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Speaker 2: Welcome Man, Watch Driving the Great Episode two seventy nine
Speaker 2: hour Week twelve Gambling Show spoiler alert. On The Gambling Show,
Speaker 2: I had my worst week of the season and Demonde
Speaker 2: crushed another teaser. So happy for you, gotta be honest,
Speaker 2: A little sad for me. I thought my process was
Speaker 2: quite sound last week. I liked where I was and
Speaker 2: these were not close losses. These were not ah I
Speaker 2: got unlucky, these were annihilations. I had the Falcons catching
Speaker 2: a couple points and they lost by thirty to bow Knicks.
Speaker 2: I waxed poetic about the Chiefs and Mahomes as an underdog.
Speaker 2: They're down nine for the bulk of that fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: I mean, really just a debacle, a true gambling tragedy
Speaker 2: of a day. And it was you know, I have
Speaker 2: been on bit of a cold streak after really ride
Speaker 2: and high with my actual real life bets because I
Speaker 2: make the bets that I the five picks. I make
Speaker 2: those bets, but those aren't the only bets I make
Speaker 2: throughout the week. And I'd been doing really well up
Speaker 2: until a couple tuesdays ago, and it started with the election.
Speaker 2: Bets got hammered, just absolutely brutalized on every front. There
Speaker 2: A lost minus three hundred popular vote bet, obviously lost
Speaker 2: overall winner, lost the state bets. So that wasn't great.
Speaker 2: That weekend, I, i'll be honest, chased my gambling losses
Speaker 2: or my election losses with some football bets. And then
Speaker 2: this weekend I was like, well, luckily, the gambling gods
Speaker 2: have given me a gift, and that gift is Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes as an underdog. And so this is one of
Speaker 2: those times where Demond's we pause, we regroup, We're very
Speaker 2: very thankful that we have a good job and that
Speaker 2: we have you know money. He set aside that your
Speaker 2: mother doesn't always see as our annual gambling budget. While
Speaker 2: that pot of money had been growing over the course
Speaker 2: of the year, it's now somewhat depleted. And we regroup.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is what we have to do. And
Speaker 2: you get, you know, you get the weird call from
Speaker 2: your accountant like, hey, I'm a little worried, is there
Speaker 2: Like has your PayPal been hacked? And it's like, no,
Speaker 2: just paying people I lost bets to. It's like really,
Speaker 2: like are you no double check that. They're like this
Speaker 2: is I'm like no, Like yeah, They're like, what is
Speaker 2: what does the k H note line me? I'm like,
Speaker 2: well it means Kamala Harris Like okay, what about what
Speaker 2: about de T I was like, oh that was Lion's
Speaker 2: minus three and a half. In a night, Jared Goff
Speaker 2: through five interceptions like listen, this is Liz life. You
Speaker 2: got it, like the the you you know, this is
Speaker 2: the you know, the life I have chosen, so to speak,
Speaker 2: And so I have to regroup. Is the short version,
Speaker 2: and today is the path back to profitability. It's the
Speaker 2: only way to Oh I didn't even mention and again
Speaker 2: no spoilers, but mixed in in this two week period,
Speaker 2: I did also play in the highest stakes poker game
Speaker 2: of my life with Phil Locke, Phil Helm The Antonio's
Speaker 2: Fondiari and others. And again that won't come out until
Speaker 2: the spring on YouTube. And I'm not giving anything away,
Speaker 2: but I what I will say is, do you think
Speaker 2: I'd be more or less tilted if I had crushed
Speaker 2: that game or not?
Speaker 1: Like this?
Speaker 2: So you guys, you guys, go ahead and do the
Speaker 2: math on how the last you know, fifteen days have
Speaker 2: gone for your old buddy Nick, right, and you know
Speaker 2: we keep it moving, all right, Here's what missed the
Speaker 2: cut on today's show. That was therapeutic man coach Ray
Speaker 2: Lewis maybe to Florida Atlantic. Well, he's not gonna do
Speaker 2: worse than Trent Dilfer. Lebron celebrates Dalton connect which has
Speaker 2: been just a great draft pick by the Lakers. He's
Speaker 2: been awesome and my favorite tennis player of all time,
Speaker 2: Rofin Adah has retired. All right, demons, let's get to
Speaker 2: an organization, a team, some people who somehow have managed
Speaker 2: to have a worse last couple of weeks than me.
Speaker 2: The New York Football Jets.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, and so the Jets fired their GM somehow,
Speaker 3: that's not the huge story coming out of there. Apparently
Speaker 3: their owner of Woody Johnson wanted a bench Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: after week four. This organization's obviously a mess from top
Speaker 3: to bottom. You can't really just put it all on Rogers,
Speaker 3: but he's a part of it. People say Belichick will
Speaker 3: be a great coach again if someone else ran this team.
Speaker 3: Do you think the same would be true for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: No, So listen, it's obviously not all on Aaron and
Speaker 2: what he is one of, if not the worst owner
Speaker 2: in the league. And here is here is my big
Speaker 2: concern if for Jet fans out there, because Jet fans,
Speaker 2: the majority of them deserve better. And I say the
Speaker 2: majority of them because I don't really care if Fireman
Speaker 2: ed gets better or not. Ever since that guy ran
Speaker 2: to the media and was like, they're not putting me
Speaker 2: on the jumbo tron as much as they used to.
Speaker 2: They're phasing me out, Like, buddy, relax, you're a guy
Speaker 2: that wears a fireman's helmet to football games and they
Speaker 2: really think you're the fifty fourth guy on the roster.
Speaker 2: Like we calm down with the Jets ops are phasing
Speaker 2: me out of the operation. But most Jet fans good folks,
Speaker 2: and they have to deal with the fact that they
Speaker 2: live in a two team city and if the people
Speaker 2: aren't Jet fans or Giant fans. And while the Giants
Speaker 2: have been a disaster for the last half decade, they
Speaker 2: are a prestige franchise. They won Super Bowls with Parcels,
Speaker 2: they won Super Bowls with Eli, They've played in big
Speaker 2: games like so you have that little brother big brother thing,
Speaker 2: and you add to it, a lot of Jet fans
Speaker 2: are also Met fans, and a lot of Giant fans
Speaker 2: are Yankee fans. That's usually how it goes, like Jets, Mets, Giants, Yankees,
Speaker 2: and then everyone's a Knicks fan because nobody likes the Nets.
Speaker 2: So you have like you get little Brother two times over.
Speaker 2: So I do feel for Jet fans sincerely, again, except
Speaker 2: for Firemanette. And I here's my concern. It appears to
Speaker 2: me Woody Johnson might be the reason I think he
Speaker 2: fired Joe Douglas, who I have no tears for Joe Douglas.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bounce around here a bit. I apologize. It
Speaker 2: is it is very very clear that Joe Douglas made
Speaker 2: a lot of friends in the media. When a guy
Speaker 2: who's thirty and sixty four and got six years to
Speaker 2: be a general manager, people are like, oh, man, look
Speaker 2: at all these great players he drafted. Bro, you ran
Speaker 2: this team for six years. They were a disaster the
Speaker 2: whole time. Yeah, the the drafts couldn't have been that great.
Speaker 2: And you were like, oh, the twenty twenty two draft,
Speaker 2: you're you had the fourth tenth, twenty sixth, and thirty
Speaker 2: sixth pick of that draft. You're supposed to do well
Speaker 2: in that draft. Now you got one of those extra
Speaker 2: picks by trading the Jamal Adam trade, which wasn't all
Speaker 2: time good trade, and credit to him for that. But
Speaker 2: this the little mini violins for Joe Douglas because he
Speaker 2: had been a friend to media and maybe fed some
Speaker 2: stories like it was a little too much for my taste,
Speaker 2: like he wasn't done wrong. But firing your GM mid
Speaker 2: season is odd. It's just it's not like you're you
Speaker 2: fire ahead coach mid season because you want to spark.
Speaker 2: Firing your GM it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: So why do I think Woody Johnson did it? And
Speaker 2: here's where I feel badly for Jet fans because I
Speaker 2: do believe Woody Johnson is gonna take a job with
Speaker 2: the Trump administration like he did eight years ago, probably
Speaker 2: ambassador to England once again, and when that happens, he
Speaker 2: has to relinquish control of the team to his brother, Christopher.
Speaker 2: I think what wood he is trying to do is
Speaker 2: get a head start on everything as far as the
Speaker 2: next head coach and the next GM, so he can
Speaker 2: make those hires before he leaves. And that is going
Speaker 2: to create such a terrible situation for the Jets because
Speaker 2: that you're gonna have a new head coach, a new GM,
Speaker 2: both potentially hired by a guy who now is no
Speaker 2: longer in charge, and for the next four years Christopher's
Speaker 2: gonna be there. Is he gonna want the people his
Speaker 2: brother put in place? Are those people gonna feel like
Speaker 2: who's the actual boss? Like? It's just a bad process.
Speaker 2: What if Woody knows he's gonna take over an ambassadorship
Speaker 2: to the United Kingdom like he did eight years ago,
Speaker 2: then these should be Christopher's hires, because Christopher is gonna
Speaker 2: be the one who oversees it. But it does not
Speaker 2: appear that that's what's gonna happen. So that's bad news
Speaker 2: for Jet fans. Now, the idea that wood he would
Speaker 2: he I believe this reporting, Okay. I believe the reporting
Speaker 2: that Woody Johnson went to Jeff Ulbrick last week and said,
Speaker 2: you need to bench safety Tony Adams. I believe the
Speaker 2: reporting that Woody Johnson gets ideas from fans on social
Speaker 2: media and then brings them to the coaches and wants
Speaker 2: them to implement it. And I believe the reporting that
Speaker 2: Woody Johnson after week four wanted them to bench Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers and then after week six wanted them to trade
Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers Buddy Devonte Adams. Even though those two
Speaker 2: things seem to be in conflict, it's because we have
Speaker 2: no evidence whatsoever that Woody Johnson knows what he's doing. Now,
Speaker 2: with all that said, as it turns out, benching Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers would not have been the wrong decision. It would
Speaker 2: have been real like now that we know what happened,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't have been worse since he wanted to bench them.
Speaker 2: They've lost six of seven, they fired their coach, they
Speaker 2: fired their GM and one of the benefits of if
Speaker 2: they would have benched Aaron Rodgers for Tyrod Taylor, they
Speaker 2: wouldn't have traded for Devonte Adams, and that Devonte Adams
Speaker 2: trade is now gonna end up being the worst trade
Speaker 2: of the NFL season. That's gonna be around the seventieth
Speaker 2: pick that they gave up for a dozen games of Davante,
Speaker 2: dozen unproductive games of Vante Adams for a bad team.
Speaker 2: They gave up for Davante the same almost exactly same
Speaker 2: exact pick the Titans gave up for Lagerius Snead. They
Speaker 2: got Sneed in his prime long contract. Because the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are gonna have the Titans third round pick this upcoming
Speaker 2: year right now that's projected to be picked sixty eight.
Speaker 2: The Raiders are gonna get the jets upcoming third round
Speaker 2: pick right now that's projected to be picked seventy. So
Speaker 2: it's the same thing, like that's a disastrous trade. But
Speaker 2: then this does The other reporting is that the Jets
Speaker 2: don't want Aaron back next year. Okay, now there is
Speaker 2: a little The other thing I'd be worried about if
Speaker 2: I'm a Jet fan is this because it it what again?
Speaker 2: Further reporting is that Aaron is actually really close with
Speaker 2: Christopher does Aaron slow play will I or won't I
Speaker 2: retire to try to prevent the Jets from cutting him
Speaker 2: until Christopher takes over and then be like, no, I
Speaker 2: want to come back and see if he can lean
Speaker 2: on that relationship as a reason they don't cut him,
Speaker 2: Because if they cut him, who is signing up demonsee
Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers next year? Would Aaron Rodgers have a
Speaker 2: single team in the league that says we want you
Speaker 2: to be our Week one starter. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I got Here's like, I gotta think the third are
Speaker 2: gonna draft a quarterback? Yeah? Like so, I I went
Speaker 2: through it yesterday on the show, and we can we
Speaker 2: can quickly do it here if we take the most
Speaker 2: liberal view of what teams might be in the quarterback
Speaker 2: business next year. Okay, AFC East, none of those teams
Speaker 2: allen to a Drake may Or locked and the Jets
Speaker 2: are This is under the assumption the Jets have cut Aaron, AFC, North, Ravens, Bengals,
Speaker 2: no Browns. Maybe, But when the Browns are still dealing
Speaker 2: with the Deshaun Watson thing, I don't think they're all
Speaker 2: of a sudden gonna be like we're gonna bring in
Speaker 2: another expensive old quarterback like so cross them out. Steelers
Speaker 2: are an intriguing one only in this regard, neither Russ
Speaker 2: nor Fields are on the contract for next year, so
Speaker 2: they don't have their quarterback.
Speaker 3: Under Rouns like I don't think Mike Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Not after what's happened this year. I agree with you entirely.
Speaker 2: I think not after the way it's gone. I think
Speaker 2: he would have once upon a time, but not at
Speaker 2: this point. And I think their plans probably to bring
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson back right so like so, now the AFC
Speaker 2: North is out AFC South. The Jags and Texans have
Speaker 2: committed to their quarterbacks. They're not available. Titans Colts. I
Speaker 2: don't think the Colts are gonna pull the plug on
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson. I think they're now that they've gone back
Speaker 2: to him. I think they're gonna give him next year
Speaker 2: to see. The Titans are maybe Chargers Broncos. They all
Speaker 2: think they you know, they all have their guy or
Speaker 2: think they have their guy. The Raiders are going to
Speaker 2: be in the quarterback business. Tom Brady's gonna have a
Speaker 2: strong say in that. Do we think Tom Brady, with
Speaker 2: everything he represents about leadership team, any of it is
Speaker 2: gonna be like Aaron Rodgers is the guy. Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: They're gonna draft a quarterback. So there's that NFC East, Philly, Washington,
Speaker 2: Dallas all as their quarterbacks. The Giants need one. The Giants'
Speaker 2: new regime is gonna draft a quarterback flat like like
Speaker 2: they are not. They're not close enough and don't have
Speaker 2: the like to be like, oh, we're Aaron Rodgers away,
Speaker 2: So they're out. No one in the NFC North is
Speaker 2: in the quarterback business. No one in the NFC West
Speaker 2: is in the quarterback business. So then we go to
Speaker 2: the NFC South. Atlanta's got two quarterbacks, Tampa's committed to Baker,
Speaker 2: Saints Panthers. Panthers are drafting their guy. The Saints just
Speaker 2: extended Derek Carr and they're in hell. So when we
Speaker 2: go through the whole thing, Demons, there is one team
Speaker 2: that maybe would be in the Aaron Rodgers business. The
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans the only team, and I think that would
Speaker 2: be crazy. I think the Titans need to be honest
Speaker 2: about where they are. They're not Aaron and Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: away and he's not that good. So I say all
Speaker 2: that to say this, Even everyone's like, will Aaron retire,
Speaker 2: I think gonna. It's gonna be a forced retirement. I
Speaker 2: don't think there is going to be a team that
Speaker 2: wants him as the Week one starter. I do think
Speaker 2: there's a possibility that there is a team next year
Speaker 2: during the season, if a quarterback gets injured, that a
Speaker 2: really good team. The example I used on the show
Speaker 2: yesterday was a team, say a team that's in the
Speaker 2: position the Lions are right now, we're rolling, we can
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. We have a great roster all
Speaker 2: around it. That quarterback gets hurt, would that team potentially
Speaker 2: call him? Maybe, But he hasn't put good tape out
Speaker 2: there in three years. He obviously is not a leader,
Speaker 2: he's obviously not accountable. So yes, the Jets thing's a disaster.
Speaker 2: I also think we're watching the very end of Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 2: career and it is a nondescript, sad, self inflicted ending.
Speaker 2: And so that's where I think we are with the Jets.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna say one other thing on this Demansey,
Speaker 2: I'm totally fine with if that fifteen minutes right there
Speaker 2: is the last we talk about the Jets. This year.
Speaker 2: I don't need any more victory. Laps I was right.
Speaker 2: Almost everyone else in the media was wrong. I'm fine
Speaker 2: with it. Right, Like, there is a real soft skill
Speaker 2: to being an NFL quarterback that involves leadership, that involves
Speaker 2: taking accountability, that involves being there for your teammates, and
Speaker 2: a hard skill of being an NFL quarterback that involves
Speaker 2: being able to move, having two functioning achilles, still being
Speaker 2: the player you once were, and Aaron goes over on
Speaker 2: all of them. So we're listen, we're talking about if
Speaker 2: Wood he's gonna take a job in the Trump administration,
Speaker 2: maybe that maybe Aaron gets the ambassadorship to Peru and
Speaker 2: can become America's foremost ayahuasca expert. But his career as
Speaker 2: a relevant NFL player has a half dozen games left.
Speaker 2: That's where we're at, all right, let's go to the
Speaker 2: tiers if we can.
Speaker 3: Yes, So the Committee shocked America on first things First,
Speaker 3: yesterday you guys put Buffalo, Buffalo at number one, Kansas
Speaker 3: City's at number two. Did you guys do Mahomes Mountain Yeah?
Speaker 2: Orse on Tuesday, that's on Tuesdays. Yeah, so I do
Speaker 2: Mahomes are still number one.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it doesn't still number.
Speaker 2: One on Mahomes Mountain. What do you mean it doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense?
Speaker 3: Would make sense. Here's Josh Allen to be the number
Speaker 3: one on Mahomes Mountain because he's well.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. So it's again, it's a rich tapestry.
Speaker 2: It's not just record, it's not just head to head,
Speaker 2: it's not just stats. It's a lot of things. Patrick
Speaker 2: is in a position right now where on and then
Speaker 2: we'll get to the tiers where in order for someone
Speaker 2: else to have a legitimate claim that they are the
Speaker 2: best quarterback in the league, I think they have to
Speaker 2: pull off the triple crown this season, meaning they have
Speaker 2: to win League MVP, they have to beat Patrick in
Speaker 2: the postseason, and they have to win the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: if Josh or Lamar or Burrow, but Burrow's not gonna
Speaker 2: have the opportunity do any of those things, or do
Speaker 2: all of those things. Pardon me. And then you want
Speaker 2: to say, going into next season, this guy is the
Speaker 2: best quarterback in football, so be it. I might disagree,
Speaker 2: but it'll be a fair argument. But when one guy
Speaker 2: is the two time defending Super Bowl champion, we have
Speaker 2: seen him each of the last two years, play perfect
Speaker 2: postseason football, and the team does still have the best
Speaker 2: record in the league, and he is in the discussion
Speaker 2: for the greatest in the history of the league. He
Speaker 2: is going to stay at top. Mahomes mountain the tiers.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, again, we do have a committee.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that vote on this. I
Speaker 2: made similar arguments for the Chiefs that I just made
Speaker 2: for Mahomes, like they need to lose more to be
Speaker 2: knocked off. The committee said, hey, Buffalo's looked better in
Speaker 2: the last six weeks. They just beat him head to head.
Speaker 2: They beat him by more than one score, which is
Speaker 2: only the fifth time in one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 2: career games for Mahomes. He got the Chiefs got beaten
Speaker 2: by more than eight points, so they went atop the tiers.
Speaker 2: But go ahead with the rest of your question. Sorry
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: Yes, if Patrick Mahomes came out and said that losing
Speaker 3: is probably a good thing, do you expect the Chiefs
Speaker 3: to come out and be better after the loss or
Speaker 3: you convinced that the team that you've seen so far
Speaker 3: is all that they need to win the chip?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, people, there's a lot of speculation. Oh Man,
Speaker 2: bad news for the Panthers. Chiefs angry coming off the loss.
Speaker 2: They're gonna roll the Panthers this week, probably not probably
Speaker 2: win by like four. Like I I the the Chiefs
Speaker 2: don't operate as if the objective is to blow the
Speaker 2: other team out. And I know that can frustrate people,
Speaker 2: and it's why people foolishly are saying the Lions are
Speaker 2: the best team in the league because they do do that.
Speaker 2: But the Chiefs use the first half of these games
Speaker 2: to work on things and then trust that in the
Speaker 2: second half of these games will slowly the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: they are going to find a way to win. Now,
Speaker 2: this week it bit them and they need to, you know,
Speaker 2: look at what happened and why it happened. But even
Speaker 2: this week, when the Bills went up with fourteen minutes left,
Speaker 2: what did you instantly see the single best drive of
Speaker 2: the chief season? Bang bang bang bang bang right down
Speaker 2: the field, no resistance, touchdown. And I'm sure in that
Speaker 2: moment they were like, okay, great down to defense gets
Speaker 2: a stop, Pat gets the ball, we go win the game.
Speaker 2: Devens didn't get the stop. They played with fire a
Speaker 2: little too much in that game, starting with Patrick's first
Speaker 2: interception on the first play of the game, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you're down by nine to two minutes
Speaker 2: left and the game's over. As far as my level
Speaker 2: of concern for Kansas City, it's nonexistent. They are while
Speaker 2: other teams are now injuries are starting to pile up
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in the next two weeks. Get Isaiah Pacheco back,
Speaker 2: Get Charles amenehu Bak, who hasn't played since the playoffs
Speaker 2: last year. There are now rumblings they are going to
Speaker 2: get Hollywood Brown before the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: He hasn't played with them at all. And I have
Speaker 2: more weapons and better offensively. And the other reason I
Speaker 2: am not worried about the Chiefs at all is I
Speaker 2: simply think the Mahomes interceptions are going to go away
Speaker 2: come the postseason, because they always do. And the sneaky,
Speaker 2: most important and craziest stat of this NFL season, Demons,
Speaker 2: is the following. There are ten teams who have a
Speaker 2: minus five or worse turnover differential in the NFL this year.
Speaker 2: Ten teams. Okay, they those ten teams currently have the
Speaker 2: worst record in the league, the second worst record, the
Speaker 2: third worst record, the fourth worst record, the fifth worst record,
Speaker 2: the sixth worst record, the eighth worst record, the ninth
Speaker 2: worst record, and then Seattle which is five hundred, and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, which have the best record in the NFL.
Speaker 2: So let me say that again. Every team in the
Speaker 2: league that has a plus minus of minus five or worse,
Speaker 2: there's ten of them. Eight of them are eight of
Speaker 2: the nine worst teams in the league, all two or
Speaker 2: three win teams. And then the outlier is Seattle, which
Speaker 2: despite the turnover differential, is five hundred. And then the
Speaker 2: super outlier is the Chiefs, which are nine to one.
Speaker 2: So they are they have played one of the toughest schedules,
Speaker 2: they have the best record, and they're doing it despite
Speaker 2: the fact they aren't forcing turnovers and they're turning the
Speaker 2: ball over like crazy. Now some would say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: that's gonna bite you in the playoffs, but they don't
Speaker 2: turn the ball. Patrick doesn't turn the ball over in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Since the last time they lost a playoff game.
Speaker 2: He's played seven he has one one turnover, and so
Speaker 2: I just I I'm not concerned. What do you mean.
Speaker 3: Higher than of the past.
Speaker 2: It's not that much higher than last year. So that's
Speaker 2: the thing people like I would be concerned if we
Speaker 2: didn't see last year. And by the way, last year
Speaker 2: this also applied. Last regular season, the Chiefs had the
Speaker 2: fifth worst plus minus of any team in the league.
Speaker 2: They were minus eleven. The other teams that were minus
Speaker 2: eleven or worse were the Commanders who were awful, Minnesota
Speaker 2: who was mediocre, the Falcons who were awful, and the Patriots,
Speaker 2: who were third worst record in the league. And then
Speaker 2: there's the Chiefs at minus tied with New England last year.
Speaker 2: And then what happened in the playoffs. They stopped. They
Speaker 2: stopped because Patrick stopped. And so there is. Last year's
Speaker 2: Chiefs team was not good offensively. This year's Chiefs team
Speaker 2: is good but not great.
Speaker 3: Thinks like that wide receiver room was pretty bad and
Speaker 3: now he's got better weapons, so I feel like should
Speaker 3: be less likely to throw more paces.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much better weapons he has this
Speaker 2: year as presently constituted, so like like, and by the
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins is been an awesome addition, and the Chiefs
Speaker 2: offense has looked really good since they added DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 2: So the I mean in Mahomes's numbers are way better
Speaker 2: since they added DeAndre Hopkins. Xavier Worthy will be a
Speaker 2: good player if he stays healthy, but he's a rookie
Speaker 2: wide receiver going through growing pains. And I want to
Speaker 2: make this clear. Patrick has not played that well. His
Speaker 2: footwork's it's been weird. He's had bad turnovers and more
Speaker 2: games than not. I just and so if the Chiefs
Speaker 2: get this level of play from Patrick Mahomes, they can
Speaker 2: win the super Bowl, but it'll be a dogfight. But
Speaker 2: if they get playoff Patrick Mahomes, which they do every
Speaker 2: single year, then they're far and away by a mile,
Speaker 2: the best team in the league. All right, next, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you've.
Speaker 3: Been on an island when it comes to Lamar. Everybody
Speaker 3: loves him, you see right through, I guess. And you
Speaker 3: also find yourself being the most pro Bills guy and
Speaker 3: anointing Josh Allen and the Bills. I'm so weird timing
Speaker 3: Josh Allen just passed Lamar Jackson for the MVP race.
Speaker 3: How far are you willing to take this? Or you
Speaker 3: are you willing to take it as far as saying
Speaker 3: that Josh Allen will win the NFL.
Speaker 2: MVP right now, he's the deserving favorite. Listen to me,
Speaker 2: the top two guys should be him and Saquon. I
Speaker 2: think Saquan's reinvented that Eagles team and Saquan's numbers are unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And he also has had a seven or eight touchdowns
Speaker 2: sniped from him. But did you see this nine times
Speaker 2: this year, Demons, he has ran the ball to the
Speaker 2: one yard line and eight of the nine the next
Speaker 2: play was a Jalen Hurts toush push Like so, I
Speaker 2: mean there has just been so he is not He
Speaker 2: could have seventeen eighteen touchdowns this year he has ten.
Speaker 2: He could have, you know, a bunch more so. I
Speaker 2: think Saquan's been unbelievable. Josh has been great, and in
Speaker 2: the biggest game of the NFL season, Josh made the
Speaker 2: game winning play like the So, I I got a
Speaker 2: little annoyed on the TV show the other day because
Speaker 2: uh Wilde said, my Bills takes are confusing, and I said,
Speaker 2: it's actually not confusing at all. It's very very consistent
Speaker 2: every single year. My opinion on the Buffalo Bills every
Speaker 2: year I've been on TV has been one thing, and
Speaker 2: one thing only, the correct opinion, Like that's what it's
Speaker 2: It's not confusing at all. It's just I'm right. So
Speaker 2: when everyone thinks the Bills, you know, three years ago,
Speaker 2: are this unstoppable juggernaut, I said no, they're a good
Speaker 2: but not great team. Last year, when folks said this
Speaker 2: is the year that they're going to, you know, get
Speaker 2: Kansas City, they've got it in Buffalo, I said, no,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have another gear. They'll get them. Two years
Speaker 2: ago when everyone said it's Mahomes and Allan, Allan Mahomes,
Speaker 2: and I said, I think you're forgetting Joe Burrow in
Speaker 2: this equation. Joe Burrow then played Allan in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: He played great, Alan played poorly and beat him. This year,
Speaker 2: when I said, you guys are drastically overrating the importance
Speaker 2: of Stefan, Didy, Biggs, Hide and player, and this Bills
Speaker 2: team is not gonna have to worry about the Jets
Speaker 2: in that division. They're clearly the best team, and the
Speaker 2: Bills are the second best team in the AFC. I've
Speaker 2: been right again, and so this would be a year
Speaker 2: that Josh deserves legitimate MVP consideration, unlike previous years when
Speaker 2: it's been in my opinion, what people are actually doing
Speaker 2: with Lamar this year, which is only discussing his great
Speaker 2: games and trying to ignore the times he's struggled. That's
Speaker 2: what we've done with Allen in the past. This year,
Speaker 2: he's been the engine. He's been smarter with the ball.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have great weapons, he has run the ball
Speaker 2: more judiciously, but just as effectively. So yeah, like Josh,
Speaker 2: Allen's been playing the quarterback position better than anyone in
Speaker 2: football this year. His team's got the second best record
Speaker 2: in the conference. That that's usually how you win lead and.
Speaker 3: So you get on top of Mahomes Mountain.
Speaker 2: Though no, again, it's a rich tapestry. And I do
Speaker 2: have to tell you, like if it were called Allen's Alps,
Speaker 2: then maybe he would have a stronger case. But it's
Speaker 2: quite hard to knock the name's sake off the top
Speaker 2: of the mountain. I mean, it just it just is
Speaker 2: all right. Last one demonse, Uh so you.
Speaker 3: Declare yourself NFC bachelor and things are getting pretty serious.
Speaker 3: And now it's down to two teams. The winner of
Speaker 3: Philly and the Rams will win your heart. Bachelor, Nick,
Speaker 3: please make your decision. Who wins your heart?
Speaker 2: Sunday. Oh that's a heck of a background. You've got there.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal. I'm actually not gonna make a
Speaker 2: prediction for this game. I'm gonna tell you what I'm
Speaker 2: rooting for, though, So so I let me back up
Speaker 2: in case the audience hasn't been following this demonsey on
Speaker 2: the TV show. So my preseason pick was obviously the Bears,
Speaker 2: and they're cooked. And they fired their offensive coordinator and
Speaker 2: Caleb up until this past week and have been struggling,
Speaker 2: and so they're cooked. So I've admitted defeat on that.
Speaker 2: But I have to pick another team and I so
Speaker 2: let's just go through the potential teams that didn't make
Speaker 2: the final cut. Washington is slowing down a bit. Jaden
Speaker 2: hasn't been the same guy since his ribs got cracked.
Speaker 2: I don't really tough trust Kingsbury, so take them out.
Speaker 2: The Packers I think have been a little smoke and
Speaker 2: mirrors lately. I think they're good, but they're not gonna
Speaker 2: win three consecutive playoff games all on the road, so
Speaker 2: take them out. Obviously, no team from the NFC South
Speaker 2: can do it. And in the NFC West, the Niners,
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna miss the playoffs. The Cardinals are
Speaker 2: a hell of a story, but they're not winning three
Speaker 2: straight playoff games. Like, so, who's left? Who's left is
Speaker 2: the Lions, the Eagles, and the Rams. Well, the Lions
Speaker 2: a it would feel a little front running b coach
Speaker 2: and Greg already picked them and C and I know
Speaker 2: Lions fans very mad at me about this. I don't
Speaker 2: fully trust Jared Goff, So they are They're out. So
Speaker 2: then we have the Eagles in the Rams. Now the Rams.
Speaker 2: I have abandon the Bears. They're four and six. The
Speaker 2: Rams are only five and five. The Rams might not
Speaker 2: even make the playoffs. However, they've won four out of five.
Speaker 2: Stafford when he's got both his receivers is just deadly.
Speaker 2: They crushed the draft on that defensive line with Verse
Speaker 2: and Fisk, and they get pressure on the quarterback. Now
Speaker 2: that their offensive lines getting healthier, they're dangerous. Mcveigh's as
Speaker 2: good of a co coach as there is in that conference.
Speaker 2: The Eagles. It's a weird spot because I don't trust
Speaker 2: the coach at all, and I only kind of trust
Speaker 2: the quarterback. But the defense went from awful to really
Speaker 2: good with Fangio and his additions. I didn't think they'd
Speaker 2: be able to do it when the receivers are healthy
Speaker 2: and Jalen is willing to run the ball as he
Speaker 2: is more this year than last year. That's how that
Speaker 2: offense gets to twenty twenty two offense. Jalen hurts with
Speaker 2: some Reid option stuff, Jalen Hurts running the ball, Tush
Speaker 2: push cooking, and then deep shots to aj Brown who's
Speaker 2: just unbelievable. And Saquan has been a world changer. So
Speaker 2: it's Eagles Rams. I'm rooting for the Rams this weekend.
Speaker 2: I would rather have the Rams be my pick, but
Speaker 2: if they lose and fall to five, and they're a
Speaker 2: long shot just to make the playoffs, so I hope
Speaker 2: the Rams win because I want to ride with the Rams.
Speaker 2: But if they don't, Philly is positioned so well to
Speaker 2: be at the very least the two seed, maybe the
Speaker 2: one seed of Detroit falters, and they have such a
Speaker 2: well put together roster right now. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Sirianni would screw it up, and in a game management off,
Speaker 2: Sirianni versus Dan Campbell is really not like Dan Campbell's
Speaker 2: got some game management issues himself, so it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: as much of a killer. So I'm not making a
Speaker 2: pick for this game. I'm gonna, you know, let the
Speaker 2: chips fall where they may. But the winner of this game,
Speaker 2: I've got going to the super Bowl. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: telling you. The winner gets my pick for the NFC
Speaker 2: to play the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. I hope
Speaker 2: it's Rams. I would love to be able to root
Speaker 2: for the Rams the rest of the year and Ian
Speaker 2: McVeigh in the Super Bowl would be dope. No, I'd
Speaker 2: rather play Philly because if the Rams get to the
Speaker 2: super Bowl, it means they are they started one and four, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it would mean they you know that they
Speaker 2: would probably at that point of one gosh, twelve out
Speaker 2: of fifteen to get there, like it and so and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs like either of these teams would present problems
Speaker 2: for the Chief's second corner, whether it's Devonte Smith or
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup that the Chief's number two corner has to
Speaker 2: line up against. But I'll be rooting for the Rams,
Speaker 2: all right. Quick break What's Right? Gambling Show Week twelve
Speaker 2: to Monsey's weekly winning teaser, and I try to get
Speaker 2: back on the winning track. That's next, What's truck Welcome
Speaker 2: back in What's Right? With Nick right episode two eighty
Speaker 2: Did I say two to seventy nine earlier? Whatever it is,
Speaker 2: it's episode two eighty. Uh, all right, let's get this
Speaker 2: over with the recap of last week's picks, because these
Speaker 2: are bad, these bad picks. You should have talked me
Speaker 2: out of some of these, Demanse, I mean, this is
Speaker 2: a train wreck. One in four, worst week of the year.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh plus three against Baltimore. That worked. It was obvious
Speaker 2: on a lot of fronts. There was a brief moment
Speaker 2: where it looked like I could get screwed if Lamar
Speaker 2: could have pulled off the two point conversion. Then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, It's goes to overtime and Baltimore winning
Speaker 2: by six is available. The other picks, though, Atlanta plus
Speaker 2: two and a half at Denver they got boat raced,
Speaker 2: absolutely just destroyed. Cleveland minus won at New Orleans. That
Speaker 2: game was fourteen to fourteen, Demonse, and then I look
Speaker 2: up what go ahead? No?
Speaker 3: They why that I had that in my blazing five.
Speaker 3: It was tied fourteen to fourteen. I think the kicker
Speaker 3: missed the field goal. There was a flag. He ends
Speaker 3: up kicking another field goal, misses it. Oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that that game screwed me as well.
Speaker 2: And then this and then the Saints scored twenty one
Speaker 2: unanswered Kasom Hill looks like damn Walter Peyton seven carries
Speaker 2: for a buck thirty eight, lose by twenty one. So
Speaker 2: that's a disaster. New England plus four and a half
Speaker 2: against the Rams they bad They lose by eight, but
Speaker 2: that one was gross two and we've already talked Chiefs Buffalo.
Speaker 2: So really just a train wreck of a week. There's
Speaker 2: no there's no getting around it. And we're now, how
Speaker 2: long has it been since I had a five and
Speaker 2: oh fill geez, I think I had a Let me check.
Speaker 2: I think I had a four and one earlier this
Speaker 2: week or earlier this year. I can look it up
Speaker 2: real quick because our guy, our graphics guys sends me,
Speaker 2: let me see. No, I had a four and one
Speaker 2: in week five five and oh three, Well that's last year.
Speaker 2: I think it's twenty twenty two. I don't think I
Speaker 2: had a five and o last year. Yeah, so this
Speaker 2: is a disaster. There's no way around it. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no mincing words here. We're twenty six, twenty eight
Speaker 2: and one on the year, which means we need to
Speaker 2: go at least four and one this week just to
Speaker 2: get above five hundred five and oh would get us
Speaker 2: nearing profitability at the least. So let's back to the
Speaker 2: basics here. Some of these games, I gotta be honest,
Speaker 2: are some ugly, grimy games, but you gotta do what
Speaker 2: you gotta do. And demon'say, we're starting with Thursday night
Speaker 2: football or starting with the game tonight. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a Cleveland plus three and a half
Speaker 3: versus Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it looks like you don't love this one.
Speaker 2: I'm just going I'm instituting a rule for the rest
Speaker 2: of Knicks picks the rest of the year. AFC North
Speaker 2: teams that are home dogs of at least three is
Speaker 2: an auto fire the rest of the year. If it
Speaker 2: is an AFC North again in a divisional matchup, if
Speaker 2: it's AFC North versus AFC North and the home team
Speaker 2: is getting at least three, I'm betting it. So I
Speaker 2: think this is a potential letdown spot for Pittsburgh after
Speaker 2: the last week's game. The total in this game is
Speaker 2: only thirty seven points, which means it's gonna Vegas says
Speaker 2: it's gonna be very low scoring, low scoring games. Getting
Speaker 2: the points feels good. Cleveland not quite as bad as
Speaker 2: the final score suggests from last week, because again that
Speaker 2: game was fourteen to fourteen and then it got away
Speaker 2: from him. This just feels like another ugly Pittsburgh win
Speaker 2: sixteen thirteen, seventeen fourteen, something like that. I'm getting three
Speaker 2: and a half AFC nor Thunderdogs cover sixty one percent
Speaker 2: of the time against the spread over the last six years.
Speaker 2: That's the best of any division Pittsburgh. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: short week for both teams, obviously, but Pittsburgh maybe a
Speaker 2: bit of an emotional letdown after the Ravens game. I
Speaker 2: like Cleveland getting the points in this spot, so I'll
Speaker 2: take Cleveland plus three and a half and Jamis for
Speaker 2: them to only have scored fourteen points. Jamis did have
Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety five passing yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 2: in that Browns game, so he played well. He had
Speaker 2: a bounce back game after his poor performance the week before.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna do that against Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 2: I'll take Cleveland plus three and a half.
Speaker 3: Next, you've got Tampa Bay minus five and a half
Speaker 3: of the Giants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Tampa's coming off a bye. They had got
Speaker 2: a little extra life for their season over the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks because of how how Atlanta has looked.
Speaker 2: You know, Baker's gonna be sharp. They got more life
Speaker 2: in that they I don't think they're gonna have Mike
Speaker 2: Evans this week, but Mike Evans returned to practice. Maybe
Speaker 2: they'll have them this week, but they they know he's
Speaker 2: coming back. And the Giants, it's not just that they're
Speaker 2: starting Tommy DeVito, it's that the team seems pissed about it.
Speaker 2: One of their star defensive players came out and said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm mad that we're not starting the best quarterback we
Speaker 2: have in Daniel Jones. Drew Locke is pissed. He's like,
Speaker 2: I signed here thinking I was gonna be the number two.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what's happened. Tommy DeVito is we
Speaker 2: saw him last year. Is the reason they won the games.
Speaker 2: They won. Their defense and special teams crushed. It was
Speaker 2: less about Tommy DeVito. He was more mean than production.
Speaker 2: I don't mind laying this many points because I think
Speaker 2: this is a game. Tampa jumps out to a ten
Speaker 2: point lead, and holds on to it. I don't think
Speaker 2: the Giants are a backdoor cover type of team at all.
Speaker 2: I think they might be a let go of the
Speaker 2: rope type of team. Now they've be bench Daniel Jones,
Speaker 2: so this feels to me like a twenty seven to
Speaker 2: ten type of Tampa Bay victory rested healthier off a
Speaker 2: bye Tommy DeVito, but Danny DeVito wouldn't be much difference,
Speaker 2: I would assume. And so yeah, Tampa Bay minus five
Speaker 2: and a half and by the way, road favorites off
Speaker 2: a bye laying this much seven and two against the
Speaker 2: spread in their last nine, that doesn't mean that much
Speaker 2: to me, But I just like Tampa in this spot.
Speaker 3: Next, you got Tennessee plus eight at Houston, So this.
Speaker 2: Is another one of those ugly ones. However, I don't
Speaker 2: think Houston's offensive line is good to warrant them being
Speaker 2: more than a touchdown favorite against a good defensive front,
Speaker 2: and the Titans, for all their weaknesses, their biggest strength
Speaker 2: is that defensive front. I know that Jeffrey Simmons hasn't
Speaker 2: had quite the year that he's had in years past.
Speaker 2: He's still awesome. Harold Landry's really good to Andre sweatsman
Speaker 2: good as a rookie. There are a lot like that
Speaker 2: is the part of this game where I think Tennessee
Speaker 2: has a decided edge. They're gonna run Tony Pollard a lot,
Speaker 2: They're gonna try to shorten the game. Houston is, you know,
Speaker 2: off a bit of not not a huge but off
Speaker 2: a bit of a short week. And I didn't think
Speaker 2: even though they ended up blowing out Dallas, I didn't
Speaker 2: think they looked overly impressive. You know, throughout the early
Speaker 2: portions of that game. They you take out the Dallas game,
Speaker 2: they not take out. But prior to the Dallas game,
Speaker 2: their last four they lost to the Packers, they beat
Speaker 2: the Colts by three. They lost to the Jets, which
Speaker 2: is a flashing red alert. They lost to the Lions
Speaker 2: despite golf throwing five picks. There's only been two games
Speaker 2: all year they blew out the opponent, the game against
Speaker 2: the Patriots six weeks ago and this Monday against Dallas.
Speaker 2: And even again that game kind of became a blowout
Speaker 2: on the rush, fumble, stripsack, fumble six. It's just too
Speaker 2: many points. I don't think it's a divisional game. You're
Speaker 2: gonna play the Titans again. Later in the year. I
Speaker 2: like Tennessee plus eight feels like maybe twenty to fourteen,
Speaker 2: twenty to seventeen type of game. I don't love it.
Speaker 2: But the right side of this game is Tennessee plus eight.
Speaker 2: And also Tennessee this past week, if you weren't watching,
Speaker 2: they got a great stop on four fourth and goal.
Speaker 2: It got wiped away due to a really awful, uh
Speaker 2: defenseless receiver penalty where but when you look at the replay,
Speaker 2: it was a totally clean hit to the player's chest
Speaker 2: that flipped that game. Otherwise they're right there with the
Speaker 2: Vikings in that spot. The Vikings are better than the Texans.
Speaker 2: I like Tennessee plus eight.
Speaker 3: Next Green Bay minus one and a half versus San fran.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this is the first time in Purdy's regular
Speaker 2: season career he's been an underdog, which is a banana's stat,
Speaker 2: but it's a true stat. I don't I if Nicky
Speaker 2: Bosa is not playing, this Niners defense goes from mediocre
Speaker 2: to awful, and I don't know that he's playing. And
Speaker 2: try as he might, if Nicky bos is not gonna
Speaker 2: be out there, he can't make the Niners defense great again.
Speaker 2: Like he wants to, and so that concerns me. I
Speaker 2: don't think the Niners offense has been as crisp of
Speaker 2: an operation. Shockingly, when Christian mccaffery's out or not looking
Speaker 2: like Christian McCaffrey, you know they don't look quite the same.
Speaker 2: I agree with Kyle Shanahan. Kyle Shanaan came out and
Speaker 2: said brock Perty's playing at the exact same level he
Speaker 2: did the last couple of years. Totally agree. And the
Speaker 2: numbers are way different. Why because the pieces aren't the
Speaker 2: same as they were the last couple of years. Brock
Speaker 2: Purty is a mirror. He is going to reflect exactly
Speaker 2: what the players around him have to offer. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna elevate. He's not gonna pull you down, but he's
Speaker 2: not gonna elevate. And so the Packers can't feel great
Speaker 2: about how they've been playing. They escape against the Texans,
Speaker 2: they escape against the Jags, they escape against the Bears.
Speaker 2: They obviously lost the Lions in the middle of that.
Speaker 2: The Packers to me, are a better team than San Francisco.
Speaker 2: They are at home, they're laying less than a field goal.
Speaker 2: Matt Lafouri against Shanahan twenty seven to twenty four, green
Speaker 2: Bay win, twenty seven to twenty three. Green Bay wins
Speaker 2: something like that. Packers are the better team at home
Speaker 2: laying less than a field goal. I like green Bay
Speaker 2: in the spot, yep.
Speaker 3: I like green Bay though, all right? Next one, last
Speaker 3: two picks Arizona minus one at Seattle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, the Cardinals are flying a little under the
Speaker 2: radar right now. What I like about where they're at
Speaker 2: is they're coming off a bye while Seattle is coming
Speaker 2: off a super emotional kind of theft of a win
Speaker 2: against San Francisco. Arizona has won four straight games. They
Speaker 2: now play another team who's defense. I don't totally trust
Speaker 2: Kyler's playing some of the best football of his career.
Speaker 2: Arizona's knows that the Rams are likely coming for him.
Speaker 2: They need this game. That The one point I don't
Speaker 2: mind laying this is not you know, as long as
Speaker 2: a lot of teams that's playing Seattle have to come
Speaker 2: cross country, Arizona doesn't. I think Arizona's better. I think
Speaker 2: that Seattle is still getting a little too much of
Speaker 2: a lumin field bump from the bookmakers. They're one in
Speaker 2: five against the spread at home this year eight and
Speaker 2: fifteen at home against the spread over the last three years,
Speaker 2: which means Vegas still thinks that that's more of a
Speaker 2: home field advantage than it actually is. I like Arizona
Speaker 2: to win outright, so laying the one point I obviously
Speaker 2: don't mind. So five picks of the week Demanse Tonight
Speaker 2: Cleveland getting three and a half at home against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: Sunday Tampa laying five and a half at the Giants,
Speaker 2: Tennessee getting eight at the Texans, Green Bay laying one
Speaker 2: and a half at home against the Niners, and Arizona
Speaker 2: laying one on the road at Seattle. But this is
Speaker 2: the part the whole audience has been waiting for, where
Speaker 2: Demandse prints money for everyone. Last week, Demanse had gave
Speaker 2: out a teaser that counted for his record and a
Speaker 2: super teaser that didn't. The teaser that counted hit because
Speaker 2: he did a seven and a half pointer, so he
Speaker 2: got Casey all the way to plus ten. So even
Speaker 2: though they lost by nine, everybody had Kansas City plus
Speaker 2: eight and a half, Demande had him plus ten. That
Speaker 2: last point really mattered, so it hits and Pittsburgh won outright.
Speaker 2: So plus ten and a half is great Demonse's super
Speaker 2: teaser if people are interested, were those two picks plus Seattle,
Speaker 2: which one outright but he was getting fourteen. The one
Speaker 2: that ruined you was the one I did caution against
Speaker 2: to be fair, which was Jacksonville. Because Detroit, you had
Speaker 2: Jacksonville plus twenty one. You could have had him plus
Speaker 2: forty one. It wouldn't have covered, if that makes you
Speaker 2: feel any better. And because they lost fifty two to six,
Speaker 2: so that one didn't work. But that one didn't count
Speaker 2: for your record. So what are we doing this week?
Speaker 3: This week is just a seven points te'eser two teamer.
Speaker 3: We're teasing Kansas City against the against the Panthers down
Speaker 3: to three and a half, and we're teasing New England
Speaker 3: at Miami up to fourteen and a half. Was gonna
Speaker 3: do a little half point to get it down to
Speaker 3: Kansas City to three in New England up to fifteen.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think that they will blow out the Panthers,
Speaker 3: unlike you. I don't think they'll like twenty one. But
Speaker 3: I could see them beating ten twelve something like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's the teaser. It's at minus. The
Speaker 3: odds aren't on your I think it's like minus one
Speaker 3: sixty three.
Speaker 2: No, minus one fifty, okay, minus one fifty. So the listen. Obviously,
Speaker 2: with the Chiefs, you would love to get it through
Speaker 2: the three I but I I I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: I love the New England side of it because New
Speaker 2: England is you know, they let Drake may chuck the
Speaker 2: whole game. So even if Miami jumps out to a
Speaker 2: big lead, they are, you know, New England's the back
Speaker 2: door covers alive.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: New England historically, in the history of their franchise, they've
Speaker 2: only won seventeen times. In Miami, they've played them sixty times,
Speaker 2: so that's I don't think New England can win the
Speaker 2: game outright, but getting fourteen and a half, yeah, in
Speaker 2: a division game against a Dolphins team that just needs
Speaker 2: to win that it can't be worried about style points.
Speaker 2: And New England's been competitive, They've been at least competitive adjacent.
Speaker 2: So I like, I like this one. I'll give you
Speaker 2: an a minus. Not that, listen, my grades matter at
Speaker 2: this point. I like I like this one a lot.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the Okay, thanks, no, listen, you've been rolling.
Speaker 2: We've got the Week twelve offer Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3: So Kansas City's obviously going to be Carolina this week,
Speaker 3: all right, so if they do will probably be a
Speaker 3: bit of a statement. So your offer this week is
Speaker 3: going to be Carolina under seven and a half points
Speaker 3: at plus three ninety and my homes to throw zero
Speaker 3: interceptions at plus one hundred total parlay value at plus
Speaker 3: eight eighty.
Speaker 2: I hate to disappoint the audience, but I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to turn this offer down. Holding a team under eighth
Speaker 2: is really hard, and like those way higher for that right, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's that's how I feel like. I couldn't believe that
Speaker 2: it was only plus three to ninety the Panthers now. Listen,
Speaker 2: the Panthers twice this year have been held under eight points.
Speaker 2: Against the Chargers they scored three and against the Commanders
Speaker 2: they scored seven. But they've won two in a row,
Speaker 2: they scoring twenty three and twenty bryce playing a little
Speaker 2: bit better. So I under thirteen that I think is
Speaker 2: totally reasonable, or under fourteen, I should say, under eight
Speaker 2: I can't do, so I sadly have to turn the
Speaker 2: offer down. Last week, the offer I gave out was
Speaker 2: the Travis Kelce touchdown that didn't hit, but I didn't
Speaker 2: mind the the process on it because Noah Gray got
Speaker 2: two touchdowns. So the idea of the Chiefs were gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, get down in the deep red zone and
Speaker 2: you find a tight end was correct, but it was
Speaker 2: no great for both of them. Instead of Kelsey under
Speaker 2: thirteen and a half, they're putting it in there right now.
Speaker 2: I think what the plus is if it is under
Speaker 2: thirteen and a half and no picks for Mahomes is
Speaker 2: plus three forty eight. All right, I'll take that one.
Speaker 2: I'll take that one. I'll take twenty one thirteen Chiefs
Speaker 2: kind of boring victory and the Panthers don't get two
Speaker 2: touchdowns because the defense gotta be a little pissed about
Speaker 2: how the Bills game ended. All right, let me answer something,
Speaker 2: take quick break, come back, answer some listener questions. Next,
Speaker 2: What's right? Welcome back in What's right? With Nick right, Demanse,
Speaker 2: Let's do a few listener questions.
Speaker 3: Please, Danny Tanner, any thoughts on the Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: semifinalists and who do you think will be chosen this year?
Speaker 2: So you guys know, I loved the Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: stuff and last year when the semifinalists came out. We
Speaker 2: whittled it down to the five who I thought should
Speaker 2: make it, and I as I was even shocked by this.
Speaker 2: We went five for five. Like I was, that was
Speaker 2: like kind of an underrated One of my prouder things
Speaker 2: was doing it on the fly. We whittled it from
Speaker 2: twenty five to fifteen and fifteen to five. We did
Speaker 2: not have Gates making it last year. That was incredibly controversial,
Speaker 2: and we went five for five on that. I have
Speaker 2: a lot of thoughts on it that I don't want
Speaker 2: to rush right here. So at some point in the
Speaker 2: next few weeks we'll do a big, long Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame segment. I talked on TV yesterday about how I
Speaker 2: don't think Eli should be in. We'll spend time on
Speaker 2: that because I do think he will get in, but
Speaker 2: I don't know that he'll be first ballot. So we'll
Speaker 2: do all that, but just not today, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Kevin Marlow Nick of the three AFC West teams.
Speaker 3: Which is the most intriguing the battle with the with
Speaker 3: the Chiefs for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's the Chargers. Without question. I like they have
Speaker 2: the best coach of the group. They have the best
Speaker 2: quarterback of the group. They have built. They're building through
Speaker 2: the draft. No, the Chargers are coming. If they're not
Speaker 2: already here, they're coming. So that'll be a that'll be
Speaker 2: a hell of a battle.
Speaker 3: Next Lamar Jackson. Nick, He says, thanks for watching Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Nick, if you Brew, Wilds and de Bond's
Speaker 3: they were on a seven on seven football team, what
Speaker 3: would your positions be?
Speaker 2: So I think Brew probably has to be all time
Speaker 2: quarterback because he's not going to be moving all that
Speaker 2: well because he's an old guy. So I think he
Speaker 2: like he's got to be the quarterback. And then in
Speaker 2: seven on seven, isn't it everyone else just a receiver? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like I don't really know. I I would.
Speaker 3: I do think there's a sinner for some reason. Actually, no,
Speaker 3: you gotta start of the quarterback might start off. I would.
Speaker 2: I would make myself and demands the wide receivers. Wild's
Speaker 2: the running back and Brew the quarterback. That's That's how
Speaker 2: I would do it. Like Wild is sneaky really strong,
Speaker 2: Like Wild is sneaky jacked. Yeah, for real, I I
Speaker 2: I know it's it's It was as surprising to me
Speaker 2: as anybody the first time I knew it. But but yeah,
Speaker 2: Wild's in like Wild bikes a ton and lifts weights
Speaker 2: I think every single day, So I think he would
Speaker 2: be a good running back. You have the height and
Speaker 2: the leaping ability for wide receiver, and I'd be a
Speaker 2: Lad mcconkee possession receiver type, real great hand. Not gonna
Speaker 2: really stretch the field on you these days, but yeah,
Speaker 2: and bruis the quarterback, so that's how we'll do it
Speaker 2: all right, Next we got.
Speaker 3: A robber eighty four. I understand your skepticism of Nicks,
Speaker 3: but are you showing growth already, especially without great receivers?
Speaker 3: What do you think his ceiling is? Party great with avengers,
Speaker 3: but won't be one himself yet.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm gonna my priors on bow Knicks are too
Speaker 2: strong to move off after ten games. I mean the guy.
Speaker 2: The age part of bo Nicks cannot be underplayed as
Speaker 2: far as how much better is he going to get?
Speaker 2: Bow Knicks is two and a half years older than
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson. He's three months younger than Trevor Lawrence. He
Speaker 2: turns twenty five at the when the Super Bowl happens,
Speaker 2: So I he as Sean Payton sixty games of College Star.
Speaker 2: So I just think he's close to a finished product.
Speaker 2: So I don't see this like upward trajectory. I think
Speaker 2: he came in close to who he's going to be
Speaker 2: and he's gonna maintain. So I think serviceable is who
Speaker 2: he's going to be. I know people get annoyed by
Speaker 2: that and listen if he I'm open minded to being wrong,
Speaker 2: but I don't think I'm gonna be wrong. I think
Speaker 2: like Derek Carr is his ceiling, like not current Derek Carr,
Speaker 2: but peak Derek Carr is to me, to me, that's
Speaker 2: his ceiling. All right, demonse, great job today, Appreciate the audience.
Speaker 2: Hope you hit your teaser. Hope I go five and
Speaker 2: oh you know what, let's just go five and oh,
Speaker 2: let's have a five and oh week. Turn this gambling around.
Speaker 2: Not get calls from my account and like what are
Speaker 2: all these Venmo transactions? Like mind your business man? Do
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