WEBVTT - NFL Week 1 Predictions: Cowboys-Eagles, Chiefs-Chargers, Rodgers Steelers debut | Nick Wright 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:05.640 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Episode three sixty two. 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.360 This episode is presented as always by our great friends 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.800 at boost Mobile. We are hours away from the start 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.480 of the NFL season, which means we are hours away 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.520 from the end of at least in my mind. The 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:25.000 Eagles reign as champions like once a new season starts, 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.880 it's a clean slate, boys and girls. And I and 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.000 I'm at the damn us Open last night that the 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.840 watching osaka crush Cinner is I know, I said Sinners, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.400 not now Crais's class. Oh boy, center up close and 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:47.080 personal look pretty good. And I'm walking out the good, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.280 good seats. And the only reason I can say that 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.080 they were really good seats is I'm surrounded by people 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:56.840 who ostensibly one would think have pretty good jobs, relatively successful. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.960 These are expensive quarterfinal seats to the open, some some dope, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.720 Nick Right, When are you gonna start giving the Eagles respect? 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.600 You guys won the Super Bowl, Just shut up and 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:14.200 be happy to I and and again like I'm I 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.160 I am not naturally anti Eagles, but I'm becoming it. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.520 Like the the only person who the most reasonable person 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.240 in the last eight months who's been angry at me 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.920 about my Eagles opinions and actually treated it like me, 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.000 like an adult, and had a conversation. Was the mother 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.280 of the quarterback. Every other fan seems more emotionally invested 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.360 than she did. Like, it's too much, guys, it's just 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.320 too much, demons. How are you? 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.000 I'm doing great, Pops. Sorry, Philly fans have got you all. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 Right, man, it's just too much. Like leave me alone, 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.640 like the I am out here providing free content for 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.120 the masses, hours upon hours a day. I don't ask 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.760 for anything, So let me watch the tennis and pe 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.880 my god, all right, A lot to get to today 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.920 Week one gambling show. If you guys didn't follow last year, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.720 you didn't, you cost yourself some money. After four consecutive 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.480 years of being big included profitable, two years ago we 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.960 had our first losing year ever. Now, to be fair, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.720 the losing year once you included the playoffs was one 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.239 game below five hundred, but a losing year all the 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:30.800 same because you have to be a bunch of games 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.000 above five hundred offset the big. We came back last 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.040 season forty eight and forty in the regular season fifty 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.960 six and forty four overall, So a really great overall season, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.160 but we're gonna try to do even better, particularly because 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.760 Danny park and somehow with a lot of line shopping. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.639 I think it's a little funny money involved on that. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:53.440 Uh. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.440 He was at sixty five percent, which was the best 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.920 of any person on national television of all. Our lines, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.840 by the way, are provided by our new friends at 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.480 hard Rock Bet, which is super exciting. More on them 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.200 in a moment, But first, Demanse, let's get to straight 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.519 to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile, so Taylor 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.760 Swift might do a halftime show that the Clippers story. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.799 Great job by Pablo Torri. It seems to be a 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.520 really big story. I'm just two into football right now, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.040 and I need to see what the NBA does before 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.600 I spend a lot of time on it. I'm not 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.200 minimizing the story. It's just bad timing. If it were July, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.679 I might do a whole episode on it. It's September 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.760 fourth and football starts today. Apologies, it's not what I 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.720 am super into. I am into this and put this 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.240 on social media, folks, because again, I'm not in the 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.800 business Demanse, of going out of my way to defend ESPN. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:55.600 I am in the business, however, of correcting obvious factual errors. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.320 And there are a few things about commercials coming to 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.640 Red Zone that must be addressed in no particular order. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.960 First of all, they were there last year. It's not new. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.280 I don't know if you guys were paying attention last season. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.000 Scott Hansen near the end of the year stopped saying 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.080 welcome to seven hours of commercial free football. At least 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.919 on a couple Sundays, he just said, welcome to seven 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.560 hours of football. And if you were watching Red Zone occasionally, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.919 all of a sudden it was split screen. The football 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.920 was on one half, the screen of Burger King commercials 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.200 on the other, with the audio from the commercial that 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.040 already happened. That's first of all. Second of all, this 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.520 is not ESPN's doing. They were already doing it. ESPN 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.599 has not taken over the property yet. This is the 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.240 NFL's doing. So everybody that either knows better and is 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.680 just using it to bang on ESPN or doesn't know better. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.640 But they were scrolling a Twitter and mL Football or 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.480 some faceless, nameless aggregator put it out there and they 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:06.200 ran with it. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:06.960 You are. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.520 Doing a disservice to the public at large in spreading misinformation. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.320 Is it the biggest deal in the world. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:15.479 No? 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.440 Is it an annoying yes? Third of all. And this 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.200 is the parts where people are gonna get mad at me, guys. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.120 The fact that for more than a decade we've been 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.280 able to if we wanted to turn on football on 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.960 Sundays and not have a single ad serve to us 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.520 was always always kind of a cheat we didn't really deserve. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.880 Like the idea that we are entitled to be able 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.160 to watch this product without any sponsorship coming into it. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.839 I never totally understood. And it's not like red Zone 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.120 costs hundreds of dollars a year. It'd be one thing 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.760 if it was like a super premium subscription that you 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.800 pay five hundred dollars a year for red Zone, pay 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.640 a lot of money for Sunday ticket, not for red Zone. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.840 And here's the last part and the most important part 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.840 before we get to the show. And this is gonna 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.960 be the controversial part. And this might hurt the feelings 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.880 of some people in the working on this pod, might 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.000 hurt the feelings of some people a lot of people 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.360 listening to the show. Sorry, hard truths need to come. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.320 No self respecting NFL fan consumes the NFL purely through 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:32.080 red Zone. Sorry had to be said. Sorry, you cannot 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:37.200 get a real temperature of the league, or understanding of 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.760 the games, or know who's good or who's bad if 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.240 you have a one TV red zone only set up, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:50.320 like you just watch a game, be an adult. Understand 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.039 the EBB and the flow, learn how teams to quote 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.080 the great Hank Stram, matriculate the ball down the field, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.039 not just popcorning candy of touchdown and turnover and punt return. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.480 My god, now listen. If you're a very casual sports fan, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.240 you know it's just one of the things, no problem. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.520 But if you consider yourself a real NFL fan and 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:22.640 your entirety of Sunday is one TV just on red zone, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.000 you're lying to yourself. I'm just telling you right now 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.000 that that would be no different than if you're like, oh, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.840 I'm a die hard NBA fan, love it, bet on it, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.640 know all the teams, Oh yeah, how do you watch 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:44.760 bleacher report clips? Highlights? Throw off everybody again, put some 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:51.680 effort in to your fandom. And so this whole red 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.800 zone thing has really got me. And I I'm not 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.600 acting as if everyone's job is to cover the NFL. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.120 That's my job. Okay, my job. You guys don't have 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:08.680 to do it. But if you have a team you love, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:14.600 you gotta watch their all their games, their games standalone, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.760 own screen. Now, if you're like, hey, I watch my 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.280 team whatever the national game is, and I second screen 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:30.600 red Zone, great, you're doing awesome. You're you're doing great. Yeah, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:36.200 that's that's that is appropriate. If you are really really 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.160 in the weeds and you want to, you know, be 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.199 split screening games on Sunday ticket, let I just tell you, guys, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:48.240 how I my setup, which I think yes, And again, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.679 I'm not asking everybody. I do this for a living. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.319 I'm not asking everyone do the setup that I have. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.120 What I am saying is, don't tell me you love 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:04.040 the NFL, And then I find it no different. If 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.439 you're like, oh, yeah, I just watch red Zone. Then 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.520 if I text you on Sunday at two thirty Eastern, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.280 you know, week three, and I'm like, hey, did you 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.080 see that? And you're like, no, I'm at an apple orchard, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:19.000 Like what do you do? 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:19.480 What do you mean? 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.640 Like? No, so I'm gonna catch the night game. Like 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.640 we only get eighteen of these a year. They're pretty precious. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.000 And again, everyone pick what they want to do. But 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.559 don't tell me you love the league diehard. Oh, I 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.400 bet the games. I'm in fantasy leagues. I'm in this. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.160 And the only announcer you've heard for twenty years is 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.280 Scott Hansen. Don't tell me that. If you can't if 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:51.480 you can't name that, tune this quickly on Joe Davis 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.840 or Kevin Harlan, much less Tony Romo or Troy Aikman's voice, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:01.680 then then I'm questioning your fandom. The way I consume 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:11.800 is we have upside down triangle of TVs. Okay, uh, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.160 two big screens in the one very big screen in 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:22.640 my office, which is really a hallway like like it's 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.320 a set up little bit. It's yeah, it's it's uh. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.640 The I love my house in New York City. One 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.920 of the downsides of a Brownstone is their narrow properties, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.480 and so I have just I have carved out in 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.040 our five thousand square feet demons. I've carved out one 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.680 hundred and eighty for me and your Mom's got the 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:50.680 rest and top left TV red zone, by the way, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:59.400 very often with sound, top right TV, biggest game, bottom TV, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.240 the biggest TV, split screen into four games of my choosing, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.240 and that way you can follow almost every game sound 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.760 on red zone. Make sure the time the TVs are 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.920 sync dump time wise and you got it. You don't 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.920 even really have to watch red Zone. You listen, you look, 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.440 you do this all. That's that's how we do it. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.360 TVs. Are you putting the Chiefs game on? When that comes? 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.760 Is at the bottom line. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.400 The stand top right, the top left, red zone. Well, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.440 the thing is this, I don't It's not really a 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.960 problem these days, Demansey, because the Chiefs only play one 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.280 o'clock on Sunday, like twice a year the Chiefs. Usually 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.520 when the Chiefs are playing, there's no other football games 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.000 being played because they know the NFL knows what the 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.600 main event is, so the Chiefs game. I walk about 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.360 eight feet from the hallway that is my office to 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.120 our living room and we have the TV that used 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.760 to be you know what statute of limitations been long enough? 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.000 Remember back when I did the show remotely, when I 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.600 did the show, you know from my house, part of 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:08.000 our background was this one hundred inch HD screen that 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.720 we used as part of the first thing's first background. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.560 We stopped doing the shows remotely, and I just never 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.760 gave that back. And now that's the TV that I 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.000 watched the standalone games on. It's massive office and I 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.360 mean living room by myself or with the family. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:29.000 That's it. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.959 God, dogget Football's here. I'm so excited. That was a 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.959 little Also, that was the longest straight voicemail we've ever done, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.480 shut out boost Mobile, but again too long, didn't read. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.680 ESPN didn't do anything wrong. There were already commercials on 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.720 Red Zone. They're not going to be cutting to a 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.720 full commercial. It's going to be split screen. But most importantly, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.600 be an adult and watch a game. All right, let's 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:55.319 get to it tomorrow. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.960 Say uh yeah, so starting tonight, the NFL is officially back. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.040 We'll get the game in a second. But what do 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.920 you think there's gonna be some of the bigger headlines 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.520 or storylines this year in the NFL? 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.120 All right, So I'm gonna do this the way I 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.920 do almost the way my brain works is weird, like 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.640 I have to visualize either a map or a chart 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.200 or a piece of paper to make sure I don't 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.680 leave anything out. So like yesterday, for first things first, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.680 a little pre show trivia thing. Gianna asked me, can 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.160 I name the twelve cities that have all four professional 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.360 sports leagues? And I was one hundred percent confident I 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.840 would be able to do that. But the only way 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.800 that I was gonna be able to do that was 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.880 to close my eyes and see a map and just 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.600 start it in Maine and then work down and up 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.080 and down and up. So I'm gonna do something similar 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.680 here where I am just going to go through the 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.280 divisions and talk about what I think the biggest storyline 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:59.600 is AFC East. Biggest storyline, very clearly is can the 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.800 Bill can tell Again, this is the regular season storylines, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.319 not the postseason storylines, because that's a separate thing, and 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.800 we have all off season talk about postseason stuff. We're 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.480 now in the regular season. AFCs storyline is very very clearly, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.400 do the Bills have any competition whatsoever? If they do, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.000 it would have to be from the New England Patriots, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.000 at least in my opinion. And I think the Jets 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:33.120 injury yesterday of Elisha Vera Tucker was brutal for him, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.800 losing him for the year. By the way, sidebar, We're 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.080 gonna have a very you guys can tell my energies 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:43.720 up I'm very excited. Note for again football fans out there, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:49.400 I'm going to translate for you guys how to read 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:56.840 the insider's injury reports these days. Okay, if they do 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.800 not send a tweet at all, that player might have 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.360 been slightly injured but probably will play, but it doesn't 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:10.760 make the news. If they send a tweet that says 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.720 such and such got banged up but is expected to 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.360 be totally fine, that usually means he's going to miss 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.120 a week or two. If they send a tweet that 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:27.720 says avoided serious injury, consider him out a month. And 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.040 if they send a tweet like they did about Elijah 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.360 Vera Tucker yesterday, which is the team is concerned that 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.040 poor guy might have been metavacked off the field for 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.560 all we know, and he is almost assuredly out for 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.359 the year. I don't know why, and the insiders all collectively, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.480 I do know why. It's because they get the information 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.560 from agents and they don't want to make the agents mad, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.400 and so they just soft pedal everything. But like Naji Harris, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.040 the reporting was he's totally fine. You know, scary situation, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.320 but the fireworks don't worry about. But meanwhile they play Friday. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.280 We still haven't seen him without sunglasses on. Seems like 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:11.600 that was too much fourth of July. The avoided serious 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.720 injury usually means he was seriously injured, but he's not 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.120 out for the year and the team is very concerned, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.720 means he's done for the season. So when I saw 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.360 that with Elijah Arra Tucker, the initial reporting like, Oh, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.160 this poor guy who's dealt with so many injuries, he's 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.560 probably out for the year. He is in fact out 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.320 for the year. But the AFSE storyline is can anybody 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.120 give the Bills any type of resistance? The answer is 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:42.640 probably know the AFC North Demond's storyline to me is 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.320 not about the Ravens. I think the Ravens at this 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.000 point are the known quantity. We expect them to be 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.280 excellent every regular season. What were you saying since he 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:53.840 is yes. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.000 What's happening with them going to continue? Are they? Are 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.360 the defense going to get better? 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:04.640 Can Cincinnati become a contender? Again? Like? That's the fact 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.639 of the matter is this. Cincinnati exploded onto the scene 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:13.359 in year two with Joe Burrow shockingly upset the Chiefs 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.440 in the AFC Championship Game after being down huge at halftime. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.720 The very next year came back. We're back in the 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.600 AFC Championship game, and then a game that gets a 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.480 little forgotten the details of it. Joe Burrow had a 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.520 really rough second half of that game, including a devastating 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.080 fourth quarter interception, and they lose. They haven't played a 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.919 playoff game since then. The next year got derailed by 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.040 Joe's injuries, but they were four and four with him playing, 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.960 and last year got derailed by the defense. You can't 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.440 miss the playoffs three straight years and be a real contender, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.600 and so can they get back to being an eleven, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.160 maybe even twelve win team. That's the AFC North storyline, 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.359 the AFC South storyline, as much as I'd like to 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.320 make it about Travis and I don't know if you 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.880 guys saw the Travis and Trevor commercial, but it's just delightful. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:08.960 It's so you haven't seen it, demanse watch it after 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.399 the show with the sound on. Now. Some some people 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.479 might call it cringe. I find it charming. But it's 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.399 an Adidas commercial with like an eighty soundtrack and a 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.719 lot of really weird dance moves between Travis and Trevor Lawrence. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.000 But the storyline there is not about Travis as much 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.480 as I'd love it to be. It's about the Texans 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:38.120 new offensive coordinator and can c J. Stroud? 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:38.760 Uh? 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.240 Can c J Stroud get back to year one CJ Stroud? 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.880 Now I'm not I'm not drawing a direct line here, Demanse, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.600 but I do think it is worth noting that CJ. Stroud, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.080 up until the moment he put his arm around Caleb Williams, 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.159 was like, listen up, young buck, let me let me 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.879 teach you a thing or two. I think had twenty 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.160 four touchdowns, five picks, a one oh one career rating, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.280 and was like twelve and six as a starter. Since 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.840 then he has seventeen touchdowns, twelve picks and eighty five 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.320 rating and his seven and seven as a starter. I'm 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.320 not saying those things are connected. I am saying I'm 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.520 interested in the timeline of it. New offensive coordinator. Can 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.439 he get back to being the CJ. Stroud he looked 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.920 like as a rookie? Now, they did win a playoff game, 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:30.880 so you back to back years won a playoff gameing 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.359 and credit for that and the AFC West. The storyline's 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.480 very very obvious, which is can anyone once Every year, 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:46.119 the AFC West has a great offseason. Every year the 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.359 Chargers or the Broncos or the Raiders make a move 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:56.320 that made the Chiefs nervous. Every year there is a well, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.640 next year will be different until the games start and 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:05.760 then come Thanksgiving we're talking about the Chiefs magic number 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.440 to clinch the division by three or four games. Will 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.399 this year be different? Will the Chiefs actually have to 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.639 you know, win a late season game to win the 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.280 division or will they be able to rest people? So 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:25.640 the AFC is covered. Nfcast storyline is twofold. It's very obvious. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.720 Can Philly you know, continue on the stretch. It was 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:34.680 on after Week four last year where the only game 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.920 they lost was a game Jalen Hurts got knocked out 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.919 of and a first cousin of that is Ken Washington. 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.760 Proved that last year wasn't a you know, win all 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.880 the close games get a little lucky year. But they 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.800 actually are building a real contender. That's the NFC East. 0:20:55.160 --> 0:21:02.040 The NFC North demon's a most interesting yeah, man, I 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.120 mean you could. The Vikings are the least interesting. They're 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.959 starting a first round pick to facto rookie quarterback. They 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.639 won fourteen games last year, the Packers just traded for 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.520 Micah freaking Parsons the Bears Caleb's under as much pressure 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.080 as any player in the league. And then the Lions 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.359 amazing regular season last year fell on their face in 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.600 the playoffs, lost both coordinators. Is that going to have 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.280 a long tail? Like? Those are the stories there. Luckily, 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.240 the NFC North covers all the interesting for the NFC South, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:40.160 which there's it's just bake show and is it possible 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.800 the two worst teams in the league are both in 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:45.600 the same division, which is rare in the Saints and 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.760 the Panthers. It could happen, It's rare. And then the 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:55.560 NFC West de Monsey is was last year a blip 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.920 for the Niners or it was last year the canary 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:02.800 in the coal mine that they sadly missed their window 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.199 and they're gonna have to reboot it a bit. Shanahan's 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:10.000 comments about you know this being a bit of a 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.919 reboot and fans being patient leaned you one way, brought 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.480 Purdy's comments that we're good enough to win the Super 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.679 Bowl lean you another. But those are league wide the 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:24.560 biggest storylines headed into the season. Anything you want to add, 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:25.920 anything you take issue with. 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.240 Now, I'm pretty in line with you and all that stuff. 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:32.959 I do. The Falcons might make it a little bit 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.560 closer in the NFC south over there. But uh but. 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.840 Yeah, So here's the thing. I think the Falcons could 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.520 be a playoff team, but I think the Bucks might 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:47.320 win thirteen games. So it's the now maybe I'm over 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:49.400 you know. 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