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That's right. This is good morning football. We are presented by Old Trapper Beach Jerky Live. Back in our home-friendly confines of our studio in L.A. And, of course, New York. It's Monday, December 30th. This is Akbar Bajumilla. There's Peter Stregregor. There's Peter Strager. There's Kyle Brandt. Here's Isaiah Stan back. I'm Jamie Erdall. Guys, I feel like I've been dealt a deck of car, like around a hand and the headlines. They're just like, what do you want to talk about? Vikings, commanders, Falcons, what are we doing? Anyone just like, it has been an incredible five to six days of football,

and there's so much to get to. Peter, where do you want to start? Where do you want to start?

Do you want to continue with last week's topic of the MVP debate, or do we want to get into playoff

seedings, or you want to sprinkle in, maybe a little sauce and spice up in Indianapolis for the,

for the egg that they laid yesterday. We can go a million

different directions. There are 32 teams. Gerard Mayo, good morning. We'll talk about you as well.

We should really start. Peter walked into the studio today with a giant boom box playing

Gangsta's Paradise. It was so cool. Yeah, we're doing our New York game. That's perfect. But Kyle, I don't know what size highlight you have and it's not long enough to contain everything that happened on Sunday night football. Let's get into the medium size. Not give this one the medium, but we upgrade it as we see the lead block. All right, Falcons first place, NFC South. Jay and Dans, the commander's clinch of playoff berth with a win. They're in, but they're down early, 17 to 7. Jade is going to go to Zach Ertz. Zach Ertz, have a knight, the venerable Eagle. I remember Zach Ertz has a lion last year. You can look it up. It did happen. He was with the Lions. Fourth quarter, commanders now, still trailing. They're going to pitch it to Chris Rodriguez Jr.

I like the second year guy to Kentucky. He gets the score. It's only his second touchdown all year, but Washington's got it rolling out. All right, fourth and 11, two and changed left, Atlanta down seven. Michael Pennix, Jr. is going to hit the massive Drake London. Huge wide receiver. He's spinning, running, going deep now in their territory. Two plays later, the faculty are doing all these cool formations. That's Bijan behind center. Penix in motion. And the snap goes over his head. So Bichon's got to scoop it and juke 50 guys. Even he can't do that. 21-yard loss. They totally blew it. but three plays later, they're going to go for it

on fourth and goal from the 13th. They got to have this. Fourth and goal, touchdown or nothing,

and Pennix, Laser to Kyle Pitts flings it, the throw of his career. And it's also the

first touchdown of Pennix's career. That's it. That's the one. They give him the ball and everything. Really big time throw by the rookie. This is rookie v. Rookie. And then they get the ball back. 40 seconds left. Penick's trying to win this thing. He's going to hit Darnal Mood. He goes down inbound. They have two timeouts. They don't use one. Rahim Morris said afterwards, I probably could have used the time. A lot of time went off. Seven seconds left. You're just trying to get Sunday because you still have a timeout. He's going to go to Donald Mooney again. It's incomplete. But hold on. Michael Davis, who's also the executive producer of this show, Gals for interference, and they get the penalty. So that is not Young Wake who's injured injured. That's Riley Patterson's gonna try to win it with a 56-yarder. It's dead center right down the middle, the back. Now it's way short. Guess what, guys? Over time on Sunday night, you'd love to see. It was way short. Youngway would have drilled that thing. So Jayden says, fine. Don't let me back in because guess what? They won the toss. They take the ball. And then Jaden starts taking over. 24 all, overtime. Touchdown wins it, of course, but they got a long way to go there. Jayden just running down the sideline. He was fantastic late. No penalty, no nothing. Stay with me here. Second and goal. Jane tried to win the game here. He decides this is going to be the last play. He's jukeing. He's stiff army and finally they go, boom, sit down. They drop them. Now Justin Simmons with a big hit. Penance can do nothing. If they score the game is over, kind of a standing eight count for Jaden Daniels and this is it. Ballgame. Commanders are going to the playoffs.

It's over. Kind of a standing eight count for Jaden Daniels, and this is it. Ballgame. Commanders are going to the playoffs. It's over. That's Zach Ertz again, his second touchdown out of the night. It was a clean catch, great hands. It is over. The commanders, look at the cousins and penics on the sideline. DQ, an incredible coach. That's an incredible sight. Number two overall pick takes them immediately to the playoffs in year one. They are 11 and 5. They are going. They are going. They are going. 30 to 24. Falcons got work to do against the Buccaneers. But as I said it again, the commanders are going to the playoffs. Shane Daniels, what are the emotions? My emotion won. I'm tired right now,

but I'm excited. I'm happy. The fan base waited a long time for this. I mean, I really can't put in the words, you know, how much it means to them and how much it means to me be able to go out there and leave this franchise and this team to opportunities like that. You know, there's a lot of ups and downs and adversity in this game that you go through and you go through in life. So you never waver, you know, you stand tall, standing 10 feet down and, you know, go out there and try to execute the moment. It's always tough losing, you know, but we're playing the National Football League, man. We plan against the best of the best each and every week. We got to come with our A game.

You know, it's things that, you know, we wish we could have back and it's things that we did good. But at the end of the day, you know, we'll go back to the drawing board, you know, try to see what we can do better so that we can get this win next week. And, yeah, it was tough. Two of the great young men from last year's NFL draft. and if the future of the quarterback position is in their hands,

then we have a lot of good TV and football coming our way over the next couple of years. from last year's NFL draft. And if the future of the quarterback position is in their hands,

then we have a lot of good TV and football coming our way over the next couple of years.

Falcons commanders, Peter, an epic finish to a Sunday night game, week 17 for the ages.

Where do you go at the end of Washington Falcons?

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