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Speaker 2: Welcome in. What's driving the great episode to eighty two?
Speaker 2: And we got to get right into it today demands
Speaker 2: because we're not going to be able to go as
Speaker 2: long as we typically do because I have had my
Speaker 2: Tuesday Coward hit time adjusted today. I've been doing this
Speaker 2: hit for eight years, same time, every Tuesday for eight years.
Speaker 2: One oh five Eastern. I get a text yesterday, Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a little scheduling conflict. Nick, can you come on
Speaker 2: at twelve forty? And I'm like, well, yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: do anything for Colin, that's no problem. But you know,
Speaker 2: out of curiosity who is the guest that is super
Speaker 2: that you're moving me for that? It was you need
Speaker 2: like it's not, oh you can only you know, can
Speaker 2: you come on at twelve forty because Nick Wright in
Speaker 2: the best, you know, twenty minutes of sports TV in America.
Speaker 2: You're herd hierarchy right into Nick and Colin together. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna, you know, screw up that almost decade long synergy.
Speaker 2: And the answer I got was Tom Brady, Like God,
Speaker 2: I knew it. I mean, he's uh, I mean listen,
Speaker 2: I mean to be now. I mean I have been
Speaker 2: with the company for eight and a half years, and
Speaker 2: Tommy for you know, I think two. But I suppose
Speaker 2: those seven Super Bowl rings carry quite a bit of weight.
Speaker 2: And so I'll be home with Colin today at twelve
Speaker 2: forty nine forty am Pacific while you're having your morning coffee,
Speaker 2: I suppose. So it's gonna be me and Colin, followed
Speaker 2: by hurt hierarchy, followed by Colin and Tom Brady. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and say it might be the best
Speaker 2: forty five minutes in sports television history right there. I
Speaker 2: mean I don't, I mean I can't. I can't guarantee it,
Speaker 2: but that might be coming. So because of that, we
Speaker 2: got a motor through today's show, which means in the
Speaker 2: mist the cut department is the Monday night football game
Speaker 2: last night, I work. You're gonna have to what you
Speaker 2: tune into the TV show to hear my bon Nick's opinions?
Speaker 2: You know too long, didn't read version. I'm still not
Speaker 2: a believer. Oh my god, did you guys? Did you
Speaker 2: see the one play? Listen? The one play was a
Speaker 2: little lucky, pretty sweet. I give them credit for it,
Speaker 2: but that game was more about Jamis giving you the
Speaker 2: full Jameis Winston experience from start to finish and a crushing,
Speaker 2: absolutely crushing loss. If you had Cleveland plus six and
Speaker 2: a half, you had no business not covering that game.
Speaker 2: If you had Cleveland plus six and a half, they
Speaker 2: have the ball down to chance to go win it,
Speaker 2: certainly cover. Jamis picks six because the Browns forget to
Speaker 2: touch a guy down. But so now you're down nine.
Speaker 2: But even then, down nine, getting six and a half
Speaker 2: not a terrible spot to be in, because a field
Speaker 2: goal covers for you, a touchdown covers for you, and
Speaker 2: the other team's gonna be playing preven defense. They get
Speaker 2: all the way to the goal line with a minute
Speaker 2: left like this is great, Gonna take a couple of
Speaker 2: shots to the end and then if need be, just
Speaker 2: kick this chip shot field goal. Nope, Jamis pick immediately
Speaker 2: just I mean, just an unbelievable Jameis Winston experience.
Speaker 3: What demanse I saw what he was trying to do there,
Speaker 3: it was, it was was a good effort. No, it
Speaker 3: picked off.
Speaker 2: I mean it was the all time last night's game,
Speaker 2: the most yards by a quarterback in NFL history for
Speaker 2: his own team's passing yard and interception return yards. No,
Speaker 2: that's true, that's not a made up stet. Six hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty five yards came off, completed, Jameis Winston passes
Speaker 2: to his team and the other team six hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty five yards. Never seen an NFL game like it.
Speaker 2: And so all that's going on. Also, the other missed
Speaker 2: the cut. The college football rivalries I get you know,
Speaker 2: I'll give you a little mini takes on all these things. Whatever, Uh,
Speaker 2: don't lose whose home rivalry games? And you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about a flag and he planted pretty easy,
Speaker 2: And part of coaching college of football needs to be
Speaker 2: for rivalry games, they're in your stadium. You let your
Speaker 2: players know. Guys, if you needed any extra motivation, know this.
Speaker 2: If we lose today, we're gonna have to watch them
Speaker 2: play in a flag in our in our mid at,
Speaker 2: you know, at our fifty yard line. So coaches need
Speaker 2: to have their teams, you know, prepared. And also, by
Speaker 2: the way I understand Ohio State Michigan got a little tough.
Speaker 2: Let's also stadium cops try to, you know, have our
Speaker 2: hand off the pepper spray a little bit longer if
Speaker 2: we could. Didn't love that piece of it. And last,
Speaker 2: but not least, a ziz All Shai ear So, I
Speaker 2: was so aziz All Shair. I don't think he's a
Speaker 2: bad person, but is a dirty player. It's just the
Speaker 2: way he plays. He punched a guy, he choked Tom Brady,
Speaker 2: he took out Caleb, he took out Tony Pollard. He
Speaker 2: just took out Trevor. He didn't give a veryry, heartfelt apology,
Speaker 2: which seems sincere. And I'm most like, okay, but you're
Speaker 2: not gonna stop like you know what I mean? You
Speaker 2: have a taste for blood and can't I get that.
Speaker 2: I don't get that but yeah, he choked Tom Brady,
Speaker 2: grabbed by the grabbing by the wind pipe. But I
Speaker 2: was nervous because I was like, oh, he's definitely getting suspended.
Speaker 2: And I was like, please, NFL either suspend him for
Speaker 2: one game or three games, not two games, because three
Speaker 2: games from now, the Texans play the Chiefs and I
Speaker 2: don't need Aziz al Shair having been sidelined for two weeks,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, dying to get back on
Speaker 2: the field only to see Mahomes' ACL sitting out there.
Speaker 2: So the NFL announced today they did suspend him four
Speaker 2: three games, So he's not gonna be available for the
Speaker 2: Chiefs game, thank god. All Right, so there's the news.
Speaker 2: Let's get to the bigger topics of the day. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: So everybody's saying that Josh Allen should be the front
Speaker 3: runter for MVP after two back to back statement wins.
Speaker 3: You say that there's a chance that the Bills, I
Speaker 3: mean that the voters might snub him this year. Why
Speaker 3: is that when this is his best case?
Speaker 2: Well, so it's what I think. Is this? I think
Speaker 2: right now, Saquan's the MVP of the league, and I
Speaker 2: have been as we will get into later a legitimate
Speaker 2: Bills supporter in the national media, when other folks believed
Speaker 2: in the Jets and Aaron Rodgers, some believed in the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: I believed correctly that if you have a superhero quarterback,
Speaker 2: if you give them a legitimate defensive line to generate
Speaker 2: a pass rush, an offensive line to protect him, that's
Speaker 2: the way you need to build out the team. Everything
Speaker 2: else is optional. If you have the those two things,
Speaker 2: your team's gonna be excellent. That's what the Bills did,
Speaker 2: and the team is excellent, and Josh has been great.
Speaker 2: He's been great, He's cut down on the turnovers, he
Speaker 2: still makes the big plays. I think that this is
Speaker 2: the best Bills team he's ever been on, and he
Speaker 2: is a very deserving MVP candidate. The reason that right
Speaker 2: now I feel strongly it should be Saquon is if
Speaker 2: Josh wins it this year over Saquon, then we are
Speaker 2: officially saying, again, if it were to end right now,
Speaker 2: there's another five weeks, but based you know, if the
Speaker 2: we're season ended today, we're officially saying running backs can't
Speaker 2: win it. And that would bum me out because Josh
Speaker 2: Allen's numbers are good, but not unreal. The two quarterbacks
Speaker 2: whose numbers are unreal are Burrow and Lamar. Burrow and
Speaker 2: Lamar has one of the highest passer ratings ever. He
Speaker 2: has twenty nine touchdowns three picks. Burrow leads the league
Speaker 2: in passing yards, is thirty touchdowns five picks. Both have
Speaker 2: They have a one thirteen to one oh seven rating
Speaker 2: Josh right now this moment is fourteenth in the league
Speaker 2: in passing yards, is sixth in the league in touchdowns,
Speaker 2: is tenth in the league in rating. Those are good numbers,
Speaker 2: but they're not the best numbers of his career. That
Speaker 2: would have been twenty twenty, and they're not the best
Speaker 2: numbers any quarterbacks had this year. Saquan, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: is on pace to break the single season rushing record.
Speaker 2: And so if Saquan doesn't win it this year and
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks that's just having a good but not historically
Speaker 2: great season does win it, then in three years, you
Speaker 2: know what people will say when a running back's having
Speaker 2: an unbelievable year and the MVP discussion comes up, Well,
Speaker 2: how are we gonna give it to him? When we
Speaker 2: didn't give it to Saquon when the team went fourteen
Speaker 2: and three and he ran for two thousand yards. So
Speaker 2: it's not about diminishing what Josh is doing. It's just
Speaker 2: that I think Saquon is having an all time season
Speaker 2: at his position. Now here's the other thing about the
Speaker 2: MVP debate, and this is where some of the folks
Speaker 2: most more often than not, in the analytics community get
Speaker 2: a little aggravating to me when somebody sent a tweet
Speaker 2: yesterday since it was like, if you want to, you know,
Speaker 2: disregard the v the valuable in MVP entirely, so be it.
Speaker 2: But if you actually think that a running back can
Speaker 2: add more value to a team than a star quarterback,
Speaker 2: then you're just a fool or you donors in football, guys,
Speaker 2: everyone understands that quarterbacks the most valuable position in football.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets it. And if because of that you truly
Speaker 2: believe they are the only people definitionally eligible for MVP,
Speaker 2: then so be it. But then actually put that in
Speaker 2: the award. Then just put in the award. This is
Speaker 2: a quarterback only award. I look at MVP as an
Speaker 2: amalgamation of value excellence team success sprinkled on top of it,
Speaker 2: because if team success wasn't a piece of it, Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow and Lamar would be the two leading contenders. Lamar's
Speaker 2: kind of out right now because his team has five losses,
Speaker 2: and that's not how we've done the MVP, you know,
Speaker 2: the last twenty years. Burrows definitively out because his team
Speaker 2: has eight losses, and so of course, like I understand
Speaker 2: that this year, let me find a good example of
Speaker 2: it that Kyler Murray has been more valuable to the
Speaker 2: Cardinals than Saquon's been to the Eagles, because without Kyler
Speaker 2: they are totally unequivocally cooked, and without Saquon the Eagles
Speaker 2: might still be okay, because it's you can so much
Speaker 2: more easily replace a running back than a quarterback. But
Speaker 2: I don't look at the award purely like that, and
Speaker 2: I don't want it to be a quarterback on the award.
Speaker 2: So I just I don't.
Speaker 3: Think i'm getting I'm getting some notes that it's kind
Speaker 3: of been like that in the past, like Derrick Henry
Speaker 3: had two thousand yards a few seasons or in a
Speaker 3: season he didn't get a single vote.
Speaker 2: So that is true, but let's also look at what
Speaker 2: the context when that happened. So when Derrick Henry had
Speaker 2: two thousand, had two thousand yards. I just want to
Speaker 2: pull the Titans that year were eleven and five, which
Speaker 2: was good, and the MVP voting that season, I'm pulling
Speaker 2: it up right now twenty So this was twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: so that would have been Rogers' third MVP and Rogers
Speaker 2: that season had forty eight touchdowns, five interceptions, and forty
Speaker 2: three hundred passing yards. So that year, for whatever it's worth,
Speaker 2: Mahomes had thirty eight touchdown six picks. Rogers had forty
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns, five picks. I think his team went thirteen
Speaker 2: and three, ain't, Yeah, they did, and he had the
Speaker 2: he had a one twenty two passer rating. So that
Speaker 2: that was a year when a quarterback had an unbelievable
Speaker 2: team success and a historically great statistical season. Rogers numbers
Speaker 2: that year were seventy one percent, forty eight touchdowns, five picks,
Speaker 2: one twenty one rating. That's not what we're talking about
Speaker 2: with Josh right now. Yeah, So like when Adrian Peterson
Speaker 2: ran for two thousand yards, he did win league MVP.
Speaker 2: Now when Chris Johnson did, he did not. But we
Speaker 2: are not just talking about two thousand yards. We're talking
Speaker 2: about whether or not he is going to break Eric
Speaker 2: Dickerson's all time record, and so all of that kind
Speaker 2: of plays into this to me at least, and again
Speaker 2: like Josh having a good year. But it would be
Speaker 2: to me the Aaron Rodgers comp versus Derrick Henry would
Speaker 2: be more apt if the Eagles were a good but
Speaker 2: not great team like the Titans, and if Lamar Lamar's
Speaker 2: team was ten and two and you were like, this
Speaker 2: quarterback was having this unbelievable historical season and it was,
Speaker 2: for record wise, the best team in his conference. So
Speaker 2: that would be that. Speaking of the Bills, though, Demonte,
Speaker 2: there's one other piece of this which is such a
Speaker 2: happy accident of this season. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, usually you know, Bills fans hate here or whatever,
Speaker 3: you're on the wrong side of things. But they posted
Speaker 3: a video on social media and it kind of painted
Speaker 3: you out to be the good guy. Seems like they
Speaker 3: might have lost the plot here a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So here's the unbelievable piece of this video. It's
Speaker 2: ninety seconds long. We can't play it because there's highlights
Speaker 2: in it, but it's just a cavalcade of people being
Speaker 2: wrong about the Bills. And then me and Shannon Sharp
Speaker 2: being right. And then, by the way, I don't know
Speaker 2: if we can put that graphic back up, but my
Speaker 2: AFC's predictions, I might go one through four exact Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Patriots,
Speaker 2: with everyone but the Bills missing the playoffs. That might
Speaker 2: end up being perfect across the board. The only real
Speaker 2: concern there is are the Patriots gonna catch the Jets,
Speaker 2: which is possible. They're both three win teams right now.
Speaker 2: Here was what I found remarkable about that video the
Speaker 2: Bills posted. They included in it me saying I've been
Speaker 2: the only person in the media right about the Bills
Speaker 2: the last four years, and now I'm going to continue
Speaker 2: being the only person right about the Bills. That was
Speaker 2: a wild choice, because the way I have been correct
Speaker 2: about the Bills previously is by essentially calling them choking
Speaker 2: fake contenders like that's and Bill's social media teams like, hey,
Speaker 2: gotta give him credit where it's due. He's call us
Speaker 2: exactly right. Uh, but this year is different. I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe that was in there. Uh, And so yeah, that
Speaker 2: was listen, it is part of there is a world
Speaker 2: that exists where somehow the chiefs don't make the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and the Super Bowl is the Eagles, who I have
Speaker 2: been a constant doubter of, and the Bills, who I
Speaker 2: was probably their most famous detractor. It's an Eagles Bill's
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, and you see me on TV taking I
Speaker 2: told you so, victory laps because, as you guys know,
Speaker 2: the Eagles are my new NFC team, and as you
Speaker 2: all know, I've believed in the Bills this year. So
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do about that? Speaking of the Eagles,
Speaker 2: let's move on.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So the Eagles, who are your new NFC
Speaker 3: Super Bowl picks? They beat my Ravens on Sunday. What
Speaker 3: is the case for the Eagles over the Lions as
Speaker 3: the best team in the NFC right now?
Speaker 2: So multi layered, The first case would be I am
Speaker 2: legitimately worried about the Lions' injuries. Listen, every team can't
Speaker 2: sustain injuries the way the Chiefs have been able to.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs lose their top two wide receivers, their top
Speaker 2: running back all in the first couple weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: They lose their second best corner and their kicker later
Speaker 2: in the season, and they just keep chugging along and
Speaker 2: people just talk about what's wrong with the team that
Speaker 2: keeps winning. Usually if you have injuries, particularly cluster injuries,
Speaker 2: and the Lions injuries are really clustering on the defensive
Speaker 2: side of the ball, that can bite you. So that
Speaker 2: concerns me. Another thing that I have been the one
Speaker 2: person kind of doing the clarion call on this, but
Speaker 2: I really think more attention should be paid to it
Speaker 2: is from a seating perspective demonse. The Eagles' worst case
Speaker 2: scenario is the two seed. They have essentially already locked
Speaker 2: up that division, and obviously the NFC West and the
Speaker 2: NFC South are not going to have a champion that
Speaker 2: has a better record than the Eagles as the division
Speaker 2: leaders there have six or seven wins right now and
Speaker 2: the Eagles already of ten. And the Eagles have games
Speaker 2: left against the Panthers, Giants, one other awful oh and Cowboys.
Speaker 2: So the Eagle's worst case scenario is the two seed.
Speaker 2: The Lions are oddly in a different spot where the
Speaker 2: Lions have a team right on their heels in their
Speaker 2: own division in Minnesota, and because of that, the Lions
Speaker 2: are one hiccup away from falling to the five seed,
Speaker 2: and if that happens, they are outdoors potentially for the
Speaker 2: entire playoffs. They are in cold weather for most of
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and everything about their situation changes. The Lions
Speaker 2: have Green Bay in two days and then home for Buffalo, Like,
Speaker 2: is there a scenario where the Lions find themselves in
Speaker 2: twelve days in second place in their own division? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then they have the Vikings in week eighteen, which
Speaker 2: could be the division deciding game. So that I think works.
Speaker 2: The Lions are more likely to be the one seed,
Speaker 2: but it's also on the board the Vikings catch them
Speaker 2: and they all of a sudden fall to the five seed.
Speaker 2: And the other piece of it is I just think
Speaker 2: the Eagles, and this is shocking to me, defense is
Speaker 2: great right now, and I don't trust the Lions defense
Speaker 2: as much. Even the Lions Stephens has been very good.
Speaker 2: I think overachieved this year. Aaron Glenn's an excellent job.
Speaker 2: So when AJ Brown's healthy, Jalen Hurts is playing more
Speaker 2: like he did two years ago, where he's not trying
Speaker 2: to really be the star and he's taking care of
Speaker 2: the football. Saquan's been unbelievable, Sirianni's staying out of the way.
Speaker 2: I just think the Eagles look like the best team
Speaker 2: and are really well positioned and sneaky alive for the
Speaker 2: one seed, will not seeky live, but obviously alive for
Speaker 2: the one seed. But their worst case in area was
Speaker 2: the two seed, which is not the case for the Lions.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go on to the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: All right, So the Chiefs keep pulling it off by
Speaker 3: any means, but you gotta admit after a close game
Speaker 3: to like Vegas got a close game with the Raiders,
Speaker 3: you have a close game with the Panthers two back
Speaker 3: to back weeks for those better teams than Panthers.
Speaker 2: Panthers hot right well with those teams.
Speaker 3: With them playing those teams that closely, don't you think
Speaker 3: it gives other good teams, like the Charges that they
Speaker 3: have coming up more hope that they can get them.
Speaker 2: So yeah, certainly they don't look invincible. But I saw
Speaker 2: folks trying to argue that this is the weakest or
Speaker 2: most vulnerable Chiefs team, and I just feel like everyone
Speaker 2: has such short memories. Do you guys know how many
Speaker 2: games the Chiefs won last year? Eleven all year in
Speaker 2: the regular season. If the Chiefs lost every single one
Speaker 2: of their remaining games, they would have the same record
Speaker 2: they had last year. Last year, the Chiefs lost five
Speaker 2: of eight games at one point, and they were some
Speaker 2: ugly losses. They lost to Denver twenty four to nine
Speaker 2: when Russell Wilson threw for one hundred and fourteen yards.
Speaker 2: They lost. They then lost to Philly right before Philly
Speaker 2: fell apart entirely. They lost to Green Bay. They lost
Speaker 2: the game to Buffalo when Mahomes flipped out about the offsides,
Speaker 2: and they lost that game to the Raiders on Christmas
Speaker 2: Day to fall to nine and six. And they absolutely
Speaker 2: and Mahomes' numbers last year were worse than his numbers
Speaker 2: this year. The offense was worse than it was this year.
Speaker 2: This chief team, on the other hand, despite the injuries
Speaker 2: that I talked about earlier, is eleven and one, despite
Speaker 2: the fact that Mahomes already went through a legitimate slump
Speaker 2: that he is clearly out of to start the year,
Speaker 2: is eleven and one. They have right now two significant weaknesses.
Speaker 2: What is the left tackle position. They have a new
Speaker 2: left tackle starting this week, Dj Humphreys, who was a
Speaker 2: Pro bowler in Arizona. The other is the pass defense
Speaker 2: has not been what it was, but they have Charles
Speaker 2: Amena who coming back. He just came back. Now they
Speaker 2: need to figure out the cornerback two spot, which hasn't
Speaker 2: been the same since Jalen Watson broke his ankle. But
Speaker 2: the Chiefs being discussed as if they have these major
Speaker 2: structural problems when they're like, oh, they're winning all these
Speaker 2: close games. They just broke the record for consecutive victories
Speaker 2: in one score games. That record was held by the
Speaker 2: three to four Patriots, which were the best two year
Speaker 2: stretch of the entire Patriot dynasty was three to four.
Speaker 2: The only back to back championships was three to four.
Speaker 2: So I just think everyone has it wrong on the
Speaker 2: Chiefs flatly. I think right now they probably should be
Speaker 2: nine and three, but they're not. And because they are
Speaker 2: not nine and three, and they are only going to
Speaker 2: be getting better because DJ Humphries is here, because Pacheco
Speaker 2: is now back, because Hollywood Brown comes back in a
Speaker 2: few weeks, because Mahomes is out of his slump, because
Speaker 2: Chris Jones is going to be Chris Jones come winning
Speaker 2: time in the playoffs. I cannot believe how many people,
Speaker 2: my buddy Adam Shine one of them, who were dead
Speaker 2: certain last year, the Chiefs would get got picked against
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in every playoff game they had, as I
Speaker 2: think Scott Van Pelt did, I think Shine did. As
Speaker 2: soon as the Super Bowl ended, they all swore fealty said,
Speaker 2: I will never make that mistake again. Now they're doing
Speaker 2: it again, as if the Chiefs were seven and five,
Speaker 2: they're eleven and one. And the other piece of it
Speaker 2: is where I said yesterday on TV that the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are making otherwise smart people dumb the mental gymnastics that
Speaker 2: folks are doing to turn Chiefs losses into win or
Speaker 2: wins into losses. Like, let's just go through it, because
Speaker 2: this is what you hear a week one against Baltimore,
Speaker 2: the likely toenail, Okay, give Isaiah likely that touchdown. Then
Speaker 2: what happens The Ravens either kick an extra point, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, these days not a guarantee, but let's
Speaker 2: give Tucker the benefit of the doubt, and they go
Speaker 2: to overtime. They still got to win that, oh, Nick,
Speaker 2: they would have gone for two, okay, So what they
Speaker 2: needed was a play the likely play to be in
Speaker 2: bounds in order to have a coin flip chance to
Speaker 2: beat the Chiefs the next one. People talk about that
Speaker 2: bangles defensive pass interference. Well, what is the argument there,
Speaker 2: because it was a It's not like that was Oh
Speaker 2: my god, that ball was incomplete and there was a
Speaker 2: foulow away from the ball that had none do with it,
Speaker 2: so perfectly thrown football that would have put the Chiefs
Speaker 2: in field goal range. The guy got interfered with, and
Speaker 2: then they made the field goal. Okay, so take that
Speaker 2: one out. People talk about the Atlanta game that there
Speaker 2: was a missed DPI on the Chiefs. So I went
Speaker 2: and looked that up. That happened with five and a
Speaker 2: half minutes left in that game and the Chiefs leading.
Speaker 2: So you're saying, give it Atlanta that call, and what
Speaker 2: they magically just win that game? Maybe that Tampa Bay,
Speaker 2: Oh Tampa they what they should have gone for two. Okay,
Speaker 2: if they go for two in that spot, what happens, Well,
Speaker 2: first of all, they have to get the two point conversion.
Speaker 2: And then if they do get the two point conversion,
Speaker 2: do you guys remember how much time was left when
Speaker 2: they scored, because I do. There was twenty seven seconds left.
Speaker 2: It would have been Chiefs multiple timeouts, twenty seven seconds
Speaker 2: left with at the time still at Harrison butker so okay,
Speaker 2: So Tampa could have won if they had gone for
Speaker 2: two gotten it in stop Mahomes from getting in field
Speaker 2: goal range. Okay, what's the next one? Oh, the next
Speaker 2: one is they blocked a field goal against uh against
Speaker 2: the Broncos, but they blocked it. And this one was
Speaker 2: the Raiders game, where again, let's just assume that they
Speaker 2: incorrectly call the illegal shift a false start and the
Speaker 2: Raiders keep the ball. Okay, great, The Raiders kicker, who
Speaker 2: had already missed three field goals, now is to make
Speaker 2: a fifty five yarder. So there's just a lot of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs should have lost and would have lost. But
Speaker 2: actually I need to pretend a million things happened that didn't.
Speaker 2: And that's been so much of the Chiefs discourse this
Speaker 2: year relies on this idea if only things that didn't
Speaker 2: happen did happen, like if only or if only things
Speaker 2: that did happen didn't happen. If they hadn't won the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl last year, but they did, if they hadn't
Speaker 2: won but they did. And I'm gonna add one last
Speaker 2: thing and we can move on. These morons that are like,
Speaker 2: oh man, this Chiefs team sure reminds me of And
Speaker 2: then they bring up ten and one or eleven and
Speaker 2: one teams from Christmas Pass that were frauds, and every
Speaker 2: single one of those teams that if you left the
Speaker 2: everything about the team the same and made Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: the quarterback or Andy Reid the coach, those teams would
Speaker 2: have been awesome. They're like, Oh, got a lot of
Speaker 2: shades of the Vikings a couple of years ago that
Speaker 2: were thirteen and four and went one and done. If
Speaker 2: you replaced Kirk Cousins with Mahomes, that Vikings team would
Speaker 2: have been awesome. Reminds me a lot of the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty Steelers. If you replaced fossilizing Ben Roethlisberger with Mahomes,
Speaker 2: that team would have won the Super Bowl. Oh, reminds
Speaker 2: me a lot of the Eagles last year who fell
Speaker 2: apart entirely. If you replaced forget even Mahomes there Nick
Speaker 2: Sirianni with Andy Reid and left everything the same, that
Speaker 2: Eagles team would have been fine. So again, yes, I
Speaker 2: agree with you. If the Chiefs didn't have read in Mahomes,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be as confident. But if they didn't have
Speaker 2: reading Mahomes, they wouldn't be the Chiefs. So I just
Speaker 2: so much of this discourse is just idiotic, and it's
Speaker 2: people who made this exactness state last year, swore they
Speaker 2: weren't going to do it again, and now they're doing it.
Speaker 2: Despite the fact that the Chiefs have played five playoff teams,
Speaker 2: beaten four of them the one they lost to Buffalo,
Speaker 2: everyone thinks of the best team in football, and even
Speaker 2: the Buffalo game. I can play this game the other way.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. If the Chiefs get one stop on
Speaker 2: fourth and two against Josh Allen, they win that game
Speaker 2: and they're undefeated. They're doing all of it, even though
Speaker 2: they've dealt with the worst of the injuries. They have
Speaker 2: the best record in the league. Mahomes is playing great.
Speaker 2: So people are just dumb too long didn't listen for
Speaker 2: the third consecutive year. No, yep, maybe maybe.
Speaker 3: I think that's folks saying like they are getting lucky
Speaker 3: some of these times.
Speaker 2: I think that's okay, So who isn't? So who is it?
Speaker 2: Did the Lions get lucky that the Bears? Did the
Speaker 2: Lions get lucky that the Bears had such a catastrophic
Speaker 2: end of game? Meltdown that they fired a coaching season
Speaker 2: for the first time in one hundred years. Was that lucky?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, Okay, the no, no, no, Let's keep
Speaker 2: playing the game. Did the Did the Lions get lucky
Speaker 2: that they won a game this year? When was it?
Speaker 2: Was it a sixty one? No? The Bills? Pardon me?
Speaker 2: Did the Bills get lucky when they're notoriously unreliable kicker
Speaker 2: made a sixty one yard field goal at the gun
Speaker 2: to beat Miami? Sure? Did the I mean we can
Speaker 2: go up? And did the Lions get lucky that they
Speaker 2: won a game when Golf threw five interceptions? Did the
Speaker 2: Eagles get lucky that they played so poorly against the
Speaker 2: Browns that their fans were booing serials so much that
Speaker 2: he's yelled at his own fans and they won that game? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Like it's the NFL, almost all the games come down
Speaker 2: to a few plays. Yeah, of course, there's some luck
Speaker 2: involved in a lot of things. But I just it's
Speaker 2: just gonna be another year where everyone's wrong and I'm right,
Speaker 2: So I'm fine with it. But I just would have
Speaker 2: thought folks were to learn their lesson. Let's go to
Speaker 2: the Niners. Oh another one. Oh, here's another one. So,
Speaker 2: speaking of.
Speaker 3: Forty nine Ers, season is just getting worse and worse.
Speaker 3: They've been dealing with injuries and Christom McCaffrey just went
Speaker 3: down on that game on Sunday. You know, they could
Speaker 3: keep bottoming it out and losing and drafting a quarterback.
Speaker 3: The question here is do you think that the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers championship window is closed or did it just reopen?
Speaker 3: What's their situation?
Speaker 2: Well, so, no, I don't listen. The idea that the
Speaker 2: Niners could be in have such a bad that they
Speaker 2: consider drafting a quarterback is not something anyone's talking about.
Speaker 2: But it is an interesting thought exercise depending on where
Speaker 2: they fall in the draft order. And oh, they would
Speaker 2: never do that to Purty. Perty's taking them to an
Speaker 2: NFC championship game in a Super Bowl. So did Jimmy
Speaker 2: g And they gave up three first round picks to
Speaker 2: go get his replacement. Now, that didn't work out. But
Speaker 2: if they all of a sudden just had a quarterback
Speaker 2: fall into their lap in an offseason, when Perty's you know,
Speaker 2: gonna be wanting sixty million a year. Huh. But here's
Speaker 2: the thing that I want to say about the Niners.
Speaker 2: Demant say, you don't hear so much anymore? Nick, you
Speaker 2: disrespect Brock? Do you you don't hear so much anymore?
Speaker 2: What more do you want Brock to do? You don't
Speaker 2: hear so much anymore? Nick, you're unfair judge him because
Speaker 2: he was a seven round pick. Why won't you give
Speaker 2: him credit? Amazing? Uh amazing, How the moment Brock Purdy
Speaker 2: goes from having the most stacked supporting cast in the
Speaker 2: league to having a league average supporting cast. He looks
Speaker 2: like a league average quarterback. I'm not here to say
Speaker 2: I told you so, except for the case I effing
Speaker 2: told you so so many times, and so many people
Speaker 2: were so adamant that I was unfair that I wouldn't
Speaker 2: give the guy credit, when my argument was, I think
Speaker 2: he's the sixth best player on his offense. Trent Williams AYUK, McCaffrey,
Speaker 2: Kittle debo. Then Brock, that's how I stack the offense,
Speaker 2: probably Trent Williams, CMC, AYUK Kittle tebo. But all of
Speaker 2: a sudden he has a year where CMC is not there,
Speaker 2: Trent Williams in and out of the lineup as of late,
Speaker 2: and shout out Trent Williams, who's dealing with an unspeakable tragedy.
Speaker 2: Just awful. Ayuk gets hurt. Diebo's not quite the same,
Speaker 2: Kittle's still there, looks a little older, Well, he is
Speaker 2: a little older, doesn't look quite as dominant and listens
Speaker 2: I like, party's terrible. It's like he is a mirror.
Speaker 2: How good is my team around me? That's how good
Speaker 2: I'm going to be. And there is now a very
Speaker 2: real question about whether or not you want to pay
Speaker 2: that guy. I think it would be insane to pay
Speaker 2: him after this year. I would play him for another
Speaker 2: year on a million dollar contract and see what he
Speaker 2: looks like before I commit myself to whether it's fifty
Speaker 2: million or sixty million. If it's a mistake at fifty,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. If it's a mistake at sixty, it's a
Speaker 2: mistake at fifty. The distinction is not, oh, is he
Speaker 2: gonna want Jordan love money or Dak Prescott money. That
Speaker 2: actually is I don't want to say it's irrelevant, but
Speaker 2: it's not that relevant. It's not it does he you know,
Speaker 2: does he get top top of the market or does
Speaker 2: close the top of the market. Because if you feel
Speaker 2: good about him at fifty five, you feel fine at sixty.
Speaker 2: The question is do you want him to be your
Speaker 2: quarterback at you know, top eight salary over the next
Speaker 2: few years. I wouldn't do it, And depending on how
Speaker 2: I think about quarterbacks in this draft class, would I
Speaker 2: consider drafting one and seeing quietly, hey, is there a
Speaker 2: team out there that loves brock Party that wants to
Speaker 2: give me multiple premium draft picks for him? Yeah, of
Speaker 2: course I'd have that conversation. But listen, just like I
Speaker 2: was always very and he's better than Jimmy Garoppolo. But
Speaker 2: just like I was always very confident that my Jimmy
Speaker 2: Garoppolo take history would say, oh he was right and
Speaker 2: all the quarterback whens sick of fans were wrong. I
Speaker 2: feel the exact same way about my brock Party take
Speaker 2: like he's gonna have a long career and keep playing
Speaker 2: and people are gonna be like, you, guys, remember when
Speaker 2: people were debating is he a top five quarterback? You
Speaker 2: remember when four days ago David Lombardi, who covers the Niners,
Speaker 2: used to beak for the athletic. Now he's uh independent,
Speaker 2: I think said that brock Party has accomplished more than
Speaker 2: Josh Allen in the NFL. Is a more efficient quarterback
Speaker 2: than Josh Allen. That was a conversation four days ago.
Speaker 2: So I don't think Nier's championship windows closed because I
Speaker 2: think Lynch and Shane are great, and I think Shannan's brilliant.
Speaker 2: And if Shannan can get to multiple super Bowls with
Speaker 2: Jimmy g and Brock Party, imagine if he ever has
Speaker 2: an actual awesome quarterback. But the Brock Party debate is
Speaker 2: winding down because the unpopular opinion seems to be the
Speaker 2: correct one. Quick break right back, What's right? Welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's Right? With Nick Wright. Sorry, I'm firing off
Speaker 2: an angry tweet to Colin Cowherd because he just promoted
Speaker 2: the Tom Brady appearance quote tweet. So this is why
Speaker 2: I got coming Eastern today. So much for loyalty at
Speaker 2: Colin cowhard S. M h. There we go post and send,
Speaker 2: done and done, all right, demons, before we get to
Speaker 2: our game, Nick Wright, private investigator, Uh, let's talk a
Speaker 2: little Kirk Cousins just a moment, Go ahead, all.
Speaker 3: Right, man. So Kirk Cousins is out there showing his age.
Speaker 3: He threw four picks. Against the Chargers in that crazy defense.
Speaker 3: So they obviously owe him a lot of money. But
Speaker 3: they also have Michael Pinnox over there. The Bucks are
Speaker 3: now breathing down their neck. If you were in charge
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, how would you handle the quarterback situation?
Speaker 2: All right? So listen, I let me see if this
Speaker 2: is correct. So, oh my goodness, gracious, I thought that
Speaker 2: might be a lie. So I knew it. So I
Speaker 2: have to clarify something from the show yesterday. So I
Speaker 2: was listening to Bill Simmons podcast and he said that
Speaker 2: next Gen Stats said that Cousins didn't throw a single
Speaker 2: pass faster than thirty six miles per hour on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and I on the TV show. I kept attributing it
Speaker 2: to Simmons because I'm like, I don't even think that's
Speaker 2: like a thing. Next Gen stance tracks it did kind
Speaker 2: of pass the eye test, so I've now found the
Speaker 2: genesis of it. And Hayden Winks on Twitter wrote, Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins the game first quarterback, the next Gen stats here
Speaker 2: and not throw pass over thirty six miles per hour
Speaker 2: in a game minimum twenty attempts. He then tweeted, this
Speaker 2: is a completely made up stat for what it's worth.
Speaker 2: I thought that might be fake news, but like, yeah,
Speaker 2: so now it did seem like that possibly could have
Speaker 2: been true. Uh and Kirk Cousins does look cooked like
Speaker 2: he does. He does look cooked. Here is what I
Speaker 2: will say. I am hesitant to give the Falcons too
Speaker 2: much credit because people are like, oh, savvy Falcons, this
Speaker 2: is why they drafted Pennix, as if the exact people
Speaker 2: who drafted Pinnix weren't also the people who gave Kirk
Speaker 2: a hundred million guaranteed. So it I mean, there is
Speaker 2: a bit of a an element of oh, my goodness,
Speaker 2: look at how smart you were. Nick. You didn't sell
Speaker 2: your old car when you just went him out and
Speaker 2: bought one hundred thousand dollars sports car because you knew
Speaker 2: that sports car was a lemon I was gonna break
Speaker 2: down and you were gonna need the other one. It's like, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, kind of smart, but also maybe a bad purchase.
Speaker 2: I would not bench Kirk yet, but the leash is
Speaker 2: very very short. And I thought if people didn't watch
Speaker 2: that Chargers Falcons game, the Chargers didn't exactly cover themselves
Speaker 2: in glory in that game, but Kirk played impossibly bad
Speaker 2: football and now the foulcons after starting six to three,
Speaker 2: they have lost to New Orleans horrible loss. They have
Speaker 2: lost to Denver thirty eight to six in a game
Speaker 2: I picked him to win, and they lost to the
Speaker 2: Chargers seventeen to thirteen in a game Herbert threw for
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty seven yards. Also, Justin Herbert's numbers
Speaker 2: this year are hard to believe. Thirteen touchdowns through twelve games,
Speaker 2: not great, one interception. So the thirteen touchdowns, one pick
Speaker 2: for Justin Herbert for a team that just wants to
Speaker 2: take care of the football and play good defense. And
Speaker 2: their defense has been great aside from that Baltimore game.
Speaker 2: So but to answer your question, I would I would
Speaker 2: give Kirk at least another week, especially he is playing
Speaker 2: the Vikings now. That Brian Flora's defense. Oh boy, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to throw Pinnis into that Brian Flores defense.
Speaker 2: I also wouldn't necessarily want to see totally immobile Kirk
Speaker 2: Cousins hobbling around against the Flores defense. But I would
Speaker 2: give him another week see if he can pull himself
Speaker 2: out of it, because if he can, you then have
Speaker 2: Raiders Giants Commander's panthers. You have three awful defenses to
Speaker 2: you over your last month, and you probably do still
Speaker 2: trust Kirk more than Pinnis. So I wouldn't go to
Speaker 2: Pinnicks yet, but for next year, the Kirk Cousins thing
Speaker 2: could be ending faster than most of us anticipated. All right,
Speaker 2: let's play Nick right, private eye.
Speaker 3: All right, after many sleepless, sleepless nights down at the stations,
Speaker 3: me and my boys, Yeah, we couldn't figure out and
Speaker 3: crack these cases. So he decided to call out private investigator,
Speaker 3: mister Nick Wright. Welcome back two generations. Yeah, you went
Speaker 3: all in on two generational number one picks, or at
Speaker 3: least that's how they were build. An investigation is needed,
Speaker 3: Detective right, Is Caleb just just as Caleb just Lawrence
Speaker 3: in disguise?
Speaker 2: Okay, well listen. First of all, I don't like Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence being used as the kind of the control group
Speaker 2: for underwhelming number one picks, But to be fair, that's
Speaker 2: what he has been up to this point. I really
Speaker 2: like how Caleb has played the last few weeks. I
Speaker 2: thought he was good on Thanksgiving. Now obviously he was
Speaker 2: an accomplice in the butchering of the very end of
Speaker 2: the game. But he's a rookie quarterback and that's what
Speaker 2: coaches are for. He won't make that mistake again. But
Speaker 2: I thought Caleb after an awful first half, rallying the
Speaker 2: way he did through for two point fifty three touchdowns
Speaker 2: ninety eight rating. Like, Caleb has had seven uh no, six,
Speaker 2: pardon me, really good games this year. Now he's also
Speaker 2: had five awful games. But he's not turning the ball over.
Speaker 2: He's starting to run a little bit more. You're starting
Speaker 2: to see more of the big time talent that you
Speaker 2: saw at USC. So if they get the coach higher, right,
Speaker 2: I'm optimistic about Caleb. So no, I am far more
Speaker 2: worried about Trevor than I am about Caleb.
Speaker 3: Next, Justin Tucker went from being arguably the goat of
Speaker 3: kickers to completely broken. My god, he's missed ten total
Speaker 3: kicks this year and has cost the Ravens games. Detective right,
Speaker 3: what cost Tucker's fall off?
Speaker 2: Listen, he stopped being money from fifty plus a year
Speaker 2: and a half ago. So that happened last season. Now,
Speaker 2: I know people want me to say that Travis Kelsey
Speaker 2: broke him when he tossed his helmet and kicking tea
Speaker 2: when he was warming up, you know, the chief side
Speaker 2: of the field, and I think that played a small part.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying it's age. The thing
Speaker 2: is this Demanse kickers typically age quite well. The oh
Speaker 2: I see Kelsey, Yeah, I see the If people are
Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, there's a whole little detective board. He's
Speaker 2: only thirty five, so kickers are usually good. You know,
Speaker 2: Vinetari was kicking into his forties. I think it's in
Speaker 2: his head right now. Now. I will also say this,
Speaker 2: everyone's like, oh that the Ravens should cut you know,
Speaker 2: cut him. Guys there are not good kickers on the
Speaker 2: unemployment line. Like Tucker is not good right now, he
Speaker 2: is still likely better than a guy who's there's only
Speaker 2: like twenty good kickers in the world. There's thirty two teams,
Speaker 2: so the guys who aren't even on a team are
Speaker 2: typically super shaky. So I wouldn't move on from Tucker.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, A guy who now
Speaker 2: sneaky has a chance to take Tucker's goat spot is
Speaker 2: Bucker because what Justin Tucker doesn't have is these all
Speaker 2: time playoff moments. He just like he doesn't have a
Speaker 2: ton of you know, like, oh, or really, I mean
Speaker 2: he has high levery, but he I mean he they
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl when he was a rookie. But
Speaker 2: you don't think of like Justin Tucker playoff game winning
Speaker 2: kicks the way you feel about Bucker, like in the
Speaker 2: thirteen seconds game in the AFC Championship game against the Bengals,
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, the against San Francisco, not San Francisco,
Speaker 2: pardon me, against Philadelphia, and so many superols they run together,
Speaker 2: and so that there is just like Buckker now, thanks
Speaker 2: to Tucker's misses, is the most accurate kicker in NFL history.
Speaker 2: He has the record for the most accurate kicker in
Speaker 2: NFL history is Bucker even while he's injured, because Tucker's
Speaker 2: missed right now, like Vina Terry obviously has I think
Speaker 2: the mantle for goat kicker. But I wonder what Buckker
Speaker 2: if Butckker can catch him, and how much this impacts Tucker.
Speaker 2: And so I do think that it is a intriguing
Speaker 2: spot we find ourselves in with Justin Tucker, and the
Speaker 2: fact that the Ravens are openly talking about if they
Speaker 2: have to replace him is not a good sign for
Speaker 2: them all right? Next?
Speaker 3: All right? Uh, the Steelers have revived Russell Wilson and
Speaker 3: are the surprising leaders of the AFC North Detective Right,
Speaker 3: what evidence is there that Pittsburgh can win their first
Speaker 3: playoff game since twenty sixteen?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think there's a lot of evidence of it.
Speaker 2: So even if they fall so oddly to win their
Speaker 2: first playoff game, they might be in a better position
Speaker 2: if they don't win the division. That's probably not true,
Speaker 2: but it wouldn't be as bad as you think, because
Speaker 2: if they don't win the division, if the Ravens catch them,
Speaker 2: then Pittsburgh's first playoff game would be going to Houston.
Speaker 2: And I just think Houston's a wounded team right now
Speaker 2: who would not be able to block Pittsburgh, and the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh defensive front would beat them. If Baltimore doesn't catch them,
Speaker 2: then their first playoff game is either going to be
Speaker 2: against Baltimore, the Chargers, or the Broncos. I think they
Speaker 2: would be legit favorites against the Broncos, coin flip against
Speaker 2: the Chargers, and slight favorites against the Ravens, And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I do think they break the streak. I do think
Speaker 2: this is the year they finally won a playoff game.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right?
Speaker 3: Uh, The Patriots had a questionable decision at the end
Speaker 3: of their game versus the Colts. The only seconds remaining,
Speaker 3: they opted to kick a sixty eight yard er over
Speaker 3: a Heil Mary. You guessed it. The ball fell short,
Speaker 3: Detective right, Why did they kick it?
Speaker 2: I because jid Mail is not a good coach. I
Speaker 2: just don't know what to tell you, like the maybe
Speaker 2: he will be one day. Up to this point, he
Speaker 2: hasn't been go ahead.
Speaker 3: No enerject. This is the small investigator, many investigator. The
Speaker 3: chances of you completing a hell Mary or what like?
Speaker 3: I get it, Like the the kick looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: I will say that he got the kick was the
Speaker 3: obviously didn't get there.
Speaker 2: The kick was the kick was zero percent, Like that's
Speaker 2: he hit it perfectly as hard as he could hit it.
Speaker 2: Everything went right on the kick and it was short.
Speaker 2: You know why, because you can't make a six eight
Speaker 2: yard field goal outdoors in the cold unless you're maybe
Speaker 2: Brandon Aubrey certainly not the kick or the Patriots have
Speaker 2: the kick was at zero percent, so I thought it
Speaker 2: was dumb, like hail Mary is at close to zero percent,
Speaker 2: but it's not zero percent. We've seen one. I guess
Speaker 2: my point would be this, we have literally seen a
Speaker 2: hail Mary work this season, this season and countless in
Speaker 2: our lives. We've never ever, ever, ever, ever seen what
Speaker 2: he tried work. We've never seen a sixty eight yard
Speaker 2: or work in all of football history. We've seen a
Speaker 2: hail Mary work a month ago. So I just thought
Speaker 2: it was dumb, that's all. Like, I just it's not
Speaker 2: the move I would have made. All right, Next, Uh no,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 3: We'll go going into the season.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's it. Sorry, my computer died, so I didn't
Speaker 2: know where we were in the rundown. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: answered some listener questions. Next, what's right? All right? Welcome
Speaker 2: back in What's right with Nick? Right? All right, demons,
Speaker 2: let's get through these listener questions quick.
Speaker 3: Tyler Fisher, Nick, I know it's not basketball discussion season,
Speaker 3: but can you talk for a minute about how Lebron's
Speaker 3: ten point streak is likely coming to an end very soon?
Speaker 3: In three games this year, he's gone to quarter four
Speaker 3: under ten points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I would be surprised if it survives the season,
Speaker 2: and Lebron wanting to play all eighty two games makes
Speaker 2: it less likely it survives the season. Listen, it's lasted
Speaker 2: for years, longer than any other player in league history.
Speaker 2: This is one of the many records that when Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan held it, people cared about it, and when once
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan didn't hold it, everyone acts like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's a fake record. But the fact that Lebron's gone
Speaker 2: what is it now, fifteen years, sixteen years and not
Speaker 2: had scored in single digits once, not got thrown out out,
Speaker 2: not got injured, not had just one horrific night is
Speaker 2: a remarkable achievement. But yeah, it probably ends this year.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. I've made my peace with that.
Speaker 2: I used to sweat it the no. I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that he's not doing load management. It's like
Speaker 2: a final gift to the NBA. Is like showing then
Speaker 2: on his way out.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, you guys need to be playing.
Speaker 2: I get it, Yes, I you know, like the Lake.
Speaker 2: If I thought the Lakers were actually a championship contender,
Speaker 2: then I would want him to make sure he's at
Speaker 2: peak performance for the playoffs. They're not, though, so it's
Speaker 2: like one last gift to the NBA.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Isaac merbrathu Hey Nick? Last year? Yeah,
Speaker 3: MOBRATU Sorry? Just last year McCaffrey had an incredible stats
Speaker 3: on a great team. They gave the award to Lamar
Speaker 3: without eye popping stats. Can we argue that they did
Speaker 3: the same thing that they're going to do to Barkley
Speaker 3: last year or last year this year?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, here's the distinction. CMC had great stats. He also,
Speaker 2: though kind of split his portion of the vote with
Speaker 2: his quarterback with Perty because party had great stats too.
Speaker 2: CMC didn't have like the record breaking numbers that looks
Speaker 2: like Saquan's gonna have. And Jalen's not an MVP candidate,
Speaker 2: So I don't think it's gonna be. It might be
Speaker 2: the same thing, but it wouldn't. It's not the exact
Speaker 2: same circumstance.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, uh Ronnie, who do you think is
Speaker 3: the best coach? The best coach to coach the Prince? Next?
Speaker 2: Uh Man? Everyone wants Ben Johnson. I don't know who's
Speaker 2: gonna get him. I would, I would, truly in Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: Not I would love Mike Vrabel like I don't think
Speaker 2: he has to be an offensive coach. I would love
Speaker 2: just a no nonsense guy. It's gonna clean up a
Speaker 2: lot of the issues with the franchise. I think Brabel
Speaker 2: would do that and could have a long runway there.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Isaiah, give how many extra games the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and the Niners play in the playoffs the past years?
Speaker 3: Why are only the Niners getting significant injuries that make
Speaker 3: them worse?
Speaker 2: Well, the Chiefs can just sustain them better. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: lost their number one, number two receiver for the year.
Speaker 2: Then their Hollywood's gonna come back, but they haven't had
Speaker 2: him all year. They lost for shoot Rice in Week three.
Speaker 2: They lost Isaiah Pacheco. Shortly thereafter, they lost their number
Speaker 2: two corner. Their kicker's been out. They the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: just sustaining it better. It's not that now the Niners
Speaker 2: have had a spate of injuries, but they're also a
Speaker 2: much older team. When you have an older team, that
Speaker 2: happens as well.
Speaker 3: All right, last one, Batman, why are you talking? Why
Speaker 3: are you taking victory laps on party? You were consistently
Speaker 3: wrong about how far the Niners would go last year.
Speaker 3: No one said that he can crush with replacement level guys.
Speaker 2: They're not replacement level guys. And by the way, people
Speaker 2: absolutely did say that if you say he's one of
Speaker 2: the best quarterbacks in the league, then you need to
Speaker 2: hold them to the standard that we hold the best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the league. That's first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have replacement level guys. He has league average guys.
Speaker 2: If all, you go from six All Pros on your offense,
Speaker 2: five All pros on your offense, to just a good
Speaker 2: offensive line with the best left tackle in football there
Speaker 2: most of the year, a top three tight end Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 2: Juwan Jennings, Jordan Mason at running back, Kyle Shannan calling
Speaker 2: your plays. Now, all of a sudden, you are just
Speaker 2: in a median circumstance. You're not in a He's not
Speaker 2: out there playing for the Patriots. The Patriots have replacement
Speaker 2: level guys out there right now, right The Panthers have
Speaker 2: replacement level guys out there right now. The try to
Speaker 2: find another team that's just reft of offensive talent. The
Speaker 2: the who Juice I didn't know, Daniel said, but the
Speaker 2: the Titans, that's the Titans probably have you know, above
Speaker 2: replacement level, but not not great. Like there are teams
Speaker 2: out there with replacement level. The Niners ain't one of them.
Speaker 2: They have league average. But if you if you're born
Speaker 2: in a thirty bedroom mansion and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you live in a six bedroom, four thousand square foot house,
Speaker 2: you might feel like, oh, I'm poor. Like no, you
Speaker 2: just don't have the best situation in the world. So
Speaker 2: why am I taking a brock Pardy victory lap? Because
Speaker 2: it's well damned deserved. See you guys on Collins Show
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