Rams, Bengals, Brady, McDaniels, and Madness
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Super Bowl LVI is set, and Conor and Gary break down everything that happened in the conference title games. In the NFC, how Raheem Morris dialed up the right blitz at the right time—again—to put away the 49ers on an otherwise off-night for the Rams. Plus, the likely end of the Jimmy Garoppolo era, and how Kyle Shanahan basically maxed out this team.
In the AFC, never pick against the Bengals again. How the Cincy defense foiled Patrick Mahomes with three- and four-man rushes, and how Joe Burrow had enough magic to pull out another unlikely win.
Plus, a look at the post-Tom Brady Bucs in light of retirement reports, and a run down of the coaching hires: Josh McDaniels to the Raiders, Brian Daboll to the Giants, Matt Eberflus to the Bears, and Nathaniel Hackett in Denver.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Connor O'Rore. |
| 0:07.0 | Connor Orr. |
| 0:10.0 | Connor we have Super Bowl participants, we have head coaches in new places, we have Tom Brady, |
| 0:17.0 | maybe retire, probably retiring. |
| 0:20.0 | We'll get to all that. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, yeah. But we are going to start with the Sunday Conference Championship Games. |
| 0:30.0 | And let's start out in LA here with the Rams 49ers game. |
| 0:34.0 | And the ending was, I don't know, perfect isn't the word, but it was a day where the Rams Pass Rush wasn't really there also maybe didn't |
| 0:47.0 | really have a chance to get there because they just weren't on the field that |
| 0:49.5 | much but they really just took over the last two possessions and they also took over because of things that Rahim Morris was doing out there |
| 1:00.0 | Okay, so let's go back to the Cardinals game and they beat the Cardinals in the first round of the playoffs. |
| 1:05.0 | In that the Blitz that he designed for the Kyler-Marie Pick-6, he had Aaron Donald is sort of a decoy, so he had like three offensive linemen just not blocking anybody worried about Aaron Donald. |
| 1:16.8 | He had a defensive tackle taking up two spaces, and then he had his Blitzer and Von Miller both singled up. Brilliant. And then tonight against Jimmy Garopolo, key play the game, both Aaron Donald and Von Miller singled up. And he had a late blitzer there that drew two 49ers |
| 1:36.4 | blockers. How does that happen? I don't know how that continually happens but |
| 1:40.6 | if you're the offensive linemen I understand you have like emergency rules for |
| 1:45.1 | blitzers where you're like, okay, inside guy or whatever, but how does that keep happening? |
| 1:50.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:51.1 | Like these are just like the two guys, like if you walked into like the 49ers |
| 1:55.1 | it would be like just don't let these two guys in the back field here's the two and and you did that. |
| 2:00.7 | But that was it man and that's why I kind of said perfect and then |
| 2:05.0 | walked it back because I just don't have a very wide vocabulary. But you had |
| 2:10.3 | those two guys in London Floyd were just all in Jimmy Garoplo's face on that final play and that's how this one ended and yeah it was it was a weird game it really was such a strange game because if the 49ers were going to win |
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