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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Episode two sixty
Speaker 2: nine with some legitimate breaking news. I thought we were
Speaker 2: going to just have a whole, full blown Kansas City
Speaker 2: celebration today because the Royals beat the Yankees. I had.
Speaker 2: I I bought Demon's, I bought fifteen tickets to this
Speaker 2: baseball game. I was planning on bringing just the mayor
Speaker 2: of Kansas City, your mom, and your sisters. That was
Speaker 2: That was the group and I And at first I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, maybe Fox, maybe I can ask for
Speaker 2: a favorite Fox, get give me some tickets. But and
Speaker 2: Fox would have given me some tickets, but problem I'm
Speaker 2: bringing the mayor political figure. All of a sudden, it's
Speaker 2: like a campaign donation, Like what do you do? There's
Speaker 2: so it's like, no, can't do it. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: don't worry, like I'll just take care of the tickets.
Speaker 2: But your aunties are in town. We had this big
Speaker 2: birthday party Saturday night. I had, you know, maybe a
Speaker 2: few a little too much wine, and I just started
Speaker 2: inviting people. I didn't even I ben getting tech Sunday
Speaker 2: like whatever. All of a sudden, I'm on seat geek
Speaker 2: just firing off tickets. So it was great. So that
Speaker 2: was amazing.
Speaker 3: Chief were they all just roll? I found?
Speaker 2: I found No, I found nine, four and five, you know,
Speaker 2: in a row row three in row four, four on
Speaker 2: the aisle, then five on the aisle, and that's where
Speaker 2: all of the Royals fans, plus my brother in law,
Speaker 2: Joe's husband, who's a diehard Yankee fan and was in
Speaker 2: hell the whole game. He was happy to be there,
Speaker 2: but was in hell. And then everyone else, Oh Danny
Speaker 2: from Breakfast Ball, one of them, everyone else that was
Speaker 2: a Yankee fan was sitting one section over so like
Speaker 2: they we could see each other. But the Yankee fans
Speaker 2: were their Royals fans were here. That's going on. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry about I'm watching Monday night football. It's a great
Speaker 2: Kansas City sports day. I figure that's where we're starting.
Speaker 2: And I was even gonna do a whole thing about
Speaker 2: how sometimes life just works out where in your quest,
Speaker 2: in one's quest to become America's most pre eminent sports
Speaker 2: talk personality, the universe blesses you by having your hometown
Speaker 2: be the center of the sports universe. Have maybe the
Speaker 2: best player in baseball, certainly the best player other than
Speaker 2: Otani and Judge, and maybe he beats Judge while having
Speaker 2: a dynasty all of it. But instead we can't even
Speaker 2: lead with any of that because the Jets are gonna Jets.
Speaker 2: So the breaking news is Robert Sala has been fired.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second. First, quickly, what
Speaker 2: missed the cut? Lebron and Bronni share a court together
Speaker 2: for the first time. I can only imagine that made
Speaker 2: Demonse's allergies act up again. Gardner Minshew may or may
Speaker 2: not have been caught picking his nose, and Stefan Diggs
Speaker 2: side eyes Josh Allen. It would appear, but Demonse. I just, oh,
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Speaker 2: what's the breaking news? Even though I just said it,
Speaker 2: go ahead and tell the audience.
Speaker 4: So the Jets have officially fired Robert Sala or Bobby Sala,
Speaker 4: whatever we're calling him these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff Ulbrick, not Nat Hackett, will be the interim
Speaker 2: head coach. Shout at listen. A lot of people thought
Speaker 2: Robert Salad could be fired if this season went awry.
Speaker 2: I want to give special credit to Eric mangeni who
Speaker 2: on Thursday or Friday on the show made the point
Speaker 2: that I had not even considered, which was if Sala
Speaker 2: loses this game in particular, it could have awful repercussions.
Speaker 2: And what I was surprised about with it was is like, well,
Speaker 2: the Vikings are really you know four and oh they're
Speaker 2: really good. And Mangenie's point that I had just forgotten
Speaker 2: was the owner of the New York Jets for four years,
Speaker 2: had to step away from being on because when Trump
Speaker 2: was president, Trump named Woody Johnson the ambassador to the
Speaker 2: United Kingdom, and so Woody Johnson has a lot of friends,
Speaker 2: political figures, business partners, whomever over there in London where
Speaker 2: the game was being played, And Coach's point was, if
Speaker 2: the Jets lose that game and play poorly and look bad,
Speaker 2: that that is the type of thing that can enrage
Speaker 2: the owner who's trying to, you know, maybe kind of
Speaker 2: show off to the people that he used to work
Speaker 2: around in London, and it could be the last straw.
Speaker 2: I thought, listen, I thought Robert Sawa was getting fired eventually.
Speaker 2: I did not think he was going to get fired.
Speaker 2: After the Jets defense, which is his thing, played awesome
Speaker 2: against the Vikings, made Sam Darnold go straight pumpkin mode
Speaker 2: and they had a chance to win the game. But Rogers,
Speaker 2: you know, screwed it up at the end. But he's fired.
Speaker 2: So let's look backwards, then look forwards. The look backwards
Speaker 2: is this man, Mike Vrabel was sitting out there this summer.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Bill Belichick would have taken the job,
Speaker 2: but Bill Belichick was sitting out there this summer. You
Speaker 2: decided to run it back with Robert Salah, And honestly, like,
Speaker 2: what did you expect to be after five games three
Speaker 2: and two? You're two and three. It's not like And now, listen,
Speaker 2: I don't think the Jets are going to be very good,
Speaker 2: but they have not had the spiral, oh my god
Speaker 2: season from hell that usually would get a coach fired
Speaker 2: this quickly, and it just shows a total lack of
Speaker 2: foresight or real planning to fire your coach this quickly
Speaker 2: into the year. Now, the other piece of this, of course,
Speaker 2: is how much of the blame falls on Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: And sorry, but a lot of it because a if
Speaker 2: he played better against the Vikings, they win and the
Speaker 2: coach isn't fired. But also, and I know Aaron and
Speaker 2: Sala tried to tell us at every chance at the
Speaker 2: press conferences, Oh, we're all good, but Sala, Aaron consistently
Speaker 2: letting the whole world know, not my guy this year.
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is I think Sala stayed. I think
Speaker 2: one of the reasons they didn't fire Sala was because
Speaker 2: I'm talking about in the offseason Aaron didn't want them to,
Speaker 2: but I said it then, I will say it again.
Speaker 2: I do not think Aaron Rodgers ever forgave Robert Sala
Speaker 2: for calling his trip to Egypt unexcused. And from that
Speaker 2: moment forward there was a disconnect and the you know
Speaker 2: what should have been up to that point, the pinnacle
Speaker 2: of the Jets season, which was them dominating the Patriots.
Speaker 2: When Sala tried to hug Aaron and Aaron shoved, you know,
Speaker 2: did that to him? You can't tell me that's nothing.
Speaker 2: That was something then, that was so clearly something then.
Speaker 2: And then they tried to play it off. Oh, he
Speaker 2: talks about two score leads, talks about this nonsense, and
Speaker 2: there were just a lot of and then when the
Speaker 2: Cadence stuff came up and Aaron's like, oh well, or
Speaker 2: you could just hold the guys accountable, there were a
Speaker 2: lot of not subtle easter eggs saying they weren't on
Speaker 2: the same page. So now Robert Salad pays with his
Speaker 2: job and I mean demonse how many days ago, ten
Speaker 2: days ago, ten days ago, maybe twelve days ago, Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers is at a president. I'm just being like, all right, now,
Speaker 2: our big thing is learning how to handle prosperity and
Speaker 2: expect to dominate, not just win. Twelve days later, damn
Speaker 2: coaches fired, You lose to bow Nix and Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: out of here. I mean, the Jets are just gonna
Speaker 2: be the Jets. And there are certain things, man that
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say this without sounding obnoxious,
Speaker 2: but just listen to me, folks. Some franchises like the
Speaker 2: Fish rots from the head down and Yets lack of
Speaker 2: competent ownership and front office and head coaching, all of
Speaker 2: it made this season dead on arrival from the beginning.
Speaker 2: And I had to listen to so many people this
Speaker 2: summer be like, oh, you don't think Bryce Hall is
Speaker 2: a top three running back? And I'm like, well, even
Speaker 2: if he is, he's not gonna save you. And also,
Speaker 2: by the way, you guys seen Bryce Hall lately, have you?
Speaker 2: Cause I have. I saw him carry the ball ten
Speaker 2: times for four yards against the Broncos and then up
Speaker 2: that to nine times for twenty three yards against the Vikings.
Speaker 2: I had to listen to people say I'm underrating Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson because I said he's a really good but not
Speaker 2: a great player. Yet I had people tell me, Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers is gonna fix everything. The last time Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: was awesome, Mac Jones was a pro bowler. And the
Speaker 2: amount of people fans can be fans, the amount of
Speaker 2: people in my profession, some of whom fancy themselves quarterbacking
Speaker 2: experts that just swore up and down. Oh, this Jets team,
Speaker 2: with that defense, with the quarterbacking you're gonna get from
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, that's a championship contender. They fired their coach
Speaker 2: before the election. Like, so, I don't know what to
Speaker 2: tell you other than I told you already. And the
Speaker 2: Jets fans deserve better. The Jets franchise does not. Their
Speaker 2: players might, but the general franchise doesn't. And now you've
Speaker 2: got an interim head coach. Do you think, oh Man Demanse,
Speaker 2: do you think Rogers is still gonna do his McAfee
Speaker 2: interview today?
Speaker 4: Oh boy, Yeah, will definitely shake the table whatever he's
Speaker 4: gonna say, because he's gonna say something. Yeah, yeah, maybe,
Speaker 4: but I can't put that past. Yeah, go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 2: You know I can't. The So like Davante Adams does
Speaker 2: a wit with k Adams on FanDuel and shout out
Speaker 2: to Kay Adams. She's done a really nice job getting
Speaker 2: these interviews breaking news. Davante canceled his today because he's
Speaker 2: in the midst of trade rumors and just and that's
Speaker 2: and I totally get that, Like I understand why. It's
Speaker 2: like it's probably not good for anybody for me to
Speaker 2: come on right now. I don't know, man, I feel
Speaker 2: like Roger's gonna pop on McAfee and be like, man,
Speaker 2: ain't this something and I'm not listening. I don't think
Speaker 2: Rogers went to what he Johnson said, fired the coach.
Speaker 2: I don't think that at all. I I do think
Speaker 2: that if he has any sense of self awareness, he
Speaker 2: understands that a lot of the dominoes that had to
Speaker 2: fall for Robert Salad to get fired before Doug Peterson,
Speaker 2: for Robert Salad to be the first guy out, uh
Speaker 2: were set into motion by him.
Speaker 3: Oh Hackett so like guy, and he's.
Speaker 2: That was like, oh right, well that you can't fire
Speaker 2: net Hackett because that's Rogers guy, and that's the guy
Speaker 2: Rodgers wants there. And that's saying it's the Offensi's fault.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. Like somebody tweeted this and they're correct.
Speaker 2: What do you mean the Jets fired their head coach.
Speaker 2: I just checked the roster and Aaron Rodgers still on
Speaker 2: the team. There is that element of it. Also, I
Speaker 2: shouted out, Mangeenie, I want to shout out Wilds as well,
Speaker 2: which was Wild's last week after the Broncos thing, and
Speaker 2: the whole Cadence argument said that Robert Sala should consider
Speaker 2: going on the attack essentially instead of just always eating
Speaker 2: bleep from Rogers, being like, you know what, if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get fired, I'm gonna go out on my sword
Speaker 2: and kind of firing back. It seemed like a crazy thought.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, I know, it couldn't have ended worse
Speaker 2: than this. He would he wouldn't have been fired any
Speaker 2: quicker if he had done that. All right, from arguably
Speaker 2: the worst franchise in sports to inarguably the best franchise
Speaker 2: in sports. Let's talk about Monday night football.
Speaker 4: So yeah, your Chiefs remain undefeated for the time being.
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes is continuing that pig streak. He threw a
Speaker 4: pick in the game again yesterday.
Speaker 2: Give me a break. I mean he did, but that
Speaker 2: was but okay.
Speaker 3: I'll say it was fast.
Speaker 4: A little tip is it's a it's a pick though,
Speaker 4: if Jalen Hurts would have done that.
Speaker 3: Hurts.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm glad you said that. Just real
Speaker 2: quick on the Jalen Hurts thing. Demand you remember this
Speaker 2: take that everyone killed me for twenty days into training camp,
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts twenty practices in zero interceptions and I said
Speaker 2: too few. Uh yeah, well, you know, as Bimani used
Speaker 2: to say, uh, listen to me now, believe me. Later on,
Speaker 2: I that was that. Uh. I had forgotten about that storyline,
Speaker 2: but you just mentioned it about the intercepting Jailen Hurts.
Speaker 2: But go ahead, what were.
Speaker 3: You as something there? So you missed you actually missed
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: You went to the Royals game with the family and
Speaker 4: Danny and even the mayor Lucas. I don't know if
Speaker 4: we're gonna show some picks for those watching on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, this was me and the America. The
Speaker 2: American city came in and then I man shout out
Speaker 2: to Yankee Stadium for the cell service. I didn't even
Speaker 2: have to have Wi Fi. I streamed that entire game
Speaker 2: just propped up on a beer can, the whole Monday
Speaker 2: night football with no interruption. I was like, man, it's
Speaker 2: gonna buffer, it's not gonna it worked. It worked brilliantly.
Speaker 2: So I actually did get to watch both. But go ahead.
Speaker 4: So the real question is, is Kansas City the best
Speaker 4: sports city in the country at the moment.
Speaker 2: Right now, right now? Yeah, And the Mahomes Bobby Witt
Speaker 2: duo can go toe to toe with any two sport,
Speaker 2: two athlete combo in any city in the country, Like
Speaker 2: New York's got eight teams, what would the New York
Speaker 2: duo be right now? Aaron Judge and Jalen Brunson with respect,
Speaker 2: That ain't Mahomes Bobby Wit Los Angeles Lobronotani. That's pretty
Speaker 2: good his story like that, But so that's in the
Speaker 2: same conversations Dallas, Mica and Luca. That's not better than
Speaker 2: Mahomes Bobby, Like yeah, And so the given what the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are doing and the Royals after one hundred and
Speaker 2: six losses being two wins away from being in the
Speaker 2: alcs UH is pretty remarkable. All right, let's talk Demond's
Speaker 2: about the Chiefs. So it does look like Rashi Rice
Speaker 2: is probably gonna be out for the year. There was
Speaker 2: weird reporting on that yesterday. It's not an ACL but
Speaker 2: probably still out for the year. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: gonna definitively know he's one hundred percent out for the
Speaker 2: year until later today. But let's just assume he is.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Lovershi, he's an awesome player. It's not
Speaker 2: gonna matter because the Chiefs have the three most important
Speaker 2: things you can have, and everyone acknowledges two of them,
Speaker 2: and people might finally be accepting the third one of
Speaker 2: them is this, They have the best quarterback in football.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the numbers are yesterday, By the way,
Speaker 2: he played a perfect football game. I know that he
Speaker 2: threw a pass to Juju that should have been a
Speaker 2: touchdown and up an interception. Don't care. He played a
Speaker 2: perfect game against the Saints team that everyone wanted to
Speaker 2: pretend they thought was really good and now everyone's going
Speaker 2: to say is really bad, when in reality they're just mediocre.
Speaker 2: And Mahomes also that scramble for a first down on
Speaker 2: third and twelve or whatever it is, only he and
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson get a first down on that play. He
Speaker 2: is obviously not the runner Lamar is, but his ability
Speaker 2: to on a design pass play on third or fourth
Speaker 2: down recognize, Oh wait, I'm not gonna have it, and
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be faster than the guy chasing me.
Speaker 2: Is second none in the league. They have the best
Speaker 2: coach in football, which is how you can take Juju
Speaker 2: Smith Schuster who's not was not considered good enough to
Speaker 2: make the Patriots, and he has one hundred and thirty yards,
Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt, who is considered not good enough to make
Speaker 2: the Browns, and he has one hundred yards. They have
Speaker 2: all those things, and then they also have this the
Speaker 2: best damn defense in the l And if you have
Speaker 2: if you have the best coach, the best quarterback, and
Speaker 2: the best defense, you're gonna figure it out no matter
Speaker 2: the other injuries you have. And when I say the
Speaker 2: best defense, demons. The last time the Chiefs allowed thirty
Speaker 2: points in a football game was the Super Bowl against
Speaker 2: the Eagles. The last time the Chiefs allowed thirty points
Speaker 2: in a football game was the Super Bowl two years ago.
Speaker 2: So seventeen games last year, four playoff games five year.
Speaker 2: So they're on what's that twenty eight consecutive games without
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, seventeen plus four, twenty six consecutive consecutive games
Speaker 2: pardon me without allowing thirty points. They what they are
Speaker 2: able to do that the other teams opposing running backs,
Speaker 2: none of us.
Speaker 4: The Saints have been humming. They have Alvin Kamara and
Speaker 4: the Saints have been putting up numbers. I think they
Speaker 4: scored thirteen yesterday.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's and more so than that. Let me
Speaker 2: find the stat I'm so Chiefs. The Chiefs rush defense
Speaker 2: has been good, but it's actually been elite against opposing
Speaker 2: team's top back. So the rate in the Ravens game,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you gave up one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: five yards rushing. Well, Lamar had won twenty two against
Speaker 2: the Ravens. Derrick Henry thirteen carries forty six yards. The
Speaker 2: next week against the Vikings. Against the Bengals, Zach Moss
Speaker 2: twelve carries thirty four yards. The next week against the Falcons,
Speaker 2: Bijon Robinson sixteen carries thirty one yards. The next week
Speaker 2: against the Chargers, JK. Dobbins, who had been killing folks,
Speaker 2: fourteen carries thirty two yards, and last night against the Saints,
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara eleven carries twenty six yards. All these guys
Speaker 2: are under three yards of carry, and those are against
Speaker 2: everyone else this year some of the best running backs
Speaker 2: in football. So they have that and Mahome's just gonna
Speaker 2: figure it out and they're getting Xavier a little more
Speaker 2: worked into it. And as you saw so you saw
Speaker 2: yesterday was all right, Travis, give us a little bit
Speaker 2: more because we're dealing with the injury and because we
Speaker 2: have a bye next week. And Travis, by the way,
Speaker 2: was you could see he was feeling it. Guy's thirty five,
Speaker 2: but he can still do it. That's the point I
Speaker 2: was making when I was like, he has six to
Speaker 2: ten awesome games left, and all the Swifties got so
Speaker 2: mad at me. It was such a weird thing I got.
Speaker 2: People got really mad at me because they thought I
Speaker 2: was hating on Travis. I'm just being realistic about what
Speaker 2: it takes out of his body to get hit that
Speaker 2: many times to do all those things.
Speaker 3: Yeah for a second.
Speaker 2: For real. But now they're five and zero and everyone
Speaker 2: and the other thing is this, like everyone else is
Speaker 2: just e They are the only undefeated team left in
Speaker 2: the AFC, and there's only one other team that hasn't
Speaker 2: lost twice, and that's Houston. So they are at the
Speaker 2: huge Whre's Houston play this week, Well, Houston plays the Patriots,
Speaker 2: so they're not going to get a lost this week.
Speaker 3: Are you saying, are you excluding the Vikings there?
Speaker 2: I said the a f C, because.
Speaker 3: Yeah you.
Speaker 2: And by the way, in the NFC, there's only one
Speaker 2: undefeated and one in the whole league. Let me do
Speaker 2: it this way. In the whole league, four teams, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: five teams, because the Lions had a buy five teams
Speaker 2: have fewer than two losses, the undefeated Vikings and Chiefs,
Speaker 2: and then the four win Commanders and Texans and the
Speaker 2: three and one Lions, who are not taking anything away
Speaker 2: in the Lions, but they just they're the one team
Speaker 2: of that group that that's had the bye. And the
Speaker 2: rest of the way that this is the other part
Speaker 2: of it. The Chiefs already played their tough part of
Speaker 2: their schedule. They played sorry, there was a fly in here,
Speaker 2: so they got after the bye, they have at the Niners.
Speaker 2: And then other than that, they play two games all
Speaker 2: year against teams we think are supposed to be really
Speaker 2: good at the Bills and home for the Texans. Their
Speaker 2: other games are the following Raiders, Buccaneers, Little Tricky Broncos, Panthers, Raiders, Chargers, Browns, Steelers, Broncos.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be the one seed. They're going
Speaker 2: to win a minimum of fourteen games. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to come through Arrowhead to beat them, and you're not
Speaker 2: gonna do it.
Speaker 3: So watch out for that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to sure. Yeah, I probably lose
Speaker 2: that game. Yeah, probably lose. Yeah the Bills. The Bills
Speaker 2: love beating the Chiefs in in the regular season. I
Speaker 2: would if I if they're gonna go fourteen and three,
Speaker 2: I would say the most likely losses are at the Bills,
Speaker 2: one of the Broncos games, because that Broncos defense is unbelievable,
Speaker 2: I give them credit, and a stupid one. I don't
Speaker 2: know what the stupid one will be, but a stupid
Speaker 2: one like against the Browns with uh Jameis Winston as
Speaker 2: the starting quarterback or something like, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I think they probably lose at the Bills, one
Speaker 2: divisional game, which would I think probably be one of
Speaker 2: the Broncos games, and a dumb one. They're not I
Speaker 2: tell you this much right now, They're not losing to
Speaker 2: the Niners. The way the Niners are looking, and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are coming off of bye, that shit ain't happening.
Speaker 2: And so get to six and zero and see what's what.
Speaker 2: And by the way, one of the sneak eat good value.
Speaker 2: It wasn't really good value, but a bet that had
Speaker 2: more value than it should have because it was the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Because the Chiefs opening schedule was so tough, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: to be the last remaining undefeated team got it very
Speaker 2: live because the next game for the Vikings is uh,
Speaker 2: the next game for the Vikings is against the Lions,
Speaker 2: so they could they could get clipped. Now the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are playing the Niners, and I know people are still
Speaker 2: trying to convince themselves the Niners are an excellent team.
Speaker 2: Maybe they will beat the end of the year. They
Speaker 2: ain't right now. Uh, but yeah, I mean, I just
Speaker 2: and you want to know something, Hilario, that'll who do
Speaker 2: you think demons right now is the favorite to win
Speaker 2: NFL MVP.
Speaker 3: Five the end of the year. Is it weird? I
Speaker 3: think it's Mahomes but it's not, or is it Jayden? No?
Speaker 2: So it When I said it's a weird one, I
Speaker 2: mean because he hasn't.
Speaker 3: Played crazy numbers, right, it's.
Speaker 2: Mahomes by a lot. Mahomes is plus three point thirty
Speaker 2: second place. Tied for second place is Lamar at six
Speaker 2: to one, alongside Josh Allen, who just played one of
Speaker 2: the worst football games anyone's ever played. So that you know,
Speaker 2: Lamar's the only one of those three that's played to
Speaker 2: an MVP standard. But it's projection on what they're going
Speaker 2: to do. And then Stroud is four and Jayden is five,
Speaker 2: and so listen, I know people are sick of the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I'd be sick of them too, but their top two
Speaker 2: wide receivers are out, they're starting running back is out,
Speaker 2: and Homes up until this week, had had a weird
Speaker 2: tendency just throw a ball to the other team every game.
Speaker 2: I know he had to pick this week, but that
Speaker 2: was not a bad pass. Uh. And they're five and
Speaker 2: all despite facing the league's either the league's toughest or
Speaker 2: what's what the other crazy thing is? Then go ahead.
Speaker 2: The two toughest schedules up to this point in the
Speaker 2: season have been played by the Chiefs and the Vikings,
Speaker 2: and they're the two undefeated teams. Like that's you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, that's a that's a really unique spot
Speaker 2: that those two teams have been in. They're undefeated despite
Speaker 2: the schedule, not because of the schedule. Looked like you
Speaker 2: wanted to say something before we move on.
Speaker 4: Uh No, I mean yes, Bugsy and I Bugsy and
Speaker 4: I in the chest says, can't spell Nick without Casey.
Speaker 3: We got his back.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that Bugsy shout.
Speaker 4: Out to I won't say anything about Rashie Rice because
Speaker 4: we already know what's next.
Speaker 3: You're saying that's not a factor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, listen, I don't. I think Rashi's a great play,
Speaker 2: but I just don't think that. I just think they're
Speaker 2: gonna find a way, and I think that they're going
Speaker 2: to get Xavier more and more involved, and then we'll see.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to Texans Bills.
Speaker 4: So you've you've been adamant that the Chiefs, Ravens and
Speaker 4: Bills are the top teams in the AFC. But Buffalo
Speaker 4: just had a very embarrassing showing. So were you Nick
Speaker 4: right too high on Buffalo?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Maybe now they just there's just a lot of things
Speaker 2: they got to tighten up. They they oddly, on the
Speaker 2: other hand, really do need their number one receiver, Khalil Shakir.
Speaker 2: He seems to be the only guy that Josh Allen
Speaker 2: really is on the same page as and listen, Alan
Speaker 2: throwing the ball thirty times and completing nine passes has
Speaker 2: literally never happened in NFL history before. So he was
Speaker 2: brutal in this game. But my biggest concern for the
Speaker 2: Bills one of them will. I have two overarching concerns
Speaker 2: about the Bills. One is, when they play top flight offenses,
Speaker 2: is their defensive personnel going to be able to keep
Speaker 2: up and Houston when Nico Collins was in the game,
Speaker 2: ate them up. Then Nico went out and that now
Speaker 2: is a sneaky massive injury because they called him day
Speaker 2: to day and then they changed it to week to week.
Speaker 2: It's a hamstring and hamstrings are tricky and CJ and
Speaker 2: that passing offense immediately throttled down once Nico Collins, who
Speaker 2: had been up to this point, you know, a top
Speaker 2: three receiver in football this year, once he went out.
Speaker 2: So that part of it worries me. The other thing
Speaker 2: that worries me is, of course Sean McDermott in big spots,
Speaker 2: and you know it's been discussed at this point ad nauseum,
Speaker 2: but their approach at the end of that football game
Speaker 2: was and now if you want to say we have
Speaker 2: to pick up a first down, so be it. But
Speaker 2: you also have to have the context of this. I
Speaker 2: know they're not claiming this, but I watched that football game. Man,
Speaker 2: the guy you asked to drop back and pass three
Speaker 2: times and he kept chucking it deep. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes prior was knocked unconscious on the field. I
Speaker 2: watched that hit Josh Allen took. I watched him lay
Speaker 2: prone on the field. I watched them give him smelling
Speaker 2: salts like I And for the the NFL as a league,
Speaker 2: I think it has done a good job with concussion protocol
Speaker 2: in that spot. I thought that was a total failure
Speaker 2: for them to let him just run back on the
Speaker 2: field and then for the Bills to call deep bombs
Speaker 2: for a quarterback who had been having a brutal day
Speaker 2: and I thought just got knocked unconscious. So maybe I
Speaker 2: was a touch too high on Buffalo. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: They are going to win that division easily, and then
Speaker 2: you've got an excellent quarterback in a home playoff game,
Speaker 2: you know, as at worse the four seed. So I
Speaker 2: think because the I mean, the Jets just fired their coach.
Speaker 2: So I don't think they're in great shape. And the
Speaker 2: Dolphins don't know if their quarterback's coming back, and the
Speaker 2: Patriots are the worst team in football.
Speaker 4: So even though that, even though with that division looking
Speaker 4: like that and with the game that they just had,
Speaker 4: do you think that there's any pressure on them to
Speaker 4: go and get DeVante Adams? So?
Speaker 2: I think they. I think that's the number one team
Speaker 2: that should go get Devonte Adams.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I think that would fix a lot of what ails
Speaker 2: them for this year. Now, you do that if you
Speaker 2: think you can really contend this year, because he's gone
Speaker 2: after this year and you're trading a dry so it's
Speaker 2: a risky decision. But if you think you can really
Speaker 2: contend this year, then then you go do that. All right,
Speaker 2: Let's talk Ravens a bit here quickly before we move.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So Baltimore, Yeah, they won in that shootout against the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Lamar has been playing excellently.
Speaker 4: Are the Texans on the same level as Baltimore and
Speaker 4: Kansas City or is it really just a top two
Speaker 4: in the AFC?
Speaker 2: I got here's what the Texans have going for him,
Speaker 2: and then I want to talk Baltimore. Uh, CJ has
Speaker 2: just been finding ways at the end of these games,
Speaker 2: like even just after the Bills screwed up the clock,
Speaker 2: just the smart little over the middle getting field goal range.
Speaker 2: I have not been overly impressed by the Texans as
Speaker 2: a whole, but CJ's been so outstanding, and they're four
Speaker 2: and one, so I would put them I listen. I
Speaker 2: don't think it is a top two, to be very clear,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are head and shoulders better than everyone in
Speaker 2: the conference. But I think Baltimore and Houston might be
Speaker 2: on that next level by themselves without Buffalo, which kind
Speaker 2: of seems fair because Buffalo just played Baltimore and Houston
Speaker 2: got rolled by Baltimore and lost to Houston. Now on Baltimore,
Speaker 2: that wasn'tn a plus. Lamar Jackson game a plus. No notes, no,
Speaker 2: like the nothing negative to say about it. It does
Speaker 2: strike me that when the Ravens are playing another great
Speaker 2: quarterback that Todd Mounkin calls a more pass heavy game,
Speaker 2: and in this game, you know Lamar was up to it.
Speaker 2: In Week one against the Chiefs Navis Championship he wasn't.
Speaker 2: But like it's a you know, they have been ground
Speaker 2: and pound run Derrick Henry run Derrick Henry playing Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: and Derrick Henry has one carry in the third and
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. But it didn't matter because Lamar was so
Speaker 2: damn brilliant, and I also thought he would say I'm
Speaker 2: making excuses. I don't think you need to make excuses
Speaker 2: for five touchdown early four in th yard game. Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow was equally brilliant. I actually thought both of their
Speaker 2: games were their Their games were so similar. They both
Speaker 2: played essentially perfect football, and they both made one massive
Speaker 2: mistake that could have cost their team the game. Joe
Speaker 2: threw the pick that if he doesn't throw, I think
Speaker 2: the Bengals win. Lamar fumbled the snap that Because of that,
Speaker 2: I thought the Bengals were going to win. But then
Speaker 2: they screwed up the the hold on the field goal
Speaker 2: and the coach got crazy conservative. Yeah, so he missed it,
Speaker 2: but he.
Speaker 4: Missed talking about like the yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly, the guy holding the field goal. But here's the
Speaker 2: other thing though about the Ravens and Bengals. The Bengals
Speaker 2: defense is worse, but both of those look like top
Speaker 2: bottom five passing defenses. That's the So if you're a
Speaker 2: Lamar fan, this game should have made you feel better.
Speaker 2: But if you're a Raven fan, you gotta be a
Speaker 2: little nervous because that defense is just getting cooked by
Speaker 2: quarterbacks with regularity.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Demantsey, But if it's the Chiefs that we
Speaker 4: got to get to, you know, they'll just have Travis Kelce,
Speaker 4: won't have the burden of Jamar Chase. No, that's I
Speaker 4: think the Bengals defense is probably one of the most
Speaker 4: most I don't know, potent offenses in the league right now.
Speaker 4: I don't know who's better than the one offense, So
Speaker 4: I think they know, like if they can come out
Speaker 4: with the win there and come out sorry.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, but the the you're probably gonna
Speaker 2: if you're Baltimore, you're gonna have to win a couple
Speaker 2: of playoff games to get to the Chiefs. And if
Speaker 2: one of you mentioned Cincinnati, I don't think Cincinnati dead yet,
Speaker 2: but they're on life support. What about Houston with that
Speaker 2: passing attack if it's fully healthy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You mentioned Buffalo if they were to get Devonte Adams.
Speaker 2: I just think Baltimore's back end right now is in disarray. Now,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's everything on defense is in disarray. And I said
Speaker 2: it on TV. I'll say it again. It reminds me
Speaker 2: a lot of some Saints teams where Drew Brees is
Speaker 2: gonna throw for five thousand yards, have an amazing quarterback rating,
Speaker 2: They're gonna be a top five offense, and they go
Speaker 2: seven to nine because the defense just can't get it together.
Speaker 2: And I mean, listen, I know Cincinnati is sick, and
Speaker 2: this is it. Cincinnati right now feels like, Okay, in
Speaker 2: Week one, we are walking into the end zone to
Speaker 2: beat the Patriots and fumble the ball. Okay, that one's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Week two, we have the Chiefs in fourth and sixteen
Speaker 2: to win the game and we pass interfere In Week three,
Speaker 2: we have Jadeen Daniels is we have him in what
Speaker 2: the play to mcclaury. Now, they were trailing in that game,
Speaker 2: so maybe they would have lost that one anyway. In fact,
Speaker 2: take that one out, but it would they probably do.
Speaker 2: Feel like, man, if we just get home on Daniels there,
Speaker 2: Burrow gets the ball to go take to win the game.
Speaker 2: And in Week five, we have the ball in overtime
Speaker 2: with one of the best kickers in the league and
Speaker 2: we screw up the snaphol and he doesn't have a shot.
Speaker 2: So I mean they are legitimately, despite how bad the
Speaker 2: defense is three plays away from instead of being one
Speaker 2: and four, four and one. But such is life, man like.
Speaker 2: And I know people want me to be more critical
Speaker 2: of Burrow. I can't be. He leads the league in
Speaker 2: passer rating, he leads the league in passing touchdowns, and
Speaker 2: when Chase and Higgins are out there, man, that is
Speaker 2: a terrifying offense, flatly, but that defense is gonna keep
Speaker 2: everyone else in games. And so yeah, I mean that
Speaker 2: was but it's just the margins in the league. We're
Speaker 2: dumb about Baltimore being the clear second best team in
Speaker 2: football in the AFC. If they don't screw up that
Speaker 2: snap and the guy makes the kick, both teams are
Speaker 2: two and three and the Bengals have the tiebreaker instead
Speaker 2: they do, Baltimore is in first place, and the Bengals
Speaker 2: right now would have the second pick of the draft.
Speaker 2: If the draft started today, the Bengals would have the
Speaker 2: second pick. Like, it's just the the the margins are
Speaker 2: so thin, All right, quick break, come back, What's right?
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Speaker 2: to right or wrong, let's do a little Cowboys and
Speaker 2: then we'll move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Cowboys got to win on Sunday Night football,
Speaker 4: but barely. You know, the Steelers defense is really good.
Speaker 4: But Dak Prescott's the highest paid player in the league
Speaker 4: right now, and he had three turnovers. Even in the victory,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys fraud watch gain even more momentum.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think so at all. Listen. I thought
Speaker 2: the Cowboys moved the ball up and down the field,
Speaker 2: and those dac three turnovers are a killer. But against
Speaker 2: that defense moving the ball is you know, really impressed
Speaker 2: and you know, right, I mean, you can kind of
Speaker 2: phrase it a different way. The Dallas Cowboys are on
Speaker 2: the road against a Mike Tomlin team on National TV,
Speaker 2: got to deal with a ninety minute lightning delay. Their
Speaker 2: quarterback has three turnovers, they have a field goal blocked.
Speaker 2: They are without Micah Parsons DeMarcus Lawrence. They lose another
Speaker 2: defensive end probably for the season this one. During the game,
Speaker 2: they have a couple offensive lineman hurt, and they still
Speaker 2: won the game. That is Listen, it was ugly, but
Speaker 2: that's a great win. And that fourth down pass by
Speaker 2: Dak can be a pivotal turning point of a season
Speaker 2: if just think about it. If they they have fourth
Speaker 2: and goal down four less than a minute left, less
Speaker 2: than thirty seconds left. If it's incomplete, the Cowboys fall
Speaker 2: to two and three and dak is crushed all week
Speaker 2: for the turnovers. Instead, they complete the pass, they win
Speaker 2: the game, and they now feel like, all right, got
Speaker 2: the Lions and then a bye. Worst case scenario, we
Speaker 2: go into the buy three and three and get our
Speaker 2: guys back healthy. Best case scenario is all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: we're four and two and looking like the clear class
Speaker 2: of the division, depending what Washington does. So I listen.
Speaker 2: I don't think Dallas is a great team, but the
Speaker 2: first three weeks of the year they couldn't stop the
Speaker 2: run at all. The last two weeks they've been excellent
Speaker 2: stopping the run. They're dealing. They got hit by the
Speaker 2: injury bug early, which can be brutal, but if you
Speaker 2: can sustain, then hopefully you're healthier late. And that's just
Speaker 2: a great win for them, because if they lose that game,
Speaker 2: DA's underfire the whole Dax CD thing. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I call me, I know people were doing lip reading
Speaker 2: on CD Lamb. I don't think Cede Lamb is the
Speaker 2: type of guy to just be saying because when everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: he was saying sub par, throw sub par, you think
Speaker 2: ceedee lamb in the middle of a football game is
Speaker 2: just out there dropping subpar Like I'm not.
Speaker 3: Now, no, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not listen. He's always struck. No, I've heard him
Speaker 2: do interviews. He strikes me as sharp guy. But that's
Speaker 2: just such a you know what I.
Speaker 4: Mean, weird thing is subpar subpar?
Speaker 2: Like what are we talking about how the file at
Speaker 2: was cooked? Like are we talking to so I just
Speaker 2: don't think that is what he said. I Charles Robinson said.
Speaker 2: I think it was Charles Robinson that said the other
Speaker 2: thing that if you you know, if you think he
Speaker 2: is saying this, you'll see it was jump balls. What
Speaker 2: what he think what he thought he was saying was
Speaker 2: jump balls for jump balls for being dak And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: that makes way more sense. He's saying, just throw me
Speaker 2: jump balls, you know what I mean, trust me that
Speaker 2: all take care of it. That to me is way
Speaker 2: more believable than subparts, right.
Speaker 4: Subpar is almost like unserious, like he doesn't even really care.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, I mean, it's just and so hard.
Speaker 2: But the point, right, the point that I'm making is
Speaker 2: they had they lost or Dak in City, Okay, you
Speaker 2: know what's up with Dak Jerry does an insane interview.
Speaker 2: Instead they win, and now maybe you you know, if
Speaker 2: you lose to Detroit, that stuff's probably coming anyway, but
Speaker 2: maybe you beat Detroit.
Speaker 3: So like the they played him last year and.
Speaker 2: So they were I picked to win the NFCS before
Speaker 2: the year. But if you remember, I put a little
Speaker 2: sprinkling on Washington like sixteen to one, and everyone laughed
Speaker 2: at me. They're like, oh, you're hedging, and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: what this is. It's not a hedge. It's fading Philly.
Speaker 2: It's the belief that the Giants and shout of the
Speaker 2: Giants good win for them, are not viable and Philly
Speaker 2: is wildly overrated. I think Washington is actually oddly in
Speaker 2: a similar boat to Cincinnati, except their four and one
Speaker 2: since as one and four, which is their offense has
Speaker 2: been awesome, but their defense can get cooked any week.
Speaker 2: So here's my thing on Washington real quick. I know
Speaker 2: everyone is giving Jaden Rookie of the Year already, that's fine,
Speaker 2: but Washington plays Baltimore this week, Demonse, I imagine you
Speaker 2: think Baltimore is gonna win that game. Vegas thinks they're
Speaker 2: gonna win that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, Caleb goes to London to play the Jags. They're
Speaker 2: favored now winning. Beating the Jags in london's hard. But
Speaker 2: let's just say if that happens, both teams will be
Speaker 2: four and two, And then they play each other, Caleb
Speaker 2: against Jaden. And the point I'm making is narratives can
Speaker 2: flip real quick, where if all of a sudden, Caleb
Speaker 2: is on a four game winning streak having beaten Jaden,
Speaker 2: and and also here, and Jaden's on a two game
Speaker 2: losing streak. And the other thing is this Jaden has
Speaker 2: played better than Caleb this year is obvious and not
Speaker 2: you know, debatable. When they play each other, Caleb will
Speaker 2: be going up against one of the worst defenses in
Speaker 2: the league and Jaden will be going up against one
Speaker 2: of the best defenses in the league. That's you know,
Speaker 2: that's not that shouldn't really impact how you view either player,
Speaker 2: but it will impact their stat lines. And so a
Speaker 2: lot of these narratives can get flipped around a bit.
Speaker 2: But uh, but so I think right now, my pick
Speaker 2: for the nfcas would be the Cowboys. In fact, you
Speaker 2: know what, let's just do this real quick before we
Speaker 2: get to right or wrong. I just want to look
Speaker 2: at the divisional odds right now. So the Bills big
Speaker 2: favorites in the AFC East minus two thirty, with the
Speaker 2: Jets at plus three fifty and the Dolphins six to one.
Speaker 2: AFC South Houston massive favorite minus four to twenty. Second
Speaker 2: place is Indy at eight and a half to one,
Speaker 2: and then Jacks at thirteen to one along with the
Speaker 2: Titans AFC North. A little disrespectful to Pittsburgh, but I
Speaker 2: get it. Baltimore minus two thirty, Pittsburgh four to one,
Speaker 2: Sincy six to one, and in the ultimate indictment of
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson, Cleveland thirty two to one to win the division.
Speaker 2: I mean, everyone in the division has at least two losses,
Speaker 2: and they're like, you got no chance. Kansas City to win.
Speaker 2: The AFC West minus nine hundred with Denver sixteen to
Speaker 2: one in the chart eighteen to one. All right, NFC East, Wow,
Speaker 2: Cowboys third place odds Philly plus one thirty, Washington two
Speaker 2: to one, Cowboys two point six to one. I that
Speaker 2: I just really think that is Philly benefited from not
Speaker 2: playing this week and people forgetting how bad they've looked.
Speaker 2: NFC South Atlanta minus one ten, Tampa plus two to
Speaker 2: twenty New Orleans plus three forty, NFC North Vikings minus
Speaker 2: one oh five, Detroit plus one seventy Green Bay plus
Speaker 2: five fifty Chicago fourteen to one.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And then NFC West the Niners minus one fifteen, Seattle
Speaker 2: plus two to twenty Arizona plus four fifteen the Rams
Speaker 2: fifteen to one. All those make sense. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: still like the Cowboys to win the division. All right,
Speaker 2: let's do right or wrong quickly?
Speaker 3: Right or wrong?
Speaker 4: We got Minnesota remains undefeated after a w London, but
Speaker 4: Donald started to show some cracks there. But this team
Speaker 4: is five and zero with convincing wins over San Francisco,
Speaker 4: the Jet Screen Bay in Houston.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong the Vikings. The Vikings can win the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Wrong, I mean that's obviously wrong. Just Sam Donald can't win.
Speaker 2: This can't win a Super Bowl. I mean they listen,
Speaker 2: he and the pumpkin mode. Who's coming. I love the coach,
Speaker 2: love Justin Jefferson, love what Flora is doing with the defense.
Speaker 2: Sam Donald is not winning three consecutive playoff games, even
Speaker 2: give them the bye. He's not winning three straight playoff games.
Speaker 2: So that's wrong. Next, I know everybody, there's a new thing.
Speaker 2: There's a new thing that is kind of become in
Speaker 2: vogue with some people that do what I do for
Speaker 2: a living, which is I think saying things they don't
Speaker 2: actually believe because they want they want to seem almost
Speaker 2: like a more nuanced sports talk person, or they just
Speaker 2: want internet applause, which is like if no one will
Speaker 2: say how great the Vikings are, all say a great
Speaker 2: the Vikings are, and I'm just here to tell you, like,
Speaker 2: I think we all are very impressed by what they've done,
Speaker 2: but we all also know Sam Donald's still their quarterback,
Speaker 2: and like, sorry, so you can't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: You can do a lot of cool things, you can't
Speaker 2: win a super Bowl. And gosh darn it, he'll not
Speaker 2: appreciate that comment. Oh no, he wouldn't. Well, so here's
Speaker 2: the thing Colin actually is not is almost exempt from
Speaker 2: the critique I just did of sports media because he
Speaker 2: truly believes Sam Donald. Like no, no, no, he does.
Speaker 2: He thinks Sam Donald is awesome. But I think there
Speaker 2: are a lot of people that think Sam Donald is
Speaker 2: not awesome but still think the Vikings can win a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, And I just don't see how that's the case,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Deshaun Watson's play on the field.
Speaker 4: Unrecognizable from a few years ago. Everyone is calling for
Speaker 4: Jamis Winston's to start. Head coach Kevin Stefanski refuses to
Speaker 4: have been the starter DeShawn.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong, Jamis would fix Cleveland, Well.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't hurt. Deshaun's been the worst quarterback in football.
Speaker 2: And I don't think Stefanski's allowed to bench him is
Speaker 2: the problem. Like, I don't blame I got it. I
Speaker 2: don't blame Stefanski for not benching Deshaun. I don't think
Speaker 2: the owner will let him. I think it's that simple.
Speaker 2: And here's what I think is on the board. Because
Speaker 2: Deshaun is owed ninety two million in salary the next
Speaker 2: two years and then also eighty million additional against the
Speaker 2: cap because they've pushed so much down the road, I
Speaker 2: think that it is on the board that after this year,
Speaker 2: Cleveland their escape hatch is finding a team with a
Speaker 2: lot of cap space and trading Toshawn along with their
Speaker 2: own first round pick to a team just so that
Speaker 2: team can then cut it. So what I'm describing there
Speaker 2: is the Cleveland Browns call up the Carolina Panthers, say,
Speaker 2: your team's terrible and you have a ton of cap space.
Speaker 2: You're rebuilding again if you will take Deshaun Watson off
Speaker 2: our books. So instead of having if we were to
Speaker 2: cut him one hundred and seventy two million dollar dead
Speaker 2: money hit, which is unsustainable, it's only an eighty million
Speaker 2: dollar dead money.
Speaker 3: Hit for us.
Speaker 2: We will give you the fourth pick of the draft,
Speaker 2: you get to Shawn and the fourth pick of the
Speaker 2: draft for a conditional seventh rounder, you know, for nothing.
Speaker 2: And if you're that team, you're paying a ton of money,
Speaker 2: you know, ninety two million dollars of your cap to
Speaker 2: then trade for Deshaun and then instantly cut him. That
Speaker 2: would be unprecedented. That happened once with the Texans and
Speaker 2: the Browns and Brock Osweiler, but it was way less money.
Speaker 2: But that's the only escape patch there. There are no
Speaker 2: other ones all right.
Speaker 4: Next uh, despite the big win, Bo Nicks and Sean
Speaker 4: Payton got heated on the sideline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought was.
Speaker 4: Crazy, Peyton said, his quarterback needs to remove the Ferris
Speaker 4: Bueller from his game. Nick said he was screaming. Nick
Speaker 4: said he was screaming, I love you right or wrong.
Speaker 4: Nix and Peyton have problems.
Speaker 3: Who's Ferris Bueller?
Speaker 2: No, I think listen, I think that they're you know,
Speaker 2: Sean Payton's just fiery, and Bo Nicks is you know,
Speaker 2: he feels like in NFL veterans. He played six years
Speaker 2: of college football, so he's not acting like a rookie.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I think the problems that they're gonna
Speaker 2: have is and Bo played better this weekend, is that
Speaker 2: Sean Payton is gonna expect bow Knicks to be someone
Speaker 2: other than Bo Nicks, Like he's just not gonna be
Speaker 2: a good NFL quarterback. But I don't think the yelling
Speaker 2: on the side line is a big deal. Uh.
Speaker 4: Next, the Cardinals were the only NFC West team to
Speaker 4: win this week and have a relatively easy schedule the
Speaker 4: rest of the way. Green Bay also got back on track.
Speaker 4: Even if my guy Jordan Love threw a wild pig six.
Speaker 2: There, wild pick six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was yeah, it was like what do you
Speaker 3: That was almost like what Will Levis did right or wrong?
Speaker 3: In the winner of Arizona at green Bay makes the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't think so. Uh the but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I you know what, I should have taken this question
Speaker 2: out because I haven't done and I gotta really like
Speaker 2: put pencil to paper on what I think the playoff
Speaker 2: teams right now are gonna be. But I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna I think, yeah, I don't know. I I punt
Speaker 2: on this question that it's so congested in the NFC
Speaker 2: that that's a hard one to answer. I don't think
Speaker 2: Arizona's defense is good enough. But green Bay also has
Speaker 2: not looked great. And now that looked like kind of
Speaker 2: as advertised. But maybe Jordan Love is getting back, you know, healthier.
Speaker 4: You should have sat for an extra week. Maybe all right, next,
Speaker 4: this is not satire. Your Jags gotta win. Now they
Speaker 4: head to London where trevor Or Trevor gets his superpowers,
Speaker 4: and your self imposed band is almost lifted.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong, the Jags are about to go on
Speaker 3: a run.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd love to believe in them. Here's the thing,
Speaker 2: here's what I will say. Now. I think the Bears
Speaker 2: are gonna win. But rookie quarterback going overseas shaky head coach.
Speaker 2: The Jags are super used to the overseas thing. That's
Speaker 2: a spot that Jags could win. And then they get
Speaker 2: the Patriots. So I mean, if they beat the Bears,
Speaker 2: they're going to be three and four because the Patriots
Speaker 2: are just impossibly bad. So on the board, on the board,
Speaker 2: the JAG's going to run. Hey, I'm not dismissing the possibility. Um,
Speaker 2: but my ban on not betting them was a good one.
Speaker 2: Like the not betting leaving them out of all my
Speaker 2: preseason stuff and all of it. That was a good one,
Speaker 2: all right, answer a few listener questions real quick. Next,
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Speaker 2: Before we get to the listener questions, the producers point
Speaker 2: out that you asked the question, who's Ferris Bueller? My
Speaker 2: response to that would be that movie came out thirty
Speaker 2: eight years ago, like a guy, like, it is totally
Speaker 2: reasonable that you would not be familiar with it. That
Speaker 2: movie came out when I was two years old, So like,
Speaker 2: there is a weird thing with guys. Now. Sean Paynon's
Speaker 2: older than this, but guy around my age that have not.
Speaker 2: So Sean Payton doesn't fall into it. But I will
Speaker 2: talk about me and like people my age and the
Speaker 2: producer's age, like people in their mid to late thirties
Speaker 2: to early forties. A lot of us haven't come to
Speaker 2: terms with the fact that we are old, and because
Speaker 2: of that, we think that things from our childhood were
Speaker 2: not that long ago. But they were. Again, Fairs Bueller's
Speaker 2: Day Off is not a contemporary reference to anyone born
Speaker 2: in the last thirty years. Again, I was born forty
Speaker 2: years ago and I was two years old when it
Speaker 2: came out. For some context, let me the the So
Speaker 2: this would be like if when we were to the producers,
Speaker 2: if when we were teenagers and someone's like, oh, reminds
Speaker 2: me of Stella and on the Waterfront, and we're like huh,
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, you don't remember that Marlon Brando classic.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, man, it came out in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 2: But again that the gap between our teenage years and
Speaker 2: On the Waterfront is the same gap between bow Nix
Speaker 2: or Demanse and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. So that is
Speaker 2: I think they were trying to roast you a bit, pal,
Speaker 2: but I have your back here. It's not your lack
Speaker 2: of pop culture awareness. It's the fact that we're old
Speaker 2: and shit that happened in the eighties. People were like, oh,
Speaker 2: I mean pretty and pink in the breakfast club. Like again,
Speaker 2: that is such a long time ago, guys. I know
Speaker 2: it makes it sad for us, but that's a really,
Speaker 2: really really long time ago. It's forty years. It's when
Speaker 2: it was like who's that? Yeah, I mean sixteen candles. Like, guys, again,
Speaker 2: it's forty years. It's been forty years. All right, next months.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I should so every producer, so
Speaker 3: there's still time time.
Speaker 2: Let me let me just say something else real quick.
Speaker 2: I just want to say something else. The co star
Speaker 2: of Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the oldest brother of
Speaker 2: four in succession and all of the siblings were well
Speaker 2: into their adulthood, and his storyline was, oh, he was
Speaker 2: the first kid from a previous marriage. He was a
Speaker 2: teenager in Farris Bueller's day Off. He was the like
Speaker 2: mid sixties year old brother that's running for president in
Speaker 2: the show that came out now. He was on Spin City,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure a lot of folks are like, oh,
Speaker 2: I remember that Michael J. Fox project thirty years ago.
Speaker 2: These are not new things, all right, Go ahead, now
Speaker 2: to the next thing.
Speaker 4: Star Wars, Yeah, they're not liking it. Starbars two three
Speaker 4: as question for Nick teams that play Detroit have been
Speaker 4: blown out the next week pretty much, no matter what.
Speaker 3: Is it just a coincidence or a team's just not
Speaker 3: used to their physicality.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's a thing because that happened with
Speaker 2: the Niners a year ago. There's sometimes teams that play
Speaker 2: such a physical style of football that they beat you twice.
Speaker 2: They beat you when they play you, and then they
Speaker 2: beat you for the next game. And I think Detroit
Speaker 2: is that style of team.
Speaker 4: Next, as g says, Nick wants the Bears inevitably collapse,
Speaker 4: can I send you a cheesehead?
Speaker 3: You know hashtag go Patco.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I don't think the Bears are gonna collapse.
Speaker 2: I don't dislike the Packers. I'm just skeptical of them.
Speaker 2: You can send me. I won't wear a cheese head.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just telling you. I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: very nice, nice idea, But I don't wear silly things.
Speaker 3: You wore those big ats. We used to used to
Speaker 3: have those big ats.
Speaker 2: No, No, they did send us the big hats, and
Speaker 2: there was there was a moment that was in the
Speaker 2: zeitgeist and I wore it very briefly. But I but no,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna wear cheese heads. I'm not gonna there's
Speaker 2: I just I'm not in there. If I were Jet fan,
Speaker 2: not gonna wear a fireman's helmet. Like, I'm just not
Speaker 2: doing that stuff.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Next, Danny Tanner asks what is the dream team of
Speaker 4: offensive skill players made up of current and former Chiefs players.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, it's very very easy. Jamal Charles is
Speaker 2: your running back. You have two tight ends Travis Kelce
Speaker 2: and Tony Gonzalez pretty good, and then your wide receivers
Speaker 2: are obviously Tyreek Kill and then who are the other
Speaker 2: wide receivers? So it's very obvious up to that point.
Speaker 2: Who's I mean, I mean, if we're getting Peak one
Speaker 2: year Andre Risen is pretty good with the Chiefs alongside Tyreek.
Speaker 2: I like that. I'm trying to yeah, but that's good.
Speaker 2: Two tight ends, two wide Yeah, peak Andre Rising. Because
Speaker 2: I'm not going back to the sixties, not going to
Speaker 2: the team that won the Super Bowl four. But I'll
Speaker 2: go in my lifetime Tony and Travis, Jamal Charles, Tyreek
Speaker 2: and Peak one year Andre Risen.
Speaker 3: That's my answer.
Speaker 2: Uh, Oh, Dwayne Bow Peak one year Dwayne Bow when
Speaker 2: he had like eighteen touchdowns. Now, I'd take Andre Risen,
Speaker 2: all right. Next, Hunter Scott, which Calmes Priest? I mean?
Speaker 2: I love Jamal Yeah, Jamal over priests Holmes, but that
Speaker 2: one's close, all right.
Speaker 4: Next Hunter Scott, which team in the entire league do
Speaker 4: you think has the best chance of defeating the Chiefs?
Speaker 3: It would have to be Detroit or Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Correct, No, it's Cincinnati, but they're just not gonna have
Speaker 2: a chance. It is Cincinnati. I mean Cincinnati just that
Speaker 2: puts pressure on you offensively so much, and their defense,
Speaker 2: which stinks for some reason. The one guy they play
Speaker 2: well against is Patrick. So it's like it's oddly Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: but Cincinnati might be cooked.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Last one only asks a question for Nick at the end,
Speaker 4: what do you think are the best? Who do you
Speaker 4: think are the five best and five worst run organizations
Speaker 4: in the NFL?
Speaker 2: All right, so the five best, in no order are Pittsburgh, Baltimore,
Speaker 2: Green Bay, Kansas City. And I want to see whenever
Speaker 2: stuff like this comes up, I just glances the standings
Speaker 2: just so I have a list of all the team. No,
Speaker 2: the Saints are terribly run, that's ridiculous, and probably Philadelphia
Speaker 2: is really well run. The San Francisco or Philadelphia would
Speaker 2: be the the fringe ones. The worst run obviously.
Speaker 4: What that's I said Saints because I was the run organization.
Speaker 4: I thought we were talking about like their running game.
Speaker 4: We're just talking about like the way that they're ran.
Speaker 2: Oh that's funny. Oh and the teams I was in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but then when I said Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, You're like, okay, yeah, no, no, no, yes,
Speaker 2: not the best running games, So that's really funny. The
Speaker 2: worst one, obviously is Carolina, Carolina and the Jets. And
Speaker 2: I would the Saints because I think that they are
Speaker 2: Their refusal to take their medicine on the cap stuff
Speaker 2: just puts them in this perpetual mediocrity. Cincinnati would be
Speaker 2: four and a sneaky contender. I mean I Tennessee or
Speaker 2: Jacksonville are on there, The Raiders are on there, but
Speaker 2: a sneaky contender has late for how they've been run
Speaker 2: the last five years. Oh did I not say Cleveland?
Speaker 2: Oh Cleveland? Never mind, Then none of these teams are
Speaker 2: contenders anyway, Cleveland has to be on there. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Cleveland for sure. I was gonna say the Patriots for
Speaker 2: how they've been Cleveland's a disaster. Uh so, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's the answer. That has nothing to do with their
Speaker 2: running game as much as it has to do with
Speaker 2: ownership in the front office. But we can answer that
Speaker 2: question next week. The best five running teams of the
Speaker 2: five running Team, demon's a great job. Keep crushing. By
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