The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Wild-Card Weekend Recap: The Jayden Daniels Show, Herbert, Love, and Tomlin Questions, QB Legacy Updates and the Arch Manning Future at Texas With Chris Simms
13 Jan 2025
Ryen opens with his thoughts on NFL wild-card weekend, including Jayden Daniels not playing like a playoff rookie and some QB legacy updates from the other matchups (00:40). Then, he chats with NBC’s Chris Simms on whether the Justin Herbert criticism is fair, Mike Tomlin’s future with the Steelers, the huge Ravens-Bills, Lamar vs. Allen showdown, and why he thinks the Eagles might be the best team in football (15:57). Finally, Ceruti and Kyle join for Life Advice, including tracking down stolen AirPods and what to do with a sweaty friend (56:49). 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: Chris Simms Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Full Episode
A packed wildcard weekend. We'll break down the headlines, the stats you should know, and a little QB legacy update potentially as well. Chris Sims breaking down all of the games, what he loved from Jaden Daniels before the draft, obviously what we've loved his rookie year, maybe a peek ahead to Baltimore and Buffalo, and just what teams are doing to certain quarterbacks around the league.
We've got life advice without Oregon, which is a disappointment, but enjoy the podcast. Let's recap NFL Wild Card Weekend. I'm going to recap all of the games with the headline, the stat you should know, when the game was over, and then some other stuff at the very end. We start with Washington's 23-20 win, a walk-off win against the Tampa Bay Bucs.
The headline for this one is that it's Washington ending a massive playoff drought. It's incredible whenever you go back and look at some of these things, but it's the first win for Washington in the playoffs since 2006. It's only their fourth playoff win as a franchise since they won the Super Bowl in 1991. in these numbers every time.
Maybe I'm the only one that's always blown away by some of the droughts that we're Not as familiar with unless you are a fan of that team. Jane Daniels, man, needed one first down to run out the clock and set up the game-winning field goal. It wasn't a touchdown. Obviously, it was a game-winning field goal, but let's talk about what Daniels has done this season.
12 touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime this season. That's the most ever for a rookie in NFL history. He had five touchdowns in the last 30 seconds of regulation or overtime, which is two more than any other quarterback since the 1970 NFL merger. If you think about
What it's like, again, as a non-Commanders fan, any of us just watching football, in that moment where you're like, yeah, this rookie QB is going to come in and he'll probably set him up for the game-winning field goal drive because it's what we've been seeing the majority of the season all year long.
To have that kind of confidence, this calming, like, yeah, I'll probably figure this out, against Tampa's defense, where I think it's important to get to some of those numbers and what this team had been doing in the second half, it's just weird. It's weird to watch a rookie QB and think, Yeah, he'll probably just figure this whole thing out. And he did it again.
He completed all three passes on that game winning drive. And then again, the keeper on third and short where he runs it out to his right, dies the first down. So at that point, Tampa is just going to be behind the clock and it's not going to matter. When was it over? I'll do that for all the games. This game actually wasn't even over.
with zeros on the game clock because the kick hit the upright on the right side and then snuck its way through and Washington advances against this Bucs defense where, let's remind you, it's a defense that had given up only nine points total in its last five second halves. They give up 10 in the fourth quarter last night, and now their season is over.
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