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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Inside Rams’ 4th down play vs. Seahawks + Steelers defend Mike McCarthy hire (1/27 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including recapping the NFC Championship, looking at Rams’ failed 4th down conversion, Steelers defending Mike McCarthy hire, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tuesday edition of PFT Live.

0:06.4

Seattle goes to the fourth Super Bowl in franchise history.

0:10.0

It's been 20 years since the Super Bowl that the Seahawks played against the Steelers.

0:14.9

And, you know, it's funny because I do KJR Radio in Seattle every Wednesday.

0:20.1

And when I was on there last week, they were saying that it was somewhat unbecoming that Sean McDermott had complained so loudly about officiating in the aftermath of the loss by the bills to the Broncos in the division around.

0:35.1

And I said, dude,

0:43.4

Mike Holmugn is in like a packed stadium in a rally after the freaking Super Bowl complaining about the officiating and all the times they got.

0:46.1

So, I mean, have we forgotten 20 years ago?

0:48.6

Seriously.

0:48.9

How pissed off he was.

0:50.4

Rightfully so.

0:51.9

Rightfully so.

0:52.7

There was some bad calls in that game. And Bill Levy, the referee that day, has talked since then about how he's still bothered by the bad calls from that Super Bowl. But that's the one they lost. Then they won the next one. Then they lost the next one to the Patriots. They get their shot at the Patriots next Sunday after taking down the Rams in the rubber match to their season series, the 31-27 victory.

1:15.4

And, you know, I want to go out of order here.

1:20.6

Okay.

1:21.1

I want to start with the last moment because it has connective tissue to what we talked about earlier.

1:28.3

Yeah.

1:28.8

The decision to go for it on fourth down.

1:31.3

Right.

1:31.8

Fourth and four from the six, 3127, 459 to play.

1:39.1

To me, because I got some texts from some folks echoing the same things that we discussed earlier with Sean Payton.

1:49.3

To me in that moment, like, I mean, we got to game this out.

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