Former Colts & Panthers HC Frank Reich joins the show + Drafting Conference Championship X factors (1/22 Hour 2)
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 319 and counting time remaining Buffalo trailing by four |
| 0:07.0 | like the drug is on touchdown |
| 0:12.0 | only 50% this season from between 30 and 40 as you saw |
| 0:17.0 | it is right down the middle. |
| 0:32.1 | That was January 1993. |
| 0:45.7 | One of the great moments in NFL history playoff or otherwise down 353.. The bills come back and win led by a quarterback who did not start a single game in the entire regular season. |
| 0:55.8 | So he can relate to what Jared Stidham is dealing with. Frank Reich joins us now. Also, also a fairly accomplished coach, you know, beyond what he did that day in January of 1993, he's done okay for himself and he's with us now. Coach, good to see you. Hey, good to be |
| 1:00.8 | with you guys. Thanks for having me on. So let's start right where we were. We go back to 1993. |
| 1:09.9 | Frank Wright comes in. Bill's fans are thinking, |
| 1:13.0 | that's it. It's done. It's another year without a shot at a Super Bowl. How do you get yourself |
| 1:18.3 | when you're called upon in that moment, when you haven't started a regular season game, |
| 1:22.8 | when you're the backup and everything is riding on your shoulders? How do you get yourself |
| 1:26.5 | in that right |
| 1:28.3 | space where you can go out there and pull off a victory? Well, no doubt. Yeah, you're exactly |
| 1:34.6 | right, Mike. It was a it's over. We had been to two Super Bowls. Jim Kelly gets hurt against |
| 1:40.4 | the Oilers. And of course, what you don't show there is the week before we played |
| 1:45.3 | Deoilers in the last regular season game. And I came in and played most of that game and didn't |
| 1:49.9 | play very well, and they pounded us. So nonetheless, for me, and I really think this is the same |
| 1:56.5 | for Jared. I really do. Everybody's talking about you got to go in there with confidence. |
| 2:07.3 | But to me, what gave me, what elevated my game was the confidence that the team had in me, |
| 2:12.5 | the confidence that Marv Levy had in me. And, you know, Bruce Smith coming up to me and saying, |
| 2:17.4 | Frank, just play your game. We got your back. Andre Reid saying to me, Frank, just put it anywhere near me. I got it. I'm open all the time. |
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