2024 NFL Conference Championship Preview (AFC & NFC) | The Audible

2024 NFL Conference Championship Preview (AFC & NFC) | The Audible

Sunday Sunday Sunday the big day in the National Football League AFC Conference Championship NFC Conference Championship although I think I just said conference twice Bloom we’ve got to talk about him here and it’s Kansas City and Baltimore we collectively combine the two teams unlike our season long previews so we’re

Talking about both honestly I do not know how Baltimore loses this game right this one is huge Mark Andrews should be back he’s been pring in full of course he did that last week and they chose to keep him out of that contest so now he’s back most likely this week we’ll see

What that does for that team only strengthens them further Lamar Jackson is amazing outside of Jackson getting bounced from this game I really don’t know how Baltimore loses this one but Kansas City is going to put up a fight with a running back that always puts up

A fight his name is Isaiah peo he’s got a little bit of a toe injury I believe now it’s always something with beo as long as it’s not his shoulders it seems to be okay he the anger angest runner in the league but helping out Pat Mahomes

One of the greatest passers of all time right now and he’s not even done not even close so Kansas City Baltimore this one is going to be absolutely epic I think honestly it’ll be the best game of the weekend and really Bloom it might actually be the Super Bowl we’re Clash

Of the Titans here Chiefs Ravens let’s get it on yeah this one uh as you kept touching on I think that the opening note of previewing this game is it’s now or never Baltimore uh both the team and how it’s set up and the script they have

A cakewalk against the Texans and facing a flawed but extremely dangerous Chiefs team extremely dangerous because they have the playoff Mystique they have the Mystique this is the first game that Patrick Mahomes will ever have played on the road in the playoffs uh last yes last week was there’s a first Conference

Championship I’m sorry this is the first Conference Championship will play on the road but that just shows you the Mystique uh and how I mean if there’s one way CE you’re like how are they going to lose how are they going to lose if there’s one way they’re going to lose

It is that psychological mindset issue of the Chiefs believe they’re going to win these games and the Ravens have been a very severe underachiever in the playoffs during the Lamar Jackson era so if things start to go against the Ravens then then you start potentially getting

This bad feeling right uh ask the bills about the bad feeling so let’s look start at uh the history of Lamar Jackson versus Patrick Mahomes because they have they haven’t played since 2021 but uh the Chiefs are actually three and one against Lamar but in the last one Lamar

Jackson won 3635 in a fourth quarter comeback down two scores so at least the last time Lamar Jackson played Patrick Mahomes he overcame this it wasn’t in the playoffs Lamar Jackson hasn’t really had a signature playoff win yet hasn’t really had that game where he shows that

In the most important moments in the most important games he can make the best plays that he can make but he did have that and as a rookie uh he actually lost to Patrick Mahomes in overtime so they can play this Chiefs team close the question is uh can they number one keep

Mahomes from hurting them and c I think that the answer here you got ja Daven Clowny who’s actually very quietly had a Resurgence this year uh D OA you know they’ve got uh the great linebacker combination that roquan Smith trade has really worked out rwan Smith and Patrick

Queen Marlon Humphrey is healthy uh so you have the players I think when Baltimore is on defense and Mike McDonald who’s one of the hottest names you know uh this certainly Mike McDonald I think is going to have a very specific game plan for Patrick Mahomes and I

Actually think C I’ll toss it to you ask you this I actually think we think of Lamar Jackson as a quarterback that you want to keep in the pocket that you’re not pinning your ears back and rushing but I think that actually applies more to Patrick Mahomes yeah I think it does

Apply to Mahomes a lot and the thing is with Peko who you know I love you’re not going to scare Baltimore you brought up ran you brought up Patrick Queen like you’re not scaring Baltimore you’re not intimidating them you’re not out bullying them look what

They did to Pat Brock pie ex they made Brock pie look like Mr Irrelevant yeah exactly so like okay um you may want to beat them up on the ground right it would make sense open things up for momes you’ve got Kelsey whose age continues to show maybe I’m premature

With that um and we’ve been doing this show long enough Bloom it reminds me when Marvin Harrison was done like all of a sudden Marvin Harrison was just done and you’re like wait a second that just happened so I don’t know if that’s necessarily the case with Kelsey and we

Also have retirement buzz you know me Bloom I’m always listening for the tea and oh what tea I will get when I’m at The Shrine game in the Senior Bowl but I’ve already heard Reed would retire this year I’ve already heard that Kelsey would retire this year a lot of people

Have so it’s not breaking news but once you think about that although the Rams and McVey and Stafford proed me wrong but I’ve always said once you open that Pandora’s box of like retirement man I mean how do you summon up your best maybe you do summon up your

Best like Ray Lewis did right we take it back to Baltimore when Ray Lewis knew he was done what did Baltimore do they went on a run and they want it all in your neck of the woods with the power out yeah that that’s you know it’s it’s

Funny Jim Harbaugh is back in the NFL new cycle John Harbaugh could get potentially back to a Super Bowl so that Super Bowl down here with the power outage certainly comes into play and I we could see a Baltimore San Francisco rematch certainly that was what the

Money uh the chalk was going into the playoffs um another thing just on the Kansas City side Joe thuny their best offensive lineman I think uh probably not going to play with a peck issue but I do think on the Kansas City side like you said run PCO keep the game low

Scoring keep it more like a street fight but on the Baltimore side so again what’s different about this Baltimore team than the teams that underachieved with Lamar Jackson at quarterback uh the coordinators you know mention Todd monin too but also you have a healthyish uh Mark Andrews and Isaiah

Likele okay this team now when you have a two tight end set it’s not Nick Bole it’s not a third tackle so that’s tough to defend and there’s not a lot of tape from this year now will Todd monin be able to deploy that in a way to really

Keep Steve spagnol off balance the defensive coordinator for the Chiefs the other thing is you’ve got Odell Beckham you’ve got Z flowers you’ve got Rashad baitman you’ve got even Nelson aalor so you really can decide with Gus Edwards even in Justice Hill too bad keete Mitchell’s not healthy there’s a lot of

Different modes of this offense and unlike the Baltimore’s job against Kansas City Mike McDonald’s job I mean it’s basically Kelsey and rice and the running game there’s a lot of different ways that Baltimore can beat you and Todd monin is probably going to have a lot of plans there’s so much more to

This offense now and you just want to see how creative they are what you don’t want to see is being conservative what you don’t want to see is tight right let let’s just take care of the ball um so Baltimore I mean as you’re indicating CE you know there’s a range top range

Outcomes for Baltimore here where they can like they did to San Francisco earlier this year really humble Kansas City and really show yes this is a flawed Kansas City team and this is the best Baltimore team of the Lamar Jackson era the question still becomes can you

Execute can you play up to that that’s what separates the champions from the teams well that frankly we don’t talk about anymore because they didn’t live up to expectations right and they’ve got Z flowers yeah they’ve got Z flowers man like um that’s going to be interesting

And difficult it won’t be shocking to anyone based on the conversation I’m going to pick the Baltimore Ravens and it’s not because Chiefs fans can’t stand me some other Chiefs fans at me on YouTube the other day I was like dude don’t you know the drill no it was on

Twitter it was on Twitter it was about this show actually I think it was talking about Buffalo and I don’t know if he got back to me but I was just like dude I they think Shawn mcdermitt’s terrible like how is that not looking at

K I guess you have to blow bubbles at everybody I don’t know all I know is Chiefs fans don’t like me whatever Mahomes is awesome greatest one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time already I love Peko love Brett vich I just don’t think I’m going to love that

W for KC this week yeah this is the kind of game you play it 10 times you get eight Ravens wins this might be one of the two that is a Chiefs win but you got to pick the Ravens here and I think what you’re looking for also again is the

Coordinators this is what’s different than the previous versions that underachieved and part of that has create the see here’s the other thing I’ll say it’s different this team committed to Lamar Jackson so Lamar Jackson is comfortable now Lamar Jackson lar Jackson is M can rest yeah because

He knows that we’re a team we’re we’re committed we’re we’re going into the sunset together and that Sunset might be holding a Lombardi trophy but they got some business to do on Sunday afternoon first yeah Sunday get it done and then next up Bloom this was going to be

Interesting I just kind of want to observe you I want to talk to you I want to hold you um but mainly I want to observe you when I talk about the Lions and the 49ers spoiler alert I’m taking the 49ers okay like let’s just get that

Out of the way but the Lions can and will put up a fight it’s Dan Campbell you knock us down we’re gonna get back up and chew your kneecap off okay 49ers can knock him down we watch the Debo thing right now as of this recording we

Do not know if Debo Samuel is even going to play we know that mcaffrey is going to play and be a star and he’s amazing and all that we already know all the weapons on both sides but the lions are different much different they’ve got momentum San Francisco has all the

Pressure this is the team that’s been there before and they won Jimmy Garoppolo not seeing Emanuel Sanders play from winning a Super Bowl against Kansas City by the way and like souped up Kansas City not like kind of Staggering in Kansas City a superior Kansas City team to the team they put

Out there yeah yes so Kyle Shanahan has a ton of pressure he’s got a ton of playoff failures already love Kyle sorry Kyle but we’re just going to tell the truth truth and the truth is belligerent at times but the truth is Detroit is playing I don’t want to say house money

That kind of takes away from what they’ve done they certainly haven’t gotten lucky they’re very skilled they’re very dangerous team and they don’t have the pressure that San Francisco has and I want to see how that I want to watch your reaction when you talk about the Lions yeah but I also

Want to see how they react in a game where they’re kind of in the driver seat and they’re the flipping Road team sorry Joe yeah I’ll start here CE I’ll just ask you this question okay the result because like you said we don’t do Recaps of the playoff games the result of the

San Francisco Green Bay game last week where Green Bay was the better team GRE Bay outplayed San Francisco 100% uh absolutely outplayed San Francisco and even had it still after letting San Francisco take a lead late in the game had a chance to tie or win the game

Right um is that that we are underestimate we underestimated Green Bay that this Green Bay team with Aaron Jones etc etc was a lot better than the one we’ seen and that’s just how good they are or is it that San Francisco maybe is vulnerable San Francisco is

100% vulnerable not taking anything away from Green Bay again everyone’s so damn sensitive you got to tell say it like no San Francisco put their gloves down Kyle Shanahan has done this before 28 to3 right you’re going to put your gloves down oh we got this oh it’s Green

Bay oh they’re lucky to be here no it’s called Any Given Sunday for a reason and the 49ers they’re very good they’re damn good but they’re not Unstoppable and they better be careful against the Lions yeah and this is a Lions team what’s really fun about previewing projecting this game CE is

That we talk about and look this isn’t a two versus 15 one versus 16 kind of college basketball Markus Madness matchup but it is a game where as the underdog on the road especially with the Lions history coming into this or lack of history in the Super Bowl era and you

Have the right coach right you have the right coach where look if they lose you’re not going to feel like why weren’t they Bolder why didn’t they like we’re talking about with Baltimore you know why did why did they play it so safe they’re not going to do that

They’re not going to do that on either side of the ball and that’s exciting these two teams have played well I say these two teams I mean the Kyle Shanahan 49 ERS and the Dan Campbell Lions have played one time only once it was actually the first game of the Dan Campbell

Era uh and this game was 4117 at the two-minute warning and the final score was 4133 and the Lions had the ball to San Francisco 25 with a chance to tie down 4117 at the two-minute warning the Lions almost came back and tied that game it’s talking about putting your gloves down

CE there you go so that’s your keynote if you’re Dan Campbell right this was a vastly inferior Lions team it was the first game of the Dan Campbell era and they got waxed just pushed around in their own building by San Francisco and still almost tied the game recovered a

Couple of onside kicks uh or no actually it was like an onsite kick and then Debo Samuel fumbled um and they had a chance they actually had a chance in that game so that’s something you build on because that this team is so much better than

That team how are they better uh Jared G confidence jir Gibbs Sam leaport Jameson Williams right right right Amon R Brown uh wasn’t Amon Ross ain’t Brown yet and if everybody’s healthy you could say they have better weapons they quarterback they can match they can match the Firepower of the

Got a Gibbs that’s have and they can match the schemes they can match the ability like the play um last week with Brock Wright just the little things right the little things Ben Johnson dialing up a play where obviously in that situation you’re going to Sam lorta

And you run a play that shows like Hey we’re going to go to something that’s very strong in this situation we’re going to go to Sam laap pora and then you run the blocking tight end across the formation and throw to him instead that’s the kind of Chess mindset that I

Think Kyle shanan has always been the natural at and that you need to win in January and February in the NFL which is I know that you know that I know that you know that I know right I when we put this formation out there in this

Situation I know that you’re going to be overplaying this aspect of this play and just like all the good Shanahan plays every play has two or three or four options and the quarterback just has to be able to identify recognize what’s going on to know what the right option

Is and certainly the sequencing and timing of the play calling can make that even easier so this is so in some way ceas I think we’re going to be watching a game where the two most important figures aren’t even on the field it’s Ben Johnson and Kyle Shanahan but at the

Same time you don’t you feel like Detroit’s going to establish the run like don’t you feel like Detroit’s just going to come out it’s not something um that we didn’t expect them to be as successful with jir Gibbs as they were against Tampa um but they still were a

Pass heavy team right I I do think that as an underdog on the road you do want to shorten the game you want to reduce the number of possessions and you want to make it a smaller margin of error and establishing the Run does that and they

Have a guy and I mean we talk a lot about thunder and lightning this is a really ideal like the platonic ideal of a thunder and lightning in the sense that David and Montgomery fight fight fight fight fight fight fight fight fight every time he touches the ball to

Put him on the ground and then jir Gibbs can leave you in the dust jir Gibbs can absolutely make you look silly in the open field so this is this is exciting San Francisco’s defense isn’t that scary you mentioned Debo Samuel probably not going to play even if he does play how

Much of an impact is he going to haveit way yeah I mean I think that and I I I think that um Detroit has to play number one they have to play Ben but don’t break defense okay what you don’t want to see from Detroit’s defense from Aaron

Glenn is a risky like all risk reward right don’t Blitz Brock pie how about that this is like Baltimore and Mike McDonald how about this don’t Blitz Mike m uh don’t Blitz Patrick Mahomes don’t Blitz Brock pie just don’t just don’t count on on guys like Aiden Hutchinson Brian Branch count on players

To make a play When the Game focuses on them and says can you make a play right now uh and and hope and just keep it so that if you can just get one or two of those breaks and you don’t have any unforced a and hey Jared Goff has been

Doing an excellent job keeping mistakes to a minimum right there haven’t been big swings in these games where Jared Goff is creating momentum for the other team so that’s going to be a key here I think this is a closer matchup than most people probably have it and I think that

This is going to be a game where we know that the Lions can put emotion on their side right we know that the Lions can harness energy from emotion it could emotion be against San Francisco in this one again where if Detroit shows think about like the

Classic you know the title fight Apollo Creed and Rocky when Rocky starts Landing some punches and the crowd says wait a second wait a second this is going to be a real fight this isn’t going to be an exhibition what can San Francisco do to

Answer that and I I I think this this one is the outcome is very much in question you are bringing up emotion you are bringing up vibration we’re only 19 minutes into the show and it’s time to get crunchy if you get that home crowd into

Like here we go again mode MH who believes they can who really believe and San Francisco is excellent San Francisco could easily win the Super Bowl even against Baltimore right which I think Baltimore wins at all but either way like if that crowd starts getting into the here we go here’s another Kyle

Shanahan collapse like Detroit believes Detroit believes that’s a powerful tool for all of us in all walks of life sounds like you might pick the Lions Bloom I want to I mean I I really want to pick the Lions I’m just going to pick the Lions I’ll pick the Lions and I’ll

Pick the Lions for this reason um they’ve tasted success now look they beat the team that probably was most capable of beating San Francisco and when they beat the Rams when they beat the Rams and San Francisco we were this close to this game being in Detroit DET and being an

NFC North matchup between Green Bay and Detroit and I know it was before Detroit played but Detroit had to be watching that San Francisco Green Bay game thinking we can beat them we can beat the San Francisco team and like we said that’s all that matters and maybe I’m

Picking with my heart but yes picking the Lions okay picking the Lions and to wrap up today’s program Chargers have a new head coach his name is Jim Harbaugh I said it was a bad day for the the Broncos yesterday because it was because that’s a guy they wanted to hire and now

Harbaugh get Herbert and I still think he might draft JJ McCarthy to develop behind Herbert it’s actually kind of Genius anyway Harbaugh’s back in the league in the Spanos family there were Rumblings they wanted to not be cheap anymore or not have that right illusion of them being

Cheap you’re getting Harbaugh did the money ever come out I know his five-year deal was like 100 million something like that whatever he wants yeah they call it Walter pton that’s 34 bands um it’s lyrics from a rap song Bloom anyway Harbaugh to the Chargers let’s talk

About it yeah I think that um it’s something that you called weeks ago by the way run it back uh I think that what you have here these Elemental forces where on one hand Jim Harbaugh has been a success everywhere he’s gone as a coach everywhere everywhere he’s gone been

There I mean he didn’t the power outage right they didn’t win the Super Bowl down here in New Orleans when San Francisco with Colin Kaepernick and let’s keep in mind like what happened to Colin Kaepernick’s career he went to a Super Bowl with Colin Kaepernick okay so

Yeah that’s enough for me to say he had a successful run as the San Francisco 49ers head coach obviously he accomplished everything that they wanted in Michigan and even putting Josh Johnson on the radar going back to the terreros University of San Diego so Jim Harbaugh’s been successful everywhere

He’s gone but then you mentioned Spanos you mentioned the Chargers and you wonder if this is like a Joe burrow moment where we had one idea of the Bengals franchise but then when something happens you the door opens to changing your ways the door opens to putting that

History of this franchise behind them uh so we’ll see I mean I think it sets up a great story and I I think we all just are going to sit back and see what like you said JJ McCarthy I mean it’s really wide open what’s Jim Harbaugh’s plan

Going to be to get get this team to the level that it should be with a quarterback like Justin Herbert and this probably was the coveted job right because of Justin Herbert because why are all the other teams looking for a coach because they don’t have a quarterback right that’s the rare thing

That happened here is a team was looking for a coach that had a quarterback already they got the coach they wanted they zeroed in it isn’t often that we say the Chargers got it done the Chargers had a mission and they accomplished that mission so maybe they’ll accomplish the bigger mission in

The future and they say the Chargers choke till Harbaugh gets there he’s there to kick your ass sorry Joe he’s there to grind your bones into dust so look out and if Andy Reid retires he’s the best head coach in the AFC West yeah you know like uh and I love

Antonio Pierce can’t say I Love Shawn Payton I respect him for sure I’m afraid of him I’m not afraid of him but anyway that’s a wrap for the show Conference Championship let’s go Bloom and I’ll be back on Tuesday I’ll be on the road going to the shrine game over the

Weekend and then to the Senior Bowl next week so we’ve got shows for you coming up on Tuesdays and Thursdays talking about all things National Football League he’s Sigman Bloom follow him on on the socials at Sigma Bloom I’m at C salamy the show is at the audible thanks

For watching everyone stay tuned and as always please stay frosty nah

Sigmund Bloom and Cecil Lammey preview the 2024 NFL Conference Championship matchups between the Ravens vs Chiefs and the 49ers vs Lions. Can Lamar Jackson get to the Super Bowl? Do the Lions continue their cinderella run? #nfl #nflplayoffs #nflfootball

2024 NFL Conference Championship Preview | The Audible
00:00 – Ravens vs Chiefs
10:00 – 49ers vs Lions
21:43 – Chargers hire Jim Harbaugh

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