Conference Championship Recap: Sam Darnold's moment, Sean Payton's decision

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Chris Simms

Sports, Football

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

So it's Mike vs Mike! Seahawks vs Patriots! Chris and Connor break down all angles of the NFC & AFC Championships, including Sam Darnold silencing the doubters and Sean Payton's controversial 4th down decision. But first, Chris talks about a Friday night dinner that was a Top 5 moment of his life.

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, what up, homies?
0:01.3	On today's Chris Sims on Button, Connor Rogers and I, deep dive,
0:04.7	AFC, NFC championship.
0:07.0	We get into all the details.
0:08.7	We give about a half hour to each game.
0:11.0	And I got a top five moment of my life that I explained to start the show.
0:16.5	Chris Sims on Button starts right after this.
0:20.1	Just enjoy coaching us.
0:21.8	He's proud of us.
0:24.2	Said, no curfew tonight.
0:26.4	But the bus leaving at 8 in the morning, so if you ain't on it, you ain't playing in the bowl.
0:30.7	So I'm pretty sure everybody's going to be on that bus.
0:33.3	Can you say that?
0:33.6	Oh, yeah.
0:34.1	I ain't playing.
0:54.7	Yo, yo, what's up? It's Chris Sims. On Button. How you doing? How you living? It's Monday. It's Championship Monday right after. I'm at home. We had a huge snowstorm. Connor Rogers and I are here. We're doing it on Steam stream yard, whatever the hell it's called.
1:12.0	What's up, dude? How you doing? I'm chilling, man. Great championship weekend. Two totally different games. My goodness. It was wild. You think it was a different sport. How are you? Good weekend? Yeah, good weekend. No doubt about it. Like, an incredible weekend. and awesome to sit in a Sunday and watch the football games, right?
1:13.1	In a snowstorm.
1:12.0	It was cozy. out about it. Like, incredible weekend. Awesome to sit in a Sunday and watch the football games, right?
1:19.3	In a snowstorm. It was cozy. I mean, damn, big fire burning, having a drink watching the game, right?
1:24.0	I mean, it couldn't get any better than that. The first one I had all Sunday or all year like that.
1:29.4	So that was awesome. Then, like, also, I got to tell you this before we break into the games, right? I had like a crazy Friday night, crazy Friday night and that I had an experience
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