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Speaker 1: Welcome to Game Debut. Everybody week fifteen. Christmas has come early.
Speaker 1: We get two days on the weekend filled with football,
Speaker 1: and before we start breaking those games down, let's look
Speaker 1: at the standing, shall we own? Greg? Good for you,
Speaker 1: you're still in the lead. Patrick, We need to talk. Hey,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be this close to me. I don't know
Speaker 1: what is happening. I feel like you're you're overthinking things
Speaker 1: in my My suggestion is you need to get back
Speaker 1: to base. Okay, settled down and think about what you
Speaker 1: got here. Saturday Football returns to the NFL tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: NFL Network is your home for an exclusive triple header.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Cold Stake on the Vikings at one
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, followed by Ravens Browns at four pm. And
Speaker 1: then we've been talking about it all week. A huge
Speaker 1: divisional showdown in prime time is the Dolphins battle the
Speaker 1: Bills at eight p m. Eastern. It is a Saturday
Speaker 1: Showdown triple header all day tomorrow only on NFL Network
Speaker 1: and streaming on NFL Plus. Okay, the first game of
Speaker 1: that triple header. We got Colts, we got Vikings. Greggy,
Speaker 1: the Vikings disrespect has to stop only a three and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite at home against the four wind Colts.
Speaker 1: What is going on here? And that line moved towards
Speaker 1: the Colts. I think it's crazy. I'm taking the Vikings
Speaker 1: in this game. There was respect starts stops here and
Speaker 1: it's partly because of Kirk Cousins. People think they know
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins like he's just the same boring guy each
Speaker 1: and every week. No, I he's one of the most
Speaker 1: streaky quarterbacks that's ever played in this league. I wrote
Speaker 1: this column called QB Index for years and what I
Speaker 1: knew about Kirk Cousins is when he gets on a heater,
Speaker 1: he gets on a heater. And he was incredible last week.
Speaker 1: He was one of the best quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 1: dime after dime against Detroit, and I think that was
Speaker 1: the start of something special. Is going to be playing
Speaker 1: with the same amount of confidence as Patrick claibn in
Speaker 1: a suit two sides of two. He's breaking out the
Speaker 1: grills this week, folks. What do you like here? I
Speaker 1: have about the same margin here, twenty seven to two
Speaker 1: in favor again of the Vikings. I like the Vikings
Speaker 1: last week. I'm going to run it back here. I
Speaker 1: think this is an interesting one to see if Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook can be kind of the guy that we saw
Speaker 1: in Spurts. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes it doesn't look
Speaker 1: so good when I'm looking at Dalvin Cook. If this
Speaker 1: is going to be a team that goes deep into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they're gonna need Dalvin Cook to be far
Speaker 1: more effective and efficient, because when I'm looking at Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook and I'm looking at those outside runs, it is
Speaker 1: a much different situation when you have Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: he's effective than when you don't. Yes, let's get Dalvin
Speaker 1: to have a good game. Let's get the Vikings to
Speaker 1: have a good game. A big win. Not again, not
Speaker 1: as big as the jackets that I was wearing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about, but one thing, because we talked
Speaker 1: about respect. These are the two quarterbacks with the most
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comebacks in the entire league. And I don't
Speaker 1: think Kirk is gonna need a fourth quarter comeback in
Speaker 1: this one to seventeen Vikings win. Because we talked about
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson a lot and in a lot of receiving
Speaker 1: statistics justin Jefferson is number one. The Colts play a
Speaker 1: lot of single high uh second in the league, and again,
Speaker 1: as he does in most receiving categories, press name all, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he leaves the league in receiving yards against single high coverage.
Speaker 1: The Cults are gonna sputter in the red zone like
Speaker 1: they have all season their touchdown percentage in the league.
Speaker 1: Kirk does it again, and he's gonna do something cringe
Speaker 1: e and we're all gonna laugh at it. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I know. The Vikings haven't been like a stylish team
Speaker 1: to like this year. They're not in you know, like
Speaker 1: Patrick's jacket was way back when. But I'm picking them,
Speaker 1: picking them this week over the Colts. The jeff Saturday
Speaker 1: experiment has just kind of gone off the rails here
Speaker 1: before the by look at what they have had to
Speaker 1: sit and feel and really think about. The Cowboys beat
Speaker 1: them fifty four to nineteen before the file. Okay, they've
Speaker 1: just been stewing in that and unfortunately it's going to continue.
Speaker 1: The Vikings seventeen. They can clinch a playoffs about their
Speaker 1: first division title since seventeen, and doing it at home
Speaker 1: with a win. They're gonna do it. Patrick, you had
Speaker 1: to know this was coming. We tried to get you
Speaker 1: not to do it last week. You've picked the Ravens
Speaker 1: all year, but the quarterback situation had you shook it
Speaker 1: and you went down with the rest of us. Look
Speaker 1: at that. That's the face that I made the Ravens
Speaker 1: a road underdogs on Saturday. Come back to the Ravens flock, Patrick,
Speaker 1: it is okay. They forgive you. What are you going with? Yes,
Speaker 1: I hope that they do. I will take the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens here sixteen to fourteen because last week I made
Speaker 1: a mistake. I didn't consider the backup quarterback. And in
Speaker 1: this game, the backup quarterback for the opposition is better
Speaker 1: than the guy that's going to be starting for them.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking back at Jacoby percent and what he
Speaker 1: did against the Ravens back in Week seven seven. He
Speaker 1: had a hundred and six rating problem as he got
Speaker 1: sacked five times. It might have been the difference the
Speaker 1: dude that was in the offense and practicing all off
Speaker 1: season had issues with the So how's it going this time?
Speaker 1: With Amari Cooper trying to play through a cord muscle injury.
Speaker 1: I'm just not picking the Browns at this point. Give
Speaker 1: me Baltimore. Yeah, it feels good to pick against the Browns,
Speaker 1: and it feels good to pick Tyler Huntley. It feels
Speaker 1: good to pick this Ravens defense too. Since they've added
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith, they are a different defense. I have the
Speaker 1: Ravens winning this game nineteen to fourteen, and it's because
Speaker 1: of the linebackers. Like, get you a linebacker that can
Speaker 1: do it all. Roquan Smith stops the run. Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: in this running game has not been the same since
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson took over because they have Watson and shotgun
Speaker 1: a lot and it doesn't work. So Roquan and Patrick
Speaker 1: Queen will get you stop in the run. They're gonna
Speaker 1: get you blitzing, They're gonna get you in coverage. I
Speaker 1: think roke On Smith is really unlocked what Patrick Queen
Speaker 1: can do. And Deshaun Watson, since he's taken over at quarterback,
Speaker 1: is just a step slow with all his his decision making.
Speaker 1: And these linebackers are fast. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: feast and they're underdogs this week. That's disrespect to two
Speaker 1: upsets so far. What do you like, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it a third here one for the Ravens. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about j K. Dobbins now, who has returned
Speaker 1: from injury. Obviously, what do the Ravens like to do?
Speaker 1: Run the win, also win, eat crab kikes cakes in football.
Speaker 1: That's what Maryland look. I'm liking what I see from
Speaker 1: j K. Dobbins. He adds an extra step. The Browns
Speaker 1: have been vulnerable to the run. I also think that
Speaker 1: scheming with Tyler Huntley means a lot of j K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins volume, means you're gonna play him in fantasy. It
Speaker 1: means all of the runners on this team are going
Speaker 1: to be an opportunity for you to excel. I also
Speaker 1: think it means ball control because we've seen some very
Speaker 1: weird offensive play calling on the other side, and the
Speaker 1: team that controls the ball here is the team that
Speaker 1: wins none of those heavy sets. That Why are the
Speaker 1: Browns not using Nick Chef anymore? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you why, but I can tell you that
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins will eat up the clock and the
Speaker 1: Ravens man A year ago, I used to look at
Speaker 1: this game on the calendar and me like some I'm
Speaker 1: buckling up for this one, and now I look at it,
Speaker 1: with the injuries and just the mess that's going on,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's gonna be one of the uglier
Speaker 1: games this weekend. I'm going Ravens as well. Six year
Speaker 1: meme alert. Thank you Gregg's children. I thought i'd be
Speaker 1: all cute, like picking it up, set here and maybe
Speaker 1: get a dust greg in here. No, and I don't
Speaker 1: like to talk about this too much, but you can
Speaker 1: obviously the disconnect with DeShawn Watson. He looks like a
Speaker 1: quarterback that hasn't played football in a very long time,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really interesting. He came out
Speaker 1: this week and said, obviously I want to be better,
Speaker 1: but this team needs to be better as well. Don't
Speaker 1: say that, Maybe don't say that, Maybe just don't say anything,
Speaker 1: because the team has been through hell trying to back
Speaker 1: you up and now they're in this mess this season.
Speaker 1: So I am going Baltimore Ravens. I'm steering clear of
Speaker 1: the Browns for the rest of the season. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: talking Dolphins. Bills said, hey, hey, don't start anything about
Speaker 1: the weather of this game. I don't know what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be network. Everybody talks about it's going to
Speaker 1: be normal much football weather, Rachel football weather weather as Weather.
Speaker 1: Time for the Drive to Excellence presented by Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I cannot wait for this game, Cynthia.
Speaker 1: It was three hundred degrees in Miami in Week three, Okay,
Speaker 1: we all saw them sweating on the sideline. It will
Speaker 1: be significantly colder in Buffalo on Saturday night. The Bills
Speaker 1: are seven point favorites. Hey, would you go to this game?
Speaker 1: Would you brave the cold and be? Who? Do wout? Ago?
Speaker 1: That is like the most fun place. You just have
Speaker 1: to like, buy snowpants, get the hands, just got to
Speaker 1: accept that you're gonna be friends and you won't be
Speaker 1: able to speak right. But that's a fun place to go.
Speaker 1: And those Bills fans, they come out and droves like
Speaker 1: this is a big game and I think they see
Speaker 1: a nice big win here. I have twenty eight to
Speaker 1: nineteen in this matchup in favor of the Bills in
Speaker 1: the hold a hundred and twenty degree swing. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We've all heard it. But I really want to talk
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen, specifically how his tackles line up really
Speaker 1: really wide. Why did they do that? Because then Josh
Speaker 1: Allen can run. So when you're talking about Josh Allen's
Speaker 1: advantage and everyone's saying, well, if there's one thing about
Speaker 1: this team that needs to blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: like you need to run the football with someone other
Speaker 1: than Josh, Well, if they're gonna keep their tackles out wide,
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep doing this esp they're not going to
Speaker 1: be bringing a ton of pressure. And I also think
Speaker 1: that it's an interesting note there because when they line
Speaker 1: up how a Spencer Brown on the right and you've
Speaker 1: got Dion Dawkins on the left, it makes a big
Speaker 1: B gap, big B gap between the guard and the tackle.
Speaker 1: So if they are going to run, perhaps inside runs
Speaker 1: are the ones to do. And maybe that's not the
Speaker 1: best place to run on the Dolphins. So I like this.
Speaker 1: And I also think, you know, Josh Allen, little running,
Speaker 1: maybe little tease for later. But I'm not writing that down,
Speaker 1: but I would write down when one touchdown for him,
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown for him? Yeah, like you could run
Speaker 1: it with other people, but you also have a cyborg
Speaker 1: on your team. Why? Yeah, I like a good cyber.
Speaker 1: But plus, if you run it, he's not gonna like
Speaker 1: less of a chance of throwing you an interception. You know,
Speaker 1: he does have a few interceptions this season. And I
Speaker 1: agree with Josh Allen. One thing, the most important thing
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen said this week that I appreciated was
Speaker 1: the cold weather is cold. Josh Allen is a scholar.
Speaker 1: You don't get magical cold powers by being in a
Speaker 1: place like the temperature is the temperature. I'm overall of that.
Speaker 1: But as Cynthia mentioned uh and Gregg pointed out, the
Speaker 1: Bills have a giant mechanic is robot playing quarterback who
Speaker 1: can run the ball and sneaking out of The Bills
Speaker 1: have a top ten rushing offense. The Buffalo Bills in
Speaker 1: a rushing offense that we've maligned coming into the season.
Speaker 1: They're in the top ten. The Bills can run the
Speaker 1: ball against the Dolphins team that's gonna be playing a
Speaker 1: cold weather. Yes, the cold and the temperature and precipitation
Speaker 1: perhaps does impact the passing. Well. The thing is they
Speaker 1: were playing in Los Angeles against the team that cannot
Speaker 1: stop anybody on the ground, and they refused to run
Speaker 1: the ball. So basically I am picking them to cover,
Speaker 1: but but I do have all the Bills win. I'm similar.
Speaker 1: I think seven points is too much, so I have
Speaker 1: the Dolphins covering this spread. But I have the Bills
Speaker 1: win in this game. And it's because they have Matt
Speaker 1: Milano and Tremade Edmonds. It's linebacker day on game debut.
Speaker 1: Matt Milano is the man. You know, all the smart
Speaker 1: football guys were like, you gotta take away the middle
Speaker 1: of the field against TOA. That's just like the thing
Speaker 1: right now? You know how you do that with like
Speaker 1: incredible linebackers. There's only a few of those around. Fred
Speaker 1: Warner is one of them. A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Matt Milano's another one. Where did he go to school?
Speaker 1: I knew Cynthia would like this. I remember she shouted
Speaker 1: that out when I called him a sneaky good player
Speaker 1: Matt Mulatto four years ago. He's not sneaky good anymore.
Speaker 1: He's an All Pro and he's really working well with
Speaker 1: Tremade Edmonds. Their defense has been different when both of
Speaker 1: them are on the field at the same time, and
Speaker 1: they're both healthy enough to play this game. Love him
Speaker 1: this week. A couple of thoughts here. First off, thoughts
Speaker 1: and prayers to our good friend Colleen Wolf, who apparently
Speaker 1: bought herself some some electric heated pants because she's doing
Speaker 1: the pre show. In the pants will be the wires,
Speaker 1: they will be heated. Okay, so like a good time
Speaker 1: because one of the football players will will be having
Speaker 1: this happen. I want you, I want you to see something.
Speaker 1: I want you to see Mike me Daniel before the game.
Speaker 1: I think this was a practice this week. Look at
Speaker 1: the shirt that he is wearing. I wish it were colder. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm from Canada. Okay. If you're if you're in a group,
Speaker 1: you're with people, and it's always the person that's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not cold. I can a T shirt out here.
Speaker 1: They're the coldest. Okay, I've seen this before. I know
Speaker 1: this person. And like Cynthia mentioned, when they were at
Speaker 1: so Fine a week ago, they had heaters on their
Speaker 1: bench in Los Angeles. I am going Bills, baby, give
Speaker 1: me the bills, give me a win for the Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 1: We've put that shirt back up. I wish it were colder.
Speaker 1: Can we pull that shirt back up because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: Why do they not have a nicer screen for like this.
Speaker 1: Somebody get this man a better shirt than he ironed
Speaker 1: it on that it was definitely an iron on. It
Speaker 1: looks like the colder like on the side of a
Speaker 1: soda thing you did like you were talking on my
Speaker 1: podcast this week. I feel like he's going to show
Speaker 1: up in like a like a short sleeves and flip
Speaker 1: flops on. I wanted like Michel with a thin we
Speaker 1: have to like figure out like some of Colleen's pants. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm in this game, weather side. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a very good game of football. Okay, onto the next
Speaker 1: one Lions Jets on Sunday. And I know it was
Speaker 1: a week ago and has nothing to do with this game,
Speaker 1: but can we just continue to appreciate Dan Campbell. I
Speaker 1: love you. Ben Johnson is a genius Lions forever. Even
Speaker 1: if our good friend said Freelan won't love you, Lions,
Speaker 1: I do love you. I will Patrick. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with you. I'm gonna give Cynthia a chance to change
Speaker 1: her mind there and just like sit and think about
Speaker 1: this game. So I'm gonna start with you Lions Jets.
Speaker 1: Like I appreciate that because we need Cynthia to be
Speaker 1: back picking we need her on board. I am going
Speaker 1: to pick the Lions in this one. I've got twenty
Speaker 1: two nineteen win over the Jets, and that is because
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if Quentin Williams is going to play in
Speaker 1: this game, missing multiple practices this week. He was so
Speaker 1: dominant in the past few weeks. You look at his
Speaker 1: performance against the Buffalo Bills that their defense is very good.
Speaker 1: Even though Greg left C. J. Mosley off of his
Speaker 1: list of linebackers that can cover up the middle of
Speaker 1: I feel like that there's a tease. Okay, so, but
Speaker 1: potentially um he has the highest pressure percentage of defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: He's got one of the highest run defensive grades, and
Speaker 1: Mike White's beat up this all. Cynthia is all telling
Speaker 1: me Lions. It's just all telling me, telling me Lions too.
Speaker 1: When I put that crown on my head at the
Speaker 1: top of the show, it's because of the Lions. I
Speaker 1: I've restored the roar picking the Lions every week. It's
Speaker 1: like the only thing I've done well Right now. I
Speaker 1: think the Lions win this game because Ben Johnson looks
Speaker 1: at the middle of the field. Patrick Claban was talking
Speaker 1: about the linebacker in the safety position for the Jets
Speaker 1: is I think where you can attack and who's great
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field. It's aman Ra st
Speaker 1: Brown and DeAndre Swift, who looks healthy again, and C. J.
Speaker 1: Mosley is great. But you were giving me a lot
Speaker 1: of stats run defense, rushing the pastor. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's as good in coverage. I think the Lions are
Speaker 1: faster there and we should mention Mike White is not
Speaker 1: playing in this game. It was to twenty four and
Speaker 1: my score prediction, and then I found out Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: is playing. So I like the Lions to score a
Speaker 1: lot of points no matter who they're playing, no matter
Speaker 1: what the weather is. I do not like Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points in this game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I saw the Jets two. There's a lot of boys
Speaker 1: available in this one, Like Rookie of the Year candidates,
Speaker 1: there's someone defense lost gardener Ad Hutchinson. But on offense,
Speaker 1: give me my camera, I'm talking about the Jets Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year candidate, Barrett Wrong. Do you not think
Speaker 1: he's going to play? Well? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: I understand it. Zach Wilson. I understand that this seems
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult, but I think both Bamnovan Knight.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the bam it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to say that just seems silly night Bam Knight. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not even Knight. I think he's going to have
Speaker 1: a good game. When you look at this line's defense,
Speaker 1: guess what they rank against the past. Guess what they
Speaker 1: rank against yards numbers? Second time, the first month of
Speaker 1: the season was two months ago. Long time to No,
Speaker 1: it's not justin Jefferson just scored like all of the
Speaker 1: yards tree that was a lot, That was a lot
Speaker 1: of arts. So I think you gotta look a see.
Speaker 1: I'm not sorry. I love the Lions. It's not a left.
Speaker 1: This is how you know I do love them because
Speaker 1: even though they're losers, I still love them. Give me
Speaker 1: my camera as an icon. Okay, well, Adam rank too long.
Speaker 1: I'm going Lions here, come on and Bregg and I
Speaker 1: have enjoyed riding this team the entire season, and I
Speaker 1: will continue to do so until the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season twenty one and I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this quarterback situation. Mike White's not playing, Okay, Zack Wilson
Speaker 1: has had a weird couple of weeks. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember this, what was this to? Three weeks ago? Everyone
Speaker 1: showed up wearing Mike White T shirts for his first start.
Speaker 1: You know, Zach Wilson's on that very bus behind them,
Speaker 1: he is seeing them all wear these shirts. That is
Speaker 1: awkward and weird, and he is young and impressionable, and
Speaker 1: now he has to come back and play with this
Speaker 1: locker room who he has lost apparently from what we
Speaker 1: are seeing, that's gonna be kind of tough to gel
Speaker 1: and mesh with these guys. Um when they're probably who knows,
Speaker 1: they might show up wearing my my white shirts again.
Speaker 1: That would that would be insane, but I wouldn't put
Speaker 1: it past them. Go Lions go. Okay, coming up after
Speaker 1: the break, we got cowboys who were looking like what
Speaker 1: was that about with the Texans? Last week? They take
Speaker 1: on the Jags. Do the Jags have a chance? Is
Speaker 1: this another cheese game? Jags always have a chance? Made
Speaker 1: us look bad last week? Yeah, they did. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: We're talking this game after they're very good. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: talk about this game. Greg, you are up in the pis.
Speaker 1: You've got some room to roll the dice taking the
Speaker 1: jet I thought about it hard. How did you know
Speaker 1: I am taking the Jaguars to cover the spread? I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna thread the needle. Trevor Lawrence isn't fighting
Speaker 1: a fair fight here. He doesn't have the running game
Speaker 1: or the defense that Dak Prescott does. But he might
Speaker 1: be the better quarterback, at least right now in this game.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is playing so well. I gotta show some incompletions.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's moving to the left in the pocket.
Speaker 1: I'm too You got to catch that. That's one of
Speaker 1: the throws of the week. Trevor Lawrence has moments in
Speaker 1: these games quarters at a time where he just gets unconscious.
Speaker 1: This was a past interference where he has about a
Speaker 1: two inch window and he puts it on the shoulder
Speaker 1: of the cornerback. Didn't happen. And then that touchdown to
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. I just love the confidence he is playing with.
Speaker 1: You can hear it in his press converence. You can
Speaker 1: see it on the field when he disregarded his coach's
Speaker 1: wishes and ran a two point conversion and by himself.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what he was doing. Trevor's just taken over.
Speaker 1: So I think he threads the needle and wins, gets
Speaker 1: keeps it close. He's growing up. He is. I have one,
Speaker 1: and this one in favor of the Cowboys, in part
Speaker 1: because of their defense. Trevor Lawrence has been playing pretty well.
Speaker 1: He is on the injury report though, so we do
Speaker 1: I expect him to play. However, it is something worth monitoring.
Speaker 1: But I really want to talk about how he's been
Speaker 1: spreading it around. So when you talk about Za Jones,
Speaker 1: he's a good pick for fantasy if you're desperate for
Speaker 1: your wide receiver. Talk about Evan Ingram. You talk about
Speaker 1: all of the different ways that he's been effective and efficient.
Speaker 1: That has a lot of shades of when Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: was at his best with Peterson, and those shades of
Speaker 1: spreading it to all of his different pass catchers. That
Speaker 1: is a huge advantage. So I think a seven point wins,
Speaker 1: so nothing too crazy that I understand. Four and a
Speaker 1: half is what it is. But I think a nice
Speaker 1: one score win and a nice evolution of you know,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrences evolution is going great, and I think we
Speaker 1: see that to continue. They're still in it for the
Speaker 1: NFC South like they're not out of it yet, which
Speaker 1: is wild. Yeah, they got some teams going in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction there, of course, and then Houston making a
Speaker 1: little bit easier for everybody else. Thanks, I have you
Speaker 1: have a problem. I have a three point three point
Speaker 1: when by the Dallas Cowboys. And yes, everything that we
Speaker 1: have said today about Trevor Lawrence is absolutely true. But
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys defense, it's hard to stay away from
Speaker 1: just the amount of pressure. They're still leading the league
Speaker 1: and pressure percentage, although the Eagles are pushing close to that.
Speaker 1: But Trevor Lawrence under pressure this season, his passer rating
Speaker 1: drops thirty eight points. He's got nineteen touchdowns and four
Speaker 1: picks without pressure. Under pressure, he's completing exactly of his passes.
Speaker 1: I think that's enough for Doc and company to get supports.
Speaker 1: And when it by a field goal original you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just get like a feeling in your gut
Speaker 1: going into the league. Is she gonna do it? Not crazy?
Speaker 1: I've actually got a gigantic The Cowboys gane over the Jags.
Speaker 1: They beat up on the Colts fifty four to nineteen
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and then they had a
Speaker 1: really weird game against the Texas doc through two picks.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of game that you go it kind
Speaker 1: of like scares you straight. Mike McCarthy was saying, this
Speaker 1: is a cheese game. Don't fall into this trap. We're
Speaker 1: huge favorites, and that is exactly what they did. And
Speaker 1: that's the kind of game that's like, oh, whoa, wha, wha,
Speaker 1: wha what we are too close in the playoffs, were
Speaker 1: too close to the end of the season to let
Speaker 1: this slip away and start getting messy and making mistakes.
Speaker 1: They bounce back big here against the Jags fourteen. I
Speaker 1: got the Cowboys, okay, Patrick, Titans Chargers? Is that an
Speaker 1: overly aggressive dog? I here barking? Could this be a
Speaker 1: straight on? I think so if you guys didn't pick
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, because I'm thinking the Tennessee Titans in
Speaker 1: this one. And yes, it is because of the run game.
Speaker 1: And we can go back to the best Chargers performance
Speaker 1: at stopping the run all season. They held Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: the NFL's leading russer, to fifty seven yards on tin carry's. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. In their best defensive performance against the run,
Speaker 1: they still allowed five point seven yards per carry. The
Speaker 1: King and the Titans win here. They will run the ball,
Speaker 1: unlike the Miami Dolphins, who cost me a pick. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's get that straight dog at home. He's just angry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so angry. I have a shot of brabies medication. Oh god, Greg,
Speaker 1: Eagles are nine point favorites against the Bears. I have
Speaker 1: been winning by twenty one. Seems rude. I have the
Speaker 1: Eagles winning thirty eight twenty seven. I just think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of points on both sides, and
Speaker 1: it will be a good game for the Eagles to
Speaker 1: work on the run defense and also a good game
Speaker 1: to showcase how much Dalen Hurts has improved as a pastor.
Speaker 1: I think you look at what he did against the
Speaker 1: Giants and you recognize this is high level quarterbacking. This
Speaker 1: is throwing it over the line of the defense. This
Speaker 1: is throwing with anticipation. He makes that throw under pressure
Speaker 1: before the receiver makes the route, the cutting his route.
Speaker 1: Same thing right here, Davante Smith has not made the
Speaker 1: break in his route. It's third down. Those are the
Speaker 1: plays that are keeping drives alive right now for the
Speaker 1: Eagles so that they can set up the running game,
Speaker 1: whole shots against zone coverage, I mean from the pocket.
Speaker 1: He is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: He is not a guy who throws on the run
Speaker 1: that much because he doesn't need to. He's he's not
Speaker 1: my m v P because Patrick Mahomes is in the league.
Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Say something Eagles were gonna
Speaker 1: be ready. I thought you were actually going to say yes,
Speaker 1: Like I thought I was setting you. I thought I
Speaker 1: was like teaming up. He could spike it down. No,
Speaker 1: I just like Patrick Mahomes. There's some times. There's still times. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the Cardinals Broncos a game. I'm sure we were
Speaker 1: very excited about when the schedules came out back in May.
Speaker 1: I'm less excited about it now. So I'll let you
Speaker 1: pick it. Go ahead, Okay, great, So um, I have
Speaker 1: twenty one nineteen Broncos. This is an interesting one. The
Speaker 1: Brett Rippon Coote McCoy situation is odd, But I do
Speaker 1: want to say that if you're a James Conner fantasy owner,
Speaker 1: you should still start him. Why Because he's going to
Speaker 1: be pretty much their entire rushing attack and the Broncos
Speaker 1: are vulnerable to the run, We've seen it, and James
Speaker 1: Conner gets an end zone. He doesn't get enough love.
Speaker 1: This has been a weird team. This has been a
Speaker 1: weird situation. And kind of the other guys are available,
Speaker 1: meaning DeAndre Hopkins. So they're not going to pull those
Speaker 1: corners in. They're not gonna keep the safeties in there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna give him some space in a lighter box
Speaker 1: to work with or catch those shorter passes. So James
Speaker 1: Connor is gonna have a good game. Just I think
Speaker 1: that the Broncos come out with a week We got
Speaker 1: a positive about of it, all right, sound for quick picks? Uh,
Speaker 1: let me check my notes here. Oh, I've got the
Speaker 1: Chiefs winning by thirty cool story, Texans, you almost beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys but you didn't. How out of control does
Speaker 1: this game get? Well? When I'm looking at this game,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll have thirty two to nineteen. It's a
Speaker 1: little conservative, but since then, so no, Damian Pierce, No,
Speaker 1: I mean it's almost easier. I don't even know who's playing, right,
Speaker 1: like the Nico Collins not playing. You know, Brandon Cook's
Speaker 1: not playing. There's a lot of people out Derek not playing,
Speaker 1: but you know who is playing the running backs for
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, which is why I think it's
Speaker 1: a slower paced game, which is why it becomes a
Speaker 1: little bit closer than maybe expected, because I think Jerick McKinnon,
Speaker 1: I think Isaiah Pachecko, They're gonna have huge games against
Speaker 1: this very confusing defense. All right, next game, we got
Speaker 1: Falcon Saints gregged. This one's for you. An awesome game
Speaker 1: in Week one. Unfortunately the quarterbacks from that game will
Speaker 1: play in this one, but we will get to see
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter, which is somehow enough for you to give
Speaker 1: them the win. Yeah, I think it's fortunate, a little
Speaker 1: just Greg action here, come on. Falcons and Saints, best
Speaker 1: rivalry in the league, and I think Desmond Ritter has
Speaker 1: got to be an upgrade on Marcus Mariota. I think
Speaker 1: Mariota's inaccuracy and just inability to get the passing game
Speaker 1: going I was holding them back in this Saints team.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad vibes in the NFL, but
Speaker 1: I think the Saints might have the worst vibes. And
Speaker 1: there's no worst vibes then losing to your rival Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons at home, that crowd is gonna be unhappy, and
Speaker 1: I think Desmond Ritter's gonna run all over them like this. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this next one, Patrick, you're taking a lot of swings today.
Speaker 1: Giants Commanders Part two. We are all rolling with Washington
Speaker 1: and you're going Giants. I am, and I haven't picked
Speaker 1: the Giants a lot this season. I was. I was
Speaker 1: literally looking for a reason to pick the Giants, and
Speaker 1: the Arab voice in my head that's like, hey, that
Speaker 1: de Lion is playing pretty well. It was actually Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal's worth and he's probably trying to get me to
Speaker 1: make this pick. But I'm inspired because he's confident enough
Speaker 1: in Desmond Ritters cite unseen because he thinks Marcus bart
Speaker 1: was playing so bad. And I've just seen watch Cavon
Speaker 1: Thibodeau here. In his last three games, he has seven
Speaker 1: quarterback hits and over Tom Taylor Honekey and Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: for that matter, we're both being hidden by the offensive Cordinators.
Speaker 1: I saw something late from the Giants that makes me
Speaker 1: believe Patrick has not picked the Commanders once. This entire true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Okay, you're stand with it, all right, you
Speaker 1: gotta respect it. Okay, Monday Night, It is my turn.
Speaker 1: We got Rams packers. I think you can guess where
Speaker 1: I'm going. Listen. I might be eating my shorts on Monday,
Speaker 1: but I will not regret it. I'm going Rams. Why
Speaker 1: do we do that for the Rams? Listen? There's something
Speaker 1: to be said about getting your mojo back. Stella got
Speaker 1: her groove back. Well, so did Baker Mayfield. Okay, NFC
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys just saw you also won the Nickelodeon Player of
Speaker 1: the Week. He got slimed by his teammates. That's bonding, Greg,
Speaker 1: that is bonding. That got to poor slime all over
Speaker 1: the new quarterbacks head. Do you want to be slimed? No? No,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about here? They way bonded. We've
Speaker 1: bonded enough. Okay, we don't need to slime. I love this.
Speaker 1: I might regret it, but it's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun pick the whole way home. Go Baker Mayfield. Okay.
Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, McDaniels and Belichick head to head.
Speaker 1: Who is going to win in this match of the
Speaker 1: Patriots or the Raiders. Baker Mayfield didn't make the Raiders
Speaker 1: feel too good quite Here we are Greg you heard
Speaker 1: from the people. Are you going to pick with your
Speaker 1: heart here or you? I don't even know what my
Speaker 1: heart says anymore. It's just cold and black and broken.
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Raiders every day. I'm black and silver.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Uh, it's more about picking against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The Patriots right now, they used to be a team
Speaker 1: that waits for other teams to make mistakes and they
Speaker 1: just kind of win that way. Now they are that
Speaker 1: team because of Matt Patricia and their offense everything. I
Speaker 1: just watch the discombobulation, the lack of communication, Like Mac
Speaker 1: Jones is yelling at Matt Patricia and everyone's like yet
Speaker 1: Max right. Uh, they are missing a lot of offensive players.
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia's fake smiling on the sideline, don't be fake
Speaker 1: smiling when you get the lay of games and penalties
Speaker 1: and just sloppin us. I think they find a way
Speaker 1: to lose this game offensively. Raiders win. Wow. That was
Speaker 1: like shots fired ning exactly the opposite. Ma Patricia, You're
Speaker 1: gonna win this one. Two. I do want to give
Speaker 1: some love to Josh Jacobs though in this situation, but
Speaker 1: you know this whole Belichick, like I had to take
Speaker 1: away your best player. Blah blah blah blah blah. You
Speaker 1: could still play him for fantasy purposes because they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to devote resources to stopping Davante Adams, so Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs will still be good for your fantasy playoffs. I
Speaker 1: do like the opportunity that Jacobs gives them to keep
Speaker 1: the ball from being turned over. However, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and this is this is a big deal. They're only
Speaker 1: running the ball and then the Patriots throw the ball,
Speaker 1: which I do think will happen more often. Gives we
Speaker 1: saw it last week. Then that's going to change the possession.
Speaker 1: So Patriots win this one. And this is your low
Speaker 1: key flex because you actually like the Patriots. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't like these Patriots. I think
Speaker 1: you do like the Patriots. And that's why Matt Patricia
Speaker 1: just like the most direct shot on the show. You
Speaker 1: get me, I don't, honestly, Well who does? It's Greg?
Speaker 1: I've got the Raiders. I'm with Greg here to seventeen. Okay,
Speaker 1: and let's talk about this Patriots passing game, because the
Speaker 1: Raiders have been very forgiving to opposing passing games. But
Speaker 1: just this is Mac Jones operating. This is what it looks.
Speaker 1: But what do we not see Greg in these passes
Speaker 1: from mac Jones or in the Patriots passing game at all?
Speaker 1: Patriots in the end zone, yes, Mac Jones has completed
Speaker 1: one pass into the end zone all season. They've only
Speaker 1: thrown eight last is into the end zone all season.
Speaker 1: That that was crazy to me. And the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Patriots stand alone, everybody else has at least sixteen
Speaker 1: attempts into the end zone. I'm not sure what's going on,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Matt Patricia be ready for I don't know
Speaker 1: Patricia apologist here, and I think he actually does watches,
Speaker 1: So so Bett, we love you girls, well, at least
Speaker 1: I love you. I don't know. Maybe I don't know
Speaker 1: who you're picking. I'm going with Patriots as well. I
Speaker 1: don't feel confident about either side here, but I have
Speaker 1: the Patriots winning seventeen. That Raider's loss. I hate to
Speaker 1: keep on bringing it up, but Bill Belichick is like
Speaker 1: a shark. He smells when there is blood in the water,
Speaker 1: and with the Raiders, there is blood in the water
Speaker 1: and has been all season. Do you guys remember a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago and Derek Cars started crying in
Speaker 1: the postgame press. You haven't forgiven him for it since
Speaker 1: I have not because it stood out so much the
Speaker 1: entire season. I've been thinking. I think about it about
Speaker 1: once a week. Okay, that is not a confident quarterback
Speaker 1: that feels good in his team. In the vibes I'm
Speaker 1: going Patriots twenty one to say have been seen. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of trash talk talked about the Raiders
Speaker 1: this week. Kyle Brandon Good Morning Football said that they
Speaker 1: should have walked back to Las Vegas after that loss. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they've had to just sit and stew in that
Speaker 1: loss for a couple of a week in the path whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't do math anymore, Uh, Cynthia. The Bengals are
Speaker 1: one of the hottest teams in football right now, and
Speaker 1: the Bucks play in Florida where it can get hot.
Speaker 1: There's the correlation there? Uh? Probably not this week in
Speaker 1: December mid six. What it doesn't matter. What do you
Speaker 1: got in? I have the hot Bengals staying hot in
Speaker 1: the hot climate. There you go, there we go. Um,
Speaker 1: I have twenty five to two in this matchup. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of banged up pieces on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball here. So I'm going to give some love
Speaker 1: to Chris Godwin because I do think that if Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is going to connect with any pass catcher, We've
Speaker 1: seen some really weird stuff here from Mike Evans, so
Speaker 1: I think Chris Godwin again, I'm really trying to give
Speaker 1: you fantasy playoff advice today. That's like what my theme
Speaker 1: is apparently here. But Chris Godwin has been the sure
Speaker 1: hand here and if there's areas to exploit with so
Speaker 1: many of these defensive piece is missing and banged up,
Speaker 1: that would be the one for fantasy. Only one game
Speaker 1: we haven't hit on, and that's because the Panthers and
Speaker 1: the Steelers. A loss gives Mike Tomlin his first losing
Speaker 1: season ever. I am taking the Steelers. I don't want
Speaker 1: that to happen. Gregg's taking the Steelers. Are you taking
Speaker 1: the Steelers four weeks in a row. I'm not taking
Speaker 1: the Steelers here. I'm taking the Carolina Panthers. And the
Speaker 1: reason is with one win from Steve Wilkes, he can
Speaker 1: equal the season any season of Matt Rule coaching the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. This is gonna be his fifth win of
Speaker 1: the season after taking over when the team was one
Speaker 1: and four and absolutely hopeless. And he's not just doing
Speaker 1: it with Sam Donald, He's doing it with a defense
Speaker 1: that over the past three games has held opponents to
Speaker 1: around fifteen points per game. And yes, two of those
Speaker 1: offenses were bad, but they did it against Gino on
Speaker 1: the road. I've got the Panthers here. Okay. Saturday Football
Speaker 1: returns to the NFL tomorrow, and NFL Network is your
Speaker 1: home for an exclusive triple head of The Colts take
Speaker 1: on the Vikings at one pm Eastern, followed by Ravens
Speaker 1: Browns at four pm. Then a huge divisional showdown in
Speaker 1: prime time is the Dolphins battle the Bills at eight
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, calling Wolf's gonna have her electric warmer pants on.
Speaker 1: Tune in for that alone, I will. It's a Saturday
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Speaker 1: set your lineups. It's fantasy playoffs, baby, Listen. There's a
Speaker 1: life after fantasy. Okay. If you're in a fantasy football
Speaker 1: league with your friends, just know that you have to
Speaker 1: talk to them after all of this. Okay, and it's
Speaker 1: time to write this down I am feeling so confident
Speaker 1: that the Lions win by by so much this week,
Speaker 1: that Cynthia will pick the Lions the rest of the
Speaker 1: way every single week, that they're just gonna be so
Speaker 1: good this weekend against the Jets. She is riding with
Speaker 1: her Lions the rest of the season into the sunset,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a beautiful thing. Listen, I look
Speaker 1: great in hollolululu, so I'm not mad if I have
Speaker 1: to wear a lot of vintage stuffs. Very great. Let
Speaker 1: you write this down. I write this down is about
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. I had to do a double take looking
Speaker 1: at this number, getting over fifty point five rushing yards
Speaker 1: forty five check it up, I e I don't care
Speaker 1: no Vida Veia for the Cynthia's taught me over the years.
Speaker 1: When you're missing Vita Veia, load up on the other team.
Speaker 1: And I thot, Joe Mixon looked really explosive a week ago.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't huge numbers, but he's healthy, he's back,
Speaker 1: and the Bucks aren't very good stopping the run without
Speaker 1: Vita via. Well, I'm looking at a guy who has
Speaker 1: never let me down, never, never with write this down
Speaker 1: that's cool. Commit. He's gonna catch at least four passes.
Speaker 1: You know why, because that's all Cold Commit does. He
Speaker 1: comes down with at least four catches against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of missing pieces, including Darnell Mooney. Justin
Speaker 1: Fields will be running for his life. However, you know
Speaker 1: who's gonna come down with the past cold that's right, Commit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Bears leading receiver on the season. It's him, and
Speaker 1: then Equanimius st. Brown. Somehow I've been scoring all these
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it with the Bears and the Eagles
Speaker 1: as well, because I saw a number that was surprising
Speaker 1: to me and a half. This is points. The Bears
Speaker 1: have scored twenty two points a game since the point.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are good for colose to thirty.
Speaker 1: Let's get fifty. Let's do it. I love that, alright, guys,
Speaker 1: that is our show. Lots came out of this show.
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