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Speaker 1: Colin Coward Podcast. Playoff Football is here. Joe Burrow stops
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Speaker 1: The video is now out of OBJ former Giants Browns
Speaker 1: rams receiver on an airplane that he got kicked off of.
Speaker 1: Well it's not great, but yet there's plenty of O. B. J.
Speaker 1: Stands defending him. I've come to terms with something about
Speaker 1: celebrity in our country. It can be Justin Bieber, it
Speaker 1: can be Taylor Swift, it can be OBJ. Men are
Speaker 1: often still little boys. They're fanboys. That's my turn for
Speaker 1: them fanboys. They worship celebrities. I love having fans. I
Speaker 1: don't want any of you to worship me, nor should you.
Speaker 1: I'm completely flawed. But OBJ all over the interweb, little
Speaker 1: boys in their thirties and forties who are physically men
Speaker 1: but have no sense of self. They worship, They coddle,
Speaker 1: They waited in line. They wear jerseys. You'll never see
Speaker 1: me wearing a jersey. I thought OBJ moved into des
Speaker 1: Bryant territory. Remember when Dez Bryant was on hard Knocks
Speaker 1: near the end of his career, and there was a
Speaker 1: piece of video of des Bryant calling out a coach
Speaker 1: and being temperamental and immature and incredibly needy. His market
Speaker 1: literally dried up. Nobody wanted des Bryant aging receivers who
Speaker 1: come off as petulant and needy. OBJ has no market,
Speaker 1: none dover. But Obj's never had any self awareness. He's
Speaker 1: now more known for you know, the end zone, peeing
Speaker 1: the model in Paris on the boat, this video on
Speaker 1: the plane. Outside of the one handed catch, what's his
Speaker 1: next biggest catch? If my kids acted like the video
Speaker 1: of OBJ, I would write them out of the will
Speaker 1: and one of my kids is sixteen. Obj's like in
Speaker 1: his thirties, total arrogant, entitled, lack of self awareness. But
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, fanboys will be all
Speaker 1: over this podcast whining and defending OBJ because that's the culture.
Speaker 1: We have a celebrity culture and some guys, some men
Speaker 1: are boys fanboys, and it doesn't matter what the behavior is.
Speaker 1: I mean, the first time I really came to terms
Speaker 1: with this was years ago with Bobby Knight, and Bobby
Speaker 1: Knight had a horrible reputation and a secret video of
Speaker 1: practice came out and I forget the name of the player,
Speaker 1: and you could see him putting his hand on his throat.
Speaker 1: And I worked with a guy in the media who
Speaker 1: was a co host for a short period of time,
Speaker 1: who loved Bobby Knight, who defended it, and I remember saying,
Speaker 1: what if that was your kid, would you defend it? Really,
Speaker 1: it was the first time it really hit home that
Speaker 1: there are men who are really have the maturity of
Speaker 1: boys that they worship. I mean, I collected baseball cards
Speaker 1: when I was eight, and I admire great artists. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was you know, it was Larry Bird, Magic Johnson,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. These guys are incredible. I don't worship And
Speaker 1: if you're still defending OBJ, he just became Dez Bryant
Speaker 1: that video. No thanks, folks. What's the one position college
Speaker 1: football furnishes the NFL with every year with twenty new
Speaker 1: really good players wide receiver? OBJ is temperamental, brittle, expensive
Speaker 1: and emotionally needy. Hard pass. So I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody I met the other day in regards to timing,
Speaker 1: and they were talking about the podcast industry, and we
Speaker 1: were actually talking about the subscription service called The Athletic
Speaker 1: and how it sold to the New York Times for
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty five hundred million dollars. And this
Speaker 1: person was saying, because of the erosion of the stock market,
Speaker 1: Dow Jones is down several thousand, and because you know
Speaker 1: the world's always changing with so many new platforms, is
Speaker 1: that it may not sell for that today, not even
Speaker 1: close to that, but it did. Then there's a moment
Speaker 1: in time for everything to sell in the media. That's
Speaker 1: what this person, who has a lot of experience we
Speaker 1: talked about, is that sometimes something that sells won't sell
Speaker 1: in six months. You've got a hit on the time
Speaker 1: and I thought, that's what's fascinating about the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: This was the year to get into the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: Jets were a ship show at quarterback and Tuah couldn't
Speaker 1: stay healthy. Okay, if Miami goes out and gets Derek
Speaker 1: Carr and the Jets get Garoppolo, Matt Jones is the
Speaker 1: fourth best quarterback in your division. You don't get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs with the fourth best quarterback in your division.
Speaker 1: I don't see an easy way out for New England.
Speaker 1: I mean Tua probably inside the Dolphins executive suite. They've
Speaker 1: made a decision to move on. He's simply college and pro.
Speaker 1: Can't stay healthy. Not his fault, his reality. And the
Speaker 1: Jets are obviously going to the market. They need a
Speaker 1: left tackle and a quarterback. They have talent running back, corner,
Speaker 1: defensive line weapons. They got good players. And New England
Speaker 1: doesn't have a single receiver that separates. Davante Parker doesn't separate,
Speaker 1: Jacobe Myers doesn't set parade. They're really average O line
Speaker 1: wide receiver, tight end. It's not a highly abundant wide
Speaker 1: receiver group in the first round, maybe by the second,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Addison maybe is a first round wide receiver
Speaker 1: Zay Jones. Maybe is there's not four or five this
Speaker 1: year like there have been in previous years. I don't
Speaker 1: know the way out. That's what's fascinating. This was the
Speaker 1: year and they wasted it by connecting Joe Judge and
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia to the offense. Go back and look at
Speaker 1: mac jones rookie stats. They're pretty remarkable. They're really solid,
Speaker 1: be plus stuff, and he regressed. So the timing go
Speaker 1: back to timing. This was the year to get some momentum.
Speaker 1: If mac Jones played well, you'd have a greater chance
Speaker 1: to go into the free agent market and convince a
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, who reportedly Arizona is going to move. Convince
Speaker 1: a great Hopkins. Hey, I had a great rookie year
Speaker 1: followed by a great second year. Come to New England
Speaker 1: and be the star. Well he looks at it now,
Speaker 1: d hop would look at New England and go oh,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be part of that. That offends
Speaker 1: a mess. So I don't know the easy way out.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was absolutely something that Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: when asked about the season, immediately said I'm returning for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. That's not your call, that's the owner's call.
Speaker 1: The fact that Belichick put it out publicly I'll be
Speaker 1: back next year Andy Reid doesn't say that it's the
Speaker 1: owner's call. That's never the coach's call. In the NFL
Speaker 1: or the NBA. I'll be back Steve Kerr's back if
Speaker 1: Joe Lacob, who owns the Warriors, wants it back, and
Speaker 1: that's Steve Kerr. So I think Belichick knows he's kind
Speaker 1: of cornered here. The staff isn't great, doesn't have an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, doesn't ever tied in a receiver that separates.
Speaker 1: Didn't you think it was something that Belichick's first opinion was,
Speaker 1: I'll be back, basically cornering Bob Kraft. Bob Kraft now
Speaker 1: is on the defensive. Oh wait, Belichick's coming back bill
Speaker 1: didn't leave it open for a meeting or a discussion
Speaker 1: or an argument or a tug of war over his future.
Speaker 1: I thought it was something I want to talk Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: so he has a no trade clause. The Raiders are
Speaker 1: now looking around for trade partners. They want to do
Speaker 1: it February fifteenth or earlier. That helps them out in
Speaker 1: the salary situation, so you can go to therapy. I've
Speaker 1: gone to therapy, but when I go to therapy, I
Speaker 1: am seeking a change, not everybody is. I've probably had
Speaker 1: six seven different therapists in my life. I moved all
Speaker 1: over the country, as many of you know, and I
Speaker 1: have gone for a specific reason to overcome something, fight
Speaker 1: through something, work through something. But I have friends who
Speaker 1: have been therapists, and they'll tell you that change is hard.
Speaker 1: Even when you want to change, most people don't. And
Speaker 1: so I watched the New York Jets. They're trying to
Speaker 1: find a quarterback. So what do they do. They fire
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, Mike Lafleur. Apparently it came from the owners.
Speaker 1: The New York Jets need therapy. They can't help themselves.
Speaker 1: They've got a breakthrough, so Derek Carr is going to
Speaker 1: seek continuity. The Jets already had a few things working
Speaker 1: against them. They have a defensive coach, they don't have
Speaker 1: a good left tackle, they have a defensive culture. One
Speaker 1: of the few things they had going for them interesting
Speaker 1: young wide receiver talent and Matt Lafleur's smart brother as
Speaker 1: their coordinator. Now they just fired him. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to attract Derek Carr because you're not going to get
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, so it's down to Garoppolo, Tanning Hill, Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: and Derek Carr. To me's the best one on the market.
Speaker 1: He's always healthy, usually solid B B plus. You just
Speaker 1: fired your offensive coordinator, Matt Lafleur's brother is respected. It
Speaker 1: was one of the few things you had working for you.
Speaker 1: Now it looks like Miami in your same division is
Speaker 1: the perfect landing space. Better weather, offensive coach, significantly better
Speaker 1: veteran weapons, better left tackle jets. You're like the person
Speaker 1: that goes to therapy, but you're really not looking to change.
Speaker 1: You're just going because somebody said you needed to go
Speaker 1: to therapy. Defensive coach, New York taxes, no left tackle,
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Speaker 1: All right, first of all, long time, no talk. A
Speaker 1: lot of people bailed on Joe Burrow, not this host.
Speaker 1: I remember that second half against Dallas, and I said,
Speaker 1: I saw it. They're gonna be fine. Um, I mean you,
Speaker 1: let's take the regular season. Take a deep breath. Um,
Speaker 1: when did you because you you want a lot of
Speaker 1: games in a row. Now, was there a a one
Speaker 1: or a two game or one or two half moment
Speaker 1: for you, Joe that you said, Okay, boom, we're clicking,
Speaker 1: We're all good. This this is a good team. Not really,
Speaker 1: you know, we we had moments of that early in
Speaker 1: the year, and it really just came down to being
Speaker 1: more consistent as a team and as an offense. You know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say there was one or two games that
Speaker 1: you point tune do like that's that's the turning point.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of progression of the season. You get
Speaker 1: better throughout the season, you have more practice time together,
Speaker 1: you have more reps accumulated, and you just getting better
Speaker 1: as the season goes. I'm not a huge fan of
Speaker 1: playing a team a third time, So why I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan of, you know, Miami Buffalo a third time
Speaker 1: Seattle San Francisco. I don't like it. I think it's hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, Buffalo is hard to beat once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean do you look at it and think, all right,
Speaker 1: they know my tendencies. How do you you view it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why division games are always harder because you've you
Speaker 1: play each other twice a year. You know how the
Speaker 1: other unit operates, you know the guys, you know the scheme,
Speaker 1: they know what you're trying to do. You know what
Speaker 1: they're trying to do, so you you know, it's always
Speaker 1: harder in those division games, and that's why they're always
Speaker 1: so tight. Do you feel more responsibility? It's very easy
Speaker 1: for a team that just beat a team to be
Speaker 1: flat the next week. That's the history of the league.
Speaker 1: You beat a team, then you have to rally the
Speaker 1: guys and say, yes, we got to play with our
Speaker 1: hair and fire. We can't beat them. Do you feel
Speaker 1: a little bit, Joe, like this is really where leadership
Speaker 1: comes in urgency? Go this is everything. No, because our
Speaker 1: guys know how hard of us to beat those guys
Speaker 1: last week, and they're going to be healthier, and we
Speaker 1: know what happened earlier in the year. So you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, these division you got to take all
Speaker 1: these division games as seriously as possible, because you we
Speaker 1: know a Baltimore on the defensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: and we know that they have on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. There a really, really good football team
Speaker 1: that you know wins a lot of football games, and
Speaker 1: so it's going to be a tough challenge for US.
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, Giants coach, who's got actually a lot of
Speaker 1: rings as an assistant or a coordinator, said, playoff experience
Speaker 1: is overrated. Now I look at you last year, you
Speaker 1: didn't have any and you went on the road I
Speaker 1: think two out of three weekends. Where is it a
Speaker 1: little overrated and where is their value in your experience? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's tough to say, because really, once you get
Speaker 1: into the game, every game is the same, and I
Speaker 1: think that's that's how you have to handle it, so
Speaker 1: I obviously I would say the more reps you have
Speaker 1: accumulated of something, the better you're going to perform. But also,
Speaker 1: once you get in it's it's just another game. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel on the field like a playoff game to you. No,
Speaker 1: you know, the fans are, it's a little more energetic
Speaker 1: in the crowd, and the atmosphere is always better, but
Speaker 1: you know, once you're out there on the field, you're
Speaker 1: blocking all that out. Anyway, when you look at this
Speaker 1: season where you're at, I think situationally, you're a better
Speaker 1: quarterback than a year ago. That's what it feels like
Speaker 1: to me. I thought your first two years they were rare,
Speaker 1: but you'd have an occasional meltdown the game's fast. Did
Speaker 1: you do you sense like you can sense okay this
Speaker 1: this could have been one of these moments. Do you
Speaker 1: in real time ever feel like, Man, a year ago
Speaker 1: I could have melted down there. No, I don't really
Speaker 1: feel like that. I do feel like I've I've drastically
Speaker 1: improved my play this season from from last year, just
Speaker 1: in the totality, and so I'm I'm happy with that,
Speaker 1: but there's also a lot of room to improve as well.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I like where we're at as
Speaker 1: a team and as an offense and as defense, and
Speaker 1: honestly as as a locker room as well. We have
Speaker 1: one of the locker rooms I've ever been part of,
Speaker 1: and I really think that's ends up being the key
Speaker 1: to winning. How concerned are you with your offensive line injuries?
Speaker 1: You know, we have guys that we really believe in
Speaker 1: that have played a lot of football, Guys like Max
Speaker 1: and Hakim that you know I've stepped in these last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You know, Hakim was our starting right
Speaker 1: guard for the majority of the season last year, and
Speaker 1: Max played a lot of football in this league, and
Speaker 1: so we got we got faith in both of those
Speaker 1: guys to go out and do their jobs. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're I could argue that your college team that
Speaker 1: LSU is so sort of iconic Louisiana high school football
Speaker 1: and Ohio State, that your college programs were much more
Speaker 1: marquis than your NFL team. I think it's funny that
Speaker 1: you're considered the first or second best quarterback in this
Speaker 1: league by like people I respect, and yet Buffalo in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, I mean Philadelphia. It's like, in a weird way,
Speaker 1: it's a perfect spot. In college at Ohio State, you're
Speaker 1: a favorite every week. Yeah, LSU is a favorite. Your
Speaker 1: team just got to the super Bowl, and when I
Speaker 1: pick you number one, I have for five straight weeks.
Speaker 1: People are like, are you crazy? And I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you watching the games? You're like twelve and four? Do
Speaker 1: you feel sometimes even as good as you guys are.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're in a division with the Steelers and
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Ravens. These franchises are like Bedrock
Speaker 1: blue Blood. Do you do you still feel a little
Speaker 1: bit like the new kid on the block? Uh? You know,
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes, but you don't. I don't really don't really
Speaker 1: think in those in those ways. You know, we're so
Speaker 1: focused on the day to day of getting better and
Speaker 1: and interacting with each other and getting the work that
Speaker 1: we need to get done. It. Uh it honestly, we
Speaker 1: don't really talk about it too much. Your thoughts on
Speaker 1: home field being decided by a coin flip. I know why,
Speaker 1: but it's I mean, I guess the NBA lottery is
Speaker 1: a ping pong balls. I mean it's kind of odd, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't you know, I understood it. I
Speaker 1: understood why I did it. I just wish that we
Speaker 1: would have been offered the same opportunity for a potential
Speaker 1: second round matchup for the Bills. That we didn't end
Speaker 1: up getting to play that game, you know, through no
Speaker 1: fault of our own, and it should have been canceled.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to play after that happened either, But
Speaker 1: you know, I think that we just weren't afforded some
Speaker 1: opportunities that other people were. Take you off. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say take me off. We'll play well whatever with with
Speaker 1: whatever we're dealt, but it is what it is. When
Speaker 1: I go back to the Damar Hamlin moment, what really
Speaker 1: sticks out to me is the fear on the players faces.
Speaker 1: I said this on the air. I was skiing a
Speaker 1: year and a half ago, and apparently there was a
Speaker 1: crash in about forty to fifty yards from me. A
Speaker 1: helicopter flew in and they performed CPR. I did not
Speaker 1: know the person. It was forty yards away. It freaked
Speaker 1: me out. I'm like, all right, that's a rap. I'm
Speaker 1: done skiing today. And that was somebody I didn't know.
Speaker 1: As I watched you guys watch that, I the composure
Speaker 1: you had, I mean, did Joe, you probably never seen
Speaker 1: anything like that. Did Was it totally unnerving? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a scary emotional moment. What witnessing somebody that plays
Speaker 1: the same game that you do, you know, go through
Speaker 1: a crisis that is life threatening and you know that
Speaker 1: you really take a step back and look at what
Speaker 1: you do and who you do it with, and makes
Speaker 1: you appreciate that and at the same time reminds you
Speaker 1: that that's always possibility every Sunday and every every Monday
Speaker 1: and every Saturday that you walk out there. So I
Speaker 1: think a lot of discussions were had throughout the league privately,
Speaker 1: you know, with loved ones. I know I had, I
Speaker 1: had some that you know, that moment is scary, It
Speaker 1: can happen, and you know you try to try to
Speaker 1: limit it, but there's not a lot you can do.
Speaker 1: It's a normal football play that happens just about every
Speaker 1: play of every single game, which is what's so scary
Speaker 1: about it. One of the things I said the other
Speaker 1: day is that I think the five best quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league. I use this term the five guys I
Speaker 1: wouldn't take a phone call on if I was a
Speaker 1: general manager. You Alan Mahomes, Herbert and Trevor Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: love Brady and Aaron Rodgers and Matt Stafford, but they're older.
Speaker 1: I'd take a phone call if I had to. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take a phone call on you five
Speaker 1: to watch you and Josh Allen. It was really it
Speaker 1: was pretty you know, I'm I'm in my late fifties, Joe.
Speaker 1: I love Josh Allen so much. I love everything you
Speaker 1: young guys are about. There was a real a moment
Speaker 1: between you two and here he looks like Superman. He's
Speaker 1: he's bigger than defensive ends. He looks like Superman. He
Speaker 1: was incredibly vulnerable. Do you remember that moment when you're
Speaker 1: right next to him. Yeah, that was that was tough.
Speaker 1: You know, me and Josh are friends and and I've
Speaker 1: known each other for a couple of years now, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was just kind of a moment of
Speaker 1: unity between you know, not just two teams, but football players,
Speaker 1: and you know, we know what each individual person means
Speaker 1: to everyone else in a locker room, and to see
Speaker 1: people going through that was you know, it was tough.
Speaker 1: And you know, everyone in our locker room took a
Speaker 1: step back and said it could have been any one
Speaker 1: of us in that exact same situation, and so that's
Speaker 1: why it really hit everybody so hard. I thought the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati crowd was amazing. I thought nobody left utter silence.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. Even the anthem, there's
Speaker 1: always a guy in the third deck drunk, screaming the
Speaker 1: whole thing Joe. From the players, to the coaches to
Speaker 1: the fans. I've been doing this thirty years. I was
Speaker 1: so blown away. But the Cincinnati fans like, in an instant,
Speaker 1: our guy needs help. They're a guy needs help. Did
Speaker 1: you notice any of that or were you were you
Speaker 1: already fixated on Damar. You realize that once you take
Speaker 1: a step back, you know, maybe a day or two later,
Speaker 1: and you know, really reflect on the situation. It made
Speaker 1: me very proud to live in the community, one, be
Speaker 1: a part of the organization to play for Zach three
Speaker 1: just with, and also very proud of the medical staff
Speaker 1: and trainers, doctors you know we got unfortunately got to
Speaker 1: watch them operate and you know, they were lights out.
Speaker 1: So it just made me proud to be a part
Speaker 1: of what we have going on here. Yeah, aren't medical
Speaker 1: people amazing? Aren't they amazing? Yeah? We had I mean,
Speaker 1: you just those kind of moments, you know, you find
Speaker 1: out what people are made of, and the people that
Speaker 1: were out there on that field are badasses. You could
Speaker 1: probably make an argument, Joe that you'll never look You'll
Speaker 1: never come into a stadium and see those medical people
Speaker 1: the same like to you do you almost view them
Speaker 1: like like like before they're part of the ensemble, they're
Speaker 1: like heroes now, like you almost look at him differently
Speaker 1: when you enter a stadium. Yeah, I do. You know,
Speaker 1: I walked into the training room, the training room the
Speaker 1: next day, and I did look at everybody in that
Speaker 1: room a little differently. You know, I really appreciate those
Speaker 1: guys and girls. All right, my buddy Nick, right um.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked to Nick in a couple of months.
Speaker 1: He's really busy. First things first is a smash hit.
Speaker 1: It's crushing, you know, it's funny, Nick, Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: You know, the show's so successful. I've really nicely decorated
Speaker 1: my house with all these you know, we get ratings bonuses, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just wealth just hitting me in the face.
Speaker 1: But your producers won't let me show it off. They
Speaker 1: said I have to turn off all the lights. They said,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're shaming Colin Coward. Collin's doing this from
Speaker 1: a closet and you know, somewhere, And I assumed the
Speaker 1: Upper Valley in Los Angeles, and I've got this palatial estate.
Speaker 1: I can't show it all. That's fine. Maybe at the
Speaker 1: end of the pod, I'll get up and so people
Speaker 1: can see what a beautiful scene I have behind me.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, Sorry, all right, I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about There's two coaches in football that I
Speaker 1: think bother the media, but Jesus they're good. Brian Kelly
Speaker 1: has won everywhere instantly. He had a terrible incident at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. A young man died. He is gruff, he
Speaker 1: turns purple when he's screaming at players. And Jim does
Speaker 1: a really really crummy cagn accent out of nowhere column
Speaker 1: But go ahead, yeah. And Jim Harbaugh. And because Jim harbraw,
Speaker 1: I think he's on the spectrum and he's awkward and
Speaker 1: he doesn't really need the media. I think I get
Speaker 1: along with people. I struggle with him. People don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Harbor went forty four, nineteen and one in a division
Speaker 1: with arguably the most talented team in football in twenty
Speaker 1: years the Seahawks. The Seahawks won six games and went
Speaker 1: to three straight NFC Championship games with Alex Man in
Speaker 1: Cap as the quarterbacks, and Cap had a nice moment.
Speaker 1: The Cap wasn't a blue Chipper. Alex Smith was considered
Speaker 1: a bust and immediately contended for championships and contended at
Speaker 1: Stanford and turned Michigan into a contender. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: thought about this. You know, when we do a show,
Speaker 1: I have opinions, but sometimes I'll sleep on it. Is
Speaker 1: that in college the NIL has actually helped coaches because
Speaker 1: it used to be you were felt guilty for making
Speaker 1: money because players weren't. Now a quarterback at USC can
Speaker 1: make five million. Nobody talks about coaches salaries, but a
Speaker 1: lot of these situations at Michigan you do feel like
Speaker 1: your salaries published. You're the highest paid state employee at
Speaker 1: eight million, Or you go to the NFL make eighteen
Speaker 1: and nobody cares. Now you get fired sooner, but nobody cares.
Speaker 1: Is that? I think to myself, I wouldn't leave Michigan,
Speaker 1: but I do wonder now once the players get paid,
Speaker 1: the downside, because I'm for the players getting paid, but
Speaker 1: the downside is well, shit, if I'm gonna have my
Speaker 1: players paid and they're gonna transfer any time, I'd rather
Speaker 1: just be a pro coach and make twice the money
Speaker 1: and not deal with the NC double A and we're
Speaker 1: gonna lose a lot of these great coaches and not
Speaker 1: have to deal with is he academically eligible? I would listen.
Speaker 1: I think some people love recruiting. I think I would
Speaker 1: hate it. I think the grind of the travel, plus
Speaker 1: there has to be an element of and I don't
Speaker 1: want to sound like an old man. And again, some
Speaker 1: coaches love it, and maybe that's why they're coaches because
Speaker 1: they love that thing. But of like trying to convince
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old to you know, date you essentially,
Speaker 1: that seems again, I don't think i'd love it. I
Speaker 1: don't think it'd be like, what are you doing? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta fly to Baton Rouge because this seventeen year
Speaker 1: old kid that I thought was gonna come play for me,
Speaker 1: now I think he's gonna go play for Texas. So
Speaker 1: I have to explain I have to and over him.
Speaker 1: His mom and his dad like that. So I would
Speaker 1: far prefer pro coaching where you're dealing with with grown ups.
Speaker 1: You only have to worry about the football part, and
Speaker 1: you don't have to convince twenty twenty five new guys
Speaker 1: every single year to come play for you. What is
Speaker 1: interesting to me is it does seem like the money
Speaker 1: in certain instances college You know, I mean, you tell
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Colin in certain instance seemed like
Speaker 1: the money's bigger in college football. So like did melt Tucker,
Speaker 1: who's what not one of the fifteen best coaches got
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars? Like knowing that very few NFL coaches
Speaker 1: have that. So I think for certain guys, college is
Speaker 1: a better deal. Hardball. Here's the thing I want to
Speaker 1: say about Hardball, because I I think Hardball is a
Speaker 1: great coach, a great coach. And I made the point
Speaker 1: on your show five years ago when I was filling
Speaker 1: in for you, and then I made it again the
Speaker 1: other day that he has an argument that if the
Speaker 1: question is I need someone to coach my football team,
Speaker 1: but I won't tell you if it's college or pro,
Speaker 1: he should be the number one draft pick because you
Speaker 1: can say, well, I'll take Belichick. Well what if he's
Speaker 1: it's Alabama, Like, well, you know what I mean. Okay,
Speaker 1: no, no no, they all take Saban. Well what if it's
Speaker 1: the Jets, Like Harball has proof of concept at both
Speaker 1: levels instantly good, So so I think he's a great coach.
Speaker 1: The one thing I think the media is getting wrong
Speaker 1: with the Hardball story is this they're like, oh, the
Speaker 1: new owners of the Broncos, they're the Walton family. They've
Speaker 1: got seventy billion dollars. When it comes to coach salaries,
Speaker 1: the difference between seventy billion net worth and seven billion
Speaker 1: net worth is irrelevant. Well, the coach salaries, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they can pay him twenty million a year, so can
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the owners, Like, as long as you've
Speaker 1: got more than a billion, you can pay the coach anything.
Speaker 1: So the idea that the dit Broncos had this leg
Speaker 1: up because their owners are so rich, I think people
Speaker 1: have it wrong. I don't think it's the three richest
Speaker 1: NFL owners have an advantage. I think it's the four
Speaker 1: NFL owners that don't have real money are a huge disadvantage.
Speaker 1: So whether I think those teams are at a real disadvantage,
Speaker 1: but I think I think every I think eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the teams could hire a twenty million dollars a
Speaker 1: year coach on a four year deal, fire him and
Speaker 1: do that five consecutive cycles and have four hundred million
Speaker 1: of dead coach money and it doesn't affect their bottom
Speaker 1: line at all because they are multi or Decca billionaires.
Speaker 1: I think there's a few teams, whether it's the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, whomever, where it's like, oh, man, do they
Speaker 1: have to keep this coach because they can't afford to
Speaker 1: pay the buyout? Finally, I love these, By the way,
Speaker 1: I always feel guilty. I tell my staff call Nick
Speaker 1: the first sign of no bail, No, no, no. I
Speaker 1: love doing it. And I hadn't been on in a while,
Speaker 1: but we'll do it, especially no, we got we can
Speaker 1: do this, Colin. I love doing it. You know that.
Speaker 1: So I think I said this years ago when ESPN
Speaker 1: did the phone, which was a disaster, is that ESPN
Speaker 1: owed the industry to roll the dice on the phone
Speaker 1: because they had the capital to take big swings. They
Speaker 1: were making so much money eight billion annually. They owed
Speaker 1: the industry. It would have think about the industry today
Speaker 1: if it now owned the phone industry. Joran cable TV
Speaker 1: and and by the way, those big swings. I never
Speaker 1: worked for ESPN like you did, but I give them
Speaker 1: credit anyway for things. Also created thirty for thirty that's
Speaker 1: a big, expensive swing and it was awesome and it
Speaker 1: was you know what I mean, it was awesome and
Speaker 1: like so that Yeah, the phone is like known as
Speaker 1: kind of a disaster, but yeah, but go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think the Amazons of the world and the
Speaker 1: Apples of the world, to elevate society artificial intelligence, have
Speaker 1: the money take big swings on things because small companies can't.
Speaker 1: And to advance society, that's important. So one of the
Speaker 1: things I believe, you know, I've been doing this long time,
Speaker 1: a very large audience, audio whatever. I never ever believe
Speaker 1: I'm the gatekeeper of any industry. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell people how to broadcast skip you. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Max Kellerman, Stephen A. Smith, we all have different styles.
Speaker 1: I'm a believer and lean into you. Whatever you is,
Speaker 1: do more you. But I like occasionally and I believe
Speaker 1: in this strongly throwing out a theory that could be
Speaker 1: absurd because I don't want talk show hosts to feel
Speaker 1: they're trapped. I think I owe it in a weird way,
Speaker 1: I see myself as I'm not going to get fired
Speaker 1: for a crazy take. Who cares if anybody rips me.
Speaker 1: I have a huge army of followers behind me. So
Speaker 1: I like throwing out occasionally something that seems absurd. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like right, Like it's like I can do it.
Speaker 1: Who cares? It's I have the You have the cache,
Speaker 1: credibility and career that you can. You're not bulletproof, but
Speaker 1: you at least have you know, you're wearing it. You
Speaker 1: got some body armor on and you can take some
Speaker 1: slugs your way. Yeah, got it? Okay. So Mike Vrabel
Speaker 1: played with Tom Brady. He is absolutely one of the
Speaker 1: smartest coaches in the league. He knows the importance of
Speaker 1: the position. And he's now in a conference where Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence looks like a top five quarterback. He's in a
Speaker 1: conference with Mahomes and Allan and Burrow and Herbert and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, all the good young guys are in his way,
Speaker 1: and Bryce Young's about to be there. That's right. And
Speaker 1: Vrabel is gonna get on the phone after this season
Speaker 1: because there's no dead cap hit for Tannehill and he's
Speaker 1: gonna say, Aaron get the f down here. Oh it's Rashville.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say he's gonna try to sighting
Speaker 1: Tom No, because you said he's friends with Tom Aaron.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna say, Aaron, he's gonna play to his vanity. Mahomes, Burrow, Herbert,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, I need you. He understands quarterback Aaron's never
Speaker 1: had great defenses in green Bay. The one year he did,
Speaker 1: they want it, so green Bay simultaneously would take a hit.
Speaker 1: But because they're not paying Jordan Love even they could
Speaker 1: afford it, they can't afford to cut him, but they
Speaker 1: can trade it. They can't trade him and it doesn't
Speaker 1: kill him. And they look at their division. Gos's not
Speaker 1: a super are Cousins has limitations, Justin Fields has a
Speaker 1: defensive coach and a dysfunctional organization, and they're like, screw it,
Speaker 1: let's give it a run. For two years, we found
Speaker 1: our two receivers. By the way, the cap hit isn't
Speaker 1: his punitive? That My hot take is Rabel's gonna get
Speaker 1: on the phone and try really hard to convince Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Green Bay's gonna say, Christ, we're walking on
Speaker 1: eggshells for twelve years here. Oh listen, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Further, I thought you were gonna say Brady's
Speaker 1: gonna go there, and I was only going to say
Speaker 1: that's crazy because I don't think Tom Brady's moving to Nashville.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm from Kansas City. I'm not taking a
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not comparing myself to Apple or
Speaker 1: Amazon in this whole scenario. No, But in the no,
Speaker 1: what you are doing is you are saying people that
Speaker 1: have the ability to take big swings in any inshore
Speaker 1: should do it. So I you in in the ecosystem
Speaker 1: of sports broadcasting. I don't know. I don't know who.
Speaker 1: If you're not Apple or Amazon, I don't know who
Speaker 1: is there. You know, whatever it is, that's fine, it's
Speaker 1: fine it we're listen. By the way, there's forty minutes
Speaker 1: into a Nick Wright Colin Coward podcast. The people are
Speaker 1: still listening. Either really love one of us, or really
Speaker 1: hate one of us, or doesn't even matter. But um so,
Speaker 1: the Rogers thing I'm gonna I hadn't thought about him
Speaker 1: with Tennessee, here's what I do think. And Packer fans
Speaker 1: are killing me for this. But I said after they
Speaker 1: went four and eight, and Aaron had the broken thumb
Speaker 1: that they should start playing Jordan Love. And now they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at us now, and the answers really look at you.
Speaker 1: Now what am I looking at? Like the it'd be
Speaker 1: one thing if you were on this four game winning
Speaker 1: streak because Rogers is lightening it up. On the four
Speaker 1: game winning streak, Colin Rogers has four touchdown passes, He
Speaker 1: has eighty seven rating. They are averaging less than two
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards per game. But on the four game
Speaker 1: winning streak because they have forced twelve turnovers in four games,
Speaker 1: they have two defensive touchdowns two. Uh, we now know
Speaker 1: was you know? I was dealing with a serious injury
Speaker 1: and melted down. They played they give me a break.
Speaker 1: I said, you've got to play love. And it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily punting on the season, but whatever, you've got to
Speaker 1: play love. And the reason you gotta play love is
Speaker 1: the question I asked was are you still in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl business in Green Bay? Because if you are,
Speaker 1: you're not winning it this year. And what you need
Speaker 1: to do is figure out can the kid play and
Speaker 1: if he can play a little bit. But you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: he's not ready yet. Guess what, If you're still in
Speaker 1: the super Bowl business and you're keeping Aaron Rodgers, someone
Speaker 1: will trade your draft pick for him. You can use
Speaker 1: that to help next year's team, because this team's not
Speaker 1: good enough if he's If you're still in the super
Speaker 1: Bowl business and he is good enough, well, guess what.
Speaker 1: Then you have the conversation of do we trade Aaron?
Speaker 1: But whatever it is, they should have used this time
Speaker 1: to get information on Jordan's love. Instead, they are going
Speaker 1: to blindly pick up his fifth year option, blindly having
Speaker 1: seen him play one game against the Chiefs terribly last
Speaker 1: year and a half a game this year. It's insane,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be able to trade him
Speaker 1: because nobody has seen him play. They're not gonna Now,
Speaker 1: maybe they trade Aaron, like you're saying, But the risk
Speaker 1: there is that Jordan loves no good. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's no good, but it's on the board just
Speaker 1: because he hasn't played, and so I don't think the
Speaker 1: Packers have handled this right. I also don't think Aaron's
Speaker 1: made it particularly easy for them, like throughout this process.
Speaker 1: But I think the idea, you know, Mark Schlaret came
Speaker 1: on my show, and I said, no, what Naven my show.
Speaker 1: It was the day I was filling in for you.
Speaker 1: He came on your show, but I was talking to
Speaker 1: him and I set made the point that the Packers
Speaker 1: should have played Love because they have to design his
Speaker 1: fifth year option. And he said he believes they have
Speaker 1: already decided that they are picking it up. And he
Speaker 1: didn't say he was told this. I don't want to
Speaker 1: misquote stink. He said he thinks his theory is that
Speaker 1: they're moving on from Aaron, that they've seen enough from
Speaker 1: Love that that the reason they didn't play him in
Speaker 1: this spot is because they knew this was Aaron the end.
Speaker 1: They were gonna let Aaron get his final run and
Speaker 1: see what happens. But it's an interesting situation they have
Speaker 1: found themselves in. Can I ask you one question before
Speaker 1: we go? Sure, everyone is saying the NFC's wide open,
Speaker 1: the NFC has no juggernaut. Why are the Niners not
Speaker 1: a juggernaut? They feel like a juggernaut to me? Man,
Speaker 1: how about this? So today a buddy of mine, degenerate gambler,
Speaker 1: great guy's a fireman and Connecticut good friend. He sends
Speaker 1: me shit all the time he's a basketball scout on
Speaker 1: the East. Coachs is so great, And he said, for
Speaker 1: all those questioning brock Purdy, he goes Matt Campbell will
Speaker 1: be one of the finalists for the Michigan job if
Speaker 1: Harball leaves. He's viewed as a super sharp coach, he said.
Speaker 1: During brock Purdy's run, in the four years as a
Speaker 1: starter at Iowa State, they were thirty and seventeen, twenty
Speaker 1: five and ten in the Big Twelve, and seven and
Speaker 1: ten record against ranked opponents. Now that's not worthy. This
Speaker 1: is Iowa State this year with Matt Campbell four and eight,
Speaker 1: one in eight in the Big twelve. Wow, oh and
Speaker 1: four against ranked opponents. Do we have Tony Romo Kurt
Speaker 1: Warner on our hands, a great player that was under evaluated,
Speaker 1: under evaluated. Sure, under evaluated. Yeah, here's the thing. But
Speaker 1: I guess my point is, even if he's not a
Speaker 1: great player, the Niners won a game this year started
Speaker 1: by Trey Lanes. They won a bunch of games started
Speaker 1: by Jimmy Garoppolo. They're now undefeated with games started by
Speaker 1: Rock Purty. Sometimes a team is not reliant on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and it would seem to be a team that has
Speaker 1: Nicky Bosa, Eric Armstead, an amazing defensive coordinator, that the
Speaker 1: Hafonga who looks like he plays three positions at once,
Speaker 1: the safety. They have the best left tackle in football,
Speaker 1: maybe the best running back in football, the second best
Speaker 1: tight end, two awesome wide receivers, team kicks ass Man,
Speaker 1: and now am I also kind of trying to speak
Speaker 1: into existence speaking of good, great friends of yours that
Speaker 1: have gambling problems. I put, I did this on my podcast,
Speaker 1: Well's right with Ni right in the preseason gambling show.
Speaker 1: I put, I did a whole preseason show where I
Speaker 1: did my season over under Betsy, and then you can
Speaker 1: get off fan duel before the season super like you
Speaker 1: could pick an NFC winner in an AFC winner and
Speaker 1: parlay it. So just pick who's going to be in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And before the year, Chiefs Niners was
Speaker 1: fifty to one, not even a winner, not Chiefs over
Speaker 1: nine Ers Niners is just the Chiefs whin the AFC Niners.
Speaker 1: When the FC is fifty to one, I put a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a column. So I've got that's a
Speaker 1: live bet right now. That's a I think the Niners
Speaker 1: to me with what's going on in Philly with the injuries,
Speaker 1: are the favorites in the NFC and the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: certainly at least co favorites in the AFC, And I
Speaker 1: think the Niners. I think people are talking about the
Speaker 1: NFC like it's wide open, purely because and I get it,
Speaker 1: it's not just a rookie. It's a seventh round rookie.
Speaker 1: But the kids played great. Shanahan has proven he can
Speaker 1: win in the playoffs without great quarterback play. And I
Speaker 1: think this roster is stacked. Stacked, so do I. And
Speaker 1: Debo's coming back, and Debo's coming back. That's the other
Speaker 1: thing to look at, which teams this time of year
Speaker 1: are getting healthier and which teams are getting more injured.
Speaker 1: Philly is the most injured it's been all year. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs nobody cares because it's Mahomes. He hasn't had his
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver for six weeks. They haven't had
Speaker 1: their number one running back who's not very good, but
Speaker 1: for five weeks. They're both coming back. Like the teams,
Speaker 1: you gotta that's something you always got to watch. It's
Speaker 1: one of the things I worry about with your Bengals
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, like you had that offensive line continuity all year.
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins goes down, like how that is concerning to me?
Speaker 1: One last thing involving before I go. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I believe this or not, but it is injured.
Speaker 1: I mean believe it, it's true, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if I buy into it. The Steelers are seven and
Speaker 1: two when t J. Watt plays, seven and two when
Speaker 1: t J. Wapp plays, that's crazy. That team's got no
Speaker 1: one on offense. I know Collins were was following Alban's
Speaker 1: about Kinney Pickett. Dude's got hands smaller than your daughter
Speaker 1: and he's got six touchdown past. I don't think it's superstar,
Speaker 1: all right. Chad Millman, c CEO Action Network. All odds
Speaker 1: provided by a FanDuel. So. I ended my regular season
Speaker 1: hitting fifty four and a half percent. I had a
Speaker 1: winning week last week. I like to get to fifty
Speaker 1: six this year. I was fifty four and a half percent.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. If I picked earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: I think I could go from fifty four and a
Speaker 1: half to fifty six. I'm not going to make any excuses.
Speaker 1: That's not who I am. Anyway, let me ask you
Speaker 1: a question. Last week, I said, take these teams and
Speaker 1: I feel like you'll get there. And I don't think
Speaker 1: you took those teams. I think I took one of
Speaker 1: the teams. I didn't have a problem finishing at fifty
Speaker 1: six percent this year. Well, you're a professional gambler. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get you there. That's why I give
Speaker 1: you the answers. Yeah, that's what my mechanics says. And
Speaker 1: then I say, listen, you work at Jiffy lou fix
Speaker 1: my goddamn car. No, listen, you do that, that's what
Speaker 1: you do. That's why I bring you on. I am
Speaker 1: a slightly more refined square than your average square. But
Speaker 1: I'm a square that said, I usually take underdogs. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you because I like two of the favorites
Speaker 1: this week, let me tell you the underdog I like.
Speaker 1: I like the Ravens. It's now at minus ten. They've
Speaker 1: given Burrow Joe Burrow issues. I do not like having
Speaker 1: to face a team back to back. Cincinnati's better, there's
Speaker 1: no question. But this series and this Baltimore culture made
Speaker 1: Brady earn every win, made Peyton earn every playoff win.
Speaker 1: There built for this stuff. The lines ten, I have
Speaker 1: to take the Ravens. Sharper square, you have to take
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I'm sick about this. It's totally sharp. I
Speaker 1: took the Ravens at six and a half thinking Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson might play. I took the Ravens at seven and
Speaker 1: a half when I thought that when it became clear
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson probably wasn't going to play. I can't believe
Speaker 1: this number keeps going up, and I think you nailed
Speaker 1: a couple of things on the head. Number one, playing
Speaker 1: the team again is a challenge. Number two, Culturally, this
Speaker 1: is a good spot for the Ravens. They don't get
Speaker 1: blown out in games three. Let's talk about the offensive
Speaker 1: line for the Bengals, which are now down two key players.
Speaker 1: And even last week, when when the Ravens were resting
Speaker 1: eight starters, they were still getting pressure on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: And this is an entirely different defense since Halloween, that's
Speaker 1: when Roquan Smith joined the team. Since that time, they've
Speaker 1: gone from twentieth I'll use a fancy term, fancy analytics
Speaker 1: term that betters love. DVOA really just a stat that
Speaker 1: encompasses many different metrics to come up with all encompassing number.
Speaker 1: A lot of betters use it. They were twentieth in
Speaker 1: DVOA against the rush. After a Roquan Smith, they were
Speaker 1: third one hundred and thirty two points allowed since Smith
Speaker 1: joined second fused in the NFL. He's a tackling machine.
Speaker 1: He after start water. He's tackling machines. But here's the
Speaker 1: other key. He joined the team and Patrick Queen, who
Speaker 1: had been underachieving which is why they traded for him,
Speaker 1: moved over and now together they are a much more
Speaker 1: athletic pass rushing dynamo that has the third most pressures
Speaker 1: of any linebacker duo since Roquan Smith joined the team.
Speaker 1: So ten is just a massive number. It's getting out
Speaker 1: of control. Yeah. Secondly, Seahawks getting nine and a half
Speaker 1: some places ten. The weather is going to be windy
Speaker 1: and cold and wet. I know I live here. We're
Speaker 1: getting hit with what they call cyclone bombs Pineapple Express.
Speaker 1: Now southern California is just getting wet. No cows getting
Speaker 1: wind and wet. You're asking a rookie quarterback, first playoff game.
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's been around the block. This is not his
Speaker 1: first rodeo. Do I think the Seattle Seahawks struggle to
Speaker 1: move the ball. Yeah, their offensive line. The rookie tackles have,
Speaker 1: as Greg Kosell pointed out to me this week, have
Speaker 1: regress post Thanksgiving. Why because you go from college, you
Speaker 1: go down to Phoenix or Miami and train, you go
Speaker 1: into camp, you go to the season, and you hit
Speaker 1: a wall post Thanksgiving. All rookies do. So. The old
Speaker 1: line for Seattle is not what it was in September
Speaker 1: when Charles Cross was impenetrable but lousy weather, a completion
Speaker 1: machine and Geno Smith Brock pretty makes an early mistake.
Speaker 1: Shanahan gets tight and restrictive. It feels like twenty four
Speaker 1: seventeen to me, ugly, wet, sloppy, one one unlucky Niner
Speaker 1: turnover early. Shanahan puts the clamps in, want to get
Speaker 1: out of town ball control. Seattle feels like the side
Speaker 1: Sharper Square Sharp Calls winner of the Week. I've referenced
Speaker 1: Sharp Calls on the podcast multiple times this season. It's
Speaker 1: a segment we do on the Favorites me and Simon Hunter,
Speaker 1: where over the course of the week we get a
Speaker 1: lot of calls from professional betters who are listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast and they will give us their feedback on
Speaker 1: games we are talking about. This was the game they
Speaker 1: all called about. They like the Seahawks in this spot.
Speaker 1: A lot of reasons why, all of which you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: On the field. I think the weather is certainly something
Speaker 1: that when you at a number this big, you have
Speaker 1: to take the weather in any consideration, especially unprecedented weather
Speaker 1: like this. Tons and tons of trends backing the Seahawks
Speaker 1: in this situation. So yeah, you're playing the sharp side here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take another favorite. I love them and
Speaker 1: will not be mocked for it. Dallas off losses, has
Speaker 1: followed all of them this year with multiple wins. It
Speaker 1: was Dak's worst performance. I have a rule, and it's
Speaker 1: one of my only betting rules. When a B to
Speaker 1: B plus quarterback, a capable quarterback a Kirk Cousins at
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott has a stinker, they read the press, they
Speaker 1: hear the press, they're pissed. They always bounce back with
Speaker 1: a solid or better than solid performance. Dallas is the
Speaker 1: better team. You take out Mike Evans against Carolina's fourth
Speaker 1: string cornerback. They can't run. They haven't been vertically successful.
Speaker 1: There are certain realities with teams. Tampa hasn't run the
Speaker 1: football in two years. They're totally one dimensional. Brady's gonna
Speaker 1: throw forty eight times. I don't care. I'm swallowing the points.
Speaker 1: I like the Cowboys Sharper square, totally square. The line
Speaker 1: opened at three. I betted at three on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: It's been sitting around at two and a half all week.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of signals here for the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Number one again, short home favorite. You're telling me that
Speaker 1: I can have Tom Brady, who just finished another record
Speaker 1: setting year with his best full game of the year
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. I don't poop poo what he did
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen against a coach in Mike McCarthy, who,
Speaker 1: let's face it, has proven to be bad in these
Speaker 1: tactical situations, high risk situations, where the season is on
Speaker 1: the line. He just has been. I mean that, going
Speaker 1: back to Green Bay, teams underperformed in the postseason. Look
Speaker 1: at how ill prepared they were last year justin trying
Speaker 1: to get a snap off at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Look at the Cowboys have done the past several weeks
Speaker 1: against Sam Howell, Josh Dobbs Gardner Minshew giving up twenty
Speaker 1: seven points per game the past five weeks, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: leading the league interceptions, missing a third of the season,
Speaker 1: so he's going up against a top ten defense in
Speaker 1: total yards, passing, yards per attempt sacks. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they've got a Keem Hicks and Vita Vea playing together again.
Speaker 1: It's only the eighth time that's happened all year. The
Speaker 1: other seven times Tampa was six and one, they gave
Speaker 1: up less than four yards per rush, less than fifteen
Speaker 1: points per game. Without both of those guys five yards
Speaker 1: per rush, twenty five points per game. So you're getting
Speaker 1: a very healthy defense that will probably play like we
Speaker 1: expected them too well season long. Okay, Bills are now
Speaker 1: all odds provided by a fan tool like a thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. I honestly I would take Buffalo.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be awful. Bills by a million.
Speaker 1: This was our big balls better the week forty to fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I bet the Bills at twelve and a half.
Speaker 1: I didn't have the smarts to bet him when it
Speaker 1: was at ten. I feel like and a lot of
Speaker 1: the wise guys feel like in these wild card games,
Speaker 1: they oftentimes play to the script, and they oftentimes played
Speaker 1: to the script when it's a first time playoff quarterback
Speaker 1: playing against a veteran playoff quarterback or the past twenty
Speaker 1: years fourteen and thirty five against the spread for first
Speaker 1: time playoff quarterbacks and very small sample size, but favorites
Speaker 1: of ten or more at home in the wildcard round
Speaker 1: five and one the past six a year or so.
Speaker 1: I am not afraid of taking the bills at a
Speaker 1: big number in the game, and the wise guys aren't either.
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