gladly and notoriously stirred, the stew was Al Davis, his
franchise on the brink. Now
of getting back to the playoffs.
They have a winning in scenario that will broadcast on NBC and
peacock on Sunday night Chargers, Raiders, winners and
loser goes home. All because the Raiders were able to do
something. I didn't think they could do Mike. I didn't think
they could go on the
road to Indianapolis and beat a very
good Cults team, but the Raiders
found a way to To get it done, delaying Indianapolis
and their clenched which they if hey if they can't beat
the Jaguars next week. They don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
But now the Raiders have set it up for themselves. Who would
have ever thought all that dysfunction? After everything
that happened with John
Green and Henry rugs.
And the way just felt like they were disintegrating.
They turned it around with that. Thanksgiving when over Dallas,
they've still been a little inconsistent since then
but they've gotten hot at the right time.
It's no longer about getting hot at Thanksgiving. It's about
getting hot at Christmas because Still a window. If
you've been
in a position where your middle of a pack ish,
you can get hot the last few weeks of the Season.
Steal, a playoff berth and off you go and the Raiders very
well may do that. Yeah, after those two situations, you know,
it looked like the Raiders were going to fall off the map. We
all kind of kind of pushed into shot aside and said
well, okay that's going to be it for them. They find a way it
was a fifth walk off with the year, their fifth. I mean
that's amazing. And
then the book on Derek Cars, we know we can throw
For a lot of yards, you can be a big time stats guy. Is
this was this 29th,
4th quarter comeback or overtime? Come back his win in
his eight years and but there are those that say, well, are
they coming back because of his mistakes? He had two bad
interception in this game. So
are you in a position to have to come back because of
the mistakes that you made and also they look good at the are up 13
to 3, and then you lose the lead. I mean, they are, they
are, you know, I go back to when my brother was on
the Cleveland Browns.
Cardiac kids, you know, this is the cardiac a Raiders. I mean,
it's just man you're winning. Then you lose your lead your
winning on walk-offs.
You know, you having to come back and your quarterback is
able to do that at their there, a head-scratching team. The
bottom line is, they put themselves in a position to get
into the playoffs.
What a way to end the regular season though in Las Vegas,
five years ago.
That, that would have been met with. What are you talking
about that? The 2021 NFL regular season is going to end
in Las Vegas,
but they fully and completely embraced it. It's going to be
a great, great game, a great way and fitting. We're going to
talk a little bit more about John Madden later in
the program. But a rematch of the Holy Roller game
to cap. The 2021 season,
you couldn't, you couldn't have written a better ending Mike.
No. No. Listen, it is amazing. For those that have
watched this game.
In for a long time, for decades, like you. And I maybe
the younger generation not so much. But, but we and those of
our age range understand this and can see, you know, kind of,
kind of get a little smile, a little smirk on our face and
say yeah. Okay,
pretty, pretty cool. How this thing can end.
Yeah, and, and again, the Colts should be able to still make it
in their team. You know, I've been rooting for teams to get
in
that that belong that will be competitive and a couple of
Weeks ago Sims and I came to the conclusion. We don't want
the Raiders in the
playoffs because
we don't think they can be competitive. When they get
there. I rescind my version of that, maybe Sims still thinks
they won't be but I think going to Indianapolis and winning
yesterday shows they can be competitive. And if they win,
essentially a playoff game at home against a bitter division,
rival in there, been some good Chargers Raiders games over
the years in recent years,
close exciting, nail-biter type games. We had the game on
Monday Night Football earlier this. You're it ended up being
John group. Was it the one that was John Green's last game
as coach the weeks of all melted together for me, but it
was that game where they fell in, but that the lightning
delay in a stadium that has a roof on it. They fell into
a deep hole. They try to come back. It was an exciting game.
It should be an exciting finish to the season for the Raiders
and the Chargers one gets in
one goes home and I won't be surprised Mike. If the Raiders
punched their ticket. They've got the momentum with three
straight wins as they sit at 9 and Evan and
the you know, it's hard not to root after the passing of John
Madden
after everything. The Raiders have been through
plenty of people have strong opinions on even though Jon
Gruden. Got what? He deserved. The way that it happened.
There's pending litigation fitting for the Raiders and
the legacy of Al Davis that there's pending litigation over the way
that
the John Gruden's
termination was handled.
It. Would it would be it would be kind of fun to see them in
the playoffs.
Listen II, agree. I mean, again I say for
the older generation,
they're going to enjoy this game and
and I'm sure leading up to it. There's going to be a whole lot
of video played of past games. And these matchups and how
they've gone, which will be very, very cool to see
unfortunately, because of the death of a couple of people.
We've seen a lot of videos over the last Decades of, you know,
the kenri
Dan Reeves and John mad. That's been, you know, it's been
tough. It's been great to read. Leave those memories, but these
would be memories to watch. You know, what these
two teams playing. There was some great matchups back in
the day.