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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright on Election Day
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. We are actually not going to do
Speaker 2: any politics or election stuff today. However, I am going
Speaker 2: to get on the record with a prediction. And I
Speaker 2: normally say I if you don't like hearing me talk politics,
Speaker 2: turn it all for fast forward or whatever. This is
Speaker 2: a prediction. If you can't handle my prediction, then you
Speaker 2: can't listen to the show. My prediction is Kamala two
Speaker 2: ninety five Trump two forty three. I think that Kamala
Speaker 2: wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Nevada. I think Trump
Speaker 2: wins Arizona and North Carolina. I think the closest of
Speaker 2: those states, the closest Kamala win is Nevada. The closest
Speaker 2: Trump win is North Carolina. The next closest Kamala win
Speaker 2: is Georgia. The next closest Trump win is Arizona. So
Speaker 2: I am just getting on the record, as many of
Speaker 2: you guys know, I was the most accurate political pundit
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two when it came to the midterms,
Speaker 2: documented and we'll see if I can keep that going
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. Money down, you want the honest answer,
Speaker 2: honest answer, Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you I don't mind.
Speaker 2: I've got I've got low five figures laying minus two
Speaker 2: fifty on Kamala to win the popular vote, and I
Speaker 2: have low five figures getting plus one fifty at Kamala
Speaker 2: to win the whole thing. And so that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: So this will be a this will be a real
Speaker 2: swing in either direction. However, the no, the However, in
Speaker 2: a story for the Memoirs, the single greatest gambling win
Speaker 2: of my life, my only ever near six figure win,
Speaker 2: came twenty twenty Biden with every bet that I made
Speaker 2: being after the election had been called, because there was
Speaker 2: a lot of folks who were just debt, just really
Speaker 2: deep into the deep corners of the Internet, certain that
Speaker 2: there was gonna be something overturned or a Supreme Court case.
Speaker 2: And so for that one, I laid a good percentage
Speaker 2: of my net worth to end up winning, like I said,
Speaker 2: close to six figures. And I really felt like the
Speaker 2: smartest guy in America until around noon on January sixth,
Speaker 2: when I'm at home watching TV and I'm like, what's
Speaker 2: that mob doing at the Capitol. And then I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 2: the guys I bet against must have been on some
Speaker 2: of these telegram threads. But to those guys credit, everyone paid.
Speaker 2: So these were not bets made like in Vegas. These
Speaker 2: were bets made with individuals and nobody else. Everyone paid.
Speaker 2: But so that's the answer. Happy Election Day, your mom,
Speaker 2: your sister, and I went out and voted on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And I have the fortunate pleasure of tonight leaving New
Speaker 2: York and flying right into the belly of the beast.
Speaker 2: I am flying into what will be maybe the most
Speaker 2: hotly contested swing state, Nevada. I land at midnight Vegas time.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you know there aren't buildings of flame when I
Speaker 2: get there, and we'll see. But I will be watching
Speaker 2: the election on a plane and nightmare scenario is my
Speaker 2: seat mate is rooting for the other team and I've
Speaker 2: got my TV on CNN and they've got their TV
Speaker 2: on oh a in and we had like not not.
Speaker 3: Looking for it, but got no options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no options, no options. I'm flying an airline that
Speaker 2: the the front of the plane goes two one two
Speaker 2: one two, And I thought, so, if you're in row
Speaker 2: two or row four, you have your you're by yourself.
Speaker 2: And I thought I had one of those seats, but
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm I don't, And I'm thinking about bringing
Speaker 2: a few hundred dollars and seeing if the person by
Speaker 2: themselves in row four wants to trade with me in
Speaker 2: row three, like do a little switcher room like the
Speaker 2: so I can? I really want to be unmolested during
Speaker 2: watching these returns?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Time for the show? Uh, episode two seventy six, Here's
Speaker 2: what missed the cut. Sakuan's reverse hurdle did not make
Speaker 2: the show. Don't play though bo Nicks being the number
Speaker 2: one wide receiver in the APC. That's disrespectful to DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: And that's what we did last night, and wide receivers
Speaker 2: doing insane catches, celebrations, all of the above. But Demansey,
Speaker 2: we must start, as my sweatshirt implies, with Monday night football.
Speaker 3: So go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the Chiefs they found a way to win again.
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes threw a touchdown off of one foot. He
Speaker 4: was hobbling around in that game a lot. I think
Speaker 4: he tweaked his ankle again, might be the same ankle.
Speaker 4: But the Tampa Bay Bucks obviously had a chance to
Speaker 4: go for a two point conversion there at the end.
Speaker 4: They didn't go for to win. To ot Chiefs got
Speaker 4: the win. Do you think the Bucks made a mistake there?
Speaker 2: I do not, And I am actually going to defend
Speaker 2: Todd Bowles here. This was not at all this situation
Speaker 2: the Ravens could have found themselves in the Ravens week one.
Speaker 2: Isaiah likely almost scores on literally the last play of
Speaker 2: the game, and if he catches it, if he gets
Speaker 2: his toe inbound, they definitively should go for two. There
Speaker 2: no question about it. You have a chance to win
Speaker 2: or lose in that moment. Folks treating last night's Tampa
Speaker 2: decision like that, I think are flatly wrong. I actually
Speaker 2: believe that the best chance the Bucks had of winning
Speaker 2: was kicking the extra point. Because then, so let me
Speaker 2: explain this to you, because I know people are like, well,
Speaker 2: if they go for two when they get it, they
Speaker 2: win that game. No they don't. They go for two
Speaker 2: when they get it, they find them situation. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: has thirty seconds, all three timeouts, all four downs at
Speaker 2: his disposal, and the best kicker in the league. So
Speaker 2: let's say the Bucks had gone for two and gotten it.
Speaker 2: When the Chiefs have that fourth and one that they
Speaker 2: had that they ended up punting on, they obviously are
Speaker 2: not punting. They're going for it and Patrick is going
Speaker 2: to get it. Now, maybe the kicker misses, so be it.
Speaker 2: But I actually thought the best chance for the Bucks
Speaker 2: to win was to leave it up to the coin flip.
Speaker 2: Was to feel like, Okay, Mahomes tied is such a
Speaker 2: different animal than Mahomes trailing, and so tie the game.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs will be a little more conservative on their
Speaker 2: final thirty seconds. They were. They punted on fourth and short,
Speaker 2: and then if Baker calls heads instead of tails. Maybe
Speaker 2: there's a scenario where Patrick never gets the ball back.
Speaker 2: But thirty seconds and three timeouts is too much time
Speaker 2: to just assume, oh, if we get this, we win.
Speaker 2: I would have still felt like they were underdogs go ahead.
Speaker 4: And they were even in a situation to have thirty
Speaker 4: seconds Tampa Bay called an unnecessary timeout. I really think
Speaker 4: they should have gone for the two point conversion. They
Speaker 4: were in an overtime situation earlier this season with the Falcons.
Speaker 3: You lose the coin toss, you give up. You're giving
Speaker 3: them the ball. If they scored the touchdown, it's over
Speaker 3: and it's Patrick Mahomes, it's not Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4: And they didn't have Mames, didn't have to have that
Speaker 4: much time on the clock.
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay kind of gave that to him.
Speaker 2: I think so that the two so the front end
Speaker 2: of that Demanse, I think is great analysis. And you
Speaker 2: what you're saying is what Troy Aikman said that part.
Speaker 2: I totally agree with. Their big mistake was the snap
Speaker 2: time out right when they got down there. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: what to me, the sharp thing would have been there
Speaker 2: to hurry to the line, run a play, maybe even
Speaker 2: run the ball and then if you get stopped, then
Speaker 2: use your time out. But then you're at fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: If they had scored with less than twenty seconds left,
Speaker 2: then I would say go for two. But thirty seconds
Speaker 2: with the Chiefs having three timeouts, with the best kicker
Speaker 2: in football. With the new kickoff rules, you start it
Speaker 2: the thirty If you kick it out in the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone. Mahomes just needing twenty five yards,
Speaker 2: he would have gotten it. And I know people like, well,
Speaker 2: he didn't get it. He didn't get it because they
Speaker 2: didn't have to have it, and because they didn't go
Speaker 2: for it on fourth down because they didn't have to
Speaker 2: have it. So here's the thing people maybe are slowly
Speaker 2: coming around on on the Chiefs, and I understand why
Speaker 2: they're so frustrating.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: Whatever they need they're gonna do. Last night, for the
Speaker 2: first time all year, the defense didn't have it, So
Speaker 2: the offense scored thirty against the Chargers. When the offense
Speaker 2: doesn't have it, the defense allows the Chargers score ten
Speaker 2: points instantly, and the defense shuts him out the rest
Speaker 2: of the way. Whatever is needed is what they will
Speaker 2: find a way to give you. As a team, and
Speaker 2: for all the criticism of Patrick this year, he remains
Speaker 2: statistically the best fourth quarter passer in the league. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs are the best third down team in the league.
Speaker 2: They have the best third down conversion rate demons through
Speaker 2: nine weeks of any team in the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2: So the Chiefs offense, for all its problems, all its issues,
Speaker 2: the bigger the situation, the better they are. So whatever
Speaker 2: that game particularly needs that, the Chiefs are going to
Speaker 2: find a way to give it to you. And then
Speaker 2: you add this element. Putting Travis Kelcey on washed watch
Speaker 2: was maybe a little premature. I'm talking to you, Kevin Wilds.
Speaker 2: And then there's DeAndre Hopkins and he's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: Now the play deep down the field, I don't think
Speaker 2: those are gonna happen a ton. Now. That was an
Speaker 2: unbelievable pass by Patrick. Mahomes stepped into the pass rush,
Speaker 2: throws it kind of off one leg into triple coverage.
Speaker 2: Couldn't have handed it to him any better. And DeAndre still,
Speaker 2: even though he's not nearly as explosive as he once was,
Speaker 2: has the best hands in the league. Arguably he brings
Speaker 2: it in. But where DeAndre is going to be great
Speaker 2: is third down and red zone stuff. His route running
Speaker 2: is so precise, and you saw yesterday there was one time,
Speaker 2: I think it was on that last drive in regulation,
Speaker 2: when he and Patrick weren't on the same page. He
Speaker 2: kept going and Patrick threw it to where he thought
Speaker 2: he was gonna be. That's only gonna get better with time,
Speaker 2: and so the Chiefs are just figuring it out, and
Speaker 2: they're just gonna keep figuring it out. Now, with all
Speaker 2: that said, I want to get on the record on
Speaker 2: this because I'm not gonna be here Thursday because I'm
Speaker 2: playing at the NAPT in Vegas. Well, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: playing with PokerStars big game in partnership with the NAPT.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the line is, but I absolutely
Speaker 2: remember how before the year I said I thought they'd
Speaker 2: go fourteen and three with one of the losses being
Speaker 2: a divisional loss. Next week seems ripe for that Denver
Speaker 2: at Kansas City, the Chiefs, coming off a short week,
Speaker 2: game goes to overtime, and the following week's game is
Speaker 2: Buffalo that if they're If the Chiefs get through the
Speaker 2: next two weeks and they're ten and oh, then all
Speaker 2: start entertaining the seventeen and oh piece of it. But
Speaker 2: I intellect you.
Speaker 3: Think they could lose two games these next two. You
Speaker 3: think they can go into or.
Speaker 2: I think they are very very likely to go one
Speaker 2: and one. And I think that if they lose to Denver,
Speaker 2: they are less likely to lose to Buffalo, and if
Speaker 2: they beat Denver, they're more likely to lose to Buffalo.
Speaker 2: But I just I this. I think the undefeated season
Speaker 2: talk probably ends either next Sunday or the Sunday after.
Speaker 2: Obviously I hope I'm wrong. Now if I am wrong
Speaker 2: and they get through it, then it's really then after
Speaker 2: the Bills game demands Panthers Raiders home for the Chargers,
Speaker 2: at the Browns home for the Texans, which if the
Speaker 2: Texans don't add an interior offensive lineman today, I just
Speaker 2: think Chris Jones can win that game by himself. And
Speaker 2: then at the Steelers on Christmas Day on a four
Speaker 2: day week, that's a tough spot. And then at the Broncos.
Speaker 2: So I I'm not Last year, I was obviously pot
Speaker 2: committed to the undefeated thing, and it lasted less than
Speaker 2: it lasted one game. This year, I'm less committed. One
Speaker 2: other note, gambling wise, and I again, I'm nervous about
Speaker 2: next week's games, so I don't know that I will
Speaker 2: take my own advice on this. But the single greatest
Speaker 2: investment in sports this year is waiting for the Chiefs
Speaker 2: to be trailing and fire, fire fire. The Chiefs have
Speaker 2: trailed Monse in seven of their eight games this year,
Speaker 2: and every time the market over corrects in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: Last night, I got the Chiefs minus two hundred on
Speaker 2: the money line, minus two and a half. At minus
Speaker 2: one twenty, I had to pay and minus three and
Speaker 2: a half. Now, the minus three and a half could
Speaker 2: have lost obviously, and I listen, they all could have lost.
Speaker 2: But this is I took screenshots of it. The this
Speaker 2: year thus far. Chiefs Bengals at one point early in
Speaker 2: the game or at halftime, maybe the Chiefs to win
Speaker 2: was down to minus one forty one thirty eight. I
Speaker 2: got it at Chiefs Falcons at one point early in
Speaker 2: that game the Chiefs were underdogs. I got them at
Speaker 2: plus one ten. Chiefs Chargers at one point they were
Speaker 2: minus won eighteen. At one point they were plus one sixteen.
Speaker 2: I got them both Chiefs Raiders at one point they
Speaker 2: were down to minus six and a half. I bet
Speaker 2: on that Chiefs Bucks. I just told you minus two
Speaker 2: and a half, minus three and a half and minus
Speaker 2: two hundred on the money line. This team trails in
Speaker 2: every game and they don't cover big spreads, but they
Speaker 2: cover live lines like crazy, and so that again, I
Speaker 2: have a nervous feeling about this coming week's game against Denver.
Speaker 2: But it's just an interesting note to look at all. Right,
Speaker 2: let's demosi, Let's go on to the Dak and the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: And so the Cowboys they lost another game. They might
Speaker 4: have lost Dak Prescott as well with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 4: He's expected to miss a few weeks here coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they put him on IR so he's going to
Speaker 2: miss at least four.
Speaker 4: Right, and he seemed in mouth we fing suck on
Speaker 4: the sidelines. Yeah, there's so the season seems to be
Speaker 4: over right, So what's gonna happen here with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Well, they just made a ridiculous trade. They just gave
Speaker 2: up more for Jonathan Mingo than the Chiefs gave up
Speaker 2: for DeAndre Hopkins or the Bills gave up for Amari Cooper.
Speaker 2: That seems dumb. Jonathan Mingo, I understand he was a
Speaker 2: high draft pick, and I do like the idea of
Speaker 2: taking I mean, he was a second round pick, a
Speaker 2: high second round pick a couple of years ago. But
Speaker 2: he has been brutal in the pros. I mean truly brutal.
Speaker 2: He has fifty five catches for five hundred and forty
Speaker 2: yards and zero touchdowns through a season and a half career.
Speaker 2: I know the quarterback play has been bad in Carolina,
Speaker 2: but giving up that pick to me is bad management.
Speaker 2: And listen, the Cowboys are dead. They're dead. And speaking
Speaker 2: of bad management, you saw their starting this week, right,
Speaker 2: They're starting Cooper Rush. Guys. It's a failure organizationally to
Speaker 2: not it's a failure to have Trey Lance on the
Speaker 2: roster and to not feel comfortable seeing what he looks
Speaker 2: like in a game this week. Those two things are
Speaker 2: in conflict. If if he's so bad that you don't
Speaker 2: even want to see what he looks like in a
Speaker 2: game instead you want to go with Cooper Rush when
Speaker 2: you're three and five and Dax out a month, then
Speaker 2: you needed to admit defeat on it and cut him
Speaker 2: and not have him on your taking up a roster spot.
Speaker 2: They gave up a fourth round pick, by the way,
Speaker 2: in the fourth round that I mean that was this
Speaker 2: year's draft pick they gave up right after that. Uh,
Speaker 2: Brandon brailn Allen. I want to pull it up real
Speaker 2: quick because I just had it yesterday. Three running backs,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the kid from Tampa, Bucky Irving, the kid
Speaker 2: from San Francisco, Grindo, and brailn Allen all went in
Speaker 2: the ten picks. After the pick, the Cowboys traded away
Speaker 2: for Trey Lance, who it looks like they don't even
Speaker 2: feel comfortable seeing on the field. So that's an organizational failure.
Speaker 2: And all off season, demanse I discussed that I thought
Speaker 2: the Cowboys were gonna have this be approven year for Dak.
Speaker 2: They weren't signing him and they were just gonna let
Speaker 2: the chips fall where they may. Had they done that,
Speaker 2: they actually wouldn't be in that bad of shape. They'd
Speaker 2: be like, okay, season from hell, we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: top ten pick that if we tell Mica take time
Speaker 2: to come back, Tank Lawrence, take time to come back. CD.
Speaker 2: Your shoulder hurts, Why don't you miss a couple weeks,
Speaker 2: Trey Lance, Let's get you some reps that could end
Speaker 2: up being a top five pick, and you draft your
Speaker 2: quarterback and you move forward with quarterback on a rookie contract,
Speaker 2: ton of cap space, resigned Micah, You've resigned CD, and
Speaker 2: it's an instant restart. Instead, they sit out all a
Speaker 2: free agency. They don't get Micah done, they don't get
Speaker 2: CD done until the very end. They sign Dak at
Speaker 2: the last minute, and now they're just stuck, just flatly stuck.
Speaker 2: And so bringing back McCarthy was a mistake. Sitting out
Speaker 2: free agency was a mistake signing Dak, but waiting till
Speaker 2: the last minute was a mistake all of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: they a terrible Cowboys year. Had they not resigned Dak
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been the worst possible thing. You let Dak walk,
Speaker 2: you take your chance with cam Ward or Shodoor Sanders
Speaker 2: or whomever, and you started over with a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2: So yeah, listen, that's gonna be a huge whiff by me.
Speaker 2: And obviously the Eagles are far better than I thought
Speaker 2: they would be, even though the coach is still a
Speaker 2: total dfist. What could save me in those preseason that
Speaker 2: preseason NFC East was the little taste I put on
Speaker 2: Washington at fourteen to one to win that division, because
Speaker 2: right now there's still atop the division. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go on to the other good teams in the league.
Speaker 4: Demase, all right, Yeah, so everybody's NFL power rankings is
Speaker 4: gonna have the combination of Buffalo, Baltimore, Detroit, and your
Speaker 4: Chiefs one through four. I assume anybody who doesn't have
Speaker 4: the Chiefs is just being satirical.
Speaker 3: I assume as well, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Who are you most scared of? Though, And you can't
Speaker 4: say nobody. There's got to be a team in the league,
Speaker 4: you know, Well, I'm not scared.
Speaker 2: Of anyone, but of those teams, I think Buffalo is
Speaker 2: the answer of those teams because the only way Detroit
Speaker 2: plays the Chiefs in a game that matters is the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And I think that moment could be a
Speaker 2: little big for him. I saw golf in the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl once. It was way too big for him. Then
Speaker 2: that was also against Belichick. I understands years ago. But
Speaker 2: I also I'll take my chances with Andy Reid versus
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell in a Super Bowl. I just will. And
Speaker 2: I think that Chiefs defense is great, and the Aid
Speaker 2: and the Lions, we'll.
Speaker 3: Talk about it.
Speaker 2: Later just added Zadarius Smith that one Baltimore does not
Speaker 2: scare me at all, flat okay, and the defense stinks
Speaker 2: and everyone Baltimore is in this weird spot, Demons, where
Speaker 2: only their wins count all day yesterday it was, it
Speaker 2: was on sports TV everywhere. Baltimore is the scariest team
Speaker 2: in football, when seven days earlier they lost to the Browns,
Speaker 2: a brown seam that just got dog walked by the Chargers.
Speaker 2: We only judge Baltimore by their great performances, and yes,
Speaker 2: their best has looked better than everyone else's best, but
Speaker 2: they've also been bad.
Speaker 3: The way they win their games is insane.
Speaker 2: Yes, same with Detroit, right and Detroit, though at least
Speaker 2: didn't have three losses. Buffalo to me, they obviously have
Speaker 2: played the Chiefs close in the playoffs last two times
Speaker 2: they've played them, and one day they're gonna win. I
Speaker 2: I actually sorry, Bills fans, I actually think Tyler Bass
Speaker 2: making that sixty yarder is gonna cost you. Bass is
Speaker 2: not a reliable kicker, flatly, and him nailing a sixty
Speaker 2: one yarder to beat the Dolphins guarantees he's your kicker
Speaker 2: the right to the year. And I can see that
Speaker 2: really ripping your heart out in a critical spot come
Speaker 2: the postseason. Sorry, I just can see that happening.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and.
Speaker 4: See how a Buffalo fan would be very annoyed by
Speaker 4: what you just said, and why Buffalo fans would be
Speaker 4: annoyed with you.
Speaker 3: Period. Kind of brings me in to a too, but yeah,
Speaker 3: go ahead, follow up period. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the Buffalo Bill's media seemed to They tweeted out
Speaker 4: a picture and they said never a doubt, and you said,
Speaker 4: this is a ridge too far, What's what's happening here?
Speaker 4: And also you think Buffalo missed opportunity to take this
Speaker 4: shot at you beating Kansas City in two weeks.
Speaker 2: Well, they'll definitely tweet it out if they beat Kansas City,
Speaker 2: but they also should know better. You know, the first
Speaker 2: time they tweeted never a doubt, you were sitting right
Speaker 2: next to me Bill's cheeks. Yeah, and they tweeted it
Speaker 2: with two minutes left after one of the gay theaters touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Never a doubt. So I mean, listen that the.
Speaker 4: It's and that's definitely at you, Like that's that's towards you, right,
Speaker 4: like there's there's there's not a coincidence, Like that's obviously.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my thing. And I again, I don't
Speaker 2: know how to show the tattoo on on camera. I've
Speaker 2: struggled with this every single time. I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do, how to show there we go. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean the I mean when Jim Nance says never a
Speaker 2: doubt after the Chiefs the Bengals, it's an homage to me.
Speaker 2: When Patrick Mahomes sends the only tweet he sent out
Speaker 2: the entire postseason, and it's him holding both trophies an
Speaker 2: hour after the Super Bowl, and all he writes is
Speaker 2: never a doubt, it's an homage to me. And when
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills tweet out never a Doubt, it's a
Speaker 2: shot at me, which is fine. Bill's fans not even
Speaker 2: mad at you about it. It's all good. But the
Speaker 2: sports gods are not gonna smile fondly upon that. I
Speaker 2: tell you that much. Right now, all right, trade deadline stuff?
Speaker 4: Yes, So the trade deadline is at four pm Eastern today.
Speaker 4: A few moves have already happened, including the Lions landing
Speaker 4: Zadaria Smith. So we're gonna play a game I think
Speaker 4: we played a couple of weeks ago. It's a different
Speaker 4: version of it, same thing. But we're gonna name a
Speaker 4: team that fits each of these categories in blackjack terms.
Speaker 4: So one team that needs to make a move aka hit,
Speaker 4: one team that needs to sell aka bus, and one
Speaker 4: team that needs to stay put.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the team needs to hit obviously as Baltimore, Well,
Speaker 2: you know what can I give you two Baltimore and Houston. Houston.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's what they need is not gonna
Speaker 2: be available. They need some interior offensive linemen, Like if
Speaker 2: the Cowboys were smart and they were selling instead of buying,
Speaker 2: maybe they could convince Houston to pay a king's ransom
Speaker 2: for future Hall of Fame or thirty four year old
Speaker 2: Zach Martin. That would be interesting. But it's very, very,
Speaker 2: very difficult to trade for offensive lineman. I understand the
Speaker 2: Vikings just did it. That's tough. The Ravens should pay
Speaker 2: whatever it takes get Moore Shaun Lattimore out of New
Speaker 2: Orleans flatly just what they should do. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're gonna do it. They added Deontay Johnson that
Speaker 2: didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 2: They need or bring Clowney back from Carolina. They need
Speaker 2: defensive help. The team that needs to sell. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I if if we're being serious, the Jets
Speaker 2: should shop DeVante Adams. The Jets should say we're not
Speaker 2: crawling out of this three and six hole and we're
Speaker 2: gonna trade Devonte Adams. They won't do that. No, Miami,
Speaker 2: Miami should consider Miami should see if they can get
Speaker 2: back from a team what they close to what they
Speaker 2: gave up for Tyreek Hill. They're not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you teams that should do it. So
Speaker 2: the answer is probably New Orleans with Latimore like the
Speaker 2: Jets and Dolphins should, but they won't. New Orleans should
Speaker 2: consider it. New Orleans needs to start resetting everything they
Speaker 2: just fired the coach that would be That would be
Speaker 2: my answer. And then the team that needs to stay put.
Speaker 2: I would say at this moment, green Bay. Green Bay
Speaker 2: could trick itself into thinking, oh, we're a super Bowl
Speaker 2: caliber team right now, probably a degree below that, but
Speaker 2: you're young, you draft incredibly well, your cap situations in goods,
Speaker 2: in a good spot, I would keep this thing rolling
Speaker 2: rather than mortgage things when you're not. I don't think
Speaker 2: you're gonna catch Detroit like your You're not one piece
Speaker 2: away from all of a sudden winning the conference, but
Speaker 2: you could win the conference next year, so that would
Speaker 2: be that would be my advice for those teams. Take
Speaker 2: quick break, come back What's Right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, Dennis Allen was the most recent head coach
Speaker 4: to be fired after losing to the Panthers, so we
Speaker 4: assume he's not gonna be the last head coach fired
Speaker 4: this season. Who do you think's next? Eberflus Peterson Pierce.
Speaker 4: I know you probably want to throw Sirianni in there.
Speaker 2: No, Sirian's not gonna get fired anytime soon. Oh. By
Speaker 2: the way, though, shout out to Dennis Allen for somehow
Speaker 2: getting to nearly eighty games coached in his career. Just
Speaker 2: a remarkable achievement for one of the worst coaches I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. They he got three years in Oakland they
Speaker 2: went four and twelve, four and twelve started zero to four.
Speaker 2: He's out of there. He then takes over New Orleans
Speaker 2: seven and ten of miracle nine to eight last year,
Speaker 2: starts this year two to zero, then seven straight losses.
Speaker 2: So so finishes two and seven. So for his career
Speaker 2: he won thirty three, less than thirty three percent of
Speaker 2: his games, twenty six and fifty three. And so listen,
Speaker 2: New Orleans has to it start the whole thing over entirely.
Speaker 2: This is a good first step. And now we get
Speaker 2: to Antonio Piers, who just fired three coaches that he
Speaker 2: hired six months ago. Antonio Piers is a first year
Speaker 2: head coach who fired essentially the entirety of the offensive
Speaker 2: staff a week after they scored twenty four points because
Speaker 2: when now seven was by the defense, fine, because they
Speaker 2: allowed forty one points, you allowed forty one points. You
Speaker 2: gotta fire out all the offensive coaches. Now, I don't
Speaker 2: think Luke Getsy is some great offensive coordinator. However, Antonio Peers,
Speaker 2: you cannot, as a first year, first time head coach,
Speaker 2: fire your whole offensive coaching staff at the midway point
Speaker 2: of the season. You just hired them. It's just so ridiculous,
Speaker 2: and so I don't.
Speaker 4: Think they're as an offensive assistant.
Speaker 2: Do they have Norv Turner or Scott Turner Turner? I
Speaker 2: thought they had Nerves Norv's son, do they Is Norv
Speaker 2: Turner there as well? No, I think they have. I
Speaker 2: think they have Scott Turner in there. Maybe Norv is consulting,
Speaker 2: but Scott Turner is definitely there. Who's nerves Norv's son?
Speaker 2: Am I wrong on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They have Scott. They just added I think they've
Speaker 3: got both.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So Scott Turner was already there. Now they're
Speaker 2: bringing in Norv Turner, who's got a be holds Norv Turner,
Speaker 2: he's gotta be over seventy. So listen, Pearce is not
Speaker 2: gonna be back next year. They shouldn't have hired him.
Speaker 2: I'm confident in that the guy who should be most
Speaker 2: concerned about a mid season firing is Doug Peterson. That's
Speaker 2: the And listen, Trevor threw a pick to lose the game.
Speaker 2: I'm not absolving Trevor of that, but they committed to
Speaker 2: Trevor this offseason. Peterson and eber flush. So here's what
Speaker 2: I would say. Let me just kind of so we
Speaker 2: have had. The Jets have fired their coach, and the Steelers, sorry,
Speaker 2: the Saints have fired their coach. I would be shocked
Speaker 2: if Peterson or eber Flus are back. So there's four.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone in the NFC West is firing
Speaker 2: their coach. In the NFC South, I don't think he's
Speaker 2: gonna fire another coach in Carolina one and done. So
Speaker 2: everyone there is safe. In the NFC North, I said
Speaker 2: eber Fleuce, everyone else is safe. Dable is probably gone,
Speaker 2: McCarthy is definitely gone, Pierce is probably gone. And the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I think the Bengals are gonna continue this turnaround. If
Speaker 2: they fall on their face, then Zach Taylor maybe. But
Speaker 2: so I think there's gonna be seven job openings next year.
Speaker 3: I think how it's gonna land.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I did. If I didn't, then I
Speaker 2: should have the I mean I thought I did. But
Speaker 2: if I didn't, when I was counting it at him,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's definitively gone. I think he'll probably finish
Speaker 2: the year, but he's definitively gone. All right, Deman say,
Speaker 2: let's do bracket to unpack it.
Speaker 3: All right? Yeah, So halfway through the season.
Speaker 4: It's obvious that teams have had some starts that they
Speaker 4: did not think they otherwise had in store.
Speaker 3: But who do you think has it the worst?
Speaker 4: Are we gonna put the teams with the most disappointing
Speaker 4: starts in a bracket to figure that out? Round one,
Speaker 4: you got Dallas versus Cleveland, and then.
Speaker 2: Dallas is way more disappointing. Dallas is way more disappointing
Speaker 2: because they had real expectations. Anyone that thought Cleveland was
Speaker 2: gonna be good this year was a total dope. So
Speaker 2: it's Dallas unequivocally, it's Dallas.
Speaker 4: Next, and then below them, you've got Jacksonville versus San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's definitively Jacksonville, because the Niners are probably gonna
Speaker 2: be fine, like they're getting guys. Christian mccaffick should be
Speaker 2: back this week. Injuries, you know they've had injuries. They're
Speaker 2: four and four. The Jags have just lost games that
Speaker 2: they have no business losing. They were supposed to be
Speaker 2: a plate they went to the playoffs and they started
Speaker 2: eight and three. Since then, they've just been one of
Speaker 2: the worst teams in the league. So it's definitely them
Speaker 2: all right to the other side of the bracket, Demonse.
Speaker 4: Okay, And so on the other side, we've got the
Speaker 4: Jets versus Chicago.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a really tough one, really because
Speaker 2: it's both massively Yeah to me at least, but I
Speaker 2: was the only person that thought the Bears could be
Speaker 2: a super Bowl team. A lot of people thought the
Speaker 2: Jets could be a super Bowl team. And the Jets
Speaker 2: have been worse than the Bears. So the Jets. The
Speaker 2: Bear's been very disappointing, but the Jets went out on that.
Speaker 3: Next we got Miami versus Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Miami. I think Cincinnati's gonna be fine, and so Miami
Speaker 2: because even when they've had toa they haven't looked great.
Speaker 2: Their only win with Tua came against the Jags in
Speaker 2: a game the Jags kind of gave them a great
Speaker 2: job by Mike McDaniel and Mike McDaniel's agent to get
Speaker 2: him that contract extension before the year ooh we or
Speaker 2: else his seat would be quite hot. And so that's
Speaker 2: where it is, all right. So our final four, demonse is.
Speaker 4: Who final four is Dallas, Ritt Jacksonville. And then on
Speaker 4: the left side, and then on the right side, we
Speaker 4: got the Jets, and we got Miami.
Speaker 2: So listen, in the finals is gonna be the Cowboys
Speaker 2: and the Jets, two teams that had legitimate Super Bowl hopes,
Speaker 2: two teams that both have three wins, and neither of
Speaker 2: whom look like they are going to have any semblance
Speaker 2: of a playoff chance. But the most disappointing team is
Speaker 2: the Jets. Because the Cowboys at least can say, our
Speaker 2: three best defensive players got hurt, that's what. And they
Speaker 2: clearly had more systemic problems than that, but they can
Speaker 2: blame it on that. The Jets have nothing to blame
Speaker 2: it on but themselves and Aaron and so the and
Speaker 2: the Jets were in denial. I guess the Cowboys who.
Speaker 2: Cowboys just traded for wide receiver like the Jets did,
Speaker 2: but they didn't give up as much. And so the
Speaker 2: answer is the Jets. The Jets are the most disappointing
Speaker 2: team in the league this year. Sorry Jet fans. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break listener questions? Next, What's right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's right with Nick? Right demonse, Let's
Speaker 2: do some listener questions.
Speaker 4: Feed Malass says, is the Bengals getting the seven seed
Speaker 4: the worst case scenario for the Chiefs, it could be
Speaker 4: a tough matchup in the divisional round.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that. I think it's the worst
Speaker 2: case scenario because to play that out, that would then
Speaker 2: mean the Bengals clip the two seed in round one,
Speaker 2: so the Chiefs are the one. Now, if the Chiefs
Speaker 2: somehow fell to the two and the Bengals are the seven,
Speaker 2: that's a huge bomber where all of a sudden, round
Speaker 2: one you're facing Cincinnati. But when the way it's set up,
Speaker 2: it sounds like you're talking about that the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: the one because you said the divisional round, I mean
Speaker 2: the Bengals. That would mean the Bengals go to Buffalo
Speaker 2: or to Baltimore and beat them. Now, what would be
Speaker 2: a bummer would be if somehow the Steelers get the
Speaker 2: two seed, the Bengals are the seven, and the Bengals
Speaker 2: clip them, and then you've got to play the Steeler
Speaker 2: or the Bengals in round two, because you'd much rather
Speaker 2: play the Steelers if you're the Chiefs. But I think
Speaker 2: it really depends on how the bracket falls. But I'll
Speaker 2: take my chances if I'm the Chiefs with a seven
Speaker 2: seed Bengal team coming off of what would be a
Speaker 2: brutal road playoff victory against an awesome team with the
Speaker 2: Chiefs being rested after the bye.
Speaker 4: Next, sports enthusiasts, in a Bill's Ravens playoff rematch, what's
Speaker 4: more likely Ravens will out win or Bills went out right?
Speaker 2: Bills went out right. The Ravens aren't blowing out a
Speaker 2: good team in the playoffs, it's not. I mean, since
Speaker 2: Lamar has been there, they haven't won a playoff game
Speaker 2: where the defense allows more than thirteen points. They've only
Speaker 2: won two, and they've both been like the one was
Speaker 2: a seventeen to three win and the other one was
Speaker 2: the blowout of the Texans last year. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, the Bills went outright to me.
Speaker 4: Next, Sam in for if Kansas City does go ahead
Speaker 4: and win a third straight Super Bowl, are you gonna
Speaker 4: call them Mahomes.
Speaker 3: The hat trick? Are you gonna call them hat trick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Instead of Patrick hat trick Mahomes. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: I'll leave that for other people, all right. So let's
Speaker 2: go to Nico before we wrap up.
Speaker 4: Demanse Nico Dragons what would have undefeated regular seasons but
Speaker 4: no Super Bowl title mean for the Chiefs, for the
Speaker 4: Chiefs claims to the greatest dynasty ever.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it would mean they checked off that
Speaker 2: exact box the Patriots had. Right, they're chasing the Patriots
Speaker 2: for greatest dynasty, and the Patriots did that undefeated regular
Speaker 2: season losing the Super Bowl. But I to me an undefeated.
Speaker 2: That Patriots team is special to me, not just because
Speaker 2: they were undefeated, but the way they were undefeated. They
Speaker 2: were just trouncing everyone. This Chiefs team obviously isn't doing that.
Speaker 2: So this Chiefs team going undefeated and then not finishing
Speaker 2: it would not have the same it would be. It
Speaker 2: would be to me more similar to the fifteen to
Speaker 2: one Cam Newton Panthers team that then lost in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Nobody thinks of that team as like an
Speaker 2: all time great team, even though they were fifteen to one,
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of close wins and then they
Speaker 2: lost in the Super Bowl. So I just the last year,
Speaker 2: I thought chasing the undefeated thing was a way to
Speaker 2: stay shot because that was the only history they could
Speaker 2: go for. This year, they're going for the first three
Speaker 2: peet and Super in the Super Bowl era, So it's
Speaker 2: a different story. All right, very busy day for me.
Speaker 2: I'm about to hop on with Levatard in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Then I'm on with Colin. Then I have the show.
Speaker 2: Then I get on a plane to Vegas, and I
Speaker 2: nervously watch every single minute of election coverage, even though
Speaker 2: I'll know we're not going to get any real information
Speaker 2: till probably the middle of the night, but so be it.
Speaker 2: Wish me luck in Vegas. No show Thursday. We'll post
Speaker 2: our picks and I'll see you guys on TV later today.
Speaker 2: What's up to monds that you want to say something?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, good luck with the with the poker stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot, and you're in for a What
Speaker 2: did I say.
Speaker 3: You were in for five percent?
Speaker 2: I said you, your sisters and your mom are all
Speaker 2: five percent free rolling each when the reality is you
Speaker 2: guys are all probably yeah, yeah, Mom is probably. I'm
Speaker 2: probably hitting the five percent.
Speaker 3: Mom's getting the rest.
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