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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick? Great Episode two ninety
Speaker 2: playoffs are here finish the r profitable gambling. Even though
Speaker 2: Week eighteen didn't you know, kind of out with a
Speaker 2: bit of a whimper if I must say, lost the
Speaker 2: season long picks contest to Parkins by one. Pit our
Speaker 2: picks here deserved two and three ended up being one,
Speaker 2: three and one, so not a great final week. Also,
Speaker 2: speaking of gambling, before we get to it, did you
Speaker 2: see gambling? Twitter demonse just drag me all week because
Speaker 2: of my populist opinion that hey, let's try to claw
Speaker 2: some of this money back from the sports books for
Speaker 2: the refund your bets if you have an overtime underdone,
Speaker 2: They came, I mean you have, oh, unanimously and the
Speaker 2: amount of boot licking these fake gambling touts were like, oh, so,
Speaker 2: what do you you want the sports treating the sports
Speaker 2: book like they're the soup kitchen. Listen here. I like
Speaker 2: a lot of America's sports books, and as I told
Speaker 2: you last week, I'm gonna be partnering with one of
Speaker 2: them here in the next few weeks. Not sure which
Speaker 2: one again, you know, have your people talked to my people,
Speaker 2: We'll see we can work something out. Uh. And while
Speaker 2: I will partner with them and they are providing a service,
Speaker 2: I want to make something very clear. It's the public
Speaker 2: against the House, and I'm on the side of the public.
Speaker 2: I'm not a you know what I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not rooting for I don't know anything about Star Wars,
Speaker 2: but the Emperor Palpatine. Is that a good reference? I'm
Speaker 2: not sure I will the idea that how many people
Speaker 2: were like that would be so unfair to the sports book. Huh.
Speaker 2: Unfair to the sports good. That's the goal here. They
Speaker 2: can just give us a little. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 2: gracious folks like, yes, obviously that would be a are
Speaker 2: these people do? These people go to casinos and look
Speaker 2: at a roulette wheel that only has one zero and
Speaker 2: are like, you know, probably should throw two on there.
Speaker 2: And in fact, some places put three zeros on there.
Speaker 2: Walking through the pits and they're like, you know, excuse me,
Speaker 2: casino manager. I know it says blackjack pays three to two,
Speaker 2: but you know a lot of places these days are
Speaker 2: doing six to five and people still pay it, Like
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Rooting for the sportsbook? And I
Speaker 2: gotta deal with again these fake these kids who have
Speaker 2: been gam who have been alive for a shorter period
Speaker 2: of time then I've been gambling, like Kelly and Vegas
Speaker 2: and her just sycophantic tribe of morons being like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, did this guy just learn about gamble? Guys,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things. You can come after me
Speaker 2: for a lot of things pretty fairly. There's slings and
Speaker 2: arrows that I leave myself open to try to stake
Speaker 2: out the corner of Nick Wright hasn't been gambling long
Speaker 2: enough to know the rules when I have been. I'm
Speaker 2: forty years old, and I have been gambling, you know,
Speaker 2: not for a living, but as a way to make
Speaker 2: or in many times lose money that I, you know,
Speaker 2: was my weekly income since I was eleven. I don't
Speaker 2: think that like you coming to me and being like
Speaker 2: and by the way, what.
Speaker 3: Amongst your friend?
Speaker 2: Well so no, so when I so, I real quick,
Speaker 2: then we'll get the football. Started playing poker with when
Speaker 2: I was nine, and like with family and friends with
Speaker 2: my grandparents, and then not poker with my dad. And
Speaker 2: then when I was eleven, we got a small bar
Speaker 2: size pool table and my dad. I've told this story before.
Speaker 2: My dad played me a nine ball, five dollars on
Speaker 2: the nine, two dollars on the five, and I ran
Speaker 2: up like a forty dollars worth of wins. He then
Speaker 2: was like, all right, you gotta give me a chance
Speaker 2: to get even. Let's up the stakes. I was eleven,
Speaker 2: so I didn't realize I was in the midst of
Speaker 2: the oldest hustle in the book. I said, yes. I
Speaker 2: left the basement that night owing my father one hundred
Speaker 2: and eight dollars and he I was eleven, and he
Speaker 2: made me pay it. He wrote up a contract and said,
Speaker 2: you'll pay me ten dollars a month for the next year,
Speaker 2: and I was like ten, even though I was eleven.
Speaker 2: I was like, ten dollars a month for a year.
Speaker 2: That's one hundred and twenty. I owe you one hundred
Speaker 2: and eight. He's like, yeah, I'm only charging you ten
Speaker 2: percent interest, and you're gonna have to find a way
Speaker 2: to pay me. He thought that the lesson I was
Speaker 2: gonna take from that is gambling is risky, and don't
Speaker 2: do it. The lesson I took from it was you
Speaker 2: can make a lot of money gambling if you know
Speaker 2: what you're doing. So I just then ran that exact
Speaker 2: same hustle on my friends in my basement for years,
Speaker 2: and I won so many video games. We would play
Speaker 2: for each other's video games like you didn't have cash,
Speaker 2: Like you get a video game for Christmas, we'd play
Speaker 2: for that. We played for basketball cards, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And my dad, by the way, again is statue to limitations.
Speaker 2: I've maybe told this story, I maybe haven't. People see
Speaker 2: I look a lot like my father, but he doesn't
Speaker 2: have the nose I have. And the reason he doesn't
Speaker 2: have the nose I have is because in his youth,
Speaker 2: when he was a pool hustler again, and I didn't
Speaker 2: know this when I was playing him. He hustled a
Speaker 2: guy in the you know, inners of Kansas City, and
Speaker 2: the guy broke his nose with the pool cue. And
Speaker 2: so when he gets your nose broken, you get it fixed. Sorry, pops,
Speaker 2: but it's been sixty years since that happened to you.
Speaker 2: I feel like I can tell that story. So again,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to throw out all my gambling bona fides.
Speaker 2: But it was two thousand and three and I was
Speaker 2: on South Salina Street and Syracuse playing in a poker
Speaker 2: game with Albanians. Like the idea that I need to
Speaker 2: be lectured on on how gambling works from idiots on
Speaker 2: the internet. I know how it works. And guess what, folks,
Speaker 2: it's hard to win, so let's try to just get
Speaker 2: a little bit of juice back for us. Okay, it
Speaker 2: was just I feel better. I really. This is why
Speaker 2: you shouldn't read the comments on the internet. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of reasons why. There's one of them. I was
Speaker 2: blissfully onware. I was getting absolutely annihilated, and then Danny,
Speaker 2: my old buddy, Danny Parkins, says to me, He's like, oh, man, gambling.
Speaker 2: Twitter's really coming after you. And I'm like they are
Speaker 2: and I look and I'm like, god, dogg it, they
Speaker 2: sure are all right. Here's what missed the cut. The
Speaker 2: Bears are interested in Mike McCarthy. The Giants aren't making
Speaker 2: any changes. Why would they. They're a mess, and Trevor
Speaker 2: needs a new head coach. I want to say one
Speaker 2: thing about the Trevor thing. Keeping Trent Balkey makes me
Speaker 2: so sad for Trevor. He his ability to keep his
Speaker 2: job is unprecedented. He won a power struggle with the
Speaker 2: Niners against Jim Harbaugh, and now he can hire Urban Meyer,
Speaker 2: hire Doug Peterson, and is gonna get to hire another coach.
Speaker 2: There was a hilarious moment though, in the zoom the
Speaker 2: media zoom split screen like this demons between the owner
Speaker 2: of the Jaguars shot and Trent Balky, where Shod Cohn
Speaker 2: is like, you know, we're gonna keep you know, Trent
Speaker 2: in place, blah blah blah, and somebody asked him a question.
Speaker 2: He's like, what if the new head coach wants you
Speaker 2: to replace the general manager? And again Trent is on
Speaker 2: the zoom and Shad Cohn says he's like, well, if
Speaker 2: the person we decide on for the new head coach,
Speaker 2: you know, really believes we need a new general manager,
Speaker 2: then I would make that change. And again a sign
Speaker 2: the Jags might not know what they're doing. My guess
Speaker 2: is Trent Balky who gets to interview the new head coaches.
Speaker 2: One of the questions are gonna be so you're gonna
Speaker 2: replace me? Because if you are, I gotta say, I
Speaker 2: don't think you're getting this job. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the show one seeds love go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Detroit locked up there by with the win
Speaker 3: against Minnesota, and now Detroit is super Bowl favorites. Uh,
Speaker 3: do you consider them the biggest threat to your chiefs
Speaker 3: them being Super Bowl favorites? Or is it somebody else?
Speaker 2: No, it's the Bills. It's been the Bills all year,
Speaker 2: and the this is I didn't get everything right in
Speaker 2: the preseason, but this was one of them that the
Speaker 2: Bills were way, way, way undervalued by the world and
Speaker 2: that they were still going to be excellent. And so
Speaker 2: here's why I think, tell me if you because I
Speaker 2: tried to explain this on the show yesterday, but I
Speaker 2: don't know if I did a good job of explaining it,
Speaker 2: or maybe I did do a good job, but it's
Speaker 2: just my like my co hosts aren't as big a
Speaker 2: gamblers as I am, so it didn't really translate. I
Speaker 2: said that even though Detroit right now is the favorite
Speaker 2: to win the Super Bowl, I think that if Detroit
Speaker 2: played Kansas City in the Super Bowl, Kansas City would
Speaker 2: be the Vegas favorite. So how do you square those
Speaker 2: two ideas? And my rationale was, I think what Vegas
Speaker 2: believes Detroit is more likely to win the NFC than
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are to win the AFC, that Detroit's path
Speaker 2: is cleaner because I would imagine right now, after Detroit
Speaker 2: and Kansas City, the two biggest Super Bowl public picks
Speaker 2: are the Bills and the Ravens, and Kansas City is
Speaker 2: gonna have to go through, in all likelihood one of
Speaker 2: those teams. And so I don't look at the Lions
Speaker 2: as the biggest threat. And I do want listen, I
Speaker 2: thought the Lions were going to lose that football game,
Speaker 2: and they played great. They played great, and that listen,
Speaker 2: Terry and Arnold got hurt. That's another defensive injury. And
Speaker 2: I know folks saw how they played against Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: and said, well, what more do you want from them? Like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter they had all these injuries, look at
Speaker 2: how great they were. I do not think that specific
Speaker 2: defensive approach, which I'll explain in a moment, will work
Speaker 2: against great quarterbacks, which was we're just sinning the house, man,
Speaker 2: we are just sinning the house again and again and again.
Speaker 2: They blitzed over sixty percent of the plays in that game.
Speaker 2: Darnold did not handle it well and the Vikings offense
Speaker 2: couldn't function because of it. The last thing, historically speaking,
Speaker 2: great quarterbacks love being blitzed because they get mann to
Speaker 2: man coverage, they can usually diagnose it before the snap,
Speaker 2: and they know where the ball's going. Now, Detroit's in
Speaker 2: a unique spot where they could make the super Bowl
Speaker 2: and never have to play a great quarterback because the NFC,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, only as one, and that's Matt Stafford,
Speaker 2: and Stafford is an underdog in Round one two Minnesota.
Speaker 2: But in the Super Bowl. I don't think that will
Speaker 2: work against Patrick Mahomes. I also don't think that would
Speaker 2: work against Josh Allen. And if you're playing the Ravens
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, it means Lamar definitionally has gotten
Speaker 2: over his playoff bugaboos, because to get to the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: for Lamar, it is Steelers, then Josh Allen, then Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes assuming the bracket holes. If he does all of that,
Speaker 2: then lamar postseason questions are answered. So for Detroit, I
Speaker 2: give them massive credit for what they've accomplished. And Dan
Speaker 2: Gampbell taking that team from three wins to nine wins,
Speaker 2: to twelve wins to fifteen wins is remarkable, truly remarkable,
Speaker 2: and I think they are are good enough whole to
Speaker 2: win the super Bowl. And listen, maybe even with all
Speaker 2: these injuries, they'll just outscore people and they'll be able
Speaker 2: to do it. But what they did Sunday night, to me,
Speaker 2: was not sustainable against the type of quarterback they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to beat to win a Super Bowl. But it
Speaker 2: was very sustainable demons against Sam Darnald. And I know
Speaker 2: you have a Donald question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think that Donald played himself out of
Speaker 3: a contract with that performance? And like it's the first
Speaker 3: big game of the season.
Speaker 2: I think if he does it again, yeah, So here's
Speaker 2: here's what is simultaneously awesome and so cruel about sports.
Speaker 2: But really, this sport, the NFL because I get annoyed
Speaker 2: at times when people dismiss playoff performances or really anything
Speaker 2: in the NFL with this at small sample size. Because
Speaker 2: it's a small sample sized sport. You're not gonna get
Speaker 2: the five hundred at bats you get in baseball. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna get a seven game series you get in basketball.
Speaker 2: You get a game, couple games. That's the nature of
Speaker 2: the sport. And Donald went into Sunday night. So if
Speaker 2: we just go backwards forty hours, Sam Darnald had sitting
Speaker 2: in front of him this, if I play great tonight,
Speaker 2: we get the one seed. I basically guarantee myself one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars and have a real chance to win
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Instead, he had his worst game of
Speaker 2: the year, and now he goes into his first career
Speaker 2: playoff game knowing, if I played terribly again, I'm just
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold again, and that again, that might be unfair.
Speaker 2: But that's why football is so great is because it
Speaker 2: is a little unfair, and so it's so captivating to watch.
Speaker 2: And if they if he plays poorly, so he's never
Speaker 2: played in a playoff game, so it is not an
Speaker 2: exaggeration at all to say Sunday Night was the biggest
Speaker 2: game of his career by a mile, and now the
Speaker 2: next Now the biggest game of his career is this
Speaker 2: weekend or sorry, Monday night. He can he can save it,
Speaker 2: but if he plays poorly and they lose. I do
Speaker 2: not believe Minnesota is giving him a long term contract.
Speaker 2: Maybe they franchise tag him, or maybe someone else you know,
Speaker 2: wants to trade for him and give him the contract.
Speaker 2: But it's now up in the air in a way
Speaker 2: it otherwise wouldn't have been. Uh, we have some breaking news.
Speaker 2: The Titans have fired their GM Ran Carthon. Listen, I
Speaker 2: real quick on that they brought in Let me get
Speaker 2: the exact time on this correct, because this is breaking news.
Speaker 2: So they brought in Ryan Carthon from San Francisco a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And his first big move is
Speaker 2: that right? Hold on? Wasn't his the January of twenty three?
Speaker 2: So hold on? Was that not his first big move?
Speaker 2: I thought his first big move was the AJ Brown trade?
Speaker 2: Do I just have that wrong? So I want to
Speaker 2: be fair here hold on? So yeah, I do have
Speaker 2: that wrong. So who the hell traded AJ Brown? So
Speaker 2: Ran Carthon got there in January of twenty three. Who
Speaker 2: was the GM there before? Oh, John Robinson. So that's
Speaker 2: what happened. Okay, So this is where I had it
Speaker 2: in my head. My apologies, and I'm glad I checked
Speaker 2: that because that would have been bad. John Robinson traded
Speaker 2: Aj Brown, It infuriated Mike Rabel, and basically I think
Speaker 2: because there was that severing of a relationship between Vrabel
Speaker 2: and John Robinson, they picked Vrabel. They then brought in
Speaker 2: Ran Carthon and it didn't seem like Ran Carthon and
Speaker 2: Vrabel wherever exactly aligned and in that instance they went
Speaker 2: with And now that does look like it was a
Speaker 2: mistake because Rabel is probably the hottest coaching candidate this
Speaker 2: side of Ben Johnson, and they just decided to move
Speaker 2: on from Ryan Krthon. But that is that's a short
Speaker 2: tenure man January of twenty three to January of twenty
Speaker 2: five with as a GM. Usually gms get more time
Speaker 2: than head coaches. We don't listen, we're not and now
Speaker 2: they are also they're in this is the spot you
Speaker 2: don't want to be in where you're and the reason
Speaker 2: if I just for a moment, the reason to defend
Speaker 2: the Giants bringing both guys back, Shane and Dable. I
Speaker 2: don't like it. I probably would have fired both of them.
Speaker 2: But what you don't want to do is fire one
Speaker 2: and then have your GM and head coach not aligned.
Speaker 2: And now that's exactly what the Titans are gonna have.
Speaker 2: The Titans are now gonna hire a general manager, and
Speaker 2: that general manager is gonna say, well, I didn't pick
Speaker 2: Brian Callahan the head coach. It's not I want my
Speaker 2: head coach. And so now Brian Callahan goes into next
Speaker 2: year where the GM isn't his guy. And so that
Speaker 2: part is that usually that misalignment doesn't work out so well.
Speaker 2: And so but the Titans, I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they waited a day. Uh, but
Speaker 2: they have fired Ran Karthon. All right, Demant, let's move on.
Speaker 3: So the regular season is wrapping up? Or is wrapped up?
Speaker 3: And ballots or do who would your picks be for MVP,
Speaker 3: Offensive Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: Okay, so listen, Bengals fans would tell you they should
Speaker 2: sweep the board. Bengals fans think they have the league
Speaker 2: MVP and Joe Burrow, the offensive play of the Year
Speaker 2: mister triple Crown Jamar Chase, and the defensive player of
Speaker 2: the year the sack champion Trey Hendrickson. I would say,
Speaker 2: if you have the three best players in the league,
Speaker 2: probably should not need the Chiefs help to make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So those wouldn't be my picks my MVP pick, And
Speaker 2: again Wilde said it exactly exactly right. There is no
Speaker 2: argument for Patrick Mahomes to be the MVP except for
Speaker 2: the fact that he's the league's most valuable player. That's
Speaker 2: really the only The only argument for Mahomes this year
Speaker 2: to be MVP is that he is actually the most
Speaker 2: valuable player in football. But of course that's not good enough,
Speaker 2: so it's not Mahomes. I thought that if Donald or
Speaker 2: Golf were awesome Sunday night, they would have the winner.
Speaker 2: If they were awesome and they won, that guy at
Speaker 2: fifteen and two for award, that's become quarterback only would
Speaker 2: have to get real consideration. Darnold was terrible, Golf was
Speaker 2: not that good, and so they're both out. So it
Speaker 2: really just is Lamar and Josh and everyone seems to
Speaker 2: be trying to equivocate on why you know it should
Speaker 2: be Josh over Lamar. I have less of a problem
Speaker 2: with it. To me, it is very very simple. I
Speaker 2: think that they were both outstanding this year. They both
Speaker 2: led their teams to division championships. Josh didn't have Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry and Josh hasn't won one, so I'd give it
Speaker 2: to Josh. And if people are like, oh, it's not
Speaker 2: like the people seem to be uncomfortable with the idea
Speaker 2: that one guy having two and the other guy having
Speaker 2: zero should play a factor in this. But it always
Speaker 2: has like the if it's really really close on awards,
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's the Golden Globes, the Oscars, MVP,
Speaker 2: the cy Young, any of it. If it's really really
Speaker 2: close and one guy's wanted a couple times and the
Speaker 2: other guys never won it, then the guy who's never
Speaker 2: won it gets the nod. So and the other reasoning
Speaker 2: is the entire rationale behind Lamar winning it last year
Speaker 2: is the rationale for Josh winning it this year. Didn't
Speaker 2: have the most eye popping numbers, but did more with less.
Speaker 2: The team won thirteen plus games. You know that was
Speaker 2: excellent in the biggest spots. So he gets it, like
Speaker 2: to me, and also the only reason we don't have
Speaker 2: right now a team going for a three beat while
Speaker 2: also being undefeated is because of what Josh Allen did
Speaker 2: on that fourth and two play. Now you can say, well,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs ended up losing twice. Maybe I'm wrong. I
Speaker 2: don't think they would have played their JV roster had
Speaker 2: they been going for a super Bowl. All right, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry going for an undefeated season, which also I didn't
Speaker 2: even think about this. It's just occurred to me in
Speaker 2: real time. It's be the ultimate pain for Bills fans.
Speaker 2: Did the Bills beating the Chiefs this year increase the
Speaker 2: Chiefs chances of beating the Bills in the playoffs again?
Speaker 2: Because it removed the incentive to play guys in Week
Speaker 2: seventeen or Week eighteen and potentially have guys get banged
Speaker 2: up because they were going for an undefeated season against
Speaker 2: what would have been a desperate Broncos team. Maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know, But so Josh would be my MVP? Well
Speaker 2: you Lamar, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah you're saying Josh won't be her MVP? Is Lamar
Speaker 3: at plus three twenty? Is that enough to get you
Speaker 3: to at least bet on that.
Speaker 2: No, because I think that I I think Josh is
Speaker 2: an overwhelming favorite to win it. I just yeah, so
Speaker 2: like I don't And it's not the type of bet
Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, I like the odds aren't going
Speaker 2: to change very much from now to then, and so no,
Speaker 2: I would have Josh one. And one other thing about
Speaker 2: Lamar winning it last year with very pretty pedestrian numbers
Speaker 2: but all the intangible stuff that Josh has this year,
Speaker 2: it was a route the voters forty nine first place
Speaker 2: votes for Lamar, so it wasn't close in the end.
Speaker 2: All year long we thought it was gonna be close,
Speaker 2: and then the voters kind of hurted to Lamar. So
Speaker 2: Josh would be my MVP. Saquan would be my Offensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. Offensive Rookie of the Year, Brock
Speaker 2: Bowers has an awesome case. He's the best tight end
Speaker 2: in football this year, not for rookies, but four tight ends,
Speaker 2: but it's gotta be Jaden Daniels. Defensive Rookie of the
Speaker 2: Year has to be Jared Verse, my preseason pick, and
Speaker 2: then Defensive Player of the Year. In a weird year
Speaker 2: where Pat Sertan is the overwhelming favorite, people are gonna
Speaker 2: say I'm a Homer. I don't care. It should be
Speaker 2: Chris Jones because according to the Pro Bowl ballot, and
Speaker 2: I assume the upcoming All Pro team, the Chiefs have
Speaker 2: one good, great defensive player, Chris Jones. They have no
Speaker 2: other defensive Pro bowlers, none, It's just Chris. And yet
Speaker 2: going into Week eighteen, they had the number one scoring
Speaker 2: defense in football. So if you only have one great
Speaker 2: defensive player and you have one of the best defenses
Speaker 2: in football, and TJ. Watt doesn't deserve it this year,
Speaker 2: I don't think Hendrickson deserves it. When he was on
Speaker 2: a terrible defense, I would say Chris Jones. Chris Jones
Speaker 2: isn't gonna win it. Though. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: the playoff dark horse stuff. Demanse uh yeah.
Speaker 3: So with the playoff bracket locked, let's take ahead. Let's
Speaker 3: take a look ahead at some teams that might be
Speaker 3: able to make some noise with how the seating fell.
Speaker 3: Which one of those lower to your teams could you
Speaker 3: see making a big splash in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So listen, this isn't gonna shock anybody, but my answers
Speaker 2: the Rams. I think the Rams are gonna beat the Vikings.
Speaker 2: And the Rams played Detroit in the playoffs last year,
Speaker 2: it was a one point game. They played Detroit Week
Speaker 2: one of this year, it went to overtime. And so
Speaker 2: the well, Baker's oddly no, but Baker's not a lower seed.
Speaker 2: They're the three seed, like I'm not. Like I think
Speaker 2: when we say lower seed, we're talking four through seven.
Speaker 2: So that removes Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, Detroit, Philly, Tampa.
Speaker 2: And if we let's throw that bracket back up there,
Speaker 2: I don't you know, I think Green Bay is gonna
Speaker 2: lose in round one, and I don't think that Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: the Broncos, the Chargers, or the Texans have much of
Speaker 2: a chance of doing anything. And so to me, it
Speaker 2: is the Rams clearly as the one. I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna Yeah, I mean that. Do you think they're gonna
Speaker 2: beat Philly?
Speaker 3: I do think I do you think they're gonna beat Philly?
Speaker 3: But I think that's just well if they do how
Speaker 3: Philly was last year.
Speaker 2: But I think no, I mean that that that and
Speaker 2: Jalen Listen, Jalen Hurts. They seem pretty company. He's gonna
Speaker 2: clear concussion protocol, but he hasn't played a full game
Speaker 2: since Week fifteen. Week sixteen, he got knocked out early
Speaker 2: miss seventeen and eighteen, So there is that factor for it.
Speaker 2: Green Bay winning would really fluster the bracket because and
Speaker 2: that's what they did last year, is the seventh seed
Speaker 2: they beat the two seed and then they you know,
Speaker 2: went to the one seed San Francisco because the NFL
Speaker 2: playoffs receeeds. So I'm thinking the Rams win, the bracket holds,
Speaker 2: and then they go get Detroit. But if green Bay
Speaker 2: were to win, then green Bay gets Detroit and the
Speaker 2: Rams get the winner of Washington Tampa. So that's the
Speaker 2: like the what you're looking if you're watching on YouTube,
Speaker 2: what you're seeing is a potential bracket. But just remember
Speaker 2: in the NFL, the way it'll work is Detroit in
Speaker 2: Kansas City will play whomever the lowest seeded winner is
Speaker 2: and then the other two teams play each other. So
Speaker 2: as a for instance, let's just say Pittsburgh where to
Speaker 2: beat Baltimore. Then pitts Kana City gets Pittsburgh, you know,
Speaker 2: if Buffalo beats Denver, like so the the way it
Speaker 2: is set up is it'll be two versus three and
Speaker 2: then the one seed against the winner of the four, five,
Speaker 2: But if two or three get upset, then that kind
Speaker 2: of changes the bracket. It's also why you can't really
Speaker 2: do an NFL playoff bracket March Madness style, because if
Speaker 2: you get you know, you have to get everything in
Speaker 2: round one right in order to know who's playing who,
Speaker 2: and so you can't really, you know, teat game it
Speaker 2: out that way.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go on to Oh, you have a
Speaker 3: ms of the team you picked. What did you think
Speaker 3: about them not caring about their seeding in that last
Speaker 3: week there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I I understand it. They're an old team
Speaker 2: that is one version of themselves on offense when healthy,
Speaker 2: and a totally different version when not. Stafford has not
Speaker 2: been playing his best football as of late. He's the
Speaker 2: oldest quarterback in these playoffs, and they determined that they
Speaker 2: would rather, you know, roll the dice on being the
Speaker 2: three or the four seed versus having the guys be
Speaker 2: banged up. And so I don't I have no problem
Speaker 2: with it whatsoever. I also think the Rams are a
Speaker 2: dangerous team. Man. They've won nine of their last eleven.
Speaker 2: They started one in four and finished the year well.
Speaker 2: They won nine of their last eleven prior to week
Speaker 2: eighteen when they weren't playing their guys. I just I
Speaker 2: think that is a legitimately dangerous team, even though their
Speaker 2: last they scored forty four on Buffalo Demons, and then
Speaker 2: in their next three games they won twelve six nineteen
Speaker 2: nine games and thirteen to nine. They scored forty four
Speaker 2: against Buffalo and then forty four combined in their next three.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the last topic of the segment.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so the team to beat in the AFC
Speaker 3: will not be able to be beaten in the next
Speaker 3: month and a half. They obviously missed the playoffs and
Speaker 3: this is back to back years now they've missed the playoffs. Cincinnati, Uh,
Speaker 3: what should they? What are they going to do there?
Speaker 3: What's what's the plan?
Speaker 2: Which is well, I mean, I don't know. I would
Speaker 2: I would recommend they stopped talking. That's the first thing
Speaker 2: I'd recommend. The second thing I'd recommend is they recognize
Speaker 2: September counts and they just they they can't keep getting
Speaker 2: off to these brutal starts and then just thinking we'll
Speaker 2: get hot at the end of the year. And it
Speaker 2: is now a undeniable trend that has cost them repeatedly
Speaker 2: as great as Joe Burrow is. He's been there five years.
Speaker 2: They've been to the playoffs twice. His rookie year. We
Speaker 2: want to throw that out, totally understand. But they started
Speaker 2: the year one five and one. His second year, they
Speaker 2: you know, was the one year they didn't start terrible,
Speaker 2: but they started the year two and three. Is third
Speaker 2: year they started oh and two and started the year
Speaker 2: two and three. Last year they started oh and two,
Speaker 2: and they started the year two and three. This year
Speaker 2: they started oh and three, and they started the year
Speaker 2: one and four. Like those are two big a holes
Speaker 2: to pull yourself out of repeatedly, and you know them's
Speaker 2: the breaks, guys. And would it have been fun to
Speaker 2: see them in the playoffs, Sure, But even when their
Speaker 2: season was on the line. Two weeks ago they went
Speaker 2: to overtime with a decent but not great Denver team,
Speaker 2: and a couple days ago they needed Russell Wilson to
Speaker 2: totally have a game management meltdown to a gape with
Speaker 2: a win against a floundering Pittsburgh team. They're not a juggernaut.
Speaker 2: Juggernauts don't go nine to eight. Juggernauts don't need help
Speaker 2: in Week eighteen to make the playoffs, and.
Speaker 3: So what the defense? It's the defense. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think they're playing well. They obviously play well, but they
Speaker 3: just I think there's the there's the answer some of those.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's the defense. They also did score
Speaker 2: nineteen points in Week eighteen in the game they had
Speaker 2: to win, and like Burrow wasn't great in that game,
Speaker 2: they were able to win it. And yeah, but the
Speaker 2: I don't think Higgins is gonna be back, and I
Speaker 2: think that team doesn't have great coaching. They just fired
Speaker 2: Loui an Arumo, their defensive coordinator. Like this is a long,
Speaker 2: tough offseason that they earned by losing to the damn
Speaker 2: Patriots in Week one. Like, just get your together, guys.
Speaker 2: We don't lose to the Patriots in Week one and
Speaker 2: you're not in this position. Quick break, right back, what's right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in what's right with Nick? Right? All right?
Speaker 2: The regular season's over, demons, So we can do a
Speaker 2: bit of a year in recap before we get onto
Speaker 2: the postseason. So take over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's the end of the year. You finished
Speaker 3: forty eight forty and two on your regular season bets,
Speaker 3: let's take a look at how your preseason bets went
Speaker 3: do you want me.
Speaker 2: To just ye oh yeah, there we go get the ground. No,
Speaker 2: I'll go through it. So I crushed win totals. Did
Speaker 2: not do as well on the other ones, so we'll go.
Speaker 2: My overs were as follows. The Chiefs over eleven and
Speaker 2: a half they won fifteen games, so that was an
Speaker 2: easy one. The Rams over eight and a half they
Speaker 2: won ten despite resting their guys the final week. The
Speaker 2: Broncos over five and a half they won ten. So
Speaker 2: those not only did those all win, those were all
Speaker 2: locked weeks ago. The Bears over eight and a half
Speaker 2: was locked out weeks ago. That was a bad one.
Speaker 2: The Unders the Jets under nine and a half, they
Speaker 2: won five games, that was locked weeks ago. The Raiders
Speaker 2: under six and a half they got red hot at
Speaker 2: the end of the year, still never sniffed it. That
Speaker 2: was locked weeks ago. The Giants under six and a
Speaker 2: half they won a game at the end of the
Speaker 2: year that was locked weeks ago. And Philly under ten
Speaker 2: and a half. That was a disaster. So those we
Speaker 2: did eight preseason win totals. The six winners we had
Speaker 2: were winners December first, like, those were not even close.
Speaker 2: Now is when we get to the sketchier piece of it.
Speaker 2: Division winner bets one great one that covered a lot
Speaker 2: of us elsewhere. The Rams plus plus three hundred was
Speaker 2: a great bet, the Bears plus three forty terrible, Cincinnati
Speaker 2: plus one sixty five terrible. I kind of split Dallas
Speaker 2: and Washington plus one seventy five and plus eleven hundred.
Speaker 2: Remember I put like a quarter unit on Washington. Obviously
Speaker 2: Philly won that. And then my division winner parlay Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and again this is a lesson for folks.
Speaker 3: I the.
Speaker 2: This getting Cincinnati wrong cost me thirteen units. My Cincinnati
Speaker 2: division winner bet. I didn't lose thirteen units, but the
Speaker 2: having it I had, Yeah, right, and I would have
Speaker 2: won that parlay. But whatever. But again, so my the
Speaker 2: let me pull it up exactly here for a second,
Speaker 2: because our graphics guy for the guy that does Zach,
Speaker 2: who does our graphics for I'm gonna post this shortly
Speaker 2: for social. So my preseason uh win totals if you
Speaker 2: include the vig and everything. I bet nine point nine units.
Speaker 2: I won thirteen point eight units. So basically plus four
Speaker 2: units there my division champion win totals. Because those weren't
Speaker 2: all full unit bets. I bet three full units because
Speaker 2: those were mostly half or one unit bets. I won
Speaker 2: two point two, so I lost basically one unit there.
Speaker 2: Now we get to the playoff bets and some again
Speaker 2: some good and some bad. Here. I had the Jets
Speaker 2: to miss the playoffs. That was a winner, Miami to
Speaker 2: miss the playoffs, that was a winner. Philly to miss
Speaker 2: the playoffs. That was a loser. But those were all
Speaker 2: plus money, so that was really good. And this is
Speaker 2: what was really bad. My biggest bet of the year
Speaker 2: was this Giant Raiders Saints Steelers bet plus two hundred.
Speaker 2: That was a three unit bet. If you remember, Giants
Speaker 2: missed by a mile, Vegas missed by a mile, New
Speaker 2: Orleans missed by a mile. But Pittsburgh not only didn't
Speaker 2: miss because if you when I made it, I said,
Speaker 2: if it's close, if one of these teams looks like
Speaker 2: they could make it, then I could simply, you know,
Speaker 2: hedge my way out of it to a degree, you know,
Speaker 2: bet them to make it. Late in the year when
Speaker 2: it's close. That opportunity never presented itself because Pittsburgh started
Speaker 2: ten to three, so they were always like minus a
Speaker 2: huge number to make the playoffs. So that was a
Speaker 2: bad one on. So I have a no hedging rule
Speaker 2: on any bet that I make, with the exception of
Speaker 2: a bet that I make with the purpose of potentially hedging.
Speaker 2: So let me give you an example of what I
Speaker 2: mean there. If so, if you see a team that
Speaker 2: you do not think can win the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 2: you think at some point let me give you, let
Speaker 2: me rather than do it without proper nouns, I'll try
Speaker 2: to think. So let me go to the current NBA
Speaker 2: odds and we can explain it maybe a little bit better. So,
Speaker 2: gosh darn it. So let me just check the championship
Speaker 2: NBA Champion odds, so right now. Again, example would be
Speaker 2: so let's say, demanse, So the Rockets right now are
Speaker 2: forty four to one to win the championship. I do
Speaker 2: not think the Rockets can win the championship, but if
Speaker 2: I do believe that they have a really good chance
Speaker 2: of making the conference finals, okay, I might bet the
Speaker 2: Rockets to win the championship with the express purpose of
Speaker 2: if and when they make the conference finals, hedging out
Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, betting exactly right like that. If a
Speaker 2: team's forty four to one right now, and I think
Speaker 2: there's a good chance that at some point they're ten
Speaker 2: to one. I might make that bet just for just
Speaker 2: for hedging purposes. Now, again, this missed the playoffs bet
Speaker 2: is not exactly that because I thought I could win
Speaker 2: that bet. But I also thought if I'm making a
Speaker 2: three unit bet that I would have a chance to
Speaker 2: lock in a profit. But again Pittsburgh was too good.
Speaker 2: These other two bets were not full units. They were
Speaker 2: kind of lottery tickets Green Bay Jets Philly. It all
Speaker 2: missed the playoffs. That was seventeen to one. That obviously
Speaker 2: was a disaster. And then this one Kan City Buffalo
Speaker 2: rams Chicago to make the playoffs that was seven to
Speaker 2: one Chica. You know, three out of four. Three out
Speaker 2: of four doesn't pay on parlays, which is totally fair.
Speaker 2: So again on those I bet six point eight units.
Speaker 2: I won four point seven, so I lost two point one.
Speaker 2: And then my two Super Bowl bets, which are annual
Speaker 2: lottery tickets Kan City versus the Bears in Kansas City
Speaker 2: to beat the Bears. Those were disasters. So the way
Speaker 2: the full thing plays out, believe it or not, I
Speaker 2: bet twenty one point seven units Demanse on our preseason bets.
Speaker 2: I got back twenty point seven. So that was a
Speaker 2: fifteen minute explanation about how I lost one unit. I mean,
Speaker 2: and that is like and the and so it just
Speaker 2: you know, we did all that, We did the whole
Speaker 2: preseason gambling show, and at the end of the day
Speaker 2: minus one unit, which considering the fact that I was
Speaker 2: minus two units on my sixty five to one and
Speaker 2: ninety five to one Super Bowl exactas, means I did
Speaker 2: pretty good. I basically broke even with a couple of
Speaker 2: lottery tickets. So I don't mind it. All right, let's
Speaker 2: get to now that we've recapped that, let's get to
Speaker 2: our game today, this or that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're playing this or that today, but there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a small twist on it. So since there's
Speaker 3: a lot of stories circulated right now, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: off with two topics and use this decide which one
Speaker 3: you want to talk about. From there, we know you'll
Speaker 3: probably can get on both.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So after Miami's season ended, Tarreek Hill said, I'm opening
Speaker 3: the door. I'm out bro yet. Meanwhile, Mike Evans cracked
Speaker 3: a thousand yards for the eleven straight season for little help.
Speaker 3: Would you rather discuss Tyreek Hill or Mike Evans.
Speaker 2: The Mike Evans thing was awesome, but I'd rather discuss
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill because I think it's fun to discuss where
Speaker 2: he could end up. So the team that I could
Speaker 2: see if they lose to the Chiefs again trying to
Speaker 2: make a play for him is Buffalo. But I don't
Speaker 2: think Miami would trade him within the division, so that
Speaker 2: would make a lot of sense. He would be unbelievable there.
Speaker 2: They need a field stretcher, but I don't think Miami
Speaker 2: would do it. There is no AFC North team that
Speaker 2: makes sense to me. There is no AFC South team
Speaker 2: that makes sense to me, because Houston's the only one
Speaker 2: that Tyreek would potentially want to go to, and they
Speaker 2: have their receivers. I wonder if the Chargers would be interested.
Speaker 2: The Broncos theoretically could be interested, but again, if you're
Speaker 2: a team that doesn't have a great quarterback and you
Speaker 2: just saw Tyreek kind of napalm his way out of Miami,
Speaker 2: you probably don't want to get in that business. So
Speaker 2: the Chargers would be the highest on the list of
Speaker 2: potential AFC teams. NFC teams the Cowboys make a ton
Speaker 2: of sense, and Mike is already recruiting him, and the
Speaker 2: Commanders Demons with your guy Jaden make a ton of sense.
Speaker 2: Those are really the only NFC teams. The Eagles have
Speaker 2: their receivers, the Lions have their receivers, the Vikings have
Speaker 2: their receivers, the Packers have their receivers, the Bears have
Speaker 2: their receivers. Tampa has their receivers, the Rams have their receivers,
Speaker 2: the Niners have their receivers. And again, I only think
Speaker 2: a contender would trade for Tyreek. So I say Chargers, Cowboys,
Speaker 2: Commanders are the most likely destinations for next year and then,
Speaker 2: And people might be like, why didn't you mention the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are not trading for Tyreek Hill at his salary.
Speaker 2: They're just not. They made the choice to move off
Speaker 2: the super expensive receiver, and they've won every Super Bowl
Speaker 2: played since then. Now with that said, what I think
Speaker 2: is gonna happen is someone's gonna trade for him. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna go great, And in twenty twenty six he'll
Speaker 2: be a Chief again. Twenty twenty five somewhere else, and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six he'll be a Chief again, that's my guess.
Speaker 3: Over there, so that we'll make Bryce on in them
Speaker 3: instant contenders next year.
Speaker 2: Tyreek doesn't want to go to Carolina, man, I mean
Speaker 2: it would be he doesn't want to do it. That's
Speaker 2: just not going to happen, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, So the top of the draft order is set
Speaker 3: and it looks different from a week ago. Would you
Speaker 3: rather discuss New England blowing the number one pick or
Speaker 3: Tennessee getting the number one pick?
Speaker 2: Well, the only interesting thing about the Patriots blowing the
Speaker 2: number one pick is this folks acting like the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are the first team in NFL history to rest guys
Speaker 2: in Week eighteen, when literally that same earlier that day,
Speaker 2: the Bills put on such an epic tank job that
Speaker 2: they lost to a team that didn't want to win,
Speaker 2: that had only won three games all year and was
Speaker 2: playing its third string quarterback. And that just gets lost
Speaker 2: in the ether. And so Tennessee getting the number one pick,
Speaker 2: I mean, they probably draft cam Ward, maybe Shador, but
Speaker 2: it seems like Vegas thinks it will be cam Ward
Speaker 2: and they hope they get it right. Like Tennessee is
Speaker 2: one of the more hopeless and least interesting teams in
Speaker 2: the league, and so you hope they get the quarterback, right.
Speaker 2: It was never gonna be Will Levis and Titans fans
Speaker 2: who were so mouthy this offseason, because the Titans did
Speaker 2: go for it. They signed you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: They spent a lot of money in free agency. They
Speaker 2: traded for Lagerius Snead. By the way, what a great
Speaker 2: trade by Brett Veach. Beach had a whole list of
Speaker 2: teams offering third round picks for Lagerius Snead. He took
Speaker 2: the Titans because he anticipated the Titans might be terrible.
Speaker 2: They end up being the worst team in the league
Speaker 2: this year. And now the Chiefs they don't actually get
Speaker 2: the first pick of the third round because that actually rotates,
Speaker 2: but they now have the second pick of the third
Speaker 2: round because he took the best possible trade that you
Speaker 2: could get for Snead. So the Chiefs are gonna draft
Speaker 2: thirty well, assuming they win the Super Bowl, obvious, they're
Speaker 2: gonna draft thirty two, sixty four, and sixty six, which
Speaker 2: I like quite a bit, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Aaron Rodgers entered the five hundred touchdown club and
Speaker 3: may have played his final game in the NFL. Caleb
Speaker 3: Williams wrapped up his first year with the Bears, winning
Speaker 3: Green Bay since twenty fifteen. Would you rather discuss Rogers'
Speaker 3: potential final season or Caleb's rookie season?
Speaker 2: I'd rather Oh, I'll be honest, I'd rather not talk
Speaker 2: about either of these right now. Feel like I've talked
Speaker 2: about these two quarterbacks a lot. I love Caleb and
Speaker 2: I'm glad it ended on a high note. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna spend a lot of time talking Caleb and the
Speaker 2: Bears once they decide on their head coach, because that's
Speaker 2: the most consequential decision this franchise will make over the
Speaker 2: next decade, is who this head coach is? And Rogers
Speaker 2: I'm just sick of talking about all right? Last one?
Speaker 3: Week eighteen was not the most exciting week ever. Felt
Speaker 3: like most of thee was resting their guys and most
Speaker 3: games didn't matter. Are we sure we need seventeen games?
Speaker 3: When your Chiefs demolished thirty eight zero by the Broncos,
Speaker 3: which is grace? Would you rather discuss Week eighteen or
Speaker 3: your Chiefs?
Speaker 2: I mean, did the Chiefs game went exactly the way
Speaker 2: you'd hope for? Which is nobody got hurt? So I
Speaker 2: don't really like the Chiefs things irrelevant. Here's the thing
Speaker 2: about Week eighteen, and nobody has put it quite this simply,
Speaker 2: but this is the best way to think about it.
Speaker 2: The more games in the season, the more likely the
Speaker 2: final games meaningless. And the NFL opted to extend the season,
Speaker 2: which means it's more likely you have a lot of
Speaker 2: Week eight teams like the one you just saw, where
Speaker 2: a lot of teams are locked into where they are.
Speaker 2: And and again it sometimes things like this are the
Speaker 2: easiest to think about if you just go max men,
Speaker 2: if the NFL season were one game long, then the
Speaker 2: final week of the season would always be meaningful for
Speaker 2: every single team because it would be your entire season, right.
Speaker 2: And if the NFL season were a hundred games long,
Speaker 2: then for a lot of teams, the final six weeks
Speaker 2: of the season might be totally meaningless, and for most teams,
Speaker 2: the final game of the season would be you'd be
Speaker 2: locked in if if it was still a sixteen game season,
Speaker 2: how many teams were one hundred percent locked into their
Speaker 2: playoff position in Week sixteen. The answer to that is
Speaker 2: one the Houston Texans. That was it. They couldn't they
Speaker 2: had already clinched the division and they couldn't go higher
Speaker 2: than four, so they would have been the only team resting. Guys,
Speaker 2: you extend it one week. The Chiefs are locked in,
Speaker 2: the Bills are locked in, the Eagles are locked in.
Speaker 2: The Rams are locked in a band, and they don't
Speaker 2: care as much. The Commanders and Packers are locked in
Speaker 2: a band and they don't care as much. Like that's
Speaker 2: what you get, Like, that's just how it works. So
Speaker 2: I the it is, and if you go to eighteen games,
Speaker 2: you'll get even more of it. So just be careful
Speaker 2: what you wish for on that front. Quick break, answer
Speaker 2: some listener questions. Next, we'll right welcome back in. We'll
Speaker 2: drive in the Great Demons. Let's go to some listener questions.
Speaker 3: Austin says, do you think that the forty nine Ers
Speaker 3: quarterback contract could be could be the inflection point for
Speaker 3: the teams that not feel sorry to not feel obligated
Speaker 3: to play quarterbacks and that are not top ten players
Speaker 3: and just go to the draft that year Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: So to not pay quarterbacks that are not top ten guys,
Speaker 2: I I I doubt it, but it would be interesting.
Speaker 2: This is the thing Barnwall's talked about for years. I've
Speaker 2: talked about, which is is will a team not in
Speaker 2: the position the Niners are in, will a team ever
Speaker 2: do the following. Let's say that team's the Niners Rock Party.
Speaker 2: We're not paying you. You have a year under contract,
Speaker 2: you're gonna play it out, and the next year we're
Speaker 2: trading you for a first round pick to a team
Speaker 2: that wants to pay you, and we're just gonna stay
Speaker 2: on the quarter the rookie contract quarterback cycle until we
Speaker 2: hit on a no doubt superstar. What we're not doing
Speaker 2: is paying a mid tier quarterback top tier money. Nobody's
Speaker 2: been willing to do that, and I don't think the
Speaker 2: Niners are gonna do it, but I think it would
Speaker 2: be the smart thing to do, all right, Demon, Tyler's
Speaker 2: got a question for you. Who do you trust more
Speaker 2: in these playoffs? Jayde and Daniels or Jordan Love. I
Speaker 2: know you're the Jordan Love guy, so I was curious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta go with Jordan Love here. I've already
Speaker 3: seen it Jayde and Daniels. Obviously, he's had a great
Speaker 3: rookie season, but it's all been regular season stuff. Haven't
Speaker 3: seen him in the postseason yet, so I can't say
Speaker 3: that I trust Jaye Daniels more. But but I mean, yeah.
Speaker 2: Guys, that's the exact right answer. Listen, that's the exact
Speaker 2: right answer. Anybody that has never started a playoff game,
Speaker 2: the you just don't know how that cauldron's gonna impact them.
Speaker 2: And Jordan Love has played two playoff games, played unbelievable
Speaker 2: in one and played decent in the other. So there's
Speaker 2: just more of a proof of concept there, all right.
Speaker 3: Next Jamal first time catching the live I normally listen
Speaker 3: on Spotify. What do you think the best bet of
Speaker 3: the year? You guys made.
Speaker 2: Best bet? We I don't know. I mean, there's so
Speaker 2: many good ones, but I do think us giving out
Speaker 2: to the audience the Bucks Rams seven to one division
Speaker 2: winner bet when they were both underdogs for it is
Speaker 2: pretty good. Like midway through the year. I like that
Speaker 2: one a lot. I mean, I did hit a nice
Speaker 2: same game parlay on my own, but that was, you know,
Speaker 2: that was that's separate al right.
Speaker 3: Next Curtis Actually Sam thoughts on the LiAngelo ball song.
Speaker 2: I don't have anything. I haven't listened to it.
Speaker 3: You haven't listened to it at all? A little bit different.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, I've seen it plenty of times, but is
Speaker 2: it good?
Speaker 3: It's I've only heard the first, uh that little twenty
Speaker 3: second snippet, but apparently it's it's the league's talking NFL
Speaker 3: guys even they're banging it. I think after Dan Campber's
Speaker 3: motivational speech to the players, one of the players is like,
Speaker 3: throw that lie angel on after like all the hockey?
Speaker 2: Really they played the song yet? Oh good? But ms
Speaker 2: I mean I'm not anti. I'll listen to it.
Speaker 3: There's a little follow up there that says, which ball
Speaker 3: brother do you think will end with the best career?
Speaker 3: I mean it's gotta be Amelo.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it'll be LaMelo even though, but I
Speaker 2: just's it wouldn't surprise me if LaMelo never once makes
Speaker 2: the playoffs because he's gonna always have the numbers of
Speaker 2: a max guy. And if LaMelo is a max guy
Speaker 2: on your team, I don't know how you're gonna be
Speaker 2: a playoff team. Maybe he'll mature, but maybe not.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Curtis says, if the Chiefs three peat
Speaker 3: this year, will you be the first to advocate for
Speaker 3: a four peat? Or will the Broncos and Chargers have
Speaker 3: caught up enough with the Chiefs to have a saying it.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs three peat. Yeah, I'll probably think that they're
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and keep winning Super Bowls. Yeah, But
Speaker 2: the idea that I'd be worried about the Broncos is laughable.
Speaker 2: Broncos had a really nice season. I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2: But the No, I don't think the Broncos or the
Speaker 2: Chargers are threatening the dynasty as of yet. And I
Speaker 2: think the Broncos are a ways away, and we'll see
Speaker 2: how far away the Chargers are. But no, I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about the Broncos or the Chargers. All right.
Speaker 3: Last one, Jordan, aside from getting your three peat pick right,
Speaker 3: what are you hoping the most? What are you hoping
Speaker 3: the most to get right about the twenty twenty four NFL.
Speaker 2: I that's a really good question. So I just have
Speaker 2: to take the Chiefs out of it. I'd like the
Speaker 2: Rams to go on a run. Oh okay, I'd like
Speaker 2: the Rams to go on a run because I feel like,
Speaker 2: even though they're not my pick, I've kind of been,
Speaker 2: you know, at keeping them in the contender category all year.
Speaker 2: I've been talking them up more than most all year,
Speaker 2: and I'd really really like to see a Mahome Stafford
Speaker 2: super Bowl. We we should have gotten that three years ago,
Speaker 2: and then that second half against the Bengals happened and
Speaker 2: we didn't get it, and so I you know, so
Speaker 2: I'd like the Rams to go on a run. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll do our wild Card weekend picks on Thursday. Great job, everyone,
Speaker 2: Great job to Monday. I'll see you guys on with
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