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Speaker 2: Welcome. In episode one fifteen of What's Right with Nick Wright,
Speaker 2: the NFL playoffs are set. We have so much to
Speaker 2: get into in fact, and well I'll get to the
Speaker 2: gambling stuff in about forty five seconds. Let's just jump
Speaker 2: right into the show. It's me Nick right, my son
Speaker 2: to Mons's here. Here's what's not on the show. Mike
Speaker 2: Tomlin has another winning season, the Bucks play starters and
Speaker 2: lose to the Falcons, and Sean McVay could leave Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Those things are not on the show. We will get
Speaker 2: to the Green Bay Packers and what will end up
Speaker 2: being about five minutes if I told you so in
Speaker 2: just a moment. But first, for folks that don't listen
Speaker 2: to the Gambling Show, we were having a rough season
Speaker 2: and we were six games under five hundred. We do
Speaker 2: five picks a week typically. We were six games under
Speaker 2: five hundred going into Week eighteen, and I made what
Speaker 2: some considered an irrational decision, which was, We're gonna bet
Speaker 2: the board. We left out the Bills and Bengals game
Speaker 2: because when we were doing the show, we still didn't
Speaker 2: know Damar's health and there were a lot of things
Speaker 2: we didn't know about what they were gonna do. So
Speaker 2: we said we're gonna and by the way, and we'll
Speaker 2: get to the Bills and tomorrow the moment, it's an
Speaker 2: all time great sports moment we had. But so we said,
Speaker 2: we're gonna bet fourteen games this week at six under
Speaker 2: five hundred. I needed to go ten and four to
Speaker 2: keep my streak alive of being at five hundred or
Speaker 2: above every year I've been on national television. My picks
Speaker 2: on TV this year finished because I only do three
Speaker 2: a week, and we missed a few weeks because of
Speaker 2: World Cup twenty six and eighteen. So on TV I
Speaker 2: did great, but I was under five hundred with the
Speaker 2: picks here. I needed to go ten and four to
Speaker 2: have a five hundred season. That would have been forty
Speaker 2: nine forty nine and two. Oddly exactly one hundred games.
Speaker 2: I needed to go eleven and three to Monsey to
Speaker 2: finish above five hundred. Eleven and three. It's like seventy
Speaker 2: eight percent against the spread. Demonse, what did I go
Speaker 2: eleven and three? Eleven and three on the Gambling Show document?
Speaker 3: It finish the game?
Speaker 2: Well, two games technically fifty forty eight and two. The
Speaker 2: only losses were the Jags, which I just couldn't get
Speaker 2: a bet right on the Jags all year, even though
Speaker 2: my season long bet was correct on the Jags, the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: which was way off, and the Colts, which I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: kind of screwed me a little bit. They have fourth
Speaker 2: and twenty up seven. I'm laying two and a half
Speaker 2: or three whatever it was. But you know what, I
Speaker 2: can't complain eleven and three, which is the exact number
Speaker 2: I had to hit in order to finish above five hundred,
Speaker 2: and we did it. We did it, and maybe the
Speaker 2: play next year for the Gambling Show it just pick
Speaker 2: all the games every week. Maybe my problem isn't with
Speaker 2: my picks. Maybe my problem had been with favoring certain
Speaker 2: picks over others. Maybe all the picks are just great,
Speaker 2: that's what. So I'm not sure, but here's what I
Speaker 2: do know. Above five hundred going into the playoffs. Oh
Speaker 2: you know what, Demanse, let's play a have you looked
Speaker 2: at the lines for? This is a total ripoff of
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons cousin sal by the way, but it's have
Speaker 2: you do you know the week what the wild card
Speaker 2: weekend playoff lines? Okay, perfect, So this will be a
Speaker 2: fun way to do it, and then we'll get into
Speaker 2: the show. So let's go through the games in order.
Speaker 2: I have looked at the lines, and we'll and I
Speaker 2: want to see how you do, not really how you do,
Speaker 2: but it'll give you an idea of what side you
Speaker 2: might want to be on. Okay, Because Demonse came into
Speaker 2: a realization this weekend, which was post football, He's moving
Speaker 2: to California, and California still stuck in the Stone Age
Speaker 2: when it comes to gambling, and so there's no legalized
Speaker 2: gambling out there. So Demanse said to me kind of
Speaker 2: sadly yesterday sitting on the couch. He was like, you know,
Speaker 2: this is my last Sunday bet and football. And I
Speaker 2: kind of looked at him quizzically and I was like,
Speaker 2: you're not going to gamble in the playoffs and he
Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, yeah, the playoffs. That's probably a
Speaker 2: fun time to gamble. I'm like, yeah, buddy, But then this,
Speaker 2: but this is the last regular season Sunday. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go through the games. First game, Seahawks at forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers. What do you think the line is?
Speaker 3: Forty nine Ers minus eight and a half? Not bad?
Speaker 2: Ten ten, forty nine Ers minus ten, Chargers at Jags
Speaker 2: and the Prince.
Speaker 3: Chargers at Jags Chargers minus three.
Speaker 2: Chargers it was two and a half, Chargers minus two
Speaker 2: and a half. It is down to Chargers minus one
Speaker 2: because so much steam is on the Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, yea,
Speaker 2: Dolphins at Bills.
Speaker 4: Dolphins at Bills, right, yeah, yeah, Bill's minus fourteen.
Speaker 2: It's Bills minus eleven, which I think is actually splitting
Speaker 2: the difference between If Skyler Thompson is the quarterback, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Bill's minus fourteen plus. I think there's a
Speaker 2: small chance to a plays and if not if Teddy plays.
Speaker 2: I think if Teddy plays, it will stay at eleven.
Speaker 2: If Skyler plays, will go to fourteen, and if two
Speaker 2: A players, we'll go to seven and a half or eight.
Speaker 4: It's at Vikings, Giants at Vikings, Vikings minus.
Speaker 2: One minus three minus three, Vikings minus three, Ravens at Bengals.
Speaker 4: Ravens at Bengals, Bengals minus five and a.
Speaker 2: Half minus six. That you nailed that one and last one.
Speaker 4: Cowboys at Bucks, Cowboys at Bucks, Cowboys minus WHOA, I
Speaker 4: don't know that one's kind of well.
Speaker 2: Were you gonna say Cowboys minus what?
Speaker 3: Cowboys minus fours?
Speaker 2: Cowboys minus three? You know what you've done grown up
Speaker 2: on the football gambling. You weren't more than a point
Speaker 2: and a half off on any of it. That's really
Speaker 2: well done. All right, let's get a game that was
Speaker 2: not listed. Is the Green Bay Packers at anybody? Because
Speaker 2: they choked again, Let's get right into the show. Go
Speaker 2: right ahead, de monts.
Speaker 3: E couldn't grats cheeseheads.
Speaker 4: You went on a pointless runs that ruined the spot
Speaker 4: or ruin your chance at the top pick. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: Packers fumbled the chance to see what they had and
Speaker 4: now they go into the offseason with a non committal
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers in zero.
Speaker 3: Cool of Love's ability.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the decision not to shut it down weeks
Speaker 4: ago come back to bite them.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it already has. I think that.
Speaker 2: So you after the game, Jerry, you know you've got
Speaker 2: James Williams as asked Aaron Rodgers for his jersey. He's like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep this one. He goes off a
Speaker 2: weird dude. He goes arm in arm with Randall Cobb
Speaker 2: and they were really playing up. This could be Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers last game as a Packer, if Aaron Rodgers might retire,
Speaker 2: which I don't think is going to, or if might
Speaker 2: want to be traded, or you might want to trade him.
Speaker 2: You know what, you'd like to have been able to
Speaker 2: watch Jordan Love play this last month. And everybody killed
Speaker 2: me for that take. But and even yesterday after they lost,
Speaker 2: folks were like, Nick, you were obviously wrong. They had
Speaker 2: a shot, They had a shot at sneaking into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Their shot at winning a Super Bowl died six weeks ago.
Speaker 2: And if you're still in the Super Bowl championship business,
Speaker 2: which you should be, if you're the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 2: and if you should be, if you have Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: then once this year's done from a Super Bowl perspective,
Speaker 2: because even if they snuck in, they weren't gonna go
Speaker 2: to San Francisco and then go to Philadelphia and then
Speaker 2: go it wasn't gonna happen, then you must do everything
Speaker 2: you can put yourself in the best position for the
Speaker 2: next Super Bowl. And now what the hell do you do?
Speaker 2: I guess you pick up Jordan Love's option. What if
Speaker 2: Jordan Love says, hey, guys, when you drafted me, I
Speaker 2: expected I might sit one year. I was open to
Speaker 2: the possibility of sitting two years. I swallowed that I
Speaker 2: was gonna have to sit three years. I'm not sitting
Speaker 2: four years. You guys have been a first round pick
Speaker 2: on me. Other teams would have drafted me. You're gonna
Speaker 2: make me sit. And when after Aaron you drafted Aaron
Speaker 2: around the same spot in the drafts you drafted me.
Speaker 2: He sat three years and then you got rid of far.
Speaker 2: So there's that. So that's big picture. And we'll have
Speaker 2: plenty of the offseason to talk about the Packers and
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers all of that. I mean, it'll just be
Speaker 2: a version of I told you so, I told you so,
Speaker 2: I told you so. Should have played love and again,
Speaker 2: just to be very clear, if you play love and
Speaker 2: he's terrible, then you don't pick up the fifth year option,
Speaker 2: and you know you got to keep Rogers. If you
Speaker 2: play love and he's okay, then you pick up the
Speaker 2: fifth year option. You keep Rogers. You play love and
Speaker 2: he's unbelievable, then you make the decision, do we want
Speaker 2: to trade Aaron Rodgers and turn the paid Jordan Love
Speaker 2: or do we want to trade Jordan Love for help
Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers right now?
Speaker 3: Can you even get these days?
Speaker 2: Well, it's you know, not as much because of the contract.
Speaker 2: You'd be able to get something though, Like for example,
Speaker 2: a team like the Jets that let's say they don't
Speaker 2: get Jimmy Garoppolo or Derek Carr or they don't want
Speaker 2: those guys, and they're like, you know what, we're good
Speaker 2: enough to win right now. The Titans with Mike Vrabel,
Speaker 2: like those are teams that are like, let's with teams
Speaker 2: that think we can win right now if we have
Speaker 2: the right quarterback. The question is is Rogers the right quarterback?
Speaker 2: After one? So this is how Aaron Rodgers last three
Speaker 2: seasons have ended. Two years ago, He's the league MVP.
Speaker 2: They're the one seed. They have a home playoff game.
Speaker 2: They're favored against Tom Brady. They blow it. Last year,
Speaker 2: he's the league MVP. They're the one seed, and that
Speaker 2: was in the conference championship game. They have a home
Speaker 2: playoff game in round two after the bye against the Niners.
Speaker 2: The Niners score zero offensive touchdowns and beat Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Because Rogers was terrible this year, they have a de
Speaker 2: facto home playoff game against a team that's been eliminated,
Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions, and Rogers throws for two hundred yards,
Speaker 2: has a backbreaking pick at the end, and they blow it.
Speaker 2: There's no getting around this. He was outplayed by Jared
Speaker 2: goff demons. What's been the one con consistent point for
Speaker 2: the Lions their consistent weakness all year, start of the
Speaker 2: year to theoretically the end of the defense. Their defense
Speaker 2: the dead last defense in the league. And you score
Speaker 2: sixteen points, can't capitalize in the red zone. Threw two
Speaker 2: picks to the same guy, had one of them called
Speaker 2: back due to a very questionable hands to the face,
Speaker 2: and then you threw a pick to him anyway to
Speaker 2: disastrous end, a disastrous end, and it follows a line
Speaker 2: of these Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs or in de
Speaker 2: facto playoff games in a big spot. It's not a
Speaker 2: good look. Some of the in the mid twenty tens,
Speaker 2: the Aaron Rodgers playoff stuff, A lot of it was
Speaker 2: the defense was awful, okay, But the year they won
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, they're in the NFC Championship game against
Speaker 2: Klee Haney, a backup for the Bears. He has zero touchdowns,
Speaker 2: two picks, and a fifty five rating, but they win.
Speaker 2: The next year, they're fifteen and one defending, and by
Speaker 2: the way, he was awesome in the other three playoff games,
Speaker 2: including the Super Bowl. Even full credit the other three
Speaker 2: playoff games he had nine touchdowns, zero picks, a one
Speaker 2: to twenty five rating. Was unbelievable. The next year he's
Speaker 2: the runaway League MVP. They're fifteen to one. They lose
Speaker 2: a home playoff game to the Giants. He throws two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty yards as a pick as a seventy
Speaker 2: eight rating. The next year, not his fault, the defense
Speaker 2: can't stop San Francisco. The next year, again they play
Speaker 2: San Francisco, but they're at home. By the way, they
Speaker 2: lose the game. The next year, they are in Seattle
Speaker 2: with a chance to go to the Super Bowl, NFC
Speaker 2: Championship game one touchdown, two picks, a fifty five rating.
Speaker 2: They blow a big lead late, Seattle gets an on
Speaker 2: side kick. This is an unbelievable playoff. The next year
Speaker 2: you lose to the Cardinals in the playoffs. That one.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna put on Aaron. He didn't play well
Speaker 2: in that game, but he did have two Hail Marys
Speaker 2: in the same game, but they lose, I think in overtime.
Speaker 2: The next year, you can't stop Atlanta. I'm not putting
Speaker 2: on him. Atlanta scores forty four. Then you missed the
Speaker 2: playoffs for two years. Then you have the game against
Speaker 2: San Francisco two years or three years ago, you only
Speaker 2: score twenty points. Then you have the game against Tampa
Speaker 2: at home, has a favorite, you lose. Then the game
Speaker 2: last year against San Francisco where they score thirteen points.
Speaker 2: You're at home, you're off a bye, and you lose.
Speaker 2: And now this Lions game. It's just not a good
Speaker 2: history for a guy as talented as he is. Two
Speaker 2: small coaching points in this game that I want to
Speaker 2: point out because I'm a coaching nerd. When the Lions
Speaker 2: looked like they were trying to run out the clock.
Speaker 2: They had a run on first and ten to get
Speaker 2: nine yards. It was like three minutes left. Packers had
Speaker 2: their timeouts. The Packers then smartly jumped off sides. So
Speaker 2: if you play Madden, you get this. The assumption is
Speaker 2: we're not gonna stop them from picking up the one yard,
Speaker 2: so let's just give them the first down. That way,
Speaker 2: we don't have to blow it burn a time out
Speaker 2: after they pick up the first down. Teams have been
Speaker 2: starting to do that in the last few seasons. Dan
Speaker 2: Campbell and Detroit were one of the first teams I've
Speaker 2: seen recognize that's what they were doing and decline the penalty.
Speaker 2: Super sharp by the Lions, super sharp. The refs were surprised.
Speaker 2: Tarico and Collinsworth seemingly had never heard of this strategy.
Speaker 2: It was super sharp by the Lions. I give them credit.
Speaker 2: A couple plays later, there is a critical moment and
Speaker 2: I can't leave Treco and Collinsworth screwed it up. It's
Speaker 2: second and seven. The Packers are down to one timeout.
Speaker 2: In fact, no, they're down to no timeouts. There's two
Speaker 2: seventeen left. The Lions run a play, they get two yards.
Speaker 2: There is a holding penalty called on Detroit. This is
Speaker 2: a critical moment because you have no timeouts left because
Speaker 2: of the penalty. The clock is gonna stop if you
Speaker 2: decline the penalty. It's now third and five with two
Speaker 2: point fifteen left. You get a stop there, you're gonna
Speaker 2: get the ball back down either four or seven with
Speaker 2: the full two minutes. They idiotically accepted the penalty. So
Speaker 2: now yes, instead of third and five, it's second and seventeen.
Speaker 2: But the Lions could have can run two plays and
Speaker 2: then you get the ball back with a minut at
Speaker 2: fifteen left. And now the Lions ended up running two plays,
Speaker 2: getting it to fourth and one, and with a minute
Speaker 2: fifteen left, went for it and got it. But that's
Speaker 2: a must decline penalty spot and Drigo and Collins were
Speaker 2: with on the broadcast. We're like, oh, terrible penalty, and
Speaker 2: it stops the clock for green Bay. But stopping the
Speaker 2: clock there isn't helpful if you accept it, because you
Speaker 2: just get the down over again. You understand what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: so it's the it's the key thing is there that
Speaker 2: you can decline the penalty and get an extra time out.
Speaker 2: So at the end of that game, Dan Campbell and
Speaker 2: his coaching staff super sharp on something that could have
Speaker 2: saved the Packers forty seconds, and the Packers really weak
Speaker 2: on something that could have gotten them a free forty seconds.
Speaker 2: Bad job there, bad bad job there? All right.
Speaker 4: Next, so it looks like the Seahawks won the first
Speaker 4: trade ever. We also got a pull up that was
Speaker 4: like a little question.
Speaker 2: Oh, is Rogers done in Green Bay? Seventy? Say yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I I to me, I'm more interested in
Speaker 2: that topic another day.
Speaker 4: If he's gonna get traded, all right, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: The NFC East was up for grabs on Sunday. Doesn't
Speaker 4: seem like Dallas got the memo. Jerry Jones called their
Speaker 4: loss to the Commanders a nightmare, and the limited Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts only scored one touchdown versus the Giants' third stringers
Speaker 4: Dak and Hurts both look like different people, and I
Speaker 4: dare say these teams look like frauds. With the three
Speaker 4: NFC East, of the three NFC East teams even win
Speaker 4: a single playoff game, all right, I.
Speaker 2: Love that angle on a gambling opportunity, a money line parlay.
Speaker 3: For each scene and playing against the Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the way you would do that, because we don't
Speaker 2: know who the Eagles are playing yet, is you do
Speaker 2: a money line parlay on the vikings and bucks okay,
Speaker 2: and whatever you win you would set aside and then
Speaker 2: put that exact amount on whoever the Eagles are playing
Speaker 2: in round in round two, which would probably be Tampa. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I the all right. So the Giants. Actually, of the
Speaker 2: three NFC East teams, the Giants can comported themselves the best.
Speaker 2: This weekend. They were playing all their backups in a
Speaker 2: game they didn't need at all. Philly had to have it.
Speaker 2: And it's a six point game and they're on side
Speaker 2: kicking at the end. It's a hell of a job
Speaker 2: by the Giants. Great job by us. One of our
Speaker 2: eleven script picks was plus fourteen Giants plus fourteen, way
Speaker 2: too many points. It was plus sixteen and a half
Speaker 2: by kickoff once field was playing. If you're Philly, you
Speaker 2: gotta be concerned you're playing your worst football at the
Speaker 2: end of the year. Hurts does not look right, and
Speaker 2: maybe he'll get right in the next two weeks. But
Speaker 2: who knows and whomever you play in round one or
Speaker 2: in round two, pardon me, by definition, will be coming
Speaker 2: off their best moment of their season. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: be playing Seattle because the Niners are gonna annihilate Seattle.
Speaker 2: So in round one you will either be playing the Giants,
Speaker 2: a divisional rival who knows you and just plays you
Speaker 2: tough with their.
Speaker 3: BACKUPSL Jones rubbing his hands right now.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, like you like that meme, the Birdman meme,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys who you've beaten once, they've beaten you once,
Speaker 2: or Tom Brady in the Bucks who knocked you out
Speaker 2: of the playoffs last year. If you're Philly, I know
Speaker 2: Eagles fans hate me and they don't like to hear
Speaker 2: me saying it, but you've been staring one and done
Speaker 2: in the face for weeks and now it feels like
Speaker 2: it's coming closer. Then there's the Cowboys, Demansey, that was
Speaker 2: a mortifying performance. Yeah, and you can't even give them
Speaker 2: the excuse of well, once they saw Philly was all,
Speaker 2: you know, running away with the Giants game, they stopped. No,
Speaker 2: because the Giants were in a better position to beat
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and open up the NFC East for the Dallas
Speaker 2: than Dallas was to beat Washington, who kicked their ass
Speaker 2: for sixty minutes. Worst Dak Prescott game maybe ever another
Speaker 2: pick six by him, Sam bleeping Howell cut up the
Speaker 2: Cowboys pass defense. It was pathetic game. You played all
Speaker 2: your starters, you treated it like it was important, because
Speaker 2: it was. It is the worst possible way to go
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. And it shows such a to me
Speaker 2: emotional immaturity by that football team to not be able
Speaker 2: to like because I the way they played to me,
Speaker 2: it was like, all right, yeah, we know, if we
Speaker 2: win and if the Giants, I'm sorry, and if we
Speaker 2: win and if the Eagles lose, yeah we win the division.
Speaker 2: But the Eagles aren't gonna lose, and so whatever, You've
Speaker 2: got to be able to lock in. And Dak's interception
Speaker 2: problem is bananas. The guy tied for the league league
Speaker 2: in interceptions, he missed the third of the season. So,
Speaker 2: like everybody is making the point I shouldn't say, I
Speaker 2: understand the point of Usually the league leader in interceptions
Speaker 2: are the best quarterbacks, and so right now this year,
Speaker 2: the guys with the most picks, Dak Prescott Davis Mills
Speaker 2: not one of the best quarterbacks. Kirk Cousin's fine, Derek
Speaker 2: Carr not one of the best quarterbacks. But then Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: Matt Ryan got Matt Ryan. Come on, man, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow. Those are the guys on your list,
Speaker 2: right But those guys played fifteen, sixteen, seventeen games. Dak
Speaker 2: played twelve games and had was it fifteen picks? Dallas
Speaker 2: has to be terrified. Here is the silver lining for Dallas.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows Jerry Jones has loved Sean Payton for a
Speaker 2: long time. Given how they played that game. If the
Speaker 2: Bucks beat him, I think they might fire McCarthy and
Speaker 2: give Sean Payton twenty million. And I think if you're
Speaker 2: Sean Payton, you kind of have a quarterback. If you
Speaker 2: go there, you're you're in the NFC.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Sean Payton's meeting with Denver today. We'll talk more about
Speaker 2: that Broncos Chargers game, another one I nailed in the picks,
Speaker 2: even though the Chargers played their starters, which the reason
Speaker 2: I picked Denver was because I thought they wouldn't. But
Speaker 2: the Chargers and the Cowboys had the two most emotionally
Speaker 2: devastating losses this weekend, and Dallas is in real trouble
Speaker 2: going into this playoff game, which against Tampa, Tampa team
Speaker 2: that somehow has more momentum than them.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, so the biggest story this
Speaker 4: week is definitely with Damar Hamlin. Yeah, he's doing very well,
Speaker 4: seems to be recovering. And the Bills added to that
Speaker 4: with the win. Oh they even knocked out the Patriots
Speaker 4: in the process. I don't really think anybody feels comfortable
Speaker 4: playing Buffalo right now, especially you.
Speaker 3: Are the Bills starting to look like a team of destiny.
Speaker 2: All Right, so listen the demark that kickoff return touchdown
Speaker 2: is one of the greatest, most unbelievable sports moments I've
Speaker 2: ever seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's like straight out of a movie.
Speaker 2: Well, so you know Ernie Johnson, he goes inside the
Speaker 2: NBA with Kenny and Chuck and Jack. Ernie's a religious guy,
Speaker 2: and Ernie no, Ernie tweeted, I thought I'd never heard
Speaker 2: it put like this, and I'm obviously not a religious guy,
Speaker 2: but I thought it was a cool concept. Ernie tweeted,
Speaker 2: a god wink in Buffalo, and I ang, what that
Speaker 2: means is he believes occasionally certain things happen and it's
Speaker 2: God like, you know, winking at just saying I'm here.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of put like that. I thought that
Speaker 2: was pretty cool. Yeah, And I don't know if Ernie
Speaker 2: came up with that or if that's just something people
Speaker 2: exactly right, you know what I mean. That's why I
Speaker 2: thought it was so cool. Was it was like a
Speaker 2: but whatever it was, it was a magical moment. With
Speaker 2: that said, and the Bills might be a team of
Speaker 2: destiny and Damar is going to get out of the
Speaker 2: hospital and they might bring him who could he be
Speaker 2: on the sidelines for some of these games?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Uh. With that said, the Bills didn't play great. Josh
Speaker 2: Allen had two unbelievable throws. Those two touchdowns were on
Speaker 2: the money rocket ships. They're unbelievable throws. But if I'm
Speaker 2: the Bills, I'm more than a little concerned about my
Speaker 2: past defense that let Mac Jones for a large part
Speaker 2: of that game. Deal, I'm concerned into that after the
Speaker 2: opening kick return, we then found ourselves down seventeen to
Speaker 2: fourteen to the Patriots. Even though the Patriots couldn't get
Speaker 2: a call to save their lives. And then you had
Speaker 2: another kick return touchdown. Do you know what I mean
Speaker 2: to put yourself in position? It's right, And the Patriots
Speaker 2: were in the game exactly right after that. So there
Speaker 2: are some points of concern. Now if you are Buffalo,
Speaker 2: where you are very happy is that you got as
Speaker 2: close as you could get to a bye in round
Speaker 2: one unless Tua comes back. So the Dolphins without two
Speaker 2: have been a total disaster. Like the Bengals, if Lamar plays,
Speaker 2: have a real game on their hands. The Ravens with
Speaker 2: that defense, if Lamar plays, that's a real game. The
Speaker 2: Jags charges coin flip game, you know. And so the
Speaker 2: and by the way, I think that the Patriots showed
Speaker 2: you that maybe they could fight with Buffalo if they
Speaker 2: would have snuck in the Steelers just because of Tomlin
Speaker 2: and you know what I mean, the defense they now
Speaker 2: they beat the Steelers like thirty eight to three earlier
Speaker 2: this year. So maybe not. But the Dolphins without Tua
Speaker 2: should be a very soft spot. Yeah, I I would
Speaker 2: be nerve from a just football perspective, I would be
Speaker 2: nervous if I'm Buffalo about playing Cincinnati in Round two,
Speaker 2: even though the game would be in Buffalo. From a
Speaker 2: non football perspective, that would be one of the spookiest
Speaker 2: games ever played, right, you know what I mean? The
Speaker 2: same two teams chance to go to the AFC title
Speaker 2: game a month after. Now, maybe a little less spooky
Speaker 2: because looks like everything's gonna be fine with Damar, but
Speaker 2: still odd. Now, that would be an unbelievable sports moment
Speaker 2: as well. If that's when Damar makes his return to
Speaker 2: the not to play, but his return to the team.
Speaker 2: And I think he and that there's a lot that
Speaker 2: could happen.
Speaker 3: A lot riding on that game Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. And then and so Team of Destiny
Speaker 2: is on the board for the Bills, it's also on
Speaker 2: the board. And I don't I feel uncomfortable saying this,
Speaker 2: then maybe you shouldn't say it, but no, so I'll
Speaker 2: just be from a football perspective purely, DeMar was their
Speaker 2: backup safety because they're all pro safety went out with
Speaker 2: an injury early in the year, and he was playing great.
Speaker 2: With DeMar now out, they're now on their third string safety.
Speaker 2: And if you're playing the Bengals in that passing attack,
Speaker 2: that's you know what I mean. That's concerning in and
Speaker 2: of it. So there's a lot of things. If I
Speaker 2: think everyone there's a part of them that are rooting
Speaker 2: for the Bills right now. But and I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: whether they had dominated that football game, it lost that
Speaker 2: football game against the Patriots, or it had been the
Speaker 2: way it was kind of a mixed bag, some good,
Speaker 2: some bad. I think there is a lot of unknown
Speaker 2: to how all of this is going to impact and
Speaker 2: affect them all.
Speaker 4: Right, next, so your Kansas City San Francisco Super Bowl prediction.
Speaker 2: Is very much how's that look in America?
Speaker 3: It's looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: Let's just see right now what my old fifty to
Speaker 2: one ticket right now, what it would be. You can
Speaker 2: keep talking. I'm just gonna look up what a Kansas City,
Speaker 2: San Francisco. Well, let's see. Hold on NFL Super Bowl
Speaker 2: the uh oh wait, hold on conferences is what I want. Oh,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are the favorites in the AFC. The Niners
Speaker 2: are almost a favorite in the NFC. So I got
Speaker 2: Kansas City, San Francisco at fifty to one. Yep, if
Speaker 2: you want to make it right now, it's seven to one.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So that means that means thousand dollars ticket right now
Speaker 2: is worth because if my ticket, if it wins, seventy
Speaker 2: bucks or something like no, no, no, seven no, no no,
Speaker 2: So my right. If you wanted to make fifty grand,
Speaker 2: which is what mine would make on you would have
Speaker 2: to mine thousand dollars tickets worth seven thousand dollars. Okay,
Speaker 2: if I put it up on prop swap or whatever,
Speaker 2: I'd be able to get about seven grand for it.
Speaker 2: Now Am I selling it? Of course not, but it's
Speaker 2: it's looking good. But go ahead.
Speaker 3: In the AFC, the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Are once again the one seed for the third time
Speaker 4: in five years. I know you want to brag about that,
Speaker 4: though the Arrowhead Invitational may need to go on the
Speaker 4: road this year. ANDAs City is literally playing their opponents
Speaker 4: right now, and San Francisco is riding a league leading
Speaker 4: ten game wins winning streak into the playoffs. After watching
Speaker 4: the entire season, as anything changed your mind?
Speaker 2: No, nothing at all, and.
Speaker 3: Spoken like a true stubborn and.
Speaker 2: Can we show you guys what the I mean the Chiefs? Demas,
Speaker 2: did you see you were? What the ring around the
Speaker 2: Rosie play? Were we watching together? I can't remember Saturday
Speaker 2: if we were watching together or not? I mean, they're
Speaker 2: I mean, they're toying with people, and I want to
Speaker 2: see the update on Frank Clark's health. And but the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are in as good a position as you could
Speaker 2: possibly be in and Mahomes but you know what's not
Speaker 2: in today's show, who's the NFL MVP? You know why?
Speaker 2: Because there's no debate. Mahomes should get every single first
Speaker 2: place vote. He should, and that debates over. And are
Speaker 2: the Chiefs gonna miss Tyreek Kill? That debates over. And
Speaker 2: the Chiefs young defense is surging at the end of
Speaker 2: the year and they put it on the Raiders. The Niners,
Speaker 2: on the other hand, are okay, well you play who
Speaker 2: was on your schedule. The Niners, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: are a machine. They haven't lost since they played Kansa
Speaker 2: City when Kansady kicked the crap out of them. And
Speaker 2: on the broadcast yesterday they said they're undefeated with Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: I watched Christian McCaffrey play the Chiefs and loose, so
Speaker 2: that score the first Yeah, exactly, That's how I know
Speaker 2: they're not undefeated with him. But Rock Party is better
Speaker 2: than Jimmy Garoppolo. I'm ready to say it. Rock Purty
Speaker 2: is awesome.
Speaker 3: He's got a nice story too.
Speaker 2: He's unbelievable. Yeah, and so the Niners are terrifying.
Speaker 4: All right, next, all right, since you didn't get to
Speaker 4: use your bonus time last week, we will give you
Speaker 4: a shot to talk about your favorite topic on this slot,
Speaker 4: and that, of course, is the Prince that was promised.
Speaker 3: He won the AFC South.
Speaker 2: Great prediction by another winning bet.
Speaker 4: Yes, Tannehill got injured and the Titans lost seven straight,
Speaker 4: but still regardless, good call. You were definitely a little
Speaker 4: nervous Saturday night. Now it gets a little bit tougher,
Speaker 4: extremely tougher. It's not the Titans.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: He faces another untested playoff quarterback and Justin Herbert regular
Speaker 4: season is over. Who cares about the AMC self? Who
Speaker 4: do you trust to actually win this game?
Speaker 2: Is that a real question? I mean, we're late, so
Speaker 2: I'll go fast.
Speaker 3: I'm the Jacks.
Speaker 2: The Jags are not I said this before, I will
Speaker 2: say it again. I said this two weeks ago. The
Speaker 2: Jags are not losing again until they come to Arrowhead
Speaker 2: in the divisional round and lose to the Chiefs. And
Speaker 2: in fact, for folks watching the pod, little spoiler, don't
Speaker 2: tweet about this, This will be our little secret. Those
Speaker 2: trumpeteers from First Things First, they're back today, bringing them
Speaker 2: back to celebrate the royal pronouncement of another championship. For
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence. I mean all this guy does is play
Speaker 2: football and win titles.
Speaker 3: And stretch you out and lose your money.
Speaker 2: Twenty okay, twenty fourteen Trevor Lawrence, Georgia's six A Regional Champ,
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, Trevor Lawrence, Georgia's six A Regional Champ, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, Oh no, I skip twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen
Speaker 2: Regional Champ, twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen and sixteen or sixteen
Speaker 2: seventeen Regional and State twenty eighteen goes Clemson ACC and
Speaker 2: National Championship twenty nineteen and twenty twenty back to back
Speaker 2: ACC championships twenty twenty one didn't happen. Twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: AFC South Championship. Guy just wins jewelry. So all he
Speaker 2: does wins jewelry and has luxurious hair, and he's about
Speaker 2: to kick the crap out of the Chargers. We will.
Speaker 2: What's the question? AFC South Championship. Yeah, they hang banners
Speaker 2: for that, buddy. I don't know which one of our
Speaker 2: smart ass producers put question works on that, probably which
Speaker 2: everyone's a Washington fan because they got no championship banners
Speaker 2: to hang out of any sort in the last thirty years.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we hang banners. That's what Trevor Lawrence does.
Speaker 2: We will talk about the Chargers, we will talk about
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. We will do oh and the craziest battle
Speaker 2: for the number one pick you've ever seen. All that's next,
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back. In Episode one, fifteen. What's right
Speaker 2: with Nick? Right by the way. I want to try
Speaker 2: something maybe on Thursday's show, maybe next Thursday show, or
Speaker 2: you know what, Yeah, one of the upcoming Thursday shows.
Speaker 2: I want to try something which is instead of a
Speaker 2: traditional rundown for the second segment of the show, I
Speaker 2: want to in the I want to kind of do
Speaker 2: interactive like I read the comments as they come in
Speaker 2: and respond to them. I know we do. We're gonna
Speaker 2: answer your comments at the end, but I've never I
Speaker 2: thought about it, and I was like, I could almost
Speaker 2: treat this like my old radio show where we have
Speaker 2: a text line where people can just comment in and
Speaker 2: we can almost have a free format. Maybe we do
Speaker 2: that Thursday. Maybe we do it afterwards. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: But that's gonna be on there. That's gonna be on
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Speaker 2: then we had our great Jeopardy champion Lloyd, who's a
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Speaker 2: Shout out Lloyd who I'm sure is listening to this. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I like him, and he also used his like is
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Speaker 2: notoriety to promote some good causes. I thought it was cool.
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Speaker 2: to discuss or demonte Go right ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins clinched the seventh seed in disgusting fashion without
Speaker 4: even scoring a touchdown on the Jets. When I asked
Speaker 4: about tour, returning head coach Mike McDaniel wouldn't comment.
Speaker 3: But after his third.
Speaker 4: Concussion, everything going on, you know, like with themar and stuff,
Speaker 4: shouldn't it have just been a no period. It's not
Speaker 4: like Miami's gonna go in there and upset Buffalo for
Speaker 4: being honest. Would it have been better for the Dolphins
Speaker 4: just to lose outright, to avoid these type of questions
Speaker 4: and put this season the rest.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it would have been good for
Speaker 2: them just to lose outright. I So here's the thing
Speaker 2: I left this in there. I saw the third concussion thing,
Speaker 2: and everyone is saying it's a third concussion, which is
Speaker 2: why I left it in there. It should be noted
Speaker 2: the Dolphins and Tua still claimed have a concussion the
Speaker 2: first time. That's a second concussion. That the first time
Speaker 2: in the game against the Bills. I think it was
Speaker 2: when he fell that it was a back injury. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying they're right or wrong, but we talked about
Speaker 2: that before. Now the Dolphins thing was clearly a concussion,
Speaker 2: and obviously the most recent one was a concussion. My
Speaker 2: my question is this, if Tua clears the protocol and
Speaker 2: the doctors say he's gone through all the concussion protocol steps,
Speaker 2: if he wants to play, should he be allowed to?
Speaker 2: And I think it is very important that the that
Speaker 2: players are not allowed to insert themselves back into a
Speaker 2: game or fight to play if they are suspected of
Speaker 2: having a concussion, even before you definitively know it, because
Speaker 2: if they were concussed, they might not be of their
Speaker 2: right mind. True, but if it's been weeks later and
Speaker 2: now all the so let me again, let me be
Speaker 2: I want to be very judicious with my words here.
Speaker 2: Years ago, we didn't know the impacts of CTE long
Speaker 2: term concussions, all of it, and one could argue that
Speaker 2: in people did argue the league was intentionally hiding it
Speaker 2: from its players that was abhorrent. But now the information's
Speaker 2: out there, nobody can say, oh, I didn't know. Everybody knows.
Speaker 2: So the question that I would be asking is should Tua,
Speaker 2: if he's cleared, be allowed to make that decision for himself.
Speaker 2: The doctor comes to him and says, if you suffer
Speaker 2: another concussion in the next weeks, your long term neurological
Speaker 2: function could be significantly hampered and your chances of significant
Speaker 2: terrible outcome are drastically increased. Should he be allowed to
Speaker 2: get that information and say I choose to play. I
Speaker 2: don't think it's as cut and dry as I think
Speaker 2: some media members make it out to be. I think
Speaker 2: if Tua has said, I, do you know how many
Speaker 2: sacrifices I made throughout my entire life to get to
Speaker 2: this point and this is a potential fork in the
Speaker 2: road in my career. The Dolphins might go after Tom
Speaker 2: Brady again, But if I go out there and ball out,
Speaker 2: it's hundreds of millions of dollars my lifelong dream. So
Speaker 2: I don't think it's as simple as Mike McDaniel simply
Speaker 2: saying we're not allowing him to play. Now. If he
Speaker 2: doesn't come out of the protocol, then he can't play.
Speaker 2: But if he does come out of the protocol, should
Speaker 2: he be allowed to make that choice? That's kind of
Speaker 2: what I think. I think that to protect him from yourself.
Speaker 3: So it's only when in the immediate moments.
Speaker 2: After the correct when you don't know if there are
Speaker 2: the now. I also do think that the protocol is
Speaker 2: good where it shouldn't be the he's a grown man
Speaker 2: element of it shouldn't apply to you're still in concussion protocol.
Speaker 2: I want to play anyway, No, but if you clear it,
Speaker 2: I should he be able to make that choice? I
Speaker 2: think he should. Like Now again, I've got to walk
Speaker 2: a very careful type rope here man loves to play football. Well,
Speaker 2: let me ask you this, what if this offseason Damar
Speaker 2: Hamlin is clear, should he be able to make that
Speaker 2: choice on his own? I say absolutely, I should he
Speaker 2: be able to flatly say I've talked with the doctors.
Speaker 2: They've said what happened to me was, I think it's,
Speaker 2: you know, like getting struck by lightning. I'm making the
Speaker 2: choice another question. If the doctors clear him, but tell
Speaker 2: him because this happened, it is more likely to happen
Speaker 2: to you again. But it is still the odds are
Speaker 2: whatever astronomical enough to with the doctors clear him. I
Speaker 2: think everyone would argue he should be able to make
Speaker 2: that choice. So I don't think it is as cut
Speaker 2: and dry as some people make it out to me.
Speaker 2: And I want to make one other point. Mitch Morris
Speaker 2: is the center for the Buffalo Bills. Right a month
Speaker 2: ago he got his sixth career concussion. He's already back
Speaker 2: playing now. I have read certain things that say concussion
Speaker 2: that are suffered from in back to the front of
Speaker 2: your brain are different than the I don't want to
Speaker 2: say his aren't as bad, bird different than the ones
Speaker 2: that you get like tua gut from the back of
Speaker 2: your head. And I'm not a doctor, so maybe these
Speaker 2: are not an apples apples comparison. But I think it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a nuanced conversation, all right, now a
Speaker 2: much more fun conversation. Go ahead, demantsei, all right.
Speaker 4: For some strange reason, the Texans had a comeback drive
Speaker 4: to beat the Colts.
Speaker 3: You tweeted that the Texans should have kneeled on their
Speaker 3: two point attempt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe Texans ownership agreed with you, because Lovey was
Speaker 4: fired Sunday night. Was winning the game a more fireable
Speaker 4: offense than losing it would have been. Okay, this is
Speaker 4: the second black coach to get fired for winning games
Speaker 4: in like the last year that I've heard of.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about that just for a second.
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, there was one black coach hired, Steve Wilkes.
Speaker 2: You lasted one year and they fired him. The next
Speaker 2: black head coach hired was Brian Flores. Lasted three years
Speaker 2: and was fired ostensibly for not participating in tampering and
Speaker 2: for winning too many games, and he filed a lawsuit.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: You then had David Cully hired by the Houston Texans,
Speaker 2: fired after one year, then had Lovey Smith hired by
Speaker 2: the Houston Texans, fired after one year. Todd Bowles was
Speaker 2: also hired this year, and we'll you know, he's not
Speaker 2: going to get fired this season. It is a bad,
Speaker 2: bad suit. And you know what I shooting Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: I think his dad's black to the coach of the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I think people don't know people didn't know he was black.
Speaker 3: But you can see he's a little season and so okay.
Speaker 2: And so it's a really terrible look for the league
Speaker 2: and for the Texans to hire these guys that no
Speaker 2: one else was looking at. The hire just to fire
Speaker 2: him after a year is mortified.
Speaker 4: Right, And then you're losing all these games, and then
Speaker 4: you fire him after a win.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So the timing of it is also just like, so,
Speaker 4: I get you don't want to win because.
Speaker 2: You no, no, they didn't fire. I think they were
Speaker 2: firing and win or lose. He met with ownership the
Speaker 2: day before the game to try to make the case
Speaker 2: that he should keep his job. You have no good players,
Speaker 2: like the Texans are trying to be bad to try
Speaker 2: to dig them to get the number one pick, and
Speaker 2: they so now, so listen, there is what's going on.
Speaker 2: Black coaches in the league's bad, bad, bad situation. There's
Speaker 2: no question about it. Now to the number one pick thing,
Speaker 2: it is categorically insane that they did not kneel that
Speaker 2: two point conversion. I understand the idea of wanting to
Speaker 2: play hard in the season on a high note, see
Speaker 2: what guys can do. All that's fine. They had an
Speaker 2: opportunity to thread the perfect needle, play hard for fifty
Speaker 2: nine minutes, show you could have won, and then hold
Speaker 2: on to the most important asset that you can have
Speaker 2: when it comes to acquiring players, the number one pick.
Speaker 2: Right now, they have the number two pick and the
Speaker 2: number twelve pick. If they want the number one pick,
Speaker 2: they would probably get it if they traded the Bears
Speaker 2: the number two pick and the number twelve pick Bears,
Speaker 2: because the Bears don't want a quarterback anyway, Bears moved
Speaker 2: down one spot pick up the twelfth pick. You could
Speaker 2: have just had it right by kneeling the two point conversion.
Speaker 2: And again, that is it. And I know people thought
Speaker 2: I was crazy when I said it. If I told
Speaker 2: you your team or any team had the opportunity to
Speaker 2: acquire an incredibly valuable resource to team building and they
Speaker 2: directly chose not to, you would say, well, that's ridiculous,
Speaker 2: But that's what they did for what? So the players
Speaker 2: can go into the offseason feeling better. No, when you
Speaker 2: fire your coach, most of the players are gone anyway,
Speaker 2: so the coach can build something. No, he's fired. So
Speaker 2: the quarterback. No, you're gonna draft a quarterback now? Would
Speaker 2: they get in trouble with the league. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe we're not gonna strip them with the pick. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't have that in front of you, the opportunity.
Speaker 2: And this is even about me being so convinced Bryce
Speaker 2: Young's better than c. J. Stroud. It's not that. It's
Speaker 2: that even if you weren't gonna use the number one pick,
Speaker 2: even if you wanted to trade the number one pick,
Speaker 2: it was right there and it wasn't going to undermine
Speaker 2: the integrity of the whole sport.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that, what go ahead. These
Speaker 4: guys like value the integrity of this.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I think that if you threw
Speaker 2: the game, that would undermine the integrity of it. There
Speaker 2: are a lot, but like from start to finish, you
Speaker 2: played as hard as you could, You came out great,
Speaker 2: you gave up the lead, you converted two fourth and longs,
Speaker 2: including a touchdown fourth and twenty. You can lay down
Speaker 2: your sword. Then at the end we could have won
Speaker 2: the game. It was all it was possible for us
Speaker 2: to win. But we have. We're trying to become a
Speaker 2: good franchise again. The number one pick's valuable. Instead, the
Speaker 2: Bears start two to one and when once the rest
Speaker 2: of the way and get the number one pick. Now,
Speaker 2: there are so many interests, we'll go ahead and ask
Speaker 2: your follow up.
Speaker 4: Uh, I think thanks to former Bears coach former Bears
Speaker 4: and now former Texans head coach Love Smith, Chicago now
Speaker 4: is the first pick and a franchise quarterback? Or do
Speaker 4: they should the Bears trade the number one pick or
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, or pick Bryce Young in trade fields?
Speaker 2: Well let me give you another option.
Speaker 3: Oh here it is.
Speaker 2: Justin fields for Lamar. Who says no. So the Ravens
Speaker 2: are in oriards. Maybe, but I think Lamar wants to
Speaker 2: guaranteed money and they've got the most caps play, saying
Speaker 2: tema the league. Via the number one pick, you can
Speaker 2: get a bunch of assets, multiple first round picks, players,
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff. The Ravens clearly don't want to
Speaker 2: pay Lamar, but they have a particular type of offense.
Speaker 2: It's not like they could trade Lamar for draft picks
Speaker 2: and be like, we're signing Derek Carr. Their offense necessitates,
Speaker 2: which is why all their backup quarterbacks are just worse
Speaker 2: and worse versions of Lamar. Just go from Lamar to
Speaker 2: Tyler Hunley to Anthony Brown. It's just super athletic, mobile
Speaker 2: guys and their throwing ability just gets worse as you
Speaker 2: go down to depth chart. I mean that's what the
Speaker 2: So the Bears thing is fascinating because you have to
Speaker 2: either trade justin fields or the number one pick. It
Speaker 2: would be franchise malpractice in a draft where there's multiple
Speaker 2: quarterbacks that people want to keep the number one pick
Speaker 2: and draft Will Anderson from Alabama the defensive end. You've
Speaker 2: got to you gotta flip it. Somebody threw this out
Speaker 2: there on Twitter. I think it's interesting. They trade the
Speaker 2: number one pick to Houston for two and twelve. They
Speaker 2: then trade the number two pick to Seattle for five
Speaker 2: and twenty, so you then see Houston gets their quarterback,
Speaker 2: Seattle gets their quarterback. You then have the fifth, twelfth,
Speaker 2: and twentieth picks of this year's draft. Probably could trade
Speaker 2: one of those like the twelfth for future first the
Speaker 2: Bears can retool everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And by the way, on this pod, I want to
Speaker 2: shout out because one of the and Lorie, our social
Speaker 2: media manager, told me someone in the comments last week
Speaker 2: suggested the fields for Lamar thing. I didn't see that
Speaker 2: until I had tweeted about it. I don't see the
Speaker 2: comments during the show, but whomever that is, I don't
Speaker 2: want you to think I'm stealing your takes. But somebody
Speaker 2: else asked in the Last Time Last Pod what pods
Speaker 2: I listen to first and pod it's they have it
Speaker 2: all screwed up? And how you have to search for it.
Speaker 2: The only way you can find it is if you
Speaker 2: type in first with the number one st and then
Speaker 2: for and use the amper signs, ampersand sign Well. It's
Speaker 2: hosted by Danny and Philippony and Danny Parkins and Andrew Philipponi.
Speaker 2: They do a great job on it, but Danny does
Speaker 2: radio on the Score in Chicago, and so they've got
Speaker 2: content all summer. Unbelievable. All right, we've got a game
Speaker 2: to play. We are as late as we've ever been.
Speaker 2: My apologies.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, all right, man, So as you can see
Speaker 4: with the wig, we were playing Public Defender today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is getting a little long, so it is
Speaker 2: a little tough.
Speaker 3: So something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, some coaches are gonna get bad news today, maybe
Speaker 4: even while we're on the air, So plead their cases.
Speaker 4: Let's bring in Nick right, Public Defenders first off, First case,
Speaker 4: we got here is Brandon Staley charges head coach. Brandon
Speaker 4: Staley left his starters in a game that meant nothing
Speaker 4: and still managed to lose to US and the Broncos.
Speaker 4: Even after Mike Williams got hurt, Justin Herbert was still
Speaker 4: in the game. Staley lost one of his last supporters,
Speaker 4: Nick Right, I think we're gonna show the tweet.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wrote, Staley might have lost me a supporter
Speaker 2: after this. What are you doing? You've been riddled with
Speaker 2: injuries all year. You're locked in the five seed Shore
Speaker 2: to treat this game like a bye, so foolish, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Good thing.
Speaker 4: He has one supporter who will never leave this side
Speaker 4: because he can't Nicholas Wright esquire counselor defend your client,
Speaker 4: Brandon Staley.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to
Speaker 2: consider the full circumstances of the situation. Mike client, Brandon Staley.
Speaker 2: Have you seen how he treats the preseason in the league,
Speaker 2: doesn't play any of his relevant players one snap throughout
Speaker 2: this year. He saw this Chargers team riddled with injuries
Speaker 2: in a way almost no team in the league, certainly
Speaker 2: no team to make the playoffs. Dealt with. He has
Speaker 2: key guys who have long injury histories. Furthermore, after the
Speaker 2: one o'clock games with Baltimore losing, my client knew his
Speaker 2: team was locked into the five seed. Could not improve
Speaker 2: the seed, could not hurt the seed. The only bad
Speaker 2: outcome would be players getting hurt. The worst possible outcome
Speaker 2: would be players getting hurt. And you lose some positive
Speaker 2: momentum by actually trying in the game and losing to
Speaker 2: the terrible Broncos. Yet all of that happened, to which
Speaker 2: I say, is there any possible explanation other than temporary insanity?
Speaker 2: Is the actions of a sane man? Is this the
Speaker 2: actions of a man who rises to the top of
Speaker 2: his profession, who clearly understands win, probability and some of
Speaker 2: the advanced, more nuanced parts of the sport if he
Speaker 2: had his full faculties about him. It is not.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: When something is inexplicable, sometimes it is because it cannot
Speaker 2: be explained because either the supernatural is involved or someone
Speaker 2: has is having an out of body experience. And Brandon Staley,
Speaker 2: who some of the sharpest football minds in America, Folks
Speaker 2: that are sharp enough to be able to go eleven
Speaker 2: to three, picking against the spread in the final week
Speaker 2: of the season, sharp enough to see the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 2: in the playoffs and the Tampa Bay Bucks season under
Speaker 2: and all those things. Those people have always said, my
Speaker 2: client's brilliant, and yet he does this. So I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was possession of a football demon or
Speaker 2: simply old school temporary insanity, but that was not my
Speaker 2: client out there making those ridiculous, disastrous, season changing decisions.
Speaker 2: He never would he never has.
Speaker 3: I rest my kicks, Jorge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if you guys couldn't tell, I can't
Speaker 2: defend that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was terrible. That was terrible, especially I mean
Speaker 3: just being the Chargers.
Speaker 4: I mean I think any other team could have done
Speaker 4: that type of thing, like anything.
Speaker 2: But particularly them, particularly them terrible. Next next up, we
Speaker 2: got Bill Belichick. So he says that he's coming back
Speaker 2: next year, but should he. Patriots had one of the
Speaker 2: worst offenses in the league this year. We haven't won
Speaker 2: a playoff game since Tom Brady left. Bill Belichick was
Speaker 2: so scared after two kick returns for a touchdown that
Speaker 2: he called for a kick out of bounds. His coaching
Speaker 2: staff is full of his family and his yes men
Speaker 2: counselor defend your client, the coward, Bill Belichick. I mean,
Speaker 2: do you think you could win more games with Mac Jones?
Speaker 2: I like to see you try. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: just Oh, you're gonna say my special teams is the problem.
Speaker 2: Were you saying that when the special teams won us
Speaker 2: the Jets game, when we had three points because Mac Jones,
Speaker 2: our quarterback and a punt return once the game, you're saying, oh,
Speaker 2: my sons, my sons on the defensive side of the staff,
Speaker 2: That defense that in this game, with all that emotion
Speaker 2: from Buffalo, held them to twenty one offensive points, That
Speaker 2: defense that has scored a half dozen touchdowns on their own,
Speaker 2: that defense that won them the uh the game last
Speaker 2: week against the Miami Dolphins with a pick six. Guys,
Speaker 2: the villain here is not me and my six Super
Speaker 2: Bowl rings. The villain here is my quarterback, my client's quarterback.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, my quarterback who what was our lowest point
Speaker 2: of the season, the double lateral? Well, my quarterback was
Speaker 2: fault for that twice once because he has such a
Speaker 2: noodle arm. I couldn't throw my client couldn't call a
Speaker 2: hil Mary and the other is because for a guy
Speaker 2: who seems to love cheap shotting and tripping and going
Speaker 2: after guys knees just got mushed faced by Chandler Jones
Speaker 2: to the core of the earth. So how are you
Speaker 2: blaming me, uh rather than my quarterback? Do you have
Speaker 2: a follow up question, counselor Uh? I think you do? Oh,
Speaker 2: your honor, we.
Speaker 4: Should I think next time we should do public defender
Speaker 4: defend mac Jones. But uh, yeah, so did your client
Speaker 4: draft mac Jones in round one last year?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: That's was on the recommendation of Nick Sabanza one second,
Speaker 2: one second ar here. If it pleases the court, allow
Speaker 2: me to answer the first question. Uh, my client was
Speaker 2: led astray by alleged good friend Nick Saban, mac Jones's
Speaker 2: coach at University of Alabama, and I would like to
Speaker 2: present it in the court that my client has not
Speaker 2: spoken with Nick Saban since that incitant. In fact, the
Speaker 2: relationships ruined because this was obviously bamboozled him.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: So there's all mac Jones not on me, Bill Belichick,
Speaker 2: I won six Super Bowls. Mac Jones stinks.
Speaker 4: Bailey's appy on here though, man out there, and you
Speaker 4: took him out.
Speaker 2: You know there might have been a little ownership medaling there,
Speaker 2: but my client doesn't want to blame others.
Speaker 3: Next clame insanity.
Speaker 4: All right, Only the saw goodment of the sports world
Speaker 4: could possibly defend Jeff Saturday. He lost seventh straight after
Speaker 4: his debut victory and blew the largest lead in NFL
Speaker 4: history and managed to win a game or lose a
Speaker 4: game that he was trying to win that he should
Speaker 4: have been trying to lose. Counselor to defend your client,
Speaker 4: Jeff Saturday.
Speaker 2: I mean, did my client fail or did he succeed
Speaker 2: in ways you couldn't imagine? What was What do you
Speaker 2: think when Jim Rsay hired my client fresh off America's
Speaker 2: ninth favorite sports television show?
Speaker 3: What was the job to make history?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: You think so? Do you think it was to win
Speaker 2: football games? Or do you think it was to take
Speaker 2: a three.
Speaker 3: What was it? Three break?
Speaker 2: No? I'm sorry. When my client was hired, his team
Speaker 2: was three, five and one, and my client had one job,
Speaker 2: make sure we have a top five pick, and you
Speaker 2: wake up this morning and we have the fourth pick
Speaker 2: of the draft. And we managed that despite the fact
Speaker 2: that my client was up against impossible odds of playing
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels and the Raiders in the first game, and
Speaker 2: while they were supposed to lose that game, they couldn't.
Speaker 2: My client is so good losing. He managed to lose
Speaker 2: to a team that was playing for the number one pick.
Speaker 2: My client, what more? You do you think my client
Speaker 2: failed or was the only person in the world who
Speaker 2: could have found ways to have a lead against Philadelphia
Speaker 2: in the final minute and then lose it to let
Speaker 2: the Steelers score twenty four. You think it's a coincidence
Speaker 2: that my client's teams were, you know, in all these
Speaker 2: games through three quarters and then amazingly, in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter they were outscored. Let me go ahead and check
Speaker 2: that they were in the fourth quarter this year, going
Speaker 2: into the final week this season outscored in ninety seven
Speaker 2: to nine. My client who was down a field goal
Speaker 2: against the Cowboys and then the Cowboys scored thirty three
Speaker 2: fourth quarter points. My client that was up thirty three
Speaker 2: on the Vikings and then lost that game. Outright, You
Speaker 2: my client that found a way to not only improve
Speaker 2: our draft position in the final week of the year,
Speaker 2: but cost our divisional rival, the Texans the number one pick.
Speaker 2: You think he was trying to win these games, or
Speaker 2: you think he did exactly what he was told to. Uh,
Speaker 2: sorry that we're playing five D chests over here and
Speaker 2: you guys are playing checkers. My client was hired to lose,
Speaker 2: hired to cost the Texas the number one pick. Check check.
Speaker 2: I think you might be coach of the year. I
Speaker 2: rest my case. You're honor tampering, tampering with what what
Speaker 2: do you mean, tampering.
Speaker 3: The integrity of the sport, trying to lose game?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, that's not my client's job. My
Speaker 2: client was hired by Jim irsay Jemmersey can answer Roger Goodell,
Speaker 2: not my client. He's got a segment on Get up
Speaker 2: to Do and he should be available for that here
Speaker 2: very shortly. All right, take quick break, come back, answer
Speaker 2: your questions. What's right? All right? Welcome back. In episode
Speaker 2: one fifteen, we'll try a little breaking news, and I
Speaker 2: think good news. Kevin Durant has an MCL spring, So
Speaker 2: it's good news because it's not an ACL and it's
Speaker 2: not a tear. So he's gonna be reevaluated in two weeks.
Speaker 2: And Wode says there's optimism he's gonna miss less time
Speaker 2: than the six weeks he missed when he got hurt
Speaker 2: last year. So it's obviously Nets are rolling. They're eighteen
Speaker 2: and two. Durant's playing like an MVP, but that looked
Speaker 2: like it could be season ending. And the fact that
Speaker 2: it's Shu, you know, say he misses a month, they
Speaker 2: should be able to survive that. By the way, the
Speaker 2: Thursday night, if you're available Nets Celtics, Yeah, Bartha saw, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I had. I had those, all four of those tickets
Speaker 2: spoken for, but then I kind of barked at demons
Speaker 2: irrationally last night, so now I'm giving them a ticket.
Speaker 2: I didn't know how mad you were going to be
Speaker 2: at me this morning, but you've handled this show quite well.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're just being a professional. But then I was
Speaker 2: gonna make it up to you with a ticket so
Speaker 2: you could see your beloved Celtics, So I figured we're good.
Speaker 2: My apologies for yesterday I was tired and arguing and whatever.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go on to reading the listener comments.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all.
Speaker 4: Right, dan As, who is winning the Natty tonight Georgia by.
Speaker 2: More than thirteen?
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm betting on that game.
Speaker 2: Actually, what are you betting on?
Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, listen, TCUs that an unbelievable season. Georgia probably
Speaker 2: has twenty five NFL players on the roster. TCU might
Speaker 2: have five. I understand underestimating TCU has been a money
Speaker 2: costing thing, but I think if someone was gonna get Georgia,
Speaker 2: it should have been Ohio State. Last week they didn't
Speaker 2: get them. I think Georgia rolls. I'm also listen, I
Speaker 2: bet this the moment the line came out at minus thirteen,
Speaker 2: thinking would be minus fourteen and a half by kickoff,
Speaker 2: and I could middle it take TCU plus fourteen and
Speaker 2: a half and try to land exactly on fourteen and
Speaker 2: when both it is stayed at thirteen consistently. That surprised me.
Speaker 2: But I like Georgia a lot.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna have to watch this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to see how twenty NFL future players
Speaker 4: play against five.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean it'll the you the talent discrepancy
Speaker 2: in this game. And to use TU has had an
Speaker 2: amazing season and their quarterback is an amazing story. Every
Speaker 2: single player that Georgia will feature except for their quarterback. Literally,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say every of these guys will play in
Speaker 2: the league of their key contributors except for their quarterback,
Speaker 2: who's five foot eleven and has no business playing as
Speaker 2: well as he's played the last two years, and he's
Speaker 2: about to be a back to back national champion. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: So TCU clearly as the better quarterback. Georgia has literally
Speaker 2: the better everything else, and I think they're going to
Speaker 2: roll them next Interesting.
Speaker 4: All right, Marcus Trevino said, you have often floated the
Speaker 4: idea of allowing playoff teams to draft their opponents. How
Speaker 4: do you think the bracket would look like if that
Speaker 4: were to happen.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: So, I think in the AFC, the Bills would be
Speaker 2: picking the Dolphins, There's no question about it. I think
Speaker 2: the Bengals. The Bengals might pick the Chargers over the
Speaker 2: Ravens until, like I angry that it would be tricky.
Speaker 2: I think you'd rather play the Chargers right now than
Speaker 2: the Ravens if Lamar is coming back. If Lamar is
Speaker 2: not coming back, obviously you'd rather play, uh the way
Speaker 2: I said that wrong? But if with that, if Lamar
Speaker 2: is not coming you'd want to play the Ravens. But
Speaker 2: if he is, so maybe I didn't say it wrong.
Speaker 2: In the NFC, the Niners would one hundred draft Seattle
Speaker 2: Minnesota would be drafting the Giants. So in this scenario,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't change much at all. Actually there are certain
Speaker 2: ye like but let's say the Packers had won last night.
Speaker 2: The Niners might then pick the Giants, you know, as
Speaker 2: oppose a red hot Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers. But
Speaker 2: because of how it fell, I think it's fine all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Singleton ask how many coaching coaching changes do you
Speaker 4: expect to see this offseason?
Speaker 2: I mean at least half a dozen. I don't want
Speaker 2: to go through all of them right now, though we
Speaker 2: we'll hear more about that, but I don't. I'd have
Speaker 2: to go through the whole thing. And the Cowboys might
Speaker 2: fire McCarthy if they lose to the box.
Speaker 4: Next, uh, Sam I am said, Yo, Demonse, when we
Speaker 4: get that stream back up, you owe me a game?
Speaker 3: What is he?
Speaker 2: When are you doing it?
Speaker 4: I'll actually do it. I'll do it tonight. I've been
Speaker 4: I've been really improving at.
Speaker 2: Madd DeMont had an unbelievable thing I've never seen happen.
Speaker 2: Demand was playing a guy and then the game paused
Speaker 2: and the game sent him a message, Oh yeah, saying
Speaker 2: saying you're better than we thought or something ye like
Speaker 2: we've we've misaligned your opponents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, No, that that films.
Speaker 2: I've never seen that happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was beating one dude like thirty
Speaker 4: three to six, and then the next game after they
Speaker 4: sent me the message, I beat a guy forty nine
Speaker 4: to nine.
Speaker 2: So hey, guys, can't beat me, but he's getting back.
Speaker 2: Or at Madden, how you beat me the one time?
Speaker 2: It's fair? We do random team sometimes. Demande also has
Speaker 2: gotten smart. He's rolling with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Rolling with it.
Speaker 2: He's a big difference playing that game when you have
Speaker 2: a quarterback who can throw versus one who can't. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll see you guys on Thursday. Fun TV show playing
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