- Ah, you got it, all the way.
Yeah! Good job.
Get out of the studio. This is blasphemy!
- Jack Boys! E-A-G-L-E-S! Eagles!
♪♪♪
Welcome to "Simms & Lefkoe," everybody.
We're not in the studio, and we're dressed like elves.
- Hey. What up, elf? - Good to see you.
And this: Who is this, Simms?
- This is jolly old Saint Nick. - Show 'em who you are.
- Big reveal.
- Da-da-da! - Oh, there he is!
We're back with the main man himself, San Darnold
and we're here at the Livingston Mall.
Today it's not Santa Claus.
- Look at the tape on his lip. That's what I'm lookin' at.
- It's "Samta" Claus.
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
- Ho, ho, ho!
- Santa, we got Joey here.
- Oh, give me a high-five, buddy. Oh, sit right here. - Joey!
- Tell me what you want for Christmas this year.
- A Nintendo Switch. - Oh, that's a great game
I've heard, from all the kids.
What do you guys want for Christmas this year?
- I want a Puppy Surprise.
- A Puppy Surprise?
- A Nerf gun. - A Nerf ball?
- A Nerf gun. - A Nerf gun.
- We definitely have a lot of those.
- We have a lot of those, right? - We do.
- Santa, we got Stephen here. - Ho, ho, ho, Stephen.
What do you want for Christmas this year?
- A Saquon Barkley jersey.
- Saquon Barkley jersey?
What do you want for Christmas this year?
- Saquon Barkley jersey.
- Saquon. Do you watch football?
-Yeah. - Who's your favorite team?
- Packers. - Hey, buddy. What's your name?
- Blake. - Blake, good to meet you.
- Ooh, I like your jersey, Blake. - Sit right here, bud.
Oh, yeah, that's a really cool jersey you got on there. - Yeah.
- Who's your favorite player on the Jets?
- Sam Darnold or Jamal Adams. - Or Jamal.
I think maybe one day you'll be able to meet one of those guys.
Maybe next year, though.
- Santa's my cousin. - He's your cousin?
That's cool. Good family.
Coolest name we've had yet, Santa.
- What is it? - Chris.
- Oh, Chris. - I like that name, kinda.
What do you want for Christmas this year, buddy?
- A skateboard. - A skateboard.
- Do you like the Jets? - Yes.
- Yeah?
So, Santa used to play football at North Pole High School
and we want him to throw you a pass.
- A little bit further than that.
♪♪♪
Nice catch. - Good catch, Chris.
Santa was a little off-target. - Yeah.
Yeah, you had to go up and get that one, didn't you?
- We were wondering if anyone
wanted to catch passes from Santa Claus.
[Children shouting]
- Let's see what you got, Santa.
♪♪♪
- [Cheering] - Oh! Ho, ho!
- Santa can really throw!
♪♪♪
- Oh! - Oh!
- Oh!
- Oh. You got it, all the way.
- Yeah! - Good job.
- The reindeer told me
that it's time for you to go to the bathroom.
Is it true? - Yes, it is.
- I know. Santa's gotta go to the bathroom.
- Santa can't hold it in.
♪♪♪
- I don't know what happened to Santa.
But his friend came, and I want you to meet him, OK?
I wanna introduce you to the starting quarterback
of the New York Jets, Sam Darnold!
[Cheering]
- High-five, buddy.
- Good game against Buffalo!
- Oh, thank you so much. Gimme a high-five.
- Ohhh J-E-T-S!
Jets, Jets, Jets!
[Camera shutter clicking]
♪♪♪
- Samta Claus! - Samta Claus!
- Did you enjoy being an elf? - I did. I really did.
- Yeah? - Yeah, it was good.
You were a cute little elf, though, real cute.
- Thanks. - Yeah. Way to help out Santa.
- You know what? I appreciate that.
I'm gonna take that compliment and not even go back to ya.
One person that doesn't like Christmas: Bill Belichick.
- Came out and said— - How dare you say that to him?
- "Christmas comes at an inconvenient time
right in the middle of football season"
which is Bill Belichick to a T.
- Right. - In fact, if he said
he liked Christmas, I would've been disappointed.
- Well, he's a curmudgeon. We know that.
- I can just see him, like, pretending to open up gifts
and going, "This is great"
but, like, actually having play calls in the gift wrapping paper.
- No, this is all just getting in the way right now, OK?
He's tryin' to get ready for the playoffs
and he doesn't wanna worry
about who's naughty and who's nice.
- Do you think Bill Belichick likes New Year's?
- Uh, well, I don't think he cares because
as my New England friends always joke
when the playoffs start, they always go
"Regular season's starting for us," which is pretty true.
- Damn. I'm so jealous of Patriots fans.
So, that's an inconvenient time for Bill Belichick
but I wanna talk about inconvenient truths.
♪♪♪
I'm gonna give the team.
You tell me the inconvenient truth about this playoff team
and what can hold them back. - Gotcha.
- The New Orleans Saints. - The New Orleans Saints.
I'll tell you one of the inconvenient truths there.
- What's the excuse they've been leaning on?
- Well, I will say this.
I think one of the inconvenient truths
and it's been exposed a little bit
is Drew Brees and what he can bring to the Saints offense.
I know. We're gonna open up a can of worms here.
- What do you want? What do you want, Who Dat Nation?
- But we talk about offenses all the time, right? - Yes!
- How great offenses make you defend the whole field. - Sure.
- But he's not— at this age, 39 years old, he's not capable
of scrambling out of the pocket, making plays that way.
- Monday against Carolina, when the rush got there
the play was over. - Exactly right.
He's not gonna make any physically demanding plays
that we're gonna go, "Whoa, there was nobody open
the protection wasn't that great
and he still made it happen."
And, hey, listen. He throws the ball shorter downfield.
He's tied with Eli Manning
for 28th in football in yards in the air.
- Intended air yards— him and Eli tied.
- Yes, so, again, they can win the Super Bowl with him. - Yes.
- But there is little issues with his game
and when you see teams take away their screens
and things like that
that offense doesn't work as smoothly because nobody's
scared of Drew Brees throwing bombs over their head.
- There's one team that everybody is piling on right now— - Yeah.
- Cuz they're excited they no longer have a bye. - Right.
- The Patriots. - Ooh.
- I'm still scared of the Patriots.
- Yes, you should be. - Just gonna put that out there.
But what is their inconvenient truth?
- Their inconvenient truth is that Gronk
is no longer the greatest mismatch in football.
That has ended. - Wow.
- Gronk is no longer holding the trophy
as the best tight end in the game.
And I would even argue that he's not
even Brady's go-to guy all the time.
I think there's been big moments during the year where he's gone
"I'm gonna go to Josh Gordon here.
I trust him in this situation."
And since Josh Gordon's been there, he's been targeted
more than any other receiver on their team.
- I want a real truth. - But yes, Gronk has lost a step.
I do think he's lost his intensity, and I
don't think— hey, there's a reason New England was rumored
to be trying to trade him in the offseason.
I think they saw a few, you know
dents in the armor here that were about to come about.
- A few more dents in the armor. - Yeah.
- L.A. Rams. This offense has been struggling. - Yeah.
- What's the inconvenient truth about the Rams?
- People are gonna point to Jared Goff, right?
- They are. - Who's been in Strugglesville.
I mean, yes. - One touchdown the last three weeks.
- It's not been perfect. OK, I get that.
So he deserves some of the blame
but the real inconvenient truth
is the interior part of their offensive line. - Really?
- They got big-time issues there, and that's really
the biggest reason you've seen all three of their losses.
Sheldon Rankins whupped them for the Saints, OK?
Eddie Goldman and Akiem Hicks
whupped them when the Bears beat them, right?
- Dominated. - Fletcher Cox and your Eagles
whupped their butt this past week.
- I don't know how that happened. - That's the inconvenient truth.
Now they can't win any of those battles on the inside.
Their running game's not working, and, of course
pressure is getting into Goff's face
and he's not as sharp, either.
- I have one more inconvenient truth - One more—
- And it's me to you. - Oh, gosh.
It's inconvenient that I gotta work with you on a daily basis.
- All right, well, now I'm not afraid to say it anymore.
I can't believe I'm saying this. - What? - He's over my shoulder.
I don't think Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
in the NFL anymore.
- You sound like my son Phillip, who last week
was watching Patrick Mahomes on Thursday night and said
"Mahomes is better than Aaron Rodgers now, Dad."
- Look, I'm just happy that one Simms in the family
has some sense, but I think that Patrick Mahomes
is far and away better than Aaron Rodgers.
- Get out of the studio. Get out of the studio.
- We have a shrine. - This is blasphemy!
- I think he is. - He's the second shrine in here.
Blasphemy. Get out. I don't even know who you are.
- I think that that should become the primary shrine.
- Where is Adam Lefkoe? Who— what—where did my host go?
- I'm just saying that— - He doesn't have Tyreek Hill
he didn't have Kareem Hunt, he doesn't have Andy Reid
he doesn't have Sammy Watkins, he doesn't have Travis Kelce.
♪ Aaron Rodgers, you're still the greatest ♪
♪ But even the greatest needs help sometimes ♪
- I just— I'm not saying he's worse than two.
- Yeah. - I'm just sayin' he's not one.
- It's the first year— I'm not gonna lie
I've had moments where I've— - Say it. Say it.
- Nope. I've had moments where I've gone
"Huh, this is getting kinda close."
- You said, "Huh." - I said, "Huh.
This is getting kinda close." - Wow.
- But I'm still not gonna give him the nod yet.
- The best part that it was Phillip
is I can keep "Simms & Lefkoe" and just replace you with him.
- Oh, thanks. - I love that.
- Thanks a lot. - Me and an eight-year-old
comin' next week.
- Hey, I'm Chris Johnson, aka CJ2K
and you're watching "Simms & Lefkoe."
- "Somebody & Lefkoe." One second, one second.
All right, just wanna make sure
Allie's not here to surprise me, not today
because I found him back where he should be
in his newspaper stand, pickin' winners.
Enough losers, Allie. Get back on track!
Chiefs-Chargers.
I'm at home, and I'm goin', "Man, another win by Allie."
Instead of 7-2, you're now 6-3 because of Philip Rivers.
What does that do to your heart
to know that you took an L on the hands of Philip last week?
to know that you took an L on the hands of Philip last week?
to know that you took an L on the hands of Philip last week?
- I think it hurts me more that he could've been a Giant.
- I think it hurts me more that he could've been a Giant.
[Laughing] - Right? Wow.
That's a tough one, Eli. I'm sorry.
All right, we're goin' back to the Chargers for this week.
- OK. - Ravens at Chargers.
Chargers favored by 4.5. Lamar Jackson's still goin'.
They're fightin' for that 6 seed.
Then you got the Chargers.
They should have Melvin Gordon back.
We don't know about Keenan Allen
but they're fightin' for the 1 seed right now.
- They're fightin' for the 1, and Philip Rivers
would rather be in the first seed than the second.
They're at home. 4.5. 4.5.
- 4.5. 4.5.
- It's a touchdown. - 4.5. 4.5.
- Chargers. - Mmm.
- I'm goin' with the Chargers.
- You're kinda feelin' Philip Rivers.
- I think I'm goin' with the home-field advantage
just about every week.
- Are you just realizing this? - I think so.
And I like the Chargers at home. I do.
I don't think that, um, the Ravens are gonna travel
and go into L.A. and beat the Chargers, no.
Philip Rivers is not having that.
- Do you see how he went from kinda sure to being like, "Absolutely not"?
- I had to talk myself into it. - Yeah.
He's officially talked into it.
Allie is taking the Chargers, -4.5
at home against the Ravens.
- He's crazy. He's absolutely crazy.
- A lot of people are gonna say you're crazy.
- Well, they're already saying that.
- But you're really hot and heavy on Baltimore right now.
- Well, I am. - Against the Chargers.
- I am hot and heavy. I think it's a matchup sport.
You and I talk about that all the time, right?
Every team has their kryptonite.
I do think that the Baltimore Ravens
are kind of the Los Angeles Chargers' kryptonite.
The big thing is, and this is where
I really worry about the Chargers
you've heard me talk about
they're one of the smallest defenses in football.
- Right. - And their nose tackle
Damion Square, is 290-something pounds.
That's not big in the NFL world
and especially not against the Baltimore Ravens
who are 330, 315, 305, 320 and then 340 on the edge.
- And they are obsessed with running the ball.
- Downhill with a Gus Edwards, who's a big back. - Yeah.
- So that's where they can impose their will.
They can control the clock.
And then the Lamar Jackson element off of it
to where you start worrying about
"Damn, they're smashin' us in between the tackles"
and then he keeps it off edge. - Yeah.
- So they're a very tough team, I think, matchup-wise.
- You know that I've ride-or-died with the Eagles my entire life. - Yes, right.
- And there is a thing goin' on right now
whether it's Malcolm Jenkins on the bench wearing a ski mask
or Rodney McLeod leading out the team with ski masks.
- Yes. - Last year, it was
the underdog masks cuz they said we were an underdog.
Now they're the Jack Boys
which means we're stealin' stuff.
- Whoa. - You think you're gonna win?
We're robbin' ya.
And they're all wearing ski masks.
- Straight-up Philly style. - And I have some ski masks.
- I woulda wore the dog mask last year.
- Yeah? - I'm not wearing this, though.
- Here's my question for you. - Yes.
- There's two games left, one against the Texans
then they end the year with Washington.
They need other teams to lose. - Right.
- Should I emotionally get into this
or is it best if I just go, "The Eagles, it was a good run"?
- No, get into it. I think it's time. Go ahead.
I mean, you're playing two teams
that you match up well with at the end of the season.
- I need more. Give me more. Why? I need more confidence.
- I don't have a lot of confidence.
Like I said, last year, I woulda put on the dog mask.
- I do! Nick Foles is baaack!
- Oh my gosh. Here we go. - You know what's amazing?
Is that Carson Wentz is gonna be traded for a first-round pick
and we're gonna have Nick Foles, and I can't see out of this.
- That's it. - How do I look, Simms?
- It's all about the quarterback. - Jack Boys!
E-A-G-L-E-S! Eagles! Yes!
- You look better. It's actually an improvement. - Thanks, bro.
- I think you should wear this every week.
- For Simms— - Peace out, homies.
- I'm the L-E-F-K-O-E. - Robber...man.
- And we will holla, holla, holla atcha later.
Oh my God. Nick Foles, let's go.
- [Laughing] You're crazy.
♪♪♪
Santa, it was nice meeting you.
- Hey, nice meeting you. - Yeah, be good, man.
All right. Good luck with everything.
- Same to you. - All right, buddy. Thank you.
- Santa's a hell of a guy.
As usual, making us look bad.
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