WEBVTT - Chiefs Doink in a Win, Josh Allen Amazes & Public Defender 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.480 This episode is brought to you by Unstoppable. Discover the 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.880 inspiring true story about Anthony Roebliss, who defined every expectation 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.840 to become a national wrestling champion, and Unstoppable, a new 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.480 original movie from Amazon MGM Studios and director William Goldenberg, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.720 evoking the excitement and camaraderie of classic sports dramas and 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.160 thrilling wrestling matches. Unstoppable features an all star ensemble cast 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.759 including Jirel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheatle, Michael Panya, and 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:30.680 Bobby Canavali. Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.160 Welcome in What driven Nick Great? 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.159 Episode two eighty four Ton to do today. We are 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.400 really in the stretch run of the NFL season. We 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.640 will get to all of that. We have one of 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.160 our favorite games of play, Public Defender, pretty damn good 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:04.000 money N'D football game last night, with one of the 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.720 NFL rule oddities coming into play in a way that 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.479 I think at first blush confuses people. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:14.880 When you really look at. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:20.680 It, it does technically make sense, but probably should be adjusted. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.360 We'll do all of that first, what missed the cut? 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.320 Kyle Shanahan says, there's not gonna be any trades of 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.640 me to the Chicago Bears bummer for the Bears Taylor 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.280 Swift's Eras Tour ends. I know the Swifties are gonna 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.040 get mad at me for this. I gotta be totally 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.559 honest with you. I did not know that was still going. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.800 I was very like up on the Eras Tours news 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.520 in the offseason. I felt like that was maybe served 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.560 more to my Twitter algorithm in August. In early September, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.840 I thought it had already ended. Turns out I was 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.080 wrong and also missing the cut my NBA Cup prediction 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.320 because much like Lebron on if the Lakers aren't. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.880 Involved in it, I'm not that interested. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.720 And I you know what I thought it was when 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.080 Lebron got to add to the resume first ever NBA. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.480 Cup champ title, It's like, okay, just. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.440 Another thing Jordan doesn't have. Now that the Lakers aren't 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.440 even in the elimination round, like the knockout round, I'm like, eh. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:25.680 In season, tournament, James that really matter demand looking great, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.120 nice sweatshirt. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.079 I like that a lot. Good to see you, all right, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.160 Let's get right to the news of the week, which 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.400 is the Champs stay. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:37.440 The Champs go ahead. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.040 Yeah, So the Kansas City Chiefs found another way to win. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.520 No matter what, They're just gonna keep playing in these 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.280 nitty gritty games. Chris Jones actually came out and said 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.560 that they played these games because it holds the ratings. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.040 Do you think there's a possibility that the way that 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.880 they're playing in these close games could come back to 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.520 bite them in the offseason or the playoffs the postseason? 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:59.040 Should I say? 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.240 Well? Listen, playoff games typically are quite close. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.960 Like even the Chiefs in this dynastic run have not 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:15.079 had many postseason blowouts like the Super Bowl obviously went 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.920 down to overtime. The Ravens game was one of the 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.680 more lopsided playoff games the Chiefs have had, and because 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.440 they were up ten for almost the entirety of the 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.960 second half, but that's still they were up seven third 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.520 and ten, had to hit the pass to NBS. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:33.760 That was a one score game. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.760 Obviously. The Bills game, Bills have the ball down three, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.360 you know, driving at the end of the game. That 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.400 comes down to the very end. Now, the Dolphins game 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.880 was a blowout, but then go on the previous year 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.560 Eagles game comes down to the very end. Bengals game 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.040 comes down to the very end. The Jags game it 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.880 was they won by seven. It didn't feel quite as close, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.680 but that was the game that Mahomes got hurt. And 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.720 the previous year when they didn't win. Bengals game goes 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.240 to overtime. Bill's game goes to overtime. They blow out 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:13.520 the Steelers, but over their last what is this nine 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:19.640 playoff games, only one has been decided by more than 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.920 one score. That was the Dolphins game when the Dolphins 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.600 decided they didn't want to play in the cold. You 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:33.360 had one, two, three, four, four literally decided on the 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.880 last or second to last play of the game. And 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:45.760 so I do think there is real situational football experience 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.440 the Chiefs gain from this. I also think that folks 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:55.839 are so lost in wanting the Chiefs to fail that 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.760 we have now we haven't stopped and kind of acknowledged 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.440 some of the things this team is accomplishing and Patrick 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:10.479 is accomplishing. This was in Patrick's seventh season as hold on, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.719 I can't believe onna be this wrong. Eighteen Yeah, is 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.400 seven seasons as a starter, because he has three Super 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:21.160 Bowl wins, of Super BWL loss TWOFC Championship losses seven 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:27.239 seasons as a starter, he has won seven divisional championships 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:34.400 and he has lost five divisional games, So Mahomes has 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:41.040 two more divisional titles. Then he has divisional game losses. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:48.560 That's incomprehensible, thirty five and five against the AFC West 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:54.800 with seven divisional titles. Also in games that Mahomes trails 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.159 in the fourth quarter, which means every single one of 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.479 his losses have to be included. This because not to 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.080 start the fourth quarter. It's at any point he has 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.520 trailed in fifty two fourth quarters. He is now twenty 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:15.200 six and twenty six so a hunt so like, I 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.440 don't even know the context for that is no other 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.400 quarterback is better than thirty four percent for their career 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:24.719 in those spots. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.880 Mahomes is dead five hundred. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.680 And then there is the like, I do understand the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:37.359 frustration if you're an AFC West team or a team 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.720 of another contender, which is demonse. What have we talked 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.360 about all through this year's gambling show, how tough divisional 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.560 games are, How no matter how good you are and 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.000 how seemingly bad the opponent is, divisional games are just 0:06:53.080 --> 0:07:00.400 a different animal that the Chiefs last three divisional games. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.160 Broncos trying to kick a field goal to beat them, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.760 The Chiefs block it to win by two. The Raiders 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.720 trying to get ready to kick a field goal to 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.840 beat him, The Chiefs block it. I'm sorry. The Raiders 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.920 fumble the snap and the Chiefs recover the fumble to 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.280 win by two the Chargers. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.240 The Chiefs need a. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.200 Field goal to beat them, they doink it off the 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:32.360 upright now, I will say the doink by the Chiefs 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:38.080 third kicker of the year makes it feel luckier if 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.160 you will, than that actually was. What that was was 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:48.440 once again a perfectly executed game winning drive by Patrick Mahomes. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.680 You pick up a third and ten early, you pick 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.440 up a third and seven, ostensibly to ice the game. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.000 Kelsey caught it, stayed on his knee, and so that 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.520 wasn't a lucky field goal. It was almost a horrific miss. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.040 But when you're on your third string kicker, sometimes you 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.280 get the horrific misses. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.200 So here's why. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.280 There are two major reasons I'm not concerned about this 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.760 at all. Listen, the offensive line needs to be better, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.080 and I'm still waiting for DJ Humphreys' news because he 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.920 was an upgrade over Wanya Morris, but he left the 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.480 game with an injury. He had been out of football 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.720 for a year after a torn acl so they you know, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.840 that might have been grand opening, grand closing. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:33.400 We'll see. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.360 And obviously the secondary has him in the same since 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.600 Jalen Watson got hurt. All that's true, So that's legitimate. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:53.560 But securing the one seed is so disproportionately valuable under 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:58.280 the new playoff format that that's right now all that matters, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.440 and the Bills losing this weekend plus the Chiefs escaping 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.600 with a win makes it. So here's the situation for 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:14.640 Kansas City demonsay, if they beat BA I'm sorry, beat 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:20.480 Cleveland and then win their home game a week from 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:26.000 Saturday against Houston, okay, and so they have to go 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.520 to or Zo, beat Cleveland, beat Houston to get to 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:36.800 fourteen and one. If Buffalo loses either of its next two, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.880 they play at Detroit and then they play the Patriots. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:46.120 So it really is Buffalo loses to Detroit and Pittsburgh 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.439 loses either of its next two, and they play at 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:56.040 Philly and then at Baltimore. If either if those things happen, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.480 the Chiefs lock up the one seed going in into 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:07.640 the Christmas game against the Steelers. An all year long, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:14.240 that has been my focus because schedule and rest wise, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.240 the Chiefs are in a very odd spot. So I 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.959 want to take a moment here to discuss why I've 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.959 so for the Chiefs chances to win the Super Bowl 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.280 they go up so dramatically if they have the one 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:36.000 seed locked before that Christmas game, because they the NFL 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.959 is asking those four teams that play on Christmas to 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:46.439 play as condensed of a three game stretch as any 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:54.880 teams have ever played. Where you play Saturday, I'm sorry, Sunday, Saturday, Wednesday. Now, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:59.520 that's been done before on a Monday, Sunday Thursday schedule, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.720 but when the time's that short, it does warrant mentioning. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.120 This is a one o'clock kickoff, so you don't even 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.880 get those extra seven hours of recovery time into your 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.760 typical Thursday night game. And it's right before the playoffs start, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.120 and it's when the Chiefs had an early season by 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.240 there's a lot of things there that are very disadvantageous. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.760 So now I want to get to the tricky thing 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:33.520 for Kansas City. If they don't clinch until. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.520 After the Steelers game, okay. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.760 Because another way they can clinch is even if Buffalo 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:46.439 wins all of their remaining games, if the Chiefs beat Cleveland, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:52.319 beat Houston, and then beat Pittsburgh, they clinch. So typical 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:58.680 rest between football games is six days Sunday to Sunday. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.920 Okay. So I'm gonna reverse engineer this calendar to. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.280 Really try to lay this out for you guys, because 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.240 it's an unprecedented spot Kansas City could find itself in. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:15.640 So the playoffs start January thirteenth, fourteenth, Okay, that's no, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.840 I'm sorry, let me. I have to get your dates 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.280 right on this. January eleventh, twelfth is when the playoffs start, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.040 all right, So we're just gonna use Sundays as the 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.120 assumed day January twelfth. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:27.800 Okay. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:34.560 If the Chiefs have a bye, their playoffs start January nineteenth. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.920 So if you rest no one ever, you play January fifth, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.960 and then instead of having six days between games, you 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.240 have thirteen days between games. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.960 Okay, if you have the bye. If the Chiefs though, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.720 decide to do what a lot of teams do and not. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:59.079 Play, guys in week eighteen, well, now, typically what you 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.480 would average days between games, but that's not the case 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.560 for Kansas City because their Week seventeen game is not 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:14.400 on a Sunday, It's on a Wednesday, December twenty fifth. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.160 So if Kansas City were to say. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.520 We don't have it locked, we've got to play everyone 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.079 through the Steelers game and then you want to rest 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:30.199 people in Week eighteen, you are then looking at playing 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:36.240 a game on December twenty fifth and then having twenty 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:41.240 six days until your next game, which is a divisional 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:47.160 round playoff game. That's unprecedented and unheard of, and it 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.640 would be, in my opinion, insane to do. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.439 The flip side is this. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.640 And I have circled this all year and I don't 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.920 care how mad netflix would be. It would be such 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.760 a huge opportunity for Kansas City if they earn it 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.520 by having the one locked up, and all they need 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.480 is to win their next two and have Buffalo and 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.959 Pittsburgh both lose once and Buffalo and Pittsburgh are both 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.760 underdogs this weekend, they have an opportunity to do this. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:27.480 Play the Rave or play the Texans this coming in 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.240 two weeks, which is the date of that game for 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:36.760 the Texans game is on Saturday, December twenty first. Okay, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:43.000 sit people, for the Steelers game. Have that be the 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:49.360 week of rest. Two weeks later, play the Broncos like 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.400 your final preseason game or your third preseason game. Play 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.160 your starters for a full half, get everyone up and running, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.280 sit them in the second half, and then have two 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:06.960 weeks until your next game, the divisional round game. So 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.760 you get to skip the Steelers on a short week. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.640 You give yourself an end of season by. You then 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.160 play the Broncos game to stay fresh for the first half, 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.360 get another by, and be in a position where you 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:29.160 have twenty six days where your team really only has 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:34.440 to play gosh or a thirty days pardon me, from 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.080 the Texans game to the first playoff game, where you 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.080 really don't have to play a half of football, but 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.400 you can stay sharp. And for a team this old, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.080 and for a team that has played eight years of 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.960 football in the last seven years of football since Mahomes 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.680 has been there, it would be such an edge. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:54.520 And so. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:01.160 If Buffalo loses again this weekend, and I think Pittsburgh's 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.320 going to lose one of their last two and Kansas 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.680 City wins the next two games, they will have from 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:16.680 a rest perspective, the greatest opportunity in modern NFL history 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.280 from how they can finagle the schedule by earning it 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.520 by going fourteen to one, and if they do that, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.640 I'm here to tell you I don't know how close 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.760 those playoff games will be if every other team is 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:35.040 coming off a gauntlet and having to have won whoever 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.560 they play in the divisional round, travel to Arrowea after 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.160 having won a playoff game, and then in round three 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.040 that team has just won back to back playoff games 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.400 and has busted their ass down the stretch and Kansas 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.640 City is their chilling And then, by the way, another 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.440 bye week before the Super Bowl, you are going to 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:59.760 see a fresher, tougher, sharper Chiefs team. Now the flip 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.800 side to that coin is this, if they slip up 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.880 against the Browns or the Texans and then you have 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.600 to play a hard hitting, well coached, desperate Steelers team 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:21.720 on Wednesday, Christmas afternoon. That's the type of game where 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.080 you could see what happened to the Lions on Thanksgiving 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.000 happened to the Chiefs. Where it's player after player getting 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:34.399 banged up. That's a worst case scenario, so stakes couldn't 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.280 be higher. The next two weeks for Kansas City but 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:47.080 the the double up of Buffalo losing a heartbreaker and 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.760 the Chiefs winning the way they did has put him 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.040 in a brilliant position. All right, let's get to the 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.800 next weekend. Yeah, let's get to the next game, Demonse. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.879 So yeah, that Rams Bills game Bills came came up 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.000 short forty four to forty two. But a lot of 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.800 people probably say that's the game of the year. Out 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.880 of that game, who would you say that you're more 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.919 impressed by, between the Rams or Josh Allen? 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:17.600 Listen, Josh Allen was excellent, excellent, And even though I 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.280 don't care so much about push push touchdowns and I 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.400 think some of these, Josh Allen the last two weeks 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.760 has done things no quarterbacks ever done. I don't look 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.359 at two weeks ago that he has a receiving touchdown. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.600 A receiving touchdown is catching a touchdown. Josh Allen threw 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.679 a pass, it got lateral back to him, and because 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.399 of an odd statistical anomaly, he finishes that game with 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:47.359 one touchdown, seven receiving yards, zero catches. So it's just 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.879 like even the box score doesn't make sense. And I 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.520 don't value tush push touchdowns the way other people do 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.800 with that said, he was their entire offense. So I 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.000 was wildly impressed by him. My concern for the Bills, 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.920 as much as I have liked the Bills all year, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.480 this was my concern early in the season, and I 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:14.760 said it, I think teams with elite passing attacks, I 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.159 don't think the Bills back end can hold up. And 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.800 the Rams, when they are healthy and Stafford is rolling, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:29.960 that is an elite passing attack. There is no denying it, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.800 there is no getting around it. And you saw it 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.719 again this weekend. Now, the Rams have a lot of 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.199 work to do to make the playoffs, but because of 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.919 this hot streak, they now sneaky have two paths to 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.000 the playoffs. Demonse, they control their own destiny for the 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.920 division if they went out and they obviously if Seattle stumbles, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:51.680 can win the division. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.639 But they also quietly. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.480 Have another path that no one's really talking about, which 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.879 is what but if they get the seventh seed because 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:08.400 the Commanders fall apart. Now, we saw the Commanders trending 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.359 down and then they got the gift of the Tennessee Titans, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.240 and so everyone's like, Okay, the Commanders are fine, maybe, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.880 and they're coming off a bye, so maybe they're okay. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.760 But they're at the Saints this weekend, then home for Philly, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.439 home for the Falcons, out the Cowboys. So I just 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:34.120 I think the Rams their best path is winning the division, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.680 but the seventh seed door isn't shut to them. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.160 If they win the division, though, demanse. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.760 They are not going to object to that potential super 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:51.040 Bowl road. They would start with a home game, ostensibly 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:56.199 against Minnesota. Minnesota's really good, but they played Minnesota this 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.080 year and beat them thirty to twenty. They then, if 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:04.679 the bracket holds, would be going to Detroit. They played 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.240 Detroit in the playoffs last year, lost by one. They 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.879 played Detroit Week one of this season went to overtime. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.399 So Detroit's better than the Rams, there's no denying it. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.520 But they play Stafford plays them tough, and I just 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.639 when you have, in my opinion, the best coach in 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.119 the conference and the best quarterback in the conference. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:29.760 If you win your. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.680 Division and you get at least one home game, you're 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:35.200 a live playoffs both. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.200 Yeah, previous experience over the Lions and yeah. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.840 And the last one coach quarterback combo to win a 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:51.679 Super Bowl not named Reied Mahomes was McVeigh Stafford. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.160 So I just I the. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:22:02.520 The Rams win their rolling offensively are just they look unstoppable. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:08.119 And as I will say this, as bullish as I 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.760 am on the Chiefs, and as I have been all year, 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:17.280 the type of team that worries me the most are 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:22.960 teams with two elite receivers and an elite quarterback to 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.520 go along with it. Now, there's only two teams in 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.200 the league that fit that bill, the Rams and the Bengals. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:32.800 The Eagles have. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.679 Two elite receivers, but I don't think, well, I just 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.920 don't think Jalen is an elite quarterback. And I don't know, 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.200 if you saw the latest drum out of Philly, they 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.600 seem to be trying to light themselves on fire again. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.560 I mean, Jalen, I don't put this on Jailen, but 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:52.880 you've got a bad. 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:53.280 Game by No. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:58.840 But the postgame comments from AJ Brown saying what's the problem? 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.399 He says, a passing game? And then what do you 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.440 guys need to work on passing? And then Brandon Graham 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:10.800 comes out yesterday and says, Brandon Graham, the leader of 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:14.440 that team, arguably who tore his triceps, so he's out 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:17.680 for the year. But still, the veteran leader said on 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:21.560 the radio yesterday. He has since apologized, Yeah, I don't 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.680 know what happened between jail and and aj They used 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:29.359 to be friends. Oh so yeah, And now today he's like, oh, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.480 I shouldn't have said that. But like, you can't put 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:33.840 that genie back in the bottle, man. But back to 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.280 the point, I was thinking about teams that can give 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.679 the Chiefs the most trouble. Two elite receivers, an elite 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:44.679 quarterback since Jalen Watson went down. That's the type of 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:49.320 team the Chiefs don't have, don't have an answer for. 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:52.640 All Right, so let's. 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:56.520 Go to sounds like you. I mean, he was gonna 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.720 ask if you regret picking the Eagles over the Rams. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:01.359 I mean, it sounds like you do. 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.920 Actually, I mean. 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:11.359 I think the Eagles. It's not a full blown spiral yet. 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:16.280 I think this weekend's game against Pittsburgh is gonna be 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.560 incredibly instructive. You win this game, you get to twelve 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:24.280 and two to great win, you can quiet a lot 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:30.399 of the noise. You lose this game, and immediately the 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:32.680 narrative is going to be is it last year all 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:37.439 over again? Even if that's unfair, and you know, people 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.920 did not like their win over Carolina. Carolina has been 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.439 frisky for the last month, not really winning games, but 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.160 playing good teams tough, and this was the closest win 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:52.360 they had. I mean, Xavier Lagett, you know, had the touchdown. Now, 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.680 to be fair, that would not have won the game. 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.520 That would have put Carolina up one, but there was 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:01.320 forty five seconds left. Philly would have had plenty of 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:05.200 time to go back and get in field goal range. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.960 I'm also going to double down on the MVP thing 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:15.399 that I do not think it's over, and right now, 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.240 Josh Allen is minus four point fifty or something minus 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:24.640 five hundred. Saquon's a distant second, and in third places 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:32.480 Jared Goff. Jared Goff plays Josh Allen and the Bills 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:34.719 on National. 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:36.359 TV this weekend. 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.719 Golf right now has more touchdown passes than Allen, a 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:45.560 better passer rating than Allen, more passing yards than Allen, 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:47.119 all those things. 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.240 If golf betters in that game. 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:55.119 Right on a better team, If golf cooks in that 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:59.800 game and they win, there is going to be so 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:04.320 I'm real, why isn't Jared Goff the MVP momentum and 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:08.320 if the Bills lose two in a row and fall 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:11.800 to ten and four at like there and maybe the 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:15.640 three seed in the AFC. It's just I don't right 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.439 now Allen is the favorite. Saquon right now would have 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.480 my vote, But right now Allen is the favorite. But 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:26.600 it is too early to say that debate is over. 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:30.560 And I think those odds are not giving golf enough credit. 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:34.520 All Right, Next, so the Bengals destroyed, not destroy. I 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:36.640 guess they'd beat the Cowboys last night by a touchdown, 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:38.720 but coming into this year, you probably would have thought 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:41.280 that was gonna be a great game. But Dallas is 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.640 without Dak obviously, in Cincinnati's defense is sucked all year. 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.240 Which one of these teams do you think returns to 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:48.440 relevance the fastest? 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:54.880 Well, the answer is to me obviously Cincinnati, because they 0:26:54.920 --> 0:27:00.000 have the great quarterback. Now they have some structural problems. 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:03.080 After the game, they talked about keeping Higgins, Chase and 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:06.640 Joe together. That's just not happening there. Like they can 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:11.879