 We have reached the final four, Buffalo, Kansas City, Tampa Bay, and Green Bay, which teams will win in advance to Super Bowl 55. We'll be previewing each conference championship game of the NFL playoffs as well as updating you on some news around the NFL on a brand new episode of T2F. Hello everyone, thank you guys for joining us on this Thursday. My name is Hasan Khan, the host of this show, Time to Football. We appreciate you guys joining us for our podcast every single week. We premiere this on YouTube every Thursday night. If you have an opportunity to join us in the live chat, interact with us as we are premiering this show. Chat with us, let's talk about football, let's just hang out, talk about who you guys think is going to win every single championship game. The conference championship already so far in the season. It's hard to believe that the seasons are already progressed this far. It seemed like at the beginning of August, there was some doubt whether or not this season would even happen. And then, you know, we do protocols taken with COVID-19 and apparently COVID-19 advancing and going on longer than November. I thought it was going to end after the election, but it didn't. And so this season has been going on and we are close to Super Bowl 55 down in Tampa, speaking of which the protocols have changed because of COVID-19. Usually every single year, we travel down to the Super Bowl for media day or opening night with what they like to call it now. And we interview all the players prior to the Super Bowl. Well, this year everything is going to be virtual and I'm still working with the NFL like emailing them back and forth, trying to see if we can get our name in there for virtual interviews. It's going to be a lot tougher this year to try to get a spot. So there's no guarantee we can get some interviews this year for the Super Bowl. We may, we may not. And so with that being said, we may have to just delay a podcast for next week and just come out with a podcast for Super Bowl week, because we may have some interviews with some players playing in the Super Bowl. Some great teams competing for that Super Bowl spot as well. But like I was saying, we're going to get into all of that. YouTube, if you guys are premiering this, thank you guys so much for joining us on iTunes as well. If you guys are listening to us on the audio experience, head over to youtube.youtube.com. We come out with much more content on our YouTube channel. We're going to get into NFL news prior to the conference championship. But before we get into that, you know what we have to do every single week? We have to give the most prestigious award for the week, the hungriest player of the week. Hungriest player of the week, the one that wanted it the most. Usually whenever a victory in the NFL happens, a lot of people like to give credit to the quarterback position, especially with Tom Brady. Because Tom Brady, he's the goat, greatest of all time. He's been doing it for a very, very long time. And much deserving so, he helped his team to a great victory against the New Orleans Saints. But instead, on that team, we want to give it to a lesser known guy. He's well known as far as the NFL community, if you're a big NFL fan, especially a Tampa Bay fan, a very good player, but doesn't get as much credit for this victory than maybe someone like the quarterback would. Devin White, the linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I guess the New Orleans Saints, had 11 tackles and an interception. It would have been two interceptions if one of them did not get called back because of a penalty. But 11 tackles and an interception and he really engineered a great performance to help that defense to a victory against the New Orleans Saints and advancing them to the NFC Championship has been delivering for the last couple of years and especially in that big win in that big moment against the New Orleans Saints. And that is why Devin White is the hungriest player of the week. Cool note, in fact, about Devin White, he has missed zero snaps this NFL season. As a matter of fact, we actually saw that the check down, gosh, the check down stealing my hungriest player of the week award, but we saw that they posted that cool stat that he missed zero snaps this season and then Devin White commented down below and he said, only thing stopped me was that bit at COVID and it still couldn't stop me. So Devin White even acknowledges that he missed zero snaps and nothing could get in his way even COVID-19. So Devin White, freak of nature and a great player for years to come. NFL news and notes around the league going into the Conference Championship game. Biggest news in my eyes, I believe, is that Phillip Rivers, the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts for the past season and then 16 years prior to that for the LA Chargers has retired. Was drafted in 2004 by the New York Giants, was traded the same day to the San Diego Chargers and had a great Pro Bowl, maybe even Hall of Fame worthy career to boot on top of that. So Phillip Rivers kind of sentimental for me because I grew up watching football. The first season I ever watched was in 2006. Phillip Rivers was one of those quarterbacks that I watched when he was playing in San Diego and had that 14-2 season with Ladanian Tomlinson being the MVP was one of the very first quarterbacks that I ever watched play. So Phillip Rivers, thanks for the memories. Enjoy your retirement with your nine kids. Some head coaching hires around the NFL. The Lions have hired Dan Campbell. The New Orleans Saints assistant head coach also tight ends coach has been hired by the Detroit Lions and I just saw the greatest press conference in the world by Dan Campbell who people are now calling Dan cannibal because of his words and what he said in that press conference. If you have an opportunity to watch it, go watch it. He talks about really bring some intensity and aggression to that Lions organization. He calls himself the dude. I don't know why that is. But Dan Campbell was talking about biting off kneecaps. You knock him down. He's going to bite off a kneecap. You knock him down again. He's going to bite off the other kneecap. I don't know. It was crazy. It got me fired up. So I'm excited for the Lions and Dan Campbell to be the head coach. The Atlanta Falcons have hired Arthur Smith. The Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator would be their head coach. Some believe that the Falcons were honing in on Arthur Smith or Joe Brady that decided to go down the route of Arthur Smith. So let's see what he can bring to that offense. The New York Jets, Robert Sala, the head coach of the New York Jets, formerly the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers, Sala is now going to be leading the charge for the Jets and let's see what they do with that number two overall pick. The LA Chargers, this was kind of a bit of a surprise just because of the head coaching candidates or people that were interviewing for those head coach vacancy spots. You didn't really hear Brandon Staley's name a lot. The defensive coordinator for the Rams. He did interview for a couple of positions. He interviewed for the Philadelphia Eagles as well and now the LA Chargers decided to hire him. It was between Staley, maybe even Urban Meyer but then Urban Meyer went to the Jaguars. Brian Dable as well, the offensive coordinator of the Bills who decided to stay put with the Bills. So Staley is now the head man down in LA for the Chargers. Sticking in LA from the Rams to the Chargers which is actually pretty cool. This is just end. By the time that you guys are watching this we just learned this information probably about 30 minutes ago. The Philadelphia Eagles have a new head coach. They interviewed a lot of people. Kellen Moore, Robert Sala as well. Eric Biennamy, Josh McDaniels which was actually a favorite for the Eagles but so was Nick Siriani. The Colts offensive coordinator was one of the favorites as well. A lot of the players, the Philadelphia Eagles players texted Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurian said listen, get to Staley, the running backs coach who played in the NFL as the players coach has been with the Eagles staff for a very long time. Let's get him as the head coach. A lot of the players would have loved that. Instead they decided to go down the route of Siriani and see what he can do for the Eagles. Some releases in the NFL, some players have been cut by the Baltimore Ravens, a couple of them. Mark Ingram, end of an era for Mark Ingram and Baltimore as well as Robert Griffin III has been cut by the Baltimore Ravens. The Seattle Seahawks, if we want to stay on the topic of head coaching vacancies or offensive coordinator vacancies they are in need of an offensive coordinator and they have interviewed Adam Gase. Oh man, here we go again. You know what's crazy is that Jamal Adams was traded from the Jets to the Seahawks because of a strange relationship with Adam Gase and now you bring in Adam Gase as the offensive coordinator and Jamal Adams is going to probably request another trade out of Seattle. But they're interested in Adam Gase. It might be better to go down another route such as Doug Peterson who they have also shown interest for as offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks where they got rid of Shottenheimer after the lackluster year that the Seahawks had great first half of the season, then second half not so much looking for an offensive coordinator so Gase and Peterson are their top two candidates. Prior to the NFC Championship game, Vita Vea the defensive tackle, the first round defensive tackle that they drafted a couple years back is now going to be activated and is eligible to be playing this Sunday against the Green Bay Packers a very, very good addition to that defensive line. Here's a little bit of drama and some tea for you. Goff and McVea, Jared Goff and Sean McVea have a strained relationship according to multiple sources. It's mainly people who are saying that this is due to Jared Goff not being the committed starter for the LA Rams in 2021. This is according to Sean McVea who didn't come out and say that Goff is the starter. He has his back and forth mentality and is not committed on him so let's see if McVea is going to lean in on Goff but from reports it seems like yes, it's a strained relationship between the head coach and the quarterback but it's something that can be resolved and they can move on from that. Justin Fields has officially declared for the NFL draft here in April 2021. So we've already got Trevor Lawrence declaring Mac Jones has declared as well. Justin Fields has also declared people expect those to be the top three quarterbacks taken. Justin Fields probably the number two prospect in the quarterback position. It's between the Jets, maybe even the Panthers or the Falcons. A lot of teams are eligible to draft Justin Fields. Let's see where that Ohio State quarterback lands in the NFL. I mean Ohio State quarterbacks don't really tend to do well in the NFL but maybe Justin Fields can break the mold. Speaking of quarterbacks, Dwayne Haskins. This is information that we actually just learned about an hour ago. Dwayne Haskins has officially signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Came in for a workout a couple weeks ago with the Carolina Panthers and just visited with the Pittsburgh Steelers this morning. They liked what they saw so they offered him a one-year contract to be a quarterback in Pittsburgh. And then finally let's end the NFL news with some encouraging news. As far as the New York Giants goes, the Giants are have complete confidence in Daniel Jones as the starter in 2021. There's no need to look for another quarterback. There's no need for any trades, free agent signings. Daniel Jones, according to the head brass in New York, has the complete confidence and will be the starter in New York. So take that however you want, whether you're Daniel Jones fan or not. But those are your NFL news and notes going into the conference championship. Let's move on to the game previews. What to expect with each game happening this Sunday? Come down to the final four. These two teams are going to face in the AFC and then two more teams in the NFC to determine who goes on to the Super Bowl. Let's start off with the AFC Championship. The AFC Championship will be between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs. This is a rematch of their matchup a few months ago where the Chiefs won 26 to 17. The Bills make their first AFC Championship appearance in almost 30 years while the Chiefs will be playing in this game for the third straight season. The Bills have looked impressive in the playoffs. They defeated the Colts. They defeated the Ravens. But if you watch that game, each game, all the way through with the Buffalo Bills facing the Colts and then the Ravens, you could argue that maybe it was just two, three, four, five plays to determine the outcome of that game. It was very close. The Colts seemed like that they were in position to win that game if it weren't for some mishaps on the coaching side of the ball with Frank Reich, who admitted his mistakes. If they didn't go for it on fourth down and instead settle for a field goal, they may have tied the game and the Buffalo Bills would have been in danger of losing that game. And then again with the Baltimore Ravens, you may look at that score and say, those Bills beat them by more than one position. What's the big deal with that? That's not close at all. But you watch that game and you see that there were two or three plays that really determined the outcome of that game. I mean, two missed field goals in that windy environment and Buffalo, which is no excuse. You have to adapt to your environment. But it came down to a few plays. Two missed field goals by Justin Tucker, one of the most accurate kickers, the most accurate kicker in the NFL. And then also when Huntley came in in replace of Lamar Jackson, who was under a concussion protocol, he threw an overthrown pass on fourth down, which would have been a touchdown and would have made it 10-17 at least, overshot Marquis Brown by Justin Bitt. Also Lamar Jackson getting hurt as well, that determined the outcome as well. So the Bills, yeah, impressive, good victories against the Colts and the Ravens. But the fact that they were just so close and was determined by just a few plays it makes you wonder, they're impressive, but they look beatable. And against a team like the Kansas City Chiefs who's been looking great all season long, Patrick Mahomes has been a full participant in practice so that concussion that we all fear that he might miss some time, don't have to worry about it. Patrick Mahomes is on track to play against a stellar team in the Kansas City Chiefs. It's hard to say if the Bills are a lock to win this game. It's going to be competitive and they definitely have a good shot, but let's see what happens between the Bills and the Chiefs. Talking about the Chiefs and their side of the ball, they survived without Patrick Mahomes with some heroic play by Chad Henney, a veteran that's been bouncing around from team to team, came in with a Miami Dolphins to replace Chad Pennington that was going around to multiple teams, had a stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars as well, came into Kansas City and that is now their backup, had probably one of the better plays of his whole entire career. Just on fourth down, throwing that pass at Tyree Kill and converting to lock up that game. Also running for the ball on third and 12 and getting close and making it a fourth and one. Chad Henney, the Chiefs were able to survive with Chad Henney. But that game was kind of out of hand if you were just looking at the first half and the score there, 19-3. All of a sudden in the second half, all you do is just score a field goal and you let the Browns continue to come back to make this game even more close than it should be. Obviously the Chiefs won 22-17 and it's a good job by them but if you want to talk about the Bills, you want to talk about the Chiefs and how all of these games that they had in the playoffs so far were determined by just two, three, four plays, it could be anyone's game this Sunday. Any of these teams it's proven in the playoffs so far, they're beatable. So it just comes down to which team is better statistically and let's go ahead and break that down by looking at the rankings for each team for the 2020 season. Talking about team rankings, let's start off with pass offense. The Bills, third in the NFL for the Chiefs first. Both pass every teams. Compare that to the Rush offense. 20th in the NFL for the Bills, 16th for the Chiefs. Look at the Bills, that's kind of skewed because that's mainly Josh Allen. The running backs, Devin Singletary, Zach Moss haven't really contributed that much this season for the Buffalo Bills. And as a matter of fact, Zach Moss is now placed on IR so this team is extremely pass heavy as of right now. For the Chiefs, they're just going to rely on Daryl Williams and Levy on Bell until Clyde Edwardsley can get healthy but instead, even so, they don't really run the ball that much. It's a pass heavy offense. Points per game, third in the NFL for the Bills, fifth for Kansas City. Both high scoring teams. Pass defense if you want to talk about their defense. The Bills, 13th, the Chiefs, 14th right around the same area as far as Rush defense. Kind of sort of right around the same as well. 17th and Rush defense for the Bills and then Chiefs, 21st as well. What we can gather from this and the information that we can get is that both of these teams are very, very similar as far as statistics go and their rankings go. Pass heavy offenses and the Rush offense does not matter that much. And defense right around the same rankings as well. Defensively very, very similar as far as the pass defense and the Rush defense as well. This could be a model that most NFL teams could follow in the future if you want your team to get far into the Final Four. Find a good quarterback. Make it a pass heavy offense. Have great receivers as well and it doesn't really matter what your run game may look like. Actually, as a matter of fact if you want to talk about a pass heavy team where it doesn't really matter how your run offense looks like and you get pretty far, another great example of that could be the Pittsburgh Steelers who made the NFL postseason as well. So this could be a model that most NFL teams could follow in the future. You have to have a very good quarterback to pass the ball a lot. Speaking of quarterbacks, let's take a look at the quarterback position and the comparison between these two very good probable quarterbacks this season. Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes talking about passing yards right around the same 4500 yards for Josh Allen Patrick Mahomes, 4700 yards passing Listen, all these stats for Mahomes by the way, this is through 15 games he sat out week 16 or week 17 the 16th game of the season Chad Henney started to give Patrick Mahomes some rest. Pass touchdowns right around the same as well at 37 for Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes 38. Interceptions Allen has been a little bit more turnover friendly if you want to call it that, but I mean 10 receptions is not that bad at all Patrick Mahomes a little bit more careful with the ball 6 interceptions, completion percentage this is what's been doing so well or what has been the greatest asset for Josh Allen and his growth going into his third year in the NFL Josh Allen has completed 69 nice percent of his passes as far as Patrick Mahomes 66.3 and then rating right around the same as well 107.2 and then 108.2 for Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes respectively. So again, statistically speaking very very similar two teams that are statistically very similar as far as how they run their offense and their defense and very similar as far as their quarterbacks go statistically this is going to be a battle of two teams that look very very much alike but one's got to give and as we mentioned at the top of this preview which of these teams if you want to count all the playoff games that they've played so far have looked beatable they've looked great but they can be beat which team is going to win what we do know is that if a team wants to pick up a victory over their other team they have to hone in on certain keys to victory let's start off with the Buffalo Bills what are the keys to victory if they want a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs the first key to victory pressured them to score I know it sounds crazy why would you want to pressure the Kansas City Chiefs to just keep on scoring here's the thing Josh Allen is capable of scoring we already know that the Bills offense has a better chance versus the Chiefs defense of excelling than the Chiefs offense has versus the Bills defense even though defensively they may look similar I'd give the edge to the Bills defense just because of the talent that they have and just because they've looked all season long in comparison to the Chiefs defense if I had to choose whether to face the Chiefs defense or the Bills defense I'd rather face the Chiefs defense I like the odds much better in favor of the Bills offense than the Chiefs offense the second key to victory trust the talent in your secondary Levi Wallace, Jordan Poyer at safety Tordavius White we all know how good of a corner he is listen you have some pretty tough receivers and receiving options to face if you want to talk about Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey and the speed that they have on that offense with Miko Hardman on top of that but you have to look at the secondary and how talented they are in each individual player trust the secondary, let them work their own matchup don't let Tyreek Hill break free that's secondary for the Bills needs to step up and have a big game against that Chiefs offense for the Chiefs their keys to victory Josh Allen up the middle what does that mean? Josh Allen's runs are up the middle and dependent on his size so whether it be goal line carries whether it be fourth and ones whether it be third and twelve he has nowhere to go no one's open down the field he runs with a ball and most of the time he runs with a ball up the middle if you could put pressure in the middle of that defensive line then you can eliminate the center or the middle of the field for Josh Allen to scramble in case no receivers are open and you force him to run outside of the pocket towards the sidelines and that's going to be less yards gain than a bigger run up the middle for Josh Allen the number two, the key to victory play more man coverage than zone this is very important because what the Bills offense if you've watched them all season long what they like to do is expose zone coverage they do it all the time they get a man like Cole Beasley playing a decoy or John Brown playing a decoy and that's how Stefan Diggs gets open almost all the all the time because the players just shift and if you just stick with man coverage and you stick with your own man you're going to avoid a lot of that and you can limit Stefan Diggs getting open as much as he has all season long but those are your keys to victory for the Bills and the Chiefs to wrap up with this preview what we did we took a poll on Instagram we asked the time football fans who they thought was going to win this game between the Bills and the Chiefs and here are the results oh wow hold on that's that does not sound that is very very lopsided the Bills 72% of fans believe that the Bills are going to beat the Chiefs listen I'm not questioning whether the Bills are going to be the Chiefs I understand that but 72% this has to be a little bit lopsided and looking at the numbers as well this isn't because only 5 people voted and then 4 of them voted for the Chiefs or for the Bills but we had close to 100 people vote on these Instagram polls and 72% believe that the Bills are going to beat the Chiefs listen that's lopsided okay I understand that maybe this is just what people want to see they want to see the Bills advance to the Super Bowl and have some success given that the lack of success that they've had leave your thoughts and your opinions who do you think is going to win do you believe this poll to be accurate as far as the Bills are the heavy favorites to win this game or do you think the Chiefs are actually going to pull this off against the Buffalo Bills leave your comments down below and let us know your thoughts moving on to the NFC championship the battle of the Bays two quarterback at the tail end of the career is fighting for another Lombardi the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Green Bay Packers the Packers have won three of the last four matchups against the Bucks with the only loss being earlier this season where the Bucks dominated in a 38 to 10 victory very impressive victory over the New Orleans Saints this past week we talked about last week how the Bucks failed to have all of these impressive victories over these great teams they would always lose when it came down to it with the only impressive victory that they had was at 38 to 10 victory that they had against the Green Bay Packers but then when they fixed the Saints earlier this season twice they lost by more than two possessions they proved everybody wrong and they finally had an impressive victory outside of that Green Bay game against the New Orleans Saints even though this was an impressive victory after preface this I'm a big Tom Brady fan okay so I greatest of all time I believe and if you don't believe that statistically I don't know what to tell you you're just emotionally just clouded with your own judgment you just don't want to see Brady win and you just hate him for some reason because he just he just wins a lot so just say it how it is he's the greatest of all time and a very good player given his age at the age of 43 40 touchdowns this season fantastic still can get it done but if you watch this game against the New Orleans Saints some of his throws even though I am a big Tom Brady fan I have to say like some of these throws were not the best and that's not at fault of them facing a tough New Orleans Saints defense but even when the pressure wasn't on him and he had a man open he did not make the greatest throws and I'm not sure if that's just a tiny bit of regression given his age but that would be that Marcus Williams interception that ended up not being an interception because if you look at his stat lines no interceptions no turnovers great job by Tom Brady but if you look at the at that game and that interception that was called back when Marcus Williams intercepted it he only got one foot in barely missed and didn't get two feet in Brady threw a pass towards Chris Godwin on the sideline in double coverage which was not the best decision number one and number two overthrew Chris Godwin as well which led to what could have been an interception that wasn't tough defense that was just an overthrow by Tom Brady and we all make mistakes I understand maybe that was just one of the few mistakes that he made but he made several mistakes when watching that game so I love Tom Brady and he's been the main reason why this Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense has been great this pass has been one of the best in the league but watching that game last week and analyzing every throw that he made it looked like Tom Brady could beat and still very good and I still believe that he's capable of beating the Green Bay Packers but if that game last week told me anything if I saw that game again saw the passes that he made I think the Green Bay Packers have a chance at least of beating Tom Brady let's transition now into the Packers it might be the best looking team in the playoffs so far that's just my opinion out of the final four the Packers look like they've made the least amount of mistakes all the other teams they've made some mistakes that look like that could be exposed and the other team their opponent could beat them for the Packers not so much they look solid in the run game they look solid in the pass game they look solid on defense and the Packers might be the most well-rounded team in the playoffs and probably in my opinion has the best chance of making the Super Bowl just because of how well-rounded they are and how little mistakes they make but let's just break down this matchup between the Bucks and the Packers starting off with the pass offense for the Buccaneers second in the NFL great offense with Tom Brady and the great set of receivers that they have for the Packers 11th in the NFL but don't be mistaken by those numbers Aaron Rodgers has been looking fantastic with this connection with Devonte Adams rush offense this is where it's kind of lopsided in the team comparison Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucks are such a pass heavy offense that Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette don't really get too much love in the run game 28th in the NFL as far as the rush offense compare that to Green Bay top 10 in the league led by Aaron Jones Jamal Williams and now AJ Dillon and that three headed monster running back by committee approach that they have points per game second in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and first in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers as a matter of fact all four teams that are in the NFL playoffs are ranked first second the Buffalo Bills are ranked third and the Chiefs are ranked fifth so top five all four teams pass defense everyone talk about defense now lopsided as well we all know about the Buccaneers secondary the last half of the season has not been looking the greatest 21st in the NFL compared that to the Packers led by Jair Alexander seventh in the NFL rush defense this is where the Bucs can excel they can stop the run whenever it matters the Bucs first in the NFL the Packers are 13th even though they have given up some big plays in that run game so a little bit of lopsided stats as far as comparison goes they each have their own game plans that they operate with but the Buccaneers looks like it's a pass heavy offense don't really care about the run the Packers are a more well balanced attack Aaron Rodgers can pass it when he needs to pass it but you can also rely on Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams and AJ Dillon to get it done and the run game let's talk about the quarterbacks the comparison between these two elite quarterbacks Hall of Fame worthy signal callers with Tom Brady passing yards 4600 compared to Aaron Rodgers almost 4300 pretty similar in that category passed touchdowns Tom Brady 40 Aaron Rodgers led the league with 48 interceptions Tom Brady is more prone to turnovers as compared to Aaron Rodgers as we all know throughout his whole entire career Aaron Rodgers has been careful with the ball 12 interceptions for Tom Brady 5 for Aaron Rodgers 65.7% of his pass has completed for Tom Brady as for Aaron Rodgers a stellar 70.7% has helped the quarterback rating for each of these guys 102.2 rating for Tom Brady which is great but even better for Aaron Rodgers 121.5 quarterback rating which is tied for second of all time with Peyton Manning who he passed in 2011 with 122.5 Aaron Rodgers dead to set the NFL record so he didn't break his own record but that's a comparison between each of these two quarterbacks so talking about these teams and now that we've analyzed the statistics and the team rankings for each of these squads as well as look at the quarterbacks how can each team pick up a victory this weekend? Let's start off with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers let's look at their keys to victory for the Bucks you have to get Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette involved we talked about the run defense of the Packers the ranked 13th in the NFL but they've given up some big plays all season long that's when you can get Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette to expose that run defense of the Green Bay Packers that's going to get a healthy amount of time of possession taken off from the Green Bay Packers on their side of the ball and Tom Brady and that offense can stay on the field much longer if you involve the running backs number two play Devonte Adams tight it's hard to cover Devonte Adams we even learned this last week with Jalen Ramsey that touchdown was not Jalen Ramsey's fault the other defensive back should have shifted and blocked or guarded Devonte Adams that wasn't his fault Ramsey did a very good job but where Ramsey kind of messed up and that Rams defense kind of messed up is that they kind of played back from Devonte Adams I understand you don't want him to break free you don't want him to burn you you don't want him to get that long touchdown reception you prevent the Packers and the Aaron Rodgers from dumping the ball off quickly to Adams and let him get that yards after the catch which he did so often last week against the Rams don't play 5, 10 yards off of them instead kind of play more so 2 or 3 yards close to him you can kind of prevent that from happening for the Packers what are their keys to victory attack that vulnerable secondary talking about the last half of the season for the Bucks has not been great that secondary pretty much the only bright spot is Antoine Winfield Jr. who's been the rookie their solid rookie in that secondary but they've been exposed and Aaron Rodgers is the guy to do it if you want to talk about any quarterback that can put up big numbers against the Bucks secondary it's Aaron Rodgers the MVP favorite so attack that vulnerable secondary just pass the ball all the time but if you want to run with the ball you're going to have to take against the first ranked rush defense you have to utilize different running styles and you have the best one of the better I want to say better but most diverse running back crew in the NFL talk about Aaron Jones he's more of the shifty back I would say in my opinion the most talented back and yes definitely the starter but he's the more shifty back out of the three running backs that they have Jamal Williams is more of the power back in the NFL and then AJ Dillon is kind of a mix of both a power back and shifty hasn't really developed into the best running back in the NFL just because he's still a rookie but if you want to talk about his size and his athleticism he's kind of a mix of Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams can't be a power back but it can also be shifty when you need him to be shifty so I would utilize all three of those running backs and their different running styles in that running back by committee approach but those are your keys to victory for every single one of these teams playing in the NFC championship should be a good game so who is going to win this matchup listen I don't make predictions I really don't because I don't want to say oh I believe this team is going to win and then the next week if they lose people come at me and just say some mean stuff but instead of me playing favorites I decided why don't I let you guys play some favorites I just operated and generated an Instagram poll between the Bucks and the Packers and let you guys decide the time to football fans, the time to fans the time to followers, the time to faithful who do you guys believe is going to win between the Bucks and the Packers and here are the results oh boy 65% of fans believe that the Packers are going to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this is kind of lopsided as well we looked at the Chiefs and the Bills poll 72% the Buffalo Bills this is also lopsided I don't know whether this is because people believe that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to lose or they want the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to lose because they don't want to stomp right into the Super Bowl I have no idea I believe that it could be anybody's game and it's more 50-50 but you guys think otherwise the Packers 65% of fans believe that they're going to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ending their hopes of hosting a Super Bowl in their home stadium but if you guys are watching this podcast and listening as well leave your comments down below let us know who your picks are of winning the NFC championship I mean if these predictions and these polls are correct then we're going to have the Green Bay Packers versus the Buffalo Bills and Super Bowl 55 pretty solid match up leave your comments down below and let us know your thoughts but that about do it for this week's episode of Time 2 Football I appreciate you guys joining us for the whole entire duration of this show make sure you guys 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