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Alex Smith + Louis Riddick on NFL Super Wild Card Games

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The heroics and heartbreak of the NFL playoffs are here! Our Monday QB Alex Smith breaks down all the action from a Super Wild Card weekend that delivered…from Cincinnati breaking its 31-year playoff curse, to the Cowboys finding yet another year of heartbreak as the clock ran down to 0…to the Bills decimating the Patriots. Then, ESPN’s Louis Riddick previews the first Monday Night Wild Card matchup in over 30 years…a rubber match between two familiar NFC West foes in the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:12.9

Oh, they're going to look at this.

0:15.0

It's going to be over because the umpire has to touch the ball.

0:19.3

Of course, that's ridiculous for a game to end like that, Jim.

0:23.3

Wow, I'm living if I'm a cowboy fan and if I'm a nine fan. That's the end of the game. The game is over.

0:28.8

The game is over and San Francisco survives. So I have this theory that the NFL is America's pastime because no other sport turns absolute

0:41.3

incompetence into more incredible entertainment, which is all to say that what the Dallas Cowboys

0:48.3

just did to themselves in yesterday's loss to the 49ers confirms that they truly are America's team.

0:56.0

So today, our Monday morning quarterback,

0:59.1

Alex Smith,

1:00.1

walks us through exactly what happened

1:02.1

amid all the booms and busts

1:03.9

of Super Wildcard weekend.

1:06.3

And then Monday night football's

1:07.6

Lewis Riddick takes us out to Los Angeles

1:10.1

for its grand finale.

1:13.6

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, January 17th. This is ESPN Daily.

1:23.6

So, Alex, we're back here at the end of a weekend that was pretty, I think, binary.

1:29.6

You were just talking about this before the microphones turned on officially.

1:32.3

There were the blowouts and then there were the fun games.

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