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The Kevin Sheehan Show

HR3: Ross Tucker gives a NFL Playoffs Wildcard rd preview, Stanford Steve analyzes the CFP Semifinals round

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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1.8.26 Hour 3, Ross Tucker from The Ross Tucker Podcast joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to discuss new offensive coordinator candidates for the Commanders, his thoughts on the Commanders moving on from Kliff Kingsbury and gives his analysis on the NFL Playoff bracket ahead of the Wildcard round. Stanford Steve from ESPN joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to preview and analyze the College Football Semifinal round of the Playoffs and give his predictions.

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0:00.0

All right. It's a busy week in the NFL. Busy week here. Mike McDaniel, if you miss the news, fired in Miami.

0:09.2

Certainly, he would be an interesting hire to replace Cliff Kingsbury here in Washington.

0:15.3

Joining me right now is Ross Tucker. Ross called the game Sunday with Kevin Harlan in Philadelphia the season finale.

0:23.3

He's done a great job calling games. The Ross Tucker podcast is outstanding. You can follow Ross

0:28.7

on X and on Twitter at Ross Tucker NFL. Did you know, I was thinking about you as you were calling

0:37.3

the game, and I was wondering, you know, what you knew about the Kingsbury situation. You and I've talked about this before, but I think it's interesting how guys who are calling games that get that opportunity to sit down with coaches and quarterbacks, and sometimes you guys get more information, even if it's on background to kind of use

0:56.5

in the broadcast.

0:58.1

But did you have a sense that the Kingsbury thing was coming?

1:03.5

Not from my conversation with Cliff.

1:08.2

I didn't really go down that road.

1:10.2

I did ask him if he would consider like a college job

1:14.3

again. And we kind of talked about the craziness that is college football right now. But when I

1:21.9

spoke with him on Friday, I think that that was before some report started to trickle out Saturday and Sunday

1:30.8

morning that maybe it was more than just him potentially, you know, going for a head coaching

1:38.0

job somewhere else and that maybe he would be moving on regardless. I think it was maybe Diana Rossini.

1:46.9

I think Ben Standig wrote something about it.

1:49.5

So there had been stuff that I had seen,

1:53.0

which is why I referenced it during the game.

1:56.6

But, you know, it wasn't hard and fast.

1:59.8

And, you know, it wasn't hard and fast, and, you know, it wasn't like something I wanted to

2:04.0

expound upon, but just I felt like there had been multiple reputable reports that it was at least

2:11.3

something worth mentioning. We'll come back to Cliff in the, you openings here you know this has been you know this

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