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Speaker 2: in What Drive with Nick Wright, first show post Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: All it took was us to not actually do a
Speaker 2: gambling show and I went four and one, all my
Speaker 2: picks documented on Twitter four and oh going to start
Speaker 2: the first four and then the last one the Browns
Speaker 2: Dori and Thompson Robinson got injured and that pick went
Speaker 2: to die with PJ Walker playing quarterback. But that puts us.
Speaker 2: I do believe. We will check on Thursday. We are
Speaker 2: right at five hundred. Demanse had I believe a losing teaser,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. We sell it a good weekend hanging out.
Speaker 2: I got to see Demanse here in New York. Good
Speaker 2: family time, and we have a ton to We have
Speaker 2: a ton to do today, as the producers told me,
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Speaker 2: watch it on YouTube, I know it's been a pain
Speaker 2: in the ass. We're hoping to get that squared away today,
Speaker 2: all right. And one of the reasons I thought of
Speaker 2: it is Gabe told me before the start of the
Speaker 2: show to not be moving around so much because it
Speaker 2: messages with the Internet. And I of course start the
Speaker 2: show by waving my arms wildly because I don't know
Speaker 2: how to do this any other way. We have a
Speaker 2: lot to get into today Week twelve in the NFL
Speaker 2: and today the Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalists came out.
Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite days of the year. So
Speaker 2: we'll get to all of that, but first we will
Speaker 2: get to what missed. So what missed the cut for
Speaker 2: today's show is Dolly Parton cursing the Cowboys because I
Speaker 2: don't believe in that, Dion losing some recruits at Colorado
Speaker 2: as that seems to have at least briefly gone left
Speaker 2: on him, and Lebron plays the most minutes of anyone
Speaker 2: in the NBA history, also has the worst loss of
Speaker 2: his career. None of that is in today's show. Here
Speaker 2: is what is in today's show, Demons, start us off.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced their twenty
Speaker 3: five semifinalists for this year's class. So Julius Peppers and
Speaker 3: Antonio Gates are eligible for first ballot selections. What are
Speaker 3: your thoughts on those?
Speaker 2: Okay, so twenty So this is why the Pro Football
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, in my opinion, is the best of
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fames. Twenty five semifinalists, that list will
Speaker 2: be whittled down to fifteen finalists and then of that
Speaker 2: fifteen five make it. And so we are going to
Speaker 2: do that ourselves. Right now, we will go through the
Speaker 2: twenty five names. We will eliminate ten right off the bat,
Speaker 2: and then from those fifteen remaining, We're gonna have some
Speaker 2: very hard choices. So I will do this as quickly
Speaker 2: as I can. But this is one of my favorite exercises.
Speaker 2: It also should be noteworthy for contemporary watching of football
Speaker 2: when you hear people throw around around the term, oh,
Speaker 2: he's a future Hall of Famer. It is a god
Speaker 2: doog difficult old Hall of Fame to get into. So
Speaker 2: going by position, there are no quarterbacks eligible of the
Speaker 2: semifinalists right now, so we can get rid of them.
Speaker 2: Running backs. Tiki Barber, easy elimination. Really good player, played
Speaker 2: in a big market. I understand, you know, had a
Speaker 2: big name and some big moments. He is not a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. I'm surprised he was even a semi finalist.
Speaker 2: Eddie George. We're okay with him being a semi We
Speaker 2: won't cut him right now. That what the numbers are good.
Speaker 2: His value to a really good team was great and was,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, the most important offensive player on a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl team that came a yard short. We'll let
Speaker 2: him move on. Fred Taylor really good player, not a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. Ricky Waters really good player, not a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer wide receiver, and Kwam Bolden awesome player.
Speaker 2: He's cut. It's not even a question. Tory Holt, who
Speaker 2: has been banging on the door repeatedly, has really eye
Speaker 2: popping numbers. He'll move on to the semifinalist category. Andre Johnson,
Speaker 2: he is a noe to me. What makes a Hall
Speaker 2: of Famer. One of the things is, were you in
Speaker 2: the discussion for the best in the league, the best
Speaker 2: for multiple years? Andre Johnson absolutely was. He moves on.
Speaker 2: Steve Smith overachiever, really good player. The numbers are better
Speaker 2: than you think. We'll advance him to the semifinalists. Hines
Speaker 2: Ward absolutely not. I understand people loved his blocking and
Speaker 2: he was a champion. He's not a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: Reggie Wayne, he'll move on for now. Tight End Antonio Gates,
Speaker 2: he has to move on as a semifinalist. Unbelievable numbers. Again,
Speaker 2: Remember we have to cut ten, then we have to
Speaker 2: cut another ten. Offensive line Willie Anderson was a really
Speaker 2: good tackle for the Bengals, had a really good career.
Speaker 2: Was not a Hall of Famer. Jarry Evans guard for
Speaker 2: the Saints forever. One of the best interior offensive linemen
Speaker 2: of his era, if I'm not mistaken, a member of
Speaker 2: the All Decades team. He moves on. Now we're to
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. Eric Allen long career,
Speaker 2: good career, maybe even a great career. He's not a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. Rodney Harrison, Hugh moves on to the
Speaker 2: next round. Was great with the Chargers, then won two
Speaker 2: Super Bowls with the Patriots. Was awesome with them. He's
Speaker 2: a finalist. Patrick Willett, I'm sorry, Darren Woodson, that guy's
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer. To me, was awesome with the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: an All Decade Team member, won three Super bowl one
Speaker 2: of the lynchpins of their defense. To me, he's a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. He certainly moves on. Linebackers London Fletcher
Speaker 2: not a Hall of Famer. James Harrison, a Defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year, the single greatest play in Super Bowl history,
Speaker 2: A champion. He moves on. Patrick Willis one of the
Speaker 2: greatest players, the best inside linebacker of his era. Now,
Speaker 2: it was a very short career, but he, to me,
Speaker 2: was a Hall of Fame player. He moves on. Defensive line.
Speaker 2: Jared Allen played for my Chiefs, was excellent, played for
Speaker 2: the Vikings, was excellent, great counting stats. Was never the best,
Speaker 2: second best, or third best at his position. He doesn't
Speaker 2: move on Dwight Freeney. He absolutely does. Robert Mathis, who
Speaker 2: played alongside Dwight Freeney with the Colts, really really good player.
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Julius Pepper's, no doubt, one of the
Speaker 2: greatest players I've ever seen. He moves on. And then
Speaker 2: the specialist, Devin Hester, the single greatest kick returner and
Speaker 2: punt returner in NFL history. He must move on. So
Speaker 2: cut from this group are the following Tiki, Fred Taylor,
Speaker 2: Ricky Waters and Kwam Bolden Hines, Ward, Willie Anderson, Eric Allen,
Speaker 2: London Fletcher, Jared Allen, Robert Mathis. Those are all great players.
Speaker 2: They're all cut. But now it gets damn near impossible.
Speaker 2: Our finalists are the following, and we can only include five.
Speaker 2: And this is why again when people throw around, oh,
Speaker 2: he's a future Hall of Famer, Are you sure about that?
Speaker 2: We can only include five? Eddie George Tory, Holt, Andre Jones,
Speaker 2: Steve Smith, Reggie, Wayne, Antonio Gates, Jarry Evans, Rodney Harrison,
Speaker 2: Darren Woodson, James Harrison, Patrick Willis, Dwight Freeney, Julius Peppers,
Speaker 2: Devin Hester. It's so hard here, Eddie George is out.
Speaker 2: That's fifteen, and so oh that's fourteen. Okay, well then
Speaker 2: we can add all right. Then uh well, then whoever
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have included, they wouldn't have made it anyway.
Speaker 2: So I don't know who I left out, but or
Speaker 2: if I didn't mention someone did I did not say
Speaker 2: Antonio Gates. Maybe I didn't say Antonio Gates. My apologies.
Speaker 2: He's definitely on the very short list. I thought I
Speaker 2: counted this out properly. Maybe I'm wrong. Eddie George, you're out.
Speaker 2: Tory Holt, who's been waiting forever, You're out. Reggie you're out,
Speaker 2: Steve Smith, you're out. God dogg it, Rodney Harrison, you're out.
Speaker 2: That then leaves us. The following guys left, Andre Johnson,
Speaker 2: Antonio Gates, Jarry Evans, Darren Woodson, James Harrison, Dwight Freeney,
Speaker 2: Julius Peppers, Devin Hester. Who are the absolute no doubt
Speaker 2: must have in Julius Peppers is a no doubt first
Speaker 2: Ballad Hall of Famer he is in. In my opinion.
Speaker 2: Andre Johnson was one was either the best or the
Speaker 2: second best wide receiver in the NFL with terrible quarterbacks
Speaker 2: for a half decade. He's got to be in. Patrick
Speaker 2: Willis one of the greatest inside linebackers in NFL history.
Speaker 2: He's got to be in. Devin Hester, the single greatest
Speaker 2: kick returner in NFL history, He's got to be in.
Speaker 2: That's four Andre, Patrick Willis, Julius Peppers, Devin Hester. That
Speaker 2: means we have one spot available for the following guys.
Speaker 2: Jarry Evans, one of the greatest interior linemen ever, an
Speaker 2: All Decade Team member, Antonio Gates one of the four
Speaker 2: greatest pass catching tight ends ever. Darren Woodson, a lynchpin
Speaker 2: of a dynasty. James Harrison, a defensive Player of the
Speaker 2: Year who had the greatest play in NFL history in
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in Super Bowl history. And Dwight Freeney, whose
Speaker 2: numbers are beyond belief and I believe was an All
Speaker 2: Decade Team member. Let me check, uh yeah, was an
Speaker 2: All Decade Team member. This is why this is the
Speaker 2: best Hall of Fame, in the hardest Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I watched Dwhite Freenie's whole career. The Colts defense was
Speaker 2: built upon the idea, Peyton'll get us a lead and
Speaker 2: then Dwight Freeni will stripsack the opponent and put the
Speaker 2: game away. He's in. So our five Hall of Famers,
Speaker 2: if it were up to us, would be Devin Hester,
Speaker 2: Julius Peppers, Dwight Freeny, Patrick Willis, and Andre Johnson, with
Speaker 2: the hardest cuts for this year's class being James Harrison,
Speaker 2: Darren Woodson, Jar Evans, and Antonio Gates. So here is
Speaker 2: why the this is such a tricky sport to do
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. I just mentioned that, I just
Speaker 2: mentioned the guys who were just barely on the cut, right,
Speaker 2: And let me make sure I have this right, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to find this in real time. The
Speaker 2: problem for this is always that guys who are on
Speaker 2: the cut and then all of a sudden come available
Speaker 2: or like they just barely missed out. So for me,
Speaker 2: you had James Harrison, Antonio Gates, who was a first
Speaker 2: ballot eligibility, Jarry Evans, and who's the other one that
Speaker 2: I had, Darren Woodson just barely miss out. The problem
Speaker 2: is next year, who becomes who is added to the
Speaker 2: list because all of a sudden they're eligible. So in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, Luke, Keikley, Marshall Yanda are the biggest
Speaker 2: names eligible. I don't think either one of those guys
Speaker 2: will be a first ballot. Patrick Willis wasn't a first
Speaker 2: ballot and he has a very similar profile as Keithley.
Speaker 2: So maybe we can get some some of these guys
Speaker 2: who have been waiting in because in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: Drew Brees becomes available, he takes one of the spots,
Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty seven Adrian Peterson becomes available, he
Speaker 2: takes one of the spots. Antonio Brown does two. That's
Speaker 2: gonna be a very tough one. And in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight Tom Brady and JJ Watt become available, they take
Speaker 2: two of the spots. So point is, over the next five, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 2: over the next four classes after this year, there are
Speaker 2: twenty guys that are gonna go in, but four of
Speaker 2: them are no doubt first ballot guys that aren't right
Speaker 2: now in the group. So these guys who have been waiting,
Speaker 2: a guy like let me find a good example, someone
Speaker 2: like Reggie Wayne or Tory Holt might just never get in,
Speaker 2: and James Harrison, who I love, is gonna be waiting forever.
Speaker 2: And so I think it's the best Hall of fame.
Speaker 2: I think it's the hardest hall of fame to make.
Speaker 2: I think it is the coolest one to debate and discuss.
Speaker 2: And there are just certain years that you're like, well,
Speaker 2: how are we gonna leave these guys out? Because they
Speaker 2: only let five in? Okay, I hope that was interesting
Speaker 2: to you guys. I love doing that every single year
Speaker 2: because it's a good reminder you watch NFL football and
Speaker 2: you hear the announcers call a lot of guys future
Speaker 2: Hall of famers. Man oh man, you know what I
Speaker 2: want to do this if everyone else every other podcast,
Speaker 2: maybe this is you know, the I have the wrong
Speaker 2: recipe for success. Other podcasts that are highly successful, they're
Speaker 2: also not immediately getting into last night's sports stories. Instead,
Speaker 2: they are just talking repeatedly and NonStop about the freakiest
Speaker 2: sex imaginable. And I just really am shocked at how
Speaker 2: many people are into what other sportscasters sex lives are like.
Speaker 2: But man oh man, those are podcast ratings. Bonanzas Demansey,
Speaker 2: you seem confused by this, I'll send you some clips.
Speaker 2: We're no no, no, no, no. See, this is where
Speaker 2: you need to just do a better job of listening
Speaker 2: to me. Here. I'm not naming any names. I'm simply
Speaker 2: saying there's a lot of very popular podcasts that are
Speaker 2: super horny and that are just talking sex off the top.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna talk pro football Hall of Fame the
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna do this real quick, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave someone out because I'm doing it off
Speaker 2: the top of my head. But how many right now?
Speaker 2: No doubt Hall of famers are currently playing. The Miami
Speaker 2: Dolphins have one in Tyreek Kill. The Buffalo Bills have
Speaker 2: one in Von Miller, and then Josh Allen obviously is
Speaker 2: pacing towards a Hall of Fame career, but he's not.
Speaker 2: If he stopped now, he wouldn't be close to it.
Speaker 2: The Jets have Aaron Rodgers. The Patriots have nobody. And
Speaker 2: if the producers, if I mentioned any team and you
Speaker 2: think I'm missing someone obvious, go ahead and tell me
Speaker 2: the Ravens right now. Say it again, Daniel, I did
Speaker 2: not hear it. Okay, they're gonna check me on it.
Speaker 2: I and I'm just doing no doubt, no doubt. Hall
Speaker 2: of Famers, Tyreek von Miller, Aaron Rodgers. In the AFC East,
Speaker 2: the Ravens right now have none. Lamar is pacing towards it,
Speaker 2: but he's not there. TJ. Watt for the Steelers, Miles
Speaker 2: Garrett for the Brown Joe Burrow's obviously pacing towards it,
Speaker 2: but we'll see. The Jags have none, the Colts have none,
Speaker 2: The Texans have none. Derrick Henry is not a no doubter,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna addam he's pretty damned plot Derrick Henry. Oh,
Speaker 2: good call Justin Tucker, Good call Tom On. So now
Speaker 2: we're at seven. The Chiefs have two in Mahomes and Kelsey.
Speaker 2: Chris Jones is not a no doubter. He might make it,
Speaker 2: but he's not a no doubter. The Broncos have none.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson's going to be a borderline. The Raiders have
Speaker 2: one in DeVante Adams, where at ten, the Chargers have none.
Speaker 2: In the NFC, the Eagles have Jason Kelcey. Lane Johnson's
Speaker 2: gonna be borderline. The Cowboys have Micah's pacing towards it,
Speaker 2: but way too far away have none. The Giants obviously
Speaker 2: have none, Washington has none, Detroit's got none. Justin Jefferson's
Speaker 2: pacing towards it for the Vikings, but he's not there yet.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure there's Khalil Mack's not a no no.
Speaker 2: He'll be borderline at best. And I'm sure I'm leaving
Speaker 2: out some older defensive players who I've forgotten have are
Speaker 2: still playing, that have Hall of Fame careers. The Packers
Speaker 2: have none, the Bears have none, the Falcons have none,
Speaker 2: the Saints have none. Mike Evans is not going to
Speaker 2: be a no doubter, but we'll put him on there.
Speaker 2: He's putting up quite the career. The Niners, Trent Williams
Speaker 2: is a no doubter. Christian McCaffrey's pacing towards it, but
Speaker 2: he's not there. The Seahawks have none, the Rams have
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone really good,
Speaker 2: So they are right now in my opinion fifteen no
Speaker 2: doubt haul and and by the way, the quarterbacks, A
Speaker 2: bunch of these quarterbacks will make it. But the only
Speaker 2: active quarterbacks right now who have already done enough to
Speaker 2: be no doubters are Rogers and Mahomes. All the other
Speaker 2: quarterbacks still have a lot of work to do. Rogers
Speaker 2: and Mahomes could walk away today and be Hall of Famers. Okay,
Speaker 2: there's our Hall of Fame half hour. Now let's get
Speaker 2: to what was actually played for the show. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: demanse all.
Speaker 3: Right, Philly took care of business in Philly against the Bills.
Speaker 3: Pray usually probably thought they would have done that, but
Speaker 3: the Bills did play them close. It went into overtime,
Speaker 3: and now Josh Allen has zero overtime wins throughout his career.
Speaker 3: He made a couple of mental errors there at the end.
Speaker 3: Would you like it? Would you like to say anything
Speaker 3: to Bills fans to make it worse?
Speaker 2: Or no, I don't want to make it worse. Listen,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen played really really well in that game. I
Speaker 2: thought Josh Allen out played Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts had
Speaker 2: a second straight really odd game where he did not
Speaker 2: play well at all to start the game and then
Speaker 2: made critical play after critical play late in the game.
Speaker 2: And the Eagles are just great at finding ways to win,
Speaker 2: and I give them massive credit. The Bills should have
Speaker 2: won that game. They find they are great at finding
Speaker 2: ways to lose games. But that wasn't on Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: The interception notwithstanding. But here is the part where Bills
Speaker 2: fans and I are gonna agree and I mentioned it
Speaker 2: on TV, and to me it is these story from
Speaker 2: the NFL Weekend Sean McDermott didn't trust Josh Allen. At
Speaker 2: the end of that game, the Eagles are lining up
Speaker 2: for a fifty nine yard field goal, the Bills have
Speaker 2: two timeouts, the Eagles are down three. McDermott, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: foolishly wastes one of those timeouts to ice the kicker,
Speaker 2: even though with seventy years of data, we have no
Speaker 2: data that supports icing kickers helps or hurts the proposition.
Speaker 2: It's just doing it to do it. And they burned
Speaker 2: a timeout that they could have viewed. And I would
Speaker 2: argue that Eagles, because they didn't have a time out
Speaker 2: of their own, were happy the Bills called timeout so
Speaker 2: they could settle the whole situation down, so McDermott could
Speaker 2: have had the ball on the twenty five yard line
Speaker 2: with twenty seconds left in two timeouts, where a field
Speaker 2: goal wins the game. Keep in mind, the bills best
Speaker 2: chance at a Super Bowl was ruined by Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: having the ball at the twenty five yard line with
Speaker 2: two timeouts and thirteen seconds left. He had a whole
Speaker 2: extra seven seconds. Now, McDermott burns the one timeout. You
Speaker 2: still have one timeout, twenty seconds. Field goal wins you
Speaker 2: the game. To take a knee there with Josh Allen
Speaker 2: when he was playing as well as he is is
Speaker 2: such an indictment on your faith in that quarterback. And
Speaker 2: while I'd been critical of Josh Allen, the entire team
Speaker 2: is built around the idea that you have a superhero
Speaker 2: at quarterback and for them to take a knee, And
Speaker 2: it's not like, oh, we have a time of history
Speaker 2: of winning these games in ot Sean mcdermot's never won
Speaker 2: a single game in overtime as a head coach. Josh
Speaker 2: Allens never won a single game in overtime as a
Speaker 2: starting quarterback. You don't have a ton of history of that.
Speaker 2: And with twenty seconds and even just the one time out,
Speaker 2: you have the entire field to work with. You can
Speaker 2: throw over the middle, call time out, get it around midfield,
Speaker 2: then try to work the sideline and try a fifty
Speaker 2: five yarder to win the game. So listen the Bills.
Speaker 2: DVA says the Bills have a fourteen percent chance of
Speaker 2: making the playoffs. The ESPN analytics folks say fifteen percent chance.
Speaker 2: Vegas has the Bills at a seventeen percent chance. The
Speaker 2: Bills have a zero percent chance of making the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They they're gonna look back and say, we lost to
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson in overtime to start the year, We lost
Speaker 2: to Mac Jones and the Patriots. We gave a game
Speaker 2: away against Denver, we gave a game away against Philadelphia. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe we should be nine to three, but you're six
Speaker 2: and six and you're not gonna have any tie breakers
Speaker 2: because you have five conference losses. So at ten and seven,
Speaker 2: you will not make it. The only way they could
Speaker 2: make the playoffs is going eleven and six. And I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you a team that is six and
Speaker 2: six is not winning five straight when those games are
Speaker 2: at Kansas City, home for Dallas, at the Chargers, home
Speaker 2: for the Patriots who are god awful but beat you,
Speaker 2: and then at Miami. Just not happening. Like people need
Speaker 2: to remove them their baysym priors of what they thought
Speaker 2: the Bills were supposed to be. And recognize this. If
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, the Atlanta Falcons had to win
Speaker 2: five straight games, would you believe they could? Or the
Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers had to win five straight games, would
Speaker 2: you believe they could? Of course not. Well, they have
Speaker 2: the same number of losses as the Bills. If the
Speaker 2: Colts had to run the table to make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: would you believe in them? Of course, they have a
Speaker 2: better record than the Bills. So yet, no, the Bills
Speaker 2: are cooked. They're going to end up firing Sean McDermott
Speaker 2: and we'll see if next year they can be the
Speaker 2: team that for three years everyone in the media, except
Speaker 2: for your trustee host Nick Wright, has tried to convince
Speaker 2: you they are. They're a talented, underachieving team perpetually. That also,
Speaker 2: by the way, is not nearly as talented as people
Speaker 2: made them out to be. Von Miller unfortunately, is not
Speaker 2: the same player. And aside from Diggs and Alan, who
Speaker 2: do they have on offense that scares you? All Right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the Eagles side of things, Demonsey.
Speaker 3: Eagles side of things. Oh yeah, so the Eagles are
Speaker 3: the best record in football right now, and Jalen Hurts
Speaker 3: is in the running for MVP right now. They have
Speaker 3: a showdown with the Niners next. Who are you rooting for?
Speaker 3: Which one would scare you more in a Super Bowl
Speaker 3: rematch between the Niners or Eagles.
Speaker 2: Well, neither would scary, but the Eagles are a better team.
Speaker 2: And I listen, I'd be thrilled to play Brock Party
Speaker 2: in a Super Bowl. It would sign me up, Sign
Speaker 2: me up for that. The Eagles won't be afraid of
Speaker 2: the moment. The Eagles have a super complete team. The
Speaker 2: Eagles have two stud receivers, and the Eagles are uh
Speaker 2: and the Eagles are one of the most analytically savvy
Speaker 2: teams in the league. It's not just the brotherly shove stuff,
Speaker 2: it's all of their fourth down stuff, which not always
Speaker 2: but they're typically super super sharp on one. More so,
Speaker 2: the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Would be the.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, the tougher matchup in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're home dogs right now. The Eagles are
Speaker 3: in this game with Brock Party at quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think it's wildly disrespectful that a ten
Speaker 2: and one healthy Eagles team is a home underdog. It's
Speaker 2: not to say the Niner can't win that game, but
Speaker 2: that is a wild line. That is what happened with
Speaker 2: Dogs at home, and that is to me a what
Speaker 2: Vegas is saying is that they think the Niners, fully healthy,
Speaker 2: are far and away the best team in football. I
Speaker 2: don't agree with them, but that's what Vegas is telling
Speaker 2: us with that line.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, So the Chiefs took care
Speaker 3: of business in an AFC showdown versus the Raiders. They
Speaker 3: erased the fourteen point deficit and ended up coming out
Speaker 3: with the win. Meanwhile, the Ravens or my Ravens should
Speaker 3: I say, still sit the top of the one seed.
Speaker 3: But you say, is the or look like the more
Speaker 3: incomplete or more complete team? But you've always been kind
Speaker 3: of down on the Ravens. Do you think that Arrowhead
Speaker 3: Invitational was in jeopardy at this point?
Speaker 2: No? And I don't think the Ravens look like the
Speaker 2: more complete team. Anybody thought the Ravens looked great on
Speaker 2: Monday Night football. I'm sorry, Sunday Night f ball against
Speaker 2: the Chargers. I didn't. That's the worst defense in the NFL.
Speaker 2: The Ravens have thirteen points with a minute left. Now
Speaker 2: they ended up with twenty because Zay Flowers ran.
Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs wess Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 2: Right, But that's but Mark Andrews isn't coming back, buddy,
Speaker 2: I mean that's the that's the problem. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: the I mean, how would the Chiefs look if Tyreek
Speaker 2: Kilber on the team. He's not He's not coming back
Speaker 2: like the I mean, the Mark Andrews is done. And
Speaker 2: here is a yeah, I mean he's on ir They
Speaker 2: they they seem to think they initially said his season
Speaker 2: was over. Now they seem to be holding out hope
Speaker 2: that he could come back late in the playoffs. I
Speaker 2: don't buy that. And here is a sneaky thing when
Speaker 2: it comes to the Chiefs versus the Ravens. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: so right now everyone would say, well, yeah, they don't
Speaker 2: have Mark Andrews, but the Chiefs have nobody like Zay
Speaker 2: Flowers if you take out Kelsey. Sure about that. Rookie
Speaker 2: wide receivers a Flowers has six hundred yards ten yards
Speaker 2: per catch and two touchdowns. Rookie wide receivers A Flowers
Speaker 2: six hundred yards ten yards per catch, two receiving touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Rookie receiver Rashi Rice five hundred and twenty five yards,
Speaker 2: twelve yards per catch, five touchdowns, one fewer game because
Speaker 2: the Ravens haven't had the bye. I say that to
Speaker 2: say this, the Chief's biggest question is their receiving core.
Speaker 2: The Ravens' biggest edge on the Chiefs is supposed to
Speaker 2: be their receiving corp. The Ravens excellent tight end is
Speaker 2: done for the year. The Chief's excellent tight end is
Speaker 2: coming off one hundred yard game the Ravens star rookie
Speaker 2: wide receiver has put up. I would argue slightly, it's
Speaker 2: in the margins less productive season than the Chiefs hookie
Speaker 2: wide receiver despite way more opportunities. And so I think
Speaker 2: the Ravens offense is concerning. And as far as we
Speaker 2: can show you their schedules the rest of the way,
Speaker 2: let's just say the Chiefs lose to the Bills. Just
Speaker 2: assign the Chiefs a loss to the Bills. In order
Speaker 2: to be the one seed, the Ravens have to run
Speaker 2: the table. If the Ravens and Chiefs finish with the
Speaker 2: same record, the Chiefs are the one seed. So the
Speaker 2: Ravens will have to not only handle the Rams, but
Speaker 2: then beat the Jags in Jacksonville, beat the Niners in
Speaker 2: San Francisco, beat the Dolphins at home, and a divisional
Speaker 2: matchup where the Steelers might playoff life might be on
Speaker 2: the line. They have to run the table there. And
Speaker 2: if the Chiefs run the table, and by the way,
Speaker 2: they are favorites in every game left on their schedule,
Speaker 2: the Ravens can't be the one seed. If they both
Speaker 2: finish fourteen and three, the Chiefs are the one seed.
Speaker 2: If they both finish thirteen and four, the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: the one seed. So in order for the Ravens to
Speaker 2: be the one seed, they're gonna have to run the table.
Speaker 2: They're not going to run the table. And this is
Speaker 2: why I told you guys earlier in the year the
Speaker 2: Chiefs beating the Jaguars straight up was critical. They have
Speaker 2: the head dead tiebreaker. Beating the Dolphins straight up as critical.
Speaker 2: They have the head dead tiebreaker. They never play the Ravens,
Speaker 2: so the tiebreaker comes down to conference record. The Ravens
Speaker 2: have three AFC losses the Chiefs have won. So no,
Speaker 2: I do not see a scenario where there isn't the
Speaker 2: Arrowhead Invitational and the Ravens. The Ravens defense has been excellent,
Speaker 2: but so is the Chiefs. I yeah, and that Ravens
Speaker 2: offensive performance. Here's the thing. I was watching Sunday night football.
Speaker 2: The Ravens were up thirteen to three, the Chargers had
Speaker 2: done nothing. It was midway through the third quarter, and
Speaker 2: I bet the Chargers to win the game outright live
Speaker 2: at plus six point eighty. Now they ended up losing.
Speaker 2: I lost the bet, but my point was, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: the Ravens will absolutely find a way to have the
Speaker 2: Chargers be right back in this at the end, which
Speaker 2: they were, and now the charge it was two teams
Speaker 2: that love finding ways to keep things close when they
Speaker 2: shouldn't be, and the Chargers couldn't put it away. But
Speaker 2: I I do not look at the Ravens as the
Speaker 2: as a juggernaut. I just don't. They have an excellent
Speaker 2: defense and Lamar can be dynamic. But I didn't think
Speaker 2: Lamar played very well in that Chargers game. I don't
Speaker 2: think Lamar has played that well since the Lions game.
Speaker 2: And so no, I just I'm not buying the Ravens
Speaker 2: a super Bowl team.
Speaker 3: So I was just thinking there was some time earlier
Speaker 3: this year where you said they scare you or something,
Speaker 3: and I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Lions game. I mean, they annihilated
Speaker 2: the Lions. But it's also true as this, they have
Speaker 2: annihilated their three NFC opponents this year. NFC teams that
Speaker 2: see Lamar once every four years cannot deal with it.
Speaker 2: Against AFC teams, they've been good, but not great, and
Speaker 2: they've blown some games.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, so the Prince retained his
Speaker 3: throne against CJ. Stroud but kind of barely might have
Speaker 3: gotten the one, but CJ Stroud definitely outplayed him. How
Speaker 3: close are we to seeing a new monarch in the
Speaker 3: AFC South? Pretty close?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't hold on, I don't so I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say anything bad about c J. Stroud, but I'm
Speaker 2: also not gonna let just the misinformation go without being
Speaker 2: responded to. I mean, I don't know that you can
Speaker 2: say CJ. Stroud clearly outplayed Trevor. Trevor had three hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty four yards passing and three touchdowns and two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, see had three hundred and four yards passing
Speaker 2: and three touchdowns because he had the rushing touchdown as
Speaker 2: well as Trevor. Okay, I mean you I'll buy it.
Speaker 2: That's fine now that I look at it again, because
Speaker 2: he didn't turn the ball over and Trevor did. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know what. That's I thought both quarterbacks played excellent
Speaker 2: in the game. That's why I said I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: knock CJ. Stroud. But to answer the question, is there
Speaker 2: a chance that CJ. Stroud ends up being the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the AFC South, Yeah, of course. Listen, I
Speaker 2: think Trevor's awesome. CJ. Stroud is having one of the
Speaker 2: greatest rookie seasons ever. I'm not gonna put a ceiling
Speaker 2: on and he he had one of the best passes
Speaker 2: of the year, overturned on a questionable penalty for the
Speaker 2: second straight week, or it might have been two times
Speaker 2: the last three weeks. The touchdown pass he threw a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago got called back. That was an absolute dime.
Speaker 2: And then he threw a seventy yard bomb in the
Speaker 2: air to Tank Dell that got called back. I think
Speaker 2: see awesome. Also, did you see what Trevor said when
Speaker 2: he was asked about the rivalry and about one of
Speaker 2: the reporters said to him, like, hey, is it cool
Speaker 2: for you that there's another great quarterback in the AFC South.
Speaker 2: You guys are gonna have this going for years, and
Speaker 2: Trevor was like, no, I want the teams in my
Speaker 2: division to be as bad as possible. I'm not glad
Speaker 2: he's here. I mean, CJ. I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: very honest answer. CJ's great, though, so and I think
Speaker 2: the Texans are gonna make the playoffs. That was a
Speaker 2: massive win for the Jags. Though they lose that game,
Speaker 2: they're in second place in the division because they'd be
Speaker 2: seven and four, the Texans be seven and four, and
Speaker 2: the Texans would have swept them. Now they're in a
Speaker 2: spot where it is just they're in such a strong
Speaker 2: position because they not only do they have the two
Speaker 2: game lead, but they also have the benefit of let
Speaker 2: me make sure I have this right. The Texans have
Speaker 2: two divisional losses and the Jags have four divisional wins,
Speaker 2: so if they finish with the same record, the odds
Speaker 2: are the Jags will win the tiebreaker. So the Texans
Speaker 2: to win the division probably have to finish with more
Speaker 2: wins than Jacksonville does. The Texans are six and five,
Speaker 2: even if the Texans go five and one down the stretch,
Speaker 2: which would be very difficult, and they get to eleven
Speaker 2: and six. The Jags would then have to down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Pard me go two and four, and they're not going
Speaker 2: to The Jags still have on the schedule home for
Speaker 2: the Bengals and Jake Browning, then two tough games at
Speaker 2: the Browns home for the Ravens, at the Bucks kind
Speaker 2: of tough home for the Panthers, and at the Titans.
Speaker 2: So even if the Jags play poorly, they're going to
Speaker 2: get to eleven wins. So they in my opinion, locked
Speaker 2: up the division with that win. To huge win for Jackjacksonville.
Speaker 2: Josh Allen defensive end. Josh Allen played great. Now the
Speaker 2: downside for Jacksonville, their left tackle Cam Robinson, God dog it,
Speaker 2: sorry but our internet's taking hits. But you guys and
Speaker 2: still hear me. They're left tackle Cam Robinson got put
Speaker 2: on IR, which is obviously a problem for them.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, So Frank Reich was fired
Speaker 3: after eleven games in Carolina. So it's kind of weird
Speaker 3: because he was really high on Stroud and he wanted
Speaker 3: Stroud over Young. The Panthers owner now claims that they
Speaker 3: wanted to trade for the number two pick to get Stroud,
Speaker 3: but then their front office got behind behind Young at one.
Speaker 3: We're gonna show up maybe, I think a tweet for
Speaker 3: those watching on YouTube, this.
Speaker 2: Is what Albert Brier wrote. Originally we were gonna go
Speaker 2: to the number two pick. We thought we'd get CJ
Speaker 2: because we thought the Texans were gonna pick Bryce, and listen,
Speaker 2: we preferred Bryce. He was a number one pick. We
Speaker 2: had a lot of conviction. That's from Dave Tepper. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to spend a lot of time on
Speaker 2: the Panthers. Here's the deal their show.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: They they traded away this year's pick, which is gonna
Speaker 2: end up being the Caleb Williams pick, so they could
Speaker 2: move all the way up to number one, and they
Speaker 2: took the wrong quarterback. And now Dave Tepper, I don't
Speaker 2: know who's gonna want to work for him because he
Speaker 2: keeps firing coaches. He keeps hiring and firing coaches. And
Speaker 2: to not give for a listen, I don't think Frank
Speaker 2: Reich did a good job, but to not give him
Speaker 2: a full season. You think you're gonna go get Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: You think you're gonna get the top coaching candidate. Of course, not.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be out in the wilderness for a while. Man. Uh,
Speaker 2: you guys know I didn't believe in Bryce before the
Speaker 2: draft too small, just don't believe in it. But they
Speaker 2: have no way to replace him. They're gonna hire a
Speaker 2: coach who they probably is set up to fail, gonna
Speaker 2: fire again. It's there they and they're gonna watch the pick.
Speaker 2: Oh I hope he doesn't take that job. Oh God,
Speaker 2: I would hope he wouldn't take that job. They be
Speaker 2: better off staying seeing if he gets promoted in Washington.
Speaker 2: I don't take that job. That job's got no future
Speaker 2: right now and a very fickle owner. Quick break right back,
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Speaker 2: in about ten minutes. But demonse, let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: We want to talk Belichick here, so go ahead.
Speaker 3: So mac Jones was benched again for Zappy. The Patriots
Speaker 3: couldn't take care of business against a future Hall of
Speaker 3: Famer Tommy DeVito. At the end of the game, Belichick
Speaker 3: opted to go for overtime rather than get the dub.
Speaker 3: It backfired and they missed the kick, losing the game.
Speaker 3: What's more likely? Do you think Belichick is tanking or
Speaker 3: he has zero faith in anybody on his team?
Speaker 2: I mean, neither The kicking the field goal. There was
Speaker 2: not a controversial decision. It was they had a fourth
Speaker 2: and five, which it went on the seventeen yard line
Speaker 2: that if they with at most twenty five seconds left,
Speaker 2: they ended up kicking the field goal at six seconds
Speaker 2: because they let the clock run down. Going for the
Speaker 2: going for it there would have been absolute suicide. You.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have a rookie kicker that you drafted
Speaker 2: in the fourth round. You have to kick the field
Speaker 2: goal there? The kid just missed, and I mean the
Speaker 2: team now you go ahead?
Speaker 3: Is that the kicker that just get That's the kicker
Speaker 3: that just got cut? Right? And do you.
Speaker 2: Think no, no chance he just got cut? Did he did?
Speaker 2: I miss that he did?
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, But do you think you were
Speaker 3: wrong for it? With Brady?
Speaker 2: No, you never go for it there. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about. No, of course not. You
Speaker 2: have to kick it. You're on the fifteen yard line
Speaker 2: with thirty seconds left, you play for overtime against Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 2: That's not the problem. The problem was starting Mac Jones,
Speaker 2: who is a bro. Listen. People can say Zappi is
Speaker 2: terrible and Zapi is terrible, but Mac Jones is broken
Speaker 2: as a player, flatly broken as a player. So the listen.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're tanking. I think the roster has
Speaker 2: been terribly constructed, and I think they don't have enough talent.
Speaker 2: And if they end up lucking into Caleb Williams, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be sick to my stomach. But I think the
Speaker 2: Panthers are gonna end up the Panthers might not win
Speaker 2: again all year, and that pick will go to the Bears.
Speaker 2: The question is the Patriots. Right now, Patriots, Cardinals, Panthers
Speaker 2: all have one or two wins. Everyone else now has
Speaker 2: at least four. So the worst case scenario for the
Speaker 2: Patriots is probably they end up with Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 2: which is not a bad scenario, but in that scenario,
Speaker 2: they still wouldn't have a quarterback. But no, they're not tanking,
Speaker 2: they're just not any good. All right?
Speaker 3: Next, All right, we're playing a game. Today's this with that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: first off, we got the Broncos, the hottest team in
Speaker 3: the AFC, riding a five game win streak. Youve ben
Speaker 3: calling Denver and Russ Cook for a while now, but
Speaker 3: it seems like they may have figured some stuff out
Speaker 3: going forward. The Broncos are dangerous or cooked.
Speaker 2: No, they're frauds. I mean this. I really wonder sometimes
Speaker 2: if people watch games like am I the only person
Speaker 2: watching games? People are like oh Russell Wilson twenty touchdowns,
Speaker 2: four picks. Dude threw for one hundred and thirty five yards.
Speaker 2: His coach clearly doesn't trust him. He's averaging less than
Speaker 2: two hundred yards per game this season. Now, it's interesting
Speaker 2: that they've pulled They pulled themselves out of the spiral
Speaker 2: from one to five, but I think they probably lose
Speaker 2: their next three games. Now, in fairness, I thought they
Speaker 2: were gonna lose to the Browns, but I also think
Speaker 2: they would have lost the Browns if DTR didn't get
Speaker 2: knocked out of that football game. They at the Texans,
Speaker 2: at the Chargers, at the Lions. They're gonna be underdogs
Speaker 2: in all three of those games. So I don't think
Speaker 2: they're gonna make those.
Speaker 3: Those Browns right, Like, is they're the best defense they're
Speaker 3: gonna play for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Browns might have the best defense in football.
Speaker 2: I don't listen. This is one of those things. If
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm not gonna be wrong. There's
Speaker 2: here's what I find interesting. Let me check this preseason
Speaker 2: NFL win totals? Uh? And this is okay? There we go.
Speaker 2: There it is the Broncos preseason win total. Wait, that's
Speaker 2: not right. Hold on, how have they changed? What the
Speaker 2: hell is this? Hold on this I have the wrong?
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: This has been updated incorrectly, I guess. But let me
Speaker 2: look and see where the Broncos were see if I
Speaker 2: can find it. I apologize I should have had this.
Speaker 2: Here we go the some reason this was from the
Speaker 2: active the Broncos before the year. How many games do
Speaker 2: you think they were projected to win before the year?
Speaker 2: Give it a guess? Uh?
Speaker 3: Eight or ten? Actually call it ten?
Speaker 2: No, eight and a half. You were closer tens, a
Speaker 2: very high number. So the Broncos are likely this year
Speaker 2: going to finish under their win total. They're probably gonna
Speaker 2: finish eight to nine, right around the win total eight
Speaker 2: and nine. And because they were such a show to
Speaker 2: start the year, people are gonna call it a massive success.
Speaker 2: It will not be now coming and not having the
Speaker 2: season totally go to hell after you allow seventy points
Speaker 2: and fall to zero to three. Credit to them for that,
Speaker 2: But this is not some dangerous, really good team. I
Speaker 2: understand they're on a nice winning streak, and on this
Speaker 2: winning streak they have forced fifteen turnovers. That's not sustainable.
Speaker 2: I don't look at this as a dangerous team. If
Speaker 2: le Broncos fans can get mad at me, man, well,
Speaker 2: they beat the Chiefs. That's the good team they've beaten.
Speaker 2: They beat the Packers, They're fine. They beat the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are good. They beat the Bills, who are mediocre.
Speaker 2: They beat the Vikings, who are mediocre. The Browns in
Speaker 2: a game their quarterback got knocked out in I mean
Speaker 2: think it was fourteen twelve, and then the quarterback got
Speaker 2: knocked out, Like I just the I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: credit to them for knocking the quarterback out on an
Speaker 2: illegal hit. I don't know what you want me to say.
Speaker 2: People want me to be a prisoner of the moment
Speaker 2: and be like, the Broncos are dangerous. They're not next
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: The Lions are rolling earlier early this year, but Jared
Speaker 3: Goff forgot how to play mistake free football. That was
Speaker 3: oh gosh. And they lost to the Packers on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Things in Detroit are fixable, or are they doomed.
Speaker 2: Well, our Lions number one seed bet is doomed. That's
Speaker 2: for sure. That I liked that bet a lot that's
Speaker 2: now cooked. I don't want to say they're doomed, but
Speaker 2: what's wrong with them is not fixable. It's very simple.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with them? If you can pressure Jared Goff,
Speaker 2: he's terrible. This is been who he's been his whole career.
Speaker 2: And this is another one of those things that folks
Speaker 2: just when golf, you know, golf had a stretch. He's
Speaker 2: putting up amazing numbers and folks want to be They're like,
Speaker 2: are you gonna apologize to Jared Goff? No, we have
Speaker 2: known for his his whole career. If he's protected, he
Speaker 2: can look awesome. He was the quarterback for one of
Speaker 2: the highest scoring teams in NFL history with the Rams.
Speaker 2: He went to a Super Bowl. We saw him last
Speaker 2: year with the Lions on their winning streak in the
Speaker 2: beginning of this year. When he's protected, he's excellent. The
Speaker 2: problem is he deals with pressure. And I don't mean
Speaker 2: like existential pressure. I mean the actual pressure of a
Speaker 2: pass rush, worse than just about any quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And and I know people think this is like silly
Speaker 2: old scout stuff, but you saw it first had on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: He has tiny hands and he cannot hold onto the football.
Speaker 2: If he gets hit, that stuff matters, and so that's
Speaker 2: not fixable. The reason I was high on the Lions
Speaker 2: was if they got home field and he could play
Speaker 2: in a weather controlled dome and had one less playoff
Speaker 2: to play and they could block it up. That Lion's
Speaker 2: offense is dynamic, and the defense I thought could be
Speaker 2: just good enough. But the defense has regressed, and the
Speaker 2: offensive line the last couple of weeks has gotten its
Speaker 2: butt kicked. And say the last couple weeks, but a
Speaker 2: couple times in the last few weeks has gotten its
Speaker 2: butt kicked. And all of a sudden, he's throwing three
Speaker 2: picks against Chicago, He's fumbling three times against the Packers,
Speaker 2: gets annihilated against the Ravens. Like there's a problem. It's
Speaker 2: just flatly a problem. So I don't think they're doomed.
Speaker 2: They're a good team, but this is not a team
Speaker 2: that's if you can pressure him, he's gonna fall apart.
Speaker 3: Next all right, my favorite Draywan is returning after his
Speaker 3: five game suspension, but it doesn't really seem like he's
Speaker 3: learned his lesson. He said, I'm going to be me
Speaker 3: no matter what. So players should probably start working on
Speaker 3: their self defense skills. It's more likely that Dreywan will
Speaker 3: get suspended again or clean up his act. I mean,
Speaker 3: second one's not an option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he just this is this total lack
Speaker 2: of accountability and this whole idea that where he's like,
Speaker 2: he's like, listen, I paid my price. I got suspended
Speaker 2: for a game of the finals, but you've had like
Speaker 2: nine egregious incidents since then. Like I Draymond's an all
Speaker 2: time great player and he's a legendary player. He is
Speaker 2: also all time first team lack of self awareness and
Speaker 2: just the failure to take accountability and what Gobert said,
Speaker 2: man about if Steph's not there, he doesn't want to play.
Speaker 2: The numbers back that up. And that was a that
Speaker 2: was a cutting insult by the Frenchman. All right, last one,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: All right. Last week, he went on Mina Kaimes podcast
Speaker 3: and roasted sports media for being so in on pointless
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving topics that the take blew up, but maybe not
Speaker 3: in the way that you'd want. So let's take a
Speaker 3: look at three tweets We're gonna show you on YouTube.
Speaker 2: When did Nick writ start looking like Shia Shia Labouf
Speaker 2: cosplaying as Adam Driver? That was good? Nick right looks
Speaker 2: like a homeless magician? That was pretty good. And the
Speaker 2: best one was why does Nick Wright look like he
Speaker 2: sells used cars to doth Rockis? All right? That's a
Speaker 2: good I mean, those are all really funny. I So
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I thought these were really well done.
Speaker 2: I thought that the commenters make because I was still
Speaker 2: wearing my suit from TV, but I was in like
Speaker 2: a windowless room, I had a smudge camera. My hair
Speaker 2: was even more of a mess than usual, So I
Speaker 2: looked a little odd on Mina's podcast. I'll take that.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. In those insults, I thought they
Speaker 2: were really well done. I thought the homeless magician line
Speaker 2: was legit hilarious, and the cells used cars to doth
Speaker 2: rockis was one of the most unique insults I've ever heard.
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Speaker 2: Cowboys Eagles as like, oh, the Cowboys can't win that matchup.
Speaker 2: They split with them last year. I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: split with them this year. Dak has cooked that second
Speaker 2: eary for a while. In my opinion, the Cowboys have
Speaker 2: played one truly terrible game all year, and it was
Speaker 2: arguably their biggest game. It was the game against the Niners,
Speaker 2: because the Niners knocked them out of the playoffs last
Speaker 2: couple of years. But I think the Cowboys are right
Speaker 2: now a touch underrated. I think that the way they
Speaker 2: have blown out these teams has to account for something.
Speaker 2: And the prety point that I'm making is we party
Speaker 2: has had multiple opportunities under the exact circumstances that when
Speaker 2: people are like, what do you want to see from him?
Speaker 2: I laid out exactly what I wanted to see from him.
Speaker 2: Then he had three straight opportunities in those circumstances, and
Speaker 2: he came with shortened all three. So it's a little
Speaker 2: apples to oranges for the Cowboys. But yeah, both both that.
Speaker 2: It's why right now the Eagles should be considered the
Speaker 2: clear cut favorites in the conference. I know I picked Dallas,
Speaker 2: but the Eagles have earned that up to this point,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Connor Leland asked, is there any way Kansas City
Speaker 3: trades multiple draft picks to get into the top ten
Speaker 3: this year to draft brock Bawers and have him have
Speaker 3: him learn under Kelsey? Would you love to see Mahomes
Speaker 3: or Mahomes Bowers connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think that would be a
Speaker 2: terrible idea. You don't the Chiefs are Listen. Brock Bowers
Speaker 2: looks like he's gonna be awesome, And you guys know,
Speaker 2: last year I liked the idea of them of drafting
Speaker 2: a tight end relatively with one of their first or
Speaker 2: second picks, so we can learn under Kelse's I understand that,
Speaker 2: but the Chiefs do not are not in a position,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, we're trading up. You'd probably have to
Speaker 2: trade multiple first round picks to get up high enough
Speaker 2: to draft draft Rock Bowers, and they need cheap, cost
Speaker 2: controlled talent that can start. And they've done so well
Speaker 2: in the draft that I don't want them trading multiple
Speaker 2: picks for just one guy. So I would not endorse that,
Speaker 2: even though I understand. Yeah, Bowers I think would be amazing,
Speaker 2: and I think but also the super highly drafted tight
Speaker 2: ends as of late have not panned out necessarily the
Speaker 2: way people thought they were going to.
Speaker 3: All Right, Next, Majin Bousha asked who gets who gets
Speaker 3: in for the last spot in the AFC? The Chargers, Bills, Texans,
Speaker 3: Colts are Browns.
Speaker 2: Listen, I the I mean the Chargers are done. I
Speaker 2: I think that the AFC playoffs and I'll even give
Speaker 2: you the the uh order. I think it's gonna fall
Speaker 2: like this. I think it is going to be Kansas
Speaker 2: City one, Jacksonville two, Miami three, Baltimore four as your
Speaker 2: divisional winners, Pittsburgh five as your top wild card, Cleveland six,
Speaker 2: and Houston seven. I think Houston's gonna be the last
Speaker 2: team in all right.
Speaker 3: Next football, CF Candy asked h Nick, what do you
Speaker 3: think the Bears should do this offseason? With the talent
Speaker 3: on that roster and the level of draft capital they have,
Speaker 3: they could be amazing next year. What is the best way?
Speaker 2: I think they trade Justin Fields to Atlanta for Field
Speaker 2: for Atlanta's second round pick. I think they draft Caleb
Speaker 2: at number one with the pick from Carolina, and I
Speaker 2: think they hold an auction for their own pick, which
Speaker 2: will probably be five or six, and try to turn
Speaker 2: that into another year with multiple first round picks. That's
Speaker 2: what I think they should. I think you draft Caleb,
Speaker 2: you trade Justin for a second round a high second
Speaker 2: round pick from Atlanta, which I think would I think
Speaker 2: it would be a good fit for him there. I
Speaker 2: think him with those weapons in a dome on turf
Speaker 2: would be great and you could, you know, stay at
Speaker 2: number Say they're drafting now, if they if they ended
Speaker 2: up with the first and third pick, I'd probably just
Speaker 2: take Caleb and Marvin Harrison Junior. But they're probably gonna
Speaker 2: end up with like five to six. You could draft
Speaker 2: the tackle there, but you took a tackle with the
Speaker 2: number ten pick last year. I'd rather trade that trade
Speaker 2: back a bit and try to acquire more draft capital.
Speaker 2: All right. Last one de Monsey Uh Whizzy.
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Speaker 2: It does not. It is, as my wife would say,
Speaker 2: it is an experience, so you need to come into
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Speaker 2: I do wonder if some of the Trentage hoodies or
Speaker 2: the Trentage branded merchandise, if those could be available online
Speaker 2: at some point before the holidays. But for everything that's
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