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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Yeah, I really do think it's Buffalo-Denver because, one, I think it's the game that most makes me feel like a real upset could actually happen.
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You know, I don't think that the Vikings beating the Rams would be like a quote-unquote upset, and I think that, you know, for Buffalo and Denver, obviously Josh has had an outstanding season, and so it's elevated the expectations, and he falls into that category like, hey, you've got to win a Super Bowl, man. Yeah.
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You can only get so many opportunities this quickly in your career till we start to have the worry of, like, are you ever going to get there and or win one? I also think that it's a really favorable matchup or interesting matchup for the underdog, for Denver. I think Denver's got a guy that could be the defensive player of the year in Sertan, and...
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He's as close to a thing to Darrell Rivas that I've seen when it comes to, hey, you go by yourself and shut down the field. And, you know, without getting too deep into the weeds of like the X's and O's, like schematically, that's a huge part of this game because Buffalo gets into some unique formations where they try to kind of overload one side of the field and Sertan takes that away.
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And so and then Sean Payton. I remember Sean Payton went up there last year with Russell Wilson and beat him and And he's such a good coach, and he understands how to attack these defenses and get them into certain situations that are favorable to them.
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And so it would be a massive upset, but I honestly don't think I would be surprised, yes, but I wouldn't walk away going, oh my gosh, I did not foresee this at all.
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Yeah, I think, number one, it starts defensively for Denver. I just talked about Sertan. So what Buffalo does, and every team in the playoffs does this, is they get into these four-by-one formations. So they take one person and put them on one side of the formation, and they take four guys and put them on the other side. And it's very simple.
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Like the quarterback, he says, if I like the one-on-one matchup, great, I'm going to throw that. If not, I'm going to throw something to the field that's easy. It's like a little flat route or an RPO. And we have numbers advantages because defenses are usually trying to be like,
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symmetrical you don't want to vacate one side of the field well Sertan can go there by himself so you Buffalo don't have the numbers advantage to that four-person side and so that might stunt their offense a little bit and then I think the second thing is Denver led the NFL in sacks and you know they got dudes who are unbelievably big and talented you know Jonathan Cooper is fantastic Zach Allen on the inside and Benito's the one for me because when you're playing against Buffalo and you're playing man coverage which Denver loves to do
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Josh is going to be a runner. Benito is big enough. He's fast enough. He's athletic enough. He's physical enough to kind of that's what he's done with Patrick. He's a little bit of a spy. So I think defensively they match up well against Buffalo.
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And then, you know, if you were going to ask me how to attack Buffalo, you're trying to get Buffalo into where Taron Johnson, who's an unbelievable nickel, has to defend the run defensively. He plays every play. So you can get 320-pound offensive linemen blocking him if you formation the right way, and Sean Payton absolutely will.
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And I just think that's beneficial for Denver to kind of control the game, run the ball. They are heavy RPOs, and they've been hurt a little bit by quarterback run. Bo Nix, really athletic. So that's the way I see it. They'll get into beefy, beefy dudes on the field and run the football.
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That, yes, and also the playoffs become so game plan specific. You know, the regular season is so week to week to week to week, and you only get, you know, you have all this evidence now, and you become so game plan specific because you know it's win or go home, and so you're a little bit less kind of like, this is what we do, and you're a little bit more of,
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We're going to take away what you want to do. And that's the focus point. And it has all your attention. And, you know, guys are just more hyper-focused in the playoffs because you know that it's – again, it's win or go home. And so I think that's a big part of it as well is a lot of teams that go in with rookie quarterbacks, it's not –
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You know, they don't have the plethora of a wide open playbook more often than not. There's things that they do well and they live in them because that allows the quarterbacks to not play poorly and kind of to play to a quote unquote strength.
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And defense has just become so much more focused on, all right, they really love to do these three things in this formation or these two things in this formation. So we're going to take that away and then force them to kind of play to that C game or D game. That's a huge part of it.
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There's no question, him and Bowles. You know, Garrett Bowles has become, again, a high-end left tackle. The Quinn Miners versus Ed Oliver matchup is going to be awesome to watch, you know, because those two dudes are outstanding. When they play their best, their units usually play their best. That's the thing, you know, we fall in love with the pass game and
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Bo Nix and Sutton have been really good. They, you know, I don't want to sit here and pretend that Denver's Philadelphia running the football, but Sean Payton wants to run the football. And then what happens is like you just become obsessed and stop at the run and they'll get a perimeter screen to go 50 for a touchdown. But Miners, he's a stud. He's a monster at guard.
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Yeah, Kyle Hamilton saved their season. So there's the butterfly effect to it. So they were really bad on defense because the secondary was just blown coverages, missed assignments, poor communication, ball going over their head. And so their best player on defense was closer to the line of scrimmage.
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They had Kyle down near the line of scrimmage, a little bit like what the Rams have done in the past with like a Jalen Ramsey and whatnot, which makes sense. The Chargers do it with Derwin. But what they did was they say, okay, the worst part of our defense is the secondary. Let's take our best player and move him back there. So once they move Kyle back to the secondary, two things happen.
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One, he communicates at such a high level. He gets everybody in the right positions. And we often say that and don't think it's meaningful. It's enormous. Because in an era in football, offensively, where teams are constantly changing with shifts and motions, you know, those guys' rules change. It's not like the defense calls, hey, cover two, ready, break, and it just stays that way no matter what.
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And so everybody's kind of rules change once offensive shifts. And so Kyle goes back there and he he is the quarterback of the defense. He gets everybody in the right places and everybody on the same page. And then what happens is Roquan Smith, their linebacker, no longer has to bear that responsibility.
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So then his focus is solely on the front seven and the backers in the rush and getting those guys, because their rules change as well. So getting those guys into the right alignment and right set. So that's the trickle-down effect of Kyle going back there. I think the second part of that is... Two-fold. It allows Marlon Humphrey to go inside because Marlon is an all-pro nickel.
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He struggled on the outside. As a nickel on the inside, he's as good as anybody in the league. And then really, Nate Wiggins, their first-round pick from Clemson, has really played good football. And they... And down there, when you talk to Roquan and ask him about Nate Wiggins, the first thing out of his mouth is Nate thinks he's the best corner in football.
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You know, and you just imagine down there in Baltimore with that kind of defensive like swag and moxie and mindset. So Kyle going back there has been huge. Van Noy has been phenomenal for them. So I agree that that defense is plenty capable of going to the Super Bowl.
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I hope he does, because I agree. It's a huge, it's a huge injury. You know, calling that game, once Zay went down, and Cleveland's good defensively. Once Zay went down, the pass game wasn't nearly what it was with Zay on the field, naturally, right? And so I have no idea if he's going to play, because...
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You know, we haven't gotten a ton of information, at least to my knowledge of kind of what the injury is. I know he's day to day. And so if he doesn't play, that really hampers their pass game just because he does so much for their pass game, both down the field and the intermediate routes and kind of winning one on one. I do think Bateman's good enough to kind of fill that void a little bit.
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I do believe that Tylan Wallace can step in and handle some of the role. Their tight ends are really good.
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And it's interesting because the way to attack Pittsburgh defensively, Cleveland actually exposed this like six or seven weeks ago, is you spread them out sideline to sideline and you try to minimize Queen and Cam Hayward and TJ a little bit because you don't want to play those guys in a small space. You want to play them sideline to sideline. So we'll see if he plays.
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If he doesn't, I do think the game's closer than I would have if he plays.
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Yeah, one, the fix isn't going to be in 2025. There is no fix right now. And then, two, I honestly believe the Chargers – would be a team that I would sit here and go, that's a dangerous team in the long run out of the AFC. I do think the AFC is that three-team race in my gut. Here's the thing for the Chargers before I touch on Houston. They don't have negative plays on offense.
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They're always moving the ball forward. They're so efficient. There's never, oh, second and 12 or third and eight. And so they control the game in that regard. Obviously, the defense is phenomenal and their disguise is crazy. I'll go back to Houston.
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And I remember the first game of the year against Indy and watching it and going on TV the next day and being like, Houston better figure out their pass protection because CJ was running for his life. And it never got fixed this year. The interior of their offensive line has been the weakest part of their football team all season long.
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Obviously, Nico missing time, but then Steph and Tank Dell not being there. I just don't see how this offensive line can hold up against the Chargers defensive line that's going to send crazy type of stunts and pick games and pressures against them. So I fully expect the Chargers to win that game.
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I don't think Philadelphia has to get worried if Jalen Hurts practices today. If Jalen Hurts practices today, I do think that Philly is – I agree. I think Philly is the most talented roster top to bottom in the NFL, I would say, along with Baltimore. Yeah.
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As long as he's there today and he's able to kind of sharpen over the next three days, I think Jalen's proven enough that he's one of those guys that can figure out a way to get plenty capable to go play good enough football. I do think the interesting—no Jair Alexander's a big deal. I thought Jair was one of those corners that could try to play A.J. one-on-one.
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They don't have that guy anymore, so they're going to have to play a little bit more zone defense. Playing zone defense against Philly's offense is a problem just because, obviously, the run game. I think a huge key in the game is Edrin Cooper. He's a freaking problem at linebacker. He's athletic and slippery enough.
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So the best way to kind of hope if you're Green Bay defensively is that he has an all-world game, has a bunch of tackles for loss. But I think Philly's just so good. And without Watson trying to stretch them vertically – I don't think there's a ton of fear in Philadelphia's defense going against green Bay's offense. That feels a little bit sideline to sideline now without Watson dues.
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One, that's way more of an off-season thing than it is in-season. Very rarely can you fix that. I think you can get it a little bit better. I'll never forget being around a coach that one time made the comment of, you never want to take a guy's stinger away. I thought that was an all-encompassing thing of like,
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You never want to take a quarterback like a quarterback that's really aggressive or he wants to push the ball or he thinks he can make all these throws. You know, Stafford was the guy that they were referencing. You know, we had coaches that were constantly trying because Matthew used to do it, too.
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And they were constantly trying to get Matthew to be this mechanically like flawless guy, Drew Brees type of player. And, you know, it would frustrate Matthew to a point where Matthew would almost like, I don't want to say shell up, but it would make him be a lesser player in my opinion. And I think you got to walk that fine line with Jordan.
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Like, yes, you want him to become mechanically as sound as possible, but I think that's a little bit more of one off season and two, as he gets older in his career, um, Right now, I still believe that he's such a physically talented guy that you really want him to, I'm not saying be sloppy, but you really want his kind of natural athletic instincts to be the focal point of his pass game.
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Yeah.
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I think I'm going with Detroit. You know, my wife is going to be pissed off about that. I think them getting home field matters a ton. I'm going to text her right now, Dan. Yeah, well, hopefully you don't. We should tell her real quick.
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Face timing her.
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Yeah. I asked her, I asked her the other day, I'm like, Hey, Sunday Eagles play four 30 in Philly. You want to go? And she was like, I'd rather wait and just go to Detroit when they go there. I'm like, Oh, Okay, you're already booking it. Okay, so why Detroit? I think that she thinks, oh, why do I like Detroit? Getting healthy, you know, Anzalone getting healthy matters a ton.
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I was so impressed with the way that they played on the defense side of the football. I think Detroit all comes down to can they get like two takeaways a game? If they get two takeaways a game, and you can say that about everybody, but that's not really reality. Because I think they're going to have to score 30-plus to beat anybody because the defense is still beat up.
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And so I'm banking on Detroit. I think they're as well-coached as anybody. I think they understand, like, hey, we've got to win two games. And, you know, I do believe that they match up well versus Philadelphia as long as – One of those corners is going to have to play out of his head, kind of like he did the other night against Minnesota.
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Like Robertson or if Carlton Davis comes back or Terry and Arnold, like one of those cats versus A.J. is going to have to play out of his head.
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I think that you'll get a little bit more of that softer, deep coverage protection. Well, one, in that first game, you know, Washington did not run as much no huddle as they have throughout the season. And that kind of mitigates trying to get to all those pressures. I think, too, you've got to be worried about blitzing.
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Daniels right now because if you leave McLaurin one-on-one versus Zeke's corners in my opinion advantage Washington I don't think Tampa Bay can run with McLaurin on the outside and two you know kind of what happened in week one if you don't get home he's gone You know, he's going to get 80 to 100 on you. And so I don't love the matchup for Tampa Bay.
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Honestly, I think they play way too soft on the outside. I think Jaden's going to have opportunity to create a ton of easy completions. I would be very aggressive down the field with McLaurin if I were them. I don't think either of these corners can cover them on a consistent basis. So I don't think that Todd comes after him that much early on.
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And they try to just see if they could play really, really good red zone defense.
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Yeah, yeah, Lattimore's had the opportunity to have some success against it. I know people keep saying that, but I don't know. The one time we saw Lattimore was versus AJ, and AJ had his way both in success and penalties. So I know he's fresh off the injury. We'll see how healthy he is.
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I don't feel the same way about that Marshawn Lattimore kind of performance as it did three or four or five years ago in New Orleans. I think this game's high scoring. I really do. I think this game could sniff both teams getting close to 30. I think Washington's going to struggle to stop Bucky Irving and Rashad White.
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I think that this is the game where both defenses are reeling a little bit versus offenses that are hot, man.
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Yeah, he reminds me of like Brian Westbrook years ago for the Eagles. You know, it's like he's big enough where he can make any kind of a run. But then when he gets the ball in space, it's like he's shifty, but low to the ground and strong and tough. He's a really big time player.
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Yeah, I think it's a little bit more of a tip of the hat to Detroit. I really thought Detroit's game plan was awesome. That doesn't mean that Sam didn't miss those throws, but I do think just from a quarterback's perspective, when you get some of those defenses – that you don't want to expect or to necessarily have clarity of what you're looking at, you can start to kind of chase stuff.
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And whether it's getting your eyes off the guy too soon or you're anticipating one thing and then it's another thing. So what you might be anticipating and doing something with your eyes to try to move a guy isn't exactly that. And so You're quote unquote doing the wrong thing. So I think it's a little bit more of a tip of the hat to Detroit. I'm not overly concerned about it.
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The thing that I'm honestly like more concerned about in the game when it comes to this matchup, Minnesota offense and the Rams defensive line is awesome. And part of the reason that I think Sam played that way, and I thought the Lions defensive line kicked the crap out of the Vikings offensive line.
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And so, you know, with a young, violent, physical, nasty defensive line with the Rams, with Verse and Fisk and Turner, like, that's a little bit more has my attention rather than do I think Sam Darnold's going to play poorly again. So I fully expect Sam to bounce back. It's a different defensive structure, way more zone than man, than obviously Detroit runs. So,
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I think he plays a lot better, but I'll have my eyes more on their offensive line.
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Yeah, I mean, he reminds me so much of T.J. Hushmanzada. You remember T.J. back in the day with Chad? We would be playing against them, and you would obviously have your attention to Chad, rightfully so, but T.J. would just get open all the time, and you would be like, what the fudge route was that? That's not even a route, dude. And he just has this great ability to understand.
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I do think he's crazy. Crazy strong. He has this really good understanding of like how to use his body and his strength to lean into guys, to get him to kind of be where he wants you to be. And then he has a really good feel for space. I think he's crazy smart.
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Like if you ever watch him, I remember last year when he was starting to break out, I thought one of the things he did as good as anybody in the league was he gets to the top of his routes and He's always starting to peak to where the defense is and like gauging, OK, where is the corner? Where's the safety? Where's the backer? So he kind of knows how to get out of the cut.
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And is he going full speed? Is he going slow? Is he going deep? Is he going high? And so he's got a great kind of feel for that stuff. I also think, you know, I I've talked about this a little bit this year, like. The Rams do and Sean do with him better than anybody double motions, you know, where they motion twice before the ball gets snapped.
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They'll set the formation and they'll motion him over and he'll get set and then they'll motion him again. And so, you know, they did a really good job of kind of creating some leverage for him or getting him into some soft spots. And he takes advantage of it. And Stafford and him have gotten just countless reps together. So he's a problem. He's a problem to stop.
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I like that. The Where's Waldo of Puka.
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I am. He hasn't played well in the last three or four weeks. You know, he had that unbelievable game, specifically on the third down where he was just off the charts. And so, you know, since then, I think that they fought a little bit of an offensive identity as well. You know, sometimes I'm like... you know, I love their keeper game where they bootleg him and I love their play action game.
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And then sometimes it's like, well, how come you're not running it? And then I live in the world of, I love when they stack Puka and Cooper on the same side, but then like, well, you're getting a little bit too predictable with that. And so I think that they fought a little bit of exactly who they want to be.
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I also know that there's such a good run game, you know, that you, it's a challenge and it's a battle of like, Hey, it's almost like Baltimore as well. Like we're really good running the football and we want to run the football, but we don't want to become so obvious and predictable where teams just keep, they get paid as well defensively. So like they just tee off on us.
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And so I think they've battled that a little bit. I don't believe that Matthew's thrown the ball incredibly well over the last three weeks. So, uh, I think like if you were going to ask me the one thing that has to happen in that game for the Rams to win, I really believe Matthew's going to have to throw the ball better than he has the last three weeks.
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I feel differently than when they went on their Super Bowl run. You know, when they're on that Super Bowl run, I remember the last three, four weeks of season, I was like, they're going to win it. You know, like he's just playing too well or too good. I kind of feel the opposite where I'm like, he's got to be the person that plays better for them to win.
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Yeah, it was cool. Football prep wise, you know, it wasn't nearly what it is, you know, when you're calling an actual game just because we knew one, the game didn't really have any playoff implications or kind of, you know, the results of it mattering a ton. So we leaned into a little bit more of. The let's live in the moment and the animation of it and the Simpsons part of it.
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So football wise, not a ton. Simpsons wise, a lot. You know, the writers helped us out a lot. You know, they gave us a ton of kind of notes just to refresh our memories because I'm a 90s kid. So I grew up in many ways watching the Simpsons. I have a son who's autistic. So anything that has to do with animation is like his thing.
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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
super power wheelhouse part of it is because he thinks that they're actually real no matter if it's a still shot an animation so you know when he found out it he was the most into it person on the planet and so he was constantly drawing he wanted to watch it a ton so we started having allowing him to watch a little bit uh and so i would watch it with him just trying to
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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
refresh my memory with some of the episodes and so the writers were great um you know catching up on a ton of episodes you know kind of trying to make sure that i was up to date with some of the jokes some of the one-liners some of the kind of the personalities of it uh so it was cool it was really cool to be a part of the technology is nuts
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No, they didn't. I think that they were prepared. They had so many elements built in. Some of the cutaways of Mo and obviously the jokes and whatnot. They had so many elements built in that my thought was that they would go to that. The only thing that they really had us...
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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
kind of pay attention to in that regard was, like, when they brought somebody in the game, we more often knew, hey, that person's going to impact this play somehow. So, you know, if Lisa comes in at running back, it's like, well, I would give the ball to Lisa here. So, like, that was the only thing that they kind of hinted to us.
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For people who missed it. Did you see how kind of like that came out, like how it came to be on Pat's show when I hit up Hembo? I was like, it just...
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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
during the commercial break at get up i was like i wonder if and i texted hembo who's the stats guy and he's so good at espn has this ever happened he just texted back 1992 sterling sharp and when shannon started talking i was like there's no fudging way that you're going here right now so yeah so for people who missed it shannon was like when was the last time a guy won the triple crown didn't make the playoffs and dan was just like your brother 1992 he was like like it completely got him it was just a great moment yeah yeah it was uh
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I had, there's been, you know, the internet when, when it's not on your side, it sucks, but when it's on your side, it's, it's awesome. And so the internet had a field day with that one in a good way for me.
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I'm such a prick. I'm such a prick. Yeah. You got him.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I have.
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Dan Orlovsky Breaking Down Super Wild Card Weekend, Notre Dame Advances, Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week
So I think game one is Houston Chargers, I believe. I'm taking the Chargers in that game. I think game two is going to be Baltimore. Whether Zay Flowers plays or not, I feel confident saying Baltimore wins that game. I don't think Pittsburgh's offense is good enough. The third game is Tampa Bay and Washington. I'm going to take Washington. I think Jaden Daniels sniffs 80% completion in that game.
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Here we go. I just don't think Tampa Bay's defense is good enough on the perimeter. Hold up with them. Good pick, Dan. Thank you. I gained number four, Philly. Philly, Green Bay. I think the Watson injury is huge for their offense. I think Philadelphia comes out.
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The only thing that gives me reservation is the one thing that Philly's done a lot of times this year, a little bit less than the second half of the season, is start slow. Jalen not practicing for a long time. If they start slow, it does give me... If I was Green Bay, I would just bombs away early on in that game, see if I could grab a lead and control the game. But I am taking Philly.
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And then in Monday Night Football, fudge, dude. I'm going to go – this is the toughest one for me. I'm going to go Minnesota on the road. I don't think that Sam Darnold plays two bad games in a row. Great game, but I'll go Minnesota on the road. And then I think the NFC title game is Detroit-Philly. I think the AFC title game is Kansas City-Baltimore. And I'm going to pick –
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I'm going to pick Kansas City and Detroit in the Super Bowl, and I'm going to say Kansas City does it.
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I'm afraid of not picking Mahomes. No, I don't really. You've done this long enough where you realize people hate you no matter what type of stuff. Facts. I think that's a different group when it's win or go home. I really do. And I do think they're a better team this year than they were last year. And so I just think for some reason 15 finds a way, man. And they're plenty good enough.
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It's not like he's dragging a team to the Super Bowl. They're a really good team.
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Healthy in the secondary, for sure. Watson coming back is huge. Bills-Broncos, did we do that one? No, Bills-Broncos I did not do. I'm taking the Bills, although, again, that game has my attention.
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Yeah. I think the Ravens over the Bills. Dude, there's something about Baltimore. I've been around both teams this year. Obviously, I think they're both really good. There's something about Baltimore where Todd Monk and their play caller said to me, as long as we stay ahead of the schedule, we're unstoppable. Like, that's their philosophy.
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And I just think that they're in a unique place where, like, they can line up and say, hey, here it comes.
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Thanks, boys. Always good to be with you guys. Enjoy the weekend.