Dave Dameshek

He's over them.

He's going with the Rams, though, up to chilly Chicago.

We're going to get his thoughts on that game, the other four games, all the rest of it.

Meantime, as we do, at the top of every episode, real quick here, I say it's episode 43, the players who wore that number best in the NFL.

Clear cut, it's Troy Palomalu.

I think we take our first dip into motorsports and the history of football America here.

King Richard, Richard Petty, and in baseball, Dennis Eckersley.

I bring him up because he had a long, great Hall of Fame career, starting pitcher for the Red Sox, then becomes the best reliever of the era for the athletics.

But what is he best known for?

Giving up that home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson.

I mention that because those are the stakes of the divisional round and on in the NFL here.

Sam Darnold may not like that.

Josh Allen may not like it.

It may feel unfair to put it all on their shoulders.

That's how it works.

We've talked about it before.

Limited sample sizes.

The advanced analytics peeps don't have to like it, but that's how history works, and we're about to see some history.

Meantime, history for John Harbaugh in Baltimore, that's over with, but he's now the New York Giants coach.

All the teams with openings are lining up.