Long time coming,
you know,
spend a lot of spent a lot of years in this league and and
I've loved every minute of it.
I
you know, I feel blessed to be able to play in this league for
as long as I have
but
I sure am happy for this opportunity for not only myself
but really so many guys in that locker room that deserve this
too. So
that's what it is. It's an opportunity, you know to go out
there and win another one. I don't know that I ever,
you know thought about
You know what? I would be feeling at this moment other,
you know, I probably just
sat there and just wish that I could be in those in those
games and so happy that I've got the opportunity to be in
them and I'm gonna have an opportunity to be in another
one that I've always wanted to play in.
I don't know. I just
I'm excited for these guys and looking forward for
the opportunity.
The poor Detroit Lions, I feel so bad for Lions fans. I'm sure
plenty of them are excited that Matthew Stafford was their
quarterback from 2009. Through 2020
has found success somewhere else, but
they had him for 12 years.
And they.
They couldn't win a playoff game. I saw a stat yesterday
breaks it down perfectly 0 and 3 in his career in
the postseason with the Lions 3 and 0 in one year in the postseason
with the Rams. That's what happens. When you have a great
coach.
You got great talent. You got an organization's, doing
everything they can to win
that. That that's what happens and you're throwing
a quarterback who? Yeah, it was some question marks. Even
yesterday, even yesterday. There was some question marks.
He was starting to look like late regular season, Matthew
Stafford, it, Yesterday. But legacies on the line in
the fourth quarter,
Chris down 10 points
Rams find a way to get it done. Yeah, I mean the Rams
to me than you know, just spelled, you know to
myths or things that we were,
you know, wondering about yesterday about the Rams
football team. The final two questions. We had to have
answered another and the first one,
you know, was the toughness of their team. Can they stop
the 49ers in the Run game and Shanahan? And how do you stop
Aaron Donald as you run out of them? This is why the 49ers
have won six straight against
this football team. They have that aspect though. The Rams,
the front, those dudes Von Miller. Aaron, Donald a Shaun
Robinson, Leonard Floyd, mon Miller. I mean, they said
enough enough.
I mean, they said, no more
49ers, Run game.
They put the game on Jimmy garoppolo's hands,
which we saw was struggles, Ville on the offensive side of
the ball and then that 49ers defense, which is that
absolutely phenomenal. You're right,
but Other part was oh no. Yeah. Matthew Stafford the Rams won
this game because of the toughness of their front seven
on defense.
And because of Matthew Stafford period, they didn't really have
much of a run game to talk about and they had a play,
a 49ers defense, which is probably the best in football.
It's top three. As we know. I think I'd probably take it
over. Just about
anybody out there
with that pass rush, everything they did
and it came down to,
oh, man. We need Matthew Stafford to make plays. And
when the swap ball game for, Russ. And also we need Cooper
cup and obj to do it along with them and they all delivered
their Stars once again, delivered, but
more importantly, Matthew Stafford and I just hope this
meant opens up. Everybody's eyes once again to it's more
than just the quarterback. We know the quarterback is
special, you need a team though.
You need a team to show what the house special
the quarterback and what he's capable of, and here he is to
you. You were saying all the Detroit, things has a team
around them
for the first year.
Over. And he goes to the Super Bowl
the first year ever. He's got a complete team. He goes to
the Super Bowl and everybody's crapped on and I hope everybody
sends apologies to his Twitter handle for all the jerks who
were mean to him while the years
trying to hold him accountable for the
Lions failures. So I'm so happy for him to see that and
the Rams and what they did. That was an unbelievable win. It was
gutsy.
And he got the crap beat out. Yes. He did. Right he took
early on and kudos to Fred bacon 49ers linebacker after
the game.
He admitted that it was a bad hit
on Matthew Stafford after that interception.
One of the 49ers defensive players screened off Stafford
from chasing down, Jimmy Ward,
and then Fred Warner comes in out of nowhere. Watch 54 come in
after the pick on the carom,
Fred War. Comes in and just flattens Matthew, Stafford.
I don't think we have it in the yeah, it's on. This is your
only shot. I mean, how is that? Not support his jumps up and
hits? Someone that believable. I mean, of all the things
they've called
All Year referees. That's the one you don't call.
That's where it's that's mind-boggling.
But yes, to your crib to your,
you know, your point and
and yes, thanks for bringing that up.
I mean, Stafford again.
There's another thing that he's been great as whole career
standing there. Being tough took a beating yesterday. Took
a beating. Ting
no Run game and made plays that. We didn't see Aaron
Rodgers make the week before and I threw the ball on
the side windows where you go. I don't see Aaron Rodgers do
that. I mean
he made some unbelievable players and I mean, here's him
under pressure again to you know, I think the thing is
yesterday. You're right. Did he dodged a bullet with
Tchaikovsky, tart intercepting, the pass down the middle? Sure.
All right. Well, I can go through a lot of games in the history
and go. Look this quarterback play great, but man, he dodged
a bullet here late in the game. Eli Manning through 12 and
Santi Samuels. Just
before he threw a touchdown to Plaxico Burress,
you know, Joe Montana threw a pick right in the Bangles.
Safeties chest right? Before he threw a Jonathan Jonathan
Taylor touchdown. There's your joukowsky tart, dropped
interception mistake, but what do we always say with these
mics? You see these type of plays where the demons makes
a mistake.
What happened after this?
Oh, boom, boom. Boom,
and Stafford made them pay. You don't give the guy like that,
another chance. And that was a big moment in the football
game, but didn't affect Stafford. He really went pushed
right through it made some big throws right after it.
It was a big moment and tart after the game. I was so
impressed with his willingness to embrace it to own it. He
said, when the ball was in the air, I thought he effed up and
he said the word, I thought he effed up. We're going
to win the game right here.
Now. Look, there was 955 left in the game.
The Rams were down by three. I don't know, the game was. No,
definitely not.
I think it would have been difficult for the Rams to win
it. In regulation may be their best player. That point would
have been to force a tie
and had to over time. It would not have been the dagger. Like
the Asante Samuel pick would have been right right up in
Super Bowl 42, but it was huge and,
and tart said,
those are moments of Truth and I failed in my moment of truth.
I mean, it really was amazing to see the Poise
the Candor and no excuse making. I mean, he owns a all
week long. I dropped everything. I caught everything
that came my way that was
My Moment of Truth
and I failed and again I don't want him to think and the other
49ers players did a great job of saying this isn't on him
this isn't on him. They still had chances after that to win
the game and to avoid losing the game in regulation so
tart but that's one of those moments that that's going to Echo
for years with 49ers fans because it felt like that was
the moment that Stafford was doing the Matthew Stafford
thing that we see from time to time, you know? Just the just
that that that just
Thing that can pop up out of the blue. We didn't see it in
either of the first two playoff games, but we saw it multiple
times yesterday, but he still fought through it and Crystal
way. He got banged around me.
He had a bandage on his elbow because it was bleeding all
over the place in the first half of right. He had
something. He's got something on his hand. Yeah. All sorts of
red and blue and black and purple and right leading and
and and I mean, he got crushed after one, plenty limped off.
The field. I
made the observation on Twitter. He's going to have
more ice bags. Than Ben Roethlisberger. By the time
this game is over. I mean, he was just, he was beat to hell
and he never, that's the way he's always been that endeavor
Lotus because he's playing for 100% Primetime. Like once every
three years, right? He always gets the crap beat out of him
and never says a word about it. Never acts like he's more
injured than he is. Yeah. If anything they hide his in rice
amazing and unappreciated because he played for a team
that
that we never really got to fully appreciate.
I think he can do. Yeah, I think that's exactly right
everybody. I think finally. Hopefully, he's getting to see
what the guy is capable of. He is he's Texas, tough. You could
say what you want. I mean, he's
he's played with broken fingers and
what broken back and issues there
where he sucked it up and gone through it. I mean,
he's he's a baller and let alone,
you know, again, what you saw last night, it wasn't always
pretty, because that's a great defense. They tore up and had
made some plays on. But I mean again some of the throws he
made were eye-popping in that game.
There are there eye-popping throws. I mean the throne to
the right corner to Cooper cup for the touchdown. The throw
right after he almost threw the interception to Kawaski tart.
What a clutch throw down the left sideline, Odell Beckham
jr.
Boom tight window
Odell. How about him
knowing somebody's about to head hunt, them
catches the ball. I mean, Jimmy, Ward launches into him
with the crown of his helmet. They get like 30-something
yards on one play after that dropped interception.
Just a huge momentum, swing right there.
Where then they tie the football game.
And I think, ultimately,
within Stafford,
his play his composure,
what he did for the football team in the offensive side.
Because come on, it was him Cooper cup and obj. They
Carried the squad on that side and then the defense,
you know, ultimately finally getting the 49ers into a game where
you can't just run on us at will
you're going to have to beat us with Jimmy Garoppolo
and as we saw there
that's the thing. We always worried about with the
Einar's hadn't happened in the playoffs.
But it finally did to where
he had to make the plays.
He had to make the throws.
It wasn't going to be Shanahan coming up with trick,
you know, Deebo Samuel, touchdown passes and reverses
and, you know, even again last night, one of their biggest
place was a screenplay.
He was going to have to make plays, it was that type of game
and one team at the quarterback that can make plays, and
the other one didn't.