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Speaker 2: Welcome in Watch Drive with Me Great Episode two ninety one.
Speaker 2: We are here. It is the Wildcard Preview edition. The
Speaker 2: regular season has ended. The gambling portion of the regular
Speaker 2: season has ended. We we'll get to it later. Didn't
Speaker 2: love how Week eighteen went, But after breaking our on
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Speaker 2: Our quest, our dream of an undefeated postseason begins anew
Speaker 2: today where we will pick all six games. So we
Speaker 2: will do that shortly. First, however, what missed the cut
Speaker 2: one of on paper the best NBA games ever? Two
Speaker 2: teams that both had thirty wins and both had five
Speaker 2: or fewer losses that I don't know has. I think
Speaker 2: it's happened once prior in NBA history. That took place
Speaker 2: last night. As Cleveland got the victory, ending okay SE's
Speaker 2: winning streak, Travis Kelcey says, I ain't scared of nobody.
Speaker 2: I'll play the Bengals in a Walmart parking lot. Cam
Speaker 2: Taylor Britt then says that's cap I mean, okay, buddy,
Speaker 2: I mean the Cincinnati Bengals. At some point, you gotta
Speaker 2: stop talking. You just got to stop talking. People wondering
Speaker 2: did the Chiefs lose intentionally in Week eighteen to avoid Cincinnati?
Speaker 2: Did the Bengals lose intentionally eight times over the course
Speaker 2: of the season to avoid the Chiefs? That's the question
Speaker 2: I have. And then Micah Parsons says next year will
Speaker 2: be the year for the Dallas Cowboys. Demonse is here, demonse,
Speaker 2: how are you looking good?
Speaker 3: Good? Pretty good? Thank you sir. Good to see you
Speaker 3: this morning.
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Speaker 2: sure if people out east have the full scope of it.
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Speaker 2: also super important, your homes are okay. And I know
Speaker 2: that's not the case for everybody. But let's get right
Speaker 2: to it. Demanse talk a little Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, Lamar credited his past playoff playoff woes to
Speaker 3: being too antsy and emotional. I totally agree with him,
Speaker 3: by the way, But do you think that if this year,
Speaker 3: if you think that this year that he doesn't get
Speaker 3: through that hump or get over that playoff hump, that
Speaker 3: he'll never ever do it?
Speaker 2: Well, So here's the thing. First, let me answer him
Speaker 2: saying he gets too antsy like that to me was
Speaker 2: confirmation of what I've been saying that before these games
Speaker 2: he gets. Another word for antsy is nervous, and he
Speaker 2: gets a little nervous, wants it that badly and tightens
Speaker 2: up a bit. And so I don't. So here's and
Speaker 2: I tried to explain this yesterday on TV, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do it again here but in a longer form,
Speaker 2: because I think people view my Lamar Jackson opinion as
Speaker 2: more of an indictment than I view it. Because to
Speaker 2: answer the question, if he once again falls flat in
Speaker 2: the postseason, do I think that is just who he's
Speaker 2: going to be moving forward? The answer to that question
Speaker 2: is yes, But does that mean I think he won't
Speaker 2: ever win a Super Bowl. The answer to that question
Speaker 2: is no, and so I the obvious camp and the
Speaker 2: comp people would have gone to way earlier if not
Speaker 2: for the fact that style realistically they are such incredibly
Speaker 2: dissimilar players. Is Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning is one of
Speaker 2: the greatest quarterbacks to ever play. Peyton Manning also, year
Speaker 2: after year after year, got tight in the playoffs, did
Speaker 2: not play his best football. Peyton Manning won two super
Speaker 2: Bowls despite that, and the sports movie story would be
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning, after years of playoff failures, finally put it
Speaker 2: all together and was unbelievable and route to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: But that's not what happened. Peyton Manning. Forget the last
Speaker 2: super Bowl he won his final year in the league,
Speaker 2: when he was a shell of himself, Like take that
Speaker 2: out of it. The year they won smack dab in
Speaker 2: the middle of his prime. Here was his postseason that year.
Speaker 2: One against Kansas City one touchdown, three picks, a seventy
Speaker 2: two rating. They won Round two against Baltimore zero touchdowns,
Speaker 2: two picks a thirty nine rating. They won Round three
Speaker 2: against New England in a crazy comeback, one touchdown, one pick,
Speaker 2: a seventy nine rating they won. The Super Bowl against
Speaker 2: Rex Grossman and the Bears, one touchdown, one pick, an
Speaker 2: eighty two rating. They won. He had three touchdowns, seven picks,
Speaker 2: and they was right, exactly right. And now the New
Speaker 2: England game, he was awesome in the second half. The
Speaker 2: numbers don't really explain it. They round twenty one to
Speaker 2: three at halftime against a team that had dominated them
Speaker 2: the last two postseasons, and he was awesome in the
Speaker 2: second half. They just ran in the touchdowns, but still
Speaker 2: Round one against the terrible Chiefs team, one touchdown, three picks.
Speaker 2: Round two against Baltimore, they scored fifteen points. He had
Speaker 2: zero touchdowns, two picks, completed fifty percent of his passes
Speaker 2: through for one hundred and seventy yards. Peyton Manning. So
Speaker 2: I don't find it to be in conflict to believe
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning is clearly one of the five greatest quarterbacks
Speaker 2: ever and Peyton Manning was not a good playoff quarterback.
Speaker 2: Finished his playoff career fourteen and thirteen. Peyton Manning his
Speaker 2: first six career playoff games, two wins, four losses, same
Speaker 2: as Lamar and this idea that, oh, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: this moment and be over it. It's just not what
Speaker 2: it is if you go to Peyton's career. Peyton's first
Speaker 2: three playoff games were disastrous. A nineteen to sixteen loss
Speaker 2: to the Titans where he's had a sixty two rating
Speaker 2: and zero touchdowns, A twenty three to seventeen lost to
Speaker 2: the Dolphins where he had an eighty two rating, one touchdown,
Speaker 2: zero picks, A forty one to nothing lost to the Jets,
Speaker 2: where he had zero touchdowns, two picks, completed forty five
Speaker 2: percent of his passes uh and had a thirty one rating.
Speaker 2: The next year, here's how it went. Played the Denver
Speaker 2: beat him forty one to ten, five touchdowns, no picks,
Speaker 2: a perfect passer rating perfect one, fifty eight point three.
Speaker 2: The next round played My Chiefs in the famous no
Speaker 2: punt game. Neither team ever punted. Just score score, score,
Speaker 2: score score. An offensive pass interference call on Tony Gonzalez
Speaker 2: killed us, a turnover killed us. They won thirty eight
Speaker 2: thirty one, three touchdowns, no picks. All right, he's over it. Patriots.
Speaker 2: Next round, one touchdown, four picks of thirty five rating.
Speaker 2: Go home, Lamar's that very next.
Speaker 3: Year tough figure describing Lamar Jackson's not having bad games
Speaker 3: like that, that.
Speaker 2: He's not game here.
Speaker 3: These games are egregious. No, no, he's not.
Speaker 2: Okay, well i'll go through it for you because he is. Okay,
Speaker 2: well I'll go through it for you because he is.
Speaker 2: But that's but he also he also has never had
Speaker 2: anything close to the eight touchdowns, zero picks a one
Speaker 2: forty five rating over a two game playoff sample. But
Speaker 2: so the very next year, peyton first game of the playoffs,
Speaker 2: four touchdowns, one pick a, one forty six rating. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're good. The very next game lost twenty to three
Speaker 2: to the Patriots, zero touchdowns, one pick, a sixty nine rating.
Speaker 2: The next year one and done against the Steelers at home,
Speaker 2: twenty one to eighteen, and then the Super Bowl run.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this continued for Peyton's entire career.
Speaker 2: He was not the same guy in the playoffs. Bill
Speaker 2: Simmons coined the Peyton face because you saw it when
Speaker 2: it was happening. And so you're saying Lamar is not
Speaker 2: the same guy. I'm here to tell you Lamar's playoff
Speaker 2: resume is as tattered Lamar's we want to take out.
Speaker 2: He don't take it out, but all graded with a
Speaker 2: grain of salt. His rookie year when he saved that team,
Speaker 2: that team was dead in the water. They go to Lamar.
Speaker 2: He saves their season, maybe saves John Harbaugh's job, and
Speaker 2: then the Chargers play a defense that nobody had seen before,
Speaker 2: where it was eight defensive backs on the field, three
Speaker 2: down linemen. Lamar completed forty eight percent of his passes,
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, one pick, three fumbles, one fumble lost. They
Speaker 2: lost twenty three to seventeen, and folks, if they don't
Speaker 2: remember that game, those numbers are misleading because they were
Speaker 2: down twenty three to three with seven minutes left, and
Speaker 2: then you Lamar in that game, they were talking about
Speaker 2: should he be pulled, but again he's a rookie. Take
Speaker 2: it out. The next year, Demonse, when they were fourteen
Speaker 2: and two and he was the unanimous league MVP. They
Speaker 2: play the Titans at home. They lose twenty eight to twelve.
Speaker 2: He throws two picks and loses a fumble, so you're right,
Speaker 2: didn't have three picks, but he had three turnovers in
Speaker 2: that game, and they at no point could they move
Speaker 2: the football. The next year they play the Titans, little
Speaker 2: revenge spot. They win. Lamar in that game, zero touchdowns,
Speaker 2: one pick, a seventy five rating. And then they get
Speaker 2: the Bills and this Bills game, maybe because it was
Speaker 2: the COVID season, gets totally lost to history. It's ten
Speaker 2: to three, Josh Allen is doing nothing. Ten to three Buffalo,
Speaker 2: and late in the game, they've driven down, they're at
Speaker 2: the goal line, and with a minute left in the
Speaker 2: third quarter, down a touchdown. Lamar throws one hundred and
Speaker 2: one yard pick six and they lose seventeen to three.
Speaker 2: And Lamar in that game throws for one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty zero touchdowns, one pick, a sixty one rating, had
Speaker 2: a fumble, didn't lose it. And then the next time
Speaker 2: he plays in the playoffs is last year when he's
Speaker 2: awesome against Houston and then brutal against the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: So I don't this last playoff game wasn't brutal. I
Speaker 3: mean he threw for two seventy two, you rush for
Speaker 3: what fifty yards? I think that's a brutal game. I
Speaker 3: think he's shown improvement. I do think that, like he
Speaker 3: needs to get over that hump this year but oh,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not consistently, it's just.
Speaker 2: Okay, garbage, Okay. So I So this is where I
Speaker 2: just think that the numbers and the data doesn't back
Speaker 2: that up. And that's the other part of this conversation
Speaker 2: that frustrates me. So I said he was awesome against Houston.
Speaker 2: He only threw for one point fifty, but he was
Speaker 2: still awesome in that game. The flip side to that
Speaker 2: coin is just because he threw for two seventy against
Speaker 2: Kansas City doesn't change the fact he was brutal in
Speaker 2: that game. They scored ten points. So here's a stat.
Speaker 2: People can work it however they want. Since nineteen ninety,
Speaker 2: there is no quarterback in NFL history who averages more
Speaker 2: points per game in the regular season than Lamar Jackson. Okay,
Speaker 2: in that same timeframe, there is no quarterback in NFL
Speaker 2: history who averages fewer points per game in the playoffs
Speaker 2: than Lamar Jackson. That's not that like. So you go
Speaker 2: from the highest scoring quarterback in the league to the
Speaker 2: lowest scoring quarterback in the league, and the retcon of
Speaker 2: the he actually wasn't that bad in the Chiefs game
Speaker 2: started the game off with a lost fumble that set
Speaker 2: the Chiefs up, and when they were attempting to come back,
Speaker 2: he throws into triple coverage in the end zone for
Speaker 2: an interception that essentially ends their game. And so the
Speaker 2: points scored by the Ravens in playoff games started by
Speaker 2: Lamar seventeen twelve, twenty three, thirty four against Houston ten.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you another one. All four years Lamar
Speaker 2: has been in the playoffs, they're season low in points
Speaker 2: that year came in the playoffs. Like so I. But
Speaker 2: this is why I find the conversation frustrating. He gets
Speaker 2: credit for being so great in the regular season that
Speaker 2: even if he continues to struggle, they're probably going to
Speaker 2: win a super Bowl, like at some point like the
Speaker 2: six Colts did, where he keeps struggling and they win
Speaker 2: despite it, and he is the biggest reason they won
Speaker 2: because without him they wouldn't be there. And he only asked,
Speaker 2: you know, even if he's struggling, make a couple big plays.
Speaker 2: So I don't. I don't think that it is likely,
Speaker 2: like people want there, that there's gonna be this light
Speaker 2: bulb moment where all of a sudden, Lamar is a
Speaker 2: great postseason player. I don't think that's coming. I think
Speaker 2: this is who he is. I also think one day
Speaker 2: he'll win a championship despite it. But I the I
Speaker 2: can let me. I'll tell you another guy who didn't
Speaker 2: have as many opportunities as some of the other all
Speaker 2: time great quarterbacks because the team wasn't very good. But
Speaker 2: another guy who this applies to is another one of
Speaker 2: the no doubt ten and maybe five greatest quarterbacks ever,
Speaker 2: Dan Marino. Dan Marino was a statistical marvel when he
Speaker 2: came into the league in a way we'd never seen
Speaker 2: in the eighties. And yet in the postseason, who was he?
Speaker 2: The team was eight and two, his passer rating dropped
Speaker 2: ten points from where it was in the regular season.
Speaker 2: He completed fifty six percent of his passes, and find
Speaker 2: me the great playoff run you can't. Also, this works
Speaker 2: in reverse oddly as well, Eli Manning across the board
Speaker 2: the definition of mid in the regular season dead five
Speaker 2: hundred quarterback for his career never led the league in
Speaker 2: anything other than interceptions. It was never had the you know,
Speaker 2: this gaudy regular season record was just consistently at in
Speaker 2: the regular season and two times in the playoffs. The
Speaker 2: two Super Bowl runs, has fifteen touchdowns and two picks combined,
Speaker 2: and a guy whose career passer rating is in the
Speaker 2: mid eighties, those two super Bowl runs, it's at one hundred.
Speaker 2: He was a guy who in the biggest moment actually
Speaker 2: unlocks something better. And so no, I don't think Lamar
Speaker 2: gets over it now maybe this year. I don't think
Speaker 2: it'll be this year because the Chiefs are too good,
Speaker 2: but it would be a team like this where it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You have Derrick Henry, you have a defense
Speaker 2: that's coming on strong, and Lamar can make just a
Speaker 2: couple wow plays. That's gonna be their path. And I
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, then of course you reevaluate where he
Speaker 2: is in the all time quarterback pantheon, because he does
Speaker 2: have have a regular season resume of one of the
Speaker 2: four or five greatest quarterbacks ever. But I don't think
Speaker 2: it's binary in that he's either going to get over
Speaker 2: this or he's not as great as people say he is.
Speaker 2: I think he is as great as people say he is,
Speaker 2: and he's probably not gonna get over these.
Speaker 3: So so if he were to win the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: this year, where would he staying with you? You're saying
Speaker 3: he can't get over. I mean, is that that puts
Speaker 3: him no? So, I mean if he because you're saying
Speaker 3: he's gonna get one eventually, but like if he got
Speaker 3: one right now, if.
Speaker 2: He got one right now. So again, let's just talk
Speaker 2: this out with me. Is it the way Peyton got
Speaker 2: his where he struggles in the games and.
Speaker 3: The like Lamar is the focal point, like he I
Speaker 3: don't want to say he can't. Oh he plays well.
Speaker 2: Well, then then he is a undeniable top ten all
Speaker 2: time quarterback. And because he already has a couple MVPs
Speaker 2: and an undeniable top two current quarterback, like that's that's
Speaker 2: what so the and oh, no question, I think he
Speaker 2: has an argument right now that he's already past Burrow
Speaker 2: because Burrow's playing well in the postseason. That loses its
Speaker 2: luster when the last two years you don't play in
Speaker 2: the postseason, right, and so, and the the MVPs matter,
Speaker 2: and it is just this thing really really really dragging
Speaker 2: him down, is that Burrow plays a touch better in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Josh Allen has had some unreal playoff moments.
Speaker 2: And you know it's not even like Lamar's break even
Speaker 2: it's the world and so yeah, a super Bowl, a
Speaker 2: super Bowl where he plays the way he's played in
Speaker 2: this regular season, he would elevate. Yes, that's what I
Speaker 2: was gonna say. He would elevate in my mind, just
Speaker 2: by even if they if they lose in the AFC
Speaker 2: Championship game to the Chiefs, but he's good in Round
Speaker 2: one against Pittsburgh, beats Josh Allen and plays well. And
Speaker 2: then in the AFC Championship game against the Chiefs, plays well,
Speaker 2: but the Chiefs are just the Chiefs and they beat him.
Speaker 2: That elevates him as well. Again, the other thing that
Speaker 2: hurts Lamar is there's not a single playoff game that
Speaker 2: you can look at and be like, well, he played great,
Speaker 2: but the team let him down. That's not on the resume,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. All of these losses, he
Speaker 2: has more turnovers than touchdowns, and it's a really, really
Speaker 2: rough spot for him. And so I just don't think
Speaker 2: I Again, Peyton Manning was a statue white, super tall,
Speaker 2: precision passer. Lamar's the most athletic running quarterback we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Size isn't the same as Peyton black guy. They don't
Speaker 2: look at all alike when they're playing. So people don't
Speaker 2: compare them to each other. But Peyton Manning was a
Speaker 2: two time MVP that everybody thought was one of the
Speaker 2: best they'd ever seen, who really struggled in the playoffs
Speaker 2: and never had the light bulb moment. And so I
Speaker 2: just think that is and nobody the reason. And then
Speaker 2: I'll stop here. But it's why I don't think I'm
Speaker 2: being Not only do I not think I'm being unfair
Speaker 2: to Lamar. I don't think it's as much of an
Speaker 2: indictment as everyone else does. Everyone knows. Everyone who watched
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning for two years knows that. And all those
Speaker 2: same people, if you ask him right now to name
Speaker 2: the five greatest quarterbacks of all time, are gonna have
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning in there. Despite that, and so and the
Speaker 2: people don't like the embid and hardened comps because people
Speaker 2: look at those guys, as you know, embieds, the injuries,
Speaker 2: and he's people don't like the personality and that hardens
Speaker 2: a flake. So I'll go further back. Karl Malone's a
Speaker 2: fair one. Karl Malon's one of the twenty greatest basketball
Speaker 2: players ever, third all time in points, two time MVP,
Speaker 2: play like consistent, amazing, production who any of us that
Speaker 2: grew up in the nineties were like, Oh, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: not gonna get your best Karl Malone in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Here's not. And so I I see that, and we're
Speaker 2: seeing it right now with Aaron Judge. We see it
Speaker 2: in sports and you want guys to have and Brew
Speaker 2: yesterday on the show and its apologies for going so
Speaker 2: long in this, but I do think it's really interesting.
Speaker 2: Brew yesterday on the show brought up Lebron about Lebron
Speaker 2: failing in twenty ten against Boston and then the meltdown
Speaker 2: in twenty eleven against Dallas, and how after that moment
Speaker 2: he never looked like that again, and like, can Lamar
Speaker 2: have that type of light bulb moment? And the reason
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good comp is Lebron did
Speaker 2: have those failures, but in the seven years leading up
Speaker 2: to that, he also had some unbelievable his historically great
Speaker 2: playoff moments. At twenty two years old, he carries a
Speaker 2: team terrible team to the finals, has forty eight points
Speaker 2: an elimination game, has the goes forty five points in
Speaker 2: a Game seven. As a twenty three year old against
Speaker 2: the Big Three in Boston averages thirty nine to eight
Speaker 2: to eight in a conference finals that they end up
Speaker 2: losing against the Magic. So you he had showed you
Speaker 2: he could be a great playoff performer repeatedly, even though
Speaker 2: he had the failure against the MAVs that if Lamar
Speaker 2: last year, Demanse had lost to the Chiefs in the
Speaker 2: AFC Championship Game thirty one to twenty eight, and he
Speaker 2: was an AUS and Mahomes was an A plus and
Speaker 2: just like, what are you gonna do you feel? I
Speaker 2: would feel differently. It's not purely the loss. It's that
Speaker 2: he's never won a playoff game where his team allowed
Speaker 2: thirteen points more than thirteen points, Like, that's that's the
Speaker 2: issue there. So I'm excited to see it. The path
Speaker 2: laid out for him is, I mean, exercise all. The
Speaker 2: path if the bracket holds, is beat the Steelers, who
Speaker 2: you've struggled with mightily in your career. Beat Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: who's gonna win MVP over you this year. Beat Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: who you've struggled with your entire career and lost to
Speaker 2: in the playoffs last year, and then you're in the
Speaker 2: super Bowl. Just just if they were to just get
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl. Lamar enters top ten all time
Speaker 2: and definitive top two. Right now, we'll see if it happens,
Speaker 2: all right, last couple ones before we get to the picks.
Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, So Bill Belichick apparently has a lot of
Speaker 3: suitors out there looking for him for that head coaching
Speaker 3: gig in Vegas one of the teams that was interested in,
Speaker 3: surprisingly with Brady having that stake in the team, and
Speaker 3: you know their relationship hasn't always been the best. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Belichick says that he's gonna he has no plans to
Speaker 3: go to the NFL, but could you see something enticing him?
Speaker 2: So the fact that this exists is why I thought
Speaker 2: it was so odd he jumped on the North Carolina job.
Speaker 2: I understand that, you know, you'd put out feelers and
Speaker 2: hadn't gotten great responses from the NFL, but there's I
Speaker 2: thought he gave up the opportunity to coach in the
Speaker 2: NFL too early.
Speaker 3: He was never going to get hired. You were like
Speaker 3: one of the main guys saying, like Belichick, like nobody
Speaker 3: he's about to pick up Belichick.
Speaker 2: No hold on, well, no, no, no, I don't think.
Speaker 3: You were saying that okay, Like I remember when it
Speaker 3: first came out, it was just he was it was no, yeah,
Speaker 3: he put the feelers hit him up.
Speaker 2: Once he took the North Carolina job, I said, it
Speaker 2: was very clear no one was going to hire like
Speaker 2: he did it because he found out no one was
Speaker 2: going to hire him. But that surprised me, Like, so
Speaker 2: let me because what you're saying is true, but I
Speaker 2: think the sequence of events is not necessarily accurate. So
Speaker 2: prior to the North Carolina thing happening, I assumed he
Speaker 2: would get a job. I thought the Giants made the
Speaker 2: most sense, and I thought the Cowboys were a very
Speaker 2: interesting one. As soon as the North Carolina thing got rolling,
Speaker 2: I said, he must have found out no one was
Speaker 2: going to hire it, that it was a you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to be left out in the
Speaker 2: cold or else. Why would he take a college job
Speaker 2: when he wants to coach in the NFL. So that
Speaker 2: was my true, honest feelings on the situation. It now
Speaker 2: appears he might have been premature in giving up the
Speaker 2: opportunity to coach in the NFL, And now folks are saying, well,
Speaker 2: his buyout's only ten million dollars After June first, it
Speaker 2: drops to one million dollars. Could he just pay the
Speaker 2: buyout and go coach in the NFL? I would, And
Speaker 2: you remember Deman's I had told the story about how
Speaker 2: you know, for our younger audience, which you're in. He
Speaker 2: was named the head coach of the Jets and resigned
Speaker 2: on a napkin the next day. Uh, he cannot do
Speaker 2: that to North Carolina. I would find it truly objectionable
Speaker 2: if here too, Yes, exactly right, So I don't want
Speaker 2: to get we don't have to give specifics. But Demanse
Speaker 2: has a friend who was recruited by Bill Belichick, and
Speaker 2: you know some other players and the college aspect of
Speaker 2: these guys, And I understand coaches leave all the time,
Speaker 2: but you don't. There's there's never as an old twenty
Speaker 2: year old they're gonna go play for Bill Belichick. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure someone in their lives have told them, hey, man,
Speaker 2: there is a chance you only play for him for
Speaker 2: one year, because there is a chance he leaves, you know,
Speaker 2: after a year to go back to the NFL. Even
Speaker 2: though he's swearing this is where I want to be. Fine,
Speaker 2: nobody thinks there's a chance you never get to play
Speaker 2: for him, that you have these opportunities, these offers to
Speaker 2: go to these different schools, you picked to play for Belichick.
Speaker 2: In six weeks later, he's like, actually, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: coach the Raiders. So I just I would find it
Speaker 2: to be egregious from a character perspective. And I'm not
Speaker 2: accusing him of even considering this, to be clear, but
Speaker 2: if the news came out he's void, and I understand
Speaker 2: the contract allows for it, I just think it would
Speaker 2: be horrible, and so I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I also wonder how much of this was Brady being like, hey,
Speaker 2: so you want to work for me for a change,
Speaker 2: like uh, and so there there is that aspect to it.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna happen, though, and so I
Speaker 2: think the Diana Russini said, it's you know, unlikely, And
Speaker 2: I would just find it to be really poor form.
Speaker 2: And that's putting it lightly, all right, let's do bracket
Speaker 2: to unpack it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So sometimes the easiest way to predict the
Speaker 3: playoff wins is to just go with the best quarterback
Speaker 3: in coach duo. We know obviously read them Mahomes will
Speaker 3: be at the top of your list, So we left
Speaker 3: him out of the bracket. But we've got a little
Speaker 3: bracket to unpack it. I think we've got a graphic
Speaker 3: here and on the in round one, on the left side,
Speaker 3: we've got McVeigh and Stafford against Sirianni and Hurts.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, first I want to see who else
Speaker 2: got left out, because there's eight of these here. There's
Speaker 2: obviously fourteen teams in the playoffs. We left a lot out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Strouden, Demiico are out that you've got left out?
Speaker 2: You have bow Nicks and Sean Payton. Wow, shots fired.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you right now, for a coach quarterback,
Speaker 2: you would have to consider bo Nix and Sean Payton
Speaker 2: because of the Sean Payton piece of it, where Quinn
Speaker 2: and Jayden Daniels are maybe like that. It's at least
Speaker 2: and Todd Bowles Baker left out the insults here. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm the Dan Camill golfer there the the other ones
Speaker 2: left out. I'm going through the bracket in my head quickly.
Speaker 2: Tomlin and Ross, all right, that one makes sense that
Speaker 2: those guys got left out, and I think that I
Speaker 2: think that covers it. But still that okay, all right,
Speaker 2: now we'll do the actual bracket. Sorry about that. So
Speaker 2: McVeigh Stafford over Sirianni hurts that one's obviously mcveiy Stafford. Uh,
Speaker 2: harball Lamar over Harball Herbert. I'll take Harball Herbert. I
Speaker 2: know people get mad. I think Jim's a better coach
Speaker 2: than John and.
Speaker 3: Herbert better postseason performer than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Well he doesn't. Justin Herbert doesn't really have postseason resume,
Speaker 2: doesn't Herbert has an unbelievable football and then agreed in
Speaker 2: egregious second half of football? So like is not? Is
Speaker 2: no resume better than an awful Like if if someone
Speaker 2: de Monds were applying to work for you, and they
Speaker 2: and one person brought in a blank resume and the
Speaker 2: other person brought in a resume that had four jobs,
Speaker 2: all of which they were fired from within three weeks,
Speaker 2: It's like, who do you like? What do we want?
Speaker 2: The guy with no experience or the guy with a
Speaker 2: bunch of failures? I don't know? All right, So to
Speaker 2: the other the other side of the bracket, Campbell goff
Speaker 2: lafloor love. I'm gonna go Campbell golf. Uh, And I
Speaker 2: just think that Campbell he made a took a big
Speaker 2: risk playing that Monday night football game, but he ended
Speaker 2: up rolling seven. And now that they got the one seed,
Speaker 2: they're feeling great. McDermott Allen over Quinn Daniels Listen. I
Speaker 2: think Dan Quinn's fine. Jaden's a rookie in his first
Speaker 2: playoff start. I'll go McDermott Allen. So now we have
Speaker 2: in the final four Bay Stafford.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead on the left and Stafford yeah. Mcveay
Speaker 3: Stafford versus Herbert in Harble, No.
Speaker 2: I'm saying McVeigh Staffords. Yeah. McVay Staffords might pick. And
Speaker 2: then on the right Campbell Golf against McDermott Allen. I
Speaker 2: think this will surprise people. I'll take Campbell Golf. I
Speaker 2: think Sean McDermott in these big spots gets tight, man.
Speaker 2: I see it again and again. And while Josh Allen's
Speaker 2: better than Jared Goff, Goff has played so well this
Speaker 2: year that the gap is not as massive to me
Speaker 2: as Dan Campbell in big spots can get reckless but
Speaker 2: doesn't get nervous. And then McVay Stafford against Campbell Golf,
Speaker 2: I'll go McVeigh Stafford, guys, I believe in the Rams flatly.
Speaker 2: And I believe in the Rams because of that that
Speaker 2: head coach, quarterback Combo, and that defense that I don't
Speaker 2: think is allowed fourteen points in their last three weeks.
Speaker 2: I think the Rams are a very dangerous team. And
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell he didn't mean to, but he gave the
Speaker 2: Rams a little bulletin board material when after that Vikings
Speaker 2: Lions game he said to Kevin O'Connell, see you in
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, Uh not if the Rams or
Speaker 2: something to say about it. And so I I don't
Speaker 2: know that we're gonna get Lions Vikings. We might get
Speaker 2: Lions Rams now again, if there's an upset in one
Speaker 2: of the other games, the bracket gets receded. But if
Speaker 2: the if the two and three seed both win and
Speaker 2: it's the winner of Vikings Rams heading to Detroit, my
Speaker 2: money is you'll see in a moment we'll be on
Speaker 2: the Rams.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, though, pel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, like, I mean, how Stafford McVeigh, like,
Speaker 3: how scared would you be if they played the Chiefs?
Speaker 3: Like do you think that's it?
Speaker 2: Is that a very you.
Speaker 3: Always say that.
Speaker 2: The exactly right, that's right, So I got it. Cooper
Speaker 2: Cup has not looked like Cooper Cup as of late,
Speaker 2: so I have to see what shape he's in. And
Speaker 2: Jalen Watt. The reason I'm so afraid of that is
Speaker 2: because it's since Jalen Watson got hurt. Jalen Watson broke
Speaker 2: his ankles six weeks ago. They opened his practice window up.
Speaker 2: If he's back, then nobody. If Jalen Watson is back,
Speaker 2: no one is coming close to the Chiefs. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you guys right now. I know it seems like an
Speaker 2: odd player to key on. They have right now, they
Speaker 2: have they have two weaknesses. One was left tackle play.
Speaker 2: But if they they showed they could fix that by
Speaker 2: sliding Joe Tooney over. Now I think they prefer to
Speaker 2: play DJ Humphreys there. We'll see what they end up
Speaker 2: starting the playoffs with. But they know they have a
Speaker 2: fix there. They did not have a fix to cornerback
Speaker 2: two and it was just a rotating cast and none
Speaker 2: of them were doing great. If Jalen Watson's back, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs go into the playoffs with as a team with
Speaker 2: no weaknesses and the freshest team in the league. Also,
Speaker 2: the other quarterback coach combo that didn't get mentioned was
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, Sam Darnold Man. Week eighteen really killed Donald.
Speaker 2: I mean my I and I forgot about tomorrow. Good,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll do our Week eighteen I'm sorry, Week
Speaker 2: eighteen recap and our wild card weekend picks. Demonse's gonna participate,
Speaker 2: give picks of his own. That's all next, What's Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Kind of a bummer of a Week eighteen. Demonse I
Speaker 2: lose the season long picks competition to Danny on TV.
Speaker 2: He gets a fraudulent we both won. I had the
Speaker 2: Steelers plus two and a half. He's somehow had the
Speaker 2: Bengals minus one and a half. So the Steelers win
Speaker 2: by two, so we both get a win there, which
Speaker 2: didn't set the table for Sunday well, but I went
Speaker 2: on too Sundays, so it ultimately didn't matter. And listen,
Speaker 2: Week eighteen picks didn't go the way I had hoped.
Speaker 2: We can show it to you I had. I didn't
Speaker 2: get the two and a half on this show because
Speaker 2: it was two when I did it, So I got
Speaker 2: a push there for Pittsburgh plus two. The Chiefs plus
Speaker 2: ten and a half didn't quite work out the way
Speaker 2: I'd hoped. They lost thirty eight nothing. Miami minus won
Speaker 2: against the Jets. The thought those two picks were correlated
Speaker 2: because the thought process was if the Chiefs are just
Speaker 2: keeping it close ish, Miami is gonna be peak motivated
Speaker 2: because they're gonna know if the Chiefs win, they can
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Instead, the Chiefs were down twenty four
Speaker 2: to nothing immediately, and Tyreek Hill's quitting on the team
Speaker 2: and the Miami's just getting cooked. So that was a disaster.
Speaker 2: The Chargers handled the Raiders, and then Minnesota plus two
Speaker 2: and a half against Detroit totally on the wrong side
Speaker 2: of it. Minnesota got annihilated. So no bad luck there,
Speaker 2: just bad picks. There's no excuses, you know, point thumbs,
Speaker 2: not fingers, look in the mirror, all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: still is what it is, forty eight, forty and two
Speaker 2: for the year. Could have done better, but profitable. Demond's
Speaker 2: a your teaser. On the other hand, as a wise
Speaker 2: man once said, never a doubt.
Speaker 3: Ever a doubt. It hit that put me at five
Speaker 3: hundred for the year. So that's all I could ask for.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the best year I've had so far.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we did that. We've already done
Speaker 3: this two years, but I remember the first year it's
Speaker 3: pretty bad. So really step up, and I'm twitter that
Speaker 3: I'm going un defeated next year.
Speaker 2: And this year started out poorly. So yes, you so
Speaker 2: you you got hot? You had you had Pittsburgh plus
Speaker 2: nine and a half against Cincinnati and the Bears plus
Speaker 2: eighteen against Green Bay. The Bear is obviously one outright,
Speaker 2: so that was good. All right, So you're gonna do
Speaker 2: these picks as well this week? And they said, you're
Speaker 2: not doing a teaser, but I might see if we
Speaker 2: can find one. I might try to convince you see
Speaker 2: if we.
Speaker 3: Can oh it picks, not my name, stay on my lane.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I want you to pick, I'm saying,
Speaker 2: but no, no no. In addition, I'm I'm gonna see
Speaker 2: if there's a good playoff. I haven't really thought about
Speaker 2: these games through a teaser lens. But but we'll you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, we'll figure it out, all right.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go in order of the games. The
Speaker 2: first game is Houston at home against the Chargers, and
Speaker 2: this one is was the hardest one. For me to pick,
Speaker 2: and it really really matters where you bet this right now.
Speaker 2: So right now, Fan Duel has the Chargers laying two
Speaker 2: and a half. DraftKings has the Chargers laying three. Anyone
Speaker 2: listening to the show is a sophisticated enough gambler to
Speaker 2: understand huge difference between those two numbers. For this game
Speaker 2: in particular, I find this game to be super relevant.
Speaker 2: If you can get the three, I like the Charger.
Speaker 2: I like Houston plus three if you if you're gonna
Speaker 2: get the two and a half, I don't mind the Chargers.
Speaker 2: And so there is so my rationale here is very simple.
Speaker 2: I don't think Houston's very good right now. I understand that.
Speaker 2: I also think they are probably a little undervalued in
Speaker 2: this regard. They've been locked in to their playoff spot
Speaker 2: for a few weeks and didn't really have real motivation
Speaker 2: after that. After the Chiefs loss and the Tank Dell injury.
Speaker 2: I felt I felt like they're playing the Ravens four
Speaker 2: days later on Christmas, knowing we're gonna be the four
Speaker 2: seed no matter what, and they put up a total
Speaker 2: no show, and because of that people have undersold them
Speaker 2: a bit. Again. I think they're a flawed team and
Speaker 2: a banged up team. However, they have an excellent pass rush.
Speaker 2: CJ can play better than he's played. Nico Collins is
Speaker 2: still a great player, and they're at home against a
Speaker 2: Charger team. Demonse that I just think I know how
Speaker 2: harrball coaches in these playoff games. He's gonna put Herbert
Speaker 2: back on the leash. He's gonna run the ball, run
Speaker 2: the ball. Want it to be few possessions, low scoring,
Speaker 2: defensive battle. So if I can get three points, all three,
Speaker 2: all take them. I again, if I felt like I
Speaker 2: would take the Chargers minus to an half, but Houston
Speaker 2: plus three, it means I don't have crazy conviction on this,
Speaker 2: but it feels like the public is gonna be all
Speaker 2: over the Chargers. So I'll take U plus the three
Speaker 2: with some trepidation. And I'll tell you right now because
Speaker 2: the pick and this is I haven't done this all year,
Speaker 2: but I it really, I really want to have a
Speaker 2: shot to go undefeated on this on TV. Not that
Speaker 2: I value the TV more or less than this, but
Speaker 2: here's the here's the reason I'm mentioning it on TV.
Speaker 2: We are tied to the DraftKings line because DraftKings sponsors
Speaker 2: the TV picks hopefully next year for the gambling show,
Speaker 2: we're tied to a gambling sponsors line because I've mental
Speaker 2: lost a couple of shows. We are open for business.
Speaker 2: We have a little we have a little open for
Speaker 2: business sign and our podcast window, and we hope to
Speaker 2: actually come to a decision on that here in the
Speaker 2: next few weeks for you know, your favorite sportsbook to
Speaker 2: endorse this podcast. However, on TV it is DraftKings. So
Speaker 2: if that line moves on DraftKings and it's two and
Speaker 2: a half by tomorrow when I'm doing the picks, I
Speaker 2: might go Chargers. I'm just in so the full disclosure,
Speaker 2: that's where I'm at. But Houston plus three demon's a ugo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I originally made these picks on fan duels,
Speaker 3: so I got the Chargers minus the two and a half.
Speaker 3: I wasn't taking the Texans plus plus the two and
Speaker 3: a half. Yeah, I mean, I trust Harbor on Herbert
Speaker 3: and I don't think that I don't think that Houston.
Speaker 3: I think they're on a downward slope, but they definitely
Speaker 3: have lost a little bit of a mite since the
Speaker 3: Tank Dell And who's to know if they have been,
Speaker 3: you know, given it, they're all given that. They were
Speaker 3: locked into that. CD could see it going some other way.
Speaker 3: But I'm comfortable with the charges.
Speaker 2: Here, all right, So we're somewhat opposed, but not really.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's weird because we're looking at it two
Speaker 2: different numbers. The rest of these we at there is
Speaker 2: no line discrepancy across books. So the rest of these
Speaker 2: were either going to be exactly aligne or exactly just so.
Speaker 3: If even if the if it were Chargers minus three
Speaker 3: and a half, or I might minus three, sorry, I'd
Speaker 3: still be taking it. Just want that record.
Speaker 2: That's what I figured, all right. Next game, Pittsburgh getting
Speaker 2: nine and a half at Baltimore. This one will surprise
Speaker 2: no one. I'll take Pittsburgh. I think this is like
Speaker 2: how most Pit Baltimore games are, which are low scoring
Speaker 2: and close. That the one a few weeks ago obviously
Speaker 2: wasn't that. But that game got thrown askew by two
Speaker 2: horrifying Russell Wilson mistakes. When it was it was seven
Speaker 2: to seven, they're driving to score, Russ fumbles at the
Speaker 2: two and then they're down seven after Lamar's only mistake
Speaker 2: of the game, A game Lamar played great in after
Speaker 2: the Lamar picked late third quarter and Russ immediately throws
Speaker 2: a pick six and now they're down fourteen in the game.
Speaker 2: So were the first matchup Pittsburgh won, but they didn't
Speaker 2: score a touchdown and that was the is justin Tucker
Speaker 2: cooked game, So that was you know, I just think
Speaker 2: nine and a half points is insulting in too much. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe Derrick Henry runs wild and the Pittsburgh's offense. They've
Speaker 2: lost four consecutive games headed into the postseason, which is
Speaker 2: damn near unprecedented. But all still take Pittsburgh plus the
Speaker 2: nine and a half. Uh, go ahead, Demons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking Pittsburgh plus the nine and a half
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: But seeing this game and then going to the next game,
Speaker 3: is it is kind of crazy, like Pittsburgh was not
Speaker 3: there were nine and a half point dogs and then Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna say I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be smart like I'm a Ravens fan. I think that
Speaker 3: the Ravens is gonna win the game. But nine and
Speaker 3: a half points is a lot of points. It's obviously
Speaker 3: a team in your vision points they always play tight.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, I don't. That's I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's the the other thing. And brew
Speaker 2: and I got into this a bit on the show,
Speaker 2: which is I said I would be surprised if Baltimore
Speaker 2: scores twenty four more than twenty four. I said, I said,
Speaker 2: score twenty four or more than twenty four like that.
Speaker 2: I think that this game, they don't get to the
Speaker 2: high twenties or thirties, and so to cover this number,
Speaker 2: I think they'd have to. I don't think that it's
Speaker 2: gonna be twenty three to seven, like I think Pittsburgh's
Speaker 2: gonna be able to muster somewhere from fourteen to eighteen points.
Speaker 2: So how many points do I really think Baltimore is
Speaker 2: gonna score? Not enough to cover it, So I'll take
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh plus the nine and a half. You're saying the
Speaker 2: numbers crazy because Pittsburgh's nine and a half point dogs
Speaker 2: while Denver's only eight and a half point dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's yeah, say to me, so Vegas
Speaker 3: is just saying getting over the Wolves this year's that's
Speaker 3: That's what I'm seeing.
Speaker 2: Maybe spread but yeah, So Josh Allen in the wild
Speaker 2: card round is an absolute monster for his career, and
Speaker 2: it usually is against a totally overmatched quarterback and he cooks.
Speaker 2: So Josh Allen the last four years in the wild
Speaker 2: card round has faced Colt's Philip Rivers, who was cooked,
Speaker 2: Mac Jones, Skyler Thompson, and Mason Rudolph oh Now, Now,
Speaker 2: to be fair, those haven't all been blowouts. But as
Speaker 2: far as Josh's production against those teams thirteen touchdowns, two picks,
Speaker 2: a one to eleven rating, and as far as the
Speaker 2: Bill's offensive production again the last four years in the
Speaker 2: wildcard round, twenty seven points against the Colts, forty seven
Speaker 2: against the Patriots, thirty four against Miami, thirty one against Pittsburgh. Now, again,
Speaker 2: to be fair, the Colts and Dolphins games, they ended
Speaker 2: up winning by three, so they weren't blowouts. And I
Speaker 2: understand Sean Payton and bow Knicks have had an unbelievable season,
Speaker 2: but ultimately, this is a rookie quarterback on the road
Speaker 2: in the playoffs in Buffalo. I do not think this
Speaker 2: game is going to be close. I do not think
Speaker 2: Denver is going to have the answers, and I do
Speaker 2: not think bow Knicks is going to look how he
Speaker 2: looked the last few weeks. So I like Buffalo laying
Speaker 2: the eight and a half. I would love for the
Speaker 2: Broncos to beat the Bills. If there is it's not
Speaker 2: a big one. But there is a world that exists
Speaker 2: where Patrick maho Holmes's path to the super Bowl goes
Speaker 2: through bow Nicks and Russell Wilson. And that's a world
Speaker 2: I would love to live in. But I don't think
Speaker 2: that's the world we're going to live in. I think Mahomes'
Speaker 2: path the super Bowl is going to go through either
Speaker 2: Stroud or Herbert and then Josh Allen, and if it's
Speaker 2: not Josh Allen, it'll be Lamar. But Buffalo, I think
Speaker 2: blows out the Broncos. I think this is a over
Speaker 2: in the third quarter type of game, like thirty one thirteen.
Speaker 2: So I'll take Buffalo laying the eight and a half.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna take Denver plus eight and a half. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: after everything you just said, Yeah, I think Bonix he's
Speaker 3: like baby Josh Allen, But I think eight and a
Speaker 3: half points that's a lot. I think they'll be able
Speaker 3: to hang Uh yeah, No, Rocket Ricket quarterback. I like
Speaker 3: Sean Payton. I trust him and Bo Nicks isn't your
Speaker 3: average rookie. He's a little bit older, a little bit
Speaker 3: more seasoned.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's definitely true.
Speaker 3: He also has that I don't want to be corny
Speaker 3: or anything, but he has he's got some dog in him,
Speaker 3: and I like it. And I think that that part's
Speaker 3: all true.
Speaker 2: And the Sean Payton angle, I do, they do have
Speaker 2: a coaching edge. I just don't. I think that we're
Speaker 2: gonna see a bad bon Knicks game, rookie quarterback, road, freezing,
Speaker 2: cold weather, buffalo, all of it. I I do like
Speaker 2: a little bit for him that it's not at night.
Speaker 2: I think that actually makes it slightly less intimidating atmosphere.
Speaker 3: But I still think he's, Oh, he's used to the cold, and.
Speaker 2: He played college football for a year at Oregon. I understand.
Speaker 2: I'm not thinking he can't play in the cold. I'm
Speaker 2: just thinking it's just the atmosphere. It's probably too much,
Speaker 2: all right. Next one maybe the game of the week
Speaker 2: and game that's on Fox Philly, laying four and a
Speaker 2: half at home against Green Bay. I when I went
Speaker 2: through and guessed the lines before they came or right
Speaker 2: when they came out, before i'd seen them I thought
Speaker 2: this was going to be Philly minus seven. Jeez, And
Speaker 2: when I saw it was four and a half, I
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, they're baking in that Jalen. Like what
Speaker 2: I thought that was saying was they're worried about Jalen
Speaker 2: and they're splitting the difference on Well, if he plays,
Speaker 2: it'll be seven and a half. If he doesn't, it'll
Speaker 2: be basically a pick'm we're gonna set the line in
Speaker 2: the middle. That's not what's happened. They Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 2: pretty clearly playing. It has stuck at four and a half.
Speaker 2: I love Philly here. I know Jalen hasn't played in
Speaker 2: a month. I get that, But this is again, prior
Speaker 2: to the Packers upsetting the Cowboys in this exact scenario
Speaker 2: a two versus seven, the two versus seven playoff games
Speaker 2: have been absolute laughers. So I want to go through
Speaker 2: it real quick. So one of the reasons that I
Speaker 2: felt this way about the Bills Broncos is because it's
Speaker 2: a two to seven game. The first year we had
Speaker 2: a two to seven playoff field was twenty twenty. One
Speaker 2: of those games was that Bill's Colts game that I
Speaker 2: just talked about the Bills did only win by three.
Speaker 2: The other one New Orleans Chicago. I don't even remember
Speaker 2: that game at all. New Orleans won twenty one to nine.
Speaker 2: The next year, the two seven games Philly Tampa. Tampa
Speaker 2: won thirty one to fifteen. Kan City Pittsburgh Kmsity won
Speaker 2: forty two twenty one. The next year, the two seven
Speaker 2: playoff games were Buffalo Miami. Again, Buffalo has been involved
Speaker 2: in some of these close ones. They beat Skyler Thompson
Speaker 2: Miami thirty four to thirty one, and San Francisco Seattle.
Speaker 2: San Francisco won forty one to twenty three. Last year, obviously,
Speaker 2: the Packers had the first ever two seven upset, but
Speaker 2: the two to seven game in the AFC was Buffalo
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh thirty one seventeen. A lot of blowouts in these spots,
Speaker 2: only one upset. I think Saquan.
Speaker 3: Rested and fresh by this team.
Speaker 2: The one upset was Green Bay in this exact spot
Speaker 2: last year. No, that's totally fair. Uh. I like Philly.
Speaker 2: I think Philly's gonna look awesome. This to me feels
Speaker 2: like a thirty one to twenty Philly victory. So I'll
Speaker 2: lay the four and a half.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm sticking with my guy, Jordan Love. I'm
Speaker 3: taking green Bay plus the four and a half. I
Speaker 3: think that Philadelphia. I don't think green Bay is a
Speaker 3: type of type of team to melt down. And I've
Speaker 3: seen Philly melt down, and I think if something's not working,
Speaker 3: then green Bay can capitalize on that. I like Jordan Love,
Speaker 3: I'm going with Packers.
Speaker 2: We're opposed on a lot of these.
Speaker 3: I like like Philly minus two and a half, maybe
Speaker 3: like three. I like green Bay in the points. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I'm glad we've got some conflicted ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Next one, Tampa minus three at home
Speaker 2: against Washington. It's just a rookie quarterback on the road
Speaker 2: and so and I'm not I don't even have to
Speaker 2: lay a big number. I think Tampa is, as Wilde
Speaker 2: would say, first team all vibes with the Mike Evans stuff.
Speaker 2: Baker didn't play great in the first half against the Saints,
Speaker 2: was awesome late. Tampa has immense postseason experience. Fifth straight
Speaker 2: year they're in the playoffs, fourth straight year they won
Speaker 2: the division. I just like I like how Baker's playing.
Speaker 2: I like how they responded after trailing the Saints. Throughout
Speaker 2: a lot of that game, even though trailing the Saints
Speaker 2: in general is not great and Jade and Daniels, it's
Speaker 2: been a great year for Jaden. But I think it
Speaker 2: comes to an end here, and I love that I
Speaker 2: don't have to do lay the hook, So laying just
Speaker 2: three Tampa minus three, I'm rolling with.
Speaker 3: And if if Jade went out, if he went out
Speaker 3: there and won that game, that's so cute.
Speaker 2: It's massive.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if he goes out there and wins that game,
Speaker 2: they unless the Eagles upset the I'm sorry, the Packers
Speaker 2: upset the Eagles, then he gets to go play Detroit
Speaker 2: in round two. That'd be unbelievable. But I just I
Speaker 2: don't I like Tampa minus three. I think you do
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, same, same exact reasons. Just the Baker makes.
Speaker 2: Sense here, all right. And then the last one, we
Speaker 2: don't even have to spend much time on it because
Speaker 2: everyone knows where I'm gonna go. The Rams getting one
Speaker 2: and a half against Minnesota, I get Matt Stafford and
Speaker 2: Sean McVay at home. They were there. They're undefeated at
Speaker 2: home or on a neutral site, and by the way,
Speaker 2: at neutral site, wasn't a neutral site in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That super Bowl was in Los Angeles, so they've played.
Speaker 2: I know it was called a neutral site, but they've
Speaker 2: never They're three to zero in so far in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Uh that vikings. I think Darnold goes into this game
Speaker 2: pretty anxious and the Rams defense has been unbelievable and
Speaker 2: so and Kevin O'Connell, as much as everyone likes him,
Speaker 2: he's coached one playoff game ever and he lost at
Speaker 2: home to Daniel Jones. So I'll just take the better coach,
Speaker 2: it's the better quarterback. I'll take the Rams getting a
Speaker 2: point and a half. And I think the Rams are
Speaker 2: a dangerous, dangerous NFC team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. There, Rams plus one and
Speaker 3: a half. I think we've seen what uh what's gonna
Speaker 3: happen with Darnold. I don't I think they turned their
Speaker 3: pressure on and he's cooked.
Speaker 2: But uh, okay, Yeah, so you don't have a teaser
Speaker 2: this week. Here is a teaser that I will be
Speaker 2: making and a teaser that you might like part of
Speaker 2: and then take the other side of. So the Rams
Speaker 2: are getting one and a half, A six point teaser
Speaker 2: gets them up to seven and a half. I get
Speaker 2: through all the key numbers, so I like that. And
Speaker 2: then the Bills are laying eight and a half. A
Speaker 2: six point teaser gets them back through the other direction
Speaker 2: the key numbers to minus two and a half. Now
Speaker 2: you you might like the Rams leg plus the opposite
Speaker 2: of the Bill's leg where you take Denver up through
Speaker 2: ten and thirteen and fourteen.
Speaker 3: I'm done doing the like the high note, like I
Speaker 3: think I would put that, I would put it more
Speaker 3: towards the Bills. I'm not gonna give more to.
Speaker 2: That because you don't think because you think so. Your
Speaker 2: Denver pick is you don't think they get blown out,
Speaker 2: but yeah, you don't think they're gonna win. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so I so I really like And now the other
Speaker 2: you probably because you like these seven pointers or whatever,
Speaker 2: you might be a bigger fan of teasing Baltimore down
Speaker 2: to two and a half nine and a half.
Speaker 3: My initial when he talked teaser Pittsburgh was like the
Speaker 3: first thing that comes to mind for me, Like, I
Speaker 3: was just teasing Pittsburgh up as much as I could.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you just said you didn't want to do
Speaker 2: the big number of teasers you literally.
Speaker 3: I did, I did, I did just say that. But
Speaker 3: like with that, with that game, I think that game's
Speaker 3: a little bit different from from uh Denver, from Denver
Speaker 3: playing Buffalo.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, but if you the so I listen, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make it demonse. You can you think on it
Speaker 2: and tweet it out if you want to do one,
Speaker 2: or you can just say it now. I'm going to
Speaker 2: make this bet. The Rams teased up to plus six
Speaker 2: and a half, the Bills teased down to minus two
Speaker 2: and a half. And I just listen, If I lose
Speaker 2: this because Buffalo doesn't cover the two and a half,
Speaker 2: that probably means Buffalo just got eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you that wouldn't disappoint me. So
Speaker 2: if I if I lose the bet, I'll lose it
Speaker 2: with a smile on my face because if the Chiefs
Speaker 2: don't have to go through this Bills team in the postseason,
Speaker 2: I'll be very happy. So the pick recaps are for me.
Speaker 2: I've got how many dogs, how many favorites? I've got
Speaker 2: three dogs, three favorites. Houston plus three against the true Chargers,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh getting nine and a half at Baltimore, Buffalo laying
Speaker 2: the eight and a half, Philly laying the four and
Speaker 2: a half, Tampa laying the three, and the Rams getting
Speaker 2: one and a half. Demon has the same last two
Speaker 2: as me, but Andy has Pittsburgh same as me, but
Speaker 2: he has the Chargers laying two and a half, Denver
Speaker 2: getting the eight and a half, and the Packers getting
Speaker 2: four and a half. All right, let's do the offer.
Speaker 2: Which are the producers really up twenty two units on
Speaker 2: these offers that I have?
Speaker 3: They hit these offers. I feel like they hit at
Speaker 3: least four or five a year, like we're doing the
Speaker 3: pod from Trinsitch both of us. I'm pretty sure, like
Speaker 3: the offer I hit on like five weeks straight.
Speaker 2: All right, well maybe, goh, let's see if we'll take
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 3: So this week's offer is we got Jalen McMillan, the
Speaker 3: Bucks ride receiver. So he's gotten one or more touchdowns
Speaker 3: in each of his last five games, and he scored
Speaker 3: versus Washington in Week one as well, So we got
Speaker 3: Jayleen McMillan. Anytime touchdown scores plus one seventy Do you
Speaker 3: want that?
Speaker 2: No? Sorry? Uh, I know that. I said the producers
Speaker 2: have been hot, they've been hitting, But no, I'm not
Speaker 2: the here's the problem with for me, with the offer,
Speaker 2: and it's not a problem with the producers. It's a
Speaker 2: problem with the just the offer always involves a player
Speaker 2: prop or multiple player props, and in general I don't
Speaker 2: think those are great value. And so I'm just my
Speaker 2: natural reflexive answer is that I say no to it
Speaker 2: and listen. I hope the producers keep hitting, uh, And
Speaker 2: so that's you know, I hope the producers keep hitting.
Speaker 3: All watching Kelsey touchdown Millan and Kelly.
Speaker 2: Well that next week, Kelsey is three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: yards and three touchdowns away from break jarr or from
Speaker 2: tying Jerry Rice for the most yards in playoff history
Speaker 2: running or receiving, and the most touchdowns in playoff history
Speaker 2: running or receiving. He's already first all time in catches,
Speaker 2: and he's first all time in something else. I can't
Speaker 2: even remember, maybe yards per game. So we'll see if
Speaker 2: there's some Kelsey stuff a week from now. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break right back, and let's do some listener questions.
Speaker 2: What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's Right with
Speaker 2: Think Right? Episode two ninety one, Demons, Let's do these
Speaker 2: listener questions real.
Speaker 3: Quick Curtis says which one would have a bigger impact
Speaker 3: on Patrick mahomes legacy, winning the Super Bowl this year
Speaker 3: to three peat or next season breaking Peyton mannings his
Speaker 3: story twenty thirteen statistical season.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not even it's not even close. A
Speaker 2: three peat this year cements Mahomes and this Chiefs team
Speaker 2: in a way no regular season numbers could ever come
Speaker 2: close to. So it's the three peat by by an
Speaker 2: absolute mile.
Speaker 3: Next, Andrew hey Nick, if the Bears hire Ben Johnson,
Speaker 3: what do you think of hiring Bob Sala as a
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator, first time head coach being able to pass
Speaker 3: the DTA Sala take a breath here and focus on
Speaker 3: offense and situational football thoughts.
Speaker 2: Listen. I'd love that. I think that would be great.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be available to them. I
Speaker 2: think if Bob Sala doesn't get a head coaching job,
Speaker 2: which maybe he will, he's gonna go back to the
Speaker 2: Niners to be their defensive coordinator. So I think that
Speaker 2: it's pretty I don't think any other team's gonna have
Speaker 2: a real chance of hiring him because it's either gonna
Speaker 2: be head coach, which would be odd, but maybe it'll happen.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll be looking. Well, the Jets fell apart without him.
Speaker 2: I mean they weren't great with him, but they were
Speaker 2: terrible once he left. If not, he'll just go back
Speaker 2: to the Niners. I would imagine, next.
Speaker 3: Neil, if Jalb Hurts leads the Eagles back to the
Speaker 3: Super out duels Mahomes again and wins it this time,
Speaker 3: are we gonna give him credit as the top three quarterback?
Speaker 2: First of all? The out duels Mahomes again part of it?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. But the answer to that question is probably if
Speaker 2: the Eagles go to the Super Bowl and Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: let's just remove the word again, beats Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 2: outplays him, will people think he's top three quarterback? Yeah?
Speaker 2: The answer that's yeah. Next it's I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's gonna happen, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Austin, what do you think is more likely for
Speaker 3: Josh Allen a career like John Elway or more akin
Speaker 3: to Bill's legend Jim Kelly kin oh a kin Mark
Speaker 3: my bad a kin to Bill's legend Jim Kelly, where
Speaker 3: he always gets close but never completely breaks through.
Speaker 2: I think John Elway. I think the I don't know
Speaker 2: about getting to five Super Bowls and winning two like
Speaker 2: John Elway did, but I think I eventually, John Listen, guys, eventually,
Speaker 2: some people other than Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: gonna win Super Bowls. Not this year, but eventually it's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. And Josh Allen's very high on that list
Speaker 2: of the guys who it's most likely to happen to.
Speaker 3: Next last one, uh Kafrikas is the Rams defensive line,
Speaker 3: the strongest unit no one talks about. They are young
Speaker 3: and always seem to impact games, and.
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons I really like this. Rams seem,
Speaker 2: love the coach, love the quarterback, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden they have a young, fast, good defense, Chiefs Rams
Speaker 2: super Bowl is very very in play, very in play,
Speaker 2: and that would be unbelievable, especially because I think Golf
Speaker 2: is one of the only starting maybe the only start.
Speaker 2: I think golf is the only active starting quarterback. Mahomes
Speaker 2: has played more than once and never beaten. I think
Speaker 2: Mahomes is zero to two against Jared Goff. I think
Speaker 2: I'm not certain on that, so that would be a
Speaker 2: fun one too. All right, great job. Demon's a great job.
Speaker 2: My friend's at Blue Dock. Great up Shane, who ups us?
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