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Speaker 1: Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right

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Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this

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Speaker 1: week on the show Enjoy.

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Speaker 2: All Right. So Bijon rolled through the rams last night.

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Speaker 2: In the upset Stafford messed himself up a little bit,

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Speaker 2: dropped number two in MVP. He's at plus three hundred.

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Speaker 2: Drake May's now at minus four point fifty after his

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Speaker 2: three interceptions. How do you think last night impacts the

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Speaker 1: So I think last night Drake May won the MVP

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Speaker 1: and I do not like that at all. And it

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Speaker 1: is not because I don't like Drake May. I said

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Speaker 1: on this show and on the TV show two months

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Speaker 1: ago that there aren't five guys in the league. I'd

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Speaker 1: rather have it quarterback than Drake May. And that's not

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Speaker 1: just moving forward. That is right now this moment, I

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Speaker 1: think he is. I've been telling Wilds all year, how legit,

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Speaker 1: how much I do believe in Drake May, and he

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Speaker 1: is having an unbelievable season. And it is not as

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Speaker 1: if him winning MVP I would find it to be

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Speaker 1: a travesty or an outrage. That's not my issue at all.

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Speaker 1: My issue is MVP has slowly started to turn into

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Speaker 1: December Player of the Month amongst the MVP candidates, and

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Speaker 1: I don't like that. We saw this there have been listen.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen, MVP Mahomes was a no brainer. He ran

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Speaker 1: away with it. Twenty nineteen, MVP Lamar was a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: He ran away with it. Twenty twenty it was a

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Speaker 1: two man race, Rogers and Mahomes. I thought it should

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Speaker 1: have been Mahomes Rogers. There was no issue with that.

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Speaker 1: That was a two great candidates. You know, Mahomes rested

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Rogers won it fine.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one, Rogers and Brady, it was a legitimate argument.

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Speaker 1: Rogers won, and twenty twenty two, Mahomes ran away with it.

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Speaker 1: There was no question those MVPs were relatively easy. Twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three was the first year I saw this phenomenon happen,

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Speaker 1: which was there wasn't a clear cut favorite throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: And then in December two MVP there were games amongst

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Speaker 1: the MVP candidates, Dak Purty and Lamar. And if I

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Speaker 1: have it correct, and I'm gonna double check to make sure,

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Speaker 1: Dak Law I thought, Dak you know, as far I

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Speaker 1: thought Christian McCaffrey had the best argument for MVP that year,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't really matter, Like, that's not the point.

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Speaker 1: Dak played poorly in a December game to Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: people were like, well, he's out now it's between Lamar

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Speaker 1: the Niners in Purty and it was just like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: Party's out now it's Lamar's MVP. That's that. And we

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Speaker 1: ended up that year giving MVP to a guy. And

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Speaker 1: again this is not anti Lamar I because if we

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Speaker 1: didn't get Lamar had a better case last year than

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Speaker 1: he did the year before. But Lamar in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three was fifteenth in the NFL in passing yards and

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Speaker 1: eleventh in the NFL in passing touchdowns, and while he

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Speaker 1: had an awesome passer rating, it was fourth in the league.

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Speaker 1: What he did not have MVP numbers, but he had

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Speaker 1: the MVP December and so he won it. And then

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Speaker 1: last year, Lamar had been the MVP really all year long,

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Speaker 1: but Josh Allen had the moment against the Chiefs, the

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Speaker 1: sixth touchdown game and a loss to the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: he had the finishing surge and because of that he

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Speaker 1: was the MVP. And this year, from start to finish,

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford's been the MVP of the league. If we

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Speaker 1: look at if you take this season, demonte and put

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Speaker 1: the sixteen games each guy is played, and you reorder

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Speaker 1: them randomly, and you do that one hundred different times

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Speaker 1: of the games, and then stack up the MVP seasons.

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Speaker 1: I think Stafford wins MVP eighty five out of one

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Speaker 1: hundred of those reordered seasons. But because Week seventeen Drake

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Speaker 1: May throws five touchdowns and Week seventeen Stafford has one

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Speaker 1: of his two bad games that he's had all year,

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Speaker 1: it's now going to be betting wise, it's over and

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Speaker 1: conventional wisdom wise, Drake May won the award even though

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Speaker 1: Stafford has thrown for more yards, has thrown for twelve

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Speaker 1: more touchdowns, has taken twenty five fewer sacks, They have

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Speaker 1: the same number of interceptions. Now Drake Man's a slightly

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Speaker 2: One more game too.

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Speaker 1: No, they played the same number of games.

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Speaker 2: No, And I'm saying, okay, yeah, fair enough, what do

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Speaker 2: It's not locked up, But going into the tea yesterday

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Speaker 2: I would have easily given it to Stafford the Pigs.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean they both have a they both they

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Speaker 1: both have a Week eighteen game. By the way, do

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Speaker 1: my lights just get really weird?

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Speaker 1: That was really weird. I looked like I was glowing

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Speaker 1: look for me. I need very just regular warm lighting. No,

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Speaker 1: I I just don't. It feels to me like MVP

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Speaker 1: the year, and I don't love that. And I just

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Speaker 1: it comes to league MVP, it's totally fair to pick nints.

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Speaker 1: I think the fact that Stafford has done it in

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Speaker 1: the league's toughest division against a brutal schedule where they

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Speaker 1: listing the teams they have played that have locked into

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Speaker 2: And Drake Majors had his five touchdown game against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: And again he's still he was. I'm not gonna neck

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Speaker 1: that game. He was perfect in it, and I think

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Speaker 1: It feels to me this is I guess my general take.

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Speaker 1: It feels the last three years. This is the way

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Speaker 1: the MVP has been done. The first three months of

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Speaker 1: the year are to determine who the actual candidates are

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Speaker 1: and then the award is given based off who has

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Speaker 1: the best December. And I don't love that, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like we are And by the way, Stafford Thursday

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Speaker 1: night against Seattle, Stafford was unbelievable. That was his second

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Speaker 1: most recent game. They scored thirty seven points, He threw

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. We're just gonna the.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a camera now drop too in a row, yes.

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Speaker 1: But uh, I know they dropped two in a row,

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Speaker 1: Player of the month. So that's where so right now,

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Speaker 1: my vote would be for Matt Stafford. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Maybe because if they win that game and they are

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Speaker 1: for the one seed rather than being locked out of it,

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Speaker 1: but in a win, he is going to win MVP

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Speaker 1: if the Niners beat Seattle, the Rams are locked into

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Speaker 1: but look at how he wins that They too a

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Speaker 1: We can get that level of production from mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: He has played half the games. The story of this

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Speaker 2: Do you think that Shanahan should win Coach of the

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Speaker 2: The Niners, they're playing for the one seed on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm fine with the winning you're in game

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Speaker 1: I told you so, guys. But let's stay here for

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Speaker 1: The I don't think the Niners defense should be good

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Speaker 2: After it Bears. After Atlanta defeated the Seat after no no, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Listen. I think there's been a great year for Chicago

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Speaker 2: Go all right? Riding with your riding with your boy.

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Speaker 2: First game, you got Tampa Bay minus two and a

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Baker, just can't go out like this. They just

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Speaker 1: Just you just can't. I didn't bet against them last week.

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Speaker 2: Next, Miami plus twelve at New England Heavy.

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Speaker 1: and a half points, So I'll take Pittsburgh plus three

430
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: and a half. We know all the Tomlin getting Tomlin

431
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: getting points at home divisional games. I mean, I don't

432
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: know if he's ever lost. So my five picks this

433
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,719
Speaker 1: week are Tampa minus two and a half against Carolina,

434
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: Seattle minus won against the Niners, the Raiders getting five

435
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: and a half against Kansas City, Miami getting twelve in

436
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Speaker 1: New England, Pittsburgh getting three and a half at home

437
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Speaker 1: against Baltimore,