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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Tim Hasselbeck on Has Allen Caught Mahomes? Bruce Feldman on Harbaugh to the Raiders? Plus Jorge Sedano on the Heat As Contenders Again

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his confidence rankings for every NFL divisional-round team (0:34) before he is joined by ESPN’s Tim Hasselbeck to make Round 2 picks (12:49). Then Ryen talks with Bruce Feldman of The Athletic and Fox Sports about the Raiders looking to hire Jim Harbaugh and NIL’s impact on college football (44:15). Next Ryen talks with ESPN’s Jorge Sedano about the Miami Heat’s return as a playoff contender, the Nets' playoff hopes if Kyrie Irving is not allowed to play in home games, the Bulls, Lakers, Clippers, and more (57:06). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:29:45). Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Tim Hasselbeck, Bruce Feldman, and Jorge Sedano Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's podcast loaded pack. I'm going to give you all the picks in the four playoff games.

0:15.0

We're going to go over those picks with Tim Hasedeck. We're going to talk Bruce Feldman about Jim Harboff potentially going back to the NFL and the Raiders.

0:23.0

We've got George Sedano on the heat and other NBA stuff, including some Laker stuff he works in LA and an update on Kyle's workout with a Nigerian guy and life and vice.

0:34.0

I'm going to rank the four playoff games on most confident to least confident of the picks. I'm just going to start with this.

0:41.0

I'm not confident about any of it. I really think all four of these games could go either way.

0:46.0

I'm going to give you the line. I'll give you my pick, but I'm going to give you a little bit of insight into how this game may play out and some of the stuff that I went over.

0:55.0

Let's start with San Francisco at Green Bay. I'd say I'm most confident with this one because the Packers at home with Rogers and Matlethaler are 24 and 3.

1:03.0

They're actually 19 and 8 against spread. I know the Lambo has not been the same historically for the playhouse. We certainly know that with the Packers and Rogers recently.

1:11.0

But overall with Matlethaler and Rogers, they've been terrific. Now let's look at Jimmy Garoppolo's last five games or excuse me, his last three games, five interceptions.

1:20.0

Aaron Rogers has had four all season long. Rogers continues to put up these numbers. Although we had that little dip there. We were wondering and yet, you know what, he told us we shouldn't have to wonder.

1:30.0

Even though I thought there were some arguments to be made about it. All right. So here's the point is that Jimmy Garoppolo with those picks. You go, okay, but does it mean anything?

1:38.0

Pick against Dallas basically brought Dallas back into a game that they felt like they were being dominated throughout and who knows beyond the pick and then if the kid will catch or catch and fumble, we're talking about Dallas and potential matchup here.

1:51.0

So we know that Rogers better than Garoppolo, but here's something that thought was really interesting when they played each other in week three.

1:58.0

It was a late field goal win against a San Francisco team that I would argue, you know, last year was a complete wash. Their COVID and injury numbers were unbelievable.

2:08.0

A couple of years ago, the Niners were able to get them twice. And that was a really stacked team that went to the Super Bowl. And I still think there are remnants of that roster and all of their talent that were starting to see all over again.

2:18.0

What I really like was from San Francisco recently is that you have a rushing attack that is a completely different rushing attack because in that week through week three win by Green Bay on that late field goal San Francisco only ran it for 3.2 yards per carry and they had a chance to win that thing.

2:34.0

They're totally different now with Debo. Debo's first half of the season. He ran the football six times the second half of the season. Debo Samuels run it 53 times.

2:43.0

There are some things here if you were to say hey San Francisco's rushing attacks different they have to account for Debo.

2:51.0

There's there's a way I guess you could kind of talk yourself into it's just I have a hard time picking Garoppolo on the road against a packers and a Rogers. I mean I'm just going to make it a little bit more simple I'll add one more tidbit to this.

3:01.0

If you check out the great work on the athletic and by the way I use some stuff in the athletic from the next gen stats for all this breakdown stuff.

3:08.0

There's a film study of San Francisco against Green Bay and there is an area of the football field where Garoppolo's throws live from six to 19 yards down the field.

3:16.0

The way Green Bay aligns itself and again most all these teams are in sub packages. I remember when I first get started radio and be arguing be like oh this team better suited for the four three.

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