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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell everyone how Nick Wright is ingrid. The
Speaker 2: Jaguars were four and eight and somebody had the foresight
Speaker 2: to say, they're still winning the division. And I told
Speaker 2: you guys a month ago that the next time they
Speaker 2: lose was gonna be in arrowhead to the chief in
Speaker 2: the divisional round. Yo, you don't say everybody laughed at me.
Speaker 2: Hold on, guys, man, never a doubt. I gotta tell
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of doubt. The Prince comes through
Speaker 2: on Saturday, undefeated on Saturdays. I forgot about that, stupid
Speaker 2: take my head. Oh what a glorious evening that was
Speaker 2: welcome in episode I don't even know what episode. This
Speaker 2: is one eighteen of What's Right with Nick? Right typically
Speaker 2: we tell you what missed here. I don't even need
Speaker 2: to do that right now. We're gonna get right into
Speaker 2: the football before we even do that, Demons. If people
Speaker 2: want the last bit of media you and I did
Speaker 2: together the end of Friday's gambling show, we gave out
Speaker 2: in succession the following we gave out a Saturday exclusive
Speaker 2: teaser of the Niners and Jags cash. We gave out
Speaker 2: a sixty to one sixteen parlay that, thanks to the
Speaker 2: fraudulent Kirk Cousins, we didn't hit, but gave you five
Speaker 2: against the spread picks four and one on those. And
Speaker 2: we gave out the offer of JAG's money line Trevor
Speaker 2: over two hundred and forty eight passing yards and the
Speaker 2: Niners minus sixteen and a half. And if the Niners
Speaker 2: were up twenty four, the Seahawks scored, they went for
Speaker 2: two to try to ruin us. It didn't convert. That
Speaker 2: was eleven to one. So if you're stuck with us through,
Speaker 2: let's call it an up and down somewhat tumultuous gambling
Speaker 2: year week eighteen, we went eleven and three. This week
Speaker 2: we're already four and one, So that is we're fifteen
Speaker 2: and four in our last nineteen against the spread. Bets.
Speaker 2: I can do that math fifteen and five seventy five percent,
Speaker 2: so that's about seventy eight percent against the spread, if
Speaker 2: that's any good for you. We gave out an eleven
Speaker 2: to one winner, we gave out a teaser, and we
Speaker 2: came within a hair of being alive tonight vers sixty
Speaker 2: to one parlay. But none of it is possible without
Speaker 2: the Prince. So demanse get us started, my friend.
Speaker 3: So obviously a little bit of history was made on Saturday,
Speaker 3: So why don't you go ahead and tell us about it?
Speaker 2: Okay, So guys, be honest. You were watching that game
Speaker 2: and Trevor throws a pick. It's a batted ball, and
Speaker 2: Demons is sitting right there with me and I yelped.
Speaker 2: He said, oh no, and then he throws another pick,
Speaker 2: and then he throws another pick the second So let's
Speaker 2: go through them all. First pick, batted ball happens, second pick,
Speaker 2: he thought he was gonna get illegal contact, which there was,
Speaker 2: but I give the reps credit. They were just not
Speaker 2: calling stuff. At least they were insistent. But also fourth
Speaker 2: and seven, if that pick doesn't actually hurt you as
Speaker 2: long as they don't return it a long period of
Speaker 2: time hurt you as much as an incompletion would have
Speaker 2: that one, I'm not going to kill him on. The
Speaker 2: third pick was bad, the fourth pick was an unbelievable
Speaker 2: play and not good. So he's now He's started the
Speaker 2: game four for eighteen with four interceptions, as terribly as
Speaker 2: a game can start. And then the Jags punt returner
Speaker 2: had a ball bounce off his head. And from that
Speaker 2: moment forward, as is if you read any of your
Speaker 2: history books or fables or tales of a young royalty
Speaker 2: coming into the throne, they overcome impossible adversity against all
Speaker 2: odds to then shock the world and have their greatest triumph.
Speaker 2: And Trevor Lawrence did just that. From that that moment,
Speaker 2: down twenty seven to nothing against a team with multiple
Speaker 2: All Pro defenders, he played a perfect football game. The Jags.
Speaker 2: After being down twenty seven to nothing, they are down
Speaker 2: four or five possessions. They had five possessions left in
Speaker 2: the game. Trevor passing touchdown. Trevor passing touchdown, Trevor passing touchdown,
Speaker 2: Trevor passing touchdown plus a superman leap for two game
Speaker 2: winning field goal drive. Those are the five drives. And
Speaker 2: it's not just that it was a seventeen to nothing
Speaker 2: comeback or twenty seven nothing comeback. Pardon me. It was
Speaker 2: the first comeback like that in NFL history where the
Speaker 2: opposing team doesn't turn the ball over for them to
Speaker 2: do that without the Chargers fumbling a kickoff. When the
Speaker 2: Chiefs came back twenty four to nothing on the Texans,
Speaker 2: was a fumbled kickoff. There was a fake punt that
Speaker 2: was essentially a turnover, a lot of things. The Jags
Speaker 2: defense just stepped up, the Chargers offense fell apart, and
Speaker 2: Trevor kept answering the bell. He remains undefeated on Saturday,
Speaker 2: something everyone laughed at me about when I talked about
Speaker 2: it on TV. And then you know what, you saw
Speaker 2: it everywhere. Now you know it's obviously Chiefs Jags. Right?
Speaker 2: Did you see when that game is?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 2: First game of the weekend, Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 3: Right, it makes me a little nervous, So you are
Speaker 3: nervous about it? Okna not be.
Speaker 2: Kent City hasn't hosted royalty since Princess died forty five
Speaker 2: years ago. I don't actually know if she came to
Speaker 2: I don't know if that actually happened.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little nervous, Okay, a little nervous just
Speaker 2: because it is you. You are now up against a
Speaker 2: top five quarterback coming off his greatest professional achievement. Now
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are rested in all of this, The Chiefs
Speaker 2: are What do you think you haven't looked at it yet.
Speaker 2: What do you think the line is?
Speaker 3: I mean it's obviously in arrowhead. Yeah. Uh, i'd say
Speaker 3: Chiefs minus seven.
Speaker 2: Eight and a half, eight and a half chiefs minus
Speaker 2: eight and a half is what I saw it at
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gave Shrevor too much credit?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I understand how. There's no way to give
Speaker 2: him too much credit, honest question. Though everyone now agrees
Speaker 2: with me, these top five quarterback, right, I'd believe folks
Speaker 2: gave me a hard time when I said he was
Speaker 2: top ten already. But I don't ever want to hear
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert's better. I just don't. I just don't want
Speaker 2: to hear it. And I think Herbert's very good. But
Speaker 2: another thing is and we'll talk Chargers in a second.
Speaker 2: After the muffed punt, you have the first and goal
Speaker 2: from the six, up twenty four to nothing, a chance
Speaker 2: for thirty one nothing and really kill it into the game.
Speaker 2: On third and goal, he has Keenan Allen wide open.
Speaker 2: He saales it over his head and from that moment forward,
Speaker 2: it was a Jaguars avalanche. And this is why pedigree matters.
Speaker 2: This is why a guy being the number one player
Speaker 2: in his high school class, the one of the greatest
Speaker 2: college performers ever matters because instead of turtling, instead of
Speaker 2: going into a shell after the worst half of football
Speaker 2: of his life, he had the confidence, the courage to
Speaker 2: keep being himself and to keep it is such a
Speaker 2: such a drastic difference from a guy like Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 2: who will talk about later, who has an opportunity against
Speaker 2: the defense that you've been carving up to drive down
Speaker 2: the field score a game tying touchdown and on fourth
Speaker 2: and eight checks the ball down because he doesn't have
Speaker 2: that well of experience of being great in the biggest
Speaker 2: possible moments like Trevor does. And it's just listen, the
Speaker 2: AFC quarterback picture is just impossibly good, but one before
Speaker 2: we get to the Chargers. Trevor Lawrence started the game
Speaker 2: four of sixteen, zero touchdowns, four picks, with a passer
Speaker 2: rating of zero point zero. He ended the game twenty
Speaker 2: four of thirty one, four touchdowns, zero picks, with a
Speaker 2: passer rating of one forty one. It simply does not
Speaker 2: get better than that. All right, I think we need
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit more about this game.
Speaker 3: Service, Sead. Do you think the Brandon Staley will stab
Speaker 3: his job by the time we're done with the show?
Speaker 2: So I don't think they're gonna fire him. Really, it's
Speaker 2: not in the Chargers history to fire him. It's not
Speaker 2: in the Chargers history. Everyone's like, oh, Sean Payton, the
Speaker 2: Chargers don't like paying coaches a lot of money. Fran
Speaker 2: Stalley makes like four million dollars a year. It's Sean
Speaker 2: Payton make twenty million dollars a year. What's up you
Speaker 2: a little twinkle in your eye like you want to
Speaker 2: say something.
Speaker 3: No, nothing, I was just just kind of thinking on
Speaker 3: something with what you were saying.
Speaker 2: And so do I think that's a fireable loss? Yes?
Speaker 2: Do I think that you saw in this game? And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go on a little miniature analytics rant. Here
Speaker 2: you saw that this weekend fourth and one, everyone's going
Speaker 2: for it. The two point conversion that Doug Peterson went for,
Speaker 2: even with the penalty on Bosa, would have been unthinkable
Speaker 2: a few years ago. They went for it. The Chargers,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, did not play the style of
Speaker 2: football that made Brandon Staley, in my opinion, a very
Speaker 2: good coach. He allowed himself to be bullied by the media,
Speaker 2: and so I can go through it for you. The
Speaker 2: number of fourth down opportunities the Chargers had that they
Speaker 2: left on the table. The fourth and goal from the
Speaker 2: four inside the five yard line, second drive of the game,
Speaker 2: they kick a field goal. The fourth and goal from
Speaker 2: the five after the muffed punt, they kick a field goal.
Speaker 2: In the second half, when think the wheels are potentially
Speaker 2: starting to come off, you had an opportunity. Let me
Speaker 2: find it exactly what it was, the fourth and three
Speaker 2: at the twenty two it, by the way, in a
Speaker 2: spot where a field goal you're up ten. A field goal,
Speaker 2: even if you make it two touchdowns beaches Still they
Speaker 2: kicked the field goal, and at the end of the game,
Speaker 2: fourth and five at their own thirty they punt the
Speaker 2: ball away and never touch it again. So Staley totally turtled.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, Doug Peterson, go go, go, go go,
Speaker 2: not just the two point conversion, the fourth down early
Speaker 2: in the game that didn't work out, and the fourth
Speaker 2: down late in the game where instead of simply going
Speaker 2: for a quarterback sneak and trying to pick it up,
Speaker 2: he said, let's pop a big play, hits et in
Speaker 2: on the side, and that wins them the game. That
Speaker 2: wins them the football game. So if Staley is going
Speaker 2: to have any utility as a coach, he had to
Speaker 2: be the guy he was his first year, the most
Speaker 2: aggressive coach in the NFL. Instead, he went away from
Speaker 2: what got him there, what made him him, and now
Speaker 2: he's just another below average NFL head coach, just all
Speaker 2: he is. But I think they're gonna keep him all
Speaker 2: right next all.
Speaker 3: Right, rollercoaster Josh Allen and the Bills snuck out a
Speaker 3: three point win at home versus Skyler Thompson. Burrow and
Speaker 3: the Bengals didn't look look too much better, though, Yeah,
Speaker 3: as they were a tip pass away from getting the
Speaker 3: overtime versus Tyler Huntley. Uh huh. This is great news
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs do the Bills and the Bengals look
Speaker 3: like the sakiest teams left in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not gonna go to the shakiest teams left,
Speaker 2: but let's start with the Bengals, then we'll get to
Speaker 2: the Bills. That game going the way it did was
Speaker 2: so incredibly predictable, and listen, I said, I thought the
Speaker 2: Ravens could win the game out right right, and the
Speaker 2: Ravens outplayed. Give the Bengals credit. They the play the
Speaker 2: fourteen point swing. You can't overcome it, but the Ravens
Speaker 2: almost did overcome it. Even if if he just quarterback
Speaker 2: sneaks there and gets stuffed instead of leaping like a dope,
Speaker 2: even if they go for it on fourth down and
Speaker 2: don't get it, I believe the Ravens win the game
Speaker 2: because then it's seventeen to seventeen and the Bengals offense
Speaker 2: didn't was doing nothing, nothing, and you haven't backed them
Speaker 2: up the inch line. If they decide to kick the
Speaker 2: field goal there, I think they win it. The only
Speaker 2: way for them to lose that game was what happened
Speaker 2: on fumble, and the fumble returned for a touchdown, But
Speaker 2: the Bengals turnover luck in their postseasons over the last
Speaker 2: two years is unbelievable. Last year and four playoff games,
Speaker 2: they forced nine turnovers, committed two. Yesterday they forced two turnovers,
Speaker 2: committed one. One of those turnovers they returned for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: And Joe Mixon, who said they're the big dogs of
Speaker 2: the AFC, had a bad game. And but the Ravens
Speaker 2: defense deserves credit. Obviously, with better quarterback play, they win
Speaker 2: the game. But the Bengals survive in advance. But it
Speaker 2: was a costly victory because that offensive line got more
Speaker 2: banged up in the game. Their left tackle Joonah Williams,
Speaker 2: who hasn't been good this year, but he's still their
Speaker 2: starting left tackle, he ended up going out with injury.
Speaker 2: That is a very expensive win for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2: Then we get to the Bills. That would have been
Speaker 2: one of the worst losses in NFL history, That would
Speaker 2: have been worse than the Chargers loss. Yeah, you're playing
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson. He is shaky at best. The stars on
Speaker 2: the Dolphins are shaky at best as far as dropping passes,
Speaker 2: and Josh Allen by himself kept the Dolphins in that game.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen did everything he could to find a way
Speaker 2: to lose that football game. On the season, Josh Allen
Speaker 2: now has thirty two interceptions and fumbles. No one else
Speaker 2: in the league has more than twenty eight. Matt Ryan
Speaker 2: had twenty eight, Justin Fields had twenty seven. That's a
Speaker 2: second year player and a fossil that got binched. Josh
Speaker 2: Allen fumbled the ball three times, including one return for
Speaker 2: a touchdown that flipped the game. Through two interceptions, and
Speaker 2: wouldn't stop throwing these insane bombs down the field. He
Speaker 2: threw more bombs twenty plus are yards down the field
Speaker 2: in that game than any quarterback has thrown in any
Speaker 2: game all year. Well, but he wasn't. He completed one
Speaker 2: great one early in the game and then wouldn't go
Speaker 2: away from it. He just can't help himself, and it
Speaker 2: is very difficult. If you're a Bills fan, here's your concern.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen was a turnover machine until Brian Dabele got there.
Speaker 2: Then he cleaned it all up, played the best football
Speaker 2: of his life. Brian Dabell left, He's a turnover machine again.
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones was a turnover machine Brian daball got there.
Speaker 2: And he is cleaned it up entirely. Daniel Jones not
Speaker 2: We'll talk about him in his game in a moment.
Speaker 2: Not only did he have a great playoff game, he
Speaker 2: led the league in lowest interception rate this year, cleaned
Speaker 2: one point one percent interception rate this season. So there are.
Speaker 3: Would he take Trevor Lawrence over Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing on that I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know how. My pause is not because I'm debating the question.
Speaker 2: My pause is because I'm trying to figure out how
Speaker 2: to best ex explain the answer. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you can see this level of carelessness from Josh Allen
Speaker 2: at this point in his career and think it's ever
Speaker 2: going to go away. This is his fifth season, He's
Speaker 2: played nearly one hundred games in this league. How can
Speaker 2: or maybe he's played exactly one hundred thereabouts, how can
Speaker 2: you possibly think that, no, no, no, this is gonna stop.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna stop. Now. It's odd for me to
Speaker 2: then say you don't have worry about the Trevor when
Speaker 2: he just obviously had a four interception playoff game. But
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence is on a skyward trajectory and Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: to me, is not nearly as much of an injury
Speaker 2: risk as Josh Allen because he's damn near as big
Speaker 2: as him, right, and he doesn't play that style. So
Speaker 2: if I were if I were saying quarterbacks, if I
Speaker 2: were saying quarterbacks you're gonna have for the next decade,
Speaker 2: I would go Mahomes a clear one, Burrow Lawrence two
Speaker 2: to three, and then Josh Allen for the I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's and then after Josh Allen you would
Speaker 2: have Herbert and then we'll see what Jalen Hurts looks
Speaker 2: like in the playoffs. But it is on that game
Speaker 2: you're up seventeen nothing against a third string quarterback at home,
Speaker 2: their team is playing terribly, and Josh Allen forced them
Speaker 2: back into the game that there's no there's no disputing that.
Speaker 2: There's no arguing that he could have had five turnovers.
Speaker 2: He fumbled the ball three times, including early in the
Speaker 2: game when he just kind of like threw it forward,
Speaker 2: like what are you doing. At his core, he is
Speaker 2: still the guy who in his first career playoff game
Speaker 2: was running up the sideline and just blindly threw the
Speaker 2: ball backwards over his head and his career playoff numbers
Speaker 2: look really good, but it's misleading because Josh Allen, this
Speaker 2: is what he has done. Game by game. First playoff
Speaker 2: game of his career, the one he threw the ball
Speaker 2: backwards over his head, no touchdowns, a rating, blow seventy
Speaker 2: two fumbles. His second career playoff game sensational against the
Speaker 2: Colts two touchdowns, no interceptions, a one to twenty one rating,
Speaker 2: one fumble. His third playoff game against the Ravens mediocre,
Speaker 2: one touchdown, no picks, one fumble in eighty six rating.
Speaker 2: His third career playoff game against the Chiefs mediocre, two touchdowns,
Speaker 2: one pick and eighty one rates. Then his fourth career,
Speaker 2: fifth career playoff game perfect Patriots, five touchdowns, zero picks
Speaker 2: at one fifty eight passer rating, His next playoff game
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs perfect except he lost four touchdowns, zero picks,
Speaker 2: a one thirty six rating, and then yesterday against the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: three touchdowns, two picks, a ninety three rating, and three fumbles.
Speaker 2: So if you remove, and again it's not fair to remove,
Speaker 2: but let's just do it like this. In his career,
Speaker 2: he's played seven playoff games. He's been sensational in three
Speaker 2: of them and below average in the other four. But
Speaker 2: he was so good in those three that his career
Speaker 2: playoff numbers look like they're all time great. It's but
Speaker 2: it's really the Chiefs and the Patriots game that are
Speaker 2: doing all the work there. Aside from those two games,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs Patriots game, one of which he lost. By
Speaker 2: the way, he has in his other five career playoff
Speaker 2: games a passer rating below ninety. He has seven passing touchdowns,
Speaker 2: three interceptions, and seven fumbles. Seven touchdowns, three picks, and
Speaker 2: seven fumbles in the other five games.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, it's official, Jimmy g was holding back
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: And when are we gonna get to something that I
Speaker 2: didn't nail months ago?
Speaker 3: At one game Rock Party Tye Garoppolo's career postseason touchdown total.
Speaker 2: That's a remarkable stat.
Speaker 3: And they're obviously on that seven game win streak with Party.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and for the record, they're on eleven game
Speaker 2: winning streak overall. But as you mentioned, seven games with Perty, right, yep.
Speaker 3: Who should get the most credit for this run? Kyle
Speaker 3: Shanahan the defense or Rock Party's gonna say Shanahan, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2: I mean it just flat lee is. The defense was
Speaker 2: amazing in the second half on Saturday, was not great
Speaker 2: in the first half. I mean they were again we
Speaker 2: had the Niners in an alternate line minus sixteen and
Speaker 2: a half. They covered it, but they were trailing at halftime.
Speaker 2: Gino was dealing and you know they the defense is unbelievable,
Speaker 2: but has had some spotty moments.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's flags kind of helped the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: I feel like they got the Seahawks out of there.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so there was there was one and the
Speaker 2: Seahawks center kept going illegally downfield, and there was a
Speaker 2: spot when it was the Seahawks were driving for a
Speaker 2: lead and we're driving late in the first half. They
Speaker 2: were about to have third and short, they had an
Speaker 2: illegal man downfield and the very next play they fumble
Speaker 2: and the game kind of flips right there. So that's
Speaker 2: a fair point. But and party has been excellent. But
Speaker 2: at this point you kind of have to ask yourself
Speaker 2: this question. Do you believe Brock Purdy is the next
Speaker 2: new age Kurt Warner, that he is a great player
Speaker 2: that was just totally overlooked and underdrafted, or do you
Speaker 2: believe that this offense was a juggernaut waiting to happen
Speaker 2: once it was unshackled from Jimmy Garoppolo. Because Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 2: has played six playoff games. In those six playoff games,
Speaker 2: he has a total of four touchdowns, six interceptions, a
Speaker 2: rating of seventy four, and averages one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: yards per game. He has one playoff game with a
Speaker 2: good passer rating. That playoff game demons they only let
Speaker 2: him throw the ball eight times. He was six for
Speaker 2: eight in that game. Rock Purdy, in his first career
Speaker 2: playoff game, had four touchdowns, so matching Jimmy's career total,
Speaker 2: zero picks, a one thirty one rating, and through for
Speaker 2: more yards than Jimmy g averaged in two playoff games.
Speaker 3: He also looks like he's been there before, Like the
Speaker 3: guy seems very comfortable.
Speaker 2: So this is where the benefit of playing four years
Speaker 2: of big time college football helps. So I always say
Speaker 2: it's not a great program, but they're in the Big twelve,
Speaker 2: so you play big games. He played four years there
Speaker 2: and so he has played in a lot of games.
Speaker 2: But it's Shanahan, it's Shanahan's and it's why Shanahan spent
Speaker 2: all that draft capital on Trey Lance because he knew
Speaker 2: if we ever were to get a great quarterback, we're unbeatable, unbeatable.
Speaker 2: And now I don't know what Trey Lance going to be.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, what about Trey Lance's job?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, if Perdy gets him to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl and doesn't have a dud, I think
Speaker 2: you probably just have to eat your losses on Trey
Speaker 2: Lance and trade him for like a second round pick
Speaker 2: to a team that liked him coming out of the drafts.
Speaker 2: Because it's gotta be perty R. Perty has to be
Speaker 2: the guy. He's actually cheaper than Trey. They're both incredibly cheap,
Speaker 2: but because he's a rookie this year, you have him
Speaker 2: under control longer, all that stuff. But get as that
Speaker 2: there is the Niners.
Speaker 3: Yeah for Tree Lance.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if that. I don't think that
Speaker 2: would be the trade. But I also don't think they
Speaker 2: want Rogers Right right now, brock Perty looks better than
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. I'll tell you that much right now. And
Speaker 2: so to me, Shanahan deserves the credit. And that team
Speaker 2: is a juggernaut. That team is an absolute juggernaut that
Speaker 2: you would say, it's hard to see anybody beating him,
Speaker 2: But I saw the Chiefs beat him by twenty one
Speaker 2: so or twenty or twenty one whatever it was. Uh,
Speaker 2: but Shanahan is has done a brilliant job. By the way,
Speaker 2: we have a poll question. Oh yeah, and you guys
Speaker 2: can participate in the chat and we'll get to your
Speaker 2: comments at the end of the show. Who deserves more credit,
Speaker 2: By the way, whoever curates our chat our buddy In
Speaker 2: the one of the producers. First things first, Dusty says
Speaker 2: he always puts questions in the chat and that we've
Speaker 2: never answered one of them, so he's a little upset.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Seventy one percent of the audience says Shanahan, eight percent
Speaker 2: of the defense, twenty one percent says party all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Brian Davil and Daniel Jones led their team to
Speaker 3: the second round after upsetting Minnesota. Dave Balls should get
Speaker 3: Coach of the Century award for making Daniel Jones a
Speaker 3: reliable quarterback. The real winner, though, is Daniel Jones, who
Speaker 3: is up for a big pay day and free agency. Obviously,
Speaker 3: is it crazy to think that Daniel Jones might be
Speaker 3: a better free agent free agent quarterback than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, that is crazy. Yeah, that is crazy. Not
Speaker 2: better than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Okay, even considering the injuries.
Speaker 2: Even considering the injuries. So Daniel Jones throws the ball
Speaker 2: better than Lamar Jackson. Okay, So you're in on Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: Thro Daniel Jones, My guy, you're in on Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. So he played a great playoff. Yep,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the last guy on this island. Wait,
Speaker 2: hold on it. And he's also mobile.
Speaker 3: He is mobile.
Speaker 2: He is mobile? Do you I think it was Saquan
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. One of his teammates, you know what
Speaker 2: they called him, But I don't think this is an
Speaker 2: appropriate nickname, by the way, but one of his teammates
Speaker 2: called him that. They called him Vanilla vick uh and uh.
Speaker 2: He is mobile and he's an excellent runner. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be the last person on the I don't believe
Speaker 2: in Daniel Jones island.
Speaker 3: I am. Yeah, you tend to stick to your opinions.
Speaker 2: I just saw so many years of terrible football by
Speaker 2: him that I just wonder if now he's doing it
Speaker 2: with no receivers, and he just did it in the
Speaker 2: road playoff game. He's I, by the way, reserve the
Speaker 2: right to adjust this opinion before I'm on television in
Speaker 2: four hours. I have to think about this more because
Speaker 2: he has done this year everything you would ask him
Speaker 2: to do. His numbers are good, He's a tough runner,
Speaker 2: He's not turning the ball over. With that said, this
Speaker 2: is a team that in the final ten games of
Speaker 2: the year won three times, and those three victories came
Speaker 2: against Indy, Washington and the Texans. Okay, so I do
Speaker 2: wonder if this is more about the Vikings League worst
Speaker 2: pass defense. I mean, the guys were as open as
Speaker 2: you will ever see in a playoff game. Combine it
Speaker 2: then with the fact that Kirk Cousins checking the ball
Speaker 2: down on fourth and eight inside of two minutes left
Speaker 2: in a playoff game is the most ballwise cowardly thing
Speaker 2: I may have ever seen. I don't I can't fathom
Speaker 2: that decision. Tree And it's not like he checked it
Speaker 2: down to Dalvin Cook or Justin Jefferson. He checked it
Speaker 2: down to his tight end who was blanketed by a guy.
Speaker 2: It was such an outrageous It's like throwing the ball away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know what he was protecting against. We saw
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson beat the Buffalo Bills on a fourth and eighteen. Well,
Speaker 2: they ended up beating him. This play didn't beat him,
Speaker 2: but it kept him alive to beat him on a
Speaker 2: fourth and eighteen when he left up one handed and
Speaker 2: made maybe the greatest catch in NFL history. Throw him
Speaker 2: the ball, or throw it to kJ Osborne or Feeling
Speaker 2: or anybody passed the sticks. See if the rep the
Speaker 2: refs just gave you a very questionable roughing the quarterback penalty,
Speaker 2: maybe the refs will throw a flag, do something. And
Speaker 2: so Dabled to me is coach of the Year, and
Speaker 2: I what he's done with Daniel Jones is fantastic. If
Speaker 2: the Giants keep him, then I think Daniel Jones can
Speaker 2: keep up this level of play. If he goes somewhere else,
Speaker 2: I'm not quite so sure about. I think Dabell is
Speaker 2: the key here, especially when you're seeing what's happening to
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, what's happened to Daniel Jones. I also would
Speaker 2: be very squeamish about paying Daniel Jones a ton of money,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna do it, and so, but I give
Speaker 2: the Giants credit. And now the Giants get a divisional
Speaker 2: rematch against Philly.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And now that Philly defense very different than Minnesota defense.
Speaker 2: That Philly pass rush very different. And the reason that
Speaker 2: I want to hold out on just crowning Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: is against that Philly pass rush. There is the chance
Speaker 2: he turns into the previous Daniel Jones. But hey, give
Speaker 2: credit where I will begrudgingly give credit because he was excellent. Okay,
Speaker 2: we only went ten minutes over. I'm actually impressed by
Speaker 2: us there. We'll take a very quick break, less than
Speaker 2: ninety seconds. Come back, talk a little Monday Night football
Speaker 2: and the rest of the kind of fallout of wild
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Speaker 2: one to eighteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Episode one eighteen. We went long in that first segment.
Speaker 2: I want to leave us time. By the way, can
Speaker 2: I just look at the screen real quick, Demante, Can
Speaker 2: I tell you a frustrating thing about getting old well beard?
Speaker 3: Here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I keep thinking there's something in my goate in
Speaker 2: my beard, like fuzz from my shirt, and I keep
Speaker 2: pulling on it. But it's just gray hair. It's just
Speaker 2: gray beard hair. It's brutal. That's a bad beat for me. Man.
Speaker 2: The my wife says it's coming in here too. I,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm not going to be a die
Speaker 2: your hair guy.
Speaker 3: Or you're not going to die it back your ead?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no. When it goes gray, it goes gray.
Speaker 2: I think it probably makes me look more esteemed. I
Speaker 2: think it'd be fine if it were gray er. But
Speaker 2: the fact that it's just so like it was patchy
Speaker 2: with the gray stuff. It just looks like I have
Speaker 2: stuff on my face. All right, I listen, we gotta
Speaker 2: go fast here me me talking about my beard hair
Speaker 2: hair is probably not the fastest the best way to
Speaker 2: start the segment. We'll get to your comments in the
Speaker 2: C block, Demons, get us started here.
Speaker 3: Well, car weekend wraps up tonight with Cowboys versus the Bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: after a weekend of bad quarterback play. I wonder which
Speaker 3: versions of Dak and Brady show up Yeah, win or lose?
Speaker 3: Will this game have any type of impact on Brady's
Speaker 3: legacy aside from it being his last home game he
Speaker 3: plays inside of Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: Well, theoretically, with the Giants win, Brady now could be
Speaker 2: hosting the NFC championship game if they were to get there.
Speaker 2: If the Giants beat.
Speaker 3: The Eagles face Jones though, right.
Speaker 2: Man, If if Brady goes eight to nine in his path, now, listen,
Speaker 2: I don't think the Bucks can beat the Niners, but
Speaker 2: it would be pretty unbelievable if his path the playoffs
Speaker 2: is a home playoff game against a team that was
Speaker 2: objectively better than them all year but just played their
Speaker 2: worst game of the season and who they beat and
Speaker 2: we one than a rookie quarterback in the Divisional round,
Speaker 2: and if the rookie quarterback, who they've already played by
Speaker 2: the way, melts down and then he's got Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: at home to go to an eleventh super Bowl, it
Speaker 2: would just be unbelievable. Uh, I've got the Bucks tonight.
Speaker 2: I actually think, though, the Bucks are really really bummed
Speaker 2: that the Vikings choked the way they did, because I
Speaker 2: think the Bucks would have felt way better about going
Speaker 2: to Philly than going to San Francisco. And I think
Speaker 2: the Cowboys feel the same way because if the Cowboys
Speaker 2: they've beaten Philly, it's divisional rival. I think both of
Speaker 2: those teams are really irritated that the bracket didn't hold
Speaker 2: because I know that Philly's the one seed, but I
Speaker 2: feel like Philly is imminently exponentially more beatable as the Niners.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, And I know everybody says I'm disrespecting Philly.
Speaker 2: The Niners are on a different level in my opinion
Speaker 2: right now. And so now the winner of this game,
Speaker 2: not only are they gonna have to go to San Francisco,
Speaker 2: they obviously have to go to San Francisco on two
Speaker 2: days less rest. So the Niners played Saturday, two and
Speaker 2: a half days almost the Niners played Saturday afternoon. This
Speaker 2: game is Monday night. Now that game will be Sunday,
Speaker 2: so at least you get almost a full week. But
Speaker 2: the two days less rest thing does suck to a
Speaker 2: degree for the Cowboys or the Bucks. But I I
Speaker 2: think I had been I had been saying that I
Speaker 2: thought the winner of this game was gonna go to
Speaker 2: the conference championship game because I thought the bracket was
Speaker 2: gonna hold, and that either of these teams could be
Speaker 2: filly this game, in particular, we have seen the keep
Speaker 2: their flags in their pocket all weekend, right, and then
Speaker 2: it felt like that pass, that roughing the passer penalty
Speaker 2: that Kirk Cousins got was priming us for what we're
Speaker 2: about to see tonight on Monday Night. For I think
Speaker 2: there will be three I'm I'm I'm marking it down.
Speaker 2: I think we will have three Tampa Bay drives extended
Speaker 2: by not by roughing the passer, necessarily by illegal contact
Speaker 2: which we haven't seen, a lot of defensive holding, which
Speaker 2: we haven't seen a lot of defensive pass interference. The
Speaker 2: Rafts have called this like playoff football. I think that
Speaker 2: ends tonight. I think Brady gets all the whistles. I
Speaker 2: think Dak makes a big mistake, and I think the
Speaker 2: Bucks win, and I think the Bucks are, you know,
Speaker 2: a game away from a conference championship appearance.
Speaker 3: All right, next as time for a game. We are
Speaker 3: playing all in or fold today. First off, we've got
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. Obviously, he made a loud statement to the
Speaker 3: Ravens by not traveling with the team for their first
Speaker 3: round playoff game all in her fold. Lamar has already
Speaker 3: taken his last snap as a Raven.
Speaker 2: All right, so Lamar sometimes, injured guys don't travel. So
Speaker 2: like Tua didn't go to Buffalo, Lamar didn't go with
Speaker 2: them last week to Cincy. So I'm not going to
Speaker 2: overreact to the not travel part of it.
Speaker 3: So like you, why wouldn't you go? Though, Like I mean,
Speaker 3: I understand, like because he has like he probably had
Speaker 3: a concussionist.
Speaker 2: Right, So listen again, it's like support, right, that's iding
Speaker 2: out a lot of people view it. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: you're wrong for viewing it that way. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Different teams have different rules, they do things. Some teams,
Speaker 2: everybody travels. Some teams, if you're injured, you're not allowed
Speaker 2: to travel. You would think maybe certain teams would make
Speaker 2: an exception if it's a franchise quarterback. I don't know, like,
Speaker 2: you know, be on the sideline, help Huntley. I'm not sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I am not because I don't know how the
Speaker 2: Ravens always do it. I am not going to necessarily
Speaker 2: say I'm not gonna I'm gonna not judge that right
Speaker 2: there because I'm not certain of it. There's it certainly was.
Speaker 2: It was curious to a lot of people, so it's noteworthy.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if it should have been curious. Also,
Speaker 2: it might be the exactly well right, it might be
Speaker 2: exactly that. And and you know, Mike Vick, who's tight
Speaker 2: with Lamar, said on TV, put a brace on it
Speaker 2: and go play. Sean Payton said, you know, seemed to play.
Speaker 2: I need to play. Sammy Watkins said he wanted him
Speaker 2: to play. This is all moving full speed ahead towards
Speaker 2: a divorce, yep. And I understand that. And this is
Speaker 2: here's what's interesting about this. There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: interesting about this. But I was very critical of the
Speaker 2: Cardinals for paying and a lot of these teams have
Speaker 2: paid these quarterbacks earlier than they have to went scoff.
Speaker 2: I think Kyler's on that list. Russ wentn't on a
Speaker 2: rookie deal. They paid him way early. Set Russ aside,
Speaker 2: and I said, you don't need to do this. I
Speaker 2: don't know why you're doing this. And the answer might
Speaker 2: be because if we don't, something like this can happen
Speaker 2: where a guy doesn't get paid and gets banged up
Speaker 2: and protects himself and we need the guy to be
Speaker 2: all in to not then. And here's the other part
Speaker 2: of it that I've talked about. Lamar doesn't have an agent,
Speaker 2: so he's doing his own negotiations the whole thing. And
Speaker 2: there are what would the Atlanta Falcons give up for
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson? What would the New York Jets give up
Speaker 2: for Lamar Jackson? What would the Indianapolis Colts give up
Speaker 2: for Lamar Jackson? And I know a lot of people
Speaker 2: are like the Ravens never traded him. There's gonna franchise
Speaker 2: tag him. He might not sign it, and he might
Speaker 2: hold out, and that's not even holding out because holding
Speaker 2: out implies you're under contract or be under contract. So
Speaker 2: I think I think he's played his last snap as
Speaker 2: a rape. I do. I said that a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: At the time people thought it was crazy. It is
Speaker 2: looking more and more.
Speaker 3: Likely that that's the case next reports, so that Tool
Speaker 3: will be back as a starter in Miami next year.
Speaker 3: Gino Smith also stated that he wants to finish his
Speaker 3: career in Seattle. If they return, will they make it
Speaker 3: back to the postseason?
Speaker 2: All in a fold?
Speaker 3: Two En Gino will lead their teams back to the
Speaker 3: playoffs in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll fold that. I think that. So let's
Speaker 2: start with the Dolphins. I don't know that two is
Speaker 2: going to be the quarterback there. I think Tom Brady
Speaker 2: might be the quarterback there. And I think that you
Speaker 2: give Two a full year post all these concussions, and
Speaker 2: you're like, two, you're a guy still. But we can
Speaker 2: get Brady they wanted Brady before a year of Brady
Speaker 2: and then move forward to him. I think that's on
Speaker 2: the board. I also think even if Tua is the guy,
Speaker 2: here's the thing, and I think people don't fully understand
Speaker 2: this part of it. I think people think talking about
Speaker 2: to a size makes it's like, well, okay, but his size,
Speaker 2: what's that matter. He's getting concussions, that's his brain. He's
Speaker 2: getting the concussions in part because he can be ragdoll
Speaker 2: and thrown to the ground so much differently than bigger quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like the bigger, stronger quarterbacks
Speaker 2: aren't getting man handled that way. So no one is
Speaker 2: immune to concussions, but you can be more or less
Speaker 2: likely to be in a situation where someone's gonna be
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 3: Cuss you, trample, yeah.
Speaker 2: Exact, all of that stuff, and so that that is problematic.
Speaker 2: You think Ross, who's a smaller quarterback, when he got
Speaker 2: a concussion against the Chiefs when he's running and you know,
Speaker 2: trying to go for the goal line, Like there's there's
Speaker 2: just certain guys like Josh Allen can't be ragdoll. He
Speaker 2: can get hit, he can have a lot of things
Speaker 2: happened to him. And I'm not saying he can't get
Speaker 2: anyone get a concussion. But if Tua obviously is more
Speaker 2: susceptible than the average quarterback. So even if he's the starter,
Speaker 2: what does that guarantee you as far as how many
Speaker 2: games he's gonna play. So that part of it's a factor.
Speaker 2: The Bills are not going anywhere, and I think the Jets,
Speaker 2: if they get Derek Carr or Lamar are gonna be excellent.
Speaker 2: I also think the Dolphins mean. The Dolphins spent a
Speaker 2: lot of money for Bradley Chubb to not be able
Speaker 2: to get a pass rush without sending a blitz. They
Speaker 2: were blitzing now. They ended up sacking Josh Allen a bunch,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't because they could get home with four.
Speaker 2: They had to keep sending extra people, which lest the
Speaker 2: secondary exposed. And I I would just monitor tyreek kills
Speaker 2: mood over the next year. Tyreek talked a lot and
Speaker 2: it all was going great, and that team went from
Speaker 2: eight to three to nine and eight and then nine
Speaker 2: and nine and out of the playoffs, and Tyreek did
Speaker 2: not have a great game. So that's the Dolphins side
Speaker 2: of it. The Seattle side of it is a more
Speaker 2: interesting one, and I do think Seattle could be a
Speaker 2: playoff team next year. The NFC is soft, There aren't
Speaker 2: great quarterbacks. The NFC West is, in my opinion, in
Speaker 2: total disarray. The Niners are great, the Cardinals are going
Speaker 2: to be a mess, and the Rams, I don't think
Speaker 2: you're gonna be good. There's also a weird thing where
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald during the games on Sunday changed his Twitter
Speaker 2: bio to former Rams defensive lineman and then changed it back.
Speaker 3: We looked for it and it said but it didn't
Speaker 3: say the former.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had put it and then changed it back.
Speaker 2: I also always wonder who monitors that stuff, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's not like he said out of tweet.
Speaker 2: Someone was just on Aaron Donald's page, right, or it
Speaker 2: is just a weird thing, but set out aside. Excuse me.
Speaker 2: I think there's real questions about Stafford where he is
Speaker 2: as a player. I know McVay said he's coming back.
Speaker 2: My point is Seattle could be the second best team
Speaker 2: in that division. They played all these rookies, teams that
Speaker 2: played the foremost rookies in football this year, foremost snaps.
Speaker 2: Houston makes sense, Chicago makes sense, Jets, Seattle and the Chiefs. Actually, okay,
Speaker 2: the Jets would have been more, but the running back
Speaker 2: got hurt, you know what I mean, And so the
Speaker 2: Jets were high on the list though. But Seattle and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have to be incredibly optimistic about the fact
Speaker 2: we played all these rookies and we were still playoff teams.
Speaker 2: Chiefs are great, Seattle, you know, overachieved. You would agree.
Speaker 2: And I think they'll keep Gina and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean there, And so I think Seattle could be
Speaker 2: a playoff team next year if they keep Gino. And
Speaker 2: by the way, they also have keep in mind that
Speaker 2: great Broncos pick. They're gonna be able to add another
Speaker 2: blue chip player. They have the Broncos first and second
Speaker 2: round pick. Seattle's a sneaky possible Lamar destination if they
Speaker 2: want to move on from Geno. That that running game.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't see it happening, but that's a
Speaker 2: sneaky one, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, the thirteen and four Vikings had their
Speaker 3: season come to an end, improve once and all once
Speaker 3: and for all of it. They were true frauds of
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two season. In the end, it came
Speaker 3: down to Kirk Cousins throwing five yards short of the
Speaker 3: sticks last week. Kirk Cousins, Yeah, all in their fall
Speaker 3: of the Vikings can make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: With shut Nobody believe. Of course, that's a fold and
Speaker 2: it's just a disaster for them and they I'm looking
Speaker 2: up kirk Cousins contract right now because I don't know
Speaker 2: what they do is the problem. I don't know how
Speaker 2: what how you get where you need to get to
Speaker 2: because yeah, you went thirteen and four, you won the division,
Speaker 2: but you're you're you have so many issues. So Cousins,
Speaker 2: next year is the last year of his deal. You
Speaker 2: can't extend him. They keep giving him these extensions. You can't.
Speaker 2: You gotta let him go into a lame duck year
Speaker 2: and then rip the band aid off. But what they
Speaker 2: need Listen the throw we talked about it earlier. Throwing
Speaker 2: five yards short of the sticks there is is unfathomably bad.
Speaker 3: Do you think Daniel Jones is better than Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'd rather have Daniel Jones. I'd rather like there
Speaker 2: are certain moments.
Speaker 3: Saying like they need to let him go. I'm just thinking, like,
Speaker 3: he's not bad. There's no Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: No, but you have a clear ceiling and there are
Speaker 2: certain moments in the NFL that I don't think you
Speaker 2: can get over. So last year, after the playoffs that
Speaker 2: the Raiders played the Bengals in Round one, they got
Speaker 2: it inside the ten with thirty seconds left. Car spiked
Speaker 2: the ball on first down, which was a grievous error,
Speaker 2: but whatever he did it. They then threw three passes
Speaker 2: Demonse down seven less than thirty seconds left in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Not one of them. They were inside the ten, they
Speaker 2: were at the nine. I think, not one of them
Speaker 2: was into the end zone. They were all short of
Speaker 2: the inzume. They lost the game, and I said, you
Speaker 2: can't come back from that. Sorry, I said that moment.
Speaker 2: The Raiders and Derek Carr getting a divorce. We don't
Speaker 2: know when, but it's happening. It happened this year, same
Speaker 2: last year's playoffs. The Titans are playing the Bengals. Goddamn Bengals, man,
Speaker 2: they're running real hot on this stuff. The I mean
Speaker 2: the I understand they beat Mahomes and I give them
Speaker 2: all the credit in the world for that, But their
Speaker 2: other playoff victories came with Derek Carr doing Derek Carr things.
Speaker 2: The Tannehill game I'm about to describe to you, and
Speaker 2: then Tyler Huntley yesterday, okay, the and Mahomes was lighting
Speaker 2: them up for a half and then went Haywire and
Speaker 2: the but set all that aside. Bryan Tannehill in that
Speaker 2: game against the Bengals off a bye as the one seed,
Speaker 2: started the game with a pick, threw a terrible red
Speaker 2: zone pick and ended the game with a pick to
Speaker 2: lose the game. And I said, right then and there
Speaker 2: that he's done. He's done there. Now they haven't recognized
Speaker 2: that yet, but he's done there. This is a That's
Speaker 2: what that moment was for Kirk Cousins. You're done. He
Speaker 2: might take the team a year to acknowledge it, but
Speaker 2: you don't come back from that. It's over. And so
Speaker 2: I don't know what they do, but no, he'll never
Speaker 2: lead them to a super Bowl.
Speaker 3: All right, last question, to make it to the second
Speaker 3: round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They could make it to the second round of the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they sure.
Speaker 3: They could make you to hear a little faith in
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins from me.
Speaker 2: Why do you like Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I think I like these
Speaker 3: underdog quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Evidently you like Daniel Jones is different though, he's like that. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, next last one.
Speaker 3: Despite you swearing them off, you were back on the
Speaker 3: Black and Miles to celebrate the Prince's comeback win. So,
Speaker 3: speaking of comebacks, all in their fold, Black and Miles
Speaker 3: are making a comeback.
Speaker 2: Unfolding that Black and.
Speaker 3: Oh they haven't. They've always been. Okay, we're not talking
Speaker 3: about with you, we're talking about with other people.
Speaker 2: No, we're talking about with me.
Speaker 3: Do you mean make a comeback? They've always been here.
Speaker 2: I hadn't smoked black and Mild in six months. It's
Speaker 2: been a long time.
Speaker 3: I live with you, ma'am. What's your point.
Speaker 2: I smoked the occasional Lucy cigarette. I haven't smoked a
Speaker 2: black and Mount in a long time.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe wise I'm tripping. I might be dripping.
Speaker 2: I think you're tripping, all right. I think you're tripping,
Speaker 2: and I think you're kind of trying to dry snitch
Speaker 2: right now, and I don't much appreciate it. Come back
Speaker 2: and answer your questions in the chat What's right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in episode one eighteen, What's Right? With Nick Wright? Also, obviously,
Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge it's Martin Luther
Speaker 2: King Day. I back when I used to radio on MLKDA,
Speaker 2: we used to play at the end of the show,
Speaker 2: the entirety of the I have a dream speech. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna do that here. What I am gonna say
Speaker 2: is be very very leery of folks who today will
Speaker 2: cherry pick one or two MLK quotes to pretend that
Speaker 2: they rep anything that he represented. And also it is
Speaker 2: always instructive to remind yourself that Martin Luther King was
Speaker 2: reviled by a large majorities of the non black population
Speaker 2: in this country when he was still alive. That's over
Speaker 2: seventy percent of white Americans thought the March on Washington,
Speaker 2: which was the precursor to the I Have a Dream speech,
Speaker 2: was a bad idea. And if you read what he
Speaker 2: believed about not only race in this country, but poverty
Speaker 2: in this country, workers in this country, all of those things,
Speaker 2: I think you'll be able to get a better idea
Speaker 2: of who he truly was rather than simply, you know,
Speaker 2: thirty five words about racial harmony. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the fan questions.
Speaker 3: Please, all right, Rashot asked, isn't the Lamar thing becoming
Speaker 3: the Spurs Kawhi story in football? For him?
Speaker 2: It's a great comp and maybe so. Kawhi got hurt
Speaker 2: in the end of the twenty seventeen playoffs, and then
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen season was just like missing and the
Speaker 2: Spurs kept saying he was ready to play, but he
Speaker 2: wasn't ready to play. And then they ended up having
Speaker 2: to trade him, and that's not the it's not one
Speaker 2: to one with Lamar because that wasn't a money thing
Speaker 2: at all. But I said it a month ago that
Speaker 2: if Lamar doesn't play in these playoffs, I think he's
Speaker 2: played his last down as a Raven. And it's looking
Speaker 2: more and more like that.
Speaker 3: Next all right, Anthony Johnson said, demons, can you give
Speaker 3: us a look into what never a doubt really looks like?
Speaker 3: Is Nick is confident while watching the games. He's not. Actually,
Speaker 3: it can actually be kind of frustrating watching football games
Speaker 3: with him sometimes, especially you place a parlay, because he's
Speaker 3: really negative when when one little thing happens, you know,
Speaker 3: the team, Like I'll give you an example. The Dolphins
Speaker 3: were playing yesterday. Uh, they were doing good, and then
Speaker 3: I think the Bills ended up scoring, but the Dolphins
Speaker 3: were obviously holding. And then he's like, oh god, damn it.
Speaker 3: Now you probably don't even cover there. They're a touchdown
Speaker 3: away from and it's like, dude, they've been scoring, Like
Speaker 3: if the Bills going score the Miami Dolphins, he's really
Speaker 3: you're really negative when you watch it.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I ask you a question? More often than not,
Speaker 2: am I correct in how I'm breaking down the good
Speaker 2: or the bad or why a bet is not yet
Speaker 2: in or how it could go sideways on you?
Speaker 3: I'd say it's like forty sixty in like forty being
Speaker 3: the times of your right sixty because like sometimes it's
Speaker 3: like they're like sometimes it's really irrational. Like sometimes I
Speaker 3: find it to be a little irrational, and it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, dude, I kind of got some money on
Speaker 3: this right now. I don't really want to hear about
Speaker 3: how it could go bad. I rather just see it
Speaker 3: happen than.
Speaker 2: Like be like you know, it's it's I'm trying to
Speaker 2: mentally prove to man's you haven't want to bet since
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dead?
Speaker 3: That's a lie.
Speaker 2: That's a lie.
Speaker 3: That's a lie.
Speaker 2: What when did you win? What did you win win?
Speaker 2: How long ago?
Speaker 3: It's probably one of my parlays that I try to
Speaker 3: keep on the low. So you didn't sour it.
Speaker 2: Okay, what did you win one this weekend?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, okay, did you win one last weekend?
Speaker 3: We'll see, but yeah, but yeah, man, it's just like
Speaker 3: he's definitely a glass half empty type of dude, and
Speaker 3: even when it comes to his own teams.
Speaker 2: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: It's like, even when it comes to the Chiefs, like
Speaker 3: you say, oh, they're gonna freaking lose this line.
Speaker 2: I don't say the Chiefs are gonna lose. That's just
Speaker 2: not the way. That's just not true. I I there
Speaker 2: are times where I say they could they could would lose. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been I've been studying and watching sports for a
Speaker 2: quarter century. I have a pretty good pulse on how
Speaker 2: things could go, which is why I'm one of the
Speaker 2: all time greatest live game live betters in the world. Hey,
Speaker 2: all times.
Speaker 3: And it's so funny that you say I haven't hit
Speaker 3: a bet since Thanksgiving. That bet that I hit on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: you did the exact thing that I'm talking about right now.
Speaker 3: You were like, because it was it was for like
Speaker 3: Jerry golf under on passing yards or something, and they
Speaker 3: were getting and I was like, I was like, I
Speaker 3: hit it, I hit it. I don't care anything. You're like, no, buddy,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was just like geez do and what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to prepare you. I hear it because I want to
Speaker 2: tell you the one time I didn't.
Speaker 3: Oh oh on the Jag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one time I did. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: right now. Demonse made the biggest bet of his life
Speaker 2: at two in the morning, irrationally, for no reason, a
Speaker 2: terrible value ten point teaser across the zero, not getting
Speaker 2: the key numbers, just just all worse and the l
Speaker 2: and he needed. He had the Cowboys plus five, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, that's five and a half, though he somehow
Speaker 2: took did a ten point teaser taking the Cowboys from
Speaker 2: minus four and a half to plus five and a
Speaker 2: half would even better off just lighting the money on
Speaker 2: fire as far as the value you're getting there, not
Speaker 2: because you couldn't won, but because if you're gonna, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna pay for ten points, make them a valuable
Speaker 2: ten points, not teasing across the zero and a five,
Speaker 2: but regardless. And that game went to overtime and Demonse's
Speaker 2: feeling great and the Jags have the ball. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys have the ball, and Demond's feeling untouchable, and
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there thinking, Buddy, five and a half is
Speaker 2: not six and a half. But I stayed quiet, and
Speaker 2: then a Dak Prescott picked six, and I even tried
Speaker 2: to be optimistic the moment the big six, and I
Speaker 2: was like, maybe it touched the ground. And then Demonsey's
Speaker 2: sitting there, watching, sitting there, watching, and then with the
Speaker 2: force of a thousand suns, smacks the couch, walks out
Speaker 2: of the room, and I don't see him again for
Speaker 2: six hours.
Speaker 3: We can walk out of the room after the slap
Speaker 3: hold on that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Shortly thereafter, Yeah, about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I sat there and stewed angerly, and and I felt
Speaker 2: badly because I didn't prepare you for the potential loss.
Speaker 3: Nothing could have prepared me for that potential.
Speaker 2: Well, and if I would have, you would have blamed me.
Speaker 2: You'd have been like, oh, you spoke it into existence.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I I honestly would rather you not prepared
Speaker 3: me for this, okay, because it's just like putting.
Speaker 2: That's fine, that's fine. I'll stay quiet on this stuff.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I'm just just trying to help, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Dianasus asked Nick, No, Lebron thirty eight k talk yet.
Speaker 3: I'm shocked.
Speaker 2: It's a football day, but yeah, Lebron just became the
Speaker 2: second player thirty eight thousand points, the youngest player to
Speaker 2: ever hit thirty eight thousand points, which means that Lebron
Speaker 2: James is the youngest player ever for every single thousand
Speaker 2: point threshold, and in fact, every single point after I
Speaker 2: think about six hundred or something, he's the youngest to
Speaker 2: ever do it. So like, who's the youngest guy to
Speaker 2: ever get to twenty five thousand points Lebron? Fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: points Lebron, eighteen thousand, four thousand, nine thousand tall Lebron.
Speaker 2: But then it's also who's the youngest guy to ever
Speaker 2: get to I don't know, eleven, two hundred and twelve, Lebron.
Speaker 2: It's every every number, every number after, like the first
Speaker 2: few hundred, he's the youngest. And the Lakers had a
Speaker 2: brutal loss last night.
Speaker 3: By the way, next Matt Ford ask, are we sure
Speaker 3: Dusty is watching? Or is this proof that your pop
Speaker 3: producers are more dedicated than your TV producers.
Speaker 2: It's a good question. Dusty always complaining that we don't
Speaker 2: get his questions in. We've called for him three times
Speaker 2: now and he's not in the check. Good job, funniest coworker,
Speaker 2: my funniest coworker. Can I tell you something funny that
Speaker 2: happened at work? And then we can move on. So
Speaker 2: a few days ago, there was a miscommunication about something
Speaker 2: that one of other producers on the TV show thought
Speaker 2: we wanted, like something on the screen that wasn't communicated properly. Right.
Speaker 2: It was really Wild's fault, actually okay, and it involved
Speaker 2: Franz Wagner and Moe Wagner. It doesn't matter, and I
Speaker 2: thought so during the TV show, Dusty Ramsey and Christina
Speaker 2: sometimes or different producers sit on set but off camera,
Speaker 2: and I thought Dusty did it, and I've known that
Speaker 2: six years and he and I are buddies. And I
Speaker 2: turned after the segment and I said that was done
Speaker 2: on purpose, and they said yeah, And I said, like angrily,
Speaker 2: never do that again, because I thought I was hung Dusty.
Speaker 2: But it was one of our newest, youngest producers, Ramsey,
Speaker 2: that had done it again. It was Wilde's fault. That's
Speaker 2: just an emails and that guy, and so I didn't
Speaker 2: know it, but I was kind of like sternly scolding
Speaker 2: or yelling whatever at Ramsey. Dusties yea, and poor Ramsey,
Speaker 2: who's the nicest kid and does a great job, sent
Speaker 2: me like a long apology text and the whole thing,
Speaker 2: and I and I felt so terribly. And then it
Speaker 2: also made me realize I must be very comfortable just
Speaker 2: yelling at Dusty because I didn't feel badly at all
Speaker 2: when I thought it was Dusty, But when I found
Speaker 2: out it was Ramsey, I was like, oh man, that
Speaker 2: was so mean. All right?
Speaker 3: Last week, Dusty just said that he put two comments
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 2: He did, but you want to read text him to you.
Speaker 3: He just said he's literally commented twice. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: Martin Sanchez said, Nick, you need some new producers. Gabe
Speaker 3: is garbage with the quality too often and and his
Speaker 3: quibs are annoying. If you're going to get bad quality,
Speaker 3: at least you could get someone with without the awful quibs.
Speaker 3: Is somebody that we know.
Speaker 2: I don't know who he is. I don't know who
Speaker 2: wrote that. Second of all the words is quip listen quibbs? No,
Speaker 2: that's what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always the bee pronounced with a no, no,
Speaker 3: no that the.
Speaker 2: Guy just typed it wrong. Uh. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm allowed to talk trash to my producers. Martin Sanchez,
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: Not somebody that.
Speaker 2: By the way, a little breaking news. Lamar Jackson just
Speaker 2: posted this to his I G story. When you have
Speaker 2: something good, you don't play with it. You don't take
Speaker 2: chance losing it, you don't neglect it. When you have
Speaker 2: something good, you pour into it, you appreciate it. Because
Speaker 2: when you take care of something good, that good thing
Speaker 2: takes care of you. Two with the little prayer hands emoji?
Speaker 2: Would you just read that Lamar Jackson's Instagram?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so he's done.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he's girl friend broke up with him,
Speaker 2: or maybe that's what the Ravens. But that ain't good.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much right now. Now again, maybe
Speaker 2: it turns out the you know what I mean, his heartbroken.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know his relationship status, but
Speaker 2: that is either about a woman or about the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 3: Totally helps his case, being that Huntley did what he
Speaker 3: did yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's not great. It's like, it's not great.
Speaker 3: Mar It's just that you ever seen that Leonardo DiCaprio
Speaker 3: thing where he's pointing at the screen. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know where I'm going with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thanks much. Way to end the show.
Speaker 2: That was episode one eighteen of What's Right. We'll see
Speaker 2: you guys on Thursday today on television. It will be
Speaker 2: a tour de force performance to open the show. I
Speaker 2: don't want to spoil anything, but we have trumpets, we
Speaker 2: have more members of the orchestra, if you will, and
Speaker 2: I've got something special play. So that's at three o'clock
Speaker 2: Eastern today on FS one. See you guys there, have
Speaker 2: a great day.
Speaker 3: What's right now,