Chris Simms
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1,401 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Apr
Chris Simms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I'm with you there. I'm glad you're bringing this up. I actually brought this up before today because Josh Allen gets talked about like he's the worst playoff quarterback I've ever seen. And I want to go, his statistics are like the greatest of all time. Like, what are you talking about? Just because his team can't beat one of the greatest teams we've ever seen in history, the Chiefs, right?
There hasn't, other than the Bengals game where the Bengals went into Buffalo a few years ago and beat them 27 to 10. That was really the only stinker Josh Allen and the Bills have ever have laid in the playoffs. And I would tell you that I don't think they were as good as some of the years of the teams they lost to. So, like, that's not crazy.
Lamar Jackson, on the other hand, yes, this is the last part of his, like, Hall of Fame resume is he's got to win some of these. And I would say with Lamar Jackson, I would go... His Super Bowl, his playoff losses are against teams that his team was better. They shouldn't have lost the game. So, yeah, they both have something to... Except for maybe the Chiefs last year.
But yet, if there's a year where you're 14-3, you're the one seed, right?
But I know what you mean. I'm with you totally. The Chiefs are a different... It's like the Patriots, like you were talking about. A little different animal than everybody else, 100%. But, yeah. I don't like the narratives around a lot of it. Both are unbelievable first ballot Hall of Famer type players. They're special. We haven't seen anything like them.
But yeah, Lamar, to get to where he wants to go and be in that top tier of all-time quarterbacks, he's going to have to get to a Super Bowl, win some playoff games. Josh Allen's in the same boat. Now, I think Josh Allen, like I said, and the criticism of him in the playoffs is ridiculous. His supporting cast has not been that great since he's been there.
This is the best supporting cast he's had on the offensive side of the ball. You saw yesterday, their O-line, if you want to play past defense, they can run the ball on you. Of course, he can run the ball. They got two pretty good tight ends. Their receivers, none of them might not be a superstar, but they're all damn good and can do some stuff.
And then, you know, of course, we know Baltimore's defense is not super great. It's been a lot better. But I do think a lot of pressure is going to be on Buffalo's offense to win this game. Because what I do get scared about is Buffalo's defense. Buffalo's defense is certainly the weakest unit in this game.
And when they play teams that are big offensive lines that can run the ball on them, it really puts them in a bind. And that's what I worry about in this one, that they're going to have to commit so much to stop Derrick Henry and Lamar in the run game. that is just going to leave huge windows in the pass game. And we see the Ravens do that to teams, you know, quite a bit.
We're talking about quarterbacks that got to get off some playoff struggles. I think he's going to have a big bullseye on him here until he squashes some of this stuff going forward.
Right? Like I kind of joked, like the chargers stopped charging this year, right? They've, they've not beaten themselves, done stupid shit, right? None of that. Well, until Saturday, they became the Chargers Chargers again. I mean, they controlled the early part of the football game.
The fact that they were only up 6-0 was one of those where you're like, damn, they're kind of kicking the crap out of Houston. They're only up 6-0. Oh, man. Uh-oh, now they're going to have to hang on. But blown opportunities, whether it was Will Disley dropping a wide-open pass or not putting his pads down to get a first down, and then they got stopped on the third one.
Then they get a turnover, and Justin Herbert tries to throw the ball on the run totally across the field to the other side. He's late. He doesn't throw it far enough. Just dumb mistakes, 100%. And yeah, that's disappointing. I mean, they got their ass whooped. Let's just be real as far as when the game continued, their O-line got totally dominated. They couldn't run the football.
But yeah, they blew opportunities early on in the football game to change the dynamics of the game and put Houston in a position where they might have to change the way they wanted to play. And they blew that and slowly but surely, Houston hung in there. Their defense made a lot of plays. They got a lot of playmakers on defense. Their issue in Houston is
and I like what they did on Saturday, Ryan, the short passing game. I've been begging them to do three-step drop because you know their pass protection sucks, yet they run play-action pass and wait for these long-developing pass plays to get open downfield. That doesn't make sense. Pass protection sucks, but we want long-developing pass plays, right?
So I thought they made the right adjustments there, but yeah, man, the Chargers, Justin Herbert, he's going to have this stigma around him until he proves otherwise here in the future.
Right, right. This is like, he's not as athletic as some of the guys you talked about. This is something I've broken down a lot. They need to do a better job of, they let the center call the pass protections, right? That's one of their issues there to me. And schematically, people have exposed the way they protect and their scheme itself. let alone when you let the center do it all the time.
And this is where, again, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Burrow, Mahomes, they're all over, hey, Mike 52, and then they know where all their problems are after that. C.J. Stroud has been taught, because this is the way they run offense there, hey, just trust the center. He'll figure it out. And that's a tough way to play quarterback, especially when you don't protect and teams start to blitz you.
And you're going, well, the coach told me just to trust the center all week, but I don't know. There's four guys coming over there. Are we sure we got them picked up? So I think they got to make the next phase of letting him take total control of the offense, like you used to see Tom Brady do. You know, oh, no, no, hey, hey, scratch 54.
Let's go Ringo 52 over here and gets everybody on the same page. And, of course, the guy running the damn defense
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