Conference Championship Preview & Bills Front Office Drama
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Conor Orr and Albert Breer break down the conference championship matchups and wonder if Jarrett Stidham beating the Patriots is really that impossible and if Sam Darnold's comeback can continue against possible future hall of famer Matthew Stafford. We also get into the leaks of the dysfunction in the Bills front office after the dismissal of Sean McDermott and who might be in line to be their next head coach
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to M of the QV NFL podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | That's Albert Breer. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Connor, or. |
| 0:10.2 | We're coming to you Thursday, January 22nd at 9 a.m. |
| 0:14.0 | to talk about the conference championship games, which holy smokes. |
| 0:19.0 | We're already here. |
| 0:22.6 | We got Denver and New England on one end, and we have Seattle and the Rams on the other. Essentially what I wanted, I would have |
| 0:27.3 | swapped out the Patriots for the bills, but this is pretty close to what I would have asked for |
| 0:32.6 | if I could, if I could break down the entire situation and pick exactly what I wanted. |
| 0:38.6 | Well, and a healthy quarterback, right, for Denver? |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | I think that's part of it. |
| 0:43.1 | Although this kind of makes it interesting, too, because I think this is border. |
| 0:47.2 | Did anybody find a precedent for this? |
| 0:49.0 | Because, like, I don't, like, Nick Foles, Jeff Hostetler, Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, those were all like either |
| 0:58.3 | before the season and or earlier in the season. |
| 1:00.8 | Like I think the latest one of the injuries there was probably either Phil Sims or |
| 1:04.4 | or Carson Wentz, right? |
| 1:06.2 | Like where and those were in like December. |
| 1:09.1 | So those teams still had a chance to reset. |
| 1:11.2 | I can't think of a scenario like this. |
| 1:13.8 | Frank Reich, you know, in 1992. |
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