like, at that moment, did not get to see what the Patriots defense was going to do to his offense all game. This is at the very beginning. Had no idea what was going to happen. and in his mind, in the time, we need to go get a touchdown right here. Why not? Maybe we're not going to score a lot of these against this Patriots. It won't be down here. We're not going to be this close with how good it's paid. There's so many different things that are happening at the same time. All we do know is those three points will be huge.