The Ryen Russillo Podcast
What’s Fair in the Lamar Criticisms? Jayden’s Run and the Chiefs' Dark Arts With Willie Colon. Plus, Notre Dame–Ohio State Picks.
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Russillo starts the show with his thoughts on Ravens-Bills and what it's fair to critique Lamar Jackson on (0:50). Then, he’s joined by Willie Colon to recap all four divisional games, discuss the Chiefs' penalty controversy, and talk about which of Willie's former teammates he could beat in a fight (16:55). Then, Ryen shares his picks for Notre Dame–Ohio State (61:39) before Ceruti and Kyle join for Life Advice (69:12)! How do I tell the girls I’m hooking up with that I have no interest in dating them? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Willie Colon Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the fair criticisms of Lamar Jackson?
On today's episode of the podcast, we open with Buffalo advancing his death weight. Lamar, America's favorite quarterback? Probably not. But what's fair about the guy behind center for the Ravens? We're going to break down all these games with Willie Colon, including the Eagles holding up Rams, the KC controversy, and, of course, Washington doing unprecedented things with a rookie quarterback.
That's right. Historically unprecedented. We've got our pick for the national championship and why Ohio State has a chance to achieve unprecedented redemption. Love that word today. And life advice. Buffalo wins. They're headed to the AFC title game. And that's where I'm going to start. And I'm going to do really the open on that. And then we'll get to all the other games.
Willie Colon is going to join us here. So Buffalo's taking on Kansas City again this week. And they're getting a point and a half. That's the opening line at Arrowhead. We've been there before. We've seen this before. We've seen it in Buffalo as well. I don't know if it's because of Kansas City having this absurd regular season record, despite not being the Kansas City that we always expect.
I don't really want to pick against Kansas City, but I guess I'm doing it. On Monday, I'm doing it. Maybe it's a little Buffalo hangover and the excitement of their win, but I'm picking Buffalo again. And I don't love it. And we'll see if I change my mind. I'm usually pretty stubborn on this stuff, so I don't know that it will happen. I don't know. It's not like I'm going to Kansas City.
I'm going to start walking around like it's happened in Louisiana, where you're just like, yeah, let's go. Let's see what happens here. But that's what I'm doing. That's the way I feel on Monday. So there's a bunch of stuff that I need to get to with this game, and that's why we're going to spend so much time on it. Because Baltimore...
At one moment, I thought, okay, this game has turned around and the Ravens are going to win it. So when I say Buffalo hung on to win despite leading at halftime and pulling this out, there's a moment in this game where I'm like, okay, this is where Buffalo is absolutely hanging on. So Buffalo goes up. It was 21-10 at the half.
But if you look at Baltimore scoring on possessions, there's three straight possessions, real possessions in there because there's an end-of-half thing there. But it's field goal, field goal, touchdown on three straight real possessions that make it 21-19. They fail the two-point conversion on a batted pass. So they had a look, but it's 21-19. The touchdown drive for Baltimore at that time
had to be probably the worst experience for Bills fans all season long.
Because when we looked at this matchup, and whether it was the quarterback discussion, the coaching stuff, skill guys, pass rush, whatever, like the accepted advantage, and we talked about this on Wednesday with Ted Wynn and the film breakdown part of it, the accepted advantage was that Baltimore's front, not their defensive front, their offensive line, and Henry... and the Lamar dynamic.
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Chapter 2: How did Buffalo perform against Kansas City?
But I thought his ability to spread them out and just really be deliberate and on time with the ball was just like, and on the road in Detroit, when the place is rocking, I was like, man, this kid got the marbles. And so I'm impressed with everything he's done thus far. I think what most impresses me is that
He continues to be consistent, and that's the hardest thing to do in this league, just be consistent. You can have those one-off games. You can maybe even go on a little bit of a hot streak. But to be consistent week after week going into the playoffs. And I was talking to my brother about this.
I think one thing we talk when it comes to rookies, sometimes not having a resume or prior playoff experiences help you. Like he only knows what he knows, right? He doesn't have that prior, like, Oh, like Josh Allen can go down. Even Lamar Jackson can go down that playoff resume and be like, Oh, I remember that game. I know not, I know what not to do now. Jaden Daniel doesn't have that, right?
He's just, he's playing football as he feels like the best way he can play. And so I think that's helping them a lot. And I think, Listen, I thought the commander's defensive line did a hell of a job of collapsing the pocket, really disrupting the timing of Jared Goff, you know, especially with those intermediate throws.
And I thought Washington, man, I just thought, I thought they was like, hey, man, we're, you know, I know this is a stealer line, but I think they really rolled into Detroit. Like, we're going to burn the boats. Either we're going to give them hell or we're going to die right here on this field. And I thought they fought their tails off.
All right, I'm glad you brought up the Blitz because when it works, whether it's Spagnuolo at the end of the game or you're like, okay, he did it again. And we'll get to some Kansas City-Houston stuff here as well. But we saw the Blitz destroy Darnold in that Detroit-Minnesota matchup. And then we saw a carryover where the Rams probably destroyed
a bit of a departure with Shula's defense of what they like to do. And it's like, well, we just watched this guy look like a shell of himself. So maybe, maybe we do some of that. And so you figure with Detroit and again, what do we always see when we're watching regular season Sunday games? Hey, third and seven, it's a rookie quarterback. You know, they're just sending pressure.
He's not going to understand. He's going to miss somebody. And yet, here's Jaden. And it's like, nah, you know, and I, I don't, I don't know if like clearly it's on him. Cause it doesn't seem like there's an area of a field where he's afraid to throw it. It looks like they're asking him to hit like, no, it looks like throw the ball over there. Like the McLaurin,
screen to the side that never works that well no whatever he was three over two three over two he just dumped it off and it went to the crib and i'm like i was sitting there like uh-oh like like the kid is on like he never was never rattled by any of that he just knew where to go to football right away picked it up at the line it was balls out and up and there goes mclaurin so how does a blitz
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Chapter 3: What were the key moments in the Buffalo vs. Baltimore game?
Mickey's buffet sucked actually. And it's, I don't know. I could, I could see a lot of parents be like, we just, you know, they're all the right age. We waited until everyone will remember this trip and we just have to do it. I think there's a lot of adults like that out there, but you're right. There's way too many Disney adults for, uh, how many kids there are still. So I don't know. Yeah.
I think a lot of adults bring their kids to Disney because they actually want to go to Disney. Perhaps my dad wasn't one of them. I can tell you that.
Yeah. We never, we never, I tried to go to the spectrum so I could watch Moses Malone. My dad was like Philly. Fuck that. Yeah. Like for four or five years in a row, I was like, can you just take me to the spectrum so I can see Moses and then Charles? Because Moses was traded in 86. And he's like, I'm not driving to Philadelphia for a fucking Sixers game.
It's like, all right, but we go to Hartford for UConn games. So it's a lot closer. It's a lot closer. All right. Good luck with all that. And it's up in 18 years. Hope it works. Let us know. Okay, all right. Let's get to a guy who just cannot stop hooking up. Whoa. Forgot to mention the friends with benefits part. Hello, friends. Jim Nance voice. 37 years old. 6'1", 176. Precise measurements here.
No basketball comp. I don't watch or play at golf comp. Nick Dunlap. Good enough to win it, but I'll also shoot a 44 on the back nine and miss the cut, but I'll chug a beer with you. Exclamation. Anyways, dot, dot, dot. So I signed up on Bumble with every intention to just have ideally multiple strictly physical relationships. It was going well. Lots of matches. I live in Los Angeles. Don't worry.
You can say all the cities and names. There's no shortage of beautiful women here. This guy's just like, and then my dad who works at, just kidding. All right. So you already know how it works. Actually, I don't know how it works. You do. I don't need to bore you with a matching and small talk details with these women. question mark, females. There's two women in jeopardy here.
Now, I told you guys I want to keep it strictly physical. However, I did fail to mention that minor detail to these ladies. I thought it was on my profile, but it is not. Are dudes keeping it strictly physical on their profiles?
I think we know that's why it wasn't on his profile, because I think you get less matches when you do that. Come on. I think you know that, man.
I won't like you. Here for the banging. Totally will take the L. Hand up, Doug Christie style. Okay, I used to watch some ball. I still can't get over that Doug Christie mic'd up thing with Ellis where he was telling his own player to make sure he didn't give the ref too hard of a time when he wasn't really even giving him. And he's like, well, you know, we have a standard here. Fascinating stuff.
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