The Games That Melted Our Icy Hearts

The MMQB NFL Podcast

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3.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Week 13 looked like a dud of a slate until the games got underway and the chaos and excitement unfolded. Jenny, Conor and Gary start with a throwback rivalry game in Pittsburgh, where Ben Roethlisberger turned back the clock (for at least a quarter) and the Steelers pulled off the upset. What’s next for an otherwise frustrating offense? And where do we fall on John Harbaugh’s decision to go for two and the win after the game’s last touchdown?

Then, a discussion of the Chiefs rising defense and still-stalling offense, how the Lions got on the board and what the loss means for the Vikings' playoff hopes, and how the Seahawks knocked off the 49ers and Chargers topped the Bengals in downright wacky games.

Plus, whether the Bucs will continue to enable Antonio Brown after his latest suspension, the Panthers’ decision to fire offensive coordinator Joe Brady after not providing him with a quarterback, and more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast I'm Gary
0:08.8	Gramley. I'm Jenny Brenta and I'm Connor Orr. And we had, I think, quite an exciting day of
0:17.6	football here on Sunday week 13. And I don't know. I mean, we're all
0:21.4	pessimists. We're all kind of jerks in our own way and I know I was looking at the
0:25.1	schedule before the day began and was like boy what a bunch of crummy football games this won't be
0:30.0	very much fun at all but it was. Lesson learned Gary always look at the bright side.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	Sorry I lumped you guys in its jerks.
0:40.0	I'm a jerk.
0:42.0	You guys can decide for yourselves but we are with that transition we are
0:50.7	going to start in Pittsburgh here. Less than 24 hours after all these reports came out that Ben Rolflesberger would be playing his final season in 2021, which is not a shocker, but it's still, it's that it's that is kind of out there now.
1:06.0	They go and they upset the Ravens in their own building.
1:09.0	Classic rivalry game, two teams that know each other well and sort of a game that played out the same way that these
1:15.1	games always seem to play out right down to the last play.
1:18.8	Yeah, this was exactly what you'd expect from the steler's rivalry and it was almost as if
1:26.2	Rothusberger was reminding all of us that he can still win games like this.
1:30.3	This was a had-to-have- it game to stay in playoff contention.
1:35.0	They still have a difficult path ahead the Steelers do, but
1:40.0	they were able to pull a win out against a team that was previously the top team in the
1:46.3	AFC at least based on record and reminded us, okay, they can still make some plays on defense
1:54.0	Big Ben can still make a few throws and we can't totally count them out this season yet
2:00.3	I feel like this game marked the end of me as somebody who is a young person watching football because when I saw John Harbaw opt to go for two and win. I was like, stop, no, play for overtime. Like, before I was always like, very like, yeah coaches need to do all this stuff and go for it on fourth down and pass every play and now I'm like stop doing all that and
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