What We Know Vs. What We Thought About Raiders-Chargers, Flores Out With Jon Vilma, Plus Klay’s Return

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Russillo shares his thoughts on the climax of the roller-coaster matchup between the Raiders and the Chargers, the speculation on head coach Brandon Staley's timeout call in overtime, and the difference between what we thought in real time vs. what we know today (0:32). Then Ryen talks with Super Bowl champion Jonathan Vilma of Fox Sports about the "almost tie" between the Raiders and the Chargers, their differing opinions on the 1-seed Titans, what to make of the Patriots, the Dolphins firing HC Brian Flores, Vilma's choice for DPOY, the upcoming College Football Playoff national title game, and more (14:45). Then Ryen briefly talks about Klay Thompson's return to the Warriors (49:56) before answering some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (55:34). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jonathan Vilma Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We start by trying to make sense of what happened between the chargers and the Raiders.
0:14.8	A little bit on Tennessee as you're one seat in the AFC and John of the Vilma on all of
0:19.4	that, including breaking news this morning, Brian Flores out is the Miami hit coach and
0:23.3	Vilma's pick for the national championship rematch, Bama and Georgia.
0:27.2	We'll do a little on Clay's return and a really long life advice that I don't think
0:31.2	help us anyone.
0:32.2	Let's start with the open after the last regular season week for the NFL trying to figure
0:36.6	out what happened last night in Vegas, which is usually not related to football, but in
0:43.1	this case, absolutely with the chargers and Raiders going to overtime and Raiders walking
0:48.6	off with the field goal.
0:49.6	So leading up, as we all know, there was a lot of talk about the tie part of this where
0:54.1	there's a scenario where if the chargers and Raiders tied, they would both be in the playoff.
0:58.0	So why not go ahead and do that?
0:59.8	The Colts getting stomped as 16 and a half point favorites against Jacksonville, Pittsburgh
1:03.7	taking care of their end of things with Rathalsburg or Baltimore.
1:07.4	So there was like all these things and be like, hey, do you realize this could happen?
1:10.5	And now we're sitting there, you know, throughout the closing moments of earlier Sunday games
1:14.6	going, okay, what the chargers and Raiders actually do this.
1:17.6	And there are people that believe that they could or that they should because it makes
1:21.2	sense.
1:22.2	Hey, well, if we just tie, we're both going to be in it.
1:23.8	First of all, let's just go, let's just get this out of the way.
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