NFL REPORT: Deep Divisional Round Dive & Head Coaching Vacancies
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of The NFL Report, Steve Wyche & James Palmer discuss must-watch QB matchups in the Divisional Round along with top contending head coaching candidates. Chiefs cornerback Trent McDuffie joined the NFL Report ahead of Kansas City’s divisional round matchup against the Bills and discussed game planning for Josh Allen. NFL Network columnist and Insider Judy Battista discussed Bill Belichick’s future as a head coach, the Jerod Mayo era in New England along with a look ahead to the Texans Ravens divisional round matchup. Former Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff discussed the mutual interest between Bill Belichick, Owner Arthur Blank and the Falcons head coaching vacancy, and offered insight on the GM interviewing process and hiring of head coaches. Brian Baldinger jumped on right out of the Film room to discuss his favorite Divisional Round films to watch.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.5 | Ebo Samuel from the San Francisco 49ers, and this is the NFL report. |
| 0:15.8 | Ebo looks real relaxed, Steve, just sitting there, chill at us. |
| 0:19.3 | We enter the divisional round. |
| 0:21.4 | James Palmer, Steve Weich, with you on the NFL report. |
| 0:24.3 | A slammed show today. |
| 0:26.2 | All-Pro quarterback from the Chiefs. |
| 0:28.2 | Trent McDuffie joins the show. |
| 0:30.1 | Former Falcons general manager and former Patriot Scout Thomas Dimitroff also joins the show. |
| 0:35.6 | Baldi's favorite films breaking down everything you need to know, Steve, in the postseason, as well as Judy Batista telling us everything we need to know about Bill Belichick to the Falcons. This is weird though, Steve. This isn't where I normally see you. What's going on here? No, I mean, I'm in my hotel room over in Honolulu, JP. You know, there's no NFL team. |
| 0:54.7 | Oh, here. |
| 0:56.4 | As you see right here, the Polynesian Bowl, which we broadcast Friday evening on NFL Network. |
| 1:02.8 | It is the greatest collection of high school football stars, All-Star Game, Dylan Rayola, the number one quarterback in the country, the son of Dominic Raola, |
| 1:11.8 | who decommitted from Georgia, right, to go into Nebraska where his father played, he's going to be |
| 1:18.0 | the big highlight of the game, but some of the best players in high school football who are |
| 1:22.5 | going to matriculate to the NFL, we've seen guys like Talano, Hufanga, Huka Nakua, so many the guys who've played in this game, Bajon Robinson, go to the NFL. We've seen guys like Talano, Hufanga, hookah, Kuhna Cua, so many guys who've played in this game, Bison, go to the NFL. I'm fired up. I'll be on the call with Canoa Leahy. But, J.B., let's get to this wild card weekend. Because the one thing you see with the remaining teams is kind of, you have a healthy quarterback. He played most of the season. You had a good shot to get to this point. |
| 1:46.6 | What quarterback matchup, because they're so good this weekend, really intrigued you the most? |
| 1:53.3 | Steve, there is one quarterback matchup that we all should be focused on. It is the new Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning. |
| 2:00.8 | It is Josh Allen versus Patrick versus Peyton Manning. It is Josh Allen |
| 2:02.4 | versus Patrick Mahomes for the first time in the postseason on the road for Mahomes. I've covered |
| 2:09.2 | this game. I think I've covered almost every single matchup that they've had outside of the one |
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