Episode 17 The NFL Show

Hello, welcome to this knockout edition of the NFL show. Why is it

knockout? It is not because I suggested to Jason that it was a

fine time to start a diet, or because a cold Osi that I think he

is not really all that pretty. It is because we have reached the

play-offs, and that is knockout American football all the way to the

Super Bowl. I'm very, grateful. We have a great bunch of boys, and we

certainly deserve what we have got. We are number one! We are number

one! Touchdown, touchdown! Onto my's show we will be looking

ahead to this we can's Wildcard fixtures, the two seeded teams in

each conference will not play, they received a buyer as reward for their

efforts and we watch on with anticipation to see here that

opponents will be. It is third against six and for against fixed --

15 each conference. Qualifying stage to reach the quarterfinals. The

Jason and Osi will be sharing light as who they think will make it to

the last eight and perhaps make some of their outrageous positions --

preaches that we can ridicule. For we talk about this matter we will

look back to the final week of the regular season and how the Wildcard

gains were determined. We will start with the battle for the North

division, the Detroit Lions had made the top spot their own with comeback

after comeback, they were winning and entertaining a beautiful

combination. However a loss of steam in recent weeks and that the Green

Bay Packers were pulling at the tail of those Lions and had them in their

sights. The Packers quarterback said that way back in November that they

would run the table. Yeah. A new phrase to me but whatever they meant

it looked like he meant it. As the weather got colder the Packers got

hotter, five wins in a row and one more would see them grab the home

advantage in the play-offs. Aaron Rogers talked about that

interception streak he had over the last half a dozen games, he now has

215 consecutive passes since his last peak, the longest streak of his

lustrous career. It has been remarkable and now he is down in

Geordie Nelson range right now, a guy with 11 red zone touchdowns,

nobody even close up their flank to the right-hand side. 14 total

touchdowns the number 87. Rogers throws over the middle and this is a

touchdown! Third and goal, into the end zone goes Detroit for the

touchdown. First down on goal, he has carried the ball 16 times,

touchdown, sliding into the inside and Detroit takes the lead. The

Packers put together a quick drive enabling Mason Crosby to get a 53

yards to betray's lead to four points going into half-time. --

Detroit. Adams will get flagged for using the goalposts as a prop, that

will cost them on the kick-off but he is into the end zone and 75

yards, ten plays, 5.5 minutes to retake the lead. The Lions rush

four. There goes Rogers again. Throwing, and it is caught for a

touchdown by Geronimo! You cannot stop him if he does that. What did

he have the ball, eight, nine seconds? On the next Lions

possession, it went over from 54 yards to cut Green Bay Packers make

lead to six. Here they come, here is the past, it is Adams in the corner

of the end zone, touchdown. Adams working on Lawson, and Aaron Rogers

has thrown four countdowns and that gives him an even 300 yards on the

evening. -- touchdowns. That is going to be away in the end zone for

a touchdown. The interception from Hyde. Stafford throws, heart beating

around the country right now. And he courted, that is overwhelming. --

caught it. Can you imagine a non- Sidekick recovery and another hail

Mary? We saw a couple of hail Mary 's last year from Aaron Rogers, why

not? There is bold and in his 14 season, the Green Bay Packers go to

the play-offs, and Detroit heads to Seattle. There is confirmation of

Green Bay's win in Detroit. The top few pictures are the ones relevant

to the play-offs, Dallas qualified, lost to Philadelphia, Atlanta

secured number two seed with a win at home against the Saints.

Washington blew their play-off chances by losing at home to the New

York Giants. And Seattle were already there and they beat San

Francisco, the bottom three games are really matter at all but they

are other scores. This is how the play-off picture works. It is true!

Sometimes you have to be true to be kind. -- rule. Dallas and Atlanta at

the top two seed, they have the Wildcard weekend off at an Seattle

will welcome Detroit, third against fixed, in debate the other division

-- Green Bay will welcome the New York Giants. We will take a closer

look first of all at those redhot Packers against the New York Giants.

Lets show them what we are all about! There is not fired by the

Maclean's can play like that. -- five guys on the planet. That opened

up like the Red Sea to Moses. With steel with the most important

thing first, let's run the tape. -- let's deal with. Take charge, win

games, when the rest of your games for that season. The reason I ask

that, is when you put it like that it is hugely relevant to Aaron

Rogers, who was grabbed each game, by the scruff of the neck and gone

"I will take the steam into the play-off." And he called it, all the

pressure that has been placed on the Green Bay Packers to say we are

going to run the table, I think we can do this, he had that much

confidence in his team and he went out there and showed it. When he

goes up against the Giants, the New York Giants head coach was at the

Packers to eight years. He was Rogers' quarterback coach for a

couple of years, what difference that make this game? That will help

the Giants defence, there was already playing well, but play

better, they will get some insight on how he thinks and how he reads

defences and things of that nature that they did not have the fourth

will not quarterback coach is out there with his people over and over

again. He knows he is tendencies, his flaws, his greatness is, his

strengths, he knows everything about Aaron Rogers and he is going to go

down there to the New York Giants defence and tell it all. It is going

to be interesting to see how the Giants adjust to playing against

Green Bay. When Greg was on the show last week, he gave us some really

good insight, didn't he. I thought I was in the locker room. He was take

Sydney afterwards. The e-mail is on the way. (LAUGHS). -- texting me. He

was telling us off air some of Aaron Rogers' tricks, codes, signals, he

did not want to say too much on air, and it is those little subtleties I

suppose that the coach will be able to pass on. That is what will happen

especially as a defensive backs, knowing this kind of things, those

gestures and he will have defence time to that to prepare, amazing.

The Green Bay Packers know that he knows this. So what they will do is

they will try to change couple of things around, they are not just

going to in with all the information that he knows and allow the Giants

to capitalise on it, no way. Have either of you being in this

situation where you have come up against one of your former coaches

on the opposition, and had to mix things up to try and confuse them?

That happened to me my first year going from Dallas to Houston, when

the team first started, and I came over in trading camp, I got traded,

and I knew all the calls. I told our defence is that we what the fence

was going to do, who to go out, who could expose, and we won the game.

Teams do this, things will actually go into pick up a player who got cut

from another team who they are about to play against just so they can

come in and tell all the secrets, it happens all the time. NFL teams do

this all the time and just to see if they can make adjustments. There is

no loyalty in this game, there is no playing for the badge. They did not

do that to me. I played in export years. You were a valued part of the

franchise. Giants fans will say, OK, we are the Wildcard and the Packers

are the winners, but we have been here before, and you have been here

before. Twice, the Giants have gone to the play-offs and gone to the

Super Bowl. They have all the confidence in the world going into

Green Bay to play against a football team. It is the same situation that

we found ourselves in into thousand and seven and 2011. What is going to

happen it, it will be really interesting. Two former giants,

people will know because they bang on about a week in, week out,

predictions for this one. I am going with the Giants. I'm going with them

because of the Giants defence. I think they can rattle Rogers, they

have the right blitz packages to stop him and slow him down. Even

after everything you have seen from Aaron Rogers over the last couple of

years, you think they have got him? They have a quarterback who will

shut down Geordie Nelson and they will shut things down. Is it even

worth the asking you the question? No. In all seriousness, of course, I

am 100% picking the New York Giants. Not because of bias but I like the

way the New York Giants have played defence over last month. Outstanding

defence and if there is any team the NFC right now who can content with

the offensive juggernaut known as the Green Bay Packers is the New

York Giants because of their defence. What they lack in passes

right now they have in the back end, they will be able to contain those

receivers. Even at home? We beat them all the time over there, we

smacked around. In the second match, the Detroit Lions will be travelling

to the Seattle Seagulls. -- Seahawks. Everything you got, every

single play. Let's go. This game is all about who can play harder for

longer. Touchdown, Detroit Lions. Touchdown! Seahawks!

So does this one come down to Seattle's strength at home? Yes, I

think it does. I think it comes down to their strength at home and they

have got to be able to run the ball. They are not a team that does things

week to week, they usually fix it, and I think they fix their running

game. Is that what they need to do? That is what they need to do against

the Detroit Lions. A not so sure about Seattle's spent at home. This

is not the same Seattle team that we have seen with that incredible

dominance they have had over the past few years. I think they are

vulnerable at home and I think they are vulnerable in this game. Why

does the vulnerability come down to, when Greg was here last week...

(LAUGHS) If I can make it go all the way through the show I will be very

pleased with myself. He talked about injuries really affecting them

psychologically. I have had big injuries. Their issue is, there

fence is shaky and they have not been able to run the ball. They need

to run the ball and the balance. That is what makes Russell Wilson

have time to develop players. They are not a cohesive team as they used

to be. There is infighting, finger-pointing, it seems like the

Koch does not have as much control over the team as he used to. This is

the team that I pegged as the New England Patriots of the NFC. But

they are not playing that well this year,. Why do you think that has

happened, the year,. Why do you think that has

had? Pete Carroll is hugely experienced, well-respected head

coach, who has been in this business a very long time. Why all of a

sudden is coming apart at the seams? Can you be there too long? Yes. I

think what happens is after a while, apparently, I don't know because

this happen to me, apparently after a your players start to pursue the

coach when they hear the same message over and over again, and

they might not have the same kind of respect that they have him, a lot

the guys that he had before have moved other teams, have moved out of

the league, and is a brand-new... I don't think that is the issue, I

don't think they have tuned Pete Carroll out, they are running team

that lost a good player last year. This mode is gone, they are not the

same team and they get frustrated with that because... Explain the

bickering and the five Thring. -- fighting. Because they want to win.

That is passion. You have all kinds of stuff going on out there that you

never saw from the Seattle Seahawks before. They are used to winning. I

still can't believe you said "You don't see bickering players. " I

often seen bickering players. Detroit themselves have not won a

play-off game since 1991, last post-season win on the road was

1957. I mean, you know, historical stats is not really affect the

current lineup? Is not going to happen again, they will not win

again, so... How this respectful are you? (LAUGHS). -- how this

respectful. This respectful. I think they are going to be taken advantage

of in this game. That will cause Detroit more problems than Seattle.

It is a good defence, they are going to slow it down. It is really going

to be what that fence is able to do. Seattle's defence is good but they

are not great by any stretch of the imagination. They will miss Thomas,

their safety, who was missing from most of the season. Talk about the

Detroit Lions, they have a outstanding group of white

receivers, it had Martin on the out -- why do receivers. -- wide.

Staffordville his finger is not coming back, this is a guy we were

talking about the pick of the league, who before his finger got

injured. You are going Detroit? Seattle. Now to the AFC. Let's look

at the AFC results from the final week of the season, confirmation

that of the Patriots beating Miami in Miami, and then Kansas City

Chiefs secured the number two seed by beating San Diego as Oakland lost

in Denver to the Broncos. Houston beaten by Tennessee Titans, but they

still win the division. And Cleveland, nearly, nearly, nearly

got a second win of the season, but the Pittsburgh Steelers beat them.

New England now confirmed number one and they will have home advantage

all the way through as long as they keep winning, Kansas City is number

two and Pittsburgh and Houston are the other divisional winners. Their

four airlines up as follows. Oakland go to Houston and Miami at

Pittsburgh, New England and Kansas City having the weekend off. Let's

take a look at the fixture between the Dolphins and the Steelers first.

We do it together, we are an unstoppable force. Do you feel that

Fai after real? -- fire the real? One play at a time. One play at a

time, baby. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Let's deal

with the Steelers first, it was Cleveland nearly, nearly, nearly

beat them in that game. But it was very much a second string Pittsburgh

Steelers, they rested their big names. Their offensive starters, the

defensive players, they were just try to get out of the game healthy.

They did the right thing. There was a reason for them to put players out

there against Cleveland. (LAUGHS). Is there a danger in doing that that

you might lose momentum? Yes, absolutely. Especially the wake of

the cabin plan, they have been playing really well. You see these

guys may come back with a little bit of rust, -- the way Pittsburgh had

been playing. Some teams, but not the Steelers. With those three

offensive weapons they have is more important is guys are healthy. Miami

when. And again against the Patriots, maybe it is trying to send

a message? Trying to send a message, I reckon. (LAUGHS). They did, but

imagine if they have got a win, the positive momentum that would have

given them going into the play-offs. Just imagine that. I just can't

imagine, it would have given them a tremendous boost going into the

play-offs, but obviously did not happen to them. The put them in the

sort of category of just grateful to have made the play-offs, and maybe

their season and against Nick Bourke? Absolutely. They did not

even expect -- against Pittsburgh? Nobody expected the Miami Dolphins

to be there. They had a great season, they made out there, they

faced a bums of the most -- immense problems, they should be happy to be

there. But talk about, the head coach, in his first season at Miami,

the job he has done. He has ignited that offence. Look at the running

yards they have got game by game, the J train, what he has done. Gates

does not have play-off experience, and that is the issue. If Pittsburgh

stopped the J train, does that help Miami? You have a tremendous wide

receiver up there with the Steelers, you have Landry who is a good

football player, Miami is built upon... If you eliminate him it will

be really tough. They have to run the ball. You can't win depending on

a quarterback late against the Steelers. I don't know what you are

talking about. They have to run the ball first and then go over the

middle with Landry. You just want to fight for no reason. He decided he

was going to fight you before you even said anything. He was good,

wasn't he? He got 200 yards Jay Ajayi against the Steelers in week

six. Will that affect the Steelers going into this game, or will they

now know what they need to do to prevent that happening again? Is it

easy to simplify out like that? He is not going to sneak up on any

more. The Pittsburgh Steelers to expect him to go in and run 200

yards. They are going to go into this game with a focus primarily on

stopping Jay Ajayi and then on stopping the others. The Dolphins

are one of the teams going into the play-offs who have had to change

their quarterback or a number of injury reasons. It does not seem to

have affected them as it has affected other teams. Matt Moore is

an affected quarterback. -- effective quarterback. He is capable

but it is running that is what they do. Who are you going for? The

Steelers! I have to ask the question. Why are you so aggressive,

soap combative? It might have been the dyad comment. Would you like to

give a nice polite answer? I am going to go with the Pittsburgh

Steelers. In the second Wildcard match the Oakland Raiders faced the

Houston Texans. We can hit win this game. We got to get after it next

week. That is what I am talking about! That's what am talking about

upfront, man. Just telling you all to be Democrat of yourselves on that

win write -- right there. I feel quite sad discussing this game

because it feels like, I am not a Raiders fan, but it feels the

Raiders sort of deserve better from their season. They do, and this game

is what I like to call the barbecue game. BBQ, the battle of the bad

quarterbacks. Two of them to Houston, and two of them on Oakland.

It is so unfair for the Oakland Raiders, but you have to play the

hand you are dealt, I think the Oakland Raiders will win this game

because the Houston Texans, the quarterback situation they have

their is ridiculous. Matt McGloin, he may have an injury, they might be

down to their third choice quarterback in, Cook. You can't

expect to go much further with a third string quarterback? I don't

think they were going to do well with the number to die, just because

of what it brought them emotionally. They believed he would always bring

them out and get attached at the end. When Greg was here last week, I

have done it in all four! Speaking of Greg, that is a great thing that

you said, great, because it shows when the star player goes out

another player can come in... (LAUGHS). Yes! You found a way! I

found away. Well done. He talked about not just from an on field

perspective, but his leadership of the franchise, in how the guys want

to play to him. They rallied around, no matter what people say in a

locker room, when he went down, they knew their season was over. I could

not agree more. That was the heart and soul of the team, and him going

down destroyed their season. When you add to that, Houston's season

really has been based on their defence rather than their fans. So

the two colliding, I assume it would make the Texans favourite of both.

The Texans are favourite to me because they can run the ball and

often is, we don't talk about art but they really can, and in that

defence is good to stop and run, and that is the only way Oakland are

going to... Why don't we talk about it? Are weak to focus on how focused

-- shambolic they have been? He was the guy who was supposed to blow the

fence, throw the ball down the field and it has not happened. But Miller

is effective. Good football player, great conditions, I think the

Oakland Raiders are going to find a way to win this game. I think right

tree and Cooper are going to come to play, -- Crabtree. They are not as

good as the Houston Texans defensively, but I think the Oakland

Raiders will come to win. Once they are through this round, I assumed

that would be the end in the divisional game. You are going

Raiders, as a former Texan? Texans all day on this one. Not through

Bias, like this one? Through work and other things... (LAUGHS). Let's

just show you how this Wildcard schedule pans out, so you know the

BBQ game, the Raiders and the Texans, is first on Saturday. They

normally put the first game -- the worst game in that slot first? Then

you have deployed and Seattle, then the late game on Saturday in the NFC

and then on Sunday back to the AFC being the early game, the Dolphins,

Steelers, and then the big one, a mouthwatering one, the Giants and

the Packers, that is the late game on Sunday, that gets under way at

9:40 p.m.. Just enough time to see some of the other players from last

week, of course many of these players this was their last

contribution of the season. And what a last contribution this was from

the Bill speciality, what is that? Triple play at hands gets a

touchdown. That from the Seahawks was not much better. They have to

fix that. Give me your chain! Crabtree told not to wear his chain.

How disrespectful. That is just bizarre. Who knows. Who knows what

that was meant to be. This is great hands and feet from Carolina's James

Bradbury, and this is great feet from Jacksonville's or regret as he

slices through, he helps the defence. Matt Berkeley decides to go

from Bears quarterback to Bears receiver. Giulio Jones and Matt Ryan

did what they do best in New Orleans, J J Nelson used his whole

body there to complete the catch and yet again, the star man is Hill.

Look at this, zero to 60. Look at this for avoiding tackle from your

own teammates. He was away again. He is remarkable. You can join us again

this Tuesday at 11:15pm for NFL this week when we will bring you all the

best of the action from this Wildcard weekend and find out how

many of their predictions were right. From Osi and the angry young

man, it is good night. It is OK, it's all right. It is the prize with

a price. It is a vocation with a caveat. Through to the last 12 and

sent on the road, runners-up in the halls of division winners. A tall

order, or the challenge that stirs the best in the Oakland Raiders.

Inspires the Detroit Lions rows of the spirit of defiance in the New

York Giants, and unleashes the Miami Dolphins. The best prizes are won

the hard way. The Wildcard way. This is the most dangerous,

the most despicable human being