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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode to seventy nine,
Speaker 2: seventy to seventy seven. Thank you very much to want Hey,
Speaker 2: my apologies. I skipped ahead a bit a ton to
Speaker 2: do uh important Monday night football game line night wasn't
Speaker 2: the most well played game. And I'm gonna say this
Speaker 2: before we get to the playoff picture in week ten
Speaker 2: everything NFL. I mean two, I guess he's just gonna
Speaker 2: play football the way he wants to play football, and
Speaker 2: we all gotta be okay with it because he's he
Speaker 2: is playing with quite a bit of reckless abandon including
Speaker 2: leading with his head on an attempted tackle after an interception,
Speaker 2: and I can't. I have to imagine even the defensive
Speaker 2: players are playing, you know, with a bit of their
Speaker 2: you know, heart in their throat. So I it's a
Speaker 2: weird viewing experience where you're just like, get the ball out,
Speaker 2: go down, don't do that. Like So, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I am a little squeamish watching to a play, and
Speaker 2: he does not seem to be. He plays a style
Speaker 2: last year that was different than at any other quarterback.
Speaker 2: Ball out instantly, any pressure, go down. This year he
Speaker 2: was struggling, stopped playing that style, suffered another brutal concussion,
Speaker 2: and now has come back and seems to be like,
Speaker 2: well screw it. So I don't know what we do
Speaker 2: with that. But that's my viewing experience watching Tua. All right,
Speaker 2: here's what missed the cut. Bronni's G League debut, the Saints'
Speaker 2: interim head coach. We don't do scatological humor on this show.
Speaker 2: The producers should know this. Two hundred and seventy seven
Speaker 2: episodes in that probably didn't even need to be on
Speaker 2: the screen. And Demons's breakdown of Carolina versus the Giants
Speaker 2: that missed the cut because it actually was kind of
Speaker 2: a fun game. But that was the old six thirty
Speaker 2: am West Coast start time. That was a zero watch.
Speaker 2: Even though you're a Daniel Jones guy, I guarantee that
Speaker 2: was a zero watch. So all that coming in. Did
Speaker 2: your teaser hit this week? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3: It didn't hit three team or hit pretty big? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Three teamer hit?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 2: What a run three team or teaser for Demansee, we'll
Speaker 2: get into that on the Gambling Show. My five picks
Speaker 2: started out three and oh and sadly ended three and two.
Speaker 2: Lost the Sunday night football game by the hook, and
Speaker 2: but I had no business winning that game anyway. I
Speaker 2: had Detroit laying points. Jared Goff goes full, you know
Speaker 2: Jared Goff. And then Monday night I had the Rams.
Speaker 2: They had some opportunities to steal it, but didn't. Speaking
Speaker 2: of that, demands, let's get right into Monday night before
Speaker 2: we get into the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Yeah, So, in a must needed win, Miami
Speaker 3: keeps their season alive against the Rams last night. Could
Speaker 3: you see Miami sneaking into the AFC playoff picture.
Speaker 2: So Rams quickly. The Rams playoff hopes are very very
Speaker 2: simple and siffer than Miami just got to win the division.
Speaker 2: Because in the NFC right now, you have Detroit, Philly,
Speaker 2: Atlanta are leading their divisions and are all going to
Speaker 2: be playoff teams. You then have Washington and Minnesota both
Speaker 2: with seven wins, so those teams look very good for
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and Green Bay sitting there at six and three,
Speaker 2: which leaves you one team potentially out of the NFC West,
Speaker 2: and the Cardinals are sitting at six and four, the
Speaker 2: Niners at five and four, and Los Angeles and Seattle
Speaker 2: at four and five. So for the Rams, that was
Speaker 2: a bad loss last night. The question is, though, can
Speaker 2: they make up enough ground to steal the four seed
Speaker 2: and keep the Cardinals and the Niners out of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: If you're the Rams, you're like, man, the Niners won
Speaker 2: a game they almost blew at the end. If the
Speaker 2: Bucks can just punch it in and then you have
Speaker 2: a game that you're the favored in that you end
Speaker 2: up losing, that one's simple. The AFC playoff picture is
Speaker 2: very very different because three of the divisions feel totally locked.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs locked in the AFC West, the Bills triple
Speaker 2: locked in the AFC East, five games clear of the
Speaker 2: Dolphins and the Texans, even though they're not playing well
Speaker 2: as of late. The cult season has gone off, the
Speaker 2: Rails going to a thirty nine year old Joe Flacco,
Speaker 2: where the future and the present seem to be in trouble.
Speaker 2: The Texans are gonna win that division. Then you have
Speaker 2: the AFC North, where Pittsburgh and Baltimore are going to
Speaker 2: be fighting for that division. There's five playoff teams, and
Speaker 2: then the Chargers, who have all of a sudden one
Speaker 2: six three in a row. They're six and three. Their
Speaker 2: losses this year don't look bad at all. A ten
Speaker 2: point loss to Pittsburgh, a touchdown loss to Kansas City,
Speaker 2: a two point loss to the Cardinals. Now they don't
Speaker 2: have any great wins, but they look to be positioned
Speaker 2: pretty well. So we are looking at one AFC playoff
Speaker 2: spot for the following teams. Denver at five and five,
Speaker 2: Indy at four and six, the Dolphins at four and six,
Speaker 2: and Miami sneaky alive at three and six. Miami's next
Speaker 2: two games demonse home for the Raiders home for the Patriots.
Speaker 2: You then are at the Packers. That's tough, but you
Speaker 2: also have two left against the Jets and a Browns
Speaker 2: game left. Your tough ones are Packers Texans. Now, So
Speaker 2: can the Dolphins get to nine and eight maybe? And
Speaker 2: would nine and eight be good enough? I think nine
Speaker 2: and eight is probably going to get you in as
Speaker 2: the seventh seed. The question is what will your tie
Speaker 2: breakers be? Who else will be nine and eight? So
Speaker 2: let's just go through it real quick, because I think
Speaker 2: that in the AFC, the Chiefs, Bills, Steelers, Ravens, Texans
Speaker 2: feel like close to one hundred percent for the playoffs
Speaker 2: right now. Now the Steelers, by the way, quick note
Speaker 2: there's seven and two and we'll talk about them later,
Speaker 2: do you know, I mean, there's no way you would
Speaker 2: know off the top of your head. I just I
Speaker 2: had been talking about it yesterday. Their final eight games
Speaker 2: demands ey because it's insane. Does the Steelers no? It
Speaker 2: incredibly tough. Wheelers have not played a single divisional game yet,
Speaker 2: so they have six divisional games. Yeah, the Steelers and
Speaker 2: the Bears to the two toughest divisions, two teams that
Speaker 2: have not played a single divisional game. Really bad news
Speaker 2: for the Bears. The Steelers have six AFC North games left.
Speaker 2: Now you can say that's not that tough because the
Speaker 2: Browns stink, the Bengals aren't that good, but it's the
Speaker 2: AFC North, like those are gonna be slugfests. And their
Speaker 2: two non divisional games are Philly and the Chiefs. So
Speaker 2: that is actually really good news for your Ravens and
Speaker 2: their ability to climb up and steal that division. But
Speaker 2: I don't think Pittsburgh's gonna fall out of the playoff
Speaker 2: picture entirely, obviously, so we'll put them in even though
Speaker 2: they have the brutal schedule, and the Chargers have given
Speaker 2: themselves given themselves a little bit of a margin of error.
Speaker 2: They end the year going Broncos, Patriots, Raiders. So as
Speaker 2: long as the Chargers don't just fall apart over the
Speaker 2: next month, Bengals, Ravens, Falcons, Chiefs, Bucks, they should be good.
Speaker 2: So that then again leaves us Broncos, Colts, Bengals, Dolphins,
Speaker 2: four teams for one spot. What do the Broncos have
Speaker 2: coming up home for the Falcons, at the Raiders, home
Speaker 2: for the Browns, home for the Colts, and then very
Speaker 2: tough stretch at the Chargers at the Bengals, but maybe
Speaker 2: a super lucky And we talked about this. If you
Speaker 2: remember before we the Broncos preseason win total was five
Speaker 2: and a half and we took the over. They're sitting
Speaker 2: at five already, they were five and three. One of
Speaker 2: the reasons they got the best Week eighteen game you
Speaker 2: can get. They get the Chiefs in Week eighteen. And
Speaker 2: the reason that's the best game you can it is
Speaker 2: it's the one time all year if you have to
Speaker 2: play the Chiefs you might not be playing Mahomes. So
Speaker 2: the Broncos schedule is pretty beneficial for them. I'm almost
Speaker 2: just ready to cross off the Colts. And the problem
Speaker 2: is the Colts do have games left against the Giants, Titans, Jets, Jacks, Yis.
Speaker 2: But man oh man, they are falling apart, so to me,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna remove them, and then you have the Bengals
Speaker 2: and the Dolphins. Bengals schedule the rest of the way
Speaker 2: not easy. At the Chargers Sunday Night Football, two games
Speaker 2: against the Steelers, and then I guess it's not brutal
Speaker 2: at the Cowboys, at the Titans, home for the Browns,
Speaker 2: home for the Broncos, and then we get to Miami,
Speaker 2: which was the purpose of this conversation, and we talked
Speaker 2: about their schedule earlier Raiders, Patriots plus two Jets games.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to cross off the Dolphins entirely. I
Speaker 2: think the Bengals are the most dangerous of those teams.
Speaker 2: But the Bengals might end up being like the eighth
Speaker 2: best team in the NFL and not make the playoffs
Speaker 2: because they've lost all of these heartbreakers to really good teams.
Speaker 2: Having heard all that demands a Broncos, Colts, Bengals, Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Who would be your bet to be the seventh seed
Speaker 2: in the AFC.
Speaker 3: Broncos, Broncos, Colts, Bengals, Dolphins. I can't really, I don't.
Speaker 3: I honestly would have to go with the Dolphins because
Speaker 3: the Bengals, I don't know if they're going to be
Speaker 3: able to turn it back on Colts. I just don't
Speaker 3: believe in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Broncos defense is really good, but I
Speaker 2: don't buy. I think bo Nicks has played fine, maybe
Speaker 2: a little better than I expected. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: been great. What they do have going for him, obviously,
Speaker 2: is they already have five wins and the Dolphins are
Speaker 2: only at three So I just I think that we're
Speaker 2: in a weird spot in the AFC where a lot
Speaker 2: of the playoff picture is gonna be pretty set, but
Speaker 2: that's seven seeds wide open. In the NFC, meanwhile, we
Speaker 2: might be in a position in a few weeks where
Speaker 2: the only real race is divisional races, like who's gonna
Speaker 2: win it between Philly and Washington, who's gonna win the
Speaker 2: NFC West, But the NFC West, whoever wins it could
Speaker 2: is likely also the only playoff team out of there.
Speaker 2: This is the first time we've really done this on
Speaker 2: the show where we do like a full playoff picture,
Speaker 2: but through ten weeks is about the time it starts
Speaker 2: to crystallize and we can get into it all right.
Speaker 2: One team we don't have to worry about missing the playoffs,
Speaker 2: of course, is the undefeated, two time defending champion Kansas
Speaker 2: City Chiefs. Demons, go right ahead, and we'll get to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it looked like the Chiefs are gonna lose
Speaker 3: for a minute there, and they blocked the field goal.
Speaker 3: At the end of the game, they pulled it out.
Speaker 3: This dark magic just continues. But you were saying that
Speaker 3: this stretch of Denver and Buffalo was going to be
Speaker 3: complicated from Homes, and the Chiefs thought that they were
Speaker 3: going to lose. They're now underdogs to Buffalo. I know
Speaker 3: how you always say you should take the Chiefs when
Speaker 3: they're underdogs. What are you doing here? Do you still
Speaker 3: think that the Buffalo is going to be the Chiefs?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Going against Mahomes.
Speaker 2: For the year, this was a game I had penciled
Speaker 2: in as a loss. The Chiefs try to be good
Speaker 2: League teammates, and since they win all the actual Super Bowls,
Speaker 2: they like to have other teams have a chance to
Speaker 2: win their super Bowl. And the Bill's regular season game
Speaker 2: against the Chiefs is, of course Buffalo's super Bowl every year,
Speaker 2: and they've wanted a few years in a row, and
Speaker 2: so shout out to them. Last year, the Bill's Chiefs game,
Speaker 2: if you remember, was the Travis Kelcey lateral to Cadaria's
Speaker 2: Tony game. He was lined up off sides and that
Speaker 2: kind of got Buffalo rolling on their stretched in the season.
Speaker 2: It was one of the low points for the Chiefs
Speaker 2: all week. I said, I thought the Chiefs could lose
Speaker 2: to Denver. It felt very trap gamy, and it played
Speaker 2: out very trap gamey also Denver's defense. There's only two
Speaker 2: defenses in the league that are top five scoring and
Speaker 2: top five yardage, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2: So that game, being a low scoring defensive slugfest shouldn't
Speaker 2: have shocked anybody. And the one weakness right now on
Speaker 2: the Chiefs is that left tackle spot, and Denver ate
Speaker 2: that spot a live all games starting left tackle went
Speaker 2: out with injury. The rookie came in. He's not ready
Speaker 2: right now. The starter came back in later, but he's shaky.
Speaker 2: And listen the Chiefs. I will not abide people saying
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got lucky. Getting lucky is the other team
Speaker 2: missing the field goal making a damn play? Is you
Speaker 2: blocking the field goal? The Chiefs didn't get lucky, They
Speaker 2: executed and stole a win that Denver could have had.
Speaker 2: But that's what great teams do. So I'll get to
Speaker 2: the Bills piece of it in a moment. But here's
Speaker 2: why this Chiefs team is so special. So throughout the year,
Speaker 2: there have been a number of spots, number of games
Speaker 2: demons where Mahomes has not played well early and then
Speaker 2: Mahomes has made the plays late to win it. So Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: He played terribly throughout long portions of that game. But
Speaker 2: then fourth and six game on the line, hits the pass,
Speaker 2: called back dude to penalty. Fourth and sixteen game on
Speaker 2: the line, hits the pass, they interfere. They win the game.
Speaker 2: The Niners game, he was not playing well. Hits the
Speaker 2: down the sideline, then runs over Mustaf on the goal
Speaker 2: line to win the game. There have been a number
Speaker 2: of spots where Mahomes has kind of cleaned up his
Speaker 2: own mess, so to speak. But there have been now
Speaker 2: two games where Mahomes had a chance at the end
Speaker 2: to ice the game and didn't do it. The Falcons
Speaker 2: game got the ball back up five two first downs,
Speaker 2: win the game. The Chiefs go three and out, Mahomes
Speaker 2: misses a pass and all of a sudden, the Falcons
Speaker 2: are driving to win. Third and one. The chief Stone
Speaker 2: b genre Algier don't remember. Fourth and one, the chief
Speaker 2: stoneum Chiefs win, defense bailed him out, and then Yester
Speaker 2: or Sunday, Mahomes had an opportunity third and goal from
Speaker 2: the two Travis wide open. He sails the pass that
Speaker 2: would have put the Chiefs up eight points, essentially the game.
Speaker 2: Mahomes misses the throw and the special teams and Leo Chanal,
Speaker 2: who's a regular player as well linebacker but plays special teams,
Speaker 2: saves the day. That is so much more reassuring for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs Super Bowl chances than if it was just
Speaker 2: one guy constantly doing it, if it was just always
Speaker 2: Mahomes magic, then you feel like, man, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure that Mahomes has to do it every single week.
Speaker 2: That's not the story of this Chiefs team. So that
Speaker 2: was a great win, a great win this Bills game.
Speaker 2: Let you mentioned the point spread. The Chiefs should never
Speaker 2: be underdogs when Patrick's healthy, and the results showing he's
Speaker 2: now eleven to one and one in his career against
Speaker 2: the spread or I'm sorry, no, is it eleven to
Speaker 2: one on one?
Speaker 3: No, he was.
Speaker 2: He's ten and eleven and three straight up as an
Speaker 2: underdog and twelve one and one. Yeah, twelve one and
Speaker 2: one as a dog against the spread, and eleven and
Speaker 2: three straight up. He's won five straight. There's no scenario
Speaker 2: where when Patrick is healthy the Chiefs should be underdogs,
Speaker 2: so the line is insulting. I do think for the
Speaker 2: Bills this is almost the only meaningful game left on
Speaker 2: their schedule. And here's why. If the Bills win Demansey,
Speaker 2: because the Bills already right have locked up the AFC East.
Speaker 2: If you bet one hundred dollars on the Bills to
Speaker 2: win the AFC East right now, you win two dollars.
Speaker 2: They are minus five thousand favorites, like, so that's done.
Speaker 2: So if you if they win this game, they get
Speaker 2: one game back of Kansas City with the tiebreaker for
Speaker 2: the one seed. If they win this game, all they
Speaker 2: have to do is make up one game of ground
Speaker 2: on the Chiefs and they're the one seed. Flip side
Speaker 2: is if they lose this game, they are four games
Speaker 2: back of Kansas City, So it goes you're either one
Speaker 2: back or four back because of the tiebreaker principle. So
Speaker 2: if you're Buffalo and you win, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the stakes of this season are the rest of the
Speaker 2: regular season are massive. But if you're Buffalo and you lose,
Speaker 2: then it's a really weird next six weeks. Like what
Speaker 2: are we playing for? We can't lose the division and
Speaker 2: we can't catch the one seed. So for all those reasons,
Speaker 2: I think Buffalo is going to be a peak peak motivation.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs also listen. They are already on one of
Speaker 2: the longest winning streaks in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 2: The full list of winning streaks longer than the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: thus the one they're on right now. Here's what it is.
Speaker 2: John Madden's Raiders seventeen, Don Shula's Dolphins eighteen, peak Montana
Speaker 2: Niners eighteen, Patriots undefeated year eighteen, peak Lway Broncos back
Speaker 2: to back championship eighteen, the Bears in the thirties eighteen,
Speaker 2: the Bears in the forties eighteen, Rogers Packers when they
Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl and then started thirteen to zero nineteen,
Speaker 2: and the Patriots back to back championships three to four
Speaker 2: twenty one. That's the full list all of NFL history
Speaker 2: of winning streaks longer than the one the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: on right now. So they are due for a loss.
Speaker 2: I just don't think it's coming this week. I had
Speaker 2: said going into the year that the way I thought
Speaker 2: the chief season would go is they would lose Week
Speaker 2: four to the Chargers, Week eleven to Buffalo, and then
Speaker 2: a dumb one sometime after that and finished fourteen and three.
Speaker 2: I think the juice they got from that stolen victory yesterday.
Speaker 2: Now they are. While they won't talk about it, there
Speaker 2: has to be a bit of could we go undefeated
Speaker 2: bouncing around in their head. And if they're not going
Speaker 2: to I don't think it's Buffalo that ends it. And
Speaker 2: if it's not Buffalo, here's what they have demands. After
Speaker 2: the Bills, Panthers, Raiders. Okay, so now you're twelve and
Speaker 2: zero after that, home for the Chargers at the Browns,
Speaker 2: home for the Texans at the Steelers at the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna say something else that is controversial, not controversial,
Speaker 2: but maybe unpopular. I don't want them to go for undefeated.
Speaker 2: They play the Steelers on Christmas Day on a Wednesday,
Speaker 2: after playing the previous game against the Texans on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: One of those games. If they're fourteen to oh going
Speaker 2: into the Texans game, one of those games, I want
Speaker 2: them to sit there. Guys, that is a recipe for
Speaker 2: massive injury. Playing on a short week Christmas Day against
Speaker 2: the Steelers a Wednesday one o'clock start against Pittsburgh is
Speaker 2: just an absurdity. It's kind of redem The NFL is
Speaker 2: having the defending champs going for a three peat.
Speaker 3: Do it?
Speaker 2: The first ever Windnesday game in NFL history. But so
Speaker 2: I would be fine with them punting on the undefeated season.
Speaker 2: And there is a there is a fun wrinkle to
Speaker 2: the end of the chief schedule, which is this, Let's
Speaker 2: say they're fifteen to oh going into that Steeler game.
Speaker 2: If they were to punt on the Steeler game and
Speaker 2: have that be the reason the Steelers not Baltimore win
Speaker 2: the division and then punt on the Bronco game and
Speaker 2: have that be the reason the Broncos not the Bengals
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. That'd be pretty sick if the Chiefs
Speaker 2: can get rest while making the path to the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl easier in the AFC. Just something to think about. So,
Speaker 2: but I think they're gonna beat Buffalo this week, and
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna get to I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: be twelve to oh hosting the Chargers on Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 2: and that could be a tough spot. Hosting the Chargers
Speaker 2: at twelve and zero and having locked up the one
Speaker 2: seed at that point, that could be a tough spot.
Speaker 2: That's the next one I'm circling. But yeah, I'll be
Speaker 2: taking the Chiefs plus the points on my card this week.
Speaker 2: You're damn straight about that. It was alright, let's move on.
Speaker 3: You you were saying that the best bet is to lie.
Speaker 3: I have bet the Chiefs w when they're down or whatever,
Speaker 3: and I went to I went to fandue when I
Speaker 3: checked when they were down, and it was like they
Speaker 3: were like minus two ten and they were down four
Speaker 3: down fours, yeah, seven, whatever it may have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, I mean four hundred. They
Speaker 2: started the game minus four hundred. You get the All right,
Speaker 2: let's go on to the Texans.
Speaker 3: Uh so, yeah, CJ stout of the Texans. They looked
Speaker 3: like they had rallied there and turned a new leaf,
Speaker 3: and they got shut out in the second quarter of
Speaker 3: the second half and got overcame by Jerry Golf Alliance.
Speaker 3: Everybody loved Houston this year, but they obviously have not
Speaker 3: met expectations. Do you think everybody was too quick to
Speaker 3: throw Stroud into that great category?
Speaker 2: Listen, I think Stroud's very, very good. But you know,
Speaker 2: coming into the year, I said, Packers Texans, at least
Speaker 2: one of the two is going I said.
Speaker 3: The said, I said the Packers weren't going to disappoint.
Speaker 3: You said the Texans weren't disappoint.
Speaker 2: You're you're right, they might both we'll see like you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like the and both quarterbacks have
Speaker 2: not looked as good as they did last year. You know,
Speaker 2: Jordan's been banged up, and Jordan's been very boom busts
Speaker 2: so far. A lot of great plays, a ton of touchdowns,
Speaker 2: a ton of interceptions. Cj who threw no interceptions last year,
Speaker 2: is kind of his calling card, has been a little
Speaker 2: more mistake prone. His receivers have been banged up, and
Speaker 2: for the Texans it they don't really have. Listen. Their
Speaker 2: win against Buffalo is a great win, don't get me
Speaker 2: wrong at all. But if you remember that was the
Speaker 2: game Buffalo had the ball on their own goal line
Speaker 2: and threw it instead of running it, and then they
Speaker 2: ended up punting people killed McDermott for it, and the
Speaker 2: Texans get a field goal at the end. That's an
Speaker 2: excellent win. There are other wins. Two point win against
Speaker 2: the Colts in week one, six point win against the
Speaker 2: Bears in week two, four point win against Jacksonville in
Speaker 2: week four, they blew out the Patriots, and they sneaked
Speaker 2: one away against the Colts a few weeks ago. In
Speaker 2: the meantime, they lost to the Packers, lost to the Jets,
Speaker 2: which is an abysmal loss, lost to the Lions in
Speaker 2: a game golf through five picks, got blown out by
Speaker 2: the Vikings. Now what the Texans have going for him
Speaker 2: is they have a lot of time to get healthy,
Speaker 2: get Nicocollins back, because the offense has look the same,
Speaker 2: and before the playoffs start, we are gonna find out
Speaker 2: who the Texans really are from a playoff standpoint. In December.
Speaker 2: Mid December, they have a stretch of Dolphins, Chiefs Ravens
Speaker 2: and they're on the same schedule of the Chiefs of
Speaker 2: they play Sunday, Saturday, Wednesday, so the Ravens do as well. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't love how the NFL set this up, but
Speaker 2: it is what it is. In the meantime, get right
Speaker 2: game for the Texans this week against the Cowboys, then
Speaker 2: home for the Titans, then out at the Jags. So
Speaker 2: all that is. You know, they should stabilize, but right
Speaker 2: now they don't look like they have a They have
Speaker 2: a well enough rounded offense, particularly when mixing's not cooking,
Speaker 2: to be a real playoff threat. The defense has been
Speaker 2: a little better than I expected particularly getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 2: The offense has not quite been there. I still think
Speaker 2: Stroud is excellent, but people putting them in the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl and him as the league MVP probably need to
Speaker 2: pump their brakes just a bit, go ahead, just a bit.
Speaker 3: Do you think that Detroit has like a similar end
Speaker 3: of game magic like the Chiefs, They just seem to
Speaker 3: pull out the win.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I think that they fully believe, and I
Speaker 2: think they love their head coach, and I think that
Speaker 2: they are in a spot right now where at the
Speaker 2: end of games you've got to feel like, if it's close,
Speaker 2: they're going to come through. So I think all of
Speaker 2: that works really well for them. Dak is done for
Speaker 2: the year. We'll discuss that on the other side.
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Speaker 2: before we get to our game, let's talk a little
Speaker 2: cowboys in a little poker. We'll do all. Let's just
Speaker 2: get into it right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So DAK season might be over with his injured hamstring.
Speaker 3: Now the Coboys can focus on more important things like
Speaker 3: stadium upholstery. Micah Parsons didn't exactly stand up for his
Speaker 3: coach when question about him give us a three step
Speaker 3: plan to fix Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, So Jerry just announced on the radio that
Speaker 2: Dax season is over one hundred percent done. He's having
Speaker 2: surgery on the injured hamstring. So here's the deal. And
Speaker 2: we talk a ton about the Cowboys on TV, and
Speaker 2: I don't apologize for that. It's smart business. But without Dak,
Speaker 2: they're not that interesting. So the we're not gonna spend
Speaker 2: a ton of time on it.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of things they should have done differently,
Speaker 2: but they didn't. So now that they're in the bed,
Speaker 2: they're in. The number one thing they could do is
Speaker 2: bring in a real football person. Unfortunately, Jerry would have
Speaker 2: to fire himself and he's not going to do it.
Speaker 2: And in the past I have thought some of the
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones blame was overwrought. I do not think that
Speaker 2: is the case this year. I think nearly every single
Speaker 2: major decision football wise, the Cowboys made over the last
Speaker 2: nine months was the wrong decision From bringing back McCarthy,
Speaker 2: to slow playing CDs deal, to not getting Micah done,
Speaker 2: to waiting on Dak and then folding at the very
Speaker 2: end and re signing Dak, sitting out free agency, telegraphing
Speaker 2: your draft plans, not getting involved in the running back market,
Speaker 2: which by the way, I advocated for, but I was
Speaker 2: wrong on letting your team wilter away. All of those
Speaker 2: are football moves. Jerry's over. It's not a single one
Speaker 2: that worked out. And so there are a lot of
Speaker 2: things they could do, but I simply know they won't.
Speaker 2: So first one would be bring in a real football person.
Speaker 2: Second one would be and this is a take nobody
Speaker 2: has about Micah's podcast, and I want to know how
Speaker 2: you feel about it. Demands. I have no problem with
Speaker 2: Micah doing the podcast, but you know the old Laura
Speaker 2: Ingram nonsense, stick to sports, shut up and dribble all
Speaker 2: that BS. I actually want Micah to do the opposite.
Speaker 2: Micah keep the podcast. One rule. You can talk about
Speaker 2: anything you want except for football. You want to talk basketball,
Speaker 2: you want to talk politics, you want to talk dating,
Speaker 2: you want to talk cooking, you want to talk anything
Speaker 2: you want, just no football. Keep the pod. Expand your horizons.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's like taking away from your training time.
Speaker 2: I do think every time you do a quarterback ranking
Speaker 2: it's a pain in the ass for the team. It's
Speaker 2: like Jesus Man, did Micah just do ten quarterbacks and
Speaker 2: not list Dak well christ now? And then he does
Speaker 2: a new quarterback ranking includes Dak but puts him fifth
Speaker 2: of like most clutch quarterbacks. That's even worse than leaving
Speaker 2: him out. Then he's talking about Mike McCarthy like, Micah,
Speaker 2: do the pod no.
Speaker 3: Full Yeah, I've hilarious.
Speaker 2: And then like he he torches McCarthy says it's unintentional,
Speaker 2: then tweets out the real story will be on the
Speaker 2: edge with Micah Parsons like buddy like, it's just just
Speaker 2: bad news. So that would be my advice there. I
Speaker 2: know there is some thought the Cowboys should trade Micah,
Speaker 2: not because he's not awesome, but it's because it's the
Speaker 2: only way to kickstart or rebuild. You just you can't
Speaker 2: have the highest paid quarterback in the league, one of
Speaker 2: the highest paid wide receivers in the league and be rebuilding.
Speaker 2: You just can't. Once you paid Dak, you're not rebuilding.
Speaker 2: Trading away the best player on your team who's twenty
Speaker 2: four years old does not make you better. So you
Speaker 2: have to build around Micah, Dak and CD. It's what
Speaker 2: you have to do. And as far as coaches, realistic coaches,
Speaker 2: I'd bring in Mike Vrabel, I'd bring in Mike Rabel,
Speaker 2: a real football, no bs, no nonsense person. That's what
Speaker 2: I would do. McCarthy's out, Vrabel's in Dax's rehabs, you
Speaker 2: re signed Micah, and you hope to hit on a
Speaker 2: draft and spend some damn money in free agency. Those
Speaker 2: are the things that I would do. All right, let's
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, last week you went to Vegas to play
Speaker 3: poker with the Gronk Uh mind telling chat how it
Speaker 3: went and myself because I don't.
Speaker 2: Know either, Well, so I'm not going. I can't reveal
Speaker 2: the results because it's gonna it's gonna be turned into
Speaker 2: a six episode YouTube show. Like you knows there's gonna be,
Speaker 2: so I don't want to spoil it. And that's coming
Speaker 2: out in a few months. I will say it was
Speaker 2: me Gronk, Phil Locke, Antonios Fondiari, Phil Helm, youth Poker.
Speaker 2: People know who those last three names are. Uh, for
Speaker 2: twelve hours playing cards. It was an unbelievable time. Gronk
Speaker 2: is so much fun and such a good dude, and
Speaker 2: he and I had spent no real time together. I
Speaker 2: will tell one kind of funny anecdote of it. So
Speaker 2: Phil Locke, who is one of my favorite poker players
Speaker 2: ever in a legend used to be called the Unibomber,
Speaker 2: wore the hoodie like over his eyes, sunglasses, whole thing.
Speaker 2: He was one of the alternates, so he was only
Speaker 2: gonna play if someone busted out, and someone did bust out,
Speaker 2: so he was gonna come join us. And I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't get like nervous about meeting athletes.
Speaker 2: I was not nervous about meeting Gronk at all, Like
Speaker 2: I'm not that part of what I do. But I
Speaker 2: do get nervous about meeting these pro poker players who
Speaker 2: I've always looked up to and enjoyed watching and all
Speaker 2: this stuff. So I was nervous about meeting Antonio's fondiari
Speaker 2: who might be my favorite player ever. But by the
Speaker 2: end of the night, Man again, I don't want to
Speaker 2: spoil anything, but at one point it might look like
Speaker 2: I might need more money and Antonio just says across
Speaker 2: the table, He's like, He's like, Nick, you know, if
Speaker 2: you need like fifty thousand, I'd just toss it to you.
Speaker 2: We had met ten hours ago. He was just gonna
Speaker 2: loan me fifty grand on reputation like the so like
Speaker 2: he and I are like text buddies now. It's one
Speaker 2: of the coolest things ever, Antonio. So he was meeting
Speaker 2: Antonio is great. I've known Phil Helmut for a while.
Speaker 2: But when Phil Lock's coming over, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 2: was like, there's a chance Phil Lock knows me. Like,
Speaker 2: if you're a big sports fan, there's always a chance
Speaker 2: you know me. I was like, it'd be really cool
Speaker 2: if Phil Locke knew me. So Phil Lock comes over
Speaker 2: to the table, seies Antonio, gives him a hug, Seese
Speaker 2: Helm gives him a hug, sees Rob Gronkowski and says, Hi,
Speaker 2: I'm Phil what's your name? And I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: drawing stone dead on Phil Locke knowing me. If he
Speaker 2: didn't recognize Rob Gronkowski, Uh Like, I was like, so
Speaker 2: I'm at about zero percent for him knowing me or
Speaker 2: thinking what I do is cool or any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: And also how like disconnected from sports you have to
Speaker 2: be to not recognize Grunk? Like who are the Who's
Speaker 2: the full list demons of active NFL players more famous
Speaker 2: than Grunk? Full list? I think it's three people long.
Speaker 2: I think there are three active NFL players more famous
Speaker 2: than Gronk. Do you do you have a guess?
Speaker 3: Very smallest? I mean, Patrick Mahomes gotta be one. What
Speaker 3: I mean, I imagine what the whole Taylor Swift thing. You're
Speaker 3: probably Travis Kelcey is in there as well.
Speaker 2: Travis kelce to Travis Kelcey, this is a quote from
Speaker 2: Wilds before you Guess the third, But it's true. This
Speaker 2: is one of my favorite wild isms. Wildest said Taylor.
Speaker 2: He said, Taylor Swift is so famous that her boyfriend's
Speaker 2: brother's wife is now famous. And I'm like, oh, that's true.
Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, that's accurate. Like Kylie Kelsey is a celebrity,
Speaker 2: Jason and again Jason Kelsey was already I understand it,
Speaker 2: but like the right lineman. But now, yeah, yeah, Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift is so famous that her boyfriend's brother's wife is
Speaker 2: a celebrity now. But yeah, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelcey, and
Speaker 2: I think there's only I don't think Lamar is more
Speaker 2: famous than Gronk, meaning like you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like if you showed if you showed my sister just
Speaker 2: a headshot of Lamar, I don't think she knows who
Speaker 2: it is. But I but Gronk because he's in all
Speaker 2: the commercials, and you know what I mean, Like, I
Speaker 2: think she knows who Gronk is. Who do you have
Speaker 2: a guess on the third?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Maybe? Oh? Aaron Rodgers? Aaron Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who were you about to guess when you
Speaker 2: were saying.
Speaker 3: What I was gonna say? Dak just because he plays
Speaker 3: for the Cowboys and that's America's team.
Speaker 2: No, but he's not more famous than Gronk. No, I
Speaker 2: think that. I think that if we are ranking football
Speaker 2: players by fame, I think this is active or retired.
Speaker 2: I think the list is Tom Brady won, Patrick Mahomes two,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey three, Aaron Rodgers for Rob Gronkowski.
Speaker 3: Five Odell We did forget all. He's not active. He's
Speaker 3: not an active player active.
Speaker 2: Odell played last night, yeah, but I mean barely. He
Speaker 2: did the celebration with Tyreek. But the Odell is So
Speaker 2: that's what's weird, Like, is Odell more famous than Joe Burrow?
Speaker 2: The answer that question is yes, yeah, he just is
Speaker 2: like you know and so like.
Speaker 3: Famous because is obviously more prominent in the NFL right now.
Speaker 2: Correct, But it's the same type of thing like we
Speaker 2: I was discussing this with Wilds. Actually, are the three
Speaker 2: most famous people associated with are three of the four
Speaker 2: most famous people associated with baseball? The retired guys on
Speaker 2: the Fox postgame show, A Rod, Jeter, and Big Poppy.
Speaker 2: Are those three guys currently more famous than any active
Speaker 2: baseball player other than Otani? And Otani's a weird one
Speaker 2: because again, I think Otani is somewhat as far as
Speaker 2: his face anonymous domestically, but he's one of the biggest
Speaker 2: celebrities in all of Asia. But like again, Otani and
Speaker 2: Judge are the only two guys even in the room
Speaker 2: as far as like compared to Jeter, A Rod, Big
Speaker 2: Poppy like so yeah and the and so I don't
Speaker 2: even so why do we talking this? Oh A grunt?
Speaker 2: The so yeah? The thanks of Poker Stars. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And when I when the episodes come out on their
Speaker 2: YouTube page, I'll obviously push them out and show you guys,
Speaker 2: and you guys be able to watch me play and
Speaker 2: bardon me see how the whole thing went. It was
Speaker 2: a whirlwind. Forty eight hours.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I flew into I I did the TV show Tuesday,
Speaker 2: went to the airport, watched the election results on the
Speaker 2: plane Tuesday. That was a treat. Was a little under
Speaker 2: the weather. Landed in Vegas at one am, Vegas time,
Speaker 2: Tuesday night. Wednesday morning, four am my body clock. Got
Speaker 2: to the hotel around two am, Vegas time. No that's
Speaker 2: not right, Yeah, whatever it is, doesn't matter, and went
Speaker 2: to bed, got up, did the show, did hours of
Speaker 2: like interviews, photo shoot whatever for the poker thing. Got
Speaker 2: up the next morning. Poker thing started at eleven am.
Speaker 2: We finished playing at ten pm. Ninety minutes of interviews.
Speaker 2: Then get on a flight one am flight Thursday night,
Speaker 2: Friday morning that lands in Philly. Get to Philly at
Speaker 2: eight thirty in the morning, take a car home, shower,
Speaker 2: and come and do the TV show Friday. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was I lot. It was a lot, Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot going on. All right, let's the hold on mirror, Oh,
Speaker 2: myriad corpse, says Nick didn't say if the guy knew him, well,
Speaker 2: he didn't know Gronks, so no, he didn't know me.
Speaker 2: The point that was myriad corpse. There were some context
Speaker 2: clues there that if the guy who's not a big
Speaker 2: enough sportsman know who Rob Gronkowski is, he's not watching
Speaker 2: First Things First? Or what's right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: All right, let's play a quick game of right ends.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Maria corp right ends. The Cardinals are favored
Speaker 3: to win the NFC West, but the forty nine ers
Speaker 3: have CMC back, and you can't count up in Veay
Speaker 3: and Stafford. Despite the loss last night. The winner of
Speaker 3: the NFC West will be hold on.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked by the nine by the Cardinals being favored,
Speaker 2: and it's because they're not. The Niners are the Vegas favorites.
Speaker 2: Niners are plus one oh five Cardinals or plus one forty.
Speaker 2: Now the Cardinals are have the better record, but the
Speaker 2: right now the Niners are the slight favorite over Arizona.
Speaker 2: I gotta say the Cardinals deserve some respect at this point.
Speaker 2: Like the Cardinals don't have a bad loss. Now they
Speaker 2: got blown out by the Commanders, but the Cardinals loss
Speaker 2: is demonse Week one against Buffalo came down to the
Speaker 2: final drive week three, a touchdown loss to the Lions.
Speaker 2: Week four, got blown out by the Commanders. Oh, and
Speaker 2: they got blown out by the Packers. So they've gotten
Speaker 2: blown out. But they've lost to Bill's Lions, Commander's Packers,
Speaker 2: so you know what I mean, they haven't lost. They've
Speaker 2: handled their business against bad teams. They stole one against
Speaker 2: San Francisco, they blew out the Rams on their own.
Speaker 2: So if they're a team right now that is not
Speaker 2: going to lose to the bad teams. Here's their schedule
Speaker 2: at Seattle, at the Vikings, home for the Seahawks, home
Speaker 2: for the Patriots, at the Panthers, at the Rams, home
Speaker 2: for the Niners. So that sweet, no no no, I
Speaker 2: wasn't saying it's.
Speaker 3: No no, no. Oh.
Speaker 2: I wasn't saying it was good. I was just trying to,
Speaker 2: kind of in real time in my head, say, if
Speaker 2: we think they lose to the good teams and beat
Speaker 2: the bad teams, right, so let's say that means let's
Speaker 2: see that that means they split with the Seahawks. That
Speaker 2: seems fair, and that they split at the Vikings at
Speaker 2: the Rams, that seems fair. So that'd be two wins.
Speaker 2: And they beat the Patriots and Panthers, that's another two wins.
Speaker 2: That puts them at ten going into Week eighteen home
Speaker 2: against the Niners. I think I might have just stumbled
Speaker 2: on Sunday Night football Week eighteen. That might be the
Speaker 2: final game of the NFL season. Mark this down, social
Speaker 2: media team, please a little see if we can get
Speaker 2: a nice little classic two eventually. Correct, I'm putting my
Speaker 2: flag in the sand. Week eighteen, Sunday Night Football, Cardinals
Speaker 2: Niners with the NFC West Division on the line, I
Speaker 2: think that's the game we're gonna get. So the if
Speaker 2: we're if I'm right that the Cardinals, yeah, we'll be
Speaker 2: at ten and six going into that game the Niners.
Speaker 2: Let me look at the Niners schedule the rest of
Speaker 2: the way. Play a little again, mad Dog Mike and
Speaker 2: the mad Dog style win loss, win loss. Here's what
Speaker 2: they have home for Seattle at the Packers, at the Bills,
Speaker 2: home for the Bears, home for the Rams, at the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: home for the Lions, and then at the Cardinals. So
Speaker 2: if we think that Packers at Packers at Bills, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like there's at least two.
Speaker 3: Losses, the games.
Speaker 2: Really losable games home for the Lions, at the Bills,
Speaker 2: at the Packers. Yeah, I mean, it's totally reasonable that
Speaker 2: the Cardinals could be leading the NFC West the rest
Speaker 2: of the way. In fact, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go ahead and say, the Cardinals are gonna win the division.
Speaker 2: Say it again.
Speaker 3: They made it over that home. We were just talking
Speaker 3: about how they had one had one back to back games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three years and now they've won.
Speaker 3: By the way as well.
Speaker 2: And I know Kyler is still cooking. And here's the
Speaker 2: other thing that here's the other thing the Cardinals have
Speaker 2: going for him two and ohero in the division with
Speaker 2: the Niners already being one and two. So the Cardinals
Speaker 2: put they beat the Niners head up. Now, the Niners
Speaker 2: can get back on them on that, but they could
Speaker 2: be in a position where they hold tie breakers over
Speaker 2: the Niners, which is huge. Man, that Rams loss. If
Speaker 2: the Rams had won last night, you'd feel like they
Speaker 2: are five and four, healthy and right there to win
Speaker 2: the division. All right, next, uh, so you have divorced her?
Speaker 3: Did you want to talk about We're gonna hit on
Speaker 3: the deebo Samuel the kick? It was that where you
Speaker 3: or is it just done?
Speaker 2: Yes, no, we can talk about the Deebo Samuel thing.
Speaker 2: It's a punk move by Deebo flatly. And here's why.
Speaker 2: Any time you put your hands on someone who's not
Speaker 2: allowed to put their hands back on you, it's a
Speaker 2: punk move. Those are the rules, and people like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's pro sports. There's arguments, there's whatever. It's why I've
Speaker 2: always had a visceral negative reaction to the college coach
Speaker 2: who pushes or grabs the face mask of a player
Speaker 2: because the player is not allowed to respond. If Deebo
Speaker 2: had done that to George Kittle, I'd be fine with
Speaker 2: it because Kittle can be like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 2: And it's not just about the fact that Diebo's a
Speaker 2: favorite in the fight. That's not even what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm saying the second year kicker and the long snapper
Speaker 2: are not allowed to hit Deebo Samuel in the hierarchy
Speaker 2: of the It would be again bad example here. But
Speaker 2: I almost feel like it's the difference between at work
Speaker 2: if I and I wouldn't do this, but if I
Speaker 2: shoved wilds versus if I shoved one of the interns,
Speaker 2: Like if I shove wilds. Wilds can shove me back.
Speaker 2: We are peers. There is not a power dynamic that
Speaker 2: is missing there. But if I shove it intern, the
Speaker 2: guy's like probably like what am I supposed to do here? Like?
Speaker 2: And so that I that's what I didn't like about it.
Speaker 2: And not only do I think it did, it's I
Speaker 2: know he made his next kick to me. That's not related.
Speaker 2: It puts more pressure on the kid. It's not helpful.
Speaker 2: I don't like any of it. I just don't like
Speaker 2: the it's it's.
Speaker 3: You can't do that guy jo either. You can't do
Speaker 3: that guy's job. You can't kick the ball in the
Speaker 3: field goal like you go out there and do it, like,
Speaker 3: come on, dude.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good that's a good point too, which is, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't do that guy's job, and there's nobody else
Speaker 2: there to do it. If you go down, at least
Speaker 2: they have backups. There's nobody else to do his job.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think about that, but I was just
Speaker 2: more along the lines of like, I just don't like
Speaker 2: the uneven power dynamics of like, I am not someone
Speaker 2: that thinks, oh there's no setting, there's no instance where
Speaker 2: putting your hands on someone is acceptable. I don't. I
Speaker 2: think that is too black and white actually, and I
Speaker 2: hate when people are like, well, imagine if that happened
Speaker 2: at your workplace, bro, It's not your workplace. Different workplaces
Speaker 2: have different dynamics, and like the you know, I grew
Speaker 2: up in firehouses, that is a different dynamic than if
Speaker 2: you grow up in an accounting firm. Like, there's just
Speaker 2: different you know, acceptable norms for different environments. Football is
Speaker 2: one of them, where, eh, settling things with a little
Speaker 2: bit of physical violence between co workers might actually be okay,
Speaker 2: but not when one guy can't hit the other one
Speaker 2: back that that's just.
Speaker 3: What Bob jumps. Like, so if he did something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like it was people people, you know, we're like, Nick,
Speaker 2: you didn't get this worked up with Travis and Andy.
Speaker 2: The thing I didn't love about Travis and Andy was
Speaker 2: the age dynamic. Was that Andy's forty years or thirty
Speaker 2: years older than Travis, and you know, that felt like
Speaker 2: he could have heard him. But if you remember Andy,
Speaker 2: Andy is still a fiery son of a gun. And
Speaker 2: when he was asked about it, about Travis knocking him backwards,
Speaker 2: Andy was like, well, he caught me off guard. And
Speaker 2: Andy's a huge dude, and Andy was gonna make it,
Speaker 2: make it clear if need be. I think I could
Speaker 2: take that guy for as long, at least as long
Speaker 2: as we need it until someone else came. I would
Speaker 2: feel if Travis had done what he did to Andy
Speaker 2: to the equipment manager, I think that would be so
Speaker 2: so different. But like, you know, Andy's allowed to hit
Speaker 2: Travis back like and honestly Travis can't then respond had
Speaker 2: bumped Andy and Andy had slugged him, Travis just has
Speaker 2: to take it like he certainly can't punch that old
Speaker 2: head coach back. And so I just the again, I'm
Speaker 2: belaboring the same point, but that's just what bothered me
Speaker 2: about it. Like I would have no problem with Mahomes
Speaker 2: getting into a true screaming match with Chris Jones or
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey. It would really bother me if Mahomes got
Speaker 2: like dressed down screaming match for like a practice squad receiver,
Speaker 2: because it's like, well, that guy know, even if you're wrong,
Speaker 2: you're right. So that that's that's my short takeaway of it,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next he pops chill oudebo, you have divorced your your
Speaker 3: bear's super Bowl take and not a moment too soon.
Speaker 3: The Bears fired their offensive coordinator and he Reflus had
Speaker 3: to confirm Calebi remain the starter after a loss to
Speaker 3: the Patriots because reportedly players have been asked sking him
Speaker 3: to be bench for Tyson's badget the Bears.
Speaker 2: Problem with respect with respect to Wadal and Sylvie the
Speaker 2: radio show in Chicago. I don't buy that. I don't
Speaker 2: buy that there's multiple players on the Bears who want
Speaker 2: Tyson Badging as the starter. I don't buy that.
Speaker 3: Do think there's some beef in in Chicago. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is, but I do think there's something brewin.
Speaker 3: It might not.
Speaker 2: I think there's a ton of problems. Yeah, oh, I
Speaker 2: think there's a ton of problems, and I think guys
Speaker 2: are probably some guys are unhappy with how Caleb has played,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't played well last few weeks. There's no
Speaker 2: denying that. But Tyson Bade Badgint is barely an NFL player,
Speaker 2: Like that's not a thing. The short version is the
Speaker 2: Bears problems are too big to be fixed during the season.
Speaker 2: If firing Shane Waldron was a good first step, but uh,
Speaker 2: they have coached the aggressiveness out of Caleb. It is
Speaker 2: not lost on me. Demansay. That is worst three game
Speaker 2: stretch of his career, his young career. He hasn't turned
Speaker 2: the ball over, no picks he is he's gone too
Speaker 2: far in the other direction. He's not taking it. He's
Speaker 2: holding onto the ball if it's not wide open, he's
Speaker 2: not throwing. So I to me, that is that is
Speaker 2: coaching getting in his head. I now he again he
Speaker 2: needs to overcome it. He needs to be better and
Speaker 2: he needs to be more accurate on the easy stuff.
Speaker 2: But he's not all of a sudden throwing the ball
Speaker 2: over over the field. It's the opposite. He's refusing to
Speaker 2: throw the ball. He's and so he has in this
Speaker 2: three game PFF has n't rated with over the last
Speaker 2: three games, Demonsee. One big time throw and zero turnover
Speaker 2: worthy plays. That's not how a rookie quarterback supposed to develop,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, give me ten big
Speaker 2: time throw and twelve turnover worthy plays. Give me the
Speaker 2: whole gamut, like Peyton Manning his rookie year, twenty eight picks. Fine,
Speaker 2: what and.
Speaker 3: So I think he's got a lot of his shoulders
Speaker 3: man like I think even like some of his teammates
Speaker 3: don't like him, like he obviously had all the hype
Speaker 3: coming into this season. You got Jayde Daniels lighting stuff up.
Speaker 3: I think he's got like a lot of stuff on
Speaker 3: his shoulders and in his mind a lot and he
Speaker 3: even sometimes I seem like, go ahead, yeah, sorry, no
Speaker 3: you go. Sometimes you go, just like players like the
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty balls. Like even I know that he's
Speaker 3: missing his receivers sometimes, but sometimes I feel like his
Speaker 3: receiver can go out there and go get the ball,
Speaker 3: like I maybe two out of six times.
Speaker 2: Doesn't seem like the whole team's pulling in the right
Speaker 2: in the same direction, And it seems like the defensive
Speaker 2: personnel was really mad at eber Flus for not taking
Speaker 2: more accountability for the hail Mary loss, and so all
Speaker 2: like they're that team that hail Mary, that Jayden Daniels
Speaker 2: hail Mary. Might now the Bears offense was already shaky,
Speaker 2: but might have broken the team. All right, Let's go
Speaker 2: to the other rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Are the first four or first of the four first
Speaker 3: round quarterbacks who have played, Caleb has arguably been the
Speaker 3: least effective. Not all his fault. Daniels, May and Nicks
Speaker 3: have all been better than expected. Obviously, in a redraft,
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks go in this order.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, if it were me, they go in
Speaker 2: the exact order they were taken A Caleb, Jade and
Speaker 2: Drake Knicks and I And for the record, I think
Speaker 2: anyone who if you were out on Caleb before the draft,
Speaker 2: so fine, but if you had him as the number
Speaker 2: one player through you know, prior to this season, changing
Speaker 2: that based off nine games is idiotic in my opinion. Now,
Speaker 2: I do think a lot of people are reactionary and idiotic.
Speaker 2: So I think a redraft probably would go Jaden, Caleb,
Speaker 2: Drake bo. I don't think Caleb falls behind Drake May,
Speaker 2: who hasn't shown that much or bow Nicks, who's been
Speaker 2: as expected, kind of pro ready but low ceiling. Also,
Speaker 2: I am just gonna point out that, and I'm listen.
Speaker 2: I'm sad for Chet Holmgren that he just broke his hip.
Speaker 2: But you know, one of my less popular but it
Speaker 2: seems to be pretty relevant takes is careful of the
Speaker 2: super skinny athlete I have Kevin. You know, Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: proves it wrong and everyone else proves it right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know if people have noticed, but Jade and
Speaker 2: Daniels since the ribs doesn't run quite as much and
Speaker 2: isn't quite as dynamic, and that is a concern, and
Speaker 2: so well.
Speaker 3: You definitely needed to take extra time off. Like he
Speaker 3: came back early. I think they rushed that. He's definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was so the listen. I think Jaden's
Speaker 2: been awesome. But part of that awesomeness is his dynamicism.
Speaker 2: Is that a word? I always want to say that word.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, I don't, It's definitely not that.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Uh, dynamicism the degree, Yeah, that is a word. Good
Speaker 2: job by me with his legs is a huge part
Speaker 2: of his value. And this last week he had three
Speaker 2: carries for five yards. What you look confused? What are
Speaker 2: you confused by? Is that not me dismissing your Yeah,
Speaker 2: you said dynamicy. That's not the word dynamicism from No, no, no, Uh, listen,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm using it wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, hold on, is it dynamicy?
Speaker 2: I that's why, God, this is an embarrassing one. So
Speaker 2: I think oh no synonyms? Uh oh no, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I am wrong, it's not I'm trying to the words dynamic.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to turn it into dynamicism. I sound like
Speaker 2: a moron, but the word is dynamism for some reason.
Speaker 2: The Iced drop the Iced drops out. Gosh darn it,
Speaker 2: bad beat for me. Dynamism. That's it, that job, Nick Wow,
Speaker 2: drop a few of the old IQ points there, Pal,
Speaker 2: All right, let's do u uh. Let's do Giants real quick.
Speaker 3: The Giants lost to the Panthers, but you see a
Speaker 3: silver lining for their future and your tweet Uh yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: so you seem pretty optimistic. The worst NFC team in
Speaker 3: the last ten years will turn it around. The Giants
Speaker 3: future looks.
Speaker 2: Listen, I think that. I think, let me do this
Speaker 2: and then we'll do listener questions. I think both New
Speaker 2: York football teams have a big opportunity here. We didn't
Speaker 2: talk Jets at all in this show because how many
Speaker 2: times can I tell you, guys, I told you dope. So,
Speaker 2: but the Jets, Woody Johnson is gonna have to hand
Speaker 2: over control of the team to Christopher Johnson because Trump won.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna get another cushy ambassador gig and so
Speaker 2: he can't run the team for at least four years.
Speaker 2: Uh So that'll be good for the Jets. If Christopher
Speaker 2: Johnson's like man, I didn't make this deal with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: You're you're. We don't want you back next year. Buddy,
Speaker 2: you're you're. You're You're old, injured, ineffective, a terrible leader.
Speaker 2: Don't don't take accountability. You're not good anymore. We're moving on.
Speaker 2: Jets can have great draft pick, try to get Sauce
Speaker 2: back to where he was, because Sauce is going in
Speaker 2: the wrong direction. Quinn William's still awesome, Garrett Wilson's good,
Speaker 2: and build around a real coach and a real court,
Speaker 2: a young quarterback fun Giants have a sick defensive line.
Speaker 2: Neighbors is awesome. A franchise left tackle who's out with injury,
Speaker 2: but he'll be back. Bring in Bill Belichick to set
Speaker 2: a culture. Draft a quarterback with your top five pick,
Speaker 2: and get rolling. So I mean, I think that's the
Speaker 2: path forward for those teams. Oh hey, Pacheco designated return
Speaker 2: to come back for UH from IR So he'll be
Speaker 2: back in the next few weeks. Probably not gonna play
Speaker 2: against the I'd be very surprised if he plays against
Speaker 2: the Bills, but he'll be back for the December. Oh
Speaker 2: checko and green Hunt Moms. I only have to throw
Speaker 2: the ball fifteen times a game. What a funny team.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs have turned into defensive oriented ground and pound
Speaker 2: ball control. Love it. Answer some quick listener questions next,
Speaker 2: What's right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: All right, let's do some listener questions quickly to Monsey.
Speaker 3: So chat suggestions on the most NFL most famous NFL players.
Speaker 3: They chimed in and they said, uh, Sean or Peyton,
Speaker 3: Sean Payton or Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2: Peyton man Sean Payton never played football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just a coach, Peyton the dion Odell. Those
Speaker 3: are the honorable admissions.
Speaker 2: First, let me answer your quest us and Sean Peyton
Speaker 2: played for the following football teams all justin nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bruisers, the Pittsburgh Gladiators, the Ottawa Roughriders, the
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears, and the Leicester Panthers. So my guess is
Speaker 2: he was a quarterback would be my guest. I don't
Speaker 2: know the answer to that, but regardless played at the
Speaker 2: Austra Illinois. Now to answer your questions, Peyton Manning should
Speaker 2: have been on the list. You're right, he is super
Speaker 2: duper famous still and Deon Sanders too, so I forgot
Speaker 2: I yeah, so I don't know where those guys fall
Speaker 2: on the list, but you're one hundred percent right. Those
Speaker 2: guys are more famous than any active player other than Mahomes,
Speaker 2: Kelsey and Rogers. There's no doubt about it all right.
Speaker 3: Now, Randon Swayze, H, do you think we'll start seeing
Speaker 3: no podcast clauses in contracts with guys like Micah seemingly
Speaker 3: undercutting teams pr.
Speaker 2: H. I think that would be a tough sell. I
Speaker 2: think here's the problem. The the only guys who are
Speaker 2: big enough to where they would have a podcast that'd
Speaker 2: be worth their while are guys that are big enough
Speaker 2: two guys that are big enough to have enough juice
Speaker 2: to be like, you're not telling me what I do
Speaker 2: in my off time, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 2: so like, now, it'd be one thing if it were
Speaker 2: injury related, like can't play basketball. Jalen Hurt said he
Speaker 2: has a handshake agreement not to play golf, which is
Speaker 2: a weird one. But uh so, no, I don't really
Speaker 2: think that's coming. Let's go to Let's go to Sakura Chew.
Speaker 3: Support you. Does Rabel even want Does Rabel even want
Speaker 3: the Dallas job? Lmao Jerry over is yeah, al Jerry
Speaker 3: over his shoulder.
Speaker 2: Well, so I'll do this this very quickly. Jobs that
Speaker 2: will be or should be open, we did this the
Speaker 2: other day, but we'll do it again. No NFC West teams,
Speaker 2: NFC South Saints job, Sorry about that. One of the
Speaker 2: worst jobs in football right now. So the Dallas job
Speaker 2: is better than that. NFC North Bears job, great job,
Speaker 2: but I gotta think the Bears are going to go
Speaker 2: with an offensive mind to pair with Caleb. Giants job,
Speaker 2: good job. Potentially Cowboys job is what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Raiders job could be open, bad job. JAG's job could
Speaker 2: be open. I think that could be a good job
Speaker 2: if Bulky is gone. But I'm higher on Trevor than most.
Speaker 2: And then Cleveland job probably not going to be open.
Speaker 2: Jets job worse franchise in the league. So you can say,
Speaker 2: does he want it? How many jobs are going to
Speaker 2: be opened that are better? Maybe the Giants, the Bears,
Speaker 2: but I don't think they're going defense. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's just.
Speaker 3: Ever saying anything about the Cincinnati job.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that would be an amazing job because
Speaker 2: you have Burrow cheap ownership. And I don't think they're
Speaker 2: going to fire Zach Taylor like they would have to, really,
Speaker 2: if you're a Bengals fan. Honestly, what the probably best
Speaker 2: thing for the Bengals if you're a Bengals fan is
Speaker 2: for them to not win another game. Let me, that's
Speaker 2: not fair to Zach Taylor if you're a Bengals fan
Speaker 2: who doesn't like the head coach, because it would take
Speaker 2: a real fall off the cliff. I think for them
Speaker 2: to move on from the coach, all right. Last listener
Speaker 2: comment chartlet five said, Demanday is really developed into his
Speaker 2: own personality. It's been so cool to see. I could
Speaker 2: not agree more. These have been so much fun. I
Speaker 2: was bummed on Thursday when we couldn't do the pod.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so yeah, there was some want of a
Speaker 3: lay that teaser on Live. Thank you Charte love It's
Speaker 3: it's been a journey, honestly. I used to be super yeah,
Speaker 3: super nervous doing this stuff, and I still get nervous
Speaker 3: about it, but it's it's really been a journey, and
Speaker 3: I appreciate the support. I've enjoyed doing it.
Speaker 2: It's been great.
Speaker 3: Used to love doing it, but I really love doing
Speaker 3: it now. I was scared and tild Not a little
Speaker 3: boy anymore, no, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's been great, bigger and better as we
Speaker 2: move forward. All Right, I got a run. I'm gonna
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