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This is the time that Herbert jumps up. This is your moments. Listen, they were road favorites in the playoffs. Like, you just don't see that. If you go around up and down, this network, any other network, you know, there's a little prediction things. That's all lightning bolts and lightning bolts. There's no bull skull, wherever the hell the Texans have. I pick the charges, you pick the charges. That is the, all right, let's do some history though on Herbert. Justin Herbert is the only Chargers quarterback to ever throw a pick six in the playoffs. Rivers never did it on and on and on. Justin Herbert has never thrown three interceptions even. He threw four, not even three in an NFL game. He never threw three in a college game. He never threw three in a high school game. And now we're in a playoff game throwing four. Can you imagine that? She just doesn't do it. He doesn't throw interceptions as part of his game. He's like in Rogers 2.0 in that sense. And then for him to come back and be like, well, the only time I've ever been in the playoffs is one of the worst blow in le playoff history. Watch this now. I like them. You like them. But I think if there's certain people that we pounce that are easy, they're low-hanging fruit, whether it's Dak Prescott or now Jordan Love, you can't just not be critical of Herbert because you like him or because your analytic person that you follow says he's talented or someone who grinds a lot of tape says he's amazing through foreign picks in a playoff game and then there's the deal about they weren't all this fall they're to deflections I totally get it that's not how it works though you're going to see you next fall when we start talking about the charges again no one's going to be like but remember those interceptions in jan of them was up. So he threw four picks in a playoff game and was terrible. I don't have the energy, and I did it yesterday again to do the Mike Tomlin thing. It's very well documented how I feel about that. He's been eight years now without a playoff game. It's so rare that we look at Pittsburgh and where is this franchise headed? It seems like directionless. Even if they lose, even if they barely missed the playoffs, they always have a direction. You always know that brand what you're getting. I have no idea who their quarterback is next year. I don't think they do. The other key players in their offense, George Pickens is like, it's time to be paid. I don't know if the Steelers are going to do that. Nadji Harris, it's time to be paid. I don't know if the Steelers are going to do that. This is the pillar guys. T.J. Watt, I think he might be hurt, but the last couple of weeks of the season did not register a stat. He's just, he's not showing up in these games. And Baltimore's entire way of running the offense was just messing with T.J. Watt, who I thought was the best player in the league at any position. So the Steelers are directionless right now. And so either you go behind this head coach again and say, we still believe, we still believe, and we're just going to keep stomping our foot, or you do make a change. Now, you could say, Mike, we're going to look to what the Philadelphia Eagles did at one point with Andy Reid and said, wonderful run, but I think it might be the best interest of both of us to change. And it was. And if you say, how are you going to replace Mike Tomlin? Well, you can also have said, how are you going to replace Bill Cowher? They're very good at doing that stuff. Or if you want to get saucy with it, you get on the phone and you say, you want to trade coaches? You want to trade picks for a coach? We'd like to move on with Mike Tomlin and handle it with class and dignity and maybe pat our wallet a little bit. Or do you just say, nope, one more season or 10 more seasons. I know that he's gone eight years without a playoff game. I know that Chuck Nolan never went more than four years and Bill Cowher never went more than three years, but we're going to keep continuing to do this. That's all I have. I don't know if they're going to change coaches. A lot of people say they shouldn't change coaches. I say they should at least entertain it. And at this point, it's just not working. I was so excited about what we're going to get from the EFC next week that I shared this picture online of the four faces. And it was Josh's face and Lamar's face and Mahomes and C.J. Stroud. Okay. And the replies were very interesting to me. Oh, boy, they came at you. Because they started hitting me with the memes. And the memes I were seen are, you know, the one where it's three, like, military soldiers with machine guns lined up, but one of them is a clown amongst the four., like, they were making fun of the Texans and C.J. Stroud.

And then there's another one where, like, the two, like, mean dragons, you know, with one of them is, like, his tongue out. And one of them, that was, like, the Texans and C.J. Stroud. Did you understand what this defense did the other night? And do you understand how much we're going to talk about them going up and could they do it against the chiefs?

I asked NFL research.

I'm like, so the Texas have gone against some pretty good quarterbacks this year.

Could you just give me the rundown of how that went?

So you know what Herbert did?

Herbert, the guy who does not throw interceptions and does not really get sacked, did all of them

the worst he's ever done in his career.

The Texas defense against Josh Allen this year, Josh Allen went nine of 30 with an

interception.

It's arguably the worst game of his career, not his season.

Jared Goff threw five interceptions.

It's arguably the worst game of his career, not his season.

Tuatanga Vailoga, another franchise guy.

Three interceptions, the Dolphin scored 12 points.

Arguably the worst game of his career.

How about somebody totally different?

A young guy, Anthony Richardson.

Okay.

Went 9 of 19 and checked himself out of the game.

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