NFL Cover Zero: Super Bowl is set and Coaches getting hired
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones and Drew Franklin look at the Conference Championship matchups that gave us a Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl. Jarrett Stidham had a tough day, but should the Broncos have taken first half points before weather came?
Matt talks about the exciting matchup between the Rams and Seahawks. Did Sam Darnold finally silence his critics? Drew notes the coaching matchup that delivered. What are your first thoughts on the Maye-Darnold QB matchup? Matt wonders if either of these teams are at the start of a long run of Championship hopes.
Onto the coaching hires with two new hires in the AFC North. Mike McCarthy adds another iconic franchise to his coaching resume with the Steelers. What changes will Jesse Minter bring to the Ravens? Matt was surprised by the Bills interviewing Philip Rivers, but wants his coaches to have more experience. We wrap up with preparations for NFL Cover Zero heading to the Super Bowl.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart |
| 0:09.4 | podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, |
| 0:19.3 | the championship games just finished and it is NFL cover zero, Matt Jones, and Drew Franklin. |
| 0:25.7 | All three, including Billy, snowed in in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:33.2 | Not as much snow as they told us we were going to get. |
| 0:37.3 | They told us we were going to get zero snow, or excuse me, like a foot of snow. |
| 0:42.8 | We got like six inches. |
| 0:44.3 | I think Lexington only got like four. |
| 0:46.7 | So it's a little disappointing. |
| 0:48.4 | But now I wonder what a foot would look like because you still can't move in Louisville. |
| 0:52.5 | And there are obviously places in the country where it's even worse in Tennessee and |
| 0:57.9 | Mississippi. |
| 0:58.5 | So a lot of the country snowed in, iced in for these games today. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, here in Lexington, we got the snow that ice on top. |
| 1:08.5 | I actually went outside to shovel my driveway and it was just |
| 1:10.8 | like a block of ice. So I just smacked it a few times and walked back in and gave up. So pretty nasty here even though it wasn't quite what you got. And then it saw a little bit of it in Denver too. It's pretty fun to watch that in the games today. Yeah, I'm, by the way, I am, I'm, I'm, anti-shoveling. I came to that conclusion today. |
| 1:28.3 | No, I mean, everybody immediately wants to go shovel. |
| 1:30.8 | Now, if you can't get out for whatever reason, then that's a different scenario. |
| 1:35.3 | But explain to me why people always want to shovel. |
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