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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode two eighty nine.
Speaker 2: Pologies for the slightly late start today a ton to
Speaker 2: Do Week eighteen gambling show in Demons. We head into
Speaker 2: week eighteen with guaranteed profitability for the regular season. We
Speaker 2: will also next week on Tuesday, we'll recap our preseason
Speaker 2: gambling show where all the results are in as far
Speaker 2: as division winners, losers make miss playoffs over unders. To
Speaker 2: my recollection, we did great on preseason over unders. We
Speaker 2: did okay on division winners, assuming not assuming they already
Speaker 2: did because the Rams won their division and that was
Speaker 2: like plus three point thirty or something, so that's gonna
Speaker 2: save us there. And we did very poorly on the
Speaker 2: make miss playoffs because we tied a lot to the
Speaker 2: Steelers missing and the Steelers of course started ten and three.
Speaker 2: But we're forty seven thirty seven and one on the year.
Speaker 2: We'll get more to that shortly. I also am gonna
Speaker 2: have a pitch to all gambling companies in America. By
Speaker 2: the way, this show you and me, buddy, we're gambling
Speaker 2: free agents. So maybe the in theory the you know,
Speaker 2: we'll team up with whichever company, well, let'll just be
Speaker 2: honest pays us the most money. But maybe what we'll
Speaker 2: do instead is whichever gambling company agrees to embrace my
Speaker 2: long held belief, which is, if you bet an underdog
Speaker 2: in the NFL of more than a field goal and
Speaker 2: they lose in overtime and don't cover, you get your
Speaker 2: bet back. I'm not saying you win, and it's a
Speaker 2: very niche circumstance where this would apply. But if you
Speaker 2: bet an underdog of three and a half, four, four
Speaker 2: and a half, five, five and a half and you
Speaker 2: lose in overtime by six, just give us the betback.
Speaker 2: That's all we're saying. We'll get more to that in
Speaker 2: a bit, but first, before we get to any of that,
Speaker 2: here's what's not on today's show. Bryce James, Lebron's younger
Speaker 2: son commits to Arizona. Aaron Rodgers almost assuredly done with
Speaker 2: the Jets. And we're not gonna do much college football
Speaker 2: playoff reaction here because we have no much college football
Speaker 2: on the show. And also I'm mad, Well I'm not mad,
Speaker 2: it's actually quite the opposite. But I liked. I did
Speaker 2: like that a losing player got MVP of a game,
Speaker 2: because obviously that can happen, that a guy in a
Speaker 2: series or a game can be the best player on
Speaker 2: the field or on the court or in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: not naming names, and be on the losing team but
Speaker 2: still deserve the MVP. But demon's a speaking of deserving
Speaker 2: MVPs in playoff games. Patrick Mahomes last two Super Bowls
Speaker 2: won Super Bowl MVP. Today the Pro Bowl roster came out.
Speaker 2: I'll let you take it from here.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Today the Pro Bowl roster came out and
Speaker 3: Mahomes is left off. Uh yeah, this as you suspected.
Speaker 3: Alan Burrow lamar the top three quarterbacks. Bow Nick's got
Speaker 3: a little bit more love than Mahomes did. Did you
Speaker 3: have asked for any more motivation going into the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So this is simultaneously outrageous, ridiculous and incredibly dumb
Speaker 2: and all so perfect, like I.
Speaker 3: Saw a lot more.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's just well and listen both the fan votes
Speaker 2: doesn't really I don't really care. Fact of the matter
Speaker 2: is Pro Bowl rosters were named and Patrick Mahomes, for
Speaker 2: the first time in his career, is not not a
Speaker 2: Pro Bowler. And this is very similar to people are
Speaker 2: going to fill out MVP ballots and they are going
Speaker 2: to justifiably leave Patrick Mahomes off of them, even though
Speaker 2: everyone on understands he is the most valuable player in football.
Speaker 2: And again people like, oh, the best player doesn't always win.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: He is the best, But that's what I'm saying. He
Speaker 2: is the most valuable player in football. Teams fifteen to one,
Speaker 2: what would they be with any other quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2: Just tell me, I mean not fifteen to one. Tell
Speaker 2: you that much right now. But that's the MVP. The
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl stuff. You saw it coming a mile away.
Speaker 2: So even though his passing numbers compare it, they're at
Speaker 2: least in line with Josh Allens. Obviously, Burrow and Lamar
Speaker 2: are having the best statistical seasons of any two quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in the AFC. Burrow's team, by the way, this week
Speaker 2: needs to win, needs help from the Chiefs, needs help
Speaker 2: from the Jets. Patrick, on the other hand, is going
Speaker 2: to be on like day ten of his twenty five
Speaker 2: day mid season vacation because they locked it all up
Speaker 2: or earlier, despite being in one of the toughest divisions
Speaker 2: in football, despite sweeping the AFC North, despite sweeping the
Speaker 2: AFC West, set all that aside. Mahome's not a pro bowler,
Speaker 2: and of course it's ridiculous freaking Jim McMahon was a
Speaker 2: pro bowler when his team was fifteen to one. There
Speaker 2: is no precedent for a quarterback of a fifteen win
Speaker 2: team who started the whole year being left off the
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. And the fact that it's happening to a
Speaker 2: guy who is going to go down as the greatest
Speaker 2: player ever and is in the midst of the greatest
Speaker 2: start to a career in the history of the league
Speaker 2: only makes it all the more outrageous. And folks today
Speaker 2: are going. Here's what folks are going to say today. Listen,
Speaker 2: nobody's denying how good Patrick Mahomes is. But here's why.
Speaker 2: It's just fight. He's not a pro bowler, and I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you, folks are denying how good Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes is because they just held a vote and made
Speaker 2: a ruling and said not one of the three best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the AFC. That's what happened. Forget the fact
Speaker 2: entirely that because he's so brilliant and because he is
Speaker 2: the leader of such a great team that the Chiefs
Speaker 2: can overcome by week four being without wide receiver, one
Speaker 2: wide receiver, two wide receiver, four wide receiver, five running back, one,
Speaker 2: never having a left tackle all year, any one of
Speaker 2: those things. So go ahead, demonsey, who would you put.
Speaker 3: Mahomes in there for? Then who would you take out?
Speaker 2: Well, Mahomes got to be the first in there, like
Speaker 2: the for the record, when you're a two time defending
Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion, whose team is fifteen to one, who
Speaker 2: has as good of fourth quarter and third down and
Speaker 2: fourth down numbers as anybody in the league, and who
Speaker 2: over the last nine weeks has eighteen touchdowns and two
Speaker 2: picks he's the first guy in, and then Lamar's got
Speaker 2: to be in there. And then it's a debate of
Speaker 2: what do you care about more the raw numbers which
Speaker 2: favor Joe Burrow, or the impact on winning, which favors
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. For MVP, I value impact on winning. For
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, I value the raw numbers when it comes
Speaker 2: down to those two guys. So because of that, I
Speaker 2: would go Mahomes, Lamar Burrow, and Josh Allen would have
Speaker 2: the very odd year of having right now my league
Speaker 2: MVP vote but not being a Pro Bowler. But there
Speaker 2: is not another quarterback in the league, maybe in league history,
Speaker 2: that would have this Chiefs team in this position, given
Speaker 2: the injuries, given the absolute debacle the left tackle position
Speaker 2: was most of the year before they slid Joe Toney
Speaker 2: out there. And it's another instance of folks taking for
Speaker 2: granted what we're seeing. We are in the midst of
Speaker 2: the greatest what will go down as the greatest dynasty
Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL, at the peak of
Speaker 2: their powers, and this team and it wasn't just mymes.
Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie didn't make it. The Chiefs had half the
Speaker 2: Pro Bowlers, the Ravens did half fewer Pro bowlers the Lions.
Speaker 2: So that's it's the amazing thing about Kansas City. They
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks evidently not playing that well. They don't have
Speaker 2: that many talented players. Andy Reid's basically ineligible for Coach
Speaker 2: of the Year. How do they win all these games?
Speaker 2: The players aren't that good, quarterbacks not that good. Coach
Speaker 2: didn't have that good of a year. They got that.
Speaker 2: They've played as many playoff teams as anybody in the league.
Speaker 2: They have the best record against playoff teams. They the
Speaker 2: three toughest divisions in football are the NFC North, AFC West,
Speaker 2: and AFC North. They didn't play the NFC North. They
Speaker 2: did play nine of their sixteen games thus far against
Speaker 2: the AFC North and the AFC West. They're nine to
Speaker 2: zero in them, and so I just it' it's it's
Speaker 2: a damn miracle they win all these games, considering the
Speaker 2: team must not be that good and it's not. Oh well,
Speaker 2: thequarterbacks carrying them like square the circle with me either.
Speaker 2: The Kansas City Chiefs should have had a dozen Pro
Speaker 2: Bowlers and that's why Mahomes didn't make it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 2: the team is just so stacked, so even though they're
Speaker 2: fifteen to one, they were able to do it despite
Speaker 2: their quarterback, or the team has five Pro bowlers, as
Speaker 2: it does, and Mahomes does make it because he carried
Speaker 2: evidently just a good but not great roster. Instead, it's neither.
Speaker 2: And so here's what I know. If the Chiefs prior
Speaker 2: to this demanse were the slight favorite to win the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, they're now the massive favorite. Patrick is gonna
Speaker 2: get sixteen days to sit on the fact that the
Speaker 2: guys he's gonna have to go through, whomever he faces
Speaker 2: in the AFC Championship Game, that quarterback is gonna be
Speaker 2: a Pro Bowler and he wasn't. And you can say, oh,
Speaker 2: he doesn't care. This is a guy who counted off
Speaker 2: his NFL one hundred ranking after a touchdown a few
Speaker 2: years ago. This is a guy who we saw it on.
Speaker 2: Quarterback was asked who do you want to play in
Speaker 2: the next round when he had just sprained his ankle.
Speaker 2: The Bills are the Bengals, and he was like, well,
Speaker 2: the Bills would probably be easier, but I'd rather play
Speaker 2: the Bengals because they've been talking so much. So this
Speaker 2: is great for the Chiefs. But it's idiotic. And if
Speaker 2: people care about Pro Bowls, they're gonna look back historically
Speaker 2: and be like, wait what, They're gonna look at Patrick
Speaker 2: mahons football reference page and right now at read like
Speaker 2: this twenty eighteen, Pro Bowl, twenty nineteen, Pro BOL twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl twenty twenty one, Pro Bowl twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl twenty twenty three, Pro Bowl twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Not people will be like, oh man, was that a
Speaker 2: bad year for Him'd be like, no, it was actually
Speaker 2: the three p year and they were fifty Homes.
Speaker 3: As far as wrong numbers, though with those three quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: they all have better numbers than he does.
Speaker 2: So listen, Josh doesn't have Josh doesn't have much better
Speaker 2: passing numbers. Now, he's way better at touchdowns. No, there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about that. But again, if someone explain why
Speaker 2: are the Chiefs fifteen and one, tell me if it's
Speaker 2: because they just have a ton of awesome players, then
Speaker 2: why are they six then Pro bowlers? And if it's
Speaker 2: because they have Patrick Mahomes, then why is he not
Speaker 2: a Pro Bowler?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Those two things can't happen, You can't. Here's what can't
Speaker 2: happen the Ravens. The Ravens are eleven and five, eleven
Speaker 2: and five, And the argument is Lamar might be League MVP.
Speaker 2: And by the way, per the Pro Bowl, they have
Speaker 2: the most talented roster in football, Then why do they
Speaker 2: lose so much? So the quarterbacks playing better than Patrick?
Speaker 2: They have double the Pro bowlers, they have five times
Speaker 2: as many losses and lost to the Chiefs. So you
Speaker 2: just the there needed to be a laying pick either
Speaker 2: Chiefs galore on the Pro Bowl or oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Patrick kind of did do more with less and his
Speaker 2: real impact is not reflected fully in the numbers. So
Speaker 2: Patrick's there. This makes no sense. But whatever I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't it Actually what go ahead? Well, there's you
Speaker 2: want to say something.
Speaker 3: There's a I don't know this, but if a Chiefs
Speaker 3: player opted out, would Mahomes be the next step? By default?
Speaker 3: I could?
Speaker 2: Oh, you mean no, if a quarterback opted out, yeah,
Speaker 2: because uh, I mean he is the first alternate. But
Speaker 2: that's but he'll be too busy getting ready for the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. So like and and and then they're they're
Speaker 2: also asking how much does this really matter? It's all
Speaker 2: part of your resume it all matters. You know, a
Speaker 2: guy Lebron James, the greatest athlete I've ever seen, the
Speaker 2: fact that he has been an All NBA guy for
Speaker 2: twenty consecutive years is important. No gaps. There's now a
Speaker 2: gap for Mahomes. And it's both this stuff matters and
Speaker 2: so we and like even if it's not the bigger
Speaker 2: picture stuff. And it's also just illogical, and it's further
Speaker 2: evidence that folks are already just so thirsty for the
Speaker 2: next thing in the NFL. They don't want to acknowledge
Speaker 2: the thing that's happening right now, and so there's no
Speaker 2: rationale too. But the it and again I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know who's in the dock making these idiotic arguments,
Speaker 2: but the yet the writing Tyler Huntley's a pro bowler,
Speaker 2: Mac Jones is a pro bowler. Oh yeah, this matters.
Speaker 2: That's the flip side to it. Yes, it is true
Speaker 2: bad players sometimes make the Pro Bowl. That is not
Speaker 2: in conflict with the idea that great players at this position.
Speaker 2: It because the point that's being made in the dock
Speaker 2: is actually further evidence that what I'm saying is true.
Speaker 2: Because a guy like Tyler Huntley and Mac Jones have
Speaker 2: been Pro Bowl quote unquote on their resume. It looks
Speaker 2: even worse when a great player doesn't have one on
Speaker 2: his for that year. Next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you said on your show that the Vikings Lions
Speaker 3: game might be one of the most important history. Darnald
Speaker 3: and Golf have obviously had some great revivals of their
Speaker 3: career this year, but with revivals comes a low point.
Speaker 3: You had these guys on Pumpkin Watch, and you know
Speaker 3: with the Pumpkin Watch thing, there's always a possibility you
Speaker 3: can go back to that. Which quarterback do you trust
Speaker 3: more in this game? And going into the playoffs?
Speaker 2: I want to talk listen for the we'll get into
Speaker 2: this in this We'll get into this game in the picks,
Speaker 2: but I want to talk for the playoffs. You have
Speaker 2: to trust golf more in the playoffs. The guy's been
Speaker 2: to multiple conference championship games, has been to a Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: has been to the playoffs, has played poorly in the
Speaker 2: playoffs with the Rams, and played well in the playoffs
Speaker 2: with the Lions. Donald's never played in a playoff game,
Speaker 2: and so you know they're like that. That's not even
Speaker 2: as far as the individual player. There's no doubt that
Speaker 2: Golf has earned way way more trust, and I think
Speaker 2: Golf is god like the five interception game. Notwithstanding, Golf
Speaker 2: is in a different spot than Donald when it comes
Speaker 2: to Pumpkin Watch. Like we talked about him. First things first,
Speaker 2: which is he has done this for long enough and
Speaker 2: in now two different places that it does feel like
Speaker 2: if he's in the right situation, you can expect a
Speaker 2: pretty high baseline level of performance from him. Like so
Speaker 2: that to me is very different than Donald, which is
Speaker 2: he's having this MVP caliber season and it is so
Speaker 2: unlike anything we've ever seen from him in his entire
Speaker 2: career that it does make you nervous that the clock's
Speaker 2: gonna strike midnight. But I mean they're fourteen and two
Speaker 2: and a game from the one seed, and so go ahead.
Speaker 3: Give golf the higher floor. I think, yes, just saying there, yes,
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 2: And Golf has the higher floor. And right now you've
Speaker 2: got to say Donald has the higher ceiling. Donald's been
Speaker 2: making some big boy throws, high level stuff they're asking
Speaker 2: him to do. What sucks for the Lions is they
Speaker 2: now right now have only one way to win. They
Speaker 2: just have to outscore you. We saw it Monday night
Speaker 2: in that game. They shouldn't have been playing their guys,
Speaker 2: but they did for reasons that still make no sense,
Speaker 2: which is that the second string Niners move the ball
Speaker 2: up and down the field on him before perty you know,
Speaker 2: started throwing those picks all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Oh yeah, so the AFC North title stuff for grabs.
Speaker 3: All four teams are gonna play on Sunday. The Ravens
Speaker 3: can lock it up with a win, but Pittsburgh could
Speaker 3: screw over Cincinnati. How do you see this division battle
Speaker 3: playing out?
Speaker 2: So listen, I mean, obviously the Ravens are gonna win
Speaker 2: the division. Now, I mean, have you, I assume you
Speaker 2: have Demanse seen the line for Ravens Browns. I mean
Speaker 2: it's seventeen and a half points and dtr is not
Speaker 2: an NFL quarterback, And I don't understand how you can
Speaker 2: in good faith start him in games. It seems like
Speaker 2: a nice enough guy.
Speaker 3: But they're playing him to take maybe the situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's now in the almost never before
Speaker 2: seen club of one touchdown ten picks for career. I
Speaker 2: mean that's the Tim Boyle college club, like the I
Speaker 2: mean he has a his passer rating this year. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: it's really really bad man. H his his passer rating
Speaker 2: this year is worse than what you get if you
Speaker 2: spike the football every play, And so I just don't
Speaker 2: the So the Ravens obviously are gonna win the division. Uh,
Speaker 2: what I will say is this I and this is
Speaker 2: where the Bengals conversation gets so odd. Everyone talks about
Speaker 2: how scary the Bengals are and how Pittsburgh is not scary,
Speaker 2: and at surface level you understand what they mean. They're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: the Bengals Chase and Burrow and t Higgins and then
Speaker 2: score those points in Pittsburgh, you know, is kind of boring,
Speaker 2: and you know, we know what we're gonna get. But
Speaker 2: they play each other this weekend with the Bengals season
Speaker 2: on the line, and I think Pittsburgh probably beats them.
Speaker 2: Like so, it's a weird thing where people can when
Speaker 2: people say scary, what they really mean is awesome offense.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't always translate to good football team. The
Speaker 2: Bengals are. You know, the were in a dogfight with
Speaker 2: They have two wins. The Bengals do this year two
Speaker 2: wins over teams that have more than four wins, right,
Speaker 2: so they have eight wins six of them came against
Speaker 2: teams that are drafting in the top ten right now,
Speaker 2: teams that have three or four victories on the season.
Speaker 2: The two wins they have against non total bottom feeders
Speaker 2: was the Cowboys game that the Cowboys blocked a punt
Speaker 2: to essentially win that game and then screwed it up
Speaker 2: by trying to recover it and the Bengals pulled it
Speaker 2: out of the fire, and the Broncos game, which the
Speaker 2: Broncos had the ball twice in overtime to win. So
Speaker 2: they have two wins this year over non awful teams
Speaker 2: and both of those were skin of their teeth wins.
Speaker 2: So listen, I think that the AFC playoff seating is
Speaker 2: I'll just do this right now. We'll see if I
Speaker 2: you know what, Yeah, I'll just do the AFC playoff
Speaker 2: seating real quick, because this is I think the way
Speaker 2: it is sitting right now is the way it is
Speaker 2: going to land, with one possible exception. So I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be Kansas City one, they're locked, Buffalo two,
Speaker 2: they're locked. Baltimore stays at three, they're locked with a win,
Speaker 2: Houston stays at four. They are there, Pittsburgh stays at
Speaker 2: five because I think they beat the Bengals this weekend.
Speaker 2: The Chargers stay at six because Harball's taking that game
Speaker 2: seriously and he wants to win. Oh well, that's a
Speaker 2: something just occurred to me on that Gosh darn it
Speaker 2: that if they see the Steelers win on Saturday. Oh
Speaker 2: this could impact my picks. I forgot those games aren't simultaneous,
Speaker 2: because if they see the Steelers win on Saturday, then
Speaker 2: they are then locked into the six line, right they
Speaker 2: can't move up? Oh boy, So I wonder what Harball
Speaker 2: would do with that is that is a tricky element. Luckily, though,
Speaker 2: they're playing the Raiders, so it might not matter, but
Speaker 2: the Chargers will be six. And then I would like
Speaker 2: for Miami to find a way to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And I would like for the Chiefs to beat the
Speaker 2: Broncos because I just want to have a chance at
Speaker 2: the first ever nineteen win regular season or nineteen win season.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, no one's ever done it. But I don't
Speaker 2: think the Chiefs' backups are gonna beat the Broncos. I
Speaker 2: don't know that. I think it's gonna be a blowout
Speaker 2: the way Vegas does. But so I think The way
Speaker 2: the AFC playoff picture looks right now is the way
Speaker 2: the AFC playoff picture is going to look one through seven.
Speaker 2: I think the way it is going into this weekend
Speaker 2: is what it is actually going to be going into
Speaker 2: the actual postseason. All right, let's the hold on so
Speaker 2: saying the Chargers can only climb if Cincinnati wins. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they need the Steelers to lose. That's and that
Speaker 2: game's on Saturday, which is a weird spot. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to tanking demonte.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Week eighteen isn't just important for the playoff seeding,
Speaker 3: but the top draft also, the top draft picks will
Speaker 3: also be decided. New England. Who's currently at the number
Speaker 3: one pick? It started Drake May. It doesn't really seem
Speaker 3: like they plan on tanking. The Titans are next in line,
Speaker 3: but they play the Texans and they're already locked into
Speaker 3: their seating. Who do you think ends up with that
Speaker 3: number one pick?
Speaker 2: So I gotta go to I mean, right now, I
Speaker 2: think the money would have to be on Cleveland because
Speaker 2: the Patriots, Like, here's why, Cleveland has no shot at winning,
Speaker 2: none whatsoever? Right, everyone else that has three wins has
Speaker 2: a real chance to win. The Patriots are playing the
Speaker 2: Bills backups and are gonna play their guys. Tennessee is
Speaker 2: gonna be playing the Texans backups, and I think that
Speaker 2: Brian Callahan, I'm not saying Year one hot seat, but
Speaker 2: they're gonna be trying to win. And the Giants are
Speaker 2: gonna be playing the Eagles backups, and they you know,
Speaker 2: they're only two and a half point dogs, and they
Speaker 2: just gotta win. And so Cleveland, to me, would be
Speaker 2: the safest bet because now, listen, the only way Cleveland
Speaker 2: can do it is if Tennessee and New England win.
Speaker 2: If Tennessee or New England lose, they stay ahead of them.
Speaker 2: But Cleveland's drawing dead to win the game. And so
Speaker 2: I think right now, even though you know the math
Speaker 2: would say New England would be the pick because that's
Speaker 2: where they are right now, I think Cleveland's gonna has
Speaker 2: a sneaky chance at ending up with the number one pick.
Speaker 2: That's a bet I might make. I guess the way
Speaker 2: you bet that is very simple is I just would
Speaker 2: be If I think that, then I I would just
Speaker 2: be saying I'm betting on the Patriots, uh and Titans
Speaker 2: to win the game. So a Patriots Titans moneyline parlay
Speaker 2: this week. Let me just do it real quick and
Speaker 2: not actually bet it, but look at it real quick.
Speaker 2: A Patriots. So Patriots are plus one ten and the
Speaker 2: Titans are minus one twenty six. So yeah, plus two
Speaker 2: seventy five. So that's an implied, like twenty five percent chance.
Speaker 2: That's a yeah, I think, And I guess technically I
Speaker 2: have to include Baltimore on the money line, which makes
Speaker 2: it plus two cause you need Cleveland to lose. But
Speaker 2: that's an obvious piece of it. Yeah, I think. I
Speaker 2: think that's a bet I might make. That's a little
Speaker 2: I'm throwing out to the audience. A Titans Patriots Ravens
Speaker 2: moneyline parlay for the Browns to get the number one
Speaker 2: overall pick that pays plus two ninety. I don't mind
Speaker 2: that one. I actually like that one a lot. Quit
Speaker 2: all right, So we've got our gambling show and we'll
Speaker 2: do our picks. Six straight winning weeks and a plead
Speaker 2: of sports books out there to do what's right for
Speaker 2: their customers. We'll do that next as well. What's Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright,
Speaker 2: and so listen I said it before the I don't
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Speaker 2: it's not really I don't know how much the audience
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Speaker 2: be over, there's one issue that hasn't been talked to
Speaker 2: nearly enough, and that is the scourge of being on
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Speaker 2: I am here on January TEWOD twenty twenty five calling
Speaker 2: on all sportsbooks to do the right thing and just
Speaker 2: have part of your house rules be if you bet
Speaker 2: an underdog against the spread of three and a half, four,
Speaker 2: four and a half, five or five and a half points,
Speaker 2: and that team loses by six in overtime, we'll refund
Speaker 2: your wager, not call it a win. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: not getting crazy here, We'll refund the wager. And you
Speaker 2: notice I'm not saying an underdog of any amount. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it a y'all. Well, it was tied at the
Speaker 2: end of regulation. I had a team plus one and
Speaker 2: a half, that'd be ridiculous. I'm not even saying if
Speaker 2: you have them plus three, you deserve to have your money.
Speaker 3: Beck.
Speaker 2: Nope, not that. But what happened to me on Saturday
Speaker 2: evening with the Denver Broncos getting three and a half
Speaker 2: and watching every possible way for that bet to win
Speaker 2: happen and then still lose. And I you know, we
Speaker 2: don't have to rehash it, but I will quickly ways.
Speaker 2: Denver plus three and a half would have won if
Speaker 2: after they score the touchdown at the end. Well, no,
Speaker 2: let me back up even further. At the end of regulation,
Speaker 2: the Bengals are trying to run out the clock to
Speaker 2: kick a field goal. The guy goes down instead of scoring,
Speaker 2: Chase Brown. He gets hurt doing that, so they have
Speaker 2: to use a timeout. Denver gets to keep theirs, and
Speaker 2: now they can't run out the clock if he just
Speaker 2: doesn't get hurt. They're kicking a field goal with eight
Speaker 2: seconds left, so that happens. Denver then scores a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They could go for two. They don't. It was actually
Speaker 2: smart because the tie would have been good for them.
Speaker 2: In overtime, the Bengals go three and out. Okay, now
Speaker 2: touchdowns really off the board because field goal wins it.
Speaker 2: Denver can't score. The Bengals then have a thirty yarder
Speaker 2: once again for me to win my bet. He shanks
Speaker 2: it off the upright Denver. Then again, a tie is
Speaker 2: as good as a win. Needs one first down to
Speaker 2: be able to run out the clock. They don't get it. Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Then every team in that spot they get the ball
Speaker 2: down to the four. You send out the kicker. But
Speaker 2: because they're Juice and Burrows stats and the kicker has
Speaker 2: missed one, they just throw another pass touchdown. Bet should
Speaker 2: have been refunded. It's all I'm saying. I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't win. Bet should have been refunded. Some sportsbook
Speaker 2: is gonna agree with me on that, and listen, they
Speaker 2: might be the What's Right with Nick Wright and Demonse
Speaker 2: podcast partner for twenty twenty five. Lines are open. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm represented by the good people at UTA. Some of
Speaker 2: the clutch folks help out a bit. You guys know
Speaker 2: what to do, all right, Demonse, Let's do a pis
Speaker 2: recap please.
Speaker 3: That was excellent?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Uh. First off, you had a Chicago plus four and
Speaker 3: a half versus Seattle. That was a winner.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh easy winner six to three. What a
Speaker 2: horrific Thursday night game, but still an easy winner. It's
Speaker 2: tough when your bet on it. It's very rare that
Speaker 2: your team is laying or getting less than a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They score less than a touchdown and to win, but
Speaker 2: it happened. The Bills minus eight and a half against
Speaker 2: the Jets maybe the easiest bet of the year. Minnesota
Speaker 2: plus one against green Bay felt easy and then got
Speaker 2: a little nerve racking late. We just went over Denver
Speaker 2: plus three and a half at Cincinnati. I was obviously
Speaker 2: all over that one. And then the Rams minus six
Speaker 2: and a half first Arizona. Bad bet they you know,
Speaker 2: they weren't really covering the whole game, but that was
Speaker 2: a seventh straight winning week, forty seven to thirty seven
Speaker 2: and one overall three and two on the week. Now
Speaker 2: my five picks this week, demonse.
Speaker 3: Uh, First off, you've got Pittsburgh plus two versus Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I know it's week eighteen, but it's still
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin as a home dog in a divisional game,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. And that fight. Now, they are
Speaker 2: going to see earlier on Saturday that the Ravens locked
Speaker 2: up the division. So you might be like, oh, so
Speaker 2: they're not going to be that motivated. Here's why they
Speaker 2: will be motivated. The five The difference between having the
Speaker 2: five seed and the sixth seed in the AFC is enormous.
Speaker 2: Assuming the Ravens beat the Browns, the five seed means
Speaker 2: you go to Houston. The sixth seed means you go
Speaker 2: to Baltimore. So you know, Lamar's playoff foibles be damned.
Speaker 2: You'd rather be going to Houston than going to Baltimore,
Speaker 2: so that to me is a no doubter. Also, the
Speaker 2: Steelers three and oh straight up and against the spread
Speaker 2: when they're on extended rest this year, the public loves
Speaker 2: the Bengals and again and I Tomlin home divisional dog,
Speaker 2: will take it. Pittsburgh plus two next.
Speaker 3: Of have you got Kansas City plus ten and a
Speaker 3: half at Denver.
Speaker 2: It's just too many points. It's just the the The
Speaker 2: Chiefs are going to make this a low possession game.
Speaker 2: They just want to get out. They want this game
Speaker 2: to go as fast as possible. As my point, so
Speaker 2: a lot of running the ball. So it's hard to
Speaker 2: cover big spreads in games that have you know, six
Speaker 2: or seven possessions per team rather than eight or nine,
Speaker 2: So that works in their favor. Carson Wentz, I'm sure
Speaker 2: is looking at this game as the chance to be
Speaker 2: next year's Sam Darnold, go to a good spot for
Speaker 2: ten million bucks, try to reclaim my career, so you know,
Speaker 2: so he's hyper motivated in this game. I just I
Speaker 2: Denver right now is going in the wrong direction. And
Speaker 2: the you know, after Sorry, I just pulled up the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets because I was and I was gonna talk
Speaker 2: about Daniel's team for a moment. After the great start,
Speaker 2: the defense has worn down a bit, allowing thirty four
Speaker 2: to the Chargers and then obviously last week thirty to
Speaker 2: the Bengals. I would expect Denver to win this game,
Speaker 2: but I actually think this is like an ugly seventeen
Speaker 2: to thirteen type of game. And because of that, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs plus the ten and a half. And evidently since
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, Andy Reid has been a double
Speaker 2: digit underdog five times. And while those teams are one
Speaker 2: and four straight up, they're five and zero against the spread.
Speaker 2: I wonder how many of those games are games like this,
Speaker 2: these Week eighteen matchups, because Andy maybe his last year,
Speaker 2: and but Andy historically is only you know, all his
Speaker 2: seams have been good. So being a double digit dog
Speaker 2: makes me think it's a lot of Week eighteen matchups.
Speaker 2: All right, next one, Demonse.
Speaker 3: You've got Miami minus one at the Jets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So listen, First of all, what you've got to
Speaker 2: do every time you're talking about the Miami Dolphins this
Speaker 2: time of year, you have to check out the weather
Speaker 2: report in the city they're playing, So that is a
Speaker 2: very important say it again, Well, it's gorgeous here right now,
Speaker 2: But what will it be on Sunday is the question
Speaker 2: people are gonna have. And it's not let me make
Speaker 2: sure it hasn't changed. It's not freezing by NFL standards,
Speaker 2: it's pretty called by Miami Dolphins standards. High of thirty eight,
Speaker 2: low of twenty nine on Sunday in the Greater New
Speaker 2: York area. However, TWOA is not playing. Tyler Huntley's playing,
Speaker 2: and I thought he actually played decent this past week.
Speaker 2: And the Jets. This is really less about the Dolphins
Speaker 2: and more about the Jets just being done with all
Speaker 2: of it. And so the Dolphins are gonna be playing hoping,
Speaker 2: thinking they could make the playoffs. The Jets are gonna
Speaker 2: be playing hoping this season. From hell ens, I only
Speaker 2: have to lay one point. It's a tough one and
Speaker 2: a weird one. And I don't love the fact that
Speaker 2: as I'm talking through this, I am laying a point
Speaker 2: with Snoop Huntley. However, Mike McDaniel, you gotta find a
Speaker 2: way to win the game. The oh yeah, yea once
Speaker 2: on a time, yeah. In the past, and so I
Speaker 2: I think Miami's gonna win. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 2: make the playoffs because I don't think the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: gonna beat the Broncos, but Miami won't know that. Of
Speaker 2: course they'll be playing simultaneous. I'll do Miami minus one.
Speaker 3: Next, you've got the Charges minus four and a half
Speaker 3: at the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I don't like. Once I talked through this
Speaker 2: and I and I, you know what occurred to me.
Speaker 2: I should have thought of this before. I was, for
Speaker 2: some reason, thinking all of the AFC playoff Picture games
Speaker 2: were gonna be played simultaneously. But the AFC North games
Speaker 2: are played on Saturday, which oddly means the Chargers will
Speaker 2: know before kickoff whether or not they're locked into their seat.
Speaker 2: Despite that, I don't mind. I don't mind laying these
Speaker 2: points for the picks portion of this. As far as
Speaker 2: an actual bet goes, I will just tell the audience
Speaker 2: right now, I would wait. If you like the Chargers,
Speaker 2: I would wait to make this bet because after the Steelers, well,
Speaker 2: let me rephrase it. If you like the Chargers and
Speaker 2: you think the Steelers are gonna win, you should wait
Speaker 2: to make this bet because here's the deal. If the
Speaker 2: Steelers win, this line is gonna go down to like
Speaker 2: two and a half. If the Steelers lose and the
Speaker 2: Chargers then know, oh, if we win, we get the
Speaker 2: five seed, this line will go up to probably seven
Speaker 2: and a half. So really, whether or not you want
Speaker 2: to bet this game right now has to do with
Speaker 2: what you think is gonna happen in the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 2: But the other piece of it is, I just don't
Speaker 2: think the Raiders and Antonio Pierce are gonna win three
Speaker 2: straight games. And even if the Chargers don't have peak motivation,
Speaker 2: the Chargers aren't there. They're just such a better coached
Speaker 2: team that it's very hard for me to see them
Speaker 2: preparing all week and then losing to this Raiders team.
Speaker 2: And this is a Raiders team they played in Week
Speaker 2: one and beat by twelve. So it's a weird one
Speaker 2: that the line is gonna move. If the Steelers win,
Speaker 2: this line will get a lot smaller. If the Steelers lose,
Speaker 2: this line will get a lot bigger. All just go
Speaker 2: ahead and take Chargers minus four and a half for
Speaker 2: you know, for the podcast. But because I think the
Speaker 2: Steelers are gonna win, I'm gonna wait to actually bet
Speaker 2: this in real life and then the game of the
Speaker 2: year demonse, you.
Speaker 3: Got Minnesota plus two and a half at Detroit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just think that Detroit's defense is past the
Speaker 2: point of no return. And I think that Dan Campbell's
Speaker 2: decision to instead of giving some of his key guys
Speaker 2: a bye, having his whole team be on short rest
Speaker 2: was a colossal mistake. And I think having just further
Speaker 2: evidence for his own players that the team can't defend
Speaker 2: by letting the Niners score thirty four was not good
Speaker 2: for their confidence going into this game. And I sadly
Speaker 2: think for the Lions this magical season could end in
Speaker 2: nine days. I think they're gonna lose Sunday Night and
Speaker 2: then be on the road in Round one against I
Speaker 2: think the four to five is gonna be Rams Lions,
Speaker 2: and I will be in so far and I'll be
Speaker 2: picking the Rams in that game, and so.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: It's now. If they win this game, they can make
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, they being Detroit, but I don't think
Speaker 2: they're going to. I think the Vikings are playing too well,
Speaker 2: and the Vikings don't have a gaping hole in the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball. The way Detroit does, so
Speaker 2: I'll actually do that as well, real quick. So my
Speaker 2: projected AFC playoff field one through seven, some of these
Speaker 2: are not projections, they're locks, but Chiefs, Bills, Ravens, Texans, Steelers, Chargers, Broncos.
Speaker 2: The exact one through seven right now is what I
Speaker 2: think it will remain after this weekend. In order, my
Speaker 2: projected NFC playoff field will go like this. The Minnesota
Speaker 2: Vikings are your one seed, Eagles are your two. The
Speaker 2: Bucks win this weekend, and the Rams lose because they're
Speaker 2: resting their guys, so they flip flop. Tampa goes to three,
Speaker 2: the Rams go to four, the Lions slide all the
Speaker 2: way to five, and then it's then is it? And
Speaker 2: then the Commanders stay at six and the Packers stay
Speaker 2: at seven. That's how I see this thing playing out,
Speaker 2: and if that happens, I will like the Rams a
Speaker 2: lot as a home dog in Round one against Detroit.
Speaker 2: So my five picks for this week are as follows.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh getting two at home against Cincinnati, Kent City getting
Speaker 2: ten and a half at Denver, Miami laying one at
Speaker 2: the Jets, the Chargers laying four and a half at
Speaker 2: the Raiders and Minnesota plus two and a half at Detroit.
Speaker 2: I am a half game behind Danny Parkins in our
Speaker 2: picks contest. Had I demons, I gotta tell you one
Speaker 2: other thing. Had I gone three and oh this weekend,
Speaker 2: I would have been a half game ahead of him
Speaker 2: if the Denver game had gone my way. And you
Speaker 2: know what I was really considering doing. If I had gone,
Speaker 2: If I was a half game ahead of him, what
Speaker 2: you would You would probably lose respect for me. But
Speaker 2: it would have been so funny because Danny has taken
Speaker 2: this picks thing so seriously, I have two, but he's
Speaker 2: coming out on a thrown. He has to make his
Speaker 2: TV picks before me. So if I had a half
Speaker 2: game lead, I was just going to make the same
Speaker 2: three exact picks he did to just guarantee I won
Speaker 2: the year, to just lock it in, even I didn't
Speaker 2: like the games, just to absolutely guarantee that he couldn't
Speaker 2: beat me. And just I mean, it would have been
Speaker 2: it would have been dirty, very low. It would have been.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's I'm not I wouldn't. It's a smart strategy.
Speaker 3: It makes you guys are watching.
Speaker 2: That yeah, oh yeah, that's right. You know what's not
Speaker 2: a smart strategy demonse, including the Jets and the teas.
Speaker 2: How'd your teaser go last week?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was a two team seven and a
Speaker 3: half way teaser. Yeah, Jets screwed me over. I mean
Speaker 3: they were down forty year old one. Uh yeah. Then
Speaker 3: I had green Bay plus nine at Minnesota that hit.
Speaker 3: But this is to finish five on. I mean, this
Speaker 3: is all I could ask for. I don't know. Last
Speaker 3: year was bad year before that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, a five hundred year. It's not profitable, but
Speaker 2: it's not a debacle like last year. And so what
Speaker 2: are we doing this week?
Speaker 3: Uh? This week is a two team seven and a
Speaker 3: half point teaser. It's at minus one sixty three. I've
Speaker 3: got Pittsburgh. I teased them up to plus nine and
Speaker 3: obviously they're playing Cincinnati, and then I teased up Chicago
Speaker 3: to plus eighteen at Green Bay. I love it.
Speaker 2: I don't hate it. I don't hate it. And by
Speaker 2: the way, if yours, you get Pittsburgh plus nine and
Speaker 2: a half, because that line's two now it was one
Speaker 2: and the half. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so you get
Speaker 2: you get them plus nine and a half. Uh, I
Speaker 2: don't hate it. I'll give you an ad in the year,
Speaker 2: and then what's the offer this week?
Speaker 3: Uh So the producers are calling this one a one
Speaker 3: last FU. So it seems like Aaron Rodgers is probably
Speaker 3: not gonna be playing with the Jets next year. You know,
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers's a little could be a little spiteful, so
Speaker 3: you might want to win this game to squander their
Speaker 3: draft pick. So the Jets money line and Jets over
Speaker 3: twenty three and a half and Jets race to ten
Speaker 3: is I don't know that plus ten team to score ten?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, So first of all, I don't do
Speaker 2: any race two bets ever in the NFL or the NBA.
Speaker 2: That sounds ridiculous. But second of all, whatever Rogers wants
Speaker 2: to do doesn't matter. He's not capable anymore. So no,
Speaker 2: I won't be taking this offer. I and so I
Speaker 2: just I am very I have the Dolphins in my picks,
Speaker 2: so I'm not including the Jets money line in the
Speaker 2: offer like that would act in conflict. But I also
Speaker 2: think that Rogers just doesn't have the ability anymore, and
Speaker 2: there is a chance he is stuck at four ninety
Speaker 2: nine touchdo down forever because there is a chance that
Speaker 2: this Sunday is the last game of his career. It's
Speaker 2: certainly going to be his last game with the Jets.
Speaker 2: If we hadn't spent we've spent too much time talking
Speaker 2: here Rodgers this year, maybe we should have spent more
Speaker 2: time talking about the fact that this could be the
Speaker 2: last game of his career. But I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 2: plenty of time in the office. He's talking about is
Speaker 2: he coming back? Is he not coming back? All that nonsense.
Speaker 2: Answer a few listener questions. Next, What's right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Demanse? What are some of the listener questions?
Speaker 3: Scott asked, If the forty nine ers are going to
Speaker 3: resign party, shouldn't they just do it now before the
Speaker 3: market spikes further.
Speaker 2: Well, they can't resign him until a few days from now.
Speaker 2: I think it's like January sixth, when you can start
Speaker 2: resigning the people who have just finished year three. But
Speaker 2: your point is valid all the same. Yeah, But I
Speaker 2: just think that they You're right that if they know
Speaker 2: they're going to resign him the earlier the chief I
Speaker 2: don't know they're gonna resign him. Doesn't mean they're gonna
Speaker 2: move off him, but it means they might make him
Speaker 2: play next year at his current salary, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I found this out today, I forgot it. Even though
Speaker 2: his salary is supposed to be a million bucks because
Speaker 2: he was a pro bowler last year, his final year
Speaker 2: of his rookie contract salary becomes like a second round
Speaker 2: RFA tender salary. Regardless, it's five million instead of one
Speaker 2: million next year for Purty if they don't resign him.
Speaker 2: So that's nice. So he's got that going for him,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Joshua ass should Baker have made the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2: One n I think that he should have made it
Speaker 2: over Jaden. I think the NFC Pro Bowler should have
Speaker 2: been Darnald Goff Baker. Jaden's having an unbelievable year given
Speaker 2: that he's a rookie, but I don't think Pro Bowls
Speaker 2: should get a rookie bounce. And so I think Jayden's
Speaker 2: been excellent, but I think Baker's having the better season.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that that to me was the biggest non
Speaker 2: Chiefs related snub.
Speaker 3: Next, Hervey asked Nick what is the biggest difference between
Speaker 3: regular season and postseason and NFL Betty, do you put
Speaker 3: more value on coaching or a player player playoff experience?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, yeah, I mean coaching in the quarterback coaching
Speaker 2: and quarterback coaching and quarterback coaching and quarterback every time,
Speaker 2: like that is really you. Simmons used to always say,
Speaker 2: don't bet an underdog unless you think they can win.
Speaker 2: Out right, I think that's like in the playoffs. I
Speaker 2: think that's pretty smart at times. But I yes, I
Speaker 2: put massive value on the coach in the quarterback and listen,
Speaker 2: we'll do We will be picking every single playoff game.
Speaker 2: The dream of an undefeated postseason stays alive. Thirteen and
Speaker 2: zero is what it would be for an undefeated postseason.
Speaker 2: It's of course I've never done it. In the past.
Speaker 2: It was eleven and zero is what you would have
Speaker 2: to do. But now there's two extra games. But we'll
Speaker 2: get more into that this coming week.
Speaker 3: All right, Last one, Gabe, if you're up the point
Speaker 3: five at the half point on Danny and he picks
Speaker 3: the Jets, can your principles allow you to pick the Jets?
Speaker 3: Or should you risk losing to avoid batting on Rogers?
Speaker 2: Well, I to be clear, I'm not certain if I
Speaker 2: would have done Danny that dirty by just mirroring his picks,
Speaker 2: But man, it would have been hilarious. I gotten a
Speaker 2: huge argument once. I don't play fantasy football because I gambled,
Speaker 2: because I'm an adult. But back when I used to
Speaker 2: play fantasy football, my producer of my radio show, he
Speaker 2: and I were playing each other in the playoffs and
Speaker 2: going into Monday night, his team was done and I
Speaker 2: just had The only person I had left was my kicker,
Speaker 2: and I was up by like zero point seven, And
Speaker 2: instead I just benched the kicker for a vacant spot
Speaker 2: so I couldn't get negative points if he missed kicks.
Speaker 2: And he thought that was like a legit argument. He
Speaker 2: was like, basically it was immoral, like unethical what I
Speaker 2: was doing. I'm like, listen, man, this as the breaks
Speaker 2: I can lock in a victory. Here, I'm locking it in.
Speaker 2: This would have been Yeah, I think it's totally fair strategy.
Speaker 2: This would have been about one hundred times worse than
Speaker 2: that if I did this that to Danny. But instead
Speaker 2: it's just listen, if Danny ties me or beats me
Speaker 2: this week, he wins. If I beat him by one game,
Speaker 2: I win. So he listen all he has to do
Speaker 2: is go three and zero to guarantee he wins. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe he could theoretically win by going oh and three
Speaker 2: if I also do. But the only way he can
Speaker 2: control it and no pressure Danny, is if he nails
Speaker 2: all three picks in week eighteen. And so we'll see.
Speaker 2: I've been coming on quite strong lately, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll see you guys on TV in a
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