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Evan & Tiki

Hour 1: Snow Bowl Madness: Patriots Survive the Blizzard, Payton Gets Second-Guessed

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Evan can’t stop thinking about the AFC Championship turning into a full-blown snow game, and the guys debate whether the weather made it legendary or ruined the product. They break down how the Patriots benefitted once they had the lead, why the second half felt like 1960s football, and whether every stadium should just have a retractable roof. Plus, the Sean Payton decision that changed everything, going for it on 4th-and-1 instead of taking the points, and what a different QB might have meant once the conditions got ugly. Calls roll in, the poll is basically split down the middle, and yes, Evan discovers the meaning of “5280” on the Broncos helmets.

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0:00.0

While I was watching the AFC championship game, all I could think of was Sean Morash.

0:04.7

Because when the weather turned in the second half, and I thought they did a really good job of showing us how insane it was that the weather turned the way it did, because it started off like a beautiful day.

0:17.5

And then by the fourth quarter, they've got to put digital yard markers up to see it.

0:22.5

All I could think about is how this game was incredibly affected by the weather.

0:26.8

And I found it insanely entertaining, but I had Sean's voice in my head.

0:32.3

This sucks.

0:33.4

This isn't real football.

0:35.1

This isn't the way a championship should be determined.

0:41.9

And like I get it, even though I disagree, because there's no question.

0:45.3

In the second half of this game, that was a slop.

0:51.3

Now, I found it entertaining, Teak, but it was insanity what we witnessed in the last quarter and a half of this game.

0:51.7

You know what?

0:54.9

I would agree with you, Evan, because I love weather as a character.

0:59.2

I think it makes you focus in a way that you just haven't had to throughout in a regular game where there is no weather.

1:02.9

And I would have held that same thought,

1:06.2

that same opinion,

1:07.7

if I hadn't watched the NFC championship game right after.

1:11.1

Because that was one of the most beautiful, well-executed, play-called game that I've ever seen.

1:20.0

Hell, even the broadcast was outstanding.

1:22.7

Tom Brady was fantastic with Burkhart.

1:25.2

So if I hadn't seen the NFC championship game right afterwards, I would have agreed

1:30.6

with you.

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