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It's nice just to come out here and be by myself for a little bit.

I try to come out here on off days or days when I have some time and nice

disconnect from football and the world and just get out here by myself and

work through some thoughts or just kind of think about nothing that has to do

with football or anything else and just be myself and really just enjoy

something that has nothing to do with my job.

Whose guy is that?

I'm always gaming on Monday nights.

Nice, Josh.

Always friends from Athens.

Sitting a couple hours on a Monday night to talk with your friends and game and

talk shit and all the good things that come with that.

I want a nice break from life and the season, but two, a great way to stay in

touch with friends.

I feel like this life, you have very little privacy, so I try to keep as much

I can, I would say.

So we start here at the start of the drive, and then this power outlet is the

new set of downs. My boys started wanting to play football more this year

the house, and so I would come home from work and be ready to kind of call it a

day. And they're at that age now where they're jumping off the couch and

saying, hey, Dad, you want to go play football in the basement?

I'm like, not really, but here we go.

I know that this is a short window that I'll look back someday and wish I could

get back, and so I want to.

prioritize the time with them, maximize the time with them.

It's a good way for us to kind of spend time together and get away from the

daily grind of football.

He was inaccurate in this game. His arm looks weak in this game. If they don't

win the Super Bowl, it's going to be a tough regular season to get through next

year. Joe Burrow, if you're 1 -7 in one possession game, you try not to

let the...

The media narratives infiltrate your little bubble, but it's impossible not

to. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get

up in either one.

Kirk Cousins cannot play that bad, especially when it's a guy like Michael

who took in the top ten in the wings. I think a lot of it you do end up seeing.

You try to avoid it. You know, I don't use social media much during the season.

Some quarterbacks are just blessed with being in great situations.

The media does.

A great job of building narratives about our game and about the players.

Not all positive.

I think that's good for the game.

It's not great for the mental health of the players often.

This team is 4 -8.

Jared Goff was an MVP candidate right up until he played that game against the

Houston Texans. It does not matter how good you played two weeks ago. We cannot

give Joe Burrow a pass. This team is losing right now.

A lot.

I work really hard to maintain my discipline and my routine.

Part of that is handling all the things that come with being an NFL quarterback.

For

me,

I use it as motivation if it's anything negative and try to build a chip on your

shoulder with it. Ignore the noise.

Because once you get into the game, you know, you're just so hyper -focused.

And at the end of the day, you just got to go and perform on Sundays. That's

what matters.

Some breaking news out of last night's game. Somebody was trying to break into

Joe Burrow's house.

This sprawling Ohio home, a crime scene.

Thieves tore through the property while the quarterback took the field for

Monday Night Football nearly 1 ,000 miles away.

The latest in a string of high -profile burglaries appearing to target

professional athletes as they're competing on the road.

The NFL warning criminals use public records to find players' addresses and

conduct extensive surveillance.

Then, by tracking team schedules and the social media accounts of players and

their families, they wait until homes are empty, often during game.

Some fucking course has happened to me right now.

When you're on cloud nine, something's going to bring you right back down.

I just felt like that kind of year that it was.

Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies responded to several calls involving a

-in at Burroughs on Monday night while he was in Dallas for Monday Night

Football. The calls for the break -in came in sometime after 8 p .m.

The incident report shows someone broke a first -floor window on the back of the

home and ransacked at least one room.

The FBI is working with local authorities to find their suspects.

I just get uncomfortable when, you know, my life is very public.

And, you know, that comes with the job, but, you know, there's certain parts of

your life that are, like, yours.

Your house is one of those.

When that gets violated, people find out where you live, all these

different things.

Not everybody's failures at their job are in front of the whole world. It's a

very vulnerable position to be in. I put myself in that position because I love

it.

I don't like the other part of it.

And truly, that was the impetus to cancel the Batmobile?

Yeah.

Yeah, that was, you know, I didn't end up getting the Batmobile because,

you know, I just had other things I wanted to deal with

at that point.

I'll start out by saying something before any questions today.

So obviously, everybody has heard what has happened. I feel like my

privacy has been violated in more ways than one.

And way more is already out there than I would want out there and that I care to

share. So that's all I got to say about that.

They got all my jewelry.

But they could have stolen way worse things than that. I'm not going crazy

some jewelry.

It was expensive, but it was all insured.

I fucking always come in the morning, I look at the New York Post. That's what I

do.

You've got to be fucking kidding me. I know, right?

Dude, it sucks.

Stop. It sucks.

You've got to deal with all. That's probably the worst.

Yeah. That's the only part I'm upset about. All my business is out there.

your fucking shit.

I got news vans camped out by the house.

Yeah, it sucks.

So, we'll see if I end up moving or not. I don't know.

That bad?

Yeah. I mean, I just... Nah, everybody knows. The whole world knows where I

now. It's like...

But that hasn't been very fun to deal with. And I didn't know you knew right

away. I didn't know what was going on in the locker room. Yeah, freaking pumped

up after a big win.

Walk in, first thing I hear. Is that not our year?

Right. Hey, good job. Oh, by the way, you got nothing left in your house.

We catch a freaking break, and then I come back to that.

Brutal.

I know that the more success that you have, the more people are going to.

Care about the thing that you do, but doesn't make it easier

Yeah,

I'm good. I'm good. I was a bit of a clerical error Because we had walked

through and so when you walk through they don't really know what you could

done or couldn't have done if We had had a full speed practice I wouldn't I

would not have been on the on the report because I would have done everything If

I'm going to be on the injured list any time I don't feel 100%, then I would

have been on the injured list every week of practice for my entire football

career, including college.

So the way I've viewed it is if I take every single rep in practice and I'm a

full participant, then I'm a full participant.

And I'm not basing it on the pain I feel because I feel pain every week.

When the Falcons visit the Vikings on Sunday, it will be the third time during

Kirk Hudson's career when he faces one of his former teams.

Cousins spent six seasons with the Vikings, earning the nickname Kirko

while he was there.

He's top three in Vikings history in many quarterback categories.

This is unbelievably massive.

My fault, DJ.

And a huge referendum on him as the player and as the leader and as an

as a human being.

Do I need to throw the other one?

He not only has the whole, oh my God, I'm going back to Minnesota thing.

He has that I'm coming off with probably the worst game of my career last week.

If he doesn't play well in this game, I think they are going to sit him down. I

think if he plays poorly, I think he's going to get sat down. Like, this could

be it. I don't even know where we go from this.

I feel like going over the

game plan in this manner.

Getting ready for the Vikings defense and Coach Flores, it's really important

because he does present so many problems, and if you don't have deep

answers, you could be left holding the ball and getting stuck, and I think

that's what he's done to a lot of people this year. So of all weeks, you know,

there's some weeks where it's probably less important, but this week it's

crucial.

I had never until two weeks ago had two straight games without a touchdown pass,

ever.

And then I have three straight now.

And, yeah, I mean, to throw zero touchdowns and six picks in three games.

I think sometimes the picks do snowball because you get behind, and so you say,

look, I've got to force this ball in here on fourth down because we're not

really getting anywhere if I don't.

I felt like in the Chargers game, several of them were not even that.

still in the game.

And so it was, yeah, I would say it was probably my worst game ever.

Do you hear all the noise that people push within?

It's hard not to. I think you also know that you've heard so much noise before

throughout your career, and the noise becomes reality if it keeps up. But that

was always the case. I always had been playing under a belief that I have to

play well today.

my role may be in jeopardy. And that's kind of the way it's always been. I've

never not felt that.

You certainly understand that, like, you can't play poorly or have a lack of

production three weeks in a row, expect it to be four or five, six weeks in a

row, and then expect to be in a great place. Like, it has to at some point

Okay, I went with the Falcons t -shirt.

I hate to wear it under the sweater.

We're fine.

Making sure everybody's okay down there. Yeah, no doubt.

No doubt.

You feeling all right?

Yes.

That didn't sound like a compliment.

Yes. Let's see.

I think I'll put the boy stuff in this suitcase.

Do you get the sense the boys are looking forward to going back to

they even know what's going on? Two things.

Cooper's up for whatever. Turner said.

Why are we hanging out with Vikings?

Why are we hanging out with them if they're on the Vikings?

So he gets it. When I told him that we were... He gets it. I didn't think he

would get it. And then he said... Because when we moved here, he said,

our Minnesota neighbors coming by? I'm like, buddy, they're not coming by. And

then he said something like, when are we getting our house back?

Yeah, that's not happening. And I said, we're not. And he was like... Okay.

Yep. So that's where we're at with that.

That was a very emotional 24 hours.

We knew it would be.

To have to go back and play your team not even a year later, it's pretty

I am so excited to go back. I feel like we left in January and we never went

back to move. I'm trying to think. Yeah, we didn't, did we? We just packed our

house and said, we'll see what happens.

That's a good point. We were in such a hurry and we just said.

We don't need to go back. We'll be too sad.

I wonder how the fan base, during the game, they'll be like any other game,

which they should be.

But you also wonder, like, during warm -ups, during pregame, postgame, are they

going to be snarky or are they going to be, you know, warm? And you don't know.

If they boo you.

I think we'll get booed. I think we'll get booed when you take the field for

first play. Okay. I think you get booed. I think that's part of playing pro

football.

If you get booed additionally, you know, then it's like, okay. Yeah, we'll see.

We'll see.

I thought somebody tweeted, like, to the Vikings fans, like, what are we doing?

Are we going to boo them? Are we going to cheer for them?

And it was like a take.

That's a good question. And then we think, like, okay, other people are

wondering, too, because we'll see.

What's going on?

How we doing, man?

How's the family?

Everybody's good, man. Everybody's good? How are you? How's Tochia doing?

Great, bro.

We're doing a good job, man.

How are you? How's the fam? We're good, man.

It's been a lot of change.

Yeah. A lot of change, but it's very weird to be back here. A lot of

I can only imagine, man.

You know, we pull in our hotels, our Mall of America.

My window looked out at the hotel they put us up in when I first moved here as

free agent. So the memories just come flooding back.

You know, Cooper was only like seven months old.

And it's amazing to think of all that's happened. Exactly.

It hit me when we were landing in Minnesota, you know, when I opened my

on the Delta flight and look out the window and see going over the practice

facility and going over our old house and going over places that I had done so

much life at for six years.

I had never been to Minnesota before we went there, and so just remembering that

and seeing what we did in six years, the friends we made and the memories we

made, it's processing a lot. So that was a crazy day.

Thank you.

Great job, guys. Thank you.

It was an emotional experience in warm -ups.

I don't know quite why. I was a little bit surprised by how much it hit me and

just seeing how much my boys had grown, you know, knowing that Turner wasn't

even born when we moved to Minnesota.

Cooper was only nine months old.

And just seeing them now as a seven - and a five -year -old, you know, that

emotional for me. But, you know, you have a job to do.

And many times you feel like, you know, I can channel this emotion to play even

better. Kirk Cousins, who makes his return to Minneapolis, coming off

the worst three -game stretch of his career, trying to get back on track

Welcome home, Kirk. Let's do it, baby. Let's go, baby. Let's go, Jesse.

That

first

drive was...

as loud as I've played in in a really long time. I mean, it was deafeningly

loud. They brought the juice, no surprise.

They're great fans, and they did their job that day.

Cousins said at some point they're going to tell me you're finished.

But until that time comes, I'm going to keep on trying to pick myself up off of

the mat and keep that being the story of his career.

On third down, Cousins, there's Mooney!

Cousins hits one. London.

Drake London stays on his feet and gets the first down.

Cousins, his first two throws downfield are sharp.

First and goal at the Minnesota stick.

Warner in motion to the left. Snap it. Hand to Algier. Running right.

Touchdown Atlanta.

Whoa. And an emphatic spike with a right hand.

That was a great way to start the game. You know, when you have that, you know,

hostile crowd to be able to get on the board right away with a touchdown, it

a great way to start the game.

Kirk, what's better than this, man?

What's that?

What's better than this? Nothing, man.

We got to get this thing done, man. One play at a time.

Third down and eight, crowd roaring at Tustin.

That's a card. Mikey swinging pressure again.

Going to send it down the field for Mooney, and it's caught.

Darnell Mooney inside the 10.

Cousins with a beauty of a throw for 52 yards.

I like what I've seen from Kirk Cousins.

Second down, sixth, comes in, rips it to the sideline, Drake London.

Screen here, Ray -Ray McLeod having a huge day.

McLeod slips inside.

First down, Ray -Ray.

We've called a few Falcons games this year.

To me, this is their best game plan.

Now it's Kemba shipping into the end zone, but John Robinson touched down

Atlanta.

Good job, V. Good job, V.

That was a great block on the touchdown run.

Great job, man. Great job.

I felt pretty good about the way we played.

You know, felt like we were moving the football.

Felt like we had a good plan.

And thought it was going to be anybody's game in the second half. Third down and

six at the 12.

Darnold's shoot for Addison. The catch.

Touchdown.

He's the real deal.

Three consecutive losses for the Falcons. They've gone from looking like

were going to cruise through a division title to just trying to hang on.

Opportunity to return right here.

Ray Ray McLeod has had a big day in the return during the receiving game.

Fumbles it right here.

Who's got it?

Minnesota football.

The game was a little bit tough.

I wouldn't say it was the most fun to be on the other team. 12 .53 to go in the

ballgame and a kickoff return fumble by McLeod.

Let's just go make some plays here down the fourth quarter, man.

Let's just go be playmakers.

We go down 35 -21, and I felt that if we can score a touchdown there, you know,

35 -28, we can get a stop.

Now it's a one -position game. We have the football.

Atlanta's going to be in the two -minute.

for the remaining six and a half of this game.

Three timeouts left for Atlanta.

Down two scores.

First and ten from the Minnesota 25.

Cousins got rid of it right before he was hit. Byron Murphy with a one -handed

pick.

Third turnover today by Atlanta.

Two of them from Cousins, one on special teams.

And it's close to spelling doom, close to spelling a fourth consecutive defeat.

Things spiraling away from the Falcons this year.

I felt like that was when the game got away from us.

Now, a lot of the same questions are going to persist.

The Cousins did some good things today, but two interceptions and what looks

like it's headed for a fourth consecutive defeat.

You're going to continue to hear questions about, is this time to give

Penix Jr. a shot?

It makes sense. I get it. If you ask Kirk Cousins, I'm sure he understands

He's a big boy. He's been around this business.

for a long time, but I don't think the Falcons are going to abandon Kirk

less than one season into a four -year free agent contract.

But all that being said, that conversation is definitely not going to

down, that's for sure.

I don't even know that a long -form Netflix show can capture all that was

through my head, knowing how the game was right there.

and that we can make that play and didn't, you know, that was a tough throw

well.

Great job, man. Happy for you. Great job. You're playing awesome. Keep it

rolling, man. The people here fucking love you, dude. I appreciate it. Thanks.

Great job. Keep it rolling. Yep.

Go. Go.

Great job, man. Doing awesome.

Hey, I just want to tell you something.

Every day I appreciate the days I got a chance to live. No, thanks for saying

that. Likewise.

Likewise. Thank you. Great job.

Great job, man. Thank you.

You know, it was a pretty sour feeling, you know, to lose the way we did. It

hurt. But there's just a lot of people on that Viking sideline that mean a

deal to me. And it was important for me to, you know, shake their hands, look

them in the eye, you know, tell them I appreciate them and the difference they

made for me. Good to see you, man. Great job. I love you.

Good job, my boy. Great to see you, my guy. Thank you for what you meant to me.

Always. Thanks. Thanks.

HB, nice job, man.

Couldn't get the ball past you today, man. No, no.

What's up, T? Great to see you, man.

Yeah, love you, man. What's up, Keith?

Keep them going, all right? Yeah, no doubt. Great job, Jordan, man. You look

awesome. You look awesome. Thanks for saying that. What's up, man?

Good to see you, man. Thanks for saying hello. Hey, B -Hole, great job today,

man. Well done.

Hey, Doc, good to see you.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey, nice job. Nice job.

Way to play, man. You're doing awesome, man.

No surprises.

You're in there, man.

Keith, good to see you, man. Thank you.

You're the best, dude. You were the one I wanted to see, man. Love you, man.

Great team, man. Great team.

That's the real deal. I got to see Julie in the kitchen. Did you? Did you? How's

Eleanor doing?

She's good.

Good. Awesome, man. Same with you? Yeah. No complaints.

We're good.

Go win that division. All right. Thank you.

Hey, man.

You're the best, man.

Flo, you did a great job, man. It's a tough team. It's the real deal.

It's the real deal.

Real deal. Good job.

Good job.

Yes. Good to see you. Thank you.

You know, everything is always discussed when you go watch the tape and do all

those type of things. But, like, Kirk Cousins is our quarterback.

You know, Kirk played significantly better than he did the week before.

We got a chance to go out there and focus on us, and we'll do whatever is

to go win football games. And we got to find ways to do that better.

High school football, dude. I loved high school football, bro.

I started high school at 145.

6 '2", 145.

How were you in high school? As a freshman, what were you doing?

I was a basketball player as a freshman.

I played football.

I was quarterback.

I was backup JV quarterback.

I was quarterback for the freshman team.

I got called up for varsity corner a couple times.

I was focused on basketball.

I had a good year my sophomore year.

I threw for, like, 3 ,800 yards or something, a bunch of touchdowns. But,

I still didn't think, like, I was that good at football yet. I saw this clip on

YouTube. It just popped up. It was, like, you throwing at, like, a high

camp or something your senior year.

Yeah. I was like, he's coming along. Yeah.

I couldn't really throw. I mean, I could.

Like, in the game, I would, like, I could ball, but, like, when I would go

camps with other guys and the coaches would watch me throw, like, I never

thought that, like, I felt like there were, like, 15 to 20 guys that could

always throw better than me at all those camps. I was like, fuck, there's no way

I'm playing D1.

Really? Yeah.

Has your throwing motion changed since you were 15?

Yeah.

Definitely. In what way?

In every way possible.

In every possible way.

Durable set.

Joe has been excellent for the bulk of this season.

But overall, he's got to start racking up wins.

Very unlikely for the playoffs, but it could happen.

It's going to take a long shot at Hail Mary, but quite an end to the season it

would be if the Bengals came ripping down the end here.

You look around the National Football League, there's few quarterbacks playing

the position better than Joe Burr.

The hottest quarterback in the National Football League, Joe Burrow.

Burrow looking.

Dancing around.

Another man he skips around. Throws to the touchdown.

No, fuck no.

Burrow bakes the handoff, throws a pass.

up the touchdown signal.

A brilliant play by Joe Burrow for a new

franchise record.

36 touchdown passes this year, the most ever.

By a Bengals quarterback in a single season breaking his own record.

Throws across his body for first down and more.

And that's a delay of game.

Delay of game.

Offense. Third and seven.

Here comes Murray up the middle on pressure.

Burrow floats it towards Chase.

And a diving interception by Darryl Worley.

He takes the interception on the underthrown ball from Joe Burrow. And

the Bengals flinch, costing him five

yards.

Ball start.

Oh, boy.

That's one thing you don't want to do, is give a five valuable yards in the red

zone. Like, we're winning the game pretty handedly, and we just start to

mental mistakes. Just in my opinion, it means we weren't focused on the task at

hand.

And again, there's a pre -snap penalty.

False start.

Just that tiny flinch enough to send Cincinnati back into a third and long.

Ready!

Movement again on the left side of the line.

When you have simple mistakes that you can control, that is not up to standard.

The penalty train rolls. on.

What the fuck are we doing, man?

Wake the fuck up.

Fucking Maryland State all fucking day.

Way to finish the day. That's a great drive to finish it. I know it's a

frustrating, embarrassing performance by us. Fucking embarrassing.

We'll address it at the same time.

Fuck that.

Fuck that.

We sucked today. That was embarrassing.

We jumped off sides fucking eight times.

Sometimes I walk into an emotional moment that I know I'm

walking into an emotional moment, and it becomes a really emotional moment, and

it may be viewed as conflict.

It's really just passion for the game.

You know, I understand that we won the game, and we want to be happy that we

the game, but at the same time, when things aren't good enough, I'm not going

act like they were.

As a leader, you have to build the relationships and the trust with the

that you're going to war with.

There's not a ton of offensive linemen that are normal human beings, I would

say. You know, you can get into the weeds on some good conversations with

You know, those guys are usually the best and some of my favorite people in

world. How's Panama?

It was sick.

Really? Yeah.

What'd you do out there?

What'd I do? Did you do anything fun?

Yeah, they took me to the canal.

Got to see that. And then, like, around the city.

You loved that?

Yeah. I'm kind of... I mean, the canal... Eighth wonder of the world.

Pretty big deal, yeah.

Yeah, I mean... But...

The most notable would be, yeah, the disconnect to Pacific and Atlantic.

It's a big deal.

How big was the land bridge before they opened it up?

Very, I mean, minimal, but still it's a pretty, but I think the bigger problem

is the altitude of the ocean is different, so you have to lock it down

it back up.

Yeah, it takes like almost all day to get through. Get one through all day?

Yeah.

That's not that efficient.

In the morning, I think it's the Pacific side goes through, and then afternoon

they open up the Atlantic side, so it's one at a time.

Well, they wanted guns.

And I was like, I don't know about guns, guys.

And so I was in the weapon mindset, and I was like, what's a cool weapon?

Samurai swords, I think, are pretty dang cool.

I bought them all samurai swords.

And they all came with a description of when they were made and, you know, what

samurais used them.

Number one, I think history is cool.

I think having artifacts from history is even cooler. I don't think they would

go and buy one of those swords on their own. And so, you know, in the past I've

done watches or travel vouchers, but I think unique things like that,

you put more thought.

I think they appreciated it a little more, and I think they were pretty cool.

Welcome to Cincinnati.

Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

The Bengals still a little bit of hope. Can they find some late -season magic to

somehow get them into the playoff?

We had a tough start, but now we're starting to string together some wins

Let's go, baby.

I've got great teammates and coaches around me, and when you start to win,

everybody... Gets a little more excited to come into work.

Where'd you find those swords?

So, my assistant, her uncle, Sylvester Stallone, when he was playing

Rambo back in the day, he wanted a sword. So he found this place in L .A.

had some swords.

And she went to this place, found a bunch for me.

Descriptions, what samurais wore them, when they were built.

Yeah, it was really cool.

What a great year spent in a bangle. Through it all, the one constant has

Joe Burrow, who's playing the best season of his career.

Burrow steps up in the pocket, fires a bullet, but he is operating with the

precision of a surgeon.

Burrow to throw, steps up, throws, and it's caught!

As he's about to hit the ground, he flings it forward for his 37th touchdown

pass of the year. Amazing.

Wait till you see that throw on film. That shit was crazy.

How many times did you re -watch it on your phone that night?

I don't know, probably can.

There's

a

deep ball for Chase in the end zone.

And the celebration begins.

The Bengals have won three straight.

And they have set up a game with gigantic stakes and huge playoff

implications.

Great job as always, bro.

You as well. It's always special, man. Yep. As the Bengals will host the Denver

Broncos next Saturday, the team they are chasing for the final playoff spot in

the AFC. I don't know if it's the bleached blonde hair.

I don't know if it was the donut that Jamar Chase slammed in his face.

it was, keep doing it. Joe Burrow is the MVP.

Really, he should be up for the MVP if not winning it while he's playing.

First player in NFL history with 250 pass yards and three TDs in seven

games. That's pretty remarkable, man, that he is having that good of a season.

The final week of the NFL season. Here we go for week 18.

The game of the year is in Detroit. The 14 -2 Lions take on the 14 -2 Vikings.

There is everything in the world at stake here. Winner gets the north.

gets the one seed.

Winner gets the bye.

Winner gets home field advantage.

Loser winds up a wild card.

Keep going in there.

Going into week 18 now, we're playing Minnesota.

They're a team that, you know, if we want to call ourselves, you know, the

team in the NFC, we got to, you know, you got to beat them. And if you win,

you're the one team, you get a bye week, you get to sit at home.

We lose, we're the five seed, and then you have to go on the road in the wild

card game. Just appreciate how historic this game is. Whoever loses will be the

first ever 14 -win wild card team. We have never seen a regular season game

this many wins.

Two teams that are 14 -2, and it's the division and the one seed on the line. I

mean, this is unbelievable.

And defensively, Minnesota, you get to the quarterback.

Good. Ole.

And Jared Goff.

He ain't a guy that runs all that much.

What would it look like if they called zero on the cowgirl?

We're going to catch him off guard. We're going to catch him off guard.

Should have time to maybe hit Jamo across, right? Or Saint.

Doesn't matter. They are equipped against the Blitz. 180.

We say kill.

Kill. Ringo, your eyes are as critical as anything.

Yep. Yep.

I'm drilling it, though. Easy, easy. Here goes Scram. Choose.

Scram. Choose.

So whether decimated defense or not, they know how they have to win. This is

playoff game.

Yeah, it's nice.

Whether you want to believe it or not, the playoffs have started. What's your

air call?

Today.

Perfect.

We got this game, and then we got the playoffs coming.

Like if there's ever a time to lean on each other and trust the guy that's

to do his job, and you just do yours, that's when you just continue to win.

Are you just the friendliest boy ever, Quince?

Watching Minnesota before we're about to play them for the number one seed.

They're a tough defense, and you've got to be disciplined.

They blitz on almost every snap, so they're trying to affect you with the

pressure, and they run cover zero a lot, which is where they're sending

everyone, essentially.

They're blitzing one more than you have the ability to block with, and it's man

coverage everywhere, and they have no safety in the back end.

And what they do, though, is they get to cover zero right away.

So then you're in a max protection, cover zero play, and they check out of

zero themselves.

And then you're playing that cat and mouse game.

Game one against these guys was tough.

Seven guys up at the line of scrimmage. They're showing cover zero. If the

defense is showing me cover zero, I want to do my best to block it and make a

throw or get it out of my hands in some way or another.

This will be our fourth time playing Coach Flores, and that's kind of where I

feel like it's my job to...

not be affected by the pressure and to sit in there and to handle it and throw

the ball to the open space.

And there is open space. When they blitz, there's a ton of open space, and

got to be able to take advantage of it.

The first Sunday of January brings us the last game of the NFL season at Ford

Field, home of the 14 -2 Lions.

We've never had a regular season game like this.

28 combined wins.

Winner gets the one seed, losers the five.

We've saved the best for last.

It is amazing.

Everybody's ready to go.

Jared Goff's team trying to repeat as the NFC North champions as the 14 -2

Minnesota Vikings try to take that title.

Love you. Love you. Good luck. Love you so much. You can kill it. Thank you.

Love you. Bye.

Come on.

Sit.

What is it not?

Triple set.

Hey, kill.

Kill. Look at all the confusion they're showing Goff.

Triple set.

Third and long. Goff in trouble.

Brings him down.

Zero. Hey, 51.

180. What's that?

You're going to see the cover zero blitz back here. So the object is to get rid

of the ball before they get you.

180. Lions out of the shadow of the goal post. Again, retreating. Oh, it's

intercepted on the deflection.

Golf has taken a lot of pressure early.

I don't know how much longer they can hold up like that. Thought I had them

-footed enough.

God damn it. Fuck me, man.

As an offense, when you get six rushers, these are cover zeros.

You don't have time to throw away down there. Deep shot downfield. There's

coverage down there. It's intercepted. Brian Flores going after him. So far,

it's working.

Hey,

put that on me. Put that on me.

They've got to start hitting the big plays.

Early on, they were just bringing in a little bit of a different type of

pressure than maybe we were ready for. As we had expected, though, that

wasn't... a shock to us that they were doing something different we're a

division team and we were doing things different too so we just had to adjust a

little bit and settle in hey hey back on track now okay wipe that last one right

back where we started okay back to what we do let's go

Jared Goff just very calmly said, okay, I see you coming. I'll take right where

you were. Thank you very much.

44 came, but they brought four to the right. I think they bluffed their

I think.

Set. 180, we set. You like it?

We're good.

We're good.

Three, one, set.

Jared Goff starting to put the pieces together.

A defender hit him right in the chops, but he knew exactly where the open guy

was going to be. Hey, kill!

Kill! Jared changing the play. Four -man front for Minnesota.

They bring a blitz as well.

And once again, he's all over this.

Hey, him! Take him! He's having to anticipate throws.

Triple set!

And the Lions go for it. The Vikings bring it. He's a pass! It's a touchdown

Gibbs!

But they bring the pressure right up the middle, and that means we got one -on

-one huge play there by golf. Let's fucking go, baby.

Just throw into the blitz. Let's fucking go. That's the Boyd in the zone.

Now we're playing ball.

Little cat mouthed out there, huh? Oh, yeah.

Hey, close it. End it.

End this shit. That was massive.

We're starting to get them down now. You know what I mean? They threw us a

little curveball. We're starting to get it now, okay?

So fourth and two.

the Lions will line up to go for. Do you think they even asked Dan?

Hey, I don't know the play.

I'm going to use some cadence here, okay?

Fourth and two from the six of Minnesota. Play clock down to one.

Movement up front. Did Minnesota jump? Is that what they were looking for?

And caught him.

Is it offside on Minnesota in the first down? They went up there with the W snap

count on that one.

Dan Campbell goes for it all the time. Of course they're going to be going for

it on fourth down, except for 180.

They did.

And an inside run for Gibbs.

Still going to the goal line.

Hey, great fucking job, buddy. Great job.

Hey, that's awesome.

Great work.

That's a Dan Campbell effect. Dan Campbell effect. I think we're going.

The Minnesota Vikings.

had more success against the Detroit Lions than any other team rushing the

passer, and yet Jared Goff still picked them apart.

Jared Goff is a winner, and when we need him the most, he's going to show up for

us. Hey, when it's hard to get 31, that's a good thing. The Detroit Lions'

season ever ends with an exclamation point.

He's here for a year.

So much respect, man. Good job.

Give me my hat and t -shirt.

You

guys

look like you remember who the fuck you are.

That's a hell of a win, guys.

All I can think about is, man, we've been forged in this stuff now. This has

been three years in the making. Some of it, four.

Like, that just doesn't happen. You've got to work through it, grind through

and go through the downs to get to the ups of where we're at.

That was unbelievable, man.

Division winners, back -to -back seasons, and the number one seed.

Hey, way to go, fellas.

Hey, be proud of this shit. This is just step one.

This is just step one. We're on to bigger and better now.

Proud of you guys. Love you all. When are they? When are they?

So, wait, who would you be playing next?

Green Bay plays at Philly, and Washington plays at Tampa.

And Minnesota plays at the Rams.

And so the lowest winner of those games. They're all pretty good. They're all

tough teams. Everybody's good.

Happy for you guys. Thank you. I know. Can't believe it. We got the bye week.

Get to have a little breather now. What does that even look like? I don't even

get it.

I'm still tired from Monday night in San Francisco. Do you still practice?

I think we practice Thursday. But tomorrow's off, so we're sleeping all

Look at this hat.

I'm just so excited to have that new banner up there. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Line those up. That's so crazy.

It'll be nice. The defense was amazing tonight.

They were great.

Oh, my gosh.

I bet Jack Fox at the beginning of the year. I said, if you leave the league in

net punting, I'll get you Bud Light for a year.

And right after the game, he said, you owe me Bud Light for a year. No, you

Bud Light for life.

I don't think I said life.

Right after the game, he's like, there it is. You owe me for a year.

Yeah.

Right. I thought it'd be perfect.

Three beer for a year.

There is urgent need for a reversal of fortune.

That's the Atlanta Falcons. They've lost four in a row, fighting for their

playoff life to catch Tampa. What can Cousins do to cut down on the turnovers?

Tonight for Atlanta must win, and all eyes on Kirk Cousins.

Let's go, man. Let's have fun.

Thank you. A win tonight helps them try and keep pace with the Buccaneers, but

also quiets a lot of the noise around their quarterback.

All right.

Here we go.

Cousins in the pistol.

Thought about it. Stop and go. Take the shot.

Caught. London touchdown.

Atlanta.

152.

Attempt, and that touchdown ends that drought going back to early November

against Dallas.

Snap to Kirk. He wants to throw on first down.

Going to cut it loose, and it's intercepted. No.

My fault.

I felt the C's part, but they didn't. You just wonder now.

If it's in Kirk's head a little bit now again. Like, is it starting to kind of

melt on him a little bit? Exactly.

Exactly.

Cuts it loose, McLeod, right through the wick. It's incomplete.

Shit!

Shit!

How much does the play caller, Zach Robinson, trust them in the decision

And honestly, how much does Kirk trust himself right now? My body was really

holding up. It was starting to break down. And I think the coaches sensed

And I think they felt like, you know, physically, we really can't put this on

Kirk. Yeah, just frustrated.

Just frustrated with the game, you know.

Tough day at the office. You guys ran the ball really well.

You guys really ran the ball well.

Think about this game right now as we're watching it play out in front of our

eyes.

Look at the weaponry that this team has. Look at the resume of Kirk Cousins, and

they refuse to put it in his hands.

Yeah, they refuse to let him throw.

You know, it was great to win, and you're always relieved to win, but tough

you just feel like you're not yourself.

Just saw Kirk Cousins walking off, and you could almost see the exhale.

Always better to have it.

And then a win. Yeah, no doubt. Always.

Always. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

Can you assess Kirk's play tonight in terms of him as the starting quarterback

moving forward?

He's got to play better. And, you know, obviously, you've got to go back. You've

got to be able to look at everything. But we've got to play better at the

quarterback position.

The Falcons beat the Raiders, but questions linger about the performance

Cousins. Should Coach Morris turn to rookie Michael Penix Jr., or wouldn't he

wise just to stay patient with his vet?

This is not, to me, a normal slump. The Cousins that we are watching right now

is not the Cousins we saw for years.

Honestly, it looks like the end to me.

Massive news, seismic news for the Atlanta Falcons.

While you were sleeping, enormous quarterback news from Atlanta.

Michael Penix Jr.

He's now the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons.

You know, just last night came to the point that she wanted to make the

to make the move.

Michael Pennington is our quarterback, and we're going to back him and give him

the utmost support he needs, you know, as we did Kirk when he was our starter.