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The Mike Francesa Podcast

Texans, Ravens Dominate First Day of NFL Playoffs

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Baseball, Football

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Chargers were perplexed by the Texans defense, and Derrick Henry ran right over the Steelers. The first day of Wild Card games is in the book, and Mike Francesa gives his reaction to the day's games.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

0:04.0

Hello, good, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network, brought to you by Casamigo Stakela.

0:10.1

Casamigos Tequila was brought to you by those who drink it.

0:13.7

We come to you on this Saturday night after we put a couple of NFL playoff games in the bank on the Mike Francesa channel on the

0:22.3

Bit Rivers Network on YouTube.

0:24.8

Two games down, four big games still to play, three tomorrow, one on Monday night,

0:29.9

which will be played in Arizona, that between the Rams and the Vikings.

0:34.4

The first game today, I have to admit, most people, including yours, truly

0:40.5

thought the charges were the better team coming in. They had played the better ball.

0:45.6

Houston had finished very poorly. Their offensive line was bad. They seemed to just be missing

0:51.3

everything on offense, despite the fact they still had a good defense um the game gets underway and the charges had opportunities early in this game and if you've

1:02.4

watched enough NFL games you got the feeling in this one as i clearly did that the charges

1:10.4

not being able to capitalize on those early issues.

1:14.5

They get down deep into Houston territory on their first drive.

1:19.5

They have a third and short.

1:21.5

They miss a block.

1:22.8

They settle for a field goal.

1:24.6

They get a turnover.

1:26.1

They're right back in the red zone. They have to settle again

1:30.9

for a field goal. That's big misses. In the playoffs, you must turn those opportunities into

1:40.1

touchdowns if you want to win games. Now, for a quarter and a half, we watched as the charges completely dominated Houston.

1:51.1

Houston couldn't get out of its own way on offense.

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