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.
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
Full Episode
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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