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Speaker 2: Welcome. In episode one oh six, What's Right with Nick
Speaker 2: Wright breaking down Week fourteen in the NFL with little
Speaker 2: World Cup mixed in an amazing NBA weekend as well.
Speaker 2: We will not be getting to it, and in fact,
Speaker 2: let's get right to what we're not discussing because one
Speaker 2: of the little mini takes I had on there, Burrow
Speaker 2: finally beating the Browns Deshaun Watson. Listen, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of rust. But right now, if you're a Browns fan,
Speaker 2: you got to be very nervous about how he's looked
Speaker 2: in his first two games in seven hundred days and
Speaker 2: that's just the on the field stuff. The Lakers defeat
Speaker 2: the Mighty Pistons. That's a little more sarcastic than it
Speaker 2: needed to be. Year twenty, Lebron James on the thirty
Speaker 2: five point performance Patrick Beverly in that game. By the way,
Speaker 2: talk trash to the guy who I hope his future
Speaker 2: Laker traded for Patrick Beverly, boy On Bogdanovich. Boyon then
Speaker 2: immediately hit five straight threes to make it a closer
Speaker 2: game than it should have been. And then the last
Speaker 2: thing that I that's on that list, Zion entering the
Speaker 2: MVP discussion. Damn straight. He did last there on a
Speaker 2: seven game winning streak. He's averaging thirty a night in
Speaker 2: those seven games, back to back thirty five point games
Speaker 2: against the previous top seeded Phoenix Suns. It is now
Speaker 2: the top seeded New Orleans Pelicans and a kick ass
Speaker 2: three sixty wind mill. They got Chris Paul and campaign
Speaker 2: of all people all in their feelings. So all of
Speaker 2: that not on the show. It is the stretch run
Speaker 2: of the NFL season. Also the NFL once again you know,
Speaker 2: testing us and testing our marriages. As I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw, but next Saturday, which is really the
Speaker 2: final shopping Saturday before Christmas because the following Saturday is
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. I don't know if you saw it next week,
Speaker 2: Deman's Saturday NFL tripleheader. It's real nice. They keep doing
Speaker 2: this where they put these they stack these games on
Speaker 2: the last shopping weekend before Christmas. It's just a brutality.
Speaker 2: But that'll be week fifteen. This was week fourteen. And
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Speaker 2: Let's get right to it.
Speaker 3: All right, justin Herbert got his revenge against the quarterback
Speaker 3: that was drafted one spot ahead of him last night.
Speaker 3: Remember when everybody was on the Dolphins bandwagon and we're
Speaker 3: saying toua for MVP.
Speaker 2: Who wasn't saying that? Demonse?
Speaker 3: Uh you?
Speaker 4: And who so just uh you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was, I like not everyone was saying was
Speaker 2: on the Dolphins bandwagon? But who reserved the right to
Speaker 2: never change their opinion about too of?
Speaker 3: But go ahead that I didn't see the reasoning behind that.
Speaker 3: I feel like you didn't have that much evidence to
Speaker 3: I had.
Speaker 2: You know why you think I don't have that much evidence?
Speaker 2: And I don't say this rudely.
Speaker 4: Or disresp because I just started watching football this year.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, Because if you'd only watched football this year,
Speaker 2: you think Tua was awesome and you were and I'm
Speaker 2: not taking a shot before you got this job, you
Speaker 2: weren't a big NFL guy. What is so vexing to me?
Speaker 2: So many of my colleagues pretended they had just started
Speaker 2: watching football this year. Colleagues in sports media a pro
Speaker 2: tip on when it comes to certain things. When it
Speaker 2: comes to certain things you want to be more like Demanse,
Speaker 2: but on other things you definitely want to be less
Speaker 2: like Demanse, and your long term NFL analysis probably less
Speaker 2: like Demonse.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, all right, when he faced off against
Speaker 3: the second best quarterback in football, you're reminded us why
Speaker 3: man and he tried to try to move on from
Speaker 3: the guy. So, even if it makes you a villain,
Speaker 3: are you willing to say Toua is no better than
Speaker 3: a backup quarterback?
Speaker 2: Okay? No, So that's where I was wrong, and that
Speaker 2: I said to as a backup who is clearly not
Speaker 2: a backup. He is clearly simple, a middling starter. And
Speaker 2: I said yesterday on Twitter that everyone I think knows
Speaker 2: that Tua is, by the way, I love the fit today,
Speaker 2: that Tua is far closer to the Derek Carr tier
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks than the Justin Herbert tier of quarterbacks. Yet
Speaker 2: folks tried to pretend otherwise because he has a nice
Speaker 2: win loss record prior to this year, and people love
Speaker 2: him some quarterback wins, and because the other reason is
Speaker 2: this year his numbers were sensational, but yesterday was one
Speaker 2: of the worst quarterback performances of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was about to say as that, because what
Speaker 3: was it was the final? Was it four for twenty
Speaker 3: that was the end?
Speaker 2: Well, no, six, It ended better because once the Chargers
Speaker 2: went up ten or went up nine, they were improving
Speaker 2: on that final drive where Miami ended up getting a
Speaker 2: field goal. So we finished ten for twenty eight, but
Speaker 2: my guy started three for seventeen. That's a bad shooting
Speaker 2: night the NBA. That should never happen with a quarterback,
Speaker 2: Flatley should never happen with a quarterback. The Dolphins got
Speaker 2: a gift touchdown on their own fumble that bounced to
Speaker 2: Tyreek Kill and Tyreek was super sharp and saw it
Speaker 2: and scooped it. He's the fastest man in the world.
Speaker 2: And then Tyreek beat the Chargers corner on a sixty
Speaker 2: yard bomb. Aside from that, for the first three and
Speaker 2: a half quarters, the Dolphins offense did nothing, nothing, and
Speaker 2: there were opportunities to be had. The Chargers were out
Speaker 2: Derwin James, they've Joseph Day, they've been without Joey Bosa.
Speaker 2: This was a very banged up Chargers team. And what
Speaker 2: the Chargers and to their credit, and this is where
Speaker 2: the concern is about Tua and the Dolphins and what
Speaker 2: they were doing. Much like with young quarterbacks, it's like,
Speaker 2: oh wait till there's film on them. With an offense
Speaker 2: where everyone seems to be running wide open, there's going
Speaker 2: to be a moment where some sharp defensive mind unlocks
Speaker 2: something and then you have to adjust. So for the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: that moment was last week. That sharp defensive mind was
Speaker 2: the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco forty nine ers
Speaker 2: for a long time great linebacker with the Texans, Tamiko Ryans,
Speaker 2: where he said, what if we just jam the hell
Speaker 2: out of their receivers at the line of scrimmage, throw
Speaker 2: off their timing. Teams are afraid to do that.
Speaker 4: Because they're so fast.
Speaker 2: Because they're so fast, if you don't get a good jam,
Speaker 2: they're gonna beat you. And even if you do get
Speaker 2: a good jam, if two has enough time, they're gonna
Speaker 2: beat you. But what if we jam them to throw
Speaker 2: off their timing, plus try to create some pressure onto
Speaker 2: a so even if our guy gets beat, he doesn't
Speaker 2: have time to hit him downfield. Yes, there is a risk,
Speaker 2: like the Tyree Hills sixty yard touchdown, but the reward
Speaker 2: what teams had been doing is playing these guys so
Speaker 2: far off that it's like, okay, we'll just take these
Speaker 2: twelve yard games wide open, first read boom, second read boom.
Speaker 2: The Niners did that and Tua was in shambles. So
Speaker 2: the Chargers with the question there was though, oh, well
Speaker 2: the Niners, that's the best defense in football. Can someone
Speaker 2: else do it? Well? The Chargers JV defense, which has
Speaker 2: is banged up, was without Derwin James, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: guys missing from that game left and right. They did
Speaker 2: it too, and the Dolphins offense was totally inapt, totally inapt.
Speaker 2: So you're the Dolphins, there is real level of concern.
Speaker 2: Now you are eight and five. You know the Dolphins
Speaker 2: play next week. It's it's the Saturday night Saturday night games. Nope,
Speaker 2: this is a good guess. I don't know why I
Speaker 2: threw that out to you, but you were in the
Speaker 2: right vicinity. It's the Bills, Okay, So the Dolph Bills
Speaker 2: team that right now, yeah, a Bills team that right
Speaker 2: now is leaning heavily or on its defense. So the
Speaker 2: Dolphins have the Bills, then they have the Packers, then
Speaker 2: the Patriots, then the Jets. Bills Patriots Jets defensively, yeah,
Speaker 2: are all far better than the team the Chargers tried
Speaker 2: it out there last night, far better. And so do
Speaker 2: I think the Dolphins are gonna miss the playoffs? I
Speaker 2: don't do. I think, though, this thing could turn south
Speaker 2: on them quick. I think it already has, because now
Speaker 2: if they finish with the same record as the Chargers,
Speaker 2: they lose that tie breaker. When you look at the
Speaker 2: playoff seedings right now, the Dolphins are sixth at eight
Speaker 2: and five, the Chargers seventh at seven and six, with
Speaker 2: the Jets and the Patriots also having six losses, and
Speaker 2: the Jets and the Patriots don't play each other again
Speaker 2: this year. They both play the Bills one time, and
Speaker 2: they both play the Dolphins ones, so there is going
Speaker 2: to be an odd man out of the AFC playoffs.
Speaker 2: Let's assume Baltimore and Cincinnati are in. It would take
Speaker 2: a real collapse for either of those teams to fall out.
Speaker 2: Let's assume there's only one AFC South playoff team. And
Speaker 2: the reason I'm not simply assigning that to the Titans
Speaker 2: is because Princeville was promise is pretty good yesterday. So
Speaker 2: let's just but it'll only be one team either way. Okay,
Speaker 2: that means there are three spots available for Dolphins. No,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I misspoke. Two spots available for Dolphins, Chargers, Jets, Patriots.
Speaker 2: The Dolphins right now are a game up on all
Speaker 2: those teams in the lost colon. We'll see what the
Speaker 2: Patriots do tonight. Could be the Dolphins eight and five
Speaker 2: and they're all seven and six. Of the Patriots loose tonight,
Speaker 2: you can't crate. You can't write them off. And but
Speaker 2: it's close to it. Assuming the Patriots win, Dolphin's got
Speaker 2: their work cut out for him. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the other concern was always going to be what does
Speaker 2: this offense to a most notably look like in the cold?
Speaker 2: Yesterday was in La so the cold was not a
Speaker 2: concern there. Let me, I gotta look again, I said,
Speaker 2: who they were playing. But I want to see where
Speaker 2: these games are being played. For Miami at Buffalo next
Speaker 2: week that feels cold, ye, home for the Packers that's fine,
Speaker 2: at the Patriots that seems cold, and then home for
Speaker 2: the Jets. So two of the four games are in
Speaker 2: the cold Miami. Even when it's cold there, it's not
Speaker 2: you know, it's not cool enough to where it should
Speaker 2: affect the game. All right, Now, I want to talk
Speaker 2: a moment about the Chargers from last night. That game
Speaker 2: last night is why. And I'm not ready to call
Speaker 2: Herbert the second best quarterback in football that was in
Speaker 2: the read right now. I think Joe Burrow has earned
Speaker 2: that distinction. But justin Herbert is in the same conversation
Speaker 2: as Joe Burrow, as Josh Allen as I got to
Speaker 2: give him credit, and I think we'll get to him
Speaker 2: later Jalen Hurts as guys that are playing at that level.
Speaker 2: And there is a sickness going around where people in
Speaker 2: the media get so wrapped up and quarterback wins with
Speaker 2: no context, they decide not to believe what their eyes
Speaker 2: are clearly telling them, which is that Herbert is a
Speaker 2: special talent. And Herbert yesterday finally for the first time
Speaker 2: all year, or at least the first time since week
Speaker 2: won it might have been now I think it is
Speaker 2: all year, started and finished the game with Keenan Allen
Speaker 2: and Mike Williams, and the guy was out there dealing.
Speaker 2: It also should be noted the Chargers are seven and six.
Speaker 2: They are zero to three by a I'm buying twelve points,
Speaker 2: so four points per game against the Chiefs and the Niners,
Speaker 2: two losses to the Chiefs, one loss to the Niners. Those,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, are two of the three best teams
Speaker 2: in football. So they're seven and three with all those injuries.
Speaker 2: So a few coaching issues against the whole league except
Speaker 2: for my Super Bowl pick Chiefs Niners. Chargers are good
Speaker 2: and they're scary. And I'm telling you this right now, I,
Speaker 2: as an arrogant Chiefs fan, want nothing to do with
Speaker 2: the Chargers in the playoffs. I don't want to have
Speaker 2: to beat them a third time, so I would have
Speaker 2: rather the Dolphins won last night. But that was Oh,
Speaker 2: we got a right move, right, I just realized in
Speaker 2: the gambling showed Chargers getting three and a half went
Speaker 2: out right, all right?
Speaker 3: Next are we the Chiefs putting that Hackett Russ and
Speaker 3: the Broncos out of their misery?
Speaker 4: But they did give us a game after going up
Speaker 4: twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Oh, on classic vintage Pat plays, most people turn the
Speaker 3: game off. Then Mahomes played terribly and the Broncos had
Speaker 3: a shot at the end. Do you think Mahomes is
Speaker 3: playing bad against bad teams and just you know, filling
Speaker 3: himself a little bit too much? And does it concern
Speaker 3: you that the Chiefs don't play another real team into
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't concern me like the Chiefs. Right now,
Speaker 2: I texted are the TV producers because I want to
Speaker 2: do something with this. Let me see if they text
Speaker 2: me back. This stat. No team in the league has
Speaker 2: more victories against playoff teams teams that are currently in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. The Chiefs are five and two against teams
Speaker 2: that are currently in the playoffs. The loss is no
Speaker 2: team has played more games and has a winning record
Speaker 2: against teams that are currently in the playoffs. So the
Speaker 2: Chiefs schedule very tough. We've talked about it. They're two
Speaker 2: to zero against the Chargers. They beat the Bucks, they
Speaker 2: beat the Titans, they beat the Niners. There's the five wins.
Speaker 2: There are two losses are to the Bills and Bangals. Okay,
Speaker 2: so no, I'm not worried about the Chiefs not being tested.
Speaker 2: Yesterday's game was a pain in the ass in this regard.
Speaker 2: Kansas City played for twenty five minutes and then thought
Speaker 2: they could just coast home. And they could have, but
Speaker 2: Patrick was caroless with the football. But this it is
Speaker 2: a bit of evidence of how spoiled we've become with
Speaker 2: the Kansas City Jeeves and Patrick Mahomes in this regard.
Speaker 2: First of all, he is now an utterly impossible fifteen
Speaker 2: and oh in his career in road divisional games, fifteen
Speaker 2: and oh. No fan of the Chargers, Raiders or Broncos
Speaker 2: has ever gone to one of their home stadiums and
Speaker 2: seen Patrick Mahomes do anything other than beating them ten
Speaker 2: and ohero in his career against the Broncos. Okay, Furthermore,
Speaker 2: he had maybe the single best play of the season yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the blind flip, the no look, I'm not off. Demanse
Speaker 2: bet the under in that game and had under Mahomes
Speaker 2: passing yards and Demanse. I gotta tell you, I I
Speaker 2: don't like demands betting football, not because I think you've
Speaker 2: been responsible with the amount of Like you lost all
Speaker 2: your bets yesterday and did you lose even one hundred dollars?
Speaker 4: Oh? Did you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: It was less than right thereabouts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there be.
Speaker 2: Maybe you pressed a little late and didn't tell me right,
Speaker 2: which is so My point is, even when you have
Speaker 2: a terrible day, you're being responsible with the amount that
Speaker 2: you bet. Yeah, So that's not why I hate you gambling.
Speaker 2: I hate you gambling because you start the day with
Speaker 2: such excitement and in such a great mood, and you're
Speaker 2: into all the games, and then because all your bets
Speaker 2: are these seven or more legged parlays. As soon as
Speaker 2: as soon as a parlay is dead, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I look over demon day's half watching the game playing
Speaker 2: Clash of Clans angry, and then that the four o'clock
Speaker 2: windows starts, and that excitement is back. Briefly, He's like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I've got all these things going, and then the moment
Speaker 2: one of them's dead, he's just gone, just disappears for hours,
Speaker 2: and it's just a bummer. It's like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: fun days. But the days you win, you're with me
Speaker 2: the whole time. You're into it all right. But back
Speaker 2: to the game, Mames is flicked to Jerck McKinnon. It's
Speaker 2: one of the best plays of the year by anyone,
Speaker 2: and the touchdown pass that sealed the game to go
Speaker 2: up thirty four to twenty one when he got annihilated
Speaker 2: was another one of the best plays anyone has made
Speaker 2: all year. Now, with that said, he was very careless
Speaker 2: with the football and the three picks irritate you But
Speaker 2: where I say we're spoiled is Mahomes is leading the
Speaker 2: league in passing yards by more than four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty yards. Jalen Hurts, who everyone wants to give the
Speaker 2: MVP two, Now he has one thousand more passing yards
Speaker 2: than him. Now, I'm Hurts been excellent running the football.
Speaker 2: When it comes to touchdown passes, Mahomes is at thirty three.
Speaker 2: No one else has more than twenty seven. He leads
Speaker 2: Hurts in touchdown passes by eleven. So this idea that
Speaker 2: Mahomes now, was he careless with the football? Yes? And
Speaker 2: did the Chiefs think after the Mahomes flick and then
Speaker 2: the Russell pick six to go up twenty seven nothing,
Speaker 2: the game was over? Sure? Go ahead.
Speaker 4: I got a question for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you think that game turns out of
Speaker 3: Russ doesn't get his concussion because it seemed like they
Speaker 3: were they were starting to get things going.
Speaker 2: So here's where I think that's I don't think it
Speaker 2: changes it at all, because the Chiefs were never in
Speaker 2: risk of losing that football game. And this drive where
Speaker 2: Russ got a concussion, they scored a touchdown anyway. Now
Speaker 2: they had to do it on fourth down Like, that's
Speaker 2: to me a better argument if Ripping comes in and
Speaker 2: they because they were down at the goal line after
Speaker 2: Russ is scramble if they don't score there, But they
Speaker 2: scored there anyway, And so I fair enough, I'm not listen.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs were never losing that game. Is it a
Speaker 2: little irritating that Mahomes was careless at the very end
Speaker 2: of the first half, Sure, but does it concern me
Speaker 2: at all? Not in the least. The most important thing
Speaker 2: for Kansas City the rest of the season is to
Speaker 2: avoid what happened to the Niners yesterday, which is, in
Speaker 2: a game you're blowing somebody out, one of their best
Speaker 2: players gets injury. So I know we're talking about the
Speaker 2: Niners in a minute, Deebo Samuel. I know everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: they don't think it's broken. He's a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 2: A high ankle sprain can knock a player out for
Speaker 2: two months. High ankle sprain can be as bad as
Speaker 2: a minor fracture. So the Chiefs got out of that
Speaker 2: game healthy, and I'm sure irritated. Now I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one last thing about the Chiefs. That defense got to
Speaker 2: step up. The defense is back to well below average
Speaker 2: in Mahomes' career. One year they have had a league
Speaker 2: average defense and they won the SUPERWL Like the defense
Speaker 2: needs to play better.
Speaker 4: Did Denver get their season high on the Chiefs yesterday?
Speaker 2: Well by a mile? Yeah? Absolutely? Four touchdowns offense is
Speaker 2: looked all year? All right?
Speaker 4: Next? All right? The goat showed up in the Bay yesterday. No,
Speaker 4: not Brady.
Speaker 3: We were talking about rock Party, not to mention the
Speaker 3: best defense in football. They look better than they had
Speaker 3: all years. So here's your shot to go to about
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Is this the most confident you've been in San Francisco
Speaker 3: since pinking them to win us to.
Speaker 4: Go to the Super Bowl? Sorry?
Speaker 3: And is it time to talk about Brady the podcaster
Speaker 3: or are you still are you still holding out hope
Speaker 3: for Brady the forty nine er?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it's gonna be a forty
Speaker 2: nine er, but Brady's playing next year, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: so I am certain. I've been saying that all year.
Speaker 2: There's some people weren't even convinced he was finishing out
Speaker 2: the season. Now there seems to be a lot more
Speaker 2: discussion that Brady's playing next year. Now, where is it
Speaker 2: gonna be. I don't know. San Francisco's on the board,
Speaker 2: New England's on the board. There's a lot of teams
Speaker 2: that are on the board, but Brady's playing. I don't
Speaker 2: I still believe the Bucks are scary come the postseason. No,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna be able to talk me off of
Speaker 2: that that the Bucks are. They're gonna be the four seed.
Speaker 2: They're probably going to be playing the Cowboys in that
Speaker 2: first playoff game. Now, the Cowboys, you know, didn't exactly
Speaker 2: have an overwhelming game themselves yesterday escaping again to the Texans.
Speaker 2: But to me, the Cowboys, the Bucks are still scary
Speaker 2: in the playoffs and the playoffs only people are once
Speaker 2: again what'd you say exactly? People are once again trying
Speaker 2: to convince themselves that Tampa might not win that division.
Speaker 2: They're gonna win that division even if they lose next
Speaker 2: week to the Bengals. The end of the season, they
Speaker 2: play the Falcons, the Panthers, and one other bad team.
Speaker 2: Let me see, Sorry, I just have to check Tampa
Speaker 2: into the season. I know it's Falcons and Panthers, and
Speaker 2: it's oh and the Cardinals, So they're gonna be fine
Speaker 2: when it comes to San Francisco. This is why I
Speaker 2: picked them to go to the super Bowl with a
Speaker 2: quarterback I'd never seen because when I picked them, Trey
Speaker 2: Lance was their quarterback and that was before they had
Speaker 2: Christian mccaffe. They have the best defense in football. Their
Speaker 2: skill position guys are as good as anybody. They have
Speaker 2: an awesome offensive line, and yesterday looked bleeping awesome. Rock
Speaker 2: Party was not just you know.
Speaker 4: Uh after getting lit up on the first play of
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 2: I mean he got he he was dropping dimes. Rock
Speaker 2: Purty played a better game. The best quarterback game the
Speaker 2: Niners have had all year was by brock Purty yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's better than anything Jimmy Garoppolo did all year. Now,
Speaker 2: do I think he's gonna keep up that level? No,
Speaker 2: If brock Purty's awesome, they will win the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That that's even exactly right now. I do think that,
Speaker 2: you know, he'll have some bad moments. He hasn't had
Speaker 2: bad moments yet. He'll regress somewhat, but all he has
Speaker 2: to be is baseline competent. They have made the conference
Speaker 2: championship game and the Super Bowl in the in the
Speaker 2: three seasons prior to this with a quarterback who's never
Speaker 2: had a single good playoff game, Jimmy Garoppolo in his
Speaker 2: career in the playoffs is four touchdowns, six picks at
Speaker 2: seventy five rating and averages one hundred and forty five
Speaker 2: yards per game or one hundred and sixty five yards
Speaker 2: per game, so that they don't need great quarterbacking in
Speaker 2: San Francisco.
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna be the brock party guy.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: You said that, You think that he's gonna regress and
Speaker 3: everything I'm calling it.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna regress.
Speaker 2: It will stay great.
Speaker 3: This is just gonna be one of those situations, like
Speaker 3: one of those you know, odd man out.
Speaker 2: A Cinderella story. Yes he got of nowhere, Kurt Warner situation. Okay,
Speaker 2: I again, I'm I think he will continue to look
Speaker 2: pretty good in that offense. I do not think he's
Speaker 2: gonna play the lot. Yesterday he played unbelievable, and I
Speaker 2: mean he might win NFC Player of the Week like
Speaker 2: he was unbelievable yesterday. All right. Last the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Became the first team in the league to lock up
Speaker 3: a playoffs spot after crushing the Giants forty eight to
Speaker 3: twenty two, Jalen Hurts played a perfect game with three
Speaker 3: total touchdowns while the guy in Kansas City threw three picks.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Sounds to me like the MVP conversation is opened back
Speaker 3: up with the best with the best record and most
Speaker 3: dominant team in football? Are the Eagles going to lock
Speaker 3: up Coach of the Year and MVP.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're gonna win Coach of the Year and Hurts
Speaker 2: right now is in the MVP discussion? But can we
Speaker 2: please stop? I told you guys when you guys tried
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago to say, oh, Mahomes is locked
Speaker 2: up MVP because Josh Allen's fell off the map. Hey,
Speaker 2: it was Allen, then it was Tua. Now it's Hurts. Hurts.
Speaker 3: I feel like the one that should that should have
Speaker 3: been the one right after Mahomes the entire time.
Speaker 2: In fact, nobody thinks he's better and he's not having
Speaker 2: a better season. Here's a question, Chiefs Eagles. Who is
Speaker 2: the better offensive line? Eagles, Chiefs Eagles. Who is the
Speaker 2: better running game? Eagles? Chiefs Eagles. Who is the better
Speaker 2: wide receivers? Not even close Eagles, Chiefs Eagles. Who is
Speaker 2: the better defense at every single level Eagles, Chiefs Eagles.
Speaker 2: Who is the better quarterback Chiefs? And it's not debatable.
Speaker 2: And yet, because the Eagles are eleven and one or
Speaker 2: twelve and one and the Chiefs are ten and three
Speaker 2: with the Chiefs having played a tougher schedule, We're gonna
Speaker 2: say that win difference is the difference if they both
Speaker 2: if the Chiefs finish fourteen and three and the Eagles
Speaker 2: finish fifteen and two, both of which I think are like,
Speaker 2: are you telling me that one win is going to
Speaker 2: be the reason we deny the best player in the
Speaker 2: league league MVP. Nobody can argue that anyone has been
Speaker 2: more valuable to their team than Mahomes has been other
Speaker 2: than Kelsey and Chris Jones. Who on the Chiefs is
Speaker 2: having a great season. Nobody, nobody. They're number one running
Speaker 2: backs on IR, They're number one receivers on IR. Their
Speaker 2: defense is starting four rookie, four or five rookies. Give
Speaker 2: me a break. They've played seven teams that are currently
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Give me a break. I'm not taking
Speaker 2: anything away from Jailen Hurts. And you said you want
Speaker 2: to be a rock party guy, you really want to
Speaker 2: be a Jailen hurts kid. Yeah, you were watching yesterday
Speaker 2: and you were you were kind of shading this. But
Speaker 2: when you were still optimistic, you weren't gonna lose money,
Speaker 2: you were gonna throw in a little shade my way
Speaker 2: about my Eagle skepticism a little bit. And they looked
Speaker 2: awesome yesterday. Uh. But and if we want to talk
Speaker 2: about how I underrated the Eagles, so be it.
Speaker 4: So this might be a very stupid question.
Speaker 3: The whole the whole MVP thing, Like when the MVP
Speaker 3: race is over, is that after the Super No, that's
Speaker 3: so that's right before playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yes, they will announce it until right before the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: but the voting happens after week.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, that's that's the difference. I mean,
Speaker 3: you already think it's one, but like.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's one. No, no, no, they're listen,
Speaker 2: they're there are there's almost twenty five percent of the
Speaker 2: season left. We've played thirteen games. There's four games left.
Speaker 2: So it used to be so much easier with sixteen
Speaker 2: game season. So just under twenty five percent of the
Speaker 2: season left. There's let me put it this way, more
Speaker 2: than twenty percent of the season left. Things could change
Speaker 2: and Mahomes obviously did not help his case yesterday. However,
Speaker 2: I would argue this, this is my other Mahomes MVP
Speaker 2: argument any other quarterback that is judged by a regular
Speaker 2: quarterback standard. When you get to ten and three, you're
Speaker 2: up twenty seven to nothing on a team on the road,
Speaker 2: and you have those two highlights in a game you
Speaker 2: throw from nearly four hundred yards and three touchdowns, people
Speaker 2: would have said those were his MVP moments, the insane
Speaker 2: player Jack McKinnon. But were so numb to it with
Speaker 2: Mahome Holmes that we try to find reasons that that's
Speaker 2: not the case. And listen, I'm not taking anything away
Speaker 2: from Jalen Hurts. I do not believe he's the league MVP.
Speaker 2: He is right now the favorite right now. Hurts his
Speaker 2: minus one oh five Mahomes is plus one fifty. All right, Oh,
Speaker 2: did Jalen Hurts lock up MVP or pull? Answerers? What's
Speaker 2: the respondents? Forty percent say yes, sixty percent say no.
Speaker 2: Saying anyone locked up MVP is idiot.
Speaker 4: Oh geez, sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, you saying anyone locked it up at this point
Speaker 2: is crazy.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'll just remind people in twenty twenty. Mahomes at this
Speaker 2: point in the year was the defending League Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2: The team was twelve and one and he had unbelievable numbers.
Speaker 2: And then at the end of the year, when they
Speaker 2: had everything locked up, his numbers trailed off a bit.
Speaker 2: He sat in week seventeen and they gave it to
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers a lock and change in the final four weeks.
Speaker 2: And for Philly, let me just see what their national
Speaker 2: TV games are, because all it's gonna take, fairly or unfairly,
Speaker 2: is one really bad Jailen Hurts game, and folks are
Speaker 2: going to Mahomes. I don't think it's gonna be on
Speaker 2: national TV again all year. And so the numbers are
Speaker 2: so overwhelming in Mahomes's favor. So if Jalen Hurds struggles
Speaker 2: in two weeks from the four point thirty kickoff on
Speaker 2: Fox against the Cowboys, Mahomes will run away. If they
Speaker 2: finish sixteen and one, they'll probably give it to Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 2: the FIFA forecast in just a moment. First though, I
Speaker 2: just want to say before we get to the World
Speaker 2: Cup there. Obviously I shouldn't say obviously, but many of
Speaker 2: you may know, there's news this weekend that great longtime
Speaker 2: American soccer journalist and many not just soccer, but he
Speaker 2: focused on soccer at this point in his career. Grant
Speaker 2: Wall died while covering the World Cup in Qatar. There
Speaker 2: was over the weekend an outpouring of support for he
Speaker 2: and his family for what was seemingly a truly shocking death.
Speaker 2: There was also what I thought was some very uncomfortable
Speaker 2: and really irresponsible speculation, and I'm not going to engage
Speaker 2: in that on any level other than to say, you know,
Speaker 2: thoughts and if you're the prayerful type, prayers with his family.
Speaker 2: Guy was in the fifty years old, had just celebrated
Speaker 2: his birthday, was covering the sport he loves and was
Speaker 2: a brave, fearless journalist, and had run into some resistance
Speaker 2: while he was over in Qatar and still did what
Speaker 2: it seems like he always did at every level of
Speaker 2: his career, which is do his job, do it at
Speaker 2: a super high level, and do it fearlessly. I will
Speaker 2: I so it's truly sad and truly a tragedy. And
Speaker 2: you saw. I mean Lebron was asked about it because
Speaker 2: he wrote the cover story for Sports Illustrating Lebron was
Speaker 2: in high school. He wrote some of the best Sports
Speaker 2: Illustrated cover stories ever, so he didn't just cover soccer,
Speaker 2: but he had focused on soccer later in his career.
Speaker 2: I will say, on a personal note, I always feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say uncomfortable, but I was on Twitter. I
Speaker 2: saw when the news came across from US Soccer that
Speaker 2: this had happened, and I I didn't. I never know
Speaker 2: how to handle those things when it would have felt
Speaker 2: perfunctory to send a tweet, but it also would have
Speaker 2: felt ridiculous in the moment to tweet about anything else.
Speaker 2: But I also, I think sometimes people when there's a tragedy,
Speaker 2: like do a weird thing where they I think, unintentionally
Speaker 2: like almost make it about how it relates to them,
Speaker 2: Like oh, I interviewed him like that was, you know,
Speaker 2: and so I kind of just sat out of it. Uh.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of people though, that knew him
Speaker 2: really well. He worked for Fox, he worked for ESPN,
Speaker 2: and they were clearly deeply affected by his passing. And
Speaker 2: he obviously was a great writer. And it's a loss
Speaker 2: for everyone. And I, like I said, I don't want
Speaker 2: I don't want to engage in any of the the speculation.
Speaker 2: I know that his brother had some very concerning or
Speaker 2: you know, damning concerns, I should say. I feel like
Speaker 2: it goes without saying if any of those concerns are valid,
Speaker 2: it's one of the greatest sports tragedies and crimes of
Speaker 2: our lifetime. I I don't I guess that is me
Speaker 2: engaging in the speculation. I don't mean to I have
Speaker 2: no reason to believe though I don't know that anyone
Speaker 2: has any reason to believe that what that those things happened. However,
Speaker 2: so I I probably shouldn't have even said that part
Speaker 2: of it. But it feels like a bit of the
Speaker 2: elephant in the room when a direct family member of
Speaker 2: his UH was saying that he did not believe that
Speaker 2: Grant had just passed from being sick and So the
Speaker 2: whatever it is, I hope his family it's you know,
Speaker 2: comes to it, gets the truth, finds peace, gets the
Speaker 2: full truth of the circumstances. And I would say one
Speaker 2: other thing about Twitter in that moment, I it's okay
Speaker 2: to sit things out other than if you want to
Speaker 2: give condolences, and it's certainly not only okay, I would
Speaker 2: say recommended to not recklessly speculate. I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: his brother, I'm talking about the people, just other people
Speaker 2: on Twitter recklessly speculate about something that none of us
Speaker 2: have any way of knowing anything about, right, and just
Speaker 2: adding to the noise of something that's totally unnecessary. Okay,
Speaker 2: sorry to bring everyone down there, but I would have
Speaker 2: felt odd talking about the World Cup without doing it
Speaker 2: without at least acknowledging that. So, okay, Demonse, get us
Speaker 2: back on track. Let's do a little feed for forecast.
Speaker 2: All Right.
Speaker 3: The quarterfinals came and went, and one thing is clear.
Speaker 3: You need to stick to betting, congressional election and stay
Speaker 3: out of football. Okay, Brazil got knocked out, and you
Speaker 3: still ow mom a trip to Brazil. They're gonna show
Speaker 3: a tweet, I'm assuming.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, So what's that about? All right? Well,
Speaker 2: had I bet on Brazil to win the World Cup?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 2: And I had tweeted that if they win, I'm going
Speaker 2: to use the money that I made betting on them
Speaker 2: to go to Brazil. Your mom been tweeted, We're still
Speaker 2: going to Brazil, getting itick right, you were gambling isn't
Speaker 2: my problem and so so okay, so it looks like
Speaker 2: we're still going to Brazil. It should be noted, though,
Speaker 2: while you throw shade at me, yes, I was wrong
Speaker 2: about Brazil winning it. I have been outstanding, super profitable
Speaker 2: betting this World Cup. You were sitting with me Saturday
Speaker 2: morning watching me win the France bet. I bet Morocco
Speaker 2: live once. Once Morocco went up won nothing. They were
Speaker 2: only like minus one fifteen, uh to win. To win
Speaker 2: the World Cup, or you're not to win the World Cup?
Speaker 2: Pardon me to win that match against Portugal in ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: I bet France to win in ninety minutes at plus
Speaker 2: one fifty. So I'm doing quite well gambling on the
Speaker 2: World Cup.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, all right, before you get into going
Speaker 3: down on guitar, what's going down in guitar?
Speaker 4: Sorry, let's talk about the star of the World Cup.
Speaker 3: France's Kallian Embape Killian Imbape, that's his name, That's how
Speaker 3: you say Kallian Killian Killian Kie Killian Andmbape is aletticism
Speaker 3: and speed is unlike anything else. The Chiefs maybe the
Speaker 3: highest scoring team in football, but there's still lacking a
Speaker 3: true deep threat since Tyreek Hill. How many catches is
Speaker 3: Mbope receiving if he if he signed with Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Listen, I don't know. He is an unbelievable athlete and
Speaker 2: we talked about last week. We talked about what Imbope
Speaker 2: has if they win the World Cup. Nobody's won back
Speaker 2: to back since Brazil and Pele. When Brazil did it,
Speaker 2: they had a teenager be kind of the star and
Speaker 2: score in the final. When France one four years ago,
Speaker 2: they had a teenager score in the final. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of similarities here, and that they're doing it without
Speaker 2: Pogba and without Benzoma France is it's really special. But
Speaker 2: what we have in this quarter final, in this semi
Speaker 2: final is unbelievable. France Morocco. There's a long history between
Speaker 2: France and Morocco and our book club book Little History
Speaker 2: of the World has you know, Morocco once upon a
Speaker 2: time went and about fourteen hundred years ago, fifteen hundred
Speaker 2: years ago, went and conquered Portugal, then Spain, then into France.
Speaker 2: In this World Cup, Morocco has beaten Spain, then Portugal.
Speaker 2: Now they're trying to beat France. There's also some colonization history.
Speaker 2: It's really fascinating. Morocco being here is phenomenal, utterly phenomenal.
Speaker 2: The first African nation ever to make the semi final
Speaker 2: of a World Cup. Okay, it's spectacular. On the now,
Speaker 2: I think France is gonna be just to be totally candid.
Speaker 2: On the other side, you have Argentina and Croatia. Argentina,
Speaker 2: which made a final eight years ago, which is won
Speaker 2: a couple when they had Maridona, and Croatia, which never
Speaker 2: leads in any of these games yet keeps winning the games,
Speaker 2: either an extra time or in penalty kicks. Croatia has
Speaker 2: fewer people than Chicago, and they made the World Cup
Speaker 2: final last year and then the semifinal this year. So
Speaker 2: what would be Listen, I am rooting for an Argentina
Speaker 2: France final. Okay, it would just be utterly spectacular to
Speaker 2: see messi and in Bape, Messi trying to you know,
Speaker 2: like I said, he made the final few years ago,
Speaker 2: they lost in they losing penalties or extra time. They
Speaker 2: lost an extra time I think to Germany. Messi didn't score.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say few years ago, two World Cups ago,
Speaker 2: if Morocco were to do it. Though, here's the thing
Speaker 2: about the World Cup. They've been playing it since nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2: They skipped that there were no World Cups in the
Speaker 2: forties thanks to World War Two. It hasn't been. There's
Speaker 2: despite all of that, there have only been how many
Speaker 2: is it eight nations? One, two, three, eight nations to
Speaker 2: ever win it? Because here's and there's only been how
Speaker 2: many nations fourteen nations, fifth, thirteen nations to ever even
Speaker 2: make a final? Okay, so let me just go through
Speaker 2: the history of it real quick. I had to pull
Speaker 2: it up because this, unlike our list of NBA MVPs,
Speaker 2: I don't have memorized. Brazil has won it five times,
Speaker 2: came in second twice, so they've made seven finals. By
Speaker 2: the way, it should be noted Brazil, what a total
Speaker 2: disappointment for them since winning it in two that is,
Speaker 2: in the World Cup since o two. They've been past
Speaker 2: the quarterfinals only one time one so ninety four they win,
Speaker 2: ninety eight they came in second, two thousand and two
Speaker 2: they win. Since then six knocked out in the corners quarters,
Speaker 2: pardon me, twenty ten knocked out in the quarters. Twenty
Speaker 2: fourteen in Brazil make it to the Semis, lose seven
Speaker 2: to one to Germany seven to one at home, twenty
Speaker 2: eighteen knocked out in the quarters, and this year not doubt,
Speaker 2: in the quarters in a game they had no business
Speaker 2: losing up one to zero with minutes left, and find
Speaker 2: to create a steal a loss from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 2: But they've won five, runners up twice. Germany has won
Speaker 2: four and been runners up four times. Germany's unbelievable run
Speaker 2: was the seventies into the eighties. Germany one in seventy four,
Speaker 2: runners up in eighty two and eighty six, and then
Speaker 2: one in ninety. Italy, which didn't even qualify for the
Speaker 2: World Cup this year, has won it four times. Kemlin
Speaker 2: second twice. Argentina I mentioned to you with Maridana they
Speaker 2: won it twice, runners up three times, including eight years ago.
Speaker 2: Then there's France, which has won it twice, including a
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen runner up, one other time and now, and
Speaker 2: that's really it in modern us in modern World Cup history,
Speaker 2: A died from Spain's victory in twenty ten. Spain also
Speaker 2: won the Euros the four years surrounding it, it looked
Speaker 2: like they were gonna be dynastic. They've done nothing in
Speaker 2: the World Cup since then. England won it in sixty six,
Speaker 2: hasn't been back to a final since. Uruguay won it
Speaker 2: twice pre nineteen sixty haven't been back to a final
Speaker 2: since the Netherlands has been to three finals, lost them all. Czechoslovakia,
Speaker 2: which is in the country anymore, has been to two
Speaker 2: finals in lost. Netherlands has been to three finals, lost
Speaker 2: in mal I should say Czechoslovakia went to two finals
Speaker 2: a thousand years ago, same with Hungary and Sweden. And
Speaker 2: then there's Croatia. So Croatia would be just the ninth
Speaker 2: team to ever win a World Cup. Morocco would be
Speaker 2: just the fourteenth team to ever make a final, or
Speaker 2: the ninth team to win the World Cup if they
Speaker 2: finish it all, and then France with a victory, would
Speaker 2: move behind only Italy, Germany and Brazil. France or Argentina,
Speaker 2: by the way, would get to three, which would move
Speaker 2: them solo possession of the fourth most World Cup titles
Speaker 2: of all time. I hope we get France Argentine in
Speaker 2: the final. There was a good eight minutes on World
Speaker 2: Cup history. Now let's get back to football. What game
Speaker 2: are we playing?
Speaker 4: All right, we are playing all inner fold today.
Speaker 3: Okay, everybody told you to sell your Baker's stock, but
Speaker 3: you held on strong.
Speaker 4: Now business is boomy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baker will be a franchise quarterback the game.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to.
Speaker 4: Go that far.
Speaker 2: However, he gave himself a real shot at being the
Speaker 2: quarterback in Los Angeles long term. Yeah, nobody knows what
Speaker 2: the future roads for Stafford with a scary injury spinal
Speaker 2: cord concern. It also, I feel a little awkward talking
Speaker 2: about this, but I think it's worth noting his wife
Speaker 2: four years ago was having aches, went to the doctor,
Speaker 2: they found out she had a brain tumor. Now it
Speaker 2: was benign. They did twelve hour surgery and she's fine.
Speaker 2: But that's like, I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 2: to call that a brush with death, but that is
Speaker 2: something that level sets your family. It's like, oh, my god,
Speaker 2: you have a brain tumor. You're gonna have to have
Speaker 2: this surgery any You know it all obvious and that
Speaker 2: plus now Stafford is a spinal cord condition, call it.
Speaker 2: That's made a bunch of money, played for a long time,
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl. So I'm not certain how much
Speaker 2: longer Stafford's going to play. So I think Baker's in
Speaker 2: a good spot. And if you can play well over
Speaker 2: this last month with this terrible Rams team, even if
Speaker 2: it's not there, he has a decent chance of being
Speaker 2: back in the mix for a starting quarterback job. But
Speaker 2: I'm neither all in norfolding. I'm disobeying the rules of
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 3: Next though, before I start this next one, guys, don't
Speaker 3: forget to answer or put questions in the chat for
Speaker 3: after the break.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely add some questions to the chat. We'll
Speaker 2: do those in the sea.
Speaker 3: So Bubblo got lucky at home versus the Jests this week,
Speaker 3: walking away with an eight point win. They hold on
Speaker 3: to the one seed for now, but they have to
Speaker 3: beat panicking after Josh Allen's seventh straight bad game. I
Speaker 3: know you're happy about this, all in her fold. The
Speaker 3: bills aren't easy out in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fold on that they're not an easy out.
Speaker 2: But can everyone please acknowledge I was right about Josh Allen? Please?
Speaker 2: What do you throw for one hundred and fifty yards yesterday?
Speaker 2: Now that Bill's Devens looked awesome and kicked the hell
Speaker 2: out of poor Mike White. He went out of that
Speaker 2: game multiple times with an injury. One of the times
Speaker 2: right when he went out, they stupidly called it Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco pass he fumbles. The Bills were incredibly did you throw?
Speaker 2: I don't think he threw a pick. I think it
Speaker 2: was a fumble. The I don't think because flacouldn't in
Speaker 2: long enough throw a pick. Maybe I'm wrong, producers and drinking,
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I doubt I am. I'm rarely really wrong
Speaker 2: about anything. I think it was a fumble. Uh. But
Speaker 2: for the second straight year, forget m VP. Josh Allen
Speaker 2: is not a Pro Bowl right now. If we were
Speaker 2: listing Pro Bowl quarterbacks in the a f C, it
Speaker 2: would go Mahomes, then Borrow, then in my opinion, Herbert,
Speaker 2: then Tua and then Josh Allen and you only get three.
Speaker 2: That's five.
Speaker 4: So wait, what what was that? List that you just gave.
Speaker 2: Mahomes, then Burrow, then Justin Herbert Pro Bowl. It's like
Speaker 2: all Star team. It's like all start.
Speaker 4: So Jalen hurts.
Speaker 2: No a f C. Oh no, sorry, do it by
Speaker 2: conference like Eastern Conference All Stars. Yeah, so the the
Speaker 2: n f C is a trickier one because it's Jalen.
Speaker 2: And then it's like, who are we putting? You know
Speaker 2: what I mean? If you were in the n'd be
Speaker 2: a pro bowler. Yeah, but he's not. And so the
Speaker 2: he last year wasn't a pro bowler either, and Pro
Speaker 2: Bowls are not everything, but it is my little snapshot
Speaker 2: of how good are you? And I tried. Everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're scared of Justin. It's been the let He hasn't
Speaker 2: been awesome since the Chiefs game or the first half
Speaker 2: of the Packers game the week after that really was it?
Speaker 2: And then they scored twenty points through for one hundred
Speaker 2: fifty yards, like enough but not unfolding. They're not an
Speaker 2: easy out.
Speaker 4: Would you like the Chiefs to draw them in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: I'd rather play them in the Bengals Yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: tell you that much. I might rather play them than
Speaker 2: the Chargers even though the Chiefs have beaten the Chargers.
Speaker 2: So hard to beat a team three times, and all
Speaker 2: those games have been close, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like the so no, they're not an easy out, but
Speaker 2: they were wildly over rate. Josh Allen was wildly over rated,
Speaker 2: and I told you guys that he's not gonna get
Speaker 2: They've now expanded MVP voting to where you vote for
Speaker 2: five guys. He's not on a ballot right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 2: Be mahomes and hurts at the top of everyone's ballot,
Speaker 2: right Burrow probably third, and then maybe people throw in
Speaker 2: like Micah Parsons, you know, a defensive player. Maybe somebody
Speaker 2: gives Geno Gino Boys terrible yes Day a fifth place vote.
Speaker 2: Will see all they finished. He's not gonna show up.
Speaker 2: See how what if the Chargers went out Herbert shows up?
Speaker 2: Who knows? But I told you guys about Josh Allen. Next,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys entered Sunday as the biggest favorite all season
Speaker 3: against the one win Texans. It took a last minute
Speaker 3: touchdowns for America's team to put it. Put off the comeback,
Speaker 3: pull off, the comeback, sorry.
Speaker 4: All in their fold.
Speaker 3: This proves that the Cowboys need O'Dell Beckham to compete
Speaker 3: in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: No big pat on the back to your boy though
Speaker 4: for what good?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because you had the Texans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like my that should have been my
Speaker 4: lock of the week.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that should have you know what, check real quick
Speaker 2: in the doc. I want to know because I had
Speaker 2: a winning week. It wasn't as great as it could
Speaker 2: have been, but I had a winning week. Demons, it
Speaker 2: was plus sixteen and a half. That's a winner. Minnesota
Speaker 2: minus two and a half, that's a loser. Tennessee minus four,
Speaker 2: that's a loser. Denver plus nine and a half. That
Speaker 2: was a winner. But you went against that in real like,
Speaker 2: in real time.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: That doesn't make it. I'm so confused. You bet so
Speaker 2: you didn't you bet the Chiefs in real life? Oh?
Speaker 2: I bet money line? Okay, So two and two. That's terrible.
Speaker 2: All right. Now to the Cowboys, whether they need Odell
Speaker 2: or not, he's obviously not playing this year like that,
Speaker 2: He's nobody.
Speaker 4: Is available come playoff time.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's playing for anyone this year. The Cowboys issue
Speaker 2: was not. They need another receiver. They took that game lightly,
Speaker 2: dack Threw made some terrible decisions and they still escaped
Speaker 2: with a win.
Speaker 4: And Millis was dropping some dimes in there. Who Millis
Speaker 4: or mill whatever, Davis Mills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I'm not. I'm not. The Cowboys overlooked the Texans.
Speaker 2: If they had lost, it would have been devastating. But
Speaker 2: they didn't lose. I'm not that worried about it, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, the prince that was promised once again had the
Speaker 3: best game of his career against the division leading Titans.
Speaker 3: Too bad, you lost your confidence in them all interfold.
Speaker 4: It's time to ban Jack's betting bands.
Speaker 2: I'm really mad at the proofer. They have cost me
Speaker 2: so much in on the Trevor Lawrence stuff, so much.
Speaker 2: They because what they've done is they let you go.
Speaker 2: They haven't they they let me better them, and they
Speaker 2: lose all these games. Then they banned me right when
Speaker 2: they start covering. They've really just screwed me so far
Speaker 2: this year when it comes to betting on the Jacks.
Speaker 2: With that said, we just mentioned the Cowboys. Okay, very
Speaker 2: intriguing game this weekend Cowboys at Jacks. Okay, now, I
Speaker 2: don't think the Jags are gonna win that game. What
Speaker 2: do you think the line is in that Demanse Cowboys
Speaker 2: at the Jacks.
Speaker 4: Let's call it Cowboys plus.
Speaker 3: Three and a half given this recent performance against the Texans.
Speaker 3: Favored by three Cowboys minus three Cowboys minus five.
Speaker 2: The Titans play the Chargers this weekend. Okay, if, and
Speaker 2: it's a big if, but if the Jaguars are able
Speaker 2: to beat the Cowboys, they'd still have the Texans left
Speaker 2: and they get the Titans the final week of the year.
Speaker 2: It's a two game separation between the two. If the
Speaker 2: Jags were to beat the Titans in week eighteen, okay,
Speaker 2: they would hold the tiebreaker by virtue of sweeping them
Speaker 2: in the division. I'm not saying the Jags are alive.
Speaker 2: I'm simply saying they are not quite totally dead. And
Speaker 2: you know what is definitely not totally dead. Let me
Speaker 2: find it. Where is this from before the season? NFL
Speaker 2: preseason Jags over six and a half, one of my
Speaker 2: strong overs. How are we looking? Oh? Five and eight,
Speaker 2: only need two more wins.
Speaker 4: You think Trevor Lawren's gonna be able to finally beat
Speaker 4: the Texans? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do think it's gonna be able to beat the Texans.
Speaker 4: I think the game is gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 2: Let's see how my preseason bets are looking real quick.
Speaker 2: Baltimore over ten and a half looking great. They're at nine.
Speaker 2: Indy over nine one and a half. That's a loss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a loss.
Speaker 2: Jacksonville over six and a half. Needn't go two and
Speaker 2: two down the stretch, we'll see, but still alive, right,
Speaker 2: Kansas City over ten and a half, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: New England under eight and a half, gonna come down
Speaker 2: to the wire. They're six and six, the very tough
Speaker 2: schedule at the end of the year. Giants under seven
Speaker 2: and a half, they would have to lose out. The
Speaker 2: fact though, that that is back alive by the by
Speaker 2: the littlest of bits, because the tie doesn't count as
Speaker 2: half a win when it comes to this. It's just
Speaker 2: so they would have to lose out. But that one's
Speaker 2: gonna lose. San Francisco over nine and a half, that's
Speaker 2: they need one more win. And Tampa under eleven and
Speaker 2: a half already locked in. How about that? How about that? Also,
Speaker 2: let's keep looking at this real quick. The Kansas City,
Speaker 2: Baltimore Indie, San Francisco parlay to'll all make the playoffs
Speaker 2: A plus four forty. That's a loser because of Indy.
Speaker 2: Indy's not getting there. Seattle, the Jets, Atlanta, and New
Speaker 2: England all to miss the playoffs. Alive again. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be hard, but it is alive again. But that one's
Speaker 2: not looking great. Cleveland missing the playoffs minus one seventy locked,
Speaker 2: Denver missing the playoffs plus one twenty locked locked locked ye,
Speaker 2: New England missing the playoffs. We'll see. It's gonna come
Speaker 2: down to the wire division winners. I'm gonna lose that
Speaker 2: parlay I did Buffalo, Indye, Kansas City, Indy. That was
Speaker 2: way too is on Indy. Indian screwed me on three
Speaker 2: different bets. They're over there, make the playoffs and their
Speaker 2: division winners. So that's three of my bets. And then
Speaker 2: the Casey San Francisco super Bowl at fifty to one
Speaker 2: my preseason wagers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one's looking could look thirty good right now.
Speaker 2: Fifty to one. Denver missing the playoffs. That was plus
Speaker 2: money plus one twenty on Denver missing the playoffs all right.
Speaker 3: Last one, USC quarterback Caleb Williams took home of the
Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy over the weekend. It has one more year
Speaker 3: of eligibility, but his talent is obviously out of this world.
Speaker 3: Should team start tanking for him next season?
Speaker 4: All in her fold.
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is the Victor Wimby of the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four NFL dress.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna fold on that because there are no the NFL.
Speaker 2: Football doesn't work like basketball, where it's just like transcendent prospect,
Speaker 2: can't miss, absolutely won't miss, never misses. That doesn't quite
Speaker 2: exist in the NFL. Even the can't miss guys sometimes miss.
Speaker 2: But I like Caleb Williams a lot. He's the first
Speaker 2: college quarterback to remind me of Mahomes since Mahomes, So
Speaker 2: I do like him a lot. So I'm folding on
Speaker 2: him being Wimby, But he might be the closest thing
Speaker 2: in the NFL to a Wimby. All right, answer listener
Speaker 2: questions Next What's right? All Right? Welcome back What's Right
Speaker 2: with Nick Wright? Episode one of six. We are now
Speaker 2: answering questions from our live YouTube audience. Demons, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Joe says the MVP race is tightening. Hurts has eight
Speaker 3: more rushing touchdowns than Mahomes. So don't say Mahomes has
Speaker 3: eleven more passing touchdowns. Mahomes also has six more turnovers.
Speaker 3: This is all that matters.
Speaker 4: All, this all matters. Sorry, don't be such a homer, nick.
Speaker 2: Guys, I'm not listening. I said that obviously Hurts as
Speaker 2: better rushing numbers. Now, do I value quarterback rushing touchdowns
Speaker 2: as much as I value quarterback passing touchdowns?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna tell you, flat Lee, I don't do.
Speaker 2: I think that a lot of those, not all of them,
Speaker 2: but a lot of those Hurts rushing touchdowns could easily
Speaker 2: have been Miles Sanders or a different running back. They
Speaker 2: hand the ball off to it the goal line. Sure,
Speaker 2: but listen. Of course, the MVP race is tightening. But
Speaker 2: I reject the premise that Hurts us pulled into the lead.
Speaker 2: Now Vegas says he has, but I the biggest Hurts fans.
Speaker 2: I will make the point earlier.
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 2: Mahomes is going to throw for the most yards of
Speaker 2: anyone in football, and add Hurts rushing yards to his
Speaker 2: passing yards, put them, combine them, and Mahomes still has
Speaker 2: more the total yards. But the Mahome's gonna throw for
Speaker 2: the most touchdowns of football by a mile. Ad Hurts
Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns, Mahomes is still gonna have more total touchdowns
Speaker 2: than him by a mile. Does anyone think Hurts is
Speaker 2: better than Mahomes?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Does anyone think Mahomes has a better team. No, Hurts
Speaker 2: has the better offensive line, the better running backs, the
Speaker 2: better wide receivers, the far better defense. So don't give
Speaker 2: me the eleven and one versus or twelve and one
Speaker 2: versus ten and three. Don't give me that. Does anybody
Speaker 2: think this moment that the Chiefs would swap Mahomes for Hurts?
Speaker 2: Not in a million years would the Eagles swap Hurts
Speaker 2: for Mahomes in a second? Now? Does that make him
Speaker 2: the MVP? No? But that, plus the fact the team
Speaker 2: is tied for the best record in the conference, had
Speaker 2: tied for the second best record in the whole sport.
Speaker 2: It's not like the Chiefs are eight eight and five.
Speaker 2: They're ten and three, and Mahomes has been utterly sensational.
Speaker 2: So let's all pump the brakes just a bit, all right?
Speaker 3: Next, All right, Grand minister, ask, is it time to
Speaker 3: keep that safe?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is it time to keep that same energy, and finally
Speaker 3: admit that the Titans are good with their own with
Speaker 3: the only wins that aren't good, with only wins coming
Speaker 3: against teams who or at least or last or a second.
Speaker 3: You want to start this one over, chev Yeah, Grand
Speaker 3: minister asks, is it time to keep that? Saying it's
Speaker 3: about time to keep that, save energy, and finally admit
Speaker 3: that the Titans aren't good with their only wins coming
Speaker 3: against teams who are last or second in their division,
Speaker 3: second to.
Speaker 2: Last in their division. We're not going to do this
Speaker 2: a third time. But I got you, buddy, I listen. Uh,
Speaker 2: I don't think the Titans this weekend are that good.
Speaker 2: I do think that they have an excellent coach, and
Speaker 2: I do I hadn't thought about what he said. So
Speaker 2: let's look at the Titans victories. The Titans beat the Raiders,
Speaker 2: they beat the Colts. They beat the Commanders. Now, that's
Speaker 2: a little unfair to call the Commander's second to last
Speaker 2: in their division. They are, but the Commanders have proven
Speaker 2: to be a good team or a good ish team.
Speaker 2: They beat the Colts again. They beat the Texans, they
Speaker 2: beat the Broncos, they beat the Packers, or these are
Speaker 2: fair points say no, no, no, those are fair points. But
Speaker 2: when he says keep the same energy, who hears ever
Speaker 2: capped for the Texans Titans? No, I haven't thought the
Speaker 2: Titans are great. I thought the Colts would win that division.
Speaker 2: They haven't. Could the Titans fall apart? Chargers, Texans, Cowboys, Jags?
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing on the Texans. They're gonna
Speaker 2: win one game, like one more game, so they've got
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, then Titans, Jags, Colls. They're gonna upset one
Speaker 2: of those teams and they'll still get the number one
Speaker 2: pick because everyone else in football has at least three wins.
Speaker 2: So if the Titans could fall all the way out
Speaker 2: of it, I don't expect them to, but they could.
Speaker 2: But I never thought they were great. All right?
Speaker 3: Next, all right, Trey Keasey said, Hey, Nigga Devantze love
Speaker 3: the show. Win is Nick's disc golf car Disc Golf
Speaker 3: Corner coming? And do the Patriots have a chance of
Speaker 3: making the final wildcard spart Spot Thanks.
Speaker 2: They definitely have a chance. They have to win tonight
Speaker 2: and what they and then they have the Raiders. Their
Speaker 2: problem is their final three games Bengals, Dolphins, Patriots, So
Speaker 2: they need to win these next two, get to eight
Speaker 2: and six, and then I don't know. If nine and
Speaker 2: eight doesn't, they might have to get to ten and seven.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I don't think they're gonna make it. I
Speaker 2: just I think they're probably gonna have to go five,
Speaker 2: four and one down the stretch, and I don't think
Speaker 2: they can go four and one down the stretch.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, last one, fair enough? Jack Ash?
Speaker 3: Has Nick ever tried Call of Duty? And will he
Speaker 3: ever make an appearance on Right Upside Downs Exquisite stream?
Speaker 2: All right, that's Demanse's twitch stream was doing it this weekend.
Speaker 2: People heard a little bit from me on it when
Speaker 2: I was watching the World Cup game. So here's my question, Demanse,
Speaker 2: can you twitch? We can twitch stream anything, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about anything on the screen.
Speaker 2: All right. So I'll never make an appearance on Call
Speaker 2: of Duty, But if you want, and if you think
Speaker 2: it'll help the buzz for your twitch stream, all crush
Speaker 2: some fools and Madden on there. I'm an impeccable Madden player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really know how that dude does for content?
Speaker 3: What do you mean does for have you just play?
Speaker 3: You're not gonna play me that it'll.
Speaker 2: Be I don't want to embarrass you, it'll expose your
Speaker 2: lack of football strategy. Act.
Speaker 3: They actually watched me play a pretty I lost, but
Speaker 3: I played a pretty good game of Mad with the
Speaker 3: Ravens the other day.
Speaker 2: Did you just say I can't use your platform on Twitch?
Speaker 2: Is that what you just implied? Like?
Speaker 4: What would what would.
Speaker 2: Were you saying? What would that do for you?
Speaker 3: I just it's just like here's it's like, so it's
Speaker 3: at that point it's your twitch stream.
Speaker 2: No, it would be I would be doing a guest appearance. Listen.
Speaker 2: I'm no media expert.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I.
Speaker 2: Would think that if I were to like tweet out, hey,
Speaker 2: hopping on Demonsee's Twitch stream, here's the length to beat
Speaker 2: some people in Madden, and maybe even some FIFA people
Speaker 2: might tune in. You could be on the headset if
Speaker 2: you wanted, You could talk to him, and then maybe
Speaker 2: it would raise awareness for your twitch string. That's all.
Speaker 4: I'm totally no, no, no, totally down for that. But hopefully
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Those guys are willing to come back and watch me
Speaker 3: play Call of Duty later later course.
Speaker 2: That's the idea. That would be the idea. Also, if
Speaker 2: you just want me to stay out of it. I'll
Speaker 2: stay out of it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I want to play you in Madden because
Speaker 3: I think that i'd be able to beat you in
Speaker 3: front of it. Like I think that if there's like
Speaker 3: a crowd watching, i'd probably like, i'd probably beat you.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we can set that up. I really really
Speaker 2: really don't like your chances, and I think that it
Speaker 2: will make the audience, it will make it harder for
Speaker 2: them to take your football analysis seriously when they see
Speaker 2: how you call plays on Madden. I'm just telling you
Speaker 2: only have Lamar Jackson drop back and roll out to
Speaker 2: throw a pick. That's so crazy. You just had this.
Speaker 4: You just had to be there. You just had to
Speaker 4: be there.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, I just had to be there.
Speaker 3: I'm really like, I'm really good at running the football.
Speaker 3: I only ran the ball with Lamar like twice. Like
Speaker 3: the people that were on the stream that just commented
Speaker 3: on here, they saw the game. It was a great
Speaker 3: running game, very effective, might have thrown a pick, but
Speaker 3: also caught a couple of picks, played stellar defense, scored
Speaker 3: on the first drive, forced turnovers. We were doing all
Speaker 3: of it, man, the whole nine Okay, I've picked up
Speaker 3: a little bit more skill with this whole band thing
Speaker 3: since we last played.
Speaker 2: Okay, well listen. So if you're a twitch streamer I've
Speaker 2: never done it, subscribe to Demanse's twitch stream. His name
Speaker 2: on there is right with a no W like just
Speaker 2: the direction right up side down is his twitch stream.
Speaker 2: You can also just go to his twitter at demanse bird.
Speaker 2: It's the pin tweet if you want to see the
Speaker 2: link to that. All right, again, we've got a little
Speaker 2: bit of a we're not sure about the schedule the
Speaker 2: rest of the week. We're gonna figure that out. But
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Speaker 2: was episode one oh six, What's Up.